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Philip James Corso served in the United States Army, and earned the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His background included being an intelligence officer on General Douglas MacArthur's staff during the Korean War; a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council; head of Foreign Technology in Army Research and Development at the Pentagon in the early 1960s, where he was in charge of the Roswell Files. He retired from the Army in 1963, then served as National Security specialist staff to U.S. Senators James Eastland and Strom Thurmond. He was a highly decorated soldier, a recipient of 30 medals and commendations during his long military career. |