From: birddog [mailto:birddog@smartchat.net.au]
Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2007 4:06 PM
To: Terence Fogarty
Subject: Re: OCR

Acknowledged with thanks Terry.

The reason I asked if you'd read through the largest document was because I'm interested to know your personal reaction to the contents.

For example; the comment which WA RSL State President Lt. Col. Ken Bladen made to me about the content of my 43 page document (his copy of which was festooned with strips of paper and green highlight markings of numerous aspects) was "If even only ten percent of what you've written in this document is actually true, then we are all in deep trouble."

His comment was made to me during 1998 in his office at the WA RSL headquarters in Perth.

I was there that day for a meeting with him and a number of other people (including the Secretary of the Western Australian Branch of The Australian Pensioners League and an 'Electorate Officer' from the WA Greens office of the Hon. Giz Watson MLA) with a view to forming a special committee to review the issues which I'd been attempting to raise and which I had discussed much earlier that morning (about 0600 HOURS Western Standard Time) on an Australia-wide broadcast of the Channel Nine TODAY television programme.

At his personal request, I had somewhat earlier provided Ken Bladen with copies of my two 1992 research documents.

Both documents were on his desk in his office while I was there and both documents were festooned with paper place-marking strips and green highlighting marks.

The subsequent meeting resolved to form the committee which had been proposed.

Before that happened (and within only a few days of the meeting) I was informed that a Special Meeting of the WA RSL Executive had resolved to refuse to have anything further to do with Graham MacLeod (on instruction from the RSL National Executive).

During the next few days I will dig out the specific 1980s Annual Report of the Commonwealth and Defence Force Ombudsman to which I referred in my earlier comments.

I will photocopy the front cover and relevant inside page or pages in which he made his complaint/comments about the various Federal Government Departments which were ignoring legal precedents set by decisions made by various Australian courts.

I will then send the copies to you.

I think I previously neglected to inform you that that particular Ombudsman disappeared from that job within only about six months of the comments which he'd made.

Regards,
Graham