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each one. And this one theoretically, depending on the ~—a major portion of it, for the headquarters in Foggy size of it and the size of the etching, could have a unique Bottom in DC. So he and | knew each other very well. number in the billions and billions. In fact, the test we One of the things that Bob wanted to do was, before he did was amusing in that we set up a transmitter anda ___ retired he wanted to have his family, particularly his two receiver based on removing an air grille from our drop boys in high school, experience what it was like to live ceiling and plugging up our transceiver into that as our —_ out of the country, so he actually gave himself the job: antenna. And we were able to read that thing, glued to a e demoted himself to head of security for East Africa. ittle piece of cardboard from a hundred feet away with a He and his family, shortly after this event, this meeting, piece of grille out of a drop ceiling, which was a pretty moved to Kenya, to Nairobi, and he and | quietly kept in primitive antenna. We didn't know what frequency he ouch through our other contact in Washington. He kept was dealing with, so we had to come up with some kind probing who these two men were. What bothered me of instant generic antenna. We were so impressed with was that the professor all of a sudden got a giant grant, he capabilities of this: it would read through thin layers he technology was transferred, he never had to work of material like thin plywood. We were so impressed __ again the rest of his life. hat again I felt that this was a A friend of mine in San Francisco, echnology that truly had some value, whom | had quietly told about this because we also discovered in some technology, because he was involved esting and in the paperwork he had with other aspects of national security with him that, if we had a microscopic " and tracking people, got a project to coil antenna with this, we could read What concerned do a physical security system—access his from a mile away. control, cameras, intrusion A few weeks later he got back to me me was that they monitoring, everything, the works—for and said that if we hed an anrenna, a had built these 2 li tle company in icon valley and coil antenna two inches in diameter : e said it was eerie to him but what with a chip in the middle...what the chips, and who they were making there looked eerily antenna's actually doing is acting as knows what like what | had described to him. He an amplifier to a great extent, and built the security system in this what it sends back out is an harmonic happened to them. modern fab [a chip-fabricating lab], of the original frequency. His They built them building billions of these little numbers-crunching showed that . we . chips. He wound up a year later he could read this thing from 120 In the billions, In being asked if he wanted to buy kilometres in space. There were um the security system back; they other attributes to this chip that vol . e...and they were shutting the factory down could be tied into it, especially if disappeared after they'd made billions and it was powered in some minute somewhere." billions of these little chips. It was a division of a rather major European electronics firm that had the plant—Siemens. What concerned me was that they had built these chips, and who knows new, that does a lot of work for what happened to them. They he intel community. This time | built them in the billions, in ad the director of security for all of State Department volume, because they're so small that you could take a here, and again a good friend from CIA. Again we had, at __ six-inch wafer and make hundreds of thousands of them he last minute, people walk in the door with the right on a wafer—and they disappeared somewhere. credentials and we didn't know who they were exactly. It Bob did not give up trying to find out who these guys urns out, again, we had people, two this time again, who _— were and who they worked for, what their agendas were. after the meeting we realised shouldn't have been there. He and | had had long talks—now by the mid-'80s— And yet they had credentials that were awesome. about what was really going on in government, who was Afterwards I found out they had never been called by my controlling what, what concerns he had, because he had wo contacts, yet they knew about our phone calls. They — come to the realisation there were a lot of things going new of exactly what time, what place, and what we were on that weren't right. He had supposedly made some going to be talking about. And supposedly my phone _ contacts to find out more of what was going on, and he calls had been made over secure phone lines. had contacted our mutual friend at CIA, another long- I have in my records, again, the name at the time of the term contractor—been involved since World War II in the ead of security at State Department—and I got to know __ very founding of the CIA—who got in touch with me and im well because | designed the security system, at least said Bob's got something hot, and when he's back in the way. Well, again | took this—and a ot more care this time—to a meeting that we had in Virginia at a subcontractor's company that | chips, and who knows what happened to them. They built them in the billions, in volume...and they disappeared somewhere." 38 * NEXUS JUNE - JULY 2011 "What concerned me was that they had built these www.nexusmagazine.com