Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:20:26 -0400
Organization: The Lisa McPherson Trust, 33 N. Fort Harrison Ave., Clearwater, Florida 33755 Telephone (727) 467-9335, Fax (727) 467-9345
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This is a rough translation of a 9 page letter in German from OSA's Kurt Weiland, another of Miscavige's criminal cronies. This letter is a scientology classic in that it is a dead agent letter based on Hubbard's Policy Letter called "How to handle black propaganda" which enumerates steps on how to compile a DA pack. Needless to say, this letter is full of lies and is symptomatic of Miscavige's panic level.
Bob Minton
Agency of the Interior
attn: Senator of the Interior
Johanniswall 4
20095 Hamburg
April 18, 2000
Subj: Robert Minton
Dear Mr. Senator,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
On April 6 your agency called a press conference with the American citizen, Robert Minton, at which Minton was present with his lifetime companion for the time being, Stacy Brooks.
As you know, as a consequence of its predilection for dubious "sources" - including and above all in matters of Scientology - the Berlin State Office for the Protection of the Constitution lost not only its good reputation, but ended up losing the justification for its own existence.
With that background I implore you not to take the following information lightly. Because it will clearly and distinctly show that Robert Minton and Stacy Brooks are anything but trustworthy.
Shortly before your agency put Robert Minton on display before the Hamburg press, the well-known London Sunday Times revealed an international money-laundering scandal dealing with the [illegible] sum of 12 billion marks [approx $8 billion] out of Nigeria and in which Minton is apparently a key figure.
6331 Hollywood Blvd, Suite 1200, Los Angeles, CA
90028-6329 Phone: (323) 960-3500 Fax: (323)
960-3508/09
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Under the regime of the former military dictatorship in Nigeria, he personally mismanaged several tens of millions of dollars into his own pocket past a starving population that is among the poorest in the world. Minton's role in this unprecedented case of organized criminality is currently under investigation by the newly elected democratic government of Nigeria.
The Time also reported that in the course of uncovering the scandal, foreign bank accounts had already been frozen. (enclosure 1)
Stacy Brooks, who accompanied Minton to Germany, discredited herself before the eyes of the American public in her characteristic crying. While she feigned tears and held hands with the man who was her husband at the time and made accusations about the Scientology Church on American television that it was "interfering" in their marriage, at the same time she was already the secret and well paid lover of Robert Minton.
[illegible], Brooks and Minton lied to the American media repeatedly about their connections until the U.S. TV program "Dateline [illegible]" finally brought the truth to light nationwide in December 1999.
The deciding factor here is not the extramarital relations as such, on which basis Minton's family was finally destroyed. It is more the unscrupulous lies which both told the media in their attempt to slander the Scientology Church - until they had no other choice but to admit to the truth.
This behavior is symptomatic [for them] and is part of a long list of exposed and documented lies. Minton's fairy tale stories for the Hamburg press were effortlessly [illegible] there. It is simple to construct lies. A new one can be invented every day. If journalists [illegible] and employees of the civil service do not challenge or even fundamentally check the accuracy of such statements, then they will rapidly turn into willing mouthpieces for slanderers.
Robert Minton, moreover, comes up with another reason for his activities against Scientology, depending upon the country in which he happens to be. Such [illegible] contradictions are not as directly relevant as are their roots.
When he was only 17 years old, Minton found himself in the padded cell of a psychiatric institution. Since then he has left his noteworthy and [illegible] track of violence throughout his life and the lives of other people. To this day he finds himself in psychiatric [illegible].
This tendency towards violence has been impressively documented, a tendency which did not pause even for his two ex-wives. Endeavors in the scope of a sort of "anger-
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Therapy" brought no change in his behavior. Relevant to the preceding case is certainly the fact that he has twice been arrested for physical attacks upon Scientologists. His last violent attack led to a charge being placed by the presiding state attorney's office. On this account, Minton must answer before a court in the United States at the end of May.
He has constantly been threatening Scientologists with violence, not only over the internet, but all over other public [illegible], and in one case he even fired a shotgun over the heads of members of the Scientology Church.
Minton leaves nothing untried in [illegible] this [illegible]. In Hamburg, where he could feel certain that lines of his slanderous statements would be questioned, he made the bizarre claim that the Scientology Church was hoarding weapons and was issuing rocket launchers to its members. But the only person who has made an appearance with weapons is Minton himself.
