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Freedom of Information Act, passed in 1966 and
amended in 1974. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 90)
Mary Sue Hubbard (wife of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard) writes in a policy letter "all political activity is to be carried on via front
groups." (Brief overview of Scientology's interaction with Clearwater
Florida)
Now 1974, things
got a little warm. And I mean by that in the beginning of the
year I was sent out on a "New Civilization" Tour. This
was LRH's big push for the New Civilization on the planet and it
was a tour to go around and promote this and recruit lots of
people for the Orgs and for the Sea Org.
Now, I went with Arthur, Arthur Hubbard, and two musicians and
Pat Gualteri and Hal Holmes and a communicator. And those - there
were about 6 or 7 of us - and we went to, oh, ten or twelve
different cities in the United States and Canada. However, the
interesting thing about this tour - although it was very
successful - we had 525 Sea Org recruits and about 150 Org
recruits and about half those Sea Org recruits had to work at the
Org to finish their contract first, but it was still a lot of
recruitment. And that was in just three months. We were on this
tour and some interesting things happened to show you that the
enemy, although they are slow on the uptake, when they do see
something to them that seems dangerous, they do take action on
it.
Our event was a very powerful event, showing the decay of
"modern" civilization and how a New Civilization could
be made with Scientology. It was very aesthetic, well planned,
and so on. At Washington DC, the event was tape-recorded by an
agent - government - and he was spotted in the audience with a
tape recorder and so on. He was the only one there with bad
indicators. And he apparently gave this to his seniors.
Now, a couple of cities later, we find in Minneapolis that
there was a threat to assassinate Arthur and myself by
high-powered rifle, which we turned over to the GO at the time,
and they provided some protection. This threat was actually
called to the motel where we were staying and given to me by the
manager.
And we got some protection there, and at the same location, we
did the event that night anyway, and the psychiatry faction in
town sent in two people that were designed to go crazy in the
event and cause a big flap. And the GO guys were doing a good job
there at that place and they caught them at the door and turned
them away.
We went on to Vancouver, and in Vancouver the local
psychiatrist there, who was one of the SMERSH guys, gave a
teen-age gang, one of those leather-jacket gangs, about 25 guys,
teenagers - gave them drugs and told them to go break up the
meeting that this "phony Church" was having. 'It
wasn't really a Church, it was trying to get off of people', and
so on. 'Go break up the meeting and scare everybody' and
'run 'em out of there'.
And they did. As soon as the meeting started, the doors burst
open, 25 guys ran in swinging motorcycle chains and yelling and
screaming and so on like that. And I just did 'Bring Order!'
, 'HCO Bring Order!, and 350 Scientologists got up and
mobbed THEM ALL out the doors.
And then the GO guy there went out and talked with them, and
the leader - and the leader was so shook up - he'd never had
anything like that happen. He came back in and apologized to us
and said this psychiatrist had given them drugs and told them to
do it.
And the GO got all the data and the name and everything like
that and the guys apologized and said that they didn't believe we
were a Church, but they know we must be a Church now,
because nobody would have that kind of togetherness in spirit to
throw them all out of an auditorium. It was just FAST.
So we did that. And then this report went back to the ship and
then LRH got a little bit concerned for Arthur's safety because
the next place we were going was L.A. and it was presumed that
since the gradient was increasing, there might be bombs or
something like that planted in the auditorium. So the tour was
called off at that point. (CBR-debrief from 1982)
Probably
the best example of the vicious nature of these false reports is a document
written by David Forsyth who was posted in the IRS intelligence branch. The
report was written in 1974 and was an attempt to smear the Church
internationally and wipe it out. At the time the report was written, the
Church had coincidentally purchased a ranch in Mexico as a boarding school
for the children of Sea Org members in Southern California. In other words,
the ranch was occupied by 6 years olds! But, in Forsyth's report, he
stated:
"A group of Scientologists is currently training in guerrilla warfare near
the town of Uxtal on the Yucatan peninsula."
(David Miscavige's IAS speech, 8 October 1993)
...In 1974, the IRS convened a
meeting with all their top people. It was: "the Final Solution conference
on Scientology."
We now have the minutes of that meeting which make it clear just how evil
their motives were. IRS agents and lawyers sat around conspiring about how
to deal with the Scientology problem. According to their own lawyers, it
was impossible to distinguish Scientology from any other bona-fide
religion. Scientology met all the criteria for a church and therefore
qualified for IRS recognition. But, the IRS was not to give up so easily in
one of their most shameless moments, they formulated this strategy:
Redefine church so as to exclude Scientology.
You heard me right. Since we met the "definition of church", that wouldn't
do for the IRS. So, they changed the definition - so we were no longer a
church! If you ever doubted that the IRS' motives were anything but impure
- this should settle the question for you. When they couldn't find anything
wrong, they would just change the rules so we couldn't win. What was the
effect of this? They issued special IRS revenue rulings that only applied
to Scientology. They decided if they couldn't destroy the Church with a
head-on attack, they would flank it by going after its parishioners. They
would henceforth disallow all tax deductions for contributions to Churches
of Scientology. In short - they would make it miserable to be in
Scientology or support it in any way. In this manner they hoped to bankrupt
the Church and - just for good measure - they initiated a new series of tax
audits on the new mother church.
This final solution for Scientology had greater success than you may
imagine. It began a steamroll through the rest of the 1970s and into the
beginning of the 1980's. (David Miscavige's IAS speech, 8 October 1993)
There are quite some contradictory statements concerning the date of issue
of GO 1361... three sources... three different dates (Quotes):
- This originated in GO 1361 dated 4 January 1976... (http://www.xenu.org/factnet/GEN/FILES/BOOKS/RI4.TXT)
- 1974, 21.10.: Jane Kember, the
Guardian World Wide (based in East Grinstead in England)
issues Guardian Order 1361. Its "operating
targets" include the following:
- Immediately
get an agent into DC IRS to obtain files on LRH,
Scientology, etc. in the Chief Council's [sic]
office, the Special Services staff, the intelligence
division, Audit Division, and any other areas.
