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ptsc <ptsc AT nym DOT alias DOT net> wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 23:39:10 -0600 (CST), Anonymous
><anonymous@remailer.cryptofortress.com> wrote:
>>4. While with the firm of Karno & Schwartz, A Professional Corporation,
>>I drafted a pour-over Will for Mr. Hubbard, which was executed by him on
>>December 15, 1979. A copy of this Will is attached hereto as Exhibit "A"
>>and by this reference made a part hereof. Paragraph First and Paragraph
>>Seventh of this Will specifically disinherits L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., also
>>known as Nibs Hubbard.
>
>Since 1977. 1977. I can't believe I didn't fucking notice this before.
>
>This sure makes Norman Starkey look like an outright fucking liar.
There's no longer any doubt in my mind that Norman Starkey intentionally perjured himself regarding the events of early 1981 in order to conceal the extent and nature of the activities of Norton S. Karno and Karno's firm leading up to and including that time period, and of the Lenske brothers, who were working with Karno. Norman Starkey was probably covering up for Lawrence E. Heller, too, although any involvement by Heller prior to 1981 is so far undocumented. It's interesting, though, that Heller was involved with Bridge Publications, Inc. as early as February 1981 (several months before Lenske, Lenske & Heller were supposedly "hired"), and Heller is also the one who was selected by the lawyers to appear at the 1982 Mission Holders' Conference and give the lawyers' version of the fraudulent trademark "assignment."

Norman Starkey might believe he could justify his statements as "acceptable truths," but they are not at all "acceptable," because part of fraud is failing to reveal that which should have been revealed. His omissions constitute a cover-up of something he seems to have been very intent on covering up as regards the Karno and Lenske firms and their connections and their principals.

>Here Starkey is talking about how he went to retain a law firm for Hubbo
>for ASI in *mid-April 1981* along with Terri Gamboa, and this was the
>amazing shiny and new Lenske, Lenske Heller & Magasin firm.
>
>" 13. When Ms. Gamboa and I were asked to arrange for the
>publication and marketing of the "Battlefield Earth" novel, we were
>also requested to engage legal counsel to represent Mr. Hubbard in his
>business affairs, including the publication and marketing of his
>recently written "Battlefield Earth." Prior to engaging counsel for
>Mr. Hubbard, Ms. Gamboa and I became aware of certain pending
>litigation in which Mr. Hubbard was named as a party-defendant.
>Although we did not know the exact nature of this litigation, we
>discussed this fact, generally, with various attorneys whom we
>interviewed with a view toward their employment as counsel for Mr.
>Hubbard's business and literary affairs. In mid-April, 1981, Ms.
>Gamboa and I retained the law firm of Lenske, Lenske, Heller &
>Magasin, a law corporation, later known as Lenske, Lenske & Heller, a
>law corporation."
>
>(Norman F. Starkey declaration 23 Mar 1985)
>
>Get fucking real! These are the same clowns who were drawing up wills for
>Hubbard in 1977,
Although the Lenskes were working for Karno in 1977, actually the first known Will was not drawn up until late 1979, signed on 15 December 1979. It was drawn up by Sherman Lenske according to his 4 February 1986 Declaration that we are discussing, and it named Norton S. Karno as the Executor:

http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/deathoflrh/1979.html But both Sherman and Stephen Lenske were working for the Karno firm as early as 1977, and Norton S. Karno's firm (represented by James Q. Fisher, of Reed Slatkin infamy) was definitely working directly with CSC and the G.O. (representing both Henning Heldt of the G.O. and CSC in a suit against the IRS) as early as November 1973:

http://www.xenu.net/archive/CourtFiles/occf252.html Norton S. Karno also had access to and at least some control over the "Trustee Fund" in December 1975, involved somehow with Martin Greenberg:

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This "Trustee Fund" is the "The United States Church(es) of Scientology Trust." (In referring to this trust, the Tax Court used both the singular and the plural for "Church(es)" which certainly has helped to confuse things.)

http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~cowen/essays/irslegal/240984.html Even though the Tax Court claims that "the Trust" had been set up in 1962, the Trust was not "memorialized" (there was no Trust instrument or document) until 25 June 1973. This is suspiciously close to the first proven involvement of Karno's firm in November of 1973 in the CSC/Heldt v.

