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The Shickshinny Knight of Malta Order, officially called "The Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem," has been headed by Col. Thourot Pichel in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, although a few years ago the Order was torn by serious internal rifts between Pichel and the late Frank Capell, [Capell was reknowned as the “researcher” for Dr. Revilo P. Oliver a founding stockholder in the John Birch Society, one of the protagonists in The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon, and eventually, a witness in front of The Warren Commission and on the Board of The Church of the Creator.] Frank Capell was a Contributing Editor of the John Birch Society's Review of the News. (See, Rev. Anthony Cekada, Light on the OSJ, from the Oyster Bay, New York The Roman Catholic, December 1981, for an article critical of the Order and discussing some of its recent history.) It traces its legitimacy from a dispute during the time the Order spent in Russia under Czar Paul after it fled Malta. This Order achieved some notoriety a few years ago when it officially recognized the claims of controversial defector Michael Goleniewski to be Aleksei Romanoff, heir to the Russian Imperial House of Romanoff. [Anastase Vonsiatsky, Draper’s hired thug, union strikebreaker and mercenary worked for The Romanoff Caviar Company in America for several years and worked tirelessly to restore the Czarist Monarchy which he himself claimed as part of his controversial heritage. Vonsiatsky was also featured in “The Manchurian Candidate” by Richard Condon as THE Manchurian Candidate himself. Vonsiatsky’s International Headquarters were located in Harbin, Manchuoko, Manchuria for decades before his prison term from 1942-46 for violating The Espionage Act of 1917.]
The Romanoff dynasty case would be less interesting if James Angleton were not one of the principal supporters of Goleneiwski and some extremely rightwing members of the military intelligence community were not listed as members in a document issued by the Order in 1970. The Order listed as members of its Military Affairs Committee, under the Chairmanship of General Douglas MacArthur’s displaced Korean War team that included: Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers, and Gen. Pedro A. del Valle (who according to Stuart Christie's Stefano delle Chiaie, Portrait of a Black Terrorist (London: Anarchy Magazine, 1984), p. 6, invited Italian neo-Nazi Guido Giannettini to the U.S. to conduct a seminar at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, where del Valle was Commander. Foster & Epstein's Danger on the Right (New York: Random House, 1964), p.79; and Janson & Eismann's The Far Right (New York: McGraw Hill, 1963), p. 154, both call del Valle an anti-Semite.) In my opinion, General Douglas MacArthur’s entire former Korean War team joined The Knigts of Malta in order to retain their powerbase, their sphere of influence and their unified sense of purpose which was to defeat Communism once and for all despite the efforts of either Truman or Kennedy or Carter to thwart their violent, anti-Democracy and anti-Constitutional propensities much like the later efforts of the Iran-Contra crowd and the World Anti-Communist League.
The Honorary Grand Admiral of the Order is listed as Admiral Sir Barry Domvile who had been jailed by the British during WW II as a Nazi agent, and was later listed as a Contributing Editor of Willis Carto's Western Destiny, in November 1965, when Roger Pearson, from Washington DC, was the Editor. (Pearson was the British Fascist who was perhaps the largest beneficiary of The Pioneer Fund grants and former leader of The World Anti-Communist League during its most blatantly pro-Fascist period) The Associate Chief of International Intelligence listed was Herman E. Kimsey, a high-ranking CIA operative, now deceased, who had worked with the Army CIC during the war.
Professor William Tucker found General Pedro del Valle, on the Military Committee of the Knights of Malta, important enough to include in his recent book on the topic of Funding of Scientific Racism.
