WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06205A000100030004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 20, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNIT'Eb STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
DATE: 20 December 1961
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. We were deeply gratified by
24 November 1961, requesting supervisors to register employees
in the AAO's and strongly urging enrollment of adult dependents.
This will assist us in seeking a similar policy in the DDP and
DDI. The consistent desire at the field stations in Latin
America for such a policy, previously discussed in the report
on my trip, increases our expectation that we are making pro-
gress toward our goal in the DDP.
2. Regular monthly meeting of the area roundtable was
hosted by HEW/Office of Education/Language and Area Centers
Unit, which has joined the group. Dr. Donald N. Bigelow, Head
of the Language Development Section, briefed us on the policies
and progress of the program for promoting centers and summer
institutes. Significant points highlighted by Dr. Bigelow were:
a) about 50% of the 769 fellowships financed by HEW for the
current academic year were awarded to persons specializing on
area, but many of these also teach a related language; b) there
are virtually no takers for fellowships offered for Southeast
Asia studies, except for Indonesia; c) even the brief experience
to date with the Alliance for Progress program for Latin America
has revealed a shocking lack of North Americans with the desired
technical skills, who also possess the minimum needed language-
area competencies, even for Hispanic America.
3. Chairmanship of the roundtable will rotate at the
January meeting, with MAI (General Newton) relinquishing this
post, probably to FSI.
4. A new color film on India, not yet released, was shown
to the roundtable, and I would rate it one of the most striking
and useful area films I have ever seen. Produced under con-
tract with the Office of Education, it points up India's need
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for massive education efforts as its most basic requirement.
The poverty, disease and other major problems are handled with
a stark realism most rare in films available to us. We will
use this film in our first which we expect to
give in the first half of 19 2 in response to a request already
made by D/NE.
5. In response to an informal query from my opposite number
in FSI (Hilliker), concerning our reaction to letter
soliciting assistance in setting up an Area Training Materials
Center, I have indicated by phone that we are studying the
matter carefully and hope to be able to support the project in
some manner despite the tightening budget situation.
6. The 11 persons present at 13-14 December
set an attendance record for that course. Although six dependents
attended, a perfect score was prevented by last minute baby-
sitting problems of one enrolled wife. Grades of the five
employees were GS-7-1, GS-11-1, GS-12-2 and GS-15-1. The steady
shift in Agency traffic from is reflected in the
fact that we have run a single so far this fiscal
year as compared to three briefings on with a fourth
scheduled.
7. - lectured at FSI's Seminar on Northeast Asia, on
"Japanese Government, 1945-1960," and "Contemporary Japanese
Conservative Politics." He also completed his second appearance
as guest instructor in Catholic University's Far Eastern History
class, presenting "Japanese Society - Social and Cultural
Developments."
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