WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040085-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: July 8, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
: Chief, Language and Area School
DATE: S July 1959
FROM : Deputy for Language Training
suBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
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his absence.
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. is leaving on Sunday for two weeks at the University
of Chicago Management Course. F--]will take over his duties in
2.~spent an hour or two Monday afternoon at the FSI offices
in Arlington Towers to obtain some information on FSI plans for courses
beginning in the fall. He talked to Mr. Bostain, who is the linguist
in charge of Southeast Asian languages, Dr. Hodge (Near Eastern), and
Mrs. Jordan (Japanese principally, but now also supervising Russian,
as Mrs. Clarity has departed).
3.
of NE, who has been acting as
assistant
in the Ara c read ng course, is leaving next week for a two-month
vacation in Lebanon. She will continue her work for LAS after her
return.
4.
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is revising the text of the full-time Basic Russian
course. Much of the material will be re-written, and needed drills
added. It is planned to publish this in our series of LAS instructional
manuals.
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5. A new Russian nroficiencv test is being prepared by
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with the assistance of
6. The Romanian Intermediate RSW I (PT) class of two students
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spent a very profitable three da
a at Besides Mr. and Mrs.
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three speakers --
from ORR,
from AF and
from CI/SPD -- le
support and enlivened the group
with their presence.
7. A plan to keep up the Spanish Seminar despite
absence has been put into effect. The seminar has merged with a group
of WH spark-plugged by and meets on
Mondays at 1230 hours for lunch at R&S and on Thursdays at 1200 hours
in Qtrs Eye for movies and informal discussioz). '7
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