Kal Korff

Colonel Philip Corsos Roswell UFO Crash Claims

Exposed as a FRAUD!
by Kal K. Korff
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The following excerpt is from Kal Korffs book, The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Dont Want You to Know (Dell Books, 2000) which is available in paperback. Kals book remains the bestselling Roswell expose of all time and can be ordered online here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Roswell-UFO-Crash-What/dp/0440236134/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&qid=1333270847&sr=8-1 The cost is only $7.99 at Amazon.com.

The only thing extraterrestrial in Philip Corso's book The Day After Roswell (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, 1997), is the height of his tall tales, certainly the tallest Roswell tales to date. His thesis of course is that many of our high-tech advances such as microcircuits (and the transistor before IC's), lasers, ber optics, microwave ovens, Star Wars SDI weapons, etc., all actually came from reverse engineering the alien technology found in the crashed UFO near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947 -- a feat largely made possible by Corso himself when he purportedly divvied up the alien goodies while working at Army R&D in the early 60s. But in his haste to cash in on Roswellmania Corso has made some fantastic blunders of history that completely expose him as a fraud in the most embarrassing way. Corso just cant resist putting himself at the center stage of great events of history, courted by the big names such as Robert Kennedy and his old friend J. Edgar Hoover (Corso's other book is called I Walked With Giants), and he is ever the powerful hero. (pp. 2, 37, 84, 156, 191, 206-209, 255) But he trips on his way up the ladder to the stage. Corso has apparently made a cynical calculation that he'll be able to make his bundle and retreat before anyone can develop a sufcient publicity base to expose him, so there was no need to research his lies to get them perfect. The only thing he has carefully avoided is getting trapped into endorsing a particular Roswell crash site or timeline from the multitude now being promoted. He can't clarify the confusion for us because he pretends he doesnt remember too clearly these elementary details of the date and location of what he claims is the single most important event in human history (pp. 5, passim) -- to say nothing of his military career -- even though he claims he had two years to pore over the TOP SECRET Roswell les while at Army R&D headquarters. Instead, all he really knows is what happened the DAY AFTER Roswell, starting from when the alien material was transported -- hence

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the title of the book (p. 55). How convenient? (Page references are to the edition of Corso's book minus the now withdrawn preface by Sen. Strom Thurmond.) Corso tells how he personally intimidated the CIA director of covert operations to get him to stop his CIA agents from following Corso around. This is part of Corsos story of how he got the job of exploiting alien technology as head of the Foreign Technology desk of Army R&D in early 1961 (pp. 50, 63-64, 177). The alien microchips and other technology had been recovered from Roswell decades earlier but gathered dust in one ling cabinet, together with extensive les and documents on the case, until genius Corso came along and gured out what to do with it. A couple of days before he was ofcially expected to begin at the Pentagon (p. 37), he was led through back door means to meet his new boss and old friend, Lt. Gen. Arthur Trudeau, head of Army R&D. (His military records indicate he arrived at Army R&D Hq in the Pentagon from Baltimore on May 5, 1961.) This was supposedly done so that no one would know ofcially that Corso was inside the Pentagon yet and so he wouldn't be followed. Corso asked why he couldnt go through the front door. Trudeau allegedly replied Because theyre already watching you, Phil. Thus Corso learned he was being tailed by CIA personnel (pp. 37, 44, 87, 107, 174, 185), but he was determined to not play along. Corso claims he marched right past a startled secretary and into the ofce of the CIA director of covert operations, Frank Wiesner (sic), at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and told him off (p. 87). As indicated above, this must have been a couple of days after the initial meeting with Gen. Trudeau, in early May 1961. Keep this date in mind as you read on, as it explodes Corso's story as a tissue of lies. Corso claims he warned Wiesner that he would start carrying a gun and if he ever found a CIA man following him again, the agent's body would later be found with bullet holes in his head. Later in 1961, Wiesner himself was found dead by hanging in a London hotel room, the victim of suicide, Corso claims (p. 87). Better not tangle with that Corso, no telling what might happen! Problem is that Frank G. Wisner (not Wiesner) had been hospitalized and replaced as top CIA covert operator nearly three years earlier in August 1958, rst by an acting covert operations director Richard M. Helms and then by Wisner's permanent replacement, Richard M. Bissell, on January 1, 1959. Thus Bissell was the actual CIA Chief of the Clandestine Service (or Deputy Director for Plans) serving in 1961 at the time alleged in Corsos tale!

