Word: corso
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...Cold War with alien technology recovered at the Roswell, New Mexico site that conspiracy buffs believe was the scene of an extraterrestrial crash landing in July 1947. Thurmond aides insist that "The Day After Roswell," by former Thurmond aide and retired Army intelligence officer Philip J. Corso, was not the book he thought it was. In his foreword, Thurmond praised Corso as a man "with many interesting stories to share with individuals interested in military history, espionage and the workings of our government." Thurmond's staff insists that the foreword was meant for a Corso memoir called "I Walked with...
...Corso was the intelligence officer for the truce team that negotiated with the North Koreans at Panmunjom. He says he learned from returning Americans that 500 sick and wounded U.S. prisoners within 10 miles of Panmunjom never reached the truce village for exchange. He believes the North Koreans held back the worst cases to hide the fact that they had been tortured and denied medical care. He had reports from agents later that all the ailing prisoners had died. In the course of the war, Corso, who was a senior Army intelligence officer, had received U.S. reports stating that...
Later that year, after he joined the staff of the National Security Council in Washington, Corso discussed these figures with Eisenhower. He recalls that the President was "torn" but did not know how to get the prisoners back short of war. Some in Washington still find this picture of Eisenhower hard to believe. "I have to have very credible evidence," says Senator John McCain, who was a POW in North Vietnam. "I'd have to have a hearing...
Additional confirmation came last week from the witness who followed Corso to the table: Jan Sejna, a former major general in the Czech army, says he defected to the U.S. rather than help the Soviets invade his country in 1968. He was chief of staff of the Czech Ministry of Defense and had access to the most secret information...
...Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and company may have picked over the freshest entrees. But Paris was still feast enough when a new migration of expatriates collected there after World War II--Irwin Shaw, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and--with a palate educated by leftover meat loaf in Queens, New York--Art Buchwald...