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Digitized from Box 9 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
APRIL 9, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Alfred D. Starbird,
of Alexandria, Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of Energy
Research and Development. (National Security). This is a new position
created by Public Law 93-438 of October 11, 1974.
Upon his retirement from the United States Army in March 1971, Mr.
Starbird became Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering
for Test and Evaluation, Department of Defense. While serving in the
Army, he was SENTINEL (later SAFEGUARD) ABM System Manager
from November 1967 until his retirement. He was Director, Defense
Communications Agency, beginning in 1962, and later in September 1966 he
became Director of the Defense Communications Planning Group.
Since World War II, General Starbird has served in various assignments
in the Pacific, CONUS, and in Europe where he served as Secretary of
SHAPE. After two years in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, he
was named Director of Military Applications of the Atomic Energy Com-
mission and served in that assignment from July 1955 to January 1961. In
November 1961, he left his assignment as Division Engineer, North
Pacific Engineer Division to organize Joint Task Force EIGHT and to
command it during the planning, preparation, and execution of Operation
DOMINIC, the 1962 nuclear test series.
Mr. Starbird was born on April 28, 1912, in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He
graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1933. He served
in World War II from 1942 to 1945.
Mr. Starbird is married to the former Evelyn Wallington and they have
three children.
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