Agency Seal Medal
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The Agency Seal Medal is awarded by the Central Intelligence Agency
to non-Agency personnel, including U.S. Government employees and private citizens, who have made significant contributions to the Agency’s intelligence efforts.
Year of award unknown (listed alphabetically):
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
to non-Agency personnel, including U.S. Government employees and private citizens, who have made significant contributions to the Agency’s intelligence efforts.
Known or Indicated Recipients
Since recipients of this award are not all made public, it is not possible to verify with certainty whether a person has, or has not, received this award. The following individuals list the Agency Seal Medal (or Medallion) in their public biographies and have verifiable backgrounds consistent with that claim.- Vincent MelzacVincent MelzacVincent Melzac was an American business executive and art collector, best known as one of the earliest and most daring collectors of paintings of the Washington Color School. Melzac, often described as a larger than life figure, was briefly chief executive officer of the Corcoran Gallery of Art...
(1982) - Robert R. Simmons (1985)
- Mary C. Lawton (1986)
- Victoria ToensingVictoria ToensingVictoria Toensing is a lawyer and partner with her husband, Joseph DiGenova, in the Washington law firm, DiGenova and Toensing. Her practice specializes in white-collar criminal defense, regulatory inquiries, and legislative advocacy...
(1986) - Richards J. Heuer, Jr.Richards HeuerRichards J. Heuer, Jr. is a former CIA veteran of forty-five years and most known for his work on Analysis of Competing Hypotheses and his book, Psychology of Intelligence Analysis. The former provides a methodology for overcoming intelligence biases while the latter outlines how mental models...
(1987) - Dan McKinnon (1989)
- Jeannie RousseauJeannie RousseauJeannie Rousseau was an Allied intelligence agent in occupied France during World War II, a member of Georges Lamarque's "Druids" network. Codenamed AMNIARIX, she evaded Gestapo agents while gathering crucial information on the Germans' emerging rocket weapons programs from behind enemy lines...
(Viscomtesse de Clarens) (1993) - Gordon J. F. MacDonaldGordon J. F. MacDonaldGordon James Fraser MacDonald was an American geophysicist and environmental scientist, best known for his principled skepticism regarding continental drift , and later work on possible non-anthropogenic causes for global climate change...
(1994) - Judge Joyce Hens GreenJoyce Hens GreenJudge Joyce Hens Green is a Senior United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia.-Childhood:Green was born in 1928 in New York City. Her father was a psychiatrist and her mother was a homemaker. She had one brother...
(1995) - Lt. General William QuinnWilliam Wilson QuinnLieutenant General William Wilson "Buffalo Bill" Quinn was a G2 Intelligence Officer in WWII and born in Crisfield, Somerset, Maryland and died in Washington, DC at Walter Rede Army Hospital at 92 years old...
(1997) - L. Britt Snider (1997)
- Veryl GoodnightVeryl GoodnightVeryl Goodnight is a sculptress and since 2006 living in Mancos, Colorado. Her realistic sculptures of horses have achieved international acclaim...
(2000) - Siddhi SavetsilaSiddhi SavetsilaAir Chief Marshal Siddhi Savetsila is a retired Thai military officer and a member of the Privy Council of King Bhumibol Adulyadej....
(2000), with 4 other Free Thai veterans - Carl Nick Sudano (2001)
- Joseph Shannon (2001)
- Victor A. DeMarines (2001)
- Stephen A. Cheney (2002)
- Marine Air Control Squadron 2 (2004)
- Lt. Colonel Rick FranconaRick FranconaLieutenant Colonel Rick Francona is a commentator and media military analyst. He is a retired United States Air Force intelligence officer with extensive operational experience in the Middle East, including tours of duty with the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the...
(2006) - Gilman LouieGilman LouieGilman Louie is technology venture capitalist who got his start as a video game designer and then ran the CIA venture capital fund. He graduated in 1983 from San Francisco State University. He attended the while at Harvard Business School in 1997....
(2006) - Senator Pat RobertsPat RobertsCharles Patrick "Pat" Roberts is the senior United States Senator from Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he has served since 1997...
(2007) - U.S. Rep. Jane HarmanJane HarmanJane Margaret Lakes Harman is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party....
(2007) - Frances Fragos Townsend (2007)
- U.S. Rep. Heather WilsonHeather WilsonHeather A. Wilson , is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing from 1998 to 2009...
(2008) - Senator John WarnerJohn WarnerJohn William Warner, KBE is an American Republican politician who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term United States Senator from Virginia from January 2, 1979, to January 3, 2009...
(2009) - U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (2010)
Year of award unknown (listed alphabetically):
- Paul W. Butler
- Michael T. Dougherty
- Hal Mooz and Kevin Forsberg
- Senator Wyche FowlerWyche FowlerWilliam Wyche Fowler, Jr. is an American politician and ambassador. He is a member of the Democratic Party and served as U.S. Senator from Georgia from January 1987 to January 1993. He had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 until his senatorial election.-Early life...
, Jr. - Maj. General Robert A. HardingRobert HardingRobert Harding was the nominee for secretary of the Transportation Security Administration. Harding is a retired Major General in the Army. President Obama announced his intent to nominate Harding on March 8, 2010....
- Col. Stuart A. HerringtonStuart A. HerringtonStuart A. Herrington, Col, U.S. Army is an author and retired counterintelligence office with extensive interrogation experience in three wars Stuart A. Herrington, Col, U.S. Army (Ret.) is an author and retired counterintelligence office with extensive interrogation experience in three wars...
- Gen. Patrick M. HughesPatrick M. Hughes-Overview:Lieutenant General Patrick M. Hughes, United States Army was the 12th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Previously he was Director of Intelligence and DIA, Joint Staff in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from 1994 to 1996, and the Director of...
- Judge Kenneth M. KarasKenneth M. KarasKenneth Michael Karas is a United States federal judge.Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Karas received a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1986 and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1991. He was a law clerk for the Hon. Reena Raggi, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...
- Maj. General Jack Leide
- Jeffrey McManus
- Harriet MiersHarriet MiersHarriet Ellan Miers is an American lawyer and former White House Counsel. In 2005, she was nominated by President George W. Bush to be an Associate Justice of the U.S...
- Senator Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000...
- Benjamin A. Powell
- David W. Szady
- Mary Jo WhiteMary Jo WhiteMary Jo White was the first woman to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002.White was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in McLean, Virginia. She received her B.S...