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Subject: Scientology's foolproof method of judge tampering
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Scientology's foolproof method of judge tampering
[September 30, 1998]

I recently spent about 20 hours interviewing a Scientology defector named
Jesse Prince about his experiences in the leadership of Scientology. He was
second in command of all Scientology's operations worldwide. In these
conversations we talked about many of Scientology's covert criminal
activities decreed by Scientology's top executives and law firms. One area
of particular interest was how Scientology secretly tampers with judges and
doesn't get caught.

I have already submitted to the FBI the names of certain judges who were
tampered with, along with other information from my interviews with Jesse
Prince , but I am somewhat conflicted about making this information public.
On one hand, Scientology's judge-tampering tactics are so effective and
ingenious that once they are public I believe other ruthless organizations
will soon begin using them. On the other hand, to conceal these tactics
would corrupt critical ongoing litigation involving Scientology around the
world. Notwithstanding this conflict, I will continue.

To understand Scientology's methods of judge tampering, one must be aware of
the `sacred scripture' behind Scientology's notorious intimidation tactics.
It is called The Art of War by Sun Tzu. This text, written in China more
than 2,400 years ago regarding the planning of military operations, has been
adopted by Scientology as a training manual for its staff. Scientology
requires its intelligence division to know the text inside and out.

The Art of War describes tactics of knowing one's adversary, especially
knowing his or her connections and vulnerabilities. According to my
conversations with Jesse Prince along with knowledge I have acquired
elsewhere, here is how Scientology uses Art of War tactics to tamper with
judges and get away with it.

Step 1: Collect information necessary to blackmail the judge
According to Jesse, EVERY judge that sits on a Scientology case is the
target of two types of data collection by Scientology's private
investigators and attorneys. One is `overt data collection,' or `ODC'; the
other is `covert data collection,' or `CDC'.

In overt data collection, every source of legally-obtainable information on
the judge is tapped, and a complete profile on the judge is assembled
including legal rulings, legal documents, personal and professional
connections, and life history. With little concern of the cost, the judge is
researched in utmost detail: what the judge likes and dislikes, where the
judge eats, drinks, and plays. The judge's past and present friends,
acquaintances, and colleagues are interviewed for `friendly' or "near
invisible" information gathering.

While or after over data collection is being done, covert data collection is
done as well. This process involves the illegal acquisition of documentation
on the judge, including tax returns, phone records, bank records, medical
records, credit card records, and any other private records. Again, cost
seems to be no concern. These records are minutely reviewed for anything
that could be as a source of leverage over or embarrassment for the judge.
They are looking for information to signal the judge that someone knows
enough about his or her life to cause ruin.

In addition to compiling the above records, covert data collection can also
include confrontational interviews (as opposed to the `friendly' interviews
during overt data collection) with the judge's past and present connections.
Investigators now delve much more deeply into the judge's personal habits,
indiscretions, embarrassments, and/or family problems. Anyone holding a
grudge against the judge is particularly courted for damaging information as
well as referrals to others with ill will for the judge.

The type of information investigators seek includes anything and everything
that could prove damaging or embarrassing for the judge, such as: credit
charges for pornography or sex services, illegal money handling or financial
problems, conflicts of interest within judicial duties, connections to
unsavory characters, and family, marital, mental, or medical problems.

Step 2: Reveal damaging information to the judge without putting Scientology
at risk for tampering
This step is the real genius of Scientology's foolproof method of judge
tampering. Here, they hire new people to go to the judge's personal and
professional connections. Through seemingly innocuous conversations, in
seemingly safe settings, Scientology's messengers speak to the judge's
former law partners, former clerks, friends, ex-wives, girlfriends, golf
buddies, bartenders, etc.

In these meetings, two important messages are to be conveyed by
Scientology's hired messengers to the person affiliated with the judge. One,
the judge's connection is given some subtle but disturbing piece of secret
information regarding the judge's private life. And two, during another part
of the conversation, Scientology is mentioned. The Scientology messenger
either makes favorable comments about Scientology, or mentions "by the way"
that they heard the judge was handling a Scientology case and the judge
should go easy on Scientology because Scientology is such a good religious
group.

The reaction on the part of the judge's connection to the disturbing
revelation and subtle promotion of Scientology is predictable. The
connection gets in touch with the judge and inquires about the rumor. The
judge likely wants to know who delivered the information and may or may not
discover that Scientology came up in the discussion.

What makes this a truly powerful tactic for leveraging the judge is that
rather than coming in one sudden single impact, it comes through a number of
impacts, accumulating and compounding the distress caused to the judge. The
judge will not hear potentially damaging information from only one
acquaintance, but rather from many, interspersed over time, each relaying a
different alarming personal secret. After a number of these calls, the judge
begins to confirm fears that someone can expose vulnerable spots. Sooner or
later the judge also discovers that a favorable discussion of Scientology is
always associated with each of the disclosures to the judge's connections.

A clever aspect of this subtle leveraging tactic is that Scientology cannot
be connected to it. No one from Scientology is delivering the messages to
the judge. It is the judge's own connections who are duped into delivering
Scientology's messages, via their personal and legitimate concern for the
judge's well-being.

The judge is stymied too. Obviously, there is no basis for turning in the
friends and former associates to the authorities. Although as a group they
in effect have delivered a veiled threat to the judge, they acted of their
own volition and out of friendship or professional concern for the judge,
they had no idea they were working on behalf of Scientology, and no single
person delivered a message of intimidation complete enough to be a clear and
obvious effort to tamper with the judge. The individual messages have
presented a threat so subtle, the judge can't bring it to the attention of
the authorities without seeming foolish or paranoid.

Therein lies the brilliance of Scientology's judge-tampering procedures.
Only through the accumulation of partial messages do all pieces of the
puzzle spell the clear threat: `Go easy on Scientology or every secret of
your life will be exposed.' The threat looms, and yet it isn't connected to
Scientology. The judge can't do anything about it.

Part 3: Entrapment
If the above tactics do not seem to alter the judge's rulings so that they
are more favorable to Scientology's interests, the next step to take is
covert entrapment operations. By this point, Scientology has accumulated all
the information needed to set up the judge in a `sting' operation. One of
their favorites is the sex sting. Scientology once spent over $260,000 to
set up a judge on a yacht in Florida with two prostitutes. For more
information on Scientology entrapping judges, go to
www.factnet.org/Scientology/adversa.htm (Scroll down to sections on judges).

Recently there have been some rulings so bizarre by judges in Scientology
cases that even the Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial on how odd they
seem (see
http://web.archive.org/web/19981206001000/http://www.rickross.com/refere... ).
Maybe there is more going on behind the scenes than we know. Hopefully
judges currently sitting on Scientology cases around the world will read
this, notify their clerks, and find some way not to let their judicial
integrity be compromised by this ruthless cult.

http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/judge_tampering.html

IOHO
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