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From: armen victorian <106105.3217@compuserve.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:37:45 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 21:33:47 -0500
Subject: Philip J. Corso

The following might be of interest to proponents of Roswell, and those
awaiting Corso's forthcoming book on this topic.

"After the assassination [JFK], Frank Capell was active in disseminating
conspiratorial "phase one" stories linking Oswald to Russia and Ruby to
Castro's Cuba (20 WH 75, 26 WH 608), some of them apparently from
intelligence sources such as Carlos Bringuier's colleagues in the DRE (26
WH 610). Capell was not acting alone: "phase one" stories linking Oswald
and Ruby to Communists were circulated by Willoughby's associates PHILIP J.
CORSO, a veteran of Army Intelligence who had retired by 1963 to work for
the segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond, and Cuban exile Salvador Diaz
Verson, a former chief of Cuban military intelligence.

Corso, the army intelligence veteran, was like Willoughby a foe of the CIA
from the right, having tangled with the Agency in his years under C. D.
Jackson as a member of Eisenhower's Operations Control Board. In 1963-64
Corso and Willoughby were part of a secret rightwing group, the
"Shickshinny Knights of Malta" (so called after their headquarters in
Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, to distinguish them from the more famous Roman
Catholic Sovereign Military Order of Malta based in Rome). The group
provided a home to dissident retired military officers dissatisfied with
the CIA's internationalism, many of them, like Willoughby and General
Bonner Fellers, veterans of the old Hunt-MacArthur-Pawley coalition in the
early 1950s. By 1963 the group's leading asset in their anti-CIA propaganda
was a Polish intelligence defector, Michael Goleniewski, who had claimed to
audiences inside and outside the CIA that the Agency penetrated by the KGB
at a high level.

Corso built on this anti-CIA paranoia by telling his friend and fellow
Senate staffer Julien Sourwine, who made sure it was relayed to the FBI,
that Oswald was tied to a Communist ring inside the CIA, and was doubling
as an informant for the FBI. Shickshinny Knight Herman Kimsey, who claimed
to have been Goleniewski's handler inside the CIA, also spun an elaborate
story about how his CIA duties had put him in touch with Kennedy's assassin
- the mystery man in Mexico. Finally, the chief press contact of the
Shickshinny Knights, Guy Richards of the New York Journal-American,
published the claim (soon taken up by Frank Coppel, by the John Birch
Society, and by Willoughby's American Security Council) that Oswald, like
another alleged KGB assassin (Bogdan Stashynsky), had been trained at a KGB
assassination school in Minsk.

Willoughby was in auspicious company, for the Shickshinny Knights had an
"Armed Services Committee" that in 1963 read like a Who's Who of retired
military men at the extremist fringe. All these "Knights" had been "singled
out for their brilliant and outstanding careers as Soldiers of Christ and
Advocates of a Free World". Besides Willoughby, they included a number of
other members of  MacArthur's old team - Brigadier General Bonner Fellers,
Lt. General Pedro del Valle, Marine General Lemuel Shepherd. British
Admiral Sir Barry Domville, jailed in England during World War Two as a
Nazi agent, was also on the list.

So was Colonel Philip J. Corso, a twenty-year Army Intelligence career man
until his retirement in August 1963. He had been the military Operations
Coordinating Board's delegate to the CIA group planning the 1954 Guatemalan
coup. In 1956 Corso had sought to reactivate fifty surviving garrisons of
East European paramilitary units still hanging on in West Germany and tied
to the Gehlen spy network. When his Volunteer Freedom Corps, dedicated to
rolling back communism, was scuttled as too radical by the Eisenhower
administration, Corso attributed the defeat to "lies by our liberal
darlings". A staunch foe of what he considered a laissez-faire CIA, Corso
testified before Congress on "military muzzling" after General Walker was
kicked out of West Germany in 1961. Upon leaving the Army Intelligence,
Corso went to work in 1963 as a "research assistant" for segregationist
senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. And, after the Kennedy's
assassination, Corso was among the first to spread rumors hinting that
Oswald was tied to a Communist ring inside the CIA - and doubling as an
informant for the FBI.  Corso once sued the liberal columnist Drew Pearson
for defamation - writing about Corso's extremist activities.

It would be extremely unwise for UFO community researchers to accept
Corso's version of the Roswell incident without asking some serious
questions on Corso's real intent for such a publication

Armen Victorian