NOTE: I have made a considerable effort to get the scanning errors in this
document corrected and I've done my best to make sure that the foot notes are
properly indented in the text so that you can determine which text in this
Stipulation of Evidence are foot notes and which is the main text of the
indictment. There may still be some errors however as I see them I'll fix them.
If you send in corrections, I'll apply them.
Of particular note is the fact that I've marked in bold some of the
names of the ringleaders mentioned here since they are still part of the
Scientology®
crime syndicate. The "Guardians Office" was renamed to the "Office of Special
Affairs" which continues to operate unabaited.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT The United States of Americal through its attorneys, United States Attorney
Carl S. Rauh, Assistant United States Attorneys Raymond Banoun, Timothy j.
Reardon, III, and Steven C. Tabackman, and the attorneys for the defendants:
Leonard B. Boudin, Esquire, and Michael L. Hertzberg, Esquire, for the defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard; Phillip j. Hirschkop, Esquire, for the defendants Henning
Heldt and Duke Snider; Rcger Zukerman, Esquire, and Roger Spaeder, Esquire, for
the defendants, Richard Weigand and Gregory Willardson; Michael Nussbaum,
Esquire, and Earl C. Dudley, Esquire, for the defendants Cindy Raymond and
Mitchell Hermann, also known as Mike Cooper; John Kenneth Zwerling, Esquire, for
the defendants Gerald Bennet Wolfe; and Leonard J. Koenickp Esquire for the
defendant Sharon Thomas; as well as the above-mentioned defendants themselves ,
agree and stipulate that the evidence as to all the defendants is as follows:
1. The Witness Michael J. Meisner
Michael J. mEisner, 29, was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended parochial
elementary and secondary schools. He studied at the University of Illinois at
Urbana for two and a half years from 1968 through 1970. Mr. Meisner became
interested in Scientology in November 1970 when he was intro- duced to it by a
friend. During the next two months, he took several courses at the Urbana Church
of Scientology franchise and in January 1971 left the University to become a
full time course supervisor. He held this Position until May 1971 when he was
sent to the Church of Scientology of St. Louis for two weeks of further
training. He then returned to Urbana, Illinois, where he resumed his duties as a
course supervisor until September 1971. At that time, he returned to the St.
Louis Church of Scientology where for the next eight months he was trained to
become an auditor. 1/ From May 1972 until August 1972, he resumed his duties as
a course
supervisor and an auditor in Urbana, Illinois. In August 1972, lie assumed
the position of Executive Director of the franchise until June 1973.
In mid-May 1973, the defendant Duke Snider recruited Mr. Meisner for the
Guardian's Office of the Church of Scien- tology in Washington, D.C. In a
meeting in Washington, D.C., the defendant Snider told him that he wanted him to
become part of the Intelligence Bureau of the Guardian's Office. The
Intelligence Bureau became the Information Bureau Bureau [sic] in July 1973. In
mid-June 1973, Mr. Meisner and his wife Patricia were accepted for the
Guardian's Office and moved to the District of Columbia to take courses in
prepara- tion for assuming their duties as officials of that orgainiza- tion.
Upon becoming an officer of the Intelligence Bureau, Mr. Meisner was instructed
by the defendant Duke Snider that that Bureau was in the forefront of the
Guardian's Office that is, it dealt with safeguarding the environment within
which Scientology existed by locating, removing and rendering harmless all thore
perceived to be enemies of Scientology, This was accomplished by infiltration,
theft of documents and covert operations. Following a week of training in
Guardian's Office procedures and policies in the District or Columbia, Mr.
Meisner was sent to Los Angeles, California, for more intensive training in the
Intelligence (Information) Bureau.
From July 1973 until October 1973, Mr. Meisner's training in the Information
Bureau of the Guardian's Office in Los Angeles, California, included intensive
courses in administra- tive procedures, policies and practices of the
Information Bureau, as well as the Guardian's Office as a whole. These included
courses on the preparation of documents, such as reports, "CSWS" (completed
staff work), 2/ "programs," (later denominated "Guardian Program Orders")
"projects," "Guardian Orders," and daily Intelligence reports. He also learned
the routing and format required in the preparation of documents. Mr. Meisner was
taught that strict adherence to the chain of command and seniority within the
organizational structure
was of paramount importance in the day-to-day operations of the Guardian's
Office, and more specifically the Information Bureau. Mr. Meisner was Instructed
that the routing placed on each written document followed strictly that chain of
command so that each memorandum, report, etc., went to the appropriate persons
for approval and/or information. In a clinical setting, Mr. Meisner also learned
to conduct covert investigations, surveillances "suitable guise" investiga-
tions, 3/ the recruiting and supervising of covert agents, the placing of these
agents in organizations that were to he infiltrated, the theft of documents, and
other overt and covert intelligence gathering techniques. The defendant Gregory
Willardson, among others, supervised him in the these areas. For a three-week
period Mr. Meisner also cross- filed memoranda and other [sic] covertly and
overtly obtained documents of interest to Scientology. He thereby became
intimately familiar with the sophisticated filing system
maintained by the Guardian's Office and its Information Bureau. The absolute
necessity of correctly labelling and filing all documents obtained and kept by
the Information Bureau was emphasized to Mr. Meisner. Strict adherence to these
policies was mandated to assure that the Information Bureau and the Guardian's
Office functioned in a proper and efficient manner.
In November 1973 Mr. Meisner returned to the District of Columbia as Branch
II Director of the Information Bureau. In that position he was responsible for
internal security matters. These included both the physical security of the
premises of the local Guardian's Office as well as the handl- ing of all
dissident and disaffected Scientologists. with regard to the latter, his duties
included obtaining personal information which would prevent them fron becoming a
nuisance to Scientology. In January 1974, the Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember
elevated Mr. Meisner to the position of Assistant Guardian for Information in
the District of Columbia (AG I DC) In his new post, Mr. Meisner was responsible
for all overt and covert intelligence investigations and operations. This
included the implementation of all Guardian orders, programs, and projects
within the District of Columbia applicable to the Information Bureau, as well as
overall supervision of all covert operatives in private and governmental
agencies. Until March 1974, the defendant Duke Snider was Mr. Meisner's
immediate supervisor. At that time, the defendant Snider was Assistant Guardian
for the District of Columbia (AG DC) the highest position in the local
Guardian's Office.
II. Organizational Structure of the Guardian's Office
As a result of his intensive training in the Guardian's Office as well as
having held high positions within the Information Bureau Mr. Meisner became
thoroughly familiar with the organizational structure of the Guardians Office
and its bureaus, both nationally and internationally. _Govern- ment Exhibit No.
1A_ is a chart showing the organizational structure of both the World-Wide and
United States Guardian's offices. At all times material to the indictment, the
Guardian's Office had World-Wide headquarters at St. Hill Manor in East
Grinstead, Sussex, England; United States headquarters in Los Angeles,
California; and a local office in the District of Coluubia and some thirty other
cities throughout the United States. 4/ Each of the Guardian's Offices was con-
posed of five bureaus: Information (prior to July 1973 known as the Intelligence
Bureau), Public Relations, Legal, Finance, and Social Coordination. A sixth
bureau not shown on _Government Exhibit No. 1A_ was known as the Services
Bureau. Each bureau was headed both at the World-Wide and national level by a
Deputy Guardian. At the local level each bureau was headed by an Assistant
Guardian. At all times material to the indictment, L. Ron Hubbard was, by virtue
of his role as the founder and leader or Scientology, overall supervisor of the
Guardian's Office.
His wife, the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard, held the titles of "Controller" and
"Commodore Staff Guardian" (CSG) and, as the second person in the hierarchy of
Scientology, had duties which included supervision of the Guardian's Office.
Jane Kember held the title of "Guardian World-Wide" (GWW) and headed the daily
operations of all Guardian's Offices, reporting directly to the defendant Mary
Sue Hubbard who in turn reported directly to L. Ron Hubbard. The Deputy Guardian
for Informa- tion World-liide (DG I WW) was Morris Budiong, also known as Mo
Budlong (hereafter Mo Budlong). He supervised all Information Bureaus around the
world and reported to Jane Kember. The defendant Henning Heldt was the Deputy
Guardian for the United States (DG US) supervising all Guard- ian's Offices in
the United States. He reported directly to Jane Kember.
_Government Exhihit No. 1B_ is an organizational chart of the Information
Bureau in the United States from November 1973 until January 1976 when it was
reorganized. The defendant Duke Snider was Deputy Guardian for Information in
the United States (DG I US) from March 1974 until January 1975, a position
thereafter held by the defendant Richard Weigand. Beginning in January 1975 and
at all other relevant times charged in the indictment, the defendant Snider was
Deputy Deputy Guardian for the United States (DDG US) and in that capacity was
the defendant Heldt's top assistant. In October 1975, the defendant Gregory
Willardson became the Deptuty Deputy Guardian for Infor- mation U.S. (DDG I US).
Prior to that date he had held the position of Branch I Director U.S. (BR I DIR
US). The defend- ant Cindy Raymond was the Collections Officer for the United
States (COLL OFF US). She was responsible for the overt, and covert data
collection for the Information Bureau.
_Government Exhibit 1C_ is an organization chart of the Information Bureau in
the United States after its reorganiza- tion in January 1976. Following the
removal of the defendant Richard Weigand from the position of Deputy Guardian
for Information U.S. on approximately May 15, 1977, that postition was assumed
by Brian Andrus until June 16, 1977, and there- after by the defendant Gregory
Willardson. From January 1976 until May 1977, Mr. Willardson held the position
of Deputy Deputy Guardian Information U.S. (DDG I US). For the period January
1976 to June 1976, Mr. Willardson also held the position of National Secretary
for the Information Bureau U.S. (NATL SEC US). 5/ From June 1976 until August
1976 the position of National Secretary was held by Michael Meisner, who was
succeeded in September 1976 by the defendant Cindy Raymond.
Government Exhibit No. 1D is an organizational chart of the Information
Bureau in the District of Columbia. From January 1974 until June 1976, Mr.
Meisner held the position of Assistant Guardian for Information in the District
of Columbia (AG I DC). Immediately under him was the defendant Hermann who held
the position of Information Branch I Director from January 1974 until March
1975. The defendant Hermann, using the alias "Mike Cooper," subsequently held
the position of Southeast U.S. Secretary (SEUS SEC) from January 1976 until
March 1977 when he was succeeded by Brian Andrus.
(See Government Exhibit No. 1C, supra.)
The routing on each document prepared within the Guard- ian's Office of the
Church of Scientology, and its under- lying bureaus, tracks the organizationial
charts. (Government Exhibits Nos. IA-ID.) Thus, in the routing portion of each
document is the abbreviation of each of the positions held by the Persons who
were to receive the particular documents, as well as that of the author of the
document. (See, e.g. Government Exhibit 14, discussed at page 48, infra.
From January 1974 when Mr. Meisner joined the Guardian's Office until he left
the Church of Scientology in June 1977, Mr. Meisner had extensive person to
person contacts with the defendants Henning Heldt, Duke Snider, Richard Weigand,
Gregory Willardson, Cindy Raymond, Mitchell Hermann, Gerald Bennett Wolfe and
Sharon Thomas. During some of the periods charged in each conspiracy, the latter
four defendants were in fact, subordinates of Mr. Meisner. Mr. Meisner
repeatedly met with each of these eight defendants. He exchanged many written
communication with them, especially the first six named defendants as well, as
the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard.
He became intimately familiar, with the handwriting and signa- ture of the
defendants, and thus is able to identify their writings and signature wherever
it appears on the documents appended to the instant record as Government
Exhibits. Indeed he witnessed most of the defendants write and sign their names
in his presence.
III.
The Conspiracy to Intercept Oral Communications, Burglarize and Steal, and
the Substantive Acts Committed Pursuant Thereto.
On November 21, 1973, Jane Kember, the Guardian World- Wide (Guardian W/W)
wrote a letter to the Temporary Deputy Guardian U.S. (T/D/Guatrdian US) Henning
Heldt "Re Interpol Washington." (See Government Exhibit No. 26/ at page 3,
et seq.) in that handwritten letter, she informed the defendant Henning Heldt
that the Guardian's Office has "some documents, _illegally_obtained_, that
indicate Interpol Washington was in touch with Interpol Paris, London,
Melbourne, Ottawa and Lomba Malawi.11 (Emphasis' added.) She added at page two
of that letter that "we now know that Washington D.C. has police files on LRH,
and _if_ the reference is correct, Interpol Washington has a file on LRH as
well." She then directecd that "[I]t is important that we get cracking and
obtain these files and I leave you to work out how." Attached to that letter
were a number of Interpol documents.
In his three and one half years as an official of the Guardian's Office,
including serving as the highest official of the Information Bureau in the
District of Columbia and the national Secretary of the Information Bureau in the
United States, Mr. Meisner met and exchanged communications with Ms. Kember. He
has also seen numerous communications from her to other Guardian's Office
officials. Based on that experience, Mr. Meisner became familiar with her
handwriting. He Recognizes the handwriting in the above-mentioned letter as that
of Jane Kember. Mr. Meisner also recognizes the routing in the upper left-hand
corner, or page three to be in accordance with the required routing procedures
of the Guardians Office. 7/
Government Exhibit No. 2, pages one and two, is a letter signed "Henning"
addressed to "Dear Dick" dated 29 April 1975,
referring specifically to the November 21, 1973 order of Jane Kember which,
the letter indicated, was attached to it. The letter concluded "while Legal is
doing FOI [Freedom of Information Act] actions to obtain these (documents),
please have B-1 [Information Bureau-Bureau 1] obtain them (the Legal route is at
best lengthy.)" According to the routing portion located on the upper left hand
corner of the document the letter was sent by the Deputy Guardian U.S. (DG US) ,
the defendant Henning Beldt, to the DC Info US, the defendant Richard Weigand.
Next to the abbreviation "DO Info US" are the initials "DW" of the defendant
Richard [Dick] Weigand. Mr. Meisner identifies the signature and handwritten
entry on page two of Government Exhibit No. 2 as the handwriting of the
defendant Henning Heldt. The Government's handwriting analysis expert, Mr. James
Miller, positively concludes that both the signature and the three-line
handwritten note on page two of that document is in the handwriting of the
defendant Heldt.
In July 1974 the defendant Duke Snider, who was at the time Deputy Guardian
for Information in the United States, sent a written order to Michael Meisner,
the Assistant Guardian for Information in the District of Columbia. That order
referred to Jane Kember's outstanding order to obtain Interpol files regarding
Scientology from District of Columbia Interpol offices. The Snider order
directed Mr. Meisner to prepare a "project" to obtain all these Interpol files.
Pursuant to that directive, Mr. Geiser, drafted such a "project" and sent it to
the defendant Snider in Los Angeles for laws approval. The "project" called for
the infiltration of the Interpol National Central Bureau for the United States,
then located in the United States Department of the Treasury main building in
Washington, D.C., in order to obtain all files regarding, or, referring to,
Scientology and its founder L.Ron Hubbard The defendant Snider acknowledged the
receipt of that "project," and by return mail approved its issuance. Mr.
Meisnier there- after assigned the "project" to the defendant Mitchell Hermann,
who was then Branch I Director in the District of Columbia Information Bureau.
The Interpol files required to be obtain- ed by Ms. Kember's outstanding order
of November 21, 1973 (Government Exhibit No. 2) and Mr. Snider's order of July
1974, were not taken, however, until the burglaries of the office of Assistant
United States Attorney Nathan Dodell in the United States Courthouse for the
District of Columbia in May 1976. In a 2 May 1975 letter to Henning Heldt, the
DG US, appearing on the last page of Government Exhibit No. 2, the defendant
Richard Weigand stated that as of that date the order requiring the obtaining of
the "IP" [Interpol] DC files hasn't begun yet". Mr. Meisner identifies the
signature "Dick" as having been made by the defendant Weigand.
A. The Order to Infiltrate the Internal
Revenue Service in Washignton, D.C.
In the late summer of 1974, the defendant Cindy Raymond, who then held the
position of Collections Officer in the US Information Bureau in Los Angeles,
California, sent a directive to Hichael Meisner ordering him to recruit a loyal
Scientologist to be placed as a covert agent at Internal Revenue Service in
Washington, D.C. That covert operative was to obtain employment with the
Internal Revenue Service for the pur- pose of taking from that agency all
documents which dealt with Scientology, including those concerning pending
litigation initiated by Scientology against the United States Government. Mr.
Meisner discussed the recruiting of that covert operative with the defendant
Raymond on at least a weekly basis for three to four weeks. 8/ As a result of
the directive which he received from Ms. Raymond and the discussions with her,
Mr. Meisner and the defendant Mitchell Hermann proceeded to interview
Scientologists as prospective agents for the IRS infiltration. The efforts of
Messrs. Meisner and Hermann proved futile however, and the defendants Raymond in
September, 1974 informed Mr. Meisner that she had selected defendant Gerald
Bennett Wolfe to infiltrate the IRS on behalf of the Church of Scientology. Mr.
Wolfe arrived in the District of Columbia in October 1974, and eventually
obtained employment at the IRS on November 18, 1974, as a clerk typist.
Government Exhibit Nos. 3 9/and 4 10/ are virtually identical copies of
Guardian Order 1361 issued 21 October 1974 Mr. Meisner and Ms. Hirsch state that
the document in question was issued by the Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember in
accordance with required Guardian Office procedure for the issuance of Guardian
Orders. 11/ Ms. Hirsch identifies the initials which appear at the lower,
left-hand of page ten on each exhibit as those of Lexie Ramirez (Ms. Kember's
secretary at the time). Furthermore, Mr. Meisner states that certain targets
(target number 10, 16 and 17 located at page nine of Government Exhibit Nos. 3
and 4), were specif- cally assigned to him to carry out in the District of
Columbia.
These targets were as follows:
10. Immediately get an agent into DC IRS to obtain files on LRH. Scientology,
etc. in the Chief Council's [sic] office, the Special Services staff, the
intelligence division, Audit Division, and any other areas.
16. Collect data on the Justice Dept.
Tax Division for the org board, the current terminals, and the people
handling Scicntology.
17. When the correct areas are isolated, infiltrate and get the files. The
entry at the end of each target, and connected to it by a straight line, refers
to the bureau and official whose task it is to achieve that particular target.
Guardian Order 1361 (generally known as GO 1361) also called for the placing of
"an agent, trustworthy and well grooved in, to infiltrate the IRS LA office"
(target 2). That "agent" was "to obtain any files on LRH, Scientology", etc.
from both the Intelligence Division (target 3) and the Audit Division (target 4)
of the Los Angeles IRS Office. It also called for the location (target 20) and
infiltration (target 22) of the IRS London Office in order to "obtain all
documents" (target 22). 12/ Guardian Order 1361 directed that once documents had
been obtained clandestinely, the designated bureau and official would create
"suitable cover" to disguise the manner in which "the data was obtained" so that
they may be released to "PR [Public Relations] for dead agenting," that is, for
possible use in impeaching those perceived as enemies of Scientology.
The defendant Cindy Raymond repeatedly discussed GO 1361 and its various
targets with Mr. Meisner over a period of two years. Indeed, defendants Henning
Heldt, Duke Snider, Richard Weigand, Gregory Willardson, Mitchell Hermann, and
Gerald Bennett Wolfe also discussed on many occasions with Mr. Meisner the
actual implementation of GO 1361. in the District of Columbia. These
conversations occurred both in person, in writing and by telephone. Those in
person took place in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, California, and are dis-
cussed at length infra. At all times these seven defendants expressed their
agreement with, and total understanding of, the targets within GO 1361, a number
of which involved the infiltration of Government offices and the theft of
government documents and photocopies thereof as called for by targets 10, 16 and
17.
B. The Bugging of the IRS Cheif Counsel's
Conference Room on November 1, 1974
A few days before November 1, 1974, Don Alverzo, who held the position or
Deputy Information Branch I Director US tele- phoned Mr. Meisner from Los
Angeles, California, to inform him that he was coming to the District of
Columbia to place an electronic bugging device in the Chief Counsel's conference
room at the Internal Revenue Service where a major meeting concerning
Scientology was to be held. On October 30, 1974, Mr. Meisner met Mr. Alverzo at
the Guardian's Office located at 2125 S Street, Northwest, in the District of
Columbia. Also present at this meeting were the defendants Mitchell Hermann and
Bruce Ullman who held the position of Information Branch II Director in the
District of Columbia. Alverzo showed Meisner the bugging device which he had
brought with him from Los Angeles. One of the items Alverzo had was a multiple
electric outlet containing a transmitting device. In the late afternoon of
October 30 Mr. Meisner and the defendant Mitchell Hermann entered the main IRS
build- ing located at 1111 Constitution Avenue, northwest, for the purpose of
locating the conference room of the Chief Counsel's office where the meeting was
to be held on November 1, 1974 13/
On November 1, 1974, because of other pressing business Mr. Meisner did not
accompany Mr. Alverzo during the IRS bugging. However, on the evening of
November 1, 1974 subsequent to the IRS conference, Mesiner met with the
defendant Mitchell Hermann who described to him what had taken place. The
defendant Hermann told Mr. Meisner that ha had entered the main IRS building on
the morning of November 1, 1974, gone to the conference room, where the meeting
was to be held and placed the bugging device in a wall socket in that room. The
room was located on the fourth floor of the Internal Revenue Service main
building in Washington D.C. and faced the driveway of the Smithsonian
Institution Museum of History and Technology on Constitution Avenue Northwest.
14/ Thereafter, Hermann left the building and waited in a car in the driveway of
the mueseum with Don Alverzo and Carla Moxon (the Assistant Guardian
Communicator (Secretary) in the District of Columbia) and overheard and taped
the
entire meeting over the FM radio of the car. Following the conclusion of the
meeting, the defendant Hermann creentered the IRS building, removed the bugging
equipment from the conference room and took various papers, including the agenda
for the meeting, which had been left by the participants. He showed these items
to Mr. Meisner. Soon afterwards Alverzo returned to Los Angeles. He took with
him the bugging device, and the tape recording of the meeting. 15/
(Footnote continued on next page.)
Covernnent Exhibit No. 5 16/ is a November 1, 1974 letter, entitled "Re: IRS
Top Planning Session," from the defendant Duke Snider who was then, as reflected
by the routing on the upper left hand side of the first page, the DG Info US. to
Mo Budlong, the DG Info World-Wide. The letter is sent via a number of other
individuals. A copy was also sent, according to the routing on the upper portion
of the first page, to CSG, the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard. Mr. Meisner states
that the routing conforms to the standard routing requiremennts of the Guardian
Office and indicates that it was sent by the defendant Snider to Mr. Budlong.
Handwriting expert, James Miller, concludes that it is probable that the
handwritten notations "Top Planning Session"
(footnote continued from proceeding page.)
in the title of the letter and the one on the second page or the document are
in the handwriting of the defendant Duke Snider. Mr. Meisner himself recognizes
that handwriting to be that of the defendant Duke Snider.
The letter stated that "[t]oday we gained access to the top level IRS
planning conference on what to do about Scien- tology. This was done
electronically so we don't know exactly who was present but we have a fair
estimate. Legal had told us several viecks ago that there was to be a big IRS
Pow Wow on what to do about us on 1 Nov. . . . " The letter further stated that
the meeting was held in IRS Chief Counsel's conference room and that the
participants discussed some of the matters which were taken up at the meeting.
In the letter, the defendant Snider stated that he "will probably be able to got
more data as to who attended when our mission- aire 17/ gets back from DC. All
the data we have at present came by phone.''
Government Exhibits Nos. 6 and 187 are coded transcripts of the bugged IRS
meeting of November 1, 1974. Government Exhibit No. 6 is a summary of the
meeting. Mr. Meisner identifies Government Exhibit No. 6 by the routing in the
upper left-hand and right-hand sides of the first page. As reflected in its
routing, it was sent by the then DG Info US, the defendant Snider, to the DG
Info World-Wide, Mo Budlong, via. the DG US, the defendant Henning Heldt and the
Guardian World-Wide, Jane Kember, with a copy to CSG, the defendant Mary Sue
Hubbard. Government Exhibit Nos. 7A and 7B are code Jade. The handwritten
entries on page two of Government Exhibit No. 7B, indicated that this was a code
which is to be used for correspondence between the United States Office and the
World-Wide Guardian's Office among others. Code Jade was not to be used with
"outer-orgs" meaning local Guardian's Offices. Government Exhibits Nos. 6, 7 and
187 were seized on July 8, 1977, in Los Angeles, California, by Federal Bureau
of Investigation Special Agent Eusebio Benavidez pursuant to the
Court-authorized search warrant described in footnote six, supra, from a file
cabinet in the office of Gregory Willardson in the Cedars Complex.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Arthur R. Eberhardt, a Federal
Bureau of Investigation cryptanalyst examined Government Exhibits Nos. 6 and 187
and concludes that they were coded texts each utilizing two different methods of
substitution codes. One method is a "digital code" which uses the substitution
of digits 10 through 99 for the various letters of the alphabet, thereby
allowing the author to sub- stitute a variety of digits for any given plaintext
letter The other method is a "literal code" which involves the substitution of
letters or a word or words. Encoded letters have only one plaintext value and
retain the same value at all times. Agent Eberhardt also analyzed Government
Exhibit Nos. 7A and 7B and concludes that code Jade as set forth in these
exhibits was the code used It-Iri prepare the marked Government Exhibit Nos. 6
and 187. Using code Jade (Government Exhibils 7A and 7B) Agent Eberhardt decoded
Government Exhibits 6 and 187. He did so by writing above all coded items its
decoded meaning. Thus Government Exhi- bit 6 as decoded is Government Exhibit
210 and Government Exhibit 187 as decoded is Government Exhibit 211. These
exhibits are transcripts of the bugged meeting held in the IRS Chief Counsel's
conference room on November 1, 1974. Government Exhibit 210 is a summary of that
transcript and Government Exhibit 211 is the full transcript. At the bottom of
page six and at the top of page seven of Goverment Exhibit 210 the defendant
Snider wrote to his superior Mo Budlong that "[w]e must be careful with this
transcript as even in the distant future in the hands of the enemy the
repercussions would be great. There are new laws on this federally and a strong
post-Watergate Judicial climate." Thus, the Duke Snider, himself recognized in
this letter the criminal implications of the bugginng of the IRS meeting on
November 1, 1971.
On November 1, 1971, Mr. Lewis Hubbard, was employed by the Office of the
Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service at 1111 Constitution Avenue,
Northwest, and on that date attended a meeting in the Chief Counsel's conference
room. Numerous other high officials of the IRS attended this meeting. Mr.
Hubbard states that the IRS held the November 1, 1974 conference to disscuss
pending legal actions involving the various churches Of Scientology and to
establish general guidelines for determination oh what constituted a "religious
institution" entitled to exemption from taxation under the Internal Revenue
Code. Mr. Hubbard has produced from his files a lengthy pre-conference
memorandum which he prepared at the request of the Chief Counsel in order to
brief all persons who were to attend the November 1, 1974 conference regarding
the topics to be discussed (Government Exhibit No. 208). He has also produced a
post-conference memorandum which he prepaired following the conclusion of the
November 1, 1974 conference and which outlines the matters discussed at that
conference (Government Exhibit No. 209). A comparison of these two exhibits with
Government Exhibits Nos. 210 and 211, (the FBI decodes of Government Exhibits
Nos. 6 and 187 respectively seized from the offices of the defendant Willardson
at the Cedars Complex by the Federal Bureau of Investigation) demonstrates that
all four exhibits deal with precisely the same discussions.
C. The First Infiltration of the IRS in the
District of Columbia Pursuant to GO 1361 Government Exhibits Nos. 8-11 18/
are a series of documents containing numerous telexes and letters dealing with
the infiltration of the Internal Revenue Service by the defendant Gerald Bennett
Wolfe pursuant to GO 1361. Mr. Meisner identifies the telexes as being in the
standard telex routing and format employed by the Guardian's Office and the
Information Bureau whenever sending telexes during this period. Government
Exhibit No. 8A reads as follows:
TELEX
Mr. Meisner explains that the numerals at the beginning of the first line of
the telex represent the following: 31 - day 10 - month 39 - number of the telex
sent from the U.S.
Guardian's Office on 31/10/1974 GOUS - Guardian Office US, originator of the
telex 4 - the number of telexes on that topic AGI DC - the addressee
The date "3110," meaning October 31, using the European system for setting
out the date indicates that the first telex on this topic was sent on October
31. The routine also shows that this is the fourth telex on the topic discussed
in the text of the telex, and the handwritten notation on the states that it was
sent on "11.10.74" or November 10, 1974. The concluding line "Love Duke DGI US"
reveals that it was sent by the defendant, Duke Snider, the Deputy Guardian for
Information in the United States. The abbreviation "ARC" is a Scientology term
used in telexes as an alternative to "STOP". "FSM" is an abbreviation for "field
staff member" a term, used in the Information Bureau for covert operatives. All
other telexes in Government Exhibits Nos. 8 through 11 carry the same routing
and format and thus explain when they were sent, by whom, and to whom, as well
as the sequence in which they were sent. Thus, Government Exhibit No. 8A is a
telex from the defendant Snider, the "DGI US" to Michael Meisner the "AGI DC."
Mr. Meisner recalls having received it from the defendant Snider. In it, the
defendant Snider inquired whether Gerald Bennett Wolfe, the "FSM" to be placed
at the IRS had been able to obtain employment in view of the hiring freeze
there. Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that it is "highly probable"
that the initials "DS" next to "DGI US" were written by the defendant Snider.
Mr. Meisner identifies them as initials made by the defendant Snider. Government
Exhibit No. 8B is the telex which Mr. Meisner, the "AGI DC," sent to "DGI US"
Duke Snider, via "DG US" Henning Heldt stating that Gerald Wolfe, the "FSM" had
apparently passed the hiring freeze and that they "will know for sure" Whether
he has received employment by November 18 at the latest. A notation on that
telex indicates that it was received on "11.11.74" at "2000" hours (8:00 p.m.).
Government Exhibit No. 8C is a telex from the defendant Snider, the "DGI US," to
Mr. Meisner, the "AGI DC," stating "excellent on both pls [please] keep me
informed by telex". Mr. Meisner, also recalls receiving that telex from the
defendant Snider. The handwriting "IRS + JUSTICE PENETRATION" in the upper
portion of Government Exhibit No. 8C is identified by Meisner, as that of the
defendant Duke Snider.
Government Exhibit No. 8D is a telex from Mr. Meisner to the Guardian's
Office U.S. in Los Angeles, California, informing it that "FSM past freeze and
in initial placement in Income Tax Division as clerical." In this manner,
Meisner notified the Los Angeles Guardian's Office that the defendant Wolfe had
obtained employment and was working as a clerk at the IRS Income Tax Division.
Mr. Meisner recalls sending this particular telex to the defendant Snider,
Government Exhibit No. 8E is a response to the previous telex from "DGI US" Duke
Snider to "AGI DC" Meisner congratulating Mr. Meisner for his work. The
abbreviation "VVWD" means "very very well done". Mr. Meisner recalls receiving
that telex. Government Exhibit 8, the cover letter dated November 11, 1974 was
written by Mr. Joe Lisa, the Deputy Deputy Guardian for Information U.S. (DDG I
US), to the defendant Gregory Willardson, the Information Branch I Director
U.S., regarding the "IRS evaluation" GO 1361, target 10, and directed Mr.
Willardson "to get this started immediately and push this hard" to get it
accomplished. 19/
Government Exhibit No. 9A is a telex sent on "14.11" November 14 1974) by
"DGI US" Duke Snider, to DGI WW," Mo Budlong, "Re: GO 1361 Tar [target] 10,"
which informed Mr. Budlong, that despite the national hiring freeze defendant
Gerald Bennett Wolfe had accepted employment at the IRS. Mr. James Miller, the
handwriting expert, positively indenti- fied the defendant Henning Heldt as the
writer of the initials next to "DG US" and states that the initials next to "DGI
US" were probably written by the defendant Duke Snider. Mr. Meisner himself
recognizes the handwriting "despite freeze" and the initials next to "DGI US"
are made by the defendant Snider, and the initials next to "DG US" as made by
the defendant Heldt. Government Exhibit No. 9 is a telex received "15.11.74"
(November 15, 1974) at "2000" hours (8:00 P.M.) from Mr. Budlong to the
defendant Snider, the "DGI US," which con- gratulated him on the placement of a
covert agent at IRS. The routing at the beginning of the telex indicates that it
is in response to Government Exhibit No. 9A. Mr. Meisner recognizes the
handwriting on the upper portion of Government Exhibit No. 9 as that of the
defendant Duke Snider.
During the first week of Decembecr 1974 Meisner and the defendant Mitchell
Hermann entered the IRS building located at 1111 Constitution Avenue, Northwest,
Washington, D.C., and remained inside until sometime after 7:00 p.m. At that
time, Mr. Meisner and the defendant Hermann entered without permission offices
of the Exempt Organization Division on the seventh floor; removed from the
building one file relat- ing to Scientology and took it to the Guardian's Office
in Washington, D.C.; and photocopied it there. The next day, the defendant
Hermann returned it to the IRS files. The pur- poso of their entry was to show
to the defendant Gerald Bennett Wolfe that documents could easily be taken from
the Internal Revenue Offices. Following that entry, Mr. Meisner called the
defendant Duke Snider in Los Angeles, California, and told him what he and
Hermann had accomplished inside the IRS and what documents had been stolen. He
told the defendant Snider that the entry which he and Hermann had made proved
conclusively the ease with which documents could be taken from the IRS.
Government Exhibit No. 10A is a telex sent on December 4, 1974 at "2200"
hours by the "DGI US," Duke Snider, to the "DGI WW" Mo Budlong regarding "GO
1361 TAR 10." The telex informed Mr. Budlong that the defendant Snider and his
associates had received "two shipments from DC . . . about ten inches" thick
containing documents which the defendants Hermann and Wolfe and Mr. Meisner had
stolen from the IRS. Handwriting Expert James Miller concludes that the initials
next to "DGUS" were probably made by the defendant Heldt and that the initials
next to "DGIUS" were highly propobly by made by the defendant Snider. Mr.
Meisner recognizes each set of initial as being made by the defendants Heldt and
Duke Snider respectively.
Government Exhibit No. 10, a telex from Mr. Budlong to the defendant Snider
is a response to Government Exhibit No. 10A stated "Duke such news brings joy to
my heart ARC Absolutely fantastic ARC I can't wait to see the data." Mr. Meisner
recognizes the handwriting in the upper portion of Government. Exhibit No. 30,
with the exception of "DW6/12" as that of the defendant Snider; and the
handwriting "DW6/12" as that of the defendant Richard "Dick" Weigand. The telex
indicated that it was received at "1400" (2:00 p.m.) hours on "5.12.74"
(December 5, 1974).
Government Exhibit No. 11 contains two letters. The second and earlier letter
in the exhibit, dated November 11, 1974 is from Joe Lisa, the then Deputy Deputy
Guardian for Information U.S. to the defendant Willardson, the Branch I Director
US. It directed the District of Columbia Guardian's Office to immediately obtain
documents from the IRS pursuant to Target 10 of GO 1361. (The letter is
identical to Govern- ment Exhibit. No. 8.) The first page of Governmant Exhibit
No. 11, dated "9 December 74," is the defendant Willardson's response io Lisa's
November 11 letter. It informed Mr. Lisa that Target 10 of GO 1361, which called
for getting an "FSM" into the IRS in the District of Columbia, had been
achieved, and that compliance had already been reported to the World- Wide
Guardian's Office.
During his initial employment at the IRS, the defendant Wolfe was supervised
by the defendant Hermann. As such the defendant Hermann maintained all contacts
with defendant Wolfe. 20/ Defendant Hermann himself was a direct subordinite of
Mr. Meisner during this period and reported regularly to Mr. Meisner, on
defendant Wolfe's accomplishments. In mid- December 1974, the defendant Mitchell
Hermann went on vaca- tion, and Meisner took over the supervision of the
defendant Gerald Bennett Wolfe. Before he left, however, the defendant Hermann
arranged for Mr. Meisner to meet the defendant Wolfe
in an Arlington, Virginia, parking lot and bring him over to the defendant
Hermann's house located on Fessenden Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., to
coordinate future plans. At the parking lot, Mr. Meisncr introduced himself to
the defend- ant Wolfe using his real name; however because Wolfe felt more
comfortable being called by a name other than his own, Mr. Meisner called the
defendant Wolfe "Kelly". During the subsequent one-half hour meeting in the
defendant Hermann's house, Meisner and the defendant Wolfe discussed Wolfe's job
and backgound. The defendant Wolfe had previously been informed by the defendant
Hermann that Mr. Meisner was the Assistant Guardian for Information in the
District or Columbia The defendant Wolfe was also told by Mr. Meisner that he
could reach him at any time by calling him either at his office at 2125 S
Street, northwest, Washington, D.C. or at his home in Arlington, Virginia. The
defendant Hermann instruc- ted the defendant Wolfe continue obtaining all
documnets related to Scientology from the IRS office of Barbara Bird, an
attorney in Refund Litigation Service. 21/
Thereafter, a few days prior to December 30, 1974, the defendant Wolfe
entered the office of Barbara Bird located in the main building of the IRS at
1111 Constitution Avenue northwest, Washington, D.C., without permission ,and
took from her files many documents related to Scientology. He photocopied them
on a photocopying machine in the IRS Building using United States property and
paper to accomplish the task. Upon completion of the photocopying, the defendant
returned the documents to Ms. Bird's office. At a subsequant meeting with Mr.
Meisner at a Lums Restaurant in nearby Virginia, he gave him the stolen
documents. 22/ He explained to Mr. Meisner, how he had obtained the documnets
from a file in Barbara Bird's office which contained documents related to
Scientology which Bird had acquired from former IRS official Charlotte Murphy.
Mr. Meisner, took the documents to his office
at 2125 S Street, Northwest, reviewed them, and summarized them in a
memorandum to his superiors in the U.S. Guardian's Office.
Whenever he received stolen documents from the defendant Wolfe, Mr. Meisner
marked each one with an initial at the lower, right-hand side, underlined those
portions which he believed to be particularly important to his superiors in the
Guardian's Office, and typed any one which was either handwritten or illegible.
