“Corps”45 pages
- p. 40 …debris, sometimes along
with his Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) subordinate, Lewis Rickett, who, like
Marcel, is…
- p. 45 …assembly) were located at the Army
Signal Corps Museum at Fort Monmouth and were obtained. A…
- p. 75 …and a Counter Intelligence Corps Officer, Sheridan Cavitt,
went to the ranch to inspect the material…
- p. 105 …Colonel Oliver LaFarge, Air Reserve Corps,
at Santa Fe, made atrangernents for Colonel Blanchard to visit…
- p. 159 …or unlawful inducement. ~
~I was a Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) Special Agent for the US Army AU…
- p. 163 …the Army Air Corps... right.
RW: When did you get transferred to Roswell, Sir?
SC: I…
- p. 166 …activity
like that, I was Counter Intelligence Corps, this didn't have anything to do with…
- p. 168 …There was nobody else out there from CIC or
Counter Intelligence Corps that you knew of…
- p. 169 …did, in the Air Force; the Air Corps. I think they wanted to ... they were having…
- p. 170 …six) "was an agent in the counterintelligence corps. He accompanied another
intelligence officer on the initial…
- p. 172 …Not
that you personally did, but the Army Air Corps in general: "The trip to the…
- p. 213 …Previously, I was
appointed as the laboratory chief in the Signal Corps as an Air Force…
- p. 214 …Some of the contractors lined up were not quite in concert with typical Signal
Corps practices…
- p. 217 …One of the individuals,
Sheridan Cavitt, who at that time was a Counter-Intelligence
Corps officer…
- p. 224 …Colonel Duffy was assigned to
extract meteorological.equipment out of the Signal_Corps in 1943.
There…
- p. 225 …Colonel Duffy talked to the field
artillery that was procuring through the Signal Corps, gun-laying…
- p. 236 …During WWII, the
·signal Corps had laid on them the requirement to develop a
constant level…
- p. 246 …V-2s and
other rockets the Ordnance Corps people were flying over at White
Sands. So…
- p. 264 …I knew the Signal Corps designation, the SCR-584s and
270-s, etc., but this was…
- p. 268 …We talked with the Signal Corps up at Fort Monmouth and
that's where we got…
- p. 274 …I was an Air Force officer
assigned to the Signal Corps as part of Colonel Duffy…
- p. 277 …Signal Corps and Army Air Force?
A: All the officers that I had on my staff…
- p. 278 …It was the Signal Corps' responsibility to procure those targets;
it was not the responsibility of…
- p. 279 …He got into a considerable amount of, shall we say, controversy with the Signal Corps
because…
- p. 299 …a) US Army Signal Corps Museum, Ft Gordon GA
Mr Ted Wise, Director, DSN 780-2818…
- p. 318 …Maj J~sse
Marcel, and two Counterintelligence Corps Agents, Capt Sheridan Cavitt and
MSgt Lewis Rickett…
- p. 320 …Liaison Officer to the US
Army Signal Corps, with primary duties for securing meteorological equipment
from…
- p. 517 …A modified radiosonde-type aneroid pressure capsule (Signal
Corps ML 310-/) has been the basic sensing…
- p. 519 Corps ML-310/ radiosonde aneroid unit, a metal helix on a
rotating cylinder of insulating material…
- p. 731 …Army Air Corps Stratosphere Flight
of 1934 in the Balloon 'Explorer'", Contributed Tec~ical Papers of…
- p. 761 …4· Richard Hassard, a forEr Signal Corps Officer was hired
because ot his general knowledge of…
- p. 763 …Griffith
11/7/II:> Visking Corp.
Chicago, Ill.
Mr. Cahn
12/4/11:> Visking Corp.
Chicago…
- p. 764 12/16/46 Celanese Celluloid Corp.
180 }ladison J, venue
New York, ~i. i..
12/17…
- p. 765 …Smith
1/3/47 Visking Corp.
Chicago, Ill.
Att: J. L. Lane
1/8/47 Watson…
- p. 766 …1/21/47 Shellmar·Projects Corp.
