Subject: Corso
Errol,
You probably already have these documents, but just in case no
one sent them to you I am forwarding them. The first one speaks
eloquently as to exactly who Corso is, the second is "interesting"
File Number One
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National Security Committee - Military Personnel Subcommittee
STATEMENT of - COLONEL {ret.} PHILLIP CORSO
Hearing on POW/MIA Accountability - House Subcommittee on
Military Personnel - September 17, 1996
* During the Korean War, I was Head of the Special Projects
Branch/Intelligence Division/Far East Command. General Douglas
MacArthur was in command. I stayed and served in the same position
under General Ridgwar and General Clark. My duties included the
production of Intelligence on political (counter-insurgency), and subversive
activities by the enemy in both North and South Korea. Within this framework
I was responsible for intelligence and communist activities (North Korea,
Chinese and Soviet) within our prisoner of war camps in South Korea and
the enemy camps in North Korea. In 1953, I was a staff member of the
truce delegation at Panmunjom and participated in the discussion for the
exchange of sick and wounded prisoners. I was on the ground and met
and talked with our returning sick and wounded.
During the course of my duties, I discovered that the entire operation on
the treatment and handling of our prisoners of war was supervised,
masterminded and controlled by the Soviet Union, as was the entire
operation of the war and hostilities in Korea. I wrote a study on how this
control extended into our POW camps holding North Koreans and
Chinese in South Korea, nominally in our control. I titled the study, "WAR
IN THE POW CAMPS." Soviet policy, conveyed to their allies, was that
a soldier taken prisoner is still at war and a combatant. They trained
soldiers to be taken as prisoner and then agitate in the camps to keep
the POWs in our custory under their control.
The brainwashing and atrocities against American prisoners were
conscious acts of Soviet policy. Not only was it used on our prisoners,
but on their own people and others under their control. The basis for
their action was the Pavlovian theory of conditioned reflexes.
I had information on medical experiments (Nazi style) on our prisoners.
The most devilish and cunning was the techniques of mind altering (Pavlov).
It was just as deadly as brain surgery and many U.S. POWs died under
such treatment. This was told to me by our own returning POWs. Many
POWs willed themselves to death.
My findings revealed that the Soviets taught their allies, the Chinese
Communists and North Koreans, a detailed scientific process aimed at
molding prisoners of war into forms in which they could be exploited.
Returned prisoners who underwent the experience reported the experts
assigned to mold them were highly trained, efficient and well educated.
They were specialists in applying a deadly psychological treatment which
often ended in physical torment. The Soviet approach was a deliberate act
of their overall policy which actively rejects, subverts and destroys
decent standards of conduct and the whole structure of human values.
Upon my return to the United States, I was assigned to the Operations
Coordinating Board (OCB) of the White House, National Security Council,
and handled virtually all projects to U.S. prisoners of war. Here I found out
that U.S. policy forbade that we win in Korea. The policy amounted to an
actual paralysis and diversion of activity to force the return of our
prisoners in enemy hands, including those in the Soviet Union.
Years later, I discussed this situation with Attorney General Robert
Kennedy in his office and he agreed with me. This "NO WIN" policy is
contained in policy directives NSC-68, NSC-68/2 and NSC-135/3. The
basis for this policy was in directives ORE-750, NIE 2, 2/1, 2/2, 10 and 11.
We called this the "FIG LEAF POLICY."
Note: Recently, the CIA in news releases admitted their NIE (National
Intelligence Estimates) were wrong or not accurate.
In the past I have tried to tell Congress the fact that in 1953, 500 sick
and wounded American prisoners were within ten miles of the prisoner
exchange point at Panmunjom but were never exchanged. (Subsequent
information indicated that they all died afterwards.)
Although I prepared a statement that was made at the Panmunjom
delegation table, I was not asked even one question regarding this event.
During my tour of duty as the chief of the Special Projects Section of the
Intelligence Division of the Far East Command, I received numerous reports
that American POWs has been sent to the Soviet Union. These reports
were from many sources: Chinese and North Korean POWs, agent reports,
Nationalist Chinese reports, our guerrillas, NSA intercepts, defectors and
from our own returning POWs.
My intelligence centered around three train loads of 450 POWs each.
Two of these trainloads were confirmed over and over, the third was
ot as certain. Therefore, the final figure was, "confirmed 900, and 1,200
possibly. " These were the figures that I discovered with President
Eisenhower while I was a member of his NSC.
