Harry Oakes Credibility above reproach.

International K-9 Search and Rescue Services.
P.O. Box# 1472 Longview, Washington 98632 USA.
Office (360) 414-8093 Cellular (503) 705-0258.
Web: www.k9sardog.com


INTEGRITY YOU CAN TRUST - SERVICE YOU CAN COUNT ON.
"FACTS, not RUMORS".

Teams who are jealous of our success and over the last 24 years have repeatedly tried to attack Harry’s credibility and his team’s successes, by going through the media, TV, radio talk shows, and through the newspapers and giving out ONE SIDED - misinformation.

Fact: Over the last 24 years, each time we’ve performed a search mission, we document, the date, location, our contact information, time involved and our findings. Our reports and files have held up under close review by the Oregon Dept. of Justice, The I.R.S. who performed and audit, and the FBI who have used our services, and several courts that have had Mr. Oakes testify as an expert witness and reviewed his credentials before his testimony to establish his credibility.

The Court system accepts Harry’s credibility. That’s all that matters.

Here’s our response to such verbal and written attacks. Read this and make your own informed decisions. Remember, every thing said here by Mr. Oakes has been documented and can be proved in any courtroom.

RESPONSE. It’s so easy to sit back and armchair quarter back our over 7,289 missions. In the last 24 years, we’ve never seen one single person from any one of these SAR or law enforcement agencies, who have bad mouthed our unit, and Harry Oakes, spend their own money, risk their own lives, to crawl through a collapsed destroyed building in the U.S.A. or in a foreign country, looking for the live and the dead victims of earthquakes, bombings, floods, fires, or other disasters which we've responded to around the world.

To date, there has been no factual documented proof of any criminal wrong-doing on Mr. Oakes part. Nothing produced to support anyone's statements of any wrong doing by Mr. Oakes or his team members, by any law enforcement agency or SAR group.

In fact, we have hundred’s of letters from Law enforcement, government agencies, including three from former Presidents of the USA and one from former President Aquino of the Philippines expressing their gratitude to our abilities in helping others in their time of need.
We’ve never seen one of these individuals from N.A.S.A.R., Ca. Ore., and Washington SAR Council, who continue to bad mouth our efforts, wading through the hot steamy snake, and crocodile infested jungles, in the Philippines, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Haiti, St Thomas, St Croix, USVI, and Jamaica, looking for missing victims.

Yet we’ve been there. And we were successful in our searches there. Again all documented.
We’ve never seen any of these folks in the flood-ravaged lands of Honduras, Haiti, and the Pacific NW looking for drowning victims. Yet we’ve documented our assistance in Armenia, Philippines, Northridge, Turkey, Jamaica, and in over six thousand other search missions around the world.

VERBAL ATTACKS. Many Sheriff’s in the state of Oregon and Washington have made comments such as "Harry’s a controversial figure in Oregon in regards to SAR work". Yet when we ask the Sheriff’s to produce one single document showing factual information regarding their statements, after 24 years of I.K.9.S.A.R. providing service to the Sheriff’s departments and to the private public sector, we have yet to see a single piece of written documentation to support any of their statements.

We can produce hundreds of letters and reports in support of everything we’ve said and done. When we ask the sheriff’s and other K-9 teams involved to contact our references that support what we’ve done, they never have. Instead they would rather just continue to verbally sit back on their hindquarters and verbally attack us, to try to make them look better and less incompetent.

This after we repeatedly enter the search privately on behalf of the victim(s) families and find the missing victim(s) in the original search areas where the sheriff's teams failed to find the missing person(s). This destroys the sheriff's and Volunteer K-9's credibility, not ours. Again it’s all documented.

HONESTY. Every time I've been investigated regarding my search and rescue services and my successes, it's been found that I've been 100% truthful. I've even taken and passed a polygraph on this matter. (See the 1998 D.O.J. Audit and I.R.S. Audit reports). The IRS, DOJ, FBI, NSA, and CIA have checked us out. We continue to be proven credible beyond reproach.
Courtroom Proven.

