From anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Wed Feb 7 07:58:41 EST 1996 Article: 66976 of alt.religion.scientology Path: news.cybercom.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: DOC: 1980 Toronto Globe & Mail series [1/8] Date: 3 Feb 1996 19:46:17 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. Lines: 272 Sender: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <4f0ahp$rkk@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl Comments: Hack-Tic may or may not approve of the content of this posting Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to Comments: Toronto Globe and Mail, January 22, 1980 Secret Ontario documents found in U.S. cult's files by John Marshall Confidential documents from various Ontario Government offices including an attorney-general's communication about police intelligence operations have been found in U.S. Church of Scientology files. The documents were part of the evidence submitted by federal attorneys in the Washington prosecution of U.S. leaders of the cult on charges of conspiring to steal government documents and obstruct justice by coverups and by kidnapping an informer. Of 12 indicted, including two in Britain and the informer, nine have been tried, convicted and sentenced by a U.S. District Court in Washington. The highest-ranking one is Mary Sue Hubbard, who received the maximum sentence of a $10,000 fine and five years in prison. She is called Controller and Commodore Staff Guardian of the cult. Her husband, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, is one of 23 people named as unindicted co-conspirators. The Canadian material, which also includes private documents from non- governmental agencies, went to the United States under covering letters >from the Toronto Guardian offices of the authoritarian cult, which pushes mind-improvement courses for substantial fees. Traces of the Canadian connection were found scattered among about 33,000 documents made public by the court after the convictions. Thousands of the documents were obtained by the U.S. Scientologists legally and illegally from public and private agencies. The rest are their own internal orders (many from Mr. Hubbard), codes, Telex messages, logbooks, plans for attacking critics, and reports from and about spies operating for the Scientology leaders in government and non-government offices where they could gather information to help the cult or hinder its enemies. The bulk of the communications were between top officials of the cult's Guardian offices in the United States and also in Britain. Two world leaders based in Britain have been indicted but are fighting extradition to stand trial in Washington. I found no reference to any religious aspects of Scientology operations in the court documents, although a press release from Rev. Kenneth Whitman, president of the Church of Scientology of California, said "the main body of Church activity deals with ministerial training and counselling." Scientology mixes a belief (which Mr. Hubbard contends is scientifically supported by his own research) in an intergalactic spirit world trillions of years old with a form of psychoanalysis (or "counselling") using a gadget like a primitive lie detector. The device is called an E-meter. Mr. Hubbard, a former science fiction writer, has claimed his methods can cure or prevent many diseases, can increase IQs, and can produce superior beings with power of mind over matter. He officially started the Church of Scientology about 25 years ago when he decided to call his movement a religion. Before that he sold courses in his theory of Dianetics, a best-selling fad in book form in the early 1950s, describing his operation as a foundation, association or college. In the Washington court documents can be found examples of his prolific writings, his orders and policy letters that were to be given top priority in the "orgs" (organizations) and missions in many countries including Canada. Mr. Whitman said there are 298 separate units with a membership of five million. Like orthodox religions, Scientology tends to inflate its figures, according to former members. They also seem to inflate their paperwork more than any other bureaucracy. I found much duplication as I plowed through boxes of the organization's files under the worried eyes of Scientology public relations officers and the watchful eyes of a U.S. marshal. (When the first batch was released by the court there was little security and some documents disappeared, court clerks reported.) Mr. Hubbard's followers in the United States and Canada do not try particularly to defend those convicted in the Washington trial. Instead, following long-standing directions from their leader, they attack the attackers. They claim there have been 30 years of civil rights violations against them by the U.S. Government. And their private communications now lodged in the District Courthouse paint a bizarre continent-wide panorama of paranoia about individuals and agencies plotting against them. The fears, justified or not, led to the planting of agents to get at files, and to electronic bugging, theft, blackmail, poison-pen letters and to the manufacturing of sex scandals against opponents. According to the documentary evidence from their own files, the U.S. Scientologists manufactured false identification documents, framed one critic on a criminal charge and circulated intimate details about some of their own members' sexual escapades. At one point, the court was told, they also kidnapped and forcibly detained, handcuffed and gagged Michael Meisner, their former national secretary, after they discovered there was a warrant out for his arrest. Mr. Meisner later became a prosecution witness. A week-long combing of the court files on the cult's U.S. operations uncovered not only the information they had somehow obtained from public and private agencies in Canada, but also references to a variety of other covert activities in this country. Letters from Canadian officials to their superiors, and communications between officers at the international and U.S. leadership level reveal that: o Private information has been obtained covertly; o Front groups have been set up to espouse the cult's programs or to attack critics; o Members with cover stories have "penetrated" other agencies and organizations; o Dissident Canadian Scientologists have been followed or watched; o Efforts have been made to disrupt other organizations by covert means. Reports on some of these activities went from Canada to be circulated to a number of top Scientology officials. The letter that went from Toronto with the documents somehow obtained from the Ontario Attorney-General's offices (it's FBI file number 8237 and initialed by one of about 150 agents who raided Scientology offices in Los Angeles and Washington in 1977) is covered with hand-written notations by Scientology officials. "Joe -- see this is all properly filed and cross-filed as it is very good," wrote someone called, it appears, "Dada." Another official wrote: "Diana, we ought to start LAPD Intell file -- go ahead." This was an apparent reference to one of the documents, a long report by the Ontario Provincial Police on a study of Los Angeles police operations. Also to be filed was a long letter from the then U.S. attorney-general, John Mitchell, telling the Ontario attorney-general about an inter-agency strike force operating in his country and a system for collecting and filing crime intelligence information. There was one letter in the Scientologists' files from an RCMP officer in Ottawa to the Ontario Provincial Police fraud squad in Toronto, which was investigating complaints by parents of a teen-age member of the cult. The letter had an OPP stamp indicating it had been received March 3, 1979. When Deputy Commissioner James Erskine, who headed the OPP fraud squad at that time, was told this week about the letter, he had officers go to the squad's dead files ("they had to climb over three or four cabinets to get to them"). He said they found the slim file on the case still intact. (The matter never went beyond the police investigation.) He said a preliminary look at the handling of the letter indicated it could not have been copied from the squad's files, which he said had been kept particularly secure. There was reason to believe a copy of it might have been sent to some other agency, Mr. Erskine said, and he was looking into this. The letter was accompanied in the Scientology files by an internal message between two of the convicted Scientologist leaders and identified in the court documents as FBI item 13968. Another document (FBI 20342) gives one of the many codes used by the cult -- Ruby Code. In it, the code name for OPP is KNOK. Casey Hill, an Ontario assistant Crown attorney assigned to a provincially ordered inquiry into religious cults, made a brief visit to offices of the federal prosecutors in Washington about six weeks ago. Mr. Hill discussed the Scientology material submitted to the court but brought back no documents. Since then he has received copies of some of them, but there has been no official Ontario investigation at the source. Simon Chester of the deputy attorney-general's office said in an interview: "Obviously, we're going to have to be examining these documents very carefully ... We treat it seriously but not as a catastrophe ... We'll follow every angle, obviously." But he added: "We are in an awkward situation." He was referring to the fact that Daniel Hill, a former chairman of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into the operation of cults in general. Mr. Hill's appointment followed pressures on the provincial Government to take legislative action to control alleged excesses of some cults. His report to the attorney-general was expected soon, possibly this month, but the U.S. court disclosures could delay it. Mr. Chester said last month he didn't think Queen's Park would launch an immediate investigation of how Government documents ended up in the hands of others. "Any action is putting Dr. Hill under a spotlight, so to speak, before his report is going to the minister. It would be unfair to him and his staff who have been investigating so long." Also in court documents released in Washington was a thick file of material from Ontario Health Ministry files. Like many other items found in the Scientology offices, it was marked "red box". That, according to evidence before the court, was the code name for an easily portable file that was to contain "anything illegal" implicating the Hubbards or any Scientologists and for documents not obtained through legal channels. In the "red box" material was a 1966 memo written by Matthew Dymond as Ontario health minister to his deputy about a pamphlet written by Mr. Hubbard. The memo said: "If Hubbard is contravening the Hypnosis Act I think we should take some steps to persuade him to change his mind." Most of the Health Ministry files among the Scientology documents submitted in court consist of private papers of the Committee on the Healing Arts. During its hearings in the late 1960s, the committee was critical of Scientologists for their conduct before it (they appeared once and had to be subpoenaed to reappear). It also questioned some of the cult's written claims about psychic healing. The U.S. Scientologists had also obtained the 274-page pre-publication draft of the committee's report on sectarian healing and hypnotherapy, which had been written by John A. Lee and published in 1970. At the time the draft copy was sent by Toronto Scientologists to their superiors in the United States, the Toronto organization was involved in a lawsuit against Professor Lee. (The suit has been dormant for some years.) In Toronto, after my reading of the Washington court files, I asked the University of Toronto professor about the documents, which included letters written to him by others on the healing arts committee staff. He said that at the time of the lawsuit he went to Health Ministry archives to get material for his defence, only to discover many of the committee documents missing. According to other sources in Toronto, documents concerning the Scientologists have also disappeared from other files in the Health Ministry. And files involving the controversial cult have also disappeared mysteriously from the Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations. David Mitchell, an investigator in that ministry, confirmed that a "banker's box" of material had gone missing. "But it's no hardship, maybe just complaint reports. Other material is in a secure ares. You'd need dynamite to get at it." Defence lawyers in Washington -- a team of 16 represented the nine U.S. Scientology leaders indicted in August, 1978, and sentenced last month -- sought to mitigate the crimes against the U.S. Government by saying the Scientologists thought Government agencies were out to destroy their religion. The organization has been in a long-running battle with governments in the United States, particularly over its tax status as a religion. In some jurisdictions, it is officially recognized as such, in others it is not. In some Canadian provinces Scientology has won recognition of the right of its ministers to perform marriages. Late last year the Toronto Church of Scientology renewed a request to the Ontario Registrar-General for official recognition as a religion, asking for marrying privileges for one of its ministers. That request has been turned over to Frank Drea, who heads the Consumer Ministry under which the Registrar-General operates. From anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Wed Feb 7 07:58:41 EST 1996 Article: 66977 of alt.religion.scientology Path: news.cybercom.