Dive beneath the surface of Scientology's Office of Special Affairs with us as we expose a trove of 40,000 internal documents revealing the church's secret surveillance and information-gathering endeavors. Witness the magnitude of operations as key figures like David Miscavige and Tom Cruise, alongside their legal and security teams, engage in complex campaigns to silence critics. Unpack the meticulously planned strategies that aimed to secure the premiere of "Mission Impossible 3" from potential threats, involving covert collaborations with law enforcement and private investigators that read like a spy thriller. This episode unravels the depths of an organization's reach into the shadows to protect its interests and image.
Feel the intensity as we recount the Scientology banner incident that disrupted airport operations and incited public fury, necessitating a formidable response from the FAA, LAPD, and security forces. Understand how the church's security apparatus, with PI's at its helm, infiltrated groups to safeguard a Paramount event from unseen dangers. The saga of Schofield, whose ordinary inquiry led to a shocking discovery, will illuminate the high-stakes game of pressure and payouts over litigation. And with the Debbie Cook case as a prime example, learn the lengths Scientology will go to preserve silence. Prepare to be captivated as we explore these real-life events that seem lifted from the pages of a clandestine dossier.
Dive beneath the surface of Scientology's Office of Special Affairs with us as we expose a trove of 40,000 internal documents revealing the church's secret surveillance and information-gathering endeavors. Witness the magnitude of operations as key figures like David Miscavige and Tom Cruise, alongside their legal and security teams, engage in complex campaigns to silence critics. Unpack the meticulously planned strategies that aimed to secure the premiere of "Mission Impossible 3" from potential threats, involving covert collaborations with law enforcement and private investigators that read like a spy thriller. This episode unravels the depths of an organization's reach into the shadows to protect its interests and image.
Feel the intensity as we recount the Scientology banner incident that disrupted airport operations and incited public fury, necessitating a formidable response from the FAA, LAPD, and security forces. Understand how the church's security apparatus, with PI's at its helm, infiltrated groups to safeguard a Paramount event from unseen dangers. The saga of Schofield, whose ordinary inquiry led to a shocking discovery, will illuminate the high-stakes game of pressure and payouts over litigation. And with the Debbie Cook case as a prime example, learn the lengths Scientology will go to preserve silence. Prepare to be captivated as we explore these real-life events that seem lifted from the pages of a clandestine dossier.
Welcome back to the channel. I'm Mark Headley, your host for today. Welcome to another episode of Scientology's Tom's Cruise spy files. In this episode we are going to cover some of the 40,000 pages of internal documents that are from the Office of Special Affairs, Scientology's Dirty Tricks Department. Normally, these files are a result of David Muscavige, the chairman of the board religious technology center, the leader of Scientology. Most of these files are him asking about something and then people in the Office of Special Affairs reporting up to find out what's going on with that. This document, this series of documents, are started by somebody that I've never actually seen anything like this and I don't know that it appears anywhere else in these documents. But these series of documents were originated. The whole thing of it originated from Bert Fields, who was Tom Cruise's lawyer at the time. And as we do with all of these documents, we're going to go through the key players, and here they are. So Scientology's Tom Cruise spy files key players Of course we have David Muscavige, the chairman of the board religious technology center, the leader of Scientology.
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Then we've got his boy, tom Cruise, teen Matt and a idol. You've got Mike Render, who was WDC OSA at this time. You've got Linda Hamill, ceo OSA, and excuse my picture, that is the only picture that I have been able to find of limb Linda Hamill on the internet. There used to be other pictures of Linda Hamill out there. It appears to me that Scientology's doing a good job of scrubbing the internet of any evidence of OSA, or their personnel pictures at least. Then you've got Tommy Davis, who's a Scientology spokeshole. At the time he was working a lot with Tom Cruise and the celebrity center during this time and slowly becoming the international spokeshole for Scientology.
