Paulette Cooper
Paulette Cooper is a journalist who suffered extraordinary harassment after writing an article and a book about Scientology. FBI raids of Scientology offices turned up evidence of conspiracies against Cooper, including Scientology's attempt to frame her for sending bomb threats - threats which Scientology operatives sent themselves in order to get Cooper jailed.
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| May 11, 1982 | 16 witnesses unlock sect's closed society | "Of the 16 who testified, Flynn said he represents Lavenda Van Schaick and Paulette Cooper directly in separate lawsuits against the Church of Scientology. He said he is involved also indirectly in lawsuits filed by Ernest and Adelle Hartwell and Janie Peterson." | |
| May 7, 1982 | Writer says sect harasses her | "It has been 11 years since freelance writer Paulette Cooper published what she calls 'the book that launched a thousand suits.' And it has been about a week since she was served with the eighteenth lawsuit filed against her by the Church of Scientology." | |
| January 25, 1980 | Files show spy reported woman's intimate words (about Scientology spying on Paulette Cooper). | "Another page referred to a time when, depressed about her problems, she had spoken one dark night about suicide. The secret agent told his superiors that on the outside he was sympathetic but inside he was laughing: "Wouldn't this be a great thing for Scientology?" " | |
| November 24, 1979 | Scientologists Plotted To Frame A Critic as a Criminal, Files Show - Scientology's fair gaming of writer Paulette Cooper and oth | Boston Globe : Scientologists Plotted To Frame A Critic as a Criminal, Files Show - Scientology's fair gaming of writer Paulette Cooper and other Scientology operations. | |
| January 22, 1979 | article about Paulette Cooper | Article about Paulette Cooper lawsuits appears in New York Times. | |
| August 28, 1978 | Scientology Critics Assail Aggressiveness of Church | The fair-game policy has been a central focus of Scientology's critics - among them former Scientologists - who contend that the church pursues individuals who offend it with the same combativeness it directs toward government agencies and private groups the church counts among its enemies. | |
| May 1, 1978 | Author Paulette Cooper's battle with Scientology Church | San Francisco Chronicle: Author Paulette Cooper's battle with Scientology Church | |
| April 29, 1978 | article says Paulette Cooper's $15.4 million lawsuit against Church still pending. Gives Cooper's attorneys as Paul D. Rheingold | "investigation" of matter by FBI offices in New York City under way. | |
| August 14, 1977 | Paulette Cooper interview | People magazine interviews Paulette Cooper in an article about the cult. | |
| March 7, 1974 | Counterattack: The Response To Criticism | The Church of Scientology does not turn the other cheek. Church policy is to find what attackers have to hide. The organization is quick to bring lawsuits challenging unfavorable books and articles. Many persons who leave or who are expelled by the church say that they are frightened by the organization. | |
| April 1, 1972 | Author Here Sues Scientologists | Paulette Cooper, a freelance writer, has accused the Church of Scientology in a lawsuit filed here of "intentional interference" with her constitutional freedom of speech and press, charging that the organization threatened her in the form of libel suits and wiretapping after her critical book about the quasi-religious organization was published last fall. | |
| February 2, 1969 | article on Scientology quotes L. Ron Hubbard as saying | "I know of four Orgs in all our years that have collapsed or nearly collapsed. And each one was sex crazy." According to Paulette Cooper's book, the article also says that "in the basement of the Scientology Queen Street office, London, the Scientologists actually had a prison -- a tiny padlocked room known as the "dungeon" where erring Scientologists were locked up, sometimes for several days, on bread, butter and water. 'If a member of the staff made an accounting slip, or infringed on an ethics order,' he wrote, 'he is taken to the dungeon to enable him to find out where he is in Scientology.' One Scientologist told Mitchell that after he was locked up for two days, 'I signed an order saying I would observe all regulations of the org, but they weren't satisfied. I was told to go on a |