IRS case.

>but somehow they are magically "retained" only in 1981, by the very same
>motherfucker who was the EXECUTOR OF THE WILL they made in 1979
Actually it was Norton S. Karno who was named as Executor of the 15 December 1979 Will, not Norman Starkey. Norman Starkey wasn't named as Executor until the final eleventh-hour 23 January 1986 Will (although he was named as one of two possible successor Executors in the 10 May 1982 Will). Norton S. Karno was the first named Executor, in the 15 December 1979 Will, and was kept in that position as Executor even after Starkey supposedly "hired" Lenske, Lenske, Heller & Magasin in April of 1981, continued as the named Executor all the way through to the 10 May 1982 Will, which Sherman Lenske says he "assisted" in drawing up. (I would like to know who he "assisted.")

So much information has come together so rapidly on this it is rather hard to keep it sorted out. Another thing I have been looking up recently is the surprising number of references in various accounts and documents to just "attorneys" or "lawyers" or "Hubbard's lawyers" without any names. I had begun to notice how many times these generic collective nouns were used in various places by certain people who had very important roles in very important events. Then I even started noticing references to events that certainly would have required the involvement of lawyers, but even the generic nouns of "lawyers" or "attorneys" were avoided. In those cases one then had to really read between the lines to realize that the lawyers certainly had to have been involved.

I finally had to conclude the obvious: that at least some parties whose testimony and accounts have been relied upon were actively covering up the identities of the lawyers involved, particularly Norton S. Karno and the Lenske brothers. These "cover-up" parties have studiously avoided using the lawyers' names, and even covered up the very participation of the lawyers in certain important events. In those cases the descriptions of the incidents have been worded in such a way as to leave out all mention of the attorneys, when just a little thought ascertains that attorneys certainly would have to have been very much involved. It's all quite convoluted, but when you begin to see the patterns, and are aware of the presence of Karno and the Lenskes in the background, things begin to become much clearer. I don't know why Karno and the Lenskes were so intent on hiding their participation, or why certain parties cooperated with the lawyers to help conceal them, but the amount of evidence of that sort of cover-up now is inescapable. I've begun to call the Karno/Lenske team and their cover-up people the Invisible Empire.

There is also another attorney who seems to be very entangled with Karno and the Lenskes, but who has gotten little mention, and that is Joel Kreiner. I have made something of a study of him and his embroilment in all these matters, and I think it's necessary to start recognizing his role in many important events. I include him in the Invisible Empire.

With that in mind, and keeping in mind that date outlines, or "timelines,"

are certainly not my forte, it does help to lay the known and likely Karno/Lenske/Kreiner involvements out in some sort of chronology. Here is the best I've come up with so far, including the events where it has been necessary to read between the lines, as I was referring to above, in order to see the controlling hand of these attorneys in the events. I freely admit to extrapolation in places, but only where I feel it is warranted and is supported by other facts. I identify those extrapolations. Although the first confirmed and unequivocal involvement of Norton S. Karno's firm is 5 November 1973, I believe there is a good foundation for deducing the involvement of Karno in several other events that happened earlier in 1973, which I start off with:

25 June 1973 A trust instrument is executed establishing the existence of "The United States Church(es) of Scientology Trust" ("the Trust;" "the Trustee fund") with L. Ron Hubbard named as the sole Trustee. (Based on later events, it seems a likely possibility that this Trust instrument was drafted by Norton S. Karno or someone at his firm, which is why I include it here. I freely admit that this is not confirmed and that it bears further investigation.