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Okay, then we've got some new players. There's almost all these. The people that are coming up are all new players and very interesting ones at that. We've got Ron Sanchez, who was from the LAPD in Hollywood. I'm pretty sure he became the commander of the LAPD Hollywood division. We've got Scott Nelson, who's a former FBI agent. Then we've got Bert Fields, tom Cruise's lawyer. Then we've got Scott Lechase, who was the head of Paramount Security at this time. I think he actually went on to be the chief of police of the Burbank Police Department, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, those are our key players for today. Like I said, these are new players and we're going to hear all about them in these documents as we're coming up.
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Okay, so here we go. First document this document is from 11 April 2006 and it is from WDCOSA and it's to the DCOE, osaint, which is the deputy commanding officer for external OSAINT. It looks like Linda was that and possibly the COOSA at that time, or the COOSA was another woman named Veronica. They switched back and forth on posts, so we'll see who's who. Either way, it says 11 April, cccoosaint redata needed. Dear Linda.
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Bert Fields just called me to say that he had received a call from a guy named Blank Thomas who lives in Buffalo cell phone number and then it lists that I've redacted that he said the guy sounded normal and not a wacko. He told Bert that there are two people who are planning to sabotage the premiere of Mission Impossible 3 on May 4th at Man's Chinese. He doesn't want them to know that. He reported this. Their names are, and then it's Stephen Blank and then his full address, orlando, florida, with the zip code. And then it's got his cell and then his email number listed and then right after that, it has the name and address of another another gentleman that lives in Houston, texas.
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He is apparently the moderator of a group slash private website, off topiccom. Thomas says they are planning to rent two airplanes from Arnold Aviation Company and put up insulting banners. Thomas says this is both anti-scientology and anti-Tom Cruise. Find out everything you can about them and let me know at once Love, wdc, osam. Now, normally you'd have David Miscavage asking for something and then reporting it up, but because Tom Cruise is involved, he has essentially the same authority in Scientology. So his lawyer is calling Scientology and telling them hey, you guys have got here's some information. Because he knows they have unlimited resources to track all this down and find out everything and anything about this, and so he's just handing it off to Scientology. He doesn't even have to do any heavy lifting, he just has to give them whatever he knows.
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And this guy, thomas, is ratting out these two people on OffTopiccom because he'sa moderator and he sees this. I'm not sure how he would know. It's a little bit weird that it happened this way, but this guy somehow just calls Burt Fields out of nowhere. That part's a little fish, a little sussy. Okay, let's do the next document, Okay.
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So the next document. It says Dear Kay, and that is Kirsten Katano, she is the external security chief, osa Int. And now she's not sending this to Osa. She's sending it to the DCO, the deputy commanding officer external Osa Int. And just ceasing, all these other people, the other Osa people and WDC Osa, and you'll see that as we go. So it says Dear Kay, thanks, please let me know what the PD says and how this has ultimately solved Love. Wdc Osa Int. It says April 27, 2006,. Dco external Osa Int. External security chief Osa Int. With the CC going to WDC Osa, co Osa Int. Invest Chief Osa Int. Csi Investor Osa Int. And it says Re Mission Impossible 3, may 4, la Premier.
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Dear Sir, below is a report on the actions that have been taken on this today and the key follow-up actions being done to ensure that this flyover is killed. Today we located the specific banner company that has been reserved for this planned flyover Late afternoon, may 4. The pilot is Mario Lopez of Star Ads at Torrance Airport. When Lopez was suitably contacted, that just means they contacted him not from Scientology but from some other company that was planning to do some advertisement so that they could kind of suss it out and get as much info as possible and it wouldn't be traced back to Scientology. When Lopez was suitably contacted regarding doing a flyover, he immediately said that he was careful about what signs he flew due to having been burned before. He said he had done a job with Arnold Ariel where someone hired them to do a flyover. That said and it says, pussy Lickers.