“One of the coalition's official spokespersons who presented its resolutions to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs was General Pedro del Valle, a member of the Liberty Lobby's advisory board, who professed "the instinctive distrust which is natural in all Christians for all Jews, diluted or pure"; Jews "cannot also be good Americans," he wrote to a fellow officer, because "all Jews are hostile to the kind of America that anybody but a Jew desires." 61 Del Valle was also a co-owner of the biweekly paper Common Sense, which claimed that Mao Zedong was a "front ... for New York Jews," and del Valle was considered a member of "our ... inner circle of top people" by George Lincoln Rockwell, "Commander" of the American Nazi Party, one of the faithful few who donated to Rockwell's campaign to "nail the nigger and Jew LEADERS" behind "Martin Luther Coon." 62
George Lincoln Rockwell attended Brown University in Providence, RI at the same time that both Anastase Vonsiatsky was enrolled as special student and E. Howard Hunt was working towards his undergraduate degree. Rockwell later worked for Russell Maguire at The American Mercury.
Professor Tucker’s citations on General Pedro del Valle:
61. See the coalition's pamphlet "Resolutions" (adopted at its annual convention in the Mayflower Hotel, February 2, 1961), Group Research Archives: "American Coalition of Patriotic Societies" folder. See also the resolutions in the Congressional Record 87:1 (March 22, 1961), 4516-4519; del Valle's statement on the Coalition's behalf appeared in the hearings of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, July 24, 1962, 269-270, and the resolution he offered, opposing the purchase of United Nations Bonds, appeared in the Congressional Record: Appendix 87:2 (August 7, 1962), 6036-6037; the del Valle quotations are taken from his letters to Colonel J. Beaty, author of The Iron Curtain Over America, July 1, 1960, May 22, 1960, Beaty papers, box 1.
62. On del Valle and Common Sense, see George and Wilcox, Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe, 299-303; also G. Thayer, The Farther Shores of Politics: The American Political Fringe Today (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967), 72-74. On del Valle's relations with the American Nazi Party, see George Lincoln Rockwell, "Confidential Report on the Campaign in Virginia," June 12, 1965; according to a letter of appreciation from Rockwell (Rockwell to del Valle, June 12, 1965), del Valle was one of eighteen people to make a contribution to the Virginia campaign and in response received a "Certificate of Faith" signed by the commander; the report, correspondence, and certificate are all contained in the del Valle papers, box 5.
The previous summer, Carto had announced a sixteen-man "Advisory Board" for his new operation. Later to be renamed the 'Board of Policy,' it included Judge Tom Brady (White Citizens Councils). General Pedro del Valle, and W.L. Foster of Tulsa, Oklahoma, active in “We, the People” and “Congress of Freedom” (a Willis Carto organization where assassination plots against 200 American liberals were openly discussed at the annual meeting of The Congress of Freedom on April 4, 1963 in New Orleans attended by Dr. Revilo P. Oliver and Joseph A. Milteer of Senator J. Strom Thurmond’s National States Rights Party) and a financial supporter of veteran anti-semite Gerald L.K. Smith, who appeared by name in The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon. W. L. Foster was believed to have been involved with the “Tulsa Massacre” where the homes of over 500 blacks were burned to the ground in the 1930’s and over 100 were either murdered or lynched.
Later in 1958, Colonel Eugene C. Pomeroy became Liberty Lobby's "Washington Secretary," operating out of the offices of his own organization, “Defenders of the American Constitution” (later taken over by General Pedro Augusto del Valle). A second fund-raising campaign, for $44,500, ended July 4, 1959, far short of its goal. But Carto had established a presence in Washington. His lobby, meant from its very inception to serve as a front for less savory enterprises, was under way.
Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice (TMA) and The Manchurian Candidate
Epstein and Forster in Cross-Currents (1954) were very familiar with the machinations of Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice. They may have served as the primary sources for Richard Condon in The Manchurian Candidate (published in 1958) regarding the anti-Semitic Religious Right, the Fascist and pro-Nazi Military Right and MacArthur’s former General Staff. Epstein and Forster also wrote Danger on the Right and Report on The John Birch Society among other titles in intervening years and were active in the Anti-Defamation League of B‘nai B’rith for decades.
