Scientology Espionage

By Michael Leonard Tilse more
30 March 2004

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/5b10bb47736df03d

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Scientology Espionage
by Michael Leonard Tilse

If you have any activity in today's culture, be it business, the arts, public service or just an employee of a corporation, you should read this. Think about what it might mean to YOU.

After reading the writings of Tory Christman, Phil Scott, Dan Garvin, Warrior, Arnie Lerma and others on alt.religion.scientology and the www.xenu.net operation clambake message board, I had some thoughts on the fundamental nature of the church of scientology influence. I don't think these thoughts or insights are new. I am sure what I have to say is very clear to many others and I probably appear to be just off the turnip truck with these observations. Yet I wanted to put it out there to foster other opinions and debate on the subject.

As a hypothesis, I make the following statement:

The PRIMARY action of the current church of scientology is intelligence gathering and use of the intelligence so gained.

This statement is drawn from these observations and logical inferences:

1.   The church of scientology, as part of its doctrine and practice, requires that its members ‘write up' any non-survival or damaging acts that they have done. Such acts include ‘omissions' as well as things they have done. Further, it is required that its members ‘write up' any such acts that they have witnessed or know about.

It is part of the ethos of church of scientology members that they report on any ‘non-optimum' situation to church authorities. This ethos is created by the structure of the scientology justice system and the many required reports detailed in such books as "Introduction to Scientology Ethics."

I have experienced this personal ethos myself and in others, not only by writing up my own acts and those I witnessed of other scientologists, but ALSO writing up situations that I imagined might be of interest or affecting the lives of scientologists or the church of scientology.

Part of this ethos for many members of the church of scientology is that ANY LAW, RULE, CUSTOM, MORAL CODE or ETHICAL CODE may be violated or ignored if in conflict with the supposed survival of scientology. All such laws, rules, customs, moral codes or ethical standards are placed beneath and inferior to the importance of scientology and its interests. Scientologists are expected to act on the basis of the "greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics." But what is an almost unspoken but firmly understood concept among scientologists is that "scientology and its interests are ALWAYS the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics." Where there is conflict between the interests of the church of scientology and truth or law or morality, the church will ALWAYS be more important to a scientologist.

Thus while usually a business secret is secret, a scientologist in your business WILL TELL that secret to the church of scientology if they believe it affects scientology in any way.

Thus a scientologist in your business might reveal to the church of scientology the exact details of your coming multibillion dollar merger in a write-up to the church if they think it affects scientology or another scientologist's interests or even if it is about a personal act of improperly overhearing an executive's conversation.
 

2.   The church of scientology as part of its doctrine and practice, requires that its members undergo counseling in order to reach supposed ‘states of being' or ‘release states'.

An integral part of attaining these states is the member being required to "tell all" about any non-survival, contra-survival acts or omissions in any area of their life. They must do so or they cannot move onto the "higher levels" of scientology.

Thus the ‘telling all' might involve revealing to the church of scientology exact details of sexual activities with ‘everyone, ever in their life.' If you have ever had a relationship with an active scientologist, then details of your sex life most likely reside in the churches files with exact names, places, activities and dates.

There are a number of ex-prostitutes, call-girls, drug abusers, drug dealers and others in the church of scientology, who in the course of trying to "attain spiritual freedom" tell EVERYTHING to counselors.

3.   The church of scientology as part of its doctrine and practice, tells its members that such ‘write-ups' and records of their counseling are ‘confidential' and ‘private priest-penitent privileged information' that will never be revealed. This gives the member a feeling of security in ‘telling all' and thus details and names and circumstances are revealed in the ‘write-ups' and ‘counseling sessions' that probably would never be revealed in any other setting.

Yet, as has been noted by ex-members, such secrets are frequently gathered up for use against them once they leave the church. In fact, such ‘confidential records' are nothing of the sort.

4.   All such records of counseling sessions and ‘write-ups' made by members are kept permanently within the church. Many church staff have access to such information.

5.   The upper management of the church of scientology is continually alert for information or actions that might appear damaging to the church of scientology.

As part of this alertness, any staff member who comes across any such information must pass it on to upper scientology management.

Even a paying public member such as myself, who simply wrote up troubles that I was having in my own life and with my personal feelings, (known as ‘case',) can have their whole history of counseling and various files taken to ‘International Management' of the church for review if the upper management deems it needs to see it.

6.   In the church of scientology advanced organization los angeles, there has been a video camera and microphone in every counseling room, examiner room or interview room I have ever been in.

7.   I have heard that such video cameras and microphones exist now in every scientology organization in the world.

8.   Video and audio records of interviews and sessions are made. It is unknown how much of these records is kept or if such records are considered by the church to be part of the ‘confessional formulary' of the ‘confidential' folders or if it is treated as not under that oft violated internal rule.

9.   The church of scientology has for many years been computerizing its various files, using OCR and digital imaging technology. It has the ability to easily search and recover specific information in its database by name, date, place and other search terms.

I have observed for myself that church executives are not concerned with the legalities of information, only with how they can use it. With the various depositions and testimony of ex-church staff members now available, one begins to realize that the church doctrine of only using the information given in counseling for the benefit of the person himself is a sham. From there it is a small step to understanding that such records are viewed as a RESOURCE.

Now, given the observations above, I can say that even with a small core of say, 50,000 active members world wide, the write-ups and counseling records of the church of scientology represent a massive, ongoing amount of intelligence.

The records of those who have been in and left form a massive goldmine of information.

It is personal, immediate and USABLE information.

The sex life or drug use of a politician where it has intersected a scientologist is in the church files. The business details of countless thousands of businesses are an open book to the church of scientology. And on and on.

So, taking a cynical, worst case view of this scene we can imagine:

The upper management of the church of scientology and their masters have at their disposal a widespread network of willing agents who unknowingly forward priceless information about individuals, business, economics, trade and political influence.

With its many celebrities, doctors, dentists and businessmen it thus has entree into every strata of society world wide.

This information is USED to protect the ‘golden goose' known as scientology.

And we can imagine it is used to manipulate stocks, destroy businesses, raise individuals to influence and any other of the myriad ways intelligence can be used.

More importantly it is USED to suborn politicians, elected officials, judges, police, investigative agencies, tax agencies and bureaucrats.

In support of this hypothesis is the actions taken by countries such as Greece and Germany once they had discovered the extent to which the church of scientology is operating as a covert intelligence organization. It is my understanding that they do not allow members of the church of scientology to hold government positions.

So, the primary action of the current church of scientology is the gathering of intelligence, in part from its unknowing but willing members, so as to use that intelligence to protect its position and further the private interests of its high officers and directors and those who have entree to that rarefied circle of conspirators.

From this viewpoint, I would have to warn any businessmen, politicians, elected officials, policemen, bureaucrats, members of the judiciary or anyone who's activities could be affected. If you have a scientologist in your employ or associated with you, you risk your sensitive information being in the hands of corrupt and ruthless people.

Blackmail, destruction of your career and reputation, or simply the unexpected manipulation of your company's stock could be the result.

On a national level, control of elected officials so as to shield the church of scientology and its officers from the rule of law would be an expected result. Back room deals to influence markets or give favor to well connected scientologists or hangers-on would also be evident.

On an international level we could expect to see the weight of government being seemingly inexplicably used to protect the interests of scientology, scientologists and those connected to scientology.

I'm interested to hear from people who can tell me if this hypothesis is supported by the facts. And of course any examples of it occurring that happened to you or those you know.

Michael Leonard Tilse