WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 42 18 - 25 NOVEMBER 1960

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04836A000300020005-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2008
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• Publication Date: November 25, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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0 ce Me~no~~nduyn ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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ro Director of Training;
exc~Nt Chief, School of International Communism
susJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. L,2
lF3 - 25 November 1960
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onrE: 25 November 1960
I. ST~~NIFICANT ITF1~.S
None to report.
II. UTHER ACTIVITIES
1~ and I both met with reserve groups last Monday
evening. I found Coast Guard unit to be interested and
courteous -only one consistent sleeper in-a group of twenty-two.^
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with a CIC unit at Fort ueyer. Apparently the most important item of
business was a discussion centering around the question - "How come
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found that so many of them were enjoying a quiet nap after fifteen or
twenty minutes had gone by that he had to stop lecturing and begin
asking yuesti.ons of the audience. In this way he managed to hold the
attention of most of the group.
Based upon observation over almost ten years now the odds ap-
pear to be about even that a frustrating evening will result from the
acceptance of one of these invitations. There is always just enough
interest, however, to make us feel that we are doing some good.
2. Our appearances at FSI~s Mid-Career course also have their
frustrations, but for an entirely different reason. I had two
sessions this week, one concerned with current doctrinal problems, the
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smilingly informed me when I arrived that one of the students was a
State Department "expert" on revisionism who had previously lectured to
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political section of the Moscow Embassy, One wonders why or
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class. Ism not being critical the time. 35~ forewarn me and
I was thus able to get off the hook and turn many of the questions to
the student "experts."
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3. I met wit _ this week and we arrived at what,
to SIC, is a very happy compromi-se concerni the roblesri f could~u~st
handbook. It was decided that, temporarily, p
manage with a classified series of studies of the mos important
aspects of the movement. These can be prepared rapidly from our tapes
of the JOT program. The declassification process had been the real
stumbling block in this whole process. Nowobthat it has been removed
I anticipate some real progress on this pr
4. Re my comments two weeks ago concerning the position of SRS
in the Sino-Soviet Task Force, I'm passing along a memo issued by
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