BLIND NARBERTH YOUTH PICKED FOR CIA TRANSLATOR COURSE

Document Type: 
Collection: 
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP75-00001R000300190003-2
Release Decision: 
RIPPUB
Original Classification: 
K
Document Page Count: 
2
Document Creation Date: 
November 11, 2016
Document Release Date: 
February 17, 1999
Sequence Number: 
3
Case Number: 
Publication Date: 
September 20, 1960
Content Type: 
NSPR
File: 
AttachmentSize
PDF icon CIA-RDP75-00001R000300190003-2.pdf119.02 KB
Body: 
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001R000300190003-2 MORI BUNDLE # DATE PA GLS 13 0 Fo er 44. Fa n BEST COPY AVAILABLE Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001R000300190003-2 TIE EN./t/- , eiihk764.0FOIAb3b Qv-4w4' Saditieed - Approved FgP.14113e-NS!'CIA Blind Narberth Youth Picked ? For CIA Translator Course ay HENRY Ii. DARLING 0 The Bulletin Staff Thnothy .John ? Pinata, lees about *ix per cent 'of ,the world ? through one eye and a contact 4.1ens. But, If the ban bounces the way he wants It to, he's going tO put that six percent '.to better Ilse than most of us with 20-20 Tim 11 00 his way to being an friterpeeter. for the U. S.' Gov- -ertunent. . He hope..t someday, to be one of thoie fast7thiniting,..quicktant- ing interpreters for the United Natiens--the language wizards who can translate Russian into . English as rapidly as the ver- bose Mr. IChrushcbev can shout It out.- CIA Crash Course He was selected' recently by ' the Central intelligence Agencsf to take a crash course in P.0- Sian to prepare him for Otis work. A talk broad-shoulderi,j, year-old youth, Tim puti it this Way: ? Johis Pilean tie PIIIW-that-iiialln. A fee, ? 'bath, fite bent hie own hi- CPYRGHT ? . "Somebody down in ?ne l was.at Orebro* he ton realized that we (NIA'tbat a blind German ? *otos can do interoretialWkboy IAA pled speak nb bgUsh just as well as a sighted PE, evieVectiring tta the sdhool,? "I don't know who he Iva/ Alt . I'm gratauLto Min." Comprehensive Test Heti* d Getman Iloy' .14 'bought .a German tram anteir.4 studied it in his ofi, Actually. the CIA iel very'- ' Gerit and became his closest t - ? v.. e. -ertevileg,he took his friend to ,titer Nam1. careful selective joh.''S'he ,took Tin teete0 him in secentiess applications frotr ereA country. nal rowed the A and gave them a cotr.r://tb. seven-hour test. 'Part of It war` mea.sure our new language." 'They v. mill ItnettriingifS6 WOI4 k e- ell , the-. words, I remelt,' Acenakum, one' four,, "Then tb.r .4,14 di It4 ,e r Zt1 ' to Irate a. Tirn. ' I out sot and numbt are the act them-1 Ai 01 not tt.. "IP rth probably toat 'it into imp .ef,,re .p Tim. and 1. of hers frorri Tning like this: ? , wtio 's ? .0 11- Na ?rth ay, N.A11./.' ? Ly4(4404, f , vo r of us could see, of ," said Thu. "Mae waitta boy seated in trent of ri;.e 3,14 Could, but no couldn't eoeek I iErgi,sh very well. ? *111e Polish boy told me what . ? ,.tveuiatteing ma out an the field. figura& out What he' meant in English. Then I translated it into German for my friend. Aids Understanding ? - Tim .believes there is more to it language than just Jimmies the words and grammar... you have to be able to talk ? with people in their native ton- to realbruKierstand them," rit 0444 "TiAt's why we'd all be better off /f sea 'of' )earned to apeak Russian. -1;Ito we',1 ,know more the at -- ? to \tilt s tir,hout how they think." Sanitized - Approved For Release: CIA-RDP75-00001R000300190003-2