Scientology Crimes Enumerated On The Internet

16 Oct 2000

I was asked:

> Well, it seems there is more to sceintology than i expected.
> Can you point me to some websites that talk about these crimes.
> All I know is from the official sceintology website.

Yeah, there's a lot of information, much of it seized in 1977 when Federal agents raided Scientology offices across the country -- with particular focus on Los Angeles and Clearwater, Florida. In the past five years there have been raids in Russia, Belgium, Greece, Spain, France, Germany, and Sweden with a second raid in France and Greece. 23,000 documents were seized in 1977 and we're still trying to get copies of what was seized in Russia, Belgium, and Greece two years ago.

Currently the "International President" Heber Jentzsch is facing 56 years in prison in Madrid for, among other things, inducement to committing suicide, espionage, medial fraud, and money laundering.

Probably the best place to start is Lt. Emmons' summary which was part of the series of investigations in the mid 1980's:

http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/cwfedmon.htm
http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/cosfed2.htm

The Emmons Report is actually a large number of boxes containing over 146,000 sheets of paper (I tried to obtain the full report and at .15 cents a copy, it would have cost me $22,000 to copy the full report.) But the summary was obtained in part and that was posted to the web.

There is a set of information on Heber Jentzsch which contains the original commencement of criminal prosecution at:

http://www.holysmoke.org/heber/heber.htm

That shows Heber Jentzsch in handcuffs (the second time) and gives some good background into Jentzsch.

For background into the 1977 indictments, check out the final plea which resulted in the "stipulation of evidence" which put 11 of the ringleaders away, including Hubbard's wife Mary Sue Hubbard which L. Ron Hubbard abandoned as his fall guy:

http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~cowen/go/legal/legal.htm

There are numerous documents which were seized in 1977 which are now public domain and are posted to the Internet. Of special interest are the "Guardian Office / Office of Special Affairs" papers which contain orders to engage in criminal activities -- such as "administering r4-25" to critics of the syndicate. "R2-45" means "rundown two 45-caliber bullets to the head" which, in Hubbard's cultspeak, would "exterorize" critics "in a hurry."

Some of my materials on Scientology's criminal activities can be found at:

http://www.skeptictank.org/csindex.htm

A hammer attack on a journalist by a Scientologist might be of some interest. It turns out that the cultist was wanted by the police for selling dope and yet he attacked a German film crew with a hammer and was caught on videotape -- two cameras:

http://www.skeptictank.org/cs2index.htm

A lot of the raids are covered in newspaper articles at:

http://www.skeptictank.org/raindex.htm

Finally, the Scientology organization attempted to shit down the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup since their criminal activities were being discussed, protests were being coordinated, and media outlets were monitoring the forum. One newspaper article covered these attacks against the newsgroup:

http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/sporgart.htm

And some of my efforts to combat that attack:

http://www.skeptictank.org/scan.htm

The Federal inquiry which resulted isn't talked about publically.

Any way, yeah, there's a lot to go through. I mean people can get swampped going through what's known about the organization. You'll note that in Lt. Emmons' report, he correctly and accurately describes the organization as deliberately complex to avoid the long arm of the law. That comes out very well in the extant materials on the organization.

If you're interested, I can give you my phone number if you have questions about anything Scientology related. }:-} I've been reviewing this organization for five years now.