One problem.
It wasn’t the government that came up with the story. It was a media fueled rumor. I remember Dan Abrams on MSNBC (I didn’t have FOX then) explaining how “sometimes these things happen”. There may have been military people involved in the story but none who would have known anything.
Exactly, and that piggie Napolitano made it worse with the Piestewa thing. It’s been Squaw Peak to me for 50 years. It still is.
Exactly right. When one sorts through all the BS to get back to “who started this meme?” we arrive back at the Washington Post:
http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=3091
Did the government try to correct the story?