I listened to Coast to Coast Am with George Noory last night and they were discussing Elvis. Apparently Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker was an illegal immigrant. Here is what I found.

The Colonel

In The Colonel, Alanna Nash, the author of Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch, explores in depth the amazing story of Colonel Tom Parker, the man behind the legend and the myth of Elvis Presley. The result is a book that reads like the most riveting of real-life detective stories―and will completely change your view of Presley’s life, success, and death.

While scores of books have been written about Elvis Presley, this is the first meticulously researched biography of Tom Parker written by anyone who knew him personally. And for anyone truly interested in the performer many consider the greatest and most influential of the twentieth century, it is impossible to understand how Elvis came to be such a phenomenon without examining the life and mind of Parker, the man who virtually controlled Elvis’s every move.

Alanna Nash has been covering the story of Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker since the day of Presley’s funeral in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the first journalist allowed to view Presley’s body, a compelling and surprising sight. But the profile of Parker, attending the funeral in a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap, was even stranger, and led her to investigate the man behind the myth.

[b]Filled with startling new material, her book challenges even the most familiar precepts of the Presley saga ―everything we presumed about Parker’s handling of the world’s most famous entertainer must now be reevaluated in the light of the information Nash reveals about Parker, who cared little for Presley beyond what the singer could do to bolster the Colonel’s precarious position as an illegal alien.

It has been known for 20 years that Thomas Andrew Parker was, in fact, born in Holland as Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk. But Nash has dug much deeper, and in a masterpiece of reporting, unearthed never-before-seen documents, including Parker’s army records and psychiatric evaluations, and the original police report of an unsolved murder case in Holland which lies at the heart of the Parker mystery. In the process of weighing the hard and circumstantial evidence, she answers the biggest riddle in the history of the music industry, as it becomes clear that every move Parker made in the handling of Elvis Presley―from why Elvis never performed in Europe, to why he didn’t halt Elvis’s drug use, to why he put him in so many mediocre movies, and even the Colonel’s direction of Presley’s army career―was designed to protect Parker’s own secrets.

Nash's disclosures, backed up by more than 300 interviews, investigators’ reports, declassified government documents, and never-before-revealed information from Parker’s Dutch family members, include the following:

― There is evidence to suggest that at age 20, Parker, then still known as Andreas Cornelis Van Kuijk, bludgeoned a woman to death in his native Holland. Within days, he disappeared under the cloak of darkness and fled to America. He took no money, clothing, or identifying papers, and left without saying goodbye to his family. Although he worked his way over as a galley hand on a freighter, after docking, he refused to pick up his paycheck.

― Soon after his arrival in the U.S., van Kuijk changed his name to Tom Parker and entered the U.S. Army. Shortly into his second tour of duty, Pfc. Parker deserted his unit, suffered a nervous breakdown, spent four months in Walter Reed Army Hospital, and was discharged for reasons of “Psychosis, Psychogenic Depression, acute, on basis of Constitutional Psychopathic State, Emotional Instability.â€