(Classified)TO JOIN CIA IN PERSONNEL POST

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000300090031-2
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
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November 11, 2016
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December 10, 1998
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31
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Publication Date: 
July 5, 1951
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P_ 5 1951 v ~ ASHINGTQ S1,1 8y Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RD F. Trubee Davison to Join CIA in Personnel, The Defense Department an- nounced last night that Brig. Gen. F. Tr-ibee Davison, former As- sistant Secretary of War` for"Air, will join the Central Intelligence Agency on July`16. A spokesman for the CIA con firmed that Gen. Davison will be- come "a principal assistant" to Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, head of the agency. He added that Gen. Davison probably would do personnel work. He will not re-1 place any other assistant. Gen.- Davison was Assistant Secretary of War. for Air from 926 to 19$2. He has l?een presi- Ient of the American Museum of Natural History in New York since ' 1933. In World War I he was a lieutenant Q. g.) in naval avia- tion.- In World War II he served in the Army. During part of the war be was assistant chief of air staff of the Army Air Force. He hqlds the Distinguished Service Medal and the Navy Cross. CPYRGHT FOIAb3b Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000300090031-2'