Naturally he also does not mention that he has never been a member of the Church and has never encountered the church policies which he pretends to know about.
The church institution which he was referring to lies directly adjacent to a public golf course and is visited every Sunday for "open house" by numerous people from the area and, additionally, is used [illegible] and regularly by the local residents. This use ranges from a sports event for the seniors club to Christmas festivities for the local police station. Numerous representatives of executive agencies at the local as well as the national level have visited this church institution and gotten a look at it. Not one of them went without praising the Scientology Church for its contribution to and its inspiring role in the formation of community life
All the Scientology Churches which Minton's imputations refer to are established members of the community whose social involvement has been recognized by agencies including the California police. High police officials have had repeated words of praise for the work of Scientologists in the areas of education and in drug rehabilitation, and also for the fact that the Church has collected thousands of dollars for charitable purposes.
One example: on the occasion of his retirement after 28 years of service, Captain Glenn Ackerman of the Los Angeles Police Department wrote to the Scientology Church and thanked them for "the enduring role which you have played in realizing security concepts in Hollywood. Perhaps the most significant was the continuing leading position of the Church in the support of our various projects with the goal of improving community life ... Your participation in our Neighborhood Watch Programs and your untiring efforts to make us aware of relevant problem areas for our activity have contributed substantially to making Hollywood safer." (enclosure 2)
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Minton's claims are not only absurd when one takes the facts into account of the long-term [illegible] of the Scientology Church for the interests of executive agencies, they fall into the grotesque when one takes into account the professed teachings of the Church as to the aspects of criminality and prosecution and considers the consequent worldwide support of the Scientology Church for Criminon, one of the most successful rehabilitation programs for convicted felons, which is based upon the works of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard.
If you believe you have to use "sources" like Robert Minton and Stacy Brooks, then you should also know what the price for all that would be. The Berlin State Office for the Protection of the Constitution has already shamelessly disgraced itself and is in the process of self-dissolution. The Baden-Wuerttemberg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) has even made international headlines with its use of "reliable sources" in Switzerland and, even if not deliberately, has shown the entire world that, for LfV Stuttgart, the boundary between Constitutional protection and Constitutional transgression is just as flexible as the one between Germany and Switzerland.
The one responsible for bringing these "witnesses" to the Hamburg Interior Agency is Mrs. Ursula Caberta of the so-called "Work Group on Scientology." Due to a lack of "witnesses" from Germany, she thinks she can justify the existence of her office by importing the Mintons and Brooks of this world at taxpayer expense.
This is not the first time that foreigners pretending to be informants have sought refuge in Mrs. Caberta, including one whose evident untrustworthiness and criminal antecedents were deliberately withheld from the German public.
By way of example, in October 1997, she used taxpayers' money to fly in a "source" who had fled to Canada to escape an arrest warrant in the United States. The arrest warrant has been and still is valid; the person to whom the warrant applies had simply "slipped out the back door." He was and is under a restraining order for violating a court order regarding his anti-Scientology activities and is under summons for contempt of court. As a result he is confronted with a court order to pay more than one million marks to the Scientology Church. As soon as he sets foot on California soil, he will be arrested.
Without a second thought, Caberta introduced this man to the German media as a "reliable source" regarding Scientology - just like she is allegedly trying again with Minton and Brooks.
Mrs. Caberta, of course, does not mention such facts, presumably not within the agency, either. It is only proper if I, in this regard, am less reserved and communicate to you yet several more more details about Minton and Brooks as follows:
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Violence and Threats of Violence by Bob Minton
As already mentioned, extensive proof exists of Minton's mental instability and tendency towards violence.
In September 1998, for example, he attacked a Scientologist in Boston. The police arrested him for using a dangerous weapon to commit bodily harm. (enclosure 3)
In October 1999, he attacked a Scientologist in front of our Church in Clearwater, Florida. The authorities charged him with bodily injury and issued an instruction to forcefully suggest to Minton that he cease his persecution and attacks in the future against Scientologists. (enclosure 4)
Minton had already fired a shotgun over the heads of members of the Scientology Church. (He justified this act to the media by saying that he had shot because he "had not been himself." He said he had "wrongly" been accused of having an affair with Stacy Brooks. As was later revealed in a national television broadcast, Minton and Brooks were lying the whole time and were very probably having a secret affair. (enclosure 5)
Minton has repeatedly threatened Scientologists with force. In one internet post in August 1998, he threatened to murder any Scientologist who should happen by his property. In cynical contemptuousness for human life, he encouraged members of the Church to make such a visit, because he, as he wrote "was getting a lot of target practice ... with various weapons." (enclosure 6)
On another occasion he threatened Scientologists with an axe and threw stones at a car which he presumed were Scientologists.
