OSA is the central intelligence agency of Scientology,it used to be called The Guardians Office until it was disbanded after the biggest infiltration of government offices in American history by "The Church of Scientology" when 11 scientologists, including L. Ron Hubbard's wife, MarySue Hubbard were sent to jail. The scientologists thought if they changed it's name to Office of Special Affairs (OSA),The Guardians Office would be forgotten about...oh yea have little faith...
Mike McClaughry:-LSD-Toothpaste THE TRUE STORY
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I've purposefully put the chase down here opposed to first, because this is why Mike McClaughry was being chased to stop him talking about all the above. I don't condone what he did whilst a member of The Guardians Office,neither does he anymore. I recommend his and Virginia's blog as they explain to you how all that spy stuff works inside the intelligence agency called Scientology.
I remember saying to my Father at the age of 19, when he stayed with me and I hadn't been near a scientologist for at least four years and I never, ever wanted to ever again. I said "I'm sick of all this cloak and dagger stuff, I don't ever want to hear about it ever again." Now, I'm all ears.
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Just like Gerry Armstrong, the McClaughry's and many others have been given a lot of grief by the Office of Special Affairs particularly so when run by Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder. Many questions need answering, whether they ever will be is another matter entirely, Marty has ridden off into the sunset to audit and Mike Rinder is obsessed by empty ideal orgs.
On this day...
Papers on religion uncovered by group
Date: Saturday, 24 July 1976
Publisher: El Paso Times (Texas)
Author: William Ringle
Main source: link (104 KiB)
WASHINGTON — After doggedly filing more than 150 Freedom of
Information Act requests for documents, members of the Church of
Scientology have obtained thousands of government papers that had been
hidden in files of offices ranging from the Central Intelligence Agency
to the Labor Department.
"We were appalled at some of the
things on file about us," said Kathy Flanagan, an ordained minister of
the 22-year-old church, who has been working on the FOI project.
"Outright lies. Gross distortions. Stuff right off the wall. I wouldn't want my family or anyone I knew to read some of it."
The
effort by the church is one of the heaviest assaults an government
files through the Freedom of Information Act — the law designed to make
more government papers public.
In one paper, a 1967 Labor
Department report by an investigator named Foley — which was
subsequently secretly circulated among a number of government agencies
and became the unchecked backbone for "intelligence" reports in several
offices — said that the church's founder had abandoned his wife and
children, that LSD was "widely used" by the members in assembly, that
electric shock was administered to new members and that members of
families had been shot when they objected to their children joining the
church.
The church has obtained similar records from the
FBI, the CIA, the Air Force, the Army, the Internal Revenue Service, the
Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Selective Service, the
State Department and even the Coast Guard Auxiliary, to mention a few.
The
information in the federal documents, much of it false and slanderous,
according to the church, and a lot of it transparently unchecked, was
circulated among federal gumshoes and they charge it was used to deny
the church tax exemption, to deny its members promotion in the military
or advancement in government service, to refuse entry visas or working
permits to members from overseas and even to forbid membership in the
Coast Guard Auxiliary, to which amateur yachtsmen like to belong.
To
rebut the more vicious accusations, the church obtained affidavits from
rabbis, a medical doctor and a psychiatrist, a police sergeant, a
former Marine Corps colonel, an Anglican bishop, the founder's ex-wife,
newspaper editors, church members and others.
Once the church finds what adverse information is bilged in government files, it can act to defang it.
For
example, one FOI request brought to light a 1969 query from the U.S.
consul in Casablanca to Ambassador Walter Annenberg in London seeking
information on the church and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
In reply, Annenberg said: "We believe the enclosed clipping from The Sunday Times of October 5, 1968
. . . should give the consul general enough flavor and background on
the affairs of Mr. Hubbard to guide its contacts with him."
Once
the church found that such a document was imbedded in government files,
it was able to produce an affidavit, dated Jan. 14, 1970, in which
Harold Evans, editor of The Sunday Times, and Alexander Mitchell, author
of the article, promised they never again would publish in the
newspaper allegations such as those in the article Annesberg relied on
and was passing around.
Another concrete result of the
church's FOI effort was a letter last Nov. 28 from the Labor Department
bearing the tidings that the " 'Foley memorandum' will be retired to the
Archives where it will be destroyed in due course."
The
department told government agencies that "the information contained in
the 'Foley memorandum' was irrelevant unverified and based on hearsay
and . . . should be destroyed.
". . . A review of the
relevant data has led us to conclude that the Church of Scientology had
established itself as a bona fide religious organization and should,
therefore, be recognized as such for the purposes of Schedule A," Craig
A. Berrington, the department's associate solicitor for manpower wrote
to the church. "Schedule A" sets forth the Labor Department's standards
for certifying that legally admitted aliens, who work at certain
occupations, such as church work, will not be interferring with the U.S.
job market.
In some cases it has had to go beyond the
FOI procedures. In U.S. District Court the church has separate actions
going against the FBI. the CIA, Interpol (the international organization
by which police swap information), the Defense Communications Agency
and the Customs to force the government to produce papers.
In
federal court in California it has sued the Drug Enforcement
Administration (the church was unsaddled with that decision and has
appealed), the State Department and the Post Office. In all there are 16
federal court actions. Parallel attempts to obtain state or municipal
documents are being pursued by state and local Scientology churches
around the nation.
Leaders of the church, whose
membership is estimated at a half million in the United States, dispute
the notion that theirs is a fringe cult. They point out that "Dianetics,
the Modern Science of Mental Health," the book containing many of the
precepts of Scientology, was once on The New York Times best seller
list.
Many of the government papers repeated claims,
several of them picked up uncritically from popular magazines or
newspapers, that one of the church's practices, called "auditing," was
actually a kind of psychoanalysis that could be harmful. There were
other allegations that the church indulged in medical treatment.
In
rebuttal, the church obtained an affidavit from a Yale-Stanford
psychiatrist, an M.D., who outlined the differences between the two and
said: "The techniques used in psychiatric, psychotherapeutic or
psychological therapies in no way resemble Scientology pastoral
counseling."
Another affidavit from London, by a Harley
Street psychiatrist, said he had "never seen any harm come" from the use
of Scientology methods.
Some of the government papers
obtained by the church, together with rebuttals of the information in
them, have been organized by a 10-member "Task Force on Religious
Defense" into a two-inch thick volume.
In launching a
campaign to organize religious groups in Austin to fight false
government files on religions, the Council of Scientology Ministers has
begun distributing a book entitled "How To Use the Freedom of
Information Act" to religious groups.
The booklet is a
guide to obtaining files kept by government agencies. Information may be
obtained from the local Scientology office, 1912 E. Yandell.
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