WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040133-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 133
• Publication Date: April 15, 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:15 April 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Your comments on my first comprehensive statement of Program
policies have been noted, and I shall welcome an opportunity
to discuss them prior to our submission of the new long-term
schedule to R/TR next week. I concur in your view, shared by
my staff, that the compressed, single-day AAO briefing could
profitably be expanded to run on two successive Saturdays
without defeating the practical purposes for which it was
originally conceived. I plan to initiate the two-Saturday
schedule in the new schedule for at least one area, on a trial
basis. The principal difficulty with Saturday schedules -
inducing staff or dependents to make a special trip in to
assist in the briefings - will of course be somewhat magnified
with a two-day schedule, but the objective certainly justifies
the extra effort. A two-day schedule would give us approxi-
mately the same total briefing time as in the full, on-duty
course.
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2. and I all feel that the AAO group of
31 meeting is week is one of the most we have had
in recent months. We included a participant in the
Personal Effectiveness Abroad course, in the opening panel
which takes a page out of that course. This session focussing
on the American was succeeded by one
onl [and we find this emphasis at the
outset on people is highly effective in arousing real interest
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and giving the proper pitch to the whole briefing. Breakdown
of registration is: EE-21, Comoro-1+, Log-3, OSI-2, and TSS-1.
3. We achieved a highly significant breakthrough this week by
finally producing a WE policy on participation in the Saturday
Special briefing which includes Western Europe. _WE
as well as DC/WE have reported this to
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me personally, and I am highly gratified by this result of
my four years of continuous effort. Of the 17 first-timers
destined for this area in the next 4 months, however, WE
had succeeded in obtaining commitments to attend from only
9, as of today. We anticipate that WE can show up better
in the next running of this briefing if the work of regis-
tration is completed before the two week deadline instead
of being started one week in advance. Our total registra-
tion for the 18th is about 40. This will provide a good
test of whether I can manage three or four simultaneous
sections for different sub-areas, at two or three different
hours. OTR staff members who have promised to assist me
will include
in reserve. In addition, I have signed u oCI ,
(C/ (FE), and
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absence this summer. This will serve to satisfy some of
the interest in the lively problems of this fast-changing
area and may serve to promote interest in study courses
which one to introduce later in the new fiscal year, I we 25X1 after eturn. The Lecture Series will run over a
six weeks' period beginning on 10 July, on Friday afternoons.
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