Category
page 1Recipients of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal
Robert Gates
CIA director, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and university president
Richard Helms
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1913–2002)
Kelly Johnson
American aerospace engineer (1910–1990)
William Colby
American intelligence agent (1920–1996)
William H. Webster
American attorney and jurist, former Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (1924–2025)
James Jesus Angleton
chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff from 1954 to 1975
James B. Donovan
American diplomat and politician
Sidney Gottlieb
American chemist (1918–1999)
Charles Cogan
CIA Agent (1928-2017)

Bill Studeman
United States Navy admiral
David Atlee Phillips
American spy (1922-1988)
Cofer Black
American spy
Distinguished Intelligence Medal
award
Theodore Shackley
American spy (1927–2002)