Bullene, General

I give quotations to illustrate both sides of heated disagreements about the development of the San Jose project. One side was Washington, DC, and the other General E.F. Bullene, commanding officer on San Jose Island. WASHINGTON DC VIEWPOINT (W.A. Noyes, Jr., page 322)... 

GENERAL E.F. BULLENE S VIE VPOINT FROM SAN JOSE ISLAND... 

I met the sole survivor of the Gorrell party which, as you may recall, under Dr. Gorrell of London, conducted similar experiments in a jungle-covered island near Australia. They were a bimch of enthusiasts who went at it the other way and started carrying out experiments almost immediately upon their arrival with no thought of a sanitary base. Within four months [all but one] were invalided back to England and the United States. [Letter written by General Bullene to Professor Francis Blacet after the war]. 

After the war, General Bullene wrote a letter to Professor Blacet and to all of the NDRC group who went to Panama As you know the reports and tests were finished in time so that they could have been used had our specialty been called for when the Japanese homeland was invaded. What a euphemism, our specialty At that time and place. Allied forces knew that we were ready to use war gases, and the other side probably knew it also. 

The Chemical Corps ended the Korean War in a much stronger position than it faced after the end of World War II. The corps reduced its units and manpower somewhat, and terminated many of its procurement contracts in the months following the 1953 armistice. Still, Major General Egbert F. Bullene, the new Chief Chemical Officer summed up the feeling of the corps about the Korean War and the Cold War in general Today, thanks to Joe Stalin, we are back in business. 125(p8)... 

Concern for this serious situation in the theater naturally extended to the Office of the Chief, CWS, in Washington. The few zone of interior malfunctions had been thoroughly investigated and were found to have been caused in practically every case by a faulty fuze. The increase of misfires overseas prompted General Porter in January 1945 to send to Europe an investigating mission headed by General Bullene. A definite correlation between extreme cold weather and... 

General Bullene, Commander, Unit Training Center, Camp Sibert, Alabama. (Photograph taken in 1932.)... 

Shortly after General Bullene s arrival in Panama, a crew of native workmen under the supervision of Mr. Russell Foster, engineer adviser to... 

In addition to Army personnel, representatives from the following organizations were stationed at San Jose U.S. Navy, British Army, Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force, and the National Defense Research Committee. General Bullene described the project as a united effort of all these participants to secure certain technical data which would be useful in winning the war. Therefore he insisted that no distinction be made between nationals or organizations and directed that men be assigned to duties for which they were best qualified. Members of the NDRC, he... 

In order to insure that the testing at San Jose would not be obstructed by administrative difficulties, the Chief, CWS, activated a San Jose Project Division in his office on 27 September 1944. Under this arrangement the San Jose Project became a branch of the new division. General Bullene was made chief of the San Jose Project Division, at the same time retaining command at the project. 

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