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: DOC: 1980 Toronto Globe & Mail series [3/8] Date: 3 Feb 1996 19:46:13 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. Lines: 250 Sender: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <4f0ahl$rks@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl Comments: Hack-Tic may or may not approve of the content of this posting Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to Comments: Toronto Globe and Mail, January 23, 1980 Cult harassment, spying in Canada documented by John Marshall New light has been shed on the Canadian operations of the controversial Church of Scientology by files made public by a U.S. District Court in Washington. The evidence refutes denials by Toronto cult leaders of information I reported more than five years ago in a series of articles based on internal cult documents and interviews with defectors. Other accounts since then of clandestine operations by the cult in Canada are also supported by the files, submitted in court after being seized in Los Angeles and Washington as part of a 2 1/2-year investigation by U.S. authorities. The trial resulted in jail sentences for nine leading U.S. Scientologists, who are out on bail pending another of many attempts to have documentary evidence used in the case ruled illegal. As reported in the accompanying instalment in a series of accounts of the U.S. court proceedings, 35 Scientologists were alleged to have participated in conspiracies to steal government documents and to obstruct justice. Besides the nine sentenced to jail, 23 people were named as unindicted co-conspirators. Three others have been indicted and investigations are continuing in various parts of the United States by state and federal agencies. Canadian activities have included the planting of spies with agencies and individuals considered to be barriers to the progress of the wealthy world-wide organization. It recently announced it had purchased $3.5- million worth of property in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal. Philip McAiney, a Toronto minister of the cult founded by L. Ron Hubbard, was quoted in The Globe and Mail in 1974 as calling my series of articles at that time "misrepresentation and distortion." He and Douglas Pearse and Sue Surgeoner, both from the Toronto Guardian Office of the organization, disputed a number of the statements in the articles. o They flatly denied that their organization harassed defectors as I had reported. A large number of the Canadian or Canadian-related documents told of harassment of the McLean family of Sutton, Ont. -- Eric and Nan McLean, their two sons and a daughter-in-law -- all of whom had left Scientology. Some of the harassment, one Guardian leader's log says, was organized by the Toronto office. o In 1974 the Toronto Scientologists said they doubted the authenticity of a document that indicated instructions had gone out to try to steal files from a Better Business Bureau. Washington documents -- consisting of orders from leaders and reports from agents -- describe an international campaign against Better Business Bureaus aimed at the covert scrutiny, and removal if possible, of any files critical of Scientology. o Mrs. Surgeoner objected that the 1974 articles "give you this picture of the church putting people in chains, and through interrogations." Her leaders' files document more than one interrogation and many investigations of members thought to be "security risks" to the cult, which is administered on military-style command lines. There are details of one member, Michael Meisner, being kept under guard and once being handcuffed and gagged. He turned state's evidence in the U.S. conspiracy trial. o Mr. McAiney defended the credentials of the inventor of Scientology, Mr. Hubbard, who was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the U.S. trials and is being investigated by U.S. income tax authorities. The Toronto official said Mr. Hubbard was a civil engineer, an assertion repeated in some cult press releases. Questioned further, he said his leader would have been a graduate engineer, except that his final thesis, given to a friend to deliver, never reached George Washington university. The Washington documents include one stolen from the U.S. Government that confirms reports in books the Scientologists have called libelous. Mr. Hubbard did so poorly in his first university year that he was put on probation for the second year, the document says, and he dropped out after doing worse. He got an F in atomic physics, although cult publicity pieces have suggested that he is an authority in that subject. o Mr. Pearse said, during a 1974 visit to the Globe's offices to complain about the articles, that security was a problem. "We have to be alert for people from mental health organizations who come in and steal files." According to many of the Washington court documents, the gumshoeing is on the other foot in both the United States and Canada. The week after the Toronto Scientologists were defining mental health associations as enemies of their movement, one of their colleagues took a job in the Canadian Mental Health Association headquarters. Later that year another Toronto member took a full-time job there and a third one had a part-time job. Documents submitted to the court in the U.S. case included Guardian office reports that the Scientologists had "Penetrated Toronto mental health hospital and established an agent as director of volunteers." There were reports of clandestine monitoring of the CMHA files and of the covert disruption of agencies critical of Mr. Hubbard's theories, which he has claimed have improved people's mental health and cured physical ailments. One report from a Toronto official who signed, "Love, Jaan," told his superiors in the United States he had a way of finding out what the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons might have on Scientology. The report said Jaan had an operative "who is a legitimate MD ... in the process of getting registered in the province of Ontario as a physician ..." It said he was having her line up a personal interview with J.C. Dawson, then the college's registrar, "to see what he has on us." In a recent interview, Dr. Dawson said he could not recall any such interview. He said the college a few years before had submitted a short brief on Scientology to an Ontario Government committee probing sectarian healing. One document submitted to the Washington court was the report of a Scientology agent who said he had thoroughly checked out (the method was not specified) the Vancouver office of the World Federation of Mental Health. The report said the agent found nothing about Scientology, as expected, but he did send his superiors a letter he found on a desk, commenting: "Thought you'd be interested." I didn't see that letter in my combing of the thousands of files seized by the FBI, but there were other health agency documents and references in covering letters from Toronto Guardians to such material. There was a prompt reaction from George Rohn, managing director of the Canadian Mental Health Association, and his assistant, Hilda Mackow, when I asked them about the references in the report to Mr. Hubbard about clandestine operations against their organization. They said that some time back they discovered that they had employed at least three members of the Church of Scientology, and that during part of that time Scientologists had demonstrated against the CMHA outside the mental health organization's Toronto offices. The files submitted to the court in Washington contained many reports of Scientology having agents in Better Business Bureau offices and of the acquisition of BBB documents critical of the cult's business practices with its clients. Among the court documents that had been seized from the U.S. headquarters of the cult was a report summarizing the contents of files on Scientology in both U.S. and Canadian BBBs. And as I have reported in the past, the files of the Edmonton bureau were stolen. Canadian public libraries have also lost books critical of Scientology and articles have been scissored out of their magazines. Files in various newspaper libraries have been rifled. There was a deja vu feeling as I read through the voluminous files in the Washington District Courthouse, in which I found the church referring to me at times by the code names Marta or Martello. I read FBI item 5871, the report of a Scientology agent planted in the Clearwater Sun, a newspaper that had helped expose the fact that a group buying up property there was a Scientology front. The agent was itemizing -- for 15 offices of the church -- conversations reporters there were having with me. A great deal more attention was paid to two other Canadians in Florida, Nan McLean and her son, John, who with other members of their family had defected from the movement and campaigned against it. They had been invited to Florida to brief journalists and politicians about the cult. John had served with Mr. Hubbard aboard his flag ship, and one item submitted to the Washington court said that he helped the U.S. tax men with information. Mrs. McLean was a Scientology minister in Toronto, but quit in disillusionment in 1972, along with the rest of her family. Now dedicated to getting people out of the cult, she finds that documents >from the court case help her persuade them. She was the only Canadian beside myself who worked through masses of the files after the court ordered them released. She was particularly delighted when she found documents referring to Scientologists' efforts to break up her family and to harass family members in other ways since their defection. One was a report written in May, 1975, by a U.S. Guardian called Flavian, suggesting an agent planted in the McLean household could help break up the family. Mrs. McLean said in an interview her family had taken in a young man who claimed he was also a defector (a favorite cover story, according to court documents from the U.S. cult offices describing how agents should be trained). He lived a month with them and later tried unsuccessfully to get police to take some kind of action against the McLeans. As I reported in July, 1974, there had been numerous hate calls from the McLeans to neighbors and others. Members of the family were accused of everything from embezzlement to sexual immorality. The article prompted a nine-page written denial by Mr. McAiney of the Toronto Scientologists. The Washington files contain a variety of Guardian office scripts written for members recruited to make harassing phone calls and to play other roles. Some, loaded with foul language of a sexual and blasphemous sort, were for church agents who would act as mistresses or prostitutes to frame U.S. government and private-agency officials. In the court documents there also were passing references pointing to an aborted breaking-and-entering attempt in Toronto. In October, 1975, two men named Michael Chornopesky and Allen Coulson had pleaded guilty to possession of burglary tools. They had been found at night the previous April in a locked section of a downtown Toronto office building, and Mr. Chornopesky said the two intended to use some highly professional lock-picking equipment to enter a particular law office in the building. First offenders, they were given suspended sentences after a brief hearing. In 1975 I reported that Mr. Chornopesky and Mr. Coulson had been members of the Toronto Guardian's office of the cult at the time of their arrest and that the law office they were going to enter had contained files to be used the next day in the McLean's defence against a Scientology lawsuit. There's another cryptic reference in the Washington documents: Box 67, Folder 90, Volume 1 of 2. Dated Jan. 13, 1976, it reads: "Operating Targets -- Channel A -- FSM (field staff members) to case out Baskin's office and have full knowledge of his area." Baskin and Sears is a U.S. law firm whose offices include one in Clearwater headed by Robert Hayden, who in January, 1976, was representing Mrs. McLean and John McLean in litigation with Scientologists. In March, 1976, it was discovered that documents Mrs. McLean had given to her lawyer had disappeared at some unknown time. In the Washington documents were weekly reports from George Pilat, who had responsibilities for the south-eastern United States for Scientology and was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Washington trial. One report dated March 3, 1977, had an item: "1 -- Hayden files (base)." At the end of the typed line was a hand-printed "Done." And a check mark. From anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Wed Feb 7 07:58:42 EST 1996 Article: 66975 of alt.religion.scientology Path: news.cybercom.