Guardian Office
| May 7, 1971 | Secret: Notes on Smersh | L. Ron Hubbard writes GO [Guardian Order] 070571 LRH "Secret: Notes on Smersh." (He took the word from the James Bond novels to refer to an international conspiracy that he believed was directing the attack on him.) An excerpt: "Penetration is always a win. We have made it in finding WHO attacks Scientology from where by doing what. This gives us an ever further penetration. We have found as well the EX intelligence officer mouth pieces [sic] in the UK that influence that government and push Nazi aims. We are getting even further penetration now into who is keeping this planet upset." | |
| January 12, 1972 | Black Propaganda | L. Ron Hubbard issues GO 111212, "Black Propaganda." It will later be cancelled and reissued as OSA Network Order 15 on February 18, 1988. | |
| September 7, 1972 | Guardian's Office | Guardian's Office weekly intelligence report says "Paulette Cooper still at large" and reports on intelligence operations on Cooper and others. | |
| October 10, 1972 | Guardian's Office Weekly Intelligent Report, Paulette Cooper, "still, Scientology", "handling" actions, New York Scientologists, | Scientology Guardian's Office Weekly Intelligent Report notes that Paulette Cooper is "still actively attacking Scientology" and lists three "handling" actions, including giving New York Scientologists orders to "attack her in as many ways as possible"; this item says that action has already been taken on "wide-scale exposure of PC's sex life." | |
| November 6, 1972 | Guardian Office memo | A Guardian's Office memo is sent to Mo Budlong, with a weekly update on the status of operations on several Scientology critics, including LRH's son Nibs, Paulette Cooper, Michael Sanders, and Judge J Skelly Wright. An excerpt: "SITUATION: Paulette Cooper continues as source of trouble for the church. WHY: Right pressure has not been brought to bear on her. ... HANDLING: Agent spoke to intelligence officer of IRS and gave him data on [Paulette's] father ... HANDLING: Agents took photographs October 25 of group including Kaufman, Cooper and Bernie Green, as they came from Channel 5 TV show in New York. Cooper ... screamed "he is one of them" ... and ... told agent "When the pictures come out in Freedom and so forth you'll be sued for invasion of privacy". Such a big effect for so little work. HANDLING: Handwriting analysis done on Cooper showing unfavorable characteristics. For use in future operation. HANDLING: Full up-to-date timetrack on Cooper sent to WW and CS-G." | |
| April 20, 1973 | Guardian Order 732 | L. Ron Hubbard writes Guardian Order 732, in which he devises the Snow White Program for Scientology's intelligence agency, the Guardian's Office (GO), in an effort to root out and remove "false files" about the Church and Hubbard held by governments around the world. This becomes a sophisticated worldwide espionage operation targetting 17 governments and three international organisations. | |
| October 21, 1974 | Jane Kember, Guardian World Wide, Guardian Order 1361. Its | Jane Kember, the Guardian World Wide, issues Guardian Order 1361. Its "operating targets" include getting agents to infiltrate IRS offices in Washington DC and Los Angeles and obtaining all documents on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. | |
| October 31, 1974 | GO Telex | A telex is sent from Duke Snider to Michael Meisner inquiring whether an agent has successfully infiltrated the IRS yet. | |
| November 4, 1974 | GO Document | Mary Sue Hubbard writes a document to other Scientology officials saying that Scientology must avoid being labeled a political group. The solution: "All political activity is to be carried on via front groups." | |
| December 4, 1974 | GO Telex | Duke Snider sends Mo Budlong a telex informing him that Snider and his associates had received "two shipments from DC . . . about ten inches" thick containing documents which the defendants Mitchell Hermann, Gerald Wolfe, and Michael Meisner had stolen from the IRS. | |
| December 9, 1974 | Gregory Willardson, Joe Lisa's Nov. 11 letter. Willardson, Lisa, Target 10, GO 1361 | Gregory Willardson sends a letter responding to Joe Lisa's Nov. 11 letter. Willardson informs Lisa that Target 10 of GO 1361, which calls for getting an "FSM" (Scientology agent) into the IRS in the District of Columbia, has been achieved, and that compliance has already been reported to the World- Wide Guardian's Office. | |
| January 9, 1975 | GO Note | Scientologist Mitchell Hermann writes a handwritten note stating "I attest that I have placed and am running an FSM at Silver [code name for the IRS] and am attaching the accompanying documents as evidence." | |
| January 21, 1975 | Willful False Reports | L. Ron Hubbard issues GO 111212, "Willful False Reports," in which he says, "The government could be willfully manufacturing false reports in order to get rid of somebody." It will later be cancelled and reissued as OSA Network Order 19 on February 18, 1988. | |
| June 27, 1975 | Guardian Order | L. Ron Hubbard writes an order for the Guardian's Office. An excerpt: "Info must find the who back of these IRS attacks and document it for exposure plus all other items of interest. It could be IRS and the government is attacking any vocal group to pave the way for some coup by the government. Evidence as to the why of these attacks must be gotten, powerful enough to destroy the attackers when eventually used or revealed." Hubbard said that somewhere in IRS was "an insane individual with insane plans" who was operating a "false reports factory." He wanted that person found. | |
