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| May 27, 1992 | Scientology v. IRS | FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF WASHINGTON, D.C., INC., Plaintiff v. UNITED STATES, Defendant | |
| October 5, 1987 | Scientology v. FBI | Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, DC v. Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al | |
| January 8, 1985 | The Founding Church of Scientology of Washington | The FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF WASHINGTON, D.C., INC., Plaintiff v. DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, et al., Defendants | |
| May 1, 1984 | The Founding Church of Scientology of Washington DC | THE FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OR WASHINGTON, D.C., INC., Plaintiff v. DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, et al., Defendants | |
| May 17, 1982 | Founding Church of Scientology of Washington | FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF WASHINGTON, D. C., INC., petitioner v. Donald T. REGAN, Secretary of the Treasury, et al | |
| October 30, 1981 | In Re Search Warrant Dated July 4 | In re Search Warrant Dated July 4, 1977, for premises at 2125 S Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. | |
| May 30, 1980 | Church of Scientology of California And Founding Church of Scientology of Washington | CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA and Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, D. C., Plaintiffs v. James SIEGELMAN, Flo Conway, J. B. Lippincott Company and Morris Deutsch, Defendants | |
| May 19, 1980 | Founding Church of Scientology of Washington | FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF WASHINGTON, D. C., INC., Plaintiff v. NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY et al., Defendants | |
| May 15, 1979 | The Founding Church of Scientology of Washington | The FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF WASHINGTON, D. C., INC., Appellant v. NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY et al | |
| October 19, 1978 | Founding Church of Scientology of Washington | Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, DC v. Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al | |
| May 17, 1978 | Founding Church of Scientology of Washington | FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF WASHINGTON, D. C., a not-for-profit corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant v. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, an Illinois not-for-profit Corporation, et al., Defendants-Appellees | |
| July 8, 1977 | FBI raids Church of Scientology offices in | FBI raids Church of Scientology offices in Los Angeles and Washington, DC. 134 agents seize 48,149 documents from church premises. | |
| July 7, 1977 | The FBI raids Scientology's headquarters in Washington, | The FBI raids Scientology's headquarters in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. The GO is taken by surprise and tens of thousands of incriminating documents are seized, including complete records of the infiltration and burglary of the IRS and other government departments. | |
| January 23, 1977 | Mitchell Hermann notifies Henning Heldt and Richard | Mitchell Hermann notifies Henning Heldt and Richard Weigand that Gerald Wolfe had a scheduled meeting with the United States Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. He suggests that that meeting be used to present "further cover story to them as a possible means of forstalling [sic] a possible grand jury." He adds, 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. | |
| January 7, 1977 | Mitchell Hermann sends a briefing paper to | Mitchell Hermann sends a briefing paper to Henning Heldt saying that the Commodore Staff Guardian, Mary Sue Hubbard, has approved a plan identical to the one previously laid out by the Cindy Raymond on December 10, 1976. Hermann outlines the following events: the arrest of the Gerald Wolfe; the investigation being conducted by the FBI and the US Attorney's Office; the cover-up story given by 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 US 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 Michael Meisner in Washington, D.C. Hermann suggests that research be conducted to determine if a "guilty plea would then eliminate the grand jury." He also states that the Wolfe had been directed not to give any further information beyond the cover-up story prepared for him by the Guardian's Office. | |
| October 9, 1976 | Mitchell Hermann sends a memo to Henning | Mitchell Hermann sends a memo to Henning Heldt and Richard Weigand about a Grand Jury subpoena served the previous day on Kendrick Moxon (Assistant Guardian for the Legal Bureau in Washington, D.C.) for all original known handwriting exemplars of Michael Meisner and Meisner's employment application and personnel records. Hermann requests approval from 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. | |
| October 8, 1976 | FBI Special Agent Hansen serves Kendrick Moxon | FBI Special Agent Hansen serves Kendrick Moxon, Assistant Guardian for the Legal Bureau in Washington, D.C., with a Grand Jury subpoena for all original known handwriting exemplars of Michael Meisner and Meisner's employment application and personnel records. Richard Kimmel (Assistant Guardian for Information, D.C.) immediately notifies Mitchell Hermann about the subpoena. | |
