WEEKLY SUMMARY REPORT
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP78-06369A000100180006-3
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RIPPUB
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S
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
November 16, 2016
Document Release Date:
February 28, 2000
Sequence Number:
6
Case Number:
Publication Date:
October 3, 1952
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MEMO
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Executive Aesietant to De
Director of Training
Weekly Summary Report
r1,ONFIDENTIAL
Six Agency personnel have been enrolled in the Near East
Language and Area Program at the Foreign Service Institute which
began on 1 October 1952 and will end approximately 31 Mardi 1954.
Following a period of approximately six months of intensive lan-
guage study in Arabic and area studies in the United States, the
students will go to a field installation of the Foreign Service
Institute for a continuation of language and area studies.
2.- The Office of Training has been approached by the Chief
of Linguistic Research in AF3A to participate in an inter-
departmental committee on language reference materials. The main
functions of the committee will be to effect coordiusetion of
effort, economy, and set up priorities for the production of
needed materials among interested agencies in the government.
3. During the week ending 3 October the Office of Training
has received and made recommendations for approval of 23 requests
for external training in various parts of the United States.
4. A special f411-time Russian Language and Area Program
was started on 29 September at the Institute of Languages and
Linguistics, Georgetown Ueiversity, sponsored by the Office of
Training. Six Agency career personnel are presently enrolled.
5. A new class in reading improvement for members of the
State Department was begun on 29 September with sixteen senior
personnel presently enrolled. The Reading Improvement Laboratory
currently has ninety CIA students each dey.
6. During the week ending 3 October, 161 students are en-
rolled in the introductory and self-study courses in the Language
Training Center, in addition, the laboratory was used for a total
of 414 student hours during the week.
7. A propOsel for a research project to determine the psycho-
logical requirements in the duties of the intelligence officer
has been approved. Work will begin soon on this study, which is
designed for the double peepers/a of providing information for the
revision of assessment procedures and of developing a vide for
the systematic collection ar criterion data for validation pur-
poses.
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8. The Order of }3attle Course beginning 15 September
ended on 24 September. '2he e were 18 students in attendance.
A detailed report is being prepared 4 the Chief instructor
outlining problems and suggesting improvements. The next 0/13
course is scheduled to 'begin on 20 October. The problem of
Suitable space still exists, in the absence of a satisfactory
solution, the course will again be presented in Boom 107)
I & B Building.
9. Proeo_...L.AMM
Table of Orgeniatian was approved in part as submitted
Deputy Director for Administration. Appi'oa1 of remainder
mina was withheld pending final approval of the project.
10. The Chief, Training Development staff, and senior repre-
sentative have, during this week, devoted the major portion of
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their time to a s ial high priority training project on behalf
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U. Communist Party Operations. Course NO. 9 is currently
being presented (13 students, 1 auditor).
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