Leah Remini: Leaked Scientology policies direct lawyers in religious warfare

Today’s guest post is by Leah Remini.

Newly uncovered policies and confidential intelligence documents reveal that Scientology not only runs its litigation by internal Church doctrine, but it also requires every attorney, including non-Scientologists, to follow religious orders issued by founder L. Ron Hubbard himself.

This means civil and criminal courts, without realizing it, are being manipulated by a religious command structure that uses attorneys to suppress victims, destroy whistleblowers, and stall justice by any means.

These are not isolated incidents, they are the result of permanent, unchangeable religious policies enforced by Scientology's intelligence division, the Office of Special Affairs (OSA).

The IRS, the federal government and the California Bar have done nothing about it.

Scientology’s policies are unchangeable: And for that reason, Scientology will never stop its retaliation. Every lawsuit, every counterattack, every discrediting campaign, every Scientology operation from the 1950s to 2025, are not the result of rogue legal teams or evolving litigation tactics. They are the outgrowth of fixed, unalterable Scientology “religious” doctrines.

Scientology doctrine cannot be changed, even if it violates the law. These policies are considered religious commandments and are enforced as such.

They go by names such as Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letters (HCOPLs), Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins (HCOBs), Policies in the OSA Network Orders, Guardian’s Office Directives, and Flag Orders, and they instruct legal staff not to resolve legal disputes but to destroy plaintiffs, discredit judges, and suppress all scrutiny.

These include:

• Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter (HCOPL) 7 February 1965 - Keeping Scientology Working Series 1
• HCOPL 17 June 1970RB, revised 25 October 1983 -Technical Degrades (KSW Series 5R)
• HCOPL 14 February 1965 -Safeguarding Technology (KSW Series 4)
• HCOPL 1 March 1965, revised 25 October 1983 -Suppressive Acts: Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists
• HCOPL 18 October 1967, Issue IV -Penalties for Lower Conditions
• HCOPL Offenses and Penalties

“Any removal or contradiction of L. Ron Hubbard's orders is forbidden.” — Technical Degrades / Offenses and Penalties

“Adding comments... labeling any material ‘background’ or ‘not used now’... is a HIGH CRIME.” — Technical Degrades, KSW Series 5R

These mandates are non-negotiable. Labeling any Hubbard directive “old,” “background,” or “no longer in use” is a punishable offense.

These are covered in definitions of the the Hubbard technology. The Religious Technology Center (RTC), the Church’s highest authority, defines its purpose as “holding the trademarks of Dianetics and Scientology and ensuring their standard and ethical application.” According to the RTC’s official statements:

“RTC ensures the standard application of L. Ron Hubbard’s technologies and safeguards the purity of the Scientology religion.”

“Technology” in Scientology includes everything L. Ron Hubbard ever wrote, published, recorded in lectures, and issued through his offices.

This body of Scientology-the “Religious” doctrines includes:

• HCOBs – Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins

• HCOPLs – Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letters

• EDs – Executive Directives

• PABs – Professional Auditors Bulletins

• FOs – Flag Orders

• OODs – Orders of the Day

• Advices – High-level operational guidance from Hubbard that are treated as binding (not advises as the word would imply)

• Ability Magazine articles adopted as official “Church” policies

• GO Orders – Guardian’s Office intelligence and operations directives

• OSA Network Orders – Successors to GO Orders under the Office of Special Affairs, DSA- Department of Special Affairs

• B1 Orders – Bureau 1 (intelligence division) internal instructions

• CMO – Commodore’s Messenger (Orders)

• Manuals and Checklists – Organizational and compliance orders-policies

Each of these is treated as canonical religious law. And according to HCOPL Technical Degrades and Safeguarding Technology, no part of this “tech” can be removed, revised, deprioritized, or overridden.

“Fair Game” by another name: Suppressive acts, penalties, and linguistic subversion

The term “Fair Game” may no longer appear in policy titles, but the structure, enforcement, and logic of it remains intact — repackaged through euphemism.

