In this second part of a three-part deep dive by historian Chris Owen into the inner workings of Scientology’s harassment operations, we’ll take a look at how the church uses private investigators and volunteers to investigate and harass critics.
Let's think that in 2023, the new generations of Scientologists are in the post office, in schools as teachers, and in any labor and civil servant sector. The ugly apple in the basket is something real and dangerous.
I believe that the hardcore believers and even the casual hangers-on that are left in the cult are a very tiny percentage of the labor/civil servant population anywhere, and it's a small percentage of those remaining members who will actually be effective and useful OSA volunteers. For example, loyal scientologists tend to teach at scientology schools and/or tutor privately using El Bong Humphard's so-called "study tech", instead of teaching in non-scientology school settings.
The cult and its members still present a threat, though, to the degree that they will still willingly engage in criminal activity, in order to "ruin utterly" the targets of their activities.
They are incapable of being flexible in their recruitment efforts. They are incapable of substantively changing ANY of the ways they operate in the world because they have to follow Hubbard's policies, always.
Even the way they "hide" their activities and true intentions from the world vis-a-vis the use of fake social programs, disguised lobbying groups, and the hiring of lawyers and private investigators is governed by unalterable policies authored by Hubbard.
Scientology, by intentional design, can't "improve itself". The Great Thetan himself has decreed that scientology cannot be altered in any way. Yeah, McSavage has "altered the tech" somewhat, but has kept the core Hubbard sociopathy and pulp-science-fiction-fuckery intact. He is still the lift-wearing intergallactic super hero who hoovers money, slaps slaves, vexatiously litigates, and proudly authors hundreds of libelous and defamatory websites and social media accounts in his quest to "inject theta" into the environment and crush "suppressive persons".
Scientology is a toxic turd, no matter how one reshapes its form, color, texture, weight, smell, etc.
Thanks so much for detailing Scientology's department of dirty tricks and smearing tactics.
In my case, Prof Touretzky warned me when he found out David Lebow was in town, and even believe it or not, Gordon Melton also warned me of some things.
I had phone calls from a Scientology PI calling from LA, and I had two phone calls from Kenny Shapiro.
But the targets must not have been priority, since the ones most despicable I wasn't aware that those happened, I didn't see evidence of them sending me stuff, sending me links, etc. Nor the people "Sam" but I did have a half dozen Scientologists contact me, and they were blatantly working for OSA, as was Kenny Shapiro.
Year ago I ran into a Pittsburgh PI, and asked him bluntly who he was working on, he of course didn't say, I threw out a name, and he said he knew that person, LOL. So PIs in general, they do work on Scientology's "enemies."
I hope Chris Owen has the whole trove of materials that have leaked, I don't want to ask but I hope someday some smart outsider writer combs through all the leaked OSA docs, and does a more detailed study of them.
The Hubbard intel and covert tactics and spy stuff, and fair gaming writings, are one thing.
This trove of the OSA docs about all the "Handling Programs" is material to back up just how serious and deeply the Office of Special Affairs carries out L. Ron Hubbard's nastiness irreligious tactics.
My "Handling Program" when it surfaced when Marty asked me could he put it out, I said yes, because this stuff needs to be public and have outsiders carefully study it, to warn the public about Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard's regulations for the Scientology subject "protection."
Imagine, of course no one can, any other serious legitimate religion having an OSA branch that has "Handling Programs" on their critics?
But it's important to know if Scientology is still doing this stuff, so I hope someone in OSA who gets to read this, thinks about leaking a new fresh trove of OSA docs and sends them to Tony Ortega and to Chris Owen.
(the Scientologists who came into my life, and so forth, I outed the ones I discovered. Those others who I I never outed was only since I didn't see they were working for OSA.).
Scientology is a quackery pseudo-therapy past lives soul memories alleviation subject, and it's majorly an exorcism subject on the "OT levels" (OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are the five upper "OT levels" which are the exorcism levels where Xenu theory is given which explains why earth has billions and billions of surplus bodiless souls floating all over and these surplus souls, Hubbard's "body-thetans", infest all humans today to our supposed detriment, since these 'body-thetans" were messed up by Xenu, given the R6 implants by Xenu, and those "body-thetans" leak the R6 implant material into our minds, even if we reached "Clear" since you have to do the OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 exorcism procedures to get rid yourself of your "body-thetans" on your human body, and thus lose any of the leakage of soul bad (R6 material) memories that the "body-thetans" were leaking into your mind).
