Mr. Richard T. Bretzing This is Me

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1. 1. www.salamandersociety.com

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   Published on: 4/8/2006   Last Visited: 3/10/2008

   The Positive Side of Richard Bretzing
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   (Editor's note: Richard T Bretzing, was to step down as head of LDS Church security in July/August 2003 to serve as a full time mission president.) Matt Perez was one of the plaintiffs in the suit against the FBI for discrimination.
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   Bretzing is a good man, worked hard for his family, long hard hours, and was a very good FBI agent.
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   Isn't it perculiar that only Hispanic agents of the FBI were held back because they weren't Members of the Mormon Church.....they couldn't bring up a discriminatory case against Bretzing because of race, since his only brother-in-law is Hispanic!
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   Richard T. Bretzing, the director of Church Security is X-FBI director of the Los Angeles FBI Field Office.
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   Following are some links and info about Bretzing.
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   Just after the case was filed, Richard T. Bretzing, 49, head of the Los Angeles division of the FBI since 1982, retired to become the Managing Director of the LDS Church's security department, according to the LDS Church News. Bretzing retired after 27 years' service
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   Richard T. Bretzing, the director of Church Security was recently the Special Agent In Charge of the Los Angeles, California FBI Field Office. Considering LA is the second largest FBI office in the US that's VERY high up the totem pole.
   
   Was Bretzing was involved in that famous spy case involving a Mormon fellow named Richard W. Miller. (Seems like it was in the San Diego area with Miller's LDS Bishop or some kind of Mormon cover up of the deal?
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   Bretzing was SAC in LA when the case broke.

2. 2. Free Zone America : Out In The Street : Banking - Mormons - FBI - Scientology Raid

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   Published on: 6/7/2003   Last Visited: 2/13/2004

   Richard T. Bretzing, a Mormon, is the head of the LA division of the FBI:
   
   http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-j
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   "Richard T. Bretzing, 49, head of the Los Angeles division of the FBI since 1982,..."
   
   For comparison as to what is occurring in the Church at the time of Richard Bretzing being the head of the LA division of the FBI, see:
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   Gunderson sends a letter to the FBI, answered in January 1984 by Richard T. Bretzing.
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   Richard Bretzing to Gunderson regarding the Church of Scientology, essentially refusing any information dealing with the Church of Scientology - despite the fact that the Church is supposedly still "at war" with the government over various things.
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   Bretzing retires and becomes the Managing Director of the LDS Church's security departmentafter a class action suit was won against the FBI referencing discrimination/"mormon mafia".
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   Just after the case was filed, Richard T. Bretzing, 49, head of the Los Angeles division of the FBI since 1982, retired to become the Managing Director of the LDS Church's security department, according to the LDS Church News. Bretzing retired after 27 years' service (three years short of the 30-year government retirement plan).
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   "Elder Ballard said Richard T. Bretzing, managing director of Church security, also met with the missionaries in La Paz and gave them "guidelines for taking precautionary measures." Bretzing is a retired FBI agent.
   
   A news conference was held in La Paz, Elder Ballard said, "to dispel the myth that the missionaries have something to do with government agencies."
   
   He added: "There has been a misconception, and I don't know where it came from, that in South America the missionaries have been perceived as being connected with U.S. government agencies.
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   On July1, 1988, Mr. Bretzing retired from the FBI after twenty-seven and one-half years of service and became themanaging director of the Security Department of TheChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he iscurrently serving. Mr. Bretzing has been active in the Boy Scout movementand served as a member of the board of directors of theLos Angeles Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was an honorary member of Los Angeles Rotary Club#5 and served on the board of directors of the CaliforniaPeace Officers Association, and at the time of hisretirement was the 4th Vice President of the PeaceOfficers Association of Los Angeles County. He is agraduate of both the National Executive Institute and theSenior Executive Institute. Mr. Bretzing was honored in 1987 by the entertainmentindustry in Los Angeles as the "Patriot of the Year." He is presently serving as a member of the OverseasSecurity Advisory Council (OSAC), to the U.S. Secretaryof State."

3. 3. jmdl.com

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   Published on: 10/28/1987   Last Visited: 6/6/2008

   The concert had also prompted an angry letter to the arena last week from Richard Bretzing, FBI agent in charge in Los Angeles, who wrote: "Los Angeles FBI personnel attended the funerals of Ron Williams and Jack Coler ... and saw the grief and despair on the faces of their families and friends.