From: gerdw@cougar.vut.edu.au (David Gerard) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: FACTNet app3.txt [00/11] Date: 29 Aug 1995 15:46:26 +1000 Organization: Prestige Elite(tm) Research Church of the SubGenius Message-ID: <41u9ji$a15@cougar.vut.edu.au> This is my 'cleaned-up' version of the file app3.txt from FACTNet. I've tried to get all the spelling errors and OCR droppings and that incredibly annoying 120-character line length ... if anyone has hard information on me having *over*-corrected, please let me know. In particular, trying to work out what in the CoS evidence sections was an OCR error and what was a genuine CoS typo was a problem. I did correct spellings and the odd bit of grammar in the 'critic' sections. The CoS has not threatened anyone with a copyright lawsuit as yet over any of the stuff here. If they do, and specify what part, please be sure to let EVERYONE know what details on their activities they are certifying as gospel truth. (For all the words of LRH are sacred scripture.) This is being posted in eleven chunks, each just under 32K. I can email you the whole thing if you like -- it's 300K. Or I can compress it (.Z) or gunzip it (.gz). There's a zip utility on my system but it's been disabled by the sysadmin for some reason known only to God and IT ... I advise you strongly to do an actual printout of the information -- it was originally in book form, and makes best sense in printed form. -- Reverend Doctor David Gerard, KoX, SP4.02 Prestige Elite(tm) Research Church of the SubGenius "Servicing the Prestige Elite(tm) since 1985!" OK, clams. You want war? You've got war. -- Please email important followups (crappy and constipated newsfeed). Personal visits from Scientologists will be greeted with extreme hostility and the vigilant attention of VUT Security, but personal physical violence *only* when appropriate, legal and called-for. Rev Dr David Gerard, VUT SRC Footscray NoName. gerdw@cougar.vut.edu.au (preferred); fun@suburbia.apana.org.au July 5, 1998, 7 AM. Saucers. End of the world. Your US$30 is your trip ticket. Subject: Scientology's War on Judges [APP3.TXT from FACTnet] --------------------------------------------------------------------- F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. (Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network, Incorporated) a non-profit computer bulletin board and electronic library 601 16th St. #C-217 Golden, Colorado 80401 USA BBS 303 530-1942 FAX 303 530-2950 Office 303 473-0111 This document is part of an electronic lending library and preservational electronic archive. F.A.C.T.Net does not sell documents, it only lends them according to the terms of your library cardholder agreement with F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. ===================================================================== APPENDIX 3 SCIENTOLOGY'S POLICIES TOWARD ITS ADVERSARIES "In addition to violating and abusing its own members' civil rights, the organization over the years with its "fair game" doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the church whom it perceives as enemies" -- LA Superior court judge Paul Breckenridge in a June 1984 ruling in the Gerry Armstrong case. SCIENTOLOGY'S PUBLIC POSITION Particularly worth remembering while you read this section are the relentlessly repeated words of Scientology's executives, Scientology's public relations people, Scientology's $200-$500 per hour attorneys, Scientology's front groups and Scientology's undercover operatives. After you have finished this particular appendix whenever you hear these words again you will be well qualified to judge their truth, their purpose, and the real or hidden affiliation and loyalties of the person delivering these messages. "A small group of Scientologists ran amok in the 1970's, the church has since cleaned house." "Current leaders admit (old leaders) were out of control." "We are a changed and new organization. The church is trying to mend relations." "The allegations of brainwashing, harassment, and other 'fair game'" tactics that the civil plaintiffs cite today in tort claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress -- and the similar allegations in Behar's article -- are baseless attacks on First Amendment protected religious practices." "The strident propaganda fostered by civil plaintiffs and their counsel are repetitive time and time again on matters of such ancient history as have no relevance to the present time." "... The church is being harassed with fictitious allegations designed to extort money," growls Cooley (one of their lead attorneys), who derides the propaganda of plaintiffs." "Documents recently obtained from the IRS and the FBI seem to vindicate some of the paranoia of the church leaders in the late 70's, apparently showing that the church was improperly targeted by several government agencies for special investigations." "Wollersheim had alleged that the church's fair game harassment tactics and coercive religious practices, such as auditing, exacerbated an existing mental illness." "But what is certain is what is symptomatic of the paranoia displayed ... by most of the 65 lawyers, judges, and litigants interviewed for this article ... opposing (litigants) and counsel see Scientology behind every untoward occurrence in their lives, from near misses on the freeway to hangup phone calls ..." Quote? As you read the following materials also please carefully consider the questions: 1.) Are these the type of activities you meant millions of your tax dollars to protect under the special First Amendment legal protections, privileges and immunities given to legitimate non profit, humanitarian, tax free, and charitable religious organizations? 2.) Are these actions used against Scientology's adversaries being applied as strategic actions (sometimes lawsuits) to inhibit public participation in the remedial purposes of the justice system and government, the very reason behind the new SLAPP laws. Attack, overwhelm, deception, Fair Game and attack the enemy's plans. The five overriding strategies that permeate all of Scientology's other adversarial strategies. Before going over the specific past and ongoing examples of Scientology's true actions and policies toward its adversaries it is necessary to cover a brief overview of the four overriding strategies that appear in greater or lesser degrees in and behind all Scientology actions directed at its enemies. The best way to understand them is to go directly to the source of these action directing and demanding policies. From the writings of L. Ron Hubbard: "The purpose of a lawsuit is to harass and discourage rather than to win ... Don't ever defend. Always attack. Find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace. Originate a black PR campaign to destroy the person's repute and to discredit them so thoroughly they will be ostracized. Be alert to sue for slander at the slightest chance so as to discourage the public presses from mentioning Scientology." "It is my specific intention that by the use of professional PR [black PR] tactics any opposition not only be dulled but permanently eradicated." From a confidential Board Policy Letter of 30 May 1974 Handling Hostile Agents/Dead Agenting. "Threat and mystery are the lot of intelligence." From HCO Policy Letter of 11 May 1971. "The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, will knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly." From "A Manual on the Dissemination of Material" (1955) by L. Ron Hubbard. The U.S. is a country where the loser of a lawsuit does not pay all the costs of the winner. A wealthy party's or corporation's ability to "bury" the average citizen in prohibitive legal costs as a method to delay, defeat and discourage legitimate and socially correctional lawsuits, destroys the delicate balance and important purposes of our justice system. Such legal brutality helps wealthy parties unfairly avoid potential convictions or liability. This is especially harmful in situations involving malicious, oppressive, and outrageous behavior where the individual or organization is wealthy. The costs of this new type of "legal" brutality becomes just another normal or acceptable cost of "doing business as usual." A worst case scenario is formed when the individual or organization is wealthy AND is unfairly and illegitimately abusing the special First Amendment legal protections, privileges, and immunities given to legitimate non profit, humanitarian, tax free, and charitable religious organizations. "NEVER agree to an investigation of Scientology. ONLY agree to investigate the attackers ... This is the correct procedure: (1) Spot who is attacking us. (2) Start investigating them for FELONIES or worse, using our own professionals, not outside agencies. (3) Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. (4) Start feeding lurid, blood, sex, crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press ... Don't ever submit tamely to an investigation of us. Make it rough on the attackers all the way ... You can get 'reasonable about it' and lose ... so BANISH all ideas that any fair hearing is intended and start our attack with their first breath. Never wait. Never talk about us -- only them. Use their blood, sex, crime to get headlines. Don't use us." -- From HCO policy letter of 25 Feb. 1966, "Attacks on Scientology." Scientology has put these and its famous "fair game" policies into action throughout its history to remove any obstacles to its advancement. "An enemy, [they] may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist ... may be tricked, sued, lied to, or destroyed." From the words of L. Ron Hubbard in HCO policy letter of 18 October 1967, known as the "Fair Game Policy." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] RACKET EXPOSED PETER GOODWIN JIM STATHIS POLLY STATHIS PETER KNIGHT MRS. KNIGHT NORA GOODWIN RON FROST MARGARET FROST NINA COLLINGWOOD FREDA GAIMAN FRANK HANLEY MARY ANN TAYLOR GEORGE WATERIDGE are hereby declared Suppressive Persons for pretending to have and distribute forged and altered "Upper Level Materials" which were of a Reccords nature and not for distribution. All Certificates and Awards are canceled. 1. Having stolen or illegally procured these dangerous materials (at the instigation of a Psychiatrist) these persons did plot to misuse them to cause Insanity and Death. 2. False report for money that they would furnish the real materials. 3. They are declared Enemies of mankind, the planet and all life. 4. They are fair game. 5. No amnesty may ever cover them. 6. If they ever come to a Qual Division they are to be run on reverse processes. 7. Any Sea Organization member contacting any of them is to use Auditing Process R2-45. 8. The Criminals Prosecution Bureau is to find any and all crimes in their pasts and have them brought to court and prison. The Public Distributions of False or Forbidden Or Dangerous Data is a Suppressive Act and a High Crime. L. Ron Hubbard, Founder ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The danger of the fair game policy is obvious but the compassionlessness it produces toward its intended victims is highlighted in an HCO policy letter of 25 December 1965. It is in many ways similar to what was said about the Jews in Nazi Germany to promote violence against them. "A suppressive person becomes fair game. By fair game is meant may not be further protected by the codes and disciplines of Scientology ... They cannot be granted the rights and beingness ordinarily accorded rational beings and so place themselves beyond any consideration for their feelings or well being ... The homes, property, places, abodes of persons who have been active in attempting to suppress Scientology are all beyond the protection of Scientology ethics." These policies have been continually used to frame, smear, or attempt to intimidate or blackmail "suppressive persons." Judges who had ruled against Scientology's position are an excellent example. These would include Judge Jones, Oregon, 1981; Judge Graae, U.S.D.C., 1976, Judge Brown, Cal. Sup. Ct., 1976; Judge Krentzman, U.S.D.C., Florida, 1976; Justice K. Skelly Wright, D.C., 1974; Judge Ritchey, D.C.D.C. 1979. (After reading evidence document #8592 below which clearly reveals the core heart and nature of the secret Scientology to get the specific details on Scientology's history of attacks on judges, see the two newspaper articles "Prior Sect Try at Judge Reported" and "Scientology's War Against Judges" at the end of this section.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] Document #8592 consists of several pages of actual Scientology training drills on ways to discredit/smear opponents. On this page, the targets are a government employee, a psychiatrist, a newspaper executive and a Catholic bishop. Drill ____________: Recognizing basic effectiveness of plans. Take into account effectiveness, security, legality, workability, etc. when making your decisions. Chose which basic plan is best. a. General scene: person to restrain/remove, Mr. Jones, employee in local govt. agency attacking the Org. 1. Order hundreds of dollars worth of liquor in Jones's name and have it delivered to his home to cause him trouble and make the liquor store owner dislike him. 2. Call up Jones's boss and accuse Jones of being a homosexual. 3. Send Jones's boss evidence of Jones accepting bribes on his job, with copies to police and local FBI. b. General scene: a psychiatrist who has instigated attacks on the org via police and press. 1. Expose his Nazi background to the press with evidence that he still attends local Nazi meetings. 2. Wake him up every night by calling him on the phone and threatening him. 3. Send an FSM in to be a patient of his for a year to disperse the psych during sessions. c. General scene: a newspaper executive Clyde McDonald who's behind local attacks. 1. poison him while he's asleep so he'll never start another attack. 2. Make known to the paper's owner that McDonald is responsible for the paper's decreasing advertising revenues. 3. Spread a rumor around to the paper's employees that McDonald is a communist. 4. Put itching powder in McDonald's clothes so he'll scratch himself all day, thus preventing him from writing a story. d: General scene: a grammar school teacher who got an applied scholastics grant canceled and is continuing to cause trouble for ASI in other schools. 1. Cleverly kidnap her and run reverse processes on her while implanting the phrase, "I will never attack ASI again, I love ASI." 2. Get copies of the court records where she was found guilty of child molesting and send a copy to the school principal, board of education, and a few school children's parents. 3. Send a male FSM in on her who, after she falls in love with him, will get her to move out of the country with him. 4. Pay ten of her students to write dirty phrases about her on the schoolroom blackboard. e. General scene: a local Catholic bishop is causing many local attacks on the org. 1. Send several FSMs over to the Catholic church to swear at him in confessionals. 2. Connect him up to abortion and/or pornographic activities. 3. Write the Pope an anonymous letter stating that the bishop is really a rabbi under cover. 4. Spread a rumor around town that he's against air pollution. f. Mock up 5 similar examples as above on your own, noting the correct answer. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- overwhelm "In the face of danger from the Govts or courts there are two errors one can make: (a) do nothing and (b) defend. The right things to do with any threat are to (1) Find out if we want to play the offered game or not, (2) If not to derail the offered game with a feint or attack upon the most vulnerable point which can be disclosed in the enemy ranks, (3) Make enough threat or clamor to cause the enemy to quail, (4) Don't try to get any money out of it, (5) Make every attack on us also sell Scientology and (6) Win. If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace. Peace is bought with an exchange of advantage, so make the advantage and then settle. Don't ever defend. Always attack. Don't ever do nothing. Unexpected attacks in the rear of the enemy's front ranks work best...." "The goal of the department [of government affairs] is to bring the government and hostile philosophies or societies into a state of complete compliance with the goals of Scientology. This is done by a high level ability to control and in its absence by a low level ability to OVERWHELM. Introvert such agencies. Control such agencies...." "The purpose of the legal officer is to help LRH [i.e., L Ron Hubbard] handle every legal, government, suit, accounting and tax contact or action for the organization and by himself or employed representative, to protect the organization and its people from harm and to bring the greatest possible confusion and loss to its enemies." The three preceding paragraphs quoted from Scientology secret policy discovered in COST v. U.S., November 22, 1989. Besides anyone who criticizes Scientology in important ways, just who are the Enemies of Scientology? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] THE ENEMIES OF SCIENTOLOGY ... The names and connections, at this time, of the bitterly opposing enemy are 1. Psychiatry and psychology (not medicine). 2. The heads of news media who are also directors of psychiatric front groups. 3. A few key political figures in the fields of "mental health" and education. 4. A decline of monetary stability caused by the current planning of bankers who are also directors of psychiatric front organizations would make us unable to function. 5. The cold war is being fought on home ground and has an apparent target of degrading western society to a point where we are finding it difficult to operate, a degraded society can be swallowed up easily by any enemy. 6. The public is somewhat sympathetic already but in a democracy trials are by public opinion. To win all the way, the bulk of public opinion must be at the level of love us -- hate the enemy. 7. Many groups exist with similar aims. They need organizing and uniting ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] DG Infos & DAG Infos CONFIDENTIAL RE: INFORMATION BUREAU STATISTICS As the above has been the subject of much misinterpretation and misunderstanding the following is issued to clarify the definitions of Connection and Incident. CONNECTION A Connection is: A. Any person or group in close connection to a subject under investigation relevant to the subject's environment in P.T. or at any point in the past (see below), and B. Any link, familial, social, economic or professional found between a person of interest to Intelligence or under investigation and any established enemies, potential enemies, the seven areas or key members of the seven areas. The seven areas being: 1. Press and Media 2. Intelligence 3. Psychiatric and Mental Health Groups 4. Professional Medical Associations 5. Financiers, Banking 6. Public Relations Groups 7. Drug Firms and Associations... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- How Scientology Applies Its Adversarial Strategy During my 10 years experience inside Scientology, one of their top intelligence operatives summarized the essence of their intelligence strategy for the Church of Scientology's total "Art of War," unconditional victory over any adversary. 1. Destroy any and every type of personal or financial resource the adversary could use to support their attack efforts. 2. Completely isolate the target. Isolate, destroy or "dead agent" any and every ally or alliance of the adversary, which could be of any type of support personal, familial, financial, professional, etc. 3. Destroy the adversary's reputation with black PR or dis-information and 4. Destroy their emotional and psychological sanity and ability to continue by constant hammering. 5. Then keep doing 1-4. not just until the attack is stopped, but ideally until you have insured the adversary will never have any future capacity or inclination to mount any future attack. Deception Another example of how Scientology applies its adversarial policy again comes from the "Art of War." In this book of military and espionage strategy the fundamental principle of war is expressed as, "The art of war is deception!" If one looked at everything Scientology does don't be surprised to find a continuous underlying and permeating pattern of deception. The following is a partial list of key individuals who have had some first hand experience dealing with Scientology's never changing in and out of court adversarial policy. They have had experience with all or part of what is contained in this appendix. Judge Breckenridge, LA Superior Court Judge Robert Jones, Portland Oregon Judge Steffan Graae, U.S.D.C. Judge Brown, Cal. Sup. Ct. Judge Krentzman, U.S.D.C., Florida Justice K. Skelly Wright, D.C. Judge Ritchey, D.C.D.C. Los Angeles Federal Judge James Ideman Los Angeles Federal Special Master [Judge] James Kolts Los Angeles Federal Judge Spencer Letts Former LA District Attorney Raymond Baunoon Former D.C. Federal Criminal Prosecutor Joseph E. Di Genova City Attorney's for Clearwater Florida M.A. Goldbrath and James T. Russell Former opposing attorneys: Michael Flynn of Boston Gary McMurray of Portland Joe Yanni of Los Angeles Charles O'Rielly of Los Angeles Ford Green of San Francisco John Contas of Los Angeles Lawrence Levi of Los Angeles. Part one: Documentation On Scientology's Real Adversarial Tactics "You can be merciless whenever your will is crossed and you have the right to be merciless." The following is a list of Scientology's covert operations practices, partially as discovered by the FBI during an authorized search of Scientology's headquarters. It helps underline the ongoing congruence between Scientology's vicious policies and Scientology's malicious actions. This section will also disclose that when the word fanaticism and the other strong language is used in these documents to describe the origin, nature, actions, and results of Scientology the descriptions are unfortunately accurate. The adversarial tactics of Scientology fall into three main types: 1.) Covert intelligence operations carried on at a professional level of sophistication near-comprable to a national security agency operation, 2.) A new evolution in outrageous courtroom tactics called "legal" brutality, and 3.) Overt operations that could include propaganda programs and other overt attacks. These overt operations like the "legal brutality" programs often are bases on a linkage to covert operation programs. Covert intelligence operations cover the following general areas: 1.) Electronic eavesdropping and bugging. 2.) The creation of false identification and documents to aid in covert operations. 3.) The infiltration of organizations that are enemies of Scientology by obtaining jobs under false pretenses or identification. 4.) Impersonating a reporter to gain access as an operative and gain or plant information for Scientology. 5.) Breaking and entering into the attorney offices of a critic or enemy. 6.) Forced detention of an enemy or critic. 7.) Staging a fake hit and run auto accident involving a pedestrian. 8.) Circulating false black PR stories. 9.) Framing critics for lewd sexual conduct. 10.) Framing a critic as being connected to organized crime. 11.) Burglary and theft. 12.) Attempting to get a person incarcerated in a mental institution. 13.) Impersonating a person to frame or discredit them. 13.) Sending bomb threats and/or framing someone else for it. 14.) Confidential materials, disclosures, or confessions given to Scientology by members are routinely used to blackmail, silence, or intimidate that individual if that individual should leave Scientology and become critical of Scientology. 15.) Infiltrate the court system to alter and steal documents and files before, during or after court rulings. Possible Scientology involvement in conspiracies to commit murder or commit assaults. 16) Possible Scientology involvement in conspiracies to commit murder or commit assaults. 1.) Electronic eavesdropping and bugging. The FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives bugged IRS meetings where the cult's tax status was discussed. They discovered Scientology had detailed training manuals on exactly how to train its operatives on how to do this. 2.) The creation of false identification and documents to aid in covert operations. The FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives had made false IRS and Treasury department ID's to gain access to Scientology files kept in those agencies. Operatives normally do not just gather information but also remove information of evidence or plant false information designed to misdirect or incriminate the target. Scientology's intelligence operation can create or alter documents to manufacture false identification, false evidence, and false histories for itself and others. This false history practice is known in Scientology as doing a history rewrite by creating or altering documents to look like Scientology's new version of reality. History rewrites are most often performed on former members who file suits against Scientology or cooperate with the government. Courts and agencies intended to protect society or victims of Scientology need to realize that if they are considered enemies of Scientology they are dealing with a professional intelligence agency. Appropriate security precautions must always be taken. All documents which Scientology submits must be verified in minute detail. One must always be wary that supposedly secure court files and evidence or your own internal files have been corrupted or altered by Scientology's operatives, moles, and double agents. "In my opinion the church has one of the most effective intelligence operations in the U.S. rivaling even that of the F.B.I." From Ted Gunderson a former head of the F.B.I's Los Angeles office. (Time Magazine cover story of May 6, 1991.) Remember that in 1979, nine of Scientology's top world executives pleaded guilty to extensive burglaries, forgeries, "infiltration," "obstruction of justice," and other crimes carried out against over 100 Federal agencies including the Dept. of Justice, The Dept. of Defense and the I.R.S.. If one realizes that Scientology runs a world class intelligence agency with a deep pocket budget and that agency does what every major intelligence agency does they would have an appropriate perspective. The following documents will shed more light on the sophistication of the Scientology intelligence machine. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] 17 OCT 71 INT HATTING: THE STRIKE A strike is the action of gathering information on a covert basis. It is performed by one or more agents (persons doing the strike), who are intentionally aiming at a target (the desired info, or the person who has the target info, etc.). It is assumed that the individual is hatted as an INT agent. The strike is done in 12 steps, and each step follows consecutively (thus, step 2 should not be begun until step 1 is completed, and any new observation pertaining to an earlier step during the doingness of a latter step requires reevaluation of the interim steps and verification of all the data acquired in the process). The amount of time spent on a step and the amount of info needed for a respective step to be completed depends upon the target. The objective is to get all of the target info, by whatever means is necessary. For example, if the target is well-known and readily accessible to the agent(s), the strike may be achieved very quickly. On the other hand, if the agent (s) knows very little about the target, has no current access to the target, and the target is a large quantity of data, it may take extensive research, planning, and on-target observation to begin the actual strike. The quantity of knowledge needed to complete each step is relative to the circumstances of the target. THE STEPS OF STRIKING 1) Receive the assignment to strike. This usually comes in the form of an order from the agent's senior. The senior may either officially order or unofficially suggest the strike, either way, the idea is given to the agent that the info must be covertly gathered from some source. 2) Take ownership of the job. Here the individual determines that he is going to be the one to do the strike. 3) Identify the target. This may be knowing the name of a person or group on whom info must be covertly gathered, or it may be knowing the specific location of the piece of wanted data, or simply being told to "see what they are up to." Either way, the purpose here is to have a starting basis for the strike. 4) Gather info on the target area (the location of the target) for the purpose of striking. This includes any info that would be pertinent to striking. Info is pertinent to striking if it helps the agent to locate (pin-point) the specific target, gain access to the target area and the target, learn the routines of the target area, or anything else that would help to put the agent in control of the target during the strike itself. 5) Determine the most optimum means available for gaining access to the target area, on the basis of the info now known about it. This includes having a cover. A cover is the pretense the agent assumes to make the strike possible. It includes anything that protects the agent from exposure as the agent of the strike (e.g., assuming the cover of a newspaper man who wants to write an article on Scientology, with the objective of having the target group provide the agent with info on its activities as regards Scientology, but not know that this info will be used by Scientology itself). The most optimum cover is one that excludes the agent from any suspicion by the target. In some instances this would include wearing squeakless shoes, and carrying a large purse or attache at all times so that the one time the agent is carrying target info in the purse or attache, he is not questioned about its contents. 6) Gain access to the target area. This may include obtaining full-time employment from the target if the target is an organization, or simply contacting a person on a friendly basis so that the agent can gain access to personal files kept at home, or any other means that provides access to the target and a time span of access to the target that will allow the agent to gather all of the info that is wanted. It is possible that the access to the data will require repeated strikes -- and thus, long-term procedures (e.g., full-time employment would allow long-term procedures and repeated strikes if the target were an organization). This step may also be called penetration. 7) Directly observe the target area for verification of the knowledge gained in the preceding steps and continue to gather new data that would be pertinent to striking. This includes determining the actual security measures used by the target area to keep the target safe. (e.g., guards making security rounds, locked cabinets, maintenance personnel after working hours, closed circuit TV cameras, alarm systems, etc.). Three tools that are available to the agent (and have been tested and proved valuable in actual strike activity that required very strict security) include: #1 - SECURITY RULE OF THREE: If the agent observes an activity in the target area occurring three separate times under identical or similar conditions within a given period of time (usually one week), he can use these observations in planning his striking activity. One always observes for current and usual (predictable) activities in the target area, and accessible exits from the target area for "quick-get-away." #2 - SECURITY RADIUS: a distance around the target that can be postulated as creating a safe condition for strike activity. The radius may be used to listen for persons coming near the target area during strike- preparation and actual strike activity. (e.g., if the strike requires that no one know that the agent has been in the target area, the agent should be able to hear someone enter his security radius and quickly leave the target area without being seen or heard by the intruder and without leaving evidence of his presence). #3 - If the target is extensive written material, it may be most optimum to have a separate location from the target area for reading and Xeroxing or transcribing the data -- this is called a SAFE READING PLACE. If this is needed for strike activity, it should be determined during step 7 of striking procedures. The final aspect of step 7 is evaluation of all data obtained upon direct observation of the target area and re- evaluation of the data learned in the preceding six steps in light of the direct observation data. 8) Determine how to safely get the target information from the target area to the person who wants the info. (This would include making sure that the agent's cover is adequately planned (e.g., the big purse, etc.) 9) Plan the actions, step by step, that will be necessary in doing the strike. For instance, it may be found that the most optimum time to strike is between 12:30 PM and 12:55 PM. Thus the agent would plan to arrive at the target area at 12:31 PM; if the target area is safe (no persons present), he would then proceed to perform the strike, always listening to his security radius for intruders; he would proceed with operations until 12:50 PM, making sure that he is out of the target area by 12:52 PM. This plan might include hitting the target, getting the info Xeroxed in the safe reading place, and returning the target info to its original location by 12:50 PM. This step includes preparation for any unusual circumstances that might arise and how they would best be handled. For instance, if someone entered the security radius of the above situation at 12:40 PM, would the agent leave the area immediately or wait for the person to leave the security radius? The purpose of step 9 is to make sure that the agent has enough knowledge to perform the strike safely, accurately, and thoroughly. 10) On the basis of the preceding steps, begin either a pretend dry-run of the strike (to check for unknowns and remedy them immediately) or do the actual strike, depending on the circumstances of the entire situation. The following is an example. It was actually done by an agent in both dry-run and actual strike procedures at a national organization's headquarters. The agent was a full-time employee of the group, and worked on a different floor from the one where the target info was located. The agent had to maintain a totally safe operating condition during strike procedures (i.e., It was predetermined that anyone within the security radius was dangerous to the agent and warranted stopping strike activity immediately, and that the less time spent in the target area the more safe the operating condition): a - agent went to the target area -- no one else was present -- proceeded. b - agent found target file. c - agent stood near target file -- the label appeared to indicate this file was the target. Agent determined a safe radius for future activity and listened for the usual sounds -- a through c were safe, proceeded. d - agent checked file contents, always listening to the security radius. Still safe, so agent proceeded. e - file contents appeared to be wanted, could agent pull them to take to the safe reading place? Yes. Agent proceeded. f - Agent took file to safe reading place, going by the (predetermined) quickest route, agent observed security radius at all times. g - target data was exactly what was wanted. Agent Xeroxed data and then hid Xeroxes in a place that was safe while the agent was returning the target materials. This included the possibility that the agent would not be able to return to the hiding place for quite a while and a place that would not indicate that the Xeroxes belonged to the agent if another person found them. h - agent returned to target area, repeating steps a through c, then put file back exactly where it was found (continually observing the security radius). i - agent took target data (Xeroxes) out of the building without being suspected. This required wearing a cape under which the Xeroxed data was hidden in a large purse and being friendly with the night guard. j - Agent took evidence and written report of all strike-related activities to agent's senior within 3 hours after strike occurred. 11) Get info to the person who wants it, by the safest and quickest route. 