JOHNSON , HHH LAUD CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400120013-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON (CDN) --
cy was taken a bit by surprise
Monday, but was hardly upset.,
by it.
It was the day for present-
ing annual service awards,
and for the first time it was in
position to give 20-year
ertificates to employes.
The spy agency was created
y the National Security Act
f Sept. 17, 1947. No special
0-year birthday ceremony '_ i
was planned, but to the sur.
rise of the agency, Vice.
bert 11 CIA's activities in that span of
President H
u
rey showed up tp praise' the '' ---v.
He called it "as vital, to the
well being of the American
people and.the nation as the
'Department of Defense and
the Department of State."
And then to . top off the
surprises, President Johnson
sent a birthday greeting to the
agency, which was ready, by
Director Richard Helms.
this country had no broad- the truth -'on your commit.
scale intelligence service wor. ' ment to our democratic ideal.
thy of the name," the Presi- I believe 'our trust is well.
dent said. .placed.",
"Today it has a strong. and The agency was so unnerv-
vital one f- the best in the ed. by the praise it got from
world. "the two top elected officials of.
"You have built a solid the government ? that word
foundation In. these last 20 leaked out that 803 employes.
years. America relies upon received 20-year certificates.,
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