WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 25

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06096A000300050017-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: September 2, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
TO ? Director of Training DATE: 2 September 1965
FROM . Acting Chief, Language Training School
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. 25
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
STATSPEC
25X1A' 1. from the _ Training Office
25X1A reported to that last Friday a young woman
came to her office to submit a request to enter one
of the September Voluntary Language classes. When
informed that the VLTP was being suspended for a year
she expressed great disappointment and said that the
possibility of receiving language training during
off-duty hours was one of the inducements offered by
25X1A the recruiting officer at the University of Georgia.
of the Office of Personnel
25X1A about the incident. who had not yet learned
about the suspension of the VLTP, said that a meeting
of Agency recruiters would take place late this week
at Headquarters and that he would then instruct them
accordingly.
25X1A
2. Various components of the Agency have indicated
a need for people who can recognize Chinese characters
without necessarily being able to speak or read Chinese.
These include personnel working with Chinese map
materials and Chinese personal names, has 25X1A
taken the matter up with jOur senior Chinese
instructor,Lwh feelsf that such a course would be
workable and use.ful,f At present it seems that a two-
semester, part-tim course would be ideal. The first
semester of about 130 hours (22 weeks at 6 hours per
week) would cover recognition of characters including
simplified forms, use of Chinese-English dictionaries
and the telecode book, and a limited amount of recogni-
tion of commonly used characters. A second semester
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could be offered covering the cursive forms of
Chinese characters including the so-called "grass
writing". Some lead-time will be needed to prepare
the course but it could easily be done in time for
the spring semester of 1966. If necessary the course
could be started sooner with a minimum lead-time of
about 60 days.
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3. Z1Ueijare3 running an extra ~Fs c,. y of the China
Familiarization course l.his week since the number of
prospective student could not be accommodated in t- h-&' scheduled sessions, ,~ is cooperating with 25X1A
of SIC in th running of this course.
4. The following programs have been started:
Basic Russian reading for one research staff/DDI
employee; Basic Serbo-Croatian reading for one OCR
employee; and Basic Russian (RSW) for one SR officer.
5. , our chief Spanish instructor,
is taking 6 weeks leave to have major dental work
performed.
25X1A
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