Operation Snow White: Church of Scientology infiltrates government.

[Mad_Cabbie]

Some of you guys and dolls in this here forum keep rehashing the same debunked horse-crap to the point where NO ONE READS this stupid forum AT ALL.

My solution is to encourage you super-human-Einstein-clones to come up with some actual REAL conspiracies - ones that have not been debunked a thousand times already.

It will make you look REALLY smart, while helping you to attract a desirable, LIVE, mate!

OK, I'll start off the festivities....


From CRACKED:

The Plan:
Some time during the 1970s, the Church of Scientology decided that they'd had enough. Their religion about magic space aliens in a volcano wasn't getting the same respect as the religion about the magic bearded man whose dad made us all out of mud 6,000 years ago. Instead of converting to a slightly less silly religion, they did what any of us would have done and decided to destroy every single document that made their religion look bad, presumably including a trip into the future to destroy every copy of Battlefield Earth.
How did that work out?
Disturbingly well, at least for a little while. Apparently, the Church of Scientology managed to perform the largest infiltration of the United States government in history. Ever. With all the people who have wanted to get their dirty little hands on incriminating records, the United States of America was finally duped by the people who came up with Dianetics. So those billions of dollars we put into national security annually are clearly well spent.
Anyway, somewhere around 5,000 of Scientology's crack commandos wiretapped and burglarized various agencies. They stole hundreds of documents, mainly from the IRS. No critic was spared, and in the end, 136 organizations, agencies and foreign embassies were infiltrated.

When all of this hit the fan, the Church naturally denied it. Then they kidnapped one of the operatives arrested for stealing documents and prevented him from testifying. These days, the Church of Scientology generally refuses to talk about Operation Snow White, except to say that they "purged" those who were involved. They won't say what the guilty parties were involved in, and those who were purged still hold high ranking offices in the Church, but goddamn it, they were purged for their involvement.


Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_15974_7-insane-conspiracies-that-actually-happened_p2.html#ixzz3MM1Oe600

 

[Mad_Cabbie]

Oh, here is THEIR spin on the whole thing:

Q: What is the "Snow White Program"?

The "Snow White Program" refers to a program written by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard in 1973. The purpose of this program was to legally correct a number of false governmental reports about the Church of Scientology, its leaders and members. The program is sometimes falsely called "Operation Snow White". Such an operation did not exist.
This program intentionally gets mixed up by critics of the Church of Scientology with illegal activities of certain members of the Guardian's Office, an autonomous organization within the Church in the 1970's that was disbanded in 1983. More about that is in on the page about the Guardian's Office.

Snow White: Background

At the time L. Ron Hubbard wrote the Snow White Program the Church of Scientology's management bodies were on a ship with the name Apollo. As a result of false reports concerning the Church, mainly coming from England and Germany, the Apollo was meeting hostilities in certain European harbors, even though no direct contact with some of those countries and Scientology had ever taken place. It did not make sense and the hostile behavior of some authorities directly traced back to false information in their files (which they believed as true but that were not). The purpose of the Snow White Program was described as follows:

"To engage in various litigation in all countries affected so as to expose to view all such derogatory and false reports, to engage in further litigation in the countries originating such reports, to exhaust recourse in these countries and then finally to take the matter to the United Nations (that now being possible for an individual and a group) and to the European Commission on Human Rights, meanwhile uprooting and canceling all such files and reports wherever found."

One of the countries where the Apollo met hostilities was Portugal. Here, between 1969 and the first half of 1974, the Apollo frequently visited ports without problems. Then, in July 1973, a rumor was heard that the Apollo would be a "CIA ship." This same rumor had been heard earlier at ports in Spain in 1972. On October 3, 1974, when the Apollo was docked at the port of Funchal on the island of Madeira, Portugal, the ship and its crew and passengers were attacked by a large crowd throwing rocks, shouting: "CIA ship."

The local police and army stood by and watched, doing nothing to hold the crowd back. As a result, some Church staff aboard the ship were injured and property was damaged or destroyed. Cars and motorcycles belonging to the Church and Church staff were thrown off the dock into the bay. The ship crew had to fight off the attackers with fire hoses while the ship made an emergency departure to escape the violence, without being able to take on food, fuel or water. The Apollo and her crew were forced to wait miles offshore for over a day while order was restored so she could return to load fuel, food and water and sail to a safe country.
Documents obtained from the U.S. State Department through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as part of the Snow White Program traced the "CIA ship" rumor to a State Department telex in April of 1972 which was sent to various European countries and that contained numerous false reports. Following the Snow White Program procedure of locating and expunging false reports and seeking redress for religious persecution, the company that owned the Apollo, Operation Transport Corporation ("OTC"), filed suit in Lisbon against the government of Portugal seeking damages as a result of this riot. In June of 1985, the Administrative Court of Lisbon awarded damages to OTC, finding that the riot in October of 1974 had been sparked by the CIA ship rumor and that this rumor was false. These damages were upheld on appeal in 1987.

Based on decisions as above, and the Church's efforts to correct the false information in government files originally generated by the U.S. government, the Minister of Justice in Portugal officially authorized the registration of the Church of Scientology as a religious organization in Portugal in 1988, accomplishing the Snow White Program's objective for that country.
Similar activities took place in other European countries, to the effect that false information in government files was located and corrected.

Scientology Myths Wiki - Snow White Program

This "explanation" runs in stark contrast to REALLITY:

Operation Snow White
Operation Snow White was a systematic attempt to infiltrate and steal classified files on Scientology from governments all over the world. Its exposure by the FBI in 1977 led to the arrest and imprisonment of the Guardian Office's senior leadership in the US and Canada. The program consisted of a number of sub-programs ("Snow White Operating Targets" or "SWOTs"), each with a different codename, aimed at targets in particular countries or international organizations. The original aim of the program was to expose and legally expunge "all false and secret files of the nations of operating areas" and to enable OTC (the Panamanian-registered front organization for the Sea Org), the Apollo and Hubbard himself to "frequent all Western nations without threat." Crucially, the word "legally" was later removed to enable this goal to be met through clandestine (and illegal) operations.

20 Apr 73 - SNOW WHITE PROGRAM