WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT #19

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00594A000300030025-4
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: May 15, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNME
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Director of Training
FROM : Chief/Language and Area School
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report #19
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
DATE: 15 May 1958
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1. has been asked to develop an Agency opinion on a University
of desire for $50,000 to complete dictionary projects for Mongoli-
an and Thai, in coordination with proper parts of the DDI and DDP. The
opinion will include consideration of views of members of the inter-agency
Roundtable and of reasons for rejection of aid by the ACLS.
2. We have had to respond negatively to an Air Force inquiry as to
whether or not we could up-date by one month our next Persian course to ac-
commodate the officer we had agreed to accept. NEA did not feel it could
meet a 4 August beginning, and the Air Force did not feel that the seven
months' training that our 2 September schedule would permit its officer before
his withdrawal in March would be adequate--with which we agree. The next run-
ning of this course is being lengthened from 6 to 9* months.
5. of TO and WE dashed in to pick u a bit f 1
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anguage knowledge
for his wife and himself before leaving in late June for 0 It was sug-
gested that he prepare an external training request for one-hour-a-day at C
(total: 30 hours) for consideration of appropriate DDP, SO, and OTR persons.
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6. Senior LAS personnel are arranging a picnic at I Ion Saturday 25X1
afternoon in honor of LAS clerical lassies. Invited are all clerical personnel,
C/LAS, Deputies, and Department Heads, husbands or wives, as appropriate, and
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3. Informal arrangements, to be formalized our memorandum to Chief, 25X1
Division D, have been completed for Dr. to relieve 0 of a 25X1
substantial portion of administrative work o the out-of-hours ro
that he can organize the oral testing program, rs. I Iwill be e under 25X1
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proximation. He has done a superb job of organizing the out-of-hours program,
and I expect as competent a performance for the oral testing program.
4. Lt. Col. Judson Bell, USMCR, called to discuss ways of stimulating
language development. He is doing a study related to the question as to
whether or not language ability should be among special skills to be specially
recognized under provisions of the new military pay bill.
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy, Plans, Research, and Administration
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
OTHER ACTIVITIES
DATE: 14 May 1958
of the R&SS Branch of the OCR Library,
have worked out an arrangement whereby LAS will main-
tain the main working language and area library for
OTR, with the R&S Branch keeping only those reference
and other books which appear to be in continued demand
by other 0TR components. LAS will keep on its shelves
the books and periodicals used in training, as texts
or for research or subsidiary reading; the material
needed for course preparation and planning and'for lan-
guage and area research. I I will be primarily
responsible for cataloging, logging in and out, and
answering calls for library material. Language'texts
to be used by students in the language program will not
be considered a part of the library, but will be handled
and accounted for separately.
conferred with
an worked out a rearrumsemerL
L e kitchen and laundry to permit the most
efficient utilization of this working space and the
new equipment.
3. Thirty-three a le were tested last week in Chinese
and Arabic. Ilis taking charge of the Oral Test-
ing Program and plans early action to complete this
portion of the testing program.
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy for Language Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to Report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
DATE: 14 May 1958
1. discussed with Mr. various
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and other staff members would make a visit to
It was a reed that
as soon as possible to survey specific needs and discuss the
matter further.
2. We have been able to obtain the services of Mrs.
e
on loan fro fora period of approximately four months.
will assume the bulk of II routine duties in connection with the
Voluntary Language Training Program. This will enable him to devote
virtually full time to coordinating the oral proficiency testing program.
He has already started preliminary work on the oral tests.
3. interviewed a JOT who is nnt t assigned, to
determine whether, in view of his background of study at Monterey
and CIC work in he might be of assistance to the language or area
program of OTR. Isis is rather rust , however, and he would not
be acceptable as a drill instructor. rather I rust
putting him into the re-
maining part of the current I area course, and will decide later as
to his use with us, if any.
4. At the request of the EE Training Officer, 0 interviewed and
tested one Pfc whom EE is considering having cleared and hired
for duty in . mostly on the switchboard there The results of the
testing were satisfactory, and 0 told EE that Owould in his
opinion be a good prospect for the proposed job.
5. Three lecturers gave their scheduled talks in French to the
French Intermediate RSW class:
A. Kenneth Watson of U.S.L.A (French Service) spoke on
Information Media in France.
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B. Leroy Benoit of U.S.I.A (Chief, Language and Area Training)
spoke on French Literary Trends of the 19th Century.
OTR, spoke on French Political Instability.
All three talks were well attended. An average of 25 people from all
parts of the Agency attended each and joined in the discussions
following the talks.
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School DATE: 14 May 1958
FROM : Deputy, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Second session of the first annual Area Planning Con-
ference resulted mainly in decisions on which courses
within each geographic area will be repeated or intro-
duced, and at what time intervals. Survey courses
generally will be placed on 12, 18, or 21+-month cycles,
according to demand. Innovations proposed subject to
demand and OTR Regulation /25-2 include: Socio-politi-
cal developments in the Buddhist countries of Southeast
Asia; a "split-country" survey (Korea, Vietnam, and
some reference to Germany); country-type surveys for
East Germany - Poland - Czeehosolvakia, Austria -
Hungary, and the Balkan states; short regional survey
of Mongolia, Korea, and the Maritime Provinces of the
Soviet Far East; split of the regional survey of Africa
(after our prospective offering in June)into courses on
the North and on the portion south of the Sahara, re-
spectively; and a regional survey of the "Fertile
Crescent" countries (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and
Israel).
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2. I Ispent considerable time last week in an unsucces-
ful to organize an Americans Abroad Orientation
for the Middle East, scheduled for 12 - 16 May. Favor-
able early indications of sufficient enrollment were
misleading; the final count was six. Significant fac-
tors were NEA's lack of a TO, dependents' baby-sitter
problems, and the tardiness of other components in
registering candidates. Two individual briefings have
been requested and will be arranged. is concen-
trating on organizatinn of Africa - Regional Survey #1,
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5. The French and German lecture series are maintaining
attendance records surprisingly well, audiences for
French averaging about 30 and for German about 20.
There is no precedent for this excellent record.
Recently, Leroy Benoit, USIA's Chief of Language and
Area Training, surveyed French literature of the 19th
and 20th centuries in French; Fritz Kraemer, Deputy
Chief of the Public Affairs Division in Defense gave
an outstanding taut, in superb German, on German
psychological patterns; and~gave his first bc-
ture in French since his university days on the
French political instability problem, by chance on
the critical day when the coup took place in Algeria
and sought Assembly approval as Premier.
Tapes of all the lectures will have a number of uses,
for example serving as a basis for student reports.
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