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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 05/30/1996
To:
LOS ANGELES
Attn:
SAC
From:
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Squad C-1
Contact:
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Case ID :
9A-LA-NEW (Pending)
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C URCH OF SCIENTOLOGY VICTIM; ·HREATENING COMMUNICATIONS
Synopsis:
Opening of new 9A matter.
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Details:
For information, captioned matter was predicated on a telephone call on 5/17/96, from security Director, Church of Scientology, (213) 960-3500.
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advised writer that a message had been received on this date by the church via the Internet which told of a plan to bomb the Scientology Building in Los Angeles, commit terrorist acts against high profile members of the church (Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, John Travolta), and attack the premiere o·f CRUISE's new movie, "Mission Impossible,......."----. The message was transmitted
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e-mailer which had identified as being one
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requested that the FBI make contact with )in order to obtain that information. On this same date, writer attempted to contact_ ___ with negative results. A detailed message was left on~h=1-·s.__ _ answering machine requesting that he contact the FBI.
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did in fact leave a message on writer's voice mail later this evening, basically stating that he had no way of determining
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sender's identity for the message that had been sent to the Church of Scientology.
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also indicated thatlL---Z·m~:z;~~l-attempted to contact him as well.
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To: LOS ANGELES From: sAI._ _________ -Re: 9A-LA-NEW, May 30, 1996 On 5/22/96, writer again recontacted~I_,,....,,...---,,-----,,-----' At this time, they provided the names of two individuals whom they
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message. They identified pl~cing more emphasis on....,__....,... ____.Both._ __________ have an ongoing history of liti ation a ainst the church. furnished their addresses as for and_ __ _ ._.,,....-,-___,, __ ....,... _____________ for also advised at this time that the church had received a telephonic bomb threat at 8 A.M. on 5/20/96, which was relayed to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The·call was received at the Celebrity Church International Security Office, 5930 Franklin Avenue in Los Angeles. Sweeps conducted by LAPD and church security yielded negative results. In view of the above, it is recommend~d that a new 9A case be opened and assigned to writer .
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FEDER L BURE U OF INVESTIG TION
Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 06/10/1996 To: MIAMI
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Case ID#:
9A-LA-198191
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Title:
UNSUB; CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY -VICTIM; THREATENING COMMUNICATIONS
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LOS ANGELES
synopsis:
Request of Miami to interview ...
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Enclosures:
Enclosed for Miami is a one(l) page copy of the Internet message sent to CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY on 5/17/96, signed "a concerned citizen".
Details:
For information of Miami, captioned case was predicated upon a complaint from Security Director of the CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, Los Angeles, regarding an anonymous threat that had been received, via the Internet, by the church on 5/17/96. The message was sent by way of a "re-mailer" which is designed to mask the identity of the actual sender. The message told of a plan to bomb the SCIENTOLOGY Building in Los Angeles, commit
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ttack the premiere or Mission Impossib e. The message is such t the anonymous sender is simply warning church members and identifies the culprit of the above planned acts as onel~-------~I Contact with the re-mailer,
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Santa Barbara, California, disclosed that he had no way of determining the sender's identity. He pointed out that the whole purpose of
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the re-mailer service was to afford anyone the
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