WIFLE Honors Two DS Special Agents

Bureau of Diplomatic Security
U.S. Department of State

June 28, 2004

Women in Federal Law Enforcement (WIFLE) recently honored two Diplomatic Security special agents during its annual conference in Washington, DC, June 21-24. Special Agent Linda Minsker received the President's Award for her 2003 Recruitment Initiative. Special Agent Minsker created, coordinated, and implemented an extremely successful multi-agency law enforcement recruitment drive during the organization’s 2003 conference. WIFLE plans to continue the recruitment program.

Special Agent Justine Sincavage received the Distinguished Honorable Mention for the Julie Y. Cross Award for her performance as regional security officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2002-03. Special Agent Sincavage was the first permanently assigned regional security officer since the embassy's closure in 1989. She developed a comprehensive security program to protect the embassy's personnel, facilities, and information during a period of heightened threat from al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and other insurgents during the U.S. war on terror in Afghanistan.

The Julie Y. Cross Award honors a sworn federal law enforcement officer for an act of exceptional courage or heroism. Competition for the award is open to all fulltime federal law enforcement officers with arrest authority.

[Web site release by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Public Affairs.]