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6 November 2006

Michael John Smith writes:

The first document is the technical report, produced before the trial, by Defence expert Dr Eamonn Maher. You will note that his conclusions were that there was no material within the exhibits which could be a threat to UK national security. Despite this clear conclusion, which Dr Maher backed up with hundreds of pages of evidence, the prosecution chose to make their case that the material was still highly sensitive, and the jury were only convinced by the many biased MoD experts who were brought to court. In some cases the Ministry of Defence experts claimed that specific material was sensitive, although Dr Maher had already shown there was more detailed information available in the public domain. The extent of the misrepresentation of the exhibits can only be appreciated by those who take the time to check the points, but this is a good example of how distortions can be freely used in secret trials when the media are excluded.

Smith-Maher4.pdf (2.7MB)

The second document is a complete set of 5 exhibits that were used to charge me with Count 3 of the indictment against me. These were the charges that accused me of making notes and sketches that contravened the Official Secrets Act. The Defence expert Dr Eamonn Maher gave a powerful testimony in Court, which made it apparent the prosecution's Ministry of Defence witnesses were exaggerating about these exhibits, and so the jury brought in a verdict of "not guilty" on this Count 3.

The subjects covered include Rugate filters, to be used on part of the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) - the so-called "Star Wars" project. There was also material on nanotechnology, and on Olfactory detectors that could be used to "smell" nerve gases on the battlefield. However, the information was not considered sensitive by the Defence expert Dr Maher, and the jury agreed with him.

The exhibits can be related to other documentation by the following numbers:

Exhibit 4 - JS/16 - Rugate Filters for SDI

Exhibit 5 - JS/17 - Micromachining Project

Exhibit 6 - JS/18 - Quasi-Optical Car Radar

Exhibit 7 - JS/19 - Micronvalve Project

Exhibit 8 - JS/20 - Olfactory Research Project

Smith-Exhibits-JS16-203.pdf (580KB)

I now attach another file for you to put onto Cryptome. This is the ruling from the European Commission of Human Rights about my case. This was particularly bad for me because they did not understand the issues that I was complaining about. In fact it is easy to see that the ECHR were affected by the British members at Strasbourg, since within days of my application arriving at the ECHR, the complete file disappeared and we were asked to provide a second copy, and it was a British member of the ECHR who asked about this. I will put details on my blog about this.

On another point, I have been in contact with Gary Powers Jnr of the Cold War Museum, and he will be putting something into his November newsletter about the American spy, referred to in my case as Mr E. Have you had any feedback about who this guy may be? Now would be a good time to reveal the identity of who this mysterious Mr E actually is, and so if you have any information about him it would be a good time to publish it.

Smith-ECHR-Decision2.pdf (710KB)

I just received an email from Gary Powers Jnr. He has now issued his November Cold War Times Magazine, and he has published a short article I wrote about this Mr E guy. Check the article out in the magazine:

http://coldwar.org/text_files/ColdwartimesNovember2006.pdf

I was interested in the [Nuke Arming] material you have just put onto Cryptome, as I was involved in the radar fuze project for the British free-fall nuclear bomb in 1976-78. In fact this was the reason why I was arrested in 1992, as it was claimed I had given the Russians details about it, although in only a week after my arrest it was put to Oleg Gordievsky that they needed his help on spy tradecraft because MI5 had no evidence that they could use in court to indict me on these claims.