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From: UFOLAWYER1@aol.com [Peter Gersten]
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:12:58 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 00:35:21 -0400
Subject: Army FOIA Request

Peter A. Gersten, Esq.
Attorney at Law
7349 Via Paseo Del Sur
#515-194
Scottsdale, Arizona 85258
(602) 818-8248

CERTIFIED MAIL/ RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

September 10, 1997

Department of Army
Chief, Freedom of Information & Privacy
     Acts Office
SAIS-IA-R/FP
1725 Jefferson Davis Highway
Suite 201
Arlington, VA 22202-4102

Re: Freedom of Information Request

To Whom It May Concern,

On behalf of my client, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), I hereby submit
this request under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),=
 5
U.S.C. sec 552.

It is requested that a copy be furnished of any and all records, to wit:
memorandum, notes, reports, documents, letters and/or any other equivalent
recordation including sketches, photographs and film, pertaining to the=
 below
referenced subjects and supported as existing by statements by Lt. Col.
(Ret.) Philip J. Corso in his recently released book, "The Day After
Roswell." (Pocket Books)

Lt. Colonel Corso refers to records relating to the crash of an
extraterrestrial vehicle in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 and the recovery, by
the US Army Air Forces, of its occupants. The occupants are hereinafter
referred to as Extraterrestrial Biological Entities (EBEs.)  Corso states
that the records were kept in a file room in the Pentagon basement until
General Trudeau, his superior officer, moved the file cabinet, containing=
 the
Roswell records and Roswell debris, to Corso's office when he headed the
"Foreign Technology desk" within the Army's Office of the Chief of Research
and Development (OCRD), U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.  Corso's military
personnel file shows that he was a staff officer in the Plans Division,=
 OCRD,
from 5 May 1961 to 20 Jul 1961, when he became a staff officer in the=
 Foreign
Technology Division,  OCRD.  On 18 April 1962, Corso became the Chief,
Foreign Technology Division, OCRD until 18 July 1962, when he again became a
staff officer in the Plans Division, OCRD.  (Corso retired on 1 March 1963.)
The following are specific references from 'Day After Roswell':

ROSWELL FILE:
P. 36-38; 40-41: Lt. Colonel Corso makes numerous references to 'a Roswell
file.' Corso describes his duty assignment with General Trudeau.  Trudeau
wanted him for a special assignment, and had a file cabinet moved to Corso's
office.  The file contained various reports relating to the Roswell=
 incident,
along with some of the debris recovered from the crash site.
P. 50-51:  Corso  inherited the "Roswell file" in early 1961, shortly after
JFK took office and the file cabinet contained "field reports, scientific
analyses, medical autopsies, and technological debris from the Roswell=
 crash"
P. 52:  Corso states there were "head-on Roswell craft sketches" in the file
cabinet.
P. 213:  Lt. Colonel Corso again refers to "Roswell field reports."
P. 223:  Another reference to "Roswell field reports."
P. 232:  Still another reference to "army field reports and Air Materiel
Command engineering evaluations analyzing the Roswell craft".

EXTRATERRESTRIAL BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES (EBEs):
P. 32-33, Lt. Colonel Corso, then a Major in the Army and stationed at Ft.
Riley, Kansas, states that on July 6, 1947 he personally observed in the
veterinary building the following:

'It was a four-foot human-shaped figure with arms, bizarre-looking
four-fingered hands----I didn't see a thumb---thin legs and feet, and an
oversized incandescent lightbulb-shaped head that looked like it was=
 floating
over a balloon gondola for a chin.' '=85I couldn't see any pupils or iris or
anything that resembled a human eye. But the eyesockets themselves were
oversized and almond shaped and pointed down to its tiny nose, which didn't
really protrude from the skull.' 'The creature's skull was overgrown to the
point where all of its facial features----such as they were----were arranged
absolutely frontally, occupying only a small circle on the lower part of the
head. The protruding ears of a human were nonexistent, its cheeks had no
definition, and there were no eyebrows or any indications of facial hair.=
 The
creature had only a tiny flat slit for a mouth and it was completely closed,
resembling more of a crease or indentation between the nose and the bottom=
 of
the chinless skull than a fully functioning orifice.'

AUTOPSY REPORTS OF EBEs:
P. 45, Lt. Colonel Corso refers to reports that he personally read,
indicating that the pathologists at Walter Reed hospital autopsied one of=
 the
above-described creatures.
P. 91:  Lt. Colonel Corso refers to "medical examiner's reports of the alien
from Walter Reed and . . . the 1947 photographs and sketches" he states he
personally saw.
P. 92:  Another reference to medical report and supporting photos.
P. 191-192:  Another reference to "a medical report about the creatures" in
his "Roswell file". "It was a report on the possible function and apparent
structures of the alien brain, a report that marveled at the similarities
between the EBE brain and the human brain."
P. 195:  Lt. Colonel Corso refers to "the reports about the autopsied alien
brain=85"

ANY AND ALL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LT. COLONEL CORSO AND GENERAL TRUDEAU:
P. 174:  Lt. Colonel Corso states he wrote "advisory reports" for Gen.
Trudeau regarding each piece of Roswell debris.
P. 180:  Corso says, "I had to write a report to General Trudeau suggesting
ways the EBEs might have used laser technology in their mission on this
planet and how we could develop similar uses for it under the guise of a
conventional development program."

The FOIA requires agencies to furnish the first two hours of search time
without charge to the requester. If you believe that search time in excess=
 of
two hours will be required to satisfy this request, please furnish me with=
 an
estimate of the search time you believe will be needed, and an estimate of
the search fees, The FOIA also requires agencies to furnish the first 100
pages of reproductions without charge to the requester. My client hereby
agrees to pay for all reproductions in excess of the first 100 pages and/or
for any audiotapes required for reproduction purposes, up to a total of
$50.00. If you anticipate the reproduction fees in excess of $50.00 will be
necessary, please advise me accordingly.

Lastly, The FOIA requires that an agency, 'upon any request for records made
under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection, shall - (i) determine
within ten days (excepting Saturdays, Sundays and legal public holidays)
after the receipt of any such request whether to comply with such request=
 and
shall immediately notify the person making such request of such=
 determination
and the reasons therefor=85.'

Very truly yours,

Peter A. Gersten