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Bissell is famous in history as the leader of the U-2 and the Corona spy satellite projects at CIA as well as the architect of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion that had dominated the headlines for the past few weeks before Corso arrived at the Pentagon in 1961, so it is surprising that the supposed intelligence expert Corso has such a poor grasp of intelligence history as to not know these well-known facts. Bissell's name was repeatedly cited as the chief planner of the Bays of Pigs operation in front-page news stories at the time. (For example, see New York Times, April 21, 1961, p. 1 col. 7; May 3, 1961, p. 1 col. 6; July 17, 1961, p. 13 col. 4. The May 3 front-page story reported that CIA deputy director Bissell and CIA Director Allen Dulles had testied the day before at a closed-door hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee concerning the Cuba disaster.) I interviewed Bissell almost twenty years ago about his UFO involvement and Project Corona and naturally he never mentioned Corso or Roswell. Corso should have known who Bissell was for another reason, namely that he claims (falsely of course) that the Project Corona spy satellite program was handed over to him in 1961 (pp. 131, 136) -and that was Bissells project. More about this below. Worse still, Wisner s ofce was not even in the U.S. in 1961 but was in London. Wisner had been sent overseas to take the less demanding post of CIA Chief of Station in London on August 6, 1959, but was recalled from London in the spring of 1962 and resigned from the CIA entirely in August 1962. So Corso could not have simply driven to Wisner's ofce in 1961 and barged in -- as if were to believe that Corso could get through CIA Security so easily to reach the top spook in the Agency and threaten him. And it was public knowledge that the new CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., was not yet open for business in May 1961 when Corsos imagined confrontation with the top CIA spook supposedly took place there. The new building did not receive its rst CIA employees until September 1961. (The New York Times reported on May 3 (p. 5 col. 5) that the CIAs headquarters staff is scattered throughout Washington in thirty or more buildings but it will EVENTUALLY MOVE into a new building almost as large as the Pentagon on the Virginia side of the Potomac [at Langley]. The New York Times Magazine published a photo of the CIA HQ building NEARING COMPLETION in Langley, Va., on May 21, 1961 (pp. 78-79). Only

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about 4 months later did CIA employees start moving into the Langley building (New York Times, Sept. 28, 1961, p. 20 col. 8; Oct. 8, p. E 7) and by early November 1961 about 1/3 of the CIA HQ employees had moved in, with the rest expected early in 1962 [NYT Nov. 6, 1961, p. 39].) Did Corso push his way past construction workers into an unoccupied ofce-to-be?!? Maybe he just camped out there and waited for all the walls and furnishings to be lled in and Wiesner to pick the right ofce. Maybe there was a time machine in the Roswell spacecraft. There are lots of ways to explain this discrepancy, all of them psycho. Worst of all, Frank Wisner did not hang himself in a London hotel in 1961. He killed himself with a shotgun on his family farm in Galena, Maryland, on October 29, 1965 -years after Corso claims it was, and on the wrong side of the Atlantic for Corsos fevered and rather sick imagination. Theres no need to add to the Wisner family tragedy with preposterous stories linking him to extraterrestrial investigations, distorting the sad details of his demise and even falsely accusing him of being one of the best friends the Soviets ever had (p. 87). Wisner had been depressed since the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which he had helped inspire as the top CIA clandestine ofcial only to see it brutally suppressed. Eisenhower refused to overtly intervene or covertly assist the brave freedom ghters who were crushed by Soviet tanks, and Wisner never recovered from his personal anguish over this betrayal. If anyone was a real hero it was Wisner, not Philip Quixote, the fake. Wisner could have chosen the life of a rich playboy but instead threw himself into service to his country. Whereas others gave mere lip service to the rollback of the Iron Curtain, Wisner personally did more to roll it back than practically anyone in his era. Whenever plans failed and courageous freedom ghters were bloodied or tortured, Wisner saw and felt their anguish and it took a terrible toll on him personally, till it killed him. These are not minor errors of abstract historical facts. These are stories of Corso's own alleged personal experiences involving supposed major episodes in his career and in world history. For comparison, here is an example of an error that IS minor: Corso believes the Air Force became a separate service from the Army in 1948 (pp. 54, 61). In fact it separated on September 18, 1947. Corso was in the Army at the time and stayed there,

