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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 February 1976, a CIA officer contacted the author and requested his help in a matter involving a foreign national. Simultaneous with the CIA officer's initial visit to the author's home, systematic surveillance on all of the author's family members started. As of this update, surveillance has not stopped, although the level of effort now encountered is less than in earlier years. In early 1978, when it was apparent that the surveillance was not going to stop, the author started sending letters of complaint to officials of our government. (See examples of these letters in my home page.) Years later, in 1987, a special re-investigation of my background was ordered by the Department of Energy. This prompted the author to send the following letter to the Office of Personnel Management, which conducted background investigations for the Department of Energy, so that they would have all relevant background information on the author. Unfortunately, this letter, and those that followed, were, for the most part, swept under the rug by the Office of Personnel Management, and the illegal surveillance reported to them by the author was never adequately investigated. Obviously, government coverup of our family's surveillance case was to be continued.
Signed Originally: William Albert Hewgley
January 7, 2001
A. Reprinted Letter to Office of Personnel Management
December 21, 1987
To:
Mr. Gary McDaniel
Investigations Operations Division
Office of Personnel Management
1900 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20415
From:
William Albert Hewgley
1512 Shady Lane
Kingston, Tennessee 37763 [sic]
Dear Mr. McDaniel:
On October 1, 1987, my employer--Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.--delivered my updated personnel security questionnaire and related forms to the Oak Ridge Operations Office of the Department of Energy (DOE), in response to a request by DOE that a special re-investigation be conducted on me (see Enclosure 1). It is my belief that these forms were subsequently delivered to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for implementation of a field investigation. Probably OPM is now conducting this field investigation.
There are circumstances connected with my security clearance that you should be aware of. Perhaps you have already been apprised of this situation by other government units; whether you have or haven't, it is still my duty to provide you with the following relevant information.
Since February 1976, I, and my family, have been under FBI and CIA physical and electronic surveillance. The surveillance started in San Antonio, Texas, immediately after I was asked by CIA Officer William J. Kuehn of Austin, Texas, to assist them by introducing them to a foreign engineer whom they wished to recruit as a spy. For more details, see Enclosure 2 (letter from me to Representative Edward J. Boland dated November 26, 1984) and Enclosure 3 (photograph of the foreigner the CIA recruited, along with notes).
Surveillance measures have been applied on our family from February 1976 to the present time, not only in the neighborhoods where we have lived, but at the churches we have attended, in the schools where my sons have attended, at my work places (including the Department of Energy plants in Oak Ridge, Tennessee), and everywhere we have gone. The surveillance is in progress now, although it is not at the intense level it once was.
When OPM conducted its security investigation on me during the latter part of 1978 and early part of 1979, our family was under intense surveillance. Your investigators should have learned about this surveillance during their conduct of interviews then. If they did not, one would suspect that the people interviewed were not being entirely candid in their replies to your investigators' questions.
Surveillance activities at the DOE facilities where I have worked have caused me a great deal of difficulty. Not only has my career suffered substantially, but I have experienced much despair, frustration, pain and suffering as the result of the surveillance. To put it another way, illegal surveillance has been conducted on me at the DOE plants by the FBI and CIA, and their acts have been condoned by representatives of the Department of Energy, Union Carbide Corporation, and Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.
I would like to suggest that, in connection with your field investigation of me, you undertake a full scale investigation of the above allegations. You would turn over your findings to the Department of Justice for action. You should interview me and my family extensively, preferably before you proceed with other interviews, since we can give you the essential details on the surveillance operation. I will open up my extensive files so that you will have specific data relating to my allegations. Also, I will provide the names of numerous people who are not only aware of the surveillance operation but have participated in the surveillance inside the DOE plants.
Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated, and I look forward to working with OPM in resolving this very serious illegal operation.
Very truly yours,
William Albert Hewgley (Signed)
Enclosures:
1. Martin Marietta Internal Correspondence, J.O. Nations, to F.S. Patton, dated September 25, 1987.
2. Letter from William A. Hewgley to Representative Edward P. Boland, dated November 26, 1984.
3. Photograph of Foreigner Recruited by the CIA, Along with Notes
B. Letter Mailing Verification
1. Letter was mailed at the Main U.S.P.O. in Knoxville, Tennessee, on December 21, 1987, under Registered Number R347-420-420, dated December 21, 1987. A Return Receipt (PS Form 3811, February 1986) was submitted with the letter.
2. On January 2, 1988, the Return Receipt was received by the author. It had been properly signed and dated December 28, 1987 at the point of delivery.
C. Reply from the Office of Personnel Management
In his reply to me dated January 4, 1988, Mr. Gary McDaniel of the Washington D.C. Headquarters of the Office of Personnel Management(OPM), stated that he was incorporating my letter into the OPM investigative file. Also, he stated that the OPM office in my area (i.e. Knoxville, Tennessee) had been instructed to interview me regarding my allegations, so that my allegations on illegal surveillance can be placed on record. Subsequently, the whole matter regarding illegal surveillance was, for the most part, swept under the rug during the 1987-1988 special re-investigation of me by OPM. Government coverup of our family's surveillance case was thereby continued.
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