L. Ron Hubbard’s religious organization used Freedom of Information Act requests to find dirt on the CIA and the military.
Mary Sue Hubbard, wearing sunglasses in the center, wife of the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, leaves court in Washington on Aug. 17, 1978. By Ian Shapira Ian Shapira Enterprise reporter covering the Washington region and beyond Email Bio Follow March 5 at 7:00 AM The tiny article inside The Washington Post on Jan.
How exactly did this scoop come to light? Courtesy of a group whose anodyne name, American Citizens for Honesty in Government, masked its financial backers: the Church of Scientology. The religious organization, itself a secretive entity known for mind-control and spying, would go on to spend the remainder of 1979 releasing embarrassing CIA documents it obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and multiple lawsuits — a campaign that was part of the church’s war with the U.S.
Less than a month after the brain-removal story in 1979 came another Post article based on an American Citizens FOIA release: “The CIA once proposed mind-control experiments in which hypnotized subjects would have an uncontrollable impulse to ‘commit a nuisance’ on Groundhog Day in 1961.” The Scientology church was engaged in an all-out war to identify, attack and discredit its enemies, including government officials and journalists. By August 1978, 11 senior Scientology officials and agents, including Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of the founder, were charged in connection with an alleged conspiracy to spy on the government. The next year, nine were convicted, including Mary Sue Hubbard. Most of them were sentenced to four or five years in prison, including Hubbard.
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