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so it is understandable that decades later he might make a one-year error in remembering the date inasmuch as he was probably not personally involved with the creation of the Air Force (though given his claim that it was critically important for him to trace the exact movements of Roswell material in 1947 in order to assess which military service or agency got control of how much [pp. 53-55, 62, 79-80, 99] and that the Air Force got its share of alien materiel when Wright Field changed over from Army to AF [pp. 54, 61-62] one would think Corso would have done better research on the date of the transition). Corso again fraudulently inserts himself into history by alleging that as the Army Foreign Technology czar in charge of Roswell he helped President Kennedy decide to send a man to the moon! Corso alleges that he worked on a moon base plan called Project Horizon to help keep the ETs at bay, which plan he urged on Attorney General Robert Kennedy in a personal meeting in May 1962 (compare pp. 2, 37, 156, 191, 206, 255). Lo and behold says Corso, it was a short time later that the AGs brother, the President, announced the Apollo program objective of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Corso takes pride in his supposed contribution to Kennedy's decision on the moon race (p. 156). Only problem is that JFK made the famous moon-project announcement on May 25th of 1961 -- A YEAR BEFORE the alleged Corso promotion of Project Horizon to Bobby Kennedy in May 1962. Corso can't seriously claim he simply made a typo or error of one year and meant to say it was in May 1961 because that would mean he had secured a personal meeting with the brother of the President only days after he arrived at the Pentagon and before he had even nished his rst alleged Roswell exploitation plan which included the Horizon moon-base (pp. 102, 105, 115, 157)! Corso indicates it took more than a month to complete his rst report and plan for General Trudeau and it was already summer then so it had to be at least June or July 1961 (cp. pp. 49, 51, 53, 91). He also states explicitly it was After his rst year in ofce (after Jan. 1962) that President Kennedy saw the value in Project Horizon (p. 155) through Corso's pitch to brother Bobby in the May 1962 meeting and it had been six months from that meeting to the Cuban Missile Crisis of the Fall of 1962 (p. 255) so that doubly xes the alleged meeting in the Spring of 1962, not 1961. He is tightly locked into his 1962 date for his ctitious involvement in inspiring JFK's 1961 Apollo lunar landing plan and there is no way out -- except to admit it's all a fantasy. Corso's delusion is one year too late.

