LANGUAGE QUALIFICATIONS REVIEW PANEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00634A000100040055-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: April 28, 1959
• Content Type: MISC

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LANGUAGE QUALIFICATIONS REVIEW PANEL
Generally about four people, including person's supervisor; someone
from R/TR (usually Deputy); someone from A&E who gives rating on
Foreign Language Aptitude Test Battery. Panel considers persons
requesting full-time internal training and full-time or part-time external
training requiring expenditure of money by the Agency.
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DTR says see
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DD/P member of the language panel.
25X1A9a It is understood with
of the Management Staff th
they will do a procedural study and X1A9a
will study the complaints that have rogram.
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25X1A9a =stated that the people in DD/I had no quarrel with the language
program in any way. He did say, however, that the few small
criticisms, which he did not name, had been discussed with Matt
over the months while in his capacity as a member of the Language
25X1A9a Development Committee. =stated that he did not anticipate an
increase in language training being given by the DD/I people. There
is, of course, some technical language study being presented at the
present time, but this has been approved by the DTR. There appear
to be no serious problems in the DD/I area.
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Approved Component Conducted
Language Courses
OO/FDD
Biographic German Reading
(-Scientific)
Czech Reading
Hungarian Reading
Intensive Polish Reading
Intensive Rumanian Reading
Arabic Conversation and
Grammar
Russian Conversation
Intensive Italian Grammar
and Reading
Intensive Russian Reading
Scientific Russian (Advanced)
Intensive Serbo-Croatian
Reading
26 Sept 58 - 29 Jan 59
5 Jan - 22 May 59
12 Jan - 26 June 59
14 July - 13 Dec 58
14 July - 27 Nov 58
Jan - June 58
Jan - June 58
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The DD/S people are very happy with the Voluntary Language Training
Program. Most individuals feel that once an assignment is firm they
should be allowed to take language (VLTP) and then follow up at a
later date full time.
The key factor in language study is believed to be dependent upon
firmness of assignment.
Some of the girls are taking a language which they will never use.
This, of course, is problematical, but they appear to be taking
languages and then , on the other hand, say they do not want to go
overseas. This may swell the language statistics, but it is questionable
whether it is desirable or not.
There is no particular antipathy toward the aptitude test other than the
normal dislike of any testing.
25X1A9a suggested that anything that could be done to educate
people in the why of tests, how used, etc. might be desirable.
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