WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT #30

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040071-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: July 29, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Director of Training
DATE: 29 July 1959
FROM : Chief, Language and Area School
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report #30
A. SIGNIFICANT rTEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
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1. The Inter-Agency Roundtable meeting held at the Institute
of Far Eastern Languages, Yale University, was one of the beat
meetings we have had. Notably impressive was the work of the
Institute, particularly the presence of eighty-five (85) asses
in Chinese. I also was much impressed by the progress of various
groups in relation to the periods they had been in training. More-
over, the calibre of individual appeared to be high, much more
alert than other Air Force groups I have seen. Some of these men
I am sure, would make good JOT or regular recruits when they separate
active duty. (CIA will host and chair the next meeting at
,from in October).
2. have received advanced reading lists
from the Institute on Overseas Operations and are preparing in
advance for the three-week seminar at Syracuse beginning 9 August.
3. A Mrs. Pauline Moore of the Department of Agriculture has
inquired about language training opportunities for agriculture
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tuition-free training for two persons in Egyptian Arabic, one in
Moroccan Arabic and one in Japanese. Others to be arranged later
4. Through the medium of the Roundtable we are arranging for
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