LETTER TO CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(Sanitized) ECONOMIC RESEARCH ANALYST FROM PHYLLIS ANNE JOHNSON EDINBORO STATE COLLEGE

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Central Intelligence Agency
Economic Research Analyst
Lang ey,V'A
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Department of Foreign Language
c/o Phyllis Anne Johnson, President
of ESC Russian Club
Faculty Annex
Edinboro State College
Edinboro, PA 16444
April 30, 1980
On behalf of the ESC Russian Club, I would like to extend our most
sincere appreciation to you for meeting with our group on April 25, 1980.
Your candid and informative talk was well received and most beneficial.
Through our meeting we now have insights and hopefully direction as to
the worth of our Russian language skill. In addition, you answered
encouragingly our questions concerning positions with the Central Intelligence
Agency outside the language field. STATINTL
Please convey our thanks and best wishes to I Iwho spore
so knowledgably about Soviet relations with the rest of the world. The
expertise which both of you gentlemen possess is to respected and applauded,
and we thank you for sharing some of that with us. It was very inspiring!
Again our thanks and best regards. We hope to meet you again.
Phyllis Anne Johnson
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Academic Coordinator, Personnel
Central Intelligence Agency
STATINTL Washington, DC 20505
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Edinboro, Pennsylvania 16444
Department of Foreign Languages
Telephone: [phone]
Home: [phone]
May 2, 1980
My 15 students join me in thanking you for the splendid briefing you presented
to us during our visit to Langley on April 25.
We especially appreciated the candor and the humor with which you explained the
mission, organizational structure, and activities of the Central Intelligence
Agency. The students were also favorably impressed by the anecdotes you related
regarding your own background and the road you have followed in reaching your
present position.
The net result is that a number of our students, all future specialists on the
U.S.S.R., will be motivated to apply for positions with the agency following
graduation.
Should you have any materials available regarding summer internships, please
send them to me, and I will disseminate them to interested students.
Also, please convey my best wishes and regards tol for his brilliant
analysis of current U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations. We all regretted that we could
not spend more time with him discussing substantive issues. STATINTL
In brief, then, we consider our visit to have been a success--thanks.to you--
and we look forward to future contacts.
Please phone or write if I might be of assistance to you or to C.I.A.
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Of"
sf ius M. Bluq MIB.A., Ph.D.
of Russian Studies and
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RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES DUAL SPECIALIZATION PROGRAM
Edinboro State College is offering in-state and out-of-state high school seniors
the opportunity to enroll in its Russian Language and Area Studies Dual Specializa-
tion Program in the 1980-1981 academic year.
This program is designed for bright young men and women who will be graduated from
high school in June, 1980 and who desire to prepare for a career in international
trade, with particular emphasis on East-West trade.
Eligible students will enroll at Edinboro State College as Russian Language majors
with additional specialization in Business Administration, Accounting, Economics,
or Engineering (cooperative program, in conjunction with Pennsylvania State Uni-
versity, Case Western Reserve University, or the University of Pittsburgh). They
will be preparing primarily for careers in business and commerce. Industry is
seeking a mix of skills, specifically Russian Language. and Area Studies combined
with another specialty such as those enumerated above. On a lesser scale, but
increasing in importance, are vocational opportunities in such agencies of the
governmental sector as the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of State.
To apply for admission to the Russian Language and Area Program, the candidate
follows the general college admissions procedures set forth in the latest Edinboro
State College Undergraduate Catalog, obtainable from the ESC Dean of Admissions.
The letter requesting the catalog and application for admission should clearly
indicate that the candidate is applying for admission as a Russian major. Appli-
cations will be accepted until July 30, 1980.
Questions regarding this program may be directed by mail or telephone to:
Dr. Julius M. Blum
Professor of Russian
Edinboro State College
Edinboro, PA 16444
Telephone: [phone]
Home: [phone]
1 Attachment: Detailed description of program
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Edinboro, Pennsylvania 16444
Department of Foreign Languages
Telephone: [phone]
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES DUAL SPECIALIZATION PROGRAM
1. During the past four years, Edinboro State College has implemented a
dynamic new program to prepare specially selected students for careers
in International Trade, specifically East-West Trade.
2. The objective of the program is to equip bright young men and women
with the attitudes, general education, and specialized skills needed by
U. S. industrial and commercial firms to negotiate successfully and
profitably with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Foreign Trade
Organizations of the USSR and the other countries of Eastern Europe.
