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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: August 15, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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15 August 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
1. This memorandum contains a request for action by the
Director as stated in Paragraph 3 below.
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This was a real team effort in which each officer and employee
gave more than a full measure of service. Due recognition should
be accorded to the individuals who contributed to this performance
and since this includes all PCS officers and employees as well as a
few others I believe the most appropriate form of recognition
would be a citation from the Director to the entire group. Attached
for the Director's signature are copies of such a citation in the
name of each officer and employee. I believe this citation will
constitute appropriate official recognition of the meritorious
service which this group has performed and that the Director's
signature to each individual certificate will add a most valued
personal touch. After delivery to the individual each certificate
would be returned for deposit in the respective personnel files.
SEC lT
: Deputy Director for Plans
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3. It is recommended that the Director sign each of the
attached citation certificates.
Attachments:
As above
Signature Recommended:
9 AUG1966
'Y- Deputy Director for Plans
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1. Arrangements for Reception of Audience
We have 12 usherettes who have already been briefed on their role in
receiving and seating Agency employees. These same usherettes have been
asked to applaud at the proper time, i.e., when the Vice President and Director
walk in and leave.
2. Music
As the audience comes into the auditorium, the organist will play light-
hearted music. Examples of the songs she has rehearsed are "Alleycat",
"September Song", "Bye, Bye Blues", "King of the Road", etc. When the
Vice President, Director, and other officials on stage begin to leave the stage
and auditorium, the organist is prepared to play brisk, martial type music,
i.e., "Stars and Stripes", "Marching Along Together", "Stout-Hearted Men",
and if additional music is needed, the Marine Hymn, "Semper Paratus".
We believe that the Vice President, Director, and others will be out of the
auditorium while the "Stars and Stripes" is being played.
3. Audience
Tickets have been distributed and special attention is being given to those
20 Agency employees who will actually go on stage to receive their certificates.
As with the rest of the audience, these employees will be seated by 11:45.
Their place will have been verified against a list that conforms with the
order of the certificates held by the Director of Personnel on stage. The
15-year certificate awardees are first and the 10-year certificates awardees
are second.
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After the opening remarks by the Director of Personnel and as the
Director comes forward to present service certificates, the awardees will
be guided from their seats to the base of the stage. As their names are
read, they move up the steps and on stage. After receiving their
certificates, they leave the stage and return to their seats walking in front
of the stage.
We plan to call these awardees on Friday and on Monday morning to be
sure that they will be present at the ceremony.
4. Vice Presidential Seal
attempt to get a seal in advance of the ceremony. It may still be possible to
obtain a seal in advance. If not, he has been assured that the Secret Service men
accompanying the Vice President will have the seal and will attach it to the
podium before the Vice President reaches the stage.
to see what kind of hooks there are on the back of this seal to be sure that we
can actually handle it, and we will have no problem.
5. Seating
has talked with the State Department Protocol Office
and a suggested seating arrangement has been submitted to the Executive
Director for approval. We will have to await further instructions as to the
actual seating arrangement. In advance of the ceremony, name tags will be
placed on the chairs on stage and the Director of Personnel will be there to
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ensure proper seating by the Deputy Directors. Each Deputy Director will be
escorted to the stage.
6. Reception of Vice President into the Auditorium and as he leaves
We have cued selected Agency employees to rise and start applauding
when the Vice President and the Director enter the auditorium and as they
begin to leave the stage. We feel that the rest of the assembly will respond
spontaneously to the cued rising and applauding.
7. Timing of Vice President's Arrival
We have been working with
ODCI Security. He has informed
us that the Vice President has an engagement at Howard University at 10:30.
At our request,
minutes has been allocated for the drive from Howard University to the auditorium
and that an early arrival is most unlikely. This tight schedule allows the Vice
President only one hour at Howard University if he is to make his appointment
at the Agency Award Ceremony.
working with the Agency's Physical
Security Branch, has made appropriate arrangements for an Agency car to meet
the Vice President's car at either gate and to escort it to the Agency's auditorium.
On arrival he will be met at the lobby of the auditorium by the Director and
command post is being set in the auditorium in accordance with Secret Service
instructions. From this point, he and the Agency's Secret Service Liaison
Officer will be in constant radio communication with the Secret Service men
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accompanying the Vice President. We will be told first when the Vice President
leaves Howard University and we have asked for an alert by car radio when the
Vice President is 10 minutes away. This 10-minute interval should allow the
Director enough advance notice to come down.to the auditorium to receive the
Vice President. The radio communication will also alert us to any difficulty
encountered enroute.
If the Vice President is late, we will have to be prepared to react accordingly.
If we expect him to be 10 or 15 minutes late, the Director of Personnel can explain
to the audience that the ceremony is being delayed because we are momentarily
expecting the Vice President to arrive. If we learn that the Vice President will be
more than 15 minutes late, the Director will have to decide whether to begin the
ceremony and interrupt it for the Vice President's arrival or to further delay the
opening.
Although unlikely, if the Vice President should arrive as much as 10 or 15
minutes early, his car will be escorted not to the auditorium but to the Main Entrance.
He will be met there by the Director and escorted to the Executive Reception Room
(next to the main lobby). At the appropriate time, they then walk to the auditorium.
All of the aspects of the Vice President's arrival, entry into the building, and
departure are being coordinated by
with the C/Physical Security
Division, and with Mr. Stoner, Secret Service liaison. In anticipation that the Vice
President may wish to use it,
s arranging for the restroom in the
auditorium to be cleaned. ill see that the room is secured and that no
one other than the Vice President can enter.
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c. A suggested text for the Director
for our Awards Ceremony Monday, 19 September.
