WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040168-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 168
• Publication Date: February 11, 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:ll February 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. A full afternoon's discussion in depth of the area program
has been held by the staff in preparation for a round of
decision-making at the spring planning conference to be held
at about 6 April. Keynote of the discussion was a
realization that experimentation must give way to firmer
policies in the area program. In view of our extremely
limited resources and the uncertainties of Agency area train-
ing requirements, however, three successive tactical steps
will be taken: 1) D/PRA will seek C/PPS's help in flushing
out realistic views of Agency requirements, including prior-
ities,at staff level; 2) I will attempt to pull together a
critical analysis of our experience thus far; and 3) we
will revisit each Agency component, at division level, in an
effort to update our understanding of working level views.
We hope to complete the first two steps prior to drafting of
the 1960 fiscal year schedule in April.
2. I am continuing to interview desirable participants for our
dry run in March of the Personal Effectiveness Abroad course.
my best prospect in WE, who is one of that divi-
sion's mo t skilled field operators, is unfortunately en-
rolled in an OS course running simultaneously, preparatory
to taking a PCS assignment in a few months.
3. I am also soliciting h for this course from C/EE and
DC/EE (Critchfield and ) and DC/WH whom I
expect to see shortly. os general and irmest point still
being made to me by DDP personnel is that this course should
concern itself with a single country - or at least region -
if it is to be of substantial interest to DDP supervisors.
ASALAAMA
25 YEAR
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4. Paul Nitze has accepted our invitation to lead off on 5 March
at the first full-dress session of the Current Problems Seminar
on Free Europe., .,^ and Phil Farley, the second speaker, are
good friends.' nd their differing viewpoints on American Cold
War strategy should make for a lively discussion afterward. We
feel that we have made well above par in obtaining four guest
specialists who are ideally suited for our purpose. We are in-
debted to C/FE (Fitzgerald) for a speedy entree to Nitze.
5, CSR has cheerfully agreed to spend 40 to 50 minutes
with the seminar group next Thursday, at its first full meeting,
to give us the flavor of the recent Geneva talks which he
attended.
6. TO/WH voluntarily came to visit regarding our periodic -/
AAO briefings Saturday Specials) on Latin America. He reports
that the division is encouraged by the favorable comments re-
ceived from dependents who attended on 17 January, and we mapped
out several steps for raising the quality of this briefing to
that of the one given on Saturday.
7.
joined me
in a first meeting with)
to map strategy for our Czechoslovakia,
East Germany, and Poland CEP - R 1, scheduled to begin 17F April.
We also plan to coordinate closely with EE, presumably the most
interested component, through DC/EE. SIC is committed to handle
two lectures and participate on two panels.
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