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ra . (om - Office Memorandum ¢ UNITED STATEs GOVERNMENT To 8} Mr, \ Te 7 DATE: 1/8/88 raom : gw. L. new iral™ ew SECORATION ' RSONNEL / Totes A typ ot pees ete ‘ Tele, Roam be 8, . - —. By memo 12/37/87, Mr. Andretta of the Department forwarded eee a copy of a letter he wrote 12/37/57 to Sefretary Dulles requesting the nanigs of former Assistant to the Director L. Nichols and former Special Agdat Ge JAStarr be included in a bill to authorize their acc eptance of certain foreign now in State Department custody. é.. Decorations conferred upon Federal employees by foreign Givernments are held by the State Department unti! that Department is authorized:hy Act af Con- gress to deliver the decorations to the individual. The State Dep ent usually holds the decorations until the individual retires from the service. A Prggifential Directive requires the Secretary of State to prepare for submission be the Second Session of each alternate Congress an Omnibus Bill authorizing retired personne! to accept the decorations in question. Such a bill will be presented to the current session of Congress. In addition to decorations for Mr. Niebols gn Mr. Starr, the Department of State ig also holding decoratjons for the Director Sea and Special Agents Clark Df Anderson, Joseph BAGarcia, Henry C Johnso d Howard yw Winter. Mr. Nichols, who just recently retir A would receive the Cross of Taxiarch of our Order of the Phoenix. Mr. Nichols was advised of this honor by letter from the Ambassador of Greece, 12/10/51, stating that upon recommendation of the Greek Embassy in Washington, D. C., King Paul I of G ¥ 5 upon Mr. Nichols. See ‘7 “Searched ee can ce vnamae Starr retired 1/6/47. He had left the oe ie 1842. 77 While absemt he served as an Assistant Military e in the y Tangier, France. For his services, Lieutenant Colonel Starr” grade Commander in the Order of Quissam Alaouite. H a dae F 5/2/48. Starr, after retiring from the Bureau, obtaltail ac Department 3/77/47. On 8/18/56 he entered on duty with the Central Intelligence Agency. He remained there about 6 months, according to Fred Hall of CIA. His present activities are not known, wet) /jem (3) 1- Mr. Travers