The Ross Institute Internet Archives for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Movements. Scientology litigation kit - Index. Sources to defend oneself with when sued by Scientology.
(Anyway, I used them, and won.) Appeal of June 9 1999 ruling (fifth lawsuit), August 1999 Appeal of the full-fledged procedure, yet to be scanned and html'ised. Sorry. But take it from me that there's nothing much new in the appeal. Ruling of June 9, 1999 On June 9, 1999, The Hague court in full procedure ("bodemprocedure") again ruled that my homepage was fully legal, OT-quotes and all. Plea Van Manen, March 8 1999 Plea by Van Manen, one of our lawyers, during the court session in "bodemprocedure" on March 8 1999.
Testimony McShane in RTC vs Panoussis, May 1998 In which McShane declares under oath that the OT materials have been read by 20 to 25 thousand people. Appeal of the March 12 1996 ruling (fourth lawsuit), March 25, 1996 Scientology appealed the March 12 1996 ruling. Ruling of March 12, 1996 On March 12 1996, the The Hague court declared my homepage to be fully legal, OT-quotes and all. Replacement of OT II and OT III. Scientology from inside out: Robert Vaughn Young. Operation Freakout. Operation Freakout, also known as Operation PC Freakout, was a Church of Scientology covert plan intended to have the U.S. author and journalist Paulette Cooper imprisoned or committed to a mental institution.
The plan, undertaken in 1976 following years of church-initiated lawsuits and covert harassment, was meant to eliminate the perceived threat that Cooper posed to the church and obtain revenge for her publication in 1971 of a highly critical book, The Scandal of Scientology. The Federal Bureau of Investigation discovered documentary evidence of the plot and the preceding campaign of harassment during an investigation into the Church of Scientology in 1977, eventually leading to the church compensating Cooper in an out-of-court settlement.
Background[edit] Undeterred, Cooper expanded her article into a full-length book, The Scandal of Scientology (subtitled "A chilling examination of the nature, beliefs and practices of the "now religion.'"). 1976: Operation Freakout[edit] Notes[edit] Operation Snow White. Operation Snow White was the Church of Scientology's internal name for a major criminal conspiracy during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder L.
Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members, in more than 30 countries.[1] It was the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history[2] with up to 5,000 covert agents.[3] This operation also exposed the Scientology plot 'Operation Freakout', because Operation Snow White was the case that initiated the US government investigation of the Church.[3] Under this program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, and theft of documents in government offices, most notably those of the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service. Background[edit] As early as 1960, L. Around this time L. Implementation[edit]