Sam Adams Award

Not to be confused with the Sammies, an award given by the Sam Adams Alliance.

The Sam Adams Award is given annually to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. The Award is given by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence,[1] a group of retired CIA officers. It is named after Samuel A. Adams, a CIA whistleblower during the Vietnam War, and takes the physical form of a "corner-brightener candlestick".[2]

Ray McGovern established the Sam Adams Associates "to reward intelligence officials who demonstrated a commitment to truth and integrity, no matter the consequences."[3]

The 2012, 2013 and 2014 Awards were presented at the Oxford Union.[3][4]

Edward Snowden receiving the Sam Adams Award in October 2013

Recipients

References

  1. "Sam Adams Award website". Sam Adams Associates.
  2. 1 2 Ray McGovern, Sam Adams Award
  3. 1 2 Carlo, Silkie. "Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden Criticize the "Decline" of US Democracy". Motherboard. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  4. Ray McGovern, 14 January 2013, Post-Iraq-War US Intel Chief Praised
  5. 1 2 3 Coleen Rowley, 19 October 2009, Huffington Post, Colonel Larry Wilkerson to Receive 2009 Sam Adams Truthtelling Award
  6. Ray McGovern, consortiumnews.com, 10 October 2013, Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award
  7. Ray McGovern, 31 January 2013, consortiumnews.com, When Truth Tried to Stop War
  8. 1 2 Snowden honored by group of former intelligence officials | Oriental Review
  9. Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine, 21 September 2007, Sam Adams Award to Sam Provance
  10. "Frank Grevil får whistleblower-pris". DR. 26 January 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2009.
  11. the Oxford Union – Sam Adams Awards incl videolink with Julian Assange
  12. Ray McGovern, 8 December 2010, consortiumnews.com, What's Behind the War on WikiLeaks
  13. Ray McGovern, 16 November 2011, Whistleblowers Honored on Nov. 21
  14. 'US unchained itself from constitution': Whistleblowers on RT after secret Snowden meeting — RT News
  15. Former National Security Whistleblowers Meet in Moscow and Award Sam Adams Prize to Snowden – Government Accountability Project
  16. Associated Press, Haaretz, 10 October 2013, Former U.S. officials give NSA whistleblower Snowden award in Russia
  17. Nicks, Denver. "Snowden Congratulates Chelsea Manning". TIME. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  18. "Chelsea Manning awarded 2014 Sam Adams Prize for Integrity in Intelligence". Russia Today. Retrieved 20 February 2014.

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