At the time of my program, I was trying to get the Miscavige beatings story to be told by the ex's who I figured if enough of them co corroborated the violence of Miscavige stories, all the first hand receivers of Miscavige's beatings, that was the reason I was given a "Handling Program." I never ranked a top level critic, just an "instigator."
I was hoping more ex Int Base staff would surface once a few did surface, and cross corroborate Miscavige's beatings, as I hoped enough people would tell the beatings that media then had to report it. Like the great St. Pete Times/Tampa Bay Times all time great reporters did in the "Truth Rundown" which can be purchased on Amazon today to see.
I also learned from Dan Garvin, ex OSA himself, that OSA even for years simply can't go after everyone one, and that talking Xenu was a litmus test. If you talk Xenu story, then that gives you a pass and it's a litmus test of the person's reliability as a genuine critic and NOT a Scientologist still working for OSA.
So, talking Xenu theory, and getting others to tell Miscavige's violence and nastiness, if media pick up on this, and the media did, then that gets you a "Handling Program" LOL. If you get a Handling Program and keep up the Miscavige is a violence thug talk, and keep up the Xenu theory in detail, then you are pretty much a legit "good guy" vs Scientology/Hubbard's crap world.
Miscavige beats his staff.
Xenu caused the Wall of Fire.
Thankyou Chris Owen, I wish you could be given a bonus 40 more years to your much appreciated life.
I read and enjoyed Chris's writings which were in the LA Public Library, "Ron The War Hero" was a breakthrough bunch of material, and I was still on the RPF's RPF, where I was demanding to be let go to the public Library while still on the RPF's RPF, LOL, and I read Chris' "Ron..." material. It helped destroy the Hubbard shee-ite bubble for me.
PS: Needless to say, eternal gratitude to Mark Ebner and super all time thanks to Tony Ortega, and just all the people ever former Scientologists all the way back to the beginning, all the ex's who wrote ex books, etc. It is a accumulation thing, the history of the standout critics of the past, all adds up. A whole tree of the critics of Scientology could be done, I wonder if OSA has one, LOL. Leak the OSA critics tree any OSA staffers who read this. (Imagine what the OSA "Roll Back" files look like, LOL, Brian Mills (sp?) of OSA, the guy who keeps up the nasty standalone computer(s) of the dirtiest secrets OSA keeps, I wish he'd leak his computer files, LOL---Brian, if you read this, put all your stuff on some drives and leak it all to Tony Ortega and Chris Owen!)
The tight handling of information there is known. That would allow many to believe that 'the org' has spent a lot of money on detectives, without saying that they are 'detectives' immersed in economic obligations of supreme wisdom...
It can be understood that members are brainwashed, convincing them that critics are harmful to society, and that they must be harmed in any way (and they do...), 'for a greater good', or for ' avoid a greater evil', that sounds very good ..
All this, and from year zero, protects assets, income, credulity: (money and "justice" situations: more money, or situations for it.
Detectives:
The greed of the leadership is such that it is hard for me to believe that money is spent that does not return to the source, while being able to do so... that is to say: a lawyer cannot be improvised, but a detective, and the media, today, with the Internet... and control, monitoring, harassment, provocation, social intoxication of the environment, etc etc are things that can be assumed by anyone taught at a time without the need for a detective license, that is to say: the money invested in detectives is more interesting when those detectives are paying for it too , in expensive levels of the "Bridge to Total Freedom.." Everything stays at home. It's a posibility.
The detectives, generally speaking, are NOT scientologists. The motivation for them to work for a scientology organization is financial; they often get paid well, and sometimes for long periods of time. They usually don't care about the moral ramifications of their work.
In the last decades, the role of a detective is further reduced by the current technological means that an organization hacker can carry out. And other more routine and classic detective tasks can be done by volunteers. That implies an impressive economic saving... But surely if they need a detective they can pay for it, or some ex-police officer with blocked intelligence, a Scientologist.
It’s incredibly fascinating to read about these insane tactics and payments Scientology engages in to “protect” itself.
Instead of trying to work to improve itself, it just goes after its critics. Just nuts.
It was Chuck Beatty who originally got me to speak out in 2007. I had no idea all the attacks on him. That’s just horrible.