The bulk of the sightings were at Manchu-Ii, on the border of Manchuria
and the USSR. Here the rail gauge changed and the U.S. POWs had
to be transferred across a platform to a waiting train going into the Soviet
Union.
These POWs were to be exploited for intelligence purposes and
subsequently eliminated. The methods of exploitation were not only
practiced on our POWs, but all others falling into COMMUNIST hands.
To the skeptics and debunkers, I have only this to say: By some flashback
in time, I wish you could be present with me at the prisoner exchanges in
Korea in 1953 and look into the faces of those sick and wounded prisoners
--- Americans and allied soldiers --- as they came across in the exchange.
If you had witnessed their sacrifices and what they had suffered by
COMMUNIST hands, you would not be a critic or skeptic today.
I will close with this final remembrance. At Panmunjom, as a wounded
Turkish soldier was exchanged, he peeled off the Chinese padded clothing
and flung them at the nearest COMMUNIST guard. I asked the Turkish Captain
standing with me, "What did he say?" He answered, "Till we meet again."
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File Number Two
Thursday January 2 11:33 PM EST
CIA Unveils New Plan to Open Up Secrets
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The Central Intelligence Agency said Thursday
it had begun a declassification review of two vast bodies of documents
that could shed new light on the Cold War and may open up many secrets.
The reviews involve all records that flowed in and out of the office of the
director of central intelligence for the past 50 years, as well as all CIA
studies on the former Soviet Union from the spy agency's inception in 1947.
The twin initiatives were being carried out by the CIA's Center for the
Study of Intelligence, a kind of in-house think tank, at the urging of the
director of central intelligence's historical review panel of outside
historians, CIA spokesman David Christian said.
The CIA declined to cite a target for making public the eligible parts of
this material, but said its long-delayed release of files from another
major declassification project -- involving 11 key Cold War covert actions
-- would begin in a matter of weeks, "subject to final review by senior
officials."
The first of the declassified covert actions would concern the 1954 coup
that overthrew Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, the elected president of Guatemala,
Christian said. He said these documents were "on the verge of release."
He said that could be followed within weeks by release of records on the
failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Next up would be files on the
1953 coup that installed the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in Iran,
Christian said.
But alluding to chronic problems in meeting its own timetable for making
such material public, the CIA spokesman declined to name a target for
release of the Iran records or any of the other Cold War covert actions.
Christian said the CIA's plans to declassify its covert actions, first
promised in 1992 by then-CIA Director Robert Gates, had been set back
two years by the 1992 John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Law under
which the CIA made public more than 200,000 pages of records.
The declassification review of the files of the 17 men who have served as
the nation's top spymaster would stretch back to 1946, when the office of
director of central intelligence was created to manage the transition from
the wartime Office of Strategic Services to the CIA.
Although not all reviewed material would necessarily be made public
because of the need to protect intelligence sources and methods, the
review would involve things like telephone logs, appointment books,
memos written by the directors, and memos that they received, Christian
said.
"This could be very interesting," he added.
The CIA studies on the former Soviet Union that are under declassification
review are distinct from "national intelligence estimates" on the same
subject, which are the work of the entire intelligence community. More than
450 of these have already been released in recent years.
Among the other Cold War actions due for declassification review are
activities in support of democracy in France and Italy in the 1940s and
1950s, insurgencies in Indonesia and Tibet in the 1950s and 1960s, secret
operations against North Korea during the Korean War and against
Communist forces in Laos during the Vietnam War.
John Lewis Gaddis, a leading Cold War historian who is a former member
of the historical review panel, said he would not be satisfied with the CIA's
declassification effort until he saw what they actually turned over to the
National Archives, the independent agency that catalogues government
documents.
"The proof is going to be in the pudding," he said in a telephone interview
from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. "The real issue is when are actual
documents going to show up at the National Archives, as opposed to the
CIA's own highly selective publications of historical materials ... What a
historian wants is to see the archives."<<<<<<<
Sorry for not having a > in front of every line, but the only way I can do that
with my software is to manually insert each one, and I just don't have the time.
Bob
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From CNI News, more on Corso
( CNI is an excellent group. Look them up on the WWW and subscribe)
THE ROSWELL UFO CASE -- IS 1997 THE YEAR OF TRUTH?
