| SCIENTOLOGY'S SECRET SERVICE ### An exposé of the shady activities of Scientology's intelligence agencies
Uniquely for a "religion", the Church of Scientology has since 1955 organised systematic intelligence activities, including on occasions bugging, burglary, forgery, framing, infilitration and intimidation. Such activities are conducted alongside and in support of a sophisticated PR machine which specialises in producing distasteful personal attacks on those perceived as being opponents of Scientology. These activities have been run through three agencies within the Church of Scientology: the Hubbard Communications Office, or HCO (from 1955-66); the Guardian Office or GO (1966-83), and its successor, the Office of Special Affairs or OSA (1983 to present). These pages expose aspects of all three organisations, the dirty tricks which have been carried out at the behest of Scientology's leaders and the philosophy which lies behind Scientology's extreme sensitivity to criticism.
### Essays
| ### Introduction
| ### Scientology's Secret Service: The history of the HCO, GO and OSA.
| ### "Never defend, always attack": Why is Scientology so hostile to criticism?
| ### "Justice Actions": The operating procedures of the GO and OSA.
### Documents
| ### Selected GO and OSA Documents: A selection of GO and OSA documents.
| ### Manual of Justice: By L. Ron Hubbard, 1959.
| ### Guardian Office Operations: Covert operations mounted by the Guardian Office.
| ### Legal Papers: Court documents relating to the Guardian Office.
### Background
| ### Guardian Office Organization Chart: How the United States Guardian Office was organized.
| ### Media articles: Media reports on the Guardian Office and OSA.
| ### The Spy And His Masters: The Guardian Office's standard primer on intelligence work.
| ### Who's Who?: Key people linked with the Guardian Office and OSA.
### Pages
| ### What's New?: Recent additions to these pages.
| ### sss.zip: A compressed copy (5.60Mb) of these pages, for offline reading.
Last updated 31 August 1997 Pages maintained by Chris Owen co@nvg.unit.no