Operation Snow White

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Operation Snow White was a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Carried out by the Church's Guardian's Office, the project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, by Church members in more than 30 countries. It was one of the largest infiltrations of the United States government in history, with up to 5,000 covert agents. The operation began in 1973 with a Guardian's Office order calling for the removal of "erroneous" Scientology files, and it grew into a campaign of infiltration, wiretapping, and theft of documents in government offices, most notably those of the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Justice. It began to unravel in 1976, when the FBI caught two operatives inside a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. On July 8,...

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