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From: RGates8254@aol.com
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 01:21:36 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 10:50:10 -0400
Subject: Re: Thurmond Disputes Book on 'Alien Spaceship'

In a message dated 97-06-05 21:13:23 EDT, you write:


>  Thurmond said to be enraged over link to UFO book


>     COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Sen. Strom Thurmond is reportedly stewing
>  over his connection to a new book that says aliens from a crashed
>  spaceship provided the technology that allowed the United States to
>  win the Cold War.

>      "The Day After Roswell," by former Thurmond aide and retired
>  Army intelligence officer Philip J. Corso, goes on sale next week.

>     The book focuses on the alleged crash of an unidentified flying
>  object in the New Mexico desert near Roswell in 1947. Thurmond,
>  chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, wrote the book's
>  foreword.
>
>     In it, Corso writes that the government confiscated the craft
>  and from it gleaned secrets that led to advances such as  "laser
>  technology, fiber optics, night-vision capabilities and the
>  microchip."

>     Thurmond, the nation's longest-serving senator, was enraged by
>  the book, newspapers reported today.

>     The Republican signed on to write the foreword in January
>  because he was told it was to be an autobiographical book, his
>  office said.

>     The book was to have been a memoir entitled  "I Walked with
>  Giants: My Career in Military Intelligence," Thurmond staffers
>  said.

>     Liz Hartman, a spokeswoman for Pocket Books, said Thurmond's
>  office received information about the book before it was finished.
>  <rest snipped>

Reminds me of when Clint Eastwood made Heartbreak Ridge some years ago.
The military cooperated 100% complete with script approval, use of military
equipment, personell etc etc, right up until a month or so before national
release of the film, then they distanced themselves from it.  That way, they
could "officially say" "We did not support that movie."

My Dad wrote a number of book forwards.  In all cases he had Galley
proofs to read before he wrote the forwards.  This is a standard practise in
the publishing industry.  So one wonders if Storm is doing this to "distance"
himself from the book and any potential political fallout, i.e. plausable
deniability.

Cheers,

Robert