From: Sueddeutsche Zeitung, A Munich Newspaper February 12, 1998
By Ursula WillkeHeber Jentzsch, Scientology Boss in the USA, condemned the raid which was directed at five suspects in Munich. The raid amounted to the worst abuse of a totalitarian police state, he said to the Reuters press agency.
As [previously had been] reported in detail, 130 police officials together with four district attorneys searched through the rooms of the organization, and confiscated various documents. At a press conference at which representatives of the newspapers as well as from nine radio and six television stations appeared, Chief District Attorney Helmut Meier-Staude indicated that they had found what they were looking for.
Now everything has to be evaluated. This action, which was authorized by a Munich judge, led to the confiscation of auditing folders and associated documents of a total of five people.
Those on the premises had for the most part voluntarily handed over papers which were protected in colored folders, for [the other] part, the officials had to ask. It was fortunate that state's attorneys were there because, according to Criminal Division Chief Bernd Kohl, "That lent more credibility to the situation."
Meier-Staude stated that the officials had had the impression that the Scientologists would have been taken by surprise, and for this reason presumably would have let nothing be carried away by the police. In his opinion the purpose of the police action was justified.
Tuesday, February 10, 1998, 14:02
Munich (dpa)
On Tuesday the German police swept through five buildings used by the Scientology organization. The reason given was that an investigation into an unexplained death in the organization as well as felonious arson was being conducted.
The district attorney is investigating among other things the death of of a Scientology sect member which occurred in 1997. According to official statement, because of illness the man was called upon by [legally] responsible members of the organization to consume a large quantity of tablets which had been ordered through a clearinghouse in the Netherlands.
Head district attorney Peter Schlicht said that in this context the investigation would be one of practicing medicine without a license.
Charges of arson were placed against a 42 year old man. According to the officials, the accused denied the charge. He explained that his girlfriend was a member of the sect, not him. Members of the [Scientology] organization had set the fires. Damages of over 40,000 marks [$30,000] were caused by two fires in 1997, and one fire in 1996.
According to a statement by the State Attorney's office, Scientology dearly values the fact that the organization itself has not been charged. The District Attorney has made it known that the organization as well as the accountable members will be subject to a comprehensive investigation of the charges.
Tuesday, February 10, 1998, 14:02
Munich (dpa)
On Tuesday the German police swept through five buildings used by the Scientology organization. The reason given was that an investigation into an unexplained death in the organization as well as felonious arson was being conducted.
The district attorney is investigating among other things the death of of a Scientology sect member which occurred in 1997. According to official statement, because of illness the man was called upon by [legally] responsible members of the organization to consume a large quantity of tablets which had been ordered through a clearinghouse in the Netherlands.
Head district attorney Peter Schlicht said that in this context the investigation would be one of practicing medicine without a license.
Charges of arson were placed against a 42 year old man. According to the officials, the accused denied the charge. He explained that his girlfriend was a member of the sect, not him. Members of the [Scientology] organization had set the fires. Damages of over 40,000 marks [$30,000] were caused by two fires in 1997, and one fire in 1996.
According to a statement by the State Attorney's office, Scientology dearly values the fact that the organization itself has not been charged. The District Attorney has made it known that the organization as well as the accountable members will be subject to a comprehensive investigation of the charges.
Failed Credibility
The Munich state attorney's office is investigating against one of the most aggressive psycho-cults, the "Scientology Church"
Munich, Germany
probably June, 1984
Spiegel Magazin 23/1984Nobody had been either killed or wounded, not the slightest hair was harmed on the children; nevertheless "an act of genocide" was taking place in Munich.
That is to say the week before last, a hundred police streamed into the "Scientology Church Germany," a former hotel on Beichstrasse in Schwabing. They searched through the cult center and confiscated mountains of documents.
A load of suspicions had led to the operation: the church was being brought to account for violations of the medical practice law, unfair competition, fraud, usury, duress as well as tax evasion.
"Reverend" Heber Jentzsch, "President" of the worldwide (35 countries) association, flew out here from Los Angeles, headquarters of the cult-multis (multi-nationals). This past Monday he told the public, "The search operation carried out upon our church is an act of genocide," then he followed that with an allusion to the "Holocaust."
