New book...A DEEPER, DARKER TRUTH

[Peter Lemkin]

Peter,

Thanks again for providing this background on your experiences with Tom, his work, and his "dealings" with the FBI, whose behavior is not surprising.

Since I am undoubtedly the person responsible for opening this whole question up again (with my post concerning Tippit on Joseph McBride's thread), I think it fitting that I offer to sign the request to make his personal papers and databases available. Even though I do not profess to have expertise in optics or photographic analysis, I would be very interested in obtaining a fuller explanation and evaluation of the techniques he employed. The tone of my original assessment was not meant to be peremptory, though it may have been a bit too harsh; however, your own position leads me to feel my agnosticism at this point is not entirely unjustified. So I await further clarification, as do others.

If you at some point decide to write up a technical description of Wilson's complex method from your own understanding and conversations with him, I would be very interested in reading it.

- Al

Don't feel bad about 'opening it up again'. I have always thought that Tom's work has been under-rated and largely ignored, precisely because it is not transparent what he was doing to most. While I'm a scientist, electrical engineering and electro-optics are NOT my field. Trust me, in his court cases as an expert witness, the opposing side did their level best to have him struck as an expert witness - to my knowledge they never succeeded. The basic principles are not difficult to grasp, with a good science background. Some of the finer details are....but NOT beyond the possible to explain to someone with a good general education - only a lot of work. I remember Wilson telling me, as he often did others, that 'anyone' could build a system similar to his, at a 'modest' sum [I'd guess a few thousand dollars to, perhaps ten thousand!]. They then have to build up databases of how different substances at different angles of reflection and of different colors and under different conditions [such as sun angle and many others] would 'look' to the system. After that, its easy as pi :mexican: :cleanears:.

The next thing is another attempt at Mrs. Wilson and the oldest son, who have 'the say' over his materials - which are voluminous and would make validation of his technique much easier; and save a decade, perhaps, trying to re-create it from scratch. I'm surprised that some of the others in his field, to my knowledge, have not piped in on his technique - my guess is few have heard about it, at all. Some are in industries with security clearances or connections to the MIC - so we won't hear from them, but not all. Some are in academia, and should have no special ax to grind - only the general societal prejudices.

However, we don't need them to speak to his conclusions [unless they want to try to repeat and validate them]; only to speak to and explain his system [so that others, like myself - with some financial help - could recreate and validate his conclusions. I can explain his system and the theory behind it to a point - but only to a point. The largest problem is his final 'secret sauce recipe' he kept to himself and it rests, I believe, collecting dust in banker's boxes in a location I know of, but have been refused access to - as have all others. I believe included with his naive and generous 'donation' to the FBI was a detailed summary of his technique. I do not know, but suspect that a copy of that must exist with his notes.