FISCAL YEAR 1967 BUDGET INFORMATION -- LANGUAGE TRAINING SCHOOL

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: August 5, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
Chief, Plans and Policy Staff
FROM : Chief, Language Training School
DATE: 5 August 1965
SUBJECT: Fiscal Year 1967 Budget Information --
Language Training School
:L. The Language Training School has as its main function
the providing of in-house language training capability geared
to the needs of all categories of Agency personnel, where in-
house training is required by considerations of covert security,
specialized needs, or in cases where training of the type
required is not otherwise available. This is accomplished
in a :highly varied program of full-time and part-time courses
and tutorial instruction. Part-time training is conducted
before, during, and after duty hours. Training activities
range from familiarization programs of a.few hours in length
to full-time intensive training of case officers, covert
training of staff and contract agents, including instruction
in English as a foreign language.
2. The major non-teaching function of the Language
Training School is the furnishing of foreign language
proficiency testing services for the Agency.
3. In addition we operate language laboratories and
a library of language and general area books, supply tape
recordings and text materials to support language training
activities in the field and maintain a group of personnel
highly proficient in various foreign languages who are
frequently of use to other Agency components for translitera-
tion, translation, interpreting, and research projects
requiring linguistic skills.
4. Language Training is conducted by a highly profes-
sional and flexible staff consisting of 9 professional staff
employees, 9 technical and clerical employees, and 16 full-
time and 4 part-time contract instructors. The contract
instructors are native speakers of various foreign languages.
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This staff is supplemented at present by 35 instructors who
are paid an hourly rate when actually employed. A total of
55 hourly rate employees are available to us if needed.
Classes held outside of duty hours are taught by Agency
staff employees who have the necessary linguistic skills,
supervised and supported by the Language Training School.
In this staff are represented capabilities for teaching
50 languages and other capabilities can be acquired as
needed.
5. In Fiscal Year 1965 a total of 757 individuals
were in training in 22 languages in various programs of the
Language Training School. Part-time training made up almost
75% of total training. During the year we engaged in a
total of 314 separate teaching projects, each of which had
to be supported, and supervised. 63,548 hours of teaching
were accomplished in all of our projects. The level of
language proficiency testing in Fiscal Year 1965 was 313
written proficiency tests administered and 280 oral tests
in 24 languages. In Fiscal Year 1966 we are experiencing
an upswing in language proficiency testing. As the first
step in achieving a more effective policy on language
proficiency the Clandestine Services are making a concerted
effort: to have tested all those individuals who have claimed
a proficiency but who have not yet been tested. As a result
of this effort we will be called upon to complete approxi-
mately 800 extra oral proficiency tests by 1 January 1966.
The cost of this extra testing, which was not specifically
budgeted for, can probably be absorbed completely in the
budget: for hourly rate contract employees. In addition to
teaching and testing activities we supplied language training
texts and tapes in response to 61 requests during the fiscal
year, plus extensive advisory work in setting ui lan
training facilities
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