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We were gathered in the backroom of F&J's Pizza Parlor, Ltd. celebrating the shipment of our first solar cars to our Auckland dealership. Jim C, Frank, our families, and I decided to host a party for our key personnel and select members of the media.

Frank was just finishing a review of what Jim C's Products, Ltd. had accomplished since we had created the corporation. One of the main points in his presentation was the successful restructure of the US operation under Evan Strophe in Honolulu. Evan, with the help of Mike Halper in the Distribution Manager slot, had stepped into the General Manager position and completely revamped our US distribution and sales groups for the new Jim C's products we introduced. Yes, as we had thought might happen, some of our spinoff products made it to the marketplace before our cars.

I was next in line to make a presentation on the accomplishments of the other businesses Frank and I had started since my arrival in New Zealand six years ago. Our main speaker, Jim C, would follow me. Frank and I were the only ones aware of what Jim C had to announce and it would be a bombshell.

During my presentation, I described the success of our real estate and pizza business, and our plans for expansion of the businesses to other locations. The business reporters from the Auckland news media firms that we had invited were taking notes and nodding their heads. This was standard stuff for them and nothing earth shaking. The science reporters were undoubtedly wondering why they had been invited to a press conference that only addressed business. I finalized my presentation by introducing Jim C as our next speaker.

Jim C began his presentation with a history of how the three of us met and went into business together. It was a well-known fact in New Zealand that Frank and I manufactured all of Jim's creations. When Jim started in with his description of the new products that he was releasing for production, his description raised the interest of the science reporters slightly, but the business reporters sat up and took notice. They were all ears and wanted the details of what these products would do for the consumer. Once he had finished giving them what they wanted, they settled down, but Jim C had one final announcement to make.

He said, "When I first met Frank and Jim, I had an idea for how to use the power contained in Earth's magnetic field to produce electricity."

Now he really had the science and business reporters' interest, so he continued, "During my research, I learned that my idea was unworkable. However, I noticed an interesting phenomenon during the research, and I later explored this phenomenon. Last week I finished the initial testing of the first prototype of my new antigravity device."

The entire room was shocked into silence, and then the questions began. At that point, I decided bombshell was an understatement.

The three of us had decided to handle this announcement in a way that would create intense media interest. We predicted that in an attempt to attain additional information, the media would invade our personal privacy. That would give us our opportunity to begin our efforts regarding Task 2 of Jim's mission. Yes, you are right if you're thinking we engineered the announcement to lure the media into invading our personal privacy. The most interesting part of that engineering was our wives came up with the idea. Unfortunately, none of us predicted how far the media would go, and none of us foresaw the type of intervention we would receive from the New Zealand Government.

Since we have been here, we have all changed. The New Zealand business and personal atmospheres are far more relaxed than what we were accustomed to in the US. Yes, there was competition, aggression, drive to meet deadlines, and other aspects of business, but it wasn't the main focus of life as it was in the US and social relationships were very easy going.

Jim C had developed a prototype of his antigravity device, but it was a long way from being ready to manufacture. When it was manufactured, we would be the company that would produce it. We knew that the media and other interested parties would not settle for a simple announcement. They would want more detail than Jim C was ready to release. When Jim C decided to make the existence of his antigravity device public, the first thing he did was increase the security precautions around his laboratory.

Conrad Research and Development, Ltd. had been designed as a secure facility. Jim's personal laboratory was essentially a very large, shielded, bank vault. He and his wives were the only people that had authorization to enter the area, but they could take others into the area with them. Surrounding his vault were the secure work areas of his other researchers and their assistants. During business hours, entry into that area was controlled by two layers of security guards, and the area was sealed at night. Surrounding the secure areas were the offices of the company's support staff and Jim's personal office. In other words, Jim's lab was a secure area within a secure area.

The big news that Jim C told Frank and I about, but did not reveal to anyone else, was that his research into generating electricity from Earth's magnetic field had been successful. Unfortunately, in evaluating the effects of the power supply on the gravity field, Jim discovered that large-scale use of the power device might create problems with Earth's magnetic field. Jim didn't bother to explain to us the interaction of Earth's gravity field with his power device for he knew we wouldn't understand.

