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Since the Church of Scientology under the boot heel of David Miscavige has drifted about as far off course as it can get, there is no other choice but to stand up to the monster it has become.

For many decades, LRH and the Church of Scientology were attacked relentlessly through black propaganda campaigns. You can learn about black PR in the book Black Boomerang by Sefton Delmer (1962). Delmer was the real deal and dealt the Nazi’s some withering blows in WWII.

For years and years the anti-Scientology black PR campaigns went on. Many dirty tricks were played on Church leaders. But through “constant alertness and willingness to fight back,” the Church persevered. And eventually LRH learned the attacker’s plan and launched an organization to beat them at their own game: the Guardian’s Office, headed by Mary Sue.

As LRH wrote in HCO PL 16 FEBRUARY 1969, Confidential, TARGETS, DEFENSE,

We do not have a Utopian dream or a planned society.  We are trying to survive.  Our theory is that if individuals become more honest and less harassed they will be capable of building a better society.

The fact is we would have gone along happily minding our own business.  But these fantastic and continuing attacks have pushed us more and more into developing a technology and direction of defense.

The Scientologists fought back. They fought hard. They fought rough. And eventually, they began to fight dirty.  

And that was the beginning of the end.

Once they began to violate their own principles and ethical codes, they corrupted the subject and planted seeds of ruin.

Sefton Delmar broadcasting to Germany (Courtesy of the Delmer estate)

Jeff posted a very applicable biblical quote on Marty’s blog the other day: “There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight. What you have whispered to someone behind closed doors will be shouted from the rooftops.”

Add into the mix a genuine sociopath and what you have is the perfect storm: An organization under siege, conditioned into a no-holds-barred fight, now directed by a man of profound evil.

Designer Jeff Hawkins

My friend and colleague Jeff Hawkins was the first person to point out to me that Miscavige is a sociopath. I was astonished to discover the definition of “sociopath” fit Miscavige like fingerprints on a bloody knife. As Jeff wrote just days ago, “Sociopaths do not recognize the individuality or rights of others, and so there are no checks on their behavior.  They only see two types of people, suckers and sinners. People are either enemies or tools to be used. The sociopath discharges powerful feelings of terror and rage by humiliating and dominating others. Anyone who has met with Miscavige knows that this is an accurate description of the man’s actions.”

If you haven’t already read it, you should read Jeff’s article in which he gives a full description of a sociopath.

But my purpose in this article is to cover the subject of black propaganda. For in destroying the integrity of Scientology, the Church became the enemy it once fought. As LRH said, what you resist, you become. Material originally intended to handle genuine high-level enemies, are now used against ordinary Scientologists, whistleblowers and virtually anyone that David Miscavige sees as a threat.

LRH defined the subject of black propaganda or “black PR” as it’s known in HCO Policy Letter 21 Nov 1972, HOW TO HANDLE BLACK PROPAGANDA, RUMORS AND WHISPERING CAMPAIGNS:

"Black propaganda" (black = bad or derogatory, propaganda = pushing out statements or ideas) is the term used to destroy reputation or public belief in persons, companies or nations.

It is a common tool of agencies who are seeking to destroy real or fancied enemies or seek dominance in some field.

The technique seeks to bring a reputation so low that the person, company or nation is denied any rights whatever by "general agreement." It is then possible to destroy the person, company or nation with a minor attack if the black propaganda itself has not already accomplished this.

When the Church was fighting for its life, LRH wrote many confidential issues for the Guardian’s Office. These issues are now available through Wikileaks (click on "File" to download). Today, by subverting the Office of Special Affairs to his own personal agenda, David Miscavige uses these same directives to discredit and hopefully, he believes, to destroy -- not real enemies, but decent people -- anyone who dares to blow the whistle on his criminal actions.

And it’s really not the Office of Special Affairs who is behind the dirty tricks and black propaganda. The actual command structure of OSA is:

DM and Lou (Laurisse)
Office of COB  (only 5 people left according to JB who left only weeks ago)
RTC only 12 staff left.  These are headed by Warren McShane as "Legal Director"
RTC Rep in the ILO building -- Tracy Danilovitch
OSA Int (Linda Hamel Commanding Officer, with Kerstin operating directly on a bypass from Tracy)
The rest of OSA are lowly puppets.

Miscavige follows intelligence actions per HCO PL 25 Apr 1968, Intelligence Actions:

The maxim is... “when under attack... attack.” The point is... even if you don’t have enough data to win the case... still attack... LOUDLY.  Reason is, it is only those people that have crimes that will attack us, and they will soon back off for fear of being found out when attacked back.

