WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 3 15 - 21 JANUARY 1964

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• Publication Date: January 23, 1964
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SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. 3
15 - 21 January 1964
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A. On Friday afternoon ,1 was called by about
some of the research assets we've ac uired for Qur Academic
Library and Counseling Service. assured , hat this was
not an "IG" inquiry questioning its utility but that his request
for info was more along the lines of increasing the use of this
service. Apparently =was working on a matter for the Execu-
tive Director and felt that within some of our resource documents -
particularly on the secondary school level -- there already existed
the means within the Office of the Registrar. -fie invited him
over to confirm his hunch at his leisure.
B. We've received from H.E.W. a copy of"Department's 1963
bulletin on "Higher Education in the U.S.S.R." Among other items,
the report highlights the fact that "slightly more than half of
the Soviet students in higher education are studying in part-time
programs." In the 1960-61 school year, 1,240,000 of the 2,395,500
higher education students were in evening (shift) divisions of
higher schools or studying by correspondence - extension. Both
of these categories permit, in Soviet phraseology, "studying with-
out interruption from production."
I don't mean to pull a Rickover and urge that we adopt any
Russian system of education but we can steal a leaf without copy-
ing the book. Based on some discussions with and
others, it may prove desirable for 0TR to seek 7th f oor approval
of the proposition that certain courses, of an academic nature, be
discontinued in the day-time and offered as an integral part of
the Off-Campus Program. Potential gains would be not only free-
dom from "interruption of production," and savings in OTR facili-
ties and personnel but the lure of, and requirement for, academic
credit may increase the stature of some of these courses. Im-
mediate possibilities that suggest themselves are Effective
Speaking, some writing courses, some advanced management special-
ties in the public administration field, some foreign language
courses and possibly an academic-level course or two in Communism.
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C. Reference dated 27 December 1963, Subject:
we have detailed five persons to be at
their posts in the Registrar Staff whenever a general release
of Federal Employees from duty is declared because of hazardous
traffic conditions. This action is based on the liUihood that
the Registrar will be called upon to provide a substantial amount
of Message Center, liaison and emergency information service dur-
ing any period of temporary suspension of OTR classes and other
regular activities. This designation of individuals for special
duty is in addition to the appointment of two persons to report
to the Office of the DTR for service in time of any officially
declared weather emergency.
D. A letter was prepared, for signature of the DTR, to go
to Mr. George A. Morgan, Director of the Foreign. Service Institute>
informing him that the Agency accepts his invitation to nominate
two officers to attend the Seventh Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy
and assuring him that desired information on our representatives
will be submitted before 1 March 1964.
E. Executive Officer, Cable Secretariatlin-
quired whether the Agency paid expenses of young men during the
last two years of their undergraduate academic program if the can-
didates are making good grades and if they indicate a willingness
to join the Agency upon graduation. This is a recurrent question.
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that he would transmit a negative reply to the source of the
question.
F. of the Suggestion Awards Committee, called to
obtain clarification on a number of points pertaining to Agency
sponsorship of external training. His call was prompted by receipt
from an unidentified someone of a whole series of "suggestions" in-
volving OTR and its role in support of training at non-CIA facilities.
The propositions range from the notion that there should be a "system"
for ensuring that employees are not put into academic courses they
don't need to the idea that the Agency should practice real economy
by eliminating all external training which requires expenditure of
funds. After being briefed on statutory authority, responsibilities,
and procedures (including controls) relative to external training,
- opined that the suggester in this instance was undoubtedly
confused and seemingly agitated because of some administrative de-
cision which affected him personally. - intends to talk wi
the employee and probably will encourage him to discuss his griev-
ances with OP's Employee Counseling Branch.
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