DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO . 1/18 RECOGNITION OF EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE TO THE US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE NO. 1/181
RECOGNITION OF EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE TO THE
US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
(Effective 5 December 1979)
1. Provision for honor and merit awards for exceptional service to the US
Intelligence Community is hereby established pursuant to the responsibilities assigned
to the Director of Central Intelligence in Executive Order 12036 and National
Security Council Intelligence Directives, and to Public Law 83-763 which provides
that the heads of departments and agencies may confer honor or monetary awards on
those whose superior accomplishments or other personal efforts contribute to the
efficiency, economy or other improvements of Government operations or who
Intelligence Community honor and merit awards to be conferred by the Director
of Central Intelligence upon the recommendation of the National Foreign Intelligence
Board are as follows:
a. The National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal may be awarded for
distinguished meritorious service or achievement to the United States in a duty of
great responsibility within the Intelligence Community, the outstanding
accomplishment of which distinctly benefits the interests of the United States and
constitutes a major contribution to the foreign intelligence mission of the
Intelligence Community.
b. The National Intelligence Medal of Achievement may be awarded for
especially meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service to the
United States as a member of the Intelligence Community. The National
Intelligence Medal of Achievement recognizes performance of an especially
difficult duty in a clearly exceptional manner. The service being recognized must
relate directly to the Intelligence Community's mission to provide the intelligence
required for national policies and the national security.
c. The Intelligence Community Certificate of Distinction may be awarded for
sustained superior performance of duty of high value to the intelligence
Community, or for a significant single act of special merit.
d. The Intelligence Community Meritorious Unit Citation may be awarded to
a unit or group whose collective performance has resulted in accomplishments
which are of a clearly superior nature and of significant benefit to the
Intelligence Community.
perform special acts or services in the public interest.
2. Intelligence Community Medals and Awards
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3. Presidential Awards
The foregoing listing of Intelligence Community awards is in addition to the
following Presidential awards for which personnel of the Intelligence Community also
may be eligible:
The National Security Medal
The Presidential Medal of Freedom
The President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service
4. Relation to Departmental and Agency Awards
a. The Intelligence Community medals and awards established in this directive
are intended to enable specific recognition of services of particular benefit to the
United States in the execution of the Intelligence Community mission, and do not
replace any of the medals and awards for which provision is made in
departmental or agency regulations.
b. Normally, the same exceptional duty performance which results in the
presentation of an Intelligence Community medal or award will not be the basis
for a comparable medal or award by the individual organization to which the
person receiving the award is assigned on a career basis, but such dual recognition
is not precluded.
c. Provision for authority to wear decorations by military personnel and entry
of such award on official records will be as determined by the individual Military
Departments.
The National Foreign Intelligence Board will serve as the Honor and Merit
Awards Board for consideration of recommendation of the award of Intelligence
Community medals. The Director of Personnel, Central Intelligence Agency, will
maintain records of recommendations, actions taken and presentation of intelligence
.Community Awards. The Director of Central intelligence may, if he so elects, approve
award of the Intelligence Community Certificate of Distinction without prior referral
to the National Foreign Intelligence Board.
a. Recommendations for Intelligence Community awards may be initiated at
any level in any organization of the Intelligence Community.
b. Recommendations will be forwarded by the appropriate member of the
National Foreign Intelligence Board to the Director of Personnel, Central
Intelligence Agency.
c. No particular format is prescribed, but each recommendation should include
the following:
Title of the recommended award;
Name, position title, grade and organization assignment of the nominee;
Inclusive dates of the time period to which the proposed award is applicable;
A narrative description of the performance or service warranting the award;
A proposed unclassified citation;
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The title and signature of the chief of the intelligence organization submitting
the recommendation.
Presentation of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal and the
National Intelligence Medal of Achievement will be made by the Director of Central
Intelligence, or, if circumstances prevent such, by the head of the organization to
which the person receiving the award is assigned. Presentation of the Intelligence
Community Certificate of Distinction and the Intelligence Community Meritorious
Unit Citation will be made by the head of the organization of assignment of the person
or persons receiving the award.
ield Turner
Director of Central Intelligence
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