LETTER TO MR. NICHOLAS KELLEY FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2002
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: March 7, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

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STAT
Mr. NicholfQ K e7 president
National Civil---Service League
315 Fifth Avenue
New 7[ork 16, N. Y ?
Sincerely,
0/DC ak(6 Mar 61)
Dear Nick:
that ghernuaix Kent has been
I am deli + to got the tea good new 1961 s r Service Awe of the
selected to receive one of the
Nation]. Civil Service League-
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your invitation. Noweve~x, I ~, s that
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of the Washington 5ponsorahip C ti.ttee for the Awe i3e vi present
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in non-governmental itteea ?
do not take part in p~fblicity and banquet
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with any additiouel information on Dr. o p? this.
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NATIONAL , CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
A Non-Partisan Citizens' Organization - Pounded in 1881
MUrray Hill 9-3544
President
NICHOLAS KELLEY
Kelley, Drye, Newhall & Maginnes
Chairman of the Council
ROBERT L. JOHNSON
President
Temple University
Chairman,
Executive Committee
DANIEL W. BELL
President & Chairman
American Security & Trust Company
Treasurer
JOSEPH I. LUBIN
Eisner & Lubin
Executive Director
JAMES R. WATSON
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
BRUCE BROMLEY
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
ROBERT D. CALKINS
President
The Brookings Institution
WALTER D.. FULLER
Walter D. Fuller Company
DAVID L. HARRINGTON
Chairman
Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation
DEVEREUX C. JOSEPHS
Chairman
New York Life Insurance Company
ROBERT S. KERR, JR.
Kerr, Conn &: Davis
JOHN W. MACY, JR.
Executive Vice-President
Wesleyan University
JAMES P. MITCHELL
(on leave )
U. S. Secretary of Labor
SAMUEL H. ORDWAY. JR.
Vice-President
Conservation Foundation
THOMAS I. PARKINSON
WINSTON PAUL
February 23, 1961
It is a great pleasure to inform you that Sherman
Kent, Assistant Director for National Estimates of the
Central Intelligence Agency, has been selected to receive
one of the ten 1961 Career Service Awards of the National
Civil Service League.
Mr. Kent was chosen because of his unusual competence,
character, and achievements exemplifying the highest principles
of public service. We believe that public recognition of such
an outstanding career highlights in general the importance of
good government in our national life.
The ten Career Service Award winners will be honored
at a dinner on-- Ma.rch 21 in the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington.
We sincerely hope you will reserve this date to join us in
publicly recognizing Mr. Kent. In fact, we should like to
consider you a member of a Washington Sponsorship Committee
for the Awards Banquet. May we list you on the program in this
capacity? To represent your Agency, will you please designate
a representative to work with us in publicity and banquet attend-
ance promotion.
President
Domestic Exploration Corporation Mr. Kent is being notified that he will receive an
WESTON RANKIN award. We shall appreciate your withholding any public announce
Price Waterhouse & SOUERS Company
SID ment of his selection until we have made an official announcement.
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Chairman We shall look forward to seeing you at the dinner.
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CHARLES B. STAUFFACHER
Vice-President
Continental Can Company
JAMES E. WEBB
President
Republic Supply Company
WATSON W. WISE
Petroleum
JAMES C. WORTHY
V ice-President
Sears, Roebuck & Company
VICE-PRESIDENTS
C. C. BURLINGHAM
New York
CHARLES E. DUNBAR, JR.
New Orleans
CHARLES G. MORRIS
New Haven
MURRAY SEASONGOOD
Cincinnati
A. SIMPSON
JAMES
ingham
Birm
CHARLES P. TAFT
Cincinnati
Sincerely yours,
Nicholas Kelley
President
The Honorable Allen W. Dulles, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C.
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