Whistleblowing Fact 898: If my father was a wartime whistleblower, which now seems certain, it occurred to me that the missing pieces of what happened to him may lie not in enemy actions but in allied retaliation. As a result, I turned to a popular whistleblowing theory and its ancillary theoretical model explaining retaliation against […]
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Whistleblower Characteristics
Whistleblowing Fact 897: A partial listing of whistleblower characteristics my father “possessed included being strong-willed, stubbornly committed, and obsessed about a personal belief. He also had a proactive personality, which allowed him to be more willing to go against social conventions. Like many whistleblowers, he possessed high levels of moral judgment and felt more inclined to […]
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One Week Till Launch!
One week from today, on Father’s Day weekend, we will launch my investigative memoir titled Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew. The event will take place at 4:00 PM on June 14 at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington Green. This event is more than just a book launch; […]
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Interview with Laurel Review
Laurel Review, a biannual print magazine that seeks “submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and those that blur the lines between genres,” recently published an interview co-editor Luke Rolfes did with me about my investigative memoir, Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew. https://laurelreview.org/james-wells
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“Wartime Whistleblower Heroism”
Whistleblowing Fact 895: David Colapinto, whistleblower attorney and co-founder of the National Whistleblower Center, says of Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew: “One of the best whistleblower stories ever. This page-turner tells the real-life story of Jack Wells, who died in the service of his country […]
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Because is in Ireland
My investigative memoir, Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew, is in Ireland! Thank you, Jordan Wachman! I encourage others to post their pictures of Because.
Whistleblowing Fact 895: In some of the 400 letters I found 26 years after he died in Vietnam, my father self admits that his actions qualify him as meeting the academic definition of a whistleblower. Two prominent scholars, Near and Miceli, defined in a 1985 journal article what has become the classic and commonly accepted definition […]
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Memorial Days are Difficult
Memorial Days have always been difficult for me. Just as my father’s death in Vietnam was an early one, so were the government’s lies to our family and the media about how he died. My mother was notified of her husband’s death by a phone call. I was first notified of the lies when I […]
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His Name is Not on the Wall
My father’s military personnel file reveals that he was awarded his first Combat Infantryman Badge, the Asiatic Campaign Medal with a bronze arrowhead, and two Bronze Stars, which indicate three initial assault landings. He also received a Bronze Star with a “V” for valor during the Philippines campaign in World War II. In the fall of […]
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Vietnam War Memorial Wall
This Memorial Day weekend I find myself thinking again of my father’s death in Vietnam. At one time, I was upset that my father, who was killed very early in the Vietnam War (September 27, 1965), doesn’t have his name on the Vietnam War Memorial Wall. If his name were there, it would be on […]
James B. Wells 