Scientology's internal justice system still authorizes and mandates punitive action against a defined set of enemies. Those targeted include:

• Whistleblowers and former members attempting to bring Scientology or Scientologists to court
• Victims of abuse reporting crimes
• Journalists, authors, bloggers, and documentarians
• Government investigators or police agencies, Judges
• Mental health and medical professionals
• Anyone accused of violating Scientology policy

Scientology policies assign them dehumanizing labels:

• “Critics” or “attackers of Scientology and Scientologists”
• “Merchants of Fear”
• Suppressive Persons (SPs)
• Suppressive Groups or Organizations
• “2.5 percenters,” “1.1s,” or “covertly hostile (To Scientology and Scientologists) ”
• “Anti-social personalities,” “psychotics,” or “PTS Type IIIs-(crazy as per Scientology defines it)”
• “Criminals” or “enemies of the “Church”

These are not abstract insults, they are operational designations. Each one triggers a set of retaliatory actions laid out in policy. The retaliation is not only permitted but also demanded.

Scientology’s “Justice Technology” declares that such individuals must be silenced, destroyed, or driven into submission using any means necessary.

This is encoded through policies such as:

• Suppressive Acts: Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists
• Penalties for Lower Conditions
• Offenses and Penalties… and thousands of others that make up the “religion” of Scientology.

David Miscavige has testified under oath that Scientology no longer practices Fair Game. That statement is false.

The phrase may have been removed for PR reasons, but the command structure remains, codified across HCOPLs and enforced today. And it is clear that the documents uncovered in Scientology Intelligence documents; David Miscavige has and is still directing Fair Game Operations in court as well as externally.

And while some of these documents are becoming public for the first time, they are already known to law enforcement, and should be guiding them in investigations of Scientology: It was my great friend Mike Rinder who brought these documents out of Scientology, and had delivered them to the FBI by 2010.

The role of Scientology policies in litigation

Scientology considers litigation not as a civil process, but as war.

Policies in the OSA Network Orders, Guardian’s Office Directives, and Flag Orders instruct legal staff to destroy plaintiffs, discredit judges, and never engage in truth-seeking. No Scientology lawyer, internal or external, is free to conduct themselves according to legal ethics.

In Scientology, policies are unchangeable scripture. That means they cannot be changed, updated, or reinterpreted — even when they promote abuse, retaliation, illegal activities or suppression of justice.

Scientology’s attacks on whistleblowers, government agencies, abuse survivors, and journalists are not random. They are not situational legal defenses. They are religious mandates.

All Scientology policies written by L. Ron Hubbard are considered sacred and permanent religious scripture, and cannot be changed, modified, or disobeyed, even decades after his death.

This is the foundation of how and why Scientology continues to conduct retaliatory campaigns, lawsuits, retaliatory operations and smear operations using the same tactics, over and over again.

“What I say in these pages has always been true, it holds true today, it will still hold true in the year 2000 and it will continue to hold true from there on out.” — HCO PL 7 February 1965, Keeping Scientology Working

“No one may revise or cancel any LRH Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin (HCOB) or (Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter (HCOPL).”
HCO PL 7 February 1965, Keeping Scientology Working

This means the same policies used to destroy whistleblower Lawrence Wollersheim in the 1980s are still in effect today — unchanged, unreviewed, and reinforced by every lawyer and executive within the Church.

When abuse survivors or former Scientologists (or anyone who was never a Scientologist but violates Scientology’s laws) report crimes to police or sue the Church, they are immediately designated as enemies — SPs (Suppressive Persons) — and subjected to doctrinally mandated retaliation, including legal, personal, and reputational destruction.

According to Hubbard: “Anyone proposing an investigation of or an 'Enquiry' into Scientology must receive this reply and no other proposal: ‘We welcome an investigation into [our attacker] as we have begun one ourselves and find shocking evidence.’” — HCO PL 25 February 1966, Attacks on Scientology

This isn’t a tactic. It is a scripted, religious response to anyone exposing wrongdoing. And it is designed to flip the script by casting the victim as a criminal.

Scientology does not merely deny wrongdoing, it reframes the accuser as a persecutor of religion. This tactic is directly laid out by Hubbard:

“Don’t ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way... Start feeding lurid, blood, sex, crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press.” — HCO PL 25 Feb 1966, Attacks on Scientology

This is done regardless of the merits of the case. The accuser, whether it’s a rape survivor, a journalist, or a judge, is to be painted as a criminal, pervert, or “religious bigot.” These directives are still in place today.