| August 30, 1976 | FBI Special Agents Joseph Jackson and John | FBI Special Agents Joseph Jackson and John Pavlansky go to the Washington, DC Church of Scientology to try to find Michael Meisner in connection with the arrest warrant issued on August 5. They meet with Kendrick Moxon and him that anyone helping Meisner avoid arrest would be guilty of a criminal act. Moxon says he doesn't know where Meisner is. He notifies his superior, Mary Rezzonico (Deputy Guardian for the Legal Bureau in the US) about the arrest warrant for Meisner. | |
| June 30, 1976 | Gerald Wolfe is arrested in Washington and | Gerald Wolfe is arrested in Washington and charged with use and possession of a forged official pass of the United States. He will later plead guilty and testify before a grand jury using a cover story that does not mention that he was on Scientology business. | |
| June 11, 1976 | Michael Meisner and Gerald Wolfe are caught | Michael Meisner and Gerald Wolfe are caught by FBI in the Washington DC courthouse after a security guard at the US Courthouse becomes suspicious of their (forged) IRS credentials. FBI agents question Michael Meisner and Gerald Wolfe. As told by the St. Petersburg Times: "The story is told in the uncontested evidence offered by the government at the Washington trial of nine Scientologists on conspiracy charges. Meisner and Wolfe were sitting in the library of the U.S. Courthouse on John Marshall Place -- at the foot of Capitol Hill where Constitution Avenue intersects with Pennsylvania. They were waiting for a cleaning crew to get out of the office of Nathan Dodell -- an old foe of Scientology -- so they could steal Dodell's personal files in order to devise a covert operation to remove him as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Two FBI agents, summoned by a suspicious night librarian, approached them and asked for identification. Meisner showed his IRS identification card. While agent Dan Hodges went to a telephone to call an assistant U.S. attorney, agent Christine Hansen questioned the two men. Meisner said he and Wolfe had been in the courthouse to do legal research and that they had used the photocopying machine in the U.S. attorney's office to copy legal books and cases. After 15 minutes, Meisner inquired if they were under arrest. When agent Hansen said they were not, Meisner said they were leaving and he and Wolfe walked out." Meisner will later be hidden from the FBI by the GO, but he will eventually turn himself in. | |
| February 18, 1976 | Michael Meisner meets with the Gregory Willardson | Michael Meisner meets with the Gregory Willardson in Dick Weigand's office. Meisner shows Willardson how he and Gerald Wolfe had gained access to locked offices in the IRS building in Washington, D.C., by using a shaped metal device. [Third week of Feb 1976; exact date unknown.] | |
| February 5, 1976 | Mitchell Hermann sends a report to Dick Weigand | Mitchell Hermann sends a report to Dick Weigand, stating that numerous documents withheld by the IRS pursuant to the FOIA were taken by the Scientology Information Bureau in Washington, D.C. He adds that documents regarding Scientology were taken from many IRS offices including the Audit Division, Intelligence Division, Office of International Operations, Exempt Organization, Individual Income Tax Division, Office of the Chief Counsel, Disclosure Division, Special Services Staff, as well as other offices. | |
| January 22, 1976 | Mitchell Hermann writes a "mission report" to | Mitchell Hermann writes a "mission report" to Michael Taylor, the U.S. Secretary for, B-1 World-Wide, regarding Don Alverzo's three-day mission to the District of Columbia. Hermann says that on January 17, 1976, 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 states that the mission was successful, and that "a pile of documents approximately 10" thick" had been seized. He says Alverzo instructed Meisner and Wolfe on "how to obtain future access" to these areas and concludes that as a result of that entry the remaining documents withheld under the FOIA were stolen from the IRS. | |
| January 19, 1976 | Scientologist Don Alverzo leaves Washington | Scientologist Don Alverzo leaves Washington, D.C. to return to Los Angeles, California, after having spent the previous night breaking into the IRS and stealing documents. | |
| January 18, 1976 | On a Sunday evening | On a Sunday evening, Scientologists Gerald Wolfe, Michael Meisner, and Don Alverzo, enter the main IRS building in Washington, D.C., between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. Wolfe signs all three into the building using his IRS identification card. From the Stipulation of Evidence (note: the Hubbard mentioned here is an IRS employee): "They proceeded to the third floor area where Mr. Zuravin's file office and Mr. Hubbard's office were located some three to four doors apart. 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 individuals entered and took, without permission, the remaining Scientology-related documents which had been 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 defendant 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." |