• John Francis Smith gave 20 years of his life to Government Service and in return was denied a pension and had 53 years of his life eradicated.
  

• Home Office say all files held on whistleblower John Francis Smith were destroyed in 2004.
  

"When there is nothing left but sorrow and love for Big Brother, we shall lift you clean out of history, we shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere, nothing will remain of you, not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain, you will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You do not exist!" - George Orwell 1984

Born into a Hampshire military family in 1931 as Hitler was rising to power in Germany, John Francis Smith could not have known that one day 53 years of the life he would lead would cease to exist. John was a deeply intelligent child and as a young man his family and friends said he was "a borderline genius".

From the outset it seemed he was destined to follow his father into military service but instead John chose Government Service where his "borderline genius" was never truly exploited to the full. Like so many men and women before him he had a strong sense of duty and loyalty to the Crown and the Government of the day. As a serious man with a sharp intellect and a sense of quiet intrigue, Government Service appealed to his secretive nature.

I did not get the chance to ask him whether he regretted his fateful decision to work for the State. He died on 05 March 2005 just two days before I planned to visit him at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London. I was simply gutted, I had lost the chance to speak with an uncle I had not met and it seemed his mysterious life would remain a mystery until I found his last passport.

Hidden inside a false panel covered with newspapers in a set of draws at his Hamsptead home was a small brown wallet encrusted with grime, dust and wax accumulated over the years. I checked the passport eagerly only to find it had never been used for foreign travel which was odd considering the fact that John was a fluent French speaker.

But on page 2 of his passport the mystery began to unravel albeit very slowly. John had indeed worked in Government Service and his occupation in July 1972, shown in the passport was 'Govt. Service'. It was perhaps then the only fragment of a life lived which the British Government would later deny.

And eventually the combined and united agencies of the British Government would deny much more but I was determined to uncover the secret of John's life to ensure that he did in fact exist. It took me just forty minutes of searching through his hardcopy paperwork to discover that from 1931 to June 1984, John Francis Smith practically did not exist apart from the passport and his birth certificate.

In a sense I was shocked but in another sense having been pre-warned by my family, I was not surprised that most of his life had been wiped out. The question that needed to be answered was who had wiped out his life and why? The nature of the corruption in shadow government John tried to expose had to be of the most serious nature to 'justify' the eradication on paper of most of his 73 years on earth.

A simple deduction gave a rather obvious answer: John had retained all of his paperwork including bank account statements, NHS pension, council tax bills, job application letters and some Christmas cards exchanged between members of his family after June 1984.

And after contacting the NHS pensions office in Fleetwood, Lancashire, it was clear that John was out of Government Service by December 1976 at the very latest. On 23 Febuary 1977, he started what was to be his last job before early retirement. He worked as an NHS clerical officer until 05 December 1985.

The picture was becoming clearer and I knew that John was forced to resign from Government Service by December 1976 at the very latest. The tumultous events he witnessed in Government Service during 1976 must have left him sickened to the core. It was the year that Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister having survived a shadow government plot (Clockwork Orange) to smear him as a KGB agent and 'friend' of the IRA.

Some thirty years later it was revealed that Harold Wilson was not paranoid about an MI5 plot to smear him and take over the country by force. Far-right elements inside MI5 and the Ministry of Defence had plotted with Lord Mountbatten (later killed by the IRA) to overthrow the Labour government under Wilson. Infantry and armoured units of the British Army loyal to the Crown were to be used as the deciding factor to oust Wilson's left-wing democratically elected government in a coup d'état. History would later show just how close Britain had come to military dictatorship.

To a certain degree John must have had some sympathy for the coup plotters given his moderate nationalist position and membership of the right-wing Conservative Party. Until his death in March 2005, he remained a paid-up member of the Conservative Party in Hampstead. But his right-wing political beliefs did not provide real evidence of his involvement with or knowledge of The Wilson Plot and Clockwork Orange. To this end I contacted Colin Wallace of Clockwork Orange infamy and he denied ever knowing John.

