WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040101-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 101
• Publication Date: June 10, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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TO Acting Chief, Language and Area School DATE: 10 June 1959
FROM Deputy Chief, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. First meeting of the informal inter-agency roundtable on
area training will be held on 30 June at 1030 hours in the
T-31 Conference Room. I will chair this meeting and will
attempt, within security limitations, to draw out comments
and suggestions regarding our own program. Meetings will
be bi-monthly, excluding August. Final membership totals
seven agencies.
2. DC/EE has reacted most favorably to our revamped
AA which will now include three sessions deal-
ing w1th themes taken from the new IOE course. He is en-
thusiastic about the prospective session on " to Make
the Most of Your Everyday Contacts to be
based on a briefing suggestions paper attached for which
=gave me many of the basic ideas. Two full hours will
be given to this theme, and we plan to utilize two favor-
ably-oriented senior returnees as a panel to lead the dis-
cussion. A follow-up session "How to Make the Most of
Your Job Contacts is drawing greater interest
in DDS, particularly in OL and OC. While DC/EE was cool
toward this proposed session - observing that his people
had this subject "coming out of their ears, and from actual
cases" - TO/EE feels it will be worth while
as a review for the younger EE professionals who will be
going out for the first time. We believe that these
sessions, to follow upon excellent introduction to
"the Americans abroad problem," will go far to convey the
spirit of the new IOE to the many employees and dependents
who will not be able to take that course.
25 YEAR
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3. Present schedule for AAO for the week of
22 June - conflicts with both Admin Procedures and CSR
courses. Only a handful of candidates are available, and
hence we are exploring the possibilities of postponing
the course to a more favorable time in July. The com-
panion briefing on Latin America will probably have to be
cancelled because of insufficient enrollment, and pros-
pects for the one on Western Europe are only slightly
better. The heavy enrollment in our April offerings is
largely to blame.
!l. .
has held the first few of several informal luncheon
meetings with small groups of the students in his
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland (CEP) course. This
procedure has proved unexpectedly fruitful for drawing
out their actual views and specific suggestions concerning
this initial offering of the course. Class morale is un-
doubtedly high, and approval of our conduct of the course
thus far is marked. We again encountered a general com-
plaint that the lack of time for study is serious in area
training. On other points, such as a general desire for
more class discussion time and some dissatisfaction with
guest speakers who have been allowed to run over their
time,will make a stronger effort to accommodate.
One novel and refreshing product of these luncheons has
been a request by several students that certain guest
speakers be invited back before the conclusion of the
course. Three of these are
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