WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040050-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: September 30, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorndum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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TO Chief, Language and. Area School
FROM . Deputy Chief, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
DATE: 30 September 1959
A. JIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. and I visited DC/NE Division in a move to
re-establish the excellent relations which we had w th that division
on the I03 and on where our present emphasis in area training-liesf+q>
and explained his need for an adequate commitment from I; before
procee ng with a Regional Study on the Middle East in November. We
of course alluded to the absence of a, single NE candidate in the AAO -
Middle East whi
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runs this week We(7nesday and Thursday.
2. OIL; has reversed itself in the matter of our use of
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part-time in the preparation and handling of the Prospective Senior
Area Seminar - Europe, tentatively snhed?1 a to ),-4- i r
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(Cooper) prefers to have take a part-time liaison assign-
ment which turned' up about the same me. We are delighted to have
the course has been postponed beyond the fall.
3. In the current AA.O for Iran, total attendance is seven At
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the last moment (NE), who is taking full-time Persian,
and his wife (O' joined the r . At the first of two half-day
sessions, gave informal briefings.
4. We consider that FE's negative resnonse a long-range
area training program suggested by based mainly
on the arguments that veople cannot be spared for training and that
training in depth is not really needed, reflects a, short-sighted point
of view.
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5. ~lectured at SAIS in the ICA study program on
developmental programming. The subject of his lecture was
"Attitudes toward Strangers."
6. lis enrolled in the IOC commencing Monday.
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