Karl T. Pflock

Karl T. Pflock
Karl T. Pflock
Born	January 6, 1943 San José, California
Died	June 5, 2006 Placitas, New Mexico
Occupation	Government Official, Writer, UFOlogist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	San Jose State University
Spouse	Mary Martinek

Karl Tomlinson Pflock (January 6, 1943 – June 5, 2006) born in San José, California was a CIA intelligence officer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, strategic planner, UFO researcher, and author of both fiction and non-fiction. He was best known for his book Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe.

Pflock was born in San José, California in 1943. He was the son of Ernst H. Pflock (pronounced "flock" without the 'p'), a book retailer, and Eleanor (née Bracey), an educator. His interest in UFOs started as a young boy when he overheard his friends' fathers discussing a flying saucer containing "little alien guys" that had, allegedly, crashed in the Southwest. "If something like this captures your imagination at that stage of life," he told a San Francisco Examiner reporter, "you never get rid of it. It's in the blood."

He attended San Jose State University and, in 1964, graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and political science.

From 1960 to 1966, he served in the Marines and Air Force as a reservist.

On February 7, 1986, Pflock married Mary E. Martinek, a government affairs director. They had five children: Cynthia, Kurt, Anna, Aaron, and Jennifer.

After graduation, Pflock was employed at IBM in San Jose, CA, before becoming an intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency in 1966. He remained in that post until 1972.

In 1972, Pflock was hired by the American Enterprise Institute, where he worked full-time as a senior editor. During this time, he also served as consulting or contributing editor to Arlington House Publishers, Libertarian Review, Reason magazine, and Eternity Science Fiction.

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