$cientology in Spain:media coverage 3
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The prosecutor that investigates the Church of
$cientology requests to declare two
high charges of the Franquismo movement
El Pais, 02.05.1989
The judge Vázquez Honrubia requests information no the Interpol and
Scotland Yard on the sect
The prosecutor Carlos Ladron de Guevara, that investigates the summary
of the
Church of $cientology, it has requested Instruction Court number 21 of
Madrid that
declare two high charges of the Franquista regime.
Sources of the investigation of the case have indicated that
the object of these petitions is to clarify determined extreme
on the introduction of the sect in Spain, caused that is
establish in the period 1969-1975. The judge José María
Vazquez Honrubia, headline of the Court number 21, will decide
soon on this issue. While, the judge has requested
information about $cientology to the Interpol and Scotland Yard, thus
as to the Moroccan Interior Ministry.
The two high charges whose comparecence before the court that
investigates
the sect of $cientology has been requested are: Luis Rodríguez de
Miguel, sub-secretary of the Ministry of the Interior [then of
Governance] in 1973, and Luis Mayans, general Mercantile Navy director
in the year 1975. In the first case the comparecence will be
impossible, since Rodríguez de Miguel expired 19 of 1982 April,
questión that it seems do not know the district attorney's office of the
State.
Rodríguez de Miguel was the second of the Ministry of the Interior
when the responsible of this department was Carlos Arias Navarro.
In 1974, Arias was named minister of the Housing. In 1980 February,
already in the
Democratic era, it was promoted to attorney general of the Supreme
Court.
As far as he is concerned, Luis Mayans, responsible for the merchant
marine,
Performed his professional labor the the Navy. The district attorney's
office also
requested that they appear before the instruction court the
undersecretary of the
merchant marine in 1969 and the general delegate of Criminal
Investigation [now Judicial Police] in the year 1972, dependent of the
Interior Ministry.
The fiscal Ladron de Guevara requested the comparecence of these high
charges of the franquismo on 5 of April, in addition to requesting until
nine
formalities on the summary of the the $cientology. On pastWednesday the
judge Vázquez Honrubia accepted, through judicial resolution, all the
requested formalities and postponed the decision on the statement of the
high charges, until is requested the cited documentation.
Reports petition
The formalities interested by the district attorney's office and
approved by the
instructing justice are centered in requesting of various ministries
(Interior, Foreign, Trade and Marine) the files that work in
their dependences be able with respect to the ships Royal Scotsman and
Apollo and to the
activities of the entity Operation and Transport Corporation Ltda.(OTC)
This society is considered as the embryo of the Church of $cientology
in Spain,
according to the investigative sources of the facts.
The mentioned sources consider also to the two ships
cited as " information platforms" of $cientology. To these
vessels was denegated the tie in Spanish port, though
after it forgot such negative. The source informants
consider that the activity of these two ships and of the OTC are the
principle of the designated operation "SNOW WHITE", consistent,
in introducing $cientology in the Spanish administrative studding.
The judge José María Vázquez Honrubia has approved that is requested
information to the Interpol and to Scotland Yard on the "activities
displayed by the members of the mentioned association with the
referred ships", according to indicates the decision.
"To request also information of the Ministry of the Moroccan Interior
on the expulsion reasons of that pais of the ship Apollo, toward the
year 1970s, and of activities of the OTC, had the importance that for
the
clarification of the facts object of this cause could have said
information", adds also the resolution of the fiscal, approved by the
magistrate instructing.
The fiscal petition requests furthermore that is directed a
"communication to the
British Naval Ataché" to request "information on activities of
$cientology and incidents occurred in the year 1970's protagonized for
this supposed sect, also as activities made for the
members of this institution by means of its ships Royal Scotsman
and Apollo, being as that it has knowledge of its expulsion of
England in reason to activities that they can keep great similtud with
displayed them in our country".
Last November, the judge Vázquez Honrubia ordered the detention of
numerous members of $cientology, between them the maximum
directing of the sect, the commodore Heber Jentzsch.
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