Talk:Operation Freakout/Archive 1

message: ....to frame writer Paulette Cooper for bomb threats against the Church, Henry Kissinger, Arab nations and a laundromat.
Must've been some laundromat.--Wasabe3543 16:24, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmmm, I'll have to check that out.  I believe it might be true, actually; the Scientologists drew up the Operation Freakout plans in great written detail and at least one of the steps in the plan was to have a Scientology agent impersonating Paulette Cooper have an apparent psychotic episode in a laundromat, in which she would mention "her" intentions to bomb the above-mentioned targets.  However, I don't remember off-hand whether the agent impersonating Cooper was directed to threaten the laundromat as well.  I'll check into it. -- Antaeus Feldspar 21:36, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Yup, checks out.  http://www.skepticfiles.org/sciento/sci592.htm  The agent assigned to impersonate Cooper was supposed to go in the laundromat, ask if they had her clothes (which they wouldn't, since the real Cooper had never been there), and when they told her they didn't, to scream "You're one of them!  I'll kill you.  You're a dirty Arab.  You fucking basterds.  I'll bomb you.  I'll bomb the Arabs.  I'll bomb the President.  I'll kill that traitor Kissingner.  You're all against me."  As their own documents show, they were trying to get Cooper locked up in a mental institution; to have "her" apparently issue a death threat over something so unproportionate was perfectly in their interests. -- Antaeus Feldspar 21:49, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  laundromat 

message: Have added a mention of this as what resulted in the papers being siezed that proved her innocence. Adam Cuerden 22:31, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Operation Snow White]] 

message: It's based almost entirely on information from personal webpages. BabyDweezil 18:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed that. AndroidCat 20:20, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article lacks reliable sources 

message: There are two memorandums that are key for Operation Freakout. Kember and Budlong, and Mary Sue et al. The second has a PDF scan  and a converted text (possibly with deadly misplaced commas). AndroidCat 02:07, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added an HTML version of the Kember memorandum to Wikisource - I corrected it from an existing HTML version, which had some serious formatting errors and quite a few typos in it. We really ought to try to get the Hubbard memorandum on Wikisource as well. -- ChrisO 02:12, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

text: The memoranda are extremely verifiable. What exactly do those and the other refs not cover? AndroidCat (talk) 02:59, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Scientologists like to leave verifiability comments on articles critical of Scientology.  If you look in the archives, this matter has already been addressed.  Idag (talk) 22:17, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentencing Memoranda 

message: Looks like Scientology attacked by archiving 4 items on the talk page. Looks like the disgusting truth just hurt too much. --Chinese3126 (talk) 17:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I set that stuff to archive, for discussions older than one month with zero new posts or discussion in that time.  Will get to working on this article and upgrading its quality status at some point soon.  Cirt (talk) 20:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archiving such a short talk page? 

message: Bottom of page has section with documents seized by U.S. federal government that relate to Operation Freakout. Cirt (talk) 21:27, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documents seized by U.S. federal government 

message: In the ‘70s, the church launched Operation Freakout on author Paulette Cooper, after the 1971 publication of her book, The Scandal of Scientology. The goal? To allegedly put Cooper in a prison or mental hospital by having her framed as a terrorist. Church members would make threatening calls to consulates posing as Cooper and attempted to get her fingerprints on a piece of paper and then mail it as a threatening letter to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
In 1979, court documents revealed the plot to get Cooper. But in a New York Times article that November, church spokesman Dennis McKenna intimated that Cooper was covertly working with the FBI and other federal agencies to harm the church. (McKenna was not accused of participating in Operation Freakout.) 
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Cirt (talk) 11:14, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientology Inc. 

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:—Preceding unsigned comment added by MartinPoulter (talk • contribs) 23:21, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for this article 

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:Hugh B. Urban is a professor of religious studies at Ohio State University. This article is a good source of info on multiple topics. -- Cirt (talk) 19:27, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media 

message: So looking at the article, it looks like the activity was planned, and actions taken, that resulted in the victim being arrested and charged. Is it accurate to say it was never put into action? Sephiroth storm (talk) 13:46, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Never put into action?