The court rooms in Clark and Multnomah County have in the past openly accepted our training, testing, certification process and our documentation. We've obtained several search warrants based on our abilities and results and also given expert testimony in the courts of law regarding scent, scent evidence, search dogs, and search and rescue. If it’s good enough for the courts, it ought to be good enough to the local law enforcement.

TESTING. My documented searches and success qualifies me as an expert in the courtroom regarding scent, scent evidence, search dogs, search dog training, testing and certification. We are one of 200 search and rescue K-9 teams that is a self-testing dog team. We’re not doing anything different, then the other 200 search dog teams in the USA and Canada. (See the 1997 national survey). Yet we don’t see the other K-9 teams testing and standards under attack by the OSSA. (Oregon State Sheriff’s Association). Why is that?

It's because we get results when the OSSA teams have failed repeatedly. This makes them look bad. See copies of the Dela Carlson, Ashley Pond, and Miranda Gaddis search reports for examples. "Dateline special "Into Thin Air" segment regarding Ward Weaver and Ashley Pond murder case in Oregon City, Oregon.

We feel it’s because the O.S.S.A., (Oregon State Sheriff’s Association) wants everyone to believe their tester is honest, reliable, and credible.

If that’s the case then, why is it documented that we’ve gone in after the O.S.S.A. has called off their official search, after they have used their O.S.S.A. State Certified SAR Dog teams, and they’ve found nothing, yet we found the victim(s) in their original search areas? Dela Carlson, Brian Harris, Eli Kelt, Ashley Pond, Scott Spangle Jr. who are just some of the dead victims listed that we found their remains when the O.S.S.A. teams couldn’t in the original search areas.


One embarrassing example is the 2002 Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis search in Oregon City, where the O.S.S.A. teams and even their state tester with his dog Marty Neiman, and the FBI teams repeatedly went onto the suspect’s property (Ward Weaver) and searched several suspicious areas. They repeatedly reported that their teams had found nothing, even after drilling holes and pumping warm air under a concrete slab the O.S.S.A. teams stated publicly to the media, Portland Tribune and the Oregonian Newspaper, "There's nothing under the slab".


In March 2002, Harry with his SAR Dog Valorie, entered the search on behalf of Lori, Ashley’s mother. Harry donated his time and efforts for the search for Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis. Harry documented finding Ashley's buried remains under the concrete slab and Miranda Gaddis in Wards lay down freezer in Ward Weaver’s kitchen March 30, 2002.
Harry immediately forwarded his reports to the FBI, OCPD, and to the victim’s families. This verified by MSNBC Dateline TV Producer.

In Aug. 2002, the FBI finally dug up Ashley's remains under public pressure and, right where Harry's dog Valorie indicated, they found Ashley remains. Between March 2002 and Aug 2002, Ward Weaver moved Miranda’s remains to a shed. The police did verify that the murdered victim’s remains had been in the freezer where SAR Dog Valorie had shown Harry where they were at the time of their search in March 2002. \


If this doesn't prove Harry's SAR Dogs credibility beyond reproach, what does? Harry and Val reported there was a body under the concrete slab. The FBI dug up said body 5 months later right were Harry and Val located it during their search.

We’ve repeatedly documented entering the search after the O.S.S.A. has called their efforts off and we’ve repeatedly either found the victim, or found out what had happened to the victim, in the original search areas. Now whose credibility is really on the line here the O.S.S.A. K-9 teams, or ours? We’ve found every person we’ve looked for or have determined what really happened to them and the suspect(s) involved in their disappearance. (This verified by our reports and the local police reports).

With the POND / Gaddis case, Harry has demanded the O.S.S.A. remove their Ore. state certification process, reevaluate it, and accept N.A.S.A.R. (National Association for Search and Rescue) SAR Dog standards which I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Teams along with 200 other National teams use as a guideline. As of this writing, the O.S.S.A. Standards are no longer credible and the O.S.S.A. Certification process is under revision. We were informed that their state tester has been removed from his role thanks to Harry’s team’s efforts.

