Earth Harmony

Church.   Also on September 25, 1987, a check in the amount of

$17,773.80 was issued by Kentucky Wood to Mrs. Dubose in payment

of her remaining partnership interest in Kywood.   This check was

also deposited into the Earth Harmony Church account.

     On April 22, 1988, petitioners opened a checking account in

the name of the Church of the Golden Rule.   In 1988 and 1989,

petitioners transferred $275,000 from the bank account of the

Church of the New Age to the bank account of the Church of the

Golden Rule.   Petitioners had signature authority on the Church

of the Golden Rule account and used the funds in that account to

make personal investments and to pay personal expenses.

     Petitioner’s purpose injust above—written in needlessly wordy bureaucratese, apparently by none other than J. Edgar Hoover—commends Picon in more detail:

The Department wishes to commend Mr. Leon Picon for the superb job he did in describing a procedure for developing a program for Mr. Faulkner in other countries.

In his book Cold War Modernists, Barnhisel, a professor at Duquesne University, notes that Faulkner continued to represent the U.S. abroad, in trips to Greece and Venezuela, and though his drinking remained a challenge for his government handlers, the trips were deemed unqualified successes.

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