12) Report all strike-related actions in a written report. It should be noted here that written progress reports (most optimum) and verbal reports may be given to the agent's senior at any time during the strike procedures. Any report should be written with the objective of informing the senior of the progress done to date and/or reporting any change in agent-like or strike-related activities. A report never serves the purpose of asking the agent's senior to handle the agent's problems. SUMMARY AND COMMENTS As stressed before, the individual circumstances of the target and the agent determine the extensiveness of the work done in each of the 12 steps and the time it takes to achieve the strike. If the agent is required to return to the target area on several occasions to get the target info, he should always be observant of new developments and handle each new development as it arises. This may mean simply making a small adjustment in the plan of striking or it may mean a total halt of all agent-like activity until the agent is safely able to continue with the preparation steps and doingness of the strike. (As when the target begins to suspect the agent's activities and tries to protect itself from a strike). Certain striking activities require more security than others. The agent must determine the degree of security he must maintain, as it is relative to his individual situation, in order to achieve the strike. Whether a strike takes 15 minutes to prepare for or 15 months, the key to the whole game is observing what is really there, not what you were told should be there; and working on the basis of what you know. END OF REPORT Kathy Gregg INT CH COMM INT CHGO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.) The infiltration of organizations that are enemies of Scientology by obtaining jobs under false pretenses or identification. The FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives regularly did this to obtain information or run covert operations on the targeted organization. - From personal experience inside Scientology for ten years I can unequivocally state that Scientology's thought reform programs have as one of their goals the turning of members into covert operatives for Scientology. Members soon learned it was a great honor to be in the intelligence division of Scientology or be asked by its members to assist them with some covert operation on a Scientology enemy. While in Scientology and now from the outside, time and time again have I seen this process at work. Since detailed personal histories are assembled on everyone who enters Scientology, Scientology's intelligence division can access moles who don't even know they are moles yet -- the perfect deep cover intelligence mole. Scientology recruits its members from every walk of life, the police department, the government, the phone company, the military, the court system, etc. If these members have been through enough of Scientology's thought reform programs and if they have access to something Scientology needs, they will be asked and recruited to use their positions, computers, or authorities to covertly provide whatever they are asked by Scientology's intelligence division. The LA Superior Court and other court systems are particularly vulnerable to this infiltration by either paid operatives who obtain jobs under false pretenses or who are recruited into Scientology after they are legitimately working in this court system. This infiltration factor does not even include the susceptibility of underpaid government workers to Scientology's other intelligence inducements to compel someone to do something for them. The fanaticism of the Scientology's professional intelligence and covert operation machine presents problems that the normal security procedures of the justice system are ill prepared to deal with. As I found out the hard during my trial never assume that the evidence put into submission with the court or the transcripts will be there or unaltered when they are called for again. Never assume that false information has not been planted into supposedly protected court files after the fact. There is now reason to believe that according to the principles of Scientology's secret infiltration has spread and become more sophisticated. It is believed that Scientology operatives have infiltrated the ethics and governing boards of the major adversaries, the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Sociological Association as well as the ethics and governing boards the bar and judicial organizations in areas where they have frequent and important lawsuits. It would not at all be unreasonable to believe that Scientology's now infamous original operation "Snow White," (the master operation discovered by the FBI (and sent Scientology's top executives to jail) that was to infiltrate all levels of over 100 branches of the U.S. Government that could harm or interfere with Scientology's growth,) was still in active operation. The reason to protect against this again comes from another basic overriding strategy that Scientology repeatedly has applied to its adversaries and permeates Scientology's operations. This strategy also comes from the bible of Scientology's intelligence division "The Art of War." In paraphrase, never attack the enemy's army particularly cities or fortifications if there is any way of avoiding it. The acme of war is to always attack the enemy's plans first. In this way destructive battles and human and resource loss is minimized or averted long before they can ever take place. By infiltrating the offices and organizations of any perceived adversary or those organizations which control or effect their adversaries ability to attack, (state bars, medical boards, congress etc.) Scientology can attack and disable the plans of its adversaries before they get off the ground. This way it doesn't have to fight battles in "fortified cities." 4.) Impersonating a reporter to gain access as an operative and gain or plant information for Scientology. The FBI discovered that a Scientology intelligence operative had posed as a reporter to gain access to materials on Scientology collected by the Better Business Bureau. This posing as a reporter is one of Scientology's favorite techniques as related to me by one of their top intelligence operatives while I was still in Scientology. In fact, I myself was sent to infiltrate the AMA at their Chicago headquarters using the reporter impersonation ploy. Additionally, Scientology again used this tactic on me in when they used a paid operative in Aspen, Colorado posing as a reporter to "interview" me and steal personal materials. This individual with other operatives then began a local black PR campaign of outright lies and distortions which destroyed my then existing business and eventually caused me to move. One of Scientology's other acceptable strategies as related to me by one of their top intelligence operatives while I was still in Scientology was that if any underpaid legitimate reporter was doing a story harmful to Scientology it was acceptable to buy that reporter off to kill the story, mitigate it, or turn the story into an attack of one of Scientology's enemies. The impression I got was it was far cheaper and easier to "convince" (offer more money than the reporter would usually ever see in a lump sum,) the reporter then to have to spend or lose a fortune later on damage control or lost income. If the reporter refused the easy big money he could always then be investigated for possible blackmail or harassed. Reporters already generally have a credibility problem in most peoples eyes with distorting, sensationalizing, or slanting their stories to sell their pieces, so much so that the people who were actually there wonder where the reporter got their facts. When it comes to Scientology stories, when someone claims to be a reporter doing a story or who has done a story on Scientology red flags go up for everyone who has had experience with this sting and attack tactic. Unless the story is obviously and strongly exposing Scientology's immoral actions and clearly warning the public of its significant social dangerousness, who the reporter is actually or secretly working for must be carefully examined and highly suspect, particularly if an existing story the reporter has done forwards: 1.) Positions that forward or legitimize Scientology's standard propaganda lines. 2.) Positions that forward or legitimize Scientology's standard attention redirecting enemy attack lines. 3.) Positions that forward or legitimize Scientology's standard legal liability limiting disclaimer positions. Good legitimate reporters who had done their homework would never be fooled by into forwarding or legitimizing these enemy attack lines and disclaimer positions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] DEC. 6, 1968. DEAR MO, RE: INTELLIGENCE THE FOLLOWING ARE POSSIBILITIES FOR COLLECTING DATA. 1. INFILTRATION. 2. BRIBERY 3. BUYING INFORMATION. 4. ROBBERY 5. BLACKMAIL THE LAST TWO ARE, OF COURSE ILLEGAL. INFILTRATION COVERS TWO METHODS - SOMEONE JOINING THE ENEMY WITHOUT THE ENEMY'S KNOWING AND SOMEONE, DISAFFECTING PRESUMABLY, TO JOIN THE ENEMY. FOR GIVING THE ENEMY FALSE DATA, YOU CAN DO THE FOLLOWING; 1. USE INFILTRATOR TO SPREAD ALARM AND FALSE DATA. 2. SEND OUT FALSE DATA PURPOSELY. LOVE, PETER HOLLON ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.) Breaking and entering into the attorney offices of a critic or enemy. From confidential internal directives and actual covert operation documents the FBI discovered Scientology's intelligence operatives had done this repeatedly. Among many instances they broke into and entered the homes and offices of numerous enemies and critics. The FBI discovered detailed training manuals on exactly how to "case" the target, break in through force or with lock picks, and create cover stories if caught. A specific example of these tactics involves ex-Scientologists Robert Dardano and Warren Friske who testified to some of the activities they and others were involved with on behalf of the Church. These activities include the burglary of the Belmont office of a psychiatrist in order to steal files, the theft of documents from a Boston law firm, and the planting of a church member as a volunteer inside the state attorney general's office to intercept consumer complaints about Scientology. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] 9 Mar 75 VETTING HAT WRITE UP PURPOSE: To clean USBI files of legally actionable evidence against the GO and its personnel. Definition of 'EVIDENCE' "4. in law, a) something legally presented before a court, as a statement of witness, and etc. which bears on or establishes the point in question; distinguished from testimony and proof." [page 2] 1. Mentions or the ordering of a B & E. 2. Evidence that anything was stolen by one of our guys. (This does not mean someone else like PC saying we stole something, this means us saying we stole something). 3. Lines similar to "Here are the docs we got in our usual way late last night". 4. Implications of casing, including keeping checks on schedules and working hours as well as locks on doors etc. 5. Implications of posing as a Govt agent. 6. Evidence of tapping phone lines or illegal taping of conversations. 7. Mentions of harassment of an individual although not necessarily a full operation (so not sent to ops). 8. Any evidence of bribery. 9. Any mentions or recruitment of FSMs to be any kind of an agent. (This is Solicitation and a crime). 10. Also vet wordings like 'this will get him' or let's 'wipe him out' or 'this will be good for dead agenting' or we are 'planning a covert op on him to handle him' or this will 'strengthen our attack on him'. 11. Any mentions of entrapment setting up someone to commit a crime either directly or indirectly. We must now vet every particle coming into CIC before it goes to the files. So when you send a particle to files be sure to vet it and label it with a red V in the lower right hand corner. REMEMBER each particle does not need to be thoroughly read as you are vetting, scan it enough to be sure you would catch any of the above instances and go on. Any Questions, ask CICOF. Love CIC OFF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next 5 covert operation tactics are demonstrated in, but by no means limited to, Scientology's "Operation Tricycle", which follows immediately the 5 tactics: 6.) Forced detention of an enemy or critic. The FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives will take individuals against their will to detention areas any refuse to let them leave. This happened with Michael Miesner who was a former member who tuned states evidence for the FBI and help send 9 of Scientology's highest executive leaders to jail. More recently this has also repeatedly happened with many other former members who wanted to leave or were classified as security risks. 7.) Staging a fake hit and run auto accident involving a pedestrian (FBI evidence found this plan in an effort to disgrace Gabriel Cezares, a former mayor of Clearwater Florida and Scientology critic). 8.) Circulating false black PR stories. Mark Sableman reporter for the Clearwater Sun was critical of Scientology. The FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives circulated a rough draft of a fictitious news story using Sableman's name alleging that 19 Florida legislators were linked to the Mafia, gambling interests, and were involved in bribery, blackmail, and illegal transactions. On July 15 1990, a London Sunday Times article revealed Scientology spent $200,000.00 or more to organize a worldwide Black PR harassment campaign against Russell Miller. Mr. Miller was a Sunday Times journalist and author of a Scientology expose, "The Bare-Faced Messiah." Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer has been recent and ongoing favorite target. A dead rat with a stake though its heart was left on her doorstep. Her home has been vandalized, rats released in it, and some of her research stolen. En route to an educational conference on thought reform and cults, she was detained by British immigration police based on an anonymous tip that she was a member of the IRA. 9.) Framing critics for lewd sexual conduct. The FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives had created a operation called "Priority A" to be done on Mark Sablemen. The plan called for a elderly Scientology operative from out of the area to go to the editor of the Clearwater Sun and accuse Sableman of molesting the operatives son. Episcopal Vicar Mike Rokos had stories broadcast that he was a convicted sex criminal. 10.) Framing a critic as being connected to organized crime. The FBI discovered that Scientology's "Priority A" operation also called for a Scientology operative to go to editor of the St. Petersburg Times and deliver an envelope with $100 cash in it for Betty Orsini, (a newspaper reporter critical of Scientology.) The operative was to say that the money was from a well known mobster in return for information Orsini has supposedly passed to the mobster. 11.) Burglary and theft. The FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives burglarized the lawyers offices of the St. Petersburg Times. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] SECURITY OF THE OPERATION The first consideration on security is always the personnel chosen to do the job. Professionals would usually choose someone who is confident and competent, easily trainable and fully trained. In other words in Scientology terms, people who are not PTS, who are not ethics cases. Additionally one would normally choose someone who is motivated by duty or other high motivation to prevent later sell-outs or discovery by reason of an agent turning ... SECURITY OF THE ORGANIZATION Professionals are always working for some person or group which for the purposes of this section will be referred to as an organization. If the agent's motivation for working for the group is high, then this section will concern the agent as well. Any professional intelligence group has to confront the possibility that at some stage an agent will be picked up. The most serious of these is when the agent is picked up in the actual act of stealing documents or in position where he is about to steal documents, or has just stolen documents and is moving to his base with the material. Therefore agents are frequently given instructions along the lines of "if you are picked up by the police, don't say anything more than you are required to by law", which is usually your name and address but this varies depending on the area. This is of course if the agent is in a position where no story would explain the outpoints confronting the police. The agent will probably be arrested at this stage and should quietly arrange a lawyer through a law society or legal aid society. Such societies abound these days and a name and address of one can be memorized beforehand. The organization usually arranges some method of communication so that the agent can tip them off that he has been picked up. Any organization that has a desire to retain its agents or to continue recruiting agents usually has the sense to provide bail through some bail bond system that allows the organization to remain anonymous, pays any legal fees incurred and gives every possible moral encouragement. Additionally, any agent working on such operations would have nothing in his possession that connected him with the organization, nothing at his home address that connected him with organization and no possible way of tracing him back. For example, an alternative employment or no employment, but certainly no mention of employment by the organization. This is the usual exchange between agent and organization in the event of an arrest. The agent protects the organization, the organization assists the agent in every possible way. Such preparations are also usually made well in advance, so that the agent's recent history does not show any connection with the organization. COVER STORY One trick used by professionals is, after the casing has been completed and the plan decided on, a series of cover stories are mocked up to cover each stage of the operation in the event that the operation is blown at any point. Such cover stories usually relate to the most vulnerable state of operation. For example, an agent might prepare a story as to why he was in that particular neighborhood, why he was on that particular street, why he knocked on that particular door, even what he was doing in that particular backyard. Thus if he is picked up at any of these points he has a plausible explanation as to what he is doing. On occasion cover stories are mocked up to cover being caught in the act. It is sometimes to the advantage of the agent and the organization, if the police believe that the agent was actually breaking in for money or goods, rather than documents or files, as the police have a common R with criminals who they can duplicate, but sometimes get frantic when confronted with intelligence operations. Such cover stories as mentioned above would also be designed to handle the local security guard, the local resident or staff member or whoever discovers the agent in the beginning stages of the operation ... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] Distribution DG US DDG US DG I US & BI US & BI Base as OK'd by DG I US POWER PROJECT 4: TRICYCLE Ref. GO Orders 261175 LRH "POWER" Target 3 PROJECT INFO: This project follows HCO PL Targets Defense "If we unite all groups into an interplay and use all forces extant and channel them we have a very big chance of winning" "SO we can and must take the lead." "And we ourselves must develop many leaders." MAJOR TARGET: To proof up ourselves against any potential threat by taking control of the key points in the Clearwater area. VITAL TARGETS: 1. Any obstacles or opposition to these targets that arises must be removed to the point of no further threat or barrier to obtaining the Major Target. 2. Do not depend on or wait on other collection targets for these research targets. 3. Excellent security must be established and maintained on this project throughout all stages but must not stop the progress of this project. PRIMARY TARGETS: 1. AG 1 Base and Ops Officer Base are responsible for this project. 2. Utilize any existing data for the selection of your targets. 3. ODS Officer responsible for recruiting (with help from B1 US), planning and running of agents. 4. Finances for transportation and initial support of agents for this project are to be arranged by the AG 1 Base in liaison with the AG F Base. 5. Regular reports are to be made to US, WW and CS-G. 6. Those concerned are to M4 star rate this project and HCO PL. Targets Defense. OPERATING TARGETS: 1. List out all news media and the heads or proprietors of news media that are distributed or broadcast in the Clearwater area. 2. Look for any one group or place where all heads of media in number 1 above come together. [No number 3 listed.] 4. Work out a way to gain (B1) control or (PR) allegiance of each media head or proprietor (beginning with those found in target 3 above). (Note: Control can mean buying the media or controlling interest or it can mean holding a powerful position with the media). Submit a targeted take over project to DG I US for approval. 5. Implement approved handling when received. 6. Locate key political figures (ones who influence the area). 7. Work Out a way to get control or allegiance of each. Submit final project to DG I US for approval. 8. Implement approved handling when received. 9. Locate the key financial influences in the community. 10. Work out a way to gain control or allegiance of each. Submit final project to DG 1 US for approval. 11. Locate the people and groups peculiar to the Clearwater area which exert the greatest control/influence in the area (possible example - Board of Realtors). 12. Work out a way to gain control or allegiance of each. Send projects to DG I US for final approval. 13. Implement approved handlings when received. DICK WEIGAND DG I US FOR HENNING HELDT DG US FOR MO BUDLONG DG I WW FOR JAN KEMBER GUARDIAN WW ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] RE: CHINA SHOP: CLEARWATER SUN Dear Dick, Here are some observations and data on Clearwater Sun recently received; A study of the paper does not show a political or intelligence angle. Only evidence that the paper attacks everyone. Any Good News is converted to attack. This paper (Clearwater Sun) may influence the two other papers that have offices in Clearwater (St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune, believe) or those two influence the Sun. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that somewhere in the editorial structure they have an institutional case - a has been one or a should be one. For it is a characteristic of insanity to attack everything. JOHN E. RICKETSON: PUBLISHER AL HUTCHISON: EDITOR & GENERAL MANAGER RON STUART: MANAGING EDITOR TERRY PLUMB: ASSOC EDITOR MIKE PRIDE CITY EDITOR (per Sableman) MARK SABLEMAN: WRITER ALSBURY: WRITER NORMAN MORGAN: WRITER STEVE SNOW WRITER CIRCULATION 30,000 AD SPACE: Not spectacular FINANCE ESTIMATE: Not so hot (their finance condition) OWNERS (per Sableman): JEFFERSON PILOT CORPORATION OF (and B-1 Msn) GREENSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA Our target on this, very confidentially, is ownership or control of the paper. So, as you know, the finance information. on the paper, its debts, its income (and how it could be cut) are prime information needs. Also detailed info on the posts of the staff editors, etc. Love, Henning DGUS HH/bc -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] DDG US DG INFO US RE: PREDICTION IN CW Yours of 10 March 76 Dear Duke, You asked for a chart of enemy lines used up to this point for CW (Clearwater) attack after research of the files was done. Attached is this chart. It looks complete to me. - From this I see the areas of priority to Infiltrate are: 1. SPT (St. Petersburg Times) 2. Mayor 3. Channel 13 TV 4. Snyder 5. Florida Attorney General Florida State Attorney (Russell) As things have been quite hectic with me the last two days I wanted to send this to you to go over. Any changes or additions you want to make would be fine. Love Dick DM/mw ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tactics 13, 13 AND 14 are best demonstrated in "Operation Freakout" some of which follows after these points: 12.) Attempting to get a person incarcerated in a mental institution. The FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives created and began to enact an operation called "Operation Freakout" whose purpose was to drive Paulette Cooper insane and then into a mental institution. 13.) Impersonating a person to frame or discredit them. The FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives were going to impersonate Paulette Cooper go to a Laundromat and threaten to kill the President. A second intelligence operative inside the Laundromat would then tell the Laundromat personnel to call in the threat to the government. The chilling example of the above involves Paulette Cooper, the author of the Scandal of Scientology. The Church's response to Cooper's book is detailed in a document describing "Operation Freakout," which was designed to "get PC incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks." Cooper, who says she was served with 18 lawsuits against her by the church, had a nervous breakdown after someone sent Scientology a bomb threat on her stationery. She was cleared of the charges after a 1977 raid on a church office where documents outlining Operation Freakout were discovered. In a section entitled "VITAL TARGETS," the document "Operation Freakout" gives specific details of the harassment program against Cooper. Such actions include an obvious attempt to impersonate Cooper, with directions like "To recruit an FSM (Field Staff Member) that looks like PC ...", "to get familiar with PC to find out some of the clothes she wears particularly what sort of coat she usually wears...", "To get a cheap coat that is very similar to PC's", "To have someone available to steak [sic] out PC when she leaves her place the day of the caper, to ascertain when she leaves, what she's wearing, etc.", "Obtain wig that looks like PC, so that FSM PC can wear it during caper", etc. Further details of "Operation Freakout" describe framing Cooper on a bomb threat charge against two Arab consulates in New York City. A further memo dated 13 April 1967 regarding "PC Op Freakout" states, "The FBI already think she really did do the bomb threats on the C of S." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] 1 April 1976 OPERATION FREAKOUT MAJOR TARGET: To get P.C. incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks. PRIMARY TARGETS: US B1 NE SEC working in liaison with OPS NAT if needed. To remove PC from her position of power so that she cannot attack the C of S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- RE: P.C Op Freakout Dear Dick, SITUATION: Cooper is still not terminately handled. DATA: Cooper is getting her power back, attacking again. Attached is approved Op Freakout. This additional channel should really have her put away. Worked with all the other Channels. The FBI already think she really did do the bomb threats on the C of S. SOLUTION: OK this additional Channel. This is OK _______________ Approved ______________ Disapproved _______________ Love, Randy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] OP FREAKOUT OPERATING TARGETS: CHANNEL 1: 1) Telephone call PC to ascertain if she is home alone. She must be home alone. ________________ AG I NY 2) When she has been found alone, telephone (during the work week) 2 Arab Consulates in NYC, from telephone booth nearest PC's place. Telephoner should be a girl that sounds like PC and the call should be fast, to the point, and impinge. It should go as follows: from a totally trusted non staff member. "I just came back from Israel (pronounces the way it is pronounced in Israel) I've seen what you fucking bastards do. At least you're not going to kill my sister. I can get away with anything. I'm going to bomb you bastards." Say something in Jewish/ swear or mumble something Jewish. ________________ AG I NY CHANNEL 2: 1) Obtain a copy of Writer's DIGEST - a writer's magazine - (if not available get any writer's magazine.) person who obtains this magazine should be disguised in some way and not traceable back to the org. Don't order the mag. by mail. One should easily be found on the newsstands or in "back issues" stores. ________________ AG I NY 2) Obtain the latest promo of the T.M. (transcendental meditation) that PC is going to, same security as above. ________________ AG I NY 3) Cut out "letters" from both of the above publications. Include "CAPITOLS". Arrange the letters, pasted, on a clean piece of paper (not Org paper) If there is a blank page or nearly blank page in the writers magazine, use it, crossing out in ballpoint anything written on the page. Paste or glue the letters so that they say the following: "All of you are distroying Isreal. You're just like them. My sister lived you basterds. I was there - I saw the wonderful people. Nobody can touch me. I'm going to kill you basterds. I am going to bomb you. Kissingger is a traitor. I'll bomb him to. It makes me very sick. I must meditate. You are spying on me even in Isreal. Your day will come soon. I'll expose you and bomb you." Go to library and type out the name of the NY Consulate and address of the Nation that is most anti Israel (attacking it). (No prints) Use "Capitols" on the envelope. 4) Place "letter" into the envelope, seal, and mail from the mail box nearest PC's place. INSURE SECURITY / NO PRINTS on any letters, envelope, or paper, or stamp. INSURE no paper from AG Office or Org is used. Entire action should be done out of the Org. NEED TO KNOW strongly enforced. PR, Communicater Legal should not know. Max should do this entire action. If in doubt about "did my prints get on anything" throw everything away and start fresh. CHANNEL 3: 1) FSM in VT # 3 telephones and makes a definite appointment with PC. Sometime when the laundry (in VT # 12) is open. The place should be a restaurant or ba. Oone of the purposes of this action is also to get PC drunk. ________________ AG I NY 2) FSM above meets with PC. ________________ AG I NY 3) Stakeout FSM (see VT # 8) communicates with Case Officer and PC Double FSM (see VT # 1) and alert the former what PC has on, how her hair is arranged, does she have her usual coat on etc. _______________ AG I NY 4) "PC FSM" changes to the closest clothes they have, matching PCs. If PC has on blue jeans, change to blue jeans. If PC has on her usual coat put that on. (see VT # 3 and 4) What ever PC usually wears (a favorite sweater etc.) a yellow dress, blue, green etc. sneakers, a yellow scarf etc. should be had by PC FSM ready to change into. In other words several different out-fits should have been obtained by PC FSM, so that when the caper goes down, she can immediately change into the color or type of outfit that PC has on. From the observation of the stakeout FSM to the change of PC FSM's clothes, only 3 minutes should have gone by. If PC let us say has her hair up, FSM puts her "hair up" very fast it doesn't have to be a good job/ just so it's "up". _______________ AG I NY 5) PC FSM goes immediately into the laundry and does the following caper. (wearing sunglasses) This is done immediately, so that PC could have done it on her way to meet the FSM or FSMs for drinks. ( Patter: PC FSM goes into laundry. Acts very confused. Says "I'm P.C. Do I have any clothes here? Clerk says no FSM demands clerk checks. Clerk comes back. Says no again. FSM screams You're crazy, my name if PC, check again! When clerk says no or whatever he does, FSM goes PTS 3: "You're one of them! I'll kill you. You're a dirty Arab. You fucking bastards. I'll bomb you. I'll bomb the Arabs. I'll bomb the President. I'll kill that traitor Kissinger. You're all against me." If an item of PC's clothing was obtained at TM, FSM leaves this on the counter or drops it on the floor. ________________ FSM 6) PC FSM leaves laundry immediately, turns the corner and gets into "pick up" car. Takes off "PC's coat" Wig or whatever. Changes her looks fast. ________________ FSM 7) Meanwhile, immediately after PC FSM leaves laundry, observation FSM (see VT # 2) asks laundry clerk if they do suede cleaning and also says, Boy was she crazy! real casually says I think you should call the police with all these nuts threatening to kill the president FSM leaves. FSM should be disguised and not work on staff. ________________ FSM 8) FSM calls from a phone about 5 blocks away, the FBI and says that she/he doesn't want to get involved and doesn't want to give her/his name but "some nut girl in (the name of laundry) just went crazy and threatened to bomb the place and kill the president. With all these nuts running around I thought you should know. The guy in the laundry heard her too." HANGS UP, and leaves immediately and gets out of there. This call/the FSM's voice should be disguised. All these type calls are tape recorded. (FSM should not be told this; just to disguise her voice.) ________________ FSM PRODUCTION TARGETS: CHANNEL 1: Should be done within 2 days of receiving this project. CHANNEL 2: Should be done the day after the above channel is done. CHANNEL 3: Should be done within 1 week after the above channel is done. (and when other FSMs can get an appointment with PC [handwritten] CHANNEL 5 10 days after channel 3 is done. Love, Puck CHANNEL 4: 1) Do not tell "Pin Ball" FSM or TM FSM about this OP, but alert them to immediately report any thing PC tells them. Have them try to speed up their relationship with PC, for feed back purposes. Get feedback on this op. (cleverly) ________________ AG I NY CHANNEL 5: 1) Wait 10 days after the completion of CHANNEL 3. If nothing has accrued from feedback, on PC. Then have the following action done: FSM Female disguised voice, calls the Arab Consulate and asks for the Press "attache". talk through a piece of thin paper covering the mouth of the phone. This will be tape recorded but don't tell FSM on this. FSM says crying to Attache: I just want to tell you there is someone a writer by the name of PC, who recently came back from Israel. She works for Israel Intelligence. She's also insane. She was in a Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany. She's been seeing Psychiatrist for years. Her sister is also with Israel Intelligence and lives in Israel. She talks when she high on drugs or drunk [handwritten] Lately she's been talking about bombing your embassy. I hate the damn Jew. FSM hangs up and leaves fast. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] [handwritten] op Freakout 2: No prints!!!! Additional channels on Op Freakout. (Lovely) 1) When TM or Pinball FSM meets with Lovely, they get drunk! Another FSM male has a funny typed out joke. One of these full page sexy jokes. It has a plain white cover on it -- a plain typewriter sheet. FSM has 2 copies of this. He shows one copy all around the bar, obviously so that Lovely and FSM can see him doing it. Then drunkenly comes over to FSM's table and wips out "joke" to show FSM. Both FSM and "drunk" are careful not to touch plain sheet. The 2 sheets are folded as if to be mailed. When drunk picks up joke again, he whips it up by its corner and puts it in his long open wallet or puts it in his hat that he should be wearing for that purpose. If the hat is used, "drunk" goes into the bathroom and carefully puts "joke" into his wallet. Drunk is always acting the fool. Drunk leaves. ________________ FSMs 2) Drunk takes sheet with Lovely's prints to AG I being sure to get no prints on it. ________________ Drunk FSM 3) Write the following letter on a library typewriter and address the envelope to Kissinger in Wash. DC on the same typewriter. (absolutely no PRINTS.) You are a traitor to your people YOU BASTERD. I've been there and seen what you have done. You're ONE OF them. I"M GOINg To KILL you I"M going to BOMb YOU. I have connection.NObody Ca n touch Me. You arre a German Pig. You Should be in THe Concentration CAMPs. I Feel So Ill Because OF YOu And YOu GodDam PIGs. YoU Die SOOn. It IS a Phalic SYMbol. I ThinK TrAnsFeranCe. EPidus The BOMB Is S ET TO gO. MY Sister ISRE A L. ThEy Are Responsible . They Persecute Me I W iLL Kill THem AND YOU. YOU are All Aga inst ME. The above letter should be typed onto the blank sheet obtained in #1. ________________ AG I NY 4) Mail the above, from the Mail Box nearest Lovely's place. ________________ AG I NY [handwritten] 5) If the above 1 and 2 don't work out for any reason, do the same action at T.M. with Lovely and TM FSM. ________________ AG I NY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13.) Sending bomb threats and/or framing someone else for it. As mentioned above, the FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives had stolen the stationery of Scientology critic Paulette Cooper with her fingerprints on it and then typed bomb threats and sent them to Henry Kissinger and to Scientology itself. Scientology then called the FBI after receiving the bomb threat it had sent to itself and gave Paulette Cooper's name as a suspect. You be the judge if it is still going on. -- From the Wollersheim case: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Standard police report MILWAUKEE POLICE DEPARTMENT District No. Seven REPORT Saturday, July 28, 1984 In the matter of Possible Threats by a Religious Group To Thomas E. Harker Captain of Police Sir: On Saturday, July 28, 1984 at 1:45 am, I was dispatched to meet a citizen at 3277 N. 96th St., for a threat complaint. Upon arriving at the scent, I interviewed the complainant, Lawrence D. Wollersheim, w/m, 7-02-21 of 3277 N. 96th St., Ph. #462-1996. He is the owner of the Steak & Stein Restaurant at 5930 W. North Ave., Ph. #771- 1990. On this date, Mr. Wollersheim related the following to me. He stated that his son Lawrence D. Wollersheim, w/m, 11-16-48, is currently living in Aspen, CO, Ph. #303-925-6356. His son had been a member of the Church of Scientology sect for 13 years. This religious group is based in Los Angeles, CA. His son is currently no longer associated with this group and is suing the sect for 25 million dollars. The law suit must come to trial by July 1985 in the California court system. Since Mr. Wollersheim's son has filed this suit, he has been harassed and threatened by members of the Church of Scientology. He has been visited as recently as Wednesday, July 25, 1984 at which time they made threats against him, his family and the President of the United States. Mr. Wollersheim's son had been a high ranking member of the religious sect prior to his leaving. While in that high position he learned many of the inner dealings of the group. For this reason they are attempting to force Mr. Wollersheim's son to drop his suit. The religious order supposedly has its own security personnel to use such tactics as threats, intimidation and harassment in order to eliminate any outspokenness by members or former members of this sect. Mr. Wollersheim Sr. stated that on Wednesday, July 14, 1984 a pipe with wires protruding from it was found lying on his front lawn. At that time the police were summoned and Squad 75, P.O. John Bogues responded. The bomb squad was notified and the device was determined to be a device made to be to look like a bomb. Mr. Wollersheim believes that this was a form of intimidation that he attributes to the religious sect. He states he has also received numerous harassing phone calls from unknown callers which he also attributes to the religious sect. Mr. Wollersheim stated that as the court date nears the harassment will increase. His son has told him that this is the usual practice of the religious sect's security forces. Mr. Wollersheim requested that the squads in the area pay particular attention to his home for any suspicious persons. I advised Mr. Wollersheim to contact the telephone company for the purposes of having a tracing device placed on his telephone in order to learn who is making the harassing phone calls. I also advised him that the squads in the area would be notified to pay particular attention to his home. Respectfully submitted, (signed) Gary R. Bruhn Police Officer District #7 - Late ["7th DISTRICT RECEIVED" stamp is signed (illegible) and dated JUL 28 1984.