The three of us unanimously decided that this invention was too dangerous to release to the public. In our assessment, the public's greed would win out and the device would be sold in numbers that might weaken Earth's magnetic field and that could have catastrophic consequences on the existence of all life on Earth. Jim C conveyed the plans and instructions for building the device and all of his notes to Cathy, and she stored them with the Guidance Council. The Guidance Council would release the information to the existing Inner Council if they felt the time was right. Then we jointly destroyed Jim's working model, plans, instructions, and notes. Once we finished destroying everything, the Guidance Council placed a block in Jim's mind that prevented him from remembering the details of the power device, when he was not in his lab. While in the lab, Jim worked on his antigravity device and continued to assess the potential effects of the power supply on Earth's gravity field. Jim believed that a design change to the power supply would make it safe to use, but conducting major research into this topic was too dangerous at this time.

One of the things that delayed Jim's announcement of the antigravity device was his insistence that he evaluate its principles of operation to ensure that no one would be able to reverse engineer his power generating device from the antigravity device. Jim's conclusion was that his understanding of Earth's magnetic and gravity fields had led to him making two separate discoveries. His first discovery, the power device, had given him insight into the phenomenon that led to his discovery of the antigravity device. However, the phenomenon he investigated had essentially no relationship to the principles on which the power device was based. At least that is what he said, but he wouldn't explain to us how the discovery of the power device led to the antigravity device, but the antigravity device wouldn't lead someone to the power device. All he would say is operation of the power device affected Earth's gravity in a way that created the phenomenon that he observed, but operation of the antigravity device had no affect on the magnetic field.

Just to be sure that the reverse engineering would not be possible, Jim decided that he would not describe the phenomenon he had observed for it was distantly related to the power device. When asked, Jim would tell people that a spinoff of his study of the phenomenon was his gaining an understanding of the true nature of gravity, but the phenomenon had nothing to do with gravity. If pressured as to the nature of the phenomenon, he would tell others that he would not discuss it for he was still studying the phenomenon and considered the nature of his studies to be a proprietary area of interest. The truth of the matter was the Guidance Council gave him the plans and knowledge to build the two devices.

We enjoyed the remainder of our pizza party that night. The next morning the headlines of all the newspapers were filled with the news of Jim C discovering the secret of gravity and his development of a device that countered the effects of gravity. That day, the media began their campaign to find out more about his research and the antigravity device. Jim agreed to an interview with the press on Monday of the following week, and specifically told them that he would not discuss the nature of the device nor the principles on which it was based. The only remarks that he would make would be general comments regarding the device's purpose and the possible uses of the device. They didn't care for they knew from past experience that people often say more in an interview than they intend to say. Of course, Jim C was very much aware of this fact also and intended to give any questions suitable consideration before forming his reply. During the interview, the replies to the media's questions were frequently 'No Comment'.

Prior to the meeting, the New Zealand Government asked Jim if he would allow a group of their representatives to attend the press conference, and he agreed. That night, we discussed the government's request and Jim C told us that he believed that the government would take some form of action regarding the device at some point in the future. Frank agreed with Jim, and it was at that point that Jim told us about the precautions he had taken to keep knowledge of the device from falling into the wrong hands. The wrong hands being anyone except him.

To me, Frank and Jim C had always seemed a little paranoid when it came to protecting the secrets of their research. In the case of Jim C's antigravity device, he had designed in a feature that would destroy the device if a deactivation signal was not received within 2 minutes of the device being activated. Of course, Jim carried the signal's transmitter in his pocket when he worked on the device and unobtrusively sent the signal whenever he activated it. Jim stored the only accurate copy of his plans for the device with the Guidance Council before he made his announcement. He also maintained a bogus set of plans and notes in his laboratory that had been treated with a flammable chemical. I would shortly learn that Jim's paranoia was not unreasonable.

For the next two weeks, the media was after Jim. They harassed him at home, work, and everywhere he went. He spotted them watching his home with binoculars, telescopes, and cameras. He called in the police and complained about them, but there was little the police could do for we could not prove that they were looking into the house. He was able to prove harassment due to the number of phone calls he was receiving from the same people within a very short time.

Once the media learned they knew as much about the device as my family did, they basically left us alone. Frank and I had been putting together plans for manufacturing the device. Jim C had given us the basic information for the mechanics of the device and we had accomplished some of the preliminary production design work. We had hardcopies of the preliminary plans defining how to produce the device stored in a cardboard tube marked Antigravity Plans. Our kids had seen the tube on my desk, but we didn't think anything of it.