Here are some of their more optimistic comments about some very dangerous groups:
“Which is why the anxious efforts of Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin (soon to be the Presidential Candidate of the National States Rights Party that JFK assassination plotter, Joseph A. Milteer was involved with in 1963) and Major George Racey Jordan (of Major Jordan’s Diaries and The Manchurian Candidate) to turn TMA’s mass following into a permanent national body are failing.”[27]
“The big Madison Square Garden rally, held by TMA on November 29 (in 1955) was an obvious fizzle. Gerald L. K. Smith, Joseph P. Kamp (another notorious anti-Semite), and a generous representation of other ‘pros’ were sprinkled around the vast auditorium.”[28]
The term “pros” referred to professional anti-Semites and professional pro-Fascists as referenced elsewhere in Cross-Currents by Epstein and Forster.
Others associated with the real TMA included General Pedro A. del Valle of Shickshinny Knights of Malta fame, General George Van Horn Moseley the “man on the white horse” who was chosen as champion of the 1937 Smith-Vonsiatsky coup d’etat attempt, John B. Trevor, Sr. of The American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, Wickliffe Draper’s crony, Louis D. Carroll who was active very early in both of these eventual Willis Carto organizations: the Constitution Party (1952) and the Congress of Freedom (1955).
"After the assassination [JFK], Frank A. Capell (as well as Dr. Revilo P. Oliver and Rev. Gerald L K Smith) were 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.
(Note: Recall that C. D. Jackson was on the Psychological Strategy Board with C. Boyden Gray and served as the best man at the wedding of Wickliffe Draper’s sister in 1924 to the nephew of President Taft.)
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 H. L. 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 (close to both Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi and the racialist and Eugenicist, Nathanial Weyl who framed Alger Hiss), 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 (a media asset very friendly to right wing causes), published the claim (soon taken up by Frank Capell, by the John Birch Society, and by Willoughby's American Security Council) that Oswald, like another alleged KGB assassin (Bogdan Stashinsky), 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, (mentioned in The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon as Brig. General “Fighting Frank” Bollinger), Lt. General Pedro del Valle, and 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.
Above notes By Armen Victorian
Secret Societies
But bear with me, and keep in mind that the authors I am about to cite approach their research in the most scrupulous fashion. Unlike Corso, they footnote their work with scholarly precision and distinguish clearly between facts and inferences, theories and speculations. The books detailing Corso's background include Deep Politics and the Death of JFK by University of California/Berkeley professor Peter Dale Scott; The Man Who Knew Too Much by journalist Dick Russell; and a tome about American intelligence (which does not emphasize the JFK case) called The Old Boys by Burton Hersh.
They concur on the following history:
In the early sixties Corso was a member of a secret society called The Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, also known as the Shickshinny Knights of Malta, after the Pennsylvania town where the order was based. (This group is not to be confused with the other--and better known--Knights of Malta, the Rome-based Sovereign Military Order of Malta.)9 The order's "Armed Services Committee" was full of retired military types with ultra-rightist sympathies and included generals from the MacArthur circle like Bonner Fellers and Pedro del Valle. The Committee also included British Admiral Sir Barry Domville, who was fingered by the English as a Nazi agent and jailed during World War II, and General Charles Willoughby, former chief of intelligence for General Douglas MacArthur, whom MacArthur referred to as "my little fascist."10
The Shickshinny Knights were fanatical anticommunists. Some of them, like Willoughby, were affiliated with international ultra-rightist organizations like the World Anticommunist League and the International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture (started by H. L. Hunt’s son Nelson Bunker Hunt). Shickshinny, PA was itself the home of many White Russians who had fled Russia when the Bolsheviks came to power. In 1963, the Grand Chancellor of the Order was Col. Charles Thourot Pichel; during the thirties, Pichel had lobbied the German government to appoint him the official American liaison to Hitler.11
The Shickshinny Knights Armed Services Committee membership list also included Philip J. Corso, who, according to Russell, "had been a twenty-year Army Intelligence career man until his retirement in August 1963".12 Russell notes that in 1954 Corso had been the Army Operations Coordinating Board's delegate to the CIA team planning the overthrow of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. (This coup, in which the democratically elected leftist Arbenz was successfully removed from office, was primarily a U.S. intelligence operation. It was celebrated by the CIA as a "bloodless coup" because nary a shot was fired; rather, Arbenz was driven to flee the country by a barrage of U.S.-backed disinformation and propaganda. In other words, it was for the most part what spy folk call a "psy op," or psychological operation.) In 1956, Corso worked with West German paramilitary units connected to the spy network of former Nazi masterspy Reinhard Gehlen.13 (Corso himself claims that he participated in Operation Paperclip, the American intelligence operation that repatriated Nazi rocket scientists like Werner von Braun and Walter Dornberger to the U.S., so that they could run the U.S. space program.)