The PIs do seem to push the limits of the law. I had one impersonate a postal worker trying to get info on me, which is a Federal offense.
Who wants a world run by these goons?
It’s 1984 all over again, but on speed. Absolutely no thanks.
Let's think that in 2023, the new generations of Scientologists are in the post office, in schools as teachers, and in any labor and civil servant sector. The ugly apple in the basket is something real and dangerous.
I believe that the hardcore believers and even the casual hangers-on that are left in the cult are a very tiny percentage of the labor/civil servant population anywhere, and it's a small percentage of those remaining members who will actually be effective and useful OSA volunteers. For example, loyal scientologists tend to teach at scientology schools and/or tutor privately using El Bong Humphard's so-called "study tech", instead of teaching in non-scientology school settings.
The cult and its members still present a threat, though, to the degree that they will still willingly engage in criminal activity, in order to "ruin utterly" the targets of their activities.
They are incapable of being flexible in their recruitment efforts. They are incapable of substantively changing ANY of the ways they operate in the world because they have to follow Hubbard's policies, always.
Even the way they "hide" their activities and true intentions from the world vis-a-vis the use of fake social programs, disguised lobbying groups, and the hiring of lawyers and private investigators is governed by unalterable policies authored by Hubbard.
Scientology, by intentional design, can't "improve itself". The Great Thetan himself has decreed that scientology cannot be altered in any way. Yeah, McSavage has "altered the tech" somewhat, but has kept the core Hubbard sociopathy and pulp-science-fiction-fuckery intact. He is still the lift-wearing intergallactic super hero who hoovers money, slaps slaves, vexatiously litigates, and proudly authors hundreds of libelous and defamatory websites and social media accounts in his quest to "inject theta" into the environment and crush "suppressive persons".
Scientology is a toxic turd, no matter how one reshapes its form, color, texture, weight, smell, etc.
Just sayin' 😎
'It's always worse then you think' and now “awful but lawful” join the list of $cieno memes. Good job Chris, keep them coming.
Thanks so much for detailing Scientology's department of dirty tricks and smearing tactics.
In my case, Prof Touretzky warned me when he found out David Lebow was in town, and even believe it or not, Gordon Melton also warned me of some things.
I had phone calls from a Scientology PI calling from LA, and I had two phone calls from Kenny Shapiro.
But the targets must not have been priority, since the ones most despicable I wasn't aware that those happened, I didn't see evidence of them sending me stuff, sending me links, etc. Nor the people "Sam" but I did have a half dozen Scientologists contact me, and they were blatantly working for OSA, as was Kenny Shapiro.
Year ago I ran into a Pittsburgh PI, and asked him bluntly who he was working on, he of course didn't say, I threw out a name, and he said he knew that person, LOL. So PIs in general, they do work on Scientology's "enemies."
I hope Chris Owen has the whole trove of materials that have leaked, I don't want to ask but I hope someday some smart outsider writer combs through all the leaked OSA docs, and does a more detailed study of them.
The Hubbard intel and covert tactics and spy stuff, and fair gaming writings, are one thing.
This trove of the OSA docs about all the "Handling Programs" is material to back up just how serious and deeply the Office of Special Affairs carries out L. Ron Hubbard's nastiness irreligious tactics.
My "Handling Program" when it surfaced when Marty asked me could he put it out, I said yes, because this stuff needs to be public and have outsiders carefully study it, to warn the public about Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard's regulations for the Scientology subject "protection."
Imagine, of course no one can, any other serious legitimate religion having an OSA branch that has "Handling Programs" on their critics?
But it's important to know if Scientology is still doing this stuff, so I hope someone in OSA who gets to read this, thinks about leaking a new fresh trove of OSA docs and sends them to Tony Ortega and to Chris Owen.
(the Scientologists who came into my life, and so forth, I outed the ones I discovered. Those others who I I never outed was only since I didn't see they were working for OSA.).
Scientology is a quackery pseudo-therapy past lives soul memories alleviation subject, and it's majorly an exorcism subject on the "OT levels" (OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are the five upper "OT levels" which are the exorcism levels where Xenu theory is given which explains why earth has billions and billions of surplus bodiless souls floating all over and these surplus souls, Hubbard's "body-thetans", infest all humans today to our supposed detriment, since these 'body-thetans" were messed up by Xenu, given the R6 implants by Xenu, and those "body-thetans" leak the R6 implant material into our minds, even if we reached "Clear" since you have to do the OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 exorcism procedures to get rid yourself of your "body-thetans" on your human body, and thus lose any of the leakage of soul bad (R6 material) memories that the "body-thetans" were leaking into your mind).
