WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040136-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 136
• Publication Date: April 9, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Language and Area School DATE: 9 April 1959
FROM . Deputy for Language Training
suBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
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A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Russian Basic RSW I began this week with an enrollment of
7 students, 6 of them from Con o. is the instructor.
cussed.
2.I has been asked to represent the Agency in the
testing of CIA personnel for escort service for Soviet delegations
traveling in the United States. On 2 April he attended a meeting
held at Language Services Division, Department of State, at which
the following were present: Edmund Glenn, Chief/Interpretation
Branch, Theodore Leon Chief /Language Services, both of the Depart-
ment of State, and both of CIA's Office
of Contacts, East-West Branch. The criteria and classification of
our personnel were dis-
3. Two new informal seminars have been announced this week,
one in Romanian and one in Spanish. These seminars are conducted
from 1200 to 1300 two days a week. A seminar of this type in French
has been active for over two years and currently draws from 10 to
15 students. A seminar in Italian, which started recently, averages
between two to four students. Agency personnel with native fluency
are invited to conduct these seminars whenever feasible; the balance
of the time they are conducted by native speakers or the language
school staff.
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