Corso was on the staff of President Eisenhower's National Security Council for four years
(1953-1957). In 1961, he became Chief of the Pentagon's Foreign Technology desk in
Army Research and Development, working under Lt. Gen. Arthur Trudeau. When he left military intelligence in 1963, Corso became a key aide to Senator Strom Thurmond. In
1964, Corso was assigned to Warren Commission member Senator Richard Russell Jr. as an investigator into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Philip Corso relates in his book The Day After Roswell (coauthor William J. Birnes) how he stewarded extraterrestrial artifacts recovered from a crash at Roswell,
New Mexico in 1947. According to Corso, the
reverse engineering of these artifacts indirectly led to the de-velopment of accelerated particle beam devices, fiber optics, lasers, integrated cir-Share with your friends: