WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040123-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 123
• Publication Date: May 7, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 - :ter'
Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO :Chief, Language and Area School
FROM :Deputy Chief, Area Training
suBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
DATE: 7 May 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. As a result of my recent experience with the "Saturday
Special" AAO briefing and the lessons drawn from our de-
velopmental PEA offering, I am exploring means of im-
proving the content and administration of the AAO program.
2. A conference with interested WE personnel, including Bob
(DC/WE), led to the follow-
ing conclusions: 1) The subject "Living Conditions" will
be handled at the appropriate country desk in WE rather
than in our AAO; 2) Attendance at the closing sessions
dealing with locational orientation and travel, as well as
films and slides concerned with these subjects, will be
o-ntional for employees; 3) We will add a follow-up of
introduction to the AA problem, which will discuss
cues for successful adjustment to everyday living in the
foreign community, as well as a full session on the foreign
society (going beyond individual behavior and attitudes to
social patterns and institutions); and 4) Professionals
in WE do not need a follow-up (classified) session, such
as we have done successful) on inter-cultural
cues for operating effectively in the particular country.
3. WH had previously advised me that it also recognizes its
responsibility to provide the briefing on living conditions.
These briefings must be -to-date and must be ecific on
I I see no alternative but to leave this acti-
vity where it can be most efficiently handled, except for
ecial effort an make the briefings a burden for the DDP
s
p
desks. Both WE and WH are committed to include non-DDP
personnel in their desk briefings, and I am committed to
furnish support with briefing reminder sheets and hand-out
materials as appropriate.
25 YEAR
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4. Continuance of the Saturday schedule is in question. While
I had 16 dependents on 18 April, WE sent only one of these.
Furthermore, the AA~ with no "Saturday Special"
scheduled, has drawn 10 dependents during the week, an un-
precedented number. The Saturday schedule will be given
careful consideration, in consultation with all divisions
concerned, before it is resumed in the fall.
5. The ten-week course RS - Southeast Asia was completed on 7
May by nine of the ten students registered. Ten others came
ersonal re-
t
er-p
in from time to time as auditors, The in
language teachers from FSI assisted, who were o questioned uby
coun-
the class on such subjects as how the people
tries should be contacted by Americans, how Americans should
act, and what they thought of the Americans they had ob-
served in their countries. The guest lecturers were selected
from the staffs of State, Labor, Interior, Army, Federal
Reserve Board, ICA,and OCB, who are daily handling various
phases of Southeast Asian political, economic and inter-
national relations, mineral development, communications and
telecommunications, etc. Our own desk officers covering
Southeast Asian countries supplemented with discussions of
the activities of the Communist parties in these countries.
6. An AAO-Southeast Asia offering is scheduled for 11 - 15 May,
with a minimum tentative registration of seven. Seven other
interested persons left for their overseas assignments during
the week beginning 5 May. Earlier scheduling of this course
next spring (in March) should avoid this unfortunate situation.
7? Enrollment for RS Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland (CEP),
starting on the 12th, is unexpectedly high, considering that
it has been restricted to CIA personnel at EE's request. Of
the 15 students registered, 7 are DDP, 4 - ORR, 2 -00, and 1
each from Gra hics and PIC. The commitments of C/EE (Critchfield)
and C/SR to speak on the first day of the course should
see us off to a good start.
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