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William A. Davidson Jr.

1985-01-01year known, day not recorded

Career Air Force Office of Special Investigations officer (NRO chief of polygraph in the 1970s) whom Under SecAF/NRO director Pete Aldridge tasked in 1985 to design the Air Force's black-program oversight mechanism. He stood up and led SAF/AAZ, became deputy administrative assistant (1990), then administrative assistant to the SecAF (1994); the RCO reported to him. A primary source (2018 interviews) for the Air Force's own history of SAF/AA.

In neither threadRuled on 3 September 2026 as belonging to NEITHER thread, by reading this entity's record rather than by a term search. It is on this map through the black-programme oversight apparatus. AN EMPTY SUBJECT IS A RULING, NOT A GAP - a missing field would have meant nobody had looked.

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← Edward "Pete" Aldridge Jr. names a source we do not hold

as Under SecAF/NRO director, tasked him in 1985 to build an AF black-program oversight mechanism after the Army Yellow Fruit scandal

U.S. Air Force, A History of SAF/AA (Jones & Williams, AF Historical Support Division, 2019) (p.20)
→ SAF/AAZ (Special Program Oversight) names a source we do not hold

stood up and led SAF/AAZ, the AF's special-access/black-program oversight office

U.S. Air Force, A History of SAF/AA (Jones & Williams, AF Historical Support Division, 2019) (pp.20-21)
→ SAF/AA (Office of the Administrative Assistant) names a source we do not hold

administrative assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force (1994; deputy from 1990)

U.S. Air Force, A History of SAF/AA (Jones & Williams, AF Historical Support Division, 2019)