WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040062-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: September 2, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Acting Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Acting Deputy for Language Training
suBJEcT: Weekly Activities Report
DATE: 2 September 1959
A. SIGNIF CAN] ITEM
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. We have decided to have run the full-time PersianCne
course in spite of the fact that there 11 be only one student.
reason for this decision is that will still be aboard anyway,
since we do not feel we should let go on the basis of what may be
only a temporary slump in demand, and will have enough time both to
run the course for one student and continue his work on the revision
of his text. Another reason is that it is impossible to find suitable
external training for the one candidate without a delay which would be
detrimental to his assignment schedule.
has informed hat it will not be possible
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for to work with LAS after his re urn from his long TDY in Europe.
They wan o use him on the desk, and he will almost certainly be
required by other desks for other TDY assignments. This means that
we will have to cancel the full-time Korean reading course which FDD
had expected us to give for two of their people, and will have to try
to arrange external training for them.
3. We ve found a Chinese man named_who looks good as a
replacemen We are having him come down from New York for
an interview, and if his accent and other qualifications seem satis-
factory we will begin the hiring process.
4. s reported for duty again after his year of doctoral
work at the University of Minnesota. His course work for the PhD is
now done, and his dissertation is nearing completion.
5. will be on leave until 14 September.
6. We were asked to recommend a French tutor for the daughter
of Mr. Fitzgerald (Chief, FE). We recommended one of our own contract
instructors, who was willing to do this work on her own
time, and we understand that she and Miss Fitzgerald have come to a
satisfactory arrangement*
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7. One of the three WH applicants for the Spanish Basic RSW
(Full Time) course scheduled to begin in late September has been
withdraw. Again, because of lack of sufficient enrollments the
Agency has lost the opportunity to train its personnel in its own
Full-Time Spanish program. The two remaining WH applicants will be
trained at FSI.
8. The French Basic RSW (Part-Time) class of six students, spent
three very fruitful days at 25-27 August. The students
agreed that this was a fine e 20a--week course. The Romance
language staff was assisted by ho helped make
this stay a complete success.
.~ has begun a three-week vacation before departing for
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and plans to brief on Wednesday, 2 September, and Wednesday,
9 September.
CONFIDENTIAL
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