And Scn Inc. exercised that legal right, suing Paulette Cooper 19 times. Copies of her book would be transported to various jurisdictions around the world, and then a frivolous, vexatious, lawsuit would be filed at those locations. This, in accordance with Hubbard's instructions on how to use the legal system to harass. (Scientology Legal Harassment tech)
Since Paulette Cooper hadn't actually libeled anyone, no honest lawsuits were attempted - just vexatious ones.
This was not enough, however, as Paulette Cooper had not yet been terminatedly handled, so other Scientology tech was utilized, including Covert Data Collection (spying tech) and Support (covert attack) Intelligence tech.
Paulette Cooper had been judged to be an SP, an anti-Scientologist, thus, per Scientology doctrine, she had no rights of any kind, and could be destroyed.
And, in all likelihood, Paulette Cooper would have been destroyed were it not for the 1977 FBI raids, which were the government's response to Scientology infiltration and burglarizing of government offices. Those raids,
accidentally, unearthed evidence of spying and covert attack operations against numerous private individuals, including Paulette Cooper.
It was by chance that Paulette Cooper was not successfully terminatedly handled as an SP, and disposed of. The tech was working and Hubbard was getting away with it.
Source was in full stride.
Surrounded by adoring Commodore's Messengers, Source, hand self consciously placed in a manly fashion below the hip, laughs a hearty "Ha!" in defiance of the wog and SP world.
It was Hubbard's obsession with accessing the (primitive pre-Internet) data banks of the U.S. government that led to Scientiology's burglarizing of government offices, that, then, accidentally resulted in evidence being unearthed that exonerated Paulette Cooper. Otherwise, she would have been long forgotten, having been long ago terminatedly handled by Scientology tech.