SURVEILLANCE BEGINS
JUNE 6, 1997
Germany Puts Scientology Under Surveillance
Germany announces that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (OPC) will place Scientology under nationwide surveillance by federal and state authorities to determine whether it should be classified as unconstitutional. As Peter Schulte later wrote of the record: “According to their findings, there was not even initial suspicion warranting a criminal investigation, and no unconstitutional activities.”
- DATE
- June 6, 1997
- SOURCE
- Office for the Protection of the Constitution (OPC), Germany
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