WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT #36

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05787A000100040030-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: September 5, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report #36
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEM
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIE3
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pleted a series of briefings in person or by phone of all potentially inter-
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2. has completed checking about 75 animation sketches for the SIB
film "Free Europe" and is proceeding to check the draft narration. This film
will probably not be re" r r final review before late October. It has been 25X1A9a
organized according to specifications and can be used to good advantage
in both the Regional Survey-Free Europe and in the Americans Abroad Orientation-
Western Europe.
DATE: 5 September 1957
1. briefed the DDP Training Officers' meeting on objectives and
methods o the three full-time integrated language/area studies which will
be introduced by Western Studies over the next 12 months H h
3. A class of four students who had completed the 20 week French-Basic 25X1A9a
Speaking course (part-time) spent three days at 26 August to 28 25X1A6a
August. Native speakers were Another group of four stu-
dents active in the French Se nar rep aced them at mid- Native speakers
were Mrs. Staff linguist was 25X1A9a
4. met with Lyman Kirkpatrick to discuss his brushing 25X1 A9a
up on French, Spanish and German. It was decided that he would work on French 25X1 A9a
and Spanish now, and German later. - will supply him with materials.
5.
held several meetings with out-of-hours German instructors to
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6. met with the full-time Polish class to discuss plans for their
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7. The regular Portuguese Proficiency Test was given to 3 people on 29 25X1 A9a
August; Mr (0SI) served on the oral panel.
8. The French test was given by special request for 2 people on 3 Sep- 25X1A9a
tember; Mrs. served on the oral panel.
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Language a ng gram after work on Thursday, 29 August. The instructors
were briefed on all aspects of the out-of-hours language training program.
ministrative matters and were informed of position as Coordinator of
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9. held a meeting for 25 instructors in the Volunteer
10. - has recruited 28 new instructors for the September courses in
the Voluntary Language Training Program. The new instructors have all been
briefed on course content, and teaching techniques by the a riate staff
language instructors,
11. Twenty-one (21) out-of-hours courses in the Voluntary Language Train-
am began on 4 September. All except one were 101 courses in the fol-
aguages
Finnish 101
Class Nos.
1
French 101
4
German 101
6
Italian 101
1
Japanese 101
2
Polish 101
1
Russian 101
3
Russian 103
1
Spanish 101
2
12. Seven (7) more courses are scheduled to begin between now and 16
Sep
French 102
French 201
Portuguese 10,1
Spanish 102
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Italian 101
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German 102
13. A total of i224'students are enrolled in the out-of-hours language
courses starting in September. This is not counting the students enrolled in
the ten (10) out-of-hours courses which began in June and July and are still
in progress.
14. We had some difficulty in finding qualified out-of-hours instructors
in Italian. These have now been found, and recruited, through the help of Mr.
- who spotted them for us from the Agency IBM machine runs.
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