WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT #16

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05787A000100040011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 18, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

STANDARD FORM NO. 64
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Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO :Chief., PPS
FROM : Chief,, LAS
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report #16
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
DATE: 18 April 1957
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1. Final arrangements now are being made to introduce to the
out-of-hours program courses in German, French, and Polish. We hope
to begin these, with non-OTR staff employees, about 15 May.
2. In response to a request from EE, we now are trying to worn
out plans to conduct an intensive course of about six months' dura-
tion in Hungarian. If the PSI cannot handle, we will try to conduct
it ourselves.
3. Periodic meeting of Area Advisory Committee on 10 April
agreed on procedures for circulating a sanitized long-term schedule
of area courses to the other IAC Agencies. Plan had been already
discussed with advised and
on their forthcoming Americans broa courses, scheduling
a special meeting for this purpose a week later.
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4. Probably the largest audience ever to have assembled volun-
tarily in an Agency auditorium did so on 10 April when approximately
500 persons filled the R&S hall for the illustrated lecture by Justice
William 0. Douglas on the "Russian Journey? which he made in 1955.
Twice that number would have been on hand--judging from the requests
that poured into LAS--had the hall been large enough to accommodate
them. The extent of the interest shown seems attributable primarily
to the drawing power of TMir. Douglas himself and secondarily to the
combination of subject matter and slides.
who handled the program, has commented most favorably
to Mr. on the cooperation given him by many persons within
and outside OTR. Especially helpful were ever-reliable
and The latter provided so many little services so
expeditiously and so "matter-of-factly" that he was more of a help
than he probably realized. displaced from his lecture
room, paid his displacer bac in a muc etter coin. Other names
clamor for recognition: Misses
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Three recommnendations are in order: (1) the inability of
Mrs. Douglas in the projection booth to hear her husband's commentary
seems to underscore the need for an amplifier there; (2) something
should be done to cover the windows fully for such showings; and (3)
the interest shown in this lecture would seem to favor the establish-
ment of a series of such programs.
5. As a special,. extraordinary activity, we are planning to
provide JOT with limited training in Serbo-Croatian.
As an alterna ve to commercial schools, we have created a special
supervised program for him internally.
6. Discussions are continuing with FE with a view to gaining
FE release to OTR of two highly qualified instructors in Chinese
badly needed for development of the Chinese language program-to meet
Agency requirements.
7. of the FSI came to discuss FY 1957
contract with
3. Preliminary arrangements have been made for ORR to enter
area-language program with a view to
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_ of OTR with an introduction to Vietnamese. We have located a
no-cost-to-us speaker and have obtained the new ACLS course. Training
will begin as soon as we have a meeting place.
11. The five-week Regional Survey: Economic Geography of the
Soviet Bloc course ended on 12 April with six students, who completed
the requirements of the course in an O 1rrstanding manner.
reports the course was designed to give the students the basic
eograp is factors as they affect the economic development of the
Soviet Bloc, which included the USSR and its European Satellites.
12. The ten-week Regional Survey: Southeast Asia course was
completed on 11 April with a total of 13 students. reports
that a total of 25 guest speakers participated in the course, and be-
cause most of them are located on country desks working with these
areas day in and day out, the class members were able to receive of-
ficial information which was not only current but which had been ex-
pertly evaluated and passed on objectively.
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