WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT #14

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00594A000300030030-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: April 9, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

BTAFIDARD FORM NO. 64 ~'~ ~?'~?~ _ V05
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Director of Training
FROM Chief/Language and Area School
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report #U
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
Be OTHER ACTIVITIES
DATE: 9 April 1958
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1. Mrs. ame over to talk about the paper
on LAS organization they are preparing for the Management Staff.
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2. SE Division has asked us to start a one-hour-a--d beginning Greek
course for three persons. We have notified Mrs. in accord with 25X1
her wishes, and she will determine whether or not other DDP persons can be
included.
3. In addition to my regular staff meeting of deputies and department
heads, I have asked each department to have staff meetings partly with a
view to creating more of an esprit de corps and feeling of participation by
contract instructors.
4. Consultations have been provided on a variety of individual language
training requirements and interests: French, Persian, Pushtu, Bengali.
5. has approved employment of Mrs.O She will be a great 25X1
help to us. With her assistance and one more person we can strengthen our
two present full-time courses and add part-time training for which we already
have significant requirements. I suspect that Chinese now can be our next
program to come to the top--as, indeed, it should be.
6. We are disappointed to have a "turn down" on a professionally highly
qualified scientific linguist we had recruited to fill the gap created by
Otransfer to the Asian and African Languages Department. We are now
looking again.
7. We are again grateful for Nancy's continuous efforts to assist us
with our continuous clerical problem-this time in arranging assignment here
of a girl designated to replace
8. Individual reports from my three deputies are attached.
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy for Plans, Research and Administration
suBjEcT: Weekly Activities Report
DATE: 9 April 1958
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. The LAS Language Laboratory installed two machines for
OCI, to be used until their own machines come.
2. With the generous assistance of members of the LAS cler-
ical staff and of members of the ABBE Testing staff,
Language testing on a large scale is being successfully
carried out over last week and this. 353 people have
been tested up to this time. With the onset of this
period of large-scale testing, it has become apparent
that the Language Development Branch assumed too heavy
a program for the limited size of their staff. However,
with the curtailment of special testing and with re-
apportionment of the work load, present obstacles or
weaknesses are being overcome.
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Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Chief, Language and Area School
DATE: C) Apr l 1-958
FROM : Deputy for Language Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report #13
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTIIER ACTIVITIES
1. On Monday 7 April, the full-time Czech course began with an en-
rollment of 2 students. EE has loaned LAS an instructor for the course
who will be serving on a half-time basis.
2. 8 students are enrolled in German Basic Speaking which began or.
Monday. This will make it advisable to divide the class into two sections
for most of their classroom work. The Basic course together with the
Intermediate Integrated course gives a total of 13 students in full-time
German courses. 12 of the students are from EE Division.
3. German Basic Reading began also on Monday with four students,
with another late enrollment bringing the total to five by Friday.
German Reading Workshop will begin on Thursday with 5 students.
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prospective Chinese language instructor to assis
who is the wife of a staff employee, was born and educated in China, and
has previously worked for the Agency as a contract employee. She was
considered a good prospect by all who interviewed her, and if she and we
cometo mutually satisfactory salary arrangements we shall ask for approval
to employ her on a full-time contract basis.
5. Six students are enrolled for the 20 week full-time French
Basic Speaking beginning 7 April. In addition, there is sufficient
enrollment to begin four part-time courses on 7 April, three in French
and 1 in Romanian.
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 OffiiMnandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief/Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy for Area Training/LAS
SUBJECT: Weekly activities Report
DATE: 9 April 1958
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Hungary - Basic Country Surve
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rawing unexpectedly large numbers
of auditors. A capacity audience of 15 students and 3,5 auditors heard Dr. Frank
l of EE uresent a. hi ahl sr ,
language. Nearly as large an a G
udienceheard Mr, Ernest nJackmanr of Army Map
Service discuss strategic and economic aspects of the geography of Hungary. A
growing number of inquiries about the course indicates again the extent of the
time lag between our publicity on a new course (mid March in this case) and a
general Agency awareness of its existence,
2? are enjoying their first experience of t a hing area
historical and contemporary materials in language classes. I' takes the new 25X1
Integrated Language/Area (full-time intermediate French) course on France daily
for an hour and also assists Din the similar course in German on Germany,
which is under 0 direction. I is Working on a French lecture in the
series which will tie into the integrated course on France, and has given 25X1
an introductory lecture on German history in German. He will also lecture next
week on the History of Hungary in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
3. Area-knowledgeable Agency personnel with high proficiency in spoken
French are being invited into the integrated course on France to lead dis-
cussions on topics related to class assignments. Discussions have included;
of FI Staff on De Gaulle's chances of returning to ower, as well
as the Algerian problem; De ut Chief the 25X1
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DDP,
on French institutions before 191L! M
cause today in France; and o o FE on the royalist L
and social trends before 1,1 . (next week) on intellectual
4. Second offering of Economic Geography of the Soviet Bloc began with
7 students. ORR had initially requested this course for about 70 students, and
only 30-odd were enrolled in the first offering.
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6. We have a written request from TO/RR for a special offering of Western
Europe - Americans Abroad Orientatio~ek of 23 June, for a total of 8
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after several cancellations of regular offerings. Additional enrollment
possibilities will be explored.
? 7. I uis attending the Johns Hopkins meeting at the Statler Hotel,
9-10 Apri , on South and Southeast Asia. One item of possible interest, in
the light of OTR's growing interest in "overseasmanship," was the announcement
that ICA has contracted with Johns Hopkins to provide Li.-5 months training for
20 young men as "program officers" who will service ICA's projects in foreign
countries. This announcement, in the context of the conference, seemed to
emphasize again the growing awareness, in and outside the goverment., of the
need to train American persons for overseas responsibilities.
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