WEEKLY ACTIVITES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 17, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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STANDARD FORM NO. 09
Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Chief, Language and Area School
DATE: 1'; December 1959
FROM . Deputy for Language Training
SUBJECT: Meekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEDI,S
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
with ~
NE Division.
from the Office of the IG conferred on Tuesday
on the subject of Arabic and Persian training accomplished by
2. A paper is being prepared describing the actions taken by the
L triguage Development Committee in its meeting last Thursday. The paper
will be circulated to committee members for concurrence and sent to D/TR.
3. has been recording materials intended for the
use of VLTP students. Altogether more than 20 hours of Russian recording
is involved.
1I . Assistant tq' ORR Training Officer, in-
formed that ORB is making a survey of the use of languages (and
other specialized skills) in actual on-the-job operations. Perhaps the
results of this will be relevant in the programming of future courses.
ORE is the Agency component which contributes the largest number of students
to Russian and East European reading courses.
has been assigned to us from the Pool. At present
she is assisting the Department of Slavic Languages in various tasks, such
as the assembling of full-time Russian course materials, typing of reading
selections, and the like. It is expected that she will be here about a
month.
~. who has been with us on loan to assist as instructor
in the fu -time a tc class, left last Friday to have an operation on
her knee. She expects to be back with us when classes resume after the
holiday break.
7. interviewed one Arabic and two Chinese instructor prospects
at 16th ree . The Arab, also named would be an excellent teacher
but his Lebanese citizenship may make clearance difficult. In any event,
he will not be available until September.
i y
25 YEAR
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The first of the two externalAtutorial programs in Basic French
which are being conducted under LAS supervision terminated on to December.
The instructor concerned had had no previous teaching experience and there
were some initial difficulties, as expected, but her interest and coopera-
tiveness enabled her to achieve a very satisfactory result. The remaining
-program will end on Friday, 18 December.
has been working with TSS on a translation into
technical Romanian.
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