WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040078-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: July 22, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy Chief, Area Training
suBJECT : Weekly Activities Report
DATE: 22 July 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. RS- Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland #1 terminated with a
loss of only one of the original 16 students. I attended a
post mortem critique of the course by the class and was im-
pressed by the high morale and constructive suggestions of this
group. All the participants seemed convinced of the usefulness
of the course in their work. Several had communicated this
message to their supervisors with sufficient impact so that we
are being pressed to introduce another offering of the course
into our schedule toward the end of the current fiscal year.
Hence we shall take careful soundings as to a preference by
EE and ORR in particular for the proposed Balkans course or
another offering of the CEP course in the spring of 1960.
Principal adverse criticisms concerned the lack of sufficient
time for study and class discussion, as well as the need to
economize time by finding guest lecturers who can handle all
three instead of only one country in this regional grouping.
E:::]is preparing a full report on this first offering of the
course, and will append the student critiques.
2. The last formal session of this course, which I also attended,
was given over to a seminar-type discussion of the present
situation and outlook in respect to the three Eastern European
countries concerned. utilized a panel composed of Albert
W. Sherer, Jr. (Acting Director, Office of Eastern European
Affairs, State), Robert Delaney (Chief, Division of Eastern
European Affairs, VQA), and (ONE). The active
participation of most class members in this final exchange of
views was in marked contrast to the general reticence of such
groups in the presence of guest specialists at the outset of
these courses.
25 YEAR 77-;
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3. T received a visit this week by Lt. Col. George B. Woodworth,
Co-ordinator of the Army's Foreign Area Specialist Training
Program., under ACSI, who is a member of our newly formed inter-
agency roundtable on area training. He is a member of an ACSI
sub-committee assisting Congress in an inquiry into the MAAG-
sponsored Military Assistance Institute, which functions at
Arlington Towers under contract to the Army. .in purpose of
the visit was to determine to what extent we might be able to
make use of the Institute (and share in its financial support)
for area training, to what extent our training facilities are
available to Army personnel., and whether we would favor estab-
lishment of a national training center for government and non-
government personnel going overseas. While my off-hand responses
on all three points were necessarily quite negative,, PPS might
wish to give the matter fuller consideration.
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