MERITORIOUS UNIT CITATION - FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE ISLAMABAD UNIT/DS&T

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-01355R000400300001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 12, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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HONOR AWARD NOTIFICATION FORM
Date: 13 December 1988
TO: Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
VIA: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
FROM:
Executive Secretary, HMAB
AWARDEE'S NAME: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Islamabad Unit
AWARD: Meritorious Unit Citation
APPROVING OFFICER/DATE: DDSIT - 25 November 1988
SECURITY/COVER RESTRICTIONS
(See attached memo)
a Awardee is overt and may retain award.
Awardee may retain award if willing to sign an Award Retention Agreement (ARA).
Awardee is under cover and award must remain in custody in Protocol Branch.
Please contact awardee and RETURN SECOND COPY OF THIS FORM TO PROTOCOL
BRANCH NO LATER THAN 27 December 1988 . Note: If awardee is PCS overseas,
please cable notification and attach a copy of your notification cable to the return copy. Also indicate
on the return copy the approximate month/year awardee will be returning to the U.S.
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Executive Secretary, Honor and Merit Awards Board
SUBJECT: Meritorious Unit Citation - Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Islamabad Unit/DS&T
1. The Meritorious Unit Citation has been approved for the personnel of
the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Islamabad Unit, Directorate of
Science and Technology, for the period of 22 November 1980 - 25 November 1988.
2. The list of employees is as follows. Please distribute one copy to
each awardee's file as highlighted.
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RECOMMENDATION FOR HONOR OR MERIT AWARD
(Submit eight copies with: description of performance or service
warranting award; biographic profile; and unclassified citation)
1. SOCIAL SECURITY NO.
2. NAME OF PERSON RECOMMENDED (Last, First, Middle).
3. POSITION TITLE
FBIS Islamabad Unit
4. GRADE s. YOB 6. SD 7. OFFICE OF ASSIGNMENT 8. EXTENSION 9. RECOMMENDED AWARD
RF FBIS Meritorious Unit Citation
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10. INCLUSIVE DATES FOR WHICH RECOMMENDED It. IF RETIRING. DATE OF RETIREMENT 12. POSTHUMOUS
22 November 1980 - Present YES X
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13. HOME ADDRESS (include ZIP CODE)
14. NAME OF SPOUSE
15. HOME PHONE
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REPORT OF HONOR AND MERIT AWARDS BOARD
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REMARKS
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I recommend that FBIS Islamabad Unit be awarded a Meritorious
Unit Citation for eight years of sustained superior performance in
providing U.S. Government timely access to reporting from Afghanistan,
improved coverage of the eastern and northeastern Iranian regionals,
and fuller coverage of six Soviet Central Asian radios in Russian and
vernacular languages by serving as a remote monitoring/recording
facility.
With its formal inception on 22 November 1980, FBIS Islamabad
Unit filled a requirement for increased coverage of the Muslim world,
particulary the "arc of crisis" area of the Middle East. To that end
the unit has provided extensive, unique coverage with a modest
operation that began with one American staffer and two FSN employees.
Only one position, a third FSN slot, has been added to the Unit since
its initial staffing. With its small staff and limited operational
area, the unit provides coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week either
through manned or remote operations.
Over the years, all Unit personnel have frequently volunteered
extra working hours when required to meet ad hoc requests for special
recordings, feeds, and/or the pouching of cassettes as needed by
London, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Nicosia Bureaus. Despite the
invaluable role played by the Unit staff, consumers are often unaware
of their contribution since the Unit is not a highly visible link in
the information chain.
All Unit's staff members deserve recognition for their consistent,
dedicated efforts to feed timely, vital, live or recorded information
to FBIS field bureaus for fast, accurate dissemination to U.S.
Government consumers from an area of increasing geopolitical
sensitivity. Their unremitting efforts have helped FBIS and the BBC
Monitoring Service plug a hazardous reception gap between Amman and
Bangkok through a period of exceptional political and military tension.
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FBIS ISLAMABAD UNIT EMPLOYEES
Staff:
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Non-Staff:
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CITATION
FBIS Islambad Unit
is hereby awarded a
MERITORIOUS UNIT CITATION
In recognition of eight years of sustained superior performance
in enabling U.S. Government consumers to have timely access to
reporting from Afghanistan, the eastern and northeastern Iranian
regionals, and'six Soviet Central Asian radios. The Islamabad Unit
staff provided U.S. Government policymakers significant, often unique,
information from an area of often critical importance to several U.S.
Administrations. This achievement, which is a tribute to their
dedication and professionalism, brings credit to the Unit, FBIS, and
the U.S. Government.
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