May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed".Īs part of this policy the Church of Scientology attempted to get Cooper incarcerated by framing her for a bomb threat she had nothing to do with.Ĭooper said it was the worst thing they did to her. The Fair Game policy written by Hubbard decreed that enemies of Scientology "may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. Scientology's founder L Ron Hubbard ordered his followers to attack critics by any means possible. "I had seen a psychiatrist, so they robbed the psychiatrist and got my records and sent that to everybody that I knew," she said. Scientology's spies soon found out that Cooper had suffered depression. "They sent anonymous letters to my parents, saying I was practising sexual perversions with their clergymen." "They sent, it was 300 people, they sent a letter saying I was a prostitute with venereal disease and had sexually molested a two-year-old baby girl," she said. She said the church also started sending anonymous smear letters to her neighbours and other people she knew. "They sued me 19 times, all over the world, put me through 50 days of depositions," she said. That first story led Cooper to gather more information on the church and write a book, the Scandal of Scientology, one of the first critical books on the church.Ĭooper had no idea what she was getting herself into. He then became a willing participant in our book project, and he's been keeping quiet for almost two years now, looking forward to telling his story to you once the book was out.Paulette Cooper's book, The Scandal of Scientology. At that point, he could no longer remain silent, and he reached out to her. Since leaving Scientology, he had begun to come to grips with what he'd done and then, in 2013, he had spotted an interview of Paulette by Mark Bunker. And some of his assignments involved following or otherwise targeting Paulette. He explained that in the early 1970s, he had been a Guardian's Office volunteer, a young Scientologist who helped the church with its spy missions.
While we were researching and writing the book, Zinberg suddenly showed up, emailing Paulette with an apology he said was a long time coming. And none of them provided quite so much impact as Len Zinberg. One of the things that made The Unbreakable Miss Lovely more than the telling of Paulette Cooper's account of her years being harassed by Scientology were some of the other people who provided their own narratives of those events. The Scientology spy who came in from the cold: Len Zinberg, who apologized to Paulette Cooper June 15, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
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