WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040152-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 152
• Publication Date: March 11, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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. This weakness should be overcome in the second half of the
course and will be placed first on the agenda of the next meetiniz,
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re tionship. Friday's session, featuring short presentations by
r cipants and with Nitze present, was somewhat disappoint-
ing in that some tried to cover subjects rather than argue for or
against propositions, and hence misused the short time allotted to
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high commendation, and we would judge the only serious defect to be
their failure to challenge each other, due to their close personal
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DATE: 11 March 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Our two days in DCI's Conference Room with the seminar on
Free Europe have been counted a clear success by all participants
and observers. The eleven guests invited for Thursday all attended,
and included Scoville (AD/oSI) (member of ONE Board ,
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or 0TH. The Thursday program featuring Nitze and Far1
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on AID -- ring service so efficiently provided by
though it required a mass of paper work in
our orrice, was more than appreciated by all concerned.
2. One discordant note was sounded by(C/EE[I who asked
whether we would consider holding the seminar outside duty hours;
To be sure, a majority of the participants have complained emphatic-
ally of having little time to read in preparation for class, but we
continue to feel that the present schedule of six meetings over a
six-week period and utilizing the normal lunch break, the most
palatable we could devise.
3. Merchant and Zurcher will be with us on the 26th for the
guest speaker session of the second cycle, which is concerned with
the long-term implications of European integration. I have contacted
Merchant's office in order to arrange for briefing him, and had
previously briefed Zurcher at lenght by mail.
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discussed the East Asia course with)
of SIC on 10 March. They agreed that in this course which
we are pitching a cut or two above the survey-type, it was necessary
to limit registration to middle rank staff and above. They suggested
a number of available personnel to assist in the instruction and are
prepared to participate in the presentation of three or four sections
of the major course units. Consultations with CER, on 11 March are
expected to finalize the designation of men from that division to
participate in the panel presentation of the first unit beginning
20 April. Efforts to recruit the necessary resource personnel with-
in the Agency should be successful save in the exceptional instance.
5. ~ attended an all-day conference on Africa at the Depart-
ment of State on 5 March. The conference was arranged by State's
Bureau of External Research and M.I.T.'s Center for International
Studies, and its purpose was to enable the latter to obtain advice
from government specialists on a research project which the Center is
undertaking in the field of economic growth and political change in
Africa. M.I.T.'s Max Milikan and Arnold Rivkin were on hand; the
Assistnat Secretary of State for African Affairs, Mr. Satterthwaite,
led the representations from State, Defense, Commerce and CIA. The
gathering was distinguished, but the agenda was, in opinion,
too vague and extensive to permit fruitful discussion. It was a
disappointment which better planning could have obviated.
6. doctor advises that he should be back on the 30th,
after an a sence of six weeks, and we have postponed his Poland,
Czechoslovakia., East Germany course four weeks (to run 12 May -
16 July).
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