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.) Confidential materials, disclosures, or confessions given to Scientology by members are routinely used to blackmail, silence, or intimidate that individual if that individual should leave Scientology and becomes critical of Scientology. From confidential internal directives and actual examples the FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives regularly use or make public confidential information and confessions of former members in an effort to silence them. From personal experience I had my confidential auditing confessions used in court by scientology as well as material from them repeated to me in anonymous harassing phone calls. Scientology's twisted use of confidential disclosures made to them has also been further verified in ongoing court cases with other former members. Anyone member or former member who has ever given any information to Scientology is at continual risk of having this information revealed. If you are a former member every effort should be made to obtain all your Scientology records and all copies of them. Because Scientology has time and time again proven itself to be totally untrustworthy, if you know someone who is a member they should be made aware of this history and encouraged not to ever trust Scientology with any personal information or any supposedly confidential confessional material under any circumstances. The following evidence was used in Scientology's intelligence sections not their pseudo religious sections. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] To: .... illegible ... 13 Jan 77 cc: DGI US via DGI C Excerption of Ira XXX PC files Dear Cindy, Here is the pertinent data from Ira's pc files. This includes data from TT done earlier and me going through about 1/2 of his lower level files which is at the end of this excerption. First session. TA range 1.7 - 1.8: less than 1 div TA in the session. Ira wished to be a better "fuck" - "likes" Mike Lyles (MWH) This session was on 10 Dec 69..(Pg. 1,1) 14 Dec 69 - ARCX with Victor _____ who's antagonistic to Scn. M/W/H, had sex with a prostitute before marrying Holly. (Pg. 1,2) 19 Jan 70 - white form done (2nd one) SF on "here on own determinism". (Pg. 1-3) 20 Jan 70 - on R3R Ira runs an incident where he hit a man from behind with a car in 1968 or '67. (Pg. 1-4) 27 Jan 70 - M/W/H, Ira gives up that he attempted to strangle old girl-friend, Lynda. TA range 2.1 - 1.8. Total TA 1.2 divs. (Pg. 1-5) 6 Feb 70 - 3rd white form. SF on "here on own self determinism". (Pg. 2-1) 23 Feb 70 - Ira says he'd leave the SO if it came down to 2D vs 3D. TA range 2.5-1.9 Total TA: 1.1. (Pg. 2,2) 23 Mar 70 - MWH Ira gets off that he and a friend gave each other blow jobs when he was 11 or 12. Ira gets off that he, his wife Holly, and Mike Lyles had a 3 way thing going in Chicago with all of them in bed at the same time. (Pg. 3,1) 13 Apr 70 - 4th white form: Ira gets a fall on "here on own self determinism". (Pg. 3,2) 1 Oct 71 - MWH. Ira saw a lady psychiatrist when he was 20 - he gets off that he successfully W/H this on a sec check so he wouldn't get routed off staff. (Pg. 3,3) 10 Jan 72 - Ira claims that he has no service fac, he then F/Ns. Total TA for session was 2.2 divs. (p.4,1) 8 Aug 72 - List corrections get read on "doing s/t with mind between sessions". (Pg. 5,1) 9 Aug 72 - Exec Series 12 item "masturbating", mentions High School friend, David Schiff, as homosexual partner, used to masturbate 3 times a day, says "If Yvonne caught me masturbating, I would blow Scn", lived with Mike Lyles, Holly (his wife) and himself as trio. They all slept together and took turns with Holly, some activity between Ira and Mike. (Pg. 5,2) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] GUARDIAN ORDER GO 121669 MSH December 16, 1969 To: All D/A/Guardians for Intelligence PROGRAMME: INTELLIGENCE: INTERNAL SECURITY OBSERVATION: The enemy has used the method of infiltration to obtain information against ourselves as known from incidences in South Africa, Edinburgh and Washington, D.C. The enemy has also "turned" and used as double agents Staff members as revealed by Maurice Johnson at Saint Hill and Barbara Peake in Melbourne. Further, the enemy has used former disaffected staff members, Scientologists or relatives of Scientologists in their attacks -- Philip Wearne and Doug Moon in Australia, Jean Kennedy and Gene van Niekerk in South Africa, Michael Pernetta and Mrs. Henslow in England, Eleanor Turner and the former Mrs. Elmo Troup in America and the O'Donnell family in New Zealand, to name but a few of the outstanding examples. Although infiltrators and double agents can create more internal Chaos and disorder in an organization, the enemy has been most successful in their attacks through the use of disaffected staff, Scientologists or relatives of Scientologists and the biggest gross error an organization can make as regards its own security is violations of the HCO Policy Letter of October 27, 1964, "Policies on Physical Healing, Insanity and Potential Trouble Sources". The duty of keeping the organization secure belongs in the HCO Division, both in RAP and Inspections and Reports, but the Intelligence Bureau has learned through long experience that it cannot leave this function entirely up to HCO and where it has done so, it has had to suffer the consequences. Thus this Programme is a vital one. MAJOR TARGET: To use any and all means to detect any infiltration, double agent or disaffected staff member, Scientologist or relatives of Scientologists and by any and all means to render null any potential threat or harm such have rendered or might render to Scientology and Scientologists. VITAL TARGETS: 1. This Programme is to be done by the Asst. Guardian or the D/A/Guardian for Intelligence, if this post is held separately. 2. To establish Intelligence files on all such persons found to be infiltrators, double agents, and disaffected staff members, Scientologists and relatives of Scientologists. OPERATING TARGETS: 1. To make full use of all files on the organization to effect your major target. These include personnel files, Ethics files, Dead files, Central files, training files, processing files and requests for refunds. 2. To assemble full data by investigation of each person located for possible use in case of attack or for use in preventing any attack and to keep files of such. (Bold emphasis added.) 3. To be alert to usual security precautions and to see that these are performed by the organization; such as proper locking of the premises, security of keys, locking of files, the changing of locks if keys have been lost, proper safes, etc. 4. To keep off staff and off org lines any person who has ever betrayed Scientology or who has threatened to betray or blackmail Scientology. 5. To ensure the Policy Letter on Physical Healing, Insanity and Potential Trouble Sources is not violated and to be alert to any possible violations. 6. To maintain a good liason line to Ethics and ensure that the Ethics Officer alerts you to any person who might attack Scientology. 7. To be alert to any organizational theft or disappearances of records and files as a possible indication of the presence of an infiltrator or double agent. Infiltrators are frequently those who have recently "joined" Scientology and so can be watched. Double agents are usually detected by natter, down stats, disorder in their areas and no case gain. 8. To be effective and imaginative in your collection of data and in your actions to nullify any attack or threat of attack. 9. To keep your Asst. Guardian fully advised and the D/Guardian for Intelligence WW, who will inform the Guardian WW in such matters. PRODUCTION TARGET: This is a continuing Programme on which Projects will be issued from time to time. Mary Sue Hubbard CS-G --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15.) Infiltrate the court system to alter and steal documents and files before, during or after court rulings. Any individual or attorney who goes into court with Scientology must never assume that any evidence you have submitted into evidence has not been stolen or tampered with. Check every copy against its original. Any document Scientology submits must be examined carefully for authenticity. It could be what the call a history rewrite or a manufactured document. There is a "coincidence" that occurred during Wollersheim's 6 month trial which helps make this point more clear. It also has the attempted precedent limiting intelligence signature of creating and rewriting "history" all over it. One lunch break in the emptied courtroom, while the evidence exhibits were apparently not being guarded, someone altered Dr. Margaret Singer's notes on her interviews with Wollersheim to read that I had taken 300 LSD trips before entering Scientology. (Dr. Singer was the expert psychologist testifying on my behalf.) The document was remembered to not have this on it when it was entered into evidence. When Dr. Singer verified by phone that no such event occurred and she never wrote such a statement in her notes this signature incident created a flurry in the courtroom. Out of court things are not much different. Never assume their lawyers will send you the same documents they submit to the courts and never assume Scientology's lawyers will notify you at all when the initiate some action. Always keep checking the court docket yourself on a regular basis. 16) Possible Scientology involvement in conspiracies to commit murder or commit assaults you be the judge. An informant in a sworn statement given under oath told of a plan to harm or kill Cynthia Kisser President of the Cult Awareness Network. Reportedly one suggested method was to cut the brake lines in her car. Attempts were made to menace a Catholic priest, Father Kent Burtner. Michael Flynn the Boston attorney who represented ex-scientologists against Scientology had to make an emergency landing in his plane. It was later discovered that there was water in his fuel. Charles O'Reilly (Wollersheim's attorney) was mysteriously pistol whipped by an unknown assailant the night before he had to argued the Wollersheim appeal at the California Appellate court and that even more coincidentally on that very same night, too conveniently congruent with Scientology's previous black PR false drug abuse campaign on O'Reilly, drug paraphernalia was planted in O'Reilly's home. Besides the Fishman conspiracy to commit murder affidavit on Wollersheim contained in the appendix called "Scientology's History of Criminality" a second affidavit regarding another conspiracy has been recently received from another source. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SWORN STATEMENT I Malcolm Claude Nothling, the undersigned, hereby state the following under oath: 1.) I am a Caucasian male 38 years of age, born on 31/08/54. 2.) I was a dedicated member of The Church of Scientology from 1979-1986. 3.) I served in the Special Forces in the South African Defense Force. During this period I became highly skilled in handling firearms. This information was known by senior members of the Church of Scientology in South Africa. 4.) In May 1986 I was requested to take up an administrative position at the Church of Scientology's headquarters in Los Angeles. 5.) I arrived in Los Angeles on 6th Jun. 1986 expecting to take up an administrative post that urgently needed to be filled. A week after arriving I was seconded to assist with demonstrations outside the Los Angeles Supreme Court in which he case between Lawrence Wollersheim and the Church of Scientology was being heard. 6.) I was also promised by the Church of Scientology, on arrival in Los Angeles, that they would attend to some of my previous counseling that had gone horribly wrong. I was experiencing suicidal feelings and feelings of anger and destruction. It required a tremendous effort on my behalf to restrain myself. I had previously submitted a report to the Religious Technology Center of my condition. 7.) During June/July 1986 I was approached by two Scientologists from the San Francisco area, specifically Concorde. Unfortunately I cannot recall their names but one of them had a sign writing business in that area. They proposed that I should assassinate Larry Wollersheim. They would organize the weapon and whatever else I needed to accomplish this task. I cannot say with any accuracy whether or not they had been instructed to organize this from a higher level within the organization. However, I now find it disturbing that Scientologists, myself included at the time, can consider this method of resolving what they consider to be a problem. In fact I blame the policy within the Church of Scientology known as the "Simon Bolivar" which encourages these acts against supposed enemies. At the time I seriously considered committing this crime but believed that I was going to be used as the "fall guy" because it would have been easy thereafter to show that I was demonstrating and stating that I found myself in an unstable condition. When I declined I fell out of favor with the Church of Scientology and was expelled without a hearing and on trumped up charges for which I am currently suing the Church of Scientology. 8.) The above is true and I am willing to submit to a polygraph test or any other method to establish the integrity of my statement. (His signature and notary signature appears here.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A high level Scientology intelligence director who has since defected told me about a favorite technique of Scientology's intelligence people. They set one of their own expendable people up, make them look crazy, (incriminating affidavits etc.,) then disavow them and let them act out the original covert operation plan but now because they look like they have been kicked out by the group, Scientology now has pausable deniability under the guise that the "disavowed" individual was a renegade acting on its own. In this case, I believe Malcolm was this expendable person but didn't realize fully that he was being set up until later. It is not at all out of character that Scientology went to him through nebulous third parties for the assassination. They have detailed personnel records, (sequential job histories and skills,) on everyone that comes into the organization. They knew Malcolm had the Special Forces skills to pull this off. They fed the info to outside operatives to blur the direct connection to them and had those operatives try to set Malcolm up to do the job after they had set up their alibi on Malcolm. Part two: Scientology And Its New Practice Of "Legal" Brutality "Legal" brutality is the deliberate orchestration of numerous different actions that are designed to make the execution of the justice process impossible. They are tactics which are designed to punish, obstruct, delay, intimidate, stop the proceedings, or to deliberately create a mistrial. They are used when you are reasonably certain you are going to lose the case and/or you want to stop a adverse precedent from being established. These are the tactics of losers and spoilers. Scientology's main defenses besides its first amendment religious immunity defenses is to rely on pounding its adversaries into inaction or flight by wearing or breaking them down. To overwhelm and introvert through complexity and confusion, 100 suits have been filed just against the IRS alone. This overwhelm, confuse, and introvert tactic also shows up in the courtroom where Scientology uses 3,4, sometimes as many as 7 different criminal lawyers from different firms to simultaneously hammer, intimidate, and bully the judge, jury, witnesses, court staff, security people and prosecutors. They use near continuous objections, gallery interruptions, and other miscellaneous non-procedural efforts often to set up their own mistrial for appeal. Their attorneys and their in-courtroom gallery operatives deliberately create an atmosphere of intimidation and fear. Everything and anything is done to increase their opponent's expenses and delay the proceedings. This Scientology style "legal brutality" is not a search for justice but again reminds one more of the older strategies of coercive persuasion, the breaking down of prisoners of war by constant psychological coercion, intimidation, and stressful interrogation by multiple interrogators. It is a primitive, brutal, and almost primal effort to establish pure dominance over the justice system. An additional part of the design of this "legal brutality" is to punish anyone involved for ever daring to sit in judgment of Scientology. It seems like Scientology deliberately wants to destroy even the possibility of rebuilding its completely destroyed reputation by continuing to try to become a notorious legend to help dissuade future litigants and lawyers from even thinking about using the justice system against them. "The Lotticks lost their son, Noah, who jumped from a Manhattan hotel clutching $171, virtually the only money he had not yet turned over to Scientology. His parents blame the Church and would like to sue but are frightened by the organization's reputation for ruthlessness." From the May 6, 1991 Time magazine article. Now add to Scientology's already formidable anti-adversary arsenal the fact that Scientology hires criminal defense attorneys for its civil cases and spends an estimated 20 million a year for 100 attorneys. This estimate for Scientology's total annual legal expenditures still may be grossly underestimated. When one adds in covert operation expenses by intelligence operatives, additional hired private investigators, their unprecedented large public relations expenses used to patch up their most embarrassing legal problems, and the thousands of its own world wide staff working full or volunteering part time in these legal, intelligence, and public relations areas, Scientology's real total legal expenses may run as high as $70 to $100 million a year.Still, not at all an unreasonable cost for "doing business as usual" to protect $200-$500 million a year in exceedingly high profit, often tax free gross income. The following will demonstrate how Scientology is putting the justice system and justice process in turmoil and peril by pioneering this new practice. 17.) Swearing out false lawsuits to intimidate, harass, stop, and discredit a critic or enemy. 18). Repeated usage of frivolous and expensive lawsuits to deter individuals or the media from stating anything hostile to Scientology, whether factual or not. 19.) "Bludgeoning" opposing witnesses 20.) Repeated ignoring of court orders and authority. 21.) Attacking judges to stop or slow the case from proceeding. 22.) Do everything possible to create their own mistrial. 23.) Extensive suppression of critical information. 24.) Filing meritless complaint with legal medical and other professional ethics boards. 25.) Possibly creating dummy cases where in fact Scientology is the hidden controller and financier of both the plaintiff and defendant positions. ... 17.) Swearing out false lawsuits to intimidate, harass, stop, and discredit a critic or enemy. The FBI discovered that Scientology's intelligence operatives tried to discredit Gene Allard a former high ranking member who had become a government witness on Scientology's financial fraud by filing a lawsuit that falsely claimed he had stole 27,000 dollars from Scientology. Scientology routinely swears out false charges knowing there is no real penalty in the American legal system for doing so. Recently they went to the Glendale California police and made a groundless kidnapping complaint Pricilla Coates the Director of an LA cult education group. 18). Repeated usage of frivolous and expensive lawsuits to deter individuals or the media from stating anything hostile to Scientology, whether factual or not). To bury the party suing Scientology in expenses and break their financial ability to pursue justice Scientology foods the dockets with motions, sues those who sue it in multiple jurisdictions, and sues the plaintiff's lawyers. Scientology has files over 100 lawsuits on the IRS, (one of them a 120 million dollar suit.) Boston personal injury lawyer Michael Flynn, for example, who at one time represented more than two dozen plaintiffs against the church, was sued by the church more than a dozen times in four jurisdictions for everything from contempt to defamation. (All the suits were eventually dropped or dismissed.) A recently discovered operation called "Plan 100" call for 100 lawsuits to be filed on one of its bitter enemies the Cult Awareness Network. Over the last year, (1992) the church has mounted an all out war against the Cult Awareness Network. According to the can Executive director Cynthia Kisser, there are nine suits pending against CAN by individual Scientologists and church entities in five different jurisdictions, with charges ranging from discrimination-alleging that CAN'S refusal to admit Scientologists to join as members constitutes religious discrimination---to fraud and deceit. "They are trying to bankrupt CAN," claims one lawyer involved in the litigation. "Its as simple as that." All of Wollersheim's key lawyers were sued by Scientology in a RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act.) After 12 years and hundreds of thousand dollars in cost it was finally dismissed against me in July 1992. In 1993 just months after losing the RICO suit Scientology filed another new harassment "try to break them financially suit," Scientology V. Wollersheim. No. C 332 027. Peter Georgiades who has represented several clients suing Scientology was sued recently for defamation. One suit was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction and another was filed later in another jurisdiction which is still pending. Scientology also filed a $416 million dollar libel suit against Time for its recent article on Scientology. Time's attorney stated, "Our second ground (for dismissal) is that Scientology is libel proof," says Abrams. "The church has so often been held to commit evil and despicable acts by courts and so often been written about in an extremely critical manner by others that it has no reputation for libel laws to defend or rehabilitate." 19.) "Bludgeoning" opposing witnesses. Scientology is notorious for using the courtroom stand to continue to punish former members brave enough to speak out. In the Wollersheim trial Cooley (their attorney) kept Wollersheim on the stand two weeks and used confidential auditing confessional material for this purpose. "At the [Wollersheim] trial Scientologists packed the courtroom and hallways of the courthouse and regularly interrupted the proceedings by protesting against alleged religious discrimination. "I'd let the jury out, let the [protesters] blab on, and then let the jury back in," says Swearinger. "It didn't bother me." Swearinger says he thought Cooley's histrionics were "comical" rather than effective, and that he often caught the jury, "rolling their eyes" at Cooley's "loud talk and hostility to opposing counsel and witnesses." 20.) Repeated ignoring of court orders and authority. For example, "On April 17 of this year [1992] Cooley, church general counsel William Drescher, and Bowles and Moxon named partner Kendrick Moxon were among a team of church lawyers soundly rebuked in a federal court ruling for their willingness to: "literally flout court orders and defy the authority of the courts." In his opinion Los Angeles Federal Special master [judge ] James Kolts called the church's tactics a: "cynical and unfair use of the judicial system." According to a transcript of the hearing, despite having been admonished not to raise issues covered in the briefs -- which included the Time cover -- Cooley jumped right in. "I'd like to address that Time magazine article, Your Honor, because I think it's crucial," he told Judge Letts. The judge disagreed, but that apparently did not deter Cooley. When Cooley continued to bellow over the ringing of the judge's gavel, Letts summoned the marshals. According to the opposing lawyer Cooley scurried out of the courtroom moments before two marshals arrived." After the court had ordered Wollersheim's files while in Scientology produced for the trial, Scientology destroyed all incriminating sections and altered whatever else it thought it could slide by. Scientology takes the attitude it is above the law and the only way you will get them to abide by it in substantial issues is to catch them violating it and FORCE them all the way to do what is required of them. This is part of the "legal" brutality philosophy that makes bringing them to justice so difficult and expensive. 21.) Attacking judges to stop or slow the case from proceeding. Besides what has been said earlier: "California Superior court judge Ronald Swearinger, who presided over the Wollersheim trial, describes the case itself as anything but normal: Church trial layer Earl Cooley and his co-counsel the late John Peterson filed a number of unsuccessful "writs and motions" throughout the trial in an attempt to halt it, according to Judge Swearinger. Three days into the trial the judge says they moved for his disqualification based on, "some secret conversation I had with someone I never heard of." They also filed a section 1983 federal civil rights action against both him and the judge who sat on the case prior to him, says Swearinger, on the theory that by allowing the case to go to trial, the judges were denying the church its civil rights." This statement, as carefully documented in the previously mentioned appendices, shows Scientology attacking judges on anything and everything Scientology can invent. The record shows that this is standard policy and procedure for Scientology in and out of the courtroom. Scientology's history in civil and criminal trials, detailed in the appendices, provides an overwhelming preponderance of evidence to the truth of this statement. In addition to the numerous examples of Scientology's continuous attack strategy against judges, described in the two previously mentioned articles and in the included appendices will be found the relentless ongoing pattern of attacking every judge on bias. This can be seen happening again in yet another more recent example. "Just last fall Cooley was brought in to argue the church's motion to recluse Los Angeles Federal Judge James Ideman who was sitting on three cases involving Scientology, based on the judges supposed bias toward the church... The church lost the reclusal motion and eventually appealed the decision up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to grant certiorari." For more details on Scientology's outrageous history of attacks on judges, see the two newspaper articles "Prior Sect Try at Judge Reported" and "Scientology's War Against Judges" at the end of this appendix. 22.) Do everything possible to create their own mistrial. Scientology creates an atmosphere of fear and bizarreness to attempt to create bias against themselves. As a deliberate fall-back appeal position if they lose Scientology attempts to create grounds for its own mistrial. They commit outrageous and unsociable acts in the courtroom which are deliberately designed to create an impression of bias or prejudice. In light of the continual hammering by Scientology's mistrial-promoting tactics and in light of its other deliberate intimidation and stress-promoting tactics to obstruct the justice process, because Scientology's courtroom antics are socially repugnant and personally threatening and these acts naturally may make people feel wary and alienated any judge can be seen to be facing a difficult legal situation at best. Affidavits and trial records should be thoroughly reviewed from the former criminal and civil judges, prosecutors, and opposing attorneys who have had the unique first-hand experience of trying to apply justice in a court of law to Scientology. From these records, and review of the Wollersheim trial record, this court will quickly get a clear perspective of Scientology's many mistrial prompting tactics. 23.) EXTENSIVE SUPPRESSION OF CRITICAL INFORMATION. When it concerns "freedom of information" or free press rights exposing Scientology, Scientology is at war with the outside world. This war has consisted of: attempting to use federal trade secret laws designed for business usage to try to silence anyone trying to expose information critical to Scientology. This is done by: A.) Attempting to establish new interpretations of copyright laws to silence factual information hostile to Scientology, the recent "Hubbard biography" copyright precedent. These interpretations originally hindered the publishing industry's free press rights to present important biographical facts on Hubbard that the public has a right to know, or needs for its protection. After considerable expense this precedent has now been reversed. B.) Attempting to, or successfully sealing court cases and records during or after litigation, for example, Church of Scientology v. Armstrong No.C. 420153 Cal. Super. CT.(1984). The information contained in the Armstrong case clearly showed the actual intentions, motivations and nature of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. These authoritative documents also evidenced the actual origins and nature of his created alter ego, Scientology and Dianetics. They showed a massive, critical, and fundamental contradiction to what Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard publicly claim themselves to be. The Armstrong documents represent the unifying "hub of the wheel" for all previous taxpayer paid, or other world wide disclosures on Scientology. Of itself, the Armstrong case is the single most critical piece of the Scientology puzzle that ever has become available and, Scientology fears its broad dissemination! Scientology's continuous efforts to seal the Armstrong public record underscores its importance. Former members have commented, that if when they were evaluating Scientology's actual intentions and statistics using Scientology's own "doubt" formula, if they would have seen all these Hubbard archival documents, no matter how long they had been a loyal Scientology member, they would have abandoned the organization as a complete sham. C.) Attempting to use copyright laws AND then unreasonable search and seizure to inhibit its adversaries and/or suppress archival material on Scientology. D.) Restricting evidence access. Scientology lawyers have been temporarily successful in restriction freedom of information requests for access to the thousands of documents seized from church headquarters in an authorized search by the FBI. Because of Scientology's use of a special language, Scientologese, and special security encoding much of this seized FBI information may still need translation, coordination, or distribution to the victims for possible legal actions. At the least, these restricted documents are still useful and vital to educators and the media for understanding the REAL Scientology. Access has been restricted to these highly damaging documents in part by Scientology's having to be informed in the approval process of the identity of anyone making such requests. The potential danger of such prior notice to Scientology is apparent from seized FBI documents. E.) Stealing books and materials from public agencies. The Nazis burned books; Scientology ran operations to steal all books and materials critical of it from U. S. public libraries. I was directly in touch with one of the operatives involved in the thefts from the LA library system. Former Scientologists Robert Dardano and Warren Friske who testified to the systematic theft and destruction of books critical of the Church from libraries throughout New England. Scientology keeps much of the information in these materials among those highest inner few who have passed extensive security and loyalty tests. Because sensitive or critical information is withheld or given on a strict "need to know" basis, the vast majority of lower level Scientologists that are neither intensively involved nor have risen to high positions on staff are generally aware of the contents of these materials. Celebrities such as Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Kirste Alley or others, who have endorsed and are publicly promoting Scientology unfortunately, are consistently the most isolated and least informed regarding the crucial evaluative information on Scientology presented in these materials. All of the previously mentioned, plus the other techniques covered in the following "Pervasive Pretext" and "Scientology's Actions Toward Its Adversaries" sections, will conclusively show that while Scientology sponsors "freedom of information" attacks on its adversaries, IT WILL NOT TOLERATE the same basic freedoms when it comes to itself or particularly its members. By hiding its crimes and continuous abuses, Scientology is trying to avoid the just and necessary social awareness and censure. If Scientology is allowed to continue to effectively use these various sealing tactics AND its other adversarial tactics no one will be informed enough to make rational decisions about Scientology. 24.) Filing meritless complaint with legal medical and other professional ethics boards. "Plaintiff's attorney Charles O'Reilly claims he became a target for retaliation after he won a 30 million dollar jury verdict against the church on behalf of former Scientologist Larry Wollersheim... O'Reilly contends that, in the years following the verdict, he was questioned by the California State bar for substance abuse, (the inquiry was eventually dropped,) by the IRS, (the investigation is ongoing,) and by the state tax franchise board, (no charges were ever brought.) In addition, the church wrote nine letters of complaint to the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers about (Michael) Flynn alleging unethical conduct ... Cooley insists that at least one complaint against Flynn was justified. "Flynn had a corporation called FAMCO in which shares were sold to lawyers throughout the country to participate in a nationwide program of civil litigation against the church!" ... according to a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, Flynn has never been the subject of a disciplinary action. Someone else who incurred the Church's wrath is Dr. John Clark, an American psychiatrist and outspoken critic of Scientology. According to the Latey decision, "Beginning in 1977 the Church of Scientology has conducted a campaign of persecution against Dr. Clark. They wrote letters to the Dean at the Harvard Medical School and to the director of the Massachusetts General Hospital. They refused to gag him. Scientology agents tracked down and telephoned several of his patients and interviewed his neighbors looking for evidence to impugn his private or personal actions. They submitted a critical report to a Committee of the Massachusetts State Senate. On three occasions during the last five years a Scientology "front" called the Citizens' Commission on Human Rights has brought complaints against him to the Massachusetts Board of Registration alleging improper professional conduct. In 1980 he was declared a "Number One Enemy" and in 1981 they brought two law suits against him (summarily dismissed, but costly and worrying). They distributed leaflets at the Massachusetts General Hospital offering a $25,000 reward to employees for evidence which would lead to his conviction on any charge of criminal activity. They stole his employment record from another Boston hospital. They convened press conferences calculated to ruin his professional reputation." Those voices that have warned of the Scientology danger have had to pay a heavy price. Adjunct Professor of Psychology Margaret Thaler Singer at UC Berkeley, Professors of Psychiatry Louis J. West at UCLA, John G. Clark of Harvard, Martin J. Orne at University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Law Richard DelGado of the UW Madison, and Professors of Sociology, Richard Ofshe at UC Berkeley, and Ronald Enroth of Westmont College have all been the targets of both professional and personal attacks. Besides distortions of truth and outright lies, charges that they are CIA operatives, associated with Nazi's, anti religious or the like, have been common. Those who continue to speak out become targets of sophisticated intelligence programs to silence them. Expensive lawsuits are filed. Spurious complaints are filed against the victim's lawyers with state Bar associations. Manufactured complaints are frequently registered with medical licensing boards or other regulatory agencies against the professionals who dare testify for the victims. These harassment programs are not created to win but to tie up the time and resources of this new generation of Patrick Henrys. When lawsuits do enter the court system, they are usually settled out of court before any unfavorable verdict is reached. Then, as part of the settlement agreement to forestall public attention the case is sealed. 