He then prepared a memorandum addressed to his immediate superiors in Los
Angeles which summarized each important point in the documents, and placed at
the end of each excerption the corresponding number of the document which he had
just summarized. He then routed the finished memorandum through the Assistant
Guardian for the District of Columbia to his superiors in Los Angeles who
included the Deputy Guardian for the United States, the Deputy Guardian for
Information in the United States, the Branch I Director of the Information
Bereau, and the Collec- tions Officer. He also sent a copy of the material to
the Commodore Staff Guardian (CSG) , the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard. Until
January 1976, all such memoranda and supporting documents were sent to the
defendant Cindy Raymond who as Collections Officer within the Information
Bureau, was in charge of the gathering of covertly obtained documents. After the
reorgan- ization of the Information Bureau in January 1976, almost all memoranda
regarding stolen documents were sent to the defendant Hermann under his alias
"Mike Cooper". The defendant Hermann was, subsequent to January 1976, the
Southeast U.S. Secretary of the Information Bureau, and as such had immediate
supervision over the Information Bereau in the District of Columbia. The only
exception to this January 1976 procedure occurred in regards to stolen Interpol
documents, which were still to the defendant Raymond who had become the
Information Bureau Director National U.S. All such memoranda were typed by Mr.
Meisner himself and were prepared in accordance with established Guardian's
Office procedures. Government Exhibit No. 12 23/ is a 30 December 1974
memorandum from Mr. Mesiner to the defendant, Cindy Rayrmond entitled "Raw
Data Report Re: IRS-Charlotte Murphy Scientology File." It summarizes documents
taken by the defendant Gerald Bennett Wolfe from the offices of Barbara Bird at
the IRS as outlined supra. Mr. Meisner appended to that memorandum, and sent it
to Los Angeles, at least ninety eight pages of documents taken from the IRS.
(See Government Exhibit No. 12 at p. 7, paragraph 3). The routing portion which
appears in the upper left-hand side of the memorandum reflects that the "AG Info
DC", Michael Meisner, sent the memorandum to the Collec- tion Officer US, the
defendant Raymond, via the Assistant Guardian for the District of Columbia, Lynn
McNeil, who initialed it on "30/12" (30 December 1974). McNeil's notation shows
that she reviewed it on that day and transmitted it to the Deputy Guardian
Commuinicator (Secretary) for the United States and the Deputy Guardian for the
United Statesm the defendant Heldt. "DG Info US", the defendant Weigand, placed
his initials next to his title on January 6, 1975 ("6/1/75"), as did the "Info
Br I Dir US", the defendant Willardson, who initialed it on 10 January 1975 ("10
Jan") The defendant Willardson then wrote a note to the defendant Raymond indi-
cating he had reshuffled the order, of the documents. 24/ During the early part
of January 1975, the defendant Hermann returned to the District of Coltumbia
from his vacation and resumed his duties as supervisor of all Scientology co-
vert operatives, who included the defendants Wolfe and Sharon Thomas and Ms.
Nancy Douglass. The defendant Thomas was at the time a Scientology covert agent
at the Coast Guard Intelligence. Ms. Douglass was a Scientology covert operative
at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from where she stole documents and
photocopies thereof and transmitted them over to the defendant Hermann. The
defendant Hermann contin- ued his duties in the District of Columbia until early
March
1975 when he was transferred to Chicago, Illinios, to continue to work for
the Guardian's Office.
Government Exhibit No. 13 25/ is a memorandum from the defendant "Mitch"
Hermann to defendant Raymond regarding documents stolen from the Chief Counsel's
file room at the IRS pursuant to "GO 1361 TGT #10." The March 1, 1975 memo-
randum, which summarized the stolen documents, was routed through the Acting
Assistant Guardian for the District of Columbia who, at the time, was Mr.
Meisner. The defendant Hermann was then Acting Assistant Guardian for
Information in the District of Columbia. 26/ The defendant Cindy Raymond
received the memorandum and placed on the upper right-hand side
of page one above the date "CC: DG Legal US, DG PR US". 27/ In late May 1975,
the defendant Gregory Willardson directed Mr. Meisner to implement "Project
Horn" which Willardson, him self, authored. "Project Horn" appended to
Government Exhibit No. 14 28/ was issued in order to "provide a cover for PR
[Public Relations] and legal for the way they obtained IRS docs." The project
further implemented Guardian Order 1361, Target 6, which had already provided
for the creation or a "suitable cover" to disguise the true manner in which
stolen documents had been obtained from tho IRS so that the Public Relations
Bureau could use them without fear of being connected to the thefts.Towards this
end, defendant Gregory Willardson
assigned to Mr. Meisner, as the Assistant Guardian for Informa- tion in the
District of Collumbia, the task of stealing IRS documents concerning
organizations other than Scientology. Thus, whenever any stolen IRS documens
were later released, those other organizations would also be perceived as having
received them and their publications would, thereby, not point to the Church of
Scientology alone. Additionally, the project ordered the thcft of IRS stationery
so it might be used by members of the Guardian's Office to draft false letters
from a fictitious IRS employee disgruntled with the organization. The stolen
documents would then be attached to the letters which would be sent to private
orgzanizations such as Scientology. Government Exhibit No. 14 (at page 1) is a 9
April, 1975 letter from the defendant Willardson to Jane Kember and Mo Budlong
stating that he had complied with GO 1361 target 6 by devising the "Project
Horn" which he appended to that letter. 29/ In a letter dated 9 April 75 found
at page six of
(footnote continued on next page.) -
(footnote continued from proceeding page.)
FOR THE DISTRICT OF CO lower portion of the letter, as in the handwriting
of Jane Kember. The routine appearing in the upper left-hand side of
Government Exhibit No. 14 also shows that the letter was written by the "Br I
Dir US Info", the defendant Gregory Willardson, and sent to the "Guardian WW,"
Jane Kember via, among others, the"DG I WW", Mo Budlong, who initials it on
"22/4" (April 22), the "DG US", the defendant Henning Heldt, who initials it
as well, "DDG US" the defendant Duke Snider, who initials it and dates it
"9.4" (April) and the "DG I US", the defendant Richard Weigand immediately
below the title "Br I Dir US info" at the bottom of the routing is an arrow
with the initials "GW" which have been identified by the handwriting expert as
probably made by the handwriting of the defendant Willardson.
Page two of Government Exhibit No. 14 outlines the general plan of "Project
Horn" as creating a situation where a "staff member in the IRS. . . mails out
IRS files to the persons/groups mentionted in their files." It then explains
that such a pictil "will provide a cover for PR and legal to expose the
documents." The document is issued by "Br 1 Dir" who was identified by his own
handwriting on page one as the defendant Grogory Willardson. The signature
"Greg" located at the end of the two letters dated 9 April 1975 located at
pages five and six, respectively, of Government Exhibit No. 14 have been
positively identified by both Mr. James Miller and Mr. Meisner as having been
written by the defendant Willardson.
Government Exhibit, No. 14 the defendant Willardson writes to the Deputy
Guardian of Public Relations for the United States, Arthur "Artie" Maren,
informing him that "the majority of documents called for in this eval [GO 1361]
have been obtain- ed." He then invited Mr. Maren to come to the Information
Bureau offices to view the documents "since the quantity of data is so
extensive." 30/ In accord with "Project Horn"
(footnote continued on next page.)
the defendant Wolfe took from the IRS, stationary of that agency and turned
it over to Mr. Meisner. Wolfe also took from the IRS, without permission,
documents related to Bob Jones University in South Carolina and the Unification
Church. After receiving those documents from the defendant Wolfe, Mr. Meisner
notified the defendant Willardson that he had complied with the preliminary
steps of his "Project Horn."
(footnote continued from proceeding page.)
During the first five months of 1975, the defendant Wolfe stole documnets and
photocopies thereof belonging to the IRS from the offices of Barbara Bird and
Lewis Hubbard of the Chief Counsel's Office and from the Chief Counsel's file
room, tis well as from other offices within the suite of offices comprising the
Office of the Chief Counsel. These documents totalled some ten feet in height.
The defendant Wolfe at that time was employed in the Income Tax Division of the
IRS and had no authority to enter any of the offices in the Chief Counsel's
area. Upon receiving these documents, the defendant Hermann and Mr. Meisner
forwarded them to their superiors in the Informations Bureau in Los Angeles,
California, without excerpting them as had previously been done because of the
enormous backlog of stolen documents not sent to Los Angeles. (See Government
Exhibits Nos. 12 and 13) This circumstance is detailed in Government Exhibit No.
15, 31/
"CSW" (completed staff work) 32/ dated 7 May 1975 sent by the defendant
Willardson to Deputy Guardian for information World-Wide, Mo Budlong, and Deputy
Guairdian for Finance World- Wide, Herbie Parkhouse. It explained that the
collection of U.S. Government documents pursuant to GO 1361 had created a crisis
in the Information Bureau by causing a slowdown in the collection progress
required by GO 1361 which "urgently need[ed] to be eliminated." In it, Mr.
Willardson states that some "15,000" documents had been sent by the District of
Columbia Information Bureau without excerption in order to speed up the process
of advising the Deputy Guardian for the United States, the defendant Heldt and
Commodore Staff Guardian, the defendant Hubbard, "as fast as possible as to the
IRS's intentions in regards to the Church during the ongoing
IRS tax exemtion negotations." The letter added that "[t]his was a valuable
action in that it resulted in a more real estimate as to the IRS scene than was
visable [sic] from the _Legal_viewpoint_." (emphasis added) 33/ The "CSW"
requests the Guardian's Office World-Wide to approve an additional expendi- ture
of funds for the excerption, xeroxing and cross-filing of these "15,000"
documents. 34/
During the pcriod prior to the theft of the documents referred to in
Government Exhibit No. 15 the Church of Scientology through its subsidiary
Church in Hawaii, was engaged in extensive litigation with the IRS regarding its
entitlement to exemption from taxation. The IRS was also conducting an audit of
the Church of Scientology of Hawaii. The defendants Richard Weigand, Gregory
Willardson and Cindy
311/ (Footnote on next page.)
Raymond, personally and in writing, instructcd Mr. Meisner to direct his
attention and that or his covert operative the defendant Wolfe, to the theft of
all documents relating to that tax excemtion battle from the office of IRS
attorney Lewis Hubbard, located in the main IRS building at 1111 Constitution
Avenue, N.W.in Washington, D.C. (see pgs. 71-74, infra). Mr. Hubbard at that
time was overseeing the audit for the IRS Chief Counsel's Office and had in his
care, custody and control within his office documentation, daily notes and
memoranda relating to the tax excemption case involving the Hawaii Church.
34/ (Footnote from previous page.)
Government Exhibit No. 16 is a "purchase order" dated
"14 May 1975," signed by the defendant Gregory Willardson whose signature
"Greg W," along with all other handwriting on the first page of that exhibit, is
positively identified by the expert handwriting analyst James Miller as being
that of the defendant Willardson. In his "purchase order", the defendant
Willardson requests $3,141.20 for one week of supplies for GO 1361 documents. He
states that his purpose in purchasing the photocopying equipment listed in the
attach- ments to Government Exhibit No. 16 is "to get vital data uplines to WW
(World Wide) & CS-G [the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard]; and to get it properly
x-filed for use by USGO, WW, CS-G." The page identified by the seizing agent as
"3 of 8" , at its bottom right-hand corner is a form entitled "EPO" (Estimated
Purchase Order) dated "12 May 1975" covering the months of May to June of 1975,
requesting that "$6,648.10"
(footnote continued on next page.)
D. Infiltration of the Tax Division of the
United States Department of Justice.
Guardian Order 1361, target 17, directed the infiltration and theft of files
relating to Scientology from the Tax Division or the United States Department of
Justice in Wasliitigton, D.C. In order to carry out the directive of target 17
of GO 1361, Mr. Meisner obtained a directory of the United States Depart- ment
of Justice in April 1975 and isolated those offices within the Tax Division
which had previously been identified to hin as offices which would have files
related to pending
(footnote continued from preceding page.)
be set aside by the Financial Planning Committee of the United States
Guardian's Office for the purchase of "materials necded" "to eliminate vital
info backlogs on GO 1361." This form is signed "GW" next to the printed entry
"originator". Handwriting analysis has positively identified the defendant
Willardson as the writer or the "bulk of the writings" on that page. Mr. Meisner
has often used, such Purchase orders as well as Estimated Purchase Order forms
during his tenure as an official of the Information Bureau of the Guardian's
Office, and is therefore familiar with the proper format and manner in which
such forms are to be completed according to Guardian's Office procedures. He
states that Government Exhi- bit No. 16 was prepared in accordance with these
policies. Government Exhibit No. 16 was seized by Special Agent Smith, from Room
4 of the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex. It was inventoried by Special
Agent Valencia.
Scientology litigation. Mr. Meisner had been informed by the Guardians office
Legal Bureau that trial attorney Harold Larsen and Chief of Refund Litigation
Section 3, Stanley Krysa, had represented the United States in the cases involv-
ing the Church of Scientology of Hawaii and the Church of Scientology of
Florida. Mr. Larsen was the trial attorney assigned to these cases, while Mr.
Krysa, as his immediate supervisor, had participated in the litigation. Mr.
Meisner discovered that the Tax Division offices of the Department of Justice
were located in the Star Building at 1101 11th Street, Northwest, in Washington,
D.C. Accordingly, Mr. Meisner directed the defendant Gerald Bennett Wolfe to
enter the offices of Messrs. Krysa and Larsen to obtain all their files which
were in any way related to Scientology. Conse- quently, on three succcssive
Saturdays, May 3, 10, and 17, 1975, the defendant Wolfe entered the Star
Building using his identification card and proceeded to the fourth floor offices
of the Tax Division. The defendant Wolfe then entered the offices of Messrs.
Krysa and Larsen and stole twelve separate files related to Scientology cases
and photocopied them on a photocopying machine within the Tax Division offices,
using paper and equipment belonging to the United States of America. The
defendant Wolfe then returned the documents to their original location and stole
copies of them. The defendant Wolfe then gave to Mr. Maisner all the copies of
documents which he had taken from the Tax Division on the day following each
entry at meetings which he and Mr. Meisner had at the Lums Restaurant in nearby
Arlington, Virginia. Meisner, then reviewed the documents and summarized them in
twelve separate memoranda prepared in the nanner described at page 43, supra
These twelve files contained notes and other memorandum of the United States
Department of Justice, Tax Division attorneys dealing with their trial and
pretrial strategy in Scientology court cases. Government Exhibit Nos. 17, 19 -
25, and 27 - 30, are the twelve memoranda prepared by Mr. Meisner. Each
memorandum is addressed to the defendant Cindy Raymond and is entitled "Raw Data
Report Re: Department of Justice - Tax Division - Refund Trial Section No. 3,"
parts 1 to 12. 35/
(footnote continued on next page.)
each of the Meisner memoranda follows the standard routing required by
Guardian Office procedure. 26/ Government
(footnote continued from preceding page.)
(footnote continued on next page.)
Exhibit No. 26 is a copy of a document entitled "Memorandum for the File"
signed by Mr. Stanley F. Krysa and taken from the Tax Division files which were
then in the care, custody and control of Justice Department attorney Harold
Larsen. Mr. Meisner identifies the number "37" appearing at the lower right-hand
corner of that document as a numeral which he placed upon receiving the document
from the defendant Wolfe. That numeral indicates the page on which it appears
was the thirty seventh in a series of documents appended to his memorandum of 14
May 1975 (Government Exhibit No. 25). The underlining on the Government Exhibit
No. 26 was made by Mr.
(footnote continued from preceding page.)
Meisner and that exhibit is referred to in Mr. Meisner's memorandum of 14 May
1975 at page two, paragraph two. (Government Exhibit No. 25.) Neither Messrs.
Krysa nor Larsen had given permission to the defendant Wolfe or anyone
associated with the Guardian's Office of the Church of Scien- tology to enter
their offices, remove from their files documents within their care, custody and
control, and make photocopies of their documents. Mr. Larsen states that most of
the documents covered in the Meisner memoranda would never have been turned over
to any Scientology attorneys, inasmuch as they represent attorney "work project"
material and were therefore not discoverable under the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure.
Government Exhibit No. 32 37/ is a letter dated 20 May 1975, from the
defendant Willardson, identified in the routing portion of the document as "Br I
Dir US I", addressed to Michael Taylor, the "US Dir Sec WW" (U.S. Directorate
Secretary World-Wide), routed via the Deputy Guardian for Information
World-Wide, the Guardian World-Wide, the Deputy Guardian United States, and
the Deputy Guardian for Information in the United States. The letter entitled "
Re: B & E's Yours to
DG I, 5 May 75, DG I's to you 14 May 75" states:
When Dick [Weigand] first wrote you on this subject a few of us in the office
had been comparing notes and smatterings of legal knowledge on this subjects
with the end result of deciding we needed to research the differences between
"breaking & entering" and "unlawful entry".
Upon searching through legal dictionaries and various legal sources I
discovered . . . the technical difference between "b & e" and "unlawful
entry" become relatively meaningless when it can be seen that a large portion,
if not the majority, of our high priority successful Collections actions fall
into the category of second degree burglary, which is a felony.
Some of our successful collections actions in the recent past and present
which fall into this category are: (past). . . GO 1361, GO 1344, . . . DEA;
(present) GO 1361, Go 1344, DEA. (this is not an exhaustive rundown, just enough
to demonstrate the importance)
From my study of the codes and from my know- ledge of how the collections
actions are done, one of the key points in solidifying the burglary commission
is basically the theft of xerox paper and xerox machine use of whatever group is
approach- ed. Without this theft, then the distinction between "b & e" and
"unlawful entry" would become important and could mean the difference between a
felony and a misdemeanor.
* * *
Because the legal definition of burglary in the US to fit more spot on as to
our actions
than B&E and because it is a felony, as is a "B & E" I thought you
should be appraised [_sic_] or this. (Emphasis added.)
Appended to the letter is a summary of the law on burglary. Handwriting
expert James Miller positively identifies the handwritten signature "Greg" as
having been written by the defendant Gregory Willardson. 38/ Government Exhibit
No. 33, contains a series of letters and "compliance reports" setting forth the
Church of Scientology's "IRS Strategy". Page five of that exhibit is a letter
dated May 27, 1975, signed "Much Love, Mary Sue" (Hubbard), the Commodore Staff
Guardian. The letter is addressed to Jane Kember and the defendant Henning
Heldt. The routing in the upper left-hand portion of the Document
indicates that. it was sent by "CS-G", the defendant, Mary Sue Hubbard to the
"Guardian WW" Jane Kember, with a copy to "DG US", the defendant Heldt. It
states "[o]ur overall strategy with the IRS shall be as follows: 1. [t]o use any
method at our disposal to win the battle and gain our non-profit status. 2. [t]o
buy all the time we can in terms of years . . . [s]o we work to win, but _also_
to delay as time works on our side, not theirs." (Emphasis in original.) Page
six of Government Exhibit No. 33 is a letter from Deputy Guardian U.S. Henning
Heldt to the chief officers of the Legal, Finance, Public Relations and
Information Bureaus of the Guardian's Office informing them of the "IRS
strategy, as established by CS-G." The defendant Heldt's letter directed these
officials to inform their respective staffs of the defendant Hubbard's
directive, and ordered them to conform "upcoming actions with the above
strategy." Page two of Government exhibit No. 33 is a letter dated 9 June 1975
from the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard signed in handwriting which is positively
identified as hers by handwriting expert James Miller. The letter, entitled "IRS
Strategy," was addressed to the defendant Henning Heldt
and stated: "I agree with the strategy completely as laid down." Pages three
and four of that same exhibit constitute a compliance report dated 18 June 1975
prepared by the defend- ant Heldt and addressed to Jane Kember and the defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard. It is entitled "Re: IRS: CS-G Order 27 May 75". It stated that
the overall strategy was laid out in the "CSG" order of 27 May 75 was as
follows: "To use any method at our disposal to win the battle and gain our non-
profit status." It further outlined that "B-I's [Bureau 1] major action is the
completion of its GO 1361 collection targets, and working out the means to turn
those over to legal and PR for use. Bureau I's actions are moving along steadily
and full completion is expected in two to three months." 39/
On June 4, 1975, the defendant Gregory Willardson, in a handwritten letter
addressed to Mr. Meisner, the Assistant Guardian for Information in the District
of Columbia. (Govern-
ment Exhibit No. 34), 40/ directed Mr. Meisner to complete target 10 of GO
1361 which called for the placing of "an agent in DC IRS to obtain files on LRH,
Scientology, etc." by "no later that, 30 August." The defendant Willardson
stated that based on a conversation which he had with the defendant "Mitch"
Hermann, it appeared to him that the only documents still to be obtained were
from "(1) OIO [Office of International Operations], (2) Intell [Intelligence],
(3) SSS [Special Services Staff]" of the Internal Revenue Service. The defendant
Willardson added:
Mitch explained to me that he had planned to get Silver in OIO, and hope-
fully gain access to Intell via OIO. Further, that all SSS does no longer exist
in IRS but some were given over to Intell-thus Mitch expected to get SSS via
Intell.
What I need from you is your plan of action here on how to complete target 10
no later than 30 Aug . . . .
The letter concluded that "[i]f you are going to need to get another FSM
[covert operative] in you'd have to start soon as it takes some time, etc." The
defendant Willardson demanded a response "in project form within 24 hrs." In a
postscript, the defendant Willardson inquired "[w]hen will Silver be in OIO?"
41/ Mr. Meisner states that he received this letter in early June 1975. Prior to
this, the defendant, Hermann had suggested to Mr. Meisner that "Silver" [the
code name for Gerald Wolfe] be moved from IRS to OIO. Mr. Meisner, however, had
considered shifting Ms. Douglas from the covert operation at the Drug
Enforcement Administration to the Office or International Operations, (OIO) of
IRS. The defend- ant Wolfe also inquired about possible openings at OIO, but
found none available.
Pursuant to the directive of the defendant Willardson, (Government Exhibit
No. 34) Mr. Meisner prepared a project entitled "Beetle Cleanup" dated 11 June
1975 (Government Exhibit No. 35). 42/ The project called for obtaining "all DC
IRS files on LRH, Scientology, etc., in the Intelli- gence section, OIO, and
SSS". It proposed the placement of "FSMs" in the "required areas or good access
developed", and further that "Pitts" (the code name for Nancy Douglass) and
"Silver" attempt to obtain employment at the Internal Revenue Service
Intelligence Division and Office of Inter- national Operations respectively.
Appended to that project is a letter signed by Mr. Meisner dated 11 June 1975,
addressed to the defendant Willardson, stating that Mr. Meisner was attaching a
project in "compliance to your attached order". It indicated that the only road
block to achieving the goal prescribed by the defendant Willardson Was the fact
that Nancy Douglass a/k/a "Pitts" still had three files to obtain from the Drug
Enforcement Administration and that no positions might be available in the two
IRS areas contemplated
by the project. In a handwritten 43/ notation signed "Cindy" and addressed to
Peggy Tyson, the Information Programs Officer, the defendant Raymond stated In
regard to "Beetle Cleanup": "As this is pjct [project) off a major pgm [program]
we can _PUSH_ it together." (Emphasis in original.) In a handwritten letter
dated 30 July 1975, (page three of Government Exhibit No. 35) the defendant
Gregory Willardson responded to Mr. Meisner thanking him for his project and
stating that he was turning it over to the Collections Officer, the defendant
Cindy Raymond, to carry out. 43/
In June 1975, the defendant Gerald Bennet Wolfe made two entries into the
office of Lewis Hubbard of the IRS Chief Counsel's Office to obtain documents
related to the Church of Scientology of California's pending audit.
These entries occurred on or about June 21 and June 30, 1975. On each
occasion following the entry by the defendant Wolfe, Mr. Meisner met Wolfe and
received from him copies of documents which Wolfe had taken from Lewis Hubbard's
office. Upon receipt of the documents, Mr. Meisner returned to his office at
2125 S Street, N.W. in Washington, D.C. and produced memoranda summarizing the
documents employing the procedure previously described. He appended to each
memorandum the stolen documents, numbering each document in his own handwriting
in the lower right-hand corner of the document. Government Exhi- bits Nos. 36
and 38A 45/ are the Meisner memoranda summarizing the documents taken on those
two occasions by the defendant Wolfe from Mr. Hubbard's office. Government
Exhibit No. 36 entitled, "Present IRS Situation" stated that the fifty-seven
pages of appended documents "are the daily notes of Lew Hubbard." This
memorandum, was addressed to the defendant
Cindy Raymond, with copies to the Commodore Staff Guardian, the defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard. This memorandurm was routed throught the Deputy Guardian U.S.,
the defendant Heldt, the Deputy Guardian for Information U.S., the defendant
Weigand, and the Information Branch I Director U.S., the defendant Willardson.
Government Exhibit No. 38A was also addressed to the defendant Raymond. It
contains at least twenty-six pages of documents taken from Mr. Hubbard's office.
The defendant Wolfe explained to Mr. Meisner that, in each in- stance, he took
the documents from the office of Mr. Hubbard to a photocopying machine located
in the IRS, and, using Government resources and paper, he proceded to make
copies of those documents and then return them to their original location. He
then took the copies of the documents from the IRS building and turned them over
to Mr. Meisner. Mr. Hubbard had never given permission to the defendant Wolfe
either to enter his office, to take any documnets for the purpose of
photocopying them, or to obtain copies of the documents for the Guardian's
Office of the Church of Scientology. Indeed, Mr. Hubbard states that the copies
of the documents appended to Government Exhibits Nos. 36 and 38A originated from
his office and are his own daily memoranda to himself which, coincidentally,
contain many personal notes as well as notes regarding cases unrelated to the
Church of Scientology. 46/ Mr. Hubbard's files were kept either in one of the
two credenzas in his office or on a window sill behind his desk in Room 3549 at
the main IRS building in Wash- ington, D.C. All the documents appended to
Government Exhibits Nos. 36 and 38A were in Mr. Hubbard's care, custody and
control in June 1975. 47/
(Footnote continued on next page.)
In a letter dated July 2, 1975, addressed to the Deputy Guardian for
Information U.S., the defendant Richard "Dick" Weigand, entitled "Re: GO 1361",
the defendant Duke Snider reviewed the accomplishments of the Information Bureau
pursuant to GO 1361. (Government Exhibit No. 39). 48/ Referring to target 10, he
indicated that "IRS DC is progressing", and pointed out that the defendant
Gregory Willardson had ordered the District of Columbia Guardian's Office to
complete by 30 August 1975 the collection of all documents called for by target
10. The defendant Snider concluded that target 10 was proceeding on schedule.
Referring to target 17, which he described as a directive "to infiltrate
selected areas of the Justice Dept Tax Div for all files on _US_", he complained
that no data had been received on "the status of Tax Div DC action." While the
defendant Snider recalled that some had been "acquired from that area" he noted
the he could not
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tell whether "all were gotten or not." On page two of his letter, he ordered
that if target 10 files had not been obtained, "do a project to get them and
complete the DC aspect of this tgt [target]." He admonished the defendant
Weigand to "consider this a high priority matter and get these actions quickly
done." 49/ In a second letter con- tained in Government Exhibit No. 39, Dated 23
July 75, from Peggy Tyson, the Information Bureau Programs Officer, to the
defendant Duke Snider, she stated that she had contacted the District of
Columbia and that "tgt 17 _is) done." (Emphasis in the original.) Ms. Peggy
Tyson telephoned Mr. Mesiner and asked him to immediately send a dispatch to the
defendant Cindy Raymond outlining the status or all target 17 actions and
indicate what remained to be accomplished. Therefore,
Mr. Meisner forwarded to the defendant Raymond a memorandum dated 11 August
1975 entitled "GO 1361-TGT 17 STATUS", (Govern- inent Exhibit No. 41A), 50/
stating that "Peggy [Tyson] asked me to send you a dispatch re the areas checked
for target 17 of GO 1361." He informed the defendant Raymond that the only data
found in the Tax. Division was in the offices of Messrs. Krysa and Larsen. He
noted that the only areas in the Justice Department that should be checked "fall
[are located] in the main Treasury [sic] building" and "would require
infiltration - probably several different FSMs." Government Exhibit No. 41 is a
12 August 1975 letter from Ms. Tyson to the defendants Snider and Weigand 51/
which alluded to Mr. Meisner's statement that he "has gotten files from the
Justice Dept. Tax Division." In a letter dated 10 September 1975, headed
"CONFIDENTIAL -SHRED WHEN FINISHED", the defendant Cindy Raymond wrote to Mr.
Meisner
that since there may have been some confusion regarding GO 1361, target 17,
she was "reissuing the target." (Government Exhibit No. 42.) She reminded him
that targets 16 and 17 required the infiltration of the Justice Department Tax
Division to obtain all files on Scientolosy, and instructed him that "[w]hat you
need to do to comply to this is survey all areas that we have checked, and then
take a look at any area (Tax Div) that we need to check and then get the data."
She concluded that "[tlhis should clarify waht [sic] is needed and wanted in the
way of tgt 17. Send compliance as soon as you can . . . ." Mr. Meisner received
that letter in Washington, D.C. and notified the defendant Raymond that all
documents from the Department of Justice Tax Division relating to Scientology
had been already obtained. 52/
E. The Guardians Office
Awards its GO 1361 Workers
On September 21, 1975, the defendant Gregory Willardson, in his capacity as
Branch I Director for the Information Bureau in the United States, wrote a "CSW"
(Completed Staff Work) to Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember requesting her to
issue certain "commendations" and "awards" to certain Bureau I staff members.
They had been involved in the execution of GO 1361 during the period March to
late June 1975, when it had been neccesary for Mr. Meisner to send thousands of
documents to Los Angeles without first excerpting them. Among the individuals
for whom official recognition were sought was the defendant Cindy Raymond. The
attached "Guardian Condition Order" (Government Exhibit No. 43E) 53/ listed all
the individuals to be so honored. It was approved by the defendants Heldt,
Weigand and Willardson, and Budlong and Lisa for the Guardian World-Wide, Jane
Kember.
The 12 September 1975 "CSW" from the defendant Willardson was routed through,
among others, the Deputy Guardian for Information World-Wide, Mo Budlong, who
inserted a notation "Okay by me[,] Love MB". Mr. Meisner recognizes it as being
in the handwriting of Mr. Budlong. The Deputy Guardian for the United States,
the defendant Heldt, initialed the "CSW" next to his title, thereby indicating
his approval, as did the Deputy Guardian for Information in the United States,
the defendant Richard Weigand, who also initialed the document next to his
title. The Guardian World-Wide, Jane Kember, approved the "CSW" by signing her
name next to the entry "approved". On the right-hand side of the document, she
also requested the defendant Willardson to keep the information confidential
since it mentioned Bureau I names. Mr. Meisner recognizes that handwriting as
well as the signature next to the word "approved" as that of Ms. Kember. 54/
F. The Theft of IRS Docurents Exempted from
Disclosure Under the Freedom of Information Act
In July 1975 the defendant Cindy Raymond informed Mr. Meisner that the Church
of Scientology had initiated a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against
the IRS and directed him to be alert to any documents in the offices of Charles
Zuravin, an attorney in the Disclosure Division of the Chief Counsel's Office,
since he was representing the United States in that case. Mr. Zuravin's offices
were located in the main IRS building at 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W., in
Washington D.C. Mr. Meisner immediately notified the defendant Wolfe and
instructed him to add Mr. Zuravin's office to the list of offices within the
IRS's main building in Washington D.C. which he had to constantly monitor. This
began a series of entries into Mr. Zuravin's offices by the defendant Wolfe from
July 1975 through November 1975. As a result or the defendant Wolfe's entries,
the Guardian's office learned that Mr. Zuravin had been amassing all documents
dealing with Scientology from all IRS offices around the country in order to
prepare an FOIA index. 55/ The defendant Wolfe made his first entry into Mr.
Zuravin's office on or about July 28, 1975, and copied Mr. Zuravin's file on the
pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. He removed that file out,
photocopied it using United States Government property, returned it to Mr.
Zuravin's office, stole the copies, and turned them over to Mr. Meisner at their
weekly meeting. Mr. Meisner summarized the documents taken by the defendant
Wolfe in a memorandum addressed to the defend- ant Raymond dated 28 July 1975,
and sent a copy of that memorandum to the defendant, CSG, Mary Sue Hubbard (See
Government Exhibit No. 40.) /56 The defendant Wolfe made four additional illegal
entries into Mr. Zuravin's office at the IRS between mid-September and late
November 1975. In each instance, the defendant Wolfe took documents which Mr.
Zuravin had obtained from other IRS offices in order to respond to the
scieritology FOIA suit. Following each entry, the defendant Wolfe gave Mr.
Meisnor the documents which he had stolen. 57/ Mr. Meisner summarized each set
of documents in a memorandum which he sent to his superiors in Los Angeles,
California. Government Exhibits Nos. 44, 47, 48 and 50 58/ are memoranda
prepared by Mr. Meisner for that purpose. Each of these exhibits followed the
format of previous memoranda
written by Mr. Meisner. 59/ However, beginning with Government Exhibit No.
45, 60/ the ractiot-aridum dated 30 September 1975, the routing was changed for
security purposes. Whereas bcrore September 30, 1975 the memoranda and appended
documents were routed through a numbor of Information Bureau officials,
following that date, the memoranda were routed directly from Mr. Meisner to the
defendant Raymond. The defendant Raymond was then responsible for the
distribution of the memoranda and documents to the other officials of the
information Bureau and Guardian's Office who previously
received them, namely, the defendants Heldt, Weigand and Willardson. A copy,
however, was still sent to the CSG, the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard, as indicated
by the routing in the upper right-hand corner of each memorandum.
Government Exhibits Nos. 46A-D are copies of IRS documents stolen fron Mr.
Zuravin's office by the defendant Wolfe and given to Mr. Meisner. Each of those
documents is summarized in the Meisner memorandum of 30 September 1975
(Government Exhibit No. 45). 61/ Each of the four documents has numbers placed
by Mr. Meisner at its lower right-hand corner, and concerns either, "the IRS
National Office Intelligence files" or the "SSS" [Special Services Staff]
files", which were specifically called for by GO 1361, Target 10. In the memo-
randum of 24 September 1975 (Government Exhibit No. 44), Mr. Meisner summarized
documents regarding the "IRS/Hawaii Intelligence Files". The memorandum of 10
October 1975
(Government Exhibit No. 47) excerpts "IRS Intelligence Files - 1972-1974".
Mr. Meisner's 13 October 1975 mornorandlipi (Govern- ment Exhibit No. 48a) deals
with the transcript of an inter- view between former, Scientologist Gene Allard,
and California Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Tapper. A copy or that
transcript had been given to the IRS. Mr. Meisner's memorandum was subsequently
transmitted by the defendant Cindy Raymond to the other Guardian's Office
officials who previously had been included in Mr. Meisner's routing. Thus, in a
letter dated 21 October 1975 (Government, Exhibit No. 48), the defnd- ant
Raymond 62/ tratismited the appended Meisner memorandum of 13 October 1975 and
the appended stolen documents to Michael Taylor, the US Directorate Secretary
B-I World-Wide, via the defendants Heldt, Weigand, and Willardson, as well as
Jane Kember and Mo Budlong. The letter further indicated that a copy had already
been sent to the "CSG", the defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard, by "AG I DC" Meisner.
By early October 1975, Charles Zuravin had completed an FOIA index regarding
all IRS documents relating to Scientology, and had given it to Scientology
attorneys. Prior to preparing the FOIA index, Mr. Zuravin had numbored each
document so as to facilitate locating them. Within the next few days, the
defendant Raymond sent Mr. Meisner a copy of that index with a directive to
obtain all documents which Mr. Zuravin had concluded were exempted from the
FOIA. Mr. Meisner, prepared a list of those "excempted" documents by IRS number
and gave it to the defendant Wolfe who was instructed to obtain them Then, in a
letter dated 10 November 1975 (Government Exhibit No. 49) 63/ to the defendant
Cindy Raymond, Mr. Meisner enclosed a copy of the list of withheld documents
which he had given to the defendant Wolfe. Mr. Meinser explained to her that he
had prepared that list from the FOIA index which she had sent him. He told the
defendant Raymond that "Silver", the defendant Wolfe, had been given a copy of
that list and
"is methodically making Copies of all documents listed." He told the
defendant Raymond that the defendant Wolfe, over the previous weekend, had taken
"a foot of material" (stolen documents) fron the IRS and was already through the
third column of numbers on the index list. Mr. Meisner estimated that an
additional two weekends would be needed to acquire all remaining documents from
the IRS. 64/
Upon receipt from Mr. Meisner of the list of withheld documents, the
defendant Wolfe entered the offices of Mr. Zuravin at the IRS on or about
November 20, 1975 and obtained documents located on that list. 65/ Thus, the
title of Mr.
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Meisner's 20 November 1975 memorandum (Government Exhibit No. 50); "Re:
Withheld IRS FOI Documents #108-141." However, within a few days after that
entry, the IRS moved all Scientology-related documents from Mr. Zuravin's office
to a file room which had previously been the office of Helen Bumbry, located
across the hall and which had a more secure lock. Consequently, the defendant
Wolfe was unable to continue to obtain the remaining documents until sometime in
January 1976 when, with the assistance of Mr. Don Alverzo, that office was
forced open with lock-picking equipment. (See page 100, _infra_.)
Mr. Zuravin states that all the documents summarized in the Meisner memoranda
described above were in his files from July to November 1975. Furthermore, he
states that he neither
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gave permission to the defendant Wolfe nor any other represent- ative of the
Guardian's Office of the Church of Scientology to enter his office and take
copies of the documents located therein, nor had he given these documents to the
Church of Scientology pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
G. The Guardian Program Order Instituting
An "Early Warning System" to Detect
Possible Legal Actions Against L. Ron
Hubbard and Mary Sue Hutbbard.