The Tax Court that discusses this Trust apparently had access to the Trust instrument, and it may be part of their public record, so there may be some hope of confirming this at some point.) What is certain is that California attorney Joel Kreiner is the Deputy Guardian Legal U.S. at this time, and that the Trust instrument was drawn up by some attorney familiar with trusts and the related tax issues. Kreiner is also a Director and the Secretary for HASI, Inc. at the time, which has its own relevance in developing events.

http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~cowen/essays/irslegal/240984.html 2 July 1973 An IRS audit of L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard for the tax years 1971 and 1972 is begun by IRS's OIO. It is been being worked on by Thomas R.

Crate in OIO, under the supervision of Howard Rosen. (It is my informed belief that Norton S. Karno is representing L. Ron Hubbard by this time, based on events that happen in relation to IRS within a very few months which involve Karno's firm of Karno, Rudnick & Fischer, and based on the continuing involvement of Norton Karno in tax-related and business affairs of L. Ron Hubbard.)

19 September 1973 After having been ordered by IRS earlier in the year to produce certain documents, CSC and Henning Heldt file with United States District Court, Central District of California, a notice to take the depositions of Regional Commissioner of Internal Revenue Homer Croasmun, Internal Revenue Service Group Manager James Argue, and Internal Revenue Agent Robert H.

Cluberton, also requesting that they produce certain records and documents at the depositions. (It is my informed belief and is very likely indeed that the law firm that drew up and filed the notice is Karno, Rudnick &

Fischer, as that firm's James Q. Fischer represents CSC and Henning Heldt at the 5 November 1973 hearing on this and other filings in this case.)

Joel Kreiner is the Deputy Guardian Legal U.S.

http://www.xenu.net/archive/CourtFiles/occf252.html 5 November 1973 (First confirmed involvement of Karno's law firm.) James Q. Fischer of the law firm Karno, Rudnick & Fischer is representing Henning Heldt (of the Guardian's Office) and Church of Scientology of California (CSC) in a hearing in "United States of America and Robert H. Cluberton, Internal Revenue Agent, Internal Revenue Service, Petitioners v. Church of Scientology of California and Henning Heldt, Vice President, Respondents."

No. 73-2100-HP United States District Court; C.D. California. Joel Kreiner is the Deputy Guardian Legal. (In the "Scientology Shyster List," it is reported that Joel Kreiner and a James Fisher [sic] become partners at some point. I still have not been able to determine if the James Q. Fischer who was with Karno is the same person whose name is spelled "Fisher" in the "Shyster List." It seems likely, but needs confirmation.)

http://www.xenu.net/archive/CourtFiles/occf252.html 1 June 1974 Attorney Joel Kreiner reportedly "steps down" as "as chief legal adviser"

but continues "to hold a legal post" in the Guardian's Office. In that post, he reportedly is CSC's "primary tax attorney" and has "custody and control of the Church's tax files." (The Tax Court ruling this is taken from is very ambiguous about what this "stepping down as chief legal adviser" means. It doesn't say specifically that Kreiner is no longer the Deputy Guardian Legal U.S., and in fact says that he continues "to hold a legal post" in the Guardian's Office. At the very least he is still in the office of the Deputy Guardian Legal U.S.) According to annual reports filed with the Arizona Corporations Commission, Kreiner also remains a director and the Secretary of HASI, Inc.

http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~cowen/essays/irslegal/240984.html 29 August 1974 There is a Department of the Treasury internal "buck slip" dated August 29, 1974, concerning an FOIA request from Joel Kreiner on behalf of the "Church of Scientology." (This would certainly be CSC.) The "buck slip" is from a Treasury Department official to an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel and contains opinions and requests legal advice as to the processing of the request. (This establishes Kreiner's continuing involvement in legal matters on behalf of CSC concerning tax and IRS and US Treasury Department matters. This "buck slip" concerns an FOIA request from Kreiner that is contemporary with this period in 1974, and Kreiner is already established as working in association with the Karno firm on IRS-related matters at this point in time.)