He physically assaulted a female Scientologist who had demonstrated against his attacks.
On his own web site on the internet upon which he proudly presents himself is a picture of him swinging a Samurai sword dipped in blood-red paint. The photograph is under the words, "Bob Minton's Plan for all Scientologists." (enclosure 7)
It is a matter of record that fits of anger and psychiatric treatment is a dangerous combination as the rising trend of senseless violent crimes in the USA during and after psychiatric treatment extensively proves. This connection has also been observed by the courts. They have instructed Minton that he may no longer approach Scientologists or Scientology Churches.
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Financing Copyright Violations
Robert Minton's explanations about his motivation for financing people who are "against" the Scientology Church do not correspond to reality. It is more of a matter that he deliberately finances people who have been charged and convicted of commercial crimes who have lost before the courts.
This [illegible] conduct of subsidizing illegal and, in any respect, suspicious activity clearly shows his concept of the law and what really matters to him.
For example, he financed a certain Arnaldo Lerma, who was legally prohibited in April 1997 by an American district court from violating the copyrights of the Scientology Church. Minton gave Lerma $60,000 AFTER he had lost in court. Acceptance would suggest that Lerma, with this money, would be in the position to [illegible] his illegal violations and to [illegible] the court judgement.
Minton also gave copyright violator Grady Ward over $40,000. His violations against copyright were so serious that a federal court set a punitive settlement of $3 million. Ward is under a legally valid restraining order and is making monthly payments to the Church for the rest of his life. (enclosure 9). He is now working for Minton, for which he receives a sum of $2,500 per month.
Minton also transferred $750,000 to an association by the name of FACTNet, which was taken to court for copyright violations of Scientology materials. Only when FACTNet could no longer escape conviction and confronted by heavy sanctions by the court did the accused agree to cease further violations of the Church's copyrights and to pay a million dollars in damages should there be a repeat occurrence.
Minton also financed the paid witness, Jesse Prince, whose untrustworthiness I have already described for you and the other Offices for Constitutional Protection on November 12, 1999.
A particularly significant example of Minton's dealing with the truth is, moreover, the "McPherson Case" which he sold to the media at the Hamburg press conference. Minton suppressed what is surely the most important detail of this court proceeding: namely, that the presiding court doctor recently changed her findings on the case, based on a subsequent review of the scientific, medical evidence by renowned experts and came to the conclusion that the death of Mrs. McPherson could be traced back to an embolism which had been loosened by an accident and which had lodged in one of her lungs, as a result. (enclosure 10)
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Minton was well aware of this complete alteration of the basis of the process when he spoke about it in Hamburg.
He would not have mentioned it because he has, in the meantime, invested $850,000 in a civil suit against the Church in the McPherson matter, and the now contradictory [illegible] the basis - financed with this money in any case - of a campaign of libel [illegible] the Church.
Stacy Brooks
At the press conference of April 6, Stacy Brooks also introduced her equally fantastic claims regarding her Church membership and how she said she had been treated during that time.
Indeed, she has already admitted that the statements circulated by her are untrue, but she refuses to stop spreading them as long as the church does not pay "for her silence." (enclosure 11)
Brooks also receives money for "witness testimony" against Scientology in court - until she finally was convicted in a cross-examination of being a perjurer. Since that time she can no longer be found on the witness stand, for that she uses press conferences. But then only when she can be sure that her imputations will not be questioned. A condition which she made [illegible] in Hamburg.
A completely characteristic event: in Stacy Brooks' testimony before an American court the former California Superior Court Judge David Eagleton noticed her total lack of competency in the area of organized church structure and commented that "she did not know the difference between a 'director' and an 'executive officer'." In fact, that is right, but that does not stop her from bringing up untrue accusations before an uncritical press in Hamburg.
The inability of Stacy Brooks to grasp basic corporate duties in her own position followed her during the entire period she was on the official staff of the Church.