In early December 1975, Mr. Meisner went to Los Angeles California, for
briefings with his superiors in the Guardian's Office. During one of those
meetings the defendant Richard Weigand showed Mr. Meisner the newly issued
Guardian Program Order 158 (GPgmO 158) -- Early Warning System. That Guardian
Program Order was issued on December 5, 1975 by the Guardian World Wide Jane
Kember after having been written by the defendants Henning Heldt and Richard
Weigand. (Government Exhibit No. 53) 66/ GpgmO 158 states that it'd purpose is
to
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"[m]aintain an Alerting EARLY WARNING SYSTEM throughout the GO [Guardian's
Office] network so that any situation concerning governments or courts by reason
of suits is known in adequate time to tahe defensive actions to suddenly raise
the level on LRH Personal Security very high" 67/ Thus, the purpose of GPgmO 158
was to identify any potential lawsuit against, or subpoena for, "LRH [L. Ron
Hubbard] or MSH [the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard] from a government agency or
individual litigation or from any source whatever" (vital target 3)
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"before activation" (vital target 2).
Specifically, Guardian Program Order 158 directed the following:
1. Place iii agent into the US Attorney's Office DC as a first action as this
office should cover all Federal agencies that we are in litigation with or may
be in litigation with. AG I DC
2. Obtain data on their intended actions toward Scientology, LRH/MSH. AG I DC
3. Get an agent into the US Attorney's rffice [sic] LA as a simultaneous
action . . . .
4. Obtain data on their intended actions toward Scientology, LRH/MSH. BR 1
DIR US
5. Place a seperate agent into the IRS Office of International Operations
(OIO) (as this office has a case preparation or investi- gative action going on
LRH personally for income tax invasion or something similar). AG I DC
6. Obtain their files on LRH/MSH and Scientology and monitor the line
continuously of other actions against LRH/MSH. AG I DC
7. Continue to monitor tightly the DEA DC, IRS DC and LA, the Coast Guard
(soon to go to Immigration and Naturalization) DC. Get any present time data on
LRH/MSH. BR I DIR US 68/
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After reviewing Guardian Program Order (GPgmO) 158 with the defendant
Weigand, Mr. Meisner suggested that it would b@ more advantageous to the
Hubbards, Scientology, and the Guardian's Office to place a covert
Scientolo&y agent at the United States Department of Justice in Washington,
D.C., rather than in the United States Attorney's Office in that city. Mr.
Meisner observed that Freedom of Information Act suits were, generally, handled
by the Justice Department. Mr. Meisner also discussed this matter with the
defendant Cindy Raymond. Both the defendants Weigand and Raymond approved Mr.
Meisner's suggestion and directed him to prepare a "CSW" for their approval.
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Following his return to the District of Columbia in the second week of
December 1975, Mr. Meisner sent a "CSW," out- lining his suggestion, to the
defendant Weigand, routed through the defendant Raymond. The "CSW" called for
placement or the defendant Sharon Thomas as Scientology's covert operative
within the Department of Justice instead of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service where she had been earlier scheduled to infiltrate for Scientology. See
GPgmO 158, Operating Target 7. The defendant Weigand immediately approved Mr.
Meisner's "CSW", first by telex, then by letter. Mr. Meisner after having
discussed the matter with the defendant Thomas, directed her, during a meeting
at a "Three Chef's" restaurant in nearby Arlington, Virginia, to obtain
employment at the Information and Privacy Unit of the Civil Division of the
Department of Justice, which handled all FOIA requests and lawsuits. Ms. Thomas,
however, was unable to begin employment at the Depart- ment of Justice until
February 29, 1976. 69/ (Government Exhibit No. 206).
Prior to Ms. Thomas' employment at the Department of Justice, Mr. Meisner,
the defendant Wolfe and other Guardian's office officials committed a series or
burglaries of the main Justice Department building, located at 9th and
Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C. The initial two entries were made in
December, 1975 by Mr. Meisner and the defendant Wolfe in order to obtain
documents from the office of Justice Department attorneys Paul Figley and
Jeffrey Axelrad, both of the Civil Division's Information and Privacy Unit. The
defendant Raymond had previously informed Mr. Meisner that the Legal Bureau of
the Guardian's Office had learned that Mr. Figley had been assigned the FOIA
cases initiated by Scientology. According to Raymond, Mr. Figley also
coordinated other FOIA cases involving Scientology. Another reason for entering
Mr. Figley's office was to gain information pursuant to GPrmO 158. They also
were seeking Interpol documents in compliance with Guardian World-Wide Jane
Kember's long out- standing order of November 21, 1973, as reissued by the
defendant Heldt on April 25, 1975 (see Government Exhibit No. 2), and Guardian
Program Order 9 (see Government Exhibit Exhibit No. 63, at page 142, infra).
On both occasions that Mr. Meisner and the defendant Wolfe burglarized Mr.
Paul Figley's office, they entered the main Department of Justice bright idea.
Very well done. love Jane" defendant Wolfe's IRS identification card. They
waited in the main library, until after working hours, when they proceeded to
Figley's office, which they unlawfully entered, through a closed but unlocked
door. Mr. Meisner observed files relating to Scientology on Figley's desk, on
his window ledge, and in his file cabinets. During the first entry, Mr. Meisner
skimmed through all of the files and then took four files which were located in
open areas in Mr. Figley's office. Using photocopying machines, facilities,
equipment and paper located on the fourth floor of the building Mr. Meisner and
the defendant Wolfe photocopied the files, returned them to Mr. Figley's office,
and stole copies of the doctiments for the use of the Guardian's Office of the
Church of Scientology. Both times, Mr. Meisner and the defendant Wolfe were in
the building until approximately 10:00 P.M. On neither occasion, did Mr. Meisner
or the defendant Wolfe have permission to enter the office of Mr. Figley, take
his files, photocopy the documents, and take those photocopies. They, thus,
deprived Mr. Figley and the Department of Justice of sole possession of these
documents. Following the theft of the copies of documents, Mr. Meisner
summarized their contents in two memoranda dated 17 December 1975 (Government
Exhibit No. 54) and 18 December, 1975 (Government Exhibit No. 55). 70/ Each
memorandum was sent to the defendant Raymond who at that time still held the
position of Collections Officer U.S. A copy was sent to the "CSG", defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard. Appended to each memorandum were the stolen copies of the
documents.
Government Exhibit No. 54 is entitled "Re: Justice Department, FOI
Suits-Figley"; and Government Exhibit No.
55 71/ is entitled "Re: DEA FOI Case-D of J Data- Figley". Both memoranda
were received by the defendant Cindy Raymond, who initialcd and dated the
documents next to her title on their routing portion. 72/ prior to the defendant
Thomas' employment at the Department of Justice, additional burglaries of, and
theft of copies of documents from, Mr. Figlay's office were committed by the
defendant Wolfe together
witli Joseph Alesi, the Collections Officer in the District of Columbia's
Information Bureau, and Richard Kimmel, the Inrormation Branch I Director in the
District of Columbia. On each of those occasions, the stolen copies of documents
were personally given to Mr. Meisner by either Messrs. Alesi or Kimmel. They
also told Mr. Meisner that they had taken the documents from Mr. Figley's
office, photocopied then on photocopying machines located within the Department
of Justice, using United States Government property equipment, and supplies, and
stole the resulting copies of documents. 73/
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H. The Los Angeles Guardian's Office
Sends Help to the District Of Columbia Guardian's Office
In November 1975, the Office Of Messrs. Charles Zuravin and Lewis Hubbard
were placed within a "red seal" or high security area inside the main IRS
building in Washington D.C. Consequently, the doors were both locked at all
times. As a result of those moves, Mr. Meisner and the defendant Wolfe were
unable to gain entry in these areir and lost the ability to monitor those areas.
Both defendants Weigand and Raymond, by phone and letter, repeatedly urged Mr.
Meisner to continue to surveil the offices of Messrs. Hubbadr and Zuravin in
order to obtain all recent documents relating to
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Scientology, especially those in Mr. Hubbard's possession dealing with the
current status of the Church of Scientology of California audit. Mr. Meisner
informed them that it had become impossible to gain access to those offices.
Thus, in mid-January 1976, the defendant Hermann, the Southeast U.S. Secretary
for the Information Bureau under its reoganiza- tion, notified Mr. Meisner by
phone that the defendants Heldt and Weigand had approved "mission orders" to
send Don Alverzo to Washington, D.C. to gain access to these two offices.
Alverzo arrived in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, January 17, 1976, and met Mr.
Meisner at the Church of Scien- tology at 2125 S Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Mr Alverzo showed Mr. Meisner a copy of his "mission orders" and informed him
that they were to go into the IRS building with the defendant Wolfe the next day
to pick the looks on the doors of Messrs. Hubbard and Zuravin. Mr. Alverzo also
showed Mr. Meisner the lock-picking equipment he had brought with him and
instructed Meisner on how to use such equipment. Mr. Meisner identifies
Government Exhibit No. 203 as equipment identical to the equipment which Alverzo
brought with him to the District of Columbia. (See photograph of these exhibits,
Government Exhibit No. 218.) 74/
On Sunday, January 18, 1976, the defendant Wolfe, together with Messrs.
Meisner and Don Alverzo, entered the main IRS building located at 1111
Constitution Avenue, N.W., in Washington, D.C., between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. The
defendant Wolfe signed all three individuals into the building using his IRS
identification card. They proceeded to the third floor area where Mr. Zuravin's
file office and Mr. Hubbard's office were located some three te four doors
apart.
Exhibits 195-201, "seven spring steel shims", Exhibit 202, a key
"micrometer", and Extiibit 203, a "H.B.C. Inc. lockpicking kit."
As a result of his examination of these items, Agent Davis concludes that
Government Exhibits Nos. 195 - 201 are "commonly used for making picks and
tension tools used in picking locks," Government Exhibit No. 202 is "used to
measure the depth of cuts in keys," and Exhibit 203 "is a pick set . . . [and]
the tools it contains are used for picking locks." While the defendant Wolfe stood guard at the end of the hallway, Mr. Alverzo
attempted to pick the lock on Mr. Hubbard's door, and Mr. Meisner worked on Mr.
Zuravin's door. After having been unsuccessful in opening these doors for
approximately one to one and one-half hours, Mr. Meisner, in exasperation, hit
with his fist the top of Zuravin's door, forcing it to pop open. All three
indivi- duals entered and took, without permission, the remaining
Scientology-related documents which had bcen withheld by the IRS in FOIA
litigation. They then went to another floor where all three began to photocopy
these documents using United States Government equipment and resources. After a
while, the derendant Wolfe took over the photocopying, while Messrs. Meisner and
Alverzo returned to the third floor in a further attempt to open Mr. Hubbard's
office Finally, Mr. Alverzo, using a piece of cardboard, was able to force that
door open. Then, with the assistance of the defendant Wolfe, they reviewed all
Scientology-related material in Mr. Hubbard's office, and took those documents
which had not been previously stolen. They then photocopied the documents, using
the same IRS photocopying equipment and material and returned all documents to
their respective locations. At approximately 2:00 a.m., all three men left the
IRS building with a one foot high stack of stolen copies of documents. Messrs.
Meisner and Alverzo proceeded to the Information Bureau offices at 2125 S
Street, N.W., where they placed the documents in a secure location. Alverzo left
Washington, D.C. to return to Los Angeles, California, on January 19, 1976.
Government Exhibit No. 56D 75/ is a "mission report", dated January 22, 1976,
from the defendant Mitchell Hermann, now using his alias Mike Cooper, to Michael
Taylor, the U.S. Secretary for, B-1 World-Wide, regarding this three-day mission
of Don Alverzo to the District of Columbia. 76/ In
it, the defendant Hermann informed Mr. Taylor that on January 17, 1976, Mr.
Alverzo had been sent to Washington, D.C. to acquire "additional and more recent
1361 tgt 10 data." He adds that the "missionaire [Alverzo] was briefed by AG I
DC [Meisner] and was accompanied by AG I DC and an FSM [Wolfe] on the mission."
He further stated that the mission had been successful, and that "a pile of
documents approximately 10" thick" had been seized. He detailed that Mr. Alverzo
instructed Mr. Meisner and the defendant Wolfe on "how to obtain future access"
to these areas. The defendant Hermann concluded that as a result of that entry
the remaining documents withheld under the FOIA were stolen from the IRS.
In a "compliance report" dated 21 January, 1976 (Government Exhibit No. 56C),
the defendant Weigand responded to a request from the defendant Heldt regarding
the mission of Mr. Alverzo so that Heldt could respond to a dispatch from the
defendant Mary Sue Hubbard. The defendant Weigand appended to his letter the
report of Acting Southeast U.S. Secretary Hernmann (a/k/a Cooper). The defendant
Weigand explained that he authorized the Alverzo mission because of the need to
get current documents regarding Scientology, and that the District of Columbia
Guardian's Office personnel was not trained to pick locks. 77/
I. The Guardian's Office Orders Mr.
Meisner to Los Angeles For
Debriefing and Auditing At, the begining of February 1976, Mr. Meisner went
to Los Angeles, California, both for auditing and for briefing regarding his
Guardian Office assignments. While in Los Angeles, Mr. Meisner had numerous
meetings with his immediate superiors, as well as other officials of the
Guardian's Office. During the first week of February, Mr. Meisner attended a
meeting with the defendants Henning Heldt and Richard Weigand in Mr. Heldt's
office on the sixth floor of
Fifield Manor. Also present at that meeting were the Deputy Guardian for
Finance Mary Heldt, the Deputy Guardian for the Legal Bureau Mary Rezzonico, and
the CPA (Certified Public Accountant) US Martin Greenberg, an official in the
Finance Bureau. The defendant Weigand, at the defendant Heldt's request told Mr.
Meisnetr to attend the meeting. Its purpose was to discuss and analyze the
current IRS strategic as revealed in the stolen documents regarding the pending
Church of Scientology of California audit. Each person present at that. meeting
expressed full knowledge that the documents in question had been stolen from the
IRS offices. That same day, Mr. Meisner attended another meeting with Mary
Rezzonico and the defendant Gregory Willardson in the defendandt Weigand's
office. During that meeting, Ms. Rezzonico, directed Mr. Meisner to instruct the
covert agents in the District of Columbia to be alert to any IRS documents
regarding a Scientology front organization knonw as the Religious Research
foundation (RRF). She was also seeking any information disclosing knowledge by
the IRS of any financial dealings and relationship UL, L.4t-,cts RRF and the
Church of Scientology of California.
During the time that he was in Los Angeles, Mr. Meisner also met with the
defendants Weigand and Willardson in defendant Weigand's office at the Fifield
Manor to discuss the Information Bureau's access to current docments in the
possession of IRS. The participants discussed a telex which had been received
from the CSG Assistant for Information, Jimmy Mulligan, regarding the access to
current information in the office of Mr. Lewis Hubbard of the IRS. The defendant
Weigand instructed Mr. Meisner to prepare a report outlining what he had done in
that respect and to respond to Mr. Mulligan's telex.
As a result of that directive, Mr. Meisner prepared Government Exhibit No.
46B which begins at page eight of Government Exhibit No. 46. It includes a telex
in the name or Richard Weigand responding to Mulligan's inquiry. Mr. Meisner
gave that telex directly to the defendant Weigand who approved it in his
presence and directed that it be sent to Mr. Mulligan, whose offices were near
Clearwater, Florida. Mr. Meisner also prepared a three-page handwritten letter
to the defendant Weigand dated 3 February 1976. In it, Mr. Meisner outlined the
events which had recently taken place in the District of Columbia, including the
forced entry made by Don Alverzo into Mr. Hubbard's office at the IRS. He also
detailed how Wolfe gained access to attorney Stephen Friedberg's office in the
Chief Counsel's Office by unlocking one of his office doors during the daytime.
Mr. Meisner informed the defendant Weigand that Mr. Friedberg had documents
relating to the California Church of Scientology audit dated as recently as
January 26, 1976. Mr. Meisner handed that report to Mr. Weigand upon its
completion.
In a "compliance report" dated 11 February 1976, from the defendant Weigand
to Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember, the defendant Weigand reviewed the
achievements of the Infor- mation Bureau pursuant to GO 1361 Target 10 and
reported compliance with that target. He informed Ms. Kember that all documents
withheld by IRS under the FOIA for the period up to March 1975 had been stolem
from the IRS. These included documents from the offices of Barbara Bird, Lewis
Hubbard,
Stephen Friedberg, the Chief Counsel's office, the Office Of, International
Operations, the Intelligence Division, and the Special Services Staff. The
defendant Weigand also stated that documents turned over by the IRS to the
Department of Justice Tax Division and staff attorney Michael Sanders had also
been obtained. Mr. Meisner identifies the signature "Dick" appearing on page two
of Government Exhibit No. 46 is that or the defendant Weigand. 78/
Government Exhibit No. 58 79/ is identical to the two-
page letter from the defandant Weigand to Ms. Kember dated 11 February 1976
(Government Exhibit No. 116). However, Government Exhibit No. 58 is the copy
received and reviewed by Jane Kember. Indeed, she notes on the right-hand side
of the first page "Dear Dick [Weigand], This is very well done indeed. Thank you
for your excellent compliance. Much love, Jane." Following Ms. Kember's review
of the document it was received by the defendants Willardson and Weigand who
initiated it next to its routing session. 80/ Prior to his return to the
District of Colmbia in the third week of February 1976, Mr. Meisner met with the
defedant Willardson in the defendant Weigand's office. During the meet- ing, Mr.
Meisner showed the defendant Willardson how he and the defendant Wolfe had
gained access to locked offices in the IRS building in Washington, D.C., by
using a shaped metal device. During subsequent meetings in Los Angeles,
California, Mr. Meisner's superiors instructed him that, upon his return to
the District of Columbia, he was to obtain IRS documents from the offices of
Joseph Tedesco, Jeanne Gessay and Muriel Moritz of the Exempt Organizations
Division, Assistant Commissioner for Employee Plans and Exempt Organiza- tions
Alvin Lurie, Special Assistants to Lurie Charles Rurpli and Howard Schoenfeld.
Mr. Meisner was ordered to obtain all current information at the IRS regarding
the Church of Scien- tology of California audit. His superiors wanted to receive
sufficient notice of any adverse IRS ruling prior to it's finalization so that
they could intervev through their legal representatives and apply whatever
neccessary pressure to change the ruling.
J. Mr. Meisner Returns to the District of Columbia
Upon his return to the District of Columbia, Mr Meisner directed the
defendant Wolfe to enter the offices of Joseph Tedesco, Jeanne Gessay and Muriel
Maritz and take all documents in their possession regarding the Church of
Scietology of California audit. On or about March 4, 1976, the defendant Gerald
Bennett Wolfe entered the office of Joseph Tedesco during the daytime and
removed the door knob to one of the doors leading to Tedesco's suite of offices.
During the nighttime, after working hours, the defendant Wolfe returned to Mr.
Tedesco's office and entered it through the door from which the door knob had
earlier been removed. Once inside, the defendant Wolfe took all documents
related to Scientology from Mr. Tedesco's files, photocopied them using IRS
photo- copying equipment and supplies and returned the deocuments to the office
of Mr. Tedesco. He stole the copies of those documents and gave them to Mr.
Meisner at a previously sched- uled weekly meeting at a pool hall located in
nearby Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Meisner summarized the stolen documents in a
memorandum dated 4 March 1976, addressed to the defendant Mitchell Hermann,
under his alias Mike Cooper. The document entitled "Re: Joseph Tedesco - Current
IRS Situation" stated that "[t]he attached concerns Joseph Tedesco's area
(Director of the Exempt Organizations Division . . . IRS National office) and
includes the totality of Scientology correspondence in his area." Appended to
the memorandum were five pages of the stolen documents. (See Government Exhibit
No. 59.) 81/ Mr. Meisner then forwarded the memorandum and attached stolen
documents to the defendant Hermann, who as Southeast U.S. Secretary, was now
receiving all such correspondence. A copy of the memorandum and stolen documents
was sent to the CSG, defendant Mary Sue Hubbard, as reflected in the routing
portion or the document. 82/
The offices of Mr. Tedesco of the Exempt
Organizations Division of the IRS, were located at the main IRS
building at 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. in March 1976. Mr. Tedesco has
reviewed the March 4, 1976 memorandum of Mr. Meisner and has located the
docutients reffered to in that memorandum in his files. Tedesco states that
these documents were in his care, custody and control on or about March 4, 1976.
He further states that he did not give per- mission to the defendant Wolfe to
enter his office and take the documents referred to in Government Exhibit No. 59
or make photocopies of those documents. On or about March 10, 1976, the
defendant Gerald Bennett Wolfe entered the office of Jeane Gessay of the IRS,
without permission, and took documents related to the then-pending audit of the
Church of Scientology of California. He stated to Mr. Meisner that after taking
the documents he photocopied them on an IRS photocopyinrg machine, using
equipment and sup- plies which were the property of the United States of
America. He then returned the original documents to Ms. Gessay's office and
removed the copise of the documents out of the IRS main building and gave them
to Mr. Meisner for the use of Scientology. The defendant Wolfe did not have
authority to enter the office of Ms. Gessay. In fact, he did not have authority
to even enter the offices of Mr. Tedesco according to defendant Wolfe's
supervisor, Leon Kennedy. Upon receipt of the stolen documents, Mr. Meisner
summarized them in a memorandum dated 10 March 1976 entitled "Re: Current IRS
Situation - Jeanne Gassay [sic] Material". Mr. Meisner appended to that
memorandum the stolen documents and forwarded them to Southeast U.S. Secretary
Hermann (a/k/a Mike Cooper), and sent a copy to the CSG, the defendant Mary Sue
Hubbard. (Government Exhibit No. 60). 83/ By a transmittal memorandum dated
March 24, 1976 the defendant Herman (Mike Cooper) , forwarded Mr. Meisner's
memorandum and supporting documents to World-Wide stating that "[a]ttached is a
set of handwritten notes in Jeanne Gessay's area". That memorandum stated, next
to the entry "CC: CSG" in the routing portion, "(Sent by DC)". Mr. Meisner
identifies the handwriting
of that notation as well as the notation next to it as having been written by
the defendant Hermann. Additionally, Mr. Meisner identifies the initials next to
the "DG US" title as having been written by the defendant Heldt.
On March 10 1976, Ms. Gessay was the chief of Ruling Section I of the Exempt
Organizations Division. Her section had been assigned to give its "technical"
opinion regarding certain issues related to the audit of the Church of
Scientology of California. Thus she states that in March 1976, she had in her
files the documents summarized in the Meisner memorandum of 10 March 1976.
Indeed, she has checked her files and the same documents are still located
therein. 84/ Ms. Gessay states that she did not give permission to the defendant
Wolfe to enter her offices on March 10, 1976, take documents from her files,
photocopy them and Lijrn over the photocopies
to the Guardian's office of the Church of Scientology. 85/ In recognition of
Mr. Meisner's accomplishments with respect to GO 1361 target 10, the defendant
Mitchell Hermann, in his capacity as Southeast U.S. Secretary, recomended to
Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember that Mr. Meisner be issued an award. (Government
Exhibit No. 68.) 86/ In his "CSW" to Kember, the defendant Hermann stated. that
during the previous year and a half "10-12 feet of material was obtained from
1361 agency from a late number of different areas. The material provides the
most extensive set of files on Scientology which I know of obtained by this
means in the US." He pointed out that the collection of data "included various
forms of "CDC" [covert data collection]." He explained that Mr. Meisner had
"overall responsibility" for the theft and maintenance of the "steady stream of
data out this area and to provide data needed for prediction on the future
actions of this agency." The IRS was the agency covered by GO 1361 target 10.
The defendant Hermann requested that Mr. Meisner be given an award in the form
of three advanced auditing courses, and appended a proposed award letter for the
signature of L. Ron Hubbard.87/
K. The Entry into the IRS Identification Room and the Making of Counterfeit
Identification Cards In the early part of March 1976, the defendant Mitchell
Hermann directed Mr. Meisner to obtain IRS identification
cards for himself, which he could use to enter the IRS building, as well as
in other operations pursuant to that directive, on or about March 15, 1976, the
defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner entered the IRS building at 1111 Constitution
Avenue, Northwest, using the defendant Wolfe's IRS identification card. They
proceeded to the IRS identification room which was located on the first floor of
that building, where Mr. Wolfe had been two weeks earlier in order to obtain a
legitimate identification card for himself. Mr. Meisner and the defendant Wolfe
forced the door open by using a metal sheet device, and then entered the
darkened room using a small flashlight. Once inside, Mr. Meisner located a
booklet giving instrucions on the use of the photographing equipment. Mr. Wolfe
took blank identification cards and typed in two fictitious names for himnelf,
an well as two fictitious names for Mr. Meisner The defendant Wolfe typed the
name "Thomas Blake" on one of his identification card blanks and the name "John
M. Foster" on one of Mr. Meisner's identification card blanks. Mr. Meisner then
placed the defendant Wolfe's false identification card blanks into the
photographing Equipment and took photo- graphs of the defendant Wolfe. Then
Wolfe placed the Meisner cards into the photographing machine and took
photographs of Mr. Meisner. Mr. Meisner obtained the badge number which was
placed on the identification card blanhs from a book which was maintained by the
IRS identification room and which listed all cards which were issued by them.
Mr. Meisner selected those numbers from numbers which had previously been issued
by the internal Revenue Service. On the "Foster," identifi- cation card of Mr.
Meisner, was typed the date of issue "3-15-76", (See Government Exhibit No. 61),
and on the "Blake" identification card of the defendant Wolfe "3-17-76" was
typed as the date of issue. 8?1/ Mr. Meisner and the defendant
Warning:
Issued for identification of holder. Improper use, possesion, alteration,
reproduction or counterfeiting will make offender liable to penalties under
Sections 499 and 701, Title 18, U.S. Code.
Property of U.S. Government.
Wolfe then left the IRS buildinr, taking with them the false and fraudulent
IRS cards which they had made. Neither Mr. Meisner nor the defendant Wolfe had
permission or authority to make those identification cards or be in possession
of them. 89/ Mr. Meisner took the defendant Wolfe's identifi- cation cards in
order to place on them the required clear plastic covering because he was unable
to uer the machine in the identification room. After doing this, Mr. Meisner
returned them to the defendant Wolfe. John Probst, Chief of the Space and
Protective Management Division in March 1976, states that the identification
room was always kept locked and that at no time were Mr. Meisner or the
defendant Wolfe given permission to either enter that room while locked or to
make any identification cards. 90/
L. Guardian Program Order 302 and the Theft of Documents Withheld by the
United States Under the FOIA.
On March 2, 1976, the defendant Cindy Raymond wrote a
"CSW" to the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard requesting her approval for a
proposed new Guardian Program Order to be issued pur- suant to the overall Snow
White Program. (Government Exhibit
No. 66). 91/ The defendant Raymond suggested a Bureau I program "to obtain
non-FOI 92/ data to parallel and back-up the Snow White Pgm." She explained that
Bureau I "over the past year, has been obtaining data that is not FOI" pursuant
to, among others, GO 1361. This illegally obtained data had been valuable to
understand 'the behind the scenes' activity or the enemy." The defendant Raymond
attached to her letter the actual proposed Guardian Program Order which she had
entitled "Snow White Subprogram Hunter, Hunter X". (Government Exhibit No. 65).
93/ Its targets included the obtaining of all desired files in government
agencies by "job penetration" and other types of infiltration. The "CSW" was
proccessed through, and approved by, all the high officials of the Informa-
tion Bureau, both in the United States and at World-Wide headquarters in
England, who initialed it. In the case of a "CSW" whenever an official initialed
the document it indicated his approval or the acticns proposed by the "CSW".
Mr. Meisner recognizes the handwriting of the following persons next to their
titles: the derendant Willardson ("GW 2 Mar OK"), the defendant Weigand ("D OK
3/3"), the defendant Heldt (his initial), and the Deputy Guardian for
Information World-Wide Mo Budlong ("MB 17/3/76"). Handwriting expert James
Miller positively identifies the handwritten notation "Dear Cindy-Approved-this
aligns with what Bur I. has been doing beautifully. Love, Mary Sue", as having
been written by the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard. Mr. Meisner also identifies the
defendant Hubbard as the writer of both that notation and the signature "MS
Hubbard Mar. 27, 76", and Ms. Kember as the writer of the signature "JKember"
next to the word "approved" on page two. Mr. Miller also positively identifies
the signature of the defendant Hubbard next to the word "approved" as being in
the defendant Hubbard's handwriting, and the signature or the defendant Raynmond
at the end of page two as in her handwriting.
On the same day that the defendant Hubbard approved the "CSW" of the
defendant Raymond, Guardian Program Order 302 was issued in its final form by
Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember.
(Government Exiiibit No. 67). 94/ In its final form GPO 302 directed that all
those assigned to execute it
[U]se all possible lines of approach to obtain the files on Scientology, LRH,
Dianetics (and other Scn names) that cannot be obtained on FOI lines] ie. job
penetration; janitor penetration; suitable guises utilizing covers, etc. . . .
(Vital target I and major target).
The order also directed that covert agents ("FSMs"), be
recruited for the project and that nothing be done in such a
manner as "to reflect back on the Church." 95/ The defendant Raymond
designated Mr. Mesiner to carry out vital targets I through 4 as part of his
duties in the District of Columbia. /96
M. Entries into the Suite Of Offices
of the Deputy Attorney General of the United States
In early April 1976, the defendant Cindy Raymnond ordered
Mr. Meisner to obtain internal Department of Justice files
regarding proposed amendments to the FOIA which the Department
Government Exhibit No. 109 was seized by Special Agent Gilberto Valencia
from Room 4 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex. of Justice was about to send to Congress. Meisner learned through his own
research, that such proposals would normally be made by the Deputy Attorney
General of the United States and his staff. Therefore, in early April 1976, the
defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner entered the United States Department of Justice
at 9th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. , in Washington, D.C., to locate the
documents wanted by the defendant Raymond. Mr. Meisner used his false IRS
identification card in the name of "John M. Foster" and the defendant Wolfe used
his own IRS identification card. They both then burglarized the fourth floor
suite of offices of Deputy Attorney General Harold R. Tyler Jr., where by
rummaging throuh the files, they located a series of memoranda which the
Department of Justice was about to send to Congress outlining it's position on
proposed amendments to the FOIA. The two men forced open the door to these
offices by using a metal sheet to slip the lock latch. The defendant Wolfe and
Mr. Meisner photocopied these documents using Justice Department photo- copying
equipment and supplies, returning the documents to the files, and stole the
copies. Mr. Meisner, sent these stolen documents with memoranda summarizing them
to his superiors in Los Angeles as well as to the "CSG", defendant Mary Sue
Hubbard. In the process of looking for the FOIA memoranda within the Deputy
Attorney General's suite, Mr. Meisner and the defendant Wolfe had seen but did
not steal the so-called "DeFeo Report"-an investigation of the Drug Enforcement
Administration conducted by the Department of Justice.
Coincidentally, a few days after the Justice Department entry, the defendant
Cindy Raymond wrote Mr. Meisner that she had learned that the Justice Department
had conducted an investigation of the Drug Enforcerent Administration, which she
directed him to get. The defendant Raymond explained that the Church of
Scientology had just lost an FOIA case which it had initiated against DEA, and
that it intended to appeal the lowcr court's decision. In that context, the
Guardian's Office wanted to obtain the DEA investigation report and covertly
leak the report to the press to create an adverse campaign against DEA which
might aid Scientology in its FOIA appeal. Therefore, on or about April 9, 1976,
the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner once again entered the Department of Justice
building located at 9th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., with Mr. Meisner using
his counterfeit IRS identification card. They forced the door to the suite of
offices of the Deputy Attorney General in the same manner that they had
previously done, and eventually entered the offices of Associate Deputy Attorney
General Togo D. West, Jr. Mr. Meisner, recalling where he had previously seen
the "DeFeo Report", took it from a file cabinet Mr. West's secretary's office.
The report was in two parts with an additional file of supporting raw data. The
defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner photocopied all three parts using equipment and
supplies of the United States Government located within the Department of
Justice, returned the documents to Mr. West's office, and stole the copies. Mr.
Meisner then summarized each file in a series of three memoranda, dated 9 April
1976, which he forwarded to "Br I Dir Nat'l", the defendant Raymond, via "SE US
Sec", the defendant Hermann/Cooper with a copy to the "CSG", defendant Hubbard
(Govcernment Exhibits Nos. 69, 70 and 71). 91/ Following his established
practice, Mr. Meisner, numbered each page of the stolen documents in the lower
right-hand corner of the document.
Mr. Togo D. West, Jr. was employed as Associate Deputy Attorney General of
the United States until April 23, 1976.
In that capacity, he received the DeFeo Report in early 1976. He recalls that
there was only one copy of that report and supporting raw data in the Office of
the Deputy Attorney General. West did not give permission to Mr. Meisner or the
defendant Wolfe to take copies of the DcFeo Report. Indeed its distribution was
severely limited.
Two weeks following the entry into the Department of Justice's Office of the
Deputy Attorncy General, Bruce Raymond, the National Operations Officer of the
Information Bureau in the United States, directed Mr. Meisner to release
the stolen DeFco Report to the _Village_Voice_ Newspaper in Now York under
the cover of a disaffected Department of Justice employee. To that end, Mr.
Meisner went to New York, where he telephoned a reporter for the Village Voice.
Mr. Meisner, as ordered, identified himself as a disaffected Department of
Justice employee who was offering the reporter a confidential report on an
investigation of DEA conducted by the Justice Department. Mr. Meisner mailed to
the reporter half or the DeFeo Report but never completed the operation because
of the Courthouse incident which was to occur on June 11, 1976. See page 172,
_infra_ 98/
Government Exhibit No. 72 was seized by Special Agent Michael T. Repucci in
Room 14 of the Information Bureau at the Ccdars Complex. (footnote continued on next page.)
Burglaries or the Office of International Operations of the Internal Revenue
Service ind Theft of Documents Ttict-eft,o.@i
During the second week of April 1976, the defendant Hermann sent a written
order to Mr. Meisner directing him to obtain all files on L. Ron Hubbard and the
defendant Mary Sue Hubbard from the Office of International Operations of the
IRS. Appended to the defendant Hermann's order was a report from "CPA US" Martin
Greenberg of the Finance Bureau stating that he had received notice from the IRS
that the incomie tax return of the Hubbards was being audited. Mr. a ti
Greenberg also indicated that Mr. Thomas Crate of OIO was the tax auditor
assigned to the Hubbard case. Inasmuch as all materials which dealt with L. Ron
Hubbard and Mary Sue
(footnote continued from preceding page.)
Hubbard personally, received top priority within the Guardian's office, Mr.
Meisner soon located the office of Mr. Crate by using a recent IRS directory
obtained by the defendant Wolfe. On or about April 14, 1976, at approximentaly 7
00 p.m., the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner, proffering his false "Foster" IRS
identification card, entered the building housing the Office of International
Operations at 1325 T. Street, N.W., in Washington, D.C. They proceeded to the
tenth floor where, according to the IRS directory, Mr. Crate's office was
located but were unable to enter it because the door was locked. A cleaning lady
who noticed the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner acting in a suspicious manner
notified the security guard who confronted Meisner and Wolfe. The security guard
was satisfied by Mr. Meisner's false IRS credentials and the defendant Wolfe's
genuine IRS identification card. The cleaning lady thereupon opened the door to
the office of Mr. Crate. Since the room contained so man desks, it took nearly
thirty minutes to find Mr. Crate's desk. Once they did, Mr. Meisner took all
documents relating to the Hubbard audit. Meisner then discovered that Mr.
Crate's superior was Howard Rosen and proceeded to check his desk as well.
Inside one of the drawers he found a key to Rosen's file cabinets. In them Mr.
Meisner found several thick files on the Hubbards and Scientology. They took all
the files; however, they could not find a photocopying machine within that
building. Mr. Meisner decided to take the files to the main IRS building in
order to photocopy them. Thus, the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner went into the
IRS building. where Mr. Meisner again used his false IRS identification card to
gain entry. Inside the main IRS building, Mr. Meisner and the defendant Wolfe
photocopied all OIO documents using United States government property and
supplies. They then returned the documents to OIO, once again, signing the false
name of "John M. Foster." After replacing the files in Mr. Roscen's file cabinet
and Mr. Crate's desk, they stole copies of the documents for the use of
Scientology. The operation was completed around 11 p.m.
On or about May 15, 1976, the defendant Wolfe and Mr.
Meisner again entered the Rosen-Crate area in order to obtain all iicii
documents regarding the Hubbard's audit. Such docu- ments were found only in the
desk of Thomas Crate, although Rosen's files were also rechecked. This time Mr.
Meisner and the defendant Wolfe entered the office of Mr. Crate with the
assistance of the cleaning lady who recognized Mr. Meisner. The two men made a
third and final entry at the end of July, but no more recent documents on the
audit were found.That time as well, the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner entered
the building using Mr. Meisner's counterfeit IRS identification card, and
regained entry to the office with the assistance of a cleaning lady. On neither
occassion, did Mr. Meisner or the defendant Wolfe have permission to enter the
OIO building or the office of Messrs. Crate or, Rosen, take documents from their
files out of the building, photocopy the files using United States Government
property and permanently deprive the IRS and OIO of the copies of the documents.
Following each of the first two entries, Mr. Meisner summarized the stolen
documents in memoranda addressed to the defendant Mitchell Hermann/Mike Cooper,
with a copy of the memorandum and stolen documents sent to the "CSG", defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard. The documents obtained during the first entry were summarized
in four memoranda - one of one or which was dated 15 April 1976 (Government
Exhibit No. 73), and three dated 19 April 1976 (Government Exhibits Nos. 74-76).
99/ Government Exhibit No. 73 was entitled "'Re: OIO LRH File-Current Data".
Government Exhibit No. 74 covered "OIO File On LRH-January, 1974 - April, 1974"
Government Exhibit No. 75 covered the period April 1974 to March 1976.
Government Exiiibit No. 76 dealt with those documnets prior to December, 1973.
The documents obtained during the second entry were summarized in a 17 May 1976
memorandum by Mr. Meisner entitled "Re: Update On IRS OIO Activity On LRH/MSH".
100/ (Government Exhibit No.77.) 101/
In April and May 1976, Mr. Howard Rosen was a group manager at the Office of
International Operations of the IRS. He had under his care, custody and control
all the files relating to the audit of L. Ron Hubbard and the defendant Mary Sue
Hubbard. Mr. Rosen himself supervised the Hubbard's audit from July 1973 to
October 1973 when the case was assigned to Mr. Jeffrey Tobin also of that
office. In January 1976, Mr. Rosen returned to OIO and the case was reassigned
to him. The Hubbard audit case for the years 1971 and 1972 was not closed until
June 1976 when Mr. Hubbard paid an adjustment tax. The individual within Mr.