A Key Witness Takes a Hit, But New Witness Speaks Out
The alleged UFO crash at Roswell is certainly the most-scrutinized UFO
case in history. But scrutiny has not brought clarity. While no one doubts
anymore that something secret crashed in the Roswell vicinity at about
the reported time -- summer 1947 -- what it was remains in dispute. The
U.S. Air Force finally changed their unacceptable "weather balloon"
story to a somewhat more plausible "top secret balloon called Project Mogul"
story in September, 1994. That story, however, fails to account for claims
of exotic metallic wreckage and a second crash site, and fails especially
to account for alleged bodies.
The claim of bodies, though attested by several witnesses, hinges on the
testimony of Roswell mortician Glenn Dennis. Despite many holes and
contradictions in the accrued Roswell evidence, researchers have been
nearly unanimous in proclaiming Dennis a reliable witness. But one of
those researchers seems to have changed his mind.
In April of 1994, researcher Karl Pflock published a controversial report
titled "Roswell in Perspective." This was the first publication to
persuasively argue for Project Mogul as the likely source of wreckage at the
Brazel ranch. In his report, however, Pflock also said he could not rule out
the possibility of some other strange event, perhaps happening concurrently
with the crash of a Mogul balloon, perhaps involving another crash site with
wreckage and bodies. His main reason for this lingering doubt, he said, was
the testimony of Glenn Dennis.
Now, some three years later, Karl Pflock seems ready to explain away this
crucial testimony, and with it any likelihood (at least in his mind) of a
real "UFO" at Roswell. In early January, 1997, Pflock sent a letter to Glenn
Dennis explaining his new position and cc'd it to a number of researchers.
CNI News has obtained permission to reprint this memo in full below.
However, CNI News has also learned of another alleged witness, Colonel
Philip J. Corso (ret.) who will publish a book titled "The Day After Roswell"
later this year. If Corso's story is true, the Roswell UFO crash case will have
found perhaps its strongest testimony yet. Details follow the Pflock memo.
Will 1997 see the demise of Roswell, or its final vindication? Or will the
case remain in limbo, as it's been for years? Time will tell. Stay tuned.
Note from Dave......
The Pflock memo to Glen Dennis attempts to
convince him that his recollections are in part caused by suggestive
and leading questions posed to him by well known Roswell researcher
Stan Friedman nearly 10 years ago. It's a long memo so I included
below enough to give you the idea. Following that is Stan's reply.
My money is on Stan.
"So what do I think is the truth? When you were approached by Stan Friedman
in 1989 in his usual fashion, with leading questions and set-up lines ('I'm
investigating the 1947 crash of a flying saucer and the discovery of the
bodies of its crew, and I've been told you were involved.' Etc.) and his
advance 'packet of information' about himself and what supposedly happened
near Roswell (which we know from your interview with Friedman you read before
the interview), I believe you got to thinking: 'Hmm. You know, there was
that time I got into trouble at the base hospital, that time my friend who
was a nurse there got so shook up... I wonder if it had anything to do with
that?' Then you quite honestly told this to Friedman and, realizing you had
nothing to back up the story, you decided to mention both 'the pediatrician'
and the nurse, giving a false name for the latter (Naomi Self -- one "f" at
the time of the interview with Friedman) because you and she had been a bit
more than friends and you were married at the time. Why? Because if she
were still alive, you wanted to protect her from scandal. [Note to
colleagues: It is entirely possible the nurse is 100% fiction, but having
gotten to know Glenn as well as I do, I think the above scenario to be much
more likely."
CNI News contacted Stanton Friedman for comment on Pflock's suggestion that
Friedman may have tainted Dennis's testimony. Friedman flatly denied the
charge, terming Pflock's whole memo "an imaginative scenario." Prior to
meeting Glenn Dennis for the first time in August of 1989, Friedman says, "I
did send him my c.v., my paper 'Flying Saucers and Physics,' probably my
paper 'The Cosmic Watergate,' but none of this was about Roswell. I was just
trying to establish my credibility." Glenn Dennis had never spoken to any UFO
researcher before and was understandably concerned about getting his story
properly told. This was also the same week that "Unsolved Mysteries" arrived
in Roswell to film their now famous segment on the UFO crash, including an
interview with Dennis.
"I believe he [Dennis] is telling the truth," Friedman insists. "I believe
he's changed some information as he's given dozens of interviews. You refer
back 40 or 50 years, the first memories are incomplete. You go back again,
you get more details. Was he lying the first time? No."
