In a statement Wednesday, the revenue agency said that closing agreements were confidential taxpayer information and that their
unauthorized disclosure violated the revenue code. The agency did not formally announce an investigation, but the statement said disclosure of
confidential tax information was investigated by its Office of the Chief Inspector.
Frank Keith, a spokesman for the revenue service, said the agency would not confirm that the document was genuine. Keith also declined to say
whether an inquiry had been started.
But he said the agency would regard the release of confidential taxpayer information as a serious matter and would seek an investigation. The
unauthorized disclosure could be a felony, he said.
A former senior official at the agency, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the disclosure would certainly be investigated and that
the press statement was a means of signaling the inquiry. (Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company)
SP Times front page article quotes Scientology as stating they want
"Clearwater known as the first Scientology city in the world." (Brief overview of Scientology's interaction with Clearwater Florida)
Chris Cloutier leaves staff. He was applying KSW on the re-writing of LRH
tech and policy. He says he read a directive that grants Ron’s Technical
Research and Compilations (RTRC) permission to revise and distribute further
technical information as needed. This directive states they have LRH’s permission to do this. The directive is dated after Ron’s death.
He says OT TRO has been changed. That BTB’s cancelled by LRH have been reactivated and have his name as if he wrote them. The EP of
the study drill of confronting a paper has been deleted.
He was declared suppressive by IJC and expelled. (Criminal
Time Track: Issue III, (21))
Note: Another travesty of justice. As usual, Ethics expels people who are
on-source and apply KSW and protects the suppressive squirrels who are altering
the tech.
In the RTC vs FACTNet case, the church says FACTNet violated 1900 of their
copyrights.
All 1900 issues in the FACTNet case were copyrighted between 83 and 87 and they were not copyrighted earlier. In some instances they do
have earlier registrations but the majority of them do not. You can’t find anything from
the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s that says this stuff was ever copyrighted or
even a notice of registration. Every part of it is in the public domain.
So DM knew he was committing fraud when he got court orders to raid Erlich because they really did not own the copyrights.
Scientology offers FACTNet $12 million to settle the case. They are worried
that FACTNet will prove they fraudulently obtained the copyrights from Hubbard’s estate. They so want to get out of it that they move to dismiss
THEIR OWN trade secret claims in the FACTNet case. They want to ensure no one can prove they don’t own these copyrights and trademarks, and don’t
have legal standing to bring the cases.
Therefore they offer FACTNet 12 million to settle but FACTNet refused their
offer. (Criminal
Time Track: Issue III, (19))
Note: FACTNet did settle later because they lacked the capital to pursue the case
to the end.
US District Court in San Jose, California assessed $75,000 damages against Keith Henson for copyright infringement for posting a Scientology
document on the internet. (Criminal
Time Track: Issue III, (55))
Jesse Prince, former RTC exec, decides to end his silence about what he
knows because he saw others being courageous enough to speak out about their experiences. Therefore he starts letting the public know what he knows about
the criminal activities of top level management. (Criminal
Time Track: Issue III, (77))
By July, Scientology now owns 30 Clearwater properties. (Brief overview of Scientology's interaction with Clearwater Florida)
1998, Sept.
Dr. David Minkoff settles out of court with Lisa McPherson's estate. (Brief overview of Scientology's interaction with Clearwater Florida)
Virginia McClaughry is back at Flag for another six months check. In the
middle of her six-month sec check, she realised the magnitude of the overt that
she had committed by backing down on the application of HCOB C/S Series 73RB. It
was out KSW and out integrity for her to do so. The auditor then ran the overt
to full EP, including FPRD. Virginia had a major win on this of regaining her
integrity.
After the session she assigned herself a condition of Liability. She
wrote up her Liability formula, stating the amends was that she was going to
ensure the application of HCOB C/S Series 73RB to all SOLO NOTS auditors and get
the out tech corrected. She routed it to her pc folder.
She then refused to continue the six months sec-check as it was a
violation of LRH HCOB C/S Series 73RB to have ever started it in the first
place. She had not fit the criteria listed in the HCOB as being in need of a sec
check, therefore there was no need to interrupt her progress on the level. And
also as evidenced by her SOLO NOTS C/S statement on her arrival that she was
moving along well on the level.
She then wrote a comm to the HGC C/S that per HCOB C/S Series 73RB, she
should just do her cram, get her materials and go home. And, that she would not
return until she was stalled or moving slowly or in need of a cram. She said if
this HCOB was not going to applied that she was not going back on the level
because it was out tech.
Note: Virginia tried to get this sorted out involving all possible C/S and
Command Channels with the result that she was expelled in 1999. From her
debrief one can see that none of the involved Execs is really interested in
LRH as source. (Virginia
McClaughry: "My Story")
Series of Articles in St. Petersburg Times about David Miscavige,
Scientology, Gold, etc.
Title: The Man behind Scientology
"David Miscavige, the seldom-seen leader of the church, comes forth in his first newspaper interview to talk of a
more peaceful time for Scientology."
"After years spent well outside the public’s radar screen, Miscavige says he plans to step forward
now and take a central role in trying to end differences with those who still oppose Scientology, the self-improvement “technology” devised by the late L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1950s. In his
first-ever newspaper interview, Miscavige told the Times that Clearwater is the scene of “possibly
the last long-running conflict” for Scientology. He said he wants to
take “big steps” to end hostilities there." (SPTimes:
The Man behind Scientology)
The significance of the failure of LRH to place notice of copyright on documents he published before 1978 cannot be understated.
In the FACTnet case Judge Kane writes a Memorandum Opinion and Order. Once a
work enters the public domain, it remains there irrevocably. The 1909 Copyright Act required, inter alia, that the copyright owner of a published
document affix proper notice to each publicly distributed copy of the work.
Non compliance with the notice requirement could inject the work into the public domain.
Indeed the Copyright Act of 1909 contained a very strict notice requirement.
A work published without a valid copyright notice was automatically injected into the public domain. 17 U.S.C. SS10, 19 et. Seq. (1909 Act) ; New Era
Publications International, APS v. Carol Pub. Group, 904 F.2d 152, 161 (2d Cir.), cert. Denied, 111 S. Ct. 297 (1990).
Here there is now evidence that documents purportedly having copyright notice affixed upon first publication, did not. Further, there is evidence
that a number of people knew this, knew the significance of it, and nevertheless set about to hoodwink the Copyright Office and the rest of the
world. (Criminal
Time Track: Issue III)
Scientology is indicted in Lisa McPherson's case for practicing medicine
without a license and abuse of a disabled person. (Brief overview of Scientology's interaction with Clearwater Florida)
Bob Minton is a critic of Scientology’s current criminal top management.
Therefore he is subjected to attacks from them. Bob has a friend named Jeff Schmidt who is also subjected to attacks as a way to get at
Minton. While Jeff is away on a trip, someone broke into his office and copied every file
he had there. This is another piece of evidence that shows that the old Guardian's Office actions of doing B & Es (breaking and entering – an
illegal method of gathering information), is still in use today. (Criminal
Time Track: Issue III, (52))