BAD PR, THE LOCAL MEDIA IS GUILTY ALSO. The local media has a responsibility to show both sides of each issue. Yet they have failed miserably in doing this. Every time a statement is made against I.K.9.S.A.R.S. or Mr. Oakes. They print it or discuss it on the TV, on the radio, or in the newspaper. Yet when Harry and others have brought forth documented proof to dispute the statements made against him or his team, the media has fail to provide their readers and viewers with both sides of the issues.

Example: We responded to Turkey, Honduras, Jamaica, and St. Croix USVI. and the Dominican Republic. There are no stories done by the local media on us. Yet whenever the other K-9 teams do a search, the media is all over their actions in a positive action. Look at the coverage NW Medical teams got for responding to the same sites where we’ve responded. Is this fair?


The Portland Tribune and Gresham Outlook finally became frustrated with the local law enforcement and SAR team’s lack of results on the Ward Weaver case. When Harry proved to the FBI and OCPD and to the media that his search dog teams were right all along on the POND/GADDIS search, these newspapers came forward and wrote the facts about the case to expose the attempted cover up by unethical dog handlers from the State of Oregon.


The law enforcement teams continue to tell the media, "Oh the bodies were moved" and "weren't there when the O.S.S.A. teams searched Wards property". Now you tell me how do you move a body buried in a barrel under four feet of rocks, dirt and concrete?


Even Wards son admitted his father Ward had killed both girls and buried Ashley right where SAR Dog Valorie and her handler Harry, had located the remains under the concrete.
Here’s an example of the one sided reporting done by the Daily News in Longview, Wa.
Pat, the one sided reporter, only covers the Sheriff’s statements and Marty’s statements. But if you look at the documented facts, it shows that Harry told the truth the whole time. So where’s the fairness here? Let’s examine their statements and my responses.
Then you make an informed decision.

Checkered past follows search and rescue worker to Longview
By Pat Forgey
Mar 24, 2005 - 07:46:00 am PST
"It was the stuff of a hero story: Harry E. Oakes and his search dog, Valorie, finding Honduran flooding victims following Hurricane Mitch in 1998.The Longview dog handler and his canine partner were among the search teams featured Sunday on "Storm Stories," the Weather Channel top-rated show.In the show, firefighters in Honduras praised teams such as Oakes and Valorie for their rescue work and for taking their dogs to a local orphanage to cheer up traumatized children.Despite the favorable portrayal, and Oakes' recent move to the local area, Oakes is persona non grata in local search and rescue circles. Officials say they're wary of Oakes' checkered financial past and his claimed record of success."

(HERE THE REPORTER SUGGESTS WRONG DOING REGARDING "FINANCIAL PAST and CLAIMED RECORD OF SUCCESS" Yet when I’ve been audited by the IRS and DOJ, my records were acceptable to these investigating agencies. So if I passed their scrutiny, then where’s the problem here?

"He is no longer eligible to do search and rescue in Cowlitz County, like in a number of other areas," said Art Jordan, volunteer coordinator for Cowlitz County Search and Rescue and member of the state's Emergency Management Council.

What Art failed to state was that I have been personally hired by Cowlitz County SAR to teach their SAR team’s rope rescue on several occasions.

That I was removed from the Washington SAR resource list after I filed a written complaint to the Governor’s office, against the Skamania County SAR Coordinator, for his actions where he repeatedly used poor judgment, that we can prove cost several innocent people their lives.
Now why didn’t Art want that information to come out?"

Oakes, 49, acknowledges that county sheriffs who head up search and rescue operations often don't like him, but that's because his work is so good."Sheriffs often get upset when we come in and find people they can't," he said in an interview last week. Oakes claims to have found the bodies of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis, two Oregon City girls murdered by neighbor Ward Weaver in 2002, but others dispute that."Nobody used him in Oregon City, because he's not reliable," said Marty Neiman, with Search One K-9 Detection, an Oregon nonprofit called in by authorities investigating the case."

