General Gen Samford

Since a "firing" in the military is not the same as in civilian life, does not mean being booted out of the military, it meant Watson was transferred to another position, which took several months to find, at USAFE as it turned out, during which time Watson was left in limbo.) General Samford replaced Cabell as D/I on Nov. 1, 1951.
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Ruppelt: "Steven Possony was the acting chief of the Directorate of Intelligence Special Studies Group and he had a direct channel to (Gen.) Samford.
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General Samford was Director of Intelligence, USAF, and was neutral on the subject of UFO's, and always very much interested and gave Ruppelt the utmost in cooperation.
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General Samford felt like he got "burned" real bad on the press conference in July 1952.
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Samford became Director of the NSA in 1956 and held that position until 1960 .")

Since a "firing" in the military is not the same as in civilian life, does not mean being booted out of the military, it meant Watson was transferred to another position, which took several months to find, at USAFE as it turned out, during which time Watson was left in limbo.) General Samford replaced Cabell as D/I on Nov. 1, 1951.
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Samford's Assistant for Production in the Pentagon, the no. 2 man in AF Intelligence, then transferred to ATIC as Commander in September 1952.
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Ruppelt: "Steven Possony was the acting chief of the Directorate of Intelligence Special Studies Group and he had a direct channel to (Gen.) Samford."
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General Samford was Director of Intelligence, USAF, and was neutral on the subject of UFO's, and always very much interested and gave Ruppelt the utmost in cooperation.
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General Samford felt like he got "burned" real bad on the press conference in July 1952.
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Samford became Director of the NSA in 1956 and held that position until 1960.")

Samford's assistant in the Pentagon before he came to ATIC and he was the inspiration behind the Life article by Ginna. He gave Ginna his ideas and prompted Life to stick their necks out.
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General Samford never committed himself one way or t>

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was always very much interested and gave me the utmost in cooperation, but he never said much. He used to ask many of the other people at meetings what they thought and there were a lot of "pro" answers but he never agreed or disagreed with anyone. The only time that I ever heard him say anything was when Col Porter got real nasty about the whole thing one day and began to knock ATIC, UFO's, me and everything associated with the project. Then the General said something to the effect that as far as he could see, I was the first person in the history of the Air Force's investigation that had taken a serious approach to the investigation and that he didn't see how anyone could decide until I'd collected more data. At the present time the General is the one who is so rabid on the fact that nothing will be released. He got "burned" real bad on the press conference in July 1952. His statements were twisted around and newsreel shots of him were "cut and pieced" to get him saying things that he didn't. He wanted to play along with the writers but they misquoted him so badly that now he is saying absolutely nothing.

General Samford replaced Cabell in the summer of1951.
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Samford's assistant in the Pentagon before he came to ATIC and he was the inspiration behind the Life article by Ginna. He gave Ginna his ideas and prompted Life to stick their necks out.
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General Samford never committed himself one way or the other on the subject of UFO's. He was always very much interested and gave me the utmost in cooperation, but he never said much. He used to ask many of the other people at meetings what they thought and there were a lot of "pro" answers but he never agreed or disagreed with anyone. The only time that I ever heard him say anything was when Col Porter got real nasty about the whole thing one day and began to knock ATIC, UFO's, me and everything associated with the project. Then the General said something to the effect that as far as he could see, I was the first person in the history of the Air Force's investigation that had taken a serious approach to the investigation and that he didn't see how anyone could decide until I'd collected more data. At the present time the General is the one who is so rabid on the fact that nothing will be released. He got "burned" real bad on the press conference in July 1952. His statements were twisted around and newsreel shots of him were "cut and pieced" to get him saying things that he didn't. He wanted to play along with the writers but they misquoted him so badly that now he is saying absolutely nothing.

Samford's assistant in the Pentagon before he came to ATIC and he was the inspiration behind the Life article by Ginna.He gave Ginna his ideas and prompted Life to stick their necks out.
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General Samford never committed himself one way or the other on the subject of UFO's.He was always very much interested and gave me the utmost in cooperation, but he never said much.He used to ask many of the other people at meetings what they thought and there were a lot of "pro" answers but he never agreed or disagreed with anyone.The only time that I ever heard him say anything was when Col Porter got real nasty about the whole thing one day and began to knock ATIC, UFO's, me and everything associated with the project.Then the General said something to the effect that as far as he could see, I was the first person in the history of the Air Force's investigation that had taken a serious approach to the investigation and that he didn't see how anyone could decide until I'd collected more data.At the present time the General is the one who is so rabid on the fact that nothing will be released.He got "burned" real bad on the press conference in July 1952.His statements were twisted around and newsreel shots of him were "cut and pieced" to get him saying things that he didn't.He wanted to play along with the writers but they misquoted him so badly that now he is saying absolutely nothing.