25.) Possibly creating dummy cases where in fact Scientology is the hidden controller and financier of both the plaintiff and defendant positions. There is a new suspicion that in an effort to lessen the blow of its many court defeats and as a means to try to overturn or lessen the blow from the precedents of these losses Scientology has entered into a new level of covert operations on the justice system. Possibly in collusion with other organizations that are using thought reform techniques who currently have cases pending, In these suspected dummy cases Scientology uses its operatives and the cooperation of the other organizations under similar suits for using thought reform techniques. Besides creating a perfect plaintiff and creating a perfect or near perfect case, testimony, and "evidence" scenarios that are most advantageous to trying to overturn or mitigate some injurious previous ruling against it, this false suit ruse may also include first sponsoring false scientific studies using pre-rehersed members who already have just the perfect symptoms and answers to set a new precedent or mitigate an old precedent as subjects to prove that thought reform doesn't exist or that their members show none of its effects. Recently there has been a dis-information campaign to misrepresent the current scientific literature, discredit existing experts, and seal disclosures about thought reform technologies used in groups like Scientology. Within both the American Psychological Association and the American Sociological Association campaigns have been launched, in effect asking that this technology be declared nonexistent. One case that has been highly suspicious in this area has been the Holy Spirit Association for Unification of World Christianity [the Moonies] v. David Molko and Tracy Leal U.S. 88-1600. When you are involved in a suit with Scientology and its allies it is necessary to be aware of any other suits that seem to just conveniently "pop up" on issues similar to yours especially if they seem perfectly tailored to effect your suit adversely. While prosecuting the Wollersheim case one more than one occasion we had to deal with this phenomena of highly suspicious outside cases seeming being engineered and created to disrail the Wollersheim case. In Summary, Scientology's "Legal" brutality tactics adds a new low to the familiar legal saying, "If you have a good case, you argue the facts. If the facts don't suit you, you argue the law. If you don't have the law on your side, confuse the issues." With "legal" brutality tactics you don't try to confuse the issues your target is to actually break down the justice process anywhere and everywhere you can. When applied as a single tactic, (as done by some individuals in the past,) the tactic may be considered borderline legal or borderline unethical. When many of these tactics are applied together these tactics create a new previously unheard of threat to the justices process and to its spirit. They put the integrity of the justice process in peril. THE LAST SECTION OF Scientology's TACTICS ARE THOSE THAT ARE OVERT OPERATIONS 26.) Bald faced direct lying, 27.) Professional propaganda campaigns. 28.) Setting up and using "social reform" groups whose real purpose is to defend Scientology and attack their enemies. 29.) Using a front law firm as a de facto extension of Scientology's intelligence division and intimidation intelligence strategy. 30.) Deliberately recruiting and using "do anything to get the fee" private investigators. 31.) Possibly buying political influence. ... 26.) Bald faced direct lying, Scientology training to lie effectively has raised lying to a precisely practiced art form. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST TRAINING ROUTINE - TR L Purpose: To train the student to give a false statement with good TR-1. To train the student to outflow false data effectively. Position: Same as TR-1 Commands: Part 1 "Tell me a lie". Command given by coach. Part 2 interview type 2 WC by coach. Training Stress: In Part 1 coach gives command, student originates a falsehood. Coach flunks for out TR 1 or TR 0. In Part 2 coach asks questions of the student on his background or a subject. Student gives untrue data of a plausible sort that the student backs up with further explanatory data upon the coach's further questions. The coach flunks for out TR 0 and TR 1, and for student fumbling on question answers. The student should be coached on a gradient until he/she can lie facilely. Short example: Coach: Where do you come from? Student: I come from the Housewives Committee on Drug Abuse. Coach: But you said earlier that you were single. Student: Well, actually I was married but am divorced. I have 2 kids in the suburbs where I am a housewife, in fact I'm a member of the P.T.A. Coach: What town is it that you live in? Student: West Brighton Coach: But there is no public school in West Brighton. Student: I know. I send my children to school in Brighton, and that's where I'm a P.T.A. member. Coach: Oh, and who is the Chairman there? etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] B O A R D T E C H N I C A L B U L L E T I N OF 10 DECEMBER 1969 REISSUED AS BTB 21 JUNE 1975 CANCELS HCO Bulletin of 10 DECEMBER 1969 SAME TITLE PRO COURSES Not for distribution CONFIDENTIAL REPORTER TRS 1. Answering non loaded questions Purpose: To train a PRO to answer such question with confidence and simplicity as are often asked by reporters. E.G., What is Scientology? What's Clear, OT? How does an E-Meter work? Method: The PRO and 'reporter' sit across a table facing each other. The 'reporter' asks the questions and the PRO must answer, without a long communication lag and in a way which readily communicates to the reporter. The drill is coached as in the TRs. The drill is passed when the PRO is confident he can answer the basic questions asked about Scientology. 2. No Answer Purpose: To train a PRO to give a 'no answer' to questions he has no wish to answer directly. Method: To begin with the reporter reading the questions asked LRH by 'The Sun' reporter Victor Chapple -- and the PRO reads LRH's answers. This is just to accustom him to the idea of 'no answer'. Then using different questions, the PRO gives 'no answers'. The trick is to appear to answer the question by giving generalized statements in simple terms so that the reporter doesn't realize that his question hasn't been answered. The PRO should be completely causative over the communication and end it with certainty, so that the reporter gets this and goes on to the next question. 3. Non sequitur events Purpose: To enable a PRO to practice getting his "message" across and tag it on to any current event. Also a preparation for the day when our PROs will be asked to comment on current events. Method: One person has a newspaper in front of him and reads out a headline (and perhaps a line or two of the story if necessary for the PRO's understanding of it). Ask the PRO what comment he would like to make on it. The PRO should comment briefly and lead from this into his message. This drill is passed when the PRO can tack a message on to virtually any event, smoothly and with reality. 4. Handling a suppressive T.V. Interviewer Purpose: To train a PRO to get his message across in spite of the 'interviewer', in the few short minutes usually available on television. This is so that ... million people have no doubts after the programme what the Scientologist stands for and what he is against. Method: The PRO and interviewer face each other and the interviewer asks questions. The PRO attaches his message in varying forms to as many answers as possible. If the interviewer is SP he must be introverted as in the hat write up, and then the PRO has his "say". The interview has been successful when the PRO has got his message across to his satisfaction. 5. Handling an SP a) By overwhelm Purpose: To train a PRO to be able to establish Ethics presence over an SP reporter if the occasion arises, by such things as shouting, banging, pointing, swearing. To do this completely causatively until the poor reporter is 'caved in'. Method: The reporter and PRO sit across a table facing each other and the reporter asks SP questions. The PRO overwhelms without judgment in answer to the SP question until he does it with reality, causativeness and the overwhelm really reaches the reporter. TR 1 is a part of this skill -- there is no point saying the words if they don't reach the other guy. b) By being knowingly covertly hostile Purpose: To train the PRO to handle an SP reporter by word alone without the use of force as in (a). He uses the word as a rapier and plunges it at the reporter, so that the reporter introverts and drops the question. Method: The PRO and reporter sit across a table and the reporter asks SP type questions. The PRO observes what would be a button in relation to the question asked and throws this back with good TR 1 so that it reaches home. If the reporter is introverted the PRO is successful. If the reporter persists with the same question the PRO should not press the same button -- it obviously didn't work. He should drop it and use another one. If the PRO cannot think of a snide reply the reporter should just say "flunk, you haven't handled me. Start", or some such remark -- but should not tell the PRO what to say. When the confusion has come off the PRO will be able to handle and have a big win. The drill is completed when the PRO is willing to create a cave in with an accurate snide remark, question or statement. c) By stalling for time Purpose: To train a PRO to maintain his confront and composure when given some SP sensational news by a reporter, of which he has no prior knowledge. Method: The reporter asks the PRO for his comments on an entheta situation involving a Scientologist. The PRO maintains his ethics presence and duplicates the reporter's nasty angle to his satisfaction. He then stalls for time and gets the reporter to wait a few minutes or hours or so (whatever is necessary) while he checks his facts. The drill is passed when the PRO is confident that he could not be taken off guard by a reporter by being presented by an unknown situation. d) By handling the reporter in front of you (verbal Karate) Purpose: To train a PRO to handle the reporter in front of him, with judgment in present time. Method: The PRO and the reporter sit across a table facing each other. The PRO is asking a miscellany of questions. If it is a genuine question, he can answer it, if possible tacking his message on to the reply. If the question puts the least bit at effect, he takes this flow and turns it towards the reporter with an even greater velocity. He does this either by a snide remark, question or comment, or by physical overwhelm, whichever seems the right action to establish ethics presence. He should never allow himself to be put at effect, and should not tolerate it even for an instant, but immediately attack back. The drill is passed when the PRO no longer uses a machine or method to handle the reporter - but he is totally there, confident and handling. Comment If your student experiences difficulty on these TRs one of two things are out: a) Scientology TRs 0 - IV are not flat or b) he slipped through a previous Reporter TR without a weakness or button on him being found and flattened. History These drills have been evolved by PRO WW to train anyone on a gradient scale to handle any situation a reporter could pose. They are based on the HCOP/L 3.2.69 Public Image which states "Don't defend Scn, attack bad conditions and bad hats!" by Sheila Gaiman PRAWW From the hat write up of David Gaiman PR Chief WW Reissued as BTB by Flag Mission 1234 I/C CPO Andrea Lewis BDCS:AL:DG:SG:al for the Copyright 1969, 1975 BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF THE by L. Ron Hubbard CHURCHES OF SCIENTOLOGY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] Situation TR Once the normal reporter TR's had been completed Rod & I worked on new drill -- Handling the Situation. (This is now done before 5c.) In this we sat opposite each other as before, but the drill was to handle the 'situation'. This was basically a bad scene, in which something unpleasant and catastrophic had happened. Normally it was the sort of thing that one would wish to keep out of the papers. Examples -- all big, dramatic events, reeking of entheta, and all bad news: a) You are told a yacht called Apollo, registered in the name of LRH, has blown up and sunk 10 miles off Gibraltar. b) You are told the OES WW & the LRH Comm WW have been stopped at London Airport with L.50,000 in cash & 2 lbs of heroin on them, trying to leave the U.K. c) You are told that Quentin & Diana H. have been kidnapped by the Mafia in Los Angeles. d) You are told that the chief witness in the Manson trial, Mrs. L.K. has arrived in London, claiming to be LRH's illegitimate daughter. e) You are told a doctor in Northern England has been critised by a coroner at an inquest for his use of Dianetics on his patients, one of whom died. f) You are told that a senior member of the Gdn. Office WW is in the offices of the News of the World at 11 a.m. one Saturday morning, dictating a series of six weekly articles on the 'real lowdown of life in the Gdn. office'. Now the aim of the drill is to terminatedly handle the situation: in other words keep us out of the Press, keep the journalists quiet, extract us from the situation with honor - kill the story. We did the drill by giving each other the situation, a couple of minutes to think about it, and then handle. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] - - INTEL TR'S - TR 3 Int- Purpose: To teach a Student Int Officer to get the answer to a question without startling a target. To teach him not to be startled by suspicion and Accusation. Position: Student & Coach facing each other. Commands: No fixed Commands. Use "Start", "Flunk" & "That's it" as in other TR's. Training Stress: There are two parts to the drill. (a) The Coach assumes an identity such as Director of a Drug Firm, or Psychiatrist, or PR Man. Coach also picks a question that the student must get answered such as "What is my address", "What is my brother's name", "Have I ever had any connection to FDA". Coach gives the student a couple of minutes to mock up a suitable cover. Then the drill begins with the student being the interviewer who must get the question answered. Flunks are given for being too pushy. Failing to let coach Itsa (a silent int officer Invites Itsa), For making the Coach Suspicious. Coach gets gradiently tougher & evasive. (b) The coach picks an identity. The student picks a question as above. Flunks are given as in Part (a). If the coach guesses which question the student is trying to get answered (coaches don't go looking for the question but if it sticks out like a sore thumb then Flunk it.) Coach is more evasive in this one & flunks are given for creating suspicion. After the student does this well the coach throws in accusative comments, such as "Who are you working for?" " You're a Scientologist" "What are you, a Detective?". Flunks are given for failing to handle & for becoming startled. This drill is passed when the student can do part (b) of this drill flawlessly. TR 3 INT WITH BULLBAITING - Purpose: To teach a student Int Officer to improvise and maintain cover when confronted with something unexpected. Position: Student and coach facing each other. Commands: No fixed commands. Use "Start", "Flunk", and "That's it" as in other TRs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The preceding were the "truth" policies originated by Hubbard directly under the control of Hubbard's wife when she was overall head of all intelligence operations. In spite of Scientology's endless disclaimers about renegades out of control and this was not church policy Hubbard personally trained his wife and designed the intelligence division of Scientology. At this point, the statement of Judge Breckenridge on L. Ron Hubbard in his ruling against the church in 1984 seems particularly appropriate: "The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background and achievements." 27.) PROFESSIONAL PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS. Direct lying to its members and agents and the courts and government is not the only information distortion technique practiced by the church. Propaganda creation also plays an important role against its adversaries. One way that propaganda is used is by L. Ron Hubbard's policies promoting hate to Scientology members to create a polarity and dehumanization which will allow members to commit any illegal, uncivilized, and inhumane act deemed expedient. How Hubbard does this is described in his own policy directives. In HCO PL 5 October 1971 "Propaganda by Redefinition of Words": "A long term propaganda technique used by socialists (Communists and Nazis alike} is of interest to PR practitioners. I know of no place it is mentioned in PR literature. But the data had verbal circulation in intelligence circles and is in constant current use. The trick is -- WORDS ARE REDEFINED TO MEAN SOMETHING ELSE TO THE ADVANTAGE OF THE PROPAGANDIST. Many instances of planned and campaigned in order to obtain a public opinion advantage for the group doing the propaganda. Given enough repetition of the redefinition public opinion can be altered by altering the meaning of a word. The technique is good or bad depending on the ultimate objective of the propagandist. "Psychiatry" and "psychiatrist" are easily redefined to mean "an antisocial enemy of the people". This takes the kill crazy psychiatrist off the preferred list of professions ... The redefinition of words is done be associating different emotions and symbols with the word than were intended... Scientologist are redefining "doctor", "Psychiatry" and "psychology" to mean "undesirable antisocial elements" ... The way to redefine a word is to get the new definition repeated as often as possible. Thus it is necessary to redefine medicine, psychiatry and psychology downward and define Dianetics and Scientology upwards. This, so far as words are concerned, is the public opinion battle for belief in your definitions, and not those of the opposition. A consistent, repeated effort is the key to any success with this technique of propaganda. One must know how to do it." -- L. Ron Hubbard. Here is an example of Hubbard using the same techniques he ascribes to the Communist and Nazis. In Hubbard's own words, from HCOB 24 April 1969: "Lately public opinion has turned heavily against the suppressive groups and the public discovery that illegal seizure, torture and murder was hidden activity of political psychiatric groups ..." He takes an emotional generality and associates illegal killing, torture and seizure with psychiatry. Very good. Hubbard gets an 'A' in "Propaganda by Redefinition of Words 101." Many of Hubbard other writings also continually do their best to associate the A.M.A. and psychiatry with crime, Nazi concentration camps, the Communists -- almost anything which is despised. Hubbard 's policies actively promotes fanatical hate in Scientology members toward whatever he views as an enemy. Understanding this orchestrated promotion of hate, it becomes easier to understand the attitudes and actions of cult members toward Hubbard's enemies. They are fired up by Hubbard's own words. But why would Hubbard use such Black propaganda? In HCO PL 11 May 1971, talking about Black PR, Hubbard states: "Exploding it to the public ideally is an effort to make the public a vigilante committee." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] GUARDIAN ORDER GO 82 29th June 1971 DGs AGs PRO Hat For Public Advices It is time we began to label Psychiatry for what it is, the greatest failure of the Nineteenth Century. Every notorious criminal and defector of the Twentieth Century was in psychiatric hands before the crime. Burgess, MacLean, the Texas Tower murderer, Manson and all the rest were psychiatric failures first. Every infamous modern assassin was a psychiatric failure. Psychiatric victims are endless trouble to our society. We are tracing social turmoil, unrest, widespread drug addiction to psychiatry. We wish to issue a public warning that psychiatry kills. We in Scientology stand ready to help anyone, and help Governments rid themselves of psychiatric crime. There is urgency in this. In too many cases we are asked to repair persons already maimed beyond human tolerance by psychiatric interference and brutality. We blame psychiatric failure for the state of modern society. We will do all we can to help, but Nineteenth Century Psychiatry must go. We have never had a failure or upset that psychiatry had not first ruined. L. RON HUBBARD FOUNDER LRH/PC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 28.) Setting up and using "social reform" groups whose real purpose is to defend Scientology and attack their enemies. The FBI discovered in internal secret policy directives it seized from Scientology headquarters that the preceding is the real purpose of these groups.. Some front groups set up and directly or indirectly controlled by Scientology involved in either covertly or overtly attacking adversaries or defending Scientology are: the Committee To Defend The First Amendment, the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation, the Citizens Commission On Human Rights, Narconon, the Committee On Public Health And Safety, the Task Force On Mental Retardation, the Gerus Society, the Dianetic Information Group, the Committee To Re-involve Ex-Offenders, the National Commission for Law Enforcement And Social Justice, the Foundation For The Communication of Culture International, Doctors For Religious Liberty, Vanguard, April, (a pseudo anti cult organization), Alliance To Protect Religious Liberty, Committee For A Safe Environment, American Citizens For Honesty in Government, the Way to Happiness Foundation, the Whistle Blowers, HealthMed, Criminon, Applied Scholastics, Concerned Businessman's Association of America, and Sterling Management. Some of these groups also function as front groups for covertly recruiting new members gradually into Scientology. Scientology's Front Groups play an important role in Cult Propaganda. Scientology set up reform groups shortly after Hubbard, in 1966, wrote: "Churches are looked upon as reform groups. Therefore we must act like a reform group." Scientology and Dianetics are held in such disrepute that the press and public seldom believes their propaganda releases. Indoctrinated members can be made to believe the propaganda, but in public Scientology must use front groups to defend it, speak for it, and attack its enemies. Internal confidential documents seized by the F.B.I. show that social reform activities were designed primarily to attack critics publicly from the safe and respectable position of a humane social reform group. An example of Hubbard's thinking on this matter is policy directive HCO PL 12 January 1973 "The Safe Point": "... Rule 1 ... Get in a safe place and speak up. It is necessary of course to have a safe place to get into, from which one can in safely speak up. One cannot defend himself in a point that has no defenses ... Thus the Safe Point takes consideration over Active Defense ... a special unit must be set up and run at full steam to make a safe point and gain viable PR Area Control over all publics in the area ... The PR Area Control action in a new area can go so far as to create in the area of whole past and future track for the activity being established. It can make it sound old-fashioned, stable, reliable, expert, productive ..." The Scientology front social reform groups fulfill Hubbard's directives to a "T." Very few people will attack a social reform group, so Scientology now has its "Safe Point" from which these groups can get its propaganda messages across. The social reform groups do perform social good. If they didn't, they would be useless to Hubbard and easily seen through. In my 11 years in the organization I've noted common denominators to all the good works or public investigations and exposes these front groups perform. 1) The groups become covert recruiting bureaus for Scientology 2) These groups when exposed try to lend humanitarian or religious credibility to Scientology. After 11 years inside, my opinion is that Scientology's religious image is a carefully created image and illusion to protect their tax free profits the social reform groups that openly acknowledge their connection to Scientology are mainly for this purpose. 3) Exposes by these social reform groups are directed at groups, organizations or individuals that are critical, threatening, or hostile to Hubbard or Scientology. 4) Programs and orders for front group activities come from the intelligence section of Scientology. The top executive posts in the reform groups are guided by paid "church" intelligence staff. They try very hard to conceal these connections. 5.) Any good works done are to make Scientology or Hubbard personally seem "old, established, stable, reliable, expert, and productive." No doubt as "Safe Point" front groups are made known for what they are, new ones will be set up by Scientology to fulfill the vitally needed "Safe Point" function. If the I.R.S. were to dig through the payroll records of these front groups, they might find Scientology again violating its tax free status by engaging in political activities. 29.) Using a front law firm as a de facto extension of Scientology's intelligence division and intimidation intelligence strategy. "Bowles and Moxon was formed in 1987 with two lawyers. Moxon (fee $220 per hour) and name partner Timothy Bowles opened an office later that year in the church's Hollywood headquarters complex. Today seven of the firms lawyers are Scientologists including all four partners. Moxon for example has a long history with the church. In the late 1970's he served a stint as the District of Columbia Assistant Guardian for the Legal Bureau working in the very office where massive covert operations against the government were being run at the time, according to a stipulation of evidence that was agreed to by all parties in the 1979 federal criminal case against nine of the church leaders. "It's true that I was there doing legal work as a paralegal," says Moxon, 42... but he denies criminal operations being run out of the office: "I wasn't aware of it." For a better understanding of Mr. Moxon's last statement recall the training materials for Guardian Office staff which he has been trained on, especially the training policy called TRL, Training Routine Lying. 30.) Deliberately recruiting and using "do anything to get the fee" private investigators. Scientology has a policy that states that people and organizations recruit in their own image. This can be seen in Scientology's selection of private investigation firms. The crown jewel in Scientology's overt intelligence and the individual who reflects the recruiting in your own image principle best is Eugene Ingram, a LA private investigator who Scientology is purportedly paying $700,000 a year. According to the LA Times, Eugene was a LA police Sergeant until he was dismissed for tipping off drug dealers of upcoming drug raids and running a house of prostitution. Fellow officers who worked with him describe him as someone who will do anything for money. Eugene Ingram and the other bottom of the barrel dismissee police detectives and government agency people Scientology now recruits to do their overt dirty work again reflects the true nature of the organization -- an organization that has no intention to reform its ways. If it was sincere about sending the world a signal it really had reformed it certainly would have Mr. Ingram being paid through their law firms. Or have its in house law firm being run by a trained Guardian Office member who has signed on for the duration and was operating out of the center where the infiltration of the U.S. government was being coordinated. Past private investigators who no longer work for Scientology have said they were told to do investigations "trying to find dirt" In a recent American Lawyer article one investigator said, "[Scientologists are] terribly vindictive and can cause you [any] amount of trouble," The private investigators Scientology recruits do reflect the real intentions and the real secret Scientology. Scientology deliberately hire and maintains bottom of the barrel "do anything" private investigators in conjunction with and through their law firms so that any information they gather is protected by the attorney client work product and they are separated from any unethical activities by an arms length of pausable deniability that, "this investigator was overzealous and we certainly didn't order them to do that." These are not the kind of signals that show the world that Scientology has cleaned house or mended its ways. But it does wonderfully highlight the real nature of Scientology and the old business as usual story. One might wonder why Scientology would so obviously further jeopardize rebuilding its no-reputation or credibility with using such individuals in key roles of public exposure when at the same time they are spending tens of millions of dollars on PR and Propaganda campaigns to sell the story "we have really changed." There must be some very important reason for taking such a risk Well, there is. They are afraid of their own former members speaking out en masse. These highly visible henchmen serve to scare those who have been on the inside of Scientology who leave to keep their mouths shut. They know who these people and that the intelligence and harassment machine is still there! 31.) Possibly buying political influence. Has Scientology decided to take some of the hundreds of millions of dollars a year it makes while avoiding taxes other for-profit organization have to pay and start using it to buy political influence? You be the judge. "Lubell is just one of a stable of reputable lawyers the church has hired over the last decade, who range from Yingling to criminal tax expert Gerald Feffer of D.C's 133 lawyer Williams and Connolly (Yingling's husband) to the church's general counsel William Drescher, (paid $540,000 a year by Scientology,) a former partner of LA's now defunct Wyman,, Bautzer, Kuchel and Silbert. "The Internal Revenue Service has been trying to bring Scientology to justice, so far, to little avail. Scientology claims the IRS has a bias against it and is out to get the church even though its taxes are aboveboard. I'm sure the IRS does have a bias against Scientology just as it had a legitimate bias against Al Capone.... An October 1990 news release from the church [of Scientology], said Senator John McCain and Reps. Jon Kyl, John Rhodes, Bob Stump and then Rep. Morris Udall had written to the IRS asking it to explain why it was targeting Scientologists. I find it hard to believe these guys didn't have a clue. Then again God hasn't blessed us with the brightest politicians." Arizona Republic June 29, 1991. Putting some of it together in the "new" scientology's never ending story of actions toward its adversaries THE ARMSTRONG EXAMPLE According to the theoretical "bible" of intelligence strategy used by Scientology, a book called the "Art Of War," it is always better to attack and undermine your enemies plans than to attack their armies. The Armstrong case is a good example to witness the coordinated strategy of the "new" Scientology and the "new" Scientology Executives in action. It demonstrates the true Scientology style in handling truth, cover stories, intelligence tactics, and their conspiratorial world view in action against important current adversaries. From Scientology's legal arguments which attempted to seal the Armstrong case from the public and media: "The infiltration of the church was planned as an undercover operation by the LA CID, [criminal investigation division of IRS,] along with former church member Gerald Armstrong, who planned to seed church files with forged documents which the IRS could then seize in a raid. The IRS planned to assist Armstrong in taking over the Church of Scientology hierarchy which then turn over all church documents to the IRS for their investigation." "Armstrong has admitted, in a videotaped interview, to creating forged documents for placement in church files for the sole purpose of giving the false appearance of unethical or illegal actions committed by the church; and Armstrong has admitted, in a videotaped interview, his intention to commit perjury..." "In November 1984 ... Armstrong was plotting against the Scientology Churches and seeking out staff members in the Church who would be willing to assist him in overthrowing Church leadership. The Church obtained information about Armstrong's plans and, through a police sanctioned investigation, provided Armstrong with the defectors he sought." To what lengths will Scientology go to create false and misdirecting cover stories? In this case Scientology was expecting a major new IRS investigation and another adverse ruling. The above became a needed damage control cover story and a poison pill deterrent for the expected IRS problem. Using it, Scientology hoped to make itself look like a poor, weak, and harmless persecuted religion being taken over by a big, feared, anti-religious government agency in conspiracy with a Scientology defector. This rather transparent strategy was designed to draw in the uninformed to its defense and scare the IRS into backing off. This black PR tactic and the "hopelessly intertwined" religious issue confusions attached to it are relied on to create a "smoke and mirror" conspiracy in the minds of judges, legitimate religions, and honest civil libertarian groups. (Full details on Scientology's paradoxical use of the "hopelessly intertwined" religious issues are contained in the "Pervasive Pretext and Scientology" chapter.) At this time please read the following policy called TR-L and the actual Armstrong story as it was decided in the court under the rules of evidence. (The Armstrong story appeared in the "Informer," the leading former member newsletter.) THE TRIALS OF GERRY ARMSTRONG The following is an except from the Breckenridge decision in 1984 where he describes the history of the case. It is now judicial fact. From the Informer Newsletter. (All during the Armstrong events which go on to this day the same two individuals run the new Scientology, David Miscavige and Norman Starkey.) Defendant Armstrong was involved with Scientology from 1969 through 1981, a period spanning 12 years. During that time he was a dedicated and devoted member who revered the founder, L. Ron Hubbard. There was little that Defendant Armstrong would not do for Hubbard or education, one-third of his life, money and anything he could give in order to further the goals of Scientology, goals he believed were based upon the truth, honesty, integrity of Hubbard and the Organization. From 1971 through 1981, Defendant Armstrong was a member of the Sea Organization, a group of highly trained Scientologists who were considered the upper echelon of the Scientology organization. During those years he was placed in various locations, but it was never made clear to him exactly which Scientology corporation he was working for. Defendant Armstrong understood that, ultimately, he was working for L. Ron Hubbard, who controlled all Scientology finances, personnel, and operations while Defendant was in the Sea Organization. Beginning in 1979 Defendant Armstrong resided at Gilman Hot Springs, California, in Hubbard's "Household Unit." The Household Unit took care of the personal wishes and needs of Hubbard at many levels. Defendant Armstrong acted as the L. Ron Hubbard Renovations In-Charge and was responsible for renovations, decoration, and maintenance