A representative for the Church of Scientology said the claims made in the FBI documents “all have been proven to be false and evince the harassment of a new religion in its formative years.”
Further, the rep said the documents are “ancient, fabricated and evidence of extreme bias in the FBI against the Church.”
The rep added: “The FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover, had a practice of general ‘information gathering’ of false and exclusively derogatory information used to compile dossiers to denigrate targeted groups and individuals such as the Church and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.”
The U.S. Air Force compiled a report in 1977, which debunked the FBI’s subversive files on Scientology, according to the rep.
The rep stated that Sara Northrup “publicly retracted all her allegations” made about Hubbard in the context of their divorce
proceedings.