PM Lee Hsien Loong

K.Shanmugam@mha.gov.sg                       16.10.2022

Dear Minister K. Shanmugam,

May I intrude upon your privacy to seek your kind help in solving an intractable problem I have with PM Lee Hsien Loong. I don't know if you are au fait with my case of being abused by the late Lee  Kuan Yew's grave injustice. You may recall that Lee Kuan Yew delivered a blatant lie amounting to defamation in the august Parliament House and had it telecast live to Singapore and the world. Recently I sought a public apology from PM Lee Hsien Loong for his father's sin. He is such a clever politician that he took the course of burying his head in the sand and pretending that nothing had happened. In spite of my repeated appeal to him he remained burying his head in the sand.

It's really a droll situation for a Prme Minister to behave so puerile like a tantrumed child. This may or may not flabbergast you and you may or may not tacitly believe because he is respected by you as your Prime Minister, but seeing is believing. It will be interesting if you can get a candid opinion from discerning Singaporeans. Do you know that in spite of the grave injustice and hostility from Lee Kuan Yew and his prodigal son Lee Hsien Loong I am making not an insignificant contribution for three years and continuing to the ISD. Why a sane person would be doing such a paradoxical thing? I am a believer in God and I think I was guided by a Divine voice from above. You think the ISD would be happy if I take it with me to te grave? I do not do it for money but don't you think I deserve some show of civilised grateful acknowledgement of my modest patriotism from PM Lee Hsien Loong or is he really so inhuman? 

Do you  think a grave injustice is a noble thing for me to take to the grave given my meritorious contribution to the maintenance of national security during my service? This is where I wish to appeal to your noble sense of justice and fairplay to get in a word to the barricaded mind of Lee Hsien Loong to make a public apology for his father's sin. If he feels constrained for any reason to apologise could he not be generous enough to let me know his inhibition so that I can think of other options.You have a strong and solid principle which Lee Hsien Loong could not fail to appreciate and you will be doing him and me a great service if you would only just condescend to labour to lift your  hand (举手之劳) like the Chinese say. You not only have my profound gratitude but you will be imbued with a feeling of eminent loftiness for having done a most humanitarian mission.

Iw will be my most earnest hope to hear from you whether a good or bad tidings. My friends will be mesmerised by any good tidings for my sake and for the sake of Lee Hsien Loong.

May you be given the Divine blessing         Yoong Siew Wah (former ISD Director)

A modicum of patriotism and justice

 lee_hsien_loong@pmo.gov.sg                   10-10-2202

My dear Honourable PM Lee Hsien Loong,

It is not without trepidation that I address you on this issue. You may think that I am a brazen retired civil servant out to disconcert the government, especially the Prime Minister on some imaginary grievances. Whether the grievances are imaginary only your conscience can tell.

It may be so unimaginable and humanly impossible for me to tell you that with all  the injustices and hostility that your late father Lee Kuan Yew and not unlikely you yourself have inflicted on me, I have been for more than three years and continuing making a modest contribution to the ISD which is responsible for national security. How modest? You may enlighten yourself by the ISD on its ramification and security potentiality. Why am I doing this? I have a humble make-up and with God's guidance a humble inspiration to make a modest contribution back to the ISD what I had learnt from them. My stint in SB/ISD was a magnificent one with camaraderie with the staff like a big harmonious family. I am not looking for any adulation from you Mr. Prime Minister because it will not be unlike wringing water from a stone. Ir will be a blessing if I could get a civil acknowledgement from you for the injustice and an entitled vindication. I am the only officer of my era with the expertise knowledge still standing and if I take it with me to the grave, would it be a boon to ISD?

Another humble contribution of mine was my role in the 1961 CIA Spy adventure to recruit me. It was a life and death situation when I was confronted with whether I would be forced to go through a lie-detector test. If I had succumbed to their allurement of becoming their agent, don't you think that Singapore would have been going through quite a different history with CIA manipulation. Do you think you  or any of your money-minded ministers will be able to emulate such a patriotic performance?

Civil servants like me of my era went through a baptism of fire by fighting the communists in the front line at the risk of our lives. You think any of your softie ministers or you will  be able to survive such a death-defying experience? You and your ministers are just non-practical theorists who just simply ignored the sacrifices we went through to make it possible for your bunch of mercenary jokers to enrich yourselves and wallow in the luxuries of your high office.

Is this what you describe as a democratic and egalitarian Singapore?

I think it will be my fate that I will take my injustice with me to the grave. But my soul will rest in peace knowing that I have vindicated myself.

May God bless you.        Yoong Siew Wah