Strong words are part of the litany of the "Scientology Church." It is one of the most aggressive groups in the growing shrubs of psycho-sects and (new term) "destructive cults" that are hunting for souls (they'll take money, too) in the German Federal Republic.
Tightly controlled by the US headquarters, "Scientology" says in Germany it operates five "churches" and 20 "missions" - under various company titles: "Institute for Applied Philosophy," "College for Applied Philosophy" and "Dianetics College." In Hamburg there is a "Celebrity Center" for famous artists and actors.
But "Scientology" salvation can also be obtained from associations such as "Narconon" (drug withdrawal) and "ZIEL" (education); in "initiatives" and "commissions" Scientologists fight "for police reform," for "religious tolerance," and "citizens' protection against data misuse." In the meantime they are also active in business and science.
The pious facade of the "church" has been crumbling for a long time. Documents, books, sworn statements and investigations are piling up which say that "the authoritarian structure, the total regulation and the ideological jargon" produces a "solid indoctrination" by which members can be "hermetically sealed from the outside"; "pathological effects" are said to be not out of the question for individual personalities ("Youth Religions" - expert report of the Nordrhein-Westphalia state government on "Scientology").
No doubt the "Scientology technology" - a sort of communication drill accompanied by psycho-occultism - has a deep-reaching pull on unstable, frustrated people who are looking for sense, otherwise they would not expend sums for "Scientology training" which can far exceed 100,000 marks.
The "church's" enjoyment of money was the cause of the Duesseldorf superior state court last year refusing the local "Scientology" mission the "e.V." label ("eingetragener Verein" / registered association), which the mission had sought for purposes of tax exemption. The "mission" was said to have been conducting a "commercial business operation" and to have been attempting to "create commercial advantages."
The "e.V." is wavering for the Munich "church" - the de-registration proceedings are in the second hearing in the administrative court system; its last credibility as a church were ruined by the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin: "Scientology" chaplains are not exempt from military service, as are Catholic or Evangelical clergymen.
In its battle to obtain tax-free church status in the USA, the American "Scientology" ran into a crisis as its criminal practices were revealed in the late 1970s: eleven Scientologists, including top management, were convicted on conspiracy, burglary, theft of state property and eavesdropping.
In order to spy on the justice and revenue agencies, the Guardian's Office of the "church," led by the wife of the sect founder, carried out a detailed plan by which agents were inserted into government posts, and they then spied, photocopied documents and installed eavesdropping devices; a commissioner ran into the coup by accident, and a massive police raid produced thousands of documents about the inner life of the church criminals.
The former science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who became a millionaire as the "founder" of "Scientology," was said to have "officially" retired from management. He led a mysterious Howard Hughs existence, walled off from the world; today he is either 73 or dead.
The murky power struggles of the "church" that have been raging for some time in its Cardinals Collegium have now spilled over into the German Federal Republic. People who have bailed out or been excommunicated have loosely formed a "Freie Zone" in order to "revitalize" "Scientology" and research the practices of the present power holders.
Even though the beams holding up the "church" are loudly creaking, "President" Heber Jentzsch sticks to the old "Scientology" tactics with his cries of "genocide." In a secret 1973 operation called "Snow White," the strategy was laid out for how "attacks" from various countries could be countered by "intimidation."
For Germany it said that the Federal Republic would be "peculiarly sensitive to a charge of genocide"; it said that the country would bend "over backwards to mend its reputation as criminals."
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http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/CoS/germany/snowwhite27.html
Project Coal was outlined in Guardian Order 732, as were all of the projects. The order says:from:
http://www.entheta.org/entheta/go/ops/go732/go732w.htmlSNOW WHITE
PROJECT COAL
SWOT 27, West Germany
The Federal Republic of Germany is peculiarly sensitive to a charge of GENOCIDE as the Nazi behavior against the Jews provided the impetous [sic] for the Convention. The country bends over backwards to mend its reputation as criminals. It is a signatory.
