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The Director's decoration is the Order of the Star of Roumania in the degree of Commander. This was awarded by the Roumanian Minister in Washington, D. C., in 1938 on behalf of the King of Roumania. The Director acknowledged the award at the time and transmitted the award to the State Department. State Department records further reflect the award to the Director of the rank of Commander of the Order of the Crown of Roumania in 1934. Mr. Tolson in 1938 was awarded the Star of Roumania with the degree of Olficer. He was notified of this by a Roumanian police official and the award was made on behalf of the King of Roumania and is presumably in the custody of the State Department. The decorations of Special Agents Anderson and Garcia are the awards of Orden Del Merito Policiaco from the Cuban Government and were made in 1959. The Bureau had sent a training mission to Cuba composed of these two Agents tn 1948 and they conducted courses in connection with a Cuban Police School and also acted as advisors to Cuban police officials. The graduation ceremonies were held at the police school in 1950. SA Anderson is now assigned at Havana; SA Garcia at Mexico City. SA Henry C. Johnson is now assigned at Mexico City. He was assigned to the Office of the Legal Attache at Bogota, Colombia, during the SIS period. He was awarded the Colombia National Police Medal in 1946 ata ceremony held at the police school in Bogota. He had served as Police Liaison Ager: SA Howard P. Winter, now assigned at WFO, was assigned as Civil Attache to the American Embassy at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during his SIS service. In 1944 he was awarded the decoration of Chevalier in the Haitian National Order of Honor and Merit, from the Police Chief at Port-au-Prince. RECOMMENDATION None. For information. _ a Tan gene ed - ar ~~ <—7 [Pa oger I re ih eel ee eee Serer ee a sense