| Selected GO and OSA documents
These documents highlight the activities of the Guardian Office and Office of Special Affairs between 1966 and 1995, and illustrate the similarities between the techniques used by the two agencies. ### Contents ### The Guardian Office (All of the following are from the GO's confidential Intelligence Course and were released to the public by the US District Court for the District of Columbia, following the conviction of the Operation Snow White criminals.) Administration Conspiracy Theories Covert Operations Policy & Public Statements Techniques ### The Office of Special Affairs Greek documents ### Training Routines ### ### The Guardian Office Intelligence Course Checksheet (9 Sept 1974 - GO 1314) Basic training list for GO intelligence agents. Ops Checksheet Training list for GO agents specialising in covert operations. Administration Airmail express (16 Nov 68) Mo Budlong gives instructions on preserving security in transmitting confidential information. Guardian Communication Lines (15 Feb 1970 - GO 4) Policy on the GO's internal communications. Guardian Intelligence & Investigation Reports (21 Jun 1968 - ED 1175 INT) Operational report form for GO agents. Mary Sue does not want... (25 Feb 1969) Jane Kember reports that Mary Sue Hubbard is fed up with reading psychiatrists' leaflets. What is wanted and needed (25 Feb 1969) Jane Kember details the reporting procedures to be used by local GO bureaux. Conspiracy Theories Conference with the Guardian (18 Jul 1966) Transcript of a conference held between L. Ron Hubbard and senior Guardian Office staff to discuss the reasons for his premature return from Rhodesia. This document illustrates (yet again) his inveterate racism. Current Attack (26 Sep 1966 - ED 21 WW) L. Ron Hubbard on Scientology's problems in Britain. Extracts from LRH Communication (14 Jun 1970) A briefing from L. Ron and Mary Sue Hubbard on the tactics being used by "the enemy". LRH Aides' Conference - "Covert Operations" (2 Nov 1969) An annotated case study of L. Ron Hubbard's paranoid conspiracy theories, as outlined in a secret briefing session aboard his flagship Apollo. Notes on Smersh (7 May 1971 - GO 070571 LRH) L. Ron Hubbard details the supposed neo-Nazi conspiracy against Scientology. Observations on the Great Health Monopoly (10 Feb 1973 - GO 637) A classic rant from L. Ron Hubbard against his favourite target, the psychiatric profession. Curiously, he does not appear to have noticed the contradiction between his castigation of a "Great Health Monopoly" and his Dec 1969 order that Scientology should "take over absolutely the field of mental healing on this planet". Parliament & Balniel: Retarded Children (11 Mar 1966 - SECED 70 WW) After Lord Balniel became the first person to criticise Scientology in the British Parliament (see http://www.demon.co.uk/castle/audit/balniel.html). L. Ron Hubbard had the MP investigated to find any psychiatric connections. PRO Area Control (15 Oct 1973) L. Ron Hubbard writes (probably to David Gaiman) to offer congratulations on the attempted takeover of Britain's National Association of Mental Health, and outlines supposed Russian-psychiatric collusion against Scientology. Working Theory (6 May 1971 - GO 060571 LRH) L. Ron Hubbard decides that he faces a neo-Nazi conspiracy against him. Over the next five years, the Guardian Office, acting on his orders, mounted a campaign of vilification against Interpol as a supposedly neo-Nazi organization and stole confidential Interpol files from the US Department of Justice. Covert Operations (See also Guardian Office Operations) Committee For Sane Psychiatry (11 Feb 1966 - SECED 52 WW) L. Ron Hubbard establishes a "loud, lurid and effective" programme - apparently still in operation - to smear psychiatrists. Dead Agent: Additional Project (30 Dec 1971 - GO 123071 LRH2) L. Ron Hubbard orders the Guardian Office to "Dead Agent" government and newspaper files. This was a precursor to Operation Snow White, which aimed to expunge entirely so-called "false reports". Estimate re: L. Sprague de Camp (15 Oct 1973) How the Guardian Office targetted the famous science-fiction author/editor. Guardian Office Alert (10 Sep 1973 - GO 924) Jane Kember orders GO staff worldwide to obtain "all the information [on Scientology] contained in police and other authorities files". Project Psychiatry (22 Feb 1966 - SECED 61 WW) An operation - referenced in Heber Jentszch's Full Hat Checksheet (1988) - which aims to find "at least one bad mark on every psychiatrist in England, a murder, an assault, or a rape or more than one." This document attracted embarrassing publicity after it was leaked to The People newspaper in March 1966 (see "One Man Britain Can Do Without", 20 March 1966) The Snow White Programme (22 Jun 1974 - GO 1206) A document linking L. Ron Hubbard directly to the "Snow White" plot, under which Scientologists bugged and burgled US Federal offices in the mid-1970s. (See also Operation Snow White.) Policy & Public Statements About the Apollo (Nov 1969) During its voyages around the Mediterranean, Hubbard's flagship Apollo used a variety of "shore stories" to conceal its activities - a tactic which more often than not led to suspicions that it was a CIA spy ship. In November 1969, the Moroccan French-language newspaper L'Opinion published an article questioning the ship's activities. The Guardian Office tried to "persuade" L'Opinion to retract and supplied