This statement coming from the very same man who told the FBI and OCPD there wasn’t a body under the concrete slab. Marty Neiman. This from the very same person who has over the years repeatedly gone on talk shows and bad mouthed Harry every chance he gets to make himself look better. Shame on you Marty."Neiman said Oakes showed up on the scene and volunteered his services but was not used in the official search. In a later, unofficial search, Oakes' search results were so general as to be useless, Neiman said."

Marty states my "search results were to general". My report states my search dog gave a death alert where the concrete slab meets the ground right behind Ward Weaver’s house. How more precise can I get?

In the end, I was 100% correct in reading my dog’s alerts. Marty was 100% wrong. Whose credibility is really under attack here? Not mine.

"Oakes runs International K-9 Search and Rescue Services, a for-profit organization, a rarity in search and rescue circles. In fact, Oakes describes his company as "the only for-profit K-9 search and rescue in the nation."He typically charges $200 an hour for staging and searching, as well as $25 an hour for travel time, according to his website. He said much of his work is searching for pets, which Oakes said can be more profitable than searching for people."People won't hesitate paying for a dogs or cat," he said.

"People generally won't pay you to search for their missing child."Cowlitz County Coroner Mike Nichols, a former Search and Rescue coordinator for the county, said volunteer search and rescue crews don't agree with the concept of for-profit search and rescue services."Other than Harry Oakes, I don't know of anybody else who hires out to distraught families and promises to find their kin," Nichols said."


Why doesn’t Mike tell the reporter how much he gets paid for looking for missing persons with the Sheriff’s office? Why is that so different? Why does the National park system and the state of Oregon along with several other states possess the laws that allow them to CHARGE for search and rescue services?"

Nichols said Cowlitz County's search and rescue volunteers will look for anyone who is missing and don't ask for payment. Volunteers tend to spend a lot of their own money on equipment, training and transportation. "We only work as volunteers here," he said."
Again, what Nichols is forgetting to tell everyone is that, he’s paid, so why is that different? Is he really afraid of competition? "Nichols and Jordan said Oakes' reputation in Oregon preceded him when he came to Washington from Portland a year ago."He wasn't welcome within search camps within his own state," Nichols said.


What Nichols and Jordon forget to say, is;
1). Polk and Clackamas Counties in Oregon. Clark and Skamania Counties in Washington, along with the National Park Services, used my search dog teams on a regular basis from 1986 to 1994.

2). "I wasn’t welcome within search camps within his own state of Oregon" only after I testified against the Oregon State Sheriff’s Association on House Bill 3093, where I testified on the mismanagement of SAR in Oregon that have cost lives. I was told by Lt Neil James that," if I testified against the OSSA at the HB hearing, I would never be used by the O.S.S.A. again".
I testified and told the truth.

The Oregon State Police, The Oregon Mountain Rescue Council, the Oregon Fire Fighters Association all supported me in my efforts on HB 3093. Trying to update SAR laws in the state of Oregon which hadn’t been updated since 1974. Because of my testimony, the O.S.S.A. refuses to use my services because I made them look bad in the OREGON SENATE.In Oregon, Oakes formerly was with Mountain Wilderness Search Dogs and Help Us Find You, Inc., which both were registered as nonprofit organizations. In the late 1990s, both came under investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice, which claimed that Oakes was using the nonprofits as a tax dodge."

If that’s true then why have I been audited by the IRS and came out clean, and have tax records to prove it? We have tax records to show this is an untrue statement."He uses M.W.S.D. and H.U.F.Y. to avoid paying taxes by virtue of their tax-exempt status," the department said in a 1997 court settlement with Oakes".


There was no criminal or civil charges thus no court settlement, so where does he get his information? This is all public record.


"At the time, the agency said, Oakes did not have a personal bank account and used the nonprofits' accounts as his own, paying his personal and living expenses out of them".
That’s not true. It was my business account under my name that showed all payments in and out for M.W.S.D.. Why don’t they discuss how Mr. Oakes was paying all of the non profit phone bills, electrical bills, office supplies, postage, and every cent brought in and spent out was accounted for?


"The department signed an order with Oakes forbidding him to represent himself as a charity of any kind or representing his professional locating services as a public service."


