Scientology's®
Claims
From: Public Relations (publicrelations@scientology.org)
RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT BOOKLET
In the United States, the Church published a booklet entitled How to Use
the Freedom of Information Act. This booklet contains simple directions
to assist members of the public in the use of Freedom of Information laws.
To encourage widespread use of these laws by citizens, the Church placed
sample "request for information" forms as advertisements in
newspapers. Readers cut these out and sent them in to government agencies
from which they were seeking information about themselves.
Today, when the Church encounters false reports about Scientology in
government records, it still acts vigorously to correct them. And, to
further assist others to locate and correct false reports about themselves
in government files, the Church has not only become a champion of freedom
in the United States but has helped to bring about Freedom of Information
legislation in France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy and Belgium.
For more information about Scientology and the Freedom magazine that
covers these issues go to:
http://www.REMOVEscientology.org
Public Relations
And now for the truth
These claims are somewhat amusing given the fact that Scientology was
responsible for the single largest and widespread incidence of domestic
espionage in America's history. The massive criminal racketeering acts
were called "Operation Snow White" when Scientology drafted
their plans. The Volunteer Ministers web site covers Scientology's
lies about these massive crimes in a number of other web pages found
here:
Scientology's ringleaders want to claim that they engage in espionage,
breaking and entering, wire tapping, stalking, and numerous other
racketeering activities because there are massive government conspiracies
out there and Freedom of Information Act requests often yield forgeries.
Amusingly, when the Scientology organization worked to get passage of
the Freedom of Information Act, it was to acquire their mad messiah's
Navy records which, they thought, would support
L. Ron Hubbard's outrageous claims about being some kind of
war hero.
When the FOIA passed, the criminal enterprise filed requests and got back
information that was completely at odds with what their mad messiah had
been telling them all those years; lies which the Scientology organization
had bee telling their victims and the world at large for decades which
were now found to be complete fabrications.
Rather than accept the fact that Hubbard had been rooking his own
leaders all along, the organization promptly proclaimed Hubbard's Navy
records forgeries and as I recall the insane nuts even instigated a
series of lawsuits against various military and government agencies
with the amusing claims that maybe Hubbard was an intelligence officer
and his records were some kind of cover.
That set the stage for what the criminal enterprise did next. Since
Scientology is an organized crime syndicate with an extensive criminal
history, Scientology couldn't break through that some times nebulous
barrier between organized crime and a real religion, something that
Hubbard wanted to pretend in order to qualify
for tax exemption status so that he and his cohorts could retain more
of the take.
Since Scientology's criminal history was -- and is -- widely known
within law enforcement agencies the world over and within the many
intelligence agencies of the world, Hubbard and his fellow criminals
created "Operation Snow White" which was an effort to erase
Scientology's history. Literally, they wanted to make L. Ron Hubbard's
history "snow white" so that the criminal enterprise he
created could grow and acquire tax exemption.
To that end the Scientology organization started infiltrating government
agencies, breaking into document storage facilities, and started stealing
and often destroying embarrasing -- and truthful -- information about the
Scientology crime syndicate. Additionally the organization both planted
false documents about Scientology to try to make the syndicate look like
it was some how favorable, and Scientology also altered existing
documents to make them look favorable.
When the criminal enterprise was heavily raided in the late 1970's,
Federal agents recovered massive amounts of documentation covering the
core criminality of Scientology and -- amusingly today, I'm sure, yet
very distressing back then -- agents discovered secret documents in the
possession of the criminal enterprise. While numerous ringleaders
were indicted and many were sent to prison, the head ringleader L. Ron
Hubbard ran and hid on his converted cattle transport ship Apollo,
going from port to port as the authorities chased him from place to
place. Hubbard finally holed up on a ranch in Nothern California where
he remained on the lam from the Feds until he died full of mind altering
drugs.
All of this gives background into Scientology's connections with the
passage of the Freedom of Information Act. Since the crime syndicate
tried to pretend -- and still pretends -- that Hubbard's Navy records
are soe how forgeries, Scientology's leaders wanted as many of their
followers to file FOIA requests for Hubbard's Navy records in the
hopes, it seems, that eventually the Navy would be forced to divulge
"the real documents" which would match the outrageous claims
that Hubbard and his cohorts claimed -- and continues to claim today.
Subject: FOIA Booklet
Date: 1998/09/12
http://www.REMOVEfreedommag.org
Church of Scientology International
Lies Debunked: Free Speech - SNOW WHITE PROGRAM - U.S.A.
Lies Debunked: Operation Snow White
Lies Debunked: Operation Snow White - FOIA
Lies Debunked: Operation Snow White - Germany
Lies Debunked: Operation Snow White - Portugal
Stipulation of Evidence in Operation Snow White
Espionage Case
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