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Foreword: During 1975 while living in San Antonio, Texas, and working at Southwest Research Institute, the author started encountering sporadic physical surveillance in the workplace and on business trips. In early 1976, the author was asked by the CIA to assist them in a task relating to a foreign national. Simultaneous with the first visit of the CIA representative to the author's home on February 23, 1976, surveillance on all members of the author's family was started. As of this update, it has never ended. In 1978, when it was apparent that the surveillance operation was not going to stop, the author started writing letters of complaint to government officials. The reprinted letter below was the second such letter, which, in this particular case, was directed to the President, Jimmy Carter.
Signed Originally: William Albert Hewgley
August 23, 2000
A. Reprinted Letter to Jimmy Carter
November 6, 1978
To:
President Jimmy Carter
The White House
Washington, D.C.
From:
William A. Hewgley
204 Gum Hollow Road
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
Dear Mr. President:
As a patriotic citizen and with the responsibility for assuring the health and welfare of my wife and two sons, I am compelled to write you about a matter of great importance. This matter relates to the Central Intelligence Agency surveillance of my family which started without our consent during February 1976 and which has continued, uninterrupted and again without our consent, since that date.
In brief, the situation is as follows. The surveillance started in 1976 while we were living in San Antonio, Texas. In August of this year, I accepted a position in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and moved my family here. We prayed that our family would be rid of this terrible nightmare and that we could start a new life here in Oak Ridge. Unfortunately, Central Intelligence Agency surveillance has continued here, thus perpetuating family health and other problems which originated in San Antonio as a result of the surveillance. Family health and other problems are extensive enough now that I feel that the very survival of our family is at stake. Accordingly, I am requesting your immediate assistance in helping us resolve this problem.
Specifically, I request that you send a personal, independent representative to meet with my wife and I to discuss this surveillance problem. This will enable you to learn first hand what is taking place. Also, it will provide you with the necessary background to enable you to pursue this matter with the Central Intelligence Agency to establish the reason for the surveillance, and to determine whether its continuation is, in fact, justified. If continuation is justified, which we doubt will be the case, then my wife and I will expect to learn what the objectives of the surveillance are, and when it is expected to terminate, and other relevant information. Also, we will expect to participate in discussions with those responsible for the surveillance on those matters relating to implementation of the surveillance.
Mr. President, over the past 32 months, many aspects of this surveillance operation have been greatly disturbing to us, especially those relating to interference of our rights as set forth in Amendments 4, 1 and 14 of the U.S. Constitution. I think that you will want to personally participate in this particular area of the investigation inasmuch as the very future of our great democracy hinges to a great extent on the ability of the American citizens to exercise their Constitutional rights.
We greatly appreciate your assistance in this matter and look forward to meeting with your personal representative.
Very truly yours,
William A. Hewgley (Signed)
B. Letter Mailing Verification
1. This letter was mailed at the Main U.S.P.O. in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on November 6, 1978 under Registered Number 435, dated November 6, 1978. A Return Receipt (PS Form 3811, April 1977) was submitted with the letter.
2. The Return Receipt, which was subsequently received by the sender, had been properly signed and dated.
C. Reply from President Jimmy Carter
No reply was ever received. Since the president is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the failure of President Carter to investigate my report of illegal activities on the part of the Intelligence Community, which reported directly to him, in effect meant that he violated the Oath of Affirmation he took to "...faithfully execute the..." [laws] "...of the United States...".
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