You OK? Same. Let’s just focus on Ron Tammen for a while

Hey everyone. I feel like I’ve been needing to post something lately, but I haven’t exactly been in the mood. First, I’ve never done very well in extreme heat. And second…well, for as long as I’ve known me, I’ve been a big believer in things like democracy and science and the Golden Rule. For some reason, those seemingly unifying bedrock principles are now being thought of as quaint vestiges of a past civilization by some people, a fraction of whom I used to know and even hang with on occasion. 

So, I’m sad. No, like…really sad. Like, waking up in the morning and realizing that I’ve been crying in my sleep sad, which has happened to me twice in the past week. As you can imagine, it’s challenging for a blogger to write a post that’s all zippy and upbeat when they’ve been living under a dome of 90-degree gloom for day upon day, and, deep down, they don’t envision the dome lifting anytime soon—at least not for the next 3 ½ years. 

Still, I’ve made a few interesting discoveries lately that apply to Ron Tammen’s FBI documents, and, although you’ve proven to be patient, dear reader, I realize that 3 ½ years would be too long for anyone to have to wait for an update. As I’ve mentioned earlier, I’m a practitioner of the Golden Rule, and I wouldn’t want to be treated that way.

Here’s what I’m planning to do: starting now, and for the next six days, I’ll be posting some of my most recent discoveries for you. Sometimes I may just post a document and provide two or three sentences for background, while other times, I may wax a little poetic about it. (It’ll be more of the former and less of the latter.) The final post of this series will be on the fourth of July, the birthday of America’s independence from a monarchy (249 years of age!), the birthday of the Freedom of Information Act (59 years of age!), and, OK, the birthday of yours truly (internally, I’m a 5-year-old “fearless” and “adventurous” “kid at heart,” according to a quiz on BuzzFeed!).

So grab an American flag and your trusty ol’ cowbell and let’s do this, people. Let’s shake off some of these doldrums we’ve been feeling and take a gander at some FBI docs. Because, the last time I checked, this is what democracy still looks like.

June 28, 2025

Here’s another 10 that I found

To pick up from the last time we discussed 10s in the upper righthand corner of FBI records, I currently believe they were written in that location to indicate that the FBI’s liaison to the Secret Service should receive a copy. Some 10s have hyphens followed by the numbers 1 or 2, while others don’t. I think a 10-1 and a 10 mean essentially the same thing: that the liaison should receive one copy of the memo. A 10-2 would indicate that the liaison should receive two copies.

For today’s release, here’s a document that has a 10-1 in the upper righthand corner, similar to the 10s that are in the upper righthand corner of Ron’s documents.

Included on the memo are the names of three people you probably recognize by now: Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis, three of the five Watergate burglars. On April 15, 1977, this memo was written to inform the recipient that the pardon attorney had requested an Application for Pardon for the three men. As it turns out, only Eugenio Martinez would be pardoned. All three men were denied pardons by President Carter, but Martinez was later pardoned by President Reagan.

As you may recall, so far, I’ve found three other documents for Frank Sturgis (aka Frank Fiorini) with 10s on them. Here’s number four. In some circles, Sturgis is also suspected of playing a possible role in the assassination of JFK.

OK! See how this is going to work? Short and sweet, but hopefully intriguing and/or enlightening.

See you tomorrow. Note that there’s no definite time when I’ll be posting. It’ll be a surprise. Also, if you should notice anything on the documents that I’ve missed or neglected to mention, please don’t hesitate to speak up.

Thanks to the Mary Ferrell Foundation for making this document available.