Rosen's group who worked on the audit was Thomas R. Crate. In April and May
1976, Mr. Rosen kept all his files in a file cabinet located near his desk. The
file cabinet was kept locked at all times, and he had the only key to those
cabinets. He kept that key in his desk drawer. Mr. Rosen reviewed the Meisner
memoranda marked Government Exhibits Nos. 73-77, and concludes that all
documents summarized therein were then, and still are in his care, custody and
control.
O. Burglaries and Thefts of Documents
From the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.
1. Office of Paul Figley
The defendant Sharon Thomas began her employment at the Department of Justice
in Washington, D.C., on February 29, 1976. She was assigned as a secretary to
two trial attorneys in the Information and Privacy Unit or the Civil Division.
Soon after her employment, she stole documents from that Unit which were the
basis for a number of pending Scientology-initiated FOIA lawsuits. She took all
those documents after working hours or on weekends. The defendant Thomas met on
a weekly basis, on either a Monday or a Tuesday, with Mr. Meisner at one of
several locations in nearby Arlington, Virginia. The locations included the
Lum's and Three Chefs Restaurants as well as at her own apartment. Mr. Meisner
instructed her to obtain all files on Scientology from the office of Department
of Justice attorney Paul Figley who was supervising the Freedom of Information
Act cases within the Department. After collecting all the documents within Mr.
Figley's office, she was to monitor his office and take any new documents placed
in his files. The defendant Thomas was also directed to be attentive to Mr.
Figley in the hopes that she might become his secretary and have immediate
access to all his files. 102/ She was also instructed to overhear all the phone
and office conversations and make notes of any matter relevant to Scientology.
On or about April 26, 1976, the defendant Thomas entered, without permission,
the office of Mr. Figley and took from his files numerous documents which were
the source of a pending FOIA lawsuit brought by Scientology against the Energy
Research and Development Administration (ERDA), which had been assigned to Mr.
Figley. She then photocopied the docu- ments on a photocopying machine within
the Justice Department main building using United States Government supplies and
equipment after replacing the documnets in Mr. Figley's office, she stole the
photocopies and gave them to Mr. Meisner
at their next regularly scheduled meeting. On 26 April 1976, Mr. Meisner sent
a memorandum to the defendant Hermann/Cooper which summarized the documents, and
to which were appended the stolen documents themselves. He also sent a copy to
the "CSG". defendant, Mary Sue Hubbard (Government Exhibit No. 78) 103/ One of
the documents which Mr. Meisner appended to his memorandum to the defendant
Hermann was an April 6, 1976, letter from ERDA Assistant General Counsel for
Litigation and Legislation Guy H. Cunningham, III, to Paul Figley regarding the
United States' position in the pending Scientology initiated FOIA civil action.
(Government Exhibit No. 79). 104/ That document is summarized in Meisner's
memorandum (Government Exhibit No. 78, page 1, paragraphs 1-4). At the lower
right-
hand corner of Government Exhibit No. 79 are the Meisner handwritten numerals
"1" and "2" ,411icli he placed thereon upon receipt of the documents from Ms.
Thomas. All underlinings and numerals placed in the left-hand margin of the
documents were made by Mr. Meisner.
2. Interpol Liaison Office at the Department of Justice
The defendants Raymond and Hermann along with Tom Reitze, the Information
Bureau Snow White Program In-Charge, repeatedly reminded Mr. Meisner of the high
priority of the orders re-garding the collection of data and documents from
Interpol.
Nine nonths earlier, Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember had issued Guardian
Program Order 9 (GPgmO 9) which specifically addressed itself to Interpol. GpgmO
99, entitled "Snow White Confidential" ordered that the Guardian's Office must:
Through infiltrators or clandestined agents obtain all details of any reports
of requests for data on LRH, Scientology, OTC [Operations and Transport
Company], 105/ Apollo, etc. from US
police and/or US NCB [National Central Bureau of Interpol) to IP [Interpol]
International or any other NCB or from IP International or any other NCB to US
Police and/or US NCB.
(Target 10).
GPgmO 9, which was issued on June 27, 1975, (Government Exhibit No. 63) was
written by Deputy Guardian for Information World-Wide Mo Budlong. Government
Exhibit No. 63 shows that target 10 which had been assigned to Branch I
Director, the defendant Willardson, and "SW I/C" (Snow White in Charge) Reitze
was completed on 3 June 1976 with the burglaries of Assistant United States
Attorney Nathan Dodell's office. 106/
Nancy Douglass, Scientology's covert operatLive at the Drug Enforcement
Administration, informed Mr. Mesiner that an Interpol Liaison Office had been
newly created at the Department of Justice. That Office was to be the first step
in the eventual transfer or the Interpol National Central Bureau for the United
States from the Department of the
Treasury to the Department of Justice. Ms. Douglass had attempted
unsuccessfully to obtain employment at the Interpol Liaison Office. Thus, it
became neccessary for Mr. Meisner to obtain the documents from that office
through other means. Beginning in April 1976, and continuing until late May
1976, Mr. Meisner and other Scientology operatives made a number of entries into
the Interpol Liaison Office to obtain the documents regarding Scientology. The
first entry was made in early April by the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner. They
entered the main Justice Department Buillding located at 9th and Pennsylvania
Avenue, Northwest, in Washington, D.C., shortly before 5:30 p.m., using Mr.
Meisner's false IRS identification card. They waited until all personnel had
left the Interpol Liaison Office on the sixth floor, then entered, without
permission, that office. They found a number of locked file cabinets, as well as
two locked safes. Then, thirty minutes later, after having searched in vain
throughout the entire suite of offices for keys to the file cabinets, the
defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner left the building. One week later, they made a
second entry into the Justice Department, once again using the Meisner fake
identification to gain entry. Mr. Meisner brought a variety of lock-picking
tools to open the file cabinets within the Interpol Liaison office. Once again
he was unsuccessful and they left the building. On a third occasion, in
mid-April, the defendant Sharon Thomas entered the Justice Department Building
with Mr. Meisner; this time they looked through the office for a combination to
the safes and eventually found it in a file card box on a secretary's desk.
After opening one of the two safes, they found the keys to the file cabinets and
gained access to the documents. They took some three to four inches of documents
out of the sixth floor Interpol offices to the fourth floor photocopying machine
where they made copies or all the documents with United States Government
equipment and supplies. Some two hours later, the defendant Thomas and Mr.
Meisner left that building with stolen copies of the documents.
Mr. Meisner made one more entry into the Interpol Liaison Office with the
defendant Sharon Thomas and Scientology covert operative Michael Baun, through
the use of Mr. Meisner's counterfeit IRS identification card. Because the
Guardian's office officials wanted _all_ Interpol documents whether re- lated to
Scientology or not, Mr. Meisner, not only took some documents on this occasion
but also directed the defendant Thomas and Mr. Baum to make weekly entries into
that office where they were to methodically examine each file cabinet for any
Interpol documents. The documents taken on this occasion were photocopied using
the fourth floor Justice Department photocopying equipment as well as United
States Government supplies. The documents were returned to their original loca-
tion and the copies wore stolen. Mr. Meisner then summarized the stolen
documents in two separate memoranda dated 28 April 1976 which he sent to the
defendant Raymond, who, as Branch I Director National, had supervision over
Interpol matters. (Government Exhibit No. 80). 107/ The memoranda with attached
stolen documents were forwarded via Southeast U.S. Secretary, the defendant
Hermann/Cooper. The stolen documents related to
to a symposium for the heads of police colleges which Interpol was to hold in
September 1976, Interpol's history, and terrorism. Upon receipt of the Meisner
memoranda, the defendant Raymond forwarded them and the documents to World-
Wide. 108/
Over the next month the defendant Thomas and Mr. Baum burglarized the
Interpol Liaison Office at the Justice Depart- ment on at least three occasions.
Those raids netted some three feet of copies of Interpol documents. On each
ocassion they used the photocopying equipment and supplies located on the fourth
floor of the Department of Justice main building and stole the copies. The
documents were given to Mr. Meisner who in each instance excerpted the documents
in memoranda identical to Government Exhibit No. 80. (See Government Exhibit
Nos. 85 and 86.) 109/ Government Exhibit No. 81 is a 3 May 1976 Meisner
memorandum summarizing stolen Justice Department correspondence on Interpol for
the period October 1957 to May 1969. Appended to that memorandum, among others,
were Government Exhibits Nos. 82-84, which have Mr. Meisner's handwritten
numerals in their lower-right hand corner as well as other Meisner underlinings
and notations. 110/
Government Exhibit No. 85 contains two 17 May 1976 memoranda and one 12 May
1976 memorandum by Mr. Meisner to the defendant Raymond summarizing other
Justice Department Interpol documents. Similarly, Government Exhibit No. 86 is a
28 May 1976 Meisner memorandum to the defendant Raymond summarizing nine pages
or appended Interpol Liaison Office documents regarding a General Accounting
Office (GAO) audit. Each of those memoranda were forwarded by the defendant
Raymond to World-Wide. 111/ Neither the defendant Thomas nor Mr. Meisner had
permission to enter the Interpol Liaison Office, take the documents out of that
office, or steal the photocopies for the use of Scientology.
3. Offices of Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General for
Administration John F. Shaw
During the year 1975, a Senate Commitee had conducted hearings concerning
Interpol. In 1976, the Guardian's office of the Church of Scientology was
strongly advocating the re- opening of such hearings to dispute the United
States' con- tinued participation in that organization. In this regard, Hugh
Wilhere, an official of the Public Relations Bureau of the District of
Columbia's Guardian's Office, informed Mr. Meisner that he had met with Special
Assistant to Assistant Attorney General for Administration, John F. Shaw, whom
he had learned was supervising the transfer of Interpol from the Treasury
Department to the Department of Justice. Based on this information, and pursuant
to the order contained in "Gpgmo 9", Mr. Meisner began monitoring Mr. Shaw's
office for Interpol related documents. On three occassions, on or about April
29, May 8 and May 17, 1976, the defendant Sharon Thomas and Mr. Meisner entered
the Department of Justice Building after 5:30 p.m using the defendant Thomas'
Department of Justice identification card, in order to steal copies of documents
from Mr. Shaw's office. On each occasion, the defendant Thomas met Mr. Meisner
outside the Justice Depart- ment building.
On or about, April 29, 1976, following thier entry into the main Department
of Justice building, located at 9th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., in
Washington, D.C., they proceeded to the first floor office of Mr. Shaw. Mr.
Meisner forced open the locked door to the Shaw suite of offices by inserting a
plastic sheet the size of a credit card to slip the latch. Once inside the
suite, they went through a secretary's office which led into Mr. Shaw's personal
office. On his desk was a five to six inch high stack of documents, all related
to Interpol. Mr. Meisner placed these documents in his briefcase and, together
with the defendant Thomas, went to the fourth floor where they both photocopied
the documents using Department of Justice photocopying equipment and supplies
located nearby. Thereafter, they returned the documents to Mr. Shaw's desk. The
copies of the documents were then taken, without permission, in Mr. Meisner's
briefcase to the Guardian's Office of the Church of Scientology at 2125 S Street
N.W., Washington, D.C. Mr. Meisner excerpted one hundred and twenty four pages
of some eight hundred pages of stolen documents in a memorandum to the defendant
Raymond, dated 30 April 1976, entitled "Re: Current Feud Between Justice and
Treasury - Justice Takeover of Interpol NCB" (Government Exhibit No. 87). The
documents, which Mr. Meisner appended to his memorandum, each contain both his
handwritten numerals in their lower right-hand corner as well as his underlining
and notations in the left-hand margin. (Govern- ment Exhibits Nos. 88-92). 112/
Upon receipt of that memorandum, the defendant Raymond forwarded it, and the
documents appended thereto to World-Wide stating that "the data is really
fascinating."113/
(footnote continued on next page.)
On or about May 17, 1976, 114/ the defendant Sharon Thomas and Mr. Meisner
entered for the third time, after working hours, the Department or justice, this
time by displaying the identification card of Ms. Thomas. They proceeded to the
first floor offices of Mr. Shaw which they entered by again forcing open the
door using a credit card like device. They there took from Mr. Shaw's office
current
(footnote continued fron preceding page.)
data which Mr. Shaw had received regarding Interpol in general and, in
particular, a an audit which was then being conducted by the General Accounting
Office. All of these documents had been classified for "Limited Official Use".
The defendant Thomas and Mr. Meisner photocopied these documents in the same
manner as they had on April 28, and May 8, 1976. Just as on the prior two dates,
they removed from the building the stolen copies. Mr. Meisner then summarized
the documnets in a 17 May 1976 memorandum to the defendant Raymond which was
sent via the defendant Hermann/Cooper. The appended stolen documents bear Mr.
Meisner's hadnwritten numerals in the lower right-hand corner. 115/
In April and May 1976, Mr. John F. Shaw was, in fact, the Special Assistant
to Assistant Attorney General for Administra- tion Glenn Pommerening, Jr. Mr.
Shaw's offices were located In Room 1103 on the first floor of the main
Department of
Justice building at 9th Street and Constitution Avenue, Northwest, In
Washington, D.C. In that capacity he was the main coordinator of the Justice
Department's internal review concerning the transfer of Interpol from the
Department of the Treasury to the Department of Justice. He maintained all his
files on Interpol on shelves in an unlocked closet behind his desk. He has
reviewed the Meisner memoranda referred to herein and the documents appended
thereto and, states that they were in his office on the dates of the memoranda.
Indeed, they still are in his files. Many of these documents contain his
handwritten notations while others are specifically addressed to him. He did not
at any time give permission to the defendant Thomas or Mr. Meisner to enter his
offices, take these documents, photocopy them, or take the copies for the use of
Scientology.
P. Burglaries and Thefts of Documents from Assistant United States Attorney
Nathan Dodell's oOffice, Located in the United States Courthouse for the
District of Columbia
On April 14, 1976, during a Scientology FOIA case chambers hearing, United
States District Judge George L. Hart, Jr. queried Assistant United States
Attorney Nathan Dodell on the record and in the presence of Walter G. Birkel,
Jr., Esquire, counsel representing the Church of Scientology, whether the United
States had considered taking a deposition of L. Ron Hubbard. Mr. Dodell
responded that it was an "interesting thought". which he would discuss with the
Depart- ment of Justice. 116/ (Government Exhibit 96 at P. 3). 117/
THE COURT: Have you all considered taking Hubbard's deposition?
MR. DODELL: It is an interesting thought, Judge Hart . . . .
THE COURT: Why don't you take his deposition?
MR. DODELL: Well, let me say, I consult with people at the Justice
Department handling these cases because there are so many, we obviously
coordinate and I will certainly relay that suggestion to them with the fact
that you have reiterated here. Tr. at 2, 4.
On April 20, Paul Klopper, the Branch II Director for the Legal Bureau in the
United States, notified by memorandum the defendant Richard Weigand about this
colloquy in Judge Hart's courtroom and suggested an investigation be initiated.
In a letter dated 27 April 1976, and entitled "Re: LRH Safety", the defendant
Weigand wrote the defendant Hermann/Cooper appending to the letter the Klopper
memorandum. In his letter, the defendant Weigand ordered that the following
actions be "done on a very high priority and as fast as possible:"
A. A complete ODC [Overt Data Collection] and CDC [Covert Data Collection] on
Judge Hart. (this can fall under the targets of GPgmO 301 but must be done very
fast)
B. Get a line in the JUDY area 118/ for immediate feedback of any proposed
intention to deposition LRH. Telex all data found. You should also check out the
flow line on which this type of deposition would travel and keep a daily monitor
of the line.
C. Get some type of line into Dodell
(similar to the successful suitable guise line you had when you were in DC)
and keep tabs on what his intentions are in the area of depo- sition of LRH.
D. Also see if we can do some type of
JUDY action 119/ in Dodell's area to get data predicting any action to
deposition.
The defendant Weigand instructed that in conducting the investigation on
Judge liii-t, the defendant Hermann/Cooper should "Be sure to look for any data
legal could use to get him removed from the cases". On the same day, the
defendant Weigand informad the defendant Raymond of the directive he had issued
to the defendant Hermann/Cooper (Government Exhibit No. 96 at p. 4).
In late April, the defendant Hermann/Cooper directed Meisner, in writing, to
execute the order contained in the letter of the defendant Weigand of 27 April
1976. Appended
to the defendant Hermann/Cooper's directive were the Weigand and Klopper
letters in Government Exhibit No. 96. 120/ Mr. Meisner immediately notified the
defendant Thomas to be alert to any possible decision to subpoena L. Ron
Hubbard. Mr. Meisner then directed his own attention to Assistant United States
Attorney Nathan Dodell.
On or about May 7, 1976, the defendant Gerald Bennett Wolfe and Mr. Meisner
entered the United States Courthouse for the District or Columbia located at 3rd
Street and John Marshall Place, N.W., in Washington, D.C., around 4:00 P.M. and
went to the 3rd floor which housed the United States Attorney's Office. Their
purpose was to reconnoiter the area and locate the offices of Mr. Dodell. They
proceeded directly to the third floor District of Columbia Bar Asso- ciation
Library, and from there went to the area housing
Civil Division of the United States Attorney's Office. Eventually, they
located Mr. Dodell's office in the back part of the Civil Division area, off of
a hallway near a key-operated elevator and the rear door of the D.C. Bar
Association Library. They then searched for a photocopying machine, and found
one coin operated machine in that library, and two other larger machines within
the United States Attorney's Office next to the Fraud Division. At 5:30 p.m.,
they returned to Mr. Dodell's office and found the door locked. After trying
unsuccessfully to force the open the door with a metal sheet, they left the
building.
Mr. Meisner instructed the defendant Wolfe to return to the Courthouse in the
daytime and inspect the latch on Mr. Dodell's door to determine how to gain
access. A few days later, the defendant Wolfe telephoned Mr. Meisner at his
office at the Church of Scientology at 2125 S Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and
told him that he was calling from Mr. Dodell's office. The defendant Wolfe
informed Mr. Meisner that Mr. Dodell's secretary had apparently left her keys on
her desk. Mr. Meisner directed the defendant Wolfe to take the keys and meet him
on John Marshall Place, N.W. Half an hour later, the defendant Wolfe and Mr.
Meisner located a locksmith at Seventeenth Street and Columbia Road, N.W., where
they obtained duplicates of some of the keys. They then both returned to the
United States Courthouse, and Mr. Meisner dropped the keys in the hallway
adjacent to Mr. Dodell's office. Both men then left the Courthouse.
On May 21, 1976, at approximately 6:30 to 7:00 p.m., the defendant Wolfe and
Mr. Meisner entered the Courthouse building at 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
They drove from there to the United States Courthouse. Mr. Meisner entered the
building using his IRS credentials and signed in using the name "John M.
Foster". They informed the General Services Administration (GSA) security guard
that they were going to the District of Columbia Bar Association Library to do
legal research. The guard called the Bar library and inquired whether they would
be permitted to enter. Having been informed that they could use the library, the
security
Guard issued Mr. Meisner an elevator key. The defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner
then proceeded to the Bar library on the third floor, where the defendant Wolfe
and Mr. Meisner signed the library log using the names "J. Wolfe" and "John
Foster", respectively. (See Government Exhibit No. 97.) They walked to the back
of the library where they removed some legal books from the shelves, placed them
on a table and pretended that they were doing research. A few minutes
thereafter, the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner passed through the back door of
of the library onto the hallway off of which Mr. Dodell's office was located.
Using the duplicate keys, they forced open the door to Mr. Dodell's office and
entered the office without permission. The defend- ant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner
examined Mr. Dodell's unlit office by flashlight and found a current file on
Scientology. Mr. Meisner took that file as well as a number of other files from
one of Dodell's file cabinets. They walked through the third floor hallways to
the Offices of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and the
two photocopy machines which they had located on May 7. They there photo- copied
approximately six inches of documents on Scientology and Interpol using United
States Government supplies and equipment. They returned the documents to Mr.
Dodell's files and the copies were placed in Mr. Meisner's briefcase. The
defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner left the Courthouse at approximately 11:00 p.m.,
and returned to the parking lot at the main IRS building on Constitution Avenue,
N.W. Mr. Meisner then returned to his office at 2125 S Street, N. W., and
immediately telephoned the defendant Weigand to inform him that he and the
defendant Wolfe had burglarized Dodell's office and stolen copies of the
Interpol documents located therein. These were the documents which the United
States Guardian's Office had been ordered to obtain by Guardian World-Wide Jane
Kember in November 1973 121/ as well as the documents targeted both by GPgmO 9,
and a subproject written by the defendant Raymond pursuant to GPgmO 302. The
defendant Weigand congratulated Mr. Meisner on his successful mission.
Mr. Meisner reviewed the documents which had been stolen from Mr. Dodell's
office and summarized some or them in two memo- randa dated May 24 and May 27,
1976. (Government Exhibits No. 98 and 100.) 122/ Government Exhibit No. 98
contained two Meisner memoranda dated 24 May 1976 addressed to the defendant
Raymond via the defendant Hermann/Cooper. They are entitled "US Interpol NCB
Documents on Scientology Withheld in Entirety Under FOIA" and "US Interpol NCB
Documents on Scientology Partially Withheld Under FOIA". Appended to these
memoranda were at least eighty-six of the approximately one thousand pages of
documents stolen from Mr. Dodell. Each document summarized therein contained a
numeral handwritten by Mr. Meisner in its lower right-hand corner as well as
some other excerptions and notes. (See, e.g. Government Exhibit No. 122/
Government Exhibit No. 98 was seized by Special Agent Kramarsic from a file
cabinet in the defendant office at the Fifield Manor, and Government Exhibit No.
100 was seized by Special Agent Kramarsic from Room 14 in the Information Bureau
at the Cedars Complex. 99.) 123/ Government Exhibit No. 100 contained a May 25,
1976 Meisner memorandum from Mr. Meisner entitled "Nathan Dodell, Current
Information on Scientology's Harrassment of the Government on Legal Lines" which
summarized documents stolen from Mr. Dodell's office. That memorandum, and a
second one of the same date entitled "Significance of Dodell Material Enclosed",
was sent by Mr. Meisner to the defendant Hermann/Cooper. Appended to it are
copies of numerous documents stolen from Mr. Dodell. Many or these documents
contained the handwriting of Assistant United States Attorney Nathan Dodell.
124/ On May 27, the defendant Hermann/Cooper forwarded
"24" and compare to Government Exhibit No. 98, Meisner, page 24 May 1976
memo at page three, paragraph two. Government Exhibit No. 99 was seized by
Special Agent Ryan from Room No. 13 within the Information bureau at the
Cedars Complex. 124/ See, for example, the documents containing Mr. Meisner's
handwritten numerals Nos. 1, 6, 7, 12, 13, etc. Mr. Dodell has reviewed these
documents and states that they were in his files in May 1976, and indeed still
remain in his files. the Meisner memorandum and appended stolen documents to World-Wide with a
cover memorandum outlining the content of the package. A copy or that material
was sent to the Deputy Guardian for the United States, the defendant Heldt, and
the Deputy Guardian for Information in the United States, the defendant Weigand.
125/
On May 28 1976, the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner met once again outside
the main IRS building in Washington, D.C. at approximately 6:30 p.m., and after
parking one of the cars nearby, proceeded to the United States Courthouse, at
Third Street and John Marshall Place, N.W. In the Courthouse Mr. Meisner signed
in as "John M. Foster," using his false IRS identification card. The defendant
Wolfe signed-in as "T. Haake" using a D.C. Bar Association library card which he
had borrowed from another IRS employee. United States Court- house logs
maintained by the GSA security guards indicate that the two men entered the
Courthouse at 7:30 p.m. and remained until 9:55 p.m. The entry logs further show
that
they were going to the "Library". (Government Exhibit No. 101.) Once again
they borrowed an elevator key and proceeded to the third floor of the United
States Courthouse and entered the Library of the District of Columbia Bar
Association through the back door without first signing in. A few minutes later,
finding the area clear, they went to Dodell's office and opened the door with
the key which they had previously duplicated. This time they took approximately
one foot of documents related to Scientology, and more specifically to the
District of Columbia Police Department and the federal Food and Drug
Administration. These docments were photocopied on the United States Attorney's
Office photocopying machines using Government owned supplies located nearby. As
the defend- ant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner were returning to Mr. Dodell's office
through the library, they were stopped by night librarian Charles Johnson who
inquired as to whether they had signed- in. When he was told that they had not,
he required them to sign-in (See Government Exhibit No. 102.) Mr. Meisner
signed-in as "J. Foster" and Mr. Wolfe as "W. Haake". They placed as a reference
telephone number, 964-4483. The night librarian informed them that they were not
to return to the library unless they had specific authorization from the regular
librarian. The defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner immediately left the library,
returned the documents to Mr. Dodell's office and left the Courthouse with
copies of the documents in Mr. Meisner's briefcase. After leaving the defendant
Wolfe at the IRS building, Mr. Meisner returned to the Guardian's Office.
In two memoranda dated 1 June and 2 June 1076 (Government Exhibits Nos. 103
and 104, respectively), 126/ Mr. Meisner summarized the more important of the
documents which he and the defendant Wolfe had stolen from Mr. Dodell's office.
Both memoranda are addressed to the defendant Hermann/Cooper. 127/ Upon
receiving the June 2, 1976 memorandum and attached stolen documents, the
defendant Hermann/Cooper forwarded them to
World-Wide in a June 6, 1976 letter entitled "Re: DC US Attorney Nathan
Dodell".
Mr. Dodell was, in 1976, and still is an Assistant United States Attorney for
the District of Columbia assigned to the Civil Division of the United States
Attorney's Office. His personal office was located, in May and June 1976, on the
third floor of the United States Courthouse for the District of Columbia,
immediately behind the Library of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He
has reviewed copies of the documents appended to the Meisner memoranda refered
to above, and concludes that they were in his files on the dates on which the
memoranda were written. In fact they remain in his files to this date. Many of
the documents contain, or are written in, his own handwriting. Mr. Dodell did
not give permission to either the defendant Wolfe or Meisner to enter his
offices, take documents which were in his care, cuntody and control, photocopy
them, or steal copies thereof.
On May 31, 1976, the night librarian, Charles Johnson, and the GSA Security
Guard notified the United States Attorney's office that two individuals who had
identified themselves as IRS employees and who had in their possession IRS
identifica- tion cards had been seen using the photocopying machines of the
United States Attorney's Office on the previous Friday evening. Both Mr. Johnson
and the guard were instructed to immediately contact the FBI if those two
individuals returned to the Courthouse.
During that same time Mr. Meisner contacted the chief D.C. Bar Association
librarian, requested, and obtained from her, a letter permitting him to use the
facilities of the D.C. Bar library. On June 8, 1976, Deputy Guardian for
Information, the defendant Weigand, Deputy Guardian for Legal Bureau Mary
Rezzonico, and Deputy Guardian for Public Relations Arthur Maren, approved a
"Project: Target Dodell" (Goverment Exhibit No. 105). 128/ Its purpose was to
"render Dodell harm- less" because of his aggressive representation of the
United States of America as counsel in the Scientology FOIA legal actions. A few
days prior to June 11, 1976, the defendant Hermann/Cooper telephoned Mr. Meisner
and directed him to
to return to Mr. Dodell's office and steal Dodell's personal files in order
to devise and formulate a covert operation to remove him as an Assistant United
States Attorney for the District of Columbia. To that end, the defendant Wolfe
and Mr. Meisner met on June 11, 1976, once again, outside the main IRS building
in Washington, D.C., and proceeded to the United States Courthouse in that same
city. They entered the United States Courthouse at approximately 7:00 p.m., Mr.
Meisner signing-in as "John M. Foster" and the defendant Wolfe using the name
"Thomas Blake", both using their counter- feit IRS identification cards. They
proceeded to the Bar Association Library where they signed in using the names
indicated above. (Government Exhibit No. 106). Mr. Meisner also showed the night
librarian, Charles Johnson, the written permission which he had earlier secured
fron the head librarian. The defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner them proceeded
through the back of the library to Mr. Dodell's office where they observed
cleaning ladies still working in that office. They returned to the library and
waited there until the cleanup crew had left Mr. Dodell'S Office. In the
meantime, night librarian Johnson contacted the FBI regarding the presence of
the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner. Shortly thereafter FBI Special Agents
Christine Hansen and Dan Hodges confronted tho defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner
at one of the back tables within the Bar Association Library, and demanded to
see their identification cards. Mr. Meisner presented his IRS identi- fication
card to the FBI agents and informed them that he had since resigned from the
IRS. While FBI Agent Hansen continued questioning the defendant Wolfe and Mr.
Meisner, FBI Agent Hodges left to contact an Assistant United States Attorney.
Mr. Meisner informed Agent Hansen that he and the defendant Wolfe had been in
the Courthouse to do legal research, and that they had used the United States
Attorney's Office photocopying machine to photocopy legal books and cases. He
gave her as his home address an address a few doors away from his actual
residence. Neither individual mentioned either's association with the Church of
Scientology, or the true purpose for which they were in the United States Court-
house. After fifteen minutes of questioning Mr. Meisner inquired if they were
under arrest. When Agent Hansen responded that they were not, Mr. Meisner told
Wolfe that they were leaving. As they were leaving the library, Agent Hodges
called to the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner but was told by Mr. Meisner that
Agent Hansen had permitted them to leave. 129/
(footnote continued on next page.)
Upon leaving the United States Courthouse, Mr. Meisner and the defendant
Wolfe walked a number of blocks to make sure that they were not being followed
and then took a taxicab to Martin's Tavern Restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue and
N-Street, N.W. in-Washington, D.C. Mr. Meisner then telephoned the defendant
Hermann/Cooper in Los Angeles, California to inform him in a circumspect manner
that they had been confronted by the FBI. The defendant Hermann/Cooper told Mr.
Meisner to call him back at a public telephone. A few minutes later
(footnote continued from preceding page.)
In a letter dated 3 June 1977, the United States Secretary at World-Wide
Hermann Brendel sent the defendant Gregory Willardson, who had been elevated
to the post of Deputy Guardian for Information U.S., "a list of the vital
products needed from B1 [Information Bureau] US." He states that these were
"taken from CSG [Mary Sue Hubbard] and GWW [Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember]
orders". (Government Exhibit No. 112).
Government Exhibit No. 112 was seized on July 8, 1977, by Special Agent
Eusebio Benavidez from the pending basket on the defendant Willardson's desk
at the Cedars Complex. Mr. Meisner once again contacted the defendant Hermann, and this time
informed him of the details of his confrontation with the FBI in the United
States Courthouse for the District of Columbia. The defendant Hermann/Cooper
instructed Mr. Meisner to remain at the restaurant and told him that he would
contact the defendant Weigand and further instruct Mr. Meisner at that time as
to what course of action to follow. He also directed Meisner to begin writing a
report on what had actually occurred in the United States Courthouse. Mr.
Meisner was to call him back within one hour. Mr. Meisner then contacted Joseph
Alesi, the Branch I Director for the District of Columbia. Mr. Meisner directed
Mr. Alesi to proceed to the United States Courthouse and pick up the defendant
Wolfe's car which had been left there and bring it to Martin's Tavern
Restaurant. Mr. Meisner, also instructed Mr. Alesi to call Mrs. Meisner and ask
her to pick up his car, which he had left in the main IRS building parking lot.
One hour later, Mr. Meisner called the defendant Hermann/ Cooper in Los
Angeles, California, to receive further instructions, The defendant
Hermann/Cooper informed Mr. Meisner that he had discussed their FBI
confrontation with the defendant Weigand and that the latter wanted him to come
immediately to Los Angeles, California. Mr. Meisner stated that he would leave
the next morning for Los Angeles. Mr. Meisner and his wife stayed that night at
the Quality Inn Motel on Courthouse Road and Route 50 in Arlington, Virginia.
(Government Exhibit No. 113).
Mr. Meisner then called Bruce Ullman, the Information Branch II Director for
the District of Columbia, and directed him to obtain money from the Guardian's
Office funds and bring it to him the next morning, when he was to pick him up at
an Arlington motel and take him to the National Airport for his trip to Los
Angeles.
IV.
The Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice, to Obstruct an Investigation, to Harbor a
Fugitive and to Make False Declarations Before the Grand Jury
A. The preperation of the Cover-Up Story
On June 12, 1976 Mr. Meisner was met at the Quality
Inn Motel, in Arlington, Virginia by Mr. Bruce Ullman who gave him money for
a round trip flight to Los Angeles. Mr. Ullman drove Mr. Meisner to National
Airport where Mr. Meisner took a United Airlines flight to Los Angeles. On the
plane, Mr. Meisner completed his detailed report of the Courthouse incident as
he had been directed to, the night before, by the defendant Weigand through the
defendant Hermann/Cooper. Mr. Meistier arrived in Los Angeles at approximately
noon, and went directly to the defendant Weigand's office on the seventh floor
of the Fifield Manor. Defendant Weigand reviewed Mr. Meisner's handwritten
report and then asked him to type it. Mr. Meisner typed it at defendant
Weigand's desk. (Government Exhibit No. 114.) 130/ When he had finished, Mr.
Meisner showed the typed report to defendants Weigand and Willardson, both of
whom read it. Defendant Weigand remarked that he would take it to the defendant
Heldt's office on the sixth floor. He did this and returned approximately
fifteen minutes
later. The defendants Weigand and Willardson then, together with Mr. Meisner,
analyzed the crisis to determine what leads the FBI had and how they could
contain or stop the investigation. The three men decided to devise a cover story
for use by the defendant Wolfe if he were arrested. The plan contemplated
further that defendant Wolfe would, if captured, enter a guilty plea, after
which Mr. Meisner would surrender to the FBI and give the same story to them as
Wolfe had. An alternative plan had both the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner
surrendering immediately and giving the same cover story. All parties recognized
that the highest priority lay in stopping the FBI investigation before it could
connect the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner to the Church of Scientology and
thereby expose other officials of the Guardian's office who had been involved in
the burglaries, thefts, and buggings, described in the first conspiracy,
_supra_. After a full afternoon of discussions, the defendants Weigand and
Willardson drove Mr. Meisner to a Holiday Inn located near Hollywood Boulevard
in Los Angeles, California, where Mr. Meisner registered under a false name.
That evening he had dinner together at the motel prior to leaving Mr. Meisner
for the evening
(footnote continued on next page.)
On Sunday, June 13, 1976, the defendant Willardson met Mr. Meisner at his
motel room and drove him to the defendant Weigand's office, where all three met
to finalize the outline of the plan, which they had discussed the day before, in
order to present it to the defendants Heldt and Snider. Soon there- after, the
defendant Weigand and Mr. Meisner met with the defendants Heldt and Snider in
the defendant Heldt's sixth floor offices at the Fifield Manor. The defendants
Heldt and
(footnote continued from preceding page.)
On June 21, 1976 the defendant Weigand sent the same report to CS-G
Assistant for Information Jimmy Mulligan. See Governnent Exhibit No. 115 which
was seized by Special Agent James R. Kramarsic from a file cabinet located in
a closet in the defendant Heldt's inner office at the Fifield Manor.
Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that it is "probable" that the
defendant Heldt wrote his initials next to his title in the routing portion of
the cover letter, and that it is "probable" that the defendant Weigand wrote
the signature "Dick" on that letter. Mr. Meisner recognizes both the initial
and the signature as those of the defendants Heldt and Weigand, respectively.
Snider each indicated that they had already read Mr. Meisner's report
(Government Exhibit No. 114) and were fully conversant with the matters
discussed in it. All present concluded that the F8I could readily trace already
existing leads back to the Church of Scientology. With this in mind, the defend-
ants Heldt and Snider suggested an alternative plan which they had formulated on
their own earlier that day. That plan called for the defendant Wolfe and Mr.
Meisner to be withdrawn from the District of Columbia and sent out of the United
States. The defendant Heldt stated that as long as there were no bodies, the FBI
would have nothing to investigate. The defendant Weigand, however, countered
that if no bodies were found then the FBI would look even more deeply and find
the connection between the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner and the Church of
Scuentology organization. The defendant Weigand explained that Mr. Meisner had
given the FBI an address close to his real residence where, by cnavas, the FBI
might find someone who could identify him by the photograph on his counterfeit
IRS credentials. It was also pointed out that the FBI not only had Mr. Meisner's
and the defendant Wolfe's handwriting on the Courthouse and library logs, but
also Mr. Meisner's fingerprints on his false IRS identification card. Thus, the
defendant Weigand suggested that if the defendant Wolfe allowed himself to be
arrested and gave the proper cover story, then the investigation could be
contained. Then, following the defendant Wolfe's plea of guilty, Mr. Meisner
would surrender, give the same cover story as the defendant Wolfe, and enter a
guilty plea. This, he posited, would terminate the investigation with little or
no connection to Scientology. The defendant Heldt directed the defendant Weigand
and Mr. Meisner to discuss both plans, and detail one of them and present it to
him for his final approval.
The defendant Weigand and Mr. Meisner returned to the defendant Weigand's
office where the defendant Willardson joined them to implement the defendant
Heldt's orders. During that meeting, the defendant Hermann/Cooper informed them
that the defendant Wolfe had left the District of Columbia and was to arrive in
Los Angeles later that evening. The defendant Hermann then joined the meeting
for a short period of time. The three men drafted defendant Weigand's ideas in
proposal format. The defendant Weigand himself actually wrote out the proposal
for the defendant Heldt's approval, typed it, and took it to the defendant
Heldt. Some fifteen minutes later, the defendant Weigand returned to his office
and stated to the defendant Willardson and Mr. Meisner that the defendant Heldt
had approved that plan. They decided to meet again the next morning to prepare
the cover story with the defendant Wolfe. The defendant Weigand directed Mr.
Meisner to change his appearance with the assistance of Weigand's secretary,
Janet Finn. The defendant Willardson and Mr. Meisner then had dinner, after
which Mr. Meisner was returned to the Holiday Inn motel.
