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Victor Navarro Corpus (born October 4, 1944) is a retired Filipino military officer and public official best known for his 1970 defection from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) towards the New People's Army of the Communist Party of the Philippines during the authoritarian regimeFerdinand Marcos,[1][2] for his defection from the NPA and return to the AFP after the 1986 People Power Revolution,[3] and his later role as chief of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP).

A member of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1967, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General of the AFP in May 2003,[4] and retired at that rank when he turned 60 in October 2004.[5][6]

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Victor N. Corpus


Born

in San Pablo, Laguna, Philippine Commonwealth

October 04, 1944


Died

April 04, 2024


Genre

Military Art & Science


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Brigadier General Victor N. Corpus (AFP, Ret.) was an officer in the Philippine Army and instructor at the Philippine Military Academy who notoriously defected to the NPA in 1970 after raiding the PMA armory & absconding with a large number of assorted infantry weapons, which he then used to train troops for Comrade JoMa (Jose Maria Sison). Corpus became disillusioned with Sison as well as the rest of the communist leadership, and surrendered to the AFP in 1976. After spending the intervening years in a military prison, Corpus was released from detention & reinstated in the army as a reserve officer in 1987 by order of President Corazon Aquino. He held various posts in the AFP during the 1990s, and was eventually appointed chief of militaryBrigadier General Victor N. Corpus (AFP, Ret.) was an officer in the Philippine Army and instructor at the Philippine Military Academy who notoriously defected to the NPA in

MANILA, Philippines – Former military intelligence chief Victor Corpus has died, his family confirmed on Thursday, April 4. He was 79.

“It is with great sorrow that we announce the untimely passing of our uncle Victor Corpus,” his niece Jennies Cruz said in a public post on Facebook on Thursday.

“We would like to request our relatives and friends to join us in prayer, for the repose of the soul of our beloved and to ask God for comfort for the bereaved family. We value your prayers among anything else,” Cruz added.

Corpus, who served as chief of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) during the early years of the Gloria Arroyo administration, is best known for his defection to the Communist Party of the Philippines just three years after he graduated from the Philippine Military Academy in 1967.

He left the communist movement in 1976 and remained in a military prison until his release after the ouster of Ferdinand E. Marcos through the 1986 People Power Revolution. He was granted clemency by then-president Corazon Aquino

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