Gerald Biby
509 Shugart Street
Beatrice, NE 68310

Dr. Irvin T. Omtvedt, Vice Chancellor
202 AGH
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0708

RE: Epitaph for the Industrial Agricultural Products Center

During the last ten months, using tactics that would have made Niccolò Machiavelli proud, the Industrial Agricultural Products Center and more specifically myself have experienced his philosophy, that the achievement and the maintenance of power, by a determined person, who is indifferent to moral considerations will be victorious.

Don Helmuth, Dick Wood and now it appear that Darrell Nelson has succumbed to some virus or illness that has rendered them powerless to recognize either fact or reality about the events that lead up to the disaster with Corn Card International. Now they all seem prone to carrying out a Machiavellian scheme to completed destroy the work the IAPC, myself and Dr. Hanna have work toward, so hard, for the last six years to either protect some territorial interest they have, satisfy some ones ego, or cover-up their own errors. Yet the fate is the same, the IAPC
as it was or could have been is dead.

Attached is a bound volume that is the essence of what happened with Corn Card International that will lead any rational person to the same conclusion reached by the grievance appeals committee (in the grievance that I filed against Don Helmuth) Their conclusion, simply stated is that the myself and my relationship to both Corn Card and the University were both proper and appropriate. Even the issues, in what I can only call the bogus dismissal letter, where reviewed by the grievance appeals committee and they still found in my favor.

Don Helmuth lies and then lies about lying. If you listen to both sides of the tape that accompanies this letter you can hear him lie to Corn Card International on January 20, 1999. The opposite side is a meeting I recorded, with him and others on January 18, 1999. Listen to what he said at that time. I am sure he can find an excuse to justify his lies of January 20, 1999. But if you had the time to read the depositions that Don Helmuth, Turan Odabasi and Walter O'Farrell gave you would discover why UNL lost the case and agreed to settle. It had nothing to do with me and very little to do with Dr. Hanna. Don Helmuth and his office wanted to take the license away from Corn Card International and give it to someone else. This is all verified in their own words in the deposition and in documents from the Technology Transfer Office.

My problem has been that I maintained records and began recording meetings and phone conversations with Don Helmuth when he would not sign off on allowing Corn Card to assign its agreement to Gemplus, even after he told me he would in December 1998. So in the words of Niccolò Machiavelli in the The Prince ". . . destroy your enemies completely, or they will surely destroy you. . ." At first appearance it would appear that "I" have been destroy, yet have I?

The best thing that could have happened to keep me quite would have been to leave me along and not have embarked on this vendetta of persecution and retaliation. In fact a promotion or salary increase would have been ideal. But alas, that was not to be and so today we have came to the time I am leaving UNL. As I told Darrell Nelson, I don't know how this will ultimately play out, will it be in the media, the courts, both or neither. The one thing that I am certain of, is that this is not the last chapter of what I now refer to as the "Corn Card Incident."

The volume that I gave you, has many brothers and sisters and they will ultimately prove that the pen is mightier than the sword of retribution and retaliation that has been used against me. An incident like the "Corn Card Incident" can only be suppressed for a time, one month, six months, may be a year. Then the ugliness of what has happened will surface.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, my exit report to you. I wish you a long and prosperous life as you retire from the University next year and regret that I will not be there to wish you a fond bon voyage.
 

Sincerely,
 
 

Gerald D. Biby