Scientologists Plotted Leak Campaign - 1979-11-24
Scientologists Plotted Leak Campaign November 24, 1979,
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, L. Ron Hubbard, according to internal church documents released here yesterday.
Using such code names as Operation Chaos Leak and 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 Los Angeles at church offices.
- 1979
- Bomb threat
- Clearwater
- DEA
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Kenneth Bredemeier
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Las Vegas Sun
- Los Angeles
- Nathan Dodell
- New York
- News article
- Operation Big Mouth
- Operation Bulldozer Leak
- Operation Chaos Leak
- Operation Freakout
- Paulette Cooper
- Quicky
- Richard Nixon
- Richard Tenney
- The Scandal of Scientology
- US Court of Appeals
- US Department of Justice
- Village Voice
- Washington Post