On Monday, June 14, the defendant Weigand's communicator (secretary), Janet
Finn, met Mr. Meisner at approximately 9:00 a.m. at his motel room. She cut his
hair, then dyed it red. Mr. Meisner then shaved his mustache. Establishment
Officer (Esto Off) Peeter Alvet met Mr. Meisner and gave him approximately $200
to obtain contact lenses. Mr. Meisner then went to an optometrist on Hollywood
Boulevard where he purchased soft contact lenses. 132/
At approximately 1:00 p.m. the defendants Weigand, Willardson and Wolfe
arrived at the Holiday Inn to create the cover story to be given by Wolfe to the
FBI. The defendant Weigand informed Mr. Meisner that the defendant
Hermann/Cooper was on a plane on his way to the District of Columbia where he
was to assume temporarily the position of Assistant Guardian for Information
until Richard Kimmel could be brought back from England where he had been
undergoing training at World- Wide for that position. 133/
During the next hour the following cover story was prepared: The defendant
Wolfe and Mr. Meisner were to have met in February 1976 in a District of
Columbia bar, which was to be selected later, and struck up a friendship. Mr.
Meisner was to have introduced himself as "John Foster". Mr. Mr. Meisner was
to have told the defendant Wolfe that he was a law student attending Georgetown
University School of Law. The defendant Wolfe was to have informed Mr. Meisner
that he worked at the IRS. The two individuals were to have met on a number of
occasions. Then in mid-March 1976, after having drunk heavily at a few different
bars, Mr. Meisner was to have mentioned that he had never been to the IRS, and
Wolfe was to have offered to take him on a tour of that building. The defendant
Wolfe was to have taken Mr. Meisner to the IRS, signed him in, and taken him on
a tour of the first floor. Inadvertently, according to the story, they stumbled
upon the identification room which had an open door. They went in and as a lark
decided to make identification cards for themselves. The defendant Wolfe was to
have made Mr. Meisner an identification card and typed in the name "John Foster"
upon it. Mr. Meisner was then to have made an identification card for the
defendant Wolfe who had decided to use the name "Thomas Blake". On a subsequent
occasion, the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner were to have met at a bar and
after a few drinks the defendant Wolfe asked Mr. Meisner to teach him how to do
legal research so that he might be able to obtain a better job. Mr. Meisner
agreed to do so if Wolfe would, as a return favor, look up some information for
him at the IRS for a paper which Mr. Meisner was writing on section 501 ©(6) of
the IRS Code (the section dealing with exempt organizations). They decided that
the District of Columbia Bar Association Library in the United States Courthouse
in the District of Columbia was the most convenient for them. Thus, on May 21,
28 and June 11, they went to the Courthouse to use the D.C. Bar Association
Library where Mr. Meisner taught the defendant Wolfe legal research. While
there, they were directed by the cleaning personnel to the photocopying machines
within the United States Attorney's Office. Specifically, they used those
machines to photocopy cases in law books and their own notes from those books.
However, they had no idea that they were within the United States Attorney's
Office. After the confrontation with the FBI agents, the defendant Wolfe and Mr.
Meisner were so upset that they forgot to set up a further meeting. Since the
defendant Wolfe did not know where Mr. Meisner lived, he could not contact Mr.
Meisner again, and therefore, could not give the FBI his location.
After the defendants Weigand, Willardson, Wolfe and Mr. Meisner had outlined
the cover story, the defendant Weigand instructed them to write out "mission
orders" for the defend- ant Hermann in the District of Columbia, write out the
cover story, and drill the defendant Wolfe on it. The defendant Weigand then
left the Holiday Inn Motel.
The defendant Wolfe called his office at the IRS in Washington, D.C., to
determine through a friend whether anyone, such as the FBI, had made any
inquiries regarding him. In the process, he requested his friend to notify his
supervisor that he would not be at work the next day. 134/ After that phone
call, the three individuals prepared written "mission
orders" for the defendant Hermann/Cooper. Those orders required
Hermann/Cooper to: (1) keep in constant contact with the defendant Wolfe; (2)
locate an attorney for the defendant Wolfe so that he could test the
plausibility of the concocted story on someone other than the FBI; and (3)
supervise the defendant Wolfe pending his arrest. They then wrote out the cover
story, gave a copy to the defendant Wolfe and drilled him on that story.
At approximately 7:00 p.m. Mr. Meisner checked out of his motel room, and,
together with the defendant Willardson, drove the defendant Wolfe to the airport
where Wolfe took a night flight to Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
Mr. Meisner stayed that night at the defendant Willardson's home on Roxbury
Drive in Beverly Hills.
On June 15, 1976, in Washington, D.C., the defendants Hermann/Cooper and
Wolfe met, discussed the cover plan, story and the attorney who was to be
selected for Wolfe. The defendant Wolfe then met with his attorney and presented
him with the cover story which had been prepared the previous day.
In Los Angeles, Mr. Meisner, who began to use the alias "Jeff Murphy", moved
to the defondant Weigand's house on Westmoreland Street, near Wilshire
Boulevard, where he stayed for the remainder of the summer. The defendant
Weigand directed Mr. Meisner to prepare a complete report on his activities as
Assistant Guardian for Information in the District of Columbia and on all
pending activities there as required by Guardian's Office procedures when an
official leaves a post. For the next few days, Mr. Meisner, working in the
defendant Weigand's office, prepared the report as directed. On June 18, 1976,
that completed report was typed by Mr. Meisner and presented to the defendant
Weigand. (Government Exhibit No. 108.) 135/ In his report, Mr.
Meisner explained how he had burglarized government offices, including the
manner in which he had forcibly opened doors, and supervised covert operatives.
He identified the current covert operatives who were still operating and
itemized what remained for them to accomplish. He also described his duties as
Assistant Guardian for Information. Within a few days thereafter, the defendant
Willardson issued "mission orders" to Mr. Meisner which had been approved by the
defendants Weigand and Heldt. These orders directed Mr. Meisner to go to Dallas,
Texas, to attend the American Medical Association Convention, and then to New
York to resolve a local Guardian's Office matter. Upon his return to Los
Angeles, on July 7, Mr. Meisner was appointed National Secretary for the United
States by Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember.
B. The Defendant Gerald Bennett Wolfe is Arrested in Washington D.C. by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
On June 30, the defendant Wolfe was arrested in the main IRS building by FBI
Special Agent Christine Hansen. He was charged with the use and possession of a
forged official pass of tho United States, in violation of 18 U.S. Code, Section
499, and arraigned before United States Magistrate Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. (U.S.
Mag. No. 76-930 M (Cr)). On that same day, Assistant Guardian for Information in
the District of Columbia Richard "Rick" Kimmel notified the defendant
Hermann/Cooper of the defendant Wolfe's arrest. The defendant Hermann/Cooper
then informed the defendant Weigand that at 2:30 p.m. Wolfe had been arrested by
the FBI, that he had been arraigned, and released on his own recognizance
pending a preliminary hearing. As a condition of his release, the defendant
Wolfe was to submit handwriting exemplars to the FBI. (Government Exhibit No.
117.) 136/ The defendant Hermann/Cooper told the defendant Weigand that all
covert activities in the District of Columbia had been ordered "shut down", that
"sensitive material" had been moved to another office, and that "Kelly" (another
covert name for the defendant Wolfe) "has been briefed to carry out his part".
He also told the defendant Weigand that all data on "Jeff" (Mr. Meisner's alias
at the time) had
been taken out of the organization. 137/ On July 1, the defendant Weigand
wrote a letter to Deputy Guardian for Information World-Wide Mo Budlong
informing him of the arrest of the defendant Wolfe and the information brought
to his attention the previous day by the defendant Hermann/Cooper. (Government
Exhibit No. 118.) 138/
In a letter dated July 1, 1976, and entitled "Re: Mike and the FSM", the
defendant Mary Sue Hubbard stated to the
defendant Weigand that "[flrom an investigative point of view it was really
too easy for the opposition. All they had to do was to trace the common enrty
[sic] points of the log back for both Mike and the FSM [Wolfe] until they
arrived at the point where the FSM used his correct ID card." She urged with
defendant Weigand to keep her informed of what has happened to the FSM, the
defendant Wolfe. (Government Exhibit No. 119 at p. 2.) Handwriting expert James
Miller is "positive" that the signature on that document was written by the
defendant Mary Sue Hubbard. 139/ The defendant Weigand responded to the
defendant Hubbard's inquiry in two separate letters, both dated July 2, 1976. He
informed her that the defendant Wolfe (Silver) was about to submit his
resignation to the IRS to avoid being suspended. He also wrote that the
prosecutor in the case had been told that Wolfe had obtained his identifica-
tion card as part of "[a] lark gone sour". He added that an additional $800
would be needed to "cover the balance of the retainer" of Wolfe's attorney.
(Government Exhibit No. 119 at
P. 3-4.) He also stated that the defendant Wolfe was "instructed . . . [to]
go nowhere near the org [Church of Scientology] and . . . have no personal
contact with the case officer [Kimmel] either." He concluded that it was still
possible that the defendant Wolfe would be "given minimal punishment" and that
the matter would terminate without any connection to the Church of Scientology.
(Government Exhibit No. 119 at p. 1.) 140/ In the other letter of 2 July 1976
regarding "Silver", the defendant Weigand updated for Mr. Budlong the
information regarding the defendant Wolfe's arrest. (Government Exhibit No.
120.) That coded letter was decoded by a cryptanalyst, Special Agent Arthur
Eberhardt. (Government Exhibit No. 213.) In the letter, the defendant Weigand
reiterated the information which he had given on
that same date to the defendant Hubbard. 141/ On July 2, 1976, the defendant
Hermann/Cooper inquired of the defendant Weigand whether the defendant Hubbard
in her letter of July 1, 1976 "is looking toward Silver [Wolfe] denying the use
of the false ID card and then it not being able to be proven that he had
actually used one." (Government Exhibit No. 121.) 142/ The defendant
Hermann/Cooper recommended that "we go ahead with the worked out cover story".
C. The United States Case Against the Defendant Gerald Bennett Wolfe is
Referred to the Grand Jury, and an Arrest Warrant is Issued for Michael Meisner.
On July 28, 1976, the defendant Wolfe appeared with his attorney, Lawrence
Speiser, Esquire, before United States Magistrate Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. for a
preliminary hearing. Following that hearing, United States Magistrate Kennedy
found that probable cause existed, and ordered the case "bound over for the
action of the Grand Jury". A few days later, on August 5, 1976, Magistrate
Kennedy issued a sealed warrant for the arrest of Michael Meisner for the use of
a forged official pass of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S. Code,
Section 499. (U.S. Mag. No. 1101-76M(Cr)). In mid- August, CSG Assistant for
Information Jimmy Mulligan informed Mr. Meisner that the defendant Thomas had
overheard a conversation in Mr. Paul Figley's office at the Department of
Justice in which it was stated that a sealed arrest warrant had been issued in
the District of Columbia. On August 30l FBI Special Agents Joseph Jackson and
John Pavlansky went to the offices of the Church of Scientology at 2125 S
Street, N.W., in Washington, D.C., to attempt to locate Mr. Meisner. They were
met there by Assistant Guardian for Legal Bureau Kendrick "Rick" Moxon.
They explained to Mr. Moxon that they were acting on behalf of the Office
of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and were attempting
to locate Mr. Meisner because an arrest warrant had been issued for him on
August 5, 1976, charging him with forgery of United States Government
identification cards. They told Mr. Moxon that they wanted to inform him
and all others concerned of Mr. Meisner's status so that they could notify him
and help him "avoid putting himself in a fugitive status". They warned Mr.
Moxon that anyone who aided Mr. Meisner in remaining a fugitive "would be
guilty of a criminal act under the harboring of criminals statute." Mr.
Moxon informed the agents that he did not know where Mr. Meisner was. Mr.
Moxon immediately notified his superior, Mary Rezzonico, the Deputy
Guardian for the Legal Bureau in the United States, and appended to that letter
the harboring of fugitives statute, emphasizing that it provided for a penalty
of 115 year sentence and $2,000 maximum fine" (Government Exhibit No. 123.) 143/
D. The Guardian's Office Harbors and Conceals Fugitive From Justice Michael
Meisner
On August 30, 1976, the same day that he received notification that an arrest
warrant had been issued for Mr. Meisner, the defendant Weigand notified the
defendant Mary Sue Hubbard that he has "Just received word that Mike [Meisnerl
had a warrant out for his arrest." He added that "[tlhe plan at this time is to
hide Mike out. It appears that the safest place to do this is in Europe
somewhere." (Government Exhibit
No. 124.) 144/ The defendant Weigand added: My actions are as follows:
1. Immediately remove M [Meisnerl from all GO connected spaces and get him
into a motel. 2. Further alter his appearance. 3. Get with legal for legal
opinion to include what the statue [sic] of limitations is on this offence. 4.
Work out how to obtain M the neces- sary papers to get him out of the country.
5. Obtain the papers. 6. Get him out of the country.
The defendant Mary Sue Hubbard responded to the defendant Weigand's letter as
follows: Wonder how they got a lead onto him?
On getting him abroad, unless you have good ID for him different than his
own, it might be dangerous. _He would better be "lost" in some large city where
it would be difficlut [sic] to find him_.
What a shame. (Emphasis added.)
(Government Exhibit No. 124 at p. 2.) On September 2, the defendant Weigand
responded to the defendant Hubbard's inquiry that he did not know how the FBI
had connected "John M. Foster" to Michael Meisner. He suggested, however, that
they might have been able to locate his former apartment house and have his
photograph identified by a tenant. 145/ On the evening of August 30, the
defendant Weigand contacted Mr. Meisner and requested him to come to his office,
which had since been moved to a warehouse in Glendale, California. In the
presence of the defendant Hermann and Assistant Guardian for Information in
Clearwater, Florida, Joe Lisa, he informed Mr. Meisner of the outstanding
warrant for his arrest, and instructed him to sever all outward connections to
the Guardian's Office. He told him that the defendant Hermann would assist him
in moving out of the Weigand residence into a motel. He also removed him from
the position of National
145/ Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that it is "probable" that
the signature "Dick" was written by the defendant Weigand, and that the
initials next to the title "DG US" on the August 30 and September 2 letters
were written by the defendant Heldt. Mr. Meisner recognizes the signature of
the defendant Weigand and the initial of the defendant Heldt. Secretary for the United States. Mr. Meisner was given funds for the motel.
With the defendant Hermann's assistance, Mr. Meisner moved to the RegaLodge on
200 West Colorado Boulevard, in Glendale, where he registered as "Jeff Burns".
On September 1, Mr. Meisner moved to the Bon Air Motel at 1727 North Western
Avenue in Los Angeles, where he stayed until September 8. He registered there as
"Jeff Marks." During that time, the defendant Hermann/Cooper ordered Mr. Meisner
to change his appearance. (Government Exhibit No. 125.) 146/
In a letter dated 3 September 1976 the defendant Weigand notified the
defendant Hermann/Cooper that the defendant Heldt had issued new orders relating
to "Jeff Murphy" - Mr. Meisner's alias at the time. (Government Exhibit No.
126.) 147/
The defendant Weigand suggested that Los Angeles was a better place to hide
Mr. Meisner since it was "a huge city and he can get lost here very
successfully," while still being close to the Guardian's Office. He directed the
defendant Hermann/ Cooper to give this matter "top priority and lets [sic] get
it done." 148/
On September 10, 1976, Mr. Meisner moved to the Westgate Hotel located at 445
South Western Avenue in Los Angeles. At midnight, as a result of new
developments in the District of Columbia, Mr. Meisner was moved by the
defendants Willardson and Hermann/Cooper to the Wilshire Dunes Motel at 4300
Wilshire Boulevard, also in Los Angeles. He registered at both locations as
"Jeff Marks", and stayed at the latter until September 12. Mr. Meisner was then
moved by the defendant Hermann-Cooper to the Travelodge at 7370 Sunset Boulevard
for one night. On September 13 and 14, he stayed at the Sunset 8 Motel at 6516
Sunset Boulevard. Then, on September 15, he
registered at the Burbank Hotel located in Burbank, California, where he
remained until early October. Mr. Meisner paid for all of these hotels with
Guardian's Office funds supplied to him by the defendant Hermann/Cooper who was
his immediate con-tact.
In a September 18, 1976 letter, the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard informed the
defendant Weigand that she had "at last gotten a copy of the warrant" for the
arrest of Mr. Meisner. She concluded that there was "the need to establish an
alibi for MM", The defendant Weigand responded to the defendant Hubbard's letter
on 22 September 1976 in which he expressed his belief that her plan would
"encounter difficulties" in view of the fact that the FBI had the defendant
Wolfe's and Mr. Meisner's handwriting on the log books of the Courthouse. He
stated his opinion that establishing an alibi as she bad suggested, would "come
down to our word(s) against 2 FBI agents, cleaners and guards, plus handwriting
experts, ear experts and possibly fingerprint experts."
He concluded that there were two options open: 1. Turn Mike in at the most
opportune time (when we can get some better prediction of what will be done with
him and us, which as you wrote should follow the handling of Silver.)
2. Not turn him over. Which means he hides or runs for 5 years at least (that
being the statute of limitations.). 149/
"The worst," he stated "from my viewpoint is that M would get 5 years in jail
and a $2000 fine that being the maximum for the action. Also, there would be
attempts to get him to turn or otherwise implicate us or others in various wrong
doings." He added that "[i]f the investigation continues I expect that more data
will be turned up linking us with M's and others [sic] actions." He asked the
defendant Hubbard to send him her views. (Government Exhibit No. 127.) 150/
The defendant Hermann/Cooper and Mr. Meisner met for some two hours on
September 20, 1976. Mr Meisner told the defendant Hermann/Cooper that he was
absolutely opposed to leaving the country. (See also Government Exhibit No.
128.) 151/ The defendant Hermann/Cooper advised Mr. Meisner that, pursuant to a
Guardian's Office directive, a San Diego police lieutenant had made an inquiry
through the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) computer to determine the
specifics regarding the arrest warrant which had been issued for Mr. Meisner on
August 5. The defendant Hermann/Cooper stated that the NCIC check revealed that
the Meisner warrant was for the forgery of government identification cards. He
told Mr. Meisner that the FBI had contacted the police lieutenant to find out
why he had made that inquiry.
San Diego police lieutenant Warren Young, a member of the Church of
Scientology, told the FBI that he had made the NCIC check because he had
arrested Mr. Meisner for a pedestrian violation the previous day in San Diego.
In fact, Mr. Meisner had never been to San Diego. In a handwritten letter dated
16 September 1976, the defendant Duke Snider stated to the defendant Weigand
that "[i]t looks as though AG SD [Assistant Guardian for San Diego] has set C of
S [Church of Scientology] up to be accused of conspiring with this policeman to
violate the law." He directed the defendant Weigand to take the necessary steps
to handle the matter. (Government Exhibit No. 129A.) On the same day, the
defendant Weigand responded to the defendant Snider that, while he did not know
whether the policeman was "cool", he knew that the police officer was a
lieutenant who "is on SCN (Scientology] lines". He observed that they "have laid
a nice false lead for the FBI which cant [sic] help but help us while dispersing
their investigation. This according to reliable sources is one thing that can
draw an investigation to a quik [sic] close.'' (Government Exhibit No. 129B.)
The defendant Snider, in a handwritten notation thanked the defendant Weigand
and stated that he was "glad to see it is under control". 152/
On September 28, 1976, Deputy Guardian for Information World-Wide Mo Budlong,
in a letter to the defendant Weigand "Re: Murphy [Meisner]", stated:
The answer for this gentleman is to have him depart for some whereabouts
wherein he can obtain documents concerning his ability 152/ See also Government
Exhibit No. 129. Handwriting expert James Miller is "positive" that all of the
handwriting on the Snider letter marked Government Exhibit No. 129A is in the
handwriting of the defendant Snider. He is "positive" that the handwritten
notation signed "Duke" on Government Exhibit No. 129B is in defendant Snider's
handwriting. He also concludes that the handwritten notation signed "Love
Cindy", as well as the initials and date next to the "natl sec" entry on
Government Exhibit No. 129, are positively in the handwriting of the defendant
Raymond. Government Exhibit No. 129 was also seized by Special Agent Brunson
from a file cabinet outside the defendant Raymond's office at the Cedars
Complex.
In fact, Special Agent Christine Hansen requested the FBI Field Office in San
Diego, California, to question police lieutenant Warren Young, and follow the
lead, given by him, that Mr. Meisner was in that city. This false lead diverted
the resources of the FBI in the instant investigation to yet another city. to
drive but does not have to give details of his life history, if you know what I
mean, to obtain the documents.
Then he should find some out of the way large city where he can rent himself
a quiet place to do research or some such for an article or a book or whatever.
He can then live and work there for some time undisturbed.
Once Silver has completed his cycle we will have some idea of which way
things are moving and we will be able to ascertain Murphy's next move, but for
the time being he should keep himself fairly exclusive.
Silver should admit what he did but let his representative do his talking for
him and should not volunteer any further informa- tion.
To achieve this of course Silver and his representative will have to push for
the big event to occur as soon as possible.
Once the Silver event is over we can reassess the whole cycle in light of the
data that comes up, which you will have to work out some way of reporting to me.
_If any of the above is not clear, please ask immediately as I don't want any
confusions on what has to be done_. (Emphasis added.)
(See Government Exhibit No. 131.) 153/
E. The Guardian's Office Gives the FBI and the Grand Jury False Handwriting
Exemplars.
In late September 1976, FBI Special Agent Hansen requested the Church of
Scientology in Washington, D.C., to supply the government investigators with
exemplars of Mr. Meisner's handwriting. In Los Angeles, California, the
defendant Raymond met with Mr. Meisner to discuss what should be given to the
FBI. She informed Mr. Meisner that it had been decided to give false exemplars
to the FBI. In a letter dated September 30, 1976, to the defendant Weigand, the
defendant Mary Sue Hubbard stated that she was aware that the FBI had requested
Meisner handwriting exemplars and that those would be compared to the log books
of the buildings which Mr. Meisner had entered. She, thus, requested the defend-
ant Weigand to furnish her with a list of all the buildings which Mr. Meisner
had illegally entered. The defendant Hubbard stated in that letter that she was,
as of that date, fully aware of the existence of an arrest warrant for Mr.
Meisner. (Government Exhibit No. 132.) 154/
In order to respond to the defendant Hubbard's inquiry the defendant Raymond
met with Mr. Meisner to obtain from him a list of all the buildings he had
illegally entered in the District of Columbia and the details of those entries.
She then relayed that information to the defendant Weigand who responded to the
defendant Hubbard's request in a late October 1976 letter. (Government Exhibit
No. 132 at page 1.) In that letter, the defendant Weigand informed the defend-
ant Hubbard that the buildings illegally entered by Mr. Meisner included the
Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, the Office of International
Operations, as
well as a number of other private and Government build- ings. 155/ The
defendant Weigand pointed out to the defendant Hubbard that he was in the
process of "working out a full cover that would cover the log book sign-ins
along the lines of they were done to reveal the insecurity within the govern-
ment for a series of articles that M [Meisner] would be writing as exposes."
156/
Hubbard as well as memoranda from the defendant Hermann/Cooper to the
defendant Hubbard. Mr. Meisner states that the defendant Hcrmann/Cooper's
handwriting appear in the following locations: the word "secret" at the top of
page one, and the signature on the last page. Government Exhibit No. 130 was
seized by Special Agent Brunson from a file cabinet outside the defendant
Raymond's offices. On October 8, 1976, FBI Special Agent Hansen served upon Assistant Guardian
for the Legal Bureau in Washington, D.C. Kendrick "Rick" Moxon a Grand
Jury subpoena for all original known handwriting exemplars of Michael Meisner
and the employment application and personnel records of Mr. Meisner in the
possession of the Church of Scientology. That subpoena was returnable on October
14, 1976. Assistant Guardian for Information in the District of Columbia Richard
Kimmel immediately notified the defendant Hermann/Cooper of the service of that
subpoena. The defendant Hermann/Cooper then notified the defendants Heldt and
Weigand in an October 9, 1976 memorandum. (Government Exhibits Nos. 133 and 134
at p. 1.) 157/ In that same memorandum, the defendant Hermann/ Cooper requested
approval from the defendants Heldt and Weigand for a mission by Randy Windment,
the real name of Bruce Raymond, the National Operations Officer for the
Information
Bureau in the United States. Mr. Windment/Raymond was to go to the District
of Columbia to check the security of the Guardian's Office and the covert
operatives who were still functioning-namely the defendant Sharon Thomas (also
known as "Judy") and Ms. Nancy Douglass (also known as "Pitts"). Both the
defendants Weigand and Heldt signed their approval of that mission. (See
Government Exhibit No. 134.) 158/
On October 14, 1976, District of Columbia Assistant Guardian for the Legal
Bureau Kendrick "Rick" Moxon, submitted
an affidavit with nine pages of handwritten material. In the affidavit, he
stated that he was unable to locate a personnel file for Mr. Meisner, and that
the nine pages of appended handwriting were those of Mr. Meisner. However, as
the defendant Raymond stated to Mr. Meisner in a meeting in late September 1976,
Mr. Moxon had been directed to supply the government with fake
handwriting samples in lieu of Mr. Meisner's true handwriting exemplars.
F. The Guardian's Office
Refines its Cover-Up Plans In early October 1976, the defendant Raymond
decided that it would be best for Mr. Meisner to move from his motel to an
apartment, thereby reducing the expenses of the Guardian's Office. Paul Poulon,
the Collections Officer for the Informa- tion Bureau, rented an apartment for
Mr. Meisner at 444 South Burlington Street in Los Angeles, California, to which
Mr. Meisner moved on October 6. Mr. Meisner, at that time, was spending most of
his days at local libraries doing research on the security of government
buildings, in order to support one of the cover-up stories, _viz._, that he had
entered various government buildings to do an expose on the lack of security.
The defendant Raymond and Mr. Meisner met approximately twice a week to discuss
the ongoing cover-up. Mr. Meisner requested of the defendant Raymond that she
set up a meeting between him and the defendant Snider as soon as possible. Mr.
Meisner had been anxious to communicate his views regarding the cover-up in the
current District of Columbia situation with someone in a position of higher
authority. He thus selected the defendant Snider because of his high position in
the Guardian's office as well as the fact that he had known him for a long time.
Indeed, the defendant Snider had recruited Mr. Meisner for the Information
Bureau of the Guardian's office. On October 28, the defendant Snider and
Establishment Officer Peeter Alvet met with Mr. Meisner at the Burlington Street
apartment. Mr. Meisner told the defend- ant Snider that he was concerned about
the length of time that the cover-up operation was taking. The defendant Snider
cautioned Mr. Meisner that "we didn't want him doing something too fast as we
wanted to see what happened with Silver [Wolfe] first, the threat of a Grand
Jury." Government Exhibit No. 137, is a letter dated 4 November 1976 in which
the defendant Snider wrote the defendant Heldt of the outcome of his meeting
with Mr. Meisner. 159/ In it, the defendant Snider stated that Mr. Meisner
"seemed to finally realize . . . that his actions would ultimately seriously
effect [sic] the church . . ." Mr. Meisner had expressed concern for his wife
and his parents as well as for the fact that he was being kept almost totally
uninformed of Guardian's Office actions on the ongoing cover-up. The defendant
Snider' assured Mr. Meisner that he would be briefed on all decisions taken by
the Guardian's Office and that his views would henceforth be considered. He
assured Mr. Meisner that the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard was concerned about the
situation and was fully
aware of it, and that anything Mr. Meisner wanted to express to the defendant
Hubbard would be sent directly to her. At the conclusion of the meeting, the
defendant Snider asked Mr. Meisner to continue doing work for the Information
Bureau. In his letter to the defendant Heldt reporting on that meeting
(Government Exhibit No. 137), the defendant Snider concluded that Mr. Meisner
"_is not a traitor and will cooperate_" with the Guardian's Office. (Emphasis
added.)
Three days later, in a letter to defendant Weigand the defendant Hubbard
added yet another dimension to the cover-up plan. She suggested that the
following scenario be considered: Mr. Meisner (whom she refers to by the letter
"H" for the code name Herbert which Mr. Meisner had assumed since going under-
ground after the issuance of his arrest warrant) was having marital trouble and
was jealous that his wife was being more productive than he. Therefore, he took
it upon himself to organize the burglaries of government buildings and thefts of
documents from those buildings to prove that he too could produce for the
Guardian's Office. She instructed the defendant Weigand that "[i]f this seems
workable" then Mr. Meisner should be ordered to work on the details of this
aspect of that plan. (Government Exhibit No. 135.) 160/ In response to an order
that he received from his "senior", the defendant Heldt directed the defendant
Willardson to contact the defend- ant Wolfe and instruct him to "push his lawyer
to get the scene handled." (Government Exhibit No. 136.) 161/
On November 5, pursuant to the decision made during his meeting with the
defendant Snider, Mr. Meisner was moved by Mr. Paul Poulan to a new apartment
located at 840 South Serrano Street in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Meisner
rented that apartment in the name of "Jeff Marks" with funds provided him by
Mr. Poulon. Mr. Meisner resided at that location until the end of April 1977. On
November 26, Mr. Meisner wrote a lengthy letter to the defendant Mary Sue
Hubbard explaining to her the extent of his predicament. Government Exhibit No.
138.) 162/ In that letter, he expanded upon the various aspects which she had
proposed in her October 31 letter to the defendant Weigand (Government Exhibit
No. 135). Mr. Meisner told the defendant Hubbard, that regardless of what cover
story was eventually used to handle the ever expanding Federal investigations in
the District of Columbia, it would be necessary to explain where he had been
living since June 11 when he was confronted by the FBI in the United States
Courthouse. He explained that, in any event, the FBI would want to know how Mr.
Meisner was able to support himself during all the time that be was in hiding.
Thus, Mr. Meisner told the defendant Hubbard that
he and the defendant Raymond had already worked out a plan, whereby Mr.
Meisner would tell the FBI that he had been living with a friend in Canada. Mr.
Meisner wrote that Canada was selected because the FBI had no authority to
conduct investigations there. However, he also stated that a cover would have to
be created in Canada. He concluded in a postscript that "in my opinion, no
matter what story we use, the longer we wait to implement it, the less
believeable it will be and the more that the government will be inclined to
believe that the Church is behind it."
On November 30, the defendant Mitchell Hermann (a/k/a Mike Cooper) wrote a
briefing memorandum outlining step-by-step the activities in which the defendant
Wolfe (Silver) and Mr. Meisner (Herbert/MM) had been involved in the District of
Columbia, and the cover story which had been prepared since their encounter with
the FBI. The defendant Hermann/Cooper explained that the defendant Wolfe and Mr.
Meisner had been involved, from 1974 through June 1976, in the burglaries of
Government offices and thefts of Government documents in Washington, D.C. In the
spring to summer of 1976, they had directed their attention to the office of
Assistant United States Attorney Nathan Dodell in the United States Courthouse
in Washington, D.C. It was there, on June 11, 1976, that they were confronted by
the FBI. The defendant Hermann/Cooper stated that on June 12, Mr. Meisner had
come to Los Angeles, where over the next few days a cover-up story and plan was
prepared to contain and terminate the FBI investigation. On June 30, the
defendant Wolfe was arrested by the FBI and subsequently gave the previously
prepared cover-up story to the FBI and the Office of the United States Attorney
for the District of Columbia. Then, on July 28, the defendant Wolfe's case was
referred to a grand jury for investigation. On August 5, he pointed out, a
sealed warrant had been issued for Mr. Meisner. He concluded that "an overall
cover story for MM and Silver is being put together by Natl Sec to submit
uplines for final approval." That briefing memorandum was sent on December 1,
1976, to the Deputy Guardian for Informa- tion World-Wide, via the defendants
Heldt and Weigand, with a copy to the defendant Raymond. (Government Exhibit No.
139.) 163/ The defendant Raymond sent to the defendant
During this time Mr. Meisner was undergoing regular auditing pursuant to
the directive of the defendant Heldt. See Government Exhibit No. 140.
Handwriting expert James Miller concludes as follows: "positive" that the word
"handroute" at the top of page one and the notation "cc: DDGUS . . . ." in the
routing portion also on page one were in the handwriting of the defendant
Raymond; "positive" that the handwritten notation in the upper right-hand
portion of page two, the 28 November 1976 letter from the defendant Heldt, as
well as the signature on that page were written by the defendants Raymond and
Heldt respectively; "positive" that the notation to "Cindy" in the upper part
of page three was written by the defendant Heldt; "positive" that the notation
"(enemy formula)" at the bottom of page six was written by the defendant
Raymond; "positive" that the notation "CR: note no folders . . . ." two-thirds
down on the eleventh page was written by the defendant Raymond; "positive"
that the notations in the left margin were written by the defendant Raymond;
"positive" that the handwritten routing on the reverse of page seventeen and
the notation at the top of page eighteen were written by the defendant
Raymond. Government Exhibit No. 140 was seized by Special Agent Brunson from a
file cabinet in Room 10 of the Cedars Complex. Weigand the cover-up plan and story intended to stall the FBI investigation
in the District of Columbia (Government Exhibit No. 141 at p. 2 et seq.) 164/
She stated that once the defendant Wolfe's District of Columbia case was
resolved, Mr. Meisner (Herbert) would be surrendered by the Church of
Scientology and would give the agreed-upon cover-up story which she outlined.
That story conformed to the one prepared and approved by the defendants Heldt,
Snider, Weigand, and Willardson in mid-June, and given to the defendant Wolfe.
Appended to her letter was a project for the containment of the investigation
which was being conducted by the FBI and United States Attorney's Office in the
District of Columbia.
The defendant Weigand simultaneously informed the defend-ant Mary Sue Hubbard
that the cover-up plan had been completed.
He explained that: As I see things now: 1. We turn Herbert in. 2. He says he
did it via an attorney who should check the accuracy of the charge(s). 3. He
says nothing more than guilty. 4. We establish lines as possible to see if the
govt continues its investi- gation of us and if so we hit them with a full scale
attack using BI, PR and Legal.
5. We get the Herbert case super-vised closely by Legal and see that he gets
the best treatment possible.
And that does it. The key thing being Herbert [Meisner] does not have to get
into any cover with the Government . . . . The only complication I can see is
that they might try to hit Herb for flight to avoid which needs to be worked out
with Legal so that the handling is effective.
(Government Exhibit No. 141.) The defendant Weigand sent the same information
to Deputy Guardian for Information World- Wide Mo Budlong. (Government Exhibit
No. 142.) 165/
G. The Federal Grand Jury Investigation in the District of Columbia Continues
On December 15, 1976, the Grand Jury investigation continued before a new
Grand Jury of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia with
the appearance of Special Agent Christine Hansen. 166/
In a briefing paper dated January 7, 1977, the defendant Hermann/Cooper
informed the defendant Heldt that the Commodore Staff Guardian, defendant Mary
Sue Hubbard, had "approved" a plan identical to the one previously laid out by
the
defendant Raymond on December 10, 1976. (Government Exhibit No. 143.) 167/ In
that briefing paper the defendant Hermann/Cooper outlined for the defendant
Heldt the following events: the arrest of the defendant Wolfe; the investigation
which was being conducted by the FBI and the United States Attorney's Office;
the cover-up story given by the defendant Wolfe; Principal Assistant United
States Attorney Carl S. Rauh's statement that he did not believe that story; the
assignment of the investigation to Assistant United States Attorney Garey Stark
of the Fraud section; the statement by Wolfe's attorney "_that the case has been
prepared to go to the grand jury_" (emphasis added); and the various attempts
which were being made by the FBI to locate Mr. Meisner in Washington,
D.C. He suggested that research should be conducted to determine if a "guilty
plea would then eliminate the grand jury." He also stated that the defendant
Wolfe had been directed not to give any further information beyond the cover-up
story prepared for him by the Guardian's Office. (See Government Exhibit No. 143
at P. 5.)
On January 23, 1977, the defendant Hermann/Cooper notified the defendants
Heldt and Weigand that the defendant Wolfe had a scheduled meeting with the
United States Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. He suggested that that
meeting be used to present "further cover story to them as a possible means of
forstalling [sic] a possible grand jury." He added, however, that the "furthr
[sic] cover story needs to be elaborated." Thus, he appended to his "CSW" the
original story with the additions that were prepared to "dovetail" with it.
(Government Exhibit No. 144.) 168/ In handwritten
(footnote continued on next page.)
notations throughout the document, the defendant Raymond opposed some of the
changes in the cover-up story proposed by the defendant Hermann/Cooper, In an
appended report beginning at page five of Government Exhibit No. 144, the
defendant Hermann/Cooper outlined the final proposed cover-up story which in
fact was given by the defendant Wolfe to the United States Attorney's Office,
the FBI, and later to the United States Grand Jury for the District of Columbia.
He included in that report the names of restaurants and bars which had earlier
been left unnamed. One week later the defendant Hermann/Cooper reminded the
Deputy Guardian for Legal Affairs in the United States Mary
(footnote continued from preceding page.)
Rezzonico that "it is still planned to get Silver [Wolfe] out here for
briefing prior to the meeting" which Wolfe had scheduled with the United States
Attorney's Office. He expressed the defendant Wolfe's concern that the United
States Attorney's Office would attempt to strike a deal with him to become a
government witness. (Government Exhibit No. 146.) 169/
During the months of February and March 1977 the cover- up preparation by the
Guardian's Office and Information Bureau slowed considerably due to the failure
of the defendant
Mitchell Hermann (a/k/a Mike Cooper) to complete the outstand- ing aspects of
the cover-up story, and because of the defendant Wolfe's waiver of the rule
requiring an indictment within forty-five days of arrest. 170/ The defendant
Raymond and Mr. Meisner continued to elaborate upon various portions of that
cover-up story. The defendants Willardson and Raymond assigned Mr. Meisner the
task of preparing other covert operations and projects. During this period, Mr.
Meisner continued to be audited three times a week.
Towards mid-March, however, Mr. Meisner became upset at the lengthy delays
and complained to the defendant Raymond, who informed her superiors of Mr.
Meisner's dissatisfaction. The defendant Weigand notified Mr. Meisner that the
defendant Hermann/Cooper had been removed from the Information Bureau in part
for his failure to properly handle the cover-up, and was assigned to the
Services Bureau. He was replaced as
cover-up coordinator by the defendant Raymond. Simultaneously, Brian Andrus
was appointed to replace the defendant Hermann/ Cooper Southeast U.S. Secretary.
