WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040156-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 156
• Publication Date: March 4, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
DATE: 4 March 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. We will report more fully next week on our major seminar
sessions taking place this Thursday and Friday in the DCI's
Conference Room in East Building. It is a tribute to the
quality of our guest speaker panel that all eleven distin-
guished Agency guests whom we invited to observe have accepted
for Thursday.
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We visited ORB to brief about a dozen supervisors on two up-
coming survey courses of special interest to them, i.e., on
East Asia and on Poland, Czechosl t Germany.
TO who is succeeding arranged
the meeting, which produced useful questions concerning both
courses.
3. The revised East Asia - RS, concentrating on comparative analy-
sis of problems involving the various political units of this
area, will apparently have sufficient registration. A number
of phone calls have already been received from probable regis-
trants, even before the full description of the course appears
in the March-April OTR Bulletin. Scheduled starting date is
20 April. Response from prospective enc panelists to assist
us has been especially encouraging. has been invited to
dinner next week with Professor E. 0. Reischauer of Harvard
University and a Department of State person attending the National
War College, where Reischauer is to lecture on 10 March.
4. The Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany course has five takers
thus far within HE, but TO doubts that all will be
available for a later than scheduled offering of the course, yet
we are definitely forced to postpone it in view of 0 pro-
tracted illness. ORR apparently will also have a number of takers,
and we will also arrange special meetings with FDD, OCR, and OSI,
all of whom will probably have a considerable interest in this
course.
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5. Southeast Asia - RS began on 3 March with ten students registered
for the full course, which runs thru May 7th, and three auditors.
The speaker was William Sullivan of State, whose job is to keep
in touch with daily developments in Southeast Asia and brief his
division's staff daily on the happenings of the previous 24 hours
and their significance. He outlined American policy in Southeast
Asia in an exceptionally brilliant talk, which was followed by
numerous questions.
6. I was a guest at a dinner with Victor Reuther of the UAW on
15 February. The Reuther brothers, and particularly Victor, have
been considering a trip to Japan sometime this year, and wished
to discuss the general nature of the Japanese problem.
in contact with FE on this matter. It is expected that
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will be invited to sit down with a number of union officials for
further discussion if the trip is definitely scheduled.
will be hospitalized at least another week - which would
make a total of four - and cannot yet say when he will return.
We have requested an advance of leave to cover the probable total
absence from duty. He has had a bad staphylococcus infection of
the lungs.
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