The department also helped Mr. Oakes start his for profit business, at their suggestion.
"Oakes said he was cleared by the investigation. We came out squeaky clean," he said. "There was no criminal action brought against us."The department did require Oakes to pay $7,500, but suspended the fine on the condition he not violate the order. Oakes said the fine was never imposed.
The DOJ records prove that I was telling the truth.More inquiriesAn Oregon Justice Department concern involved Oakes' search for bodies at the site of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.The agency said Mountain Wilderness received a $4,000 donation from a canine club in Oklahoma. Oakes immediately was reimbursed for $3,000 in "expenses" he claimed but failed to document, according to the justice department.


This isn’t true at all. What I did was totally legal per M.W.S.D. non profit bylaws. The reimbursement was for money M.W.S.D. owed Oakes for the past year. Again all money coming in and leaving M.W.S.D. was accounted for with receipts. Every single penny was accounted for. Ask the DOJ. They can validate my statements. They did the audit and said ,"my record keeping was remarkable".

"Oakes later started International K-9 Search and Rescue Services, his current for-profit company. The 1997 agreement between Oakes and state of Oregon bars him from charging anyone for services if he has volunteered in the search for the same victim.Oakes, who answers his phone "search and rescue," said he is careful to make it clear to potential clients that he is not with a government agency."


That’s correct because we’re a professional agency that provides experience professional services.


"The Weather Channel program made no mention of Oakes' for-profit status, but it did note that he and a fellow dog handler had to pay their own way to Honduras. Contributions were not sought on the program."

Gee, they finally told some truth in this report. We’ve paid for our own transportation in the Northridge, Honduras, Philippine, Turkey earthquakes along with the Oklahoma City Bombing disaster.
"Weather Channel spokesw
oman Kathy Lane said Oakes' business dealings were unrelated to its program. "That would have nothing to do with the story we portrayed," she said. Lane said Towers Productions Inc. of Chicago produces Storm Stories under contract. Towers officials were unavailable for comment.

In addition to questions about Oakes' financial dealings, search and rescue officials have doubts about the quality of Oakes' search work, said Cowlitz County Sheriff's Deputy Chuck Dunnavant, the county's search and rescue coordinator."He'll point to a spot on the river and say 'He drowned right there,' and there's no way to prove it," Dunnavant said."


Why doesn’t Chuck ad that his own dive team verified our search dogs findings in front of the victim’s families? At the time of our search, where the divers were told the victims had drowned in 80 feet of swift current water, the divers found the victims boat and other gear. This after they failed to find anything before our arrival. Oops, if Chuck told that truth, it may discount his statement.


"While with Mountain Wilderness, Oakes participated in high-profile search for two Longview men, Larry Mansur and Dennis Svoboda, who were missing and presumed dead after a boating accident on the Columbia River off Cowlitz County in 1996.During the hunt, Oakes told officials that Valorie had found the spot where they died, Nichols said. Months later, one of the bodies was found upriver from that spot, leading local search and rescue personnel to doubt the validity of Oakes "find.""I've never heard of a body going upstream," Nichols said."


Mr. Nichols isn’t a very educated man in regards to water, water currents, and bodies. Otherwise he never would have made such a stupid statement.
Bodies have repeatedly been documented moving down stream and upstream with tidal current influences, as well as heavy ship traffic, that can trap a victim and carry them for miles under their drag loads.


THE OSSA tester and tests aren’t credible. We allowed the O.S.S.A. Tester to test us on the O.S.S.A. K-9 standards. This after the tester openly bragged on the "LARS LARSON RADIO TALK SHOW" that, "he would see that Harry would never pass his tests". This statement was documented and is on file with MOBA MEDIA.


When Harry took the O.S.S.A. K-9 test, this individual not only failed Harry and Valorie at the test, but when Harry asked this individual to show Harry where the scent tubes were hidden on the first cadaver search, the tester failed to find a single one himself. Yet he was the tester who hid the items and bragged "Harry would never pass any of his tests". We later discovered the scent tubes we empty and didn’t contain any scent at all. We inspected each tube in front of several witnesses. Pam Milleran being one of those witnesses. She verified the scent tubes were empty.


