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five year prison sentence for her part in the illegal operations.
Although she pleaded for leniency, she was told by the judge:
We have a precious system of government in the United States.... For
anyone to use those laws, or to seek under the guise of those laws, to
destroy the very foundation of the government is totally wrong and
cannot be condoned by any responsible citizen. (4)
Mary Sue Hubbard reported to Federal Correctional Institution in
Lexington, Kentucky, where she served one year of her term before being
released. Shortly after her release from prison, she was ousted from her
position as head of the Guardian's Office by the new leadership of the
church Her present whereabouts remain unknown.
The Guardian's Office was renamed the "Office of Special Affairs" by
the new church leadership in the mid-1980s, in an effort to shed the
tarnished image of the G.O. But, like the tiger unable to change its
stripes, OSA is simply the old G.O. with a new name.
Strange activities for a church?
True, not every church comes with its own information and
intelligence agency, illustrated instructions for burglary, espionage
training, and its own corps of highly trained secret agents.
It is the siege mentality of Scientology, the idea of "us" against
"them," that helps to maintain a high degree of unity within the cult.
The G.O. was formed to deal with the many real and perceived
"enemies" of Scientology. This enemy mentality in Scientology was born
from the paranoid lobes of Hubbard's mind.
And it is this mentality which makes the G.O., and now OSA, the
danger that it is.
Notes
- Miller, p. 241
- Ibid, p. 219
- Ibid, p. 254
- Ibid, p. 364
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