According to Peter Dale Scott, after the Kennedy assassination, both Corso and Frank Capell (another Shickshinny Knight, also an editor for the John Birch Society and close associate of Warren Commission witness, Revilo P. Oliver) were instrumental in spreading "stories linking Oswald to Russia and Ruby to Castro's Cuba."14 In Deep Politics, Scott argues that such stories were systematically disseminated after the assassination as part of a coverup, i.e., a disinformation scheme whose purpose was to deflect attention away from the real forces behind the Kennedy murder.
Russell concurs, saying that Corso was "among the first to spread rumors hinting that Oswald was tied to a Communist ring inside the CIA".15 Apparently the colonel is still on the case: according to Corso co-author Birne, an upcoming volume from the duo, tentatively titled The Day After Dallas, will give the real insider's lowdown on the JFK assassination, emphasizing alleged penetration of the CIA and "the entire U.S. secret government," by the KGB.16 (Interestingly, Russell explores indications--admittedly circumstantial--suggesting that the real group behind the assassination was connected to Willoughby and a "right-wing clique inside the Pentagon."17
Editor’s Note: Circumstantial, perhaps, in 1992 but right on the money today.
Both Russell and Scott link Willoughby, Corso, and company to a power struggle within the national security establishment between ultra-right military intelligence types and more "liberal," civilian CIA men.
• Willoughby's "old boys" were a vastly different breed from the old-school tie, Ivy League crowd who ran the CIA. Their enmity went back to a battle for hegemony between Military Intelligence and the OSS [the CIA] during World War II. While the CIA's power base expanded, the MacArthur-Willoughby's team's very existence was threatened. One Democratic president, Harry Truman, pushed them out of the far east. But Willoughby and his ilk did not fade away. They melded into global alliances, extending from quasi-religious orders such as the Shickshinny Knights of Malta to the [ex-Nazi] Reinhard Gehlen-Otto Skorzeny spy team in Europe.18
But they make clear that Corso has had a lifelong association with military intelligence and the ultra-right. They also suggest that he's no slouch at disinformation schemes and no stranger to hidden agendas. Furthermore, it's clear from such history that Corso is a veteran of CIA-style espionage. Interestingly, in The Day After Roswell, he paints CIA types as the bad guys in the story. It's this branch of the government that is bent on keeping the truth from the American people, Corso implies. Salt of the earth military patriots like himself just want the truth to come out, dadgummit.
Editor’s Note: Corso’s constant theme has always been to make the CIA look bad and very conspiratorial while attempting to make the right wing “Patriotic” Generals look like the good guys in World History. Senator John McCain of Arizona finally put Corso into his place in front of a national television audience when Corso tried to make a case for President Eisenhower being allegedly deliberately complicit in abandoning Korean POW’s which were supposedly identified by Colonel Corso and his staff. Senator McCain could only choose his words very carefully while essentially stating that “…I find it (umm) very difficult to believe you on this score Colonel Corso… to imply that President Eisenhower would ignore evidence and abandon legitimate POWs in Korea…is (umm) stretching the very limits of my patience. I am choosing my words carefully here. But let me just say this. If you expect me to believe you… well, then, you have to think again. Thank you, Colonel Corso for your testimony here today.”
