WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 11

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06096A000300050031-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: May 27, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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TO Director of Training
FROM : Chief, Language Training School
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. 11
DATE: 27 May 1965
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. This report covers all activities since our last report
on 11 May. In order to ensure that our report reaches 1000 Glebe
before noon on Friday, it will be necessary to cover activities
through the close of business on Wednesday.
25X1A 2. On 18 May, - talked with C/EE concerning their
plans for language training, particularly in Greek and German.
We hope to coordinate long-term scheduling in such a way as to
cut down on the number of classes required to fulfill the bulk
of their requirements. suggested that we lengthen 25X1A
the full-time German course to six months and schedule a course
to begin in mid-November. Discussions on this.basis will be
Y" held with the branch chiefs and personnel officers concerned.
25X1A 3.
discussed the
requirements of the Branch for Greek instruction during the
coming year. Although the personnel situation in theme
25X1 A, is still somewhat fluid, stated he definitely
r has 3 and possibly 4 students for a full-time class to begin
"N early in August and run through May of 1966. He added, that
for the foreseeable future it appears that = will require
one full-time class of 9 to 10 months duration a year, with
part-time classes and tutorials continuing at about the present
rate of 5 to 7 instructor-hours daily.
25X1 A 4, left for Arizona on 26 May for a 2 to 3 day
stay to assi in setting up an out-of-hours training program
25X1A in Spanish. s paying for the trip and TDY expenses.
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5. Work is well advanced on Part II of the revision of
our Basic Intensive Spoken Russian. Copy ought to be ready
for the printer in the very near future.
6. One BE employee has started part-time Basic Polish (RSW)
training. The program is set up for approximately 2-hour class
25X1 A work daily, with
25X1A 7. has been asked by the Defense Language Institute
to examine and comment on a course in Chinese that they have
prepared. This is one of 5 courses (the other 4 in European
languages) which are intended for use in the field by personnel
reporting for duty in the country where the languages are used.
The courses were prepared at DLIWC (Monterey) and
serious uestions have arisen as to their effectiveness. A
25X1A copy of report will be forwarded when it is completed.
8. The transfer of the Arlington Towers Branch Library
from OCR to OTR jurisdiction has now been completed. At
present we are reorganizing the Library to make it more
compatible with our needs, and are busily seeking to replace
those items lost in the transfer which we would like to have.
The process of reorganization, restamping of books, etc. will
take a few months to complete. The various tasks are being
done on a priority basis.
9. After a wait of four weeks a reply has been received
f from NSA which has approved of our use of their training facility
1vw`( We are proceeding with the task of
locating an instructor to begin our first course to be held
there -- an intermediate level course in Spoken Thai.
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