Ursula Caberta, who heads a government office in Hamburg that works to curb Scientology in Germany, said Tuesday at a downtown news conference that Scientology is viewed in her country as ''a new kind of political extremism.'' She also alleged that church officials have exaggerated hardships of Scientologists caused by her office and used fraud in an orchestrated effort to persuade U.S. lawmakers to impose sanctions against Germany.

On Sunday, when Caberta arrived at Tampa International Airport, about a dozen Scientologists greeted her with shouts of ''Nazi, go home!'' and other insults.

CLEARWATER, Fla., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lisa McPherson Trust will host a reception and press conference for Ursula Caberta, head of the Task Force on Scientology of the Hamburg, Germany, government, at 10 a.m. on July 25 at the LMT offices located at 33 N. Ft. Harrison Ave. in Clearwater.

Mrs. Caberta will discuss recent revelations that German Scientologist, Antje Victore, submitted fraudulent documents to a Tampa, Florida, judge to obtain political asylum in the United States. Scientologists have hailed Victore -- who now lives and works in Clearwater -- as a martyr of religious persecution, but evidence recently published in the German magazine, Stern, suggests she left Germany to escape tax problems.

Mrs. Caberta, who knows Victore personally, will discuss the findings of the Stern article written by Christine Kruttschnitt.

In addition, she will highlight the activities of her task force and the harassment to which she has been subjected at the hands of the Scientology organization in Germany.

``Each day, every morning, Scientologists are picketing from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. at my office. They tell my boss he has to fire me,'' she said. ``Fire her! Fire her!''

The Scientologists, she said, have also distributed flyers throughout Hamburg attacking her character.

Mrs. Caberta will discuss the case of a former German Scientologist who has brought suit against Scientology in Clearwater, Berlin and Copenhagen for lost wages and imprisonment. The suit claims he was held prisoner for two weeks in a six-foot square, windowless room in Clearwater and was subjected to ``psychological torture.''

Additionally, Mrs. Caberta will detail her extensive investigation of commercial fraud by Scientology-run companies in Germany under the direction of Scientology's secular business arm known as the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises, or WISE.

Mrs. Caberta served as an expert on the Enquete Commission of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, which conducted an investigation of cults, including Scientology, from 1996 to 1998. Prior to heading up the task force, she served as the foreign and legal affairs representative in the Hamburg Parliament.

A live audio stream will be available on the LMT website, http://www.lisatrust.net, during the conference, and an archive of the event will be available at the website after the conference. Press and/or government officials may contact Karin D. Case of the Lisa McPherson Trust at 727-467-9335 for an invitation to the conference.