of Hubbard's home and office at Gilman Hot Springs. In January of 1980 there was an announcement of a possible raid to be made by the FBI or other law enforcement agencies of the property. Everyone on the property was required by Hubbard's representatives, the Commodore's Messengers, to go through all documents located on the property and "vet" or destroy anything which showed that Hubbard controlled Scientology organizations, retained financial control, or was issuing orders to people at Gilman Hot Springs. A commercial paper shredder was rented and operated day and night for two weeks to destroy hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. During the period of shredding, Brenda Black, the individual responsible for storage of Hubbard's personal belongings at Gilman Hot Springs, came to Defendant Armstrong with a box of documents and asked whether they were to be shredded. Defendant Armstrong reviewed the documents and found they consisted of a wide variety of documents including Hubbard's personal papers, diaries, and other writings from a time before he started Dianetics in 1950, together with documents belonging to third persons which had apparently been stolen by Hubbard or his agents. Defendant Armstrong took the documents from Ms. Black and placed them in a safe location on the property. He then searched for and located another twenty or more boxes containing similar materials, which were poorly maintained. On January 8, 1980, Defendant Armstrong wrote a petition to Hubbard requesting his permission to perform the research for a biography to be done about his life. The petition states that Defendant Armstrong had located the subject materials and lists of a number of activities he wished to perform in connection with the biography research. Hubbard approved the petition, and Defendant Armstrong became the L. Ron Hubbard Personal Relations Officer Researcher (PRO Res). Defendant claims that this petition and its approval forms the basis for a contract between Defendant and Hubbard. Defendant Armstrong's supervisor was then Laurel Sullivan, L. Ron Hubbard's Personal Public Relations Officer. During the first part of 1980, Defendant Armstrong moved all of the L. Ron Hubbard Archives materials he had located at Gilman Hot Springs to an office in the church of Scientology Cedars Complex in Los Angeles. These materials comprised approximately six file cabinets. Defendant Armstrong had located himself in the Cedars Complex, because he was also involved in "Mission Corporate Category Sort-Out," a mission to work out legal strategy. Defendant Armstrong was involved with this mission until June of 1980. It was also during this early part of 1980 that Hubbard left the location in Gilman Hot Springs, California, and went into hiding. Although Defendant Armstrong was advised by Laurel Sullivan that no one could communicate with Hubbard, Defendant Armstrong knew that the ability for communication existed, because he had forwarded materials to Hubbard at his request in mid 1980. Because of this purported inability to communicate with Hubbard, Defendant Armstrong's request to purchase biographical materials of Hubbard from people who offered them for sale went to the Commodore's Messengers Organization, the personal representatives of Hubbard. In June of 1980 Defendant Armstrong became involved in the selection of a writer for the Hubbard biography. Defendant Armstrong learned that Hubbard had approved of a biography proposal prepared by Omar Garrison, a writer who was not a member of Scientology. Defendant Armstrong had meetings with Mr. Garrison regarding the writing of the biography and what documentation and assistance would be made available to him. As understood by Mr. Garrison, Defendant Armstrong represented Hubbard in these discussions. Mr. Garrison was advised that the research material he would have at his disposal were Hubbard's personal archives. Mr. Garrison would only undertake a writing of the biography if the materials provided to him were from Hubbard's personal archives, and only if his manuscript was subject to the approval of Hubbard himself. In October of 1980 Mr. Garrison came to Los Angeles and was toured through the Hubbard archives material that Defendant Armstrong had assembled up to that time. This was an important "selling point" in obtaining Mr. Garrison's agreement to write the biography. On October 30, 1980, an agreement was entered into between Ralston-Pilot, ncv. F/S/O Omar V. Garrison, and AOSH DK Publications of Copenhagen, Denmark, for the writing of a biography of Hubbard. Paragraph 10B of the agreement states that: "Publisher shall use its best efforts to provide Author with an office, an officer assistant and/or research assistant, office supplies and any needed archival and interview materials in connection with the writing of the Work." The "research assistant" provided to Mr. Garrison was Defendant Armstrong. During 1980 Defendant Armstrong exchanged correspondence with Intervenor regarding the biography project. Following his approval by Hubbard as biography researcher, Defendant Armstrong wrote to Intervenor on February 5, 1980, advising her of the scope of the project. In the letter Defendant stated that he had found documents which included Hubbard's diary from his Orient trip, poems, essays from his youth, and several personal letters, as well as other things. By letter of February 11, 1980, Intervenor responded to Defendant, acknowledging that he would be carrying out the duties of Biography Researcher. On October 14, 1980, Defendant Armstrong again wrote to Intervenor, updating her on "Archives materials" and proposing certain guidelines for the handling of those materials. It was Intervenor who, in early 1981, ordered certain biographical materials from "Controller Archives" to be delivered to Defendant Armstrong. These materials consisted of several letters written by Hubbard in the 1920's and 1930's, Hubbard's Boy Scout books and materials, several old Hubbard family photographs, a diary kept by Hubbard in his youth, and several other items. Defendant Armstrong received these materials upon the order of Intervenor, following his letter of October 15, 1980, to her in which Defendant stated, at page 7, that there were materials in the "Controller Archives" that would be helpful to him in the biography research. After these materials were delivered to Defendant Armstrong, Intervenor was removed from her Scientology position of Controller in 1981, presumably because of her conviction for the felony of obstruction of justice in connection with the theft of Scientology documents from various government offices and agencies in Washington, D.C. During the time Defendant Armstrong worked on the biography project and acted as Hubbard Archivist, there was never any mention that he was not to be dealing with Hubbard's personal documents or that the delivery of those documents to Mr. Garrison was not authorized. For the first year or more of the Hubbard biography and archive project, funding came from Hubbard's personal staff unit at Gilman Hot Springs, California. In early 1981, however, Defendant Armstrong's supervisor, Laurel Sullivan, ordered him to request that funding come from what was known as SEA Org Reserves. Approval for this change in funding came from the SEA Org Reserves Chief and Watch Dog Committee, the top Commodores Messenger Organization unit, who were Hubbard's personal representatives. From November of 1980 through 1981, Defendant Armstrong worked closely with Mr. Gamson, assembling Hubbard's archives into logical categories, copying them and arranging the copies of the Archives materials into bound volumes. Defendant Armstrong made two copies of almost all documents copied for Mr. Garrison one for Mr. Garrison and the other to remain in Hubbard Archives for reference or recopying. Defendant Armstrong created approximately 400 binders of documents. The vast majority of the documents for Mr. Garrison came from Hubbard's personal Archives, of which Defendant Armstrong was in charge. Materials which came from other Archives, such as the Controller Archives, were provided to Defendant Armstrong by Scientology staff members who had these documents in their care. It was not until late 1981 that Plaintiff was to provide a person to assist on the biography project by providing Mr. Garrison with ''Guardian Office" materials, otherwise described as technical materials relating to the operation of Scientology. The individual appointed for this task was Vaughn Young. Controller Archives and Guardian Office Archives had no connection to the Hubbard Archives, which Defendant Armstrong created and maintained as Hubbard's personal materials. In addition to the assemblage of Hubbard's Archives, Defendant Armstrong worked continually on researching and assembling materials concerning Hubbard by interviewing dozens of individuals, including Hubbard's living aunt, uncle, and four cousins. Defendant Armstrong did a genealogy study of Hubbard's family and collected, assembled, and read hundreds of thousands of pages of documentation in Hubbard's archives. During 1980 Defendant Armstrong remained convinced of Hubbard's honesty and integrity and believed that the representations he had made about himself in various publications were truthful. Defendant Armstrong was devoted to Hubbard and was convinced that any information which he discovered to be unflattering of Hubbard or contradictory to what Hubbard has said about himself, was a lie being spread by Hubbard's enemies. Even when Defendant Armstrong located documents in Hubbard's Archives which indicated that representations made by Hubbard and the Organization were untrue, Defendant Armstrong would find some means to "explain away" the contradictory information. Slowly, however, throughout 1981, Defendant Armstrong began to see that Hubbard and the Organization had continuously lied about Hubbard's past, his credentials, and his accomplishments. Defendant Armstrong believed, in good faith, that the only means by which Scientology could succeed in what Defendant Armstrong believed was its goal of creating an ethical environment on earth, and the only way Hubbard could be free of his critics, would be for Hubbard and the Organization to discontinue the lies about Hubbard's past, his credentials, and accomplishments. Defendant Armstrong resisted any public relations piece or announcement about Hubbard which the L. Ron Hubbard Public Relations Bureau proposed for publication which was not factual. Defendant Armstrong attempted to change and make accurate the various "about the author" sections in Scientology books, and further, Defendant rewrote or critiqued several of these and other publications for the L. Ron Hubbard Public Relations Bureau and various Scientology Organizations. Defendant Armstrong believed and desired that the Scientology Organization and its leader discontinue the perpetration of the massive fraud upon the innocent followers of Scientology, and the public at large. Because of Defendant Armstrong's actions, in late November of 1981, Defendant was requested to come to Gilman Hot Springs by Commodore Messenger Organization Executive, Cirrus Slevin. Defendant Armstrong was ordered to undergo a "security check," which involved Defendant Armstrong's interrogation while connected to a crude Scientology lie detector machine called an E-meter. The organization wished to determine what materials Defendant Armstrong had provided to Omar Garrison. Defendant Armstrong was struck by the realization that the Organization would not work with him to correct the numerous fraudulent representations made to followers of Scientology and the public about L. Ron Hubbard and the Organization itself. Defendant Armstrong, who, for twelve years of his life, had placed his complete and full trust in Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard and the Scientology Organization, saw that his trust had no meaning and that the massive frauds perpetrated about Hubbard's past, credentials, and accomplishments would continue to be spread. Less than three weeks before Defendant Armstrong left Scientology, he wrote a letter to Cirrus Slevin on November 25, 1981, in which it is clear that his intentions in airing the inaccuracies, falsehoods, and frauds regarding Hubbard were done in good faith. In his letter he stated as follows: "If we present inaccuracies, hyperbole or downright lies as fact or truth, it doesn't matter what slant we give them, if disproved the man will look, to outsiders at least, like a charlatan. This is what I'm trying to prevent and what I've been working on the past year and a half ... "And that is why I said to Norman that it is up to us to insure that everything which goes out about LRH is one hundred percent accurate. That is not to say that opinions can't be voiced, they can. And they can contain all the hype you want. But they should not be construed as facts. And anything stated as a fact should be documentable. "We are in a period when "investigative reporting" is popular, and when there is relatively easy access to documentation on a person. We can't delude ourselves I believe, if we want to gain public acceptance and cause some betterment in society, that we can get away with statements, the validity of which I don't know. "The real disservice to LRH, and the ultimate make wrong is to go on assuming that everything he's ever written or said is one hundred percent accurate and publish it as such without verifying it. I'm talking here about biographical writings. This only leads, should any of his statements turn out to be inaccurate, to a make-wrong of him, and consequently his technology. "That's what I'm trying to remedy and prevent. "To say that LRH is not capable of hype, errors or lies is certainly (sic) not granting him much of a beingness. To continue on with the line that he has never erred nor lied is counterproductive. It is an unreal attitude and too far removed from both the reality and people in general that it would widen public . "...That is why I feel the falsities must be corrected, and why we must verify our facts and present them in a favorable light." The remainder of the letter contains examples of facts about Hubbard which Defendant Armstrong found to be wholly untrue or inaccurate and which were represented as true by the Hubbard's and the Scientology Organization. In December of 1981 Defendant Armstrong made the decision to leave the Church of Scientology. In order to continue in his commitment to Hubbard and Mr. Garrison in the biography project, he copied a large quantity of documents, which Mr. Garrison had requested or which would be useful to him for the biography. Defendant Armstrong delivered all of this material to Mr. Garrison the date he left the SEA Organization and kept nothing in his possession. Thereafter, Defendant Armstrong maintained friendly relations with Hubbard's representatives by returning to the Archives office and discussing the various categories of materials. In fact on February 24, 1982, Defendant Armstrong wrote to Vaughn Young, regarding certain materials Mr. Young was unable to locate for Omar Garrison. After this letter was written, Defendant Armstrong went to the Archives office and located certain materials Mr. Garrison had wanted which Hubbard representatives claimed they could not locate. At the time Defendant Armstrong left the SEA Organization, he was disappointed with Scientology and Hubbard, and also felt deceived by them. However, Defendant Armstrong felt he had no enemies and felt no ill will toward anyone in the Organization or Hubbard, but still believed that a truthful biography should be written. After leaving the SEA Organization, Defendant Armstrong continued to assist Mr. Garrison with the Hubbard biography project. In the spring of 1982, Defendant Armstrong at Mr. Garrison's request, transcribed some of his interview tapes, copied some of the documentation he had, and assembled several more binders of copied materials. Defendant Armstrong also set up shelves for Mr. Garrison for all the biography research materials, worked on a cross-reference systems, and continued to do library research for the biography. On February 18, 1982, the Church of Scientology International issued a ''Suppressive Person Declare Gerry Armstrong," which is an official Scientology document issued against individuals who are considered as enemies of the Organization. Said Suppressive Person Declare charged that Defendant Armstrong had taken an unauthorized leave and that he was spreading destructive rumors about Senior Scientologists. Defendant Armstrong was unaware of said Suppressive Person Declare until April of 1982. At that time a revised Declare was issued on April 22, 1982. Said Declare charged Defendant Armstrong with 18 different "Crimes and High Crimes and Suppressive Acts Against the Church." The charges included theft, juggling accounts, obtaining loans on money under false pretenses, promulgating false information about the Church, its founder, and members, and other untruthful allegations designed to make Defendant Armstrong an appropriate subject of the Scientology "Fair Game Doctrine." Said Doctrine allows any suppressive person to be "tricked, cheated, lied to, sued, or destroyed." The second declare was issued shortly after Defendant Armstrong attempted to sell photographs of his wedding on board Hubbard's ship (in which Hubbard appears), and photographs belonging to some of his friends, which also included photos of L. R. Hubbard while in seclusion. Although Defendant Armstrong delivered the photographs to a Virgil Wilhite for sale, he never received payment or return of his friend's photographs. When he became aware that the Church had these photographs, he went to the Organization to request their return. A loud and boisterous argument ensued, and eventually was told to leave the premises and get an attorney. From his extensive knowledge of the covert and intelligence operations carried out by the Church of Scientology of California against its enemies (suppressive persons), Defendant Armstrong became terrified and feared that his life and the life of his wife were in danger, and he also feared he would be the target of costly and harassing lawsuits. In addition, Mr. Garrison became afraid for the security of the documents and believed that the intelligence network of the Church of Scientology would break and enter his home to retrieve them. Thus, Defendant Armstrong made copies of certain documents for Mr. Garrison and maintained them in a separate location. It was thereafter, in the summer of 1982, that Defendant Armstrong asked Mr. Garrison for copies of documents to use in his defense and sent the documents to his attorneys, Michael Flynn and Contos & Bunch. After the within suit was filed on August 2, 1982, Defendant Armstrong was the subject of harassment, including being followed and surveilled by individuals who admitted employment by Plaintiff; being assaulted by one of these individuals; being struck bodily by a car driven by one of these individuals; having two attempts made by said individuals apparently to involve Defendant Armstrong in a freeway automobile accident; having said individuals come onto Defendant Armstrong's property, spy in his windows, create disturbances, and upset his neighbors. During trial when it appeared that Howard Schomer (a former Scientologist) might be called as a defense witness, the Church engaged in a somewhat sophisticated effort to suppress his testimony. It is not clear how the Church became aware of defense intentions to call Mr. Schomer as a witness, but it is abundantly clear they sought to entice him back into the fold and prevent his testimony. THE WOLLERSHEIM CASE, TIMES CHANGE, TACTICS DON'T What are the real reasons behind Scientology's endless stream of character assassinations? "The defense of anything is untenable. The only way to defend anything is to attack, and if you ever forget that, you will lose every battle you are engaged in, weather it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. Do yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will win." Another key reason for Scientology's adversarial tactics is not so much for the outside public, but to redirect their own members attention away from critically thinking about or investigating any of the adverse charges leveled against Scientology. As illogical as it sounds, when members see Scientology attacking accusers, they have been conditioned to think "We are attacking them louder and longer, therefore we must be right." Although this tactic is more suitable to the Nazi Germany era, "if a lie is told loud enough and long enough it will be believed," it is a continually repeated Scientology technique to minimize the effect of doubts creeping into its income base. The secondary effect of character assassination is to separate current members from communication or cooperation with the "evil or crazy" former members who have been exposed to non-censored information. These two factors plus the desire to limit the applicability of future legal precedents are at play in the Wollersheim case. Wollersheim has been repeatedly characterized by Scientology in the media and to its members as a draft evading college dropout, con man, drug using hippie drifter, a wife beater with severe emotional problems and having a prior mental history. Scientology also claimed, Wollersheim tried to extort money from the church, broke into church files illegally, ran out on debtors, falsified accounts receivables to obtain loans, was institutionalized for mental problems before being a Scientology member, and lashed out Scientology when his dreams of wealth failed to materialize. Apparently the Court saw the financial persecution differently: "Substantial evidence supports the conclusion Scientology leaders made the deliberate decision to ruin Wollersheim economically and possibly psychologically ... Nothing ... [in any] case we have been able to locate even implies a religion is entitled to constitutional protection for a campaign deliberately designed to financially ruin anybody -- whether a member or nonmember of that religion." To help create the necessary internal explanatory illusion and to help set the stage for limiting the precedent if they lost, besides issuing a general public notice of expulsion, Scientology created and distributed a 10 page "dead agenting" document called the "Wally Affidavit." In this document, in the form of a satirical often illogical story are statements designed to clearly signal members that Wollersheim was evil, a total "nut case," and what Scientology technology calls in their loaded language a Type III (completely psychotic.) Without explanation the document alludes to Wollersheim communicating with aliens from outer space and being ordered by them to attack Scientology. It went on to imply that while still a member, Wollersheim tried to sell an embarrassing news story on Scientology TO Scientology for 10 million dollars. The implication was also made that all important Scientology approved, certified, or validated achievements that Wollersheim completed or attained were attained under fraud, and Wollersheim had secretly been using those falsely attained status's for personal gain. This served as a cover story to members to help explain the failure of Scientology's infallible technology and its elite personnel's gross failure to discover these "facts" during Wollersheim's 10 years in Scientology and after his approximately 100,000 dollars in paid and received Scientology services. Even with ex-members who have been out for years, Wollersheim still finds individuals reluctant to cooperate with him or repeating the "nut case" intelligence line they have been fed until they fully understand: "Entirely by bringing about public conviction that the sanity of a person is in question it is possible to discount and eradicate all the goals and activities of that person." From the "Brainwashing Manual" ascribed to L Ron Hubbard. Oddly enough, current members or others repeating the Scientology attack line that Wollersheim had a mental history do not wonder about the glaring incongruity that Wollersheim was a mid-level executive Sea Org staff member who had gone through most of the secret OT levels both of which, according to strict Scientology policy, absolutely require that the person have no history of mental illness or institutionalization. Wollersheim was carefully screened and completely security checked by Scientology before he was allowed on Sea Org staff or allowed on the upper levels. No valid prior mental or institutional history existed until Scientology's intelligence division decided to promote one out of an incident it helped create. The character assassination does not stop here. To falsely limit the Wollersheim liability precedent to "only individuals who had PRIOR mental histories BEFORE getting into Scientology," Scientology intelligence division rewrites and creates several false "histories" for Wollersheim. Scientology also promotes Wollersheim was an incipient manic depressive prior to Scientology and Wollersheim is still an unbalanced manic depressive. The facts demonstrate otherwise, Wollersheim had no dormant or prior history of manic depression. After being exposed to Scientology Wollersheim did have temporary episodes of manic depression which Scientology themselves caused when they broke Wollersheim down in their experimental thought reform processes. Whenever one is an adversary of Scientology, one of the first things they must give up is sensitivity about their reputation. Over the past years Wollersheim has been reluctant to defend himself and has not answered his accusers cover stories. Now after 12 years Wollersheim feels it is necessary to protect the credibility of the work of bringing justice to Scientology and helping its victims. Scientology's statements are a gross TR-L (Training Routine Lying) -style distortions or outright lies. There is a "coincidence" that occurred during Wollersheim's 6 month trial which helps make this point perfectly clear. It also has the attempted precedent limiting intelligence signature of creating and rewriting "history" all over it. One lunch break in the emptied courtroom, while the evidence exhibits were apparently not being guarded, someone altered Dr. Margaret Singer's notes on her interviews with me to read that I had taken 300 LSD trips before entering Scientology. (Dr. Singer was the expert psychologist testifying on my behalf.) The document was remembered to not have this on it when it was entered into evidence. When Dr. Singer verified by phone that no such event occurred and she never wrote such a statement in her notes this signature incident created a flurry in the courtroom. Whether it's Armstrong, Wollersheim, Fishman, O'Reilly, Alexander, the Aznerands, Rokos, Kisser, Cezares, Wakefield, Schomer, Flynn, Yanni, Coredon, L Ron Hubbard Jr., Orsini, Behar, Cooper, Kaufman, Singer, West, Clark, Levitt, Mclean, Sulivan, Walters, Mayo, Flynn, McMurray, the Broekers, other judges, government investigators or prosecutors, ex-members, ex-celebrity members, new defectors, media people, adversarial witness or experts, expect to see these policies enacted. Only the names and the details of their attention redirecting cover stories or history and reality rewrites will change. -- And: These are not renegade acts. Scientology has become as determined and skillful in character assassinations as the middle eastern hashish assassins of the middle ages were in actual assassinations. Scientology's actions are completely consistent and congruent with the spirit and letter of their policies. In fact, their policy and world view DEMANDS such actions. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORE SCIENTOLOGY INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVE TRAINING MATERIALS The following operative training materials will demonstrate more of the machievalian depth of detailed PROFESSIONAL sophistication, deception and cover that Scientology's intelligence operations run at. Training programs and materials as are found in this appendix are not credibly assigned to a small renegade group operating on its own initiative without the knowledge or direct senior level control of Scientology. The signatures on these directives were the top executives in Scientology. Scientology and its representatives somehow believe that simply because they tell us they have changed, we are now supposed to believe an intelligence agency, because it has changed its name from the Guardian's office to the Office of Special Affairs (OSA), has now become a church. Somehow Scientology thinks we are all going to ignore the 40 year history of facts that: 1.) All Scientology actions are directed by Scientology secret or public policy. 2.) All Scientology policy of importance only and just comes from the very top of the organization. 3.) Scientology is a robotic organization that only and always follows its own secret or public policies 4.). There are no renegade actions in Scientology, Hubbard developed the Guardians office, developed its policy, trained its top people, (Mary Sue Hubbard his wife,) and had them report directly to him on a daily basis in disguised ways. 5. ) The Guardians office and the Watchdog Committee created the OSA for a cosmetic cover story of change and cleaning house. The OSA continues with the same old actions, uses the same old secret policy developed by Hubbard, (maybe now scrambled and security protected in their new computer system,) uses many of the same key old Guardians office staff, (i.e. Heber Jentchz, the new president of the reformed "church," and Kendrick Moxon, head of their in house legal firm, and at the top levels has been personally trained by Hubbard (Miscavige, Starkey and the old Watchdog Committee.) The only thing that's different is that they are reporting to Miscavige and Starkey, not Hubbard. The big lies that Scientology is still hoping someone will believe is that all its past outrageous activities that they were caught at were done by a tiny group of unsophisticated, disconnected, low level renegades who are now gone. Saying all the individuals involved at every level in the criminal activities are gone is just another big lie. Even most of those who were publicly disavowed are secretly still involved. If someone who has studied this information and had the misfortune to be on Scientology's enemy list believed the last statement I would imagine that person would still believe in mother goose. Scientology hasn't changed because Scientology's nature and policy hasn't changed. And, the way you know for certain Scientology's nature and policy hasn't changed is because Scientology's actions haven't changed. How can you change the "fruit" unless you change the "root." Until Scientology publicly disavows Hubbard the actual "root" source of the insane secret "church" policies (and drops the story that all its past outrageous activities at were done by a tiny group of unsophisticated, disconnected, low level renegades who are now gone.) Scientology can't even begin to change its nature. It will just become more secretive. Until it publicly disavows Hubbard's sociopathic policies it will blindly keep following them because that's what Scientology policy says to do, i.e. the "Keeping Scientology Working policy.. Scientology's changing its real nature because it tells you it has reminds me of the story of the Scorpion and the frog. A scorpion wanted to cross a river so it went up to the frog and said. " Take me across the river on your back." But the frog said, "No way, you will sting me to death and I'll die. The Scorpion replied, "I wouldn't do that then I would drown and die too." The frog thought about this but still didn't believe the scorpion. After much reluctance and continual convincing by the scorpion that he had changed and wouldn't sting him the frog finally consented to carry the scorpion across the river on its back. Half way across the river the scorpion the scorpion stung the frog. As the frog began sinking and dying he said, Why did you sting me after you promised you had changed and wouldn't? Now were both going to die." And the scorpion replied, "I couldn't help myself. It's my nature." (If you would like to read more detailed intelligence training procedures continue to through most interesting next section. If you have seen enough go directly to the conclusion and the included news articles.) About the following additional materials: In these materials a covert agent such as Dardano who was mentioned earlier is officially known in Scientology parlance as an F.S.M. To classify as an F.S.M., a Scientologist is first required to meet certain security precautions. Some of these requirements include: "complete family background checks, have no traceable addresses, limited and secure friends, a secret place to live, keep no Scientology materials in their home", etc. To ensure this security, the Guardian's Office often uses elaborate security checks utilizing a Hubbard device known as an E-meter (a crude lie detector). Once an F.S.M. is security cleared he then attends courses and seminars usually at the National Headquarters in California for instruction necessary to run the criminal operations engaged by the Guardian's Office. One such course entitled "Confidential Intelligence Course". The course "outline" is 20 pages in length and describes in subject form the various elements necessary to conduct criminal operations. The last page of the Confidential Intelligence Course is an example of one Scientology agent completing courses in criminal operations. Some of these subjects include "Brainwashing", Espionage, Counter-espionage, Spying, Terror Stalks, the War, Codes and Coding, Combat Information Center Series (C.I.C.), Counter Insurgency Campaigns, The Spy and His Masters, Building a Cover, Covert Operations I & II, Security and Theft, Art of War, Enemy Names, etc. This particular course, which contains more than 400 subjects, some of which are contained in the beforementioned paragraph, also covers: teaching agents to lie, i.e., TR-L or Training Routine to Lie; effective use of extortion, forgery and blackmail, kidnapping and altering appearances. The seized FBI documents reveal that Scientology primarily emphasized programs and operations to commit burglaries and larcenies with specialization in covert infiltration courses such as "The Strike", a document instructing F.S.M.'s in "12 steps" on how to break in and steal the "target objective". A still more detailed study on the "tools of the trade" necessary to break in, are taught in a course entitled "Walk Ins". "Walk Ins" provides instruction on use of burglar tools and what to look for and look out for. After the burglary, the course "Security" describes "how not to leave evidence behind". Subjects covered in this course are fingerprints, untraceable phones, light patterns left behind in Xerox machines, saliva analysis and what to do if you get caught, with examples of agents whose covers were "blown". Once instruction for burglaries and larcenies was completed, F.S.M.'s then reviewed "Guardians' Orders". Guardians' Orders were normally ordered by Mary Sue Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard's wife and second in command to Hubbard. Orders, usually many on a daily basis for years, instructed the Guardian's Office to deploy its agents world wide for "attacks" against "targets" (critics or potential critics). The success of these F.S.M. attacks is evident in a series of documents known as "Compliance Reports" and "Bonuses" given by Hubbard and the Guardian's Office to agents running a successful campaign. A Compliance Report is a report from an agent in the field reporting back to the local Church Guardian who then reports to National Headquarters. From the national level a summary report would then be sent "uplines" from the National Headquarters to L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard, now Miscavige and Starkey. (The following is just a small sample of the training of these operatives.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] SECRET 25 March 1977 All concerned BI staff (Board of Investigation) All Sees (Secretaries) DGI US OFFICE (Deputy Guardian International) Via: DDGI US RE: RED BOX Dear All, This is to introduce into BI US the complete red box system. Most of you have heard of this earlier - I will now explain it in detail. First of all, all data that is red box data, has to be pulled from your areas. The complete definition of Red Box material is attached. Secondly, you must ensure that none of your juniors (for those of you who have them) have red box data in their areas. All the red box material from your areas must be centrally located, together and in a moveable container (ideally a briefcase), locked, and marked. When this is done in each area, we will divide up the amounts and deputize persons in the area to be responsible for its removal from the premises in the case of a raid. This procedure will be drilled. This procedure will stay in at the new location. Please have all this data sorted and located in proper container by Monday night March 28. I will then divide up removal duties, and we will drill it Tuesday night just before the all hands. Love, Judy RED BOX DATA INFORMATION SHEET 1. What is Red Box data? (a) Proof that a Scientologist is involved in criminal activities. (b) Anything illegal that implicates MSH, LRH. (c) Large amounts of non FOI docs. (d) Operations against any government group or persons. (e) All operations that contain illegal activities. (f) Evidence of incriminating activities. (g) Names and details of confidential financial accounts. 