When Harry and Valorie retook the state cadaver test, Valorie hit on numerous decomposing sites. When the tester brought out the "SCENT TUBE" Harry examined the scent tube for the smell of "pseudo scent", there was no scent detected. Harry’s been testing with pseudo scent for the last 24 years and is qualified to determine if it was used or wasn’t used properly. What’s wrong with this test? Let’s talk about a credibility problem here. The tester is the same person who over the last 16 years had bad-mouthed Harry and his teams for the documented successful work he’s done locally and internationally.


Lars Larson's radio talk show still maintains, "Harry's search teams can't find a body in a graveyard". Even after Harry just proved he was 100% accurate on the POND Case.

So where's the truth in the media there? This statement came from the very same State Cert. tester who told OCPD and the FBI (Marty Neiman) that there was, "no body under the concrete slab". Leading the detectives on a false trail and costing the FBI and OCPD to continue their effortless search at the cost of over $175,000 dollars.


If I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Had been brought into the search back in Jan. 2002 when Ashley Pond disappeared, we would have located Ashley's remains (Like we did), Identified the killer(s), and Miranda Gaddis would still be alive today. The FBI and OCPD would have been able to do their jobs effectively saving a human life, saving another woman from being raped, and saving tax payers $175,000 dollars in the search efforts. We actually documented finding 3 bodies. We turned over one of the body parts to Oregon City Police Dept. on a third body we located. This verified by OCPD files and reports.


HARRY AND VAL DESTROYS THE CREDIBILITY OF THE O.S.S.A. K-9 TESTER. If a person was to believe in the O.S.S.A. test as a true honest test of a dog team, then Harry and his search dog we’re not qualified to fly overseas to Turkey in Aug. and Nov. of 1999, and search for victims buried in the earthquakes.


Yet, it’s been proven through documentation and proof provided by photos, witness statements, and actual recoveries, info provided to the Turkish and US Government officials, that in both of the 1999 Turkey earthquakes, that Harry and Valorie documented finding 71 buried dead and 14 live buried victims. Just by Harry and Valorie making one single find of a live or dead person, this totally destroys the OSSA K-9 testing credibility completely.


COURT ROOM PROVEN. My documentation and credibility regarding expert witness testimony in criminal cases, was established and has held up, in the Clark County Courtroom Washington State Vs Beeson. And other criminal court cases where I’ve been called to testify. The state of Oregon Medical Examiner signed a presumptive death certificate on Dela Carlson based on my search dog Ranger’s findings of Dela’s remains, reports and test results. (This after local search teams OSSA, and Search One K-9 detection teams and failed to find any trace of her).

Fact: We’ve won numerous state, county, and national awards for our work in search and rescue.
Fact: My teams and I have found most people dead and some still alive in the ORIGINAL SEARCH AREAS, when the local OSSA K-9 and SAR teams failed to find them. Tim Bunner, Jay Burroughs, Eddy Zawaski, Joey Lefler, Butch Huston, Nathen Montz, Eli Kelt, Abe Ellis, Brian Harris, Dela Carlson, just to name a few victims. Many more on file.

Fact: We’re the only search dog team in the world to win the prestige’s Higgens and Langley Swift Water Rescue Award, and the National Jefferson award. We’ve received two letters from President George Bush Sr. and one from President Bill Clinton for our outstanding work. We've also received letters from the President of the Philippines and Honduras for our rescue efforts in their countries.

Fact: We have the skills to find the missing. We have proven and qualified ourselves numerous times over the last 7,051 missions. We are the most successful search dog team in the world in regards to finding both missing people and pets.

Fact: We're the only dog team in the world, ever to be invited in to Jamaica to work alongside the Miami office of the FBI, and local police reference the Claudia Kirshock case

COMMENT REGARDING "US PREYING ON VICTIMS IN THEIR TIME OF NEED". Other comments we’ve heard is, " We’re preying on vulnerable people during their time of need".
Any agency, public or private, which provides professional qualified services to a family in need, isn't "preying on them in their time of need". If that is a true, then other professional like us like police officers, paramedics, doctors, nurses, medical examiners, lawyers, and ministers, are all preying on these poor people also. So why are their actions any different? They all either volunteer their time or get paid, to provide a service to people in need just like we do. We’re no different.

