But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
lago: Othello 1.i.60
(lago, John Friedrich's codename, given because of his likeness to the character of the same name in Shakespeare's Othello.)
Throughout my life I have had many names, but only three now mean much to me: my original name that is, my true name, that is, me; my codename lago, under which I worked for many years; and the name I now carry, John Friedrich, the name by which my wife, family and friends know and love me.
On 20 January 1975 Johann Friedrich Hohenberger arrived in Melbourne, Australia, on Air New Zealand Flight 837 from Auckland. He was travelling on a Federal Republic of Germany passport, number D 312 3553. According to the records of the Australian Department of Immigration, Johann Friedrich Hohenberger departed Australia for Singapore on Qantas Flight 1, on 22 January 1975. What remained behind in Melbourne was John Friedrich.'
'He was a human dynamo, very demanding, progressive, and a complete autocrat.'
Kel Glare, Victorian Police commissioner, Age, 28 March 1989 (Glare was one of several people who nominated Friedrich for his Order of Australia.)
'I'm a no-person.'
John Friedrich, 11 December 1988
