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Paul Kaminski

1994-01-01year known, day not recorded

Dr. Paul Kaminski - Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Technology (1994-97), who reorganized the DoD special-access-program structure. In the Wilson-Davis memo, Wilson names Kaminski's office (OUSDAT) as where he traced an unusual special-programs record group. A real, senior acquisition official; the crash-retrieval framing is the memo's contested account.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "crash-retriev". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

None of this entity's 3 connections has a source you can open. 2 are bound to a document this project holds and quotes but cannot republish, so they do not count above. 1 was tested against a document we hold and deliberately not bound.

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EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002already cited above
named on a page we have read · p. 7
TW: Uh, was Paul Kaminski - talked to both Paul and Mike Kostelnik (a Brig. General)…

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  • ← Michael Kostelnik attached, not counted
    EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002
    This map says
    ran special programs within Kaminski's OUSDAT acquisition office
    The document says
    EWD: Who was USDAT? TW: Uh, was Paul Kaminski - talked to both Paul and Mike Kostelnik (a Brig. General). EWD: Michael Kostelnik? TW: In Paul's office (OUSDAT) - dir. of special programs in OUSDAT
    EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
    printed p. 7  ·  read off the page footer
    read as an image — the grade this project quotes from: the page was rendered and the picture read
    Caveat ADM. THOMAS WILSON DENIES THAT THIS MEETING TOOK PLACE. This link is sourced to what these private notes record, not to anything established. The document is marked support:false and is not counted toward this project's sourcing figure.
  • → William Perry attached, not counted
    same document as the row above
    This map says
    served as Perry's Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Technology
    The document says
    EWD: Who was USDAT? TW: Uh, was Paul Kaminski ... as organized (re-organized) by Perry in '94
    EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
    printed p. 7  ·  read off the page footer
    read as an image — the grade this project quotes from: the page was rendered and the picture read
    Caveat the same caveat as above governs this connection
  • ← Jacques Gansler not bound, on purpose
    tested against EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002
    The claim we tested
    succeeded Kaminski as USD for Acquisition & Technology (Dec 1997)
    What the document actually says
    TW: Talked to Gansler in Jan '98 about my June '97 meetings.
    EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
    printed p. 15  ·  read off the page footer
    Why we refused it. THE PAGE PUTS GANSLER IN POST BY JANUARY 1998 AND SAYS NOTHING ABOUT A SUCCESSION OR A DATE FOR IT. This is an ordinary, checkable fact about a Senate-confirmed office and should be sourced to a government record, not inferred from a private note.