Fact: Each client is given a business contract. They’re required to read and sign the contract before we start on a search. This contract explains in detail what we can and cannot provide, and our chances of success in the search efforts. They also are instructed to retain a copy of the contract. It also explains what the client will or won’t be required to pay for the search effort.
FACT: We are a licensed business in the state of Washington to perform our search and rescue services around the world.

FACT: We have documented donating an average of over $47,000 dollars a year in SAR Services to our community regarding missing persons and pets for the last 24 years.
Our References:
Charlie Ringo (My Attorney) Bend, Oregon. cringo@teleport.com Charlie was with me during the 1998 Oregon D.O.J. AUDIT, and can provide documented information to show that:
1). We cooperated with the audit.
2). That I have always told the truth in my business dealings and documentation
Of search reports.
3). There were no criminal or civil actions brought against Mr. Oakes when the
Audit report was completed.
Retired Polk County Deputy Sheriff Bill Sealy. (503) 623-9123 Polk Co. SAR. (Known Harry for over 10 years). He can testify to Harry's team’s successes.
Kris DeSylvia (503) 231-1600. Email: kris@wtpdx.com
Kris performed an independent investigation on the Oklahoma City Bombing Disaster Response by Mountain Wilderness Search Dogs. She can provide first hand knowledge that Mr. Oakes was honest in his response and what really occurred there.

Michelle Keating (Dog Handler) Email:michellerae52@comcast.net (360) 256-4822. One of I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Employees. She's been present with Harry on numerous search missions in the USA and in Honduras. Michelle can verify Harry’s passing of all I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Documented K-9 tests. Michelle can attest to their success in Honduras and on numerous other search missions.
Susan Royce (K-9 Search & Rescue Coordinator in Alaska). Email: svroyce@hotmail.com She can verify Harry's teaching abilities and the politics in SAR work.

Marla Petal. Email: mpetal@imagins.com Witness to Harry and Val's numerous finds in Turkey in the first earthquake response.

Riley and Tana Wooten (Group Leader through the Fire Dept. Current instructor for the Police Academy) Email: rileywooten@hotmail.com Witnessed Harry and Michelle's work in Honduras with their search dogs. Lives in Missouri. (573) 774-4020.

Mary Kuhn. (Client). Mary can testify to Harry's credibility and work and the total incompetents of the Clark County Sheriff's office and the Portland FBI, after her daughter was kidnapped and transported to MEXICO. Harry assisted in finding the four kidnapped kids and returning them safely to their families.

Janice Saukko (503) 458-6137 It was her mother's remains that we found in the original search area in Clatsop Co. when OSSA State Cert. SAR Dog teams failed to find her remains and called off their search.


Go to www.k9sardog.com to review our DOCUMENTED SUCCESS STORIES.


Date:
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:47:18 EST
Subject:
Re: For those who missed DATELINE TV SHOW LAST NIGHT.
To:
searchdog@iinet.com
Hi Harry!　　 Yes, Cynthia was here from Seattle, and we watched the show!　 Great job with you and Valorie doing superb work, once again!　 The FBI and OC Police looked like Keystone Kops running in every direction but the right one!　
You were lookin' good!　　 Thanks for letting us know it was on.　
Love u, Susan & the gang".
This 77 page of facts has been provided to show you both sides of the issues. Now you can make an informed decision on Harry’s credibility. Based on FACTS NOT RUMORS.
Our mission in life continues to help others in their time of need, "So others may live".
Respectfully
Mr. Oakes
Office of Emergency Management
International K-9 Search and Rescue Services.
I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Harry’s Yahoo 360 blog re SAR.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-aczg0BU5erSlJvtwUKlYqssO
Photos of Harry’s search dog teams in action.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/searchdog/page1/
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