WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040066-3
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RIPPUB
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C
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
December 27, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 18, 2009
Sequence Number:
66
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Publication Date:
August 26, 1959
Content Type:
MEMO
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Acting Chief, Language and Area School DATE: 26 August 1959
FROM Deputy for language Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEM
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. At the request of the DDP, we arranged fo a
brief conversation with a contact not allowed access to these buildings,
in order to assess his proficiency in Chinese.
2. We have been informed bvl of FE that, in view of the
persuasive arrrument ofl of FDD to the effect that without
LAS would not be able to provide suitable train-
ng In a vane d se for FDD as in the past year, FE will be willing
to release for about two hours a day until January 1960. This
is welcome news, as t will both allow us to give the advanced course
needed by FDD and give us more time to find an eventual replacement.
3? informs us that one man, and only one, will
probably -e av a e or full-time Persian training in the fall. This
faces us with the question whether to have give his course for
one s to try to find external training for the student and
allow continue work on his revised text - which incidentally
is nea ng completion in its first-draft stage. Besides working on
this text,is currently also giving informal tutorial instruction
to three peop e.
4. So far this year there has been one application for full-time
Japanese training, a JOT. He will be trained externally, probably at
Monterey, since Yale is fully booked.
5. The full-time Chinese course, which began last fall with two
students and had been running since June with one, has now been completed.
Unfortunately, it now appears that the student who completed the course
is not to be sent to his overseas station for a good many months yet. We
will try to arrange some regular maintenance work for him until then.
6. has returned from TDY but is continuing to spend
part of his time in completing his assignment.
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7. I are drawing up a set of
advanced lessons to be used in the second year Russian courses of the
viirp.
8. Col. Daniels of the Air Force Institute of Technology paid a
visit to LAS on 21 August. He was greeted by and discussed with
9.
some of the problems of teaching Russian to
will be on leave until 8 September.
10. With the end of the Summer trimester 1959, a group of 5 students
completed their third trimester of Swahili (103) in the Voluntary
Language Training Program. These students were an unusually industrious
and dedicated group as shown by the results of their Language Proficiency
Tests, which they took at the end of the Sumer trimester. All of the
students achieved Elementary in all aspects of the spoken language, one
student received High and three others Intermediate in reading, which
are exceptionally high scores after only three trimester.
11. Unfortunately this was the last trimester that Swahili will be
taught in the VTn P, at least for the forseeable future, as the instructor,
will not be available this fall. We have no substitute
for him, since there is to the best of our knowledge no other competent
Swahili speaker in the Metropolitan Area.
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