Populist Generals
The image of populist generals fighting faceless bureaucrats on behalf of you and me has great appeal to Americans raised on John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart movies. Author Jim Marrs concludes his recent book on UFOs, Alien Agenda, on just such a note, ascribing the alleged government coverup of alleged alien presence to the exploitative "money power" that was the target of the old populist political movement.19 Marrs even brings up the story of the populist General Smedley Butler, who, after a career as one of the Marine Corps' most celebrated leaders, repudiated imperialism and the globalist agenda of corporate America back in the 1930s. Butler is a fascinating figure (he began as the most gungho of Marines and ended as a spokesman for the League Against War and Fascism) but he has zero to do with UFOs.20 But for Marrs the UFO issue is basically populist politics; as with the Kennedy assassination (the subject of Marrs' bestselling Crossfire, it's a case of the people being lied to and manipulated by the elites of business and government.
Corso strikes a similar pose: he's a populist general--or colonel, anyway--who's here to blow the whistle on what those creeps in the ivory towers are doing to us. But Corso is no Smedley Butler, nor is he a populist in the old sense of the term, where the slogan "Share the Wealth" implied a concern for the underclass. The Shickshinny Knights who made up the Armed Services Committee of the society were described in the group's literature as "Soldiers of Christ and Advocates of a Free World"--as the shock troops of global anticommunism.21 Sharing the wealth, it seems safe to say, was not part of their agenda.
But even Corso's pseudo-populist position has a Shickshinny feel to it. As both Scott and Russell demonstrate, the Shickshinny milieu represents a faction of the intelligence community that is to the right of the CIA and which views the whole civilian intelligence apparatus as a hotbed of dangerous liberalism. J. Edgar Hoover's own turf war with the CIA during the 1950s factors into this. As Scott writes:
• The intra-bureaucratic feud of the 1950s between the CIA and Hoover was much more than a matter of personalities: it was a conflict between alternate visions (globalist/internationalist versus nationalist/expansionist) of how the United States should expand into the rest of the world. Where the major oil companies and their allies in the CIA thought of creating and dominating a global economy, their nationalist opposition in the United States preferred unilateralist expansion into specific areas, above all Latin America and the far east. The latter group allied dissident generals, resentful of civilian control, with exploiters of minerals and independent oilmen opposed to the oil majors, like William Pawley and H. L. Hunt.22
These days, many would argue that the people would be well served by more opposition to the global economy and its elite promoters. But the "nationalist" opposition to globalization described above might as well be called the "fascist" opposition. Hunt, Hoover, and the Shickshinny types may not be fans of globalization, but they sure aren't the champions of ordinary folk. For "unilateralist expansion into. . . Latin America and the far east," read "Guatemala," "Chile," "Korea," "Vietnam."
Propaganda for the Ultra-Right
Coming back then to the question of what Corso is up to, I want to propose another possibility. While Corso is no doubt enriching himself at least a bit, and while his claims may indeed help the Pentagon disguise projects like Area 51, he may have still another purpose in mind, the same one he had in mind back in 1963: namely, stirring up popular sentiment against internationalism and the dangerous liberals in the CIA. (Imagine, for a moment, the mindset that views the CIA as "liberal.") He may be performing his Shickshinny specialty, spreading propaganda on behalf of the reactionary right. It's just that today he's using popular belief in UFO coverups to do so.
Think about it: conspiracy theories have of late become the national pastime. Of course, this is understandable, given that actual conspiracies--like Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the Kennedy coverup--have inundated the American people in recent decades. The current popular obsession with conspiracies is also fueled by the decline of the old myth, dominant in the fifties and so flattering to America's self image, which assured Americans that conspiracies can't happen here. In recent years the old myth has collapsed under the weight of reality. But now, in place of the discredited old certainty, the popular imagination has embraced a new myth, one that is just as sweeping and irrational as the old one, but which says the opposite: i.e., everything's a conspiracy. And in this, activists of the ultra-right see an organizing tool.