15 September 1974 Cindy Raymond, "Collections Officer in the US Information Bureau in L.A."

for the US Guardian's Office, allegedly informs Michael Meisner that she has selected Gerald Bennett Wolfe to "infiltrate the IRS on behalf of the Church of Scientology." (Again this is a gross instance where all mention of the attorneys is left out, and no mention of any of their names is included, but both the Stipulation of Evidence and the later September 1984 US Tax Court ruling state that the senior purpose of the alleged IRS infiltration was to obtain documents to be used by attorneys in CSC's litigation against IRS, and/or in relation the audit that was being conducted on L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard out of IRS's OIO at the time. It is a very curious element of the Stipulation of Evidence that, despite this purported purpose, the Stipulation leaves out all mention of the documents being routed to the G.O.'s legal department, or to Kreiner and then on to the attorneys involved in tax issues. Karno's firm is most decidedly involved in IRS-related legal matters at this time, and Joel Kreiner continues to be actively and closely involved, as is proven by previous and ensuing events. Therefore there has to be here an unstated, and even concealed, connection to Kreiner and to the Karno firm. The most perplexing aspect of this is that the government's own Stipulation of Evidence is concealing these necessary connections, and Joel Kreiner's name appears nowhere in the Stipulation, even though he is named in the September 1984 Tax Court ruling in relation to this time period. The Stipulation concentrates almost exclusively on the intelligence-collection activities and personnel, and almost completely obliterates the very existence of the attorneys and Guardian's Office Legal Department for whom the data collection was supposedly being done in the first place. All of this begins to seem even more incongruous in events that follow almost immediately.)

11 November 1974 Gerald Wolfe is hired by IRS as a clerk typist despite the fact that there is a hiring freeze in effect at IRS. (See above notes.)

2 December 1974 The matter of "Church of Scientology of California, a non-profit corporation, Plaintiff v. Internal Revenue Service, Donald C. Alexander, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Department of the Treasury of the United States, William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Defendants" is heard in court at 10:00 AM. Appearing for Plaintiff (CSC) is Joel Kreiner, Attorney At Law. (This is a rather amazing event, coming less than one month after the hiring of Gerald Wolfe by IRS, because the Karno firm is already established in representing CSC against IRS, Karno has definitely been closely associated with Kreiner in Kreiner's position as the Deputy Guardian Legal U.S. when Karno was retained, and Kreiner has only recently "stepped down" from being "chif legal adviser." Yet here Kreiner is standing up for CSC, with no evidence of Karno or Karno's firm involved in this case against Donald C. Alexander, Commissioner or IRS, and William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury. Yet we can be absolutely certain that Karno is still very actively involved with Hubbard's affairs, with the G.O., and with CSC, as is proven in the later events.)

http://www.xenu.net/archive/CourtFiles/occf251.html 1 January 1975 Meade Emory becomes Assistant to Donald C. Alexander, Commissioner of IRS.

(Included because of Meade Emory's later connection to the Lenskes in setting up CST, and because CSC has just filed suit against Donald C.

Alexander et al. The timing of Emory's hiring relative to the event directly above is quite an amazing "coincidence," one of the many very odd coincidences that keep turning up. But it confirms that Meade Emory was made Assistant to Commissioner of IRS in the middle of CSC and the G.O.'s case against Commissioner of IRS and the US Treasury Secretary.)

14 November 1975 Joel Kreiner signs an annual report for HASI, Inc. as its Secretary. It is the last annual report ever filed for HASI, Inc.

5 December 1975 Norton S. Karno is acting as counsel to Henning Heldt, the G.O., and CSC, and also has access to and some sort of control over "the Trustee fund,"

most likely set up originally by Karno's firm in June of 1973, as above.

