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The Scientology Papers: Big FBI raid led to conspiracy trial of cult leaders Court hears of spying, theft of government files

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Title: The Scientology Papers: Big FBI raid led to conspiracy trial of cult leaders Court hears of spying, theft of government files
Date: Tuesday, 22 January 1980
Publisher: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Author: John Marshall
Main source: link (24 KiB)
Tags: Blackmail • Canada • Cindy Raymond • Court • Doris Day • Duke Snyder • Edmund Brown • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) • Frank Sinatra • Front groups • Gabriel "Gabe" Cazares • Gerald Bennett Wolfe • Globe and Mail (Canada) • Gregory Willardson • Harassment • Henning Heldt • Hypnosis • Infiltration • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) • John Marshall • John Wayne • Judge Charles R. Richey • L. Ron Hubbard • Legal • Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard • Michael James Meisner • Mitchell Hermann (also, "Mike Cooper") • Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) • Ontario Health Ministry • Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) • Operation Snow White • Raymond Banoun • Red box • Richard "Dick" Weigand • Sam Yorty • The Juicy Clanger • The Scientology Papers (series) • Theft • Tom Bradley • Toronto • Wiretap

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About 100 agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation learned on July 6, 1977, that they would be participating two days later in an operation unprecedented in the United States. The notification, described two years later in a Washington court room, said the agents would be raiding offices of an organization that some governments, in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, officially classified as a religion — the Church of Scientology. [Read the rest at link (24 KiB)]