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John Cole, another FBI snooper who was assigned to get a line
on the Scientologists, apparently jumbled his mission somewhere along the way,
and got his come-uppance at the scene. In 1971, he sued church members Terry
Milner and Henning Heldt who, he alleged, assaulted him in the church offices.
He had been there in search of confidential information, for which he assured
the two church executives, he was willing to pay.
When it came to pressing his suit in court, however, Cole had
a problem. On January 27, 1971, Moton B. Holt, Jr., his legal counsel, wrote to
the United States Attorney in Los Angeles:
"Confirming our conversation, I am attaching
interrogatories in subject action by which defendants seek to discover
information of Mr. Cole's prior activities which included undercover work,
special assignment and informant duties in various Governmental agencies,
including the Justice Department, Senator Eastland's Committee, the
FBI, the CIA, the C-11, and others. The FBI recommended that I contact your office with
respect to any suggestions you may have to avoid answering any of the propounded
questions in this area.
"Mr. Cole advises that the information is highly
confidential from the Government's viewpoint and disclosure of the same is not
in the interest of national security and, further, would endanger the lives of
at least four Government agents.
"I have various citations which could be used including the Internal Security Act, the Espionage and Censorship Act and
various Departmental Orders."
Attorney Holt said that the judge hearing the case had
granted the defendants' motion to compel him to answer questions on the grounds
that such questions were material to show loss of earnings while Cole was
hospitalized. He added:
"Cole does not want to appeal due to the publicity
involved. The original story when the suit was filed was squelched by the
FBI." (Emphasis added.)
An intelligence report dated January 29, 1969 filed in the
Drug Enforcement Agency archives throws additional light on Cole's activities.
The document lists articles taken from church offices in Los Angeles. It is
captioned, "From: Cole -To: Slagel." (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 61)
...twice during 1971, the FBI
forwarded derogatory reports concerning the church to the office of the Legal
Attaché in the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 61)
... CO EU mission was coming up there that year,
and I went up to EU.... I started the
Orgs going and also the CLO going there with "on-source and
on-purpose teams" and just expanding the hell out of it.
And the thing is, we expanded quite well until people realized
we were making a lot of money over there and then just...- the GO
had to jump in there, everybody had to jump in there, and get
their cut of the pie and put limitations on things and so on like
that - ... and that's one reason why later on, the Boss said:
'Nothing applies to EU except his own orders.' And those were the
same orders that were successful in EU when I was there, and
anybody else's orders that came into there were always
unsuccessful. Because we just did LRH Policy and what he would do
on starting up an area like that, and that was successful and
nobody else's stuff was ever looked at. And I had filed a whole
trunk full of that stuff at FOLO, or the CLO, and it was never
used. And apparently, that's the same successful action that
Guillaume (Lesevre) uses today, I don't know. We just used what LRH put
down, and applied that.
So, that was going on, and in all of 1971, I was up in Europe. (CBR-debrief from 1982)
Applied Scholastics founded.
L10, L11 (the New Life Rundown) and L12 (the Flag OT
Executive Rundown) released, only delivered by the most highly trained Sea Org
auditors and C/Ses aboard the Apollo. (CofS)
Hubbard Scientology Organization of Plymouth, England founded. (CofS)
Church of Scientology Publications Organization United States
established. (CofS)
Church of Scientology of Buffalo, New York founded. (CofS)
Church of Scientology of Boston, Massachusetts founded. (CofS)
Church of Scientology of Vienna, Austria founded. (CofS)
Church of Scientology of San Diego, California founded. (CofS)
Church of Scientology of Portland, Oregon founded. (CofS)
GO 060571 LRH, 6 May 1971, "WORKING THEORY"
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Quotes:
... "So far we have been using an "Intelligence Hypothesis" I
developed in 1965. Taking all channels of attack on us country by country, I found
the cycle of attacking sources was
- Income Tax
- Health Dept or Agency
- Immigration and
- a type of press.
Moving this up to an International level, and trying to find out who could have that much influence the
Intelligence Hypothesis I formed was that it would have to be a member of the World Bank with
psychiatric connections or who planned usages of psychiatry as part of world control."
We used this to narrow and target our searches. It led us to WFMH and the
NAMH. And it served us well. But it did not lead all the way until this year.
