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SCIENTOLOGY's PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS

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David Jay Lubow

David Jay Lubow, aka David Lebeau, aka David Lee, is a PI that works frequently for
Scientology. He was last known to work for Omega Legal Services of Cedaredge, CO.
Colorado does not require Private Investigators or Agencies to be licensed. LINKS:
"The real story" about David Lee. More pictures of Lee/Lubow.

Barry Gaston

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Barry Gaston, aka Rinzy Trinidad, Florida Private Investigator license #C9800787,
owns Gaston Investigations, 708 Delmar Street, Lake Wales, FL 33853, phone# 941-678-
1235, Agency license #A9800300. The photograph above right is of Gaston along with
Scientology attorneys Paul Johnson and Helena Kobrin. LINKS: St Petersburg Times
editorial about a court case that involved Gaston setting up a Scientology critic
for a marijuana arrest (this case also involved the following PI, Brian J. Raftery
as well as PI Joseph Fabrizio). Helena Kobrin "Love Page."

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Brian J. Raftery

Brian J. Raftery, aka Brian Shaunessy, Florida Private Investigator license

#C9500982, owns World Wide Investigations & Security, Inc., 213 Turner Street,
Clearwater, FL 33756, Agency license #A9500412, telephone number 727-631-0302. His
business card lists his home telephone number 941-751-1590. He lists his residence
as 6019 Courtside Drive, Bradenton, FL 34210. LINKS: Raftery was fined and placed on
probation by the Florida Division of Licensing for failure to cooperate with an
investigation, click here for documents relating to that incident.

Neil E. Raftery

Neil E. Raftery, Florida Private Investigator license #C9900447, works for his
father Brian J. Raftery, at World Wide Investigations & Security, Inc.

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Joseph C. Fabrizio

Joseph C. Fabrizio, Florida Private Investigator license #C9300294, owns J.F.

Charles & Associates, Inc., Investigative Agency license #A9300211, at 1135 Pine
Ridge Circle West, Bldg. 105, B-2, Tarpon Springs, FL 34689, telephone number 727-
937-0714. Fabrizio also has a concealed weapons permit #G9300772.

Eugene Ingram

Eugene Ingram has worked for Scientology for many years beginning back in the days
of L. Ron Hubbard, and has been known to still do various jobs for them more
recently. More recently, he was wanted in Hillsborough County, FL on a warrant for
failure to appear, in a case involving his impersonating a Police Officer, but this
case was dropped after Ingram laid low and stayed out of Florida until the statutes
ran out. LINKS: More info about Ingram. A page about Ingram's efforts in the UK to
prevent a TV show from airing

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George Pilat

It is not clear whether George Pilat, Florida private investigator license

#C8600135, currently works for Scientology. However, he was part of their infamous
Operation Snow White, which landed several Scientologists in prison, including Mary
Sue Hubbard. Pilat currently operates a Clearwater, FL based ISP called Intnet, and
owns his own private investigative agency- Intelligence Network, Inc., 1224 Rogers
St., Clearwater, FL 33756, license #A8600044.

Edwin Richardson

Edwin Richardson is a Los Angeles, CA Private Investigator. He is often assigned to

tail picketers of Scientology in Hemet, CA. More recently he harassed longtime
Scientology critic Ida Camburn on her doorstep, bringing a Sheriff Deputy and a
bizarre insinuation that she was planning to make a "cake bomb". LINKS: Keep off
Mom's front porch! Commentary by Arnie Lerma

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Lee C. Pitcher

Lee C. Pitcher, Arizona PI license #9303004, is known to have worked for Scientology
in 2001 investigating Carnegie Mellon professor Dave Touretzky. She was evidently
hired to look into his financial information. Her agency is American Bureau of
Investigations, Inc., P.O. Box 15740, Phoenix, AZ 85060, phone numbers 602-257-1977
and 602-919-6234. Her email addresses are abii@goodnet.com and abii@mindspring.com

Unidentified

This unidentified Scientology PI followed Scientology critic Keith Henson in the

area of Hemet, CA in October of 2000.

