ENGRAVED CIA MEDALS OFFERED

 

CIA NAMED CASED NON PORTABLE AWARDS TO CIA AGENT

Ultra rare set of Agency otherwise known as the CIA Central Intelligence Agency Non Portable Awards to include 1) Cased Exceptional Service Medallion For the death resulting from service in an area of hazard. This medal is named to the reverse Richard C. Spicer and dated 1985. Edge of the medal is engraved MACO-NY. FINE SILVER-.999+ 2) Cased Intelligence Star For a voluntary act or acts of courage performed under hazardous conditions or for outstanding achievements or services rendered with distinction under conditions of grave risk.

 

Medal is engraved to the reverse Richard C. Spicer and dated 1985. Also in the lot is a Remembrance of Service letter signed by Ronald Reagan. Before he died in a plane crash on a mission in support of Nicaragua's contra rebels, on October 18, 1984, Spicer was a proficient pilot working for a public utility in Houston in the early 1980s.

'I Am Going on a Trip'
It rained on the October day in 1984 when they lowered Richard Spicer's mangled body into the grave. It was a sloppy rain that carried off the fresh dirt and swept everything clean. By the time the sod was replaced, there was no evidence a grave had even been dug. Nor did the gravediggers lay their usual temporary aluminum marker to locate the grave while they waited for a permanent marker. "The government man who came here told me not to mark the grave," at least for a time, recalls funeral director Donald McKinney of Youngsville, Pa. The local obituary noted that Spicer was 53 and had died in "southern Florida."

McKinney remembers being told by "the government man" that Spicer had died in a car accident in Miami. Notwithstanding the CIA's efforts, Spicer's death made front page news around the nation. He and the three men who died with him in a plane crash over El Salvador were the first known U.S. casualties in Central America since the Reagan administration began funding a secret war there in the early 1980s. Within days, newspaper reporters found Spicer's grave and began trying to reconstruct the circumstances of his death. Spicer had been part of the shadowy but publicly acknowledged U.S. government support for Nicaragua's contra rebels, who mounted violent resistance to Managua's Soviet-backed, leftist Sandinista government.

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