A couple of weeks later, our eldest girl, Melisa, came into my office and asked if it would be okay if she took the tube of plans and sold them to the man who talked with her after school. That made me angry, very angry. I talked with Melisa and learned how the man had approached her, drew out what she knew about the device, and offered her a great deal of money if she would bring the plans to him.

I called Frank and Barbara into the office and explained what the man had told their daughter. Melisa could tell that the three of us were angry, and it took a long time for Barbara to calm her down and explain that we were angry with the man, not her. Frank called the police. They came over to the house and took our statements. Melisa told them that the man was expecting her to bring the plans to school the next day, and he would meet her before class, and he would pay her for the plans at that time.

The next morning Melisa was fitted with a transmitter and microphone by the police. They then went to Melisa's school in an unmarked van. Barbara dropped the kids at school about an hour later and drove away. The other kids went inside as we had told them to do. Melisa withdrew the tube of plans from the paper bag that she had hidden them in, and looked around for the man. A few minutes later, a man approached her and spoke to her. She was holding the tube, as we told her to do, so he could see the label. She asked him how much money he was going to give her for the plans, and he told her $100. When he held out five $20 dollar bills, she extended the tube to him and took the money. As he started to leave with the tube, the police moved in and took him into custody.

During questioning, the police learned that he was a reporter who decided to try to get the plans so he could resell them. I don't recall all of the specific charges brought against the jerk. I know he was charged for conspiring to commit theft, theft of the production drawings, intent to steal intellectual property, and several charges for involving Melisa in his plans to steal Jim C's plans. He negotiated a deal with the authorities that got him a minimum sentence in return for a full disclosure of his actions. As far as Frank, Barbara, and the rest of us were concerned, the only good thing about the plea deal was Melisa would not have to appear in court. The police told us afterwards that they would have had difficulty proving a few of the charges.

That event was what caused the media to target our family and Melisa in particular. They believed we knew more about Jim's device than we would admit. We eventually had to take all of the kids out of public school, and arrange for private, in-home tutors. That helped a lot, but the media continued their campaign of harassment against us.

Jim C's problems with the media had continued also. This wasn't Paul and Sue's specialty, so we jointly hired a solicitor and filed suit against the media and the representatives that were harassing us. The case dragged on through the courts for several years, but the media's antigravity device harassment stopped when we filed the law suit. Our lawsuit was big news for it was rare for private parties to sue the media. The celebrity reporters and paparazzi were now after us. Almost every day, a different person was asking us questions about either the antigravity device or our lawsuit. They were now working together as a team in a way that prevented us from bringing harassment charges against them as individuals. We also had no way to prove that they were working as a team.

As he had indicated, Jim C had revamped his prior organization and laid the groundwork for the 'Invasion of Privacy for Profit' legislation in California before Frank and I left for New Zealand. He had formed a sleeper group in Los Angeles, California and provided them with a draft copy of the legislation that he wanted passed. He also formed 12 additional sleeper groups in major US cities across the country, and put them in contact with the Los Angeles group. At the time, Frank and I were busy working on getting the Chocolateen Corporation ready to move to New Zealand. We hadn't given Jim C's briefing any further consideration.

After the three of us had completed our move to New Zealand, Jim C told Frank and me that the US groups were making an effort to expand their groups, but they were meeting a lot of resistance and moving at a snail's pace. He told us that he'd just begun setting up sleeper groups in Great Britain, Australia, and a dozen smaller countries. Jim briefed Frank and me on his invention a week before he made his announcement. At that time, he told us that it was time for us to start our activities on Task 2, and he thought the announcement would provide us with a justification for beginning the task in New Zealand. To be truthful, the harassment following his announcing the existence of his device gave us numerous reasons and opportunities for starting the task. The media approaching and harassing our kids had never occurred to us as a possibility.

A month after we filed the lawsuit, Jim C arrived at our headquarters building to talk with Frank and me. He said, "I want to warn the two of you that I expect to be arrested by the New Zealand Army within the next few days. If that happens, it is critical that the two of you remain separate from my problems.

"When I announced that I had an operable model of an antigravity device, I knew that this day would come. For the past three years, I have been working to create the situations that would allow us to initiate the 'Invasion of Privacy for Profit' legislation here in New Zealand and to create a situation that would result in the New Zealand Government taking action against me.

"When the government wanted me to include their people in that press conference, I suspected that they would become involved in my area of research. They did and now I thing they will be coming after me. I am not going to explain that for the less you know about it now, the better it will be for you and your family."