She had to give up her office as minister of the Church because she violated fundamental ethical obligations associated with it, as she did later in her work with "Freedom," the human rights magazine of the Scientology Church. There she secretly attempted to [illegible] the publication for purposes of profit and to "mask out [?]" the/her connection to the Church.
Brooks claims to possess "knowledge" about David Miscavige, the Chairman of the Board of the so-called Religious Technology Center. The fact is that for a few months in the early 80s
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she was employed in the same organization as he. However, she was dismissed for incompetence.
Brooks continues to assert that she had participated in the efforts of the Church to obtain tax exemption for the Scientology Churches in the United States. Actually, she left the Church in 1989, two years before the extensive review of the American IRS tax agency had even begun, and four years before it had been consummated. This review, and not the fantastic [illegible] of a Stacy Brooks, at the end of 1993 finally led to the granting of tax exemption for all American Scientology Churches and associated organizations.
So much for Stacy Brooks.
The close ranks between [illegible, "husband"?] Minton and representatives of German ministries makes a mockery of all democratic values. Minton has earned his money in unscrupulous business which can hardly be outdone in its racist and humanly contemptuous dimensions. What kind of person does it take to make a fortune from the poverty and suffering of a country like Nigeria? Anyone who sells such people as "credible" no longer knows what he is doing. In that way or similarly have the presiding representatives of government agencies and ministries lost any appearance of international human rights and fundamental [illegible] state neutrality in religious issues.
I would like to bid you, in all urgency, to not simply ignore the facts detailed in my letter. You will understand that a continued alliance of your or other German authorities with Robert Minton and Stacy Brooks will be regarded by the Scientology Church to the degree that it would be if if it were an [illegible] campaign motivated only by evil against the German Scientology Church.
You can be assured that the Church will take the steps necessary in the scope of legal and publishing limits in order to maintain the rights of its congregation members in the Federal Republic [of Germany].
In closing, I would like to shortly address the anti-constitutional "Work Group on Scientology" in your agency and its director, Ursula Caberta - a "human rights violator," as the Scientology Church Hamburg may say based on the judgment of the Hamburg Superior Court.
In the past we have more than once pointed out the situation that Mrs. Caberta and your office waste more than a million marks a year of the taxpayers' money.
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I am asking you: for what? In order to violate basic rights of the Constitution and in order to bring harm to German citizens and their families?
The day will come when the activities of Mrs. Caberta will be seen for what they are: an extension of the Inquisition which hunts down people and destroys their existence and has brought shame not only to Hamburg, but to all of Germany.
When one additionally takes into consideration that she issues con men like Robert Minton the [illegible] seal of the Hamburg Interior Agency, and not just one time, that shows all the much more that Ursula Caberta is not needed.
Therefore we ask that Mrs. Caberta be immediately relieved of her duties.
Cordially,
/signature/
Kurt Weiland
Member of the Board of Directors
Church of Scientology International
Distribution:
State Offices for the Protection of the Constitution
State Interior Ministers and Senators
Federal Minister of the Interior
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
From: Frog <FrogRemailer@NoReply.org>
Date: 22 Apr 2000 19:11:13 -0000
Subject: Re: Miscavige is desperate: Read letter attack on LMT and Germany
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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
B O A R D P O L I C Y L E T T E R
May 30, 1974
C O N F I D E N T I A L
PR SERIES 24
HANDLING HOSTILE CONTACTS / DEAD AGENTING
It is a not too infrequent part of the job of a PRO {Public Relations Officer} to encounter hostile contacts. To handle such, one has to be fast and effective at dead agenting.
Every successful PRO knows how to dead agent and wins. As the tech on dead agenting and handling hostile contacts is scattered in various P/Ls and write-ups, it is issued collectively now as policy for use. Learn these techniques well. Use them with success!
Passages taken directly from L. Ron Hubbard's writings or from transcripts of his verbal briefings are in italics [indented] {but not in this webbed version. Jeta}. Other passages are from D/G PRO WW write-ups reproduced by courtesy of the Guardian's Office.
