Monica's Response to Diane Re Operation Freakout - alt.religion.scientology

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Diane Richardson

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From: refe...@bway.net (Diane Richardson)

Date: 1996/11/30

Subject: Re: Monica's Response to Diane Re Operation Freakout

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el...@netcom.com (kEvin) wrote:
>In article <57havj$...@clark.zippo.com>,
>Diane Richardson <refe...@bway.net> wrote:
>>nob...@cypherpunks.ca (John Anonymous MacDonald) wrote:
>>> so before the year of therapy the government believed she made the
>>>bomb threats, but after it they realized she hadn't? it sounds to me more
>>>like they believed she had right up to the point when the op. freakout
>>>documents were found.
>>If they believed she had, they would not have filed the Nolle
>>Prosequi.
>Why? This looks like a non-sequitur. (Do you have something
>that shows that the FBI changed their mind as to the origin of
>the bomb threats before the Operation Freakout documents were
>seized in the raid?)

Paulette Cooper herself has written numerous times that the indictment
against her was dropped after she undewent a sodium pentathol
examination which showed that she did not write and send the
threatening letters.

It would appear that Cooper left some steps out of the process --
Cooper underwent the sodium pentathol examination, the results were
reported to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the U.S. Attorney's Office
came up with the agreement to undergo a year of psychotherapy, Cooper
went along with the stipulation and underwent a year of psychotherapy,
and then the indictment was dropped.

>They did belive PC had made the bomb threats or she wouldn't have been
>indicted. I don't see anything they did as indicating that they changed
>their minds until after the raids.

What evidence do you have that they "changed their minds" after the
raid? Cooper was not officially informed about the existence of the
Operation Freakout documents; rather, a personal friend of hers--who
happened to be an FBI agent who had been assigned to her
case--telephoned her with the news. The documents seized in the FBI
raid were under seal. Russell Cicero was not acting in an official
capacity when he phoned Cooper about the Operation Freakout documents;
in fact, he was very likely violating FBI regulations and a court
order by doing so.

Cooper cultivated a number of friendships among FBI agents and
Assistant U.S. Attorneys involved in investigating and prosecuting the

CoS. She pumped these people for information that could help her
in her civil suits against the CoS. In her taped conversations, she
makes it quite clear that she was aware of the fact that what she was
doing could get these Justice Department officials in a lot of
trouble.

The fact that Russell Cicero telephoned Paulette Cooper in October
1977 to tell her about the Operation Freakout documents was not
official recognition by the FBI or the U.S. Attorney's Office that she
was henceforth "exonerated." It was a friend calling another friend
with a juicy piece of gossip. Cooper's lawyers spent quite a lot of
time later trying to show that she had learned about the Freakout
documents from sources other than her friend in the FBI.

Cicero continued feeding information from FBI files to Cooper that
could help her in her lawsuits against the CoS. He provided her with
telephone numbers of CoS "operatives" who Cooper and her lawyers
wanted to use as witnesses but who they were unable to locate
themselves. Cooper was fully aware that what Cicero was doing could
get him in trouble. That is why she refused to tape her conversations
with Cicero for Bast, even though she was more than willing to
volunteer information she received from Cicero to Bast.

Diane Richardson
refe...@bway.net

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