2. Where is Red Box data kept? (a) Out of date material or finished cycles that can be shredded should be. (b) Large amounts of red box data that is not needed for day to day function but cannot be destroyed is located with all our NON FOI docs - and can be called for via CIC. (c) Small amounts of data that must be kept on hand due to security and frequent use - is to be kept in a briefcase locked up - and is to be marked. (In BI office area.) 3. How is Red Box data, kept on BI premises, cared for? (a) This data will be picked up and carried out of the building by `owner' immediately upon notification of a raid, search warrant etc. (b) Persons carrying this data (as few as possible) will leave the premises and only return when they have called in and received an "all clear". (Details of who goes where with what data will be sorted out later - and drilled.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] DG 1 US 8 July 1976 cc: Sec Off cc: DDGUS DGUS GENERAL CATEGORIES OF DATA NEEDING CODING FOR BI 1. Incriminating, undercover activities and the like. This breaks down into the following areas. a. Violations Of our status as a tax exempt, non profit org. 1. Evidence of the C of S lobbying. 2. Evidence of the C of S engaging in political activities -- proposing legislation, supporting candidates. 3. Evidence of legal or control ties to the B6 groups. Such as a program to get various B6 groups to propose a bill. b. Subversive activities. While we do not carry on any of these activities, there would therefore be no evidence of such -- we should ensure that we do not word particles in a way that makes it look like we do. This also falls under #4 below. c. BI confidential projects and actions. (a) Disinfo covert Ops etc. d. Money deals that might provoke government tax offices. (a) Large transfer of funds out of the country (b) Missions burying or hiding income, setting up false accounts, using Msn funds to finance a profit making loan company owned by the mission holder, etc. (c) Basically anything that is in violation of our exempt status as non profit org. (d) Other confidential financial deals as fall into this category of provoking interest in our finances. 2. Some traffic on BI flubs. a. Strategy for handlings. b. Apparency of violation to the above points. 3. Things that we do not want connected to LRH or MSH. This we handle by coding their names. 4. Words or actions that tend to dispute the fact that the C of S's motives are humanitarian: i.e., harass, eradicate, attack, destroy, annihilate, cave in, entrapment, stir up the opposition. a. Most of the instances that would be described this way can also be reworded and not cause any question re our motives. In other cases, say a specific target ... 5. Actions of confidential corporate tax bodies, tax strategy, some BI money CSWS, and occasionally names of accounts. 6. Admission to unpunished crimes and/or incriminating data. This would mostly come on personnel lines. CSWs etc. 7. CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, etc. TYPE TITLES AS HEADINGS ON PARTICLES. For this there is an established code: CONFIDENTIAL = FORMAL HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL = VERY FORMAL VERY HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL = INFORMAL SECRET = FIRST CLASS TOP SECRET = TOP CLASS RESTRICTED = LIMITED The reason for this is to label a particle as Secret and send it through the mail lines will attract the attention of any Customs inspectors. 8. Another way we catch the eye of Customs is by capitalizing the names of intelligence type groups such as CIA, IP, SECRET SERVICE and names of Government agencies. The handling on this is to avoid using the names at the top of the page or in headings, or in paragraph headings. And, typing them in small letters, ip, cia, secret service. 9. When a coded dispatch is sent between orgs all cc's are to be written on the Original but only one copy is sent - to the original. He then decodes the particle and sends cc's to all terminals named on the particle, the same day. 10. Things that we do not want connected to the C of S: Secret PR and BI front groups. 11. Anything that gives actual evidence of Scn being in Legal control of any B6 type groups. These groups are a) Applied Scholastics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] GUARDIAN ORDER GO 2034 DOs/AGs 17 September 1976 DGIs/AGIs BrII Dirs BI SEC OFF THE CORRECT USE OF CODES To ensure that coding is done correctly, with the correct subjects coded and overcoding avoided, the following steps are laid down: Codes are used for the following general headings: 1. Incriminating, Undercover or disinformation, covert operations and the like. Incriminating activities would include things like lobbying where this is inhibited in non profit corporations, also money deals that might provoke government tax offices. 2. Things that we want unknown as connected to' the C of S: secret PR and BI front groups. 3. Legal, PR and BI traffic on BI flubs. 4. Things that we want unknown LRH or MSH connected to - this is handled by coding their names. 5. Words Or actions that would tend to dispute the fact that the C of S's motives are humanitarian: i.e., harass, eradicate, attack, destroy, annihilate, cave in, third party, spreading rumors, entrapment, trap or entrap, stir up the opposition. 6. Actions of confidential corporate tax bodies, tax strategy, some BI money CSW's, and occasionally the names of accounts. 7. Anything that gives specific and actual evidence that scientology is in legal control of B6 type groups. These are groups that are separate legal entities to the C Of S. 8. Admission to Unpunished crimes and/or incriminating data. This would mostly come on personnel lines. In addition to the above there are certain things that get government Customs upset and more curious about what is in the mail pack. These are such things as "CONFIDENTIAL" "SECRET" "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL" "TOP SECRET" "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL" "RESTRICTED", etc. written across the top of the particle. To handle the use of confidential, secret, etc., type titles, the following will be substituted: CONFIDENTIAL - FORMAL HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - VERY FORMAL VERY HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - INFORMAL SECRET - FIRST CLASS TOP SECRET - TOP CLASS RESTRICTED - LIMITED GUARDIAN ORDER GO 1150 7 May 1974 DGs/AGs DG Infos & DAG Infos CONFIDENTIAL RE: INFORMATION BUREAU STATISTICS As the above has been the subject of much misinterpretation and misunderstanding the following is issued to clarify the definitions of Connection and Incident. CONNECTION A Connection is: A. Any person or group in close connection to a subject under investigation relevant to the subject's environment in P.T. or at any point in the past (see below), and B. Any link, familial, social, economic or professional found between a person of interest to Intelligence or under investigation and any established enemies, potential enemies, the seven areas or key members of the seven areas. The seven areas being: 1. Press and Media 2. Intelligence 3. Psychiatric and Mental Health Groups 4. Professional Medical Associations 5. Financiers, Banking 6. Public Relations Groups 7. Drug Firms and Associations. Given that Mr. X is under investigation in category A, connections include: 1. X's immediate family - mother, father, brothers and sisters, children, spouse(s). 2. X's immediate juniors and seniors at work. 3. X's fellow Directors or partners if in a company or business. 4. Any group, society, business, that X is involved in. 5. Fellow members of X in any committees or small formal or informal groups not exceeding 20 in membership (but not all the other members of a large group). 6. Fellow officers of any group X is an officer of. 7. Anyone that X or another describes verbally or in writing as a friend, associate or colleague of X. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] RE: CODING/WORDING OF MESSAGES RE B-1 ACTIVITIES MOTIF Dear Dick, A motif type way of writing about operational details such that casual or even careful reading gives no indication of B-1 activities nor causes any suspicion of criminal activity. A possible motif to use is auditing. Auditor (agent) is working on a PC (agency or group) primarily concerned with pulling withholds (files). The auditor has to get the ruds in on the PC (i.e. get placed), and has to get the PC in session regularly. In instances of out tech, particularly severe ones where the PC became aware of such, the auditor would have to be pulled off the case and especially briefed on what to tell the PC's friends and relatives (other agencies). Specifics could be described as incidents of the PC's. All such could travel in PC folders with copies of actual or mocked up sessions, if necessary. Anyway this or another code that has a motif such that people can use it without a lot of memorization. All a person would need is the names of the PCs (agencies) and, in B-1, the names of Auditors ('John Silver', for instance). It should be issued confidentially to people who would have use of it (me, Duke, Barb, Pgms people, B-1 terminals, Con Comms). Quickly. Love, Henning DGUS HH/bc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] GUARDIAN ORDER GO 907 22 August 73 Those Concerned CONFIDENTIAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATIONS AND PREDICTIONS When an agent or operative turns in summaries or documents, those are poured into the main Intelligence Files and any "special tank" that is of current interest. These main files or "special banks" can be made to operate like computers without the bother of electronic liabilities. Modified only by errors of concentrated attention where none should be going or omissions of areas that should be under collection, these files or "special banks" will divulge new data. Here is where we leave the subject of Intelligence Reports (Use HCO PL 25 April 1968, Intelligence Actions) and enter the field of ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION. (See GO 784 Intelligence, Its Role 8 June 1973). A main file is where everything is filed. A "special bank" is a separate file where data is ADDITIONALLY AND ALSO filed relating to an exact subject. When filing and cross-indexing is kept up to date (and it always must be) it is now possible to begin the work of ESTIMATION. This is done by examining the main files and locating the fattest folders related to any one group of subject. Let us say one is just now interested in dog catchers. The cross file index, if properly prepared, will show that several dog catchers are in the main files. One simply pulls their files from the main file, leaving a dummy to catch new filings and to show where the main file is, and makes a "special bank". This is now the Dog Catcher Special Bank. Now if you look at the above paragraph again you will see that SOMEONE had to say that "we are now interested in dog catchers". This in essence is an ESTIMATION in a crude form. One noticed by general observation that there simply seemed to be a lot about dog catchers lately getting into the main file. So the head of the section being alert decides that there might be something growling in that area. So he rapidly makes up a "Special Bank" of all files that seem to be concerned to some degree with dog catching. Noticing that we should be looking at these dog catchers is what could be called "flair". It's a "Hey, looking this over we seem to have a lot of dog catchers lately, so I better get some data on them and make an estimation." No file or computer can actually THINK. It can however be so arranged that QUANTITY begins to show up around certain names and that a casual examination of those names shows they seem to have dog catching in common. So an Estimator, working the files routinely, having noticed this, would make a "special bank". The "special bank" is not very elaborate. It can be as crude as simply spreading out the folders on a desk and looking them over FOR THINGS THEY HAVE IN COMMON OR NAMES IN COMMON TO THEM. It can be as elaborate as making a new card index for every name in those files and what file they came out of; then filing these cards in alphabetical order. As one has taken EVERY name out of each file in turn and put each on a separate card, it is obvious that when one then puts them in alphabetical order, the names in common to two or more files will occur as two or more cards. If agents are trained to collect all names and connections of names on every investigation and if these names are supplemented by adding in directories, and if filing has been kept up so that a file exists for every name, when you choose files for a special bank they will be the fattest on that subject. And when you work the special bank over again, you will get the precise common denominators of people that run through several files. You can now say, "Get me more data on Mr. Plow, Mr. Row, Mr. Bow and Mrs. Snap" and when that data comes in (and is added to main files but especially to this "special bank") you will suddenly find yourself expanding ABOVE the level that your special bank was at before. In other words, you have found new horizons. You will find if you do this that Mr. Plow and Mr. Row are just goofballs or dogmeat sellers, that Mr. Bow died last year and that Mrs. Snap is all you have left. So we look up Mrs. Snap even further, "Hey, go look over Mrs. Snap again" and we suddenly find she was receiving money for a fund called "Kennel Support" but was actually the head of a dog catcher ring. We can now PREDICT. If we are out to handle the dog catchers we will have to work on Mrs. Snap to get her to reform. We can write up a pgm like this: PREDICTION: DOGS WILL CONTINUE TO DISAPPEAR. "The situation is that dogs are getting caught." "The WHO is Mrs. Snap." "The following programme based on best advices should be carried out: "1. Confront Mrs. Snap and get her attitude..........etc". One needn't elaborate for it is obvious that many ways exist to legally and ethically persuade Mrs. Snap to give up her career of crime. The tools one is using consist of looking for people or groups that are themselves outpoints. This is about all the relationship this has to the Data Series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] WALK-INS A walk-in cycle goes generally as follows: 1) You must have a means of access to the building you are interested in. In a government building this almost always means either a government ID (or going in with someone that has a government ID), or an excellent suitable guise. A private building may be as simple as signing in. When signing in to either a government or private building, the signature should be scrawled and the destination should not be your actual destination. Except in rare cases it is usually sufficient to say you are going to the library or some such place. You should have a story already made up that will be plausible should you be asked what you are doing. This story also has to be very flexible or else you have to have different stories for different stages of the walk-in. A story that you would tell a guard on your way into the building may be entirely inappropriate if you're caught with your hand in the file cabinet. And it will make a difference if the person questioning you is a cleaner, guard, employee, and where you are, what you're doing, etc. So think it out well before you go in. 2) Locate a safe space in the building where you can sit down and relax and talk without feeling paranoid. This can be a library table, an empty office -- whatever looks good to you, and that you would feel comfortable with. Lots of times in a walk-in you'll have to sit around and wait a couple of hours for your target area to clear out. If you're not comfortable in the area you're waiting in, the rest of the cycle can go pretty rough. While you're looking for this space you also have to really assume the beingness of the type of person you're alleging to be. For instance, if your story is that you are an employee of the organization you are in, you have to feel that you are an employee. If a cleaner walks in on you or a guard asks you a question you have to approach your response and manner of response from the viewpoint of your beingness. If a cleaner walked in on you in your office at the org you'd probably say "Hi" and go about your business. You wouldn't get startled or upset or make some dumb excuse and run out of the room. 3) After you've located a safe space and are relaxed in it you should go out and get familiar with the building. The first thing you have to locate is a Xerox machine because if you can't copy the documents there's not much sense in being there. Also, you don't want to have already obtained the file and then have to waste time in finding someplace to copy it. (Note: There is always the alternative of taking the file out of the building to copy. I very seldom do this unless I have to. I much prefer to copy it in the building because you add too much time to the cycle by traveling to another building. You also have to sign in and out again with the guard, which looks somewhat odd to an observant guard.) Most government buildings have an excess of Xerox machines. They are usually easy to find. Even most private buildings have a Xerox machine in any large office. You want to choose a machine that is located away from the area that you will be obtaining material from. In a large government building you simply go to a different divisional area from the target area and find a Xerox machine. If you're in a private building, chances are there are many different organizations in the building. Go to another organization or suite of offices and locate a Xerox machine there. Often times you will find the Xerox machine locked. If you are familiar with Xerox machines you'll know where the "Main On" button is. (Note: It's a very good idea to be thoroughly familiar with all manner of Xerox, SCM, etc., copiers so that you can easily change paper and toner, clear jams, etc.) It will be protected by a locked cover but should be accessible by lifting up or pulling out a corner of the cover. For instance, on the Xerox 7000 you simply lift up the corner of the cover nearest you as high as you can without binding the cover, and stick a finger (or a long instrument like a letter opener) in and push down the "Main On" button which is located to the front, just a few inches in front of the middle of the machine. Nearly all copiers are accessible with some variation of this, it just takes looking and experience. Ensure that you can turn on the machine, it works, and that you have sufficient paper. Then leave the machine on and leave the room. 4) Locate the target area. You should already know the room number before going in. Walk past the room, observing all rooms in the area for any lights or other indications that they are occupied. If it is apparent that the room, or rooms close to it are occupied, then go back and wait and check again in 30- 45 minutes. But don't get into making a lot of trips past the area. 5) When the area is clear then go to the room door and try it to see if it is unlocked. (Note: It isn't unusual for room lights to be left on and the doors closed with no one in the room. If you have any feeling that someone might still be in a room then go up and knock. If someone answers, open the door and ask them for a match or to use their phone, or some such. Also, use the opportunity to look at the door latch so that you know its configuration. If the door is unlocked, just Open it and go in. If it is locked then you have to figure out a way in. The most successful ways of opening a locked door have been variations on the credit card. This can be used if the latch is slanted or curved going into the door jamb: [hand-drawn sketch of types of curved latches] If the latch is straight then the lock will have to be picked. [hand-drawn sketch of the type of latch that will have to be picked] If you have a curved or slanted latch (this is the most common type of door latch) and there is no door stop (that [hand-drawn sketch of door, showing jamb and stop] strip of wood that the door closes against) then it is a straight in shot with a credit card type tool (a piece of straight sheet metal is best). You just slide the tool in between the closed door and the jamb and slide it up under the latch -- the door should open. In doing this it is usually best to pull the door towards you as it relieves pressure on the latch and makes the card easier to slide up. (See page 3a) [?] If there is a door stop (as happens most frequently) then you can't dust stick a credit card straight in -- it has to bend around the corners: [sketch of door frame showing door, jamb, stop, and where credit card would go] The best thing is to manufacture a permanent tool rather than trying to bend up cards. You should obtain a thin sheet of metal and cut it out in the following shape: [Sketch showing shape and dimensions of tool described in text. Shows sections A, B, and C referred to in text below.] [Winfax, Check to see if the next 6 paragraphs are out of place I think you have the master.] [full-page drawing, showing wall and door, with the following instructions] Push here with a foot to get extra room to insert tool. Once the tool is in position then slide it up the side of the door/door jamb to the latch. Use this extra space to maneuver the tool between the door, the stop and the door jamb. [Next Page] [full-page drawing, view from above of door, latch, door jamb, and credit card, showing where to insert the credit card] The credit card is simply inserted in the space between the door and the door jamb and used to slide the latch out of the door jamb, working on the slanted part of the latch. [Next Page -- handwritten "Page 4b"] [full page drawing, showing detail of how to use homemade tool to force door latch] Front and top view of how the slanted tool works on the latch. As the tool is moved upwards, it forces the latch out of the door jamb. The curved shape assists in raising the latch better than a straight-edge would do. The "b" section should be about as long as the average door stop (about 3/4", but measure it for yourself). The '"c" section should be as long as will comfortably fit into your hand. The "a" section should be about 2-2 1/2" long, but only a portion of it will actually be working on the latch. Note that the slope of the "a" section drops off sharply at the beginning. This tool is then inserted at the bottom of the doorway, slid up the doorway between the jamb and the door - thus opening the latch. If you have trouble inserting the tool, use your foot and push in the lower corner of the door as far as it will go. This should give you sufficient room to insert the tool. (See pages 4a & 4b). It should be noted that you will need two tools - one for right hand doors and one for left hand doors. As with the straight in shot it is usually best to pull the door towards you to relieve some of the pressure on the latch. Often you will have to move the tool back and forth several times (or more correctly - up and down) to catch the latch correctly, while moving the door back and forth. It's a "feel" thing that you need experience on. Now very occasionally you find a latch that slants back into the room rather than out - that if you could look down on the latch from the corridor you would see [sketch of what you would see] rather than the normal [sketch of a normal latch]. I have only found that this occurs on doors without stops. In this case, the tool, or credit card, won't work because the slant of the tool or the credit card is going in the wrong direction. You have to get something behind the latch to pull towards you. Therefore, you should also carry about a 5 inch strand of flexible wire. The wire should be woven strands rather than one thick strand. The best I've found is the type of wire used to hang pictures that you can pick up at most hardware or drug stores. Take this strand of wire (assuming there is no stop on the door jamb) and bend it in a semi-circle. Slip the wire under the latch and maneuver the top of the wire out above the latch. Grasp both ends of the wire firmly and work it back and forth, pulling both ends towards you - and thereby working the latch out of the door jamb: [sketch showing door, latch, wire, and door jamb] You have to be careful not to go too fast on this or you'll slip the latch out of the door jamb and have it slip right back in after the wire clears it. These methods of opening locked doors have worked about 75% of the time. There are occasions where they won't work due to doors too tight, un-oiled latches, etc. There are also many odd configurations of latches and it helps to know exactly what the latch looks like. You can often find an unlocked door in the area, examine it (the latch), and try your tool out first on that door to get the feel for slipping that particular type of latch. You'll also very occasionally run into doors with two locks on it which can be slipped. In this case you need two tools. Insert one of the tools from the top of the door, slip the latch and hold [it in place?]. Then insert the second tool from the bottom of the door, slip the second latch and the door should open. If a door won't open at all with this method, there is a very good chance (especially in government buildings) that there is a suite of interconnecting rooms adjacent to the room you are interested in. In this case, just try an adjacent door and go through the same routine again. If you have a number of different doors that could lead you to the same room, check the amount of "play" or looseness in each door and try the one that is loosest first. Also, an old successful action if you know you are dealing with a suite of rooms, is to go into the rooms during the day and unlock one of the locked doors. It is likely that a door found locked during the day remains locked all the time and that other doors in the suite are used as the entrances/exits. The 'locked" door is likely to not be checked each day on the assumption that it will stay locked. The best doors to choose for this are ones that tables, chairs, etc., have been pushed up against, as these doors are obviously not used as entrances/exits. Of course, when you go into the suite of rooms during the day you should have a well worked out suitable guise that will logically explain your being there, Or you won't get close enough to the door to unlock it unobtrusively. One such suitable guise that was used involved going into the offices during the day with a clipboard and informing the secretaries that "Facilities Management" needed to check the locks on all doors. We had one door stay unlocked for three months using this technique. By this time you should be in the office. If you're not, you either need more practice or you'll have to pick the lock. The advantage, by the way, of slipping a latch as opposed to picking a lock is a) to slip a latch takes 2-10 seconds compared with at least several minutes to pick it (unless you're very good), and b) you don't need as much training and experience. 6) Once inside the office you have to locate the file you are interested in. Most often the file will be located in a file cabinet and probably 50% of the time the cabinet will be locked. As soon as you run into a locked file cabinet, immediately check the top middle drawer of every desk in the area of the cabinet and you'll almost surely find the key. If you can't find the key there, you'll have to search more thoroughly in different desk drawers. These keys have also shown up in file card boxes, taped to the cabinet, and locked in safes. But, I have never found a locked file cabinet and not been able to find the key in the room. Combination safes occur infrequently. Like file cabinets, the combination is almost always laying around somewhere in the room. Again, check the top middle desk drawers of any desks in the vicinity of the safe, looking mainly for an index card sized piece of paper with the combination listed under "safe", "file", and "lock" , but oddly, never under "combination". If you don't find it there you'll have to do a thorough search of other drawers and desk areas. There has been only one occasion where we weren't able to locate a safe combination -- they are pretty easy to find. Also, make sure that you know how to dial a safe combination. The most normal are 4 turns left (this is actually three times past the number and the 4th turn stops at the number), 3 turns right, 2 turns left, and one turn right to zero. You then turn the inside knob of the dial all the way to the right while holding the dial at zero: [sketch of combination lock dial and inside knob] When this is done then turn the dial as far right as it will go and the safe will open. On safes with no inside dial, just don't stop at zero. Go all the way to the right on the last turn and the safe will open. When you're finished with the safe make sure to set the dial back where it was before you opened it. By going through the file cabinets, safes, desk drawers and desk tops you should now locate the file you are looking for. One point to keep in mind while searching for the file is to keep the area (and the file when you find it) free of fingerprints. Optimumly you should wear gloves. If this is not possible and you have to touch something, do so with the sides of your fingers or make sure that you smudge the prints. Prints can be easily smudged by giving your fingers a half turn as you withdraw them from the surface. When you locate the file(s) put them in your briefcase. On your way out of the room, if the door was locked when you went in, make sure that the door is now unlocked as you'll want to get quickly back in when you return. There are normally buttons on the latch plate of the door that push in and out: [sketch of latch with buttons to lock and unlock the door] Push in whichever button is out and check the outside doorknob to be sure it is unlocked, and then leave, closing the door behind you. One other point when going into the room - often you will be working at night and you'll need a source of light. It is inadvisable to turn on lights unless you are thoroughly familiar with the area. You have no way of knowing who can see them especially if the office has an outside window. Instead, you should carry some type of small penlight flashlight. The batteries in these usually wear out after 30 minutes or so, so make sure you have sufficient batteries with you. 7) Return to the Xerox room you originally picked out (or, if absolutely necessary, go to an outside Xerox machine). It is best, if possible, to lock yourself into the Xerox room so that no one can easily walk in on you unexpectedly. One person should Xerox while the other person puts the material back in the file, therefore, start Xeroxing from the last sheet in the file folder. You have to keep the files and papers clean of prints, so, if at all possible, wear gloves. If this can't be done then make sure you handle all pages with the sides of your fingers and your palms. This is easy to do after you get used to it. Usually there is a title written or typed on the file folder. This should be Xeroxed also so that you can keep the files separated. If this is an "active" area, i.e. there is some type of current case going on and new material will be added to the file, it is wise to put a small pencil mark (inconspicuously) on the latest page in the file that you copy so you'll know where to start next time. Also, if there are a large number of separate files, you should mark them also inconspicuously so that you will know they have been done should you or someone else have to come back again. Although I have never found it a problem, you should know that there is an internal counter in virtually all copying machines that will record the number of copies you make. Also, once I ran across an agency which issued counting device to their employees as an economy measure to cut down on the use of the Xerox machine. These devices are rectangular in shape -- metal cases about 4"x2"x3/4" -- that have a counting mechanism showing through the front "window" of the case. Without having one of these devices you can't operate the Xerox machine. To operate the machine you place one of these devices into a rectangular hole on the control panel of the machine and when so placed, the machine will operate (after it is turned on, of course). If you run across this situation you'll have to search the deck tops and drawers in the vicinity of the machine to find one of these devices. This should be done before you search for the file(s). When you finish Xeroxing make sure there are no copies of yours or of theirs in the machine, and turn it off. [Remaining lines illegible] PLAN FOR DISGUISE To create the image of an aging guy wanting to look hip as a means of regaining his youth a bit. Mock-up would be as follows: 1. A somewhat mod wardrobe, bright colors, open necks, necklace, rings on fingers, cigarette holder, tan. 2. His head will be shaved and then NAIR'd to create "bays" and the impression that he is partly balding. This would involve shaving and plucking to create bays and then using Nair on bald area and using a sun lamp. 3. The contacts would be rechecked with the doctor who gave them out to see if they can be worn more often and for longer periods -- debug. If not different frames would be gotten for his glasses. 4. His tooth would be capped. 5. He would lose some weight (or gain it) as he wished. Preferably lose some weight. 6. His eyebrows would be lightened and plucked. His hair done a light blonde, side burns grown a different length. 7. Earth shoes would be gotten to change the posture. [Winfax, Check to see if the next section including #'s 1-10 are out of place I think you have the master.] These are the contemplated changes for Jeff. Local paper cover 1. Minimum requirement -- 1 weekly column of about 500-600 words typed double space (format attached) delivered personally on Monday afternoons to managing editor. Plus visiting with Managing editor and keeping in comm with him. 2. With this in it is easy to have paper send in forms to get DC Police Dept Pass. 3. You can then visit the State Dept. correspondent's association and for 10 dollars join. 4. You can then put in for a state dept. ID which will give access to state dept. building 24 hours a day and will serve as a government ID giving access to many other buildings -- including Treasury Dept. [several lines are blacked out] 5. You can put in for congressional gallery passes but do not under any circumstances put in for White House Press credential as this will put you under scrutiny of Secret Service and into their computer files. 6. Press ID is strengthened by articles published. Typical sequence, do interview for data, assess where person at, white article which furthers what they would want to see furthered, get printed in paper, clip out two copies, paste them on paper with masthead of paper and deliver or send them to person interviewed -- this will virtually assure future access as it keeps exchange in. 7. Police press card good in many areas even in other cities. Be sure you know address and telephone number and that circulation of paper is 20,000 and that it is a community newspaper and a weekly. It is well worth indicating that the paper is not an underground paper as the name tends to imply this and put people off. 8. One side use of ID is that you can do favors for people -- i.e. senate aide needs to check on something, having trouble easy enough to get data and give it if it will strengthen comm line, etc. 9. Press ID can also be used to get complementary tickets to various events and entertainment, give free access to conventions and annual meetings (ex HAMH convention, etc.) 10. Remember that ID a valuable resource not to squander or unnecessarily put it at risk. SUITABLE GUISE I/C Suitable guise I/C is responsible for the supervision and completion of suitable guise research assignments. This includes government interviews, telephone survey's and interviews and any activities which would go into building the cover required. Responsibility extends to the following areas: 1. Receive duplicate pgmn pjct and orders for suit guise research. 2. Plan out how they will be carried out as rapidly thoroughly as needed while maintaining security for both the investigator and the Church. The church at all times, the investigator at all times unless the situation is of sufficient urgency as to demand the sacrifice of a previously developed cover. 3. Assign personnel to carry out work or do it self if no personnel available. 4. Recruit suitable guise FSM's. 5. Hat them. 6. Recruit staff for same and hat. 7. Plan out and keep in ongoing programs to build a variety of useful suitable guise covers. 