(a) Coordinate with all GO actions and only operate through the GO. A suit is already in progress.
(b) Using existing attorneys, obtain what legislation Germany passed to enforce the GENOCIDE Confention which it signed and ratified.
(c) Seek to obtain, by subpoena in any existing suit and other legal means, any files or dossiers on Scn or its principals.
(d) Compile a list of names of those who have been violating the Convention articles or its principles.
(e) Do a rought draft of a petition to whatever authority in Germany was specified in the legislation in (b) above. Include all references and documents as well as the bona-fides of Sen. Cite those guilty of violations of the convention, document exactly how and the clause violated.
(f) Have the attorney do the final draft.
(g) Submit the petition.
(h) Exploit any advantages gained.
(i) In the case of no real success, be sure that all recourse has been exhausted as this goes before the UN aand the Eu Commission.
(j) See that this concludes as a deterrent to further attack.
City of Munich, Schwabing district, 0900:
100 Police Raid Cult Center"Scientology Church" caught by surprise on Beich Strasse.
Cartons of files confiscated.
State Attorney investigating Fraud and CoercionA search-and-seizure was carried out by over 100 criminal and security police in the Munich headquarters of the "Scientology Church," a cult which will be investigated for numerous crimes, including fraud and coercion. Enough files were confiscated to fill an entire truck.
Munich, Germany
May 22, 1984
Oliver Bendixen"Treasury File" could be read on the first file folders that the police were carrying out of the cult headquarters on Beich Strasse in Schwabing.
It is the material from the Treasury Office of the Scientologists in which the criminal investigation agents are currently most intensively interested. This is due primarily to the fact that the cult is accused of, besides fraud, non-competitive practices, and that the revenue agents have been trying for years - so far totally in vain - to shed some light on the business of the "Scientology Church."
The operation got off to a start close to nine in the morning as the officers, accompanied by two state attorneys, suddenly appeared on Beich Strasse and presented the center's occupants with a search-and-seizure order, which also made reference to the residences of several staff members. Up through the evening, the police officers sifted through mountains of documents, again and again calling to have large cartons of material carried from the building to the green police cargo trailer outside.
Among those watching the police operation with interest was the county administration office, which had revoked the cult's status of [tax-privileged] association last year, and had mentioned that it had been evading taxes on millions of marks in business under the guise of practice of religion and the association law.
The Scientologists are currently suing against that decision before the Administration Court. In the meantime, however, they have been ordered by the city to report the sales from their courses and book sales. To be sure, the officials in the city's business office have so far been waiting in vain for that report.
The participants in the raid also included an officer from the city health department, since the cult is being held accountable for, besides illicit distribution of medications, violation of the medical practice law.
So far the operation, carried out jointly by the Munich I state attorney's office and the detective's fraud division, can only be verified. Details - according to chief state attorney Otto Heindl - will not be immediately forthcoming, as it presumably will take days, if not weeks, before the confiscated files can be cataloged.
A cult spokesman explained that his religion was being delegitimized by the police operation and the "dubious accusations." Moreover he was quite positive that the courts would settle the matter in the cult's favor. Juerg Stettler, who announced the impromptu press conference, called the state attorney a "redneck" ["Hanswursten"] - something he may not simply acquiesce to.
100 officers: police operation against youth cult
Coercion, Fraud?
Search and Seizure in Schwabing and Neuhausen on the Scientologists
Munich, Germany
May 22, 1984
Abendblatt
by Karlheinz GrassMunich - Yesterday the long arm of the Munich law came down upon the Scientology Church, which has been vigorously criticized for its business and tax methods. Under the direction of two state attorneys yesterday around 8:30 a.m., about 100 police officers occupied the business offices of the cult in Schwabing and Neuhausen, as well as the residences of twelve functionaries of the group. The search and seizures lasted until the evening hours.
The reason for the operation: the cult has been accused of coercion, fraud, non-competitive business practices and violation of the medicine and medical practice law.
Investigations against the Scientology Church, founded by an American science fiction writer, have been in process for months. They were initiated by a half dozen complaints from people who have been affected by the cult.
