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An open letter to Dame Stella Rimington regarding the secrecy of events surrounding Shingle Street

R S Ashford
12 Linden Road
Aldeburgh
Suffolk
IP15 5JQ

20th September 2001

Dame Stella Rimington.

Dear Madam.

The Secret Service has in my opinion exceeded its powers to the extent of near criminal incompetence. I refer to an event of national importance which occurred during the last war, in 1940 just after the most disastrous defeat in our military history. The enemy attempt to invade this country along the East coast at Shingle Street in Suffolk.

This event to my way of thinking is a vital fact, which should be made public. Yet the Secrecy Act has silenced all investigations into what took place. It is now 61 years after this event took place and the secret is not to be made public until 2021, long after any witnesses have passed on. It has implications for prominent people in power at the time who were prepared to surrender this country to the enemy and were desperate to make this country neutral to allow the concentration of the full weight of Hitler's forces against Russia. .

With agreement from the enemy for a safe passage to Australia the families of many prominent MPs and industrialists with Edward VIII and the Duke of Kent in prominence and in sympathy with Hitler's cause are in my view a major cause for this secrecy. I have investigated these events as thoroughly as possible, in spite of this stifling of information you can find the results of my efforts on this website. My post and probably my telephone have been interfered with. I have had no letters or phone messages regarding these events since I put it on the Internet, if this is true- and I think it is, I am sure you will agree it is against our liberty of free expression. I have also been blocked by publishing companies and the press have been refused publication of my story. Why is it still such a sensitive subject?
It proves beyond doubt these events I have described are true.

Yours faithfully,

Ronald Ashford