WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040144-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 144
• Publication Date: March 26, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School DATE: 26 March 1959
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
suBJECr: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Our annual area meeting at s been postponed from
the 6th of April until a date to ixed in May, as a result
of our concentration during April on the Personal Effectiveness
Abroad exercise. Meanwhile, I plan to submit for your review
such proposed modifications of the area program as are essent-
ial before we draw up the 6-month schedule of courses which
R/TR may publish in the next OTR Bulletin. Deadline for sub-
mission of the schedule is the week of 20 April. The later
staff meeting at ]would concern itself with internal
procedures, extent of desirable standardization of teaching
methods, and "public relations" problems.
2. nomination of a substitute at this Thursday's
ments,, though lacking a "big name." He is Russell Fessenden,
Deputy Director of the Office of European Regional Affairs,
and an old friend of mine who was a close contact during the
critical years from 1952-1954 when American policy in Europe
was frustrated by French delay on ratification of the EDC
treaty. To our session he brings almost ten years of con-
centration on the new European organizations which are of
primary concern to our main theme, "Implications of the
European integration process." He is unusually direct in
approach, conveys a strong impression of personal sincerity
and enthusiasm for his field of professional interest, and
has a background of graduate study at Cornell through the
PhD. He attended the NATO War College near Paris in 1955
and returned from that overseas tour only last year.
Free Europe seminar session meets all our essential require-
25 YEAR RE-REVIEWI
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3. Our other guest specialist for this week's seminar sessions,
Professor Zurcher of New York University,, will be with us
Thursday and Friday and will be taken in tow by who
reports back from sick leave two days earlier than expected
for this purpose.
4+. I have prepared a special student critique form for senior
seminars, and will ask the present class to take it with
them for thoughtful consideration and return by next Tuesday.
I hope to have a tentative analysis of these results for
inclusion in next week's report.
5?
The experiment in "inter-personal relations" which, with the
help of= has been an added feature in RS - Southeast Asia,
has proven very successful. Three different sessions have
been held, one with a native Indonesian, one with a Burmese,
and one with a Thai. Under killed questioning
many interesting facts about the cus oms, habits and char-
acteristics of these different people have been elicited.
attended the 13th annual Middle East Institute Conference
those problems.
which was held at the Mayflower Hotel on 20-21 March. The
conference theme was "Nationalism, Neutralism, and Communism -
The Struggle for Power." No clear-cut answers or solutions
to area problems were convincingly advanced, but the size of
the crowd attending the conference shows that with every
passing day more and more people are at least wrestling with
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