This also links Norton Karno to Martin Greenberg who was the central CPA to all of CSC and the G.O.'s activities throughout the entanglements with IRS and the entire "Snow White" affair.

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16 April 1976 Joel Kreiner resigns as Secretary of HASI, Inc. and James "Jimmy" Mulligan resigns as Vice President. Lynn McNeil (Michael Meisner's direct senior in the G.O.) replaces Mulligan as Vice President, Judy Weigand replaces Joel Kreiner as Secretary.

5 June 1976 L. Ron Hubbard pays an "adjustment tax," and the IRS tax audit that has been being conducted out of OIO on him and Mary Sue Hubbard since at least 2 July 1973 is closed. The audit case was for the years 1971 and 1972. It has been being worked on by Thomas R. Crate in OIO, under the supervision of Howard Rosen. (Again, it is my informed belief, based on all surrounding events, that Karno is handling tax and business affairs for L. Ron Hubbard at this time.)

1 January 1977 Both Sherman and Stephen Lenske are working in Norton S. Karno's law firm, (now called "Karno & Schwartz"), and they are both representing "various business interests of Mr. Hubbard." (They only give 1977 as a date.)

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10 May 1977 A Certificate of Revocation is issued against HASI, Inc. by the Arizona Corporation Commission for "FAILURE TO FILE AN ANNUAL REPORT." The statute cited is ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES SECTION 10-095. Signatories on the document are Bud Tims, Chairman, Ernest Garfield, Commissioner, Jim (illegible), Commissioner, and Donald E. Vance, Executive Secretary.

Sherman and Stephen Lenske are handling L. Ron Hubbard's "business affairs"

for the firm of Karno & Schwartz.

22 May 1977 The Certificate of Revocation for HASI, Inc. is mailed back from the postal service in Silver Springs, Maryland to the Arizona Corporation Commission as "Moved--Not Forwardable." (This is the last record of HASI, Inc. that the Arizona Corporation Commission has on file. HASI, Inc. is permanently revoked as a corporation.)

8 July 1977 The FBI raids the Guardian's Offices on both coasts because of alleged actions of the Guardian's Office and CSC (which are both being represented by Norton Karno's firm and by Karno himself as counsel).

1 January 1978 Meade Emory's term as Assistant to Commissioner of IRS ends. (This is only estimated because Meade Emory gives the dates for his term only as 1975-1977. I'm assuming that it is inclusive of 1977.)

11 April 1978 Shaw Management Corporation is incorporated by Sherman Lenske. Dr. Gene Denk as President.

15 December 1979 The first known L. Ron Hubbard Will is drawn up by Sherman Lenske, naming Norton S. Karno as Executor of the Estate, and subordinating the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard to unspecified "business interests" that Hubbard and Karno reportedly have in common. The Will also disinherits L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.

(Nibs, later known as Ronald DeWolf).

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http://home.earthlink.net/~snefru/deathoflrh/1979.html 1 February 1980 Laurel Sullivan and Gerald Armstrong move from Hemet to Los Angeles, taking the "LRH Archives" there with them. Of the move, Gerry Armstrong says, "Because of dealing with Hubbard's lawyers in LA, and for security reasons, Laurel and I move to the Cedar complex and set up MCCS and the Hubbard Archive." (Here is another of the generic collective noun "Hubbard's lawyers." Yet we know that Norton S. Karno is the lawyer who has business interests with L. Ron Hubbard, and is the named Executor for Hubbard's Estate, and that Sherman Lenske is the lawyer who just drew up Hubbard's Will, and that both Sherman and Stephen Lenske are representing "various business interests of Mr. Hubbard." So I don't know who else would possibly be "Hubbard's lawyers in LA.")

