Arthur Trudeau

Arthur G. Trudeau (1902-1991) was an American Army Major General who served as Chief of the United States Army Research and Development (R&D) in the late 1950s. A Korean War veteran and one of the last fighting generals from that conflict, Trudeau oversaw highly classified military intelligence and weapons development programs at the Pentagon. In Philip J. Corso's controversial 1997 memoir 'The Day After Roswell,' Trudeau is portrayed as Corso's superior who directed the seeding of alleged extraterrestrial technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash into private industry, leading to advancements like integrated circuits, fiber optics, lasers, and particle-beam weapons. Corso claimed Trudeau tasked him with managing the Army's Foreign Technology desk to reverse-engineer UFO debris for Cold War superiority. These assertions remain unverified and disputed; UK National Archives dismissed Corso's testimony as unreliable in 1997, and analysts like Karl Pflock noted timeline inconsistencies, such as crediting Trudeau and Corso with the CORONA program before their relevant postings. No independent corroboration exists for Trudeau's direct UAP involvement, and he provided no public testimony or publications on UFOs.