And we thought that nobody would believe us

The following is our defense, which none of our attorneys would research:

October 23, 2025

After nearly three and a half years of research and FOIA results, we have found evidence of the U.S. Diplomatic Service assisting others by establishing dual identities. Below are examples of what this type of assistance entails.

You may be familiar with the U.S. Marshalls’ WITSEC program, which is generally used for hiding witnesses. The U.S. Diplomatic Service of the Department of State, however, also holds the capability of carrying out similar actions when it wishes.

As I stated in court, October 27, 2023, case 22-00060-LEK, Doc number 295, transcript page 75 (shown below), I did not and will not now tell how a dual identity is created, due to national security issues. I still protect the United States government, despite what its agents have done to me over the past few years.

The procedures referenced below are not directly related to our case, as the internet was not commercially available in the 1980s. Then, the internet was strictly for universities and the military. (These examples are redacted to protect the U.S. government’s interests.) The five screen-capture examples are publicly available on the internet. Logos and other non-pertinent items have been redacted to save the government embarrassment.

Why was my passport from the 1980s kept as a classroom exemplar by the Department of State (October 24, 2023, case 22-00060-LEK, Doc number 289, transcript page 122), as imparted by Department of State’s Fraud Program Manager Payton Garbarino?

You connect the dots.

My personal opinion: The U.S. Prosecutors Office was kept in the dark about the incident directly precipitating our case. Only those present in the courtroom were told on October 27, 2023, case 22-00060-LEK, Doc number 295, transcript page 63, about the lethal threat from an Iranian agent against my family. The international news media declined to cover that aspect of our lives, even though the trial records are available publicly.

Moral? I would say it’s not to trust the Iranians, the way the Department of State and I both did in the 1980s. We both ended up getting into trouble with that, didn’t we?

Hey! Mr. Prosecutor’s Office! I had another passport locked in my residence which was not used as “Discovery” at my trial, and has never been released to the public. Whyever not?

Diplomatic Services Assistance

Keep It Under the Table, D.o.S.

The Department of State’s lead investigator, Dennis K. Thomas (his name is public knowledge as stated in federal court records and news reports) was pulled from the witness list just days before our trial. Why? To hide the facts? No time for us as defendants to go through bureaucratic channels to gain permission to “examine” him as a witness.

Transcript excerpts from our trial in October 2023

Classroom Exemplar?

D.o.S. knows this Iranian?

In closing

We are not spies, we are not terrorists, we are not malcontents who protest the government or seek to cause insurrection. My wife and I are pacifists; we do not drink, do not smoke, do not sell or do drugs, do not own firearms or have the makings for weapons of mass destruction. What we want and deserve is an apology for being treated as less than dirt by the U.S. State Department throughout our investigation, trial, and incarceration. And the mishandling of our case goes on . . .

We are writers first and foremost, and we will write about your drug dealers, your murderers, your rapists, and the U.S. Department of State running amok here in Hawai’i, trying to root out nonexistent “spies” more than three years in advance of the current administration’s wholesale persecution of generally harmless immigrants and others.

Questions?

Direct questions to the U.S. Prosecutor’s Office

Ken Sorenson
Acting U.S. Attorney 300 Ala Moana Blvd Honolulu, HI 96850-0001
Honolulu: (808) 541-2850
TTD: (808) 541-1830

Direct questions to the Department of State

Dennis Thomas
Special Agent | U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Diplomatic Security Service | Honolulu Resident Office 300 Ala Moana Blvd Honolulu, HI 96850-0001
808-582-9181 (Desk)

Direct questions to the Federal Bureau of Investigations

Federal Bureau of Investigation Kapolei Field Office David K. Porter, Special Agent in Charge 91-1300 Enterprise Street
Kapolei, HI 96707
honolulu.fbi.gov
(808) 566-4300

Direct questions to our attorneys

George C. Boisseau
LAW OFFICE OF GEORGE BOISSEAU
740 4th Street
Second Floor
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Lynn E Panagakos Atty At Law 210 Ward Ave # 328  Honolulu, HI 96814-4012