Frank said, "Are you sure that there is nothing that we can do to help you Jim?"

"No, I have been in contact with Paul and Sally about this matter and they will be able to do everything I need done. What you need to know is that this will be my first public step in carrying out Tasks 1 and 2. If the two of you get involved now, it will endanger the legislation you will be working on.

"From this point on, we will need to separate our political activities as much as possible, and keep them separate. We can still be friends socially and we will continue our business relations, but when it comes to my political activities, the two of you should denounce me at least in public."

I said, "We understand Jim. We knew this day would come, we just didn't realize it would be so soon. Can you tell us what happened that will cause you to be arrested without going into areas we shouldn't know about?"

"Well as you know, I have been working on my antigravity device. Phil Thompson, one of my employees, is a model airplane enthusiast. He built an RC controlled model of a Boeing 747, so I purchased the model from him. I created a more powerful version of the device and mounted it in the model of the Boeing 747. Over the past month, Phil has been helping me test the antigravity device.

"I configured the device so I could control it using an RC controller. During our tests, I use my controller to configure the device so it provides vertical and horizontal thrust, and Phil uses his controller to raise and lower the landing gear and adjust the model's control surfaces. You could say he flies it and I power it.

"Phil and I have been testing the device inside my vault, but all we could really do is raise and lower the 747 for there isn't enough space to fly it around the room. Last month, we took the 747 model outside to the company's parking lot and placed it on the ground. We weren't aware of it at the time, but the paparazzi were watching us, and they photographed our activities using telephoto lenses.

"I activated the antigravity device and sent the deactivation signal. When I gradually increased the power to the device, the 747 started to rise off the pavement and hover in front of us. I used my controller to increase the power and adjusted the device's angle of thrust away from vertical. This caused the 747 to gradually start moving forward. As I continued to increase the power and thrust angle, the 747's speed increased. When it was moving fast enough, the wings generated lift and airflow over the control surfaces allowed Phil to control the path of the 747's flight with his controller. During the test flight, we noticed that the magnetic heading of the aircraft affected the thrust that the antigravity device developed. After a bit of trial and error, we were able to get the 747 back on the ground near us, and we returned everything to my vault.

"Phil and I did not encounter this phenomenon during our test in the vault because the area was too small to change the planes azimuth. Phil was able to adjust the plane's heading far enough during the test flight to discover the difficulty. It occurred to me at the time that the problem was caused by the antigravity device being installed in a fixed mounting and the mounting was in a mobile device. Apparently changing the heading of the 747 caused in an interaction between the Earth's gravity field and the device's field with the result being a loss of thrust. I knew that I would need to devise a way of rotating the device in its mounting or adjusting the phase of the device's antigravity field.

"As you will recall, that evening our test flight made it to the front page of several newspapers with supporting photographs. Another pack of reporters and paparazzi descended on me like a school of barracuda. When I refused to answer questions, the reporters withdrew to prevent further charges of harassment from being filed against them. The paparazzi ramped up their campaign of taking turns at badgering me.

"I went back to the drawing board. I quickly realized that a mechanical solution would work for the 747 model, but it would not be suitable for installation in a full sized aircraft or in a car. I conducted several experiments and learned gravity has a directional force component other than down. I devised a means of generating 360 degrees of horizontal phase control over the device's antigravity field. By using thrust sensors, the device is now able to automatically adjust the phase setting to eliminate variations in thrust caused by a change in magnetic heading. After modifying the device and its RC controller, Phil and I mounted the device to a workbench and tested it and the controller in the vault. It appeared to work, so we remounted the device in the 747. The following morning, we took the 747 out to the parking lot and our tests were successful. After Phil brought the 747 in for a powered landing, everything went to hell.

"A convoy of Army vehicles pulled into our parking lot and stopped near us. An Army Colonel approached me and handed me a document. He said, 'Mr. Conrad, I am Colonel Johnsen and I have been instructed to serve this confiscation order on you. You will note that it is signed by the Prime Minister. The New Zealand Government has determined that your antigravity device is a matter of National Security. Your failure to provide adequate security for the device has resulted in the government's decision to confiscate the device and all documentation pertaining to it.'

"Colonel Johnsen motioned to his men directing them to seize the 747 model and the RC controllers. Turning back to me, he said, 'And now sir, you will turn over the documentation package to me.'