Meanwhile, a new name has entered the Roswell story. Colonel Philip J. Corso
(ret.) is about to publish a book that, if rumors prove true, could blow the
lid on Roswell once and for all. Corso reportedly served on President
Eisenhower's National Security Council and also headed the Foreign Technology
Desk at the U.S. Army's Research and Development Department. And he claims to
have personal knowledge of alien artifacts recovered at Roswell.
Corso's book, "The Day After Roswell," (co-written with William J. Birnes)
will be published in July by Pocket Books, a division of Simon and Schuster.
According to an announcement from the publisher:
"This landmark expose puts the controversy about the famous crash of an
unidentified aircraft to rest with conclusive proof about its
extraterrestrial origin."
The promotional text continues:
"Since 1947, the mysterious crash of an unidentified aircraft in Roswell, New
Mexico, has fueled a firestorm of speculation and controversy about whether
the craft actually was of another world. No solid evidence has existed to
prove the alien theory... until now. Colonel Philip J. Corso (ret.) has come
forward to tell the whole explosive story.
"Backed by newly declassified documents, Colonel Corso (ret.) reveals his
personal stewardship of alien artifacts from the crash, how these items
changed the course of twentieth century history, and the U.S. government's
astonishing role in covering up the incident. Laying bare some of the
government's most closely guarded secrets, "The Day After Roswell" forces us
to reconsider our past, as well as our role in the universe.
"Colonel Philip Corso was a key Army intelligence officer on President
Eisenhower's White House staff. During his 21-year military career, Corso was
honored with 19 medals, decorations and ribbons for meritorious service. He
was retired from the Army in 1965.
"To help celebrate Roswell's fiftieth anniversary, {the Publisher] will kick
off the book's publication with an event at the site of the crash. Corso will
walk the media through the crash site while providing never-before-heard
documentation surrounding extraterrestrial artifacts and government
cover-ups." [end of publisher's memo]
CNI News notes that there have been many Roswell "insiders" over the years
whose testimony did not live up to expectations, or could not be
authenticated. Will Corso be different? We hope so, but time will tell.
CNI News contacted Corso's editor, Mr. Tris Coburn, and his publicist, Ms.
Theresa Zoro. Neither were willing to divulge details about the book, but
both stated their firm conviction that Corso is entirely credible and that
his story will be a bombshell. Ms. Zoro said Corso will not do any interviews
until publication time, but various claims about his background can be
checked. "Corso has been in the news many times, even recently," Coburn said.
"Anyone who wants to can check him out. He is who he says he is."
Referring to the publicity text, CNI News pushed Mr. Coburn on Corso's
specific claims concerning direct knowledge of the crash and bodies. "I can't
tell you any more at this time," Coburn said. "But make of that statement
what you will. It's all there." Asked how he personally felt about the text,
Coburn replied, "It blew my mind."
Stanton Friedman told CNI News that a search for Corso's name on the
worldwide web turned up the fact that Corso had been actively involved in
recent negotiations for the return of POW and MIA records from Korea, and
there are also media indications that Corso served "at a fairly high level"
in the Eisenhower administration.
Meanwhile, a number of researchers met with Corso in Roswell nearly four
years ago. One of those researchers, who wishes to remain anonymous,
told CNI News the following:
Corso's military career checked out. But Corso also claimed to be involved in
a supersecret group called the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, or IPU. [The
IPU is referenced in Timothy Good's "Above Top Secret" as "an elite UFO
investigation group" within the Scientific and Technical Branch,
Counterintelligence Directorate (Army), set up by General George C. Marshall
in 1947 and disbanded in the 1950s.]
According to the researcher, Corso said he was not at Roswell but had flown
over the site (WHICH site was not specified) a day after the event had
occurred. Corso claimed that when he worked in Washington during the Kennedy
Administration [Corso retired from the military in 1965] he was going through
an archive and found a piece of unusual material about half the size of a
playing card with attached documents indicating it was from the Roswell
crash. He also found some sort of computer chip or transistor with the same
kind of documents attached. Corso said these materials had been turned over
to the Rand Corporation or a similar group.
When Corso met with the researchers, he had with him a stack of documents,
but nothing that seemed especially unusual. He also had with him a notebook
stuffed with information but was reluctant to show it and would not let it
out of his sight. The researcher said he got one peek into the notebook and
was impressed to see an unusual drawing of a gray-type alien eye with a group
of nine concentric circles that seemed to represent some sort of computerized
material behind the gray's black eye cover.
The day-long visit with Corso included visits to the newly identified crash
site on the Hub Corn ranch north of Roswell, as well as the Brazel debris
field near Corona, the researcher said.