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23 February 1980 Mission Corporate Category Sort-Out (MCCS) is set up with Laurel Sullivan as Mission 1st and Gerald Armstrong as Mission 2nd. (None of the attorneys named in relation to MCCS have any visible, known connection to the Karno firm where the Lenske brothers are working, but given the documented deep involvement of Karno and the Lenskes in L. Ron Hubbard's Estate and business affairs to this point in time, and the fact that Sherman Lenske had just drawn up the December 1979 will naming Karno as Executor, and given the language of that Will, and given the involvement of Karno with CSC and the G.O., I will remain entirely convinced that MCCS had to have been run completely under the supervision of the Karno firm until that is somehow proven otherwise. The lawyers who have been named in relation to MCCS are Alan Wertheimer, James "Jim" Murphy, and a Ron Fugikawa. I believe they had to be either in Karno's firm, or had some sort of junior working relationship with Karno's firm, and will believe that until there is some evidence to the contrary.)

http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~cowen/essays/corporate.html#pt2_6 28 February 1980 L. Ron Hubbard disappears, reportedly in the company of Pat and Annie Broeker. (It must not be forgotten, however, that Norton S. Karno is the named Executor of L. Ron Hubbard's Estate, and that Norton S. Karno is involved in business interests with L. Ron Hubbard at the time. It is therefore almost virtually certain that at least Norton S. Karno, if not the Lenske brothers as well, know exactly where L. Ron Hubbard is, and are able to communicate with him. That is borne out by later events.)

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/rmiller/bfm21.htm 1 June 1980 Gerald Armstrong becomes "involved in the selection of a writer for the Hubbard biography." Armstrong learns that L. Ron Hubbard has "approved of a biography proposal prepared by Omar Garrison, a writer who was not a member of Scientology." (Here is another example where one can almost smell the attorneys' cologne, but there is no mention of any attorney. Consider: L.

Ron Hubbard's whereabouts are generally unknown. This transaction is supposedly concerning a writer for a biography of Hubbard's life. Surely there would be required royalty considerations for Hubbard himself if he were approving a biography to be written about him, with his own name trademark being the thing that would generate the sales of the biography.

Hubbard could not be conducting any such royalty negotiations himself, because he has supposedly disappeared. Through whom did Omar Garrison supposedly submit this "biography proposal"? What consideration was in the proposal for Hubbard and his Estate? Who else submitted a proposal, and where? There are so many unanswered questions raised by these carfully selective statements by Gerald Armstrong, and they all seem to point to attorneys representing Hubbard's business and copyright interests. Yet there is no mention whatsoever of any attorneys being involved. This is just an incredible omission. This is why I include it here because there is no possible way Garrison's participation in a biography could have even been contemplated without attorney-crafted royalty and copyright agreements and contracts. Armstrong even says that there was a contract with Garrison regarding at least the access to Hubbard archive materials, but Armstrong does not and apparently will not say who drew up that contract. It is all very odd, but one simply must insert Norton Karno and/or the Lenske brothers into this picture until and unless it is proven that it was some other attorney or attorneys who handled the Garrison contracts.)

http://www.planetkc.com/sloth/sci/armstrong.html 15 September 1980 Gerald Armstrong is sent (by whom he does not say) to East Grinstead, England, to meet Omar Garrison. (See my notes for the above record. Also, every other known transaction later involving L. Ron Hubbard after his disappearance, e.g. the Rocky Mt. News Interview, the letters for the courts, and the Declaration in 1983, were conducted through his attorneys, Sherman and Stephen Lenske. How or why would this be any exception?

Armstrong has already said he was "dealing with Hubbard's lawyers in LA."

Surely, then, Armstrong was working in conjuntion with attorneys at the Karno firm. How could it possibly be otherwise, with Norton S. Karno named as Executor of Hubbard's Estate, and these matters related to the alleged biography being so directly related to the Hubbard Archives, which was the bulk of the Estate, and to L. Ron Hubbard's name trademarks, and to L. Ron Hubbard's own literary works and business affairs? Again we are confronted with an account that carefully sanitizes any mention of attorneys who most certainly had to be very closely involved. One really begins to wonder why the attorneys are so meticulously censored from Armstrong's accounts of the incidents. The only way such a glaring omission could be attributed to attorney/client privelege is if Armstrong were one of their clients.

