Helena Kobrin is an attorney who has been involved with Scientology cases for many years. Kobrin has been fined for filing a frivolous suit on behalf of Scientology.
The "Operation Clambake" web site (www.xenu.net), open for one day, receives its first legal threats. Andreas Heldal-Lund is visited at home, and Scientology lawyer Helena Kobrin sends EMail demanding the once-secret scriptures be removed.
Helena Kobrin writes Cistron Internet Services in the Netherlands and demands that Cistron either remove files from the website of a user named "newkid", or else send Helena "newkid"'s mailing address. Cistron refuses, citing Cistron's legal responsibility to its users under Dutch law. [Note: the "newkid" web site disappeared