Paulette Cooper was working for the National Enquirer when a New York Post photographer snapped this picture of her and Jackie Onassis. "In the raid they found something that said along the line of, conspire to frame Miss Lovely, which was the code name that Hubbard gave to me," Cooper said. When the FBI raided the Church of Scientology in 1977 for stealing swathes of documents from the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service, the conspiracy to frame Cooper was uncovered. FBI raid uncovers church conspiracyĮventually the trial against her was postponed as more evidence came to light. The harassment took a terrible toll on Cooper and she started drinking too much, taking prescription drugs and at one point came close to taking her own life. "I was arrested and I was indicted and I was up for 15 years in jail and it was just the most horrible, horrible time of my life." "They got my fingerprint on a piece of paper and then they sent bomb threats to themselves and they had me arrested for a terrorist crime," she said. 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. Paulette Cooper's book, The Scandal of Scientology.
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