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: DOC: 1980 Toronto Globe & Mail series [6/8] *repost* Paulette Cooper Date: 3 Feb 1996 19:46:10 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. Lines: 128 Sender: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <4f0ahi$rkt@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl Comments: Hack-Tic may or may not approve of the content of this posting Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to Comments: Toronto Globe and Mail, January 25, 1980 Files show spy reported woman's intimate words by John Marshall Freelance writer Paulette Cooper is a finely honed, long-haired accumulation of nervous energy. She was dressed with a New York flair that seemed out of context in the small windowless room in the grey dignity of the U.S. District Court building in Washington. She sat beside me at a long table covered with cartons packed with some of the 33,000 documents seized from Church of Scientology files in 1977 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "If you see anything about Operation Freakout, please let me know," she said. More than once. Intensely. Her obsession could be excused. She had been living with it since the publication in 1971 of her book, The Scandal of Scientology, subtitled "A chilling examination of the nature, beliefs and practices of the 'now religion.'" And from hearings in which the documents helped implicate U.S. cult leaders in criminal conspiracies, she had learned Operation Freakout was the code name for one of the Scientologists' obsessions -- her. Around the table and squatting on the floor in the cramped stuffy room that day were nine other journalists, all from U.S. newspapers. A copying machine was rarely out of use. Two young Scientologists from the cult publication Freedom were also examining the documents, which told a bizarre story of spying, theft and electronic bugging by the cult, and of blackmail, poison-pen letters, scandal-mongering and other kinds of harassment to silence critics. A U.S. marshal posted in an anteroom kept looking through the door, and he checked all papers any of us took from the room. Miss Cooper thought she was ready for anything she would find. There were many documents about her. She could even joke about some. There was one giving the purpose of Operation Freakout -- "to get P.C. incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks." She'd had years to get ready for this day -- and the many more days she worked with the Scientologists' most secret files. They had been nightmare years of borrowing money to defend herself against 14 lawsuits filed against her by the litigious cult, and to file counter- suits. She told of finding evidence that her telephone was tapped. She received anonymous threats that she would be killed. Neighbors received disgusting hate letters about her, such as one saying: "Her tongue is noticeably swollen from an attack of venereal disease." There were times when she considered suicide. She lost the love of a male friend of six years, who said she had changed under the stress and was no longer fun to be with. His employers had received smear letters about him. Other friends of Miss Cooper also were harassed. Some received phone calls saying they could be involved in legal action because of her. And then came the topper. In May, 1973, she was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of making bomb threats against the Church of Scientology and of committing perjury by denying the accusations. There were threatening letters on her stationery and with her fingerprints on them. Even her own lawyer urged her to confess. She refused. She passed a lie- detector test. She and a cousin told about the visit of a woman soliciting donations for a union fund, during which the woman never took off her gloves. A box of Miss Cooper's stationery was in the room. The bomb threat was reported the next day. The charges were finally dropped; but she did not feel her name was cleared, she said, until the fall of 1977. That was when she learned from an FBI contact that evidence found in the July, 1977, raids on the Scientology offices showed it had all been a frameup. I found one of the references to it in the files released by the Washington court that convicted nine U.S. Scientologists on charges related to theft of government documents and obstructing justice. In one file was a letter dated June, 1974, from Dick Weigand to Henning Heldt, two of the leaders sentenced last month to four years in prison. Included in a review of an operative's past activities for the cult was the observation: "Conspired to entrap Mrs. Lovely (code name for Miss Cooper) into being arrested for a felony which she did not commit. She was arraigned for the crime." The Mrs. Lovely name came up again and again. This time it was found by Miss Cooper as she sat beside me. "Oh, this is it," I heard her sigh. She had in front of her pages of detailed reports from another cult operative. She had expected they might exist, but she hadn't been sure. He had, for a short while, been very close to her, and pretended to be in love with her. She began to read them, but found that she could not brave the attempt there. Grim-faced, she duplicated them. "I need to read these with friends beside me," she said. She did that evening at dinner with myself and Nan McLean, a close friend from Sutton, Ont., who's a former Scientologist. In a log entry for a few days after her indictment for the bomb threat, the agent wrote: "We have Mrs. Lovely in a very perplexing position." She read it aloud to us. But it was tough going. Much of it she read in silence. In the words of the man to whom she had confided her most intimate memories, to whom she had given full trust, she read a description to his church leaders of how she had told him about her first youthful sexual awakening. Another page referred to a time when, depressed about her problems, she had spoken one dark night about suicide. The secret agent told his superiors that on the outside he was sympathetic but inside he was laughing: "Wouldn't this be a great thing for Scientology?" From anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Wed Feb 7 07:58:43 EST 1996 Article: 66980 of alt.religion.scientology Path: news.cybercom.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: DOC: 1980 Toronto Globe & Mail series [2/8] Date: 3 Feb 1996 19:46:05 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. Lines: 361 Sender: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <4f0ahd$rku@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl Comments: Hack-Tic may or may not approve of the content of this posting Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to Comments: Toronto Globe and Mail, January 22, 1980 Big FBI raid led to conspiracy trial of cult leaders by John Marshall About 100 agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation learned on July 6, 1977, that they would be participating two days later in an operation unprecedented in the United States. The notification, described two years later in a Washington courtroom, said the agents would be raiding offices of an organization that some governments, in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, officially classified as a religion -- the Church of Scientology. The next day, a Thursday, the agents were given eight hours of briefing by five of their superiors and two assistant U.S. attorneys. It was explained to them -- as U.S. District Judge Charles Richey later said -- that "there was probable cause to believe that the leaders of a large religious organization were involved in complex, sophisticated conspiracies to illegally obtain government documents and to cover up their activities." They were also cautioned about the sensitive nature of the operation, about "priest-penitent privilege and were told to act accordingly ... and that they could expect unfavorable press coverage." The raids at two locations in Los Angeles and one in Washington began at 6 a.m. Friday, July 8, 1977. Before the searches were completed 20 hours later, about 50 more FBI agents were called in to help. They seized lock-picking tools, electronic bugging equipment, guns and 48,000 documents, many of them obtained clandestinely from the files of government and private agencies, including some in Canada. About 15,000 of the documents were returned to the Scientologists. The remainder, forced into court records by the defendants' own efforts to have the raids declared illegal, are evidence of their international practices of planting spies in public and private offices, stealing documents, framing and harassing critics, and establishing front organizations to promote their own propaganda and to fight those they consider to be enemies. The evidence implicated a great many of the cult's leaders and their followers. Eleven top officials, including Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of cult founder L. Ron Hubbard, were indicted by a grand jury on Aug. 15, 1978, on charges of conspiracy to steal government documents and obstruct justice. Mrs. Hubbard and eight others were convicted last month. Prosecutors are seeking the extradition of two more from Britain. Another leader who became an FBI informant before the 1977 raids is awaiting trial. Twenty-three others, including Ron Hubbard, were named as co-conspirators but not indicted. Federal prosecutors say investigations using the evidence obtained in the raids are continuing at the state level. Also continuing is the cult's effort to have the documentary evidence from the raids invalidated. They have carried that battle to the U.S. Supreme court, which is expected to make its decision on whether to hear the appeal later this year. There has been only one court ruling in favor of the U.S. Scientology leaders, who have been defended by a team of 16 lawyers. Nineteen days after the 1977 raids, a District of Columbia court said the warrants used in the Washington search were invalid. But that ruling was reversed by the District Court of Appeals on December, 1977. Yesterday the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by the Scientologists for the return of the documents and for a ruling that they not be used in any future criminal proceedings against the church or its members. An integral part of the 2 1/2 years of legal battles has been the complex legal manoeuvring of the past year. Plea bargaining resulted in a rarely used procedure that allowed the nine officials who were tried to bypass a plea of guilty or not guilty. But they had to agree to accept as factual a 282-page stipulation of evidence from the prosecuting attorneys. They also agreed that they would accept, and that they could not appeal, a verdict of guilty on one charge each. This was a reduction from the 28-count indictment returned by the grand jury. Becoming impatient with haggling in the final days of the trial, Judge Richey more than once threatened to schedule the case for a normal trial. He finally gave his verdict of guilty last Oct. 26. On Dec. 6 and 7 he imposed jail sentences and fines on all of the accused. All but one of them served brief periods in prison before being released just before Christmas pending the Supreme Court's decision on the validity of the documentary evidence. If the evidence is found to have been illegally obtained, the federal case could be thrown out even though the defendants accepted the truthfulness of the prosecution's case under their signatures. (A court demand for the signatures was one of the last-minute issues.) There could be retrials involving other evidence, including that from Michael Meisner, a former Scientology spy in the U.S. tax offices who turned informer after he was held under guard gagged and handcuffed by fellow