WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040027-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: November 10, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Chief, Language and Area School
DATE: 10 November 1959
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTH ACTIVITIES
1. We are hoping to complete this week our detailed plans for
commencing implementation of the new area program. Two or three meetings
of the staff should suffice for discussing such priority subjects as
new working arrangements with the components and minimum content of
the proposed alternative types of Americans Abroad briefings.
2. Tinder the circumstances, we plan to submit very little for
the OTR long-term schedule, due this week. I do feel that our under-
standing with EE is firm enough for us to schedule the LAO - Germany
as usual. Much effort and experience will be necessary on AAO briefings
for all other areas before we will know with reasonable certainty what
we can schedule so far in advance.
3. We have been placed on distribution of all listings of DDP
returnees, whose help is indispensable for the AAO courses. I hope
to arrange to be similarly informed concerns DDI and DDS returnees.
For help in estimating future departures, PPS has promised to
gather statistics on past performance. Such gores will be a useful
starting point, though they will not reflect the number of first-timers
involved and will probably not be broken down by post.
4. I had the pleasure last Thursday of joining the first inter-
mediate VLTP class in German, conducted by ~ The performance of
this group of about eight was impressive. I found two or three fluent
enough to lead a rapid-fire and impromptu discussion of Germany's current
problems in the Cold War.
We have decided to offer the IOE for JOT'e and have so informed
The course will start on Monday, 7 March and will run
set,
two weeks full-time. A maximum of twenty students has been tentatively
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