SIDNEY GRAYBEAL PRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED FEDERAL CIVILIAN SERVICE 1300 TUESDAY 15 JAN 80

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• Publication Date: January 15, 1980
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SIDNEY GRAYBEAL
President's Award for
Distinguished Federal Civilian Service
1300 Tuesday 15 Jan 80
- (retired 12 Jan 79)
- This award recognizes over 30 years of distinguished
service to USG.
- Even before entered civilian gov't service in 1950 -
served as B-29 pilot over Japan in WWII.
So, civilian service just an extension of service
to your country over a lifetime.
- Hard to pick out which contributions over the years -
most significant.
? from technical advisor in treaty negotiations
? to Dep Dir/ACDA's Bureau of S&T
? to delegate in numerous treaty delegations
including SALT
? to U.S. Commissioner of the U.S. Component
of SALT Standing Consultive Commission
? to Dir/OSR at CIA.
Career marked by
? strength
? leadership
? intellectual brilliance
? and devotion to your country.
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- Your contributions in the area of strategic arms
control - absolutely vital to this nation's
security.
- Gives me great pleasure, in name of President of
US to present you this award.
- We are all very proud of you - Congratulations.
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JOHN HICKS
DIM
1400 Tuesday 15 Jan 80
- Served in many capacities - none more important
than last 2
1) as Director NPIC since 1973
? reorganized
? brought more younger people into
decision process
? served customers extraordinarily well
2) as Deputy Dir/NFAC
? vital and unique contribution to
improving analytic capabilities
- Truly outstanding career - DIM well deserved.
- Congratulations and thanks.
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SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD
17 December 1979
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A May Have Been Watching, - `oo
There's no doubt that the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation was watching David Ifshin when he was organiz-
ing demonstrations and protests on the Syracuse Uni-
versity campus in 1969 and 1970.
And there's one document that may indicate that the
CIA, intended to be a foreign intelligence-gathering
agency, was watching. too.
Ifshin filed a request under the federal Freedom of
Information Act in 1975 to receive copies of intelligence
reports about him. He recieved several hundred pages
of material, most of it from the FBI.
Last year, however, the Campaign to Stop Govern-
ment Spying (now the Campaign for Political Rights) in
Washington released a CIA document detailing Ifshin's
activities as a student protest leader at Syracuse Uni-
Association when he was elected its president in 1970.
The document also said: "Since Ifshin was such a
dynamic campus spokesman from the left, his gradua-
tion from Syracuse has left white radicalism on the
campus somewhat in recess."
The document also outlined student protests against
the CIA itself, Dow Chemical Co., the Reserve Officer
Training Corps and the 1971 boycott of the Syracuse
University football team by black players.
"Ifshin received hundredns of pages of information
about himslef from the FBI after he filed a.Freedom of
Information request in 1975. Tongue in cheek, he signed
the- request: "David M. Ifshin, National Security
TKreat."
A look at the documents he recieved reveals that the
FBI did not take him too serioulsy as a "national secur-
itvthreat" at Syracuse University.
In late 1969 and early 1970, Ifshin was involved in
various student protests, but FBI reports filed from the
Albany field office indicate the agency did not consider
him a serious anti-war portent leader.
"It is apparent, through contact with sources who are
close to him, that the subject is a boastful egomaniac
and that his main concern is to constantly be in the
`limelight'," the field report said.
It went on to describe him as "power hungry" and a
"headline hunter." The report quoted Ifshin colleagues
as saying he was trying to gain publicity so he would be
elected president of the National Student Association.
After Ifshin visited Hanoi in December 1970, howev
er, the FBI tried to pin him with a violation of the Logan
Act, which outlaws interference with enemy countries.
Ifshin was never charged with. any such violation.
After the Hanoi trip, however, a special agent in
Washington concluded: "Although the subject does not
hold a position of leadership in any basic revolutionary
group, it is felt that due to his history of participating in
disruptive activities, his public. statements regarding
violence and his other anti-United States government I
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give ons[ era a involvements outlined above, he would present.a signifi-:
credit for the beginning and the sustaining of political cant threat during a time of national emergency."
radicalism on the Syracuse campus" and that Ifshin Ifshin said he was amused to discover that when he
brought "a new radicalism to the Vational Student
!In an effort to learn more, the Daily Orange, Syracuse
UMversity's student newspaper, has gone to federal
court to try to obtain more CIA documents.
-The CIA document released last year was dated Jan.
5. 1971 and credited Ifshin with "imaginative and char-
ismatic -leadership." . + .- -
It re rt ed that Ifshin "canb
d bi
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was in law school in California in 1975 - about the time
he filed the Freedom of Information request - the FBI
was still interested in him The San Francsico field off-
ice of the FBI filed a' report noting that he was not
involved in any "activity."
Many of the documents Ifshin received are newspaper
clippings. One documbent reads, in full: "I have never
met David IFSHIN." It was filed under the heading of
"Peace Movement Personalities." Some of the docu-
ments have many of the words blacked out.
One is a handwritten, letter from an unidentified
woman to J. Edgar Hoover, urging the FBI director to
make sure "this scum" is not allowed to return to the .
United States after his trip to Hanoi.
In a courteous reply, Hoover told the woman he had
no jurisidiction over such matters, but. thanked her "for
your thoughtfulness in commenting as you did." .
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