------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:35:16 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Parapolitices List) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Gonsalves) Subject: Ralph McGehee - For My Protection 11 March 1996 President Clinton The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Fax 202 456 2461 Mr. John Deutch Director of CIA Washington, D.C. 20505 Fax 703 482 6790 Herndon Town Council P.O. Box 427 Herndon, VA 22070 My name is Ralph McGehee and I am a twenty-five year decorated veteran of the CIA and a critic. My primary effort in this regard is a computer data base, CIABASE. The below letter was posted on Internet today - a measure I reluctantly take in order to defend myself from efforts by local police, especially the Herndon Police, to apparently implicate me in some crime. The level of effort directed at me has increased substantially in the last few weeks -- and I ask that these actions be halted. I over the last few years have made similar appeals with no action taken in my defense. I appealed to Mary Pecora, of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (File no. MA-95-2196), only to be advised that she believed me but the CIA was exempt from the Counsel's authority. In October of last year there was an effort at Fair Oaks Mall to "catch me" as the exit door alarm sounded just as I entered the exit area. I veered away fearing to exit, only to be confronted by an angry, apparent security officer. Due to a medical problem, I have in the last couple of weeks availed myself of the Jacuzzi at the Herndon Community Center. On my second visit a Herndon policeman came into the locker room and advised me that he would, "catch me later." Yesterday shortly after I entered the center two apparent plain clothes police (one forgot to turn off his portable radio that began broadcasting) entered the area and focused their attentions on me and probably set a trap. A number of recent incidents in the local K Mart have made me avoid that establishment. It is impossible to enter commercial establishments in Fairfax and Loudon Counties without being the subject immediate interest by the store security services. In my defense I have begun -- just as I enter an establishment - to explain to the spotter that I am a critic of the CIA and that it is slandering me and this is the reason for (whatever) notice that have re me. For bona fides, I hand them a brochure of CIABASE. In the past I have addressed letters to both you Mr. President and to you Mr. Deutch about this situation. I was advised by Lee S. Stickland, Chief Information, Privacy and Classification Review of the CIA, that his office would conduct an FOIA search but that I would have to wait my turn. From others I know that it takes around three years for action on a request. In any case it is extremely doubtful that the responsible Agency office(s) would make a written record of its illegal operations. The actions against me began in the summer of 1993, shortly after a review of CIABASE appeared in the journals of AFIO and NMIA. It soon thereafter became obvious that my phone was tapped and that local commercial establishments had been warned about me. When I made my knowledge of the tap obvious, the tap was used as much for harassment as monitoring. I have also received an implicit phone threat and was surveillied on a trip to Maine. Since I have the written approval of the CIA to distribute my data base -- it uses only non-classified material -- the actions taken against me by the CIA are in violation of United States law. Do you Mr. Deutch wish to be the medium for violations of law? Has not your Agency disgraced itself enough without adding this crime to its record? Do you Mr. President allow your executive branch to operate illegally without taking action? Do you members of the Herndon Town Council, allow your police force to act as vigilantes and are you willing to accept the consequences of its actions? I request that addressees take appropriate action and advise me of the results. Ralph McGehee 422 Arkansas Avenue Herndon, VA, 22070 *---------------------------*----------------------------------------* * James Craven * "All things have inner meaning and * * Dept of Economics * form and power." (Hopi) * * Clark College * "In this world the unseen has power." * * 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd. * (Apache) * * Vancouver, Wa. 98663 * "Be satisfied with needs instead of * * (360) 992-2283 * wants." 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