Scientologists. He has agreed to plead guilty to an as-yet- unspecified felony for which a maximum five-year sentence is possible. He is living in a secret location as a protected witness. Mrs. Hubbard was sentenced to the maximum possible term of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for conspiring to obstruct justice. She was given 10 days to report to prison after she submitted that she had a health problem that could be exacerbated by life in jail. Judge Richey said that, after she served three months, prison officials should report on whether she could continue to serve her sentence. All the others convicted were sent directly from the courtroom to prison, except for 29-year-old Sharon Thomas. She was fined $1,000 and sentenced to six months in jail and five years of probationary community service work on a charge of stealing government documents. She was put in her parents' custody pending the appeal on the validity of the evidence. Miss Thomas had penetrated the U.S. Coast Guard's intelligence service and worked as a secretary in the U.S. Justice Department so she could steal files involving Scientology and matters of interest to the cult, the court was told. She also played the role of a drunken pickup in Washington in a 1976 scheme to blackmail Gabriel Cazares, then mayor of the Florida city of Clearwater, the court documents revealed. The cult had used a front to make extensive property purchases in Clearwater for its top training base. Documents before the court indicated the U.S. Scientologists wanted to "take control" of Clearwater. In addition to Mrs. Hubbard, the most senior official of those charged (she is called Controller or Commodore Staff Guardian; Mr. Hubbard is Commodore), two others were sentenced to five years and fined $10,000 for conspiracy to obstruct justice. One is Gerald Bennett Wolfe, 30, who infiltrated the Internal Revenue Service as a Scientology spy with the code name Silver. He also stole documents from a U.S. attorney's office, and he admitted to Judge Richey that he had lied to the grand jury that subsequently indicted him. Asked why he had lied, Mr. Wolfe said: "I feel it is immoral to be an informant." Judge Richey commented: "For you to tell this court that it is immoral to tell the truth is incomprehensible." Cindy Raymond, 41, also was sentenced to five years and fined $10,000. The prosecutors described her as the co-ordinator of coverup attempts after two of the spies, Mr. Wolfe and Mr. Meisner, were arrested. The court was told that she prepared cover stories designed to stymie the grand jury investigation of the cult's illegal activities. Four others -- Henning Heldt, Duke Snider, Gregory Willardson and Richard Weigand -- were sentenced to four years in prison and fined $10,000 each for conspiracy to obstruct justice. On a charge of conspiracy to illegally obtain government documents, Mitchell Hermann was given four years and fined $10,000. He was involved in the bugging of an important 1974 meeting of IRS officials exchanging information on a long-time investigation of the tax affairs of the cult and its leader. A report of what was said at the meeting and picked up by the church's electronic bugs -- planted after its spies found out well in advance when and where the meeting would be held -- was in the files seized by the FBI. Other documents before the judge also showed the Scientologists had stolen the tax records of people such as singers Frank Sinatra and Doris Day, California Governor Edmund Brown, and Los Angeles mayors Tom Bradley and Sam Yorty. And they were looking for actor John Wayne's. A Dec. 4, 1975, memo by one church official suggested: "Legal could also inform the IRS of the receipt of the data and that we are holding off on using it as an added pressure on them to finish the audit (of Scientology tax matters) favorably." There was no indication that the Scientologists, who had been in a running battle over tax-exempt status, had ever triggered their threatened blackmail scheme, which the documents called "The Juicy Clanger". That was one of many code names for various clandestine operations by the church. The Scientologists, according to the evidence, stole material from several IRS offices, including ones supposed to be under extra security. They also entered a special area and made false identification documents for themselves and other Scientologists. Both in statements during the trial and in the documents submitted to the court, the Scientologists indicated they felt there was a conspiracy on the part of many government departments and private agencies against their movement. Defence lawyers argued that their clients were trying "to preserve a religion from what the defendants ... perceive as a powerful campaign by government agencies and others to destroy it." Many internal communications found in the seized files indicate a worry about the organization's own security. A report from the Clearwater base in April, 1976, identified a staff member as a "definite security risk" who had been a plant in the cult's San Diego organization giving data to someone else, who gave it to the FBI. (U.S. Scientology leaders once thought there was a "plant" in the Toronto organization.) Mr. Heldt said, in speaking to the sentencing, that the Scientology leaders were reacting to government attempts to "destroy their religion and make a mockery of their beliefs." Judge Richey, however, rejected the proposition that the Government was harassing the organization. He said that "slander, coverup and conspiracy in the name of religion will never explain that kind of conduct." Mrs. Hubbard said: "I accept full responsibility for the charge upon which I've been convicted and sincerely regret my role in it. I've done everything in my power to make sure nothing like this can ever be done in the future." Others sentenced also expressed remorse, but in each case that brought an angry denunciation from assistant U.S. attorney Raymond Banoun, who has worked on the case for more than two years. When Mr. Willardson asked for a reduced jail term and the opportunity to do community service work instead, the prosecutor noted that a blackjack, lock-picking equipment and bugging devices were found in Mr. Willardson's church office. "What is the example that Mr. Willardson can set for young people he wants to help?" asked the prosecutor. Mr. Banoun told the judge the Scientologists' crimes went further than the conspiracy against the Government and the temporary kidnapping of the state's chief witness, Mr. Meisner. "It was not only the Government they were after, it was anyone who was critical of them." And the documents he filed before the court -- about 33,000 of them listed in a 525-page inventory -- were concerned with much more than the cult's clandestine operations in U.S. Government offices and in the obstruction of justice afterwards. One of the defence complaints early in the litigation included the contention that the FBI agents had exceeded their warrants and had seized material beyond that which they were seeking. And they argued at one point that because of this all evidence seized should be suppressed. Judge Richey said he found that "the Government made good-faith and reasonable efforts to limit the searches and seizures to items within the warrants or otherwise legally seizable." On the latter point, he noted that during the search of a cabinet labelled "Confessional Formulary" in the information bureau of the Scientology offices in Los Angeles, agents found a document that prompted an order to all those participating in the raid "to watch for documents marked 'red box' because 'red box' meant that some of the documents might have been stolen." Before the raid, the judge added, the agents had been told that "it was possible that they could find evidence which could be used for probable cause elsewhere." The "red box" lead resulted in the discovery, among other things, of documents forwarded to the U.S. Scientology headquarters from cult officials in Canada. There was a June 19, 1974, letter signed "Love, Marion," from the Toronto Guardian's Office. (All those charged were Guardians, who, according to the evidence, are responsible for press and public relations, discipline, legal and financial matters and a variety of covert activities ranging >from the training and planting of agents to the investigation of organizations and individuals inimicable to Scientology. Some Guardians are ordained ministers of Scientology.) The letter from Marion to Duke Snider, one of those convicted in the conspiracy, was headed: "Re: Police and Intelligence." It briefly outlined the contents of documents she was forwarding with it. And she commented: "Some info I came across that I thought might be of use for you ... correspondence between the Att.-General Ontario and Attorney- General U.S. ... a connection between the L.A. Police Intelligence and Ontario Provincial Police ... hope this is of some help to you." The Ontario Government documents, from 1970 and 1971, included confidential communications between the province's attorney-general at the time, Arthur Wishart, and his deputy, Rendall Dick. The memos were about police intelligence operations to fight organized crime. Also in the "red box" files seized by the FBI agents were private documents from the Ontario Health Ministry, including a 1966 memo from then health minister Matthew Dymond to his deputy. The memo said Dr. Dymond was passing along a Scientology pamphlet and added: "If Hubbard is contravening the Hypnosis Act I think we should take some steps to persuade him to change his mind." Among the Scientology papers filed in court was also a large selection of internal communications of the ministry's Committee on the Healing Arts, which had included Scientology in a study of sectarian healing. The Health Ministry documents were presented to the court with a covering letter dated July 25, 1972, from "Jaan", a Toronto Guardian official, to someone called Terry in one of the U.S. Guardian offices. The document discovered in the "Confessional Formulary" by one of the raiding team identified as Special Agent Orphy was a March 25, 1977, letter signed "Love Judy" and directed to "all concerned" in senior offices of the cult in the United States. This letter, filed as U.S. Government exhibit 219 and FBI number 7984, was to introduce "the complete red box system" into the church's operations. Attached to the letter was a "red box data information sheet" with instructions to senior officers to keep the information away from junior assistants. "Red box," the document made clear, was the code name for a portable file that could be easily removed from a Scientology office "in case of a raid." In the file was to be kept, among other things, "proof that a Scnist is involved in criminal activities ... anything illegal that implicated MSH, LRH (the Hubbards) ... large amounts of non-FOI docs (documents not obtained through legal means under Freedom of Information legislation) ... evidence of incriminating activities ..." The information sheet said large amounts of "red-box data" not needed for day-to-day activities could be kept elsewhere than in the portable file, which could be just a briefcase. The "red box" document was not one of the search targets specified in a list of 62 items in the warrants, which were supported by a 35-page affidavit detailing events leading up to the Government's request for a search. However, Judge Richey ruled it was found under the "plain view doctrine," which allows evidence of a crime that is seen in plain view to be seized along with other evidence specified in a search warrant. "The court finds that the agents' seizure of red-box data, and evidence of covert infiltration of private and state organizations to obtain documents were reasonable," the judge said. He told the objecting defence lawyers the FBI agents had probable cause to believe these and other documents were evidence of criminal activities. In his lengthy ruling on the admissibility of the documentary evidence and the legality of the raids (he concentrated only on the Los Angeles ones and said the Washington seizures were not used before the grand jury), Judge Richey noted that the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was cited by the defense, was intended to prevent searches by unchecked authorities. He commented: "No one in our civilized society is pleased by searches of churches lasting 20 hours and involving over 150 FBI agents ... "However, the Fourth Amendment cannot become so inflexible that criminal activity can be completely insulated from our criminal justice system by the talismanic invocation of religion. "We can only hope that never again in our history will the Government be required to perform such an unseemly task." From anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Wed Feb 7 07:58:44 EST 1996 Article: 66979 of alt.religion.scientology Path: news.cybercom.