APPLICATIONS TO AREA AND COUNTRY STUDY PROGRAMS.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06096A000200020006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 7, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2009/08/26: CIA-RDP78-06096A000200020006-2
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FROM: Evert T. Little, Admissions Officer, FSI
SUBJECT: Applications to Area and Country Study Programs.
Our three-week Area and Country Study Programs, as you know,
have been tailored to the needs of the participants as much as
possible. You are entitled to the best possible service in this
regard, and we intend to continue providing it. Sometimes, however,
ou:- hard working course chairmen, trying to be as helpful as
possible, have felt it necessary to wait until the last moment to
pug. their programs in final form so that they could be responsive
to the needs of even the late registrants. Such an effort to look
ou', for their students' interest is commendable, but we have
:e::ently concluded that it might be a bit misplaced. First, to a
cestain extent, it penalizes the agencies who register their
owployees for the courses in a timely fashion. Secondly, the guest
:;;:>aker who can be gotten at the last moment is often not the best
could otherwise have been obtained.
Accordingly, we believe we can provide everyone better service
if we reach two decisions a little earlier than they have been
mede in the past:
(1) whether enough students have registered for each
area course to justify arranging the usual fill program of
formal lectures for each area, an, if so,
(2) what country and functional emphasis, if any, the
course should have.
We shall take our final reading on these questions tvn weeks before
the courses are scheduled to begin, on the basis of t: he Requests
for Training (Forms DS-755) received by the Institute by that time,
,7.k., by close of business Friday, April 9 in thee, case of the
co3.rses scheduled to begin Monday, April 26. We ahcl'l, of course,
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