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variety of situations, including the giving of courtroom testimony. A
Scientologist feels no obligation to be truthful in a "wog" court, even
under oath. Again, this is because the Scientologist is operating under
a higher law, that of the "greatest good for the greatest number of
dynamics."
Another Scientology policy contains a series of Drills used to train
G.O. agents. The student has to choose the best of several alternative
solutions:
A. General scene: person to restrain/remove Mr. Jones, employee in
local government agency attacking the Org.
- Order hundreds of dollars worth of liquor in Jones' name and have
it delivered to his home to cause him trouble and make the liquor store
owner dislike him.
- Call up Jones' boss and accuse Jones of being a homosexual.
- Send Jones' 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.
- Expose his Nazi background to the press with evidence that he still
attends local Nazi meetings.
- Wake him up every night by calling him on the phone and threatening
him.
- Send a Field Staff Member 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.
- Poison him while he's asleep so he'll never start another attack.
- Make known to the paper's owner that McDonald is responsible for
the paper's decreasing advertising revenues.
- Spread a rumor around to the paper's employees that McDonald is a
Communist.
- Put itching powder in McDonald's clothes so he'll scratch himself
all day, thus preventing him from writing a story.
And, if these plans seem farfetched, an example of a Scientology
"operation" actually carried out is the one against Paulette Cooper, who
in 1971 wrote a book critical of Scientology.
In church documents labelled "Operation PC (Paulette Cooper)
Freakout," various scenarios were listed. In one scenario, a
Scientologist impersonating Cooper was to make threatening phone calls
to an Arab consulate. Another plan was to mail a threatening letter to
the same consulate, or to make a bomb threat against them.
In still another plot, a Scientologist impersonating Cooper would go
to a laundromat and threaten to kill then-President Nixon or Henry
Kissinger. Yet another plan was to get Paulette's fingerprints on a
piece of paper, then type a bomb threat to Kissinger on the paper and
mail it.
Something very similar to this was, in fact, carried out. G.O.
agents succeeded in getting Paulette's fingerprints on some stationery,
then used the stationery to make bomb threats against the Church. Cooper
was indicted on three counts of making bomb threats, and faced fifteen
years in jail before she cleared herself by taking a sodium pentothal
test.
Cooper was completely exonerated only when the F.B.I., in their 1977
raid of the G.O. offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles,
California, uncovered documents which detailed the church's plans to
frame her.
Paulette Cooper's situation is not unique. Many people who have
incurred the wrath of the Church of Scientology have found to what
extent Scientologists are prepared to go in fighting "the enemy."
In one case, a woman found thousands of worms thrown at her front
door. Defectors have been harassed by church agents spreading lies about
them to employers or neighbors. Endless frivolous lawsuits have been
launched. In one case, Boston attorney Michael Flynn narrowly avoided a
crash when water was put in the gas tank of his private plane. This
occurred at a time when he was representing several litigants against
the "church."
The F.B.I. raids brought to light many of the written policies used
to train G.O. members in criminal activities. One such policy is
Security and Theft of Materials which contains the following
quotes:
The first step in any breaking and entering job is casing. This
consists of checking out the area to ascertain the possibilities for
breaking into the premises....
Professionals at all times wear gloves during an operation. This
prevents fingerprints being left behind by which the agents could be
traced....
One trick used by professionals is ... a series of cover stories are
mocked up (invented) to cover each stage of the operation in the event
that the operation is blown at any point.
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....
Additionally, any agent working on such operations would have
nothing in his possession that connected him with the organization
(Scientology)....
And so forth. An interesting policy letter for a church!
Another G.O. policy called The Strike, defines a strike as
"the action of gathering information on a covert basis, performed by one
or more agents." An example of a strike actually carried out by the
church was breaking into the IRS offices in Washington, D.C. and