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Why doesnt Corso present written records proving the subject matter, date and existence of the Kennedy meeting? This would be far more important evidence to support his claims than padding his book with several dozen pages of irrelevant Project Horizon technical documentation, none of which mentions ET s or UFO s or Roswell (pp. 275-332). Corso claims that in his rst Roswell exploitation plan to General Trudeau, which as weve seen must have been submitted in June or July 1961, he claims he stressed how the Roswell aliens were so well protected and equipped for long-term space ight, unlike the experiences of both American and Soviet astronauts who had had difculties with weightlessness and the space environment (p. 112). But as of the date when Corso purportedly made his report only ONE person had been in orbit, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who was up for an hour and a half on April 12, 1961. The Soviets released nothing at the time indicating any difculties with human adaptation to space ight. Not only is time warped in Corso's crazy fantasies as with his Wiesner fable and the Kennedy moon-shot fabrication, which are years off in date in physically impossible ways, but so is space: He has a possible Roswell UFO crash site on the plains of San Agustin "in some proximity" to the Roswell Army Air Field (p. 3). But in fact it is at least 160 miles away, west of Socorro! Look at a map. Logic goes out the window, too, as when Corso mystifyingly states in one place that only ve to six of us in all three military services were privy to the Roswell secrets (p. 85). Yet he tells how the Roswell package spread out further and further among the services over the years with little or no coordination (pp. 51-62, 71, 73, 78, 82-84). Plus there were the several military members of the Majestic 12 committee in control of the coverup of Roswell (pp. 62, 69, 71, 74, 82, passim) who additionally had personnel stationed at the Pentagon to keep tabs on what the military was doing on Roswell R&D (p. 175). There were military pathologists at Walter Reed, Bethesda and Roswell Army Air Base, who allegedly performed autopsies on the alien bodies (pp. 91-92, 96-99, 190). There were military intelligence personnel developing cattle mutilation surgical methods (p. 181). And there must have been many military technicians involved in the test ights of the Roswell craft at Norton, Edwards and Nellis AFB's (pp. 99-100, 107, 218) and quite a few military administrators of the purported alien technology museum, the nal resting place of the Roswell spacecraft maintained by the Air Force and CIA (p. 100). In fact, Corso admits there were a LARGE NUMBER of people who really know the truth about Roswell such as top-ranking MILITARY ofcers (p. 100, emphasis added).

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Yet we are supposed to believe (according to Corso) that the Roswell secret had spread out to ONLY 5-6 MILITARY MEN after 15 years?? Thats a LARGE NUMBER?!? If they had that few after that many years, how many did they START with in charge of the Roswell spacecraft, ZERO? Maybe thats the real truth slipping out by inference -- it started with zero because it never happened. Typical of Corsos absurd anachronisms that prove he doesnt know what he is talking about on military and intelligence history is his listing of the members of the MJ-12 working group as of the middle of September 1947 (p. 74). He has obviously lifted this list carelessly from published pro-MJ-12 sources without bothering to verify the facts. He is careful to note the exact transitional positions in 1947, e.g., that General Twining was in the AAF and then USAF (the Army Air Forces became the U.S. Air Force in 1947), General Vandenberg was Central Intelligence Group Director then USAF Chief of Staff in 1948, etc. But Gordon Gray is described in mid-September 1947 by Corso as President Truman's Secretary of the Army (I think he's wrong, it was Under Secretary in 1947) and chairman of the CIA's Psychological Strategy Board. The PSB was a division of the National Security Council (NSC), not the CIA, and it didnt exist in 1947! Instead, the PSB was created on April 4, 1951. Corso should have known this from his tour of duty at the NSC in the early 50's. Another bogus Corso achievement Ive already mentioned is his purported takeover of Project Corona, the pioneer U.S. spy satellite. Corso attempts to steal all the credit for Corona but if you read his timeline carefully most of the major R&D and cover story actions took place in 1960, long before he ever arrived on the scene (pp. 129, 138, 141-142, 145). Corso has done a poor job of reading up on space history from comic books or whatever (since he couldnt have actually worked on the real classied Corona program and gotten things so ridiculously wrong). He claims the most clever innovation was when the Air Force managed to sneak the Corona camera payload on-board an already existing NASA civilian satellite project called Discoverer, which was difcult because it had to be small enough to t into the interior easily and be self-contained (pp. 137-138, 140-142). He imagines that this whole ludicrous endeavor of one agency hiding payloads aboard another agency's satellites was necessitated by NASA assuming control of ALL satellite launchings including the military s launches when NASA was created in 1958, a control that purportedly lasted until the 1970 s (pp. 126, 128-129, 138, 144-147, 155-157; emphasis added).