171/ Soon thereafter, Mr. Andrus also became Mr. Meisner's case officer.
On March 27, 1977, the defendant Raymond sent a "CSW" to the defendants Heldt
and Weigand emphasizing the need for action in regard to the defendant Wolfe's
and Mr. Meisner's situation in Washington, D.C. She pointed out that she had
recently been assigned the task of coordinating the cover-up and reminded them
that the Commodore Staff Guardian, the defendant Mary Sue Hubard, and the
Guardian's Office World-Wide had ordered the containment of the grand jury
investigation. (Government Exhibit No. 147.) 172/
(footnote continued on next page.) -
H. The Guardian's Office Cover-Up
Moves Into its Final Phase In late March, Mr. Meisner wrote to the defendant
Heldt requesting him to take a more active role in the handling of the District
of Columbia situation because the delays were becoming intolerable. Mr. Meisner
stated that he was prepared to return to the District of Columbia and handle the
matter himself. Soon thereafter, the defendant Heldt became more active in
supervising the execution of the cover-up. To that end, on April 1, 1977, the
defendant Heldt told the
(footnote continued from preceding page.)
defendant Mary Sue Hubbard that Mr. Meisner was concerned about the delays.
He told her that he was now taking a more active role in the handling of Mr.
Meisner and that he was sending the defendant Weigand to speak to Mr. Meisner
"to cool him off". (Government Exhibit No. 148.) (The appended handwritten
letter explains the coding contained in the typewritten one.) 173/ The defendant
Heldt then responded to Mr. Meisner's earlier letter, stating that he was
convinced that both the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner should enter guilty
pleas in the District of Columbia. He also told Mr. Meisner that Brian Andrus
would keep in constant contact with him and inform him of all new developments
and solicit his views on all future matters. Heldt also promised Mr. Meisner
that within six weeks the defendant Wolfe would enter his guilty plea and pave
the way for Mr. Meisner's surrender to Federal authorities in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Andrus handed that letter
to Mr. Meisner.
On April 6, in a letter to the defendant Heldt, Mr. Meisner reviewed the
issues which were of concern to him. He complained that "the data I had been
given was false, incorrect, misinformed, etc., and I caved in." He expressed
relief that the defendant Heldt was now in control of the Situation. (Government
Exhibit No. 149.) 174/ Mr. Meisner also wrote to the defendant Weigand on April
7, 1977, suggesting that, since the defendant Heldt had indicated that Mr.
Meisner would shortly be surrendering in Washington, an attorney should be
chosen to handle his case. He also recommended that an "FSM" be placed in the
appropriate govern- ment agency to obtain information regarding anticipated
action by federal authorities. 175/
(footnote continued on next page.)
Mr. Andrus and United States. Deputy Guardian for Legal Bureau Mary Rezzonico
gave the defendant Heldt's letter to Mr. Meisner during a meeting they had at
his apartment. At that meeting, Mr. Meisner told Mr. Andrus and Ms. Rezzonico
that he did not believe it was necessary to enter a guilty plea. He preferred to
return to the District of Columbia, surrender to the authorities, and go to
trial putting the government to its burden as required by law. Mr. Meisner felt
that in this manner he could challenge FBI Agent Hansen's
(footnote from preceding page.)
identification of him as one of the two persons she had confronted in the
United States Courthouse in the District of Columbia. (See also Government
Exhibit No. 151.) 176/ In a briefing memorandum dated April 15, Mr. Andrus
stated that Mr. Meisner had thanked him for being willing to listen to his point
of view. Mr. Andrus concluded that Mr. Meisner was now once again in the fold. A
few days thereafter, the defendant Wolfe arrived in Los Angeles, California,
where he was briefed on various aspects of the cover-up story by Mr. Andrus, Ms.
Rezzonico, and Paul Pflueger, a Legal Bureau official. Mr. Andrus informed Mr.
Meisner of the defendant Wolfe's presence and of the briefing sessions.
On April 20, 1977, Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember criticized the defendant
Heldt for his "sloppy reporting and poor co-ordination" of the Wolfe/Meisner
District of Columbia situation. She formulated the following "strategy", whereby
the defendant Wolfe would request an immediate meeting with the United States
Attorney's Office, admit his guilt stating the cover-up story, waive his right
to a Grand Jury indictment plead guilty, and would be "sentenced lightly" as a
first offender. Meisner would then surrender and also enter a guilty plea based
on the cover-up story, giving "an informal story on where he had been for the
last 7 months", and also receive a suspended sentence. If the United States
Attorney's Office were to insist on continuing with its Grand Jury
investigation, then Wolfe would be directed to "refuse to testify". Ms. Kember
also demanded an explanation for the long delay in resolving the Wolfe case.
(Government Exhibit No. .152.) 177/
At the same time, the Commodore Staff Guardian, defendant Mary Sue Hubbard,
directed the defendant Heldt to begin creating a Canadian cover to explain Mr.
Meisner's fugitive
status without connecting Mr. Meisner to the Church of Scien- tology. The
defendant Heldt immediately informed Mr. Andrus of the defendant Hubbard's order
and charged him with the task of putting it into effect. (See Government Exhibit
No. 153.) 178/
I. The Guardian's Office Retrains and Guards Michael Meisner
On April 27, Mr. Andrus, following a meeting with Mr. Meisner, notified the
defendant Weigand that Mr. Meisner was so concerned about the slowness of the
Guardian's Offices actions that Mr. Meisner intended on "leaving for either
Canada or DC Saturday." (Government Exhibit No. 154.) .179/
On April 28, Mr. Andrus spoke to the defendant Wolfe and was informed that
it was impossible to withdraw the waiver of the rule requiring an indictment
within 45 days of arrest. (Government Exhibit No. 155.) That exhibit was also
seized by Special Agent Stovil from the defendant Heldt's desk.
On April 28, Ms. Rezzonico and Mr. Andrus, together with Jim Fiducia, Mr.
Meisner's auditor, visited Mr. Meisner at his Serrano Street apartment in order
to convince him that it was not in his best interest to leave Los Angeles and
return to the District of Columbia on his own. Mr. Meisner, however, was adamant
that he would leave by April 30 unless he received assurances that the Wolfe
situation in the District of Columbia would be resolved promptly. In a 29 April
letter to the defendant Heldt summarizing the April 28 meeting, Ms. Rezonico
stated her conclusion, based upon additional conver- sations with the defendants
Raymond and Weigand, that there were reasons for concern about Mr. Meisner's
situation. She also stated that she had been notified by the Assistant Guardian
for the Legal bureau in the District of Columbia, Kendrick "Rick" Moxon,
that the defendant Wolfe's attorney had reported that the United States
Attorney's Office "had made 'noises' about the Grand Jury." (Government Exhibit
No. 156.) 180/ That same day, the defendant lieldt informed
the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard that "Herb [Meisner] is threat- ening to
return to DC and handle the scene as he sees fit if the waiver is not withdrawn
this week." He told her that he was ordering the Information Bureau to "arrange
to restrain Herb and prevent him from leaving, and to guard him so that he does
not do so." (Government Exhibit No. 157.) 181/ The defendant Heldt then directed
the defendant Weigand and Ms. Rezzonico that "Herb is to be restrained and
guarded. He is not to be permitted to leave." He further directed that the
Canadian cover be set up within ten days even if it required trips to Canada,
and that the Legal Bureau should assume much closer supervision and control over
the defendant Wolfe and direct him to conclude his case in the District of
Columbia promptly. (See Government Exhibit No. 158.) 182/
Mr. James Miller, the handwriting expert, positively concluded that the
letter was handwritten by the defendant Heldt.
Or. April 29, Mr. Andrus met with Mr. Meisner at Mr. Meisner's South Serrano
Street apartment and informed him that from that day on he would be placed under
guard. (Government Exhibit No. 159 at p. 4 et seq.) Mr. Meisner told Andrus that
he would not accept the presence of guards. Mr. Meisner, also made it clear that
if he were charged as a fugitive he would not enter a guilty plea. He complained
that his whole situation had been mishandled by the Guardian's Office and had
resulted in his becoming a fugitive. He demanded that the defendant Heldt
explain to him what action was being taken regarding his case. At the end, of
that meeting Mr. Andrus placed the guards outside Mr. Meisner's apartment. (See
29 April letter to the defendant Weigand.) That same day, the defendant Heldt
reported to the defendant Marthe defendant Weigand to keep her inf under guard
and that Mr. Meisner had "reacted violently to the arrival of persons to insure
he did not blow." He added that he had directed the Information Bureau to locate
"a more isolated" apartment where Mr. Meisner could be kept under the watch of
"some trustworthy . . . Body Guards". He also stated that he was sending the
defendants Weigand and Willardson to see Mr. Meisner, and "get control" over
him. (Government Exhibit No. 159.) According to handwriting expert James Miller
that letter was written in its entirety by the defendant Heldt. 183/
Pursuant to the defendant Heldt's directive, the defend-ants Weigand and
Willardson together with Southeast U.S. Secretary Brian Andrus and three guards,
visited Mr. Meisner at approximately 2:15 a.m. on April 30. The defendant
Weigand warned Mr. Meisner that he would no longer be permitted to make "demands
and threats on the Church," and "that he was to start becoming a decent,
cooperative, contributing part of the venture and nothing else was to be
tolerated." With the guards' assistance, the defendant Willardson searched
Mr. Meisner's apartment and personal property and removed any evidence
connecting Mr. Meisner to the Church of Scien- tology. At approximately 6:30
a.m., the meeting concluded "with the guards in charge." 184/ On May 3, 1977,
the defendant Weigand forwarded this report to Deputy Guardian for Information
World-Wide Mo Budlong. Copies were sent to "DG US", the defendant Heldt, and
"CSG", the defendant Hubbard. On May 1, Mr. Andrus gave Mr. Meisner a
handwritten dispatch from the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard which explained to Mr.
Meisner that she was aware that he had been placed under guard, and that it was
being done for his own good and the good of Scientology. She promised Mr.
Meisner that if he followed orders, the guards would be eventually removed. 185/
On May 1, at approximately 6 p.m., Brian Andrus, Peeter Alvet, Information
Bureau official Chuck Reese and two bodyguards visited Mr. Meisner and told him
that he was to be moved to another apartment. Mr. Meisner refused to leave,
threatening to cause a commotion if forced to do so. The two guards handcuffed
him behind his back, gagged him and dragged him out of the building. Outside,
they forced him onto the back floor of a waiting car. In the car one of the
guards held Mr. Meisner down with his feet. Mr. Meisner was taken to an
apartment which he later learned was located at 3219 Descanso Drive, in Los
Angeles, California. After Messrs. Andrus and Alvet left, three guards remained
in the apartment with Mr. Meisner. 186/ On Monday, May 2, the defendant Heldt
approved the defendant Raymond's funds requests for Mr.
Meisner's guards. (See Government Exhibit No. 163.) 187/ During the ensuing
three weeks, Mr. Meisner, continued to be guarded and prevented from leaving his
apartment. By May
Government Exhibit No. 163 was seized by Special Agent Hillman from the
defendant Rayinond's office at the Cedars Complex.
It was inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Gonzalez.
An additional request for funding for Mr. Meisner's guards was made by
Acting Collections Officer Jim Douglass to the defendant Heldt on May 13,
1977. (Government Exhibit No. 166.) That request included money for food, gas,
and a battery that was stolen from one of the guard's jeeps. Govern- ment
Exhibit No. 166 was seized by Special Agent Hillman from Room 15 at the Cedars
Complex. It was initialed by Special Agent Gonzales. 5, Mr. Meisner determined that it was in his best interest to cooperate with
his captors. He corresponded with the defendant Heldt in an attempt to resolve
his predicament and to have the guards removed. 188/ He also accepted auditing.
189/
On May 13, 1977, the defendant Wolfe entered a plea of guilty to a one-count
information charging him with the wrongful use of a Government seal, in
violation of 18 U.S. Code, Section 1017, before United States District Judge
Thomas A. Flannery in Washington, D.C. The defendant Wolfe's plea
specifically involved the June 11, 1976 entrance into the United States
Courthouse in that city and his use of the IRS identification card bearing the
name "Thomas Blake". A few days thereafter, Mr. Meisner was informed of this new
development by Mr. Andrus. By the third week of May, in part due to Mr.
Meisner's cooperation, his watch was relaxed and his guards began to take him
out of the apartment. 190/ At that time, Brian Andrus showed Mr.Meisner a
program
written by DG I WW Mo Budlong which approved the final plan for handling the
cover-up. Mr. Andrus told Mr. Meisner that Mr. Budlong had decided that Mr.
Meisner could not surrender to the FBI in Washington, D.C. until the IRS had
granted the Church of Scientology of California's request for tax exempt status.
J. Michael Meisner's First Escape from his Guards
By the end of May, Mr. Meisner was guarded by just one person. On May 29,
while he was out with his guard, John Matoon, Mr. Meisner escaped by jumping
into a taxicab. He went to the Greyhound Bus Station, and took a bus to Las
Vegas. Mr. Meisner did not have much money, but having been there previously he
knew a motel which he could afford. He escaped from his guard because he wanted
time to think about his predicament and to determine an appropriate course of
action. At that time, Mr. Meisner was still committed to Scientology, and did
not want to leave the organization precipitously.
On May 30, Mr. Meisner telephoned the defendant Raymond in Los Angeles and
requested to speak to either Mr. Brian Andrus or Mr. Jim Douglass. Since Mr.
Andrus was unavail- able, Mr. Douglass spoke to Mr. Meisner. Mr. Meisner refused
to state where he was staying in Las Vegas until he first spoke to defendant
Heldt. Therefore, a telephone call was scheduled for 8:30 that evening. The
defendant Heldt pleaded with Meisner to return to Los Angeles and the Guardian's
Office of the Church of Scientology. 191/ While Mr. Meisner
That same day, the defendant Raymond sent Ms. Mary Rezzonico (DG L US) a
letterrequesting her to brief the thirteen people who had had contact with Mr.
Meisner and who knew he had been harbored by Scientology. ( See Government
Exhibit No. 169.) Both documents were seized by Special Agent Williams from a
desk in Room 15 in the Information Bureau in the Cedars Complex. They were
inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Mislock. Handwriting Expert James
Miller positively identifies the handwriting on pages three and five of
Government Exhibit No. 168 as having been written by the defendant Raymond.
initially refused, he did agree to meet with Douglass the next day in Las
Vegas.
On May 31, Mr.Meisner met with Mr. Douglass at a prearranged crowded
location. They discussed Mr. Meisner's concerns, and Mr. Douglass urged Mr.
Meisner to return with him. Mr. Meisner refused. By the next morning the
Guardian's Office had learned where he had been staying, and he was confronted
by information Bureau official Chuck Reese, who insisted that Mr. Meisner return
with him to Los Angeles. Mr. Reese represented to Mr. Meisner that the defendant
Weigand had been removed from his position as Deputy Guardian for Information in
the United States, and had been temporarily replaced by Brian Andrus, who had
been Mr. Meisner's case officer. Mr. Miesner first spoke to the defendant Heldt
who promised to meet with him that evening if he returned to Los Angeles. Mr.
Meisner, still troubled and confused, agreed, nonetheless, to return to Los
Angeles
That same night, Mr. Meisner and the defendant Heldt met at Canter's
Restaurant in Los Angeles. The defendant Heldt assured Mr. Meisner that he
understood Mr. Meisner's feelings. He told him that both L. Ron Hubbard and the
defendant Mary Sue Hubbard were working on his case and would do everything to
help him. He explained that while Mr. Meisner would have to continue to be
guarded, he should consider his guards his friends and not his enemies. Mr.
Meisner agreed to remain with the Guardian's Office. He was driven to his
Descanso Drive apartment by the defendant Heldt and Mr. Reese. When he arrived,
Mr. Meisner was met by Mr. Douglass who had been waiting to guard him. Mr.
Meisner describes the then- existing situation as an "armed truce".
In the meantime, Brian Andrus, on May 31, had ordered the defendant Raymond
to find a "secured" place for Meisner to stay if and when he returned from Las
Vegas. He suggested "a place where he could be locked in a room that has no or a
very small window" and where he would have "no outside contact". (Government
Exhibit No. 170.) 192/ On June 1,
Mr. Meisner was moved by his guards to in apartment located at 327 South
Verdugo in Glendale, California. During the entire month be continued to be
guarded by at least one person.
K. The Defendant Wolfe's Sentencing and Subsequent Testimony Before the Grand
Jury in the District of Columbia.
On June 10, the defendant Wolfe was sentenced by United States District Judge
Thomas A. Flannery to a term of probation, and was required to perform one
hundred hours of community service. Inasmuch as he resided in Minnesota, the
case was transferred both for probation supervision and jurisdiction to that
state. Immediately following his sentencing, the defendant Wolfe was served with
a subpoena to appear that same afternoon before the United State Grand Jury for
the District of Columbia which had been investigating the entries into the
United States Courthouse there.
At approximately 1 p.m., the defendant Wolfe appeared before the October 1976
Grand Jury of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
193/ He was represented by attorney, David Schmidt, Esquire. The defend- ant
Wolfe was sworn by Grand Jury Foreperson Mildred Chaplin. The record was
transcribed by an official Grand Jury reporter, Ms. Judith Bracegirdle Warner,
who states that Government Exhibit No. 215 is the complete testimony given by
the defendant Wolfe on that day.
At the time of the defendant Wolfe's appearance, the Grand Jury was
conducting an investigation to determine whether violations of statutes of the
United States and the District of Columbia had been committed in the District of
Columbia. The Grand Jury was attempting to identify the individuals who had
committed, caused the commision of, and conspired to commit such violations. lt
was material to its investigation for it to determine the reasons for the
presence of the defendant Wolfe and one "John M. Foster" in the United
States Courthouse in the District of Columbia on May 21, 28 and June 11,
1976. The Grand Jury was seeking the reasons for the defendant Wolfe's use on
May 28 of an identification card bearing the last name "Haake", and his use on
June 11, 1976, of counterfeit IRS credentials bearing the name of "Thomas J.
Blake". It was also material for the Grand Jury to determine whether, while in
the United States Courthouse, the defendant Wolfe and the individual using the
name "Foster" had entered the office of any Assistant United States Attorney for
the District of Columbia, and, if so, whether they had unlawfully taken any
documents or files located therein. Moreover, the Grand Jury wanted to learn
whether the defendant Wolfe and "Mr. Foster" had photocopied any documents which
were the property of the Office of United States Attorney for the District of
Columbia, and the United States of America, on photocopying machines within that
office. The Grand Jury sought to learn from the defendant Wolfe the true
identity of the individual who had entered the Courthouse with him and used the
name "John M. Foster". It also was inquiring into the manner in which the
defendant Wolfe and "Mr. Foster" had obtained the counterfeit and forged IRS
credentials which they had used to enter the Courthouse. Finally, the Grand Jury
was attempting to determine whether any other individual in the District of
Columbia or elsewhere had conspired with, aided and abetted, or caused the
defendant Wolfe to obtain his counterfeit IRS credentials, or assisted him in
entering the United States Courthouse for the District of Columbia.
During his testimony under oath before the federal Grand Jury, the defendant
Wolfe knowingly made the following false declarations regarding the
above-mentioned material matters which the grand jury was investigating:
Statement No. 1
Q. When did you first come to know that D.C. Bar Association had a library on
the third floor of this building?
A. I don't remenber exactly the date.
Q. Why did you want to come to this library.
A. _To study._
Q. To study what?
A. _To learn how to do legal research._
Q. Why did you want to learn to do legal research?
A. Well, I was planning on going back to Minneapolis to complete or further
my studies in music and I thought that in addition to clerical skills that I had
that if I could learn to do some legal research that I could perhaps get a
better paying, more interesting job to help pay for my school.
Q. Where would you find that job?
A. In Minneapolis, I presume.
Q. Who would hire you in Minneapolis?
A. I don't know. A law firm, perhaps.
Q. Did you embark on this program to learn how to do legal research with the
idea in mind of presenting yourself to a Minneapolis law firm and saying, "I can
do legal research for you"?
A. Yeah I think so.
Q. You don't know?
A. That's what I had in mind.
Q. How did you propose to learn to do legal research in the D.C. Bar library?
A. _Someone was going to teach me._
Q. Who was that someone?
A. John Foster. (Govertiment Exhibit No. 215 at 15-16, 17-18) 194/
Statement No. 2
Q. Now, the first night that you were here in the courthouse, did you xerox
anything?
A. I don't think so, but I don't recall exactly, you know, which night.
Q. How long were you here on that first occasion?
A. I don't remember how long exactly.
Q. Approximately.
A. I don't know. Guessing, I'd say maybe an hour.
Q. Did you go anywhere else but the library that night?
A. I don't know. I do know that one or more of the times here I did go to the
men's room. Now, whether it was the first night or not that I couldn't recall
exactly.
Q. Did you have to leave the library to go to the men's room?
A. Yes.
Q. Apart from going to the men's room, did you go anywhere else in the
Courthouse that night?
A. _ I don't think so._
Q. From the first to the third floor library and back onto the first floor,
and out?
A. Right. (Government Exhibit No. 215 at 173, 174.)
Statement No. 3
Q. Do you recall ever doing any xeroxing on the third floor of this building
on any of the three occasions?
A Yes.
Q. What did you xerox?
A. _Case histories._
Q. Case histories? What's a case history?
A. Well, a case out of a law book which contains cases.
Q. Did you bring the books from the library to the xerox machines?
A. Myself, _yes,_ some of then.
Q. Did Mr. Foster carry books?
A. _Yes._
Q. How many did you carry?
A. Approximately five.
Q. And how many did he carry?
A. Approximately the same.
Q. Were they the same type of books?
A. You mean the same as mine? Yes, I think so.
Q. And how long did you use the xerox machine?
A. Approximately fifteen minutes to a half hour.
Q. No longer than half an hour?
A. I don't think so.
Q. And what did you do when you left?
A. _Brought the books back, to the library and just left._ (Government
Exhibit No. 215 at 179-180, 184-185)
Statement No. 4
MR. STARK: Let me inform you, however, that the grand jury and the U.S.
Attorney's Office have a joint resnonsibility to investigate criminality that
occurs within the District of Columbia.
Now, you may have made your plea of guilty in this case and have been
sentenced today but Mr. Foster has not. Now, we are investigating Mr. Foster's
involvement in this and there may come a time when Mr. Foster is sitting either
in that chair or in the defendant's chair before a petit jury.
And your version of what happened on these three occaisions will aid this
grand jury in it's determination of what if anything to charge Mr. Foster with.
Do you understand that?
Q. Now, did you know Mr. Foster by any other name?
A. _No. I didn't._
Q. You only knew him by John Foster?
A. _Right._ ( Government Exhibit No. 215 at 200-201.) 195/
The defendant Wolfe knew that the testimony he was giving to the Grand Jury
of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on June 11,
1977, was false in all material respects. He knew that the individual who had
entered the Courthouse with him using the nane "John M. Foster" was in fact
Michael Meisner, who at the time of the entries was the Assistant Guardian for
Information in the Disrict of Columbia, He knew Mr. Meisner's address and
telephone number in Arlington, Virginia, asi well as Mr. Meisner's telephone
number at the Church of Scientology offices at 2125 S Street, N.W., in
Washington, D.C. The defendant Wolfe had attained enployment at the Internal
Revenue Service knowing that he was a covert operative for the Guardian's Office
of the Church of Scien- tology, and that his purpose for being at the IRS was to
have access to Government documents in order to steal them for the Guardian's
Office. He was aware that the counterfeit IRS credentials had been used by
himself and Mr. Meisner to make illegal entries into various Government
buildings for the purpose of burglarizing offices and stealing documnets and
photocopies thereof located therein. He and Mr. Meisner had entered the United
States Courthouse on May 21, 28 and June 11, 1976, for the purpose of
burglarizing the Office Of Assistant United States Attorney Nathan Dodell and
stealing documents from that office. ndeed, they had accomplished that task on
May 21 and 28, 1976. The deferndant Wolfe also was fully aware that he and Mr.
Meisner had not gone into the United States Courthouse to use the Library of the
Bar Association of the District of Columbia to do legal research, and that Mr.
Meisner was not to teach him to do any legal research. he knew that they did
not, at any time, photocopy law books or cases contained in law books which were
taken from the library but had, in fact, photocopied, with United States
Government equipment and supplies, United States Government documents taken from
Mr. Dodell's office. The defendant Wolfe further knew that the burglaries of,
and thefts of documents from, the office of Assistant United States Attorney
Dodell were pursuant to Guardian Program Order 158. Mr. Meisner had fully
briefed him on that Guardian's Program Order, as well as the orders which he had
received from his superiors in Los Angeles, California, including the defendants
Heldt, Weigand, Willardson, Snider, Raymond, Hermann, and Hubbard. The defendant
Wolfe participated in the preperaton of the cover-up story in Los Angeles,
California, on June 14, 1976, together with the defendants Willardson, Weigand
and Mr. Meisner. He was repeatedly briefed by Guardian's Office officials both
in the District of Columbia and in Los Angeles regarding the cover-up story and
his contrived statements to the United States Attorney Office for the District
of Columbia, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Grand Jury of the United
States District Court for the District of Columbia. Indeed, when the defendant
Wolfe appeared before the Grand Jury on June 10, 1977, he was under specific
orders from the Guardian's Office of the Church of Scientology, including, at
one time or another, the defendants Hubbard, Heldt, Snider, Weigand, Willardson,
Raymond and Hermann, to make false material declarations to that Grand Jury for
the purpose of derailing the Grand Jury investigation and prevent- ing that
Grand Jury from discovering the actual facts about the involvement of the
above-named defendants, the Guardian's Office of the Church of Scientology in
the United States and at World-Wide, and Mr. Meisner. All of the defendant
Wolfe's testimony before the Grand Jury of the United States District Court in
the District of Columbia, on June, 10, 1977, including the statements quoted
above and at counts 25 through 28 of the indictment, conformed in detail to the
cover-up plan and story prepared by the defendant Wolfe, the above-named defend-
ants and Mr. Meisner. All the false declarations made by the defendant Wolfe
were material to the Investigation being conducted by the October 1976 Grand
Jury of the United States District Court of the District of Colunbia with the
assistance of the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of
Columbia.
L. The Defendant Wolfe is Debriefed by the Guardian's Office After his Grand
Jury appearance.
Immediately following his Grand Jury appearance the defendant Wolfe went to
the office of the Church of Scientology at 2125 S Street, N.W., in Washington,
D.C. where he was debriefed by Guardian's Office officials. The next day on June
12, a transcript of that debrief was sent to the Guardian's Office in Los
Angeles, California, and excerpted by legal Bureau official Paul Klopper in a
memorandum to his superior, Deputy Guardian for the Legal Bureau Mary Rezzonico.
That memorandum, entitled "Silver Hearing and Grand Jury" summarizes the
sentencing proceedings before Judge Flannery and the testimony or the defendant
Wolfe. (Government Exhibit No. 173.) 196/ According to the routing on the June
12 letter, copies of that letter and debrief were sent to the "CSG", defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard, the "DG US", defendant Henning Heldt, the "DGI US" Brian
Andrus and the Guardian World-Wide Jane Kember. 197-/ Pursuant to the order of
the defendant Heldt (Government Exhibit No. 171) 198/ Ms. Rezzonico and Mr.
Andrus gave Mr. Meisner the debrief contained in Government Exhibit No. 173 to
read so that he could start adjusting his cover-up story to that given by the
defendant Wolfe in the Grand Jury. Mr. Meisner read the defendant Wolfe's Grand
Jury debrief at his appartment on South Verdugo. 199/ In his directive to Ms.
Rozzonico and Mr. Andrus,
the defendant Heldt also ordered them to research any possible fugitive
charge against Mr. Meisner and to increase security. 200/ On June 16, Mr. Andrus
informed Ms. Rezzonico that "Herb [Meisner] was given the news. His reaction was
mild pleasure. He uplifted his eyebrows and said something like 'not bad'. He
learned the news by reading the hearing debrief." (Govern- ment Exhibit No.
172.) 201/
According to Mr. Andrus, Mr. Meisner complained that "he didn't feel that
anyone was concerned or really looking out for his own wellfare." Mr. Andrus
assured him that he would keep him informed of all new developments and would
see him again soon.
On June l3, the defendant Heldt and Mr. Andrus visited Mr. Meisner in order
to show him a handwritten letter from
the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard. The defendant Heldt read to him that letter
in which the defendant Hubbard warned Mr. Meisner that if he escaped from his
guards again he would be on his own.
On June 17, Mr. Andrus met once again with Mr. Meisner. He discussed with him
the potential legal defenses prpared by the Legal Bureau, and left the meeting
feeling that "Herb was again in better shape communication and duplication wise.
In Government Exhibit No. 174, Mr. Andrus informed the Temporary Deputy
Guardian for Information in the United States of the meeting, which he had with
Mr. Meisner. 202/
M. Michael Meisner Surrenders to the Federal Bureau of Investigation
By mid-June, Mr. Meisner had decided that if the watch over him were ever
relaxed, he would immediately leave the
Guardian's Office, surrender to the Federal authorities, plead guilty, and
cooperate in the ongoing investigation. Thus, he feigned cooperation with his
captors and his superiors in the Guardian's Office in the hope that eventually
his guards might be removed. As a reward for this cooperation, Mr. Meisner's
watch was relaxed. In fact, beginning on the evening of Friday, June 17, he was
no longer guarded at night. His guards would leave his apartment at night and
return at 9 a.m. the next morning.
On Monday, June 20 at 6 a.m. Mr. Meisner, taking a few clothes with him, left
his apartment on South Verdugo in Glendale, California, for the purpose of
surrendering to Federal Authorities. In order to elude any potential follower,
Mr. Meisner took two buses to a bowling alley, from which he placed a collect
call to Assistant United States Attorney Garey Stark in Washington D.C. Mr.
Meisner identi- fied himself to the operator as "Gerald Wolfe" because he feared
that the Guardian's Office of the Church of Scientology might have placed a
covert operative in the United States Attorney's Office. When Mr. Stark answered
the telephone Mr. Meisner identified by his real name, informed Mr. Stark that
he was ready to surrender, plead guilty for his participation in the criminal
activities of the Guardian's Office, and cooperate with the United States. Mr.
Stark directed him to stay at the bowling alley and wait for Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents. Approximately two hours later, three agents of the FBI met
Mr. Meisner at the bowling alley. Mr. Meisner surrendered to the agents and was
taken by them to Los Angeles airport, where he was placed on an airplane to the
Baltimore-Washington International Airport Upon his arrival in Baltimore, he was
met by FBI Special Agents Robert S. Tittle and James S. Kramarsic. He was kept
that night in a motel and taken the next morning, June 21, to the office of
Assistant United States Attorney Garey
G. Stark. At the insistence of the Assistant United States
Attorney assigned to the investigation, Mr. Meisner conferred with an
attorney appointed to him by United States Magistrate Henry H. Kennedy, Jr.
After conferring with his court- appointed attorney, Mr.Meisner agreed to enter
a plea of guilty to a five-year conspiracy felony pursuant to 18 U.S. Code,
Section 371, without any other condition except that he would fully cooperate
with the Grand Jury investigation. Mr. Meisner was, of course, warned that any
false testemony he made would be prosecuted as perjury. Mr. Meisner requested
and was granted protective custody by the United States Marshall Service. He has
been in the Marshal Service's protective custody since June 2l, 1977.
From June 20 to June 22, the defendants and other officials of the Guadian's
Office notified each other of Mr. Meisner's disappearance. On June 20, the
defendant Willardson informed the defendant Heldt that "Herbert [Meisner] was
found missing today." He stated that Brian Andrus had found in Mr. Meisner's
apartment a note stating that Mr. Meisner would call in a week, that he was not
going anywhere where he could be located, and that there was no purpose in
discussing his motivations. The defendant Willardson informed the defendant
Heldt that Mr. Meisner had last been seen by his guard on Sunday, June 18 at
6:00 p.m. He speculated that Mr. Meisner was hiding somewhere in Los Angeles,
probably doing legal research in a library regarding his possible legal defenses
in the District of Columbia case. He added that a Guardian's Office official had
been to Mr. Meisner's apartment to remove any documents connecting Mr. Meisner
to Scientology, and to wipe-out all possible fingerprints. (Government Exhibit
No. 175.) 203/ A copy of that letter was sent to the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard
("CSG"), the defendant Raymond ("BI DC Scene Co-Ord (Natl Sec)") and Mary
Rezzonico (as "BI DC Scene Co-Ord (DG L)") That same day Ms Rezzonico notified
the defndant Mary Sue Hubbard that Mr. Meisner had escaped. Ms. Rezzonico
speculated that Mr. Meisner had become concerned about additional fugitive from
justice charges. She stated that the defendant Willardson had agreed to have all
those individuls in Washington, D.C. who might be affected by Mr. Meisner's
appearance briefed
on what to do if he should return there. She also stated that the defendant
Heldt ("DG US") had ''suggested the possibility of creating some confusion with
some phone calls and a false arrest set-up-leading the government to believe
that Patsy [Mr. Meisner's wife] would be meeting her ex-husband at soae
clandestined [sic] meeting-then have her and Greg Taylor [another Guardian's
Office Official who resembled] Mr. Meisner meet." Thus, the FBI would,
presumably, arrest the wrong person. (Government Exhibits Nos. 176 and 177)
204/.
In a letter also dated 20 June, the defendant Willardson ordered the
defendant Raymond and Mr. Brian Andrus to "[c]ontinue to fully work out Herb's
[Meisner's] cover story per the program eventualities so that we are prepared".
(Government Exhibit No. 178). 205/ He also directed
that Mr. Meisner's wife be ordered not to follow her husband's instructions
should he contact her. 206/ Furthermore, Guardian's Office personnel were to
continue checking all libraries in Los Angeles on the assumption that Mr.
Meisner was doing research. The defendant Willardson ordered the removal of all
incriminating documents from the Guardians Office and their placement in the
"Red Box". (Government Exhibit No. 219.) 207/
(footnote continued on next page.)
In a letter dated June 21, 1977, the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard explained to
Ms. Mary Rezzonico that she believed Mr. Meisner's escape had resulted from a
refusal on his part to recognize the need to plead guilty on the fugitive from
justice charge. She felt that that charge, with it's five years and/or $5,000
fine was too heavy for Mr. Meisner to bear. She speculated that Mr. Meisner had
probably gone some- where where he could do legal research to prepare his case.
However, she concluded that she did not think that he would remain in the Los
Angeles area but that he was more likely to go to San Francisco, a possibly
Berkeley. (Government Exhibit
(footnote continued from preceding page.)
No. 179 at P. 2.) 208/
Following her receipt of the defendant Hubbard's letter, Ms. Rezzonico
notified "DG I US", the defendant Willardson, and "B-1 CO-ORD US", the defendant
Raymond as well as "NAT'L CASE OFF (SEUS SEC)" Brian Andrus of the defendant
Hubbard's directive. 209/ That same day, the defendant Willardson notified Ms.
Rezzonico in her capacity as "DC Scene Co- Ord[inator]" that the CSG, defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard, had ordered that the Information Bureau "not waste resources"
looking for Mr. Meisner, since he might be anywhere. The defendnt Willardson
also notified Mr. Mo Budlong by telex that Mr. Meisner had "_blown_ again" and
that "no real avenues
[were] open to locate [him]." He told him that Mr. Meisner's apartment was
"_cleaned_out_ and _wiped_down_", and that "all _his_GO_ associates [were] to be
briefed". He states that a "[P]lan [was] in the works to remove sensitve GO data
shud [sic] It become necessary in future". (Government Exhibit No. No. 180).
210/ In a 22 June 1977 letter, the defendant Raymond updated the information
which the defendant Willardson had telexed to Mr. Budlong. She informed him that
"[w]e are working on a plan to create another false arrest scene type of action
along ops [operations] lines", to sidetrack the ongoing Grand Jury investigation
in the District of Columbia. (Government Exhibit No. 181.) 211/
On June 21, the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard instructed the defendant
Willardson not to "waste time or resources" searching for Mr. Meisner in the Los
Angeles area. She stated that she believed that he was more likely Lo be in a
city or community such as San Francisco or Berkeley where there were good
libraries available. She further informed the defendant Willardson that she had
already instructed Ms. Rezzonico to prepare a program to handle the present
situation. The next day, the defendant Willardson agreed with the defend- ant
Hubbard that Mr. Meisner was "probably on the west coast somewhere" and that
there were "too many possibilities to make a check worthwhile." He pointed out
that the Information Bureau's checks of the local libraries in Los Angeles had
been negative. (Government Exhibit No. 183.) 212/ All the
defendants and officials of the Guardian's Office firmly believed that Mr.
Meisner was still a devoted member of the Guardian's Office and had not
surrendered to the federal authorities.
On June 29 the defendant Willardson informed Ms. Rezzonico that he had met
with the defendants Raymond and Mr. Andrus to "iron out some bugs on Herb's
[Meisner's] story". He indicated that he had directed Mr. Andrus and the
defendant Raymond to continue to work over the next few days on the "basic
story". He expressed concern that Mr. Meisner had not called the Guardian's
Office since his excape on June 20, and that the situation "could potentially
leave us open to crossing up stories or facts to both Herb's and our defendant."
He concluded, however, that he was convinced that Mr. Meisner had not
surrendered to the authorities and was still with the Guardian's Office.
(Government Exhibit No. 184) 213/ On that same day the defendant Willardson
notified the defendant Heldt that he had "just got word from Herb." The
defendant Willardson had just been informed that Mr. Andrus had received a
letter from Mr. Meisner postmarked San Francisco. The letter which had been sent
by Mr. Meisner after his surrender to the federal authorities and after the
United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia had decided to
obtain a search warrant for Guardian's Office premises, stated:
Brian -
I know you don't understand what's going on, but I still need time to myself.
I'm making enough to by on so there's no problems.
I'll be in touch in a couple of weeks.
Herb.
(Government Exhibit No. 185 at p. 4.) 214/
The defendant Willardson concluded that "as CSG [the defendant Hubbard]
predicted" Mr. Meisner had been doing legal research in the San Francisco area.
He suggested that the Guardian's Office send a "missioniare" to "scout the legal
libraries and perhaps law schools to locate him [Meisner]." A copy of this
letter was sent to the "CSG", the defendant Mary Sue Hubbard, National
Secretary, the defendant Raymond, and Southeast Secretary, Brian Andrus.