These materials relate directly to
PR Series 23 The Press Book
PR Series 22 Press Conferences, Preparation for
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It is my specific intention that by the use of professional PR tactics any opposition be not only dulled but permanently eradicated. This takes data and planning before positive action can occur. (LRH) {L. Ron Hubbard, guru and founder of the criminal Scientology and Dianetics psycho-business} Never let entheta pass unhandled. Prevention is better than cure. Handle fast, handle with live communication, handle with documentation, use PR technology including tone scale evaluation. Liaise with your senior and the other divisions/bureaux. Maintain ethics presence and see the matter through to a completion including the discrediting of the attacker. Experience has shown that defence is only effective when one sorties or attacks.
The errors we have made have been:
Defending only.
Defending on Scientology ground.
Being reasonable and assigning mild motives to the enemy.
Failing to attack early and hard.
Undervaluing the broad social value of Scientology.
Individuating from other similar organizations.
Not learning enemy tactics and using and bettering them.
Failing to heavily contest for public opinion and public media.
Failing to identify the enemy early and hit him hard. (LRH)
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The technique of proving utterances false is called "DEAD AGENTING". It's in the first book of Chinese espionage. When the enemy agent gives false data, those who believed him but now find it false kill him - or at least cease to believe him.
So the PR slang for it is "Dead Agenting."
This consists of disproving utterly the false statement with documents or demonstration or display.
One has to have a kit (a collection of documents) or the ability to demonstrate or something to display.
STATEMENT: "I've been told you are in trouble with Income Tax people."
REBUTTAL: "Here's a document of fully paid taxes and a letter of commendation from the tax authorities." Displays same. Result? Whoever told him that is now dead with him as an accurate informer. The best way to dead agent is when the person makes some disprovable statement, find WHO to fix his mind on it and then produce the rebuttal.
STATEMENT: "I hear you aren't married to the man you're living with."
REBUTTAL: "WHO told you that?"
STATER: "I forget."
REBUTTER: "Well, you remember and I'll show you some proof."
STATER: "Well, it was a man..."
REBUTTER: "WHO?"
STATER: "Joe Schmo."
REBUTTER: "Okay. Here's my marriage certificate. Who's the Joe Schmo nut anyway?"
Now it's Joe Schmo who's the mystery. How come he lies? What's in it for him?
When one hasn't got the document but can get it one can say "You tell me the name of whoever said that and next time I see you I'll show you something very interesting about it."
And be sure to get the document and see him again.
Dead agenting has a billion variations. "It won't fly." Fly it. "Place is empty." Show him it's full.
The subject matter of Dead Agenting is PROOF in whatever form.
You only challenge statements you can prove are false and in any conversation let the rest slide.
EVERY FRIEND, EVERY OPINION LEADER, EVERY STAFF MEMBER YOU HAVE SHOULD BE SUPPLIED WITH A DEAD AGENT PACK CONTAINING PROOFS AGAINST COMMON RUMORS (AND BROCHURES AND COACHING TO FILL THE VACUUM). (LRH)
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In defending against hostile PR, once more it is in the R that counts. Sun Tzu in his book about warfare gives several types of agent. One of these is the "dead agent" because he tells lies to the enemy and when they find out they will kill him.
Hostile (or counter-PR) is usually the usual fabric of lies. If one finds out the lies being told and documents just one as being false, he has made counter-PR recoil. His hearer will never believe him again. He's 'dead'.
In the war between psychiatric hostile PR and the truth of Scientology, the "dead agent" caper has a field day. Psychiatric PR has been lying for 20 years. Documented, the fact of these lies are lies is killing off psychiatry.
You understand, it's not one PR's word against another's. It's one PR's documents against the other PR's lies! That is correct defensive PR. (LRH)
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The quality of the documentation is a major factor. The PRO should have the right to chit and demand better quality documentation if it's not up to standard. One should be very inventive and very creative in the presentation of his pack. As the false reports on us are generally repeated over and over and over again in different ways one can have in stock, so to speak, false report correction packs and booklets. One of these could be the Background and Ceremonies of the Church, a WW publication. There are various bona fide publications for different countries. There is Scientology 20th Century Religion, there is the publication Viewpoint from the US and we now have Omar Garrison's Hidden Story of Scientology. Then there are things like the quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica Year Book, etc.
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This is correct procedure:
Spot who is attacking us.
Start investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies.
Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them. Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press.
(LRH)
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Also press releases should always contain some factor of endurance. This gives the public the idea that we endure. Examples:
"For many years now we have stated..."
"We have stood up to such attacks many times and are still surviving and expanding."
"Since 1950 we have..."