- Collect data
on the Justice Dept. Tax Division for the org board,
the current terminals, and the people handling
Scientology.
- When the
correct areas are isolated, infiltrate and get the
files.
It also calls for the planting of "an agent,
trustworthy and well grooved in, to infiltrate the IRS LA
office" (target 2). That agent is "to obtain
any files on LRH, Scientology", etc. from both the
Intelligence Division (target 3) and the Audit Division
(target 4) of the Los Angeles IRS Office. It also calls
for the location (target 20) and infiltration (target 22)
of the IRS office at the US Embassy in London, England in
order to "obtain all documents" (target 22). Ref:
Stipulation of Evidence, United States of
America vs Mary Sue Hubbard et al, Oct 1979, pp. 19-21
(Timeline of Scientology versus the IRS)
- Perhaps the best point in time at which to enter the scene would be in early
1975, when Jane Kember, the church's Guardian Worldwide, issued an order
(identified as GO 1361), calling for a decisive programme of action against the
Internal Revenue Service. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 100)
Logically it must be "early 1974" because the GO starts working
on it middle of 1974. (see: 1974, Summer)
The detailed Story behind this can be found in Omar Garrison's book "Playing
Dirty", Chapter 05, 06
and 07.
Gerry Armstrong is in place as the Port Captain for the Apollo.
Michael Meisner is promoted to Assistant Guardian for Information,
District of Columbia (A/GI DC) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
Flag Order 3434 is issued, creating the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF). The Flag Order is written by Ken Urquhart, not by LRH, but refers
to "The Commodore" having created the RPF. (SOURCE: Modern Management Technology Defined, Interview with Ken
Urquhart for the book Bare Faced Messiah)
Anyone found to have a CI (a 'counter-intention' to his orders or wishes)
was to be assigned to the RPF, along with all trouble-makers and back-sliders.
'I was shocked when I heard about it,' said Hana Eltringham. 'To me it was
like setting up a penal colony within our midst.'
Since it was only necessary to incur the Commodore's disfavour to be
assigned to the RPF, its numbers swelled rapidly. RPF inmates wore black
boiler suits, were segregated from the rest of the crew and slept in an
unventilated cargo hold on filthy mattresses that were due to be thrown out
before the Commodore decided they would be suitable for his new unit. Seven
hours' sleep were permitted, but there was no leisure time during the day and
discipline was harsh. Meal breaks were brief and the RPF was obliged to eat
whatever food was left from the crew meal.
'Things took a real downhill turn around that time,' said Gerry Armstrong,
who was then the ship's port captain. 'He became much more paranoid and
belligerent. He was convinced there were evil people on board with hidden evil
intentions and he wanted to get them all in the RPF. The RPF was used as an
incredible daily threat over everyone. If he could smell something cooking
from the vents, whoever was the current vents engineer would be assigned to
the RPF. If the cook burned his food - RPF. If a messenger complained about
someone - RPF.
'His actions definitely became more bizarre after the motor-cycle
accident. You could hear him throughout the ship screaming, shouting,
ranting and raving day after day. He was always claiming that the cooks were
trying to poison him and he began to smell odours everywhere. His clothes
had to be washed in pure water thirteen times, using thirteen different
buckets of clean water to rinse a shirt so he wouldn't smell detergent on
it.
'At that time no one would have dared to think that the emperor had no
clothes. He controlled our thoughts to such an extent that you couldn't
think of leaving without thinking there was something wrong with you.' (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 321)
First Board Policy Letter (BPL) is issued, establishing those types
of issues, and establishing Board Technical Bulletins (BTBs). This is
in utter contradiction to long-standing policy on types of issues, and
introduces a tremendous confusion as to Source. (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
The Introspection Rundown released. (CofS)
An IRS internal memorandum dated February 4, 1974 orders that IRS policy in
dealing with Scientologists' FOI requests "be less cooperative and do no
more than is necessary." (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 90)
1974, 14.2.
On February 14, 1974, the British Home Office opposed the Scientologists in
their plea to take the alien ban restrictions to the European Court of Justice
in Luxembourg. The Home Office had argued that its view was so clearly right as
to preclude the necessity of the case going to Luxembourg. "I am wholly
unable to accept that contention", said Mr. Justice Pennycuick, who allowed
the Scientologists to make a historical precedent by being the first British
organization ever to refer a case to Luxembourg. (O. Garrison, Hidden Story of
Scientology, pg. 232)
Assistant Guardian DC Duke Snider becomes Assistant Guardian for
Information for the United States, relocating to Los Angeles (where Robert
Vaughn Young is working). (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
... the Commodore was more or less recovered from his accident by the time
of his sixty-third birthday in March 1974 and the ship resumed its aimless
wandering, this time on a triangular course between Portugal, Madeira and the
Canaries. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 321)
GO 1087 LRH 6 March 1974
Strategic Info
The following quote from "The Shadow War, Resistance in Europe,
1939-45" is of value in handling the existing scene. Psychiatrists urged
these measures on Hitler and carried them out.
David Rockefeller is priding himself on having reduced US population to a
decline and arrested the human population explosive by sterilization, abortion
and other measures.
The Rockefellers financed the German beginnings of psychiatry.
Special attention is drawn to the last sentence in the quote as it confirms
current strategic planning.
"In two speeches early in 1942 Hitler announced that the Jews would be
annihilated. The method adopted was to construct gas chambers camouflaged as
shower baths in certain camps in Poland – the main one was at Birkenau; to
these were attached giant crematoria in which the bodies were burnt. The number
of Jews rounded up all over Europe and carted to the ‘death camps’ is
estimated at six million.