Fair Game and the criminalization of seeking justice

From Penalties for Lower Conditions, we see that being labeled an “Enemy” (SP) carries explicit consequences:

“SP Order. FAIR GAME. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline... May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”
— HCO PL 18 October 1967, Penalties for Lower Conditions

This religious status is triggered not by violence or fraud—but by acts like:

• Suing Scientology

• Reporting crimes to law enforcement

• Speaking publicly about abuse

• Leaving the Church and telling others

No policy of L. Ron Hubbard (or the actions they are mandated to do) has ever been cancelled. Its enforcement continues through coordinated legal and intelligence operations.

There is no expiration date for these policies that mandate actions. Hubbard warned that any attempt to modernize, alter, or update his policies would destroy Scientology:

“Squirreling (going off into weird practices or altering Scientology) only comes about from noncomprehension... We must be very alert to Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten.” — HCO PL 7 February 1965, Keeping Scientology Working

Steps Seven through Ten include:

• “Hammering out of existence incorrect technology”

• “Closing the door on incorrect application”

These rules are interpreted as mandates to purge dissent, silence lawsuits, and enforce total compliance — including from their own attorneys, who are expected to execute litigation in accordance with Hubbard’s writings, not civil law.

This is not strategy. This is doctrine.

Every judge, bar association, and legislator must understand: Scientology’s legal and retaliatory behavior is not discretionary. It is a religious requirement, and it is considered a Scientology “high crime” to do otherwise.

Those policies are still in force. They will never be revised. And every person who sues, speaks out, or investigates Scientology will face the exact same treatment —because that treatment is canonized.

“Scientology will keep working only as long as you do your part to keep it working by applying this policy letter.” — HCO PL 7 Feb 1965, Keeping Scientology Working

Scientology calls these writings “Technical and Administrative Policy Letters,” and they are the doctrinal backbone of the religion. L. Ron Hubbard’s directives — many written in the 1950s — are still binding today. They govern how Scientology treats its members, its enemies, and anyone who dares to expose internal wrongdoing.

It would not matter if a policy was written in 1965 or yesterday, it is considered eternal law within Scientology.

This is why one only needs to do a cursory review of Scientology's behavior across decades to see that the tactics remain exactly the same:

• Victims reporting crimes are met with retaliation, not relief

• Whistleblowers are stalked, sued, and discredited

• Journalists are framed as agents of psychiatry or religious hatred

• Government agencies are infiltrated or attacked

• Plaintiffs are sent into fake religious arbitration

• Courts are overwhelmed with delay motions, jurisdiction fights, and countersuits

This is not legal strategy. It is religious implementation of L. Ron Hubbard’s policies on “Handling Suppressive Persons,” “Battle Tactics,” and “Legal Strategy.”

Anyone who dares sue Scientology or report abuse is given a religious designation:
Suppressive Person (SP).

This label means they are considered an enemy of the religion, and from that moment forward, they are subjected to what Hubbard called “Fair Game” — a policy that permits Scientologists to:

• Lie to, trick, sue, or destroy that person

• Discredit them in their community

• Harass them through legal, personal, and financial pressure

• Treat their lawyers, families, and employers as extensions of the “enemy”

“The law can be used very easily to harass… enough harassment on somebody... will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, ruin him utterly.” — L. Ron Hubbard, 1955 (Manual of Justice)

These policies have never been repealed. They have simply been relabeled, while the underlying doctrine continues to dictate the Church’s responses to legal exposure and public accountability.

In both past and present lawsuits, the Church has operated in complete accordance with these unchanging policies. From Wollersheim in the 1980s to Valerie Haney today, every legal defense follows the same religious blueprint.

What the public sees as legal maneuvering is, in fact, an execution of “religious” scripture.

That is why Scientology has hundreds of lawyers across the globe — not to practice law ethically, but to fulfill religious policy with courtroom resources.

