LANGUAGE LESSONS, REQUEST FOR.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00755R000200120155-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 155
• Publication Date: November 3, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

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Language Lessons, Request for
DATE: 3 November 1917 25X1A9,a
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the world. In the gradual change-over to CE responsibility from th 25X1C
to the Station, personnel in semi-cover face an exceedingly important operational
and CE processing responsibility. To meet this responsibility, FBZ has selected
some of its most able individuals from a technical standpoint without regard to
language. It has now in place four individuals and proposes to add three or four
more in the next few months to fill the approved T/O set up to meet the operational
demands of the station.
25X1A6a 2. is a large, superficially modern metro olis populated by a 25n 1A6a
polyglot mixture in which the dominant languages are and English.
It is possible to operate on the basis of gnglish, but the possession by some of
the staff of additional languages is essential to top effectiveness.
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3. It is recommended that the Chief of Station be approved to take -
both as a means of bringing him into contact with certain personalities that he
cannot normally reach otherwise, and as a real means of learning to speak and read
the language.
4. It is recommended that the two responsible and operationally experienced 25X1A6a
women employees be approved to take sufficient - to acquire a rudimentary
reading knowledge essential to the determination of characterb comment and general
meaning of documents handled*
har recommended that all three be requested to take sufficient
individuals have been and will continue to be career employ5as.
6. It is recommended that the acquisition of languages by these three be put
on the basis of a one year program and an expenditure limited to $600. At the end
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of a year, the desirability of having the Chief of Station continue his
will be reviewed. The investment.is definitely of long-term value, since the three
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