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work from these actions. All of this was done to reduce costs, to meet the profit
margins, so key employees, which included me, would be duly rewarded for all
efforts by year’s end. It took me three weeks to complete the assignment. Upon
my return to Fresno, California, I received a “thank you” and was released. This

was well-masked – camouflaged to the hilt! I totally unexpected it.
At the time, we had two houses, one in California, and one in Kansas, and I had

lost my job! Our California home was a beautiful $200,000 home with a large
swimming pool. We thought we had our house in Overland Park, Kansas, sold with
a delayed closing to a young couple with twins, who were already renting it with
the option to buy. We had never met them, but the realtor assured us that he, being
a pilot, could afford it. Later we learned that he was flying drugs into the USA. His

wife contacted Sue’s sister, Nancy, in Kansas saying she was leaving the house key
with her since her husband had not returned home. The FBI called us and told us to
get the house sold as soon as possible because if it were being purchased with drug
money, the government could confiscate it, and we would lose it totally. We
immediately went to Kansas and prepared the house for selling. Thankfully, it sold
within several months.

Sue had a cousin in Newport Beach, California, whose husband owned a
manufacturing business supplying telephone parts to the telephone companies,
primarily the Bell systems. I was now back to where I had started my career - with
Western Electric. Mr. Henry McNaulty desired to retire and needed someone to
oversee the product development, marketing and sales functions. We talked and I

accepted.

I traveled back and forth weekly from Fresno to Orange County - a 3 ½ to a 4-hour
trip - while staying with the McNaultys. The expensive house we owned in Fresno
was built by a contractor who was also a real estate broker. We worked out a deal
where he would sell our house, take it off our hands, and we would, in-turn, would
buy another one nearby from him at half the price - $100,000. This would allow

Greg to finish high school. We moved during Christmas. We’d fill one truck with
our furnishings while others were helping to unload another truck across town.

Eight months later, we purchased a house in Laguna Niguel, California, where Sue
and Greg joined me. Greg was in the Marine Corps at the time stationed at Camp
Pendleton, California. The company was Telephonic Equipment Corporation, a sub

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