NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

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CIA-RDP84-00313R000200270003-8
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December 9, 2016
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April 23, 2001
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November 2, 1971
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Approved For Relo 2001/07/12: CIA-RDP84-00313R00 DD/S 71-4135 ,ROJ1911 MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Executive Director-Comptroller SUBJECT : National Civil Service League Special Achievement Award On receipt by the Agency of the announcement from the National Civil Service League that it had added the Special Achievement Award to its program Colonel White raised the question of our reacting to the new Special Achievement Award. Harry Fisher put out a routine inquiry giving information about this award but no nominations were received from any Directorate or Independent Office. The League intends, as we understand it from direct contact with them, to make only a total of ten awards with the mix between the Career Service and Special Achievement Award not predetermined. We agree with Harry Fisher and his staff that it would be better to concentrate all of the Agency attention on a single recommendation for one or the other award. Since the Agency plans to nominate again for the Career Service we believe no nomination for the Special Achievement Award should be considered this year. I have asked Harry Fisher to determine the kinds of achievements made by nominees from other agencies so that we will have some guidelines to follow next year. In attempting this year to learn what level or kind of special achievement the National Civil Service League had in mind we were advised that something on the order of Neil Armstrong's Approved For Release 2001/07/12 : CIA-RDP84-00313R000200270003-8 Approved For Reese 2001/07/12 : CIA-RDP84-00313ROO00270003-8 exploration of the moon (for which he received a Career Service Award in the absence of the newer award) would be considered a special achievement. We will take another look at the new award next year when we have a better understanding of what is desired by the Civil Service League. However, even in future years we probably should avoid nominations for both awards lest we find our nominees inadvertently competing for selection. { 4 r~.~ c d) 3o 2Z1 tip. c. or: eyfi. John W. Coffey Deputy Director for Support cc: D/P Approved For Release 2001/07/12 : CIA-RDP84-00313R000200270003-8 Approved For Re&e 2001/07/12 : CIA-RDP84-00313R0100270003-8 MEMORANDUM FOR:. Deputy Director for Support SUBJECT : National Civil Service League Special Achievement Award REFERENCE : Your memo for Acting Executive Director-Comptroller, Same Subject, dated 2 November 1971 I have seen the referent memorandum concerning the STATINTL new Special hievement Award offered by the National Civil Service League. In the second p\ragraph you indicated that no nominations were received for this award. U rtunately, you had no reason to know that we did receive a nomination from t Deputy Director for Science and Technology that Mr. pminated for the Special Achievement Award. We h d not brought the DDS & Tts nomination to your atten- tion because we were ex ecting momentarily to receive the write-up on the nominee for the regular tional Civil Service League Award. Our instruc- tions from you on that nomee were to develop the nomination paper in as confidential a way as we pos ''bly could. Eventually, you were to discuss the nomination paper with the Dire tor who would then decide whether the nomi- nation would be formalized and b.mitted. Ben got in touch with who in turn asked Jim Angleton to write the paper. In all of this, emphasis was given to the need to protect the "dentity of the nominee. STATINTL On receipt of the no. ination paper, our plan was to recom- mend that if the Director determined th that candidate would be submitted for the normal National Civil Service Lea ue award, no action be taken to STATINTL submit nomination for the othei~,.award. Our belief is that if we go with one nominee for the big award, we should not jeopardize his chances by submitting any other nominees. On the other hand, if it is determined by the Director that papers would not be submitted n the other nominee, we STATINTL recommend that nomination be writte \up and submitted. We have not yet received the write- p on the nominee for the regular award but we expect this on Friday, 5 Nov ber. We will deliver the paper to you im.mediatelyrupon receipt. STATINTL Approved For i Yease/07/12 : CIA-RDP84-00313R000200270003-8 FORM NO. 23 7 Use previous editions 1-67 J STATINTL Approved For Release 2001/07/12 : CIA-RDP84-00313R000200270003-8 Approved For Release 2001/07/12 : CIA-RDP84-00313R000200270003-8