Lavina Fielding Anderson, The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership - A Contemporary Chronology (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 1993 ).
Wiki: Strengthening Church Members Committee.
Other reports:
Mormon Church keeps files on its dissenters.
Secret Files (New York Times).
The Mormon Church has confirmed what its critics have been charging: that it keeps files on members who criticize church policies and passes the information along to the critics' local church leaders.
At a recent symposium in Salt Lake City, Lavina Fielding Anderson, the editor of The Journal of Mormon History, which is not sponsored by the church, spoke of "an internal espionage system" in detailing what she said was church intimidation of Mormon intellectuals and feminists. Her assertions were echoed by other participants in the meeting, sponsored by the Sunstone Foundation, an independent Mormon group.
This month Don LeFevre, the church's spokesman in Salt Lake City, acknowledged that a committee of high-ranking Mormon officials "provides local church leadership with information designed to help them counsel with members who, however well-meaning, may hinder the progress of the church through public criticism."
F. Ross Petersen, a Mormon historian, told The Salt Lake Tribune that two years ago local church officials had questioned him about public comments he had made on changes in Mormon ceremonies. At the interview, he said, the officials relied on a file of photocopied material and asked him about things he had written decades earlier, but they refused to let him examine the file.
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