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
1/21/47 Milprint Inc.
Milwaukee, Wise…
- p. 767 …toPermission withheld.
place subcontract with
Unexcelled Chern. Corp.
for the fabrication of
be.lloons.
Request th…
- p. 768 …J •
3/7/47 Plax Corp.
Hartford, Conn.
Mr. R. E• .Ames
Same recuest as letter…
- p. 769 3/19/47 Unexcelled Chem. Corp.
New Brunswick, N.J.
Att: 2~r. Tegen
3/';:1…
- p. 781 …Plastics & Packaging No
1-f.J.lwa.ukee 1, Wisconsin
Celanese Plastics Corp. Plastics & Packaging No…
- p. 783 …As the motor switched modulator ~us already i~ experimental
state of manufacture for the Signal Corps…
- p. 810 …date, talked to Lt Dyer of Signal Corps regarding for tomorrow
firing. Chantz and Bill went…
- p. 811 …Delayed trip to Silver City to talk over Signal Corps
Communication with Peoples, Ball this PM…
- p. 812 …Left Alamogordo about 9 am, Chantz, Porter and myself, 2 Signal Corps
men along. Stopped at…
- p. 908 …As presently designed, the modulator contains a
standard Signal Corps ML-310E radiosonde aneroid
unit, a…
- p. 981 …Army Signal Corps, Saipan, in
1944. Photo Courtesy of Mrs. Emily Duffy.
Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus…
including the boiling of balloons before launch (which he personally developed
during World War II) and a stepladder used to launch balloons, could not all
have coincidentally been used by other organizations.45
The details may have been provided to the radar officers by Crary, Project MOGUL
Field Operations Director, who did not depart by C-54 with the rest of the
NYU /Watson Laboratory group on July 8, but who later left by car on Ju]y 9, the
day the staged launch took place. Additionally, three of Crary's staff, Don
Reynolds, Sol Oliva, and Bill Edmonston, resided permanently in Alamogordo.
It was apparent from Crary's diary that he had worked very closely with Major
Pritchard and reported to him on occasion (twelve documented meetings from
December 1946-April1947). One instance, on April 7, 1947, Crary gave Pritchard
a "progress report for MOGUL project to date," indicating that Major Pritchard had
access to MOGUL information.46 Another statement which appeared to confirm a
cover story appeared in the caption below the balloon picture and described a
typewritten tag stapled to the target identifying it as having come from Alamo-
gordo AAF. Moore believed this not to be true because any equipment foulnd was
not to be associated with the USAAF, only with NYU; therefore flights carried·
"return to" tags identifying NYU as the responsible agency.47
CONCLUSION
Many of the claims surrounding the events of July 1947 could be neither proved
nor disproved. Attempts were not made to investigate every allegation, but rather
to start with what was known and work toward the unknown. To complicate the
situation, events described here took place nearly 50 years ago and were highly
classified. This Top Secret project appeared to have utilized the contept of
compartmentalization very well. Interviews with individuals and review of
documents of organizations revealed that the ultimate objective of the work, or
even the name of the project, in many instances was not known. It was unlikely,
therefore, that personnel from Roswell AAF, even though they possessed the
appropriate clearances, would have known about project MOGUL. In fad, when
the NYU I AMC group returned to Alamogordo in September, their first tdp since
the "incident" occurred, one of the first activities of the project scientists, Peoples
and Crary, who were accompanied by Major Pritchard and Captain Dyvad, was
to brief the commanding officer of Alamogordo AAF and the 509th Bomb Group
Operations Officer, Lt Col Joseph Briley, on MOGUL.48
45. Moore intvw, Jun 8, 1994.
46. Crary personal journal, p. 10.
47. Moore intvw, Jun 8, 1994; Research Division, College of Engineering, NYU, Technical Report
No. 93.02, Constant Level Balloons, Sect 2, Operations, Jan 31, 1949, pp. 36-38.
48. Combined Hist, 509th Bomb Grp and Roswell AAF, Sep 1-30, 1947, p. 79; Untr~scribed
journal of Albert P. Crary, p. 64.