Lindsay C. Colton
Left photo copyright Tilman Hausherr, used with permission

Lindsay C. Colton, Florida Private Investigator license #C9300061, owns Colton &
Associates, Inc., Florida Investigative Agency license #A9100317, which is located
at 2194 State Road 580, Suite F, Dunedin, FL 34698, Telephone # 727-789-0485. LINKS:
Colton & Associates Website

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Gregg D. Colton

Colton & Associates, Inc. is also owned by Gregg D. Colton, Florida Private
Investigator license #C8500907. LINKS: Colton & Associates website bio page about
Gregg and Lindsay Colton

Steven M. Bellavigna
Left photo copyright Tilman Hausherr, used with permission

Steven M. Bellavigna, Florida Private Investigator license #C9600501, works for

Florida Claims Bureau, Inc., Bradenton, FL. See the next investigator, Ernest F.
Robinson, for more information about this agency.

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Ernest F. Robinson

Ernest F. Robinson owns Florida Claims Bureau, Inc., agency license #A8500218, which
is located at 6015 Resource Lane, Bradenton, FL. His agency has been known to
provide investigators to Scientology on a regular basis. LINKS: Florida Claims
Bureau, Inc. Website

Unidentified

This PI may work for Colton & Associates or Florida Claims Bureau. He worked for
Scientology duing 2000.

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Daniel Otero

Daniel Otero, Florida Private Investigator license # C0002825, owns Adlo Detective
Agency, Florida Investigative Agency license # A9100081, 17510 Gunlock Rd., Lutz,
FL 33684, Phone 813-920-4332. He has harassed numerous critics of Scientology,
including the producers of a movie being filmed in the Tampa area. LINKS: "The
Profit" website, a film Scientology insists has nothing to do with them, yet they
ceaselessly harassed the filmmakers with PI Otero and others. A Realvideo clip of
Otero and Scientologist Richard Hirst talking, each obviously familiar with the
other. (hibandwidth only).

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Christopher E. Nelson

Christopher E. Nelson, Florida Private Investigator license #C2000116, works for

Advance Metro Security, also known as U.S. Security Associates, Inc., Florida
Investigative Agency license #A9400076, 1414 N. Howard Avenue, Tampa, FL 33607. The
parent company of this investigative agency is U.S. Security Associates, Inc., 200
Mansell Ct. E., Suite 500, Roswell, GA 30076. LINKS: U.S. Security Associates, Inc.
Website.

Unidentified

These two PIs worked for Scientology in Tampa during 2000. The PI in the left
photo, in the blue shirt, may be Christopher Nelson.

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John Gonzalez

In these photos, the man with the gray hair, purple shirt, glasses and beard is John
Gonzalez, Florida Private Investigator license #C9800979. He works for Andrew
Michael Investigations, Florida Investigative Agency license #A9100259, 3661 Macada
Lane, Tampa, FL 33618-2048, Telephone # 813-948-3900. This agency is owned by Steve
Andrew Richardson, Florida Private Investigator license #C9100579, 18506 Turtle
Drive, Lutz, FL 33549, and Thomas E. Jones, 6523 Fletch Road, Land O'Lakes, FL
34634. The PI in the white/Hawaiian print shirt may be Steve Andrew Richardson or a
supervisor at that agency.

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Bo Strandman

Bo Strandman is a PI in Sweden who runs Detecta Info Consult, a PI agency in

Stockholm. He has worked to harass reporters and others in Sweden on behalf of
Scientology. Strandman may still be active working for Scientology.

Leif Nordstrom

Leif Nordstrom is a PI in Sweden who has worked for Scientology, and has made death
threats to a Scientology critic there.

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Unidentified

This PI worked for Scientology, following various critics in the Tampa, Florida area
for several months in 2000.

William Thierry Duchaunac

William Thierry Duchaunac is employed by Talon Executive Services of 1981

Brookhurst, Suite D-429, Huntington Beach, CA 92646, phone# 714-434-7476. He was

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hired by Scientology to tail Franz Tartarotti, a German television producer who was
in the United States to film a critical program about Scientology. Duchaunac may
not be a licensed private investigator. LINKS: Talon Executive Services Website. A
report on the events which led to some of these photographs.

John Terbush

John Terbush has worked with William Thierry Duchaunac in the Washington, DC area.
He is on the Scientology staff and may not be licensed as a private investigator.