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: DOC: 1980 Toronto Globe & Mail series [8/8] Date: 3 Feb 1996 19:46:01 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. Lines: 332 Sender: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <4f0ah9$rl2@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl Comments: Hack-Tic may or may not approve of the content of this posting Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to Comments: Toronto Globe and Mail, January 26, 1980 The hidden Hubbard by John Marshall The mysterious Lafayette Ronald Hubbard isn't talking. The founder of the Church of Scientology remained the supreme authority in the cult even after his departure as leader was announced in 1966, according to documents submitted in the recent U.S. conspiracy trial of nine top Scientologists. Mr. Hubbard was among 23 people named as unindicted co-conspirators in the case. But court officials say he never appeared at any of the sessions of the U.S. District Court in Washington that convicted the nine accused, including his own wife, of a part in a conspiracy to steal confidential government documents. He has not accepted an invitation by The Globe and Mail to comment on the case, and church spokesmen will not say or do not know where he lives. The court saw evidence in the defendants' own words that they aimed to protect Mr. Hubbard personally and Scientology generally when they planted spies in government and private offices to steal income tax data and other information. In many of the thousands of documents seized in 1977 raids on church offices in Los Angeles and Washington, it was made clear that orders from Mr. Hubbard and his wife Mary Sue, who was sentenced to five years in prison, were to be given priority by all members of the international movement. So when Hugh Wilhere, a Scientology spokesman in Washington, offered to provide the "other side" of the story presented by the court documents, he was told: "Get me Mr. Hubbard." He said it wasn't possible. Mr. Wilhere was told a Globe reporter would fly immediately to any place Mr. Hubbard chose for a meeting at which he could make a statement in defence of his convicted followers and his church. "I don't think it's going to happen. It's not his job," Mr. Wilhere said. Only the man who founded and set up the highly centralized organization could make a definitive comment, I suggested, noting that even the Pope has spoken to the press. "You're being unreasonable," Mr. Wilhere said unhappily. That was Dec. 4. There has been no further word on the offer, which was repeated this week through the Toronto organization. In every Scientology establishment, the Hubbard picture greets recruits entering for their low-cost introductory mind-improvement courses (advanced ones, according to glossy brochures, can cost as much as $8,500 fro 25 hours). But that benevolent-looking picture -- and the words in the many tapes and books the recruits will be induced to buy, with royalties going to Mr. Hubbard -- is the closest they are likely to get to the 69-year-old cult founder. Even many top officials of the movement that he decided to convert into a religion 25 years ago have been no closer, except for little notes of commendation that sometimes come through channels in his name. For some who have worked beside Mr. Hubbard, that's close enough. Former Scientologist John McLean of Sutton, Ont., served on board a ship on which Mr. Hubbard lived after he was declared persona non grata in England, where Scientology's world headquarters are situated. The cult leader, who claims to be able to make "wogs" (ordinary people) into "clears" and "operating thetans" (described as happy superhuman individuals in control of their emotions and everything and anyone around them) was noted for foul-mouthed tirades, Mr. McLean has said. His description is confirmed, according to a Florida newspaper, by Dell and Ernie Hartwell, former Scientologists who spent some time in 1978 trying to help Mr. Hubbard, a sound and film buff, make movies for Scientology. The Hartwells told the St. Petersburg Times that their daughter was induced to leave high school to become one of Mr. Hubbard's 24-hour-a-day teen-age "special messengers" (record his every word, catch his cigaret ashes). But the family became disenchanted by the leader's erratic behavior and by the way he shouted curses at his crews. He was filming a movie for his cult called The Unfathomable Man, with script by Mr. Hubbard, direction by Mr. Hubbard, production by Mr. Hubbard and ultimately, according to the Hartwells, total foulup and shelving by Mr. Hubbard. The puffy-faced, pouty-lipped movie-maker -- for five months always costumed in cowboy hat, neck bandanna and baggy pants hanging under his big stomach from a single suspender -- drove his crews from about 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. Mrs. Hartwell told the Times reporter: "We'd take a half-hour break at 1 a.m. but nobody was allowed to eat -- except for Ron, of course." Autocratic and erratic, Mr. Hubbard always was accompanied by a retinue of as many as 30 disciples, who would elbow slow-movers out of the way when he came on the set at a plush California desert resort taken over for the movie project, the Hartwells said. In spite of his own never-changing costume, he had a fetish about cleanliness. Before he paraded on the set, women checked for dirt with white gloves on their hands, and any cleaning required was done with a special soap. The same obsession was shown when Mr. Hubbard ran his cult from a sea- going ship. On at least one occasion the crew was compelled to dismantle and clean out the ship's ventilation system with toothbrushes. He had a different obsession in his filming, said Mrs. Hartwell, who served as a makeup assistant. He screamed for so much fake blood (a mixture of karo syrup and food coloring) that it was prepared in gallon lots. She recalled: "We'd be shooting a scene and all of a sudden he'd yell, 'Stop! Make it more gory, make it more gory!'" Once, Mrs. Hartwell said, so much of the sticky concoction was used that costumes became stuck to the bodies of two of the actors and had to be cut off with scissors. While Mr. Hubbard would pour money into this and other movies that were never completed, he would get capricious about overspending. Once the man who is said to be a millionaire clamped a ban on all spending at the ranch for 10 days. Unfortunately the supply of toilet paper ran out during the ban and the resort's telephone books took a beating, Mrs. Hartwell recalled. Times reporter Bill Cornwell says that since publication of his story quoting the Hartwells the Las Vegas couple have been the targets of a smear campaign including criminal allegations against Mr. Hartwell, who acted as an editor on the movie project. In one document written by Mr. Hubbard and submitted to the Washington court in the conspiracy trial, followers were told always to attack attackers: "Start investigating them promptly for FELONIES (his capitalization)." That was the kind of extravagant writing that resulted in an Australian inquiry into his cult reporting: "Expert psychiatric evidence was to the effect that Hubbard's writings are the product of a person of unsound mind." Assessments of that kind have prompted Mr. Hubbard and his organization to mount a long-running battle against the mental health establishment in general. Court documents in the Washington case showed that this included the planting of spies in mental health association offices and the establishing of various front groups to draw others into the fight against psychiatrists and psychologists working in schools and elsewhere. In October of 1947, Mr. Hubbard was pleading for psychiatric treatment >from the U.S. Veterans Administration, according to a letter he wrote that became part of the documentation in the recent Washington proceedings. He had served as a U.S. Navy lieutenant from 1941 to February, 1946, ending up in the military police in Korea. Published Scientology mythology about him suggests that he was a hero and that he ended the war crippled and blind and that he twice had been declared dead. Through his discoveries, his followers were told, he cured himself. However, Scientology leaders know better. According to documents from files in their U.S. headquarters that became part of the Washington trial record, government medical records tell a different story: Mr. Hubbard was hurt in 1942. He fell from a ship's ladder and injured his back, right hip, left knee and right heel. He spent a few days in hospital that year, in part for treatment of an eye infection. In 1943 he received both hospital and outpatient treatment for his eyes and for ulcers and back problems. There were no reports about his being declared dead or even being in any kind of serious condition. He received a disability pension of $34.50 a month when he was discharged. His condition, according to medical records, involved some arthritis and bursitis, a spine "freely flexible in all directions," and short- sightedness corrected by eye glasses (which he still uses). There were no signs of any chronic illness, a doctor reported. If Mr. Hubbard did not have serious physical problems, he did have emotional ones. In the 1947 letter in the court records, he told government medical authorities: "This is a request for treatment ... After trying and failing for two years to regain my equilibrium in civil life, I am utterly unable to approach anything like my own competence. "My last physician informed me it might be very helpful if I were to be examined and perhaps treated psychiatrically or even by a psychiatric analyst." He wrote that toward the end of his service life he had "avoided any mental examination, hoping that time would balance a mind which I had every reason to suppose was seriously affected ... "I can't account for nor rise above long periods of moroseness and suicidal inclinations ... Would you please help me." This was in the period when, Mr. Hubbard has often said later, he was in the middle of research and writing on his theory of Dianetics and was starting to use it on others. He parlayed a first pulp magazine article about Dianetics into a best- selling book, which was published in 1950 and still is being pushed by his followers, although publicly they softpedal some of the more lurid passages about people having fetal memories of their mothers' attempts at aborting them. In the early 1950s, a period when many were lured into following the Hubbard path to mental health, he was writing letters to the FBI (also submitted to the Washington court) that prompted someone in the agency to make a notation in the file: "Appears mental." Mr. Hubbard wrote of Communist plots against his organization and of weird attacks on himself, including one in which he said he was stunned in the middle of the night by an intruder who gave him electric shocks and injected air into his heart with a needle. During the period from his navy discharge in 1946 to the emergence of his book in 1950, he was also in emotional turmoil over his married life. Two of his wives have divorced him -- in both cases, according to court records, after he had already gone through a form of re-marriage. He married Sara Northrup in 1946 when he was discharged from the navy. Margaret Grubb Hubbard, his bride of 1933, filed for divorce the next year, saying he had abandoned her and his two children. In 1950 he married his present wife, Mary Sue. The following year, the second Mrs. Hubbard filed for divorce. Her submission to the court claimed that Mr. Hubbard had experimented on her by preventing her from sleeping for days at a time and that he had physically abused her, in one case impairing her hearing by choking her with his hands. She also said he falsely accused her of injecting him with hypnotic solutions and of being in league with Communists and psychiatrists out to destroy him. The divorce court documents also said Mrs. Hubbard's medical advisers had recommended that her husband be admitted to a private sanitorium for psychiatric observation and treatment for paranoid schizophrenia. After her divorce was granted, she provided her former husband's cult with a statement saying the things she had said were exaggerated and false. A St. Petersburg Times reporter found the original divorce document on file in the Los Angeles County Superior Court basement after a lengthy search. The microfilm record of the document was missing from the court files. There have been emotional problems concerning Mr. Hubbard's children, too. One of