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The truth is that Corona was entirely a secret CIA -- not Air Force -- program begun several months BEFORE NASA was even formed! Corona was ordered by President Eisenhower on February 7, 1958, and NASAs rst day of operation was on October 1. The cover for the satellites was the AIR FORCEs Discoverer label, which never had anything to do with NASA. It was always publicly associated with the AIR FORCE. NASA never had control of the military's satellite launchings. The existence of a Air Force satellite launch pad completely separate from NASA's Cape Canaveral should settle it. Doesnt Corso read the newspapers? Who does he think has launched satellites from Vandenberg AIR FORCE Base in California from 1959 to the present day? Santa Claus and his elves? In another proof of Corsos complete ignorance of the Corona project, he invents the following remark by General Trudeau in early 1963, purportedly declaring, In just a couple of years ... Well have orbiting satellites mapping every inch of the Soviet Union" (pp. 202-203). Corona satellites had already mapped the USSR by 1963 and proved the nonexistence of the missile gap, showing there was no huge Soviet ICBM force hidden in Siberia or some other place. You can now even read the ofcial history of CIA s Corona satellite on the Internet and millions of frames of its space reconnaissance photos are now declassied and available to the public. Obviously Corso has a very poor grasp of the Corona satellites function and operational history. Corso is also the hero of the Cuban Missile Crisis (pp. 253-258, 269), Reagans SDI or Strategic Defense Initiative (pp. 4-5, 78, 115, 243, 249-250, 268, 273), the Korean War POW revelations (pp. 2, 37-38, 87), the exposure of KGB moles inside the CIA and elsewhere (pp. 2, 37, 139, 141, 189), and the JFK assassination -- as an investigator for the Warren Commission -- which he intimates was due to JFK nding out the truth about the CIA (pp. 2, 87, 206, 208). And of course last but not least Corso is the hero of the Planet Earths desperate but successful war against the ET s (or EBEs, Extraterrestrial Biological Entities, the term he cribbed from the fraudulent MJ-12 documents) (pp. 5, 142, 249-250, 260, 269). This supposed war against UFOs led to Reagan and Gorbachev meeting and ending the Cold War (pp. 262-263, 266, 268). We had negotiated a surrender treaty with the aliens (were there alien negotiators in the State Dept. too?) until we were able to reverse engineer enough Roswell weapons to ght back (pp. 268, passim).

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As Corso modestly boasts, Sometimes, once in a very long while, you get the chance to save your country, your planet, and even your species at the same time. (p. 273) Corso gives whole new meaning to the term delusions of grandeur. Corsos notion that many of our high-tech innovations were really back-engineered from extraterrestrials is a new twist on the Ancient Astronauts theory. Instead of saying man was too stupid to invent pyramids or the wheel on his own and had to get the ideas from space visitors, Corso has updated the concept and says we got the microwave oven (p. 178) and laptop computers (pp. 170-173) from aliens. I guess all those millions of scientists and engineers weve cranked out over the years have largely been a waste -they were dummies who had to get clued in by ETs. Now that weve established that Corso fabricates entire screenplays and dialogues involving himself inside CIA headquarters and elsewhere that never happened and never could have happened, there really is no need to go into the rest of his confabulations about his heroic role in getting U.S. industry to reverse engineer microchips, ber optics, lasers, Kevlar, etc., from his make-believe Roswell spacecraft. That would be chasing phantoms, trying to prove a negative -- that something doesn' exist -- which is inherently very difcult if not actually impossible to do. The dramatic stories that we can easily check prove Corso to be a rank literary hoaxer. 1.0v1 March 31, 2012 Kal K. Korff is an officially accredited internationally known author, columnist and investigative journalist. Note: This expose was written by Brad C. Sparks who contributed it to Kal Korffs book The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Dont Want You to Know, where it can be found. Editing by Kal Korff.

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