LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-07181R000200050053-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: May 1, 1969
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT: Language Development Program
1. A meting on the Language Development Program was
held on 30 April 1969. In attendance were DDI 25X1
representative on the Language Development Committee;
I IDivision Chief of Position management and
Compensation Division, O/P; F- I 25X1
eepresenting OCS/SIPS.
2. requested the meeting to submit a
Foreign Language Requirements Survey form to OCS/SIPS
for review and also to discuss the technical aspects of
instituting the Language Development Program. Throughout
the meeting called attention to the following
items:
a. Difficulty that the directorates were
having in formulating requirements to identify
general language positions versus specific
language positions.
b. The 1 May 1969 deadline for all the
Directorates to submit their language require-
ments has been postponed for an unspecified
amount of time.
e. The present Language Report is misleading
due to the fact that all the individuals listed
as qualifying for a language are not always
available for a language position because of a
high GS-grade, health, or they are unqualified
in some respect for a-foreign field assignment.
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d. would like to see the present
project updated or purged since many of the
individuals who have a claimed language proficiency,
did so 20 years ago, and it is unrealistic to think
they still possess this capability.
e. A need for a specific breakdown of languages
versus a general description of western European
languages or romance languages.
3. emphasized the desirability of having
eparate project identifying language positions in lieu
of incorporating it in the present T/? project. This
method would allow for the many changes that normally occur
within the first year of a now project without interrupting
or causing confusion within the present complicated T/O
project.
4. In line with the above, requested
that. consideration given to a special code be placed in
the present T/o at the Branch Header which would indicate
to his staff and various Agency components that a language
position is within the Branch so they in turn could check
a separate listing to identify the specific/general
language requirement.
S. In conclusion, ---]requested that OCS/SIPS
review the Foreign Language Requirements Survey form that
he had designed and requested another meeting in the near
future.
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