We found the central handler (one who orders operatives and operations) and proved it by numerous correspondences we
were given. The track on this was started by a bit of flair (insight). And it has proved out absolutely. The person is
"Mary Appleby" Secretary of the National Association of Mental Health of England. It is she who writes and phones her
contacts to start attacks on Scientology.
Her uncle (just now deceased) was OTTO NIEMEYER of the World Bank.
... It has gotten us this far. But in getting there, new data has shown up.
Brilliant work in tracing the origins of the WFMH disclosed it and the NAMH to have NAZI origins. Goerings
Cousin, Villinger, others others were at the root of Naziism in Germany and brought Hitler to power! They started
the death camps and they not Hitler ordered the extermination of Jews.
Hubbard came to an extended "Working
Hypothesis":
"Apparently there exists somewhere a Nazi Memorial or plan to conquer the world.
By intelligence infiltration of governments, drug addiction and dependency and using psychiatry to
eliminate political undesireables and minorities, a group is bent on world political conquest."
(Data Sources: Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology, Policies,
GO 060571 LRH)
(Note: For reference also see the book "The
Men behind Hitler", also released around 1971.)
1971, 7.5.
GO 070571 LRH, Notes on SMERSH
Smersh was originally a part of the Stalin-era security apparatus; its name, an abbreviation of its motto "smert'
shpionam" ("death to spies"), reflected its role in counter-espionage and detection of anti-Soviet activity. It was
absorbed into the NKVD (the direct predecessor of the KGB) in 1946.
Hubbard's theory that time was that there is a hidden Nazi intell
influence, also running the WFMH and Media.
"We are getting even further penetration now into who is keeping this planet
upset." (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
L. Ron Hubbard released Word Clearing Methods 1, 2 and 3. (CofS)
Susan Meister, a twenty-three-year-old from Colorado, had joined the crew of
the Apollo in February 1971, having been introduced to Scientology by
friends while she was working in San Francisco.
... when the Apollo was docked in the Moroccan port of Safi, Susan
Meister locked herself in a cabin, put a .22 target revolver to her forehead and
pulled the trigger. She was found at 7.35 pm lying across a bunk... A suicide
note was on the floor.
Local police were called, ... the death of an American citizen alerted US
consular officials...
Susan Meister, who had seemed a rather quiet and reserved young woman to her
friends, was portrayed as an unstable former drug addict who had made previous
attempts at suicide; Peter Warren, the Apollo's port Captain, hinted that
compromising photographs of her had been found. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 306)
William Galbraith, US vice-consul in Casablanca, had driven to Safi to make
inquiries into the incident. On 13 July, he had lunch with Warren and Joni Chiriasi, another member
of the crew, at the Sidi Bouzid restaurant in Safi before being taken to look
round the ship. Afterwards, Warren and Chiriasi both signed affidavits accusing
Galbraith of threatening the ship - 'He said that if the ship became an
embarrassment to the United States, Nixon would order the CIA to sink or
sabotage it.' Galbraith also allegedly referred to the Church of Scientology as
a 'bunch of kooks' and speculated that the ship was being used as a brothel or a
casino or for drug-trafficking. Next day, Norman Starkey, captain of the Apollo, forwarded copies of
the affidavits to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, with a
covering letter complaining that Galbraith had threatened 'to murder the
vessel's company of 380 men, women and children, many of whom are Americans'.
Letters were also sent to John Mitchell, the Attorney General, and to the Secret
Service, all with copies to President Nixon... (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 307)
Guardian Order 165 of 7 October 1971
Re: Books & Entheta Written About
Scientology by SPs
The button used in effecting settlement is purely financial. In other words,
it is more costly to continue the legal action than to settle in some fashion.
Therefore, it is imperative that Legal US Dev-T his opponents and their
lawyers with correspondence (a lawyer’s letter costs approx $50), phone calls
(time costs), interrogatories, depositions and whatever else legal can mock up.
Jane Kember – Guardian WW (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Re. FDA-raid in 63: Once again, the District Court found in favour of the government and
entered an order condemning the meters and all the confiscated writings. And
once again, on November 24, 1971, attorneys for the Church filed notice of
appeal.