The ultra-right has a long historical association with conspiracy theories; claims that the Jews were plotting to take over the world served Hitler and the Nazis quite well in their rise to power. Today, in the wake of the Cold War, it's quite clear that the ultra-right is on the rise again, as are grandiose, demonizing conspiracy theories. In some corners, a program appears to be underway whose purpose is to exploit popular interest in conspiracies for rightist purposes. Consider the militia subculture: while this milieu no doubt includes some people who are sincere in their distrust of big government, it's also full of neo-Nazi organizers looking to draw such innocents into the fascist orbit. Conspiracy theories about government plots, many of them as kooky sounding and ill-supported as those spouted by Corso, abound in this same milieu. These help drive a wedge between the people and "the government," reinforcing a popular alienation which the ultra-rightists can exploit.
Lore about UFOs and government coverups can be made to fit this same pattern.23 It's a popular mythology that can be used to convince people--through drama, not data--that yes, something terribly wrong, something virtually demonic, is going on "in Washington." Of course, not everyone will be convinced by such propaganda; indeed, many won't even listen; but some will, and they will tend to encounter the stories in media contexts where standards of proof are, at best, loose. On talk radio, on the Internet, in subcultures like those surrounding the militias or ufology, assertion often passes for proof and rumor for fact.
Propagandists for the ultra-right have, one suspects, figured this out. They've targeted these marginal, unregulated areas of the media and are using them to spread myths, rumors and lies, the gist of which is always the same: that "the Guvmint" is your worst enemy. Never mind that the people spreading such tales often emerge from the national security milieu themselves, as was the case with the Shickshinny rumormongers in 1963. Never mind that their quibble seems to be not with exploitation per se but with who gets to reap the benefits of it. Never mind that such "Soldiers of Christ" seem mostly to worship military might.
Is Corso still a propagandist of this type, or is he today just a buffoon? The colonel ends his book congratulating himself on having saved his country, his planet, and his species. It's so ridiculous, you have to chuckle. Old Soldiers of Christ never die; they just protect the earth from the scum of the universe. And hey, you can't argue with that.
Editor’s Note: One of Colonel Corso’s most ardent admirers and strongest supporters, John Armstrong, also a right wing populist conspiracy monger and part of the JFK conspiracy fringe, has written a treatise on Ukrainian Nationalism and is himself of Ukrainian extraction.
But let us give the last word here to a different kind of soldier:
• We must give up the Prussian ideal--carrying on offensive warfare and imposing our wills upon other people in distant places. Such doctrine is un-American and vicious. . .
There must be no more reactionary and destructive intelligence work. The true domestic enemies of our nation--hunger, injustice, and exploitation--should concern the military intelligence; not the subversive shadows of their own creation.24
So wrote Smedley Butler, ex-Marine general and authentic populist, in 1935. Now: who you gonna call?
Notes and References
1. Kramer, Gene. "CIA Feared UFO Hysteria," Chicago Sun-Times August 4, 1997: A4.
2. Ibid.
3. Qtd. in ibid.
4. Qtd. in ibid.
5. See, for example, Karl Pflock, "I Was a Ufologist for the CIA" (UFO 8:6, Nov./Dec. 1993), in which Pflock discusses his "cloak and dagger" career in the Defense Department while denying it has any connection with his work as a Ufologist; or Don Ecker, "Noted Ufologist Admits Briefing CIA: (UFO 8:5, Sept./Oct. 1993), concerning Dr. Bruce Maccabee, a Navy scientist who specializes in analysis of UFO photographs and who is frequently quoted in UFO literature. Maccabee admits to "periodically meeting with CIA personnel and secretly briefing them on UFO matters since 1979" (p.7).