Unidentified
photos courtesy of Stephen Marinick

These two PIs are pictured in a car with no license plate in the parking lot of the
Mesa Justice Court near the Scientology property at Dobson and University in Mesa,
Arizona. It has been reported that they were employed by Sub Rosa Investigations,
531 E. Chapman Ave., Orange, CA 92666-1602, 714-538-4924, with a Los Angeles number
213-581-2767 and Grass Valley number 916-477-8044. LINKS: Sub Rosa Investigations
Website.

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Angel Adrian Casillas Jr.

Angel Adrian Casillas Jr. has worked with William Thierry Duchaunac, at Talon
Executive Services of 1981 Brookhurst, Suite D-429, Huntington Beach, CA 92646,
phone# 714-434-7476. As described above, these private investigators were hired by
the Church of Scientology to tail Franz Tartarotti, a German television producer who
was in the United States to film a critical program about Scientology.

Unidentified

This PI was caught in August 2001, working for Scientology and tailing an attorney
from Clearwater to St. Petersburg, FL.

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Janet L. Holsclaw

Also employed by Talon Executive Services was Janet L. Holsclaw. She was at one
time the Director of Marketing for Talon, but was removed from their website once
her identity as a PI working to harass a critic on behalf of Scientology was exposed
in 1998.

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Jeff Martin

Jeff Martin was also employed by Talon Executive Services in 1998. He evidently
obtained information about a Scientology critic's rental car records that normally
are not revealed by the rental agency.

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Roger Middleton

Roger Middleton also possibly known as Roger Milton, is a Private Investigator in

Melbourne, Australia. He is a retired police officer in his fifties.

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John J. Gaw

John J. Gaw is a Riverside, CA private investigator who has handled a number of

cases on behalf of Scientology, said in a deposition that he used as many as "seven
or eight" investigators to conduct surveillance of Attorney Joseph Yanny between
June, 1988 and March, 1989.

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Al Bei

Al Bei is a former Los Angeles, CA police officer who has worked as a private
investigator on cases for Scientology.

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Woody Bastemeyer

Woody Bastemeyer is owner of Western Investigating, 4423 N. Greenvale Circle,

Stillwater, OK. He has performed assorted investigations for Scientology front
group Narconon in Oklahoma.

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Margaret F. Dellerson

Margaret F. Dellerson was a Miami, Florida private investigator working for

Scientology as late as 1995, but her license #8900676 is now cancelled or expired.

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Robert Shovlin

Robert Shovlin is a California private investigator that has worked for Scientology.

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Michael L. Shomers

Michael L. Shomers is a Maryland Private Investigator who worked for Scientology for
at least 18 months in the early 90's, posing as a reporter to gather information on
critics of Scientology. He also infiltrated IRS meetings prior to the controversial
tax exempt status being granted by the IRS to Scientology. LINKS: Shomers is
mentioned in this article about the IRS deal with Scientology.

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Thomas J. Krywucki

Thomas J. Krywucki is a private investigator who worked for Michael L. Shomers out
of Shomer's Maryland office.

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Mike Middleton

Mike Middleton is a Canturbury, New Hampshire private investigator working for

Scientology. He was present during harassment of a prominent church critic at his
home in 1998.

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Peter Comras

Peter Comras is a private investigator who stated to Steven Fishman in 1992 that he
was an agent of the Israeli government investigating Scientology. It turned out that
Mr. Comras was a private investigator hired by the Office of Special Affairs of the
Church of Scientology to investigate Fishman.

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Jarl Grieve Einar Cynewulf

Cynewulf is a Scientology PI in Bristol, England. He shot at a newspaper reporter

and photographer in 1987 and threatened to kill them. He later claimed that he no
longer works for Scientology. LINKS: An account of the shooting incident.

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Virginia Snyder

Virginia Snyder was the Delray Beach, Florida Private Investigator who hired
Cynewulf on behalf of Scientology in 1987. Her Florida PI license expired in 1999
and has not been renewed.

Other links:

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A website with photos of Scientology thugs, PIs, process servers and members of
Scientology's OSA (Office of Special Affairs) as they hassle critics or run away
after being caught. Thug Bosses featured too!

Tilman Hausherr's Scientology PI website, for more photos of cultist PI's and
security staff!

An index of pages with information about Scientology and Private Investigators

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