"Top Secret," "Enemy Names" and and Names" "Enemy Secret," "Top "Battle Plans." Their contents were were contents Their Plans." "Battle

in many cases marked "Eyes Only," tronic eavesdropping equipment, two summer's searches quoted a former former a quoted searches summer's two equipment, eavesdropping tronic Only," "Eyes marked cases many in

rized in a 525-page inventory filed in how to obtain false identities and tap tap and identities false obtain to how in filed inventory 525-page a in rized

court by the federal government, were were government, federal the by court Inventory of Seized Documents Shows Memos on Congressmen and Judges Judges and Congressmen on Memos Shows Documents Seized of Inventory

reau and the American Medical Asso- to investigate and attack certain goy- goy- certain attack and investigate to Asso- Medical American the and reau

elation, according to docu- docu- Scientology to according elation,

ments in the possession of federal in- in- federal of possession the in ments

vestigatdrs. vestigatdrs.

"enemies," kept files on five Washing- Washing- five on files kept "enemies," line Onassis, the Better Business Bu' Bu' Business Better the Onassis, line

Kennedy, other congressmen, congressmen, other Kennedy, ton federal judges, Sen. Edward M. raids of Scientology offices here and and here offices Scientology of raids M. Edward Sen. judges, federal ton

The Scientologists' files, summa- seized in the raids were memos on on memos were raids the in seized summa- files, Scientologists' The

The , in. its ef- ef- its in. Scientology, of Church The

kientologists Kept Files on 'Enemies' 'Enemies' on Files Kept kientologists sinp

to investigate and attack its its attack and investigate to

ashinaton Post EtaLt Writer Writer EtaLt Post ashinaton

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Ron Shaffer Shaffer Ron

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blackjack, according to the govern- govern- the to according blackjack,

.22-caliber pistols and a jeather jeather a and pistols .22-caliber

telephones, a lockpicking kit, elec- elec- kit, lockpicking a telephones,

and individuals. individuals. and

ernment agencies, private businesses businesses private agencies, ernment

orders from top Scientology officials officials Scientology top from orders

in Los Angeles last summer, include include summer, last Angeles Los in

under subpoena by federal agents in in agents federal by subpoena under

"Operation Big Mouth." Mouth." Big "Operation

Cut Cut

coded with phrases like "Operation' ment inventory filed in in filed inventory ment "Operation' like phrases with coded

Among .other Scientology property property Scientology .other Among

The documents, which were seized seized were which documents, The

Throat," Throat,"

"Espionage" "Espionage"

and and

who said the Scientologists were wag- wag- were Scientologists the said who

affidavit filed in connection with last last with connection in filed affidavit

ing the Scientologists. A government government had been marked by the the by marked been had government government A Scientologists. the ing

high - ranking Scientology official official Scientology ranking - high

some of the seized documents to a fed- fed- a to documents seized the of some eral grand jury jury grand eral

but never sent. sent. never but

dential Cabinet members, including including members, Cabinet dential one letter that apparently was drafted drafted was apparently that letter one

and confidential letters between presi- presi- between letters confidential and

CIA documents, "apparently original" original" "apparently documents, CIA

Internal Revenue Service documents, documents, Service Revenue Internal

ogy papers also have found secret secret found have also papers ogy

thousands of p p of thousands

in Los Angeles. Angeles. Los in

Federal prosecutors are submitting . were. were. . submitting are prosecutors Federal

Federal investigators studying the theft of government documents and and documents government of theft the studying investigators Federal

pages of seized Scientol- Scientol- seized of pages

here that is investigat- investigat- is that here

federal federal

court court

marked "non-FOIA." "non-FOIA." marked

the inventory, while others were were others while inventory, the

Scientologists "FOIA," according to to according "FOIA," Scientologists

Some of the documents seized by the the by seized documents the of Some

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). (FOIA). Act Information of Freedom

according to Scientology officials, officials, Scientology to according

ernment conspiracy to destroy it. Gov- Gov- it. destroy to conspiracy ernment ernment documents in its possession, possession, its in documents ernment

swered that It It that swered

has in fact been the victim of a gov- gov- a of victim the been fact in has

buggings. buggings.

