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Nichiren Shoshu Shumuin
6 August 1999
-Announcement-
Ikeda-Sokagakkai's "Seattle Incident" Case Collapses
Police, Municipal, and Federal Records Prove Allegations Groundless! "Cop on the Scene" Not An Active-Duty Officer at Time of Alleged Incident
Sokagakkai has repeatedly published media reports claiming that High Priest Nikken Shonin was helped by a local member called Hiroe Clow after being detained by police following an altercation with prostitutes. This is alleged to have occurred on March 20. 1963, while the then Study Department chief was in the United States on the first trip by Nichiren Shoshu priests to conduct gojukai initiation ceremonies overseas. Sokagakkai further had Ronald C. Sprinkle testify that, among other details, he clearly recalled Mrs. Clow's face despite the passage of over 30 years. Sprinkle, who claimed to be a police officer who was present at the scene of the incident, appeared in Tokyo District Court in conjunction with a defamation suit in which Daisaku Ikeda and Sokagakkai are joint
defendants.
Former Seattle Police Offcer Sprinkle's Great Lie
The most recent of Nichiren Shoshu's investigations uncovered numerous pieces of evidence conelusively proving that Sprinkle had been called into militaiy service with the U.S. Air Force and was not an active-dutv member of the Seattle Police Department at the time of the alleged incident. The Seattle police Personnel Department and Pension Board both retain records showing that Sprinkle was on leave from the department between 30 October 1962 and 5 May 1963 for six months of military service. It was also discovered, from Seattle Police Department Property Room records, that Sprinkle had turned in his police badge and service revolver during that period. Docuznents kept by the City of Seattle further substantiate that Sprinkle was not an active-duty officer in March 1963, and an investigation of American militaiy records also uncovered documents showing that Sprinkle had been called into military service and was undergoing basic training at that time. These records singly, collectively, and definitely prove that Ronald Sprinkle could not have been on active duty with the Seattle Police Department in March 1963 because be was serving in the military at the time.
Ikeda-Sokagakkai's Grand Conspiracy Out in Clear Daylight
This evidence proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Sprinkle's court testimony was totally false, the words of a person who was not a the scene of any incident. Clow also testified in court that she recognized Sprinkle immediately when the two met for the first time in 30 years, which indicates clearly that her testimony is likewise false. Her claim to have recognized a person who could not have been at the scene of the incident is just as groundless as the allegation of the incident itself
The Ikeda-Sokagakkai's grand conspiracy has now been exposed for what it is: a pure fabrication for which Hiroe Clow and Ronald Sprinkle were used as pawns in a spine-chilling attempt to entrap and ruin the High Priest.
Nichiren Shoshu submitted the decisive evidence described above to Tokyo District Court today, August 6. In exposing and strongly reproving the ignoble, machiavellian machinations of Daisaku Ikeda and the Sokagakkai, Nichiren Shoshu is committed to showing real-world proof of the power of its faith by winning a victory for truth and justice.
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