21 January 2001 WITHOUT PREJUDICE Dr. Patten: I have trusted you when you have introduced yourself as a senior NASA Fellow. Yet for 34 months without our knowledge, you have maintained a slanderous action to inflict severe and irreparable damage to my reputation and our institue. We have lost potential partners as a result of your behavior. Several clients have reported that someone was publishing my name, my company and my publications under THE REAL 'HORRIBLE TRUTH' ABOUT THE TRANQUILEYE heading on the Internet. We thought it was a joke. We were flabbergasted to discover your web document: www.jamesarnoldpatten.com/tranquileye.html The statements you have published electronically are false. I have sought legal advice and have received confirmation that your action constitutes a libel and defamatory attack on myself, my family, and my personal reputation. You are hereby notified to withdraw, within 48 hours, the above electronic document as well as other electronic and non-electronic documents where you, your partners or company refer to tranquileye, The Mars Mission, Little Italy Enterprises SA, and/or John Stevenson. You are also requested to publish, at your cost, within a week a reasonable apology statement that meets my approval. Failing to do that, I shall instruct our lawyer to launch legal action and seek full recovery of damages and court costs. I have witnesses and a log of our correspondence including your calls from NASA, the supposed Mars Office, and elsewhere. In 15 years, over 5000 professors, consultants and professionals from the US, Canada, Europe and Japan have worked with me. Ask the BBB, our three Banks (Eastern, First Boston) or Price Waterhouse, our auditors for 10 years. Sincerely, John H. Stevenson tranquileye.com HA! HE THINKS HE CAN BULLY ME! HERE IS WHAT I SENT BACK TO HIM: January 28th 2001 To Mr. Stevenson, Sir, I will certainly not apologize. I have spoken to a lawyer about this matter, and we both agree that the statements I made on the Web page are not slanderous or defamatory, because the statements of fact are true. I am sure your lawyer is telling you the same thing, or I would have heard from him already. Perhaps you should ask your friends at Mj-12 about this? Are they keeping you out of the loop? I know it must bother a person such as you that there are those who are not frightened of your great power. It must make you uncomfortable when someone like me stands up for himself and asserts his rights. Rest assured that I will never fail to do so. You do not seem to consider for one moment that I am doing this not to damage your reputation but because you insulted me and refuse to conside for one moment that there is a "truth greater than all men know." (Recognize the quote? Of course you do!) I have had many professional contacts over the past ten years, and you, Mr. Stevenson, are the only one to treat me in such a shoddy manner, leaving me to pay, out of my own pocket, for a taxi that you yourself offered to share. And to this day you fail to understand anything about the work that I did for you. The fact that you would create imaginary abusive telephone conversations speaks volumes about the lengths you will go to assert your supposed power, Mr. Stevenson. I still believe that in our AMERICAN society I can speak the truth and not be bullied into shutting up. If you wish to proceed with legal action, I will research the case law and deal with this personally. I do not need a lawyer to win this one, rest assured! As well, stop calling and emailing my wife, as my lawyer friend is clear that lying to her about my supposed activities during the Mardi Gras in 1997 is slander. Consider your actions carefully, Mr. Stevenson. What does your lawyer think? In respect, Dr. James A. Patten, Ph.D. NO REPLY TO THAT, OBVIOUSLY!