The death of the Jews was in no way necessary to ensure the victory of Nazi
Germany; this hideous crime was entirely gratuitous. Its gigantic proportions
were only realized after the war, though Polish Resistance had managed to
contact certain deportees and pass information to its government in London. The
warnings and threats issuing from the BBC made no difference to the murderer’s
determination. With hindsight, however, it is clear that in the eyes of European
Resistance this massacre more than anything else legitimized, indeed sanctified,
their action". (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Church of Scientology of Manchester, England founded. (CofS)
- Church of Scientology of Montreal, Canada founded.
- Church of Scientology of Ottawa, Canada founded. (CofS)
Church of Scientology of Sacramento, California founded. (CofS)
In May 1974, while the Apollo was berthed in the port of
Cadiz, it became obvious that there was uneasiness concerning the ship in
official quarters. The harbour master kept shifting the vessel from mooring to
mooring.
A plausible explanation of this odd behaviour by the Spanish authorities was provided by
Senior E. de la Cruz,
editor of the local daily newspaper, Diario de Cadiz. He told crew members of
the Apollo that during the ship's earlier visit to the port, the U.S. consul in
Cadiz had hinted that the vessel was linked to the CIA.
Thereafter, the ship encountered official hostility in other
Spanish harbours, and was denied entry to El Ferrol and Marin. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 81)
Hubbard applied to the US Navy for the war medals
had been awarded but never won. On 18 June, the Navy Department replied, enclosing the four routine medals
awarded to former Lieutenant Lafayette R. Hubbard, US Naval Reserve. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 324)
Write-up of 1 May 1974
One trick used by professionals is, after the casing has been completed and
the plan decided on, a series of cover stories are mocked up to cover each stage
of the operation in the event that the operation is blown at any point. On
occasion cover stories are mocked up to cover being caught in the act. It is
sometimes to the advantage of the agent and the organization, if the police
believe that the agent was actually breaking in for money or goods, rather than
documents or files..
Tools and equipment have always been a problem to agents in any operation
because the standard lock picking devices; crowbars; sledgehammers and hacksaws
and standard items used for breaking into a place are easily recognized by the
police. Therefore an agent will usually try instead to obtain a key to the place
he wants to enter beforehand or find a method of entry that does not require the
use of instruments and tools. As this is not always possible an agent will
attempt to avoid detection by carrying his tools for as short a time as possible…
or disguise the tools in some way …
Best way of preventing being caught at a later date is of course to ensure
that no one finds out that anything ever happened in the first place. In other
words copy the files and return them. Obviously gloves would also be used when
the documents are copied and in the subsequent operation to return the
documents.
Note from Mike McClaughry:
The above write up is instructions to Intelligence operatives on how to do
Breaking & Entering, written under the guise of being information on how to
defend the church from it. The author was Mo Budlong, DGI WW. (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Church of Scientology of Denver, Colorado founded. (CofS)
Guardian Order 1206 of 22 June 1974
The Snow White Programme
For the past year there has been a massive programme in operation in the
Guardian Office and on Flag. This programme was written by the Commodore who
called it "Snow White".
The purpose of the programme is to trace back the attacks of the past 24
years to find and handle their SOURCE. Doing this will actually mean the running
out of the 4th Dynamic engram spoken of by the Commodore in his 1967 Journal and
in his "Welcome to the Sea Org" tapes.
In actual fact the Snow White Programme has the HIGHEST PRIORITY OF ALL GO
ACTIVITY. The reason for this is as follows:
In its day to day activities the Guardian Office handles hundreds of
situations that might impede the forward progress of Scientology. It is a kind
of outpoint/correct type of activity. However, the Snow White Programme is going
right to the source of most of the problems the GO is handling…
Let’s all get together on Snow White and push it through hard, hard, hard!
It will open the doors wide for the full CLEARING OF THE PLANET.
Fred Hare
CS-G Asst
For Mary Sue Hubbard
The Controller (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
The first Organization Executive Course volumes published. (CofS)
Cindy Raymond
(Collections Officer in the US Information Bureau of the
GO) in Los Angeles, California, sends a directive to Michael
Meisner (Assistant Guardian for Information,
Washington, DC) ordering him to recruit a loyal
Scientologist to be placed as a covert agent at Internal
Revenue Service in Washington, D.C. The agent is to
obtain employment with the Internal Revenue Service for
the purpose of taking from that agency all documents
which dealt with Scientology, including those concerning
pending litigation initiated by Scientology against the
United States Government. A number of Scientologists are
interviewed as prospective agents. However, none are
found to be suitable. Ref: Stipulation of Evidence, United States of
America vs Mary Sue Hubbard et al, Oct 1979, p. 18
(Timeline of Scientology versus the IRS)
Apollo Stars set up by LRH ... an idea to improve the Apollo's public
relations by staging free concerts and dance performances for the local
residents at her regular ports of call. Quentin Hubbard (twenty), wanted to
take part in dancing with the group but wasn't allowed. He attempted suicide,
was recovered and sent to RFP. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 325)
The Apollo - CIA canard finally surfaced in the Spanish press
in August 1974. A few months later, the ship was banned from. making a landfall
anywhere in Spain.
The false rumor that the Apollo was a CIA ship spread around
the Mediterranean area with the speed of sound. The Scientologists became about
as popular in European ports as a skunk in a submarine.
