KILLIAN REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00634A000100020029-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2001
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: September 25, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Chief/PPS
Chief/LAS
Killian Report
DATE:25 September 1958
REF Your Memorandum "Report to President's Board of Consultants on
Foreign Intelligence Activities (Killian Committee)," 9 Sep 58
Since my last report, dated 19 March 1958:
1. The fifth fifteen-week trimester of the out-of-hours Volun-
tary Language Training Program (VLTP) began on 8 September. A total
of 343 employees enrolled in 54 classes and are now studying 16 dif-
terent~languages before and after duty hours. Total individual stu-
dent enrollments for the five trimesters have been 1405 and the total
number of classes 197. Of the total number of students registered,
slightly above 64% completed the trimesters. During the current tri-
mester, instruction in the Voluntary Language Training Program is
being offered for the first time in Armenian, Turkish and Swahili.
Only one person has been employed for regular duty with the program,
the Coordinator. Instruction has been provided by qualified employ-
ees from all parts of the Agency who teach outside of their regular
duty hours. About 100 students whose proficiency was acquired pri-
marily in the VI!IP have been tested in the Agency Language Profici-
ency Testing Program and preliminary results indicate that a high
proportion have attained a recognized level of useable proficiency.
2. The Agency Language Proficiency Testing Program was initiated
in February.. .of this year. Since that time, 114.$8 written examinations
have _ T)een ? .- .._ _._
given in 35 languages_ d_$22 oraltesta have. conducted in
19 languages. the large effort involved in composing and conducting
the 'Written and oral examinations was carried out chiefly by LAS staff
assisted by volunteers from other components of the Agency.
3. Regular language and area training, and new activities re-
ported in March, have continued.
4. Substantial interest has been devoted to developing a seri-
ously-needed program on intercultural relations with concern for know-
ledge and attitudes required to improve effectiveness and quality of
operations involving foreign contacts and relations. First experimental
run will occur early in 1959.
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5. Of significance and seriousness is the Agency's inability to
commit the people and devote the time required to provide foreign lan-
guage competence essential for most effective and economical opera-
tions and research--with resulting continuation of "compradore opera-
tions" and precarious straining of intelligence by a "foreign inter-
preter system." There are many reasons for this distressing situation,
and a few remedies that, however, are quarantined by personnel auster-
ity and the demands for expediency in the present to the exclusion of
developing for efficiency in the future.
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