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<div class="hnews hentry item">[[File:f43.png]] '''<span class="url entry-title">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/11/24/scientologists-plotted-leak-campaign/f842a0dc-6b87-4390-abf3-a1f2d7d4f4b6/?utm_term=.f4a511595d0f Scientologists Plotted Leak Campaign]</span>''' <span class="updated">November 24, 1979</span>, <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Kenneth Bredemeier</span>, <span class="org organization-name">Washington Post</span></span>
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<span class="entry-content">Officials of the Church of Scientology routinely plotted in recent years to leak to newspapers information aimed at embarrassing government agencies and former President Nixon and misleading the public about the church's founder, [[:Category:L. Ron Hubbard|L. Ron Hubbard]], according to internal church documents released here yesterday.

Using such code names as [[:Category:Operation Chaos Leak|Operation Chaos Leak]] and [[:Category:Operation Bulldozer Leak|Operation Bulldozer Leak]], church officials sought to defame and confuse the church's critics or anyone who might be investigating the church and its activities, the documents show.

The thousands of pages released yesterday by the U.S. Court of Appeals are part of the massive collection of evidence that the federal government seized in raids 2 1/2 years ago here and in [[:Category:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]] at church offices.</span>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">Wikipedia cite:<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><nowiki>{{cite news | author = Kenneth Bredemeier | title = Scientologists Plotted Leak Campaign | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/11/24/scientologists-plotted-leak-campaign/f842a0dc-6b87-4390-abf3-a1f2d7d4f4b6/?utm_term=.f4a511595d0f | work = Washington Post | date = November 24, 1979 | accessdate = February 18, 2017 }}</nowiki></div></div>
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