them, who originally was named Lafayette Ronald Hubbard Jr. but changed his name to deWolfe (his father claimed descent from a Normandy de Loup family) once started to be publicly critical of Scientology. He has dropped out of the limelight. Another son, Quentin, was found in a coma in a car on a back road near Las Vegas, a hose running from the exhaust pipe into the car. He died several days later in hospital without regaining consciousness. There were no licence plates on the car and no identification on the 20- year-old Mr. Hubbard. His identification papers were found under a rock nearby. His death was officially called a suicide and attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning. There has been no explanation of the peculiar circumstances. Police say that when the victim was finally identified efforts were made to reach his parents, Ron and Mary Sue Hubbard, but without success. The couple would not even talk to investigators on the phone. The police say Scientology spokesmen told them that the Hubbards believed their son had been killed in an attempt to get his father to come out in the open. Mr. Hubbard has avoided any kind of appearance before persons other than cult followers for a great many years. In the early 1960s, he refused to appear before an exhaustive Australian inquiry into his teachings, a probe that he at first said was being held at his organization's insistence. Later his request that the Victoria state government pay his fare from England was rejected. That prompted Scientologists to say they didn't get a fair hearing at the probe, which produced a scathing report of their leader and their practices. Mr. Hubbard also refused to appear before a court in France that convicted him and three other church leaders of obtaining money under false pretences by claiming to be a charity when it was really "a strong well- run commercial enterprise." He was sentenced in absentia in February, 1978, to four years in prison and fined $7,000. Mr. Hubbard has had other brushes with the law. A document in the Washington court case, FBI number 16288, is a Philadelphia police report of December, 1958. U.S. marshals were trying to serve a warrant on him to appear as a witness in connection with a Dianetics organization that went bankrupt just after he left it. Some of his followers at a lecture he was giving at the time were arrested for fighting with the law officers in a futile attempt to prevent their getting to Mr. Hubbard. Except for rare instances in the early years of his movement, he has been hiding behind his followers ever since. He did not even grant an interview to Omar V. Garrison, the only person to write an entire book saying Scientology is great and its detractors are all wrong. Before the book was published, information about Mr. Hubbard's phony degrees and abysmal academic record (he got one degree from a degree mill and one from himself, failed his first year at university and quit part way through a second-year probation) was available for reading in the writings of other investigators. Four full-length critical books, much of their material reconfirmed by the Washington court documents, were published long before the Garrison apologia. Each became the object of multiple suits or threats of suits by the Scientologists, resulting in limitation of the book's circulation. Copies also often disappeared from public library shelves. This is in spite of the Church of Scientology Creed written by Mr. Hubbard. It says in part: "We of the Church believe: That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others." From anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Wed Feb 7 07:58:45 EST 1996 Article: 66978 of alt.religion.scientology Path: news.cybercom.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: DOC: 1980 Toronto Globe & Mail series [5/8] Date: 3 Feb 1996 19:45:54 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. Lines: 302 Sender: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <4f0ah2$rl3@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl Comments: Hack-Tic may or may not approve of the content of this posting Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to Comments: Toronto Globe and Mail, January 24, 1980 Hubbard still gave orders, records show by John Marshall L. Ron Hubbard, the former science fiction writer who publicly resigned in 1966 from leadership of the Church of Scientology, continued to give orders to its leaders into 1977, a Washington court has been told. Evidence obtained in 1977 in raids on U.S. offices of the cult by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed there was a detailed program to cover up Mr. Hubbard's involvement in the leadership of Scientology. Called Operation Bulldozer Leak, it was part of the documentary evidence filed by federal prosecutors with the U.S. District Court that last month gave long prison terms to Mr. Hubbard's wife and eight other Scientology leaders for their roles in conspiracies to steal government documents and to obstruct justice by kidnapping an informer. The nine are free pending an appeal of the validity of some of the evidence. Three other Scientologists, including two world leaders in England and the informer, also were indicted in 1978 but have not yet been tried. Mr. Hubbard and 22 others were named as unindicted co-conspirators. Federal prosecuting attorneys say investigations into Scientology operations are continuing within the Internal Revenue Service (a meeting of which was bugged by the cult's spies) and at state levels in various areas. Mr. Hubbard never appeared at any of the long and complex judicial proceedings that began with unsuccessful efforts immediately after the 1977 FBI swoop to have the raids declared illegal. His name, however, has cropped up frequently. It appears in various forms in some of the 33,000 documents seized from Scientology files and submitted to a grand jury and to trial and appeal courts by U.S. attorneys. He is referred to variously as Founder, Commodore, LRH and Ron. He also is at times referred to by various code names, according to documents found in the FBI raids and made public by U.S. District Judge Charles Richey after the Scientologists lost appeals of his decision to do so. In the so-called Zeus code Mr. Hubbard is Joko, his wife, Jigo; in a code called Amber he is Neon, and Mrs. Hubbard is Lily. A document with FBI number 7822, dated Nov. 5, 1976, and signed by Judy Taussig, a U.S. national official of Scientology, defined the correct use of the codes. They were to be used, the court learned, for "groups or actions that we don't want connected to LRH or MSH. This is handled by coding their names. Also coding the group or action if it falls into categories #1 - #8 listed here." That list included incriminating activities, "unpublished crimes," and "things like lobbying where this is prohibited in non-profit corporations, or money deals that might provoke government tax offices." The document also said the codes should be used for "words of actions that could tend to dispute the fact that the C of S motives are humanitarian, i.e., harass, eradicate, attack, destroy, annihilate ... spreading a rumor, entrapment, stir up opposition." And codes should be used for the names of "front groups that we do not want connected with the C of S" and "for anything that gives specific and actual evidence that the C of S is in legal control of B6 groups. These are groups that are separate legal entities to the C of S." An attachment to the document, listed in the prosecution inventory as item 104 in Box C16, said B6 groups include Narconon, a drug treatment organization staffed by Scientologists and using Mr. Hubbard's mental health techniques. The use of codes, according to the court documents, was part of the operation of the cult's Guardian office, which also produced Operation Bulldozer Leak. FBI item 1454 from the raid on U.S. Scientology headquarters in California was dated July 21, 1976, and defined Bulldozer's major targets as: "To effectively spread the rumor that will lead Government, media, and individual SPs (for suppressive persons, meaning critics) to conclude that LRH has no control of the C of S and no legal liability for Church activity." The document, classified secret, constituted a series of orders to assistant Guardians in all branches to recruit, teach, and test agents on cover stories (it suggested they could pretend to be writing a book and should not use their real names) "to spread the rumor." Existing agents working in anti-Scientology groups also were to be used. They were to approach all government officials, journalists and others who had ever been critical of the cult, the Guardians were told, and sample scripts were provided. An agent "will in several different ways mention that he has heard that LRH no longer has any control of the Church; and that an ex-Scientologist has shown some articles ... that stated that it had definitely been established in several court cases precedents that LRH had no liability for any Church activity." Contacts who could not be personally seen were to be telephoned, the Bulldozer program said, "and the cover story and rumor given." A sample script said the agents could add: "So while the press likes to ride with the one-leader idea so as to make press, they could not be further from the truth." Documentary evidence of another Guardian operation was submitted to the court. FBI number 3205, it was Guardian order 1206, The Snow White Program. The order was prepared by Fred Hare, assistant to Mrs. Hubbard. (She was identified in this document as Controller, while in others she was called Commodore Staff Guardian.) It began: "For the past year there has been a massive program in operation in the Guardian office and on Flag. (Flag was the Apollo, the seagoing ship from which Mr. Hubbard operated until a land base for Flag was opened in a hotel in Clearwater, Fla., bought by the cult in late 1975.) "This program was written by the Commodore." The purpose was "to trace back the attacks of the past 24 years to find and handle the SOURCE" and "it involves most of the areas of the planet that have been touched by Scientology." The order said a special stamp was being made for all documents used in the program. (The stamp, a copy of the Disney Snow White character, appeared on a great many items in the documentary evidence.) The Hubbard program was to be given "the biggest possible priority." Another document outlining the Hubbard program was dated March, 1976. Now bearing FBI number 13887, it was identified as Guardian order 302 and was over the names of four of the convicted U.S. leaders and the two accused in England. It said the major target of the top-priority Hubbard program was the need to get all "false and secret files on Scientology, LRH ..." that cannot be obtained legally, "by all possible lines of approach ... i.e., job penetration, janitor penetration, suitable guises utilizing covers." It said nothing done was to reflect back on Scientology. There were a number of other references to Mr. Hubbard's leadership in the documents submitted to the court. In 1970 a top Guardian wrote to Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard his appreciation for their "continually superb leadership." Another order to Scientology directors and deputies from Richard Weigand, one of the Guardians ultimately convicted as a conspirator, said: "I have been over your lists of major orders ... LRH-MSH are the highest priorities." Gregory Willardson, another convicted conspirator, described his duties in January, 1976, according to Item 64 of Box C10 in the court documents, as including the need "for increasing my reality of senior's viewpoints all the way to LRH." Another convicted conspirator, Henning Heldt, wrote to Mrs. Hubbard about a package of sensitive Scientology documents from world headquarters that had been seized by U.S. customs officers in 1976. He said one item "could be embarrassing" but assured Mrs. Hubbard that "quotes under policy are not directly stated to be LRH's." Prosecuting attorneys used documentary evidence to show the Scientologists stole material from the seized packages and replaced them with innocuous documents before customs inspectors saw the package contents. They also submitted evidence describing the material in the packages that the Scientologists considered sensitive. One was a report on the incorporation of the Cleveland Scientology mission that "could be used by IRS if they ever got hold of it to prove legal control invalidating board of directors." Another item was a report on a group called the Association of Scientologists for Reform that, a Guardian said, "could show more control and connection between C of S and ASR than we would