CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION JAMES C. PYE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: PERSONNEL FILES
• Keywords: PYE JAMES
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001494557
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2009
• Case Number: F-2007-02085
• Publication Date: February 21, 1978

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APPROVED FOR
RELEASE DATE:
03-Aug-2009
2iFEB 1978
MO NDUM FOR: Chief, Domestic Collection Division
VIA Deputy Director for Operations
ecorder, Honor and Merit Awards Board
SUBJECT Certificate of Distinction
Mr. James C.. Pye
The Honor and Merit Awards Board is pleased to notify
you that the Certificate of Distinction has been approved for
Mr. James C. Pye in recognition of his career contributions
to this Agency. You are requested to inform him of the award
and of the security provisions governing it as set forth in the
attached memorandum from the Office of Security. Arrangements
for presentation may be made with the Executive Secretary,
Honor and Merit Awards Board, extension room
Headquarters,
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RECOMMENDATION FOR HONOR OR MERIT AWARD
(Submit in triplicate - see HR 20-37)
1. EMPLOYEE NO. 2- NAME OF
PERSON RECOMMENDED (Last, First, Widdie)
3. POSI'ION TITLE
Intelligence
0 PYE,
James C.
Officer
4. GRADE 3. 30 (3. OFFICE
OF ASSIGNMENT 17, RECOMMENDED AWARD
GS-13 DTD DCD
Certificate
of Distinction
S. INCLUSIVE DATES FOR WHICH RECOMM
ENDED 19. IF RETIRING, DATE OF RETIREMENT
10. POSTHUMOUS
1951 - 1978
March 1978
YES
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11. HOME ADDRESS
12. HOME PHONE'
St. George Street
Duxbury, Mass. 02332
617-934-5715
SECTION 8
LIST ANY PERSONNEL GIVEN AN AWA
RD OR RECOMMENDED FOR AWARD WHO ASSISTED IN THE ACT OR PARTICIPATED IN THE
PERFORMANCE.
13. PULL NAME
IA. TYPE OF AWARD
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ATTACH NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION CF
PERFORMANCE OR SERVICE 'NARRANTING AWARD, ANY SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS AND A
PROPOSED, UNCLASSIFIED CITATION
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1. Attached narrative
description of performance.
2. Attached proposed
citation.
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On the occasion of Mr. James Pye-'s retirement it is
strongly recommended. that he be awarded the Certificate of
Distinction for his many years of able representation of
the Central Intelligence Agency in the area, his
allegiance to the mission of the Agency, and the genuinely
solid contributions he has made to the foreign intelligence
reporting mission of the Domestic Collection Division.
Unquestionably Mr. Pye's long association with certain
contacts, particularly in an that at some
levels has serious reservations about a relationship of any
kind with a secret intelligence service, has had the most
significant positive effect.. Without this past relationship
with dir. Pye, a man of integrity and decency, it can be
persuasively argued that the Agency's position with respect
to n particular would have been
severely undermined. There is very much a personal dimension
in the relationship that DOD representatives have
Particularly in today's
uncertain environment, it is men .with the human qualities of
Mr. Pye who make a lasting favorable impression on would-be
critics and diffuse unjustified attacks on the agency, thus
enabling us to carry on with our mission. It is perhaps
difficult to document conclusively that assertion, but it
is a role that 'sir. Pye has played and without question it has
had the effect suggested.
During the many years he has been in Boston, rye
has made a number of genuinely significant contributions to
the foreign intelligence reporting mission of this Division.
But there is one series of reports that was enormously impor-
tant. Because of the close relationship Mr. Pye had established
with an important member of the
he provided advance information on a collection opportunity to
the White House, this Agency and the Pentagon. Thus Washington's
response was coordinated and it was in a position to acquire
information of national-level significance to among other things,
the then hotly debated issue More
recently, Mr. Pye has made substantial contributions to a pri-
ority collection project of this Division
There are other examples that could be cited, but that
is unnecessary. It is clear that what he has done he has done
extremely well.