this factually dubious article for the newspaper to print. AG I Admin Scale A definitive compendium of L. Ron Hubbard's thoughts on the Guardian Office's role and techniques. Duties of Intelligence Chief The role of an Intelligence Chief in the Guardian Office. Intelligence Actions - Covert Intelligence - Data Collection (2 Dec 1969) On the last page of a secret memo on case officer / agent relations, L. Ron Hubbard redefines Scientology's overall goal - changing it from "clearing the planet" to "taking over absolutely the field of mental healing on this planet in all forms". This change has never been made public. It apparently followed on from the earlier "Zones of Action" (see below). NY Intel (3 Nov 1968) Jane Kember is instructed to concentrate intelligence efforts on mental health organizations rather than "the local psychiatrist round the corner". Primary Function (19 Oct 1974 - GO 1366 MSH) Mary Sue Hubbard defines the main objective of the Guardian Office. Purpose of GO (26 Jan 1975 - GO 1514 LRH) L. Ron Hubbard redefines the objectives of the Guardian Office. Statement on the FBI raid (25 Jul 1977) The statement issued to Congressmen through the Guardian Office in the first stage of its attempted cover-up of the Snow White scandal. A classic example of "attacking the attackers" so as to distract attention from Scientology's own misdemeanors. Zones of Action (26 Mar 1969 - FO 1890) Although not a GO document as such, this confidential Flag Order by L. Ron Hubbard was of key importance in establishing Scientology's (and the GO's) secret core objectives - "to invade the territory of Smersh, run it better, make tons of money in it, to purify the mental health field." Techniques Anonymous Letters (4 May 1971) The use to which anonymous letters can be put. Further LRH Remarks (28 May 1967) A despatch from Mary Sue Hubbard emphasising the necessity of evaluating intelligence gathered. Overt Data Collection - Investigation A "write-up" of unknown date explaining how to investigate people through legally obtainable information. Programme: Intelligence: Dead Agent (15 Dec 1969 - GO 121569 MSH(3)) Mary Sue Hubbard explains the techniques of dead agenting (discrediting) newspapers and government agencies which criticised Scientology. Re: Books & Entheta Written About Scientology By SPs (7 Oct 1971) How the Guardian Office tried to suppress critical books on Scientology. This illustrates in particular how Scientology has exploited the harsh British libel laws. Re: Information Bureau Statistic (7 May 1974 - GO 1150) Instructions on investigating anyone connected with a person targeted by the Guardian Office. Re: Intelligence (26 May 1968) Mary Sue Hubbard outlines the targetting process to be followed by the GO. Re: Intelligence (6 Dec 1968) "Possibilities for collecting data: infiltration, bribery, buying information, robbery, blackmail" (sic) Re: Intelligence Stat (2 Jun 1969) Instructions from Mo Budlong on the statistical management of GO activities. Re: Int US (18 Oct 1970) A despatch from Mo Budlong on the problems faced by the US GO. Re: NY Intel (20 September 1968) Mary Sue Hubbard outlines the mechanics of an "intelligence cycle". Re: Security and Theft of Materials (1 May 1974) A "write-up" ostensibly on guarding against burglaries, but actually providing a very detailed guide on how to conduct them. Re: Successful and Unsuccessful Actions (9 Mar 70) Mo Budlong lists a variety of methods - many illegal and/or immoral - which the GO used in intelligence work. Re: Successful and Unsuccessful Actions Addition (23 Apr 1970) The above despatch is updated to include the new "Combat Information Center" (CIC) and the use of front organizations. Statistics (2 Jun 1969 - ED 1802 INT) More instructions from Mo Budlong on the statistical management of GO activities. ### The Office of Special Affairs (Almost all of these documents were released to the public by the Greek Public Prosecutor, following raids conducted in 1995 against the Athens Scientology mission.) Heber Jentzsch Full Hat Checksheet (Jan-July 1988) Training list for Heber Jentszch, former GO agent and current President of the Church of Scientology International. Greek documents Greece Raid Handling Pjt: 558 Pgm (26 Aug 1995, rev. 2 Sept 1995) Instructions from OSA Int (Los Angeles) on covert operations and "dead agenting" to be mounted against the Greek authorities and opponents of Scientology in Greece. Intelligence Estimate on Miltiadis Evert (1995) Report from N. Costas Triantaphyllou, an OSA operative or "Field Staff Member," on the personal affairs of several Greek politicians and bankers. Re: GRE ARM Handling Pgm (6 Sept 1995 - 060987 DSA GRE) DSA Greece reports to OSA EU (Copenhagen) that he has apparently bribed a former Greece Secret Service (KYP) member to provide information from KYP files on a prominent Greek opponent of Scientology. ### Training Routines (These were used by the Guardian Office and almost certainly are used now by the Office of Special Affairs; see former Scientology PR man Robert Vaughn Young's article on how Scientology deals with the press.) Intelligence TRs How to discreetly interrogate a target. Reporter TRs Instructions on how the Reporter Training Routines can be used to deflect journalists' questions - the same tactics are still evident today. Situation TR How to kill a press story involving an embarrassing situation for Scientology. TR-L The infamous "Training Routine - Lying".