WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040103-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 103
• Publication Date: June 10, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Acting Chief, Language and Area School DATE: 10 June 1959
FROM : Deputy for Language Training
Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
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that the Division pro
in Arabic next Fall.
We have been informed by
TLO of NE Division,
me ng program
met with last week
to discuss the general nature of the program we might offer in-
ternally. said that NE was prepared to send eight students
next fall for a full-time course of about forty weeks and, probably,
others regularly thereafter. We told him that we were prepared,
assuming suitable instructors can be found and hired, to run a
course for as few as four people or as many as ten or twelve in two
sections. It appears that has played a very commendable
role in pointing out the Division s linguistic needs and urging a
training program to fulfill them.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. The Intermediate Full-time German class spent the first
four days of last week at Three of the seven students
were unable to attend the exercise because of urgent
commitments elsewhere. The our students accompanied
were various times b
o Division acted as a visiting instructor.
of LAS acted as chaperones.
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2. The VIIPP inaugurated three hours of supervised laboratory
beginning 2 June for all students wishing to enter 102 and 201
classes in the fall under the new 21-week term system.
3. A total of 12 of a projected 16 chapters have been completed
of an Intermediate Russian text. a former journalist, is
devoting each of these to a different aspect of Soviet reality, such
as "Life in a kolkhoz", "Going to a hospital" or "medpunkt", "Schools
and,Education". Although written in the form of narratives, they
contain a great deal of dialog and stress contemporary vocabulary
and phraseology and the patterns of Russian as spoken today in the
USSR. is supplying vocabularies for each chapter, as well
as exercises, including "situation" drills. To our knowledge, no
such text is available for this level of Russian study.
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FIDE TIAL
!i..I are making extensive use of Novoye
Russkoye Slovo, a Russian-language newspaper published in New York,
and Ogonek, a Moscow weekly similar to Life magazine in the
Advanced Russian (RsW) class. Student interest appears to be high
in this course, being offered for the first time by LAS.
Acquisitions Branch of CIA Library is furnishing each of the
students with individual copies of the above periodicals. About
20 percent of class time is devoted to practice in writing in
Russian, in which most students have had little experience.
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