Now the dumb thing is, the motivating factor is not our crimes, but his. And those crimes are not minor. But let’s go more deeply into the subject of black propaganda. LRH wrote another previously secret issue on 12 Jan 1972 (which is also now available on Wikileaks):

Confidential
BLACK PROPAGANDA

Black propaganda is a covert communication of false data intended to injure, impede or destroy the activity or life of another person, group or nation, usually issued from a false or removed source from the actual instigator.

It is used heavily in “psychological warfare.”

It is a specialized technology of its own.

It relies chiefly on the technique of “classification” of another or a group or a nation as undesirable or evil.

It has many counter weapons and is itself essentially fragile because it is false. Dianetics, Scientology and myself for a very long time have been subjected to a very standard black propaganda campaign instigated by trained persons - the AMA in the US, the British Psychological Association in Australia, the National Association of Mental Health in England and internationally.

What is being attempted by black propagandists is to classify us firmly in the public mind by constant repetition of certain words like “cult.” The more we let such propagandists do this, the more chance we give them, the more opportunity they have.

A black artist has to be carefully trained to do this and I am suddenly quite interested in such fellows. It isn’t just “the way things are written.” Such are well trained intelligence pros in the field of psychological warfare.

Psychiatry today advises advertising and propaganda and designed of course this campaign we have experienced.

The subject is even touched on by Dr. Thomas Szasz as a psychiatric technique in his book Ideology and Insanity, page 49, chapter 4, page 53 section IV, page 67 section IX and his whole article “Psychiatric Classification as Personal Restraint,” page 190 of the same book. Of these, page 53 section IV is the most interesting in application to this subject of classification.

“Classification is a social act. The classification of individuals or groups entails the participation of at least three different types of persons: Classifier, Classified, and a public called upon to accept or reject a particular classification.”

While Szasz is not using it as it applies to psychological warfare (black propaganda) or advertising, it is nevertheless a key point in psychiatric planning of any campaign.

The AMA counts on this utterly.

So this is their one trick.

To cancel an enemy’s chief weapon is in itself a part of victory.

To cease to be the effect of classification and become in our turn the cause of it, the classifier, is to win the propaganda game.

Our propaganda is dirty but it is not black because it is true. Black propaganda is essentially false.

We can do this trick by survey and attack. As what is attacked is already popularly evil, we become re-classified as attackers and the enemy as bad hats as they’re for the evil if they attack us.

We won’t be running a black campaign as we deal in truth.

Black campaigns ARC break [upset] people since they depend on false reports and are thus out-reality. Hence your dead agent actions work.

We just run propaganda campaigns.

The objective is to be identified as attackers of popularly considered evils. This de-classifies us from former labels. It re-classifies our attackers as evil people. Which they are.

In the book Black Boomerang by Sefton Delmer (1962) published by Secker and Warburg, London, Delmer gives various formulas of black propaganda used in WW II. They used intelligence to get enough facts to run a convincing but fake “German radio station” from England.

Since WW II psychiatry has moved its techniques into advertising and propaganda and the think of these is in the Szasz references above.

So we

(1) Seek to avoid opportunities for the enemy to classify us.
(2) Contest or expose any previous classification as false (dead agentry, etc.)
(3) Engage in a series of campaigns which confuse past classification.
(4) Achieve for ourselves a dominance in classifying ourselves and others.

Out of this strategic planning can come operating policies and campaigns.

-- L. RON HUBBARD

Number of People Declared

Many of the individuals who have stood up to blow the whistle on illegal acts being done by the Church are being targeted one way or another with black PR. Number one on the list is to declare any whistleblower a “suppressive person.” With that declaration, goes the rule that if any Scientologist fails to sever relations with the newly declared person, they will be declared suppressive themselves. That is pretty brutal, especially considering that LRH cancelled the practice of disconnection in the 1970s due to abuse.

David Miscavige reinstated it in the ‘80s without LRH’s approval and has since that time used it as a political bludgeon to wreak havoc.

But let’s put that into real terms. In 6 or 7 years of operation LRH only found ONE real suppressive person and he wasn’t even sure about him:

But you don’t have somebody that’s been around three years and [...] turn up suddenly to be an SP.
. . .



In all the time we’ve been around here we’ve only had one SP that I know of… Now whether he was an SP or PTS I’ve not made up my mind to this date because I haven’t investigated the case enough.

-- L. Ron Hubbard, LRH Recorded Lecture "About Rhodesia," July 18, 1966

David Miscavige hides the information on how many people he and his people have declared, it wasn’t always such a closely guarded secret. In Flag ED 2830, of 10 Sep 1991 there was a list of people who had been declared. The list was 34 pages with 140 people per page. That is 4,760 people declared suppressive by the Miscavige regime as of 1991, a mere fraction of what it must be now.

