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Martin Ottmann
Internal Revenue Service
November 20th, 2002
Re: Federal Citizen Complaint against Church of Scientology and Robert
Minton;
Dear Ms. Geer,
as you might remember, on February 25th, 2002 I have filed with the U
.S. Attorneys Offices in Los Angeles, California and Tampa, Florida a
citizen complaint against various entities and officials of the Church
of Scientology, alleging several violations of U. S. Title 18. Both
offices notified me to have forwarded this information to the
IRS CI Division in
Los Angeles and to your office.
On July 22nd, I expanded the complaint by including other Scientology
entities and the individual Robert S. Minton for his laundering of
money into the United States. Since then I have not heard from you
again.
Last week, on November 13th, I was notified that an anonymous
individual has posted my name and your name on the Internet in
connection with my complaint against Robert Minton. I called your
office during the afternoon on the same day and informed a colleague
of yours about the public disclosure of your name. Your colleague
stated that you would call me back. I have not received any message
from you or from your office since then.
On November 16th, the anonymous person again posted a message on the
Internet, at this time citing excerpts from my complaint from February
25th and indicating that, because of my investigative actions
concerning Scientology, the legal safety of a befriended family of
mine, which is living in Ohio, might be endangered. Since then two
more Internet messages with similar contents appeared, posted on
November 17th and 19th. I regard these postings as attempts by the
anonymous poster(s) to silence and intimidate me.
I hope that I do not have to stress the fact that since I had filed
the complaints in February and July of this year, I did not divulge
the information contained in them to neither the Church of
Scientology, to Robert Minton nor any other person, whom I do not
consider absolutely trustworthy. Nor has anyone received copies of the
complaints besides the mentioned government agencies.
I do not have any knowledge about whether and how you have acted upon
my complaint since you have written me on May 6th, stating that my
complaint was being reviewed by your Lead Development Center. But the
fact that your name was cited in these postings on the Internet make
it appear to me that someone from your office voluntarily or
involuntarily disclosed information to the concerned parties.
With this letter I am asking your for an explanation as to how it may
have been or was in fact possible that
my confidential information about certain alleged criminal activities,
which I trustfully had forwarded to the U. S. government, is now being
used to intimidate me and to threaten the well-being of a family,
non-related to this whole matter. Such scenarios I only know from
friends' stories who have lived in countries like Brazil or Mexico,
where the level of corruption in the public sector is rampant.
I considered the contents of my complaint as substantial evidence for
the illegal activities of the Church of Scientology, although I was
not sure whether you or any other U. S. agency would actually act
upon. Nevertheless I did not expect that one day this complaint would
be used by a third party against me. I can assure you that I do not
consider this matter lightly, knowing what the Church of Scientology
has done to others who had opposed this organization.
Sincerely
Martin Ottmann
Enclosures: Anonymous Internet Postings from November 13th, 16th, 11th
& 19th.
cc: - M.I.L.S., Paris, France;
31 Dec 2002
54, rue Pierre Brossolette
92300 Levallois- Perret
France
Criminal Investigations
Tampa Field Office
Sheila W. Geer
9450 Koger Blvd., Suite 101
Saint Petersburg, Florida
U.S.A.
- Ministere de la Justice, Brussels, Belgium;
- Kultusministerium Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany;
- American Embassy, Legal Attache, Paris, France;
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, Field Office Tampa, Tampa, Florida, USA;
- Internal Revenue Service, CID Field Office, Los Angeles, California, USA;
- Clearwater Police Department, Clearwater, Florida, USA;
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