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IRS and Scientology
Public Research Foundation Reports
Preface
December 1997 - posted anonymously to the
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology
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This
[to follow] is one of a series of five (5) public-domain investigative
reports on ties between the United States government and
Scientology.
In the last report, issued recently, the investigation finally
uncovered what lay behind the heavy IRS involvement that is
documented in the first four reports in the series.
The first of these reports appeared in late 1997, exposing
formerly-hidden connections between the IRS and Scientology's top
corporation, the Church of Spiritual Technology (CST).
Only about a month later, the then-secret "Closing Agreement"
between the IRS and Scientology was "coincidentally" leaked to
the Wall Street Journal. It has since been learned that the Wall
Street Journal had at least the first two of these investigative
reports in their possession at the time, and that WSJ journalist
Elizabeth MacDonald had--according to her--written a story based
on the facts in the reports, but that her story had been quashed
in editorial.
Since these investigative reports first started appearing,
extreme efforts have been made to discredit the reports, but
have never once disproved, disclaimed, or even addressed a
single material fact contained in any of the reports.
Some of these investigative reports, plus copious documentation
supporting the facts in them, were hand-delivered to the office
of William V. Roth, Jr., head of the Joint Committee on Taxation,
around January or February of 1998. The reports and supporting
evidence were reportedly delivered into the hands of Roth's chief
assistant, Bill Nixon, who expressed grave concern over them. But
nothing was done.
Because of the seriousness of the facts contained in these
reports, and because of the efforts to suppress this information,
I decided that these investigative reports were probably of
sufficient import to collect them all up from various sources
and republish them on relevant newsgroups. I did that in 1999.
Now even those reposts have disappeared from the usenet archives
that are available on the web. And so I am reposting these again
so they will be in the existing available archives.
The reports:
HIDDEN TIES BETWEEN IRS AND SCIENTOLOGY REVEALED
STAFF AND MINISTERS USED TO ENFORCE IRS COMPLIANCE
SCIENTOLOGY SECRETS REVEALED: THE'TAX COMPLIANCE MANUAL' part one
SCIENTOLOGY SECRETS REVEALED: THE'TAX COMPLIANCE MANUAL' part two
(Fifth report not available on our site.)
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