CNI News comments: It will be interesting to learn which crash site Colonel
Corso will identify as THE crash site, since there are, at last count, no
fewer than five contenders. But if Corso can actually demonstrate personal
knowledge of alien artifacts from the crash, he may prove to be the most
impressive Roswell witness yet.
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K. Randle's take on the Corso book..........................................
From: KRandle993@aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:45:55 -0500 (EST)
To: updates@globalserve.net
Subject: Here's what I know of Corso's book
Okay, since everyone seems to be concerned with Philip Corso and
his upcoming book, THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL, here's what I know.
Corso claims to be a lieutenant colonel in 1961 and worked on the Foreign
Technology desk for Army research and development at the Pentagon. In that
capacity, he claims to have been made privy to the Army's capture and reverse
engineering of the UFO that crashed near Roswell. He tells how the craft had
been penetrating US airspace, shooting down our aircraft and have been
abducting people. He claims that the material was moved from Roswell by truck
and that he stopped overnight at Fort Riley, Kansas... the base at which
Corso was assigned in 1947. He claims that one of the guards, a bowling buddy
of his, sneaked him into the top secret area so that he would have a change
to see the damaged craft. Security at these facilities must have been
horrible because of all the people who managed to penetrate them to see the
"secret of the millineum." Oh, yes, he pulls back a tarp to see one of the
alien bodies.
Corso describes the alien debris, all of which we have already heard
described by so many others. And he delves into science fiction with a head
piece that might be a guidance system.
Then, in what may delight Stan Friedman, or piss him off, Corso claims to
have been assigned to the staff of MJ-12. Here, for the first time, we're
treated to the tales of a true "insider" who was on MJ-12. Through his job at
the Foreign Technology desk, they hoped to feed the technology recovered into
American industry so that it can be intergrated into the world and used by
the military.
Yes, Corso names names... Vannevar Bush, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Nathan Twining
and Walter Smith. He also throws in LT. GEN Arthur Gilbert Trudeau who, in
1961, was the eighth-highest-ranking lieutenant general. Though I haven't
checked, I'd be surprised if he was still alive to corroborate Corso's story.
BTW: Corso's name doesn't appear in the registery of all Army officers in
1961... but given the size of the Army, I wouldn't be surprised if there were
some mistakes in it.
Corso goes on to name Werner von Braun, Wilbert Smith, Robert Sarbacher and
John Von Neuman. If nothing else, he has read all the UFO literature... There
really is nothing new here.
Corco claims that the intergrated circuit chip, the laser, and fiber optics
are all the result of alien technology. He claimed that the scientists
learned that the broken ends of the thin wires would emit light... Something
that young rancher Bill Brazel noticed in 1947.
Corso mentions Project Horizon which was a plan to build a base on the
moon... ultimately the plan was canceled and the space program given to NASA.
He also talks about Project HARP, which was the development of a supergun,
which to me proves that Corso watches HBO and their movie about Jerry Bull's
supergun. He even brings up the images of Jules Verne (talk about Nineteenth
Century technology) to illustrate the concept. Yes, I enjoyed the HBO movie
and have watched it a couple of times.
He credits the alien technology with the development of the Star Wars defense
or a response to the threat of alien invasion... a concept I think that Phil
Klass and Jim Moseley might have invented over a glass of beer a number of
years ago.
Anyway, that's a run down on Corso's book. To me, and this is my personal
opinion, because he claims to have been on the staff of MJ-12, his book is
less than accurate. That he ties the abduction phenomenon to aliens suggests
that he knows nothing more than the rest of us and is another reason to
dismiss this as just opportunism. Anyone who has watched television for the
last five years, read the books available, and kept track of what is
happening, has been exposed to all these revelations already. As I say, the
only check I have made on Corso's background was to search for his name in
the U.S. ARMY REGISTER, Volume 1, the active and retired list, dated January
1, 1961. His name does not appear.
There is nothing here that I was count on blowing the lid off the Roswell
case. It might be that Corso is laying low until the publication of his book
because he doesn't want to be scrutinized until after publication. I find the
references to his personal involvement in MJ-12 to be the smoking gun about
the credibility of the book. I would be interested in Stan Friedman's
comments, considering his efforts to prove MJ-12 authentic.
Krandle
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Like everything else about Roswell, no one agrees. One thing for certain is
the 50th anniversary will make for lots of interesting reading.
Dave...................
