WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040164-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 164
• Publication Date: February 18, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
suBJECr: Weekly Activities Report
DATE. 18 February 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. I have hopes of obtaining one additional recruit for the dry
run of the Personal Effectiveness Abroad course - from 10,
which shows a special interest in training for persons who
must operate alone in the foreign society. TO
has promised to have the division's answer for me this wee_.
Of the three DDP commitments already reported to you, the
identity of only the FE candidates remain to be established,
and this is expected to be accomplished in a day or two.
This should give us a total of 6-8 participant-critics for
the dry run.
himself, is one of % he divisions most experienced operators
2. Strongest enthusiasm for this effort has been encountered in
WE, where my contact though unable to participate
and mounted a one-man crusade in our behalf. WE's candidate
was a session with DC/WH who appears to confuse
training for understanding better - e problems of dealing
effectively with foreigners, with training in actually adopt-
ing the customs and values of the host people. He feels we
are making too big a "production" out of our training pro-
posal, that essentially all we need do is to impress on per-
sonnel the necessity of "behaving" properly away from home,
and that, in. any event, our proposed course is too long.
Icy most frustrating experience concerning the new prograsr~ _%
~. First full meeting of the Current Problems Seminar on Free
Europe will be held this week on Thursday. This will be an
"exploratory" session on the nuclear weapons strategy theme,
for the purpose of establishing a common understanding of
technical terms and substantive problems among the 16 parti-
cipants. C/SR F]will drop in to give his personal
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impressions of the Geneva talks broken off in January. Romer
(DD/I's office) kindly furnished us highly useful papers from
the January Princeton Conference on NATO strategy.
6.
OCR has just filled our requirement for a short reading list
on Latin America for the "Saturday Special" briefings. This
15-page list (Bibliography 6-59) reflects good judgment in the
choice of geographic and subject headings and in the selection
of many materials directed toward dependents.
7. I am givin an assist again in organizing portions of the
forthcoming 81;u~-time Intermediate French course. My role is
to arrange for the use of certain teaching aids, obtain weekly
three hours a week for the handling of French history.
8. F___As in George Washington University Hospital for two weeks
9. Tuesdays at 5:00 I am "tuning in" on France under de Gaulle,
in French, at a private series of talks being given by Jean
Canu, veteran Georgetown lecturer. Canu spends about two
months in France each year, and I find him extremely well in-
formed on not only de Gaulle but current French thinking about
with a lung abscess, and will be out about a month. Thzs mis-
fortune points up the hazards of trying to put on too many
activities simultaneously in the area program. He was helping
substantially with the Current Problems Seminar and was shifting
into high gear with preparations for the new Regional Survey on
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland (CEP), which he is to
run by himself beginning in mid-April.
the new regime.
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