While in terms of impact, if you figure each one of those people had at least 10 friends or family members who were forced to disconnect from them, that means Miscavige has destroyed nearly 50,000 friendships and relationships by 1991, twenty years ago. It is safe to say that number is more than all the active Scientologists in the Church today.

So even in terms of Valuable Final Products, David Miscavige is running Scientology in reverse. Instead of making people free, he shakes them down and eventually declares them a “suppressive person” disconnected from friends and family.

An example

But if declare and disconnection don’t keep the person quiet, he or she may eventually be attacked by black PR which can be pretty devastating if you aren’t accustomed to dealing with it.

Once they set on a particular line of black propaganda, they keep repeating it in each new utterance until enough doubt grows to undermine public trust.

In my case, I think they went way over the top. Because I was once cast to play the part of Jesus in a 1992 picture story published in the book What is Scientology? the Church of Miscavige has published in their Freedom magazine and elsewhere that I claim that to be “Jesus, God and Buddha” which is misinformation (false). I was cast for the part because I had a beard. Everyone liked the photograph and for a short while Steve Young (our photographer) and a few others would sometimes call me Jesus but it was all in fun. I have no idea why he threw in Buddha, too. One thing is for sure, everything OSA publishes is verbatim DM spin.

I’m really just illustrating a real-life example of the Church’s black PR antics. The Church also says I “barely eek out a living picking up doggie droppings.” As for my profession, I own Steve Hall Creative, LLC. I am a freelance advertising creative who specializes in website design, copy, photography, video, logos, branding and SEO (search engine optimization).  If anyone questions my marketing skills, consider what I’ve done for Independent Scientologists through this website against a corrupt organization. This website was designed to take over the second highest search term on the subject of “Scientology”: the phrase “scientology cult.”  We are now #1 out of more than 6.4 million search results on Google.

I also own a guerrilla marketing company called Break Thru Designs, LLC and another company that is helping to clean up the environment, Sgt Poopers, LLC. All three companies are successful.

There has been more black PR from the Church but it’s all just as silly. Like them saying I am the “webmaster” for Marty and Mike. Marty is totally capable and built his own website, and Mike doesn’t have a website.

The view from my neighborhood:  Half a block away is White Rock Lake, the largest urban lake in America. Completed in 1911, it contains miles of woodland, natural prairie and parks. Laced by trails, bike paths, picnic areas, playgrounds and bird sancturaries, there's even a dog park across the bridge at right.

More secrecy revealed

And he is using another issue that used to be confidential but now is available on Wikileaks. The full issue is also available here. HCO PL  16 Feb 1969, Confidential, TARGETS, DEFENSE:

The vital targets on which we must invest most of our time are:

1.  Depopularizing the enemy to a point of total obliteration.

2.  Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media.

3.  Taking over the control or allegiance of key political figures.

4.  Taking over the control or allegiance of those who monitor international finance and shifting them to a less precarious finance standard.

5.  Generally revitalizing the societies in which we are operating.

6.  Winning overwhelming public support.

7.  Use all other similar groups as allies.

Unfortunately, because David Miscavige is using lies rather than truth, instead of “Winning overwhelming public support” he is winning overwhelming public condemnation. And loathing.

Dirty Tricks

Miscavige has been responsible for a lot of dirty tricks in the past. You’ve heard about some of these being played on Marty and Mike. Dirty tricks include posting false advertisements in Craig’s list and placing anonymous “tips” on hot lines to get people into trouble with the authorities. Another dirty trick is sending private investigators to do noisy investigations of neighbors and doing anything possible to get the target to lose their source of income as was done with Haydn James and many others.

A stock in trade is to use the Third Party Law in reverse to stir up dissension. This is also used heavily against any media to stop them from publishing anything negative about the Church or David Miscavige.

His dirty tricks won’t work on us because we are armed with knowledge and we can fight back thanks to the Internet.

Miscavige: Epic fail

Miscavige is failing to accomplish targets 1 through 7 (above) because he is trying to do them underhandedly. Independent Scientologists with zero budget and no official organization are making huge strides because we are truthful.

Yet the targets listed above in themselves are not bad. In fact, we actually are accomplishing all these targets ourselves not only because we are honest but because we are remaining true to the core of Scientology philosophy.

1. We are depopularizing Miscavige by exposing his rapacious crimes.

2. We have gained trust with the media because the truth makes sense and blows Miscavige’s lies away.

3. Key political figures like Senator Nick Xenophon are on our side because we are exposing abuse, secrecy, and crime -- everything people hate.

4. On the subject of finances, we are hopefully helping those concerned to pull strings on misappropriation of Church funds and false promises.

5. In so doing we have created a new beginning for Scientology and have revitalized many priorly disillusioned Scientologists who were victimized by the Miscavige regime.

