WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040160-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 160
• Publication Date: February 25, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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O ffice Memor nd- - -
TO Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
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The dry run of the new c
2. A iversit of reactions in DDP to this course continues.
Cl considers the course highly desirable,
whereas I01s TC reports that it is not essential
for his division's haIX ozen staff people stationed abroad.
FE decided against sending anyone to our dry run, thus can-
cellin out our a etations of havi two cand tes, one -
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This is in striking contrast to the interest in training in
"Overseasmanship" aroused by the recent visit to Washington
of Dean Harlan Cleveland and Professor Gerard Mangone of the
Maxwell Institute of Syracuse University. Malvina Lindsay
devoted one entire column to the subject and commentator
E. P. Morgan of ABC talked at length two evenings in suc-
cession. The acute need for disciplined training for this
aspect of overseas operations is clearly recognized, and the
new LAS program is specifically designed to meet this need.
It will be indeed unfortunate if much greater assistance for
this undertaking is not forthcoming.
ing pos ponemen o e coin se, am c ea ng ou ow many
of the existing candidates will still be available for the
dry run a month hence.
First full meeting of the Current Problems Seminar on Free
Europe was considered a succe s by almost all of the parti-
cipants I have queried. C/SR remarks on the Geneva
talks he had attended provided an effective follow-up on an
"ice-breaking" discussion which I provoked on the terminology
peculiar to the nuclear weapons strategy theme. Only two of
the participants (from BE) felt this activity was not suffici-
ently rewarding for them, and greater care will be taken in
DATE: 25 February 1959
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the future to exclude candidates who are already immersed in
the scheduled theme in their daily work. Next meeting is on
the 5th, with guest specialists Paul Nitze and Phil Farley,
and special invitations for this occasion will be sent to a
limited number of persons including yourself, DTR, and DDTR.
4. paid and myself a visit to explore our capabilities
for provid ng survey-type courses on Africa. We hope to arrive
at definite commitments on both sides in a follow-up meeting
prior to the deadline for the next long-term schedule, but our
capabilities will remain sharply limited on is are until an
African specialist can be provided to assist
5. A German sound track is being completed this week for Pa t
of the~'ree Euro e" film under Walters' direction. In______
absence, of FDD has kindly consented to spe e
lines, with checking him. This film, which in-
cludes coverage of Germany, is to be used in the forthcoming
Full.-time Intermediate e, in conjunction with the
reproduced copies of excellent translation of
the script.
6. will apparently remain at George Washington University
spital for some time yet since the source of an infection
indicated by lung abscesses has not yet been determined. He
is still running a fever, over ten days after admission to the
hospital, and visitors are not recommended for the near future.
As one results we will almost certainly have to postpone the
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland - RB #l, now scheduled to
start in mid-April, which he is to handle.
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