1977

Question asked by kp82426@..., a user from dogpile.com in Scientology

kp82426@..., a user from dogpile.com, asked this question on 9/6/2000:

Can you send me some information on the year 1977 for a Newspaper report for a school project. I would be really appriciated thank you Kasey Perkins

Fredric L. Rice answered:

A good summation of events in 1977 can be found by reading the very lengthy court document which is the "Stipulation of Evidence" that can be found here:

http://superlink.net/user/mgarde/stipul01.txt http://superlink.net/user/mgarde/stipul02.txt http://superlink.net/user/mgarde/stipul03.txt

In brief summation, the Scientology cult was being heavily investigated for a number of crimes, among them being activities involving quack medicine. The cult had already been repeatedly punished for making quack medical claims however the money laundering and racketeering activities of the cult was being investigated.

According to L. Ron Hubbard -- the cult's mad messiah -- the only way to "defend" against investigations into his criminal activities is to attack. Insanely, he launched a criminal undertaking which the crooks called "Operation Snow White." That involved breaking into government offices, stealing documents, editing documents, inserting false and fraudulent documents, extortion, blackmail, and other RICOable offenses.

Hubbard always put fall guys between himself and the law so that when the law came down on his criminal empire, his fallguys would take the rap. He was having lunch one day and was being served by one Heber Jentzsch. Hubbard gave him a job being the cult's mock "international president" so that Heber would take the fall.

For "Operation Snow White," however, he made his wife Mary Sue Hbbard the fallguy because he was wanting to get rid of her anyway. Thus Hubbard's wife and 10 other felons were imprisoned and Hubbard fled process servers and the long arms of the law, hiding out here in Northern California until he died (his death certificate included toxic levels of psychoactive -- and illegal -- drugs in his system.)

But check out the official court documentation.

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