WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040189-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 189
• Publication Date: January 7, 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
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DATE: 7 January 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Free Europe - Current Problems Seminar #l, to begin 19 February,
is shaping up most encouragingly. Tentative enrollment is 16
GS-14's and above, which is It. more than our originally proposed
maximum. Our approaches are continuing, to obtain an outstanding
guest seminar leader for 5 and 6 March on the first theme, the
impact of nuclear weap s state on Free Europe. Following a --~
negative response from AD/OSI has discussed our
whnm
a ects to see shortly. Best
problem with the DD
present prospect is'[ an Executive Director
of the Council on Foreign Relations, who is a close friend of both
the DCI and the DD/I. Livingston Merchant, State's Assistant
Secretary for European Affairs, has already accepted as one of
two speakers for the second theme, the implications of European
integration steps for that area. The first of two short organi-
zational meetings with the participants will be held within a week
for discussion of outside readings, selection of student panel
topics, and housekeeping matters.
2. Germany - Americans Abroad Orientation #10, to begin 12 January,
has a prospective enrollment of over 25. A fuller introduction
taking a page out of the syllabus of
to -personal adiustment problems will be given, with the aid of ?
the new American Overseas Seminar. It is too early to say whether
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we will have the minimum number of 10 dependents for the "Saturday
Srecial" scheduled for 17 January, on Western Europe
and Latin America, but present indications are no
couraging.
3. In view of a current show of interest, LAS,/AT plans to re-offer
its Regional Survey on East Asia in April. Course content will
be revised to minimize the formal history of the area and instead
to consider in depth the social, political and economic develop-
ments since 1900, with particular reference to their significance
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in terms of the long-range interests of the United States. The
area embraced will include Japan, China, Formosa, Korea, the
Ryukyus and Siberia.
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4. We spent about an hour briefing Weigel of OP Classification at
his request, on AT aspects of the new LAS Table of Organization.
He seemed especially interested in our methods for identifying
and evaluating area training requirements.
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5.I has recommended and briefed two SRS members
who will serve as technical advisers for SIS' revisions
o? e area films on the European Satellites and the USSR.
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