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(U) The Crypto-Linguistic Association (CLA)
FROM:
CLA President
Run Date: 06/03/2004
FROM:
CLA President
(U//FOUO) Created in 1965 by NSA's Hall of Honor recipient Dr.
Sydney Jaffe, the Crypto-Linguistic Association (CLA) is the only
NSA-based learned organization that supports the continuing
development and advancement of Agency language analysts, and
engages its members in language-related activities. These
activities include:
a speaker series ,
an annual banquet with a nationally recognized speaker,
an ever-growing foreign film and new books on tape
lending library ,
an annual book swap , and
a foreign language film festival .
(U//FOUO) This year's festival included films in Arabic, Chinese,
Danish, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Persian/Farsi, and
Spanish (Cuban). This year the CLA also started foreign language
conversation groups in Arabic, Chinese, French, Persian, and
Spanish, and more are on the way.
(U//FOUO) Presentations in our speaker series have featured topics
of interest driven by our members. These include:
Graphic Language Cryptanalysis in the Study of Ancient
Greek Inscriptions,
Certificate in Translation Program,
On Being Multilingual, and
Navaho Code Talkers.
(U//FOUO) CLA presents two annual longtime career awards :
the prestigious Sydney Jaffe Award for civilians and the CAPT
Joseph Rochefort Award for military personnel. CLA also launched
two new awards starting in 2004: the Norman Wild Mid-Career
Award for civilians and Colonel Alva B. Lasswell Mid-Career Award
for military personnel. All of these awards honor language
professionals whose outstanding mission accomplishments reflect
the tradition of leadership, ingenuity, and scholarship exemplified
by their namesakes.
(U//FOUO) CLA partners with the NSA/CSS Foreign Language
Analysis Skill Community through a formal Cooperative Research
and Development Agreement in order to engage and involve as
many language analysts in as many relevant activities as possible.
CLA partners annually in the fall with the NSA/CSS Senior
Language Authority to sponsor Foreign Language Week . The
goal is to highlight the importance of cryptologic language work, to
familiarize non-language professionals and managers with the
language world, and to enable sharing and exchange among
language analysts. Last year's theme was "Language Analysis:
SERIES:
(U) Learned
Organizations
1. Join a Learned
Organization
2. The Crypto-Linguistic
Association (CLA)
3. The CryptoMathematics
Institute (CMI)
4. The International
Affairs Institute
Building Momentum for the Future." Highlights included:
the opening of first time ever language exhibit at the
National Cryptologic Museum;
panels on "Making it to Senior Language DISL" and
"Initiatives from the Perspective of the Intelligence
Community";
sessions on F6, the People Behind SIGINT;
tips on Passing PQEs, Update on the new DLPT5 testing
system, LangNet: Multilingual Advanced Learning Online,
Language Analysis Professional Health Program,
Deployment Concepts and Language Center Chiefs, and
Strategic Strongholds and Less Commonly Taught
Languages;
text image and speech technology and military demos, a
Resume Writing workshop; and
our ever-popular daily one-hour mini-language seminars.
(U) We enthusiastically welcome language analysts and others who
would like to join the over 400 member-strong CLA. This is a
chance to enhance your language skills while networking with your
skill community peers. Last but not least, it's fun! Please subscribe
to
or "go cla" and contact one of our board of directors for
further information-- we'd be happy to hear from you!
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