STATE DEPT. GIVES MEDALS FOR HEROISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400240001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 10, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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UMM HERALD"
'Sanitized - Approver ?rbRse TCI
Late Dept.
Gives Medals r
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!or Heroism .,
towed its highest awards yes,
erday i i on diplomats who,,,
t raved fire in the Congo and'.`
n VicNam,?
Sceredark,Dean Rusk per-. 3
onally prLSehted..the Depart=.i;
ent's .ziewJy designated top.' O
onor r?- palmed" "the Seer
e-,
ary's Award',to five. U.S.
orisu)ar staff' members held '
ostage, by. ' ongolese 'rebels :;
t Stanlcyvlflle from Aug. 5
ntil Nov. ?4; 1964, when thcy+ :
ere rescued by U.S.-air-,';j .
1 fted lJe?gian paratroopers;
Also I honored were Barbara
obbins, the.' secretary who P';q
led in the March 30 terrorist
robing of thG ,American Em-
ssy in Saigon, and three
outh Vietnamese employes 4,}
' the 'Embassy who were I4 'lied In the.- bombing.
Given awards for heroism
ere diplomats Lewis It. Mac-
((f cleric, for bravery iii the
f 'cc of re'be1~ attack in 'Buka?
v , CongU last August, and
arles? 7i. Thomas, foe bray. A
p y in, performing hazardous '~
d ties in I{blivia in December,
1 63.
$ AmbassAdor M a x w d.l?l D,
ylor_r'eceived from Rusk a
!A istingulshed Honor Awnl??c9.'' 1
escnted- to the Amerfe6ft
oti in Saigon as a
pni
i
presentation of these
a dbout 350 other atiuart s?
t k plate at the Depart n pt;
a tial inward's ceremopy~
elected 'for "Distinggishtod `,?'
Ii nor Awards" were: .
John. R. Clingerman, for,
?b very in rescuing hostages *
fr m Stanleyville;
I. \lbcrt A. Geisecke, for more 01
th in 30 years of distingt0shed'4
e bassy service at Lima, Peru; k~
.1ncohr Gordon \ "for, dis.
ti guished service, initiative.;,,
an I enterprise in the discharge -'
or his duties as U.S. Ambas- ..
eonard Unger, "for dis-
ti guirhed service as U.S. Am-
ha sador . to the Kingdom of
L is from July 1$62 to Decem- S,;
Sanitized- Apiroved For Release,: CIA-RDI