(why not post, there is nothing new here for OSA) H. Keith Henson
Box 60012 (302 College Ave.)
Palo Alto, CA 94306
650-325-7533
650-776-5702
hkhenson@pacbell.net April 13, 2001 ATTN: Enforcement
INS Los Angeles District Office
300 N. Los Angeles Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Dear Sirs: I happen to be aware of the longest running, unsolved computer crimes ever. From November 1998 to October 1999 1.1 million articles (4 Gbytes) were forged--ten thousand or so in my name--and injected into the news group alt.religion.scientology as a distributed denial of service attack. Additional traffic was injected into a number of other news groups in order to mask the origin of the attack. At an estimated five cents a post to carry and store Usenet traffic, 1.1 million postings gets into the FBI’s financial interest range. (They got on much smaller crimes of abusing phone calls to 800 numbers.) The problem was that even though everyone knew who was behind the forged postings the team covered their tracks well enough so that the FBI could not find them or prove it was a Scientology operation. Just recently a participant witness to this forgery scheme (who has been out of Scientology for several months) came forward. Tory Bezazian was part of the team, part of the subgroup which used mail fraud and wire fraud to obtain the Internet Service Accounts which were used to launch the attack. Ms Bezazian wrote (in several sections) a detailed account of her part of the attack and her growing understanding of what OSA (Office of Special Affairs) was doing. You can read it at http://www.lermanet.com/cos/toryonosa.htm. Unless you want me to make you a printout, I will spare mailing you the 28 page account. With Tory's report, and the general anti-scientology feelings in Washington these days, we may see rapid law enforcement action on this crime. The part which bring the INS into the picture is that the head of the operation was Gavino Idda, an Italian citizen. I don’t know if he was in the US at that time legally, but since he was the leader of the largest criminal operation against the Internet to date, I am fairly sure the INS would have an interest in this guy (if he is still in the country). The enclosed copy of a commendation letter to Ms Bezazian is signed by Mr. Idda. It gives his post in Scientology’s hierarchy and corroborates Ms. Bezazian’s story. I/C OSA Int is In Charge--Office of Special Affairs, International. OSA is also known as Department 20 and at the time of the last FBI raid was known as the Guardian’s Office or GO. If I can be of service in helping you investigate this mater, please let me know.
Sincerely,

H. Keith Henson
Enc.