LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-07181R000200050011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 9, 1969
• Content Type: MFR

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9 April 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Language Development Program.
(Language Development Program) dated 10 March 1969 was
held at Arlington Towers on 7 April 69. In attendance
1. A meeting on the revised directive
the office of Computer Services/sIP3.
2. The general, purpose of the meeting was to find
out what ground rules, if any, the Language Development
Committee has sat up to institute the Language Development
Program, and also the data on which the office of Computer
services/sirs was expected to support this effort.
3. The following is a synopsis of the various points
covered throughout the meeting.
a. 1 May 1969 is the deadline for all the
Directorates of the Agency to submit their
language requirements to the Language Development
Committee. The Office of Training is going to
sand a reminder within the weak to each of the
Directorates, and a suggested format that they
will follow when submitting their requirements.
(NOTE: At the present time there is no sat
format for inputting these requirements, and it
is possible that all the Directorates will design
their own format.)
b. I indicated that the office of
Training Language School considered the Language
.Development Program as a peripheral function and
their main function was to train employees in
17 various languages, not to set the language require-
monts for the various Directorates.
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C. brought up the possibility of
establishing a separate language record in lieu of
incorporating the language requirements in the
TO/Staffing system.
i. Problems in the present Language Qualification
Register, which in approx #35f nccurate,~iaras that employees feel reluctant to report their language
qualifications for fear of being tested and results
indicating that they have overrated themselves or
they just don't want to be bothered with taking the
test.
e. The LDP Directorate 4.s reluctant to pass
any information to they other Directorates.
f. The Language Development Committee wants '.
a nophisticated Language System by 1 Jan 1971.
g. The Language School presently has a backlog
of approximately 2500, employees to be tested in their
language abilities.
h. Definition of specific versus general
language requirements, where specific indicates the
language requirements are against a specific position
and general indicates a stockpile of language
requirements against a unit.
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meeting with the representatives o' a various
directorates in setting up ground rules for the
Language Development Program.
J. The Language school felt that the language
requirements would only have to be updated annually,
and they did not have to be kept current with the T/a.:
k* felt that there would be approximately
700 to 1,000 language requirements in the Language
Development Program.
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4. In summary, the general fooling was that no
specific ground rules for the Language Development Program
have boon established and we would wait until I May 1969
to find out what the various directorates submit in the
form of language requirements.
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