REGULATIONS GOVERNING LANGUAGE STUDY OF SOVIET OFFICIALS ABROAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007600610006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Regulations Governing Language
Study of Soviet Officials Abroad
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
1. Soviet employees
engaged in a heated discussion on 29 June 1955 over Soviet Ambassador
request for clarification of the regulations governing his wife's
foreign language study. such study was not forbidden
by Moscow, could find nothing in the regulations to
authorize it and hesitated to refer the question to Moscow for fear of placing
the Ambassador's wife in a difficult position. They referred to an incident
last year when some Soviets had taken language lessons, and there had been
considerable difficulty after about six months.
2. The question was subsequently resolved by discovery of a lengthy
paper on the subject, a copy of which she sent to the Ambassador's wife. Her
summary of the ruling is that those Soviets who already have a basic knowledge
of a foreign language may be permitted to study further.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 8 August 1955
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