The Army Officer was a member of the President's Committee of Inquiry in 1973, who questioned Cornelius about the nature of the war they were trying to escape from.
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- He was addressed as General by the reporters.
- The Army Officer was named as Col. Winthrop in the novelization of Escape from the Planet of the Apes,[1] and as Gen. Faulkner in The (Ape) News fake newspaper issued at the time of the movie's release,[2] however these are both different characters as seen onscreen.