Failing that, I cannot come up with any logical explanation for Armstrong so adroitly omitting all mention of Karno and/or the Lenske brothers, both of whom were working in the Karno firm at the time, both of them representing "various business interests of Mr. Hubbard.")

25 September 1980 Informed Visuals, Inc. is incorporated by Sherman Lenske (of the firm Karno & Schwartz).

28 and 29 September 1980 Two meetings, which are recorded, are held by people involved in MCCS. The recordings of these meetings later become known in court proceedings as the "Zolin tapes." One of the people on the recordings, in the few bits of transcription available, is simply called "Speaker Unidentified." It is this unidentified speaker who says of the conversations, "It's all privileged." (This is another indication of an attorney's presence, but where the identity of that attorney has been protected. Whoever transcribed the tape certainly knew the identities of everyone else present. How could they not know the identity of this attorney whose identity is hidden by the appelation "Speaker Unidentified"? This appears to be a willful cover-up and protection of the attorney involved, who was almost certainly someone connected with the Karno firm. The only people I know of who had these tapes and could have transcribed them before they came into possession of the courts are Gerald Armstrong and Omar Garrison. Gerald Armstrong certainly had to know the identities of every attorney and personnel involved with MCCS, because he was the Mission 2nd.)

1 November 1980 It is around this date that the firm Lenske, Lenske, Heller & Magasin is formed. (The date has been computed from Sherman Lenske's November 1995 Declaration, in which he says he has been a principal of the firm for "the past fifteen years.")

10 November 1980 The trial in "CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA, Petitioner v.

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent," Docket No. 3352-78, United States Tax Court begins. (I put this here because of the coming involvement with the Lenskes of former Assistant to Commissioner of IRS Meade Emory, and, later, of two agents of the United States Treasury Department, all of which occur while this case is pending in the United States Tax Court.)

http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~cowen/essays/irslegal/240984.html 21 November 1980 Real Rapid Reproductions is incorporated in Seattle, Washington. Leon Misterek is the Registered Agent, at 2400 Columbia Square. (Leon Misterek is a partner of Meade Emory, who at the time is a partner in LeSourd, Patten, Fleming, Hartung & Emory, also at 2400 Columbia Square. Misterek will be one of the "founders" of CST with the Lenske brothers.)

2 February 1981 Bridge Publications, Inc. is incorporated. Lawrence E. Heller is Registered Agent.

15 April 1981 The firm of Lenske, Lenske, Heller & Magasin is supposedly retained by Norman F. Starkey and Terri Gamboa. The principals include Sherman Lenske, Stephen Lenske, and Lawrence Heller. There are a variety of reasons given for their being hired, but all by different people: Norman Starkey says it was to handle L. Ron Hubbard's "business and literary affairs" surrounding particularly the new book "Battlefield Earth." Laurel Sullivan says it was to restructure the corporations to hide L. Ron Hubbard's control of Scientology. Sherman Lenske says he was hired to start handling "every aspect of Estate planning" for L. Ron Hubbard. Regardless, Norton S. Karno is still in the position of Executor of L. Ron Hubbard's Estate by virtue of the prevailing 15 December 1979 Will that was drafted by Sherman Lenske.

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http://www.lermanet.com/cos/taxanalysts/cst.txt http://www.lermanet.com/reference/CST/Lenskeinrtcvslerma.htm 1 July 1981 Mary Sue Hubbard is removed from her position as Controller, supposedly by David Miscavige, but it is done with "a letter prepared by lawyers" saying that her presence as Controller "implicated Hubbard in all church matters including the GO cases (Guardians Office)." (I don't believe it takes too much of a stretch at this point to know who the attorneys are.) Around the same time the Guardian's Office is disbanded by Sea Org missions. Norman F.

