Right Arnie,
I've had several VERY awkward moments myself as far as acting normal goes. It can become quite a test of your confront when your target critic pulls you aside and warns you confidentially, "Be aware, we may have a scn'ist try to infiltrate the meeting some time tonight, watch for anything suspicious!" (In this instance it was nothing to do with me being found out, a GO PR had neglected to check with Intelligence before acting, you can probably imagine the MSH-inspired consequences of endangering an ongoing B1 caper, I never saw her again).
from Gary Weber's story and Apology webbed here
http://www.Lermanet.com/garyweber/
"Nancy Reitze ordered another mission regarding our Clearwater Mayor, Gabe Cazares. Nancy received intelligence of a meeting of Mayor Cazares at the Veterans of Foreign Wars and that he might say something negative about Scientology. Mayor Cazares unbeknownst to me, had already suffered from a fake hit and run incident and was a targeted for harassment. Deva Holeman and I were told by Nancy to disrupt the VFW meeting.
We went to his VFW meeting and handed out "Freedom News Journals" to the people going in to hear Mayor Cazares. Once the meeting got started Deva and I attended the meeting as spies. Not very good ones, at that, because even though we sat at the very back of the room, Mayor Cazares had already spotted us and was very upset that we were in there. It's comical, looking back and thinking that we could just "blend in" and go unnoticed. That's how arrogant we were. "
Which leads me to a bit of additional data; Intelligence Operatives are a VERY different beast from the PR variety. If you know they're scn'ists they're usually PR or Legal, not Intelligence. One of the most important aspects of Intelligence/Investigation is that it is COVERT.
You must never allow anyone (including scn'ists) to ever realise or see that it's connected in any way to CofS.
I was asked to web this particular document by Ida Camburn, who taught me...titled OPERATIONS OFFICER
LINK
"(3) Providing a believable source of an operation, thereby filling the
vacuum, so that Scn. isn't dubbed in as source.
(7) When hitting a group or individual, hitting their finance and comm
lines.
(8) Getting an enemy to attack another enemy."
Number 8 above, is the true source of many
but not all of the "You are osa" allegations"
Intelligence ops are very often off-lines scn public, working for the Intel i/c. They pose as non-scios or ex-scios and it's CRUCIAL that they have no immediate connection with CofS in case they're caught out. There is always plausible deniability between the operative and the Intelligence i/c; the Op is expendable, the Intelligence i/c is not and, in any case, it's all about distancing CofS from any fallout.
I once had to leave my scn Auditor training mid-checksheet, with all approvals granted in a heartbeat without a CSW, simply because I was now on a GO cycle and couldn't be connected to scn in any way. OSA uses real or apparent Private Investigators for a lot of the out-in-the-open Invest work as far as I can see, the question the critics should be asking themselves is how many of them are actually scn'ists. You'd be surprised at how many PIs and journalists were wolves in sheep-clothing back in my day, and yes, we were all fully accredited. Most, if not all, of CofS' major PR wins against the Psychs are secretly acknowledged as Intelligence wins but just like those damn CIA agents we never got to wear our medals!
There may well be some truth in the idea, "that was then, this is today" but here's the thing from my perspective.
I trained and operated in this area for a number of years. I successfully silenced or derailed hundreds of previously vocal critics. I disrupted meetings, stalled motions and collapsed groups without anyone ever realising I'd done it. I found and flagged hundreds of potential targets, critics who were or might become a danger to scn. I studied much LRH/MSH data on how to go about these activities, data which you'll never see anywhere else in scn. I know the exact techniques for getting critics to fight each other rather than scn and that's what I see happening.
I've mentioned it before, it's like how an artist sees the brush-strokes where others see a painting of scenery.
Why do I bother to tell this in the face of possible scorn and ridicule?
When you see someone about to walk under a speeding bus, the very least you can do is yell, "Watch out!"
Panda.
Re speeding bus...I have managed to survive long enough to see this day, but I am a fairly resourceful individual, and can do many things to make a living. -
At least I used to be able to, before my back gave out...
5 years ago my own electronics business, which I started in 1978 soon after I left scientology, had been pretty much decimated due to strangeness from scientology, and competition from a WISE music store that opened 4 blocks away, so I thought hell, I'm going to have to sell my house, so i detailed it, getting it read for sale.
Then, "Arnie Lerma is a BIGOT" flyers were delivered to all my neighbors, for the 3rd or 4th time,
(LINK to pictures), and some new neighbors who had recently bought a house identical to mine before I remodeled it, directly across the end of the cul-de-sac came up to talk to me, as they
KNEW whomever left the unsigned flyers was the one who had something to hide.
As they sat in my livingroom, I showed them news clippings and explained the situation and his wife was admiring the circular, curved walls I had put in at great labor, because a) I like curves (what man doesn't) and being a sound man, I knew that b) they sound great.. after I was done explaining my strange excuse for a life, they asked me "who did the work?"
I said *I* did. Her husband was a civil engineer, and asked me if I would consider doing the same thing to their house. - In short, I worked for them for 3 years... here is a picture from the construction phase..
Before (a stock 1953 rambler)
After from SAME angle, same house, looking in same direction (during construction)
And I admit that I don't speak of some of my problems with osa for fear of scaring new folks away...but, the bulk of their 'operations' were MOST effective before the group consciousness called the Internet appeared.. after that everything began to change. The tactics worked best when there was no one would would possibly believe your story, and folks all just knew that you were crazy... because what you saw done WAS in fact CRAZY...
A neighbor of mine, familiar with my strange journey, who is an ex-spook quipped that
"In espionage there are no chance happenings"
"The incredulity of our data, is our best defense" L Rum Hubtoad
and:
"There is nothing as wild in the books of Man as will probably happen here on Earth. And it will happen and be allowed to happen simply because all this is so incredible that nobody will even think of stopping it until it is far, far too late." LRH
You are doing great!
