- For Immediate Release
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- A chronological investigative analysis of once-classified
intelligence reports, corporate papers, copyright and trademark records,
court documents, and other public records has exposed a massive and pervasive
co-ordination of the Executive and Judicial Branches in order to effect
a cover-up, since at least 1972, of copyrighted Scientology technologies
being illegally utilized in United States strategic intelligence. The study
shows that the cover-up has reached all the way to the Oval Office in both
Republican and Democratic administrations, including those of George Bush
and Jimmy Carter. Bush's knowledge and involvement dates back at least
to his term as Director of Central Intelligence.
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- The timeline of events documents that an employee of
the National Security Agency (NSA), Dr. Harold Puthoff, infiltrated Scientology,
completed its confidential upper-level courses, and almost immediately
secured a top-secret contract with the Central Intelligence Agency to set
up the CIA-initiated "remote-viewing" intelligence program. The
evidence is that the program secretly utilized Scientology techniques--intellectual
property of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard--without Hubbard's or any
Scientology organization's knowledge or permission, and without compensation.
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- The study also shows that Scientology's Guardian's Office
(GO)--headed by Hubbard's wife Mary Sue--had province over the intellectual
properties being illegally used by the federal government.
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- The GO became embroiled in protracted litigation, via
the churches, of numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suits against
NSA, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Department of
Defense, the Secret Service, and other Executive Branch departments and
agencies.
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- The FOIA suits sought the release of documents related
to Scientology and to L. Ron Hubbard that were known to exist, but were
being withheld by the federal intelligence agencies and the Defense Department,
among others, on grounds of NATIONAL SECURITY.
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- One ruling against the Scientologists even went so far
as to justify withholding of documents about Scientology on the grounds
that the Director of CIA is "responsible for protecting intelligence
sources AND METHODS from unauthorized disclosure...[emphasis added]."
Neither Hubbard, his wife, nor the Guardian's Office knew the exact nature
of the documents, nor about Hubbard's copyrighted materials being illegally
used by the federal intelligence agencies.
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- Scientology's FOIA suits spanned the very time when the
top-secret Scientology-based remote viewing program and budget were not
only being expanded, but were being utilized by the Department of Defense,
the President's National Security Council (NSC), and the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. But the documents being sought by the Guardian's Office were never
released; the FBI raided the church's offices in July of 1977, and the
federal government filed criminal charges accusing Mary Sue Hubbard and
the Guardian's Office of "criminal spying"--a strange irony.
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- The sensational case resulted in Mary Sue Hubbard and
10 Guardian's Office co-defendants being sentenced to jail without a trial
by federal Judge Charles R. Richey, which led to the ultimate disbanding
of Scientology's Guardian's Office.
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- This opened the way for a new senior corporation, "Church
of Spiritual Technology" (CST), doing business as the "L. Ron
Hubbard Library." It was set up in 1982--right after the Supreme Court
had upheld Mary Sue Hubbard's conviction--for the express purpose of gaining
receivership and control of L. Ron Hubbard's copyrights. But it was in
the founding of this corporation that the first hint of the cover-up by
the federal government lay buried.
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- In an EXCLUSIVE 1997 STORY, the PUBLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION
reported that Meade Emory--former Assistant to the Commissioner of the
Internal Revenue Service and former Legislation Attorney, Joint Committee
on Taxation--had been a co-founder of CST, Scientology's most senior coporation.
That corporation now controls the copyrights for all of L. Ron Hubbard's
intellectual properties, once valued at close to $100 million. CST also
enjoys ultimate authority over all Scientology-related trademarks, including
even the name "L. Ron Hubbard."
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- But the discovery of Emory, a non-Scientologist, in such
an unusual position raised red flags, since Emory's involvement in setting
up the corporation had been hidden for fifteen years.
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- Then it was learned that Emory had been Assistant to
Commissioner of IRS Donald C. Alexander from 1975 through 1977. Strangely,
those were the very years that an IRS employee, Gerald Wolfe, was supposedly
a Scientology "double agent" guilty of numerous thefts of IRS
documents for Mary Sue Hubbard and the Guardian's Office--leading to the
arrests and convictions.
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- Other oddities also surfaced:
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- 1. According to a U.S. Claims Court ruling, none of the
founders of CST but one had any religious connection with Scientology.
They were non-Scientologist tax and probate attorneys.
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- 2. The October 1993 IRS tax-exemption for CST was granted
in a then-secret Closing Agreement only after a final round-up of every
intellectual property ever produced by L. Ron Hubbard had been completed.
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- 3. On November 29, 1993, scarcely two months after CST
had been granted tax exemption by IRS in a secret Closing Agreement, all
7,730 of L. Ron Hubbard{s copyrights were quietly transferred to CST.
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- PRF's original press release and supporting documents
about Meade Emory's ties to CST were sent to major newspapers--including
the Wall Street Journal--and to Senator William V. Roth, Jr., Finance Committee
Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation. Within 15
days the secret agreement between IRS and CST, et al. was leaked to WSJ,
who never ran the story on Emory.
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- But the IRS Closing Agreement, once released, revealed
that it had been the final step in the United States government's 20-year
campaign to secretly get L. Ron Hubbard's copyrighted technologies and
techniques--being illegally used by federal agencies in strategic intelligence--firmly
under secret federal government control. Putting the copyrights in a 501(c)(3)
corporation bypassed the separation clause of the Constitution, because
CST, despite its name, is not a church.
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- So certain was the IRS that the secret agreement would
never be exposed that it included a "Continued Conspiracy Clause,"
requiring all signatories to agree in collusion to protect Meade Emory
and all other "current or former" employees of IRS and the United
States government against any and all claims of their having been involved
in a "continued conspiracy." Yet it was just such a "continued
conspiracy" that apparently had brought the secret Closing Agreement
into being.
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- The federal government further secured its position by
secretly setting up an illegal and unconstitutional "Church Tax Compliance
Committee" to enforce Treasury regulations on the structure and function
of the various Scientology organizations, including permanent installations
of "Tax Compliance Officers" in each organization.
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- Senator Roth's inaction on the Executive Summary regarding
Meade Emory's involvement with the creation of Scientology's most senior
corporation has now raised questions whether the Legislative Branch has
been involved in the cover-up as well.
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