ment through infiltration, burglaries, burglaries, infiltration, through ment

ing an "all out attack" on the govern- govern- the on attack" out "all an ing

The Church of Scientology has an- an- has Scientology of Church The

See SCIENTOLOGY, A6, Col. 1 1 Col. A6, SCIENTOLOGY, See

legally obtained through the the through obtained legally

has has broken no laws and and laws no broken SCIENTOLOGY, From Al The files also include, according to scores of people and dozens of Con- the inventory, a five-page "investiga- Last night a spokesman for the gressmen, according to the inventory. tion" of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D. Folders included files on such dispa- Scientologists accused the FBI of Mass.) and references to an acquaint- "leaking erroneous data in an effort rate institutions as the Glendale City ance of Kennedy's named Helga Wag- Council, Letterman's Army Medical to influence ongoing court proceed- ner. ings in which the Scientologists are Center, Folsom Prison, the Albany Kennedy's spokesman, Tom South- Chamber of Commerce, Carnegie fighting to have their documents re- wick, said yesterday that the Scientol- turned. Hall, the Pasadena Department of Fi- ogists might have been interested in nance and the King County, Wash., "They [FBI] are twisting facts to at- Kennedy because they oppose por- tribute to the church dirty tricks Department of Public Safety. tions of his criminal code revisions In the organization's files are me- which they [FBI] have specialized in that would allow judges to refer de- for years, which continues to this mos, letters, documents and teletypes, fendants to psychiatrists. many of them confidential, dealing day," the spokesman said. "The Wash- Southwick said the Scientologists ington Post is allowing Itself to be with intelligence matters involving might have been interested in Ken- the Justice Department, the Internal used as a mouthpiece for these lies nedy because they opposed portions and half truths." Revenue Service, the Treasury De- of his criminal code revisions that al- partment, and the Bureau of Alcohol, The Washington Post reported re- lowed judges to , refer defendents to Tobacco and Firearms, according to cently that, according to informed psychiatrists. the government inventory. One item sources, some of the seized Scientol- The same memo that mentions Ken- seized is a draft of a letter from a for- ogy documents indicate that church nedy and Helga Wagner, according to mer attorney general to a former sec- members staged a bogus hit-and-run the government, also says that retary of the Treasury marked "Not accident in Rock Creek Park here in "Wagner and Jackie Onassis (sic) have Sent." an attempt to compromise a visiting known each other for approximately Also there are references in seized mayor who had opposed the Scientolo- eight years," and says that telephone Scientology memos to "D.C. Police gists in . The Post also re- conversation with Onassis to interest Plant Debriefs," and "FDA Platt De- ported that, according to those same her in the church. briefs, 1959," according to the inven- sources, the church had forged a A spokesman for the scientologists tory. The "debriefs" notations are ref- rough draft of an embarrassing news said the files on the judges "are noth- erences to reports filed by informers story under a Florida reporter's name ing more than the files which would for the FDA and D.C. police that sub- to undermine his credibility and had be maintained on judges in every law sequently were obtained by the Scientol- faked a bomb threat to frame the au- ofice in the United States!' . ogists, according to informed sources. thor of a book critical of Scientology. According to the government inven- The government has possession of According to both the government tory, the Scientologists kept extensive the organization's files dealing with affidavit and its inventory of the files on the American Medical Associ- several men who were D.C. policemen seized Scientology documents, top ation, the Better Business Bureau and and with rocal law firms, including Scientology officials were aware of the American Psychiatric Association, Williams and Connolly, and Feldman, and participated in the campaign to all of which had investigated Scientol- Ginsburg and Bress, according to the silence critics of Scientology. ogy or published articles about it. inventory. Both have had some con- These officials, according to the The Scientologists' investigation in- nection with Scientology court cases. court documents, include Henning cluded, according to documents, the The government inventory includes brief descriptions of a number of doc- He1dt, head of the Church of Scientol- infiltration of several Scientologists uments, with words , in quotation ogy's Guardian Office in this country, into the AMA as employes. One, a and Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of Scien- marks taken directly from the docu- secretary, had access to meetings of ments, according to the government. tology founder L. Ron Hubbard and the AMA's board of directors. the second-ranking person in the In most cases the descriptions are Scientology heirarchy. During 1975, confidential AMA doc- brief, with no elaboration. According to the government affi- uments were leaked to the press by The inventory also includes the davit, the Guardian's Office, one of then unknown sources, one of whom following: the two major divisions of the Church was nicknamed "Sore Throat" by the • A one-page confidential executive of Scientology, is responsible for car- press. The leaked information led to directive bearing the stamp "highest rying out covert operations to acquire investigations of the AMA by the In- priority" and dated April 13, 1976, list- government documents and "to dis- ternal Revenue Service, U.S. Postal ing agencies "toward which our attack credit and remove from positions of Service, several congressional commit- vecor should be aimed." The list in- power all persons whom the Church tees, Ralph Nader and the press. cludes the State Department, Inter- considers to be its enemies." An AMA spokesman characterized• pol, the FBI, Post Office, Justice De- the leaks as "like death by a thousand partment, IRS, CIA and Treasury De- According to the government inven- partment. tory of the seized documents, Scien- cuts." The organization frantically tologists gathered information on the searched for the sources and ulti- • A one-page document dated Nov. mately accused the Church of Scien- 6, 1975, entitled, "IRS: Zapping personal habits and courtroom con- Them." duct of U.S. District Court judges Oli- tology. Scientology spokesman dis- ver Gasch, Gerhard A. Gesell, Joseph missed the accusation at the time; • A four-page memo on obtaining false identification. McGarraghy and John J. Sirica, calling it "illustrative of an incredibly C. • A three-page memo and U.S. Court of Appeals judge Carl corrupt organization grasping in the on obtaining McGowan, all of whom have have han- dark to cofer their own crimes." false birth certificates. • A memo on the "Vetting Hat Ad- dled some aspect of cases brought by A team of 20 FBI agents has spent or against Scientologists here. dition" which deals with the penetra- weeks cataloging the thousands of tion of nongovermnent organizations Some of the information was ob- Scientology documents. According to and the tapping of phone conversa- tained from the judges' private files, the government inventory, they have tions. according to the inventory. Other bits found file folders and operations with A nine-page report dsignated pri- came from interviews in which Scien- the code names "Billys' Baby," "Vanguard," "Hunter," "Fleece," ority regarding. "Operations on ene- tologists masqueraded as students or mies Sableman, Orsini and Bob Sny- reporters, a tactic that Scientology "Starpoint," "Amber," "Pink In," and der." Reporters with these names documents refer to as "suitable guise" `Lantern.' wrote stories critical of Scientology. interviews. One church document, dated Jan, • A seven-page memo dated Dec. 2, The material gathered ranges from 20, 1977, is entitled, "The Correct LSE; 1974, entitled "The Tailing and Fol- assessments of the judges' reactions of Codes." There is no further elabce lowing of Agents: What To Do." to various legal tactics to Judge ration in the government summary. A manila folder entitled Opera- Gasch's real estate transactions. The Scientologists kept files ml tion Cut Throat containing six docu- ments regarding the infiltration of the Better Business Bureau of Greater St. Louis. • A confidential Better Business Bu-