6. Marrs, Jim. Alien Agenda (NY: HarperCollins, 1977), 183-87.
7. Knapp, George. "Debunkers of 'Whistleblower' May Be Premature," UFO 12:3, May/June 1997, 22-23.
8. Leach, Robert T. "Behind the Roswell Secrets: Q&A: Day After Co-Author Bill Birnes," UFO 12:5, Sept./Oct. 1997, 28.
9. Russell, Dick. The Man Who Knew Too Much (NY: Carroll & Graf, 1992), 528. For more on the various groups calling themselves "Knights of Malta" and a detailed tracing of their right-wing connections, see Francoise Hervet, "The Sovereign Military Order of Malta," Covert Action, Winter 1986.
10. Ibid., 529; MacArthur quote, 708.
11. Ibid., 528.
12. Ibid., 529.
13. Ibid.
14. Scott, Peter Dale. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 1993), 214.
15. Russell, 529.
16. Leach, 28.
17. Russell, 708-09
18. Russell, 707.
19. Marrs, 380-94.
20. For more on Butler, see Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine: General Smedley Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History (Univ. of Kentucky Pr., 1987).
21. Russell, 529.
22. Scott, 212.
23. See, for instance, the collection of bizarre UFO texts by the author called "Commander X." They're full of ultra-rightist rhetoric about a coming one-world government and its ungodly horrors. Also, William Cooper's Behold a Pale Horse blends ultra-rightist conspiracy talk and Christian apocalypticism with supposed "revelations" about the government and UFOs.
24. Butler, Smedley. "War is a Racket," Prevailing Winds #2, 1995, 4. The text is a reprint of a speech delivered by Butler in 1993.
It should be noted that according to Peter Dale Scott's book Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (pages 214-215), Colonel Philip J. Corso, who appeared in Dateline NBC (6-24-97) as the author of a new book about the Roswell UFO crash, was in 1963 disseminating stories linking Oswald to Russia.
According to Scott, veteran of army intelligence Corso had work with C. D. Jackson (LIFE propagandist and the Best Man at Wickliffe Draper’s Sister’s Wedding to a Taft in 1924) and relayed information stating that "Oswald was tied to a Communist ring inside the CIA". Corso was a right-winger and Shickshinny (Pennsylvania) Knight of Malta who developped an anti-CIA paranoia apparently because he finds it not extreme enough!!!!
I haven't yet read Corso's book, although I will do so shortly. But, having learned that at least one leading ufologist (previously unsympathetic to the Roswell case) takes Corso at least semi-seriously, I decided to do a little preliminary checking.
The previous poster's information is correct. But there's more -- as anyone can confirm, using Scott and his (characteristically exemplary) footnotes as a guide.
Corso has a history of disturbing ties to racists, fascist sympathizers and nutball theories. He had worked with Reinhard Gehlen (formerly Hitler's chief intelligence officer) and the BND in trying to set up terrorist operations within Eastern Europe. Washington considered such schemes risky in the nuclear age, so the plug was pulled. Corso soon counted himself among that weirdo coterie of military intelligence staffers who considered the CIA "soft" on communism, and most likely heavily infiltrated by the KGB.
Similar beliefs were held by Corso's ally, General Charles Willoughby, who had been Douglas MacArthur's intelligence chief. There's a lot of published material on and by WIlloughby, and it's all worth reading. In short, Willoughby was an anti-Semite, and an extremist who saw the world in conspiratorial terms. His politics leaned so far to the extreme Right that one can only wonder why he served on the Allied side during World War II. (MacArthur once called him "My little fascist.")
When Corso left military intelligence in 1963, he became a key aide to Strom Thurmond, who helped lead the pro-segregation crusades of the 1960s. But he did not severe his ties to Willoughby.