In the Portuguese port of Setubal, the local populace, which
had formerly welcomed the Apollo to their shores, now became so hostile and
threatening that the ship was forced to abandon port. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 81)
Cindy Raymond, Collections Officer for GO US (also in Los Angeles),
informs Michael Meisner that she has selected Gerald Wolfe to
"infiltrate IRS." (There is absolutely no background given on Wolfe,
where he came from, what his qualifications are, what his Scientology
credentials are - nothing.) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
Cindy Raymond is working for the United States Guardian’s Office
Intelligence Bureau located in Los Angeles. To comply with the Snow White
program, Cindy recruits Gerald Wolfe to infiltrate the IRS offices in
Washington D.C. (Criminal
Time Track: Issue III)
Gerald Bennett Wolfe
is selected by Raymond to infiltrate the IRS on behalf of
the Church of Scientology. Ref: Stipulation of Evidence, United States of
America vs Mary Sue Hubbard et al, Oct 1979, p. 18
(Timeline of Scientology versus the IRS)
Gerald Wolfe arrives in DC from LA for the express purpose of
infiltrating IRS. (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
On October 3, 1974, in the harbor of Funchal in the
Portuguese island of Madeira, the Apollo was actually attacked by an angry mob
of several hundred demonstrators who believed she was a CIA spy ship.
The enraged rioters stormed the wharf and tried to loosen the
vessel from her moorings. They shoved cars and motorcycles belonging to the
Apollo's crew off the dock, into the sea. They assaulted the vessel itself with
stones and incendiary bombs, resulting in serious injuries to fifteen members of
the ship's crew.
While the savage tumult was in progress, a contingent of the
Portuguese army stood by and watched. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 82)
In
October, 1974, she set sail for the United States. Her intended destination was
Charleston, South Carolina.
En route, however, she made a stopover at St. George's
island, Bermuda. The press coverage of her sojourn there, where a rock band from
the ship staged a concert in conjunction with the local Department of Youth and
Sports, apparently attracted the attention of DEA agents Frank Church and
John
R. Panetta.
...Agents Church and Panetta are believed to have placed a
covert informant aboard the Apollo in Bermuda, to monitor the activities of
everyone of the ship's company and to report on the vessel's future movements.
Informed by their spy aboard the Apollo that the ship's next
port of call would be Charleston on October 30, 1974, the Justice Department
alerted officials from various federal agencies to prepare a welcoming party to
meet the vessel when she came in. They included agents from the Immigration
Office, DEA, U.S. Customs, Coast Guard, and U.S.
Marshals. The Charleston News
-Courier of November 1, 1974 described the scene this way:
"There were enough U.S. Customs Service agents in
Charleston Wednesday to keep each of the crew members of the vessel Apollo under
surveillance for possible drug smuggling, according to an official source.
"The customs agents had gathered here from as far away
as California to keep watch on the Apollo which was suspected of carrying large quantities of narcotics."
The drug smuggling charge made by the "official
source" was typical of the kind of libel federal agencies have always found
it easy to plant with a gullible and sensation-seeking press.
The principal objective of the federal team was to serve a
subpoena on L. Ron Hubbard. The subpoena related to the church's civil tax case
against the Government in Honolulu. The idea was for the Justice Department
lawyers to interrogate Hubbard in a discovery process. It is quite possible also
that the agents were prepared, under some legal technicality, to take Hubbard
into custody.
The Apollo did appear off Charleston that morning, about 15
miles past the sea buoy. But when she was a little more than five miles from
shore, she came about and sailed dead away from Charleston harbour. A report
from the ship's radio said she was on course to Halifax, Novia Scotia, where
parts needed for repairs would be available.
Who had tipped off the Apollo just in the nick of time?
That was what Special Agent Patrick O'Brien, the enraged
supremo of the Government operation, was determined to find out. He assigned
Special Agent Billy D. Tennyson, also of the Customs Service to conduct an
investigation. From the long report made of that probe, it appears that a U.S.
marshal in Honolulu goofed. He prematurely served the church attorney in Hawaii
with a subpoena concerned with the proposed taking of Mr. Hubbard's deposition.
The lawyer queried the Apollo just in time for the vessel to turn away and avoid
the unpleasant circumstances awaiting her arrival in Charleston.
The good ship Apollo did not, as reported to her enemies, set
her course for Halifax. Instead, she sailed directly to Freeport, in the
Bahamas. During the next two months, the vessel plied between Freeport and
Nassau without any unfriendly moves on the part of the Bahamian government. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 83/84)
The Vital Information Rundown released. (CofS)
Jim Dincalci is running a port office in Funchal, Madeira (which
should be handling local Public Relations for the Apollo). The Apollo
arrives there, and is subsequently driven out of the port by a mob that
attacks the ship, believing it is a CIA operation. (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
Monday, 07 October 1974: The Apollo pulls into port at Funchal, Madeira. Jim
Dincalci (at some unknown point earlier) had been put ashore in Funchal to
"run a port office." His very odd statement is: "It seemed to be
common knowledge in Madeira that the ship was not what it was supposed to be and
most people seemed to think it was a CIA spy ship. I had made friends on the
island and had contacts in local Communist cells. The word was that the
Communists were out to get the ship next time she arrived in Madeira. I sent
telexes to LRH warning him what was happening and advising him not come to
Madeira until things had calmed down. I was absolutely shocked to see the ship
come into the harbor."
(Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 326)
Wednesday, 09 October 1974: While Mary Sue and several members of the crew
are ashore in Funchal, Madeira, a small crowd of young men begins to gather on
the quayside. Soon the crowd, growing all the time, begins chanting "C-I-A,
C-I-A, C-I-A." A huge melee ensues, with rocks and bottles being thrown
between the crew of the ship and the mob. The Apollo has to leave the dock, the
crews' vehicles (cars and motorcycles) are pushed into the harbor by the mob,
and authorities have to arrange a launch to rescue Mary Sue and her party and
get them out to the Apollo.
(Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 326)
CBR: Just to show you that '74 was a nice year for attacks, we went
back to the ship. And in September of that year, or early
October, was when the "Rock Festival" happened in
Madera.
