PROGRESS REPORT FOR THE WEEK 9 OCTOBER - 15 OCTOBER 1953

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP55-00166A000200040011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 15, 1953
• Content Type: MEMO

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6. A combined total of 201 students are presently enrolled in introductory
and self-study courses in the Language Training Branch. Sixty-four of these
students are in classes and 137 are in self-study programs.
7.- During the past week, the language laboratory was used for a total of
1116 hours, 116 hours of which were outside the normal working day.
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STATES GOVERNMENT
DATE: 15 October 1953
SUBJECT: Progress Report for the Week 9 October - 15 October 1953
To : Director of Training
FROM : Language Training and Programs Divisions
1. 0 attended the Ford Foundation Conference on Soviet and Slavic
Area Studies held in New York City on October 9-10. A detailed report on this
conference has been submitted to the DCI and DTR.
2. An Evening-Lecture-Discussion Series: Problems of Communication with
Asian Societies will be held at the Foreign Service Institute weekly on Tuesdays
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m* starting October 20, 1953 and ending February 23, 1954-
The purpose of the lecture-discussion series is to sort out the various concepts
associated with the term "communication," to analyze the principal factors in
communication between members of different cultures and to discus 44M
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problems that arise in our communication with some Asian societies. Presentations
will be given by officials of the Foreign Service Institute, The Rand Corporation
and Yale University. The Agency has been given a quota of approximately 5-10
spaces.
3. On October 19, 1953 a lecture will be held at the Institute of Languages
and Linguistics, Georgetown University on the subject of Technical Cooperation--
Africa. We Marc Henri, Secretary for Technical Cooperation--Africa, South of
the Sahara will be the speaker. Interested offices of the Agency have been
notified and interest seems to be picking up. Approximately 8 people have indi-
cated that they plan to attend the lecture..
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!t. Arrangements are being madeAfor Agency participation in a lecture series
dealing with theory and practice of propaganda, especially Soviet, This series
will b
pro ably be for one day, full-time at $iur FSI.
5. A quota of six spaces in the W~rapons,Orientation at
been allocated to the Agency for aal-ende yeah 95l.
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