Barack Obama, President
United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Avnue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr President
My father died on 20th July 1968 and is now buried in Arlington National Cemetery. When you meet with Prime Minster David Cameron tomorrow on the anniversary of his death, I want you to spare a thought for what he did to preserve and protect democracy and its values.
Then give a thought to what has actually happened and some consideration to what you and David Cameron are going to do about the US/UK surveillance imprisonment, torture, medical experimentation and surveillance R&D carried out against me 24/7/365 since mid-August 1998 for almost 12 years so far on an indefinite basis.
I've lived all my life with the background of a surprise attack that has been an integral part of my awareness from the time I was born in Honolulu in December 1942 although I was not exactly conscious of it for some years.
My father, a career US Naval officer, was stationed at Pearl Harbour on 7th December 1941 and changed his mind at the last minute not to take a Chinese junk out to Ford Island at 0745 that Sunday morning. He survived the attack and was captain of fleet tug, USS Zuni, during the Pacific war receiving letters of commendation from Admirals Halsey and Nimitz as well as the Legion of Merit.
I went to the first year of school in Guam in 1948/9 where the remnants of WWII were very much in evidence in the caves we explored and still in the ground where the M1 spent cartridges were all over. My lunch box was an M1 ammunition box.
During the Korean War he took food supplies to Korea from Oakland as captain of a food cargo ship, USS Merapi. I got to go aboard as a 9-year-old for a sail around San Francisco Bay once, and he brought along our Cub Scout pack for a visit. .
I've been an analyst all my life and have gotten the most important judgements correct. I've been respected for my integrity in "telling it like it is" having earned that reputation internationally some 30 years ago as a pension fund manager in the US, Canada and UK. and continue to do so.
I served in the USAF Security Service from 1961 to 1964 working at its HQs doing final analysis and reporting the reports of which went on to NSA and GCHQ. I was there during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was stationed in Trabzon, Turkey afterwards some 90 miles from the border of the then Soviet Georgia. James Bamford's "The Puzzle Palace" has some discussion of Trabzon.
The foundation of protecting against a surprise attack as been an integral part of my life as you can see from Pearl Harbour through the Cold War where I served in intelligence for my military service.
I take what I do seriously and try to be as accurate as I can. I deeply resent those who fake it for their own personal benefit at the expense of everyone else not just myself as I've experienced during the past 12 years. This is why I continue to document and report so that a foundation of accuracy and truth can be developed for security.
Fortunately, after the first wave attack at Pearl Harbour, the Japanese did not return for a planned second wave. The US military was thus spared further decimation and able to get back on a war footing to win at Midway some six months later which turned the Pacific war.
It's better, however, not to have any Pearl Harbours such as occurred again on 9/11. It is also important to realise that the abuses which I have experienced went on for three years before 9/11 and included US agents as well as a rendition proposal.
In the early 1980s I attended a luncheon whose speaker was William Sullivan the former US Ambassador to Iran who had been its ambassador at the time of the US Embassy takeover.
I asked him a question about the Intelligence being supplied to Washington at that time and whether it was sufficient. He replied there was no lack of "Intelligence" sent to Washington about the risks. There was a lack of "intelligence" in Washington.
One of Admiral Nimitz' top commanders was Admiral Spruance whom he claimed was responsible for winning the victory at Midway. He said about him "The one supreme thing Spruance had was judgement--judgement based on intelligence and knowledge of his profession." ("Miracle at Midway," Gordon W Prange, Penguin Books, 1983, p 394)
My job of late has been to try to keep the faked information out of the Intelligence pipeline so that resources are not wasted, and no one is distracted.
The surveillance technology being used today has great beneficial uses for humans in medicine and great beneficial uses with regard to protecting the security of the world.
The latter has to be used under proper democratic management controls while the former has to be used openly as part of the scientific and medical community.
This is your challenge today since we now live in a completely different world.
What are you and David Cameron going to do about this extreme abuse of power carried out jointly and overtly in North Kensington by US and UK agents since February 2001 close to where David Cameron used to have his London home?
