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motives are humanitarian, i.e., harass, eradicate, attack, destroy,
annihilate, entrapment...
Admission to unpunished crimes and/or incriminating data;
Mentions or the ordering of a B & E (breaking and entering);
Implications of posing as a government agent;
Evidence of tapping phone lines or illegal taping of conversations;
Mentions of harassment;
Any evidence of bribery;
Wordings like "let's wipe him out";
Etc.
Another set of G.O. policies has to do with disposing of
incriminating documents quickly should the org be raided by the FBI or
other government agency.
One policy describes a system known in the G.O. as the "Red Box."
This policy gives instructions for keeping all G.O. documents related to
incriminating activities in a special folder or briefcase called the
"red box" that can be quickly destroyed in case of a raid.
Another policy called Basic and Essential Security instructs
the G.O. staff member to be able destroy all such incriminating material
within 30-60 seconds. "Destruction by fire is usually most thorough and
practical. Probably the easiest and least expensive method is to
purchase a metal container, some lighter fluid and have matches on
hand...."
Especially illuminating is the course checksheet for the
"Information Full Hat," the course used to train G.O. agents. Included
on this course are the following:
To read a book on brainwashing;
To be able to define the following words: Spy; Spying; Agent;
Operative; Information; Intelligence; Espionage; Counter espionage;
Counter intelligence; Fascism; Socialism; Communism; CIA; FBI; MI6; MI5;
KGB; GRU.
To write an essay on: What could happen if Intelligence was not
anonymous or elusive;
To read the following policy letters written by Hubbard:
"Terror Stalks"
"Communism and Scientology"
"The War"
"PDH" (Pain, Drugs, Hypnosis)
"Intelligence"
"The Art of Building a Cover"
"Covert Operations I"
"Covert Operations II"
"Black PR"
"Secret, Notes on SMERSH"
Etc.
Other books read on the course include: The Spy and His
Master; KGB; CIA and the Cult of Intelligence;
Psychological Warfare Against Nazi Germany; and The Art of
War, by Sun Tzu.
A sample of the hundreds of drills on this course:
Demo a covert operation on an opponent which restrains him and the
beneficial result.
Demo why it is important to know your public's hate and love buttons
when running an operation on an enemy.
Write an essay on what you would do if while running operations on
an opponent, the opponent begins to run a black propaganda campaign on
you.
Write up an operation in which the agent carrying out the operation
would need a pretty good cover.
Demo how knowing the enemy makes for a better operation than being
ignorant of the enemy.
Also included on this checksheet is TR-L (training routine lie).
Again, an interesting course for a "church"!
Unquestionably the most spectacular "operations" carried out by G.O.
agents were those connected to "Operation Snow White," in which scores
of government offices were burglarized in an attempt to retrieve every
government file on Scientology. These operations resulted in some 30,000
government documents being either copied or stolen. Unfortunately for
the Scientologists, they also resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of
eleven Scientologists, including Hubbard's wife.
Michael Meisner, as Assistant Guardian for the Bureau of
Information, was chosen to supervise this operation.
He selected a G.O. staff member, Gerald Wolfe, to infiltrate the IRS
in Washington, D.C. Wolfe, codenamed "Silver," was hired as a clerk
typist with the I.R.S. in May of 1975.
From May of 1975 until June of 1976, Wolfe and Meisner, using
Wolfe's ID card as well as five forged ID cards, burglarized offices of
the IRS Chief Counsel, several IRS attorneys, the IRS Exemptions Office,
the Tax Division of the U.S. Justice Department, the Deputy General of
the U.S., the IRS Office of Intelligence Operations, the Department of
Justice Information and Privacy Unit, and the Interpol Liaison Office.
Meisner and Wolfe were able to pull off their astonishingly
successful burglaries for over a year, until a suspicious library clerk
alerted the authorities. In June of 1976, Wolfe was caught by the FBI
with one of the forged ID cards, for which he was arrested and
prosecuted. Meisner managed to flee prosecution for a year, during which
time he was held prisoner by the G.O., until he managed to escape and
defected to the FBI.
A month after Meisner's defection, the FBI launched surprise raids
against the G.O. offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, seizing
thousands of documents, including most of those previously stolen from
the government offices.
As a result of the evidence obtained in the raids, eleven G.O.
officials were indicted, and nine of the eleven served prison sentences
ranging from six months to five years.
Mary Sue Hubbard, as head of the G.O., was fined $10,000 and given a
five year prison sentence for her part in the illegal operations.