WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT #39

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05787A000100040033-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: September 25, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

STANDARD FORM N0. 64 1
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
: Chief , PPS
FROM : Chief, LAS
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report #39
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
DATE: 25 September 1957
Special arrangements for a course in Malay for two FE persons were com-
pleted. Following completion of arrangements, interest dissipated.
2. Special arrangements with the FSI have been completed for an inter- 25.1,0a
sive Portuguese course. Arrangements were initiated primarily to accommodate
for whom no suitable course was available for his schedule. We
shall endeavor to take advantage of this to provide training also for WH.
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3. Commo has explored the possibility of our developing a special area
and language program of limited proportions for 25 persons going to We
have indicated ability and willingness to provide maximum training poss e
within time restrictions they need to impose. In consideration of an informal
statement of Comm objectives, I have recommended a desirable maximum of three
months and an irreducible minimum of two weeks.
4. Efforts are being made to develop a Bulgarian grammar review for three
persons in FDD. We have nearly exhausted possible no-cost sources of training
and may need to recommend consideration of an external arrangement costing
3-500., As usual, however, this will not be done until we feel there are no
no-cost methods of meeting the requirement.
5. Interviews and file reviews are being conducted in preparation for the
monthly scheduled Qualifications Review and Placement Panels. The load will be
light as about 20 cases already have been considered during the past month. 25X1a,6a
6. The first LAS-conducted class in Romanian is spending this week at
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in char a assisted by part-time instructor N:rs.
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Visiting ins rue r is of 66/C. Two advanced speakers so are
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part-time guests.
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7. Material requested for the Killian Committee was prepared and sent to
AC/PPS on 20 September.
8, a service outside our normal responsibility, we have agreed to pro- .F,1A0a
duce for staff a translation in Turkish of a legal contract to
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be used by the Agency. We felt it appropriate to permit this imposition upon
the time of Mr. - as he is believed to be the only Turkish linguist with
legal background in the Agency. FDD had not been able to do the translation
with satisfactory legal precision. Total time required: about 24 uninterrupted
hours,
9. -reports that the IS film "Free Europe" will be completed next
spring, rather than this fall. Principal handicap has been poor coordination
within Army Pictorial Center in designing animation sketches and searching
film footage. Initial budget for the film is already nearly exhausted, largely
because a large volume of film rints was ordered on the basis of SIS' imprac-
tical plan for the film, which Jas had to revise completely.
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10. prepared an annotated selected bibliography on the Middle East
for OASD/ISA, for his use in preparing an orientation 25X1A9a
course an materials or MAAG.
11. The Integrated Language/Area Study-USSR began on 23 September with 25X1A9a
thirteen students enrolled.
12. Mr. , Sr. addressed the Integrated Language/Area Study-
China on the subject of "FIstorical Relationships Between China and Mongolia,
Sinkiang and Tibet." 25X1A9a
13, newly appointed Chairman of the Professional Promotion Panel, 25X1A9a
attended t e re ar meeting of the Panel on 18 September. 25X1A9a
14. On 23 September, conferred with Mr. - of DDP/Operations 25X1A9a
Staff on the subject of area tra ning for DDP personnel. Mr. - was shown
our library and training facilities and was told that LAS would be very happy
to cooperate in training planning. It was arranged that he or someone else from
DDP would call upon us for further consultation later.
1 The re ar German test was given to 11 people on 19 September; Mrs.
served on the oral panel.
16. Proficiency test results for all people who may so far have qualified
for achievement awards, and all other proficiency test results on which reports
had not yet been sent out, were recalculated in terms of the new grading system.
Separate grades were given for Reading, Writing, Pronunciation, Speaking and Un-
derstanding, and eliminating plus and minus grades. 89 test reports on the new
Certification for Language Award forms were sent to R/TR. 25X1A9a
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17. On 23 September, conferred with Mir of Logistics and Mr.
Bell of Remington Rand about necessary improvements an ifications in the 3 25X1A9a
foreign-language typewriters recently acquired.
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18. conferred with Mr. _ on 24 September to brief him on the
proficiency es ing program,
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190 reports that two more classes have been organized in the
Voluntary Language Training Program one Chinese 101 and the other Russian 101.
The latter course is being given at These courses, which began
on the 25th of September, are the f na ones o be started during the Fall 1957
trimester. Both classes will have a slightly accelerated schedule to permit
them to finish by the end of the year. 25X1a,9a
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