I say "Rock Festival". It's not a musical event. It
was a war, actually. That was when the American Embassy had
tipped off the local Communist Party there that the 'Apollo' was
a CIA ship. Portugal had just gone through the throes of its
revolution, so at the time it was very 'left wing'.
And the Communists formed a big mob with torches and stones
and rocks and everything and they came down to burn the ship.
About 250 of them. And we fought them off for two hours and
finally the local maritime police showed up with machine guns and
dispersed the mob after they had knocked the Harbor-Master nearly
unconscious in front of our ship with a 'two by four'. And we
took him on board, gave him First Aid and he called some
tug-boats and took us out to anchor where we would be safe.
At that point, LRH said - there was also some guys of our crew
chased with knives down the street and so on - but still, no one
got hurt from our side. Well, two people got knocked out by
rocks, but they just didn't stay down. But none of the family was
hurt. LRH was not hurt. Mary Sue was not hurt. Nobody else was
hurt.
And LRH decided then that it was time to leave this area. It
was getting a little too bit agitated by these US Government
people. When we traced back the lines it always came from the
United States and that was when a guy named Henry Kissinger was
the Secretary of State. The orders were coming from his office
through the Embassies and CIA. (CBR-debrief from 1982)
CBR: Another time ... when we were in Madeira during the "Rock
Festival" where the CIA had tried to get the communist party of
Portugal to destroy our ship and bum it to the water-line. When this
started I had seen them coming- a mob of 200 or 300 people with rocks and
with Molotow Cocktails (gasoline in wine bottles) and I had pulled up the
gangway and gotten everyone at what is called "Repelling
Boarders" stations which means an evolution to stop unauthorized
persons from getting aboard the ship. And I had informed Ron and he came
out and gave me the direction of the defense against these people. They
were throwing stones, bricks and burning Molotow cocktails on board and we
had hoses to put out the fires and whenever they would try to climb aboard
we would hit them on their hands with rubber hoses or anything we had
available, and when they threw rocks on board, we would throw the rocks
back at them. And we held them off for an hour and a half.
And it was very successful, not one of those guys got on board the
ship. And Ron had coordinated it so that everyone not in the battle, (we
were fighting using just the ships' crew), and so the admin people had to
stay below deck so they wouldn't get hurt.
And he had come back out on the deck right in the middle of all this
and started to take photographs of the ring leaders of the mob out on the
dock, because there were certain "provocateurs" out there-
urging all the other people to attack while they stayed in the back, And
Ron was taking pictures of them for the evidence. Some of the people that
were working for Ron in his own area kept saying: "Sir, get below,
get below, it's dangerous!" The mob were throwing fire-bombs and
rocks and everything at us, you know! And Ron said:"No, we've got to
get the ring-leaders here, because this must be brought before the
Portugese government and these people must be brought to trial." We
had also telephoned - using the ship's radio-telephone to the port police
and they finally came with about 50 people in jeeps with machineguns and
they finally got the mob to move away. So notice there, that this is
supposed to be a man who is a "coward", who is not thinking
"rationally". And yet he already had the future of this incident
planned out of how to take these people to court. And he did and he won
the suit. (Capt.
Bill Robertson - Lecture about LRH)
Thursday, 10 October 1974: The Apollo leaves Madeira, leaving information
with the harbour authorities in Funchal that she is heading for the Cape Verde
Islands, 1500 miles to the south. She departs on a purposeful southerly course
until she is out of sight. She then turns west, prompting the crew to
speculate that the Commodore has decided to return to the United States. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 326)
Wednesday, 16 October 1974: The Apollo puts into St. George, on the
northern tip of Bermuda, to refuel, and Hubbard announces to the crew that
their next port of call will be Charleston, South Carolina.
When the Apollo is eight miles off Charleston, South Carolina, a coded radio
message from "the Guardian's Office" warns the Commodore that the FBI
are waiting on the dock to meet the ship. According to Hana Eltringham, Mary Sue
is "adamant that we should not go ashore. She said he (LRH) would be
indicted ten or fifteen times and it would be the end of him and she wasn't
going have it." LRH calls his senior aides together and says he is going to
send a signal to Charleston to say that the ship is heading north to pick up
spare parts in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Instead, they are going to sail south, to
the Caribbean.
The Apollo docks at Freeport in the Bahamas, while FBI agents allegedly wait
in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the ship to arrive there. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 328)
CBR: And we decided to secretly just sail across the Atlantic and
go into the Caribbean. We did that. We went to Bermuda, and at
Bermuda there was a CIA local resident there who tipped off the -
we were intending to go into Charleston, South Carolina first and
land in the United States and go right in there and handle these
guys - but the guy in Bermuda, the CIA agent, tipped off the
United States that we were coming - the FBI and so on - and they
had 163 agents lining the docks.
And we got warned about that by our port mission and some good
GO guys that heard about the pretended 'arrest' - they were going
to 'arrest' LRH and so on, on some of these tax cases because
they knew he was coming to the United States in Charleston.
Some [government] guy was bragging about this in Hawaii and
wasn't aware of the time difference or something or thought it
already had happened. Our guy in Hawaii got on the telex, and he
telexed somebody in England and England telexed back and they
finally got the people down in Charleston and they called us on
the radio and we turned around the ship at about 15 miles out
from the port, right outside the 12 mile limit, and didn't go in
there. So, 163 agents didn't have anything for breakfast, namely
us.
And that's a well known story, too, and that was right after
the "Rock Festival" in Madera. So let me tell you,
we've seen a few of these things and the guys on the ship, the
guys that worked with LRH, they're all good fighters.