3. The program is directed by a faculty member who specializes in U.S.-
Soviet Trade and who has been personally involved in East-West Trade
for ten years. In teaching courses in U.S.-Soviet trade, he draws on
years of experience as a consultant to a number of U.S. firms, including
Pepsico International, Satra, American Cynamid, and others interested in
the Soviet and East European market. His experience, which he shares
with his students, has included negotiations with Soviet ministries
and foreign trade organizations, participation in Soviet Trade Fairs
and Exhibitions, visiting the USSR and other East European countries on
trade missions; and serving as a consultant to the U.S. Senator Walter
Mondale in drafting the 1969 Trade Expansion Legislation. He currently
maintains active contact with the U.S. business community and with Soviet
and American foreign trade officials in New York City and Washington,
D.C.
4. Edinboro State College has been committed during the past four years
to creating a strong Russian Language and Area Studies Program to provide
a cadre of selected students for careers with U.S. corporations. The
Edinboro State College program is unique in that it emphasizes Russian
Language, Russian Literature, Russian Geography, Russian Politics, and
other Russian and Soviet area studies not as ends in themselves, but
rather as a means for preparing the E.S.C. graduate to serve as a con-
tributing member of an American negotiating team committed to deriving
maximum advantage for the U.S. side in trade negotiations with Soviet
or other East European commercial representatives.
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5. At the present time, 35 students are enrolled in the program as majors
in Russian on the one hand, and in Business, Accounting, Engineering,
or Economics on the other. Ten freshmen are expected to join the program
in the Fall.
B. Specific Activities of Faculty and Students in the Russian Language and Area
Studies Program
1. Conduct East-West Trade Seminars in Erie for Pennsylvania businessmen
and bankers under the Edinboro State College Continuing Education Program.
The Seminars cover the following topics: Scope of the Market; Prospects
for U.S. Exports; Composition of Imports; Industrial Cooperation Projects;
Soviet Foreign Trady Survey; U.S.-Soviet Trade Structure and Volume;
Soviet Regulation of East-West Trade; U.S. regulation of East-West Trade;
U.S. Organizations facilitating U.S.-Soviet Trade; Soviet Foreign Trade
Organizations; Making the Initial Contact; Negotiating Purchase or Sales
Contracts; Standard Contract Provisions; Arbitration; Industrial Property
Protection; Licensing and Copyrights; Banking, Financing, and Insurance;
Special Trade Promotion Techniques; Soviet Information Distribution System;
Setting up a Business Office; Hints to Businessmen.
2. Conduct courses in the Russian language for Northwestern Pennsylvania
Business Community.
3. Provide East-West Trade Consulting Services to such firms as Sunbeam
(Saegertown), A. 0. Smith (Erie), and American Sterilizer Co. (Erie).
4. Arrange work-study internships with such organizations as Pullman-Swindell
(Pittsburgh); the Bureau of International Commerce (Harrisburg and Brussels);
Control Data Corporation (Minneapolis); Corning Glass (Corning, NY);
Revlon International (Paris); and American Sterilizer Co. (Erie).
5. Assist in matching employers' needs with graduates' skills, e.g., Pullman-
Swindell (Pittsburgh), International Harvester (Cleveland), and U.S.
Government Agencies (Washington, D.C.).
6. Participate in Erie Chamber of Commerce International trade activities.
Students attend Chamber of Commerce luncheons, briefings, and film
showings.
7. Arrange for Commonwealth businessmen to visit E.S.C. for meetings,
seminars, and training sessions with students.
8. Invite Soviet foreign trade officials to E.S.C. campus.
9. Visit Soviet foreign trade officials at their New York and Washington
offices for full-day seminars.
10. Make familiarization visits to USSR each summer to prepare students for
later official business trips and sharpening of negotiating skills.
11. Conduct East-West trade class with negotiation and contract-formulation
simulations, reproducing actual conditions as much as possible.
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12. Conduct classes in Business Russian and Russian Culture, as well as
language.
13. Attend professional meetings, chair panels on East-West Trade, and
have students do research projects in the area.
14. Maintain scholarship programs, supported by funds from industrial donors,
for attracting most promising high school seniors.
15. Participate in American Management Association East-West Trade Seminars.
16. Write articles on East-West Trade for dissemination to the business
community orally at meetings, and in written form in periodical articles.
17. Establish Edinboro State College as a resource center ready, willing,
and able to help Commonwealth business and industry maximize profits
in East-West Trade.
18. Maintain liaison with the Federal Government, especially the U.S.
Departments of Commerce and State, to procure jobs for graduates, work-
study internships for undergraduates, and to remain current and up to
date on changing developments.
19. Lecture at other Commonwealth Colleges and Universities, and at elemen-
tary and secondary schools.