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This was considered very offensive by people and there were many complaints to the pilot, airport Arnold Ariel, and people even wrote nasty statements on Lopez's plane after the incident. Lopez explained that this explained this. When asked what type of messages he would fly, he said he definitely will not fly anything without knowing and understanding what it was beforehand. We separately heard the same from Steve Kaplan at Arnold Ariel. When suitably contacted and asked what they would consider offensive or objectionable, kaplan described the same incident above and said anything which would be generally objectionable to others would be something they would restrict. Okay, page 2, note there are three other airports aside from Torrance that will fly banners over this area Chino, pacoima and Long Beach.
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Robert Boyland, sis security staff responsible for the LA Premier met with the VP of Paramount Security Services, scott LeChase, former LAPD they have to put that in parentheses because they know oh, those are our boys, former LAPD, those are our boys and went over this situation. Boyland and LeChase contacted the FAA regarding getting the airspace restricted, the FAA context said they don't restrict that airspace for any reason and wouldn't unless there was a credible threat. Boyland has been further briefed on the specifics we are finding in this off-topic message board and the data on where the planes are scheduled to fly out of. A PAC is being prepared so that he and LeChase can go back to the FAA and see what can be done to get the specific planes restricted, not restricting the whole airspace, which is what LeChase asked for. The FAA terminal that just means the person at the FAA. The FAA terminal and the police will be briefed on the internet postings from the organizers where they are talking about arranging people to be in the fan, to be in the fan crowds, who will create some kind of scene as to attempt to get Tom Cruise to look up at the banners that we have found. Some of the user IDs on the off-topic message board that have donated funds to the renting of the planes are concerning such as serial killer, assassin, monkey organ donor, bomber, boy bill the butcher, gun swankers, guns and wankers, divine vengeance and killer bot Jews. There are also photos on this message board, eg photos of Pew Pew's Pew Pew shooters and a photo of a baby holding a Pew Pew to its mouth, which showed that this should be taken seriously. See below.
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Scott Nelson, retired FBI, was briefed and his input gotten. He reiterated that the FAA can restrict the specific planes if they intend to do something that would cause problems. He said if the LAPD is briefed and made aware of the fact that this could create problems, they can talk to the FAA, who can restrict the planes. Tommy D was briefed and if we cannot stop this directly with the FAA or LAPD, he will contact Arnold Ariel and have Burt Fields assist if needed. The angle of the call would be to brief Steve Kaplan of Arnold Ariel on what we have learned about.
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The organizers, briefed on the above data and the fact that the intended banner messages are very offensive as they attacked Mr Cruz's family and religious beliefs. I'm pretty sure that they were going to fly a banner that says free ZNU or long-lived ZNU or something like that. It's something to that effect, because they never ever mention it in any of these documents. So I'm pretty sure that it's a ZNU related. Tommy will not target Ariel, but make it clear that they are being set up. The organizers are calling this thing a prank and talking about doing fake press releases and should cancel whatever arrangements have been, as the messages are unquestionably offensive. Tommy would also brief Kaplan on some of the past physical violence incidents that have been linked to ARS, that's, alt Religion, scientology a message board at the time, which is one place this is being advertised.
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The plan right now, to be finalized tomorrow once further specifics are gotten from the LAPD and FAA, is as follows and then we're going to go to the next page. Okay, tommy, to brief Ron Sanchez and determine exactly what the police can do to stop this. Ron Sanchez was the Hollywood commander, I'm pretty sure at this time, boyland and Lechace to go back to the FAA terminal with the further data to find out what they can and will do to restrict the specific banner planes. If the LAPD and FAA will do nothing, tommy will contact Arnold Ariel directly, as covered above, and handle them to drop this. Concurrent to this, the already skittish owner of Star Ads, mario Lopez, will be contacted by a security professional and briefed on the situation and handled to have no part of it. So a security professional is going to be one of the Scientology private investigators If needed. This will be done on Tuesday so that blank and blank, don't have sufficient time to reorganize. Based on the data we have right now, which is being verified, the average lead time needed to put such a thing together is three days. We are concurrently locating all other banner companies that fly out of the four airports, ie when Arnold Ariel drops off and the SPs try to find another company to do it Six. We will have a security professional contact each of the banner companies ahead of time to warn them that some kooks considered potentially dangerous might approach them with a job intended to disrupt a paramount premiere and that they should notify the security professional should they get approached to do the job. We are additionally making arrangements to get someone in on anyone local planning to attend so that we know what the plans are, can notify the police, slash Premier Security and prevent any trouble on the ground. We are working closely with the SISS terminals organizing the security and control of the crowd and access to the theater. This is OK. Much love, kirsten.