8. Be constantly alert to demands of security so that security is maintained 9. Ensure that there is a compartmentalization of covers used so that the blowing of a single cover will not jeopardize suitable guise activities in your area. 10. As a warning note if you do have to get involved in broad (national) type cover activities make very sure that the personnel on them have some sort of backup cover and that the national type cover is used a supplement to activities and that the personnel that work on it are kept apart from the others as NATIONAL TYPE COVER OPERATIONS ARE HIGH RISK OF EXPOSURE DUE TO THE NUMBERS OF TERMINALS INVOLVED AND THE AREAS THEY MUST COVER AND THE BROAD DEMANDS TO WHICH THEY ARE OFTEN SUBJECTED. 11. As a present ongoing program maintain the liaison with the local paper and ensure that there is at least one staff member equipped with good press ID. Work to maintain and improve that staff members press cover with membership in Capital press club, contacts with other papers, articles written and printed, weekly column done, etc. Another thing that excites government Customs is the names of intelligence type things such as CIA, IP, Police, Secret Service and names of government agencies within the country concerned. This is best handled by avoiding the use of such names at the top, or in titles of dispatches or issues dealing with these, or in prominent places where the name stands out in the issue such as paragraph headings. When naming such issues in the body of a sensitive issue do not capitalize the issues of names as this makes them less eye catching, i.e., cia, ip, police, secret service. When coded dispatches and reports are sent between Orgs all cc's (carbon copies) are to be written on the dispatch, but only one copy is sent and this is to the person being written to. This person is then responsible for getting the dispatch decoded, at the latest that same day, and distributing the decoded version to all the persons named as cc's. The Security Officer of Branch II Dir. is to ensure that all GO (Guardian Office) staff are made familiar with the above points and that coding is being done correctly and comm lines are not being tied up with unnecessary coding. The Security Officer or BrII Dir. is to sort out what actions would fit in with categories one and seven. This is to be done in association with Legal. This Guardian Order is not to be distributed to staff when making them familiar with what Should and should not be coded. Dick Story Security Officer WW for Hermann Brendal Int'l Dir Sec WW International) for Mo Budlong DGI WW for Jane Kember The Guardian WW Glossary: DG's/AG's = Deputy Guardian's /Assistant Guardian's DGI'a = Deputy Guardian's Intelligence SEC OFF = Security Officer C of S = Church of Scientology PR = promotion BI = Bureau Intelligence LRH = L. Ron Hubbard MSH = Mary Sue Hubbard CSW's = completed staff works (reports written up) GO = Guardian's Office cc's = carbon copies B6 IP Br II Dirs BI = ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] INTELLIGENCE Intelligence is mostly the collection of data on people which may add up to a summary of right or wrong actions on their part. It is basically a listening and filing action. It is done all the time about everything and everybody. Then one day some random data make a summation that can be used. "It all adds up." But if one never collected data, there would be nothing to add up. Hence, intelligence consists of noting data about the activities of people from all kinds of sources. Joe is now working for the Daily Worker. The State Department won't grant Pete a passport. Isabel left Texas owing money. It's all grist to the mill of intelligence. Carefully remembered or filed and cross-indexed, such data tells its own story some day. If we had a folder for Joe, we'd scribble on a slip of paper, "Works now (1959) for Daily Worker -- a Communist paper". A few weeks later, another scrap of paper is dropped in: "Taking B. Scn. Course Feb. 59". A few months later: "Joe moved in to live with Pete". We look up Pete. Obviously, Pete is a Commie as he can't get a U.S. passport. September 1959 we learn that Joe is asking for a job in the Senate Office. We promptly tell Seattle, "Rat-poison. Forget Joe." If we kept files like that we'd keep them like that. Some day we may have to. Today we do it by memory. So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes. Using intelligence to tell our friends from our enemies and acting fast is why we have stable organization now where we had shambles before. It isn't better organization so much as more peace bought by more alert intelligence. We know our enemies before they hit. We keep them out of important positions. When we accidentally put one into a key post and he starts to flub, we shoot quick and get judicial afterwards. And we then add up who his friends and associates were. Intelligence alertness, even when we have no files, pays off in reach, growth, and progress. APA and OCA graphs tell their stories on people. Only the ones whose graphs don't change under processing have been found to be real menaces to Dianetics and Scientology. They have overt acts and bad intentions against us the they can't talk to the auditor about them, they feel. So they're hanged. Every one of twenty known cases who were evidently paid money to smash Dianetics or Scientology organizations, including Hart, Purcell, and Van Vogt, had hung graphs. No change occurred in any of these cases for five or more years of known activity, despite all processing! So an unchanging profile over years of processing almost adds up to "dangerous person - has bad intentions toward Dianetics and Scientology." Conversely, people who benefit from processing or auditors who get consistently good results on preclears never get snarled up enough to attack us. Therefore intelligence has its bright side. By facts heard plus profiles seen, we know our friends. Intelligence is therefore that activity which collects data and keeps it adding up so that we know our foes from our friends and so that we can act to separate out the sources of trouble in any given situation. Organizations with bad consciences usually look on HCO personnel as intelligence people. So HCO personnel might as well realize it, too. One small HCO hat is intelligence - know our friends and our enemies and what they are doing. INVESTIGATION When things go wrong and we don't know why already by intelligence, we resort to investigation. When we need somebody haunted we investigate. Investigation is the careful discovery and sorting of facts. Without good investigation we don't have justice, we have random vengeance. When we investigate we do so noisily always. And usually mere investigation damps out the trouble even when we discover no really pertinent facts. Remember that -- by investigation alone we can curb pushes and crush wildcat people and unethical "Dianetics and Scientology" organizations. It's almost funny. We sometimes learn nothing useful and yet because people heard we were investigating their consciences sent them into headlong flight or sudden collapse. There's power in the question alone! Here is an example. There's bad morale in a central organization. We don't know why. We try everything we can to up units and ease difficulties and yet there's bad morale. So we investigate noisily. Remember, intelligence we got with a whisper. Investigation we do with a yell. Always. Modern copy don't really know this. They investigate with whispers. Doesn't pay. Why sneak up when pouncing is the only thing that serves us? After all, if it hasn't been whispered to us already and we have to investigate, why keep whispering? In the low morale matter, we think over the most likely suspects and summon them to see us. We ask them why they're talking the way they are. What's wrong anyway? We call them in one at a time. We use the E-meter. "What have you been doing to us?" And you sort it out. Investigation to us in Scientology is a fine art. It's like auditing. If they won't take a meter test, you know they're guilty. If they do, you can watch that needle dip a "Yes" every time you're right even when the suspect won't say anything verbally. You generally find that Joe is hoping to start a clinic in the town and thinks of the organization as a rival - if the central organization got knocked out, this knucklehead thinks, he'd be all set. So he's been discouraging staff and starting rumors in the town. Did you ever realize that any local viciousness against Scientology organizations is started by somebody for a purpose? Well, it is. Look at what we do. Look how dedicated staff is. How hard they work. And yet somebody feels we're evil? No, rumors aren't "natural". When you run them down you find a Commie or a millionaire who wants us dead and his own clinic up or a group member who is also a member of the R.C. You don't rest when bad rumors are about. You investigate, you run them down. You find amongst all our decent people some low worm who has been promised high position and pay if we fail. Don't discount this. In one instance $500,000 was paid in cash to a man to wreck Dianetics. He almost made it. Wichita Kansas, Spring 1952. (But by intelligence and investigation we cost him his shirt and his spare vest as well.) In cross questioning people, it is as valuable to know what they've been told as what they've said. "What bad things have you heard about the HASI?" and "What have you said?" are the usual questions. When you get on a line of data follow it right through. Get the names. Write them down as you get them. Sort them out with what you already know about them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EVIDENCE FROM AUTHORIZED FBI SEARCH.] TO: All Bureau Four offices in the US From: USGO Bureau Four THE "SOURCE FILE" SOURCE FILE - definition - a practical, easy-to-use, record of standard sources which produce standard information; and is set up in the following manner: "This is a file similar to the card directory in a library. Three 3 x 5 index cards should be made out for each source of information and cards should be filed under three separate headings. 1) type of information available; 2) name of organization or record; 3) name of individual who can supply the information. If one organization has available different types of information, there should be a separate card filed for each type. It is a mistake to attempt to rely on memory to keep track of many sources of information and jottings on scraps of papers or notes in a pad or notebook are seldom worthwhile." (quote from "Investigations HAT", by D/G Info US) Each Bureau Four office should have a Source File. Following is a list of standard sources and types of information which should be in each Bureau Four's Source File. Much of the following is based on experience in California, and therefore you may find some variations in your area. However, most of these items are in the realm of public information and should be available in your area. 1. LAW SUITS: There are often several areas where these are kept in government offices for different types of law suits. The city and county often keep separate records for their respective jurisdictions. You should find out where all the different indexes are located for the various types of law suits. Also many cities have federal suit indexes. You should know where divorce cases and civil actions are indexed, to name a few. Often time an order will come down to check out the general background of an individual. Law suits is an area which should always be checked, so you must know where the Indexes are kept for all the different types of law suits, so you can check a person out for the past 20 years. 2. AUTO LICENSE RUNDOWN: This is a service whereby you give the correct agency a license plate number and pay a certain fee, and they will tell you who owns the car, who finances the car, and vital statistics about the car. In California this is done by the state department of motor vehicles. 3. DRIVERS RECORD: This is a service such as in #2, whereby you can gain information about a persons driving history, such as tickets, restrictions on his license, etc. In California it is done through the same agency as #2. 4. MARRIAGE, BIRTH AND DEATH CERTIFICATES: These are often located in the same area, like the Dept. of Health, or Bureau of Vital Statistics, etc. 5. INCORPORATION PAPERS: All organizations, profit or nonprofit, usually have to file their existence with the state government. (often the Secretary of State) These Incorporation papers are for public view and copies are available for public purchase. The papers usually state the purpose of the organization, its bylaws and lists the officers or directors of the group. 6. PROPERTY RECORDS: These records usually list people who have bought or sold property. By checking these indexes you can find out if the subject has had property dealings over the years. These are often kept in city or county offices. 7. CREDIT CHECKS: Often large city libraries, in their business section, collect the Dunn & Bradstreet credit checks on various businesses. Some Bureau Fours have made their own contacts with commercial credit firms to get credit reports on individuals and businesses. These will often give valuable financial info on the subject. 8. AUTOPSY OR CORONER'S REPORT: Usually obtainable through the county health dept. Gives detailed information on dead people of interest. 9. CRIMINAL RECORDS: These are often indexed by the persons name as with law suits. The records are often separated into the felony and misdemeanor classifications. You should locate the indexes or any other method available for checking a person's criminal record over a 10-20 year period. 10. BUSINESS LICENSES AND PERMITS: Many types of jobs require a person to file for a permit or trade license with the city, or sometimes the county. Some jobs entering into this category are: barbers, taxi drivers, bars, private investigators, etc. just to name a very few. These are often filed in the city tax and permit dept. You should find out where these records are kept in your area and make note of all the types of jobs which need to file for permits. Thus if you are investigating a barber, you will know that you can go down to this city dept. and get some data on him. 11. REGISTRAR OF VOTERS: As you know, citizens must register in order to vote. These registration papers are public record. Registration forms have changed over the years but they will often tell you the person's social security number, where he was born, how tall he is, his... 12. CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES: Your city and or county offices will have what is similar to a business personnel office where you can call to see if a person is in the employ of the city or county, and what his post is. 13. CITY DIRECTORY: This is a directory much like a telephone book, and is commonly mistaken for one. However, the city directory is put out by the city itself, not by the phone company. The city directory often will list a persons job next to his name, like: "Jones, Bill Pres. of Hog Manufacturers Inc." Also many city directories will have a reverse directory whereby you can get the name of a person and the phone number when you only know the address. City directories can almost always be found in the local city library. Many large cities no longer produce city directories, like New York. 14. REVERSE DIRECTORY: Many companies produce reverse directories such as thus described in #13. The most well known company which does this is Polk Bros. These are usually in libraries and are different from the city directory. 15. BANKRUPTCY PAPERS: These and their indexes tell you if a person has filed bankruptcy. They are often filed in federal offices or the federal courthouse in your area. 16. FIRE AND ARSON REPORTS: These are standard report forms filled out by the fire dept. anytime there is a fire. Arson reports are often filed separately from regular fire reports. 17. INHERITANCE AND GIFT TAXES: Find the local govt. dept. which handles this area. You can obtain information dealing with wills, inheritances, etc. on a subject. If there are any court cases involved with an inheritance such files would be found in the probate court, which is one of the categories which would fit in #1 - law suits. So these are some of the basic areas which should be covered by your source file. The 17 items listed above point out some specifics and some general areas. A Source File done correctly on the above items would have more than 17 entries, for instance under law suits you should have separate entries for "civil suits", "divorce cases", "probate cases", etc. So, you see, the Source File is invaluable. Imagine keeping all this data in your head! The Source File should also be seen as a major portion of the Investigation Section's HAT. It is continuously expanded and kept up to date. And it is constructed for easy use by Investigations personnel. It explains itself, you don't have to tell each person where to go to get an incorporation paper each time you need one. It's all there in the Source File. The 17 items listed will give you a good basic start. There is no way for Bureau Four US to tell all Bureau Fours what to put in their Source File. The variations and possibilities are infinite, and different states and cities have different ways of doing things. The Source File will cut your investigating -man-hours down, and will help to increase the speed of your investigations. Love, Greg Willardson Dir. of Investigations US for Terry Milner D/G Information US P.S. If any of the above items are not available to you in your area, you should make a note of such in the Source File. For example if auto license rundowns cannot be done in your state, your Source File index card on "auto licenses" should say: "a rundown on Arizona license plates is not an available service in Arizona", etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONCLUSION "If you fail to fight for justice soon you will be fighting for survival." With Scientology you get to do both! The preceding information on Scientology's activities discloses the true nature of what most of the leading cult experts consider the "world's most dangerous and destructive cult." To date, Scientology has not been deterred or even slowed from continuing its highly profitable criminal or antisocial activities. It has neither "changed its stripes" (actual nature), nor its repeated application of its notorious fair game policy. Anyone paranoid of Scientology is not paranoid. The threat is real if you are an important target. Scientology has definitely not "cleaned house" nor are its infamous activities "ancient history and have no relevance to the present time." Scientology's modern multiple strategies of total covert and overt psycho-terrorism and legal brutality is often more effective in silencing and stopping current adversaries, and in building legends to discourage future adversaries, than traditional physical terrorism, i.e. assault murder etc. There are many things a person fears more too lose or live through more than just death or physical injury. Scientology's bully style legal brutality and psycho-terrorism finds those things and uses them. "In reality the church is a hugely profitable global racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a mafia-like manner." (Time magazine May 6, 1991.) If Scientology's ruthless, in-and-out-of-the-courtroom tactics and as judge James Kolts called the church's tactics a "cynical and unfair use of the judicial system." goes unchecked and it continues to be successful in intimidating judges, opposing attorneys, witnesses, the media, and members of our justice protective agencies, and sealing hard won court cases it is likely that in the high profit world of national or international corporations, others may also soon begin to recruit and set up their own full intelligence agencies with open ended budgets and imitate Scientology. Why not? To date Scientology has been relatively successful with its "legal brutality" practices in either crushing adversaries, sealing indispensable information, or deterring, eliminating, delaying, or limiting consequential corporate liability. Joe Yanni was a key attorney working for Scientology until 1987. He defected from the Scientology's legal team when he says he was asked to help church officials steal medical records to blackmail an opposing attorney (who was allegedly beaten up instead, Time magazine May 6, 1991.) From his experience inside Scientology, Joe Yanni now believes the church "has so subverted the justice and judicial system that it should be barred from seeking equity in any court." Since Yanni quit representing the church, he has been the target of death threats, burglaries lawsuits and other harassment. "Scientology critics contend that the U.S. needs to crack down on the church in a major organized way. "I want to know where is our government?" demands Toby Plevin, a Los Angeles attorney who handles victims. It shouldn't be left to private litigators because God knows that most of us are afraid to get involved. "(From the May 6, 1991 Time Magazine article.) Any organization with Scientology's criminal history and policies of abusing First Amendment immunities, with near unlimited funds to accomplish its ends through cocaine warlord-like terror tactics, intelligence technology and "legal brutality" both inside and outside the courtroom, will put our entire system of justice in actual peril! "Scientology is both immoral and socially obnoxious... it is corrupt sinister and dangerous. It is corrupt because it is based on lies and deceit and has its real objective money and power for Mr. Hubbard... It is sinister because it indulges in infamous practices both to its adherents who do not toe the line unquestionly and to those who criticize it or oppose it. It is dangerous because it is out to capture people and to indoctrinate and brainwash them so they become the unquestioning captives and tools of the cult, withdrawn from ordinary thought, lining, and relationships with others." Justice Latey, Ruling in the High Court of London "Scientology is evil; its techniques are evil; its practice is a serious threat to the community, medically, morally, and socially; and its adherents are sadly deluded and often mentally ill... (Scientology is) the world's largest organization of unqualified persons engaged in the practice of dangerous techniques which masquerade as mental therapy." Justice Anderson, Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. Scientology is an organization with no reputation or credibility because it will say anything or do anything to win. It has not gotten better it since its cosmetic change. It has gotten more secretive and worse and it continues to recruit and retain individuals in the key positions who are and reflect Scientology's true nature. The reason it has gotten worse and will continue to deteriorate is that: 1.) It refuses to stop acting directly and indirectly in immoral, outrageous, and criminal way because it refuses to completely and honestly reject the policies that command, imply and create such actions. And, the reason it refuses to truly and completely reject those policies is because to do that they would have to publicly and openly renounce and reject the psychopathic personality profile who created such inhumane and barbaric policies in the first place, L. Ron Hubbard. Scientology is incapable of doing this because the whole structure of Scientology of Scientology is built on the infallibility and tremendous "wisdom of Hubbard." 2.) It refuses to take its just punishments for past and present wrongdoing. It cannot be wrong because Hubbard cannot be wrong -- so it is trapped in the cage of its own dwindling spiral. Because it is so trapped its delayed punishment continues to grow and correctional worldwide pressure from former victims builds. Scientology seems to have no allies except individuals or organizations it pays or organizations caring on similar activities. Its activities have angered even common taxpayers who read about its base abuse of the religious privledges. The single thing that makes Scientology's activities so despicable to anyone informed about Scientology is that Scientology perpetrates them under the guise and protections of a church. In so doing it would be hard to find anyone who reasonable would believe their tax dollars should continue to go to defend Scientology's illegitimate religious status. In 1982 at the Supreme Court of Victoria where religious status was denied during its Board of Inquiry into Scientology, Australian Justice Brookings made a telling closing statement that continues to be a harbinger of the Scientology phenomena: " ... it is nonetheless clear that the teaching of Scientology and the practice of Scientology will result in the commission of many offenses and may well result in the commission of many others ..." "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." (Author unknown.). Clearwater Sun, January 24, 1984 PRIOR SECT TRY AT JUDGE REPORTED By GEORGE-WAYNE SHELOR Sun staff writer A current probe into a suspected 1982 extortion plot by the Church of Scientology to corrupt a Tampa federal judge might not be the first time law enforcement officials. have investigated the sect's efforts to compromise a U.S. magistrate presiding over a Scientology trial. In an article titled "Scientology's War Against Judges." which appeared in the December 1980 issue of The American Lawyer, author James B. Stewart Jr. details the sect's efforts to complicate, delay and quash the trial of 11 Scientology defendants charged with spying, wiretapping and breaking into government offices. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa currently is investigating a purported plot involving an attempt to lure U.S. District Judge Ben Krentzman aboard a boat off the Pinellas Suncoast where prostitutes and drugs were to be used to put the judge in a compromising position. At that time, Krentzman, chief judge of Florida's 32-county Middle District was presiding over the Tonja C. Burden vs. the Church of Scientology case in which Miss Burden was seeking $16 million from the sect, claiming mental abuse, brainwashing, imprisonment and fraud, according to public records. The trial is, to date, unresolved, and Judge Krentzman has retired. Through several confidential sources, the Clearwater Sun has verified the current federal probe, although as of Monday, U.S. Attorney Robert Merkle would neither confirm nor deny it. But four years ago in Washington, D.C., a U.S. District Court judge stepped down from a federal criminal conspiracy trial involving the controversial sect. Stewart presently a staff writer with the Wall Street Journal, was for three years a practicing attorney and, at the time he wrote the article about the trial, a senior editor at The American Lawyer. In his report, Stewart described the intensive campaign by Scientology attorneys to discredit and cause to resign from the case three judges over the duration of the trial. The trial of the 11 defendants began Aug. 15, 1978. The group of Scientologists was indicted on a number of federal charges. including obstruction of justice. The first two judges assigned to the case--D.C. District Court Judge George Hart Jr. and Judge Louis Oberdorfer--stepped down during the course of the protracted proceedings, bowing to defense motions for dismissal. Shortly after Feb. 5, 1979, when Oberdorfer stepped down, the case fell to Judge Charles Richey, a jurist with a respected national reputation. The Scientologists initially were pleased with Richey's appointment, saying as much in when the trial moved back and forth from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles to accommodate witness's testimony -- they apparently became displeased with several of Richey's rulings, Stewart said, adding that at one point, attorneys for the sect filed a motion asking the judge to disqualify himself from the case. Richey dismissed the motion. By June 1970, according to Stewart's report. defense council were ready with another dismissal motion, one which was damaging and threatening to Judge Richey. The groundwork for that motion, Stewart wrote, had been laid nearly a year before, shortly after the hearings in Los Angeles. According to Stewart's published report: During the summer of 1979. a Scientology lawyer paid a private detective named Richard Bast $321,000 plus expense to investigate Judge Richey's security precautions. One of the detective's first steps was to infiltrate Richey's inner circle at the courthouse. Several of Bast's employee's befriended Richey's court reporter and tape-recorded several conversations which were the basis of the most recent dismissal motion. Some Scientology lawyers, however, thought the strategy had "gone too far" and withdrew as counsel. Although the motion noted a number of reasons defense lawyers believed Richey was prejudiced -- including Richey suspecting the sect was spreading rumors about him as part of a "plot" to discredit him -- it failed to detail the alleged rumors about the judge, citing "respect for the court as an institution." Bast, the detective, had secured damning information about Richey's personal habits, and when it was not included as part of the motion, he gave it to political columnist Jack Anderson. Bast showed to one of Anderson's reporters a video recording, during which the prostitute recalled "in titillating detail" her encounter with Judge Richey and his procurement of her services. Bast also provided a lie detector test indicating the prostitute was telling the truth, and a statement from a U.S. marshal who had guarded the judge claiming Richey said, "Let's go get a woman." Also made available to Anderson's reporter was a tape recording of Richey's court reporter purportedly saying the judge "was always picking up girls." After Anderson's syndicated column detailing Richey's alleged procurement of a prostitute was sent to newspapers July 11 (for July 18 publication) the court reporter denied the remarks attributed to him. The Sun was unable to contact the U.S. marshal involved. On July 16, Richey issued his opinion on the case. Apparently referring to the upcoming column (which he knew about from reporters' calls), Richey called the dismissal motion "the latest effort in the escalating attack on the court" and said the motion was based on "hearsay, rumor and gossip." Richey continued, admonishing the defendants and their counsel for their "groundless" attacks on his character, by saying that the proceedings had been turned "into a trial of this judge." In a state of exhaustion and near-collapse, the 58-year-old judge withdrew from the case. On July 18, Anderson's column appeared in newspapers nationwide and five days later, Judge Richey was hospitalized for treatment of two pulmonary embolisms. His ordeal may not be over, Stewart's report states. Scientology attorneys said the prostitute affair "is only the tip of the iceberg," and if necessary would expose additional damaging testimony. Ultimately, all of the defendants, including Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue, were convicted of the federal charges. Stewart, contacted his New York office, said he developed his story from "court records ... and my own interviews. "I spoke with the prosecutors (of the case) and I did a lot of legwork" on the story, which he says is completely factual. Judge Richey has recovered and is still on the bench of the Washington, D.C., district. Contacted at his chambers, the judge declined to comment for the record on the allegations, the Jack Anderson column or the substance of the story. Clearwater Sun Managing Editor Sam Fenton contributed to this report. The American Lawyer, December 1980 SCIENTOLOGY'S WAR AGAINST JUDGES BY JAMES B. STEWART, JR. On September 5, 1980, as U.S. District Court Judge Charles Richey was recuperating from two pulmonary embolisms and exhaustion, lawyers for the Church of Scientology and the Justice Department gathered before Judge Aubrey Robinson, Richey's successor in the two-year-old conspiracy case against 11 members of the Church of Scientology. Judge Richey had already convicted and sentenced nine of the original 11 defendants, but the remaining two, recently extradited from England, were about to go on trial. "Particularly from the standpoint of your Honor's feelings about these defendants who are members of the Church of Scientology..." began John Shorter, Jr., a lawyer for one of the defendants. He was interrupted by Judge Robinson. "You want to raise a motion to recuse?" the judge asked. He knew what Shorter's remark foreshadowed, having witnessed the Scientologists campaign to drive Judge Richey off the case. "Is this a fishing expedition?" Robinson is the fourth D.C. district court judge to preside over the Scientology case and the latest target of the Scientologists' self-proclaimed "attack" litigation strategy. Their strategy amounts to an all-out war against the D.C. district court judges, a war much more sophisticated, better financed and more successful than the bizarre tactics used by some other groups against their courtroom adversaries, such as Synanon's attempt to murder an opposing counsel by putting a rattlesnake in his mailbox. Unlike Synanon, the Church of Scientology has long sought to distinguish itself as a legitimate religion. Founded in 1954 by L. Ron Hubbard, a Science fiction writer, philosopher and author of the bestselling book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, the church claims five million adherents to its selfhelp philosophy. The Church of Scientology has called itself the spiritual heir of Buddhism in the western world, and focuses on what it calls "pastoral counseling" to increase its members abilities and awareness. But in the past few years, the church has been accused of brainwashing and harassing its members, and it has become embroiled in dozens of lawsuits (see sidebar, page 32), including the 1978 criminal conspiracy charges against 11 of its members. Such setbacks have triggered increasingly militant responses, which focused, in the conspiracy case, on the federal judiciary. The Scientologists legal strategy has been to force the recusal of Judges lie at the root of the pending criminal charges against the Scientologists. In 1976. D.C. District Court Justice George Hart, Jr., casually proposed a deposition of Hubbard in conjunction with one of many Freedom Of Information Act suits filed by the church. Hart's remark (no deposition ever proved necessary) caused Scientology officials to believe that the government knew something incriminating about Hubbard. As a result the church intensified its efforts to learn what information the government might possess. At the same time the church was issuing "Guardian Programme Orders" (directives to church members telling them to use "standard overt sources" and "any suitable guise interviews" to monitor the activities of all district court judges presiding in the FOIA suits. In 1977 that directive was extended to all 15 active judges in the D.C. federal district court. Posing in some instances as students and journalists, Scientologists interviewed the judges, researched their careers and backgrounds, followed them and prepared dossiers. According to Scientology documents, their goal was to determine "tone level" and "buttons on" -- indicia of personal vulnerability. in the parlance of Scientology. But the church's operation went far beyond legal surveillance. Members of the church were caught breaking into the offices of the IRS and the Justice Department, stealing and copying documents and eavesdropping. On August 15, 1978, 11 Scientologists were indicted on charges of electronically intercepting oral IRS communications, forging government passes, illegally entering government buildings, recruiting Scientologists to infiltrate the government, stealing records belonging to the IRS, Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney and conspiring to illegally obtain documents in the possession of the United States and to obstruct justice. The Scientologist defendants hired some well-known defense counsel. Mary Sue Hubbard, the wife of church leader L. Ron Hubbard and the highest ranking defendant on trial, retained Leonard Boudin of Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard and Michael Hertzberg, a solo practitioner, both activist lawyers now practicing law in New York City. Two other defendants, Henning Heldt and Duke Snider, retained Alexandria, Virginia, lawyer Philip Hirschkop, who had been counsel for the "DC Nine" antiwar protesters arrested in 1970. In all, 12 lawyers were hired to defend nine defendants (two others had fled to England where they faced extradition proceedings). Boudin and Hirschkop soon assumed the leading roles in the defense. Boudin and Hirschkop won't discuss why they were selected, but their public identification with radical and unpopular causes was undoubtedly attractive to church members, This was Boudin's first association with the church, but Hirschkop had handled a search and seizure matter for the church in 1977. One lawyer who represents Scientologists and has worked with Boudin and Hirschkop offers this ideological defense for their taking the case: "It is a simple case of government overreaching." he says. "The government just can't tolerate an organization with nonconforming beliefs. The Scientologists stand up for their rights -- aggressively." Another lawyer who has worked on the case adds a financial motive for their taking such a case: "These people pay their bills -- top dollar and on time -- which is more than I can say for most of my unpopular clients. This case will finance a lot of pro bono work." Hirschkop won't say what he has received in legal fees from the Scientologists, but the church is a prosperous client. In one instance a member paid the church $30,000 for the required series of counseling sessions. Whatever their reasons for taking the case, high-minded principles have not characterized the campaign of the Scientologists' lawyers against the District of Columbia judges. In August 1978 the cases were assigned to Judge Hart, the judge whose comment had originally intensified the intelligence operation and who, like all of his fellow D.C. district court judges, had been investigated. He became the first victim of the Scientologists' recusal strategy. Boudin filed the first recusal motion in January 1979. His theory was a novel one: by telling Judge Hart that the judge himself was a target of the Scientologists' own possibly illegal activities, he would cause the judge to be biased, or appear to be biased, against them. In his motion, Boudin quoted a Scientology document ordering an "overt" and "covert" data collection operation against Judge Hart, which, in Boudin's words, "possibly [included] the use of methods violative of the judge's privacy and other rights and possibly violative of the criminal laws." Boudin concluded that "the sitting judge is revealed to the jury and the public as a victim of possibly illegal actions," and "the judge has an obvious interest which may be affected by the outcome of the case." Notwithstanding documents to which government and defense counsel had access ordering similar operations on all the District of Columbia district court judges, Boudin declared that he knew of no other such campaigns. Although government lawyers, led by chief prosecutor Raymond Banoun, protested vigorously, arguing that the Scientologists were using their own possibly illegal activities to disqualify the judge, Hart granted the recusal motion and stepped down. Hart denied that he was biased, but he agreed that the appearance of impartiality had been tainted by the Scientologists' surveillance operation against him. "I was afraid a jury would be prejudiced against the defendants because of their alleged threats against me," Hart said recently. The case was assigned next to Judge Louis Oberdorfer, who in light of Judge Hart's recent experience asked for memoranda and oral arguments from both sides at the outset indicating potential grounds for disqualification. Government lawyers pointed out in their memo that Oberdorfer was formerly an assistant attorney general in charge of the tax division of the Justice Department, which had prosecuted a case that ended the tax-exempt status for the founding Church of Scientology in Los Angeles in 1969. Oberdorfer concluded that he had "personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts," and on February 5. 