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承认特里病房的接受者杰出职业情报勋章______宾夕法尼亚拉巴德•舒斯特在众议院星期四,2000年3月23日•舒斯特先生。议长先生，我站起来，向今天授予我的前选民特里·沃德以杰出的公共服务荣誉表示感谢。美国中央情报局表彰沃德先生30多年来在东南亚、欧洲和拉丁美洲的一系列危险和敏感情报任务中所做的杰出政府工作。沃德出生于宾夕法尼亚州的阿尔图纳，1961年毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学。在后备役军官训练队(ROTC)训练后，沃德加入了美国军队，并加入了美国驻老挝大使馆的工作人员队伍。1964年，沃德被调到中央情报局西半球分部。在接下来的三十年里，沃德先生在拉丁美洲的许多危险的海外任务中，光荣而出色地为他的国家服务。作为众议院情报委员会的一名成员，我在特里在洪都拉斯服役时见过他。我亲眼目睹了他是如何为打击尼加拉瓜桑地诺政权破坏其民主邻国稳定的努力作出重大贡献的。与一些新的报道相反，特里努力确保美国对尼加ReportsReports拉瓜民主抵抗组织的援助得到妥善管理和指导。 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 [[Page E401]] 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. ____________________