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l of our books and records since it would clearly show that no
2 improprieties were engaged in. However, knowing very little of
3 the facts, I nevertheless felt that I should (a) insure that the
4 constitutional rights of the Church and its members were not
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that their confidence in its leaders and those leaders' integrity
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were fully justified. Therefore, I appointed Mr.
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Wayne Cole,
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officer under me in my absence until this matter was resolved; I
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implemented this appointment by press r�lease dated January 3,
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1979, a true copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A and
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incorporated herein by reference.
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5. On the morning of January 4, 1979, in conversation
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between myself and Mr. Rader, I learned that Mr. Cole had not
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fully presented all of the facts to me. I learned, for example,
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State Attorney General's Office, a court-appointed receiver was
18 in fact attempting to come in and administer all functions, both
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spiritual and temporal, of the Church. Indeed, I learned that the
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receiver had tacitly denied, in a called meeting of department
heads, that I had authority to even appoint Mr. Cole as acting
chief executive officer under me and further that the receiver
himself had appointed Mr. Cole to replace me as spiritual and
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temporal leader of the Church. Mr. Cole's acquiescence
ation in this attempt, and his purporting to act as the
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s iritual and tern oral leader, was rank insubordination and totall
inimical to every tenet for which the Church has stood from its
inception.