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And then it says sample photos from off topic and then it literally includes the thing that they talked about. I'm not going to show those, but they included the things that they talked about earlier in the document. Normally, when I'm recording one of these videos, I usually read the documents and then I gather up any of the photos or any of the things I need for the documents and then we edit the whole thing. And in the course of editing and grabbing together some of these photos, I ran across a Daily Mail article that has all of these documents in it from last year, and so I just wanted to bring up some of the screenshots of that and show you this Now. I did redact the document and they contacted the people. The Daily Mail contacted the people in the document and they found out everything about this. So I was right.
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The banners I have the document, the contract I'm going to put it up here real quick and it says messages. They were going to get two planes for this. The first plane message was going to say the baby belongs to Zinu, and then the second plane was going to say Hail Zinu, and then it was going to say Heart and then it was going to say OT. So Hail Zinu, Heart, ot. And they paid $3,300 to fly these two banners over the man's Chinese and the man's Chinese theater, which I'll put a picture of the. They put a picture of man Chinese in the article they put a picture of the guy. His name it's weird because they redacted the I redacted the document, but they go ahead and they have a picture of the guy's name is Stephen Josh Schofield and it's a 21-year-old member of Off Topic Message Board that raised $3,300 that was donated from friends on the forum and it basically covers the entire document that we just covered, except it also has the contract, which we didn't have a copy of, that contract. So I'll put that in as well and then otherwise I'll put a link to the article in the description of the video.
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So if you guys want to read the whole thing, you can do that. And yeah, it is definitely. It basically has the whole story of what happened and I wanted to read with you guys this real quick. This one part. It says a weather report for Torrance on May 4 showed cloudy day in the mid-60s Fahrenheit until 5.50pm, when conditions improved to fair through 6.57pm, just before sunset the marine layer came in and we weren't able to fly. It was stopped by low clouds and fog. So Scientology didn't get anything done on this and they would have flown if there was higher visibility decent visibility for flying and the pilot, who's now retired, said that he received an odd number of calls that week from people asking if he was available on May 4, which he now suspects were Scientology operatives trying to uncover the prankster's plans.
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It was really funny because we generally don't fly during the week. This happened on a Thursday night. I kept getting calls asking if I was busy on Thursday night. I found that odd, like somebody was searching for something.
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Schofield said he was shocked to discover his name and details were written up in a Scientology report. It's definitely out there. They really tried to control their people, the religion and the narrative, he said. You see people talking about their experiences and always they escaped it. I view it as a cult. Schofield added that he was not surprised.
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The organization appeared to have a direct line to the LAPD about the incident. With the amount of money that that organization has, they can pay to have whoever they want, whether it's private investigators or wealthy people with connections that can get them access. It doesn't really surprise me, he said. And then it's got a bunch of pictures of the screening and Tom Cruise and Katie and all this other stuff Anyway, and then it's got a whole bunch of stuff and Yashar Ali reported the LAPD closed the Miscavige case and there's a whole bunch of other stuff about Shelley Miscavige in there as well. I figured that you guys would like to see that, just because there was some extra content there that we did not have access to in the files. But thanks to the Daily Mail and Josh Boswell, we got some more information. So, yeah, it's definitely wild.
