Scientology Lies

Scientologist Sharon Thomas begins working as Scientology's covert operative within the Department of Justice. She works as a secretary to two trial attorneys in the Information and Privacy Unit or the Civil Division. Soon after she begins working there, she starts stealing documents from that Unit which were the basis for a number of pending Scientology-initiated FOIA lawsuits, taking the documents after working hours or on weekends. She meets with Michael Meisner every week, on either a Monday or a Tuesday, at a restaurant or her apartment. During this period, Meisner instructs her to obtain all files on Scientology from the office of Department of Justice attorney Paul Figley, who was supervising the Freedom of Information Act cases within the Department. After collecting all the documents in Figley's office, she was to monitor his office and take any new documents placed in his files. She was also directed to be attentive to Figley in the hopes that she might become his secretary and have immediate access to all his files. In June 1976, she succeeds in becoming Figley's secretary.