We have timed all events prior to the addresses of
the Director and the Vice President. Elapsed time
prior to the Director's address will be not more
than 132 minutes. If the Director limits his re-
marks to 5 minutes, there will remain ll2 minutes
of the allotted 30 for the Vice President should
he choose to speak this long.
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REMARKS BY MR. ECHOLS
Ladies and Gentlemen?
It is my privilege to welcome you to the Agency's Sixth Annual
Awards Ceremony.
Our platform guests perhaps need no introduction. But because we
are a highly compartmentalized organization, occupying several dispersed
buildings, and with few over-all assemblies, I will nonetheless identify
them to you.
For reasons of clarity and with disregard for protocol, I shall
follow the order of seating from platform right to platform left--with
an important omission of our very distinguished visitor who will be
introduced by Mr. Helms.
On the far right: Colonel L. K. White, our Executive Director.
(Col. White should stand briefly.)
Passing our distinguished visitor, next: Mr. Richard Helms, the
Director of Central Intelligence. (Mr. Helms should stand briefly.)
Dr. Albert Wheelon, the Deputy Director for Science and Technology.
(Dr. Wheelon should stand briefly.)
Mr. Desmond FitzGerald, the Deputy Director for Plans. (Mr. FitzGerald
should stand briefly.)
Mr. Robert Bannerman, the Deputy Director for Support. (Mr. Bannerman
should stand briefly.)
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Mr. Edward Proctor, the Assistant Deputy Director for Intelligence
who is filling in today for Jack Smith, the Deputy Director for
Intelligence who was unable to attend this ceremony. (Mr. Proctor
should stand briefly.)
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Yesterday, the 18th of September 1966 was the 19th anniversary of
the Central Intelligence Agency. For the past five years we have used
this anniversary as the occasion for giving special recognition to Agency
employees.
/-To be used only if the Vice President does not appear. Before
turning the platform over to Mr. Helms for the feature event, let me
call to your attention that your program booklets describe other employee
recognition programs and the achievements of Agency personnel in the past
year--the Agency's Honor Awards Program and the Suggestion and Invention
Awards Program. The section on Public Service Awards briefly describes
the records of the individuals who were nominated by the Agency for
National recognition.]
As you all know, the Director. established our Longevity Awards Program
some five years ago. These awards give special recognition to employees
who have demonstrated that they are dedicated careerists in the service
of the Agency and of their country. A Service Certificate is presented
to an employee after he completes his tenth year of service with the
Agency and each five years thereafter.
Three years ago we presented our first Fifteen Year Certificates.
Next year, 1967, we will present our first Twenty Year Certificates.
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Practical considerations, including the limited size of this
auditorium, preclude our inviting all eligible employees to receive
their certificates here today. Instead, our ceremony must be symbolic.
Each Directorate has designated a few individuals to receive their
certificates here today and a number of others to participate as
observers. Employees who have earned their certificates, but do not
receive them here today, will receive them from their Office Heads at
appropriate ceremonies during the next few days.
I will now call the names of those whose certificates are being
presented at this ceremony, and invite them to come up to receive them
from the Director. The first group of employees will receive their
Ten Year Certificates.
ROLL CALL OF TEN NAMES.
The second group of employees will receive their Fifteen Year
Certificates.
(Following presentation of certificates, the Director takes over the
podium without further introduction.)
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1. Introduction: (Glad to be here in recognition of the euc
careerists.)
2. (Consider myself something of
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(individual honors are aw ded each ear to individuals for s: cific
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honors to alt devotion to dut dedication and solid rfo'menee.
me- sirs le fact that you have survived here for 10 or 12, ears uusder
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5. (Introduction of vice president; this d st fished est mates this
particular ceremon - a real occasion.)
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1. I am very glad to be here today to honor the career staff of our
Agency.
2. Since I believe that I too am something of a careerist after 19
years of service with CIA, I often reflect on the almost unbelievable
growth of the Agency in size and mission since its inception. We have
grown from a small clearing-house to a large, well-informed outfit
making a positive contribution to the nation's security. You who are
here today, and your colleagues whom you represent, have made this
development possible!
3. Each year Land my predecessors have conducted a number of
individual ceremonies at which we have honored various individuals in
the Agency who have excelled in a particular task or who have risked
their lives in a hazardous mission or situation. Today's ceremon~f
opportunity for recognition of those careerists who have had no opportunity
for such unusual accomplishment. Their achievement is one of long Agency
service typified by loyalty, devotion to duty, dedication--and solid
performance contributing to the Agency's mission. The fact that they--
that you--have survived for ten or 15 years under all of the stresses
and strains of your important responsibilities is of itself a noteworthy
achievement. Without your personal dedication and contribution, we would
not have the continuity of experience which is manifestly essential to
an intelligence organization.
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4. In looking at the statistics before me, it is clearly appare
that our Agency has this needed continuity. As I read these figures to
you, keep in mind that we are today celebrating merely the 19th
Anniversary of the Agency.
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Ten-year Service Certificates and, in the four years since ire celebrated
our 15th Birthday,IFifteen-year service Certificates. Of the
careerists with the Agency today eve completed ten or moreSTATINTL+
years with the outfit and almost have been here since 1947. Our STATINTLT
attrition rate indicates that we are going to maintain this continuity.
I truly believe, continuity and depth of experience are key
ingredients to effectiveness in our field of work, our continued success
is assured.
5. And now it is my pleasure to introduce to you our distinguished
visitor who was bypassed in Emmett's introduction of our platform guests.
This visitor needs no introduction. We are highly complimented by his
presence here today which makes a very special occasion of our 19th
Anniversary. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Vice President of the United
States ---
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