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Okay, so this is crazy. You've got some people that are flying a banner. Well, first of all, the lesson here is don't post what you're going to do on the internet when you're dealing with Scientology, because they've got spies everywhere and they will do this. I mean, it took them two weeks, or yeah, I guess it took them about two weeks. It took them two weeks to kind of pull all this data together. But nonetheless, whenever somebody is going to do something like this even like if you're going to do a billboard ad Scientology if they know about it, they will kill it. If they can, they will make it so that you can't put the ad up.
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Now, even if you do hire somebody and you do get it done, they will very likely put massive amount of pressure on whatever the advertiser is, or the plane company or the banner company. They will put an insane amount of pressure on that person and they will usually make it known that that person personally is most likely going to catch some shrapnel if they don't take down the whatever Scientology wants them to take down and this has happened in. This has been happening for decades. Anytime anybody tries to do this, usually they're able to stomp it out before it happens. But if you do get it up, they're usually going to try to pressure the advertisers or whoever is doing what Scientology doesn't want them to do, and eventually, unless they hold their ground, that company will buckle to the pressure from Scientology and they will dig up dirt, like if this Mario Lopez guy he's already, he doesn't want anything to do with this. He's like I got burned on this last one and they're basically like yeah, you're about to get burned again. So this is very, very common for Scientology to do, and usually they will threaten with, they will use the threat of litigation or being sued to get that company to buckle down, because they know Scientology's got billions of dollars and that they'll spend it messing with them. Now here's the thing Scientology very rarely originates a lawsuit. Usually they're on the receiving end of lawsuits and any of the lawsuits that they themselves have originated. In almost all cases they end up settling that lawsuit with the other party and they end up writing those people at check. So even though Scientology threatens litigation and they threaten we're going to do this and we're going to do that, they basically are all bark and no bite when it comes to lawsuits, even people that they've paid like.
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Here's a great example Debbie Cook. Debbie Cook signed a non-disclosure agreement that she wouldn't say anything bad about Scientology. Debbie Cook was a very long-term Seorg executive in Florida and she was eventually brought to the International Headquarters of Scientology, the INT Base, and there she was tortured and made to do a whole bunch of embarrassing things. And then she ended up leaving the Seorg and was signed some agreements that she wouldn't say anything to anybody. And then she eventually wrote an email and sent it to all of the top Scientologists in the world the ones that pay money for Scientology and Scientology sued her and then, when she went on the stand in I think I want to say it was in San Antonio, texas she started giving all the testimony of all these things that happened to her when she went to the International Headquarters of Scientology and Scientology shut it down, wrote her a big ol' fat check and then she wrote off into the sunset never to be heard from ever again. And then that time they did actually get her to sign some new documents and if you give somebody you know half a million bucks or whatever she ended up getting a few hundred thousand dollars then it has a little bit more weight than whatever they give you when you leave the Seorganization, which is usually like 500 bucks.
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So this is most likely the last Tom Cruise spy file that we're going to do for a while, because most of the other documents we have are just cut and paste of a lot of other stuff, or they're just not really that, they're not really, there's not a lot of information in them and or they cover personal information of people that I don't really want to cover. I'm not trying to have people that have nothing to do with Scientology kept shrapnel from these documents. We put a poll up on the community page to find out what the viewers wanted to hear about in the next episodes of the spy files, and we've got Scientology private investigators. The Scientology internal OSA documents and Scientology lawyers were the three kind of main documents that we have that cover different things and right now, scientology private investigators is winning by far. Last time I checked. So if you're interested in any one of those three things and you want to sway the vote in your direction, head on over to our community page and I'm going to leave that up for at least until for another three or four days after this video posts. And, but most likely, we're going to cover Scientology private investigators and we, if there are specific Scientology private investigators that you want to hear about, bleep, bleep that in the comments below as well, and I'll try to make sure I cover all the guys. There's about, let's say, there's about 10 that are the most famous ones. Those are likely the ones that we're going to cover, and so, yeah, that's what we got coming up guys.
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