The defendant Hubbard, in a handwritten letter dated July 3, told the
defendant Heldt: I frankly wld [would] not waste Bur1 resources looking for him
[Meisner] but wld instead utilize resources to figure out a way to defuse him
shld [should] he turn traitor.
(Government Exhibit No. 185 at p. 3.) 215/ The defendant Heldt immediately
notified the defendant Willardson of the defendant Hubbard's directive not to
look for Mr. Meisner.
He instructed him to "producc a plan or plans in report form early this week"
to carry out the dcfendant Hubbard's directive. (Government Exhibit No. 185 p.
2.) 216/
The above 262-page _Stipulation of Evidence_ is accepted by the United States
of America, the defendants, and their attorneys, as the uncontested evidence of
the United States in the instant case.
_____________________ _____________________ 
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
V
Criminal No. 78-401
MARY SUE HUBBARD, et al.
STIPULATION OF EVIDENCE
1/ An "auditor" is a person who counsels Scientologists by
applying the teachings and therapy methods of Scientology.
21 A "CSW" (completed staff work) is a request to a senior
official for approval or disapproval of proposed action.
3/ A "suitable guise" investigation is one where the investigator
assumes a false or misleading identity in order to gain information otherwise
unavailable to him.
4/ Including: New York City; Philidelphia, Clearwater, Florida;
Miami; Chicago; Detroit; St. Louis; Houston; Denver; Seattle; San Diego; San
Francisco; Sacramento, California; Hawaii; I.as Vegas; Los Angeles; Advanced
Organization of Los Angeles; American Saint Hill Organization (Los Angeles);
Portland, Oregon; Mexico City (which is under the jurisdic- tion of the United
States Guardian's Office).
5/ That was commonly reffered to in Scientology as a position
"held from above" or "HFA" both of which appear on the routing portion of
certain documnets and which connotes that an individual ia assuring the
responsibilities of more than one position at the same time.
6/ Government Exhibit No. 2, as well as all documents marked
Government Exhibits No. 3 to 30, 32-60, 62-96, 103-105, 107-112, 114-185,
187-188, 210-213, 216, 219 seized by agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation from two Guardian's Office locations known as the Fifield Manor
and the Cedars Complex in Los Angeles, California, pursuant to lawful United
States Magistrate search warrants executed July 7, 1977. Government Exhibit
No. 2 was seized by Special Agent Lawrence W. Cross from a file cabinet in the
office of the defendant Willardson at the Cedars Complex.
7/ Kathryn E. Hirsch, another former official of the Church of
Scientology, held many positions in that organization both in Los Angeles,
California, and in the United Kingdom at East Grinstead, Sussex. From December
1972 until March 1973 and from June 1973 until September, 1973, she worked at
the World-Wide headquaters of the Guardian's offfice of Scientology at St.
Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, in Great Britain. During that period she
held the position of Finance Actions Director World-Wide and had personal
contact with the Guardian World-Wide, Jane Kember. She repeatedly witnessed
Ms. Kember sign her name and written memoranda and exchanged handwritten
correspondence with her. Futhermore, as Finance Director, World-Wide she was
responsible for keeping financial records or all Scientology organizations
throughout the world and was also custodian of signatory cards for all bank
accounts of these organizations. i-I II e member was one or four persons in
the Church of Scientology who was a signitory for each Scientology bank
account. As a result of her, position, Ms. Hirsch became intimately familiar
with and able to identify Ms. Kember's handwriting. Ms. Hirsch recognizes the
handwriting on Government Exhibit No. 2, pages three and four as that of Ms.
Kember. She also recognizes the routing in the upper, left-hand corner of page
three to be in accordance with the routing procedure required by the
Guardian's Office.
8/ Mr. Meisner had repeated and extensive dealings with the
defendant Raymond who was one of his superiors in Los Angeles; he had with her
on several occasions and had become able to identify her voice.
9/ Government Exhibit No. 3 was seized by Special Agent James R.
Kramarsic from a file cabinet in the office of the defendant Heldt at Fifield
Manor.
10/ Government Exhibit No. 4 was seized by Special Agent Robert H.
Clauduis from a file cabinet in Room 5 at the Cedars Complex.
ll/ A "Guardian Order" (later called "Guardian Program Order") is
an official order directing the implementation of a program, outlining it's
purpose, the "ideal scene" which its implementation is to create, and the
various targets which have to be put into effect. It also designates the
official and bureau responsible for carrying out, the particular target(s).
Only L. Ron Hubbard, Mary Sue Hubbard and Jane Kember have authority to issue
Guardian Orders. While such orders may be drafted and proposed by other high
officials, they may be issued only by one of the above-mentioned three
individuals.
12/ On or about March 3, 1976, U.S. Directorate Secretary
World-Wide Michael Taylor informed the defendant Willarson that the IRS London
targets had been "handled." See the hand- written notation at the lower left
hand side of Government Exhibit No. 56E. Mr. Meisner identifies the "greg"
signature at the end of the letter and the initials "GW" next to the title
"Natl Sec US B1" in the routing as having been made by the defendant
Willardson.
13/ The Guardian's Office had received notification that such a
meeting was to be held through attorneys who represented the Church of
Scientology in their pending lawsuit regarding the tax exempt status of some
churches of Scientology.
14/ In fact, that conference room was actually located there on
November 1, 1974.
15/ During the lawful execution of United States Magi- trate
search warrants unpn premises of the Church of Scientology of California known
as the Cedars Complex on July 8, 1977 Federal Bureau of Investigation Special
Agent Eusebic Benavidez seized a black suitcase containing electronic bugging
devices from the office of the defendant Gregory Willardson These included
Exhibits 190 to 194. See photograph marked Government Exhibit No. 217 appended
hereto. Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent James O. Davis, assigned to the
labora- tory at FBI headquarters and an expert on electronic bugging devices,
concludes that Government Exhibit No. 190 is an FM radio monitor; Government
Exhibit No. 191 is an electronic device in a gold colored box which he found
to be "a miniature transmitter primarily used for the surreptitious
intercepton or oral communications"; and Government Exhibit No. 192 is a
battery connection which he concluded was a "miniature frequency modulated
radio transmitter." Agent Davis also finds that Exhibit No. 193 is a telephone
resonator which he describes as a "transmitter unit from a standard phone
handset." It also allows one to use a standard FM radio to monitor phone
conversation. Goverment Exhibit 194 is a wall receptacle which
Agent Davis states is a "miniature frequency modulated radio transmitter
concealed in a standard three-plug wall receptacle," and which would allow the
user to employ a standard FM radio for monitoring purposes. Agent Davis
concludes that in his opinion all these items are "primarily used for the
surreptitious interception of oral communications."
16/ Government Exhibit No. 5 was seized by Agent Jerry D. Delap,
from a filing cabinet located in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex,
and inventoried and initialed by Special Agent John F. Keller.
17/ A missionaire is a person sent to a certain location with
specific mission orders to carry out-in this case Mr. Alverzo.
311039GOUS 4 AGI DC VIA DG US MIKE
WHAT HAPPENED ON GETTING FSM
PAST HIRING
FREEZE ON TARGET ARC AM CHECKING OUR LINES
FOR JUSTICE
PERSON AS PREVIOUS ONE FELL
THROUGH ARC CONTINUE TO LOOK YOUR END ARC
TLX REPLY LOVE DUKE DGI US
18/ Government Exhibits Nos. 8-11 were seized by Special Agent
James J. Smith from Room 4 of the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
19/ Mr. Meisner states that GO 1361 was also known as "IRS EVAL"
[evaluation]
20/ Government Exhibit No. 46A (page six of Exhibit 46) is a
handwritten note dated January 9, 1975, which states "I attest that I have
placed and am running an FSM at Silver [code name for the IRS] and am
attaching the accompanying documents as evidence." Handwriting expert James
Miller positively identifies the note as having been written by the defendant
Hermann.
21/ Ms. Bird was also a participant in the November 1, 1974
conferance that was bugged by Scientology agents.
22/ Mr. Wolfe told Mr. Meisner that Ms. Bird had two doors leading
to to her suite of offices, one of which was blocked by a table. Mr. Wolfe
went in during the day, unlocked the latter door and proceeded to use the door
whenever he entered her office either at night or on weekends.
23/ Government Exhibit No. 12 was seized by Special Agent Roger L.
Lehman from a file cabinet in Room 30 in the Informa- tion Bureau at the
Cedars Complex.
24/ Handwriting analysis shows that it is "highly probable" that
the defendant Willardson wrote the handwritten note. Mr. Meisner recognizes
the initials of Ms. McNeil and the defendants Weigand and Willardson next to
their respective titles in the routing portion of the document, as well as the
handwriting of the defendant Willardson in the note to "Cindy". The routing
also indicates that a copy of the memo- randum and attached documents were
sent to the "CSG" (Commodore Staff Guardian) the defendant Hubbard.
25/ Government Exhibit No. 13 was seized by Peter J. Flanagan from
a file cabinet located in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex. It was
inventoried by Special Agent Richard W. Noyes.
26/ Next to the title for the "INFO BR I DIR US" in the routing
portion of the meorandum is the signature of the defendant Gregory Willardson,
indicating that he received the documents on March 7, 1975. Handwriting expert
Miller concluded that it is "probable" that the defendant Willardson wrote the
four-line notation beginning with his initials and date.
27/ Mr. Miller positively identifies the defendant Raymond as the
writer of that notation. He also concludes as "probable" that the defendant
Hermann signed "Mitch" at page two or the memorandum. Mr. Meisner specifically
recog- nizes that signature as that of the defendant Hermann and moreover,
recognizes the entire document based upon his recollection of having received
it from Hermann and having sent it with the appended documents to his
superiors in Los Angeles, with i copy to "CSG", the defendant Mary Sue
Hubbard.
28/ Exhibit No. 14 was seized from Room 4, of the Information
Bureau at the Cedars Coinplex by Special Agent James J. Smith and inventoridd
by Special Agent Gilberto Valencia.
29/ The signature "Greg" on page one has been positively
identified by handwriting analysis as that of the defendant Willardson.
Similarly, the handwritten notation "sent to DC,
late May. GW" at the lower right-hand corner od that page has also
been positively identified as having been written by the defendant Willardson.
Handwriting expert James Miller has concluded that it is "highly probable"
that the defendtant Richard Weigand wrote the handwritten notation "Greg -
What was this? L. Dick" located at the top of the page. Mr. Meisner identifies
the handwritten notation "A very good method!" located above the title of the
letter, as in the hand- Writing of Mo Budlong, and the handwritten notation
"Dear Greg, This is a really bNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
30/ On October 13, 1975, the defendant Heldt sent a "CSW"
(completed staff work) to Jane Kember, the Guardian World-Wide, dealing with
"the turnover of B-1 data from IRS LA, IRS DC, and Justice Dept. Tax Division
to PR and legal to get the reports D/A'd (dead agented), and for attacking
along PR and legal lines." (Government Exhibit No. 51.) The "CSW" is requested
for proposed Guardian Order 1361-1 to complete targets 6-8, 14-15, and 19 of
GO 1361 (Government Exhibits Nos. 3 and 4). The appended proposed Guardian
Order 1361-1 calls for placing additional "FSMs" into the Los Angeles and
District of Columbia "target areas'', and preparing the stolen government
documents for release to the press and for use in possible Scientology legal
cases. Government Exhibit No. 51 was routed through the Deputy Guardians for
the Infor- mation, Legal, and Public Relations Bureaus World-Wide. GO 1361-1
was approved by Jane Kember and issued on 7 November 1975. (Government Exhibit
No. 52.) Mr. Meisner and Ms. Hirsch state that it was issued according to
established Guardian's Orfige procedures. Ms. Hirsch also testifies that the
initials "LR" at the lower, left-hand corner next to the name Jane Kember is
that of Lexie Ramirez, Ms. Kember's communicator (secretary).
In a "CSW" dated 27 May 1976 to the defendant Heldt, the defendant
Weigand informed him that GO 1361-1 target 2 called for the "replacement" of
"FSMs" at the IRS in the District of Columbia and Los Angeles, California.
However, the defendant Weigand pointed out that since they had no plans to
have the "existing "FSM in DC [Wolfe] replaced" and since they had been
successful in getting the documents from Los Angles IRS through other covert
means, there was no longer a need for target 2 of GO 1361-1. Thus he requested
approval for the cancellation of that target. (Government Exhibit No. 107.)
The defendant Heldt, in handwritten notes positively identified as his by
handwriting expert James Miller, informed the defen- dant Weigand that since
the Guardian World-Wide had approved GO 1361-1 only she could approve
cancellation. The defendant Heldt also enquired whether it would no be prudent
to have "back-up FSMs" in case the present ones were blown. Mr. Miller
concludes that the signature "Disk" was probably made by the defendant
Weigand. Mr. Meisner recognizes the signa- ture as having been made by the
defendant Weigand and the handwriting in the margin as that of the defendant
Heldt. Government Exhibit Bo. 107 was seized by Special Agent Gilberto
Valencia from Romm 4 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
31/ Government Exhibit No. 15 was seized by Special Agent Smith
from Room 4 of the Information bureau at the Cedars Complex. It was
inventoried by Special Agent Valencia
32/ A "CSW" or "completed staff work" is a request for approval or
disapproval of a proposed course of action. It outlines the problem which it
attemps to solve with supporting data, and concludes with the proposal for
which approval is sought. It ends with two lines marked "approved" and "dis-
approved" with space for signature. The routing carries greater significance
in a "CSW." When initialed next to a title in the routing it indicates that it
has both been reviewed and approved by that person.
33/ Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that the signature
"Greg" at page three is positively in the hand- writing of the defendant
Willardson. He also concludes that it is "probable" that the entry "DW 8/5"
next to the title "DG I US," in the routing portion of the upper left-hand of
the front page, is in the handwriting of the defendant Weigand; and that the
initial next to the title "DG US" is in the handwriting of the defendant
Heldt. Moreover, Mr. Meisner recognizes the handwrititig of both the
defendants Willardson and Heldt in the document.
35/ Government Exhibit No. 17 was seized by Special Agent Peter J.
Flannigan from a file cabinet in room 23 of the Cedars Complex. Government
Exhibits 19, 21, 24 and 28
30 were seized by Special Agent Bradley N. Maryman from the file
cabinet in one of the hallways of the Information Bureau at the Cedars
Complex. Government Exhibit No. 20 was seized by Special Agent Stanley R.
Currey from a file cabinet located in room 30 (the Archives room) at the
Cedars Complex. Govern- ment Exhibits 22, 23 and 27 were seized by Special
Agent Edward J. Miller from a file cabinet. located in room 30 at the Cedars
Complex. Government exhibit No. 25 was seized by Special Agent Henry Willians
from a shelf adjacent to the desk of the defendant Cindy Raymond in room 15 at
the Cedars Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Raymond
Mislock. Government Exhibit No. 18, which was seized by Special Agent Maryman
from a file cabinet in one of the hallways in the Information Bureau at the
Cedars Complex, is the folder which contained Government Exhibits Nos. 18, 19,
21, 24 and 28 to 30.
36/ Government Exhibits Nos. 17, 19, 25, 27, and 29, 30 all have
identical routing. They were sent by Mr. Meisner to the Collection Officer
U.S., the deferdant Cindy Raymond, via the Assistant Guardian for the District
of Colmubia Lynn McNeil, and, among others, the Deputy Guardian of the United
States, the defendant Heldt, the Deputy Guardian for Informa- tion U.S., the
defendant Weigand, and the Information Branch I Director U.S., the defendant
Willardson, with a copy to the Commodore Staff Guardian, the defendant Mary
Sue Hubbard. Government Exhibit No. 28 added to the routing the Information
Branch II Director, U.S. Mr. Meisner identifies the initials in the
handwriting of the defendant Heldt as appearing next to his title "DG US" in
the routing portion of Government Exhibit Nos. 17, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 29. He
also identifies
the initials and date appearing on Government Exhibits Nos. 17,
19, 25 and 27, 30 as in the handwriting of the defendant Willardson.
Additionally, he identifies the note on Government Exhibits Nos. 28, 30
appearing next to the initials "GW" as in the handwriting of the defendant
Willardson. Hand- writing expert James Miller positively identified the
initials, date and handwritten notes appearing on Government Exhibits Nos. 28,
30 as being in the hanwriting of the defendant Willardson. Mr. Meisner further
identifies the initials and date appearing next to " Coll Off US" on
Government Exhibit No. 17 as having been written by the defendant Cindy
Raymond and the printing at the bottom of page one of Government Exhibit No.
27 as the handwriting of the defendant Raymond.
37/ Government Exhibit No. 32 was seized by Special Agent Gary
Aldrich from a file cabinet in the office of the defendant Willardson at the
Cedars Complex.
38/ Mr. Meisner states that GO 1344 is a Guardian Order which was
issued in approximately September 1974 by Jane Kember and which directed the
infiltration and theft of documents from the United States Coast Guard.
Pursuant to that Guardian Order the defendant Sharon Thomas was placed as a
Scientology covert operative within the Coast Guard's Intelligence Division in
Washington, D.C. Similarly, Mr. Meisner and Ms. Nancy Douglas, a former
Scientology covert operative at DEA, state that "DEA", in Government Exhibit
No. 32, refers to the theft of government documents from the Drug Enforcement
Adininistration by Ms. Douglas.
39/ Government Exhibit No. 33 was seized by Special Agent William
B. Stovall from a file cabinet in the defendant Henning Heldt's office in
Fifield Manor.
110/ Government Exhibit No. 34 was seized by Special Aecnt James
J. Smith from Room 4 of the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
41/ Handwriting expert Miller positively concluded that the
defendant Gregory Willardson is the writer of the entire letter.
42/ Governtncnt Exhibit No. 35 was seized by Special Agent Donald
P. Kinder from Room 4 at the Cedars Complex.
/43 Handwriting expert James Miller positively concludes that that
notation is in the handwriting of the defendant Raymond. Similarly, Miller
concludes that it is "probable" that the initials next to the entry "DG US" in
the routing were written by the defendant Heldt.
/44 Handwriting expert James Miller positively concludes that the
bulk of the Ietter is in the handwriting of the defendant Willardson.
45/ Government Exhibits Nos. 36 and 38 were seized by Special
Agent William A. Cohendet from Room 14 of the Informa-tion Bureau at the
Cedars Complex.
46/ The left-hand portion of Government Exhibit No. 37 is a
document in the handwriting of Lewis Hubbard, on the right-hand portion of the
page is a typewritten copy of that handwritten document which was prepared by
Mr. Meisner after the defendant Wolfe had given the handwritten document to
him. The document was typed in order to make it more legible to his superiors
in Los Angeles, California.
47/ The routing in the upper left-hand side of both Government
Exhibits Nos. 36 and 38A conforms to the required routing procedure of the
Guardian's Office and are identical in form. In Government Exhibit No. 38A,
Mr. Meisner identifies the initials next to his title "DG US" as the
handwriting of the defendant Heldt; both the initials next to the title "Info
Br I Dir US" and the handwritten notation immediately beneath
it as the handwriting of the defendant Willardson. Mr. Meisner
also identifies as the defendant Willardson's handwrit- ing the notation that
"sent to WW [World Wide]", which indicates that it was forwarded to the
Guardian's Office in England.
48/ Government Exhibit No. 39 was seized by Special Agent James J.
Smith from Room 4 or the Information Bureau of the Cedars Complex.
49/ Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that it is "highly
probable" that the signature "Duke" at the end of page two is in the
handwriting of the defendant Snider. Moreover, Mr. Meisner also identifies the
handwriting in the letter as that of the defendant Snider.
50/ Government Exhibits Nos. 41 and 42 were seized by Special
Agent Smith from Room 4 at the Cedars Complex.
51/ They are respectively identified in the routing as the Deputy
Deputy Guardian U.S. and Deputy Guardian for Information U.S.
52/ In a memorandum from a Guardian's Office official dated
October 3, 1975 to the defendant Richard Weigand (Government Exhibit No. 56),
requesting a compliance report regarding target 17 of GO 1361, the defendant
Weigand, added a handwritten note stating that target 17 "is almost done" in
Washington, D.C., but still required six weeks to be completed as far as the
Justice Department Tax Division in Los Angeles, California was concerned.
Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that the note was probably written
by the defendant Weigand. Mr. Meisner alao identifies the note as having been
written by the defendant Weigand. Government Exhiblt No. 56 was seized by
Special Agent Smith from Room 4 in the information Bureau at the Cedars
Complex.
53/ Government Exhibit No. 43 was seized by Special Agent Smith
from Room 4 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
54/ Handwriting expert James Miller identifies the handwriting of
the defendant Willardson on Government Exhibit No. 43 as follows: On page one,
"highly probable" as to the notation in the upper right-hand corner under the
date, on page two, "positive" as to the notation signed "Greg" above the date;
on page four, "positive" as to the entire letter; on pages five and six,
"highly probable" as to the signature "Greg". Moreover Mr. Meisner recognizes
the initials of the defendants Heldt and 'Weigand.
55/ This index, known as a _Vaughn_ index, is required by the
Courts, and lists all documents potentially subject to the FOIA with reasons
for all those sought to be exempted from the reach of the Act.
56/ Government Exhibit No. 40 was seized from a file cabinet
located in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex. Mr. Meisner
identifies the initials next to the title "DG US" in the routing portion of
the document as being in the handwriting of the defendant Heldt, and the
initials next to the title "INFO BR I DIR US" as being the handwriting of the
defendant Willardson.
57/ The defendant Wolfe told Mr. Meisner that he followed the same
procedure each time he entered the IRS offices in order to steal documents.
After taking the documents out out of a particular individual's office, he
photocopied them on a United States Government photocopying machine using
United States Government equipment and paper and then returned them to their
proper location, and took the copies of documents out of the building. Of
course, all this was done without permission.
58/ Government Exhibit No. 44 was seized by Special Agent
Frederick Hillman, Government Exhibit No. 147 was seized by Special Agent
Roger L. Lehman, and Government Exhibit No. 50 was seized by Special Agent
Edward J. Miller. They were each seized from a different file cabinets in Room
30 of the Infornation Bureau at the Cedars Complex. Government Exhibit No. 118
was seized by Special Agent Smith from Room 4 in that same building.
59/ Mr. Meisner identifies handwriting of the defendant Raynond on
the following documents: Government Exhibits Nos. 44 and 45, the handwritten
notations next to the entry "Dear Cindy"; Government Exhibit No. 45, the entry
"Sent to WW" on the upper right-hand corner of page one; Government Exhibit
No. 47, the handwritten notation on the upper left- hand margin and in the
upper right-hand of page one "CIC copy"; Government Exhibit No. 48A, the
handwritten notation above "Coll Off US" and the initials and date next to
that title as well as the handwritten notation below the title of the
document; and Government Exhibit No. 50 the initials and date next to the
title "Coll Off US" in the routing. Mr. Meisner also identifies on Government
Exhibit No. 44 the initials in the handwriting of the defendant Heldt next to
the title "DG US" in the routing portion of the document.
60/ Government Exhibit No. 45 was seized by Special Agent Lehman
from a file cabinet in Room 30 of the Cedars Complex.
61/ They are summarized as follows: Government Ex- hibit No. 46A
in Government Exhibit No 45 at page four paragraph two; Government Exhibit No.
46B at page four, paragraphs five and six; Government Exhibit No. 46C at page
two, paragraphs two and three; and Government Exhibit No. 46D at page three,
paragraphs one and two.
62/ Handwriting expert James Miller positively identifies the
signature "Cindy" on that letter having been written by the defendant Raymond.
63/ Government Exhibit No. 49 was seized by Special Agent Smith
from Room 4 in the Information Bureau at the Cedar's Complex.
614/ Handwriting expert James Miller identifies the defendant
Raymond as the writer of the eleven line notation in the left margin; the note
"This ia an FOI IRS index of all withheld documents in IRS FOI action" on the
right-hand side of the document and the nine line notation beginning "Note I
am double checking . . ." on page two or Government Exhibit No. 49. Mr. Miller
concludes that the handwritten notation "GW 14 Nov" in the upper left-hand
corner of the front page is probably in the handwriting of the defendant
Willardson. Mr. Meisner identifies the note as being in the handwriting of the
defendant Willardson.
65/ In a 4 November 1975 memorandum regarding the state of the
District of Columbia Guardian's Office actions on tar- gets 10 and 17 of GO
1361, which she received from Peggy Tyson, the Programs Officer U.S, the
defendant Raymond, in a
handwritten note, stated that Mr. Meisner was verifying "what more
is needed to comply to tgt 10", and had received a copy of a list of all
documents withheld by the IRS under the FOIA. (Government Exhibit No. 56B).
Handwriting expert James Miller positively concludes that all the writing up
to the signature "Cindy" is that of the defendant Raymond.
66/ Mr. Meisner and Ms. Hirsch state that the GPgmO 158 was issued
in accordance with established Guardian Office procedure for the issuance of
Guardian Program Orders.
The names appearing at the bottom of page 3 indicate that the
order was written by the defendants Heldt and Weigand and approved and issued
by Guardian World Wide Jane Kember. Ms. Hirsch also states that the initials
"LM" which appear to the left of Ms. Kember's name are in the handwriting of
Ms. Kember's communicator (secretary). Government Exhibit No. 53 was seized by
Special Agent Robert Claudius from a file cabinet in the defendant
Willardson's Office at the Cedars Complex.
67/ GPgmO 158 was issued pursuant to target 1 of GO 261175 which
was originally issued by L. Ron Hubbard. An identical Guardian Program Order,
158 R was reissued on May 27, 1977 by the defendants Weigand and Heldt.
(Government Exhibit No. 111.) Government Exhibit No. 111 was seized by Special
Agent Gary Aldrich from the office of the defendant Willardson at the Cedars
Complex.
68/ The other operating targets under GPgmO 158 include moving
existing of agents in the District Attorney's Office
in Los Angeles and the Attorney General's Office of California
"into position to obtain advance warning" (Target 8); "[g]et Intell coming
from Paulette Cooper, Robert Kaufman, Bernie Green, and John Sefferrn to
obtain intelligence data on intended attack. AG I New York" (Target 14);
"[p]lace a very secure agent into the AMA Chicago headquarters in the best
position possible to obtain data on their intended actions towards us" (Target
16); "[d]etermine what agency near LRH would serve any Federal governmental
subpeona. This could be the local US Marshall's [sic] Office" (Target 19). (L.
Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard were living outside of Clearwater, Florida,
at the time Kember issued GpgmO 158.)
69/ Ms. Thomas resigned her position with the United States Coast
Guard on February 28, 1976. She had begun employ- ment there on January 13,
1975.
70/ Government Exhibits Nos. 54 and 55 were seized by the FBI from
a file cabinet in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
71/ Mr. Paul Figley states that in 1975 and 1976 he was a trial
attorney in the Information and Privacy Unit of the Civil Division of the
United States Department of Justice at 9th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. in
Washington, D.C. During the years covered by the indictment in the instant
case, Mr. Figley was assigned to the processing of FOIA cases involving the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),
the U.S. Customs Service, the Defense Communications Agency, the Department of
the Army, the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), the U.S.
Postal Service and Interpol. In his care, custody and control, as a result of
his duties as a Justice Department attorney, were numerous documents from
these agencies relating to Scientology. Mr. Figley has reviewed the Meisner
memoranda marked Goverment Exhibits Nos. 54 and 55 and states that the
documents summarized therein were in his possession in December 1975. He
further states that he did not give permission to the defendant Wolfe or Mr.
Meisner to enter his office, take documents, photocopy them and take copies of
the documents for the use of Scientology.
72/ Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that it is "highly
probable" that these handwritten entries as well as the entries "non FOI" and
the "Justice Dept" notation on Government Exhibit No. 55 were made by the
defendant Raymond.
73/ Soon after she began her employment for the Information and
Privacy Unit of the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, the defendant
Thomas began to steal documents and photocopies thereof. Thus, on or about
March 22, 1976, she entered Mr. Figley's office after regular working hours,
and, without permission, took some thirty pages of documents relating to
Scientology which Mr. Figley was receiving as part of FOIA suits against the
CIA, ERDA, FDA, Army and Defense Departments. She photocopied the documents
using United States Government equipment and supplies and gave copies of these
documents to Mr. Meisner. Mr Meisner summar- ized these documents in a
memorandum dated March 22, 1976 which he sent with the documents to the
defendant Hermann (a/k/a Cooper.) (Government Exhibit No. 64). He also sent a
copy to the "CSG", defendant Hubbard. The defendant Hermann forwarded
Meisner's memorandum and documents to World-Wide. Handwriting expert James
Miller
positively identifies the fourteen-line handwritten notation as
well as the initials "CR, 28 March 76" on the Hermann lettcr as having been
made by the defendant Raymond. He also concludes that it is "highly probable"
that the initials "GW" and "BID Natl CIC" were made by the defendant
Willardson; and "probable that the signature "Mike C" was made by the
defendant Hermann/Cooper. Moreover, Mr. Meisner identifies that signiture as
well as the entry "(sent by DC)" next to "CSG" as having been made by the
defendant Hermann/Cooper; and the initials "GW" as those of the defendant
Willardson. Government Exhibit No. 64 was seized by the FBI from a file
cabinet within the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
74/ Government Exhibits Nos. 195 - 203 were located in a black
suitcase seized by Special Agent Eusebio Benavidez from the office of the
defendant Willardson at the Cedars Complex. These exhibits were examined by
FBI Special Agent James O. Davis of the FBI laboratory, who identifies them as
follows:
75/ Government Exhibit No. 56 was seized by Special Agent from
Room 4 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
76/ Handwriting Expert James Miller concludes that the signature
"Mike C" on Government Exhibit No 56D is probably the handwriting of the
defendant Hermann. Moreover, Mr. Meisner identifies the signature to be in the
handwriting of the defendant Hermann.
77/ See Govovernment Exhibit No. 57, a letter dated 3 Febuary 1976
from the defendant Weigand to the CSG Assistant for Information, Jimmy
Mulligan, responding to Mulligan's request for information concerning the
status of the IRS document collection under GO 1361. That letter refered to
the Alverzo forced entries into IRS as well as subsequent areas entered by the
defendant Wolfe.
78/ Appended to Government Exhibit 46 is a 5 February 1976 report
from Mitchell Hermann who signs it "Mike C.", to the defendant Weigand,
stating that numerous documents withheld by the IRS pursuant to the FOIA were
taken by the Information Bureau in Washington, D.C. He added that documents
regarding Scientology were taken from many IRS offices including the Audit
Division, Intelligence Division, Office of Inter- national Operations, Exempt
Organization, Individual Income Tax Division, Office of the Chief Coursel,
Disclosure Division, Special Services Staff, as well as other offices. Mr.
Meisner identifies the signature "Mike C." as that of the defendant Hermann.
Handwriting expert Miller concludes that it is "probable " that the defendant
Hermann wrote that signature. The defendant Hermann's report is appended to
the 11 February 1976 letter from the defendant Weigand to Ms. Kember on
evidence that target 10 of GO 1361 had indeed been complied to.
79/ Government Exhibit No. 58 was seized by Special Agent Smith
from Room 4 at the Cedars Complex.
8O/ Mr. Meisner and Ms. Hirsch identify the handwritten notation
signed "jane" as having been written by Jane Kember. Mr. Meisner additionally
identifies the initials of the defendants Willardson and Weigand in the
routing portion of the document. Moreover, handwriting expert Miller has con-
eluded that it Is "highly probable" that the notation "GW 9 Mar" in the
routing section was written by the defendant Wiilardson.
81/ Government Exhibit No. 59 was seized by Special Agent Robert
H. Wood from a cardboard box in the Information Bureau at the Ccdars Complex.
82/ This is further illustrated by the transmittal memorandum from
the defendant Hermann dated March 22, 1976, to Michael Taylor at World-Wide,
which states that "[a]ttached are a set of docs concerning Tedesco's area and
include the totality of Scientology correspondence in his area." Next to the
entry "CC: CSG" in the routing portion of that trans- mittal memorandum is a
handwritten notation identified by Meisner as written by the defendant
Hermann. That notation indicated that that copy was already "(sent by DC)".
Mr. Meisner also identifies the signature on that letter as that of the
defendant Hermann.
83/ Government Exiiibit No.60 was seized by Special Agent Wood
from the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
84/ She has turned over the originals to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
85/ On or about March 22, 1976, the defendant Wolfe also entered
the office of Assistant Commissioner for Employee Plans and Exempt
Organizations Alvin Lurie which were located in the IRS building at 1111
Constitution Avenue, Northwest, in Washington, D.C. The defendant Wolfe told
Mr. Meisner that he took documents related to the American Medical Asso-
ciation and its tax exempt status from Mr. Lurie's office, photocopied them
using IRS equipment and supplies, then returned the documents to their
original location. The defendant Wolfe then stole the copies of the documents
and gave then to Mr. Meisner. Mr. Meisner summarized them in a memorandum
dated March 22, 1976, entitled "Re: House Ways and Means Subcommittee Meeting
on AMA" and sent it with the documents to the defendant Hermann (Mike Cooper,)
with a copy to the "CSG", defendant Mary Sue Hubbard. (Government Exhibit No.
62). The defendant Hermann forwarded the Meisner memo- randum and appended
stolen documents to the World-Wide Guardian's Office. Mr. Meisner identifies
the initials next to "DG US" in the routing of Government Exhibit No. 62 as
having been written the defendant Heldt. He also recognizes the hand- writing
"(Sent by DC)" next to "CSG" as having been written by the defendant Hermann.
86/ Government Exhibit No. 68 wan seized by Special Agent Smith
from Room 11 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
87/ Mr. Meisner identifies the defendant Hermann's signature on
Government Exhibit No. 68. Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that it
is "probable" that the defendant Hermann signed the "CSW" to Ms. Kember.
88/ On the reverse of the identification cards the following entry
appears:
89/ Between early April and late June 1976, four other Guardian's
Office officials and one Scientology covert agent entered the IRS
identification room and made counterfeit IRS identification cards for
themselves. In April, the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner took into the main
IRS building Information Bureau investigators Patty Pease and Jay Armstrong
and made for them counterfeit IRS identification error. The defendant Wolfe,
on three other occasions, entered the main IRS building with the defendant
Hermann, and Messrs. Joseph Alesi .1o:;eph and Michael Baum, where he made
similar false IRS credentials for them. Mr. Meisner saw the counterfeit
credentials made for those five individuals. All the identification cards were
in false names. In mid-May, Mr. Meisner took the defend- ant Weigand on a tour
of the main IRS building in Washington, D.C. , and showed him the offices
which had been burglarized and from which stolen documents had been taken.
They were unsuccessful, however, in gaining entry into the identification room
and were, therefore, unable to make a false identification card for the
defendant Weigand. Mr. Meisner and the defendant Weigand entered the building
using Mr. Meisner's counterfeit IRS credentials in the name of "Foster".
90/ During a confrontation in the United States Court- house for
the District of Columbia, on June 11, 1976, FBI Special Agent Christine Hansen
seized the "John M. Foster" identification card from Mr. Meisner. Ms. Helen R.
Pesta, Chief of the IRS Digest Unit, states that she holds a lawful IRS
identification card bearing badge number 800-00413, the number which appears
on the counterfeit identification card in the name of "John M. Foster". Mr.
William T. Lyons, Cincinatti, Ohio, IRS Regional Counsel, states that he holds
a lawful IRS identification card bearing badge number 800- 00487, the number
of which appears on the counterfeit identi- fication card in the name of
"Thomas Blake".
91/ Government Exhibit No. 66 was seized by Special Agent Gilberto
Valencia from Room 4 in the Infomation Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
92/ "Non-FOI", used in this context, refers to documents obtained
by covert means or Scientology internal memoranda discussing such illegally
obtained documents.
93/ Government Exhibit No. 65 was seized by Special .lo. 65 wa.-3
:-,(-,ized by Agent Valencia from Room 4 in the Information Bureau at the
Cedars Complex.
94/ Government Exiiibit No. 67 was seized by Special Agent Raymond
Mislock from a file cabinet in the office of the defendant Raymond at the
Cedars Complex.
95/ Mr. Meisner and Ms. Hirsch state thate GPgmO 302 was issued in
accordance with established Guardian's Office pro- cedure. The initials "LM"
next to the name June Kember are those of her communicator (secretary).
Government Exhibit No. 67 was seized by Special Agent Raymond A. Mislock from
a file cabinet in the office or the defendant Cindy Raymond in the Information
Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
96/ In a "compliance report" to GPgmO 302, target 5, dated 31 July
1976, the defendant Raymond sent the defendant Weigand a list of priorities
for the "penetration" of National Agencies". (Government Exhibit No. 109). She
appended to her "CSW" a list of 136 government agencies which were to be
infiltrated. These included: the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the
CIA, The Executive Office of the U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, and many other
agencies. Also included were a number of U.S. Embassies and consulates abroad.
97/ Government Exhibit Nos. 69, 70 and 71 were seized by Special
Agent Michael T. Repucci from Room 14 in the Information Bureau of the Cedars
Complex. -
98/ In a letter dated 28 June 1976, Deputy Guardian for
Information World-Wide Mo Budlong, requested that the defendant Weigand obtain
a copy or the DeFeo Report which he stated "was classified by Executive Order
and is not available on overt lines." In a response dated 6 July 1976 the
defendant Weigand informed Mr. Budlong that the DeFeo report had indeed
already been stolen by Guardian's Office operatives and that he was appending
excerpted copied of the report. The defendant Weigand also explained that as
part of "Op [Operation] Chaos Leak" a protion of the report had been leaked to
the press but that the operation had to be dropped because of the current
complications in the United States Courthouse in the District of Columbia.
(Government Exhibit No. 72)
Mr. Meisner identifies the signature "MB" at the end of the 28
June 1976 letter as having been written by Mo Budlong. He also states that the
initials "GW" and the handwriting immediately preceding it were made by the
defendant Willardson. Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that it is
"probable" that the notation "Sec Off Nat GW" is in the handwriting of the
defendant Willardson.
99/ Government Exhibit Nos. 73-76 were seized by Special Agent
James R. Kramarsic from the office of the defendant Heldt at the Fifield
Manor.