This is a tax-exempt billion-dollar organization using its religious status to:

• Avoid accountability for criminal conduct

• Target victims with systematic retaliation

• Silence dissent through legal and PR warfare

These are not legal strategies born from circumstance. They are the expected, doctrinally required behaviors of a system designed not to protect the innocent but to eradicate exposure.

Until courts, bar associations, government agencies and those going up against Scientology and their lawyers understand that these actions are not tactical — they are theological — Scientology will continue to operate with impunity.

Scientology's secret litigation dashboard: Lawsuits tracked as statistics

Within Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs (OSA), CSI, its organizations and all its front groups, litigation is not just an activity, it is a measured and monitored production line.

Scientology uses an internal metric system of statistics to evaluate, reward, and penalize legal and intelligence staff based on how well they suppress opposition, neutralize lawsuits, or “obliterate” those who challenge the Church.

This system appears in a confidential 2006 internal directive titled "OSA INT EXECUTIVE DIRECTIVE: STATISTICS & Valuable Final Products (VFPs)", which assigns point values to lawsuits, “attacks,” media exposure, and intelligence actions.

Each week, OSA staff are graded on their performance using detailed statistical categories such as:

• “Unhandled Attackers”

• “Invest Threats With Penalties”

• “Significant Suit Filed”

• “Significant Suit Lost”

• “Dismissed Attackers”

Each legal or PR threat is assigned a numerical point value, and failure to neutralize that threat quickly results in penalties. For example:

• Local suit filed: 20 points

• Significant suit filed: 100 points

• Significant suit lost: 100 points

• National media story: 40 points

• International media story: 100 points

• Raid by law enforcement: 100 points

These point values are then plotted weekly on graphs with the goal being to drive the number of “threats” to zero. This includes lawsuits from whistleblowers, subpoenas, media exposés, government inquiries, or any legal contact from “external influence.”

If the same attacker resurfaces (i.e., wins a ruling, files an appeal, or speaks out again), double penalties are applied, reinforcing the doctrine of permanent suppression.

Who is an “attacker?” In Scientology doctrine, an attacker is not someone engaging in malicious defamation — it is anyone who sues the Church, cooperates with a police investigation into Scientology or Scientologists, assists government agencies in exposing Scientology crimes, speaks out truthfully and publicly, and reports abuse to authorities.

These “attackers” are tracked across four tiers:

• Local attacker: 5 points

• Regional attacker: 10 points

• National attacker: 50 points

• International attacker: 100 points

This scale is used to prioritize resources and retaliatory efforts. Higher-value attackers receive more aggressive legal and PR operations.

According to the directive, the Valuable Final Product (VFP) of an OSA Investigations staff member is:

“Enemies of Scientology depopularized to the point of total obliteration.” - Office of Special Affairs Executive Directive ( OSA INT ED)

“Dismissal” of an attacker does not mean settlement or de-escalation. It means the person has been publicly discredited, silenced, forced to drop their claims, or financially ruined through litigation. Only then are points deducted from the “unhandled threat” graph.

This bureaucratic scoring system encourages staff to:

• Delay lawsuits so penalties don’t accrue too quickly (aligned with Hubbard’s directive: “Delay is your best friend”)

• Exaggerate legal wins by labeling them “dismissals” even if technical

• Avoid settlements unless they silence the plaintiff

• Aggressively pursue countersuits to increase stats

The litigation itself is not the goal. The goal is the production statistic. And this stat system turns litigation into a competitive, quota-based form of suppression, disconnected from legal ethics.

L. Ron Hubbard emphasized that legal battles were not to be handled by lawyers but by Scientology’s policies, not law:

“Legal is a type of warfare. A warfare of better reasons.” — L. Ron Hubbard, “Legal Principles”

“The purpose of war is to bring about a more amenable frame of mind in the enemy.” — OSA “Legal Strategy”

The use of graphs, metrics, and weekly quotas in this context is not benign organizational planning, it is Scientology’s way of turning lawfare into institutionalized religious retaliation, measured by the damage done to others.

This internal metric system, found in over 5,500 recently leaked Scientology confidential internal documents and the Scientology policies recently uncovered, proves that:

• Lawsuits are not seen as isolated threats. They are calculated, scored, and responded to with precision.

