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Inter-Service Language Committee, Russian Language Training

15 Mar 1949

SECRET considered that the course was long enough, but that students might be induced to work harder if, by qualifying, they obtained greater financial benefit. Before the war, a student had paid his own training expenses, with the result that, if he did not qualify and so did not receive the grant of £150 for a 1st Class Interpretership or a reduced sum for a 2nd Class Interpretership, he was out of pocket. Under the present system, there was little financial inducement for him to qualify. MR. SHAW said that the Foreign Office had found that the award system had offered little incentive to officers to qualify in foreign languages, and they had therefore introduced a system of allowances whereby an officer having qualified in a foreign language got £100 a year for as long as he was using that language.
training embassies cold war linguists ministry of defence joint intelligence sub-committee foreign office intelligence organization threat of war with the ussr intelligence requirements
Collection ID
CAB176
Conflict
Cold War
Document Reference
CAB 176/22/60
Document Types
Summary
File Reference
CAB 176/22
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.cab176.0022.060
Keywords
Linguists Training Embassies Intelligence Requirements Threat Of War With The Ussr
Languages
English
Organizations
Foreign Office Ministry of Defence Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
Pages
4
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
War Cabinet, Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee, later Committee: Secretariat: Minutes (JIC(SEC)). Secretariat Minutes (1949) 513-1172
Themes
Intelligence Organization

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