Starkey is an important part of those missions.

http://pages.about.com/beers66/classics4/id5.html 13 October 1981 Author Services, Inc. is incorporated by Lenske, Lenske & Heller as a for-profit corporation with the purpose of handling L. Ron Hubbard's "business and literary affairs." The Articles of Incorporation are executed at the Woodland Hills offices of Lenske, Lenske & Heller. Sherman Lenske is the Registered Agent. (ASI's incorporation had to have been done under Sherman Lenske's supervision and control, even though his name does not appear on the Articles, because of what he says in his 12 November 1995 Declaration, linked to below, about how and why all the corporations were set up by him as part of L. Ron Hubbard's "Estate planning.")

http://www.lermanet.com/reference/CST/Lenskeinrtcvslerma.htm 12 November 1981 The Church of Scientology of California completes its rebuttal in "CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA, Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent," Docket No. 3352-78, United States Tax Court, ending the trial phase. (The ruling will not be issued and filed by the Tax Court until 24 September 1984. The events that follow which involve the Lenskes working with former Assistant to Commissioner of IRS Meade Emory, and with two agents of the United States Treasury Department, come while this case is still pending in the Tax Court.)

1 January 1982 Religious Technology Center (RTC) is incorporated by Lenske, Lenske &

Heller.

http://www.lermanet.com/reference/CST/Lenskeinrtcvslerma.htm 10 May 1982 Three documents drawn up or supervised by Sherman Lenske are supposedly signed on the same day by L. Ron Hubbard: an "Advanced Technology Assignment," a "Trademarks Assignment," and a new Will. The new Will names Patrick Broeker as the new Executor, but lists two successor Executors:

Lyman D. Spurlock, Jr. and Norman F. Starkey, in that order of priority.

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28 May 1982 The Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) is founded by Sherman Lenske, former Assistant to Commissioner of IRS Meade Emory, Leon Misterek, and Lyman D. Spurlock, Jr., who has just been named as first successor Executor of the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard in the 10 May 1982 Will.

http://www.fzint.org/rhilton/CST.htm http://www.geocities.com/thearscclibrarian/cstlegalpapers02.html 7 June 1982 The principals of Lenske, Lenske & Heller (Sherman Lenske, Stephen Lenske, and Lawrence E. Heller) are appointed for life as Special Directors of CST in the Bylaws of CST signed this date.

http://www.geocities.com/thearscclibrarian/cstlegalpapers03.html 3 February 1983 Sherman Lenske utilizes two agents of the United States Treasury Department to validate documents supposedly executed by L. Ron Hubbard in order to prove that L. Ron Hubbard is not missing, is alive and well, and that L.

Ron Hubbard's Estate and business affairs are "in good hands." The agents are U.S. Treasury Department document inspector Howard Doulder, and Richard L. Brunelle, a forensic chemist with the U.S. Treasury Department's BATF. (It's staggers the imagination that, after everything now known about the attorneys involved, as outlined above, none of the names of the attorneys are mentioned in any of the "Hubbard" documents, and the person whose name is most prominently featured in the documents, and who is assigned as having most of the responsibility is David Miscavige.)

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I believe that is as far as I care to take this for the moment. I felt it necessary to outline what is known so far, if even just for my own sake. I really don't know how dirty things have to get before people finally sit up and take notice. All of this seems to be about as dirty as it gets.

>What possible motive did Starkey have in 1985 for what appears to have
>been a pretty major fudging of dates by someone who damn well knew
>otherwise? What didn't he want the trial court to know?
>
>ptsc
Very good questions indeed. The same might well be asked about the Stipulation of Evidence, about Gerald Armstrong and Omar Garrison, certainly about the attorneys themselves, and even about the "L. Ron Hubbard" who supposedly wrote letters and affidavits from some hiding spot.

They all seemed unified in a very dedicated campaign to hide and protect the attorneys.

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