Category: Opposition to the Tanners

  • Anti-Anti-Mormons

    Anti-Anti-Mormons

    The End of Modern Microfilm Company May Only Be the Beginning By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Over twenty years ago we began publishing material relating to the Mormon Church. During this period we brought forth many important documents which were suppressed by the Mormon Church leaders. As early as 1968 Dr. Kenneth Kantzer, who later…

  • Communists in Zion?

    Communists in Zion?

    FBI Documents to be Sought in Court By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the last issue of the Messenger (November 1980) we pointed out that an employee of the Mormon Church by the name of Steven Mayfield was caught spying on us under the alias “Stan Fields.” After some investigation we learned that Mr. Mayfield…

  • Unmasking a Mormon Spy

    Unmasking a Mormon Spy

    Details of the Tanners’ experience with ‘undercover’ individuals and questions about FBI knowledge of their operations.

  • Unmasking Dr. Clandestine

    Unmasking Dr. Clandestine

    LDS Historian Caught Red-Handed By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In our last issue of the Salt Lake City Messenger we made some very serious charges concerning the pamphlet Jerald and Sandra Tanner’s Distorted View of Mormonism: A Response to Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? by an anonymous Mormon historian. We stated that the secret production of this…

  • Ambushing the Tanners

    Ambushing the Tanners

    By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Sales on our book Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? have now mounted to over 27,000 copies, yet the Mormon leaders have still made no official response. The LDS Church Historical Department did become involved in a secret plot to destroy the credibility of our book, but, as we shall show, the plan…

  • The Book that Can Not Exist!

    The Book that Can Not Exist!

    By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Psychiatrists tell us that the inability to face reality leads to many serious emotional problems. Those who are honest with themselves must admit that at sometime during their life they have had difficulty facing reality. Some of Richard Nixon’s greatest problems seem to stem from his inability to face reality.…

  • Embarrassing?

    Embarrassing?

    By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Ralph W. Hansen (the man who refused us photocopies when working as manuscript librarian of the B.Y.U.) has written the following concerning Modern Microfilm Co. in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring 1966, page 154: Microfilm, Xerox and other forms of photo-duplication have made possible inexpensive reproductions of out-of-print…

  • I’m Warning You

    I’m Warning You

    By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Several years ago we were sitting in the office of the Mormon Apostle LeGrand Richards, when he threatened us as follows: I’m warning you! Don’t start anything against this church! Since that time people have asked us such questions as: “Do you have a gun to protect yourself?” or “Do…

  • Threats From Mormon Apostles

    Threats From Mormon Apostles

    By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In our last mailing list we sent a photograph of letters written by the Mormon Apostles Mark E. Petersen and LeGrand Richards. In these letters the Apostles threatened to sue us. Since sending this page out we have received two interesting letters from our readers. One man, who has been…