:            OFFICE OF SPECIAL AFFAIRS NETWORK ORDER
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: OSA NW ORDER 15                               18 February 1988
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: OSA NW
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:                         _Confidential_
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:                       _BLACK_PROPAGANDA_
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:        (Originally written by LRH on 12 January 1972.
:         Issued as an OSA NW Order on 18 February 1988.)

Hubbard is the only person who can create Scientology Tek. Now that he's dead, "research" has slowed to a crawl. :)

HCO PL 11 May 71 Issue III is entitled "Black PR" also.

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: [Hubbard describes 'black propaganda' as 'covert communication of false data
: to cause harm to someone else, usually forwarded by an instigator.] 

Hubbard also said that black propaganda is "a covert operation where unknown authors publicly affect [bring about] a derogatory reaction and then remain unknown" and that "the most involved employment of PR is its covert use in destroying the repute of individuals and groups".

This fits Hubbard's Dead Agent tech, wherein Scientology creates lies (an acceptable truth) and anonymously spreads them to targets that surround the victim. The effect is the same - "covert communication of false data to injure, impede, or destroy."

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: [Hubbard calls Black PR "a specialized technology of its own", and notes that it relies 
: on the use of generalization that a nation or group is somehow evil or malevolent, but is essentially fragile 
: by its very nature.] 

Hubbard often used a style of single-sentence paragraphs. Perhaps Hubbard used this style to e-m-p-h-a-s-i-z-e   e-v-e-r-y   t-h-o-u-g-h-t. Perhaps Hubbard, in a holdover from his previous career as a penny-a-word sci-fi writer, couldn't be bothered to back up and edit for readability. Another possibility is that Hubbard had difficulty grouping his thoughts into a coherent paragraph that didn't meander like a small stream on a flat plain - putting one sentence in each paragraph solves this coherency problem.

Ron's view of black propaganda fits chillingly closely to Orwell's Ministry of Truth in 1984. In 1984, Orwell's negative utopia has words being redefined to control the thoughts of the populace. In this case, Hubbard views black propaganda as an outgrowth of classifying a group as evil.

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: [Hubbard accuses several large national and international health care associations, including the American : : Medical Association, of having engaged in Black PR campaigns against himself, Dianetics and Scientology. 

"Dianetics, Scientology, and *I*", Ron. Didn't you listen to your English teacher in college? Apparently not.

Here, Hubbard imagines a conspiracy behind every tree. In this case, he has included the AMA (American Medical Association) in the conspiracy rather than the APA (American Psychiatric Association). This may have been a blunder, in that the AMA is dead-agent proof. Too many people use the services of the AMA for Hubbard's statement to be credible.

Hubbard's allegation that these organizations hire "trained persons" that specifically target Dianetics, Scientology, and himself are testimony to his loose grasp on reality. To further accuse them of formulating "very standard black propaganda campaign"(s) against him is self-descriptive. The pot is calling the kettle black. (See Hubbard's Black PR HCOBs).

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: [ Hubbard suggests that "they" do this by using the word "cult" in proximity to Scientology, 
: trying to create an association in the public mind.] 

"Cult" is a term defined in a dictionary. Scientology as a group matches the criteria on a large number of points. Is Oxford's and Webster's in on the conspiracy as well?

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: [Hubbard says he's "quite interested" in the specialized training agents of such attacks
: must receive.

"I am suddenly quite interested in such fellows". In other words, "I am doing research on how to use black propaganda for my own purposes." Board Policy Letter 30 May 1974 contains a summary of Hubbard's "research" into Black PR. The 30 May 74 policy was a confidential issue and was issued as PR Series 24.

"The way things are written". Again Hubbard adopts an Orwellesque view of the controlling action of speech. Regardless of whether or not someone's thoughts can be controlled with words, Hubbard believed that they could. Hubbard said, "The word 'propaganda' means putting out slanted information to populations."

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: [Hubbard suggests "pyschiatry" has sponsored advertising campaigns against him." 

Hubbard again pushes the conspiracy angle in a one-sentence paragraph. In fact, Psychiatry had been ignoring Hubbard for several decades. How can you have an enemy that ignores you? Hubbard's lifelong "war" against psychiatry was only in his own mind.

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: [Hubbard quotes his one and only favourite psychiatrist, Dr. Thomas Szasz, himself 
: a noted foe of psychiatry, to back up his improbable claims.] 

[Deluded Sea Ogre thinks], "Wow. Hubbard uses a lot of references. He's an educated man, holding several Ph. D.s [lie]. It looks like a really big book, and he's seeing something spread across several pages and chapters. He has such a great mind to be able to pull all of this together."

Hubbard used this approach often. He would include quotes of whatever he (or other Scientologists to talked to him) happened to be reading at the time. It certainly wasn't like Ron was doing active "research" on a particular topic. Ron would then plagiarize it and incorporate it into his own work. Apparently, Fair Use applies to Hubbard, but not Hubbard's critics.

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:                "Classification is a social act.  The
:           Classification of individuals or groups entails the
: 	  participation of at least three different types of persons: 
:               Classifier, Classified, and a public
: 	  called upon to accept or reject a particular
: 	  classification."

One wonders if RTC paid Szasz' publisher before copyrighting it for themselves. And remember, this is unpublished, copyrighted, AND confidential. Just like NOTs. Don't you feel privileged to be reading stuff that most Scientologists never see?

Ron understands the use of language to shape people's thoughts. This understanding forms the basis of the Scientology Training Routines, the usual route of indoctrination in Scientology.

