WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040069-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: August 12, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Acting Chief, Language and Area School
DATE: 12 August 1959
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
suBJEcT: Weekly Activities Report
25 YEAR
this seminar, with the course title "The European Security Ques-
tion: Eastern and Western Stakes, Policy Problems, and Likely
Courses of Action in the Area." The co-chairman will take primary
substantive responsibility for Eastern European aspects.
2. At the invitation of who spent some months on
loan to our area program almost two years ago, Ovisited the
Human Relations Area Files project for country studies, at
American University. He is in charge of an ambitious project for
a study on all of Germany, with emphasis on sociological and
anthropological aspects and a target date of mid-1960. A collec-
tion of almost 300 excellent photos of German people and living
habits has been loaned to us, from which we expect to select the
best shots for our new collection on people. Unfortunately, these
files contain only a few similar collections on other nationalities,
namely, Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians and Finns.
3. In absence on military leave, handled the
lecture session in 117 Central Building on 30 July, on Central and
South Africa. The guest speaker was C. Vaughan Ferguson, Director
of State's Office of Middle and South African Affairs, who had
spoken proviously in our study course on France. He was quite
frank in identifying Guinea as the top priority present concern of
his office, and the Federation plan for Rhodesia and Nyasaland as
one of the most insoluble long-term problems. Attendance has held
at over 30, and interest was sustained through a 25-minute question
period.
has now comp eted the first draft of the terms of reference
be of ONE, who is also interested in helping.
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. have had a full discussion with C/SIC of our
tentative ans or the second Senior Area Seminar, beginning in
November. will advise by late August whether he can
assume a commitment to serve as co-chairman. Second choice would
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Ii. The full report on RS - Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland #1
has been delayed due to absences from Washington of several students.
We expect to have their critiques and to complete the draft report with-
in a week's time. 0 evaluations are the most complete and exact of
any turned in in Area Courses. They are truly models of what evalustions
should be.
5. While on annual leave in the midwest ~participated with his
wife and brother in taping three radio programs for WHO, Des Moines, for
its public service roundtable sponsored by the Iowa Bar Association, a
program which has run continously for nearly twenty years. Before taking
his leave and in anticipation of such a request to appear on this pro-
gram, received clearance from Security. He was identified only as
one who had formerly worked and taught in Japan and was currently an
historian in Washington, D. C. The three programs dealt with first Japan,
a pillar of peace in Asia, second, the cause for unrest in Southeast Asia,
third with current problems in Communist China. The programs called for
no intelligence information and none was vouchsafed. The series began on
27 July with the discussion on Japan and continues until the last is
broadcast on,10 August. Tapes of the programs will eventually be made
available to
6. Arrangements have been made with the TO/FE to call a meeting of the
branch chiefs and/or their training officers to discuss the needs and
demands on area training by them after receiving from reference
materials for that discussion, which will include a projected long
range training program for area study in the FE prepared by
The meeting should be held sometime late next week.
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