Like all legal battles between the Government goliath and the private sector,
the contest was greatly uneven. The protracted litigation was costing the
defendants a great deal of money, which they would never be able to recover, no
matter what the outcome of the preceedings.
The federal dictocrats, on the other hand, had available to them the
limitless financial resources of the national treasury - that is to say, the
people's money. They had spent thousands of dollars prosecuting a minority
religion for employing a simple galvanometer in its practice, an instrument
which the District Court itself had declared to be harmless, adding that
destruction of it would intrude upon religion. The only possible loser on their
side of the bar was the taxpayer.
In a brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals following the second trial in
the District Court, lawyers for the Church of Scientology again argued that the
"misbranded device" provisions of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic
Act were not applicable to a harmless instrument such as the E-meter, which is central to a bona fide religious practice.
(O. Garrison, Hidden Story of
Scientology, pg. 141)
On December 7, 1961, T. J. Stander sent a memorandum to all members of the Executive Committee (South African
National Council for Mental Health) and to all mental health societies in the
Republic, asking them to submit to him information appearing in local papers and
magazines, concerning "courses in psychology and related subjects".
Typical of the material being garnered by Stander was an exchange of
correspondence between Dr. Scott Millar, medical officer of health for the city
of Johannesburg and the Hubbard Association of Scientologists. Millar had
written the Scientologists, soliciting information concerning Scientology. After
receiving it, he wrote the Scientology organization that "I have read some
of these pamphlets and consider that as an example of meretricious
pseudo-science Scientology would be hard to beat and that the claims made for it
are not only ridiculous [sic] but an insult to the intelligence of any normal
person."
Dr. Millar closed his letter with a threat: "I propose to report your
activities to the authorities concerned for any action they may wish to take on
the matter." (Garrison: Hidden Story of
Scientology, pg. 216)
In response to public pressure, the Foster Report was finally published on
December 22, 1971. One of its two principal conclusions, which had stunned the
mandarins in Whitehall, was that most of the Government's measures against
Scientologists were not justified and that the entry ban on foreign
Scientologists entering Britain should be lifted.
The Report also criticized the roughshod way in which immigration officers
had enforced the ban. They were, said Sir John, "even more stringent than
the letter of the measures".
While it was clear that, as a matter of law, the Secretary of State for Home
Affairs was perfectly within his rights in refusing Scientologists permission to
enter Britain, "the mere fact that someone is a Scientologist is, in my opinion, no reason for
excluding him from the UK when there is nothing in our law to prevent those of
his fellows who are citizens of this country from practising Scientology
here".
...Besides recommending that Scientologists of foreign or Commonwealth
nationality should henceforth be admitted to Britain as visitors on precisely
the same footing as other people, Sir John said that in his view Scientologists
who wished to come and work in the UK ought to be granted or refused a work
permit on the same criteria as everyone else, and the fact that they or their
proposed employers are Scientologists should be regarded as quite irrelevant.
The Report did not, however, favour admitting Scientologists as students, who
under Britain's immigration laws, form a privileged class and are normally
allowed to stay four times as long as the ordinary visitor. Sir John gave as his
reason for this stricture the fact that on the evidence before him he was not
satisfied that Scientology schools as then organized were bona fide educational
establishments.
A second major recommendation contained in the 192-page Report was the proposal that legislation be passed, aimed at
controlling the practice of psychotherapy for fee or reward. Under terms of the
Act, a professional council would be set up to pass on the practitioner's
qualifications.
...Taken as a whole, the Foster Report clearly aims at denigrating Scientology,
not in illuminating it.
... A representative of the Home Office made it clear that the British
Government had no intention of allowing foreign Scientologists back into Britain
"in the foreseeable future".
Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary for Social Services, told the Commons that the
main recommendation of the report was that the restrictions instituted in July
1968 should be relaxed, but that the practice of psychotherapy for reward should
be restricted to suitably qualified persons. The Government took the view that
the recommendations should be considered as a whole, that is, the ban could not
be lifted until "after consultations with relevant professional
organizations". "Until they are completed, the Goverment does not feel
able to reach any conclusions on the report." (Garrison: Hidden Story of
Scientology, pg. 205-210)
In a letter dated December 29, 1971 to Mary Applebey, general
secretary of the National Association for Mental Health, Dr. D. H. Clark (medical superintendent of Fulbourn Hospital,
Cambridge) wrote:
"I spent much of Christmas morning reading the Foster Report and as I
read it in detail I was filled with un-Christmas glee. I may be wrong, but I
believe that Sir John Foster has dealt Scientology a subtle but grievous wound
from which they will suffer for many years.