like." The documents seized by the FBI in 1977 and filed in court included reports on Scientology operations sent directly to Mr. Hubbard. One, given FBI number 3197, was a 13-page year-end listing of "U.S. Guardian office wins." It covered a wide field of activities in the United States and Canada. It told Mr. Hubbard that Guardians "penetrated" a hospital and obtained medical records and also infiltrated Better Business Bureaus, the American Medical Association, Associations of Mental Health in the United States and Canada, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Sexual Freedom Movement and a Toronto mental health hospital. It reported to him on insurance matters and on state and federal tax issues, and on how Guardians had the "IRS tied up in knots." It told Mr. Hubbard of successful public relations attacks on conventional psychiatry and reported on public relations gains through the expansion of Narconon. The drug-treatment program is referred to often in the court documents. In a Guardian logbook for early 1976, Barbara Code asked another office: "Has Narconon U.S. established itself as an admin unit functioning w/out bypass from your bureau?" There was also criticism in the log of a church official who visited a Narconon operation in Palo Alto, Calif., without settling its debt problems. Another document contained a report that a U.S. municipality wanted local leaders named to the Narconon board before they would consider granting it taxpayers' funds. The Scientologists rejected the proposal. Many of the Church of Scientology operations, according to the documentary evidence and the prosecutors' stipulation of evidence in the conspiracy trial, were programs set up to fight so-called enemies. There was Operation Kettle against the American Medical Association, Operation Rook against the Better Business Bureau, Humanist Humiliation against scientists investigating the paranormal, Operation Smoke against the American Cancer Society. Operation Strike (File 70, Box C-9, FBI item 11572) was defined by Guardian officer Kathy Gregg in October, 1971, as "the action of gathering information on a covert basis." She gave 12 steps on how to do so, ranging from such details as the acquisition of squeakless shoes to the establishing of a "safe reading place" if target files could not be removed for study elsewhere. Some operations were against individuals, the Washington court was told, with documentary evidence to support the state's charges. A priority was Paulette Cooper, target of the church's Operation Freakout. She was the author of a 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology, and the subject of a torrent of lawsuits by the Scientologists. Evidence implicated the Scientologists in a frameup that resulted in the New York writer's being indicted on a bomb-threat charge that took her two years to have dropped. There were also reports in the files from a Scientology agent who became intimately close to Miss Cooper. He told his superiors at one point that the woman was so depressed she had talked about suicide. He said that he had sympathized with her, but that on the inside he was laughing -- "wouldn't this be a great thing for Scientology." In one case a cult member played the role of a cosmetic-layered, foul- mouthed prostitute who invaded the reception area of a government office to embarrass an official. And in Program Billy's Baby, a Scientologist was to be rehearsed in playing the role of mistress to an American Medical Association official, so that she could cause a scandal by claiming she was going to have a baby by him. A Guardian official called Doug reported to another, Sandy, in one document: "I recruited a tough OT (operating thetan, a supposedly superior person on the Scientology ladder of courses) female with lots of intention who could act out a few dramatic phone calls ... I drilled the FSM (field staff member) so she had the patter exactly as written and could mock up grief, drugged, slurred voice." Doug noted that another field staff member in the target agency "let me know they (the phone calls) created quite an effect." The press was a special target for attention from both Mr. Hubbard and his wife. The cult founder's Manual of Justice of 1959 was included in the court documents. In it he ordered his followers to use private detectives to investigate critical journalists "and get any criminal or Communist background." In a policy letter to his followers dated February, 1966, Mr. Hubbard wrote: "Start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies." He also said Scientologists should feed sexual and criminal information about their enemies to the press. In Guardian order 121569, Mrs. Hubbard said: "It has been virtually impossible to get true press stories in certain newspapers ... there is a 'party line' ... we think perhaps this line leads back to psychiatric front groups." She called on Guardians in all local organizations to investigate the writers of critical material and ascertain their contacts, and to investigate editors, managers and owners of the media outlets involved. The Guardians were to "use imagination" in obtaining information not publicly available. In the court documents was an acknowledgment of the order from San Francisco. The church there reported it got an agent into the San Francisco Examiner the day after a second article by a reporter appeared "and obtained his entire file on Scientology." From anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Wed Feb 7 07:58:46 EST 1996 Article: 66974 of alt.religion.scientology Path: news.cybercom.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: DOC: 1980 Toronto Globe & Mail series [7/8] *repost* CSICOP Date: 3 Feb 1996 19:35:42 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. Lines: 124 Sender: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <4f09tu$rff@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl Comments: Hack-Tic may or may not approve of the content of this posting Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to Comments: Toronto Globe and Mail, January 25, 1980 Cult order sought to end scientists' criticism by John Marshall A 1977 order from the top level of the Church of Scientology sought to silence criticism of the cult by a New York-based organization dedicated to investigating UFOs and claims of psychic wonders. The Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal was the subject of a six-page order among many thousands of documents released by a Washington court that recently convicted nine U.S. Scientology leaders of playing a part in a conspiracy to steal confidential government documents. Dated March 24, 1977, the order was signed by Herman Brandel, an aide to Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of Scientology's founder and one of the nine sent to prison. It was titled: "Program: Humanist Humiliation." (The CSICOP, an international group whose members include biochemist-author Isaac Asimov, grew out of the American Humanist Association.) And it began: "Major Target -- To handle terminatedly the Humanist publication Zetetic (now The Skeptical Inquirer) and the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal so that they never attack Scientology or Dianetics again." The 23-point order told the World-Wide Guardians Office (with duties ranging from press relations to espionage) to spread rumors that the CSICOP was a front set up by the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Government spy network, "to discredit any and all psychic phenomena in order to keep this subject under CIA control ... and in order to squash paranormal research outside CIA." This would be done by forging a memo on CIA stationery and leaking it to selected people, including a few in the news media. In the court documents was a report (FBI number 7487) that the order was carried out, and a copy of a memo under a CIA letterhead with the statement that it was sent to the New York Times, broadcaster-columnist Jack Anderson and others. The 23-point directive also proposed that a dozen or more people "on lines" (taking Scientology courses) write letters (samples were included) as private individuals to known anti-Scientologists in the CSICOP worded so as to elicit anti-religious statements. These would then be circulated to leaders of recognized churches to indicate that the CSICOP was working against them and that it even advocated deprogramming of their followers. (In fact, the CSICOP does not investigate theological or philosophical beliefs, unless practitioners claim they can pass the tests of science.) The order from Mrs. Hubbard's office, like many others in the Washington court files, made it clear the actions should be done covertly so they could not be traced back to Scientology. At an informal meeting in New York, CSICOP chairman Paul Kurtz told other members about the Scientology document. The committee was also shown a copy of a phony letter on real CSICOP letterhead with Mr. Kurtz's signature forged to it. It purported to be a letter from him to a contributor, worded so that it would turn serious parapsychology researchers against the committee. Mr. Kurtz, a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, said in an interview that at least one critic of the committee has suggested in a published article that it is connected with the CIA. Behind the Scientologists' attack on the scientific group is the fact that CSICOP members give little credence to pseudo-scientific claims made by Mr. Hubbard and his followers. The first issue of the committee's publication came out just before the Scientology attack on the committee was ordered. It included an article by British sociologist Roy Wallis, an excerpt from a book he had written based on extensive research into Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard's "science of mental health." The author noted help he received from John Lee, a University of Toronto professor who was the author of a report on psychic healing for an Ontario Government inquiry into health treatment. Professor Lee was sued by the Scientologists -- and some of his confidential communications, along with others that had disappeared from Health Ministry files, turned up in the U.S. court documents. The Wallis article said that Dianetics, which Mr. Hubbard developed in the 1940s and claims is based on scientific research, was rejected by the medical, psychiatric and psychological professions "apart from numerous marginal, limited, and quasi-medical converts." Dianetics did reach craze proportions in the United States in 1950, Mr. Wallis wrote, but by 1952 it had disappeared. A foundation set up to sell courses in the theories foundered. Mr. Hubbard broke with his colleagues, and the foundation declared bankruptcy. Mr. Hubbard expanded his theories and called the result Scientology, "organized from the outset in a highly centralized and authoritarian fashion." Much of the Wallis article was in Mr. Hubbard's own words, relating the cult leader's belief that "engrams" (meaning subconscious memories from the womb or even past lives) could be discovered and erased. A person "cleared" of this spiritual baggage could become superior in mind and body. He quoted Mr. Hubbard, who believed psychosomatic illnesses included at least 70 percent of all known illnesses, as writing: "Arthritis of the knee, for instance, is the accumulation of all knee injuries in the past. "The body confuses time and environment with the time and environment where the knee was injured and so keeps the pain there. The fluids of the body avoid the pain area. Hence a deposit which is called arthritis." Another quotation: "Migraine headaches are psychosomatic, and with the others (a long list that included coronary and eye problems, allergies, bursitis, ulcers and asthma) are uniformly cured by dianetic therapy. And the word cured is used in its fullest sense." Some of those engrams, those past memories, that Mr. Hubbard found in subjects under his form of psychotherapy involved what he said was the ability of a fetus in the womb to not only hear the voice of its mother and others but to understand the words. From anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Wed Feb 7 07:58:47 EST 1996 Article: 66972 of alt.religion.scientology Path: news.cybercom.