[1] A native of Chicago, Illinois and graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, he served in the US Army in the Pacific theater during World War II.
While at West Point, Crowley played for the Army Black Knights men's soccer program, where he was an NSCAA First-Team All-American in 1948.
[2] After the war, he remained in the United States Army Reserve, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1986.
[3] Released in 1985, the book asserts that the KGB took control of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union.
[5] Journalist, conspiracy theorist,[6] forger,[7] and holocaust denier[8] Gregory Douglas claimed to have conducted a series of interviews with Crowley in 1993, later published in 2013 in his book Conversations with the Crow.