NOMINATIONS FOR MEMBERS AND ALTERNATES OF THE CIA HONOR AWARDS BOARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A001700120014-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2001
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MEIflRANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Support)
SUBJECT: Nominations for Numbers and Alternates of the
CIA. Honor Awards Board
25X1A REFERENCE: Regulation No, Honor Awards, dated
13 April 1955
1. The applicable portion of referenced regulation is
quoted below for your read-, reference,
"The CIA Honor Awards Board is established to admin-
ister the Honor Awards Program. It will be composed of
three voting members and three alternates, who are members
of the Career Staff. The members, including the Chairman,
and alternates will be appointed by the Director of
Central Intelligence from among those nominated by the
Deputy Director (Intelligence), the Deputy Director
(Plans), and the Deputy Director (Support) and recommended
by the Director of Personnel. i~embers and alternates will
serve twelve month terms and may be appointed to successive
terms."
2. It is requested that you forward to the undersigned the names
of at least three persons for consideration as members or alternates
so that I may make appropriate recommendation to the DCI. It is also
requested that your nominations be forwarded as soon as convenient,
but not later than 1 June 1955, so that selection may be made, and an
Agency notice of "Appointment to Key Positions" published forthwith.
3. At present the Board is composed of three members, Messrs.
two of whom are from the DD/P area,
and one of whom is from the DD/I area. Messrs.
are the Security Advisor and the Recorder, respectively, for the
Board. All of these persons have served continuously since the
Board was first organized in early 1953, and they have performed
invaluable service to the Agency in establishing the program. Mr.
have served in succession as
Personnel visors to Vie board ,
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4. The criteria for membership on the Honor Awards Board are
not definitive. However, the members of the Board must be members
of the Career Staff (or be "in process" for such membership), and
should be senior persons of at least grade GS-15, with long service
in the Agency. Service with other awards groups,, either military
or civilian, is helpful. If the nominees have been the recipients
of awards from other services, that circumstance would be considered
as additional reason for selecting them for this eotracuz/`riNular duty,
rison G, Reynolds
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