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: DOC: 1980 Toronto Globe & Mail series [4/8] Date: 3 Feb 1996 19:35:24 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. Lines: 274 Sender: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <4f09tc$rd2@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl Comments: Hack-Tic may or may not approve of the content of this posting Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to Comments: Toronto Globe and Mail, January 23, 1980 2 leaders in Britain still to face U.S. court in conspiracy case by John Marshall Testimony before a U.S. District Court in Washington said FBI raids on offices of the Church of Scientology in 1977 were specifically in search of evidence of conspiracies to steal government documents and obstruct justice. The FBI agents found it, the court was told. As reported yesterday in the first of this series of accounts of the subsequent court proceedings, much of the evidence was in the reports of the cult's spies planted in jobs in strategic offices, and in the files that they stole. Thousands of seized documents that helped convict nine U.S. Scientologists named as conspirators also gave the court evidence of other crimes and clandestine activities. They also pointed outside the United States -- to the United Kingdom and to Canada. >From Canada there were, among other things, confidential documents from ministerial levels of the Ontario Government. >From the cult's world headquarters in England were communications and orders from Jane Kember and Mo Budlong. They now are appealing extradition orders won by U.S. federal prosecutors about a month ago. The two are charged with conspiracy to illegally obtain government documents, to obstruct justice and to perform illegal electronic surveillance. (A vital meeting of tax investigators discussing the legal affairs of the wealthy cult was tapped.) Documentary evidence -- some of which, including Canadian material, was filed with the trial court when Scientologists fought to have the 1977 FBI raids in Los Angeles and Washington declared illegal -- showed the two Britons were participants in, or privy to, orders for a number of criminal conspiracy programs of the international church. One program was called "Safe U.S." and a copy of it, marked with FBI number 3298 and initialled on every page by agent W.R.S., contributed to the prosecutors' 282-page stipulation of evidence that led to the plea- bargained conviction of the nine U.S. Scientology leaders. (One more who turned informer has yet to be tried.) The 25-point Safe U.S. program, signed by two of the U.S. conspirators "for Jane," directed Guardians in California, the District of Columbia, Florida and New York to plant agents in federal and state attorneys' offices. It was dated Nov. 18, 1975. The goal, the four-page document said, was to "obtain data on their intended actions toward Scientology, LRH/MSH (the Hubbards)." Point 5 ordered: "Place a separate agent into the IRS Office of International Operations (OIO) as this office has a case in preparation or investigation action going on LRH personally for income-tax evasion or something similar." Guardians were told: "Determine what agency near LRH would serve any federal governmental subpoena ... work out a project to receive immediate intelligence from the office ... and get it done." They were also told, the court learned, to get or keep spies working on various individuals, including writers, who had been critical of Scientology or who might plan attacks on it. One Guardian directorate was told to "place a very secure agent into the AMA Chicago headquarters in the best position to obtain data on their intended actions towards us." (Other documents filed with the court indicated agents had been planted with the American Medical Association, in a number of Government offices and in other private agencies.) One item in the massive documentation filed by prosecutors was numbered 354 in a 525-page inventory given to U.S. District Judge Charles Richey. Dated Oct. 12, 1973, it was a letter with Mr. Budlong's name on it to a U.S. Guardian. It was about an operation against the American Cancer Society code named "Smoke". (The prosecutors also filed a number of the church's codes with the courts.) The operation was "to see how much ACS has been doing against Sc ... indications fairly active ... "At this time we have operatives in their national headquarters (N.Y.) and in the following states: Massachusetts, Nevada, Cal. -- which should provide ample information." A message to Mr. Budlong in April, 1973, was about the need "to infiltrate more agents into target organization," the central bureau of the Better Business Bureau, and also said the Guardians should "begin program of infiltration into major drug concerns" and "sue ... as many groups as possible." In evidence Box C8 (the court documents were kept in large cardboard cartons) was an April, 1973, letter from Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. She has been sentenced to a maximum five years in prison for her role in the conspiracy. Mr. Hubbard was one of 23 named as unindicted co-conspirators. The rambling communication suggested the Scientologists might get the drug industry on their side if they could help somehow in getting drugs made more available in the United States, as they have been elsewhere in the world. Mr. Budlong was told by another U.S. Guardian that an agent had been planted on the staff of a member of the Co-Ordinating Conference on Health Organizations. Many binders of CCHO documents were found in the Scientologists' possession, the court heard. The Kember and Budlong names were included with those of four convicted U.S. conspirators on a key piece of the federal evidence. It consisted of four single-spaced foolscap sheets outlining "Program Snow White". The document was dated March 27, 1976, and said the program was aimed at making Mr. Hubbard free to visit "all western nations ... without threat." This was to be done, all top Guardian offices and those in local organizations were told, by locating and obtaining "all false and secret files on Scientology, LRH, Dianetics (and other Scn names) that cannot be obtained" by legal means. In a message of Nov. 1, 1974 (FBI number 6131 in the court files) the British leaders were told: "Today we gained access to the top-level IRS planning conference on what to do about Scientology. This was done electronically." The resulting tapes, the U.S. Guardians reported to their superiors, were poor, but they were able to send along a summary of the U.S. tax agency's plans for litigation against the cult. In addition to documentation on codes, chains of commands and operations, the U.S. attorneys filed documents specifying the duties of Scientology officials. Miss Kember, working at the cult's world headquarters in England, is Guardian World Wide. Mr. Budlong is Deputy Guardian Intelligence World Wide. Evidence before the U.S. court indicated the two British citizens were the highest-ranking Guardians after Mrs. Hubbard, who holds the titles of Controller of the church and Commodore Staff Guardian. Her husband is called Commodore. One document was a log of orders sent around the world from Mr. Budlong on World Guardian Kember's behalf on Feb. 18, 1977. Sandwiched between orders to the Deputy Assistant Guardian Australia and the Deputy Guardian Intelligence United Kingdom was one to Deputy Guardian Information Canada. Entitled "Shell Game", it ordered the Canadian officials to locate whoever inherited the papers of Dr. Brock Chisholm, the controversial psychiatrist who had directed the World Health Organization and who died in Victoria in 1971. "Using a suitable guise," someone was to go through the papers and copy anything related to Scientology or Mr. Hubbard. Current members of the World Federation of Mental Health were to be checked "in any way suitable" to see whether they might have any such documents. "If files are discovered, obtain them," the order said. The Canadian references were either in inquiries and reports by U.S. Guardians, in some cases to Mr. Hubbard, or in communications from Canadian Guardians reporting and sending documents to their next-in-line superiors, then in the United States. There were reports of Canadian Guardians harassing the McLean family of Sutton, Ont. (Eric and Nan McLean, their two sons and a daughter-in-law had all defected from Scientology.) A U.S. Deputy Guardian with the name or code name Flavian referred in a March 24, 1975, directive to an "outstanding order" against the McLeans dated Feb. 2, 1973, not long after the defection. He said that the Canadian Guardian unit, called B4, "is trying to discredit McLean to his next-door neighbors but the only possible beneficial result of that action that would help us is if McLean is ridden out of town on a rail, and 'the public' are notoriously apathetic about doing this even when the 'proof' (sic) is exposed, much less what B4 Canada are doing." The court document showed Flavian to be critical of the ineffectiveness of the handling of the McLeans' case and called for a survey of the whole operation. Another document, an entry dated May 5, 1973, in a log seized by the FBI, noted that an agent had been planted in the McLean household and that he should look for weaknesses in family relationships and see whether he could take action so that "this crowd ... would start to break up." Part of the prosecution submissions to the grand jury that indicted the U.S. Scientology leaders and the subsequent trial were weekly reports seized from Scientology files. Any one report covered many items, and along with those directly related to the U.S. conspiracy charges were others, including a number of references to the McLeans, particularly in relation to visits by Mrs. McLean and her son, John, to Florida. Guardian agents reported at various dates in 1976 how the two Canadians were covertly followed from one city to another and how their hotel was "staked out". According to the evidence, some cult agents found in advance who the McLeans were going to visit who might be influenced by them against Scientology. Other agents, Guardian leaders were told, went ahead of the McLeans and took action to reduce their effectiveness. Mrs. McLean was also referred to in the prosecuting attorneys' sentencing brief to Judge Richey last November. It involved what church documents called the "bono letter op." The state's brief quoted an "eyes only" Scientology report: "This was a letter incriminating Canadian entheta (meaning critical) reporter (Mark) Bonokoski (Toronto Sun) that was taken off the CW (Clearwater) Sun comm lines by June. "This letter pinpoints June as an operative ... it was sent to Canada for use where Canada made it public, thus pinpointing June as the area and most probably the one who would have taken the letter. June was pulled out of the (Clearwater) Sun and sent to LA because it was thought that there was an ongoing postal investigation on the letter, i.e., tampering with the U.S. mails." The letter had been sent to a reporter at the Clearwater paper. It referred to Mrs. McLean. The Toronto Scientologists used it in a lawsuit against her and Mr. Bonokoski. The court files also included reports from the agent in the Clearwater Sun and her superiors' weekly summaries reporting on the activities of reporter John Marshall in Clearwater, on assignment for The Globe and Mail. One, dated April 1, 1976, noted the information had been Telexed to world headquarters and to Canada. There were also reports on exchanges of information between the Globe reporter and Clearwater Sun reporters, including, a daily report said, "info on the Canadian B & E episode." (The California journalists had received information about the conviction in October, 1975, in Toronto of two men, Michael Chornopesky and Allen Coulson, on a charge of possession of burglary tools. They were Guardians in the Toronto church.) A separate document in the court file contains a notation, "Chornopesky at WW." One 13-page document seized by the FBI and submitted to the trial judge was a 1970 year-end report to the Hubbards with a copy to Miss Kember in England. It was from "Bob, D/G US" and headed: "U.S. Guardian Office Wins in 1970." A number of the wins were in Canada. They included: "Penetrated Toronto mental health hospital and established an agent as director of volunteers." And: "Successfully maintained clandestine operation against Canadian MHA (Mental Health Association) involving clandestine monitoring of files. Maintained continuous third-party actions between Canadian MHA and the Canadian Government." (Prosecuting attorneys said that to "third party" someone is Scientology jargon for covert action not implicating the cult that will confuse and disrupt some individual or agency and that sometimes will damage their relations with some other person or agency.) There also was a letter from a Toronto intelligence office, "Tinkerbell", to a superior in the Eastern U.S. Guardian office called "Twinkletoes". It commented: "Re third-party letters (groovy!!!) what a way to shake them up." Tinkerbell's letter accompanied a pack of materials from files kept by someone in Canada in the mental health field.