"If one only reads the conclusions the report seems favourable to them.
This is what David Gaiman (did you see him on TV?) and the Press and other
superficial people immediately seized on and which caused the Scientologists to
whoop with glee. Yet the conclusions could hardly have been otherwise.
Callaghan's original decision to penalise the Scientologists - out of all the
queer, religious and unpleasant political sects that come to Britain -could not,
in the long term be defended. Apart from that, there was little for Sir John to
make recommendations on, though his suggestion that the Tax Authorities screw
down on all the shadow companies of the Scientologists will, I think, hurt them
quite a bit in the long run.
"When one reads the whole report however, quite a different picture
emerges; Sir John refuses to draw any specific conclusions; he expresses many
doubts about the kind of enquiry that he has been holding, openly calling it
'Inquisitorial'; he says again and again that he will not publish any
controversial evidence and he announces that he is going to destroy everything
that was said to him yet to any dispassionate reader the endictment is wholly
damning and this indictment is cunningly constructed of hardly anything but
quotations from the Scientologists themselves. Sir John has cunningly extracted,
from all the hundreds of documents that he must have had, examples of their
vicious directives, evidence of their great wealth and cupidity and the very few
really damaging incidents that are recorded against them (from the Anderson
Report he lifts the one really terrifying story of how they processed a woman in
front of Mr. Anderson to such an extent that she had to be admitted [to] a
mental hospital a week later).
"I believe the total effect on any open-minded individual would be to
damn the Scientologists utterly and I hope that as many people as possible - all
Members of Parliament for instance - will read the report; I believe it is to
them that Sir John was addressing himself. I believe that he concluded that the
Scientology leadership were evil men, grasping, paranoid and litigious and that
he decided to write a report for his own kind, Members of Parliament, Judges,
Lawyers, members of the establishment which would slowly lead the reader to damn
the Scientologists by quoting from their own texts. I may be imputing too much
sublety to him but I cannot help wondering whether he did not deliberately
refrain from condemning them in the hope that they would swallow the bait and
endorse the report as they have done. I believe that he reached exactly the same
conclusion as Mr. Anderson but decided that instead of launching a violent
polemic against them which tends to be selfdefeating (as the Anderson Report is
in its very intemperance) he has written a seemingly temperate report which will
do them much more harm in the long run.
"Certainly, they have swallowed the bait and have endorsed the report;
we can now say to anyone who enquires 'Here is a Government Report on
Scientology, the Scientologists have accepted it as fair, I suggest you read and
come to your own conclusions!'"
Dr. Clark added: "If I am right in this I am sure that we ought to buy
large numbers of copies of the Foster Report so that we will always have them
available to lend to people when necessary. I think we should consider giving it
the widest publicity possible. Could we perhaps consider devoting one copy of
'Mental Health' exclusively to quotations from the Foster Report - perhaps by
using Sir John's techniques and adding nothing of our own but merely quoting
from him?"
In her reply, Miss Appleby agreed that the Foster Report was a subtle hatchet job, but she expressed some doubt that it had dealt as
grievous a blow to the Scientologists as her comrade-in-arms seemed to think.
"I was delighted to have your Christmas lucubrations on the Foster
Report, and I am delighted that you consider the Foster Report as subtle as I
do. What I wonder is whether the wound you see is in fact very grievous. I
entirely agree that there is nothing in the Report to cause the Scientologists
glee. On the other hand, unless the public can be made to read the Report and to
appreciate the subtlety of its conclusions, have we really got very far? Of
course no objective enquirer could recommend that the immigration ban should be
continued, but any suggestion that Dr. Weissmann and his merry men will deter
the Scientologists from their 'therapy' is, I am afraid, moonshine (see Donald
Gould in this week's New Statesman). However, it would be good to talk to you
about this, as I am talking to a number of people."
The campaign to stamp out Scientology was still in full swing. (Garrison: Hidden Story of
Scientology, pg. 210/13)
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