LETTER TO MISS JENISE COOK FROM VERNON A. WALTERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R002000060044-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: April 4, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
4 April 1974
Dear Jenise,
Many thanks for your'letter. I was very interested
to know of your interest in languages. The world in
which-we live grows smaller every day and the ability to
communicate grows in importance.
I speak French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and
German fluently, and Russian and Dutch less fluently (and,
of course, English quite well).
I learned the first three languages as a child living
in Europe with my parents from age 5 to age 16. Portuguese
I learned very quickly during the war on orders from the
Army. I then served the last year of the war in Italy with.
a Brazilian Infantry Division. I have heard of the Monterey
Institute of Foreign Study and everything I have heard of it
has been good. At Monterey, also, is the Defense Language
Institute (for the Armed Forces only), a really superb
school. Middlebury also has a very good reputation.
I have worked as an interpreter at various times in my
career, translating for Presidents Truman, Eisenhower,
Johnson, and Nixon, for General de Gaulle and Chancellor
Adenauer, for the Pope, and many other interesting figures.
Yours is a fascinating interest and I wish you much
success in it. The knowledge of languages is not only use-
ful and interesting, but it is also very rewarding.
With every good wish for your success.
STAT
Miss Jenise Cook
Faithfully,
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