NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE AWARD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00313R000300010078-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: February 28, 1967
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
TO : C/13SD DATE: 28 February 1967
FROM : Betty
SUBJECT: National Civil Service League Award
Brenda called me to ask how far Mr. Smith got in the selection process
last year.
I called Irene on the above question. She said that Courturicr told
her when she talked to him originally that Mr. Smith was among the twenty
last year (same as this year). She said that last year they were picking
women (2) and that we had winners five out of six years. (This information
is unofficial and was included in the "eyes only"a morand.um which Mr. Echols
sent to the Director).
She also said that Mr. Smith is a natural for the Rockefeller Award.
She feels that we lost last year by nominating a "first stringer" instead of
someone just below. Irene thought maybe we could submit his nomination
with few or no changes. (If Mr. Smith wind he will receive 0$10,000)
We have never made suggestions on either the Presidential Award or the
ILLEGIB Rockefeller, 0 these have always been made by the Director.
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1. EDWARD DAY
Sidley. Austin, Burgess & Smith
Chairman of the Board
BERNARD L. GLADIEUX
Partner, Knight & Gladious
Vice Chairman of the Beard
ROCCO C. SICILIANO
Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker
Treasurer
WESTON RANKIN
Price Waterhouse & Cc,
Vice President
MURRAY SEASONGOOD
Paxton & Scasopgaol
Vice President
CHARLES P. TAFT
Taft. Lavercombe & Fox
Board of Directors
I. S.NI'LAIR ARMSTRONG
Unites Stator Trust"^rnpany
BERNHARD M. AUER
Senior Vice President, Time. Inc.
MORTIMER M. CAPLIN
t''nplin & Drysdale
IOHN 1. CORSON
Consultant, Washington, 0. C.
KERMIT GORDON
Vise President
The Brookings Institution
EDWARD GIJDEMAN
Partner, Lehman Brothers
NAJEEB MALADY
Senior Vice President, Pan
American World Airways, Inc.
LEWELLYN A.JENNINGS
Chairman of the Board, Riggs
itional Bank of Washington, D. C.
ROBERT S. KERR, JR,
Kerr, Davis, Rebe'ts, Heimann,
Irvine & Burhage
NEWTON N. MINOW
Leibman, Williams, Bennett,
Baird & Miaow
SAMUEL H. ORDDWAY, JR.
President, The Conservation
Foundation
FRANK PACE. JR,
resident. International Executive
Service Corps
WINSTON PAUL
Trustee
DON K. PRICE
I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy School
I Government, Harvard University
WILLIAM RUDER
Ruder & Finn, Inc
TERRY SANFORD
Sanford. Cannon & Hunter
WALLACE S. SAYRE
Professor of Public Law &
Government, Columh a University
KATHRYN H. STONE
Washington Center for
Metropolitan Studies
WATSON W. WISE
Industrialist
Executive Director
JEAN J. COUTURIER
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National Civil Service League
February 21, 1967
Honorable Richard Helms, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
This letter is written in regret mixed with pleasure.
Our regret stems from the fact that your nominee for our
Career Service Award, Dr. R. J. Smith, was not selected for
1967. Our pleasure derives from the opportunity tell you
that he came very close to winning and was among the finalists
given most serious consideration by our Committee.
It is always difficult - sometimes nearly impossible - to pass
a relative judgment on the very obvious great merit of the
finalists who have been picked from the many nominations
submitted. This was especially true this year. In fact, it
is real credit to your nominating process that Dr. Smith was
among the few who survived three very rigorous screenings.
Thus, I congratulate you and him on behalf of our Selection
Committee and urge you to consider a renomination next year.
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