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Other Books by Joseph P. Farrell: Nazi International Reich of the Black Sun The S.S. Brotherhood of the Bell Secrets of the Unified Field The Cosmic War The Giza Death Star The Giza Death Star Deployed The Giza Death Star Destroyed ROSWELL AND THE REICH Joseph P. Farrell Adventures Unlimited Press Roswell and the Reich Copyright 2010 by Joseph P. Farrell ISBN: 978-1-935487-05-0 All Rights Reserved Published by: Adventures Unlimited Press One Adventure Place Kempton, Illinois 60946 USA [email protected] www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com Cover by Terry Lamb Third printing August 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 ROSWELL AND THE REICH The Nazi Connection To T.S.F.: You are sorely, and profoundly , missed; Thank you, and God bless you. And to all the “extended Inklings,” you know who you are: Larry, Rick, Richard, Robin, Linda, Marty, George Ann, Michael S., And all the rest, Thank you and God bless you, too. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface and Prologue A. Initial Personal Notes B. The Huge Anomaly C. Methodological Overview and Other Considerations D. Succinct Abstract of the Case and the Argument E. Final Personal Notes PART ONE: THE TIMELINES AND THE S CENARIOS 1. The First Articulation: The Roswell Daily Record Articles and the Berlitz and Moore Presentation A. The First Articulation: The July 8, 1947 Articles in the Roswell Daily Record 1. The Main Article 2. The Forgotten Article 3. A Summary of the First Articulation of the Roswell Incident 2. The Second Articulation: Berlitz-Moore-Friedman and the Emergence of the Standard Scenario A. The Conventional Wisdom 1. The Interrupted Teletype: Lydia Sleppy 2. Prejudicing the Response: Initial Inquiries of the Pro-ET Scenario 3. 1st Lieutenant Walter Haut’s Press Release 4. Major Jesse Marcel is Ordered to Fort Worth with the Wreckage 5. Weather Balloon Debris is Substituted at the Press Conference: Major Jesse Marcel and the Debris a. Marcel’s Curriculum Vitae According to Berlitz and Moore b. The Moore-Friedman-Marcel Interviews of May and December 1979 6. The Parade of Witnesses Begins a. Colonel Blanchard’s Widow b. Grady Barnett and the Second Site: Bodies are Finally Found c. Mac Brazel’s Son, Bill Brazel: New Scenario Details, and the Debris Again d. Floyd Proctor Interview: More Details Emerge e. The Timing of Mac Brazel’s Radio Interview f. Jesse Marcel Jr. on the Debris and His Father 7. Enter the Extraterrestrials: A Morgue Full of ETs, Strange Incidents, and Stranger Memoranda a. The Norma Gardner Story b. The Goldwater-LeMay Incident c. The FBI and Twining-Schulgen Memoranda B. Summary 1. The Basic Timeline of Events According to Berlitz Moore’s and Presentation 2. The “Bodies” 3. The Debris 4. Problems with the Balloon Theory 3. The Third Articulation: Berliner-Friedman and the Tightening of the Standard Scenario A. The Wider Context 1. The Problems with Any Balloon Explanation of the Event 2. Some Pertinent Questions 3. The Memoranda a. The Twining-Schulgen Memorandumb b. Project Sign and General Hoyt Vandenberg’s Conclusion c. The Conclusions of the Robertson Panel 4. The Smith-Sarbacher Interview B. The Debris and the Bodies 1. A Methodological Assumption 2. The Glenn Dennis Story 3. The Gerald Anderson Story a. Preliminary Context b. The Story Itself 4. Mac Brazel a. The Debris b. The Bodies c. Berliner’s and Friedman’s Analysis 5. The Grady “Barney” Barnett Story C. “In the Cause of Objectivity” 1. Dispensing With The Writing 2. Making More Short Shrift of the German Connection a. The Foo Fighter Problem b. The Ghost Rockets: Ignoring Another Significant Clue c. The Declassification Argument and Its Implicit Assumption 4. The Fourth Articulation: Randle, Schmitt, Carey, and the