THE DONOVAN AWARD COMMITTEE OF THE VETERANS OF THE OSS IS PLEASED AND HONORED TO GIVE YOU THE WILLIAM J. DONOVAN MEDAL

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• Publication Date: February 20, 1986
• Content Type: LETTER

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20 February 1986
DRAFT
The President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Mr. President,
The Donovan Award Committee of the Veterans of the OSS is pleased and
honored to give you the William J. Donovan Medal. The Donovan Award has been
given since the mid-1960s to an individual who has made outstanding contributions
to the national security of the United States in the civilian-military tradition
of General Donovan. This award has been presented to John McCloy, Allen Dulles,
President Eisenhower, Everett Dirksen, Lieutenant General William Quinn,
Lord Mountbatten, Chabvan Delmas (deGaulle's resistance chief in World.War II),
Ambassador Robert Murphy, David Bruce, William Casey, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
John McCone and Sir William Stevenson.
We are especially pleased to award you the Donovan Medal this year which
marks the fortieth anniversary of the Veterans of OSS and which has special
symbolic value to us in that President Eisenhower, as Supreme Commander in
Europe and later as President, gave the initial impetus to American intelligence
and now to you, the President who has rebuilt the American Intelligence Community
to what we believe to be its highest capability.
I was pleased to learn from Bill Casey and Ed Meese that you would accept
the award on a date convenient to you in Washington at a dinner held by the
Veterans of OSS.
Respectfully yours,
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The Director of Central intelligence
23 December 1985
Dear Ed,
Presentation of the Donovan Award to the boss
would be done any time after the first of the year
at a small dinner in Washington.
Previous recipients have been President Eisenhower,
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Lord Mountbatten, Jack McCloy, Chabvan Delmas,
Prime Minister of France and deGaulle's resistance
chief in World War II, Allen Dulles, yours truly in
1973, David Bruce, John McCone, Margaret Thatcher in
1981, Dick Helms, and Sir William Stevenson.as Chief
of Security in the United States during World War II.
I am particularly anxious for the Presidend to
be the second U.S. President to receive the Donovan
Medal. That would have symbolic significance in that
American intelligence got its initial impetus under
General and then President Eisenhower and has been
restored under President Reagan.
Yours,
William J. Casey
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
The Attorney General
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C. 20530
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