Iron Shoes

Never would I have even considered that anyone with such authority and power would withhold information from the American people unless it was during a time of war and secrecy was a necessity. Otherwise, we as Americans are entitled to know what is going on with our elected officials. I mean, after all, we are the people who gave these candidates their position of trust. Further, they knew that whomever the candidates chose to run the various areas of government, like them, would be people of the utmost integrity, loyal to our country and the American way of life.

When allegations were made back in the 1940's that a weather balloon fell to earth in Roswell, New Mexico, with crash dummies, rather than a saucer-like space craft with real aliens on board, naturally I believed, as did most Americans, what I was told through the media as they reported what they were told by our trustworthy government officials. Initial reports were dismissed as Orson Welles fiction.

When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, it was determined that he acted alone, even though he fired three shots in quick succession all from a bolt-action rifle that required a minute amount of time to re-cock, and all the bullets found their mark. The allegations, however, indicated more than one perpetrator had been involved by virtue of the fact that the Zabruder film of the President's head wounds showed him jerking in two different directions when each shot was fired. Yet, according to the Warren Commission, a thorough examination proved that there was no collusion with any other person, faction, or group. As a good American I believed what I read.

When President Richard M. Nixon stood before the American people during a televised interview and stated unequivocally that he had no knowledge of what transpired, or who was behind the break-in, at the Watergate Hotel, we believed him because he was our President. He brought our soldiers back from Vietnam to stop the taking of American lives and we trusted him. How could he be expected to know anything of what had taken place at the Watergate?

It was not until I was confronted by members of the United States Secret Service, the White House, the United States Treasury and the State Department who threatened me with non-existence if I did not cooperate with their demands over an issue that had been buried for years that I finally began to see something I would never have thought to be real -- that our government will resort to whatever means necessary to keep certain things secret from the American people. As a major developer with one of the country's largest corporations I had dealt with such people as Clark Clifford and other high-ranking government officials as well as governors, mayors and prime motivators of national, state and city administrations, but these people were small potatoes compared to those whom I discovered were actually in control of our country.

In 1991, I unintentionally discovered records, when I was acting as a courier for a monetary trust in Switzerland and the United States, that would bring great embarrassment to our country and its leaders. At that time I did not realize just how devastating the information they held might be to those in power in our country. In an effort to search out the basis for what I found, and while trying to accomplish a mission I had been employed to complete, I evidently stepped into something that, if exposed, would be volatile. It was at that point in time my daughter was told that, if I continued in my probe and did not cooperate fully by doing what I was told, my life would no longer have any worth. As though to emphasize their threat they also told her that her children would be taken away from her permanently. What they hinted at was that our entire family would not be in existence as it once was. They frightened her enough so that she fully believed what she was being told.

What you are about to read is true. I am now at an age where I do not care what may happen to me. The chairman of the monetary trust in Switzerland and the United States, before his death, had given me his approval to write this story. Some people will say that this is all a lie. Well, in time, and with the passing away of most of the players in this story that will become easier to swallow than the truth. Still, I have principles that demand I can do nothing else but tell what I know and to let the chips fall where they may.

Currently, I am in excellent health for my age. However, if something unexpected or untoward should happen to me, perhaps you, as the reader, will believe what I have come to know. If I am allowed to complete my life without incident, then the choice will be up to you to decide if this was factual or just a figment of my imagination, as the government would have you believe.