C. The Edinboro State College East-West Trade Curriculum typically features
specialization in Russian Language and Area Studies plus Business, Accounting,
Economics, or Engineering, as follows:
BUSINESS/ACCOUNTING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ENGIN-
ECONOMICS AREA STUDIES EERING SPECIALITIES (WITH
PENN STATE, CASE WESTERN
RESERVE, OR THE UNIVERSITY
OF PITTSBURGH"
Elements of Economics
Statistics for Econ-
omics and Business
Money, Banking, and
Public Policy
International
Economics
Economics Growth and
Development
Managerial Economics
Business, Government,
and Public Policy
Accounting
Auditing
Business Finance
Marketing
Principles of
Management
Russian Language Aerospace
Russian Culture & Agricultural
Civilization Ceramic
Geography of USSR Chemical
Government and Politics Civil
of USSR
History of Russia
History of USSR
Economy of USSR
Russian and Soviet
Literature
Russian and Soviet Art
Practical Aspects of
East-West Trade
Business Russian
Negotiating with the
Soviets
Electrical
Engineering Mechanics
Engineering Science
Environmental
Industrial
Mechanical
Metallurgy
Mining
Nuclear
Petroleum and Natural Gas
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Classroom work is supplemented by field experience, with seminar visits to
the USSR and the other countries of Eastern Europe; meetings with officials
of the various ministries of Foreign Trade and the Foreign Trade Organizations;
meetings with officials of U.S. agencies such as the Bureau of East-West
Trade of the Department of Commerce and the Office-of East-West Trade of the
U.S. Department of State; meetings with foreign trade representatives of the
USSR and other East European countries who maintain offices in the U.S.; and
work-study internships in industry and in state and federal government.
D. Summary of Highlights of Program
Title of Program: Russian Language and Area Studies Dual Specialization Program
Degree Offered: Bachelor of Arts in Russian Language
Majors enrolled during past year: 35
Employment of graduates during recent; ey ars: Pullman-Swindell Corp., Moscow,
USSR; International Harvester, Cleveland; General Electric, Erie; CIA, Washing-
ton, D.C.; NSA, Washington, D.C.; IBM, Endicott, NY; House of Representatives,
U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C.
Internships during recent years: Control Data Corp., Minneapolis; American
Sterilizer Corp., Erie; Corning Glass, Corning, NY; Revlon International,
Paris; Bureau of International Commerce, Harrisburg; Pullman-Swindell, Pittsburgh.
Awards and Honors: 1978: ESC Russian language major awarded International
Trade Scholarship by Pennsylvania Chambers of Commerce and Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Commerce. 1977: ESC, because of its Russian dual specialization
program, won award as the college or university making greatest contribution
in Pennsylvania to the preparation of graduates for foreign trade careers.
Award made by Commonwealth Secretary of Commerce.
Curriculum: Students complete dual specialization, namely Russian Language and
Area Studies plus Business, or Russian Language and Area Studies plus Account-
ing, or Russian Language and Area Studies plus Economics, or Russian Language
and Area Studies plus Engineering (in conjunction with Pennsylvania State
University, Case Western Reserve University, or the University of Pittsburgh).
Field Experience: Efforts are made to organize one-semester work-study
internships in industry and government. Five were arranged this past year.
Others are currently being explored.
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14 April 1980
MEMORANDUM FOR: NFAC Security Officer
FROM : Associate Coordinator for Academic Relations
SUBJECT : Edinboro State College Visit? 25 April 1980
1. Attached is a list of names, dates and places of birth of a
group of 19 students and one faculty member from Edinboro State College
who will be visiting Headquarters on 25 April 1980. They will be
receiving unclassified briefings by NFAC representatives.
2. The briefings will begin at 1:00 in Room 1E78. The group will
depart Headquarters at approximately 4:00 pm,
Attachment:
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Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
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fate ItilIee
Edinboro. Pennsylvania 16444
Department of Foreign Languages
Telephone: [phone]
Home: [phone]
December 14, 1979
For the past few years I have led a group of 20 students to the
Washington area each spring to meet with the National Security Council,
the Department of State, the White House, and the Department of Commerce
to discuss US-USSR relations in general, and East-West Trade in particular.
These students are all enrolled in a Russian Language and Area Dual
Specialization program, described in the attachment. Following graduation,
they will be seeking employment with you and with other government agencies.
This year, we would like to visit you for an unclassified briefing and
discussion of: a. US-USSR relations
b. Career opportunities with you.
