VISIT OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS TO WATERTOWN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00011A001000030061-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: January 11, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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SAPC-3317
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'rrp~ PM s Project Director
SUBJBC!' t Visit of Air Foares Offiows to Watertooa
1. Reteeer~oe is oods to your ~s~oarariduok for Deputy Project
Director dated 7 Jags' "7 1956 ram a roqPlxwd andtse pis
1, 2 aasaod h hoe bees 3 ~ ~ ~s
I believe
conewnift nsasad Air Form Div etd the she yew have
bsas iatorssrssd the
his I "t trip to Canter . indicated that seesral of the
supplier. wav ast fully aousare of the dooms to ohiah the SAC Csedt d1l
psstiaipats is the Project at Wateet0w or oesrswto it is a4 feeling
that mob of this ooesesana st?s from the fact that setseeal of Cs]. Yisesety s
nateieI people W* astsiwly partieipe-tin is the Materiel essalmat ies< and
poet phases and that nu have not pa''4ee]y bei d ee r embrect4we w
to SAC's rsspesesimam ' as sotlinsd in the oriaao] Air Foree/Adeaey
spr+semeesst dated Is August 1955.
2. To the bast of up kn sledge ABDC we has nine people fully
kuo'r1adgsabys of the Project. Ate, an the other band, has aoly three
fully kaaudgasbls people. The n ority of the AMC people , 11011103y
Esters, M moll, Heeriaasgton, are! Ippsld, r+e into the Project
within the gas Wmth r the p wpese of pro jest J g the Air Pores
of Owtv"a ARDC and AM w new have a total of
dx project Type officers am in w opiniAea- this should suffice for
stye tine to sere. As yea km w the Air Forty is pro v inttludes USIZ
wreies of the airman mdse their ma~ems1 swebon? Ims ar efYiear Owwosse' of AM and ~w,aat list
for s3`1 ^etspso e4~ patini from ABUC sod AM
of ~,ord,,e~sa>als peepl+s lP+r
ARUGs Gen, Thanes S. ms's CC3, ARDC t, Ers~laatloe
t~)i~, Aii'DC Albert 84'ds ~f s W~ ~jq
Col. Ernest 1. looksperas D reetae Systace, ARDC
LA. Col. Joseph J. P llagriats s Intel. R.eom.
and SugartisK Systems Divisieea, ARt1C
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Lt. Ccl. Russel M. Hsarrins s
Col. Erg C. A,pissld, Pear Flat Lub, WAUC
Lt. Co]. Fsamk E. Nwwwt, Jr., Flight Rest Pilot
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2-AMC$ 0M. Edwin W. Rawlings, Chief, Air Materiel CoeasM
Brig. tom. Clyde A. MitehDll, System Director, AMC
Lt. Co] . Sidney W. D"ers ', 1 ject Other
3. with xsapsct to Tour comment on a rapi43y raiding into the
position where literally hundreds of senior Air Toros officers have
been and are being out in*, I agree that it Mond be ideal if is could
deter this tom, but we mist be realistic. If the Air Forgo is to
receive their first aircraft in Samar 1956 a1 ?d operate it within
their am srs ,thy will soon beyin to pMA ~ t traiin
paorsoti+eeRl in the mataariel, ru~inteasnos, s rt 'tam
T h i s vii) further I n c r e a s e n USAF have o meirs~
great wmbw, in this roord the dlqpvo o c of ser Pro I tea thaw
is be" turd a point %two. Ulu various categories of ksed"
being firmly d 6 Air Fora. P my be broadht into their
r-&- jest rdtb Inc y .dgasbd litr oft f tiaras or mission of kQUAT0M.
$ other , as tine pr S,r sddtti onal aswteeae'$ of AUDC, iMO,
md U39 o tonal p sap2a sbouU p+ ,oi pate in their ro ut from
an Air Faroe point of Tieer only. A copy of IV seem
been rest to you (&*PC-3292) ?
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