The blindsided announcement of Katie Holmes’ divorce from Tom Cruise may have to do with keeping their daughter, Suri, away from the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a member. According to The Hollywood Reporter, ex-members of the church have been praising Holmes for her bravery in combating it using its own tactic; aggression.
“With Katie, it’s like she’s taking a leaf from L Ron Hubbard’s own playbook,” said Marc Headley, who fled the church in 2005 with the help of police, and worked closely with Cruise and Scientology’s powerful chairman, David Miscavige. “Hubbard always said: Attack, don’t defend.”
In a statement issued this week, Jenna Miscavige Hill, the niece of David Miscavige and a former Scientologist herself, said about life as a Scientologist: “I was allowed to see my parents only once a week at best – sometimes not for years.”
The church has a history of intimidating, harassing and even exiling its members, including their own families. ”We got a lousy education from unqualified teachers, forced labour, long hours, forced confessions, being held in rooms, not to mention the mental anguish of trying to figure out all of the conflicting information they force upon you as a young child,” continued Hill, who has given her support to Holmes.
Holmes recently disclosed she is sure the Church is following her and fears for her daughter’s safety.
“I have no doubt that she’s being tailed by them. But she had to have planned this very carefully, right down to using disposable cell phones and laptops to throw people off her trail. It had to have been a very cloak-and-dagger operation,” says Karen De La Carriere, wife of Heber Jentzsch, Scientology’s long-time president, and formerly one of the most powerful executives in the church, until her sudden departure in 2010. “Katie ambushed Tom Cruise and in doing so outwitted some of the most controlling people on earth.”
One thing’s for sure, Holmes is sending a strong message to the Scientology community. She’s showing them that regardless of Cruise’s ties to the inner circle of the Church, she is determined and ready to fight.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 6th, 2012.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_snow_white . you may also Google: operation snow white
Of all Hubbards written works, his instructionals on surveillance, data-gathering, wrecking lives, infiltration, burglary, blackmail, extortion and general black-ops are by far the best. . They show very well the time-frame in which they were written and the evidence is all around how dated and ineffectual those snide methods are today. . That all got exposed in “Operation Snow White” – a conspiracy during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church of Scientology, in more than 30 countries; The single largest infiltration of the United States government in history with up to 5,000 covert agents. . For details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OperationSnowWhite
Question is not about harassment ,but about how it is done- in day light- eyes wide open..
No one can give better answer the the researchers of Carnegie Mellon University ( World's top 10 research university) and it is all in black and white on its web site giving tons of information about the CULTs secret activities.
OSA (Office of Special Affairs) -- The Secret CIA of Scientology http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/us-12.html
OSA is the world's-largest-private-secret-service , comparable to government agencies like CIA,MI6,KGB,etc . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Affairs
Recently NBC has aired an exclusive report on the surveillance and harassment techniques of OSA , through the ex-head of OSA Mike Rinder and Marty Rathbun. In this interview they inform that they keep track of their members and staff on minute by minute basis and has access to every aspect of their lives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai-vGmincF8
For details Google:Scientology Karachi