The FBI started the program "Cointelpro"
(Counterintelligence Program). The FBI announced that for
"security reasons" it was terminating the Program as of April 27,
1971.
The "dirty business" included unauthorized bugging
and wiretapping; mail opening; warrantless break-ins ("black bag
jobs"); anonymously mailing reprints of newspaper and magazine articles
(some of them planted in the press by the Bureau itself); disseminating
defamatory information regarding individuals, much of it false; encouraging
street warfare between violence-prone groups; contacting an employee with
derogatory information about a person to get the target fired; using the IRS to
harrass individuals and organizations by audit; and so on.
As one newspaper writer put it, "almost nothing - beyond
lack of imagination - appears to have limited the range of dirty tricks' used by
the FBI..."
The explanation offered by the Bureau for its illegal acts was that the agency found them to be necessary to protect
national security (a catch-all pleading invoked by all federal agencies to
justify their lawless conduct); and to prevent violence.
In the programme's later phases, it became clear that it was
being used against persons and organizations whose beliefs were repugnant to the
Bureau. In short, Cointelpro was J. Edgar Hoover's secret war against what he
considered "dangerous" ideas, or sometimes against individuals who
were unpopular with his friends and supporters.
Whether the Church of Scientology was formally a part of the
Cointelpro or not, many of the same techniques used by the FBI during the 15
years that those programmes were in operation, were also employed against
Scientologists.
During more than 20 years, the Bureau conducted a deliberate
smear campaign against the church, one which has had lasting effects. The agency
became an avid collector of unfavourable news stories and magazine articles
concerning Scientology and its founder. Enquiries from individuals, other
agencies and foreign governments were all provided with these materials and
referred to other sources of derogatory allegations.
To conceal the fact that the FBI was the source of the
slander, Hoover would introduce the libel with the statement that "No
investigation has been conducted by this Bureau concerning Hubbard [or
"Scientology"]. However, our files reveal that... There would then follow
a deadly selection of venemous gossip, rumour and false published reports from
the copious FBI files, but attributed to other founts.
Sometimes, the Director would close his letter with the
words: "I am enclosing some material which I thought you might like to
have."
The "material" referred to would be a packet of
black propaganda in the form of raw data accumulated by the Bureau.
Over the years, the defamatory reports thus generated by the
FBI began to percolate among other governmental agencies and departments which,
in turn, built their own files and became new centers for further diffusion of the falsehoods.
The exchange was a contagion that eventually spread to the remotest corner of
the world. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 53/60)
Documents reveal that the FBI (as well as other federal
agencies) had secret operatives at work in virtually every branch of the Church
of Scientology. Material obtained under the Freedom of Information Act also
makes it clear that in some instances, church members were coerced into
supplying the agency with confidential information, by the threat of, or offer
of immunity from criminal prosecution on some charge unrelated to Scientology.
In addition to paid spies, spiteful rumour mongers, and
coerced informants, intelligence agencies of the Government made use of illegal
wiretapping and bugging in their warfevered assault on the Church of
Scientology. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 66)
Documents reveal that the FBI (as well as other federal
agencies) had secret operatives at work in virtually every branch of the Church
of Scientology. Material obtained under the Freedom of Information Act also
makes it clear that in some instances, church members were coerced into
supplying the agency with confidential information, by the threat of, or offer
of immunity from criminal prosecution on some charge unrelated to Scientology.
In addition to paid spies, spiteful rumour mongers, and
coerced informants, intelligence agencies of the Government made use of illegal
wiretapping and bugging in their warfevered assault on the Church of
Scientology.
The nature and extent of this global, electronic
eavesdropping will never be known. Many of the guilty weasels have been too
adroit at covering their tracks.
Judging from the documentary evidence available, however, the
coordinated efforts of the following agencies have been massive and widespread:
the
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National Security Agency, the
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U.S. Justice Department,
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FBI,
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FDA,
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CIA,
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IRS,
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Bureau of Customs,
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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA, formerly the BNDD), the
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Department of Defense, the
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Defense Intelligence Service,
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Interpol,
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U.S. State
Department,
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U.S. Post Office,
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U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service,
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF),
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Department of Labor;
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), the
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Secret Service, and the
police departments of 26 American cities, from New York
to Honolulu; from Montpelier, Vermont to Dallas, Texas. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 66/67)
Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act
reveal that police departments throughout the United States participated in
the federal conspiracy against the Church of Scientology. There is documented
evidence that police in New York, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Los
Angeles and Eureka, California engaged in surveillance of the church. At the
same time, they received from, and disseminated to, the federal agencies
information obtained from various sources. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 61)
A rough quote from an FBI memorandum obtained through the Freedom of Information Act in 1978:
"To infiltrate the Church and move our agents up to Board of Director positions. We must also prevent the spread of Scientology to China and Japan as it is so similar to Bhuddism it would spread like wildfire".
