Not coincidentally, the first commander of the newly-created Strategic Defense Initiative Organization was an Air Force general.

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Henry Cooper, the former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization which can be accessed via www.highfrontier.org.

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Henry Cooper, former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and former Chief Negotiator at the U.S.-Soviet Defense and Space Talks in Geneva.

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Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, and the Hon.

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Worse yet, two individuals reported to be the top contenders to head the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) are known to advocate a dramatic restructuring of the SDI program to feature more expensive, Army-dominated land-based systems with only limited defensive capabilities.

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In addition, it directed that responsibility for work on ground-based theater missile defenses be shifted from the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization where it is currently managed as part of a coordinated, integrated program of ballistic missile defense to the U.S. Army.

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