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Well that king of answers my question. What I was getting it was, do they use the same terror tactics they used to? LSD on toothbrushes and trying to coerce suicide on the roof of a building? From what I can tell they don't. IMHO from what I've seen since '08 when I left, most of the really weird and tragic shit was not because that's what "OSA" was trying to do, but because what the cherch was doing was so stressful on the individual that they essentially drove the person insane and then they offed themselves on their own. Rex Fowler, Johnny Lewis, Mario the Swordsman and Nancy Cartwright's boyfriend - can't remember his name and probably others I'm forgetting. Maybe Ms White but it's really unclear what her contact was with them. Oddly none of these people were even critics.
Unless somebody can prove me wrong I still believe they just aren't as reckless and brazen as they used to be. Probably came too close to disaster.
This would be my answer to your question above. . .
Because Hubbard, Miscavige and Scientology management goons (GO, OSA, et al) have been caught innumerable times with major media meltdowns exploding in their faces, they have more recently (past two decades) begun OUTSOURCING their fair game goon ops.
In other words, despite their professed brilliance, the GO and OSA networks were too stupid to avoid detection. They can't help but fail because of their need to show off their "attack" and "shatter" technology.
HOW THEY CHANGED: So, many of the black ops are handled thusly in more recent times. First COS elite INT execs (under the direction of COB) advise their lawyers to get PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS. But not just any PIs, sleazy, criminal, thug PIs like Anthony Pellicano. Amongst his clients were Tom Cruise's attorney Bert Fields and Mafia thug/ hitman Anthony Spilatro of the Chicago Mob (who was later portrayed by Joe Pesci in the movie "CASINO").
Former "PI to the Stars" Pellicano is currently serving a 15 year sentence for illegal wiretapping, terrorist threats, keeping grenades/explosives in his office and a list of other racketeering charges. He is due for parole in 2019.
When a dirty PI like Pellicano was hired, he would run a criminal campaign against the client's "enemy" AND he would also hire third party thugs to intimidate and terrorize people.
Since PIs like Pellicano could be trusted to NEVER REVEAL what he was doing for his client (to avoid prosecution and federal prison for his involvement) it created a multi-level "cutout" for COB. Because COB had someone else in the COS hire the attorney. And then the attorney hired Pellicano. And Pellicano committed crimes and also hired lower level street thugs to be his "muscle" and intimidation. If questioned, COB would not have hired the street thug. Would not have hired the PI (Pellicano) and would not have even hired the attorney--who represented another entity than RTC. Three or four "cutouts" for plausible deniability.
That's how the COS has done a lot of dirty work to avoid Scientologists themselves being interrogated by police or federal agencies--and caving in, turning state's witness against Mary Sue Hubbard and other elite OTs. In other words, Scientology has discovered that its "Loyal Officers" are not so loyal. LOL
It's OUTSOURCING, I tell ya!
