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

• American documents
• French documents
• 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.

• Re: Stats (23 Aug 1971)
  Mo Budlong defines the "production statistics" - principal duties - of senior GO staff.

• What is wanted and needed (25 Feb 1969)
  Jane Kember details the reporting procedures to be used by local GO bureaux.

• 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 well illustrates his inveterate racism.

• Conference with the Investigators (17 Aug 1966)
  An extraordinary transcript of a conference held between L. Ron Hubbard and his "Investigators" - Guardian Office intelligence officers - which highlights his paranoia, his tendency to rewrite the awkward bits in his personal history and his intimate involvement in the everyday activities of the GO.

• 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 I" (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.

• LRH Aides' Conference - "Covert Operations II" (6 Nov 1969)
  Transcript of a conference between L. Ron Hubbard and his aides to discuss the covert intelligence operations supposedly being directed against Scientology.

• 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.

• Rhodesia (6 May 1966)
  Transcript of a tape recorded by L. Ron Hubbard for the staff at Scientology's then world HQ, Saint Hill Manor in England, on his unsuccessful attempt to take over Rhodesia. Hubbard's vision of Rhodesia providing a bolthole for "white civilization" once again reveals his ingrained racism. Compare and contrast this with "Conference with the Guardian" (above), recorded after he was kicked out of Rhodesia some months later.

• 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.

• Concerning Intelligence (10 Mar 1970)
  A transcript of a taped briefing on L. Ron Hubbard's thoughts on intelligence matters, including a description of the supposed "Tenyaka Memorial" worldwide anti-Scientology conspiracy.

• 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

• A Statement Of Facts (Nov 1969)
  A press release on Scientology's activities in Morocco. In reality, Hubbard was plotting to overthrow King Hassan - an effort which nearly cost him his life. The story to which this document refers is reproduced below ("About the Apollo").

• 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.

• Re: Current US Scene (29 Jun 1978)
  Although the GO was by now on the ropes following the FBI raids in 1977 and the indictment of its leaders, it continued brazenly to insist that its growing problems were nothing more than "a few dogs yapping at a speeding train."

• 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.

• B1 Drills
  A remarkable 13-page document illustrating the sort of work with which GO agents were expected to cope on a daily basis. These drills were used to train agents in activities including "spreading rumors", "creating incidents which reflect on others", "third partying" [troublemaking], etc. Live targets were used by the trainee: individuals who were seen as hostile to Scientology, or those who were simply "downstat" [not useful to society].

• 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 1970)
  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 1974)
  The above despatch is updated to include the new "Combat Information Center" (CIC) and the use of front organizations.

• Re: US Int - Industrial Intelligence Text Note (3 Dec 1969)
  Instructions on whom should be employed to conduct industrial espionage operations on behalf of Scientology.

• Statistics (2 Jun 1969 - ED 1802 INT)
  More instructions from Mo Budlong on the statistical management of GO activities.

American documents

• 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. This document was released following a 1995 court case in the United States.

• OSA Network Orders
  Secret OSA Network Orders - many of them Guardian Orders by L. Ron Hubbard, or extracts therefrom - were posted to the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup in September 1997 by the anonymous poster RonIsXenu. They can be retrieved through this external link.

French documents

The following extracts of internal OSA documents were reproduced in Serge Faubert's excellent book, "Une secte aue coeur de la République" (1993). The titles in quotes are M. Faubert's (as most of the original document titles have not been reproduced).

• "List of "potential supporters" of the Church" (10 May 1988)
  Probably from a PR Statistics report, sent from France to OSA International in Los Angeles, this extract scores a number of French religious figures, academics and lawyers by their perceived usefulness to Scientology.

• Invest Stats 12.5.88 (12 May 1988)
  OSA France's Investigative Statistics report, sent weekly to OSA International. M. Faubert has divided this document into "Nomenclature of types of attacks against the Church" and "The first 17 names [of Scientology's enemies] on the list". A prominent alt.religion.scientology poster, Roger Gonnet, is included on this list.

• "OSA France gives regular counts of its contacts to OSA International" (7 October 1988)
  This extract - actually to OSA EU, in Copenhagen, Denmark - is from a report by the Deputy Director of Special Affairs France concerning OSA's "PR handlings" since May 1988.

• "The report has been delivered to the President [Mitterand]" (8 July 1990)
  Extract of a minute sent from French OSA agent "Edith" to OSA International.

• "F10 will be meeting with the assistant of M[itterand]" (10 July 1990)
  Extract from a minute discussing the activities of an OSA agent ("F10") in the Élysée.

• "Telex of 10 July 1990" (10 July 1990)
  French OSA agent "Edith" informs OSA International of new information (covertly obtained?) on Judge of Investigation Marie-Paule Morachini, who was leading a judicial commission on Scientology.

• "The message is: 'It is okay and the green light has been given.'" (20 July 1990)
  Followup to above minute indicating that F10's mission was successful.

• "Telex of 20 July 1990" (20 July 1990)
  Extracts from a telex to the Commanding Officer of OSA International.

• France Investigations Handling Program (20 July 1990)
  Scientology's plan of retaliation following police raids on the Nice and Marseille missions. Note the list of "OSA NW [Network] Orders" - formerly Guardian Orders from L. Ron Hubbard.

Greek documents

These documents were released in June 1996 by the Greek public prosecutor, Ioannis Angelis.

• 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.

(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".