Distinguished Intelligence Medal
The Distinguished Intelligence Medal (CIADIM, dt. "Medal for Excellent Service") is an award of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for outstanding and extraordinary achievements in the intelligence service or corresponding responsibility. Only the Distinguished Intelligence Cross of the CIA is still above the Distinguished Intelligence Medal .
Known porters
- James Jesus Angleton
- Milton Bearden
- Gary Berntsen
- Cofer Black
- David Blee
- David W. Carey
- John W. Coffey
- William Colby
- James H. Critchfield
- James B. Donovan
- Carl E. Duckett
- Major General Michael E. Ennis , US Marine Corps (USMC)
- Fritz Ermarth
- Robert Gates
- Sidney Gottlieb
- Richard Helms
- Dick Holm
- Robert M. Huffstutler
- Clarence Johnson
- Richard James Kerr
- George Kisevalter
- Ryszard Kukliński , Polish CIA agent
- Arthur C. Lundahl
- James Pavitt
- Theodore Shackley
- Admiral William O. Studeman , US Navy (USN)
- William Hedgcock Webster
Others
Orders and medals of the CIA are often casually jockstrap medals ( jockstrap called medals) because both their ceremony, and the award reason the secrecy subject, also is her wearing forbidden in public.
Web links
- Medals and decorations of the CIA at fas.org (English)
- Medals and decorations of the CIA at ebooks.gutenberg.us ( Memento from April 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)