Emergence of the Revisionist Scenario A. The Revisionist Scenario 1. Adjusting the Timeline: The Military’s Earlier Involvement 2. Discounting Grady “Barney” Barnett 3. New Witnesses, and New Details from Old Witnesses a. New Witness: The Roswell Fire Department Response, Frankie Rowe, and Dan Dwyer b. The “Archaeologists Problem” c. Mac Brazel’s July 9, 1947 Interview, and an Inherent Contradiction d. Frank Kaufman e. Melvin Brown f. Pappy and Sappho Henderson g. Jim Ragsdale and Trudy Truelove h. Glenn Dennis, the Nurse, and the Bodies i. The Lieutenant Governor Joseph Montoya Episode j. Radar Tracking of the Craft k. Walter Haut’s Post-Mortem Affidavit and its Implications l. Don Schmitt’s Illustration of the Craft and the Testors Model Rendition m. Jesse Marcel Jr.’s Hieroglyphics B. Taking Account of “All the Evidence” 1. Randle and Schmitt on the Debris, the Bodies, and “Other Explanations” 2. Colonel Blanchard’s Strange Remark to His Wife 3. The Pathology of a Methodology: The Primacy of the Bodies 5. The Fifth Articulation: The Skeptics, the Balloon, and the Hot Air Force A. Kal Korff 1. And the Witnesses a. The “Collapse” of the Lydia Sleppy “Interrupted Teletype” Story b. The Collapse of the Lieutenant Governor Joseph Montoya Story c. The Collapse of the Melvin Brown Story d. The Collapse of the Glenn Dennis Story e. The Collapse of the Frank Kaufmann Story (1) Kaufmann’s Lack of “Universal Endorsement” (2) Randle’s and Schmitt’s Presentation of Kauf mann as Three Different People (3) Kaufmann’s Appearance at nearly Every Critical Juncture of the Roswell Story (4) Too Many Internal Contradictions f. Jim Ragsdale and the Golden Helmets g. The Rowe Story and the Roswell Fire Department h. Colonel Blanchard’s Leave i. General Nathan Twining’s Schedule Change 2. And the Debris a. The Debris and the Original Witnesses (1) Proctor Problems (2) Bill Brazel, Bessie Brazel Schreiber, and Korff’s Analysis b. “Art’s Parts” c. The Blake Larsen Debris Hoax d. Korff’s Summary of the Debris 3. Korff and the New Balloon Hypothesis a. Major Marcel’s “Bait and Switch” Scenario b. The Shandera Interview with General Thomas DuBose, the Testimony of Warrant Officer Irving Newton, and Counterintelligence Agent Sheridan Cavitt’s Affidavit c. The Mogul Balloon and the Roswell Debris d. Berliner’s and Friedman’s Refusal to Hear Professor Moore’s Side of the Story B. Karl Pflock 1. And the Standard Scenario a. The Debris b. The Bodies 2. The Revisionist Scenario a. The Witnesses (1) Jim Ragsdale (2) Frank Kaufmann b. The Radar Tracking Story c. “The Terror and Other Exaggerations” d. Kevin Randle’s Break with Don Schmitt 3. A Personal Note on Major Jesse Marcel Sr. 4. The Debris Again 6. The Hot Air Force, the Skeptics, and the Balloon Hypothesis: Randle’s Replies A. The U.S. Air Force’s Balloon Explanations: “Case Closed”? 1. The Air Force Calls the Roswell Witnesses 2. Its Potential Significance: The Massive, Fatal Problem 3. The Balloon Launch Hypothesis: Bodies and Debris 4. The Hieroglyphics: A Failure to Explain 5. Summing Up B. Kevin Randle’s Responses 1. Randle’s Admissions Regarding the Principal Revisionist Witnesses 2. “New” Witnesses, and Old Ones Retreaded a. Anna Willmon b. Johnson, the Debris, and the Bodies c. Jorgenson’s Story: Drone Jets, Hieroglyphics, and Some Descriptions d. Gonzales’ Aliens, and the “Spacecraft” e. Provost Marshal Edwin Easley, and Barton’s Bodies, Aircraft, and Radiation f. An “Estimation of the Situation” 3. The Air Force’s Mogul Investigation: Whom It Did Not Interview, and Why 4. General DuBose 5. Randle’s Latest Summation of the Incident 7. The Alien Autopsy Carnival, and the General’s Telegram A. The Alien Autopsy Carnival 1. Korff’s and Friedman’s Involvement 2. Korff’s and Friedman’s Critiques of the Film B. General Roger Ramey’s Telegram 1. The