From the paperwork retrieved from his Hampstead home and confirmation of his employment details with the NHS which began in February 1977, I was certain that John had been involved with or exposed to a very significant occurence in shadow government between 1974-1976. There is little doubt that as a time-served Government Service employee during that turbulent period in British history, he would have had some knowledge of The Wilson Plot, Wallace and Clockwork Orange.

But before challenging the Government for details of John's life and his career in Govt. Service I had to cover my bases. I spoke to family members older than me, primarily John's siblings, my distant aunts and uncles. One of my aunts knew a great deal about John but had died in the United States some months before John. So I turned to my father who had not seen John since 1955.

From there I contacted my uncle Reginald and he had indeed some very interesting information to yield about John's secret life but did not have everything I needed. At least the jigsaw puzzle was becoming more complete as he explained that his son and my cousin Richard Barton-Smith had conducted a security screening on John before British rule came to an end in Hong Kong.

Rick Barton-Smith was serving in the Hong Kong Police under British rule and had access to sources to investigate what happened to John. I will not disclose here the methods he used, save to say Rick established that John Francis Smith had been connected to the Home Office and had disclosed material which should not have been released into the public domain. As a result John was deemed to be a risk to national security and was forced to resign or face disciplinary action. This was John's 'reward' for rejecting the attempt to suborn him.

His 'crime' was to try and blow the whistle on corruption in public office and for this he was deemed a threat to national security. But in reality there was no threat to national security, a term of reference very often abused by the authorities to conceal their dirty secrets. John attempted to expose dirty tricks, lies and corruption and was kicked out of Govt. Service by the very same 'people' he tried to expose.

Senior Inspector of Hong Kong Marine Police Rick Barton-Smith also discovered that John was subjected to surveillance and that his mail was vetted thereafter by the Metropolitan Police Special Branch. It is perhaps a good thing that British rule ended in Hong Kong because if the British authorities had known of Rick's discovery, he may have been subjected to the same 'treatment' dished out to our uncle. And Rick also learned that 77 South Hill Park (see picture below) was at one time owned by HMG to house its employees.

Having done a check with the Land Registry, I discovered that the identity of the previous owner of the property cannot be released. The current owners of 77 South Hill Park, Mr Duncan Patrick Moore and Mrs Yyonne Christine Moore have not yet cooperated with my request for them to name the previous owner. There is entirely relevant information regarding Duncan Moore in that he took over the Freehold of two upstairs flats in June 1984.

On 09 March 2005, Duncan Moore explained "John came with the property, we sort of inherited him." And then in June 1984, John's life suddenly reappears on paper and from which date there are unbroken data records to 05 March 2005 when John died in the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead.

In a bizarre coincidence Duncan Moore also worked at the Royal Free Hospital at the time and broke the news to my father that there had to be a post mortem even though cause of death was known. A post mortem is only necessary where foul play is suspected or if there is a sudden death. John had been dying in the Royal Free Hospital for several weeks before his death and did not need a post mortem but Dr Alex Mayer would not take no for an answer and conned my father into believing a post mortem would help to advance "medical science". It should be noted that I do not believe Dr Alex Mayer's tale and nor do members of the public.

On 17 March 2006 at J H Kenyon's funeral directors in Hampstead, we were advised not to view John's body in the coffin because the post mortem had been messy. John was still weeping fluids and blood at the throat and Tracey Parker advised we "may not want to remember him like that". And we chose not to remember him in such a disfigured condition. The full story behind the post mortem will be covered in part three of this investigation....

Replying to my previous email in July 2007, Duncan Moore confirmed in writing "John was a very quiet, reserved if not secretive man." John believed he was being followed but Mr Moore simply dismissed his fears as "paranoia". Events and evidence uncovered since John died show just how deeply wrong Mr Moore was to dismiss him.

The next part of this investigation will concentrate on my battle with the British Government to uncover the truth by having to confront a barrage of abuse, malice, harassment, violence and dirty tricks waged by shadow government and the police to stop me from uncovering the truth about whistleblower John Francis Smith. As the title of this investigation suggests: George Orwell's '1984' is no work of fiction because the Police State he predicted has come into being....

Part 2

Source: news-alliance.com