Kidnapping Colonel Chicken: The untold story

Steve Benfey
6 min readAug 29, 2020
KFC bucket of fried chicken

According to FBI records, in January 1973 Harland (Colonel) David Sanders received a handwritten note claiming to be from "U.S. Armed Forces," saying, "This is to inform you that you are in grave danger of being murdered. For details go to any recruiting station and call the Los Angeles Nike Missile Base," signed, "The General."
The FBI report states that since "it did not appear that a violation of the Federal…

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Steve Benfey

How, hi are you? I’m a writer living in rural Japan. My writing expresses the spirit of living the way I do or did — in consensual reality and otherwise.