Wilson, Samuel (Samuel Vaughan)
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Fuller Name
- Samuel Vaughan
Variants
- Wilson, Sam (Samuel Vaughan)
- Wilson, Samuel Vaughan
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1923-09-23
Death Date
- 2017-06-10
Has Affiliation
- Organization: United States. Army
- Organization: United States. Office of Strategic Services
- Organization: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1976
- Affiliation End: 1977
- Organization: United States. Defense Intelligence Agency
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1992
- Affiliation End: 2000
- Organization: Hampden-Sydney College
Birth Place
- Rice (Va.)
Associated Locale
- Hampden-Sydney (Va.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Military relations
Occupation
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Sources
- found: His Lt. Gen. Samuel Wilson, my house, Feb. 10, 1975 [SR], 1975
- found: Sheehan, N. Bright shining lie, c1989:p. 419 (Samuel Vaughan Wilson) p. 496 (Virginian, Sam Wilson)
- found: Washington post WWW site, viewed June 13, 2017(Samuel V. Wilson, a retired Army lieutenant general, died June 10 [2017] at his home in Rice, Va.; he was 93; during World War II, he joined the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime precursor to the CIA, and was chief reconnaissance officer with Merrill's Marauders, a storied unit that operated in the China-Burma-India theater; later became a Russian specialist with influential posts during the Cold War, among them U.S. defense attache in Moscow; Joseph L. Galloway, a friend of Gen. Wilson's and author of several books on the military, said that Gen. Wilson wore both an "Army uniform and a CIA officer's hat"--serving secretly, while defense attache, also as CIA station chief in Moscow; Gen. Wilson was supervisor of military attaches at 85 U.S. embassies before becoming a deputy director of the CIA and, beginning in 1976, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; after 15 months at DIA, and after President Gerald R. Ford was succeeded by President Jimmy Carter, Gen. Wilson retired in 1977; Samuel Vaughan Wilson was born on Sept. 23, 1923, in the central Virginia community of Rice; president from 1992 to 2000 of Hampden-Sydney College, a men's liberal arts school in Virginia)
- found: Department of the Army. U.S. Army register, 1960:vol. 1, p. 1169 (Wilson, Samuel Vaughan; B- Va 23 Sep 23; Grad USA C&GS Coll 59; Lang & Area Tng Prog Russian 51; Str Int Sch 52; Inf Sch O Adv Crse 54; Enl 17 June 40)
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Change Notes
- 2000-09-05: new
- 2020-06-14: revised
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