So we went down to the Caribbean, through the Bahamas and so
on. And finally the State Department of the United States with
Kissinger at the wheel - you know Kissinger is one of the top
SMERSH guys, as you know - a Public Relations man normally,
although he opens his mouth a little bit too much most of the
time - but he's one of the 'evil beings' on the planet.
He then started telexing his Embassies and so on in Barbados and Curacao, and
what's the name of that place with all the oil and stuff there? Oh yeah - I've
got it written right here - Oh yeah, I know what it is.... (CBR-debrief from 1982)
The referenced source weaves the following tale, as quoted, and begins by
quoting Kima Douglas: "'While we were in the Bahamas, a story came out
that the Swiss were going to change the tax laws in some way that would affect
the money we held there. The old man went crazy. I heard him screaming and
yelling and ran upstairs to find what was wrong. He was pacing up and down and
shouting at the top of his voice, "Do you know what they're doing?
Everything's gone. Gone! Gone! We're going to lose everything."' When he
had calmed down a little, Kima suggested that perhaps the money should be
moved. Three hours later, she was on a plane to Zurich, with two other
Scientologists, carrying handwritten instructions from Hubbard authorizing the
transfer of all his assets to a bank in Liechtenstein. When they arrived, they
were taken down into the vault of the bank and shown the money. Kima Douglas,
who thought she could no longer be surprised by anything in Scientology, was
awestruck. 'Everyone's eyes widened. There was a stack, about four feet high
and three feet wide, of dollars, marks and Swiss francs in high-denomination
notes. I couldn't begin to guess how much was there, but it was certainly more
than the three of us could carry.' It took nearly two weeks to make
arrangements to move the cash to a bank in Liechtenstein and then the serial
numbers--the first and last note of each bundle--had to be noted. When the
mission returned to the Bahamas, Kima had to describe to the Commodore the
exact size of the various piles of money. 'He was very pleased,' she said. 'He
thought he'd outdone the Swiss.'" (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 329)
The government's version is: A few days before November 1, 1974, Don
Alverzo, Deputy Information Branch I Director US, telephones Michael
Meisner from Los Angeles, California, to say that he is coming to the
District of Columbia to place an electronic bugging device in the Chief
Counsel's conference room at the Internal Revenue Service where a major
meeting concerning Scientology is going to be held. (Well, this entry
certainly rings true. If you were going to bug the IRS's Chief Counsel's
conference room, wouldn't you place a long distance telephone call on open
lines to announce it in advance? Well, wouldn't you?) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
The government's version is: Michael Meisner meets Don Alverzo
at the Guardian's Office located at 2125 S Street, Northwest, in the District
of Columbia. Also present at this meeting are Mitchell Hermann and Bruce
Ullman (Information Branch II Director DC). Alverzo shows Meisner the bugging
device he has brought with him from Los Angeles - a multiple electric outlet
containing a transmitting device. In the late afternoon, Meisner and Mitchell
Hermann enter the main IRS building located at 1111 Constitution Avenue,
Northwest, for the purpose of locating the conference room of the Chief
Counsel's office where the meeting is to be held on November 1, 1974. (Why,
sure, they just stroll right into the IRS building and snoop around. You
believe it. You do. You are getting sleepy, sle-e-e-epy... .) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
Mitchell Hermann enters the main IRS building in the morning, goes
to the fourth-floor conference room where the meeting on Scientology is to be
held, and places the bugging device (FM transmitter) in a wall socket. Hermann
leaves the building and waits in a car with Don Alverzo and Carla
Moxon (Assistant Guardian Communicator DC) and overhears and tapes the
entire meeting over the FM radio of the car. Following the meeting, Hermann
re-enters the building, removes the bug, and takes various papers, including
the agenda for the meeting, which had been left by the participants. In the
evening, Hermann meets with Meisner and describes what had taken place.
(Because of other "pressing business," Meisner hadn't gone with them
to the bugging.) (PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN! OR TO THE
FACT THAT MITCHELL HERMANN IS ABLE TO GO ANYWHERE HE WANTS TO IN THE IRS
BUILDING AND PLANT BUGS WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM! OR TO THE
INCORRECTLY-INCLUDED-MOXON! PAY NO ATTENTION!) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
Michell Hermann, the
GO's Information Branch I Director, plants an radio
transmitting bug in the conference room of the IRS' Chief
Counsel, where a confidential meeting is to be held
concerning Scientology. The meeting is to discuss pending
legal actions involving the various churches of
Scientology and to establish general guidelines for
determination of what constituted a "religious
institution" entitled to exemption from taxation
under the Internal Revenue Code. The entire meeting is
recorded and transcribed by GO agents in a car outside
the building. Ref: Stipulation of Evidence, United States of
America vs Mary Sue Hubbard et al, Oct 1979, pp. 23-24
(Timeline of Scientology versus the IRS)
A telex is purportedly sent from AGI DC Michael Meisner to DGI US Duke
Snider, via DG US Henning Heldt stating that Gerald Wolfe,
the "FSM," has apparently passed the hiring freeze and that they
"will know for sure" whether he has received employment by November
18 at the latest. A notation on the telex indicates that it was received on
"11.11.74" at "2000" hours (8:00 p.m.). (How did Wolfe get
past a hiring freeze? Inside help? There is no explanation for this. Another
oddity: November 18 is the exact date that Wolfe is actually hired - according
to the government's Stipulation of Evidence. But see also the next entry: a
telex purportedly stating that Wolfe has "accepted employment" at
IRS.) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
According to the Stipulation of Evidence, a telex is purportedly sent by
DGI US Duke Snider to DGI WW Mo Budlong, "Re: GO 1361 Tar
[target] 10," saying that despite the national hiring freeze defendant
Gerald Wolfe has "accepted employment" at the IRS. (This is odd,
because the same Stipulation of Evidence says that Gerald Wolfe got hired at
IRS on 18 November. One of these "facts," or both, must be false.