Discovered “Messages” 2. Houran’s and Randle’s Critique 8. The Corso Conundrum A. A Brief Overview of Corso’s Story B. Corso’s Assertions Versus the Public Histories of the Technologies C. Corso’s “Technologies List” and the Nazi Connection PART TWO: THE PROBLEMATIC OF THE MAJIC-12 DOCUMENTS HOAX 9. Friedman and the Case for the Authenticity of the Majic-12 Documents A. Friedman on the Nature of Majic-12 Document Authenticity 1. The Methodology 2. The Eisenhower Briefing Document 3. The Majestic-12 Membership List a. Dr. Donald Menzel b. The Others c. The Missing Annexes and the Truman-Forrestal Memorandum 4. The Cutler-Twining Memo 5. The Special Operations Manual 6. The “Cooper-Cantwheel” Documents B. Implications and Observations: General Montague, Majestic-12, and the Nazi Scenario 10. Randle and the case Against the Authenticity of the Majic-12 Documents A. The Original Set of Majic-12 Documents 1. The Eisenhower Briefing Document 2. The Cutler Twining Memo B. The Cooper-Cantwheel Documents C. Friedman’s Replies, and a Methodological Assumption PART THREE: ROSWELL AND THE REICH : THE NAZI SCENARIO IN THE WIDER Context of OPERATION PAPERCLIP, THE COLD WAR, AND THE NAZI INTERNATIONAL 11. Conclusions and Analysis to Parts One and Two A. Summary 1. Two Datasets 2. The Witnesses for the Bodies and the Alleged Consistency of Their Description 3. The State of the Story of the Roswell Incident: the Basic Facts and Randle’s and Korff’s Conclusions 4. The Methodology of Proponents of the Extraterrestrial Interpretation 5. The Dialectic of Roswell 6. The Roswell Dialectic and the Principal Researchers B. Analysis 1. The Methodology of Part Three 2. The Debris and the Witnesses 3. The Inadequacy of Any Balloon Theory 4. The Arguments Against Something Exotic but Terrestrial 12. The Breathtaking Audacity of the Wider Context: “Harmless” Foo Fighters, Paperclip, The Nazi International, UFOs, and the National Security State A. Those “Harmless” Foo Fighters 1. 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  • Ruth Asawa Bibliography

    Ruth Asawa Bibliography

    STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Ruth Asawa Bibliography Articles, periodicals, and other printed works in chronological order, 1948-2014, followed by bibliographic citations in alphabetical order by author, 1966-2013. Listing is based on clipping files in the Ruth Asawa papers, M1585. 1948 “Tomorrow’s Artists.” Time Magazine August 16, 1948. p.43-44 [Addison Gallery review] [photocopy only] 1952 “How Money Talks This Spring: Shortest Jacket-Longest Run For Your Money.” Vogue February 15, 1952 p.54 [fashion spread with wire sculpture props] [unknown article] Interiors March 1952. p.112-115 [citation only] Lavern Originals showroom brochure. Reprinted from Interiors, March 1952. Whitney Publications, Inc. Photographs of wire sculptures by Alexandre Georges and Joy A. Ross [brochure and clipping with note: “this is the one Stanley Jordan preferred.”] “Home Furnishings Keyed to ‘Fashion.’” New York Times June 17, 1952 [mentions “Alphabet” fabric design] [photocopy only] “Bedding Making High-Fashion News at Englander Quarters.” Retailing Daily June 23, 1952 [mentions “Alphabet” fabric design] [photocopy only] “Predesigned to Fit A Trend.” Living For Young Homemakers Vol.5 No.10 October 1952. p.148-159. With photographs of Asawa’s “Alphabet” fabric design on couch, chair, lamp, drapes, etc., and Graduated Circles design by Albert Lanier. All credited to designer Everett Brown “Living Around The Clock with Englander.” Englander advertisement. Living For Young Homemakers Vol.5 No.10 October 1952. p.28-29 [“The ‘Foldaway Deluxe’ bed comes only in Alphabet pattern, black and white.”] “What’s Ticking?” Golding Bros. Company, Inc. advertisement. Living For Young Homemakers Vol.5 No.10 October 1952.