6. We are winning public support with non-Scientologists who are finding inspiration in our efforts. Several have even become Scientologists just from reading Scientology-cult.

7. We are completely allied with similar groups such as the Freezone communities who practice Scientology outside the reach of David Miscavige.

In short, we are doing what LRH said to do, “We won’t be running a black campaign as we deal in truth.”

Classification

LRH said in “Black Propaganda” above,

(1) Seek to avoid opportunities for the enemy to classify us.
(2) Contest or expose any previous classification as false (dead agentry, etc.)
(3) Engage in a series of campaigns which confuse past classification.
(4) Achieve for ourselves a dominance in classifying ourselves and others.

(1) We have avoided opportunities for the enemy to classify us. For example, they have tried several times to involve me and others in commercial activities so we can be pigeonholed as “profit motivated.” One guy in Clearwater advised me to “start my own church.” Others have offered commissions all of which I’ve turned down. William Harper who posts under Marty’s blog as “Bunkai” suggested I start selling old LRH books “to my followers” and even sent me four old LRH books as a “starter package.” James Koch said he was a not a Scientologist but "really wanted to help" and in so many words attempted to get me to invite him to infiltrate the Flag Land Base, a likely setup intended to backfire on me. Who knows for sure, but all he'd have to do is go into Flag and scratch someone or break something then say "Steve Hall sent me" at which point the Church would have perhaps tried to classify me as a "terrorist." Those kinds of "dirty ops" ARE part of what OSA does. I mean Miscavige has classified their Internet pranksters -- mostly kids pulling pranks for laughs -- as "cyber terrorists." Meanwhile the Church itself as been known to phone themselves and send themselves various threats to classify themselves as "victims." 

They try to appear to only play defense. But in secret, they attack whistleblowers relentlessly.

(2) I have just exposed several previous classifications as false, most notably I’ve shown that David Miscavige is intentionally spreading false information.

(3) We have taken on Miscavige’s key assertions and exposed them. Namely, (a) that Dave Miscavige is the “pope” of Scientology. Can there be a more offensive idea?  (b) That Dave Miscavige “equals” Scientology whereas the only correct equation is Dave Miscavige = sociopath. (c) That the Church of Miscavige equals the spiritual philosophy of Scientology when they are opposites. (d) That no one can practice Scientology outside the Church or without authorization. (e) That whistle blowers are “apostates” (commonly defined as “a person who abandons or renounces their religious beliefs or principles”). We are Scientologists who are using Scientology to expose the corruption and abuse within the Church.

(4) We have already achieved a dominance in classifying ourselves and others because our classifications are done in the spirit of tolerance, compassion and personal integrity. For example, many people who have left the Church are no longer Scientologists. But they are still friends with Independent Scientologists. We don’t exclude, we include... except for people like Dave Miscavige, Tommy Davis, Jenny De Vocht... they classify as criminals.

So it isn’t the LRH policies or issues that are wrong. It is in the intent of the person using those orders. One can either carry out LRH’s orders in the spirit in which they were intended or with malice.

Alleged affair

Jenny Linson-DeVocht

By the way, I mentioned some weeks ago that allegedly Jenny De Vocht had an affair with Dave. There are two sources for that information: Shelly Miscavige and Tom DeVocht. Both knew about the affair, but were powerless inside the Church to stop it. Shelly went to Tom and demanded he do something about (1) the ongoing affair and (2) the fact that Dave was coming unglued... what LRH called “Type III” i.e., Dave ranting about buried treasure, trying to “ground out” mental energy by grasping thick copper cables, imagining himself surrounded by enemies, claiming to be the “pope” of Scientology, and drinking heavily. When Dave found out Shelly had spoken to Tom she vanished.

Anyway, this helps to explain why the Church continues to react soooo heavily against CNN and Anderson Cooper in particular. Secrets. Plus he wants to take over "the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media" by basically beating them into submission.

Yesterday, Googling Tom’s name yesterday brought up this harebrained “ad” -- black PR from the Office of Special Affairs:

That ad is so badly written it begs for banjo accompaniment.

The real problem with the Miscavige skeleton crew is they have committed crimes. Thus they continue to work for Miscavige. Like Marion Pouw. Pouw destroyed Stacy Moxon’s suicide note just before the police arrived. Another ex-RTC staff member, Bitty Miscavige, wife of Ronnie Miscavige saw the note and she told her son Justin about it, and the secret slipped out as secrets normally do.

Incidentally, Stacy’s father is Kendrick Moxon, a lead attorney for the Miscavige clan.

Q: What kind of man can lose his own daughter to the man he works for, and keep quiet about it?

A: No man would do that.

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