• Scientology’s lawyers are not just hired counsel. They are proxies executing strategic orders tied to religious outcomes.

• Staff promotions, demotions, and evaluations are based on how well they punish victims and suppress opposition, not on whether cases are won fairly.

Scientology policy is not legal advice — it’s religious command.

In a Scientology policy titled “Instructions to Attorney or Solicitors,” Hubbard states:

“It is my prerogative to instruct attorneys… and to advise them…. No attorney or solicitor has materially assisted us when not instructed by me…. Only a member of the International Council or his deputy may approach attorneys.”

These orders remain binding under Scientology’s doctrines, and it means that every legal strategy from the 1950s to today follows this chain of ecclesiastical command, not legal ethics.

Scientology’s attorneys (even non-Scientology attorneys) are agents of a religious intelligence operation. They are not acting as lawyers. They are acting as operatives.

• Gary Soter is not a neutral attorney. He operates as a legal enforcer of Scientology’s religious mandates.

• He works in coordination with Kendrick Moxon, Monique Yingling, and countless others who take direction from Scientology’s KGB-like Retaliatory department, Office of Special Affairs International (OSA Int.) (formerly the Guardians Office).

• OSA is not a PR or compliance office. It is the renamed successor to the Guardian’s Office — the same criminal entity convicted of infiltrating over 100 U.S. government agencies in the 1970s — the largest infiltration of government agencies in the United States.

From Scientology’s own “religious” policies:

“The legal departments of Scientology are not neutral. They are an extension of OSA Intelligence operations.”

“Every suit filed against the Church should result in a minimum of one countersuit.”

“The countersuit need not have merit. Its purpose is to cause enough trouble for the plaintiff that he drops the suit.”

Religious arbitration is a lie — and Scientology and their lawyers know it

In an active and current policy, Scientology attorneys are instructed:

“If arbitration is an option, push for it aggressively. Never concede it’s a Church-run process.”

This confirms what victims and whistleblowers have alleged for years: there is no real arbitration system for non-Scientologists. Victims are being funneled into a religious court martial process known as a Committee of Evidence, which exists solely for disciplining Scientologists who want to return to Scientology and get back into "good standing” with Scientology.

Courts are being deliberately misled.

Gary Soter’s role in the abuse of Valerie Haney: In February 2017, Valerie Haney, a former Sea Org member who worked for David and Shelly Miscavige, was forcibly isolated, guarded, and coerced into signing legal waivers while trapped inside Scientology’s OSA International office.

There, Soter emerged from behind a locked door, declared himself her lawyer, and pressured her to sign away her legal rights.

“Sign it, make the video, or you will miss your flight.”

This wasn’t legal counsel. It was an act of coercive religious entrapment under surveillance, enforced by Soter and guarded by armed handlers.

Years earlier, Soter had played a central role in suppressing Bruce Hines, a former Sea Org executive turned whistleblower.

Confidential Scientology intelligence documents confirm that Soter recommended issuing pretextual cease-and-desist letters — not to resolve issues, but to set up retaliatory lawsuits.

In one such Scientology OSA intelligence document: “There is a point Gary Soter brought which relates to getting Hines into an amenable frame of mind. Soter recommends that we send Hines a cease-and-desist letter to set up the suit.” (Newly leaked Scientology Intelligence memo, Jan. 14, 2006)

“Amenable frame of mind” is not a neutral legal term. It comes directly from Scientology doctrine, specifically L. Ron Hubbard’s 1969 policy “Battle Tactics.”

“The end product of war... is to bring about a more amenable frame of mind on the part of the enemy…. This can be done by making the person worry about what is going to happen to him.” -HCO PL 5 Sept 1971R

• In applying this phrase and tactic, Soter was not acting independently as a legal professional, but as an executor of Scientology’s religious war strategy.

• The goal of the cease-and-desist letter was not to prevent harm, it was to bait Hines into responding in a way that could be used against him in court. This shows intent to entrap, not mediate.

This document irrefutably links a licensed attorney’s actions to a religious command policy to destroy and silence victims and whistleblowers, proving Scientology’s legal operations are not secular in nature, but