100/ Mr. Meisner recognzes the handwriting of the following
defendants on Government Exhibits Nos. 73 to 76: the initials of the defendant
Heldt and Willardson on Govern- ment Exhibit No. 73) the initials of the
defendant Heldt on Government Exhibit Nos. 74-76.
101/ Government Exhibit No. 77 was also seized by Special Agent
Kramarsic from the defendant Heldt's office.
102/ Indeed, in June 1976, the defendant Thomas succeeded in
becoming the secretary of Mr. Paul Figley.
103/ Government Exhibit No. 78 was seized by Special Agent Harold
Brunson from a file cabinet immediately ouside the main office of the
defendant Raymond at the Cedars Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by
Special Agent Michael Ray Napier.
104/ Government Exhibit No. 79 was seized by Special Agent Brunson
from a file cabinet outside the main office of the defendant Raymond at the
Cedars Complex. It wsa inventor- ied and initialed by Special Agent Napier.
105/ "OTC" or Operations and Transport Company was a Panamanian
Corporation set up by L. Ron Hubbard which owned the ship Apollo on which L.
Ron Hubbard lived and which was used as the flagship of the Sea organization
of Scientology.
106/ Mr. Meisner and Ms. Hirsch state that GPgmO 9 was issued in
accordance with established Guardian Office procedure for the issuance of
Guardian Program Orders. Ms. Hirsch states that the initials "LR" to the left
of the name Jane Kember are those of Ms. Kember's communicator (secretary)
Lexie Ramirez.
107/ Government Exhibit No. 80 was seized by Special Agent Glade
B. Johnson from a file cabinet within the Information Bureau at Cedars
Complex.
108/ Mr. Meisner identifies the initials next to the routing
portion of the document as those of the defendant Raymond.
109/ Government Exhibits Nos. 81 and 85 were seized by Special
Agent Glade R. Johnson from a file cabinet located within the Information
Bureau at the Cedars Complex. Govern- ment Exhibit No. 56 was seized by
Special Agent Michael T. Repucci from room 14 also within the Information
Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
l10/ Government Exhibit No. 82 is summarized in Government Exhibit
No. 81 at p. one, paragraphs two to six. Government Exhibits Nos. 83 and 84
are identical stolen letters from the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
David Kendall to Deputy Attorney General William P. Roger. They are excerpted
in Government Exhibit No. 81 at page one, paragraph seven. After they were
received by the Guardian's office in Los Angeles, those letters were
cross-filed into two seperate individual's folders. Government Exhibit No. 83
was placed in a folder on Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers and
Government Exhibit No. 84 was placed in a folder on David Kendall. (See
left-hand margin of the exhibits.) All three exhibits were seized by Special
Agent William G. Ryan, Jr., from Room 13 of the Information Bureau at the
Cedars Complex. Mr. Meisner identifies the initials of Cindy Raymond next to
her title on the upper left-hand portion of his 3 May 1976 memorandum.
111/ Mr. Meisner identifies the initials and/or hand- writing of
the defendant Raymond on each of his memorandum in the routing section next to
the title. Mr. Meisner also recognizes Ms. Raymond's handwritten notation on
the first page of Government Exhibit No. 86 next to the Snow White "highest
priority" stamp. Each of the defendants appended to Government Exhibit No. 86
have Mr. Meisner's excerpts of, underlinings, and numerals.
112/ Government Exhibits No. 87 was seized by Special Agent Blade
R. Johnson from a file cainet in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
Government Exhibits Nos. 88-92 were seized by Special Agent William A.
Cohendet froom Room 14 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex. Mr.
Meisner identifies the initials and date "4 May 76" in the routing of his
memorandum as those of the defendant Raymond.
113/ The defendant Raymond's 4 May 1976 memorandum to World-Wide
is entitled "IP Data Non-SCN non-FOI Confidential"
and is routed via the defendants Heldt, Weigand, and Willardson
and Mr. Budlong. Mr. Meisner identifies the signature on that memorandum as
having been written by the defendant Raymond.
114/ The defendant Thomas and Mr. Meisner also burglarized the
suite of offices of Mr. John F. Shaw on or about May 8, 1976. Mr. Shaw's door
was once again forced open, and recent Interpol documents were taken,
photocopied using United States property, and the copies stolen. Mr. Meisner
excerpted these documents in a memorandum dated 8 May 1976, addressed to the
defendant Raymond via the defendant Hermann/Cooper. See Governnent Exhibit No.
93. Mr. Meisner identifies his own handwriting ("WW copy") - In the upper
left-hand corner of the first page. One of the stolen documents excerpted on
page one, paragraph three of the memorandum was a letter from Treasury
Department Acting Secretary Stephen S. Gardner to Speaker of the house Carl
Albert transmitting a preposed draft bill relating to Interpol. (Government
Exhibit No. 94.) Government Exhibit Nos. 93 and 94 were seized by Special
Agent Martin A. Gonzeles from a file cabinet in the defandant Raymond's office
at the Cedars Complex.
115/ "Pages 1a and 2a" were retyped by Mr. Meinser himself as
pages "1" and "2" were not sufficiently legible. (Government Exhibit No. 95).
Government Exhibit No. 95 was seized by Special Agent Repucci from a file
cabinet in the defendant Raymond's office in the Cedars Complex.
116/ See Founding Church of Scientology v. Paschall, et al., Civil
No. 75-1397 (April 14, 1976 Tr. at 2, 4). The official court transcript
reveals the following colloquy:
117/ Government Exhibit No. 96 was seized by Special Agent, Jack
C. Thorpe from Room 4 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
118/ "JUDY area" was a code name for the covert operation which
was being carried out by Scientology agents within the United States
Department of Justice,
119/ "JUDY action" was a referance within the Information Burau to
the burglaries and thefts of documents which had taken place at the Department
of Justice. It was also later used as a euphemism for burglaries in general.
120/ Handwriting ecpert James Miller concludes that it is
"probable" that the signatures "Dick" on pages two and four of Government
Exhibit No. 96 were written by the defendant Weigand. Moreover, Mr. Meisner
regognizes the signature as being in the handwriting of the defendant Weigand.
121/ See Government Exhibit No. 2, supra.
123/ Government Exhibit No. 99 contains a few of the documents
summarized in Government Exhibit No. 98. Sec, e.g., Government Exhibit No. 99
marked by Mr. Meisner as page
125/ Mr. Meisncr identifies the initials "GW" in the routing on
the Hermann/Cooper letter as having been written by the defendant Willardson.
126/ Government Exhibits Nos. 103 and 104 were seized by Special
Agent William Cohendet from Room 14 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars
Complex.
127/ Mr. Meisner identifies on Government Exhibit No. 103 a
handwritten notation in the defendant Hermann/Cooper's handwriting.
128/ Government Exhibit No. 105 was seized by Special Agent Jack
C. Thorpe from Room 4 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
129/ On December 18, 1976, the defendant Hermann/Cooper sent
"Project Troy" to the defendants Heldt and Weigand pursuant to the request of
the defendant Weigand. Weigand had directed Hermann/Cooper to write "a project
to get prediction on future IRS actions." The attached "Project Troy" called
for the placement of a permanent bugging device in the office or the IRS Chief
Counsel. Thus, the Guardian's Office would be able to monitor all "IRS planned
actions as regards the C of S of C [Church of Scientology of California]
exemption so that Legal can be briefed to take effective action." (Government
Exhibit No. 110 at pp. 2-4.) A "CSW" from the defendant Weigand to the
defendant Heldt dated December 20, 1976, requests that "Project Troy" be
approved as soon as possible. The defendant Heldt approved the project by
initialling the line entitled "ok". (Government Exhibit No. 110 at p. 1.).
Handwriting Expert James Miller concludes that it is "probable" that that
initial belongs to the defend- ant Heldt. Mr. Meisner identifies it as the
writing of the defendant Heldt. Other conlusions of Mr. Miller: the hand-
written note "I need to see Dick [Weigand] on this after his Session" and
initial-"positive" in the defendant Heldt's handwriting; the word "secret" on
the upper portion of the
first page-"highly probable" in the defendant Weigand's
handwriting; the signature "Mike" on page two and the ending "Love Mike" on
page four-"probable" by the defendant Hermann/Cooper. Mr. Meisner identifies
those two signtures and the entry "Phoned into DC 12/21/76" in the upper
right- hand corner of page one as in the handwriting of the defendant
Hermann/Cooper. Government Exhibit No. 110 was seized by Special Agent William
J. Pettit from a file cabinet in the Information Bureau of the Cedars Complex.
130/ Government Exhibit No. 114 was seized and initialed by
Special. Agent Henry L.Williams from the office of the defendant Raymond at
the Cedars Complex. The document was inventoried and also initialed by Special
Agent Raymond Mislock.
131/ On June 11, 1976 the defendant Richard Weigand had written a
lengthy report to Deputy Guardian for Information World-Wide Mo Budlong,
outlining the events which had taken place In the United States Courthouse in
the District of Columbia. The defendant Weigand also explained the manner in
which the defendant Wolfe and Mr. Meisner could be traced to the Church of
Scientology, as well as the story to be given to law enforcement
investigators. See Government Exhibit No. 116. A copy of that report was sent
to the "CS-G", defendant Mary Sue Hubbard. That report was written in code. It
was seized by Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Harold R. Brunson
from the area immediately outside the office of the defendant Raymond at the
Cedars Complex. It was inventoried and initiated by Special Agent Michael Ray
Napier. Government Exhibit No. 185 (Code ISIS) was seized by Special Agent
Eusebio Bonavidez from a file cabinet in the defendant Willardson's office at
the Cedars Complex. Code ISIS had an attached cover letter from Mr. Mo Budlong
to the then Deputy Guardian for Information, the defendant Duke Snider, in
which Mr. Budlong directed that Code ISIS was to be used only for dispatches
between the United States Guardian's Office and the World-Wide Guardian's
Office. Mr. Meisner identifies the handwriting at the top of that page as that
or the defendant Snider, and the signature and handwriting the bottom of the
page as that of Mr. Budlong. Special Agent Arthur R. Eberhardt, a
cryptanalysis expert with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington,
D.C., has examined Government Exhibit No. 116 and Code ISIS (Government
Exhibit No. 188). He concludes that the coded text within Government Exhibit
No. 116 used two differant methods of a substitution code - "digital" and
"word or phrase". The
"digital" code substitutes digits 10 through 99 for the various
letters of the alphabet. The "word and phrase" code substitutes a word or
phrase for a plaintext word or phrase. He also finds that Code ISIS
(Government Exhibit No. 188) is the code which was used to encode Government
Exhibit No. 116. Thus, using Code ISIS he decoded that Government Exhibit No.
116 by placing the decoded letters and words above the coded ones. See
Government Exhibit No. 212.
132/ Dr. Gerald Nankin, an optometrist with offices on Hollywood
Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, sold a pair of contact lenses to Mr.
Meisner on June 14, 1976.
133/ Mr. Kimmel had been selected to replace Mr. Meisner, who
during his meetings in Los Angeles in February 1976, had been slated to become
National Secretary for the United States.
134/ Mr. Keith Shelton, Chief of the National Office Branch of the
IRS and custodian of the time and attendance records, states that the
defendant Wolfe used eight hours of sick leave on June 14, 1976, and six hours
of sick leave and two hours of annual leave on June 15, 1976.
135/ Government Exhibit No. 108 was seized by Special Agent Gary
Aldrich from the office of the defendant Willardson at the Cedars Complex.
Handwriting expert James Miller positively identifies the notation "G. I'll
read it later. L.D." located on the front page of that report as the
handwriting of the defendant Weigand. Mr. Meisner also identifies the initials
"GW" in the upper portion of the front page as having been made by the
defendant Willardson.
136/ Government Exhibit No. 117 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from the area immediately outside the main office of the defendant
Raymond at the Cedars Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by Special
Agent Napier.
137/ Located above some of the more incriminating words on
Government Exhibit No. 117 are the coded words which were to be substituted
later. These words are identical to those in code ISIS (Government Exhibit No.
188). Mr Meisner recognizes the initials next to the title "DG Info US" as
having been written by the defendant Weigand, and the signature on that
document as that of the defendant Hermann/Cooper.
138/ Government Exhibit No. 118 is also in code. Special Agent
Eberhardt of the Cryptanalysis Section of the FBI Laboratory, decoded that
document using code ISIS (Govern- ment Exhibit No. 188). See Government
Exhibit No. 216 for the decoded version of the instant document. That document
was seized by Special Agent Brunson from the area outside the defendant
Raymond's office at the Cedars Complex. Handwriting expert James Miller
concludes that it is "probable" that the defendant Weigand signed this letter.
Moreover, Mr. Meisner identifies that signature as having been written by the
defend- ant Weigand. The initials "DW:jf" are those of the defendant Weigand
and his secretary Janet Finn.
139/ Government Exhibit No. 119. was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from the area outside the defendant Raymond's office at the Cedars
Complex.
140/ Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that it is
"probable" that the defendant Weigand wrote the signature "Dick" on pages one
and four of the document, and that the initial next to the title "DG US" on
the first letter was written by the defendant Heldt. Mr. Meisner recognizes
both signatures as having been written by the defendant Weigand, and the
initial in question as having been written by the defendant Heldt.
141/ See Government Exhibit No. 119 at pp. 1, 3-4. A copy of
Government Exhibit No. 120 was sent to CSG Assistant for Information Jimmy
Mulligan who, on July 6, 1976, requested the defendant Weigand to provide him
with translations of the Code. The defendant Weigand responded in a letter
dated July 13, 1976. See Government Exhibit No. 122. Government Exhibits Nos.
119, 120, and 122 were seized by Special Agent Brunson from the area outside
the defendant Raymond's office at the Cedars Complex. Mr. Meisner identifies
the signature "Jimmy" On the 6 July letter as having been written by Mr.
Mulligan.
142/ Government Exhibit No. 121 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from the office of the defendant Raymond at the Cedars Complex. Mr.
Meisner identifies the signature on the July 2 letter as having been written
by the defendant Hermann/ Cooper.
143/ Government Exhibit No. 123 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet in Room 10 at the Cedars Complex. Mr. Meisner
identifies the signature on that exhibit as that of Mr. Moxon with whom
he had worked closely for two years. He also recognizes the initials of the
defendant Weigand in the routing portion of the letter.
144/ Government Exhibit No. 124 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet in Room 10 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars
Complex.
146/ Government Exhibit No. 125 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet outside the office of the defendant Raymond in
Room 15 at the Cedars Complex. Mr. Meisner was ordered to change his
appearance so as to create "the image of an aging guy wanting to look hip as a
means of regaining his youth a bit," to wear a "mod wardrobe," to shave his
head, to wear contact lenses, to have a tooth capped, to lose or gain some
weight, and to wear earth shoes to change his posture.
147/ Government Exhibit No. 126 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet outside the defendant Rayinond's office at the
Cedars Complex.
148/ Mr. Meisner identifies the handwritten notations on the lower
half of this letter as having been written by the defendant Hermann/Cooper.
149/ The defendant Weigand's perception in this regard was, of
course, erroneous.
150/ Government Exhibit No. 127 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet outside the defendant Raymond's office at the
Cedars Complex. Mr. Meisner identifies the initials next to the words "Info"
and "Return" as having been written by the defendant Heldt.
151/ Government Exhibit No. 128 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet located outside the defendant Raymond's office at
the Cedars Complex. Mr. Meisner identifies the handwriting around the caption
of the September 21, 1976 letter, from the defendant Hermann/Cooper to the
defendant Weigand, as that of the defendant Hermann/Cooper.
153/ Government Exhibit No. 131 was seized by Special Agent Henry
L. Williams from the desk of the defendant Cindy Raymond at the Cedars
Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Raymond Mislock.
154/ Government Exhibit No. 132 was seized by Special Agent
Raymond Mislock from a file cabinet located in Room 30 of the Information
Bureau at the Cedars Complex.
155/ The other buildings listed in that letter include the Post
Office, the Labor Department's National Office, the Federal Trade Commission,
the Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Customs Building, the Drug
Enforcement Administration, the American Medical Association's law firm
offices in Washington D.C., and the offices of the law firm representing the
St. Petersburg Times, also in Washington, D.C. Handwriting expert James Miller
concludes that it is "highly probable" that the signature "Dick" at the end of
the October 8 letter was written by the defendant Weigand. Mr. Meisner,
himself, recognizes that signature as in the handwriting of defendant Weigand,
and explains that the initials "DW/jf" to the left of the signature are those
of the defendant Weigand and his communicator (secretary) Janet Finn.
156/ For another series of letters to the defendant Mary Sue
Hubbard discussing the District of Columbia incident and the Wolfe/Meisner
situation, see Government Exhibit No. 130, which includes a "CSW" from Mr.
Meisner to the defendant
157/ Government Exhibits Nos. 133 and 134 were seized by Special
Agent Brunson from a file cabinet in room 10 at the Cedars Complex.
158/ Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that it is
"probable" that the handwritten initials next to the words "mission approved"
on page one of Government Exhibit No. 134 were written by the defendants Heldt
and Weigand. Similarly, Mr. Miller finds it "probable" that the initials and
date next to the title "DG Info US" on page one are in the hand- writing of
the defendant Weigand, and the initial next to item 2 (vital targets) on page
two is probably in the handwriting of the defendant Heldt. Mr. Meisner
identifies those initials as in the handwriting of the defendants Weigand and
Heldt respectively, as he does all of the handwriting on page three as that of
the defendant Hermann/Cooper. Mr. Meisner also identifies the signature "Mike"
at page one of Government Exhibit No. 134 and the handwriting on pages three
and five of Government Exhibit No. 133 as that of the defendant Hermann /
Cooper.
159/ Government Exhibit No. 137 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet located outside the office of the defendant
Raymond.
160/ Government Exhibit No. 135 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet in Room 10 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars
Complex. Mr. Meisner identi- fies the handprinting on that letter above the
typewritten words as being in the handwriting of the defendant Raymond. He
further recognizes the initial next to the title "DG US" as having been
written by the defendant Heldt.
161/ Government Exhibit No. 136 was seized by Special Agent John
C. Kammerman from Room 15 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex. It
was inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Michael Ray Napier. -
162/ Government Exhibit No. 138 was seized by Special Agent
Kammerman from a file cabinet in Room 15 in the Information Bureau at the
Cedars Complex. It was initialed by Special Agent Napier.
163/ Government Exhibit No. 139 was seized by Special Agent
Kammerman from a file cabinet in Room 15 in the Information Bureau at the
Cedars Complex. It was initialed by Special Agent Napier. At that time, the
defendant Raymond held the position of National Secretary for the Information
Bureau in the United States. Mr. Meisner identifies the handwritten word
"Secret" at the top of page one as having been written by the defendant
Hermann/Cooper.
164/ Government Exhibit No. 141 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet outside Room 15 at the Information Bureau at the
Cedars Complex. It was inven- toried and initialed by Special Agent Napier.
165/ Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that it is "highly
probable" that the writing "Love, Dick" at the end of that letter is that of
the defendant Weigand. Government Exhibit No. 142 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet outside Room 15 in the Cedars Complex. It was
inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Napier.
166/ As mentioned _supra_, at page 212, a previous Grand Jury of
that Court had, in October, issued a subpoena directing the Church of
Scientology to surrender the personnel records and exemplars of Michael
Meisner's known handwriting. See also Government Exhibit No. 214 for the Grand
Jury docket entry reflecting Agent Hansen's appearance.
167/ See page five of Government Exhibit No. 143 and compare to
Government Exhibit No. 141 at page 2 et seq. Handwriting expert James Miller
concludes that it is "highly probable" that the signature "Love, Mike" at page
four was written by the defendant Hermann/Cooper. Mr. Meisner identi- fies
that signature, as well as the one on page six, and the handwriting in the
routing portion of page one as having been written by the defendant
Hermann/Cooper. A copy of Government Exhibit No. 143 was sent to the "CSG",
defendant Mary Sue Hubbard, and to the defendant Raymond. Government Exhibit
No. 143 was seized by Speical Agent Kammerman in a file cabinet In Room 15 of
the Cedars Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Napier.
168/ Handwriting expert James Miller has reached the following
conclusions: "positive" that the notation "Cindy's copy" on page one, the
entire fourteen-line handwritten
notation on page two, and the notations in the right- hand margins
of pages three, four and seven, are all in the handwriting of the defendant
Raymond. Mr. Meisner also identifies the notation in the left-hand margin of
page one as having been written by the defendant Raymond, and the notation in
the upper portion of page 5 as having been written by the defendant
Hermann/Cooper. Government Exhibit No. 144 was seized by Special Agent
Kammerman from a file cabinet in Room 15 in the Inform-ation Bureau in the
Cedars Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Napier.
169/ During the same period the defendant Hermann/Cooper requested
Paul Klopper the Lecal Branch II Director U.S., to research whether the United
States Attorney's Office could still conduct a grand jury investigation if the
defendant Wolfe entered a guilty plea. (Government Exhibit No. 145.) Govern-
ment Exhibit No. 145 was seized by Special Agent Aldrich from a file cabinet
in the office of the defendant Willardson at the Cedars Complex. Government
Exhibit No. 146 was seized by Special Agent Kammerman from a file cabinet in
Room 15 of the Information Bureau at that complex. The latter document was
inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Napier. Mr. James Miller, the
handwriting analyst, concludes that it is "probable" that the signature "Mike"
on Government Exhibit No. 146 was written by the defendant Hermann/Cooper. Mr.
Meisner identifies that signature as that of the defendant Hermann/Cooper.
170/ Rule 4(a)(1) of the _Rules of the United States District
Court for the District of Columbia_ provides that indictments are to be
returned within forty-five days of any arrest which occurred prior to July 1,
1976.
171/ See Government Exhibit No. 147 at page three where the
defendant Raymond indicated that the defendant Hermann/ Cooper "was badly
suppressing the lines and giving no or false information, keeping both Legal
and BI in a confusion as to exactly what to do." Government Exhibit No. 147
was seized by Special Agent Brunson from a file cabinet outside Room 15 of the
Cedars Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Napier.
172/ During the few months prior to March 1977, the defendant
Raymond had shown Mr. Meisner much of the
correspondence within the Guardian's Office concerning ongoing
research for the cover-up. See, e.g., Government Exhibits Nos. 147A and 147B.
Handwriting expert James Miller positively identifies the handwriting of the
defendant Raymond on the following pages: page one - the notation "A Rush";
page two - the three-line handwritten notation in the middle of the first
line; pages four, five and six - the handwritten notations; page nine - the
handwriting at the bottom of the page; page thirteen - all writings in both
margins; page seventeen - the handwritten notation in the upper portion of the
right margin. Mr. Miller also positively identifies the initials and date next
to the title "DG I US" in the routing portion of page one as being in the
handwriting of the defend- ant Weigand. Moreover, Mr. Meisner identifies the
initials next to the title "DG US" on that same routing as being in the
handwriting of the defendant Heldt.
173/ Government Exhibit No. 148 was seized by Special Agent
Brunson from a file cabinet located outside Room 15 in the Information Bureau
at the Cedars Complex. It was initialed and inventoried by Special Agent
Napier. Handwriting expert James Miller positively identifies the defendant
Heldt as the writer of the entire handwritten letter beginning at page six of
this exhibit.
174/ Government Exhibit No. 149 was seized by Special Agent
Aldrich from a file cabinet in the defendant Willardson's office in the Cedars
Complex.
175/ By memorandum dated 12 April 1977, Brian Andrus informed the
defendant Weigand that Mr. Meisner (Herb) had inquired about the delay in
receiving a response from the defendant Weigand to his letter of 7 April 1977.
(Government
Exhibit No. 150.) In a handwritten note on that memorandum, the
defendant Weigand responded that he had not as yet read Mr. Meisner's letter,
and that he wished to receive Andrus' and Raymond's proposals before
responding. The handwriting analyst, Mr. James Miller, concludes that it is
"probable" that that notation was written by the defendant Weigand. Mr.
Meisner identifies that notation, and the initials next to the title "DG I
US", as having been written by the defendant Weigand. He also recognizes the
signature on the memorandum as that of Mr. Andrus. Government Exhibit No. 150
was seized by Special Agent Henry Williams in the defendant Raymond's desk at
the Ccdars Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Mislock.
176/ Government Exhibit No. 151 was seized by Special Agent Henry
Williams fron the defendant Raymond's desk at the Cedars Complex. It was
inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Mislock.
177/ Government Exhibit No. 152 was seized by Special Agent
William R. Stovall from the defendant Heldt's desk at the Fifield Manor. Mr.
Meinner identifies the whole letter as being in the handwriting of Ms. Kember.
178/ Handwriting expert James Miller positively concludes that the
defendant Heldt was the writer of the two letters to Mr. Andrus contained in
Government Exhibit No. 153. That exhibit was seized by Special Agent Williams
from Room 15 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex. It was
inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Mislock.
179/ Government Exhibit No. 154 was seized by Special Agent
William R. Stovall from defendant Heldt's desk at the Fifield Manor. Mr.
Meisner identifies the signature on page five as having been written by Mr.
Andrus.
180/ Government Exhibit No. 156 was seized by Special Agent
Stovall from the defendant Heldt's desk. Mr. Meisner recognizes Ms.
Rezzonico's signature at page three of that letter.
181/ Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that the entire
letter was written in the defendant Heldt's handwriting. The letter was seized
by Special Agent Stovall from the defendant Heldt's desk at the Fifield Manor.
182/ Government Exhibit No. 158 was seized by Special Agent
Hillman from Room 15 in the Information Bureau at the Cedars Complex. It was
inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Gonzales.
183/ Government Exhibit No. 159 was seized by Special Agent Daniel
P. LeVine from the defendant Heldt's desk at the Fifield Manor.
184/ For a detailed report of that meeting, see Govern- ment
Exhibit No. 160. That exhibit was seized by Special Agent Frederick S. Hillman
from a file cabinet in the defendant Raymond's office. It was inventoried and
initialed by Special Agent Martin A. Gonzalez.
185/ See Government Exhibits Nos. 161 and 162 at pages four. The
second document is a coded version of the first one. They were both seized by
Special Agent Aldrich from the defendant Willardson's office. Mr. Meisner
identifies the signature "Brian" on pages four and eight as having been
written by Mr. Brian Andrus.
186/ This incident is detailed by the defendant Weigand in a 2 May
1977 letter, to Mr. Budlong (Government Exhibits Nos. 161 and 162.) The
routing on that letter indicates that copies of it were sent to the defendants
Mary Sue Hubbard and Henning Heldt, and to GWW Jane Kember.
187/ In that "CSW", the defendant Raymond requested $202.48 for
Mr. Meisner's guards' expenses, including food, and a fine for one of the
guard's car, which had been towed. Handwriting expert James Miller positively
identifies the handwritten note at the top of page one next to the title "DG
US" as having been written by the defendant Raymond. Mr. Miller further
identifies the initial next to Mr. Heldt's title and next to the word
"approved" on page two as probably having been written by the defendant Heldt.
Mr. Meisner identifies that initial as having been written by the defendant
Heldt. He also recognizes the signature at the bottom of page two and the
handwriting on that page as that of the defendant Raymond. Mr. Miller also
positively identi- fies the following handwriting on the envelope appended to
the end of the exhibit: ."A Rush" - positively written by the defendant
Raymond; "Good - disp rec'd. Love H." - positively written by the defendant
Heldt; the initial next to the title "DG US" - probably made by the defendant
Heldt.
188/ See Government Exhibit No. 164 at P. 3 et seq. That exhibit
was seized by Special Agent Aldrich from the defendant Willardson's office at
the Cedars Complex.
189/ Meisner's account of the events of the first days in May is
corroborated by the defendant Weigand in a letter to Mr. Budlong, by Mr.
Andrus in a letter to the defendant Heldt, (see Government Exhibit No. 164),
and by the defendant Weigand in a letter, dated May 8, 1977 to the defendant
Heldt. (See Government Exhibit No. 165.) According to Mr. Miller, the
handwritten letter signed "H" and addressed to "Herb", located at page six and
seven of Government Exhibit No. 164, was written in its entirety by the
defendant Heldt. Mr. Meisner concurs in that finding. Handwriting expert
Miller, concludes that the defendant Heldt wrote the note to Brian Andrus on
the 5 May 1977 letter appended to the Government Exhibit No. 165. Mr. Miller
also finds that it is "probable" that the defendant Heldt wrote the initial
next to the title "DG US" on that letter. Mr. Meisner identifies that initial
as having been written by the defendant Heldt. Furthermore, he recognizes the
signature at the end of that letter as having been written by Mr. Brian
Andrus.
190/ In a letter dated 13 May, the defendant Willardson instructed
the defendant Raymond to take control of the guards. He complained that they
could not involve any more Information Bureau personnel in this matter. See
Government Exhibit No. 167. Page four of that exhibit included a weekend guard
schedule for "Herbert" (Mr. Meisner). It listed the following individuals as
guards: Jim Douglass, Chuck Reese, Peeter Alvet, John Lake, George Pilat, and
Gary Lawrence. Handwriting expert James Miller concludes as follows:
"positive" that the first two pages were handwritten by the defendant
Willardson; "positive" that the notation on the third page from "Cindy" to
"Greg" was written by the defendant Raymond; and "positive" that the
handwritten notation on the last page addressed "Dear Cindy" was written by
the defendant Willardson. Government Exhibit No. 167 was seized by Special
Agent Hillman from Room 15 at the Cedars Complex. It was inventoried and
initialed by Special Agent Gonzales.
191/ The defendant Raymond immediately notified her new superior,
Temporary Deputy Guardian for Information US (T/DG I US) Brian Andrus, of Mr.
Meisner's telephone call to her and of the defendant Heldt's telephone
discussion with Mr. Meisner that evening. She concluded that "[t]he only thing
I can think of is that we work a _cover_story_ that he is trying to blackmail
the Church for money by pretending that the Church harbored him for the last
months making the Church a party to the crime." (Emphasis added.) (Government,
Exhibit No. 168.)
192/ Government Exhibit No. 170 was seized by Special Agent
Williams from a desk in Room 15 at the Cedars Complex. It was inventoried and
initialed by Special Agent Mislock. Mr. Meisner identifies the handwriting
notation "changed by verbal order" as having been written by the defendant
Raymond, and the signature "Brian" as having been written by Mr. Andrus.
193/ United States District Court Clerk James F. Davey states that
the records of that court reveal that the October 1976 Grand Jury had been
sworn in on October 13, 1976, and was authorized to conduct investigations and
hear evidence on behalf of the Court on June 10, 1977. Its term did not expire
until April 1978.
194/ The underscored portions of the declaratoins of the defendant
Wolfe were material to the Grand Jury and the Indictiment charges that the
Defendant Wolfe "then and there well knew, were false."
195/ The complete transcript of Mr. Wolfe's Grand Jury testimony
is submitted to the Court as evidence, and is incorporated as part of this
record. See Government Exhibit No. 215.
196/ Government Exhibit No. 173 was seized by Special Agent
William R. Stovill from the defendant Heldt's desk at the Fifield manor.
197/ Mr. Meisner identifies the handwriting of the defendant
Raymond at page five, the margins at page ten, eleven, thirteen, twenty-one
through twenty-four and at the bottom of page twenty-six.
198/ Government Exhibit No. 173 was seized by Special Agent Levine
from the defendant Heldt's desk at the Fifield manor.
199/ Appended to the Wolfe Grand Jury debrief were two newspaper
clippings from the Washington Post and Washington Star, regarding Wolfe's
sentencing.
200/ Handwriting Expert James Miller has positively identified the
defendant Heldt as the writer of the entire letter marked Government Exhibit
No. 171.
201/ Government Exhibit No. 172 was seized by Special Agent
Williams from a desk in room 15 of the Informaton Bureau in the Cedars
Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Mislock. Mr.
Meisner identifies the signature at the end of that letter as that of Mr.
Andrus.
202/ Government Exhibit No. 174 was seized by Special Agent
Williams from a desk in Room 15 in the Information Bureau in the Cedars
Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by Special Agent Mislock.
203/ Government Exhibit No. 175 was seized by Special Agent
Aldrich from the defendant Willardson's office in the Cedars Complex.
Handwriting Expert James Miller concludes that it is "probable" that the
signature "Greg" is in the handwriting of the defendant Willardson. Mr Meisner
indenti- fied that signature as being in the handwriting of the defendant
Willardson.
204/ Government Exhibits Nos. 176 an 177 are identical. However,
they were seized by the PBI from two different locations. Government Exhibit
No. 176 was seized by Special Agent Levine from the defendant Heldt's desk at
the Fifield Manor; Government Exhibit No. 177 was seized by Special Agent
Williams from the desk in Room 15 in the Information Bureau it the Cedars
Complex. The later document was inven- toried and initialed by Special Agent
Mislock.
205/ Government Exhibit No. 177 was seized by Special Agent
Aldrich from a file cabinet in the defendant Willardson's office at the Cedars
Complex
206/ Brian Andrus, in a letter dated 22 Hune, 1977, informed the
defendant Willardson that he had contacted Mr Meisner's wlfe on June 21 and
briefed her about her husband's unautthorized departure from his apartment.
She was ordered to notify Andrus immediately upon being contacted by Mr.
Meisner. She was directed "not to take any instructions from him, but to
simply ack[nowdledge] him and contact me." See Government Exhibit No. 132
seized by Special Agent Williams from a desk in Room 15 of the Information
Bureau at the Cedars Complex. It was inventoried and initialed by Special
Agent Mislock.
207/ Government Exhibit No. 219 is the directive regarding "Red
Box". It orders that "[a]ll the Red Box material from you areas must be
centrally located, together in a movable container (ideally a briefcase),
locked, and marked." Appended to that document is the "Red Box Data
Information Sheet" which defines "what is a Red Box?" Under that definition,
"Red Box" includes:
a) Proof that a Scnist is involved in criminal activities. b)
Anything illegal that implicates MSH, LRH. c) Large amount of non-FOI docs. d)
Operations against any government group or persons. e) All operations that
contain illegal activities. f) Evidence of incriminating activities. g) Names
and details of confidential financial accts. Government Exhibit No. 219 was
seized by Special Agent Aldrich from the defendant Willardson's office in the
Cedars Complex.
208/ Government Exhibit No. 179 was seized by Special Agent
Aldrich from a file cabinet in the defendant Willardson's office in the Cedars
Complex. Handwriting expert James Miller positively concludes that the
signature on that letter was written by the defendant Hubbard.
209/ Handwriting expert James concludes positively that the
notation on the lower part of that letter "Mary, Could you please clarify
this? GW" was written by the defend- ant Willardson. Mr Meisner identifies the
four-lines of text signed "M" as having been written by Ms. Rezzonico.
210/ Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that he is
"positive" that the telex was written by the defendant Willardson. He also
identifies the initials and letters "OK'd" next to the title "DG US" on the
envelope appended to the telex as probably in the handwriting of the defendant
Heldt. Mr. Meisner identifies the initials and letters as having been written
by the defendant Heldt. Government Exhibit No. 180 was seized by Special Agent
Aldrich from a file cabinet in the defendant Willardson's office in the Cedars
Complex.
211/ Government Exhibit No. 181 was seized by Special Agent
Williams from a desk in Room 15 of the Information Bureau in the Cedars
Complex. It was inventoried and initiated by Special Agent Mislock.
212/ Handwriting expert James Miller concludes that he is
"positive" that the signature "Mary Sue" on the June 21 letter was written by
the defendant Hubbard. He also stated that it is "probable" that the signature
"Greg" on the June 22 letter was written by the defendant Willardson. Mr
Meisner identifies both signatures as thos of the defendants Hubbard and
Willardson respectively. Government Exhibit No. 183 was seized by Special
Agent Aldrich from a file cabinet in the defendant Willardson's office at the
Cedars Complex.
213/ Government Exhibit No. 184 was seized by Special Agent
Aldrich from a file cabinet in defendant Willardson's office at the Cedars
Complex
214/ Government Exhibit No. 185 was seized by Special Agent LeVine
in the defendant Heldt's desk at the Fifield Manor. Mr. Meisner identifies the
signature on that letter as having been written by the defendant Willardson.
215/ Handwriting expert James Miller states that he is "positive"
that the bulk of the letter was written by the defendant Hubbard.
215/ Handwriting expert James Miller is "positive" that the entire
letter was written by the defendant Heldt. Additionall, Mr. Miller finds that
the envelope on page one of the series of letters was handwritten by the
defendant Hubbard ("To: DG US, Frm: CSG").
CARL S. RAUH Leonard B.
Boudin
United States Attorney Counsel for Defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard
_____________________ _____________________
RAYMOND BANOUN MICHAEL L.
HERTZBERG
Assistant United States Counsel for Defendant
Attorney Mary
Sue Hubbard _____________________
____________________
TIMOTHY J.
REARDON, III MARY SUE HUBBARD
Assistant United States Defendant
Attorney
_____________________ _____________________
STEVEN C. TABACKMAN PHILIP
J. HIRSCHKOP
Assistant United States Counsel for Defendants
Attorney
Henning Heldt
Duke Snider
_____________________ _____________________
HENRY F. SCHUELKE, HENNING HELDT
Assistant United States Defendant
Attorney
_____________________ _____________________
JUDITH
HETHERTON DUKE SNIDER
Assistant United States Defendant
Attorney
_____________________
ROGER ZUCKERMAN
Counsel for Defendants
Richard Weigand Gregory Willardson
_____________________
ROGER
SPAEDER
Counsel for Defendants
Richard Weigand -
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RICHARD WEIGAND
Dcfendant
_____________________
GREGORY WILLARDSON
Defendant
_____________________
MICHAEL NUSSBAUM
Counsel for defendants
Cindy Faymond Mitchell Hermann
_____________________
EARL C. DUDLEY
Counsel for Defendants
Cindy Raymond Mitchell Hermann
_____________________
CINDY RAYMOND
Defendant
_____________________
MITCHELL HERMANN
Defendant
______________________
JOHN KENNETH ZWERLING
Counsel for Defendant
Gerald Bennett Wolfe
_____________________
GERALD BENNETT WOLFE
Defendant
_____________________
LEONARD J. KOENICK
Counsel for
Defendant
Sharon Thomas
____________________
SHARON THOMAS
Defendant
Accepted by the court this ___ day of October, 1979.
_________________________
CHARLES R. RICHEY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT
JUDGE
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