The language of the Stipulation is also odd: it says Wolfe "accepted
employment," as though it were offered to him, yet there is purportedly a
hiring freeze at IRS. It seems that it would say Wolfe was "accepted for
employment." A further oddity is that a hiring freeze was violated to
take Wolfe on - not as some high-powered specialist who would warrant
violating the freeze, but as a clerk typist!) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
A telex received "15.11.74" (November 15, 1974) at
"2000" hours (8:00 P.M.) is purportedly sent from Mo Budlong
to Duke Snider, the DGI US, congratulating him on the placement of a
covert agent [Gerald Wolfe] at IRS. (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
Gerald Wolfe gets employed at the IRS as a clerk typist. (For some
reason, IRS saw fit to violate its hiring freeze in order to take on...a clerk
typist. Go figure. By the way, wonder why all the congratulations were flying
back and forth before he actually got hired.) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
Scientology agent Gerald
Wolfe obtains employment at the IRS as a clerk
typist. Ref: Stipulation of Evidence, United States of
America vs Mary Sue Hubbard et al, Oct 1979, p. 18
(Timeline of Scientology versus the IRS)
Gerald Wolfe is hired as a clerk by the IRS in Washington, D.C. For
the next two years, he and Michael Meisner steal and copy IRS and
Department of Justice files on Scientology. Many illegal acts were committed.
Electronic intercepting of oral IRS communications, forging government passes,
infiltrating the government, stealing records belonging to the IRS, Justice
Department, and the US Attorney’s Office. (Criminal
Time Track: Issue III)
CSC files a complaint against Internal Revenue Service, Donald C.
Alexander (Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Department of the Treasury of
the United States), and William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States, entitled, "Verified Complaint for Injunction Against the Unlawful
Withholding of Records and for Order for Production of Records Pursuant to
Section 552 of Title 5, United States Code, the Freedom of Information
Act." CSC also files a motion for an order to show cause re: preliminary
injunction to enjoin withholding of records and compel production of records,
with supporting memorandum of points and authorities, and affidavit of the
Reverend James C. Mulligan. (Uh, they just got Gerald Wolfe in place
inside IRS to get them everything their hearts desire, and they file a
COMPLAINT against the COMMISSIONER of IRS and the SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY!
Why...oh, never mind.) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
"In late 1974 Gerald Armstrong became the ship's [Apollo's] intelligence officer, a position he held until he left the Apollo."
(Bent Corydon: "Messiah or Madman,")
Writeup 2 December 1974
Obtaining property in a deceitful way is fraud. So using a cover and a false
name to obtain property is fraud. Information is, however, not considered
property. To stay inside the law, a professional will ask for a loan of files or
documents, photostat, xerox or photograph these and return the original. In this
case, the property -paper- has not been stolen or obtained by fraud even if the
data has. The same holds true if a professional enters a building without
permission and removes files or documents.
A professional avoids breaking and entering (B&E) as much as possible and
uses this only as a last resort. When (and if) a professional does resort to
B&E, he will use due thought and consideration. This whole subject is
covered in detail in the writeup of 1 May 1974 Re: Security and Theft of
Materials. This writeup covers how the real professional handles being caught in
the act of stealing and how to handle the police.
When a professional is being questioned, he will remember carefully all those
mannerisms on the part of the interrogators which are hostile to his person. If
the professional has reason to believe that there is a danger to his person,
this is an assault.
Under such circumstances, anything said can be later explained away as being
said under duress and threat.
Depending on the circumstances a professional will attempt to get the person
who’s questioning him to threaten him or even (very seldom) to strike him. A
bruise which is visible will convince anyone that he, the professional, was
under duress.
Note from Mike McClaughry:
The above write up is instructions to Intelligence operatives on how to do
Breaking & Entering, written under the guise of being information on how to
defend the church from it. The author was Mo Budlong, DGI WW. (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Government version: Michael Meisner and Mitchell Hermann
enter the IRS building and remain inside until sometime after 7:00 p.m. They
then enter offices of the Exempt Organization Division on the seventh floor,
remove from the building one file relating to Scientology, and take it to the Guardian's
Office and photocopy it. The purpose is "to show Gerald Wolfe
that documents can easily be taken from IRS offices." Meisner then calls Duke
Snider in Los Angeles and tells him what he and Hermann have accomplished,
what documents have been stolen. He tells Snider that this proves conclusively
the ease with which documents can be taken from the IRS. (No exact date for
this incident; just "During the first week of December 1974." The
date almost HAS to be 2 December, which is a Monday. It can't be 1 December,
which is a Sunday, and by Wednesday, 4 December, copies of whatever were taken
are allegedly already in Los Angeles! If it was so easy for them to get
documents, why did they need Wolfe employed there? Also, the entry for 4
December 1974 says Wolfe was with them on this trip; this just names Meisner
and Hermann as going.) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
Government version: Mitchell Hermann returns the file on Scientology
- which he and Michael Meisner had stolen the day before - to the IRS
files. (Ri-i-i-i-ght. Just strolled in, slipped it back into a filing cabinet,
and strolled back out. The Stipulation of Evidence doesn't say ANYTHING about
HOW Hermann did this; uh, he just, uh, DID - that's all! One small problem,
though, is that according to the 4 December 1974 entry, he had to stroll in
with a file that was at LEAST TEN INCHES THICK!) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
A telex purportedly is sent on December 4, 1974 at "2200" hours
by DGI US Duke Snider to DGI WW Mo Budlong regarding "GO
1361 TAR 10." The telex informs Mr. Budlong that Snider has received
"two shipments from DC...about ten inches" thick containing
documents which "Mitchell Hermann, Gerald Wolfe and Michael
Meisner" had stolen from the IRS. (The Stipulation of Evidence says
only Hermann and Meisner - not Wolfe - had entered the IRS building, and they
had only taken "one file" [see entry for 2 December 1974]. That
file, then, had to have been AT LEAST TEN INCHES THICK - MAYBE EVEN TWENTY
[depending on how you interpret the telex]! This means that on 3 December,
Hermann had to just stroll back into the IRS building with a file TEN INCHES
THICK, and unobtrusively put it back into the file cabinet from which it had
been stolen! Right!) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
Using fake passes, Hermann
and Meisner illegally enter the Exempt
Organization Division of the IRS and steal a file on
Scientology, which they describe in a telex as "two
shipments from DC . . . about ten inches" thick. Ref:
Stipulation of Evidence, United States of
America vs Mary Sue Hubbard et al, Oct 1979, p. 38
(Timeline of Scientology versus the IRS)
On December 13, 1974, officials of the Church of Scientology requested from
the NSA, under provisions of the FOIA, any files maintained by that agency on
the church or its founder. The NSA's Executive for Staff Services replied that
the agency had neither established a file or record pertaining to Mr. L. Ron
Hubbard or the Church of Scientology, nor transmitted information concerning
either of them to the individuals or entities (i.e., other agencies) listed in
their letter of request.
