Village Voice: Scientology "Dark Ops" Program Exposed, Says Former Top Official

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Scientology "Dark Ops" Program Exposed, Says Former Top Official

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2010/11/scientology_dar.php



By Tony Ortega, Tue., Nov. 30 2010 @ 8:26AM

Former high-level Scientologist Marty Rathbun revealed fascinating material yesterday on his blog: he claims that it's evidence of a detailed "dark ops" program launched in 2006 by Scientology to destroy a woman named Tory Christman, who had left the organization several years earlier.

I know Christman well. In 1999 2001, I wrote a lengthy story about her defection, which had gained notoriety because she announced it in an online forum, where for months she had been doing battle with Scientology's critics. Her sudden about-face, followed by a frantic flight from agents of the church who pursued her across the country, was dramatic enough. But leaving Scientology was not Christman's only goal. She almost immediately became one of Scientology's most tireless critics.

Rathbun at one time was one of the highest-ranking members of the organization until he defected and, in the last couple of years, has become one of the most outspoken critics of current Scientology leader David Miscavige. While he was still working for Miscavige, Rathbun was in a position to oversee Scientology's storied operations against its critics. That may explain how he obtained the document he revealed yesterday, which begins "Eyes Only," reflecting Scientology's long history as a quasi-military organization.

What follows is reputedly a program outlined by Scientology's "Operation of Special Affairs," or OSA, the covert-operations wing of the church, which supplanted the earlier "Guardian's Office," which had been at the center of the notorious "Operation Snow White," a years-long infiltration of the U.S. federal government which resulted in the 1978 indictment of 11 top Scientologists, including Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue Hubbard. Hubbard himself was named an unindicted co-conspirator.

[Drale]

1. Oh Scientology

I miss the days when the craziest people in our county where the sociologists.