Chief state attorney Dieter Emrich said, "The results of the investigations we've conducted so far provided adequate grounds for the judge's decision on the search-and-seizure. We cannot comment on the result of the operation until the evaluation of the appropriated documents has been conducted by our agency. It is certain that the investigations will continue for some time."
Sounds of indignation could be heard from the ransacked offices on Beich Strasse and Nymphenburger Strasse. Press spokeswoman Maria Stoffel said, "We are outraged by this arbitrary action, it is religious persecution, modern style. None of the accusations is relevant."
Government officials need not look upon their measures as religious persecution, though, as the Scientology Church is not recognized as religion, and just this last March, the Upper Bavarian administration also revoked the "charitable" status.
The cult, in which there is no pay for the wages of the Lord, is viewed by government agencies as a commercial enterprise.
Munich, Germany
November 21, 1997
Bavarian Interior administrationRegensburger: Bschorr worried about being a Scientologist
+++ Today the TV correspondent, Hans Bschorr, presented himself in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung as a persecuted, innocent member of a harmless, peace-loving association. Actually he is worried about himself as a Scientologist. He is a member of Scientology's private secret service, which is an essential part of the humanly contemptuous suppressive system of the SO, Interior State Secretary Hermann Regensburger has determined. +++
"Hans Bschorr's presentation of himself as a journalist who had given up because of intolerance he had experienced as a result of his Scientology connections is absurd. Bschorr himself, as part of the Scientology secret service, is a core member of their suppression mechanism. Even Scientologists have to be careful around him. The assignments of the secret service include persecuting critics and combatting state measures against the SO [Scientology Organization] with methods which can be deceitful and illegal. In the 1980's for instance, Bschorr founded the 'Aktion Psychosekten' as an undercover agent for the SO. His goal was apparently to infiltrate the anti-sect movement and to investigate SO critics. The internal application of a process of this type was revealed by the Munich I state attorney's office in 1984 in its search of the Munich SO center. As was to be expected, Bschorr veiled the totalitarian claims of Scientology and pretended to be ready to talk. Scientology's fundamentally hostile attitude and its immoral and criminal activities can not be cleared away with talk," stated Regensburger.
Hans Bschorr, Scientologist
"I must be permitted to speak!"
Munich, Germany
November 21, 1997
Sueddeutsche ZeitungIn the summer of 1996 it was revealed that TV journalist Hans Bschorr - until the middle of the 1990's a state assembly correspondent for Bavarian Broadcasting ("BR": Bayerischen Rundfunk) - was a Scientologist. When that happened he moved to England and ended his career. Just recently again, however, without his saying a word, he was part of a political squabble. The Interior Ministry wanted to know of the state representatives whether they had betrayed any political secrets to the man who was on the editorial staff of the BR at the time. We spoke with Hans Bschorr.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ):
Mr. Bschorr, did you go to England to work for Scientology there?Bschorr:
No, but my remaining in England has much to do with Scientology and most of all with the intolerance in Germany.SZ:
What do you do for Scientology?Bschorr:
Little. That is limited to translations from English texts into German, such as a brochure recently on religious freedom.SZ:
In newspaper advertisements Scientology compares Germany with Hitler's Germany. What do you think of that?Bschorr:
Germany started annihilation actions against Scientologists. The newspaper advertisements are hard, however, they refer solely to the measures against the Jews until the middle of the 1930's.SZ:
Naturally you would lie about Scientology employing psychical pressure upon its members.Bschorr:
Scientology has not used one iota of pressure on me ...SZ:
. . . former members have left their money and their minds in the sect, . . .Bschorr:
. . . I swear that I have done everything voluntarily. What Scientology wants is to get into the dialogue. People like Interior Minister Beckstein keep us from this dialogue, and are therefore in a weak position. If Beckstein can prove something about us, then he should put it on the table. But he cannot.SZ:
When Scientology founder Ron Hubbard directs you to intrude upon the centers of power, then there is real live ideology behind that, not the yearning for dialogue.Bschorr:
But the movement is more unpolitical than you think. It has to do with a society in which less criminality, less drugs ....SZ:
. . . Tears are coming to my eyes. The CSU wants the same thing.Bschorr:
Yes, but there no more to it than that.SZ:
We do not agree on that point. Is it true that, at the beginning of the 1990's, you almost became press spokesman for the CSU?Bschorr:
That's right, I was asked.SZ:
The CSU said you had made the offer.Bschorr:
I can understand that that is what they would say today, but I was asked and I said "no." Politically that would not have been a problem. I have been a CSU member for a long time.SZ:
There are journalists with whom you, as a BR journalist, have done research together with about Scientology.Bschorr:
I have talked about that once or twice with colleagues, but that was sheer journalistic interest.SZ:
Damned hard to believe.Bschorr:
It was so, nonetheless.SZ:
Mr. Bschorr, the Interior Ministry has questioned state assembly representatives as to when you could have received secret information.Bschorr:
When talking with someone is presented as infiltration, then that is totalitarian. I would be happy to get together with the gentlemen in the Interior Ministry and talk with them. Nobody has to believe me . . .SZ:
. . . me neither . . .Bschorr:
. . . that is your solid right. But let me say to the state administration who has set the Constitutional Security agency on me, "I have to be permitted to speak!" The fact is that nobody can accuse me of a crime or prove that I have committed one. The presumption alone that I could have relayed secret information to England is delusional. My work was that of a normal, innocent journalist who had to get stories from the state assembly. And although that is not easy, my work was acknowledged from BR.SZ:
Is it true that you are now living in England permanently?Bschorr:
I can give you the address. My wife, my three children and I live 50 kilometers south of London, five miles from the Scientology center. We have set ourselves up quite nicely in an old house.SZ:
Where's the money come from?Bschorr:
We are using our savings. Besides that I am writing under a pseudonym for a German magazine about environmental themes. But even the magazine people are warned from Bavaria that if I should continue to write for them, one will expose the name of the magazine - on account of a text by Hans Bschorr on canal problems. Appalling.Interview: Alexander Gorkow
Skewered
Munich, Germany
November 5, 1997
Sueddeutsche ZeitungJournalists reporting on the Bavarian State Assembly are envied all over the world. They are the only ones who profit from the legendary moods and bizarre wishes unique to Bavarian politicians. Anybody who has ever been on the road with a Bavarian minister knows what happens there:
At nighttime, in the hotel bars in this world, they become talkative, the lady and gentlemen politicians, and they get loose. Afterwards the state assembly journalists can bring very interesting tax documents and bizarre photos from an ordinary party session, for instance, back to their editorial rooms. There they remain under lock and key until shortly before elections, when we, as is our custom, publicize them and unhinge the sordid side of the city.
Is that so? No, that is not so.
On the road our Bavarian politicians are what they are elsewhere: Bavarian politicians. Hell, however, can also be found in normality, but that is not good enough for stories up to election time. The only one who has a bad conscience now is the Interior Ministry. It recently originated a letter to all representatives. In this letter, State Interior Secretary Regensburg wanted to know which parliamentarians had been ruined by former BR journalist Hans Bschorr psychically or otherwise, or had told him something suited to unhinge the state. Up until summer of last year Bschorr was a nice colleague, after that he went to England, perhaps he was still nice, but then he turned out to be a Scientologist, of all things. That was already known for some time, but now it led to findings by Constitutional Security - which also reads the newspapers - and to investigative activities in the House of Beckstein: What did Bschorr know about Bavaria, and foremost, what did he know about its politicians?
It turns out now, for example, that Bschorr had talked about breeding bulls with Bocklet. And with Stamm about the significance of a visit to the farm for the psyche of city children. It is 100% certain that he would have learned from Representative X during supper, that Representative X's colleague, Representative Y, was, unfortunately, a blockhead. Also he would have taken press releases by the ton from the Bavarian ministries. And how, above all, the Scientologists would also pale over these press releases which "0-0 Bschorr" had taken out of Bavaria. Not because the texts were titillating, however, but because they were just the opposite, like the state assembly.