CAPTAIN FORD NAMED DEPUT Y MARITIME AIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300190016-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 2, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

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Captain Ford
Named Deputy
Maritime Aide
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C. Ford, USN, 148 Prince George
Street, as deputy maritime admin-
istrator witl the Maritime Admin-
istration was announced today by
Secretary af Commerce Sinclair
Weeks.
k Captain Ford is a izr ex-
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Since November, 1953, he. has
was uiaced in command of
7Z_4S Perkins and served in
ghat capacity from December,
1941, to May, 1943, in the South
Pacific, participating in the bat-
tles of the Coral Sea and the
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gn.
lalcanal campa
At Academy In '43
Academic Board and chief of `staff
to the superintenden; of the Naval
Academy in 1943. In 1945 he was
in command of Destroyer Squad-
ron 23, which received the Presi-
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APT, WALTER C.' FORD dential Umt Ci a ron.
Captain Ford served in 1946 as
been with the'Maritime Adrninis-: administrative aide to John E.
=1a ass chief of the Office of Sullifan, Undei'secr tart' of the
m Planning. As chief, ht; Navy, and later as chief of staff
was active in the development of for intelligence to. the commander
the $400,000,000 ship building and of the Naval Forces, European
ship repair program now in effect:, and Mediterranean, with head-
NATO Advisor quqarters in London. In 1951 he
In 1952 Captain Ford was head. was named commander of Artie
of the Trangportation and Pe- Supply operations.
1 troleum Branch of the Office of Captain Ford 'holds the Silver
the-Chief of Naval Operations and. Star, the Bronze Star, and the
during this period he also. served: Coinmendation l ribbon.
as an advisor to the United States He is married to the former Miss
Delegation of the NATO Planning Channez Gates, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
Board for Ocean Shipping. . and has two married daughters.
He was graduated from the As deputy maritime administra-
Naval Academy in 1925, serving in tor's principal executive side. His
destroyers and cruisers as junior ;salary will be $14,000 a year.
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