At the time of my program, I was trying to get the Miscavige beatings story to be told by the ex's who I figured if enough of them co corroborated the violence of Miscavige stories, all the first hand receivers of Miscavige's beatings, that was the reason I was given a "Handling Program." I never ranked a top level critic, just an "instigator."
I was hoping more ex Int Base staff would surface once a few did surface, and cross corroborate Miscavige's beatings, as I hoped enough people would tell the beatings that media then had to report it. Like the great St. Pete Times/Tampa Bay Times all time great reporters did in the "Truth Rundown" which can be purchased on Amazon today to see.
I also learned from Dan Garvin, ex OSA himself, that OSA even for years simply can't go after everyone one, and that talking Xenu was a litmus test. If you talk Xenu story, then that gives you a pass and it's a litmus test of the person's reliability as a genuine critic and NOT a Scientologist still working for OSA.
So, talking Xenu theory, and getting others to tell Miscavige's violence and nastiness, if media pick up on this, and the media did, then that gets you a "Handling Program" LOL. If you get a Handling Program and keep up the Miscavige is a violence thug talk, and keep up the Xenu theory in detail, then you are pretty much a legit "good guy" vs Scientology/Hubbard's crap world.
Miscavige beats his staff.
Xenu caused the Wall of Fire.
Thankyou Chris Owen, I wish you could be given a bonus 40 more years to your much appreciated life.
I read and enjoyed Chris's writings which were in the LA Public Library, "Ron The War Hero" was a breakthrough bunch of material, and I was still on the RPF's RPF, where I was demanding to be let go to the public Library while still on the RPF's RPF, LOL, and I read Chris' "Ron..." material. It helped destroy the Hubbard shee-ite bubble for me.
PS: Needless to say, eternal gratitude to Mark Ebner and super all time thanks to Tony Ortega, and just all the people ever former Scientologists all the way back to the beginning, all the ex's who wrote ex books, etc. It is a accumulation thing, the history of the standout critics of the past, all adds up. A whole tree of the critics of Scientology could be done, I wonder if OSA has one, LOL. Leak the OSA critics tree any OSA staffers who read this. (Imagine what the OSA "Roll Back" files look like, LOL, Brian Mills (sp?) of OSA, the guy who keeps up the nasty standalone computer(s) of the dirtiest secrets OSA keeps, I wish he'd leak his computer files, LOL---Brian, if you read this, put all your stuff on some drives and leak it all to Tony Ortega and Chris Owen!)
The tight handling of information there is known. That would allow many to believe that 'the org' has spent a lot of money on detectives, without saying that they are 'detectives' immersed in economic obligations of supreme wisdom...
It can be understood that members are brainwashed, convincing them that critics are harmful to society, and that they must be harmed in any way (and they do...), 'for a greater good', or for ' avoid a greater evil', that sounds very good ..
All this, and from year zero, protects assets, income, credulity: (money and "justice" situations: more money, or situations for it.
Detectives:
The greed of the leadership is such that it is hard for me to believe that money is spent that does not return to the source, while being able to do so... that is to say: a lawyer cannot be improvised, but a detective, and the media, today, with the Internet... and control, monitoring, harassment, provocation, social intoxication of the environment, etc etc are things that can be assumed by anyone taught at a time without the need for a detective license, that is to say: the money invested in detectives is more interesting when those detectives are paying for it too , in expensive levels of the "Bridge to Total Freedom.." Everything stays at home. It's a posibility.
It's just an opinion.
The detectives, generally speaking, are NOT scientologists. The motivation for them to work for a scientology organization is financial; they often get paid well, and sometimes for long periods of time. They usually don't care about the moral ramifications of their work.
In the last decades, the role of a detective is further reduced by the current technological means that an organization hacker can carry out. And other more routine and classic detective tasks can be done by volunteers. That implies an impressive economic saving... But surely if they need a detective they can pay for it, or some ex-police officer with blocked intelligence, a Scientologist.
Para decirlo nuevamente: tienen políticas específicas para la contratación de investigadores. Estas políticas no se pueden cambiar.
To say it again: they have specific policies for hiring investigators. These policies can't be changed.