Corso also became a leading member of a bizarre organization called the "Shickshinny" Knights of Malta. We had best be careful here; I know that this is the sort of "link" that causes conspiracy buffs of a certain stripe to go into wild conspira-gasms. This organization is apparently a rather ineffectual breakaway from the better-known Knights of Malta. (After Napoleon attacked the island of Malta, the story goes, a number of knights migrated to Russia and joined the Czar's "inner guard;" after the revolution, these staunch White Russians migrated to America -- many going to Shickshinny, PA, hence the name.)
I've seen some literature from these "Knights": To me, they have always seemed more silly than sinister. But one fact deserves our respectful attention: At the time Corso joined the exclusive sect, its leader was one Colonel Charles Thourot Pichel. Pichel was an explicit, undeniable Nazi. During the Third Reich, he had begged Hitler's government for the job of representing Nazi political interests in the United States.
Willoughby had also joined the Shickshinny Knights at this time, and co-published with the organization a periodical called the "Foreign Intelligence Journal." This journal specialized in anti-Semitic theories and the kind of extremist "enemy-within" anti-Communist blather we associate with groups like the John Birch Society. Apparently, this rather odd group had become, in the early 1960s, something of a dumping-ground for military intelligence veterans who were so zealous they had come to consider the CIA hopelessly "pink."
The darling of this Corso's "Knights" was a very strange man named Michael Goliniewsky, whose name pops up in most hitories of the CIA "mole-hunts" of the 1960s. Goliniewsky was a high-ranking Polish intelligence officer who sympathized with "the West," and began feeding information to the CIA. Apparently, his info was rather good at first. The Soviets became suspicious of him, so he had to scuttle off to America quickly.
It soon became apparent to the saner CIA analysts that Goliniewsky was, to put the matter bluntly, out of his mind. He began to claim that he was no less a personage than Prince Alexi, the Czar's son and rightful heir...! Goliniewsky never really explained how he ("Alexi") cured his internal bleeding, or the EXTERNAL bleeding he no doubt underwent at Ekaterinberg. Nor did he explain how the Prince somehow became a leader within the intelligence apparat of a Communist country. (You'd think Polish spooks would do a better background check...)
At any rate, Goliniewsky (like other defectors) caused much mischief by telling dark tales of KGB penetration of both the American and British intelligence services and governments. His claims were baseless, but for a while they did much harm. As is usually the case in these realms, anyone in a Western government's service who espoused anything less than a full-scale attack on the Soviet Union (never mind the nuclear consequences) was damned as a Soviet "penetration agent."
The CIA soon learned not to take Goliniewsky seriously. But his demented world-view fit right in with the ideas held by the Knights, Willoughby, Corso and co. So these "Knights" became the chief propagandists for Goliniewsky in the United States.
I've read a few of Goliniewsky's latter-day screeds -- he used to publish a rag called "Double Eagle." It was filled with wild, quasi-fascistic conspiracy theories, which usually had to do with occult powers driving the inexorable Communist drive to world domination. A lot of what he wrote struck me as thinly-disguised anti-Semitism, making use of the usual euphemisms for "powerful Jews" (e.g., "the Dark Forces," the "International Bankers," and so on).
And THIS was the man Philip Corso once thought possessed the key to understanding world events.
As mentioned by the previous poster, Corso also was instrumental in pushing disinformation about the JFK assassination, labelling Oswald a tool of the alleged "KGB ring" within the United States. (I use the word in its restricted sense, and not, as most internet posters do, merely as a desciptor for any opinion one does not share.)
In brief: What do we know about Philip Corso, the man who now makes such wild claims about what happened "The Day After Roswell"?
He is a right-wing extremist.
He was a close associate of Willoughby, a fascist sympathizer who led an anti-Semitic crusade (and committed many other sins, as well).
He provided tireless help to Strom Thurmond in HIS viciously racist crusade.
He joined an organization led by Pichel, an outright Nazi.
He helped promulgate the claims of Michael Goliniewsky, perhaps the most dubious of all claimants to the Czar's fortune.
During the initial investigation into the JFK assassination, he deliberately lied (there is no other word for it) about Oswald's background.
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