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: [Hubbard suggests this is a "key part" of "psychiatric planning" of such a campaign, and suggests that the
: AMA "counts on this utterly." 

In other words, Ron tenuously stretches for a correlation and dreams up a bogeyman where none exists.

The assertion that the AMA is waging a Black PR campaign against Scientology by classifying it as a "Cult" is laughable on its face. According to Hubbard, the AMA and APA are "persecuting" Scientology because they are afraid of losing income. This assertion is absurd when the relative incomes of Scientology vs the members of the APA/AMA are compared. Hubbard also completely misunderstands the purpose of these two professional organizations.

If Scientology is comfortable showing these wild claims to their Office of Special Affairs staff, it shows that OSA personnel are sufficiently thought-stopped to not laugh their way out the door.

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: [Hubbard notes that, by becoming cause, rather than effect, of classification is to win the
: propaganda game.] 

This is another Orwellesque reference. Again, control the language to control the thoughts of people. Hubbard considers propaganda to be a "game". "Games" are one of Hubbard's fundamental beliefs - that bored thetans have to have a game to play.

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:      Our propaganda is dirty but it is not black because it is
: true.  Black propaganda is essentially false.

Well thanks, Ron. Now I get it. The other people lie but Scientologists do not. Scientology propaganda is merely dirty and not black. If it's merely dirty, we can put it in a washing machine and hang it on a line in the sunshine to dry and there it is, good as new!

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: Hubbard continues on, noting that by forcing his enemies - the AMA, in this
: case - to attack himself, and Scientology, they will look like "black hats," since 
: they will be seen to be attacking a popular organization. 

Ron doesn't follow his own Tech. The AMA is not popularly evil. Neither is psychiatry. Ron wasn't much of a stickler for internal consistency.

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: [Hubbard justifies his own propaganda campaign by arguing that it may be black, but at least it's true.] 

This is ironic. This applies more aptly to OSA than the perceived enemies of Scientology.

OSA is "out-tech" [not following instructions]. OSA frequently employs Dead Agent campaigns on alt.religion.scientology that "ARC break" people because they are out-R [not an agreed-upon reality, in this case between OSA and the general public]. As a result, the general public does not take OSA seriously, so OSA effectively Dead Agents itself.

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: [Hubbard describes the art of "reclassification" of one's enemies, from heroes 
: to villains, by using popularly-identified evils to build public support.] 

Here is the reason behind their attacks on electroshock, forced admission to mental hospitals, etc. The public _agrees_ with them. If Scientology is positioned as an attacker of popularly-identified evils (the war on drugs comes to mind), they look better in the eyes of society. In current events, we have Chick Corea, Travolta, et.al. testifying on "religious intolerance" before Congress. This is the angle that Scientology uses in Germany as well.

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:[Hubbard makes reference to a WWII anecdote that is apparently somehow relevant.] 

Sea Ogre thinks, "wow, Ron sure does read a lot of books."

The failure of OSA rests partially on Hubbard's outdated ideas concerning Public Relations. People eventually come to recognize an organization that is constantly attacks its "enemies". The other source of failure for OSA is that they are shackled to Hubbard's anti-social Tech, so their actions tend to be discovered fairly quickly. Simply reading their instruction book (like you are doing here) makes OSA's fingerprints fairly easy to recognize.

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: [Hubbard says that since WWII, psychiatry has focused on advertising to spread its message
: of classification, as described by Szasz. 

"the think of these is ...". Hubbard never felt constrained by English when writing for his adoring followers.

Again, psychiatry is behind all the mind control. "Look over there! It isn't us!"

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: [Hubbard's plan for defeating psychiatry's campaign against him/Scientology is simple:
: avoid any opportunity where one can be classified, "contest or expose" previous classification as
:  false using dead agent techniques, and "achieve dominance" in classifying both themselves and 
: others.] 

Here, Hubbard has imagined a conspiracy against him. The psyches are out to get him. Therefore, he will use the "tek" he has imagined THEY are using against them. This is what makes paranoid schizophrenics so unpredictable and dangerous.

Again, Hubbard's Orwellesque use of language vs thought is chilling. Hubbard intends to act. This OSA Network Order only describes the first phase of an attack on Scientology's enemies. For documentation of a full-blown campaign, see "Operation PC Freakout" for a description of the attack on Paulette Cooper.

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:                                      L. RON HUBBARD
: 				     Founder

Hubbard wrote Guardian Orders. These orders are being recycled for use by OSA. There should be no doubt that the two organizations are the same; the names were changed to confuse the innocent.

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: 				     Adopted as official
: 				     Church policy by
: 				     CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
: 				     INTERNATIONAL

Running Black Propaganda campaigns against the AMA, APA, and other perceived "enemies" of Scientology has been adopted as OFFICIAL CHURCH POLICY. Why would a legitimate Church be worried about what the AMA is saying about them? Why would the AMA care about what a Church is doing? Why would a church be running a "black" propaganda campaign?

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: LRH:CSI:jk:ta:

Semantic errors such as "the think of these" belong to LRH.

This line describes the Scientology management hierarchy:

1. L. Ron Hubbard dictates to the Church of Scientology International.
2. CSI dictates to Jane Kember (?) [Worldwide Guardian or head of G.O.].
3. jk dictates to "ta", who is probably the person charged with typesetting this OSA Network Order. Note: typographical errors appear in the original.

Hubbard is clearly controlling the actions of the Guardian's Office, despite Scientology's claims to the contrary during the Snow White trial. Hubbard also controlled the Office of Special Affairs.