"Eighteen years ago..."
ALWAYS ATTACK in a press release. Never Defend or Deny. (LRH)
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Reporters are a kiss of death unless one really is an expert PR man himself. Reporters have to be handled and well. If truly friendly, they have to be wooed. If not they have to be handled.
The routine is:
Whisper of a bad story
Get a lawyer
Threaten suit
Totally discredit using the technique of the Dead Agent caper which MUST be understood in full.
It consists of photostats of good stories and authentic documents that state the truth and thus wreck any lies and the liar. "Dead agent" means when they find out the guy lied (proven by documents) he's dead. The kit of the PRO MUST contain a full set of such documents, adequate to cancel out any lies told.
And it must be fast. It must come to an immediate confrontation. (LRH)
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The actual handling is very swift. You can make the offending person the butt of your wit, handle seriously, take him over the hills and far away conversationally, but it has to be swift and smooth with one person in control.
As soon as you get some entheta about us, you immediately jump on the person and ask who else has he been saying that to, getting all the names. Ask for the person's credentials, where he comes from, who sent him - give him a hard time of it. (LRH)
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We endeavor to hit from as many directions as possible. For example, a reporter was conducting a one-man crusade against Scientology in his newspaper. PR handled by having formal complaints made on the conduct of the reporter to his newspaper, the Press Council and the police with full documentation as to the lies he told and actions which he had taken, including threats and attempted blackmail by him. A full submission was presented giving six or seven pounds weight of PR data from the Church of Scientology on itself, its social reforms, its view on psychiatry, etc. This data was indexed and bound so that it looked something of value. The pack was left with a high official and other officials were informed that full submissions had been left there and if they needed information he would be able to supply it. The Press Council ended up investigating the reporter and the stomach has gone out of his crusade.
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False reports are corrected by true facts. You do whatever you have to do to get the true facts communicated and published. Documentation is the biggest aid in doing this. Communicating corrections obtained from other media helps build ethics presence and makes for a careful press and media.
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When an entheta story with false reports has been published it must be handled fast by telephone call, by personal visit, and always by letter confirming. The PR needs documentation which refutes and he needs it available to show or to give to the media. It is an obliteration tactic. For example, a newspaper publishes its third entheta article. Legal plays a hard line and PR plays the part of the peacemaker until a retraction and legal settlement is made. Documentation is then sent to all press, the Press Council and journalists and individual reporters. The documentation has a plea for reform and clean up of ethical standards. The result: the reporter in question will no longer be on staff.
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Every correction you obtain comes as something you can use. It is "beans"; there is an exchange now because you can use that in your prevention. A common error in the actual tech of false report correction is contained in repeating the original entheta in our published correction of it. By that we give the enemy two cracks. This is very easily avoided by simply doing an item fact correction sheet and making it clear that it is not for publication, accompanying it with the thing which is for publication or promising the thing for publication to follow.
Time is always of the essence. The longer an entheta piece is permitted to persist the more difficult the correction becomes, the more damage is done by it and the more likely it is to be quoted by another.
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Research and experience has shown that there are various factors which contribute to successfully obtaining equal space in the media. The major factors are:
Speed of handling.
Duplication of the nature of the media or person(s) one is approaching.
Personal, live communication.
Full documentation and correction of facts in previous article.
Correct tone level evaluation and handling of media terminals.
Previous theta articles on Scientology.
Intention.
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Yes, one says, but how about the violent opposition? How about that fellow? Well, he's a problem. But he is an opinion leader. One has to decide how much of an opinion leader he is. If you don't handle a would-be opinion leader who is anti but who is NOT an opinion leader, people get cross. The decision here stems from Is he talking about actual abuses? or Is he just lying?
In either case one has certain courses of action. If the abuses are actual, work to remedy them. If he is just lying, lay out the truth. If he really isn't an opinion leader, ignore him.
But one can only interfere with him or remove him if many, many are getting cross because you don't. But that's a risky business.
As a rule, only that dissident person should be removed who is speaking in your name and on your lines and using your power to do you down. And then he can only be removed off your lines as you are under no obligation to finance or empower your own opposition. That's suicide.
He is not an opinion leader but a traitor for he owes his power to you. Usually anti-opinion leaders are made by neglect.