If it is convenient for you, we would like to spend two hours with you
on Friday afternoon, April 25, 1980, say from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
May I request that you write or telephone to advise if the foregoing
proposal meets with your approval? You may contact either me or Ms. Phyllis
Johnson, President of the ESC Russian Club (814-732-4200) to advise of your
decision and--if you wish--to discuss the agenda.
Please accept our best wishes.
// Julius M. Blum, Ph.D.
(Lt. Colonel, USAF, ret.)
Professor of Russian Studies
JMB/ps
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Language Program Description
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Edintrnrti ~$#tt#e (IT.olleg
Edinboro, Pennsylvania 16444
Department of Foreign Languages
Telephone: [phone]
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES DUAL SPECIALIZATION PROGRAM
1. During the past four years, Edinboro State College has implemented a
dynamic new program to prepare specially selected students for careers
in International Trade, specifically East-West Trade.
2. The objective of the program is to equip bright young men and women
with the attitudes, general education, and specialized skills needed by
U. S. industrial and commercial firms to negotiate successfully and
profitably with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Foreign Trade
Organizations of the USSR and the other countries of Eastern Europe.
3. The program is directed by a faculty member who specializes in U.S.-
Soviet Trade and who has been personally involved in East-West Trade
for ten years. In teaching courses in U.S.-Soviet trade, he draws on
years of experience as a consultant to a number of U.S. firms, including
Pepsico International, Satra, American Cynamid, and others interested in
the Soviet and East European market. His experience, which he shares
with his students, has included negotiations, with Soviet ministries
and foreign trade organizations, participation in Soviet Trade Fairs
and Exhibitions, visiting the USSR and other East European countries on
trade missions; and serving as a consultant to the U.S. Senator Walter
Mondale in drafting the 1969 Trade Expansion Legislation. He currently
maintains active contact with the U.S. business community and with Soviet
and American foreign trade officials in New York City and Washington,
D.C.
4. Edinboro State College has been committed during the past four years
to creating a strong Russian Language and Area Studies Program to provide
a cadre of selected students for careers with U.S. corporations. The
Edinboro State College program is unique in that it emphasizes Russian
Language, Russian Literature, Russian Geography, Russian Politics, and
other Russian and Soviet area studies not as ends in themselves, but
rather as a means for preparing the E.S.C. graduate to serve as a con-
tributing member of an American negotiating team committed to deriving
maximum advantage for the U.S. side in trade negotiations with Soviet
or other East European commercial representatives.
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5. At the present time, 35 students are enrolled in the program as majors
in Russian on the one hand, and in Business, Accounting, Engineering,
or Economics on the other. Ten freshmen are expected to join the program
in the Fall.
B. Specific Activities of Faculty and Students in the Russian Language and Area
Studies Program
1. Conduct East-West Trade Seminars in Erie for Pennsylvania businessmen
and bankers under the Edinboro State College Continuing Education Program.
The Seminars cover the following topics: Scope of the Market; Prospects
for U.S. Exports; Composition of Imports; Industrial Cooperation Projects;
Soviet Foreign Trady Survey; U.S.-Soviet Trade Structure and Volume;
Soviet Regulation of East-West Trade; U.S. regulation of East-West Trade;
U.S. Organizations facilitating U.S.-Soviet Trade; Soviet Foreign Trade
Organizations; Making the Initial Contact; Negotiating Purchase or Sales
Contracts; Standard Contract Provisions; Arbitration; Industrial Property
Protection; Licensing and Copyrights; Banking,'Financing, and Insurance;
Special Trade Promotion Techniques; Soviet Information Distribution System;
Setting up a Business Office; Hints to Businessmen.
2. Conduct courses in the Russian language for Northwestern Pennsylvania
Business Community.
3. Provide East-West Trade Consulting Services to such firms as Sunbeam
(Saegertown), A. 0. Smith (Erie), and American Sterilizer Co. (Erie).
4. Arrange work-study internships with such organizations as Pullman-Swindell
(Pittsburgh); the Bureau of International Commerce (Harrisburg and Brussels);
Control Data Corporation (Minneapolis); Corning Glass (Corning, NY);
Revlon International (Paris); and American Sterilizer Co. (Erie).
5. Assist in matching employers' needs with graduates' skills, e.g., Pullman-
Swindell (Pittsburgh), International Harvester (Cleveland), and U.S.
Government Agencies (Washington, D.C.).
6. Participate in Erie Chamber of Commerce International trade activities.
Students attend Chamber of Commerce luncheons, briefings, and film
showings.
7. Arrange for Commonwealth businessmen to visit E.S.C. for meetings,
seminars, and training sessions with students.
