While you were posting here, I posted on the Veciana thread. Maybe it belongs here. If the 488th Military Intelligence Detachment was a legend in Crichton’s mind, then it was also so in Colonel Frank Brandstetter’s mind. My opinion, and it’s only that, is that the 488th was linked to ACSI. There are two books about Colonel Brandstetter, one a co-written autobiography. He states in both books that he worked for ACSI for two decades, and that in 1959 he was assigned, or permitted to join, the 488t