MINUTES OF THE GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AREA STAFF MEETING, 2 JUNE 1959

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• Document Release Date: February 18, 1998
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• Publication Date: June 2, 1959
• Content Type: MIN

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Ch/G Staff Meeting
2 June 1959
ACTION REQUIRED
Item No. Action Required of Ch/G Action Required of Divisions
1 Divisions to submit contribu-
tions to the Budget to Ch/G.
2 Chief, D/GG, to consider and
advise Ch/G re Weekly Status
of Projects Listing
3 None required.
None required.
Divisions are referred to the
Minutes of the 21 May 1959
Admin. Assistants' Meeting.
Acting Ch/D/GC to take care
of coordination with GPO;
D/GL to take care of govern-
mental distribution.
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MINUTES OF THE GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AREA STAFF MEETING, 2 JUNE 1959
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1. Budget
Chief/G reported that the first submission to the budget (on
Object Classes) had been submitted to St/A on 26 May. The three
remaining submissions are due into O/Ch/G as follows:
15 June: Program information
23 June: Estimate of attendance at
professional meetings
30 June: Functional statement
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2. Weekly Status of Projects
Chief/G has been asked by St/PB about their putting out a Weekly
Status of GRA Projects in editing, similar to one presently issued on
ERA projects. Chief, D/GG, was given a copy of the latest ERA listing
to use in considering the advisability of such a listing for GRA projects.
will consider this and discuss with other D/GG personnel, and
advise Chief/G.
3. External Training
Chief/G advised the Division Chiefs of certain types of training
currently being approved by the CSB, and inquired whether there were any
fields of training in which it was felt additional opportunities should be
offered to GRA personnel. This was discussed and it was concluded that
there is a real need for intensive language training in such languages as
Chinese and Arabic, and for an increase in participation in specialized
types of courses such as that at the American University in Lebanon and
the Cartography Course in Zurich.
4. Organizational Meeting of the "Southeast Asia Discussion Group"
Chief/G reported that the organizational meetin of the Southeast
Asia Discussion Group, which is chaired by of D/GG had
been held, and that
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5. Administrative Assistants' Meeting, 21 May 1959
Chief/G reviewed some of the matters which he had been advised were
discussed at an Administrative Assistants' Meeting on 21 May. Among the
subjects covered were: Statement to be included on External Training
Requests; The initiation by St/A of the McBee Card System and division
responsibility for forwarding changes; regulation regarding Maternity
Leave; and the statement to be made by supervisor in endorsing requests
for security clearance of publications.
rinutes of this Admin. Assistant Meeting have since been circulated
to each division, in which details of the above-mentioned subjects as
well as several other subjects are covered
6. Publication of USSR and China Mainland Atlases
Chief/G reported that he had met with the DD/I and the Acting AD/RR
to discuss the publication of the USSR and China Mainland Atlas tans
UNCLASSIFIED basis with attribution to CIA. Mr. Amory has approved ,
with the understanding that the source would not be compromised. A copy
of the Memo for the Record on this meeting will be sent to each division.
The procedure for the publication of the atlases was discussed andoittwwas
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decided that (with the assistance of
USSR Atlas and on the China Atlas) would-investigate the
arrangements to be made with the Government Printing Office for publication
and sale of the atlases. It was also decided that D/GL would take care of
the governmental distribution.
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