8. Invite Soviet foreign trade officials to E.S.C. campus.
9. Visit Soviet foreign trade officials at their New York and Washington
offices for full-day seminars.
10. Make familiarization visits to USSR each summer to prepare students for
later official business trips and sharpening of negotiating skills.
11. Conduct East-West trade class with negotiation and contract-formulation
simulations, reproducing actual conditions as much as possible.
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12. Conduct classes in Business Russian and Russian Culture, as well as
language.
13. Attend professional meetings, chair panels on East-West Trade,'and
have students do research projects in the area.
14. Maintain scholarship programs, supported by funds from industrial donors,
for attracting most promising high school seniors.
15. Participate in American Management Association East-West Trade Seminars.
16. Write articles on East-West Trade for dissemination to the business
community orally at meetings, and in written form in periodical articles.
17. Establish Edinboro State College as a resource center ready, willing,
and able to help Commonwealth business and industry maximize profits
in East-West Trade.
18. Maintain liaison with the Federal Government, especially the U.S.
Departments of Commerce and State, to procure jobs for graduates, work-
study internships for undergraduates, and to remain current and up to
date on changing developments.
19. Lecture at other Commonwealth Colleges and Universities, and at elemen-
tary and secondary schools.
C. The Edinboro State College East-West Trade Curriculum typically features
specialization in Russian Language and Area Studies plus Business, Accounting,
Economics, or Engineering, as follows:
BUSINESS/ACCOUNTING
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND
ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ENGIN-
ECONOMICS
AREA STUDIES
EERING SPECIALITIES (WITH
PENN STATE, CASE WESTERN
RESERVE, OR THE UNIVERSITY
OF PITTSBURGH)
Elements of Economics
Russian Language
Aerospace
Statistics for Econ-
Russian Culture &
Agricultural
omics and Business
Civilization
Ceramic
Money, Banking, and
Geography of USSR
Chemical
Public Policy
Government and Politics
Civil
International
of USSR
Electrical
Economics
History of Russia
Engineering Mechanics
Economics Growth and
History of USSR
Engineering Science
Development
Economy of USSR
Environmental
Managerial Economics
Russian and Soviet
Industrial
Business, Government,
Literature
Mechanical
and Public Policy
Russian and Soviet Art
Metallurgy
Accounting
Practical Aspects of
Mining
Auditing
East-West Trade
Nuclear
Business Finance
Business Russian
Petroleum and Natural Gas
Marketing
Negotiating with the
Principles of
Soviets
Management
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Classroom work is supplemented by field experience, with seminar visits to
the USSR and the other countries of Eastern Europe; meetings with officials
of the various ministries of Foreign Trade and the Foreign Trade Organizations;
meetings with officials of U.S. agencies such as' the Bureau of East-West
Trade of the Department of Commerce and the Office of East-West Trade of the
U.S. Department of State; meetings with foreign trade representatives of the
USSR and other East European countries who maintain offices in the U.S.; and
work-study internships in industry and in state and federal government.
D. Summary of Highlights of Program
Title of Program: Russian Language and Area Studies Dual Specialization Program
Degree Offered: Bachelor of Arts in Russian Language
Majors enrolled during past year: 35
Employment of graduates during recent years: Pullman-Swindell Corp., Moscow,
USSR; International Harvester, Cleveland; General Electric, Erie; CIA, Washing-
ton, D.C.; NSA,"Washington, D.C.; IBM, Endicott, NY; House of Representatives,
U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C.
Internships during recent years: Control Data Corp., Minneapolis; American
Sterilizer Corp., Erie; Corning Glass, Corning, NY; Revlon International,
Paris; Bureau of International Commerce, Harrisburg; Pullman-Swindell, Pittsburgh.
Awards and Honors: 1978: ESC Russian language major awarded International
Trade Scholarship by Pennsylvania Chambers of Commerce and Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Commerce. 1977: ESC, because of its Russian dual specialization
program, won award as the college or university making greatest contribution
in Pennsylvania to the preparation of graduates for foreign trade careers.
Award made by Commonwealth Secretary of Commerce.
Curriculum: Students complete dual specialization, namely Russian Language and
Area Studies plus Business, or Russian Language and Area Studies Plus Account-
ing, or Russian Language and Area Studies plus Economics, or Russian Language
and Area Studies plus Engineering (in conjunction with Pennsylvania State
University, Case Western Reserve University, or the University of Pittsburgh).
Field Experience: Efforts are made to organize one-semester work-study
internships in industry and government. Five were arranged this past year.
Others are currently being explored.
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