Teletype: FBI Los Angeles to FBI Director re: SITOL (August 15, 1978)

FOR INFORMATION OF BUREAU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, INDICTMENT WAS RETURNED TODAY IN UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT (USDC), WASHINGTON, D. C. (WDC), CHARGING MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY (COS) WITH 28 COUNTS OF VIOLATIONS TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE, SECTIONS 2, 371, 641, 1503, 1623, 2511(1)(A) (CONSPIRACY, THEFT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, AIDING AND ABETTING, OBSTRUCTION OFJUSTICE, FALSE DECLARATIONS BEFORE A GRAND JURY, INTERCEPTION OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS), TITLE 22, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CODE, SECTIONS 105, 1801(B) (BURGLARY, AIDING AND ABETTING). MEMBERS OF THE COS NAMED IN THIS INDICTMENT ARE MARY SUE HUBBARD, JANE KEMBER, MORRIS BUDLONG, HENNING HELDT, DUKE SNIDER, GREGORY WILLARDSON, RICHARD WEIGAND, MITCHELL HERMANN, CINDY RAYMOND, GERALD BENNETT WOLFE AND SHARON THOMAS.

THE ABOVE INDIVIDUALS ARE EXPECTED TO APPEAR IN WDC FOR INITIAL APPEARANCE ON AUGUST 17 OR 18, 1978.