CIVILIAN SPECIALISTS RESERVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00634A000200110004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 17, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ' UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief/PPS CONFIDENTIAL DATE: 17 March 1958
FROM Chief/LAS
SUBJECT: Civilian Specialists Reserve
REF : Your oral request, 14 March 1958
1. The overall interests of this School in the Civilian Specialists
Reserve to be called for duty in the event of M-Day could include several
tens of persons. The character of these positions can be determined only
after a more careful study than is possible in the short time permitted for
this indication of interest. Such a study will soon be started and its re-
sults available in future. For the present, I restrict my statement of
interest to four positions that might reasonably be considered as the LAS
share of the possible allotment of ten positions to OTR.
2. In development of a Civilian Specialists Reserve for duty with
LAS in event of M-Day, the following four types of positions would have
a high priority, based upon presumption of the importance of the areas,
recognition of the Agency's general paucity of specialists on the areas,
and the School's deficiency in specialists on these languages and areas:
a. A specialist on the languages and areas of Black Africa
South of the Sahara.
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b. A specialist on the Turkic languages of the Soviet Repub-
lics of Central Asia.
c. A specialist on Persian and the related languages of Iran,
Afghanistan, Pakistan,, and Central Asia (such
as, perhaps, of the University of Michigan).
d. A specialist on the languages of Southeast Asia.