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From: Gary <galevy@pipeline.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 04:45:02 -0400
Fwd Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:41:09 -0400
Subject: UFOs and Professional Associations

UFOs And Professional Associations

As I was reading Karl Pflock's latest vociferous
attack on Col. Philip J. Corso I was wondering
what could motivate such bitter emnity.

A friend of mine was in the Army in Vietnam at
the same time one of his uncles was there in the
Air Force.  They met, quite by accident, a couple
of times during their tours of 1969-70.  In talking
shop it was obvious that to the Air Force man the
real enemy in Vietnam was not the Viet Cong but --
the NAVY!  Everyone in the Air Force knew that!

Now reflecting on that I wondered if this might be
at the root of Pflock's attacks.  I thought that this
might certainly be worth considering as one reads
the latest diatribe against Corso by parties
whose previous professional associations are
interesting, to say the least.

Everyone might not know that all the across the
bureaucratic spectrum of our Federal Goverment and
military there exist bitter rivalries, between and among
the Army, Navy, Air Force and the various "intel-
ligence agencies."  For the regular military, much
"intelligence activity" is looked down upon, or
even ridiculed, as amateurish piddling in the ashes.
Throw in the fact that back in the 1950s the CIA
was the private preserve of the preppy graduates
of the Ivy League and you have an explosive mixture
indeed.

With this as background we might consider the recent
heavy attacks by former CIA man Karl Pflock (although
one wonders if anyone other than Victor Marchetti can
truly be said to be a former agent of that agency)
(see page 60 of Rayomd Fowler's CASEBOOK OF A UFO
INVESTIGATOR) upon the new
book by retired Army Colonel Philip J. Corso, THE
DAY AFTER ROSWELL.  You see, Corso's opinion
of the CIA could hardly be any lower.

On page 37 of his new book Corso says that at the
time he went onto General Trudeau's staff (1961)
". . .there were enemies all around us, in the
intelligence services. . .cadres. . .working for
the Soviet Union by carrying out policies devised
inside the KGB."  Could it be any plainer?

Corso was worried about keeping the Roswell
technology from the Soviets, and on page 48 says
that if he was very careful, ". . .it [the
Roswell secrets] would be in the system before
the CIA could stow it where no one would find it
except the very people we were trying to hide
it from."

You see, there is no love lost among many in
the uniformed military for the CIA and its
minions.  And, you know, it could be that for
many in the Agency, the feeling is mutual.

I think one has to be wary of letting Pflock's
emotionalism bias one against reading what
Corso has to say and certainly not allow
Pflock's attack to disuade one from
at least considering Corso's viewpoint.

Gary