Organizations

SAF/AA (Office of the Administrative Assistant)

1947

Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force - a low-profile but powerful office that, per the Air Force's own 2019 history, became the service's conduit into the black world: it officially assigned personnel working black programs, acted as the cover mechanism for the NRO relationship (the Green Door), and controlled the Air Force's contingency funds. The real bureaucratic home of Air Force special-access secrecy.

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Connections (4)

confirmedSAF/AAZ (Special Program Oversight)

the special-access/black-program oversight office within SAF/AA

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

confirmedAF Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO)

reports to SAF/AA through a deliberately low-profile chain, framed as continuity that outlasts the political process

Source: U.S. Air Force, A History of SAF/AA (Jones & Williams, AF Historical Support Division, 2019) (pp.41-42)

confirmedWilliam A. Davidson Jr.

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

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

confirmedNational Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

served as the Air Force's administrative cover mechanism for the NRO (the Green Door)

Source: U.S. Air Force, A History of SAF/AA (Jones & Williams, AF Historical Support Division, 2019) (pp.17,24)

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