"I replied with, 'Colonel, I protest. The 747 and all documentation related to the antigravity device is the Intellectual and commercial property of my company. I protest the confiscation of the device and its documentation.'

"Colonel Johnsen then said, 'I can understand your feelings about this matter sir, but the laws governing National Security give us the right to confiscate personal and commercial property when it is a matter of National Security. Now where is the documentation?'

"I recognized the futility of further resistance, and took the Colonel to my vault. On the way, I said to him, 'Colonel, my antigravity device is an experimental device, and it is still undergoing testing. I have noticed that there are a number of peculiarities with the device. If it is handled improperly, it might be dangerous to anyone in its vicinity. Tell your people to not activate the device without my presence and oversight, and to not open my case of documentation for it is my company's Intellectual property and no one has the right to access that information.'

"I told him that I would be in contact with my solicitors and I would have them file an action to have my property returned. I said, 'I strongly advise you and the government's representatives to do nothing in regard to my device and documentation until you have heard from my solicitor. I have taken steps to ensure my documentation will not fall into the wrong hands, and your scientists will not like the results of opening this case.'

"Then I handed the documentation case to Colonel Johnsen and as I escorted him out of the building, he said, 'Don't worry Mr. Conrad. The government has a number of very qualified scientists who will take good care of your device and documents.'

"As the Colonel was preparing to board his vehicle, and within hearing of the soldiers who accompanied him, I said, 'Colonel Johnsen, I want to say one last thing to you. Be sure that you inform your scientists that the device is potentially dangerous and they should not activate it. You should also tell them to contact me if they want to activate the device or access the contents of the document case. If they fail to do so, the results may be disastrous.'

"Once the Colonel had driven away, I immediately called Paul and Sally to inform them of what happened. Paul told me to come to his office. When I got there, he had me prepare and sign a statement attesting to what happened. While I was doing that, he and Sally started preparing the paperwork to file for the return of my property. They told me they would file the paperwork with the court as soon as it opened in the morning.

"Before I left, Paul informed me that the Colonel was correct about the emergency powers allowing the government to seize my property. He told me the only hope I had of having it returned to me was for us to prove that the device is not a risk to the security of New Zealand. Paul went on to say that from what little he knew of the device's potential, he suspected that we would have a difficult time proving that there is no risk to National Security and that he doubted that I would ever see my device and documentation again.

"And that Jim is what has happened up to now."

Frank and I looked at each other, and then Frank said what we were both thinking, "That is an interesting story Jim, but it doesn't explain why you think the Army will arrest you."

"I told you guys about the deactivation circuit that I built into my device, and that is a secret between the three of us. Well I did that because I suspected that either someone would steal my device or eventually the government would confiscate my device and I did not want anyone to have that technology until I was certain that it was safe. You may not recall, but I mentioned that I also treated my documentation with a chemical that will destroy the documents when they are exposed to oxygen.

"I suspect that the scientists Colonel Johnsen mentioned will want to review my documents and will also want to activate my device. The document case is airtight and filled with nitrogen. When they open the case, oxygen will get in and the documents will ignite and burn at a very high temperature. When they activate the antigravity device, I will not be there to send the deactivation signal. I know the device will destroy itself, if it does not receive the signal, but I don't know enough to predict what will happen.

"When the device and documents are destroyed, Colonel Johnsen and his superiors are going to be very angry, and I think they will take their anger out on me. The logical assumption is that his superiors will have me arrested."

I said, "I think you may be right Jim. Senior officers in the military are rarely happy men when their plans are thwarted. Protecting your invention the way you did will definitely thwart their plans."

Frank asked, "When you filled out your statement Jim, did you document the warnings you gave Colonel Johnsen about not letting the scientists fool with the device and document case?"

"Yes, I made sure that I put all of those warnings in my statement. I suspect that those warnings are the only thing that will keep me out of a military prison, assuming of course that I even get a trial."

Two days later, a detachment of Military Police arrived at Jim's company to take him into custody. Jim C asked the Captain, "What am I being charged with Captain?"

"I am not aware of the specific charges that will be brought against you Mr. Conrad. The only thing Brigadier Purdy told me was to come here, take you into custody, and bring you back to our hanger at Whenuapai Airforce Base. He said he would make the specific charges known to you at a later time."

As they were taking Jim outside, he called out to the receptionist who had overheard most of the discussion, "Call my solicitors and tell them that I have been arrested and am being taken to Whenuapai Airforce Base."