Organization · Pentagon, Office of the Chief of Research and Development
Army Foreign Technology Division (OCRD, 1960-63)
A small desk in the Army's Office of the Chief of Research and Development that Lt Col Philip Corso says he ran from 1960 to 1963 under Lt Gen Arthur Trudeau, using it to pass Roswell debris to industry as ordinary research. It is not the Air Force's Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson. John Alexander confirms it existed and vanished after Corso left; almost nothing else documents it, and Gerb has FOIA requests out.
Claims (5)
He ran the Army's Foreign Technology Division under the Office of the Chief of R&D (1960-63) for Lt Gen Arthur Trudeau, inheriting the 'Roswell file' in 1961 and seeding its items to industry as ordinary R&D; its brief included 'foreign intelligence and developments not of this world'.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedPhilip J. Corso
The Army FTD 'was formed as Corso stated and then disappeared shortly after his retirement.'Philip J. Corso - US Army UFO Technology Research & DevelopmentfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedJohn B. Alexander
The Army Research Office was created in 1958 under Trudeau's OCRD; Trudeau retired in 1962 and Gen. Dwight E. Beach succeeded him.Philip J. Corso - US Army UFO Technology Research & DevelopmentfirsthandOn the recordArmy history (cited by UAP Gerb)
Items went to Bell Labs, Sperry Rand and 48 firms on night vision; the budget was 'about $2 billion'.firsthandLeadPhilip J. Corso
The Army FTD, distinct from the Air Force FTD at Wright-Patterson, may have been the first structured legacy program, and MITRE's 1958 founding served the same seeding; it left almost no record outside Corso's file.speculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
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Connected
The MITRE Corporation orgNational Air and Space Intelligence Center orgArthur Trudeau personPhilip J. Corso personUAP Gerb (Sam) person
Sources
- UAP Gerb: Philip J. Corso, US Army UFO technology R&D
- UAP Gerb: the MITRE Corporation
- UAP Gerb: 80 Years of UFO crash retrieval and reverse engineering: a timeline