Lis­ten now: Side 1 | Side 2

In addi­tion to a dis­cus­sion of the pro­posed devel­op­ment of human cloning by the “Raelians,” an “Alien-Contactee” cult with alarm­ing fascis­tic over­tones, this broad­cast sets forth the ultra right-wing and fas­cist asso­ci­a­tions of Lt. Col. Philip Corso, a retired U.S. Army Colonel and aid to Sen­a­tor Strom Thur­mond of South Car­olina (the chair­man of the Sen­ate Armed Ser­vices Com­mit­tee.) Thur­mond has writ­ten the intro­duc­tion to a book by Corso (The Day After Roswell), in which Corso alleges that the U.S. gov­ern­ment has been in con­tact with “space aliens” and that he was per­son­ally involved with devel­op­ing “alien tech­nol­ogy” and dis­trib­ut­ing it to the U.S. mil­i­tary and indus­trial com­mu­ni­ties. In the past, Corso has also claimed that Lee Har­vey Oswald was a com­mu­nist who killed Pres­i­dent Kennedy. One of the most impor­tant ele­ments of this pro­gram con­cerns a piv­otally impor­tant arti­cle in the July 1997 issue of Pop­u­lar Mechan­ics. Access­ing infor­ma­tion obtained under the Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion Act, the arti­cle devel­ops the the­sis that the Roswell Inci­dent actu­ally occurred, but that the fly­ing device that crashed there was not of extra-terrestrial ori­gin. One of the most cel­e­brated of the UFO inci­dents, the Roswell episode was prob­a­bly sparked by the crash of a pro­to­typ­i­cal fly­ing device being devel­oped by the U.S. using cap­tured Ger­man and/or Japan­ese tech­nol­ogy obtained under “Project Paper­clip.” Project Paper­clip was an Amer­i­can pro­gram that imported Axis nations’ mil­i­tary tech­nol­ogy and sci­en­tists for the pur­poses of uti­liz­ing them for the U.S. (The best known out­growth of this pro­gram was the impor­ta­tion of the Nazi rocket sci­en­tists, such as SS offi­cer Werner von Braun, to work for the U.S. space explo­ration program.)