(CBR: SOB 12)
All the while these attacks continued. But finally a response was in order if these
psychs were to be prevented from creating a slave society in January of 1956, a plan the psychs had hatched many years before was about to come to fruition. They had formulated a plan to infiltrate all levels of society so that they - and they alone - were the decision makers as to what was right and wrong. In this way they could do away with the influence of religion and even the family in maters of morals and mores of the civilization. I'm not joking here. This is all a matter of public record. Their plan for the US was simple. They would purchase a million acres of land in Alaska which they would use as a huge mental health colony then they would change the commitment laws so that they could arbitrarily commit any citizen to this facility one didn't need to violate a law or do anything wrong. All it would take was a psych deciding you weren't desirable and off you would go with no recourse.
This is very convenient for a government wanting to control its populace. And the obvious force to implement this plan was psychiatry. In fact, such a plan already had precedent. It was doing wonders to keep the populace quiet! Where? In Stalinist Russia of course. They called it: Siberia! Unbelievably the House of Representatives had already passed the bill to create this facility in Alaska and by all indications it would fly through the senate. The press and public were asleep and the politicians were drooling. And then out of nowhere a force they never contemplated came on the scene.
That force was LRH and Scientology naming it for what it was, LRH dubbed the plan:
"Siberia USA". He began a campaign to alert the public and the press to the true meaning of this grand plan. The press finally woke up and the words "Siberia USA" were seen everywhere as a slogan to defeat this danger to personal rights and freedom.
How did the psychs manage to recruit the IRS?
More easily than you can imagine. You've already seen how the government was working hand in glove with the psych movement. But the connection was even more tangible. The
DC Medical Society was the sponsor of the Siberia USA plans. Their attorney was a woman named
Charlotte Murphy and when their grand plan of Siberia USA fell through she needed a new job. She joined the
Internal Revenue Service and was posted in the office of their chief counsel which is the in-house attorney firm for the IRS. And just that simply the IRS became the active force to destroy Scientology because Charlotte Murphy's assigned functions - at her request - were to deal exclusively with any matters Scientology in nature. A task she wasted no time getting active with. She made her intentions clear in this document she wroth to the district director of the Washington branch of the IRS:
In this document regarding the Founding Church in Washington DC, she asks:
"whether there are any local statutes and ordinances available as tools to curtail or close down the operation."
She went on a rampage to do anything in her power to destroy Scientology in the US and abroad. For her efforts she was awarded handsomely and even
was promoted years later and became a judge in the US tax court.
... Denial of tax exemption makes an organization fair game for the IRS. So, Murphy's first act was to arrange for the arbitrary denial of tax exemption
to every existing Church of Scientology in the United States. She then spent the next ten years spearheading IRS attacks on our churches, in order
to ensure that the Church did not regain tax exemption. The primary tactic utilized was the creation and broad dissemination of false and derogatory
reports on LRH and Scientology. These reports were designed to ensure that government agencies receiving these reports in the US and abroad would
immediately take adverse action and instigate inquires and other serious actions. In fact, Congress later said:
"...these reports were used to stigmatize, to set a group of individuals and organizations apart as somehow inherently suspect and likely to be in
violation of the tax statutes or other laws."
Indeed, years later we learned that IRS-created false reports were at the bottom of such infamous attacks as the Australian inquiry, the UK and South
African inquiries, and attacks on the Flagship Apollo.
You've heard about false reports being spread through the world. And often we have talked of Interpol being the conduit for these reports abroad. That
is all true. But it was always the IRS creating the documents and sending them out in the first place. Don't forget - the IRS hadn't found the Church
doing anything wrong. They just wanted to get us. So they had to resort to pure lies.
(David Miscavige's IAS speech, 8 October 1993)
1956