Six months later, during a legal discovery proceeding in a court action to
force the CIA to release files that agency maintained on the church, CIA
attorneys stated, "We have located documents provided to the CIA by the
NSA."
It turned out that, in all, the NSA had provided its intelligence partner,
the CIA, with 16 documents pertaining to the Church of Scientology. CIA said it
was exempted from releasing them, on advice from NSA, the originating agency.
Confronted with this evidence, the NSA acknowledged that, on the basis of
information received from CIA, it had found 15 of the documents in warehouse
storage. However, said John R. Harney, NSA appeals authority, the agency was
precluded by Title 18 U.S. C. 798 from providing information concerning
classified communications intelligence activities.
Release of any record or portion thereof, declared the NSA, "would
disclose information about the nature of NSA's activities including its
functions."
...With respect to the agency's assertion that it had failed to find the 16
documents when first requested because there is no central index to its files,
the court observed:
"Since NSA's prime mission is to acquire and disseminate information to the intelligence community, it seems odd that it is without
some mechanism enabling location of materials of the type appellant asked for,
particularly with identifying details as extensive as those furnished." (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 95)
Government version: "A few days prior to December 30, 1974," Gerald
Wolfe allegedly enters the office of Barbara Bird in the main
building of the IRS and takes from her files "many documents"
related to Scientology. He photocopies them on a machine in the IRS Building,
then returns the documents to Ms. Bird's office. (NOTE: Must be 27 December,
as 28 and 29 December are Saturday and Sunday. Now, WHY does this one related
incident of something being taken from Bird's office come AFTER Wolfe being
admonished by Mitchell Hermann to "continue" taking documents from
her office?) (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
A memorandum from Michael Meisner to Cindy Raymond entitled
"Raw Data Report Re: IRS-Charlotte Murphy Scientology File."
It summarizes documents purportedly taken by Gerald Wolfe from the
offices of Barbara Bird at the IRS. Meisner appends at least ninety-eight
pages of documents taken from the IRS. (LRH
- The missing ten Months)
Hermann orders Wolfe to obtain all documents related to
Scientology from the IRS office of Barbara Bird, an
attorney in Refund Litigation Service. Ref: Stipulation
of Evidence, United States of
America vs Mary Sue Hubbard et al, Oct 1979, p. 41(Timeline
of Scientology versus the IRS)
As the growing collection of documents forced out of agency files under the
Freedom of Information Act, began to reveal the incredible virulence and extent
of the Government's conspiracy against the church, the Guardian's Office
initiated a concerted effort to gain access to all the secret files amassed by
federal agencies.
The church made more than 1,000 FOI requests, and filed 30 lawsuits against
agencies which were withholding documents. By 1978, about 100,000 pages of
material had been obtained through administrative action, and another 100,000
pages through litigation.
These were cross-indexed, filed and analyzed. The Rev. Kenneth J. Whitman,
national spokesman for the church, said the documents accused the Scientologists
of almost everything from gun-running, drug trafficking, white slavery, sex perversion, hypnotism, brainwashing, currency smuggling, Communism, and even
murder.
"We had to study intelligence tactics to understand what had happened.
Thousands of man-hours were consumed in this massive project.
"What we found was a systematic campaign of 'wellpoisoning' in more than
14 countries, from Australia in the early 1960's to France in the 70's. In every
instance where our church was attacked abroad, we have documents which prove
that malicious false reports, rumors, unproven allegations of crimes, and other
dirt were disseminated by American agencies to foreign governments prior to any
action taken against the church in those countries."
According to Whitman, a close examination and cataloging of the FOI documents
obtained, revealed the following: 302 instances of false statements about the
church or its founder; 117 infiltrations or attempted infiltrations by covert
operatives; 171 instances of inciting tax agencies to act against the church;
173 instances of surveillance, including mail openings, telex monitoring; 322
instances of a government official ordering or approving a subordinate's actions
against the church; and 32 cases of theft, seizure, or improper procurement of
church property.
Church leaders filed a multi-million dollar damage suit for conspiracy
against five of the agencies from whom the documents were obtained. Separate
suits were also brought against the FBI and the U.S. State Department.
Officials in the church's Guardian Office were greatly concerned about what
they estimated to be a half million more pages of documents still being withheld
by federal agencies and a huge number of files outside the United States.
They reasoned that so long as the false information remained unchallenged and
uncorrected in those files, the very survival of the church was threatened. The
damage already done to the Scientology movement was incalcuable.
It was imperative to gain access to the remaining files "legally if we
can, covertly if we must." (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 96/97)
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