WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 7 29 MARCH - 12 APRIL 1965

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 12, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum CONFIDENI]AL
TO : Director of Training
FROM : Chief, School of International Communism
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. 7
29 March - 12 April 1965
I. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
II. OTHER ACTIVITIES
DATE: 12 April 1965
1. The two special announcements which had issued for25X1
the 19 April ACO have stirred up considerable n erect within the
DDP, particularly since Al hand-carried copies to virtually every.
branch which might have a potential student. Quite expectedly,
most of the interest is concentrated on.the non-Agency guest
speakers,
and most of the inquiries have been concerned with
attendance at these "specials." We had hoped, however, that
the combination of a vigorous recruiting effort and a few
external attractions might result in a larger enrollment than
has normally been true.in recent years. So far, this has not
been the case. I suppose one could convey the results on a
purely relative statistical basis -- in which case it would
look good -- up 50% (from 8 to 12:). So far as we know at the
moment the DDP is planning to pick up the tab fo
Incidentally, the students in the Chiefs of Station
Seminar will be attending the four guest presentations.
2. In the same vein -- there has been a rather sharp
drop-off in Introduction to Communism. We are starting one
today with only eleven students -- less than one-half of our
previously smallest IC group. Apparently the time has come to
schedule fever ICs per year than has been our practice --
possibly one each quarter. We are neither so egotistical nor
so lazy that we object to conducting classes for small groups,
but in the interests of efficiency and the gaining of reading
time for the staff it would probably be wiser to cut the number
of offerings. As we can now project our schedule this action
would merely eliminate overlapping courses -- would not create
significant or obvious gaps in our formal class schedules.
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3. On 7 Aprill attended a lecture at New
State delivered by Sir Isaiah Berlin, chele Professor of Social
and Political Theory, Oxford. He spoke for one hour on "Russian National
Self-Obsession." In spite of the rather forbidding title the presenta-
tion turned out to be witty, entertaining, scholarly, and useful -- as
we suspected it might be (an opinion derived from having read some of
his books).
1. We are enormously pleased not only with acceptance at
Harvard, but with the designation of his advisor, Professor Montgomery,
because of the association with the African Institute at Brandeis.
has been studying the Harvard catalogue and we are hopeful that he w
be able to work out a really profitable program. There seems to be an
abundance of offerings right down the line with his plans. I have in-
formed that it is customary to split the $1,000 honorarium
with the appropriate School Chief and Office Director.
5.I Ireport on his TDY seems to indicate a suc-
cessful effort on his part. It's rather scouraging to note, however,
that the station officer who is actually responsible for conduct of the
liaison with this particular group -- in a private discussion with
Henry -- pointed out that he expected nothing to come of it or to change.
In his judgment the group has evidenced a tradition of uncooperativeness
which may be dented a bit, but won't be broken.
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Completely unrelated -- except that it also involves
is the rather happy news that his oldest daughter, a senior at oug as,
has been awarded a $3,000 fellowship at Yale for graduate study in
history.
6. Agency Presentation:
Office of Security - Special Agents Training
Course - 31 March
"Current Trends in World Communism"
7. Tutorial Training:
AM - 29 March - American
PM - 29 March - American
AM - 30 March - American
PM - 30 March - American
AM - 31 March - American
PM - 31 March - American
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AM/PM - 1 April - American
AM - 2 April - American
AM - 9 April Venezuelan
PM 9 April Venezuelan
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