[Congressional Record: March 23, 2000 (Extensions)]
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    RECOGNITION OF TERRY WARD AS RECIPIENT OF DISTINGUISHED CAREER
                           INTELLIGENCE MEDAL

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                            HON. BUD SHUSTER

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 23, 2000

  Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize an honor for
distinguished public service being accorded today to Terry Ward, a
former constituent of mine. The Central Intelligence Agency is honoring
Mr. Ward for over thirty years of distinguished government service in a
wide range of dangerous and sensitive intelligence assignments in
Southeast Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
  Mr. Ward was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1961. Following ROTC training, Mr. Ward
joined the U.S. military and joined the U.S. Embassy staff in Laos. In
1964, Mr. Ward was transferred to the CIA's Western Hemisphere
Division. During the next thirty years, Mr. Ward served his country
honorably and well in numerous dangerous overseas assignments in Latin
America.
  In my capacity as a Member of the House Intelligence Committee, I met
Terry when he served in Honduras. I saw first-hand how he contributed
in significant ways to fighting the efforts of the Sandinista regime in
Nicaragua to destabilize its democratic neighbors. Contrary to some new
reports, Terry worked hard to ensure that U.S. assistance to the
Nicaraguan democratic resistance was closely managed and appropriately
directed. Today, Nicaragua is a democratic ally and trading partner of
the United States in no small measure to the efforts of Terry and other
officers who served in the CIA's clandestine service in Central America
during the 1980s.
  As some may know, Mr. Ward was one of the subjects of a 1995 CIA
Inspector General investigation into allegations of improper conduct by
CIA officers in Guatemala in the deaths of U.S. citizen Michael Devine
and Guatemalan terrorist Efrain Bamaca. The IG report, and a subsequent
review by President Clinton's Intelligence Oversight Board found no
information whatsoever that any employee of the CIA was either involved
in the murder of Mr. Devine or in the disappearance of Bamaca. After
the IG report was published, Mr. Ward was effectively forced to retire
from government service by then-DCI John Deutch.
  When Dr. Deutch announced his disciplinary decisions regarding the
Guatemala inquiry on September 29, 1995, he stated that Mr. Ward was
``respected'' and ``otherwise had made important contributions
throughout his career.'' Importantly, Dr. Deutch said that he intended
that Mr. Ward's retirement would involve ``no loss of appropriate
recognition for previous service.''
  Despite what you might have read in some newspapers during the past
few weeks, Mr. Ward is one of the unsung heroes of the Cold War. These
press accounts note that he served as the CIA's station chief in
Honduras from 1987-89--what they don't say is that his efforts there
and elsewhere in Central America during the mid to late 1980s
contributed significantly to the strengthening of democratic governance
in Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
  These unsung heroes of our intelligence community neither ask for nor
expect the

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American people to know how they protect us from terrorists, narco-
traffickers and other threats to our nation's security. The CIA's
recognition today of Terry Ward's honorable service to his country is
long overdue and fully merited. I applaud DCI George Tenet for doing
the right thing for our country and for those who bravely serve its
interests in our clandestine service.

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