BILL,

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: June 18, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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18 June 1959
STATINTL
MEMORANDUM TO:
Bill,
bV impromptu comments on Senator Jackson's letter and the
attached report and recommendations of the Study Group on Asian
and African Languages are as follows, and I hope may be helpful
to you:
1. As a citizen concerned with the need for "considerably
greater understanding of the peoples and cultures" of
Asia and Africa and as an officer responsible for develop-
ing this understanding, I strongly endorse, in principle,
the proposed endeavor, including the three recommenda-
tions upon which Senator Jackson invites comments, as
well as the recommendations in the concluding paragraph
of the report.
2. While I know that languages alone are important, they
are only a part of culture and emphasis on languages
should not reduce concern for total culture to an
unavoidable minimum. While the discussion is in terms
of "language and area,' inferentially language seems
to over-shadow "area," or culture in the broad sense.
(Maybe I am reading in an erroneous interpretation,
and this is only a caution).
3. Two additional actions not specified herein perhaps
should be considered:
a. Creation of a coordinating working group for
administration, resources research and planning,
in addition to the "Language and Area Advisor"
and the "NATO Language and. Area Advisory Com-
mittee."
b. Survey of human and institutional resources in
addition to the guide to teaching materials
recommended on page 4.
4. I have prepared these comments without either extended
reflection or the benefit of views that _ might
have, neither of which is possible today.
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