| September 24, 1975 | Scientologist Michael Meisner, Guardian's Office | Scientologist Michael Meisner sends a memo to his superiors in the Guardian's Office, summarizing stolen government documents regarding the "IRS/Hawaii Intelligence Files." | |
| September 30, 1975 | Scientologist Michael Meisner, Guardian's Office | Scientologist Michael Meisner sends a memo to his superiors in the Guardian's Office, summarizing stolen government documents regarding "the IRS National Office Intelligence files" and the "SSS [Special Services Staff] files". The latter were specifically called for in Guardian's Order 1361, Target 10. | |
| October 3, 1975 | GO Memo | A Guardian's Office memo is sent to Richard Weigand requesting a compliance report on target 17 of GO 1361. (Target 17 directed the infiltration and theft of files relating to Scientology from the Tax Division or the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.) Weigand added a handwritten note to the memo that target 17 "is almost done" in Washington DC, but that six more weeks would be needed to complete the target at the Justice Department in Los Angeles. | |
| October 10, 1975 | GO Memo | A Guardian's Office memo excerpts "IRS Intelligence Files - 1972-1974". | |
| October 13, 1975 | GO CSW | Henning Heldt sends a CSW (Completed Staff Work) to Jane Kember dealing with "the turnover of B-1 data from IRS LA, IRS DC, and Justice Dept. Tax Division to PR and legal to get the reports D/A'd (dead agented), and for attacking along PR and legal lines." He attaches a proposed GO 1361-1, listing additional goals, including placing additional Scientology agents in the Los Angeles and Washington DC "target areas" and preparing the stolen government documents for release to the press. | |
| October 13, 1975 | GO Memo | Michael Meisner writes a memo dealing with the transcript of an interview between former Scientologist Gene Allard and California Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Tapper. A copy of that transcript had been given to the IRS. Cindy Raymond later sends copies of this memo to other Guardian's Office officials. (Note that Scientology documents revealed a plot to frame Lawrence Tapper for getting a nun pregnant - one of Scientology's more bizarre attempts to smear a government official.) | |
| October 21, 1975 | GO Letter | Cindy Raymond sends a letter to various Guardian's Office officials, enclosing Michael Meisner's letter from the 13th (dealing with a transcript of an interview between Gene Allard and California Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Tapper) and also appending stolen government documents. Among the recipients: Michael Taylor, Henning Heldt, Richard Weigand, Gregory Willardson, Jane Kember, Mo Budlong, and Mary Sue Hubbard. | |
| November 10, 1975 | GO Memo | Henning Heldt writes a memo entitled "Re: China Shop: Clearwater Sun" about a Clearwater newspaper, which has been designated a target for attack due to its critical articles on Scientology. Scientology plans to take over the paper: "Our target on this, very confidentially, is ownership or control of the paper. So, as you know, the finance information on the paper, its debts, its income (and how it could be cut) are prime information needs. Also detailed info on the posts of the staff editors, etc." | |
| December 4, 1975 | GO Memo | A Scientology memo summarizes the contents of some "LA Intel Files," including information about Scientology links to the Process, references to the "Scientology murders" (Doreen Gaul and James Sharp, teenage Scientologists who were murdered, possibly by the Zodiac killer or someone associated with Charles Manson), an allusion to LRH being arrested in 1968 for counterfeiting, and FBI information on Scientology. | |
| December 17, 1975 | Church, Fort Harrison Hotel, United Churches, Florida, building;, Guardians Office, information. Jimmy Mulligan, Commodore Staff | A full month before the Church of Scientology announces it has purchased the Fort Harrison Hotel, citizens of the city are still being told that an ecumenical group called United Churches of Florida will occupy the building; but Guardians Office executives are already making plans to establish listening posts for gathering information. Jimmy Mulligan, an assistant to Commodore Staff Guardian Mary Sue Hubbard, writes Dick Weigand, deputy guardian for information U.S. Mulligan tells Weigand that the Clearwater department planned to combine its communications with those of police departments in Dunedin and Largo, and that in "April 1976 -- the communications center is going 'all civilian.' ... I think this is an excellent opportunity for us and I would like to see us represented in that communications center." Thus, GO staffers lay plans for Scientology agents to infiltrate the police department's communications center. | |
| February 5, 1976 | GO Order | An order from L. Ron Hubbard suggests that Scientologist Jimmy Fischer obtain the school records of Clearwater Mayor Gabriel Cazares. | |
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