WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040129-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 129
• Publication Date: April 22, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64
office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
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DATE: 22 April 1959
I an planning to observe the Personal Effectiveness Abroad
seminar at Wednesday and Thursday of this week and
during the final two days of evaluation by the participants
next week. I feel that this will give me the minimum essen-
tial basis for judging what we are developing, in relation
to the efforts of other organizations which will have re-
presentation at the Maxwell School this summer.
We submitted our long-term schedule for the full fiscal year
to R/TR on the 21st. It leaves my own hands somewhat freer
for my increased planning and administrative duties. A
check with various branch chiefs and TO's revealed an in-
sufficient demand to Justify "Studies" (the former "Surveys")
on Western European countries. Hence I shall concentrate
on senior seminars and the Americans Abroad Orientations
while assists with the former and gives more attention
to Studies on Eastern Europe, where demand is considerably
greater. with help, will offer Senior Area
Seminar - s a- rica - the Uncommitted Area, a repeat of
Regional Study - Moscow-Peking Axis, and a further develop-
ment of Americans Abroad Orientations. and I will
both expect to give regular attention to the Personal
Effectiveness Abroad seminar. will repeat his well-
supported Studies on the Middle East and Africa, will revive
the AAO - Middle East, and will initiate AAO - Africa South
of the Sahara. Our best efforts to find a qualified director
for an RS - Latin America and thus fill WH's request directed
to DTR, have failed, and we tentatively plan to work up a
lecture series which we can manage with our own resources.
A broad discussion with C/EE points up our need to
begin work soon on coordinated, long- erm plans for phased
language and area training. He flatly declines to detail
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any personnel to part-time area courses and suggests that a
coordination of career development policies by DTR and D/P is
indicated. He stated that some of the area courses we are
developing are needed, but that present scheduling methods
are unrealistic in terms of the divisions' tight personnel
ceilings and heavy work loads.
4. We almost bit off more than we could chew with the Americans
Abroad Orientation which drew 40 of the 45 registrants last
Saturday. This was about three times as many enrollees as in
the first "Saturday Special" in January and taxed our staffing
resources to the limit. The attached schedule illustrates the
need for arranging multiple sections of the class for part of
the day when enrollment justifies separate briefings on the
major sub-areas The sheer
weight of numbers, the heat,, an snack, r e ays at the lunch
hour all helped persuade me that this full eight-hour day of
intensive briefing is too ambitions, and I am working on a
revised schedule for the new fiscal year, which will run six
hours on each of two successive Saturdays. This will permit
more ample treatment of Americans Abroad problems by the
panel whic1E=leads, as well as a separate hour on the
foreign nationals of the specific country to which registrants
are assigned. Furthermore, my own six presentations will be
distributed over the two days. All dependents to whom I
talked individually repeated the familiar reasons why they
could not have come during the week.
5. The class of 32 for the full AAO carried through
the week with the exceptional responsiveness we reported earlier.
The critiques urged more time for the excellent panels on
Americans abroad problems, living conditions, and the major
posts. Strong support was again rendered by
as well as ten non-OTR personnel.
6. RS - East Asia: A Comparative Analysis was begun by
on 20 April, with a final registration of 13. Four others
had to withdraw from the course because of early assignments
abroad or work within divisions which precluded their release.
Other calls were received during the week prior to 20 April
from individuals ready to enroll if their presence was needed
to insure a minimum registration requirement. The interest in
the course has been gratifying and seems correlated to an ex-
pectation that the course will be tough enough to be challeng-
ing.
This interest is indicated in the range of the eight Agency
components represented and in the clustering of registrants in
the upper levels of the GS 9-13 range to which the course was
open. The eight Agency components are: DDP/FE-5, DDP/SR-1,
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PP-l; DDI/OCI-1, DDI/ORR-1; DDS/Como-1, DDI/Security-1. The
rank distribution is as follows: GS-15 - 1, GS-13 - 2+, GS-12 - 5,
GS-11 - 1, GS-9 - 1.
Reserved reading shelves for selected references used in each
unit of the course have been set up in the R&S and Main libraries,
in addition to that in the LAS library itself.
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