WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040056-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: September 16, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO . Chief, Language and Area School
FROM Deputy Chief, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
DATE: 16 September 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Germany - AAO #13 was shortened from 5 to 3 half days this week,
when, at the eleventh hour on Friday, EE withdrew 3 of the total
of 8 enrolled, for immediate departure. The abbreviated briefing
schedule reduced the number of guest speakers to a minimum but
permitted me to make my full quota of presentations.
2. The one-day briefing on Latin America was attended by all 12 en-
rolled. We were fortunate to have with us the entire morning my
former colleague of OCI, Chief of the Latin America
Branch, and his presentations on the strategic importance of the
area and on its social patterns and institutions were unusually
well received. I WH, who helped me conduct the first
session in this course on How to make the most of your everyday
contacts," was less effective, probably because he was raised in
Latin America and did not quite have the point of view of the
American first-timer in the area. The companion one-day briefing
on Western Europe was not run this time. WE had lined up two
candidates, but withdrew even those at the last moment.
ONE) early in the week to clear
3. I will see Chester Comer ( AD
the way for use of as consultant and co-chairman of
the prospective Senior Area Seminar on Europe.
4. Army's Strategic Intelligence School has informally requested
to act as the technical advisor on the revision of its
training film on the Middle East. A formal request will be sent
shortly by SIS to D/TR.
pf Cormno Personnel has discussed with
the project, for which these persons are being readied, material-
izes, the first running of the course would take place in two
months.
project, on a cyclical basis, for 8-10 persons at a time. If
the possible estab ishment of an AAO, geared to a special
25 YEAR . . _
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6. I will give an illustrated report on his recent trip to
Africa and the Middle East on Friday, 18 September, at 1530
hours in Room 2925 Quarters Eye.
7. ~ met with) lof ORR and Alex Kepler of G-2
on Friday to discuss the implications of the Sino-Indian border
incidents and the increase of pressure in Laos against the
background of the Khrushchev visit. The two-hour long meeting
was most useful and instructive. Among other things, it was
generally agreed that both situations had independent beginnings
unrelated to the relations between Moscow and Peking concerning
the Khrushchev visit and that neither situation signified any
serious change of pace or direction for Communist China.
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