HR - LETTER TO THOMAS J. DUFFY FROM ARTHUR C. LUNDAHL RE PERSONNEL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT A COMMENDATION FROM DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005291383
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: December 22, 2008
• Case Number: F-2008-01334
• Publication Date: November 6, 1962

SECRET
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APPROVED FOR
RELEASED DATE:
10-Dec-2008
I have attached for your personal acknowledgment a
Commendation from the Director of Central Intelligence
which will be made a part of your official personnel
file. You contributed in a very real way to the effort
for which NPIC is being commended and I want to add my
congratulations to those expressed by the Director.
ARTHUR C. LUNDAHL
Director
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25. D. C.
MEMORANDUM FOR. Director, National Photographic
Interpretation Center
1. As Director of Central Intelligence and on behalf of the
entire intelligence community as well as the United States Govern-
ment, I wish to commend you and the personnel under your command
for the outstanding work you have been performing, especially during
the past four months of the Cuban buildup.
2. Your analysis and interpretation of the Cuban photography
and the manner in which you reported your findings to the President,
his principal policy advisers, most particularly the Secretary of
State and the Secretary of Defense, and the entire intelligence com-
munity have been of the highest order.
3. I have full knowledge of the tremendous pressures and long
working hours with which NPIC was confronted. I regret that the
anonymity required of a professional intelligence agency such as yours
prevents public acknowledgment of NPIC accomplishments. You and
your people should take great pride in your accomplishments as well
as in your ability to perform them without public acclaim.