David Corso & Duncan O’Finioan – Super Secret Black Ops Soldiers in Cambodia & Vietnam, Blog of Shame

8 years ago

BACKGROUND & CLAIMS

DAVID LAWRENCE CORSO

Dave Corso and Bobby Joe Fannin were interviewed as part of “Project Camelot” back in 2007. In this interview, Corso claims he was the “best Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam” (mark 00:18). Although he was officially listed as being in the US Navy, he claims that he was recruited to go into the U.S. Marine Corps, trained as a sniper and participated in “Black Operations” going on secret missions in Vietnam and Cambodia. He claims he achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant (E-6) in the United States Marine Corps (mark 13:00). His memories of his work in Top Secret Black Ops projects were wiped (mark 13:28).

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWfpORZOpjk
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knP2xOX0x_k

Corso was featured twice on the Jesse Ventura’s show “Conspiracy Theory”. One episode was “Area 51″ as a ‘Military Conspiracy Expert” and another was on the episode “Manchurian Candidate as a “Black Ops Vet”. SOURCE: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4504406/

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BOBBY JOE FANNIN (aka ROBERT DUNCAN O’FINIOAN)

Bobby Joe Fannin, who likes to be called Duncan O’Finioan, claims he was abducted as a child and trained off the island of St. Thomas as a “super soldier” with other children. He claims that he was trained as an assassin and psychic spy. Part of the training was being programmed and later all memories of his experiences were erased. Later, he claimed that he was able to start putting the memories back together.

Fannin received some initial credibility by getting on the Jesse Ventura show “Conspiracy Theory”. SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbOMJS8xc0U

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUgThru7JY
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWfpORZOpjk

Fannin claims that when he was 12 years old, he and his team of child super soldiers were called to duty in order to rescue both a Navy SEAL team and a Marine Corps Recon team that were pinned down in Cambodia in 1972. Fannin gets all choked up as he recalls himself and 11 other children exiting the chopper. He was the team leader. He and the other children locked hands and formed a semi-circle. They then killed every Cambodian soldier within 20 miles with the combined effect of the psychic power generated. He further claims that these are not his words, but the words of both a Navy SEAL Captain and a Marine Corps Reconnaissance Captain that were rescued.

SOURCE (21:13 mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUgThru7JY

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THE CORSO-FANNIN ASSOCIATION

Although both of these men lived in Pahrump Nevada at one time, they claimed they first met in Vietnam when Corso rescued Fannin from a burning helicopter.

Corso claims he does not have U.S. Marine Corps records in support of his claims because he was part of a unit “that didn’t exist”.

Fannin claims he does not have a rank or serial number because of the secrecy of the program he was part of – Project Talent.

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FOIA RESULTS – SELECTED

DAVID LAWRENCE CORSO

BOBBY JOE FANNIN

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FOIA RESULTS – COMPLETE

DAVID LAWRENCE CORSO

BOBBY JOE FANNIN

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NEWSPAPERS & OTHER HISTORICAL MEDIA

DAVID LAWRENCE CORSO

David Corso was born in 1941 and entered the US Navy in June of 1959. At that time, he lived in Parker, Pa. According to the Kittanning Simpson Leader Times on June 9, 1959 he was placed on probation for larceny.

Corso was declared eligible for the draft when he turned 18 y/o in Jan of 1959. Did the charge of larceny force him into the Navy as part of a plea deal to avoid jail time or was he scheduled to go into the Navy that month and the crime was just a coincidence and unrelated?

On August 5 and August 11, 1965 the local paper carried news of David Corso during his time in the Navy due to his ship, the USS Rowan, being cited.

Then, on August 6, 1969 a newspaper called The Derrick in Oil City PA published a clip looking back ten years and mentioned that David Corso joined the Navy. No mention of the U.S. Marine Corps.

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BOBBY JOE FANNIN

Bobby Joe Fannin was born in Johnson Kentucky in 1960. According to his family, he had an active imagination and dreamed of black helicopters coming out of the sky.

It does not appear that Fannin legally changed his name to Robert Duncan O’Finioan. He did write a book called “Innocence Turned Deadly” under the pen name of Robert Duncan O’Finioan. His real name is on Page Two of the book. It was later removed on a revised edition of the book.

The story goes that Fannin tried to sell the book unsuccessfully as a work of fiction. When this proved difficult, he decided to promote the book as non-fiction biography, touring the country telling the stories and maintaining they are true. He dropped the “Bobby Joe Fannin” on page two in a later revised version of the book and the pen name stuck.

Anthony Forwood of Exposing the Truth blog did a lot of excellent background work on Fannin and published the results here. Fannin’s brother confirmed the findings as accurate.

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SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION

Basically, these stories put forth by Corso and Fannin are brilliant from a story-telling standpoint. They are difficult to disprove and sets up the story teller as being in full control of the narrative. Disproving is made even more difficult when there is a receptive audience – one that truly wants to believe it.

Corso claims he has no records of his service in the U.S. Marine Corps due to the super secret nature of the “Black Operations”. Well, there are secret missions but there are no secret service records.

The same is true of Fannin. He claims he was in Cambodia and Vietnam as part of “Project Talent” and was a child soldier. Therefore, he had no records or a service number. His records have been filed for again with more information but he has already stipulated that he will not have military records. Again, there are secret missions but there are no secret service records.

This is worth repeating – there’s no such thing as secret military service records. If both of these men were fighting for our country in Vietnam, it would have been in their official military records. They show that Corso was on a ship and Fannin never served.

Similar stories about super soldiers and erasing someone’s memory were covered in the movie “Jacob’s Ladder“, also about Vietnam. Tim Robbins played a U.S. Army soldier that was part of a super secret program to create super soldiers. Their memories were erased only to have them slowly came back to them later through reconstruction.

The storylines put out by Corso and Fannin also mimic “The Long Kiss Goodnight” and “The Bourne Identity“. Fannin himself said he could not get through “The Bourne Identity” as it was too painful for him.
SOURCE (35:30 mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUgThru7JY

Then of course there are also elements of “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) and the remake “The Manchurian Candidate” (2014). Fannin speaks of going to DC in 1987 so do a “termination job” on an individual (mark 46:40) in 1985. He then goes on to say that in a Mexican restaurant he saw George W. Bush (mark 46:55). Bush, who was then governor of Texas, later became the President of the United States. Upon seeing Bush, Fannin claims he “had one impluse – kill him”. SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUgThru7JY

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

The Project Camelot interview took place in 2007, Corso has since died in 2014.

Fannin goes on but has morphed a bit into the supernatural world. He is all over YouTube with different supernatural theories and seems to have a following.

Fannin cut his teeth on the story of being a child super soldier, however. Here is a more recent photo of him at the “Walk in Two Worlds” in Sacramento in 2012. He seems to have bleached his hair. More recent photos have his hair color restored to its natural color.