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Part One: The Last Days of L. Ron Hubbard

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

Why the DOJ Replaced the IRS?

The IRS was Elrond Hubbard's greatest nemesis outside of the concept of psychiatry. At one point, an office operative managed to bug an IRS conference room by wiring a recorder into a wall socket that allowed him to listen in on agency meetings via his car's FM radio. Two Scientologists used their faked IRS credentials to get inside government archives and photocopy documents related to the church.

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