Yellow Fruit

Yellow Fruit/Business Security International was a mere 15-minute drive from the Pentagon, tucked amongst a suite of commercial offices, a multi-million-dollar clandestine military operation was being run. Yellow Fruit was a genuine "deep cover" USAP, with the program's director, former Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Lt. Col. Dale Duncan outwardly appearing to have "retired" from the Army to start a private consulting firm called Business Security International. The Yellow Fruit project was shut down and audited by the Pentagon in 1983 after Golden, then one of its members, leveled charges of financial impropriety against a superior. Officer Convicted The charges led to the conviction of Lt. Col. Dale E. Duncan, Yellow Fruit’s commander, on a single criminal count and the courts-martial last year of Duncan and another Army colonel, James E. Longhofer. A series of other charges made against Duncan, involving prostitution, drug use and illegal wiretapping--were found to be groundless. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29092/special-access-programs-and-the-pentagons-ecosystem-of-secrecy https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-02-mn-3189-story.html