WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040107-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 107
• Publication Date: June 3, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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STArl AVZ) FORM-NO. 64
Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
: Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy for Language Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
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1. briefed LeRoy Benoit of USIA on the major aspects
of our nguage Awards Program on Monday. Mr. Benoit is on a fact-
finding mission as preparation for a proposed awards program for
his agency.
2. ~ has returned from his TDY in Europe, but only for
a few weeks to allow him to serve his period of active military
duty. Thereafter he must return to Europe, but should be back
here for duty again by 1 September.
3. ~ :1 left LAS this week to resume her role as a
full-time wife and mother. We are all sorry to see her leave.
She has done much to enliven the French classes she taught and
has constantly enriched her natural qualities as a teacher, always
listening to advice in seeking more effective teaching methods.
Her absence will be deeply felt.
l,. is encountering increasing difficulties in finding
ualifie naive speakers from outside LAS to assist in the
exercises. This might be a temporary condition due to the
great number of employees who are on vacation, TDY, etc.
5. As a result of new applications, enrollments in Russian
seminars conducted by 0 are as follows: Lower Intermediate, 6;
High Intermediate, 8. Seminars are felt by many Agency employees to
satisfy the need for a "minimal program," permitting them to keep
active their spoken control of a foreign language, and to advance
somewhat in it.
6. I wife of a contract employee of SR, has
begun to type the Polish Area Reader for lithoprinting. Despite her
name, she is a native of Kielce, Poland, and an accomplished tynist
in four languages: English, German, Polish and Russian.
is doing the typing under special arrapEement and her work o
add to the "slots" in our TO.
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8TANDARD FORM NO.64
Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
DATE: 3 June 1959
1. In extension of my previous report on the new inter-agency
roundtable on area training, NSA will not take part, while
Army's FAST Program (Foreign Area Specialist Training) will.
Lt. Col. Seay, Chief of Instruction Department at SIA, pro-
posed the idea of FAST's participation and made the initial
contact for me. STS now has an Area Studies and Language
Department, with Lt. Col. Augustus Kursar as Chief, whose
interest in the roundtable is equal to Lt. Col. Seay's.
2. I have now completed separate briefing guides for two of
the new AAO sessions which I will inaugurate in
?12 running the week of 22 June. They are titled How to
Make the Most of Your Everyday Contacts with s" and
"How to Make the Most of Your Job Contacts with s"
respectively, and both carry the sub-title "Developing
Effective Interpersonal Relations." The Area Staff believes
these papers will serve as useful starting points in the
preparation of specific briefings tailored for a particular
country. I shall see DC/EE on the 14th to ask EE's
help in giving the second of these briefings
and will emphasize that we wish especially to fill a present
gap in the training of DDS rather than DDP personnel.
3. The "Saturday Special" scheduled for 27 June has been shifted
to the 22nd in view of the small potential enrollment at this
season and the considerable griping by WE staff who were
directed to attend the last Saturday running. We have found
that the total number of employees and dependents scheduled
at any given time for their first assignment in Western
Europe (or Latin America) is not sufficient to justify
separate briefings.
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4. My hands are now free to draft a formal report on the first
Senior Area Seminar, which was run in March, and to work out
specific directives and suggestions for handling the two such
seminars scheduled for the fall. Toward this end, I have
almost completed a series of interviews with the individuals
in the first group, which has been most productive. They
have commented usefully on our tabulation of the group's
critiques and on my emerging concepts of how the course
should be modified.
5. Tuesday's session of ~ Eastern Europe course was high-
lighted by an excellent panel presentation on cultural trends
and their political implications. Drs. Horecky and Grzybowski
of the Library of Congress analyzed very effectively recent
developments in Czech and Polish literature and fine arts as
related to the Communist regimes. Leo Teholiz added an in-
teresting account of Polish folk art and its place within the
Communist system.
6. Reports on and reactions to the CEP course continue to be
highly favorable. In an effort to sailor the course as far
as possible to consumer needs, stays in close touch
with the DDP desks concerned and also is setting up a number
of informal luncheon meetings with three or four students at
a time.
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