PR-wise one has to catch them early and handle. (LRH)
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One propagandizes the enemy population or one's own or neutrals. In popular interpretation it is a parade of lies or half-truths or exaggerations.
PR and advertising technology and mass news media are employed as well as word-of-mouth and posters.
The trouble with it is that it can often be disproven, discrediting the utterers of it.
It may serve the moment but after a war it leaves a very bad taste. If one is engaging on a campaign of this nature, its success depends on sticking to the truth and being able to document it.
The entire black propaganda campaign conducted for 21 years against Scientology began to fold up in its 18th year because never at any time did its instigators (a) have any factual adverse data or (b) tell the truth. The Scientology movement continued if only by heroic means and much sacrifice.
But at last nobody of any note believed the propaganda. The attackers pulled in on themselves a counterattack based on penetrating horrible documented truth.
It required intelligence-like tactics to discover who it was exactly. The "dead agent caper" was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were ___" is countered by a document showing "they were not". This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (LRH)
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The technique is:
A hidden source injects lies and derogatory data into public view.
Since it is a hidden source, it requires an intelligence approach to successfully end it. In the meanwhile the "dead agent caper" is the best tool to counter it.
(LRH)
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A good policy when faced with a Black Propaganda campaign is to defend as best you can (dead agent and legal restraints) while you find out (intelligence) WHO is doing it. Then, confrontation can occur. Finding and suing false whos can make things much more involved. (LRH)
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When one is not fighting a battle against Black Propaganda, public relations is easy.
One hires a reporter who gets to work thinking up ideas and turning out releases. That's why reporters are often thought of as Public Relations people which they are not.
In the face of a Black Propaganda Campaign, such releases are twisted, refused and that is the end of it.
There is far more to the art than this.
These are some of the rules that apply:
Fill the vacuum of omitted data with factual data.
Prove all false utterances heard are lies.
Discredit every rumor encountered.
Handle the interest level with any utterance.
Carefully study out the scene until the exact source is located. Use the knowledge of source to impede or destroy the source of Black Propaganda by non-criminal means.
Continue to fill the vacuum of no data with good data using any channels available.
Each one of these points could well take a book. But understanding them and using one's initiative one can fill in a lot of the tech himself. The variations of each one are endless. (LRH)
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If there will be a long-term threat, you are to immediately evaluate and originate a black PR campaign to destroy the person's repute and to discredit them so thoroughly that they will be ostracized. (LRH)
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In other words, handle the hell out of it. (LRH)
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PR isn't "being nice." It is a dynamic subject. (LRH) L. RON HUBBARD FOUNDER
From: Grady Ward <grady@gradyward.com>
Subject: Re: Miscavige is desperate: Read letter attack on LMT and Germany
Date: 22 Apr 2000 17:56:06 -0500
Message-ID: <spa4gskvafftl9dgl9bj1pla9fjfdlfkik@4ax.com>
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:20:26 -0400, Bob Minton <bob@minton.org> wrote:
>Minton also gave copyright violator Grady Ward over
>$40,000. His violations against copyright were so serious that
>a federal court set a punitive settlement of $3 million. Ward is
>under a legally valid restraining order and is making monthly
>payments to the Church for the rest of his life. (enclosure 9).
>He is now working for Minton, for which he receives a sum of
>$2,500 per month.
Saying I am a "copyright violator" is a lie; in fact in an Order dated March 1, 2000, United States District Judge Jeremy Fogel specifically stated that "[I]t would be false to state that Ward was convicted of copyright infringement in the present matter."
See the signed order for yourself:
www.gradyward.com --> legal archive --> document 63
Also it is a lie to say that I work for "Minton." I have consulted for the Lisa McPherson Trust where Robert S. Minton has no executive capacity there at all.
It would also be true to say that the criminal cult of scientology *lost* their trade secret claim outright and lost their bid for summary judgment in the copyright aspect in my case.
The criminal cult as admitted to spending more that $2.5 million dollars in attacking me in exchange for $200 a month payments.
They also admitted their agent stole photographs of my children from their grandmother and lied to my wife's bank to obtain confidential banking information.
Grady Ward grady@gradyward.com http://www.gradyward.com/ voice (707) 826-7712 fax (413) 832-2600 PGP! 7E0E EF0E 613D CEB8 6E8D 9D57 069F 8BC0 8C88 EB82 MESSAGES NOT CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED MAY NOT BE AUTHENTIC
