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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, ?ebruary 22, 1980
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these men's roles and their own words are quite enough to make an eye
opening story. We won't have to editorialize. We'll just let the program
zero in and focus on the record.
Also in the thinking stage are several one-minute TV spots in which the
Church and its struggle with the State of California would be mentioned.
These spots could close with a literature advertisement and be aired in
:-nany different areas ver:':z' easily.
Church Continues Fight for Its Right of Privacy
The Attorney General has �een making a concerted effort for some time to
get p��ers belonging to �he Church which have been in the possession of
t.he Receiver's accounting firm. The firm of Peat, Marwick and Mitchell
took the papers with them when the receivership was terminated and their
work stopped. �any of ��ose papers were taken illegally by the Attorney
General from Mr. Jack Kessler's office in January of last year. The
Church and Mr. Kessler want their respective property returned to them
and certainly not handed over to the Attorney General.
�r. Rader explained the irenic twist which will be very clear in the end
if the Church's privacy is breached by the culling of those documents by
a public agency which has no right to them.
"Frankly," said >Ir. Rader, "I don't really care about the papers. We
have examined the papers ourselves because our people have had access to
the papers [as a result of a court-ordered inventory] because they're
copies of papers that came from us.
There's nothing in the papers that
in any wa.y, shape, or form will l,elp the Attorney General. But he doesn't
know that. He's still toping tc find something.
",vhat it will do if they
a.re
released [and become public record] will be
er.,barrassing t'.:Jr some peep le.
They wil 1 not be embarrassing for me. I
would like nothing more than to give you all a copy of every single piece
of paper that has �y name on it or has my name even directly or indirectly
mentioned.
You co�ld read those papers to your heart's content and then
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v·o1J.ld : ir1d cut '>1ho I arn, what I am,
what I have been, and how
I
related to all �f the people in this organization over a period of some
22, 2 3 years.
It ,vould be nind-boggling for 99 percent of you.
"Eventually, maybe those papers will get out. When they do, those papers
will put �e into a different shape in your minds and you'll see what we've
been talking about for sore time. But, although I have a natural desire
to do that, I know in the p�ocess some people will be hurt and some of
those people are innocent peo9le. People who should not be hurt; people
w�o have been damaged by ethers.
"As I said last ti,ne I :.'as here, t�1ose who have been makinq the most
noises from the oouositicn will be the ones hurt the most.
That's really
what it amounts to. But ::nost of the papers are not even relevant. About
6,000 documents.
I would say 90 percent of those documents are not even
of any consequence, but the Attorney General doesn't know that. The
others reveal inside information concerning relationships of people and
transactions of one kind or another not of a financial nature that involve
other people. But the St�te doesn't know that yet.
The question is,
should they be permitted to know that [if and] when they get the papers?
The people who have the ,n:cers have them illegally anyway.