Philip James Corso (May 22, 1915 – July 16, 1998) was an American Army officer. He served in the

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from February 23, 1942, to March 1, 1963, and earned the rank of

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. Corso published ''

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'' in 1997, about his alleged involvement in the research of extraterrestrial technology recovered from the 1947

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. On July 23, 1997, he was a guest on the popular late night radio show, ''

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'' with

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where he spoke live about his Roswell story. Corso died of a heart attack less than a year later.

Biography

Military career

After joining the Army in 1942, Corso served in Army Intelligence in Europe, becoming chief of the US

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in Rome. In 1945, Corso arranged for the safe passage of 10,000 Jewish

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refugees out of

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to the

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. He was the personal emissary to Giovanni Battista Montini at the Vatican, later

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, during the period when the " Nazi Rat Lines" were most active. During the

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(1950–1953), Corso performed intelligence duties under General Douglas MacArthur as Chief of the Special Projects branch of the Intelligence Division, Far East Command. One of his primary duties was to keep track of enemy

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(POW) camps in

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. Corso was in charge of investigating the estimated number of U.S. and other

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POWs held at each camp and their treatment. At later hearings in 1992 of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Corso testified that he believed hundreds of American POWs were abandoned at these camps. McCain stated that his knowledge obtained from those who had personal relationships with Eisenhower led him to believe that Eisenhower was just not capable of allowing known American POWs to remain incarcerated after the termination of the Korean War. Corso was on the staff of President

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's National Security Council for four years (1953–1957). In 1961, he became Chief of

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's Foreign Technology desk in Army Research and Development, working under Lt. Gen.

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''The Day After Roswell''

In his book ''The Day After Roswell'' (co-author

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), Corso claims he stewarded extraterrestrial artifacts recovered from a crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Corso says a covert government group was assembled under the leadership of Adm.

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, the first director of Central Intelligence (see

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). Among its tasks was to collect all information on off-planet technology. The US administration simultaneously discounted the existence of flying saucers in the eyes of the public, Corso says. According to Corso, the reverse engineering of these artifacts indirectly led to the development of accelerated

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devices, fiber optics,

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s, integrated circuit chips and

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material. In the book, Corso claims the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or "Star Wars", was meant to achieve the destructive capacity of electronic guidance systems in incoming enemy

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s, as well as the disabling of enemy spacecraft, including those of extraterrestrial origin.

Death

Corso died of a heart attack on July 16, 1998.

Gallery

Personal

File:Philip_j_corso_2.jpg, In

, 1945 File:Philip_j_corso_1.jpg, In

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, 1953 File:Philip_j_corso_3.jpg, In Germany, 1960

Files

File:Philip_j_corso_4.gif, DA Form 66 (page 1) File:Philip_j_corso_5.gif, DA Form 66 (page 2) File:Philip_j_corso_6.gif, DA Form 66 (page 3) File:Philip_j_corso_7.gif, DA Form 66 (page 4) File:Philip_j_corso_8.gif, DA Form 66 (page 5) His service number on his id card was 01047930 as shown on TV.

References

External links

- Obit - Death
* ttp://ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m26-033.shtml (Updated) Philip J. Corso Voice Stress Analysis reveals no deception*
Space Weapons as Defense - Nexus Magazine vol 13:2 - Michael E. Salla Ph.D
* ttp://www.logoschristian.org/ftwaltonbeach/ Phillip Corso Jr. talking about aliens and ufos

Videos

Disclosure Project Steven Macon Greer (June 28, 1955) is an American ufologistLewis-Kraus, Gideon (April 30, 2021How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously ''The New Yorker''. Retrieved on July 5, 2021. who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestria ...

- Extraterrestrial Contact and Close Encounter
Part 2
- 2001 * Dateline (NBC) - - 1997 *

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