1979. he too stepped down. Shortly afterward the case fell to Richey, 57, a 1971 Nixon appointee whose liberal record -- especially in the area of defendants rights -- surprised early critics. The assignment initially pleased the Scientology defendants. In a pamphlet called "The Trial of the Scientology Nine," prepared by the Scientologists, Judge Richey was described as having "a very fatherly visage ... though crippled with a congenital defect in his hip, one does not notice either his limp or his shortness. His glasses glinting from the lights of the courtroom add to the picture of a man of deep intelligence and sympathy." And when Richey, too, asked at the outset for a recusal motion if one were planned, Boudin and Hirschkop said they were satisfied with his assignment to the case. That attitude was soon belied by a campaign of harassment that took place in and out of the courtroom. During the summer of 1979, court sessions were held for about three weeks in Los Angeles, where Richey scheduled testimony on the Scientologists' motion to suppress evidence seized by the FBI in its 1977 raids of the church's headquarters. The thousands of documents seized in those raids constituted the core of the evidence against the alleged conspirators. The hearings had been moved to Los Angeles to accommodate the Scientologists' witnesses. Prior to his departure for Los Angeles, Richey received several death threats. The judge has never publicly alleged that those threats came from Scientologists and has said they were unrelated to the case, but he flew to California escorted by two federal marshals, and elaborate security precautions were implemented at the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. During the hearings, defense lawyers repeatedly interrupted the proceedings with objections, motions and audible commentary, including insults to the judge. For example, Hirschkop and other counsel repeatedly and loudly ordered co-counsel to place adverse evidentiary rulings in a mythical "error bad." On several occasions, Hirschkop accused Richey of lying. At times, Richey left the bench and walked out rather than hold defense counsel in contempt. Only once, at a later hearing, did the judge seem to boil over: speaking to Hirschkop, Richey said, "I want to tell you right here and now, I resent it because I have done nothing to hurt you or your clients. And this record is replete with insults and everything else, when I have not done it to you and don't intend to." Banoun, the prosecutor, says Richey was too accommodating. "He should never have tolerated such behavior," Banoun says. Hirschkop claims that he was the one who was insulted. "Richey showed contempt for me," Hirschkop says, recalling the time when, he claims, Richey tried to "force-feed" him French fries in court. (Banoun says the judge simply offered all the counsel some French fries he had not finished at lunch.) "I called Banoun a liar," Hirschkop continues, "and the judge admonished me. But Banoun could insult me with impunity." Banoun denies that this was true. Hirschkop concedes that he frequently became "heated" in his dealings with Judge Richey but says, "I never called him dirty names." In September 1979, after the Los Angeles hearings, Richey denied the Scientologists' motion to suppress the evidence seized by the FBI. The defendants eventually entered into a stipulation of facts, which amounted to an admission of the principal charges against them, and waived a jury trial. In return, the government agreed to drop 23 of its 24 criminal counts. Judge Richey explicitly warned the Scientologists that the stipulation was likely to result in their conviction: he subsequently conducted his own review of the evidence, which he said was "overwhelming evidence of guilt," and on October 26, he convicted all nine. On December 6, two days before they were to be sentenced, a recusal motion against Richey was filed. In this recusal motion, Boudin and Hirschkop again took the extraordinary position that Richey's response to their courtroom tactics and to the threats showed that Richey was prejudiced against Scientologists. For example, without saying that the death threats were made by Scientologists, Hirschkop said that "upon information and belief, the security in Los Angeles was related to the court's apprehension with regard to the defendants in this case or their church," adding that "it is impossible to imagine a stronger -- or more clearly 'extra-judicial' -- source of bias than fear for one's life or wellbeing." Whatever its merits, the recusal motion was patently defective in at least two technical respects. The judicial recusal statute requires a "timely" motion supported by an affidavit signed by a "party." This motion was filed four months after the events complained of -- and after nearly 120 defense motions had been resolved against the Scientologists -- and was supported by Hirschkop's affidavit, not one of the defendants. ("I should have filed it much sooner," Hirschkop concedes. "Richey was grossly prejudiced from the start.") In response to the motion, Judge Richey defended his security precautions, noting that "the court may accept reasonable security precautions without risk of tainting its rulings in the case." He denied the motion and that same day sentenced the nine defendants to prison terms of from six months to four to five years. Eight pulled out checks for $10,000 the day of their sentencing, and all nine are now free on bail pending appeal. The denial of their first recusal motion and the sentences, which the Scientologists regarded as unconscionably harsh, led to a redoubling of defense efforts to drive Richey from the case. Six months later, in June 1980, defense counsel were ready with another recusal motion, more damaging and threatening to Judge Richey than the first. The groundwork for that motion had been laid nearly a year before, shortly after the Los Angeles hearings. That summer, Thomas Dourian, Judge Richey's official court reporter who accompanied him to Los Angeles, was approached by Hirschkop soon after their return to Washington. In a sworn affidavit filed in response to the second recusal motion, Dourian says Hirschkop wanted to know if the security precautions in Los Angeles resulted from Richey's fear of Scientologists. In the affidavit Dourian swore he denied that the judge was afraid but confirmed that before leaving Washington, the judge and his wife and two sons had received two death threats. Soon after this encounter, in December 1979, a Scientology lawyer hired Richard Bast, a private detective who had worked for Hirschkop several years before, to investigate Judge Richey's security precautions. Bast's fee: $321,000 plus expenses. One of Bast's first steps was to infiltrate Richey's inner circle at the courthouse. In the spring of 1980, a few months after the Scientologists' sentencing, Fred Cain, a Bast employee and retired police officer, approached James Perry, one of two U.S. marshals who had accompanied Richey to Los Angeles. Cain explained to Perry that he had been retained by a European industrialist whose daughter had committed suicide, allegedly as a result of her involvement with the Church of Scientology, and that his assignment was to uncover information that could be damaging to the church. According to Bast, Perry told Cain that he wanted to write a book on the Scientology case, and Bast offered him a $2,000 advance. Bast says that Perry took the money, and they agreed to work together. The evening of May 23, Perry and Cain met Dourian, the court reporter, at his home in Washington. According to Dourian's affidavit, Cain introduced himself as a private investigator for International Investigations, Inc., Bast's detective agency, and told him the same story about the European industrialist. Dourian says in his affidavit that he found the story improbable but that because his home had been burglarized and he had received threatening phone calls, which he suspected came from Scientologists, he was curious about what Cain and Perry were doing. According to the affidavit, Dourian met with Cain three more times, and each time he was questioned about Judge Richey. At a meeting at his home on May 31, 1980, Dourian says he realized that the conversation was being recorded. Cain had been drinking heavily, Dourian says, and as a result, the court reporter was able to slip a small tape recorder and three cassettes out of Cain's pocket. Dourian's last meeting with Cain was on June 19, when they met with Bast and then dined at a nearby Pizza Hut. Again, Dourian was asked about Richey, and the conversation was recorded. The recordings of Dourian, along with tape-recorded statements made by Hirschkop -- all collected by Bast -- formed the basis for the next recusal motion against Judge Richey. The motion, largely incorporating an earlier recusal motion filed by Hirschkop, was filed on June 20, 1980, as proceedings were beginning against the two defendants recently extradited from Great Britain. For some of the Scientologists' counsel, however, the recusal strategy had gone too far. There was apparently opposition within the ranks to these motions and the way they were prepared. One lawyer, Michael Nussbaum, who represented two of the defendants, didn't sign the papers and withdrew as trial counsel. The affidavit in support of this motion was filed by Morris Budlong, one of the extradited defendants, after he listened to various tapes and spoke to Hirschkop. Among the prejudicial remarks that Budlong attributed to Judge Richey were: that Richey's death threats emanated from Scientologists; that Jim Jones and Scientologists were "all the same"; that it would be a "feather in his hat" to convict the Scientologists; and that Richey had told another judge that Scientologists were spreading rumors about him as part of a "plot" to discredit him. A cryptic footnote to the affidavit declined to provide details of the alleged rumors about Richey, citing "respect for the court as an institution." But Hirschkop and other defense counsel knew the details of the plot Richey alluded to. They had gotten them from Bast, who says he had combed the Los Angeles area for information about Judge Richey's personal habits, interviewing motel and restaurant employees and making videotapes and recordings. The information not revealed in the motion was taken by Bast to political columnist Jack Anderson. The central figure in Bast's story was a self-professed Los Angeles prostitute who worked the Brentwood Holiday Inn, the motel where Richey stayed during the Los Angeles hearings. In a video recording shown to Gary Cohn, a reporter for Anderson, the prostitute recalled "in titillating detail," according to Cohn, an encounter with Judge Richey at the motel and his procurement of her services. According to Cohn, Bast also showed results of lie detector tests conducted by Cain to demonstrate that the prostitute was telling the truth; a tape recording of Perry, the U.S. marshal, claiming Judge Richey said, "Let's go get a woman"; and a tape recording of Dourian, the court reporter, saying Richey "was always picking up girls." Cohn says that he was initially skeptical of the story because he was aware that Bast was employed by the Scientologists. But he says he had often worked with Bast and trusted him. He says he considered but rejected the possibility that the prostitute was herself a Scientologist, planted to entrap the Judge. Bast says only that his discovery of the prostitute was "accidental," that he paid her $1,200, that she is not a Scientologist and that she is no longer streetwalking. Cohn wrote the column, which later appeared under Anderson's by-line, focusing on Bast's investigation and Richey's procurement of a prostitute. Cohn adds that he is now "not happy" with the way the column was written. In his affidavit, Dourian, the court reporter, who has heard the tapes he stole from Cain's pocket, denies the remarks attributed to him. Newspapers that subscribe to Anderson's column received the Judge Richey story around July 11, a week before its release date of July 18. Some of them balked at running it -- the New York Daily News decided not to publish it -- and The Washington Post used it only after extensive conversations with Cohn. Cohn says he never reached Richey for comment, and although Post editor Ben Bradlee says he is sure "we did call (Richey) about the column," no comment from Richey appeared in the Post's version, either. On July 16, Richey issued his opinion. Evidently referring to the upcoming Anderson column, which Richey might have known about from reporters' calls and messages, Richey characterized the recusal motion as "this latest effort in the escalating attack on the court" and found the grounds for the motion to be "insufficient as a matter of law," resting only on "hearsay, rumor and gossip." But, the judge continued, "defendants and their counsel have engaged in groundless and relentless attacks on this court. Their motive is transparent. It is an attempt to transform the trial ... into a trial of this judge." Though he labeled the attempts to remove him a "classic example" of abuse of the recusal statutes, he wrote that "the time has come for the proceedings in this case to proceed on the merits with the attention of all directed at the real issues in this case." As a result, Richey withdrew from the case in a state of exhaustion and near-collapse, according to associates. On July 18, Jack Anderson's column appeared in newspapers throughout the country. Five days later, Judge Richey was hospitalized with exhaustion and pulmonary embolisms. He has since declined all comment on the case, citing the code of judicial conduct. Judge Richey's ordeal may not be over. Hirschkop vows that his campaign against the judge will continue, and he claims that the prostitute affair is "only the tip of the iceberg." Although Hirschkop declines to disclose details, he says if necessary he will expose additional damaging information uncovered by Bast. Apart from the delays, the campaign against Judge Richey has had negligible legal impact on the proceedings against the Scientologist defendants. Though an appeal is pending on a conventional search and seizure question, the convictions of the first nine stand. Trials of the remaining two defendants started in late October under Judge Robinson and are still in progress. The activities of the Scientologists and their counsel in this case seem destined only to satisfy a commandment L. Ron Hubbard once wrote: "The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN." In its July 1980 issue the American Lawyer named Judge Charles Richey runner-up to the worst District of Columbia federal district court judge. The lawyer who most vehemently denounced Richey was one of the Scientologists' defense counsel, and this same lawyer also referred our reporter to other lawyers who have represented Church of Scientology defendants. The reporter, who has since left our staff, says he was unaware of Scientologists' efforts to discredit and recuse Judge Richey. Without the lawyer's vehemently derogatory remarks and his referrals to other "sources," our reporter says he would not have named Richey in the survey. BATTLES ON OTHER FRONTS The Church of Scientology has been involved in almost constant litigation since its founding nearly 30 years ago. Besides periodic clashes with the government, the church has filed scores of suits against the media to inhibit the news coverage of its activities. Among the more recent cases involving the church and the media: Fourteen libel suits have been filed against Paulette Cooper, New York freelance writer and author of the 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology, and her publisher. Church documents seized in the 1977 Los Angeles raid and made public last year revealed "Operation Freakout," a campaign of harassment directed against cooper that included death threats, obscene phone calls, phony letters about her sexual behavior and a forged bomb threat against the church that resulted in Cooper's indictment in 1973. The charges against Cooper were dropped in 1975. Cooper has now retaliated with a $55-million suit against the church. A 1977 suit against the San Diego Union asked $10,000 in damages for invasion of privacy from a reporter who had registered for a Scientology course in order to write a story about the church. The church offered to drop the suit if plans to publish the story were dropped, but after the story ran, the church increased its damage claim to $??,000 and added charges of fraud and deceit against the paper. The case was dismissed on summary judgment. In 1976 the church sued the Clearwater Sun in Florida for $1 million and threatened to sue the St. Petersburg Times for a series of stories on the church. Scientologists spread rumors linking Times officials to the CIA, the FBI and the Communist Party, and harassed reporters. The Sun countersued the church for abuse of process, and the Times sued for an injunction barring the church's harassment of its reporters. The church subsequently dropped its suit against the Sun and never followed through on its threat to sue the Times. In March 1979 the church sued two New York writers, Jim Siegelman and Flo Conway, after they criticized Scientology on the "David Susskind Show" while discussing their book, Snapping. After the Scientologists' suit against them was dismissed, the pair countersued, charging the church with malicious prosecution. The church has lately found itself on the defensive in a flurry of suits filed against it by disgruntled former church members and recruits. Currently pending against the church are: a suit filed October 21 by Lawrence Stifler, a Boston marathon runner, asking 41.25 million for damages sustained after he was allegedly physically attacked by a Scientology recruiter. Stifler says that due to the injury, he may never run again; a $16-million suit filed in April by Tonja Burden, a 20-year-old former church member who claims she was deceived and forced to remain in the church, used as slave labor and kidnapped after she escaped; a $21-million suit brought by jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo in February, accusing the church of embezzlement, kidnapping and forcing him to undergo a "life repair course"; a class action filed last December by former church staff member Lavenda Van Schack, seeking $200 million on behalf of church dropouts. Her suit accuses the church of mind control, unlawful electronic surveillance and leaking details of her private life to the media. Last year, Julie Titchbourne, a former Church of Scientology member, was awarded $42 million by a Portland, Oregon jury which found that the church's promises of a better life were fraudulent. The church as subsequently sued four "deprogrammers" for $2 million collectively, claiming that they induced Titchbourne to turn against the church. -- J.B.S. Shudder into Silence The Church of Scientology doesn't take kindly to negative coverage By Robert W. Welkos Reprinted from The Quill, Novemeber-December 1991, pp.36-38 In the late spring of 1990, shortly before the Los Angeles Times published a comprehensive series on the Church of Scientology by staff writer Joel Sappell and myself, a deliveryman arrived at my house and propped a large manila envelope against my front door. It was from a mortuary, and inside was a brochure extolling the benefits of arranging your funeral before you die. "Investigate the pre-arrangement program at our memorial park now," the brochure read. "You'll be glad you did, and so will your family." Curious, I telephoned the mortuary and asked why they had sent me the material. To my amazement, they didn't know they had and told me they never sent brochures unsolicited because it can be upsetting. They assured me they were always sensitive to such concerns and that it would not happen again. But it did. Two days later, my wife caught a glimpse of a man hurrying down the front walk. By the time she opened the door, he was driving away, but left on the step was another envelope from the same mortuary. I would never know if the deliveries were just a mix-up or a sinister prank. Just as I have never known who made the dozens of hang-up telephone calls to my house; what caused my partner's dog to go into seizures on the day the Times published the secret teachings of Scientology; why a bogus assault complaint was filed with the Los Angeles Police Department against Sappell by a man whose address and name proved to be phony, or why car dealers we had never dealt with were making inquiries into our personal credit reports. Yet, I wondered: Were these incidents more than coincidence? Whenever journalists ask critical questions about Scientology they can expect to endure intense personal scrutiny. Over the years, various reporters have been sued, harassed, spied on, and even been subjected to dirty tricks. Our investigation of Scientology began in 1985. The undertaking stretched over five difficult years and tested the will of the newspaper as we were repeatedly subject to the church's intimidative tactics. In the end, we published 24 stories over six days, exploring virtually every facet of Scientology, from its confidential doctrines to its abuses against former members to the fictional background of its founder. the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. The series also revealed how Scientologists had created numerous tax- exempt front groups and profit-making consulting firms to spread their beliefs throughout American society, and how Hubbard's remarkable string of 22 bestsellers was accomplished, in part, through multiple purchases of his books by Scientologists and employees of Hubbard's publishing house, which is controlled by church members. The story took us across the U.S. and into Canada, interviewing hundreds of people, reviewing thousands of pages of documents, and studying the arcane writings of Hubbard himself. Along the way we were sued once and successfully fought two federal court subpoenas served by Scientology to gain access to our research. At various times, we were investigated by as many as three separate teams of private investigators hired by Scientology's attorneys. Up to the week of publication, the newspaper continued to receive letters from church lawyers threatening suits. I was sued by a church paralegal; for false imprisonment after he served me with a subpoena inside the newspaper and I told him to wait in an editor's office until security arrived and determined how he entered the building. Outside the church's Golden Era Studios in Riverside, California, a Times photographer stopped his car on a public highway and began taking pictures of the compound when he was confronted by uniformed Scientology guards with walkie-talkies who demanded that he surrender his film. He refused after a long and tense confrontation, during which he was asked if he worked for the CLA. Later, at a church facility in Hollywood, the photographer parked on the street and began snapping pictures of two Scientologists assigned to Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force, a kind of boot camp where members wear dark armbands, run everywhere, and perform menial tasks until their superiors determine that they have been properly rehabilitated. As the camera clicked, one of the men hurled a caustic substance at the photographer's car, eroding the paint. On one occasion, people we had interviewed for the series were visited by private investigators posing as a film crew doing a documentary on Scientology. In the weeks after the series appeared, Scientology struck back. It purchased advertising space on more than 120 billboards and 1,000 bus placards around Los Angeles. The ads, which prominently included the newspaper's logo and our names, quoted from our series, but they had edited the excerpts to create the false impression that the Los Angeles Times was endorsing Scientology. It was so strange for me to be driving to work each morning on the freeway and then, in letters that looked 10 feet high, see my name plastered on a gigantic billboard, or standing at a crosswalk and glimpse my name whizzing past me on the side of a bus. When Time magazine published a cover story about Scientology last May 6, Time Associate Editor Richard Behar wrote that "at least 10 attorneys and six private detectives were unleashed by Scientology and its followers in an effort to threaten, harass, and discredit me." Behar said that a copy of his personal credit report with detailed information about his bank accounts, home mortgage, credit-card payments, home address, and Social Security number had been illegally retrieved from a national credit bureau. Private investigators contacted his acquaintances and neighbors. He was subpoenaed by one attorney and he said another falsely suggested that he might own shares in a company he was reporting about. A Miami private investigator, working for Scientology attorneys, posed as a woman whose niece was a Scientologist and sought advice on how to deal with her and the church. "They have unleashed private eyes on most of the sources that were named in the story," Behar said in an interview. On the public front, Scientology reportedly spent over $3 million to run daily ads in USA Today. One ad blasted Time by claiming the magazine had once supported Adolph Hitler and his Nazi regime. The church also mailed out thousands of copies of an 80-page booklet entitled "Fact vs. Fiction," in which it attempted to correct "falsehoods" in Behar's article. Such attempts are known as "dead agenting" in Scientology. Behar's experience was not unique. When Linda Stasi of New York Newsday wrote a sharp-tongued gossip column about Scientology and mentioned Time's upcoming cover story, she received a letter from a man identifying himself as a U.S. Customs Service agent at Kennedy Airport. "He said my name and both of my reporters [Dough Vaughan and Anthony Scaduto] were going on their computer and he would personally see we underwent full body searches and rectal examinations until they found drugs or contraband on us the next time we went through customs," Stasi recalled. Alarmed, the newspaper's executives referred the matter to the Customs Service for investigation. Not long afterward, executives said, an FBI agent contacted them and said an individual whom he did not name had complained that Newsday was having him harassed and wanted the agency to investigate the newspaper. As of this writing, the outcome of both probes is not known. Stephen Koff, a staff writer at the Sr. Petersburg Times, said that after he began investigating Hubbard's church in 1988, a car dealership in California checked out his personal credit report, as did a sculptor, who has since died. "My guess it was really a private investigator [who checked out his credit]," Koff said. While in Los Angeles to report on the church, Koff said, his wife began receiving obscene phone calls late at night and people claiming to work for credit card companies called wanting to know personal information about him. A week after his series appeared, he noticed a private investigator parked outside his house. At one point, he peeked through the blinds and the car was gone. "Almost two hours later, I'm leaving with my daughter to take her to the baby sitter and I see the same car parked on a different street but parked in such a way they could see my house." As he drove off and got on a freeway the same car appeared in front of him. Koff said he learned through police sources that the car had been rented by a private investigator. When Robert W. Lobsinger, publisher of the Newkirk Herald Journal in Newkirk, Oklahoma, began writing biting editorials alerting residents that Scientologists were quietly building a huge drug rehabilitation center on a nearby Indian reservation, he also was visited by private investigators on behalf of Scientology. One "went to the sheriff's office poking around wanting all the terrible bad criminal history on me, my wife, and kids." Lobsinger recalled. "Of course, there isn't any. He wandered around town talking to everybody else trying to get the goods or me. They sent him down with a full-page ad to run in my paper and a handful of hundred dollar bills to buy this ad. Of course the ad was a condemnation of me for exposing Scientology and insinuating that I was obviously a drug dealer and was a terrible bad guy . . . So they took it to the daily paper 15 miles north of us and they ran it up there." Lobsinger said Scientologists then mailed the ad to Newkirk's 2,500 residents. No matter where Scientology surfaces as a story, journalists can expect to be targets of a "noisy" investigation. "Remember," Hubbard wrote as far back as 1959, "intelligence we get with a whisper. Investigation we do with a yell." In "The Manual of Justice," Hubbard gave point-by-point instructions on how to deal with a "bad magazine article." First, he wrote, "Tell them by letter to retract at once in the next issue." The second step, he said, is to "hire a private detective of a national-type firm to investigate the writer, not the magazine, and get any criminal or Communist background the man has." The third step is to have lawyers write the magazine threatening suit, and then use the information gleaned from the investigator to make the writer "shudder into silence." Using lawyers to attack its critics is standard Scientology procedure. Among the millions of words Hubbard left to his followers were precise directives on how to deal with critics and the press: "The purpose of the [lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than win." "If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace . . . Don't ever defend. Always attack." "We do not want Scientology to be reported in the press, anywhere else than on the religious pages of newspapers... Therefore, we should be very alert to sue for slander at the slightest chance so as to discourage the public presses from mentioning Scientology." "NEVER agree to an investigation of Scientology. Only agree to an investigation of the attacker . . . Start feeding lurid, blood, sex crime, actual evidence on the attack to the press. Don't ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way." When British author Russell Miller wrote a critical biography of Hubbard in 1988, an anonymous caller to police implicated Miller in the unsolved ax slaying of a South London private eye. Miller was interrogated by Scotland Yard, which later admitted the investigation was a waste of time that had "caused Mr. Miller some embarrassment." The Sunday Times of London interviewed a private detective in 1987 who said he had been paid $2,500 by the Church of Scientology for attempting to smear Miller. The private eye was quoted as saying that he thought Miller was "at risk" and added: "People acting for the church are willing to pay large sums for men to discredit him. These bastards will stop at nothing." When the St. Petersburg Times planned a review of another biography that was critical of Hubbard, it received a letter from a Scientology attorney threatening to sue the newspaper. "We have evidence that your paper has a deep-seated bias against the Church and that you intend to hit the Church hard with this review," the letter from Los Angeles attorney Timothy Bowles stated ..."lf you forward one of his lies you will find yourself in court facing not only libel and slander charges, but also charges for conspiracy to violate civil rights. If you publish anything at all on it, you may still find yourself defending charges in court in light of what we know about your intentions. We know a whole lot more about your institution and motives than you think." The newspaper published its review and Bowle's letter. But the biggest horror story belongs to New York author Paulette Cooper. Cooper, who wrote a scathing 1972 book entitled The Scandal of Scientology, was indicted on charges of making bomb threats against the church. The charges were eventually dismissed after authorities discovered the church had obtained stationery she had touched and used it to forge the bomb threats. Today, when journalists launch investigations of Scientology, they can expect to be contacted by the Office of Special Affairs, the church unit responsible for countering outside threats. Attorneys at OSA coordinate the activities of private detectives who gather information and spy on church critics. Journalists should know that even before they begin conducting interviews with church officials, those officials are prepared for them. Scientologists who regularly deal with the media are drilled in how to handle questions. The church once issued a bulletin on how to "cave in" a reporter by "shouting, banging, pointing [and] swearing." Scientologists also were instructed how to be "covertly hostile" to a reporter: "He uses the word as a rapier and plunges it at the reporter, so that the reporter introverts and drops the questions." Preparing for a hostile interview is one thing. Wondering whether you've been targeted for harassment is another. Several weeks before the publication of our series, I joined a number of other Times' reporters for a drink and conversation at a nearby watering hole. As we sat laughing and talking, I noticed a woman sitting alone, facing me at a nearby table. Each time I looked in her direction she glanced at her wristwatch, as if to indicate she was waiting for a friend who never arrived. She waited for well over an hour until I mentioned to another reporter how odd it was. As I headed home on the freeway I noticed a California Highway Patrol car swerving back and forth across the lanes, slowing traffic to a crawl. He slipped in behind my car, and ordered me to pull over. I asked the officer what I had done, and then saw there were three more patrol cars lined up behind me, all with their lights flashing. After I was given a sobriety test, the officers huddled, then told me to gel going because I was sober. When I asked why I had been stopped, one officer said they had received a report that I was weaving and endangering other motorists. The next day, I learned that the CHP had received a call over a car phone from a man identifying himself as a former Los Angeles police officer. He said he was following me and would direct the officers to my location. Oddly, he never gave his name. My colleagues later said I was lucky I hadn't made any sudden moves while getting out of my car. In a city plagued by freeway shootings and gangs, cops get nervous. 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