Highly Confidential and Classified (now de-classified) Copy Letter

The Head & Management of Innovation and Technology Policy c/o Tom Salusbury Esq. Assistant Director SET Policy 151 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 9SS

The Institute of National Economic Enrichment and Development P.O. Box A60 Huddersfield HD1 1XJ 26th January 1998

Dear Sirs,
Please find enclosed our concise notes on the Aspects of Innovation for your consideration and comment, on the understanding that you have in your unique position the power to change the fortunes of Britain for the better. In this respect your ability to not find the correct solution will be catastrophic for the British people. Through your policies you will determine whether aur people in future times will reap the vengeance of economic subservience and all that brings or they will live in an economy that is strong and vibrant and where all will be free and able to advance their positions in life. Considering your unparalleled position in determining our future in the world of tomorrow I would state that your decisions taken today will have immense consequences for Britain in the future.

Your responsibilities and criteria can be classified as follows:


1. Integrity
   The way that you and your department come to their final decisions must be based on the highest of integrity and withou biased towards any particular person or concern or the application to the decision making process of any single vestedinterest. Your judgement has to be in the long-term interests of the British people and no others. In a democracy this has to be the ultimate case, excluding all other interests.
   
   
2. Moral Obligations
   Ethics of the highest order have to be in place for your final decisions. If for some reason you decide to take advice from an old and tried docio-economic solutions whether they be from so-called world expert, you must critically uphold the format of investigation to see why these solutions did not work in the past and what are the reasons that they will work for the British people in the future.
   
   
3. Unique opportunity and time for change
   Without major change in strategy from those of the past we shall stay in decline. Your department has to be strong and push forward the frontiers of change if it is to act totally in the best interests of Britain and it's people. This period in time is of the utmost importance for the nation and can be seen as sitting os a seesaw; we can go up on the one side and go down catastrophically on the other.
   
   
4. Most vital decision in the country
   At no other period in the history of this great country is your solution to our present and future problems so critical. In a further ten years time we shall either be a growing technological nation or continually dying one.; if the latter, then it will be an almost impossible struggle back for us. For this alone your advice to Government will be the most vital and critical for Britain's long-term future. If we do not get it right this time all our major problems in the futurewill stem from that advice. We cannot express more strongly what your policies will create for our nation's future.
   
   
5. Your decisions will alter the whole future of Britain
   You and your department have an unparalleled position in determining our people's future. This is an immense responsibility. Your decisions today will have vast consequences for Britain. If US President Roosevelt had not taken the letter from Einstein and a small number of knowledgeable scientists seriously back in 1939 what would the world be like today we would ask. The probability is that the old USSR would now dominate the world order as they were secretly working on this weapon of mass destruction in the early part of the 1940's. Therefore, if America had not built the bomb first we would have certainly suffered a horrendous fate in this country and one similar to what awaits us now if we are not extremely careful - Stalin was a far worse butcher of human life than Hitler was and would have ruled Britain with an iron fist and with all the savagery that he ruled Russia whilst it was under his evil and draconian control. He would have certainly used the atom bomb against anybody who stood in his way. The INEED's Drs Seaborg and Karle can testify to this as they were highly instrumental in the bomb's creation.
   
   Therefore for the people of Britain you have to take notice of knowledgeable and creative scientists and inventors, but this time from outside the usual tried and tried again so-called experts of the establishment who's advice has never made the economy strong. These people therefore have to be chosen for no other motive than to safeguard our future and where kudos in any shape or form does not take part in this selection process.
   
   
6. You will determine our children's and their children's future
   We cannot say enough to avert the hardship that our future generations will inherit if your policies do not work. What we do now is paramount in safeguarding the future for our children. If we could now go into the future and in fifty years time look back and see clearly that our forefathers (ourselves) had got it all wrong, what would our future grandchildren think of our stupidity and the suffering that we had created for them. This is why again your position is so crucial to the future. You have to remember that all our parents throughout the world want to do the best for their children and this is one of the driving forces of all present and growing nations. Therefore if one child suffers in another country to allow their children to live comfortably in their own, it will be acceptable. We have this case now throughout the world as Amnesty International will tell you. This situation and self-interest will increase exponentially over the next 50 years as most countries become industrialised, especially ,in SE Asia.
   
   
7. You must realise your position for all of us
   If you do naot take on board the enormity of your position, then there will be no solution to our current and future problems. There are no jokes in getting it wrong but there are a wealth of achievements awaiting us all if we get it right. There is therefore a great deal of energy to be engendered by your team into the process so that we do get it right this time. Next time it will be too late.
   

We have now made firm arrangements in accordance with your telephone discussion with Mr Xanthos Menalou for us to have our meeting during the first week in February 1998. Our intentions for that meeting is Wednesday 4^th February 1998 between 2pm and 4pm in the afternoon at your offices in London. We look forward to that arrangement and wish you well with all your creative endeavours for Britain.

Yours sincerely,
Dr David Hill
Chief Research Executive Officer



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