gion in which people can be "cleared" of troubling experiences through ses- sions with "auditors" or counselors. Fees for this and courses in the movement's philosophy can cost reau report entitled "The Church of thousands of dollars. Scientology of Boston." Government interest in Scientology Raymond Banoun, an assistant files increased last year after a high- United States Attorney and the chief ranking organization official, Michael investigator in .the government's Meisner, began telling the FBI and probe into Scientology, declined to prosecutors about Scientology covert elaborate on the church documents operations and documents. Meisner beyond what is in the inventory. had been sought by the FBI in connec- Scientologists have contended in tion with his alleged illegal entry into court documents, press releases and the U.S. District Courthouse here. He interviews that they are victims of a has since become a key government 20-year campaign of harassment by witness and is under protective cus- the federal government, which is at- tody, according to informed sources. tempting to suppress their religion. Meisner has told the government After recent articles in The Post that Scientology officials hid him about their alleged activities, scientol- while he was a "fugitive and then ogy spokesmen held rallies and put placed him under 24-hour guard when out news releases announcing that the he tried to return to Washington. At organization had been "monitoring" one point, he has said in an affidavit, government activities in order to find he was moved from one building to "government illegalities and cover- another while handcuffed and gagged. ups" and make them public. According to the government inven- The spokesmen announced the for- tory of Church documents, a number mation of a new group, American Citi- of top Church officials, including Hen- zens for Honesty in Government, and ning Heldt and Mary Sue Hubbard, talked about Meisner's situation while called on "every honest government he was a fugitive. One memo, found in employee" to report improprieties to Heldt's desk, begins, "Dear Mary Sue, the "ACHG Committee.' Herb is threatening to return to D.C." Scientology has been the subject of "Herb," Meisner has sworn, was a controversy since its founding in the code name for him. Other documents, late 1940s. It has been called quack- with cross references to Herb and ery, and endorsed as a means to peace Meisner, confirm that, according to in- of mind. formed sources. The movement was founded by L. According to Meisner's sworn state- Ron Hubbard, a former science fiction ment, organization officials believed it writer who spread his gospel in a best- was essential for the operation and se- selling book, ": The Modern curity of Scientology to keep detailed Science of Mental Health," records. Scientology. professes to be a reli-