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Old 16 April 2002, 02:05 PM #8 (permalink)
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I was just interviewed on-air by CKCO television, the CTV affiliate here in Kitchener. *They had an interview with Mr. Greenhous and his "claims".

His "new" evidence is the Weekly Activity Reports filed by Army Air Commanders. *In fact, it isn't new and Greenhous admits this in the footnotes of his new book:

The provenance of this report (and two others, one for the previous week and the second for the same week by the neighbouring KoFl.6) is unclear, but they appear to have been acquired and translated by the late Fred Steiger, DHist's (as it then was) German expert, probably during and after one of his research trips to West Germany in the 1960s and early 1970s. *Alternatively, they may have been donated by Phil Markham, who acquired them from his American friend, the late Ed Ferko, who vast archive of German air material was deposited with the University of Texas.

So, there you go. *Even the author, who says the truth needs to be told, isn't absolutely certain about the origins of his key sources.
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