THE COVER UP EXPOSED, SUSPECT NAMED..

WAS BOB WAKE COMPLICIT?...

'Bob Wake was a fixer, if you had a problem he would fix it for you, one way or another'...

Commander Rupert Long...

A few posts ago, I mentioned that there was another network in place at the External Affairs Department run by Evatt. In it, you can see an intricate series of communications links spanning the communist party, Government ministers, and senior public servants, Military intelligence and the man, Bob Wake. There's more than one NKVD agent shown and if we extend this diagram we would include Wally Clayton with a direct link to Wake and Alfred Hughes with a direct link to Clayton.

                                                             

The photo on the left is of a jovial Bob Wake, on the right is an ASIO surveillance photo taken in 1955, he is talking to a politician, Douglas McLellan, a man who was part of a small group including Bob who met regularly in Doc. Evatt's office. Dalziel, NKVD agent, was also a member. 

The photograph on the right was taken by ASIO during Operation Boomerang which was focused on Wake. See ASIO files NAA.

The image on the left was taken in 1948 when, according to ASIO records, Bob was at the peak of his influence. See NAA files BC6759670.

So we have on the left the man with a suit and a hat? The reference to the man watching the Somerton Man that night was too hard to resist. I would have thought that Bob 'Hereward' Wake was far to canny a man to get that physically close to a killing although, at the time he wasn't under suspicion as such, he was in Military Intelligence I believe.

Robert Bird Wake was ex Army, ex CIB and ex ASIO.  He was forced to resign from ASIO by the then Director-General, Robert Spry, Spry was appointed in June 1950 and Wake went in September 1950. You would be forgiven for asking why that should be so.

It would take far more than the space available in a single blog post to relate to you the extensive and deeply concerning history of Bob Wake.

From the outset when he first joined the staff of Commander Rupert Long way back in 1918, he was under suspicion, he faked a previous military history with the British Imperial Force on an application to join the Australian military. 

Wake was to later join the Militia ahead of WW2 where he rapidly gained promotion from Lieutenant to Acting Major in Military Intelligence.

THE FIXER

He was a skilled networker and knew how to manipulate and control others. Whilst there are many tales about Wake, the first serious implication was in relation the disappearance of Marjorie Norval, she was a secretary to a well known Politician in Queensland where Bob was then posted. She had become pregnant and was treated by a local Doctor, John 'Jappy' Ross. It was Wake who saw to it that Jappy Ross was suddenly whisked away to the Loveday Internment camp during the investigation of Marjorie's' disappearance.

There followed a series of incidents when Bob tried to spy first on the Americans then the British then Australian Miltary intelligence including trying to tap Commander Long's telephone. All his efforts failed.

One of the many ways that he would entrap unsuspecting victims was to organise female company, sometimes prostitutes, and sometimes CPA members were targets and at other times politicians or military officers..

There was another 'suicide' which occurred in 1855, a journalist by the name of Peter Brown Gruening, Police had found him in his car and apparently, he had gassed himself but there were those who were not happy with that finding.

CONCLUSIONS

This is a brief summation, there is, as pointed out earlier, a lot more information on which this post is based. It is all from verifiable sources including historical texts and ASIO files. 

The rivalries between the various Australian Intelligence and Security agencies were hard fought battles, politicians and ministers alike made full use of their power to influence the actions of the agencies and the onverse was also true. As a consequence, the state of National Security in Australia in those early Cold War years was a total disaster.


(NOTE: Hollis was not the first man from the UK Security services to visit Australia to express deep concerns, he was preceded by a Colonel JC Mawhood. That visit occurred in 1940 via a specific mission known as Mission 104. His prime focus was the setting up of two of Australia's most famous wartime Independent Companies, M Special forces and Z Special forces. His second role was to persuade the Australian Government to set up an independent civilian security organisation. Whilst the first part of his mission was an outstanding success, the second part was not. In fact even a part of that first mission became the subject of a bitter battle between the Army and the Navy, that was FERDINAND, the operational code name for the Coastwatchers/ M Special forces.)

It was against this background of an escalation of tensions between East and West, concerns of a communist takeover in Australia and absolute turmoil within the Nation's security services, that the Somerton Man was found dead on a South Australian beach. A State that contained some of Australia's most advanced weapons development facilities with an atoic testing ground underway and a rocket range, WOOMERA, well under construction. A State where Russian agents were known to be operational and with very active Communist Party chapters.

The finding of hidden codes, microcode, steganography or whatever you want to call it, within both the Somerton Man code page and the Boxall copy of the Rubaiyat which we know was shared between Alf and Jess, set the direction. This was an espionage case, the man was assassinated, Alf and Jess were somehow involved and the likelihood is that a senior Australian Intelligence man was in the frame.

So, under what circumstances could this have happened? Could it be that Bob Wake was doing some sort of deal with the CPA and the Russians?  Could it be that Bob wielded influence over the SA Police and certain politicians? Who was he protecting?

This explains the cover-up that has lasted for 72 years.

There is no doubt that this was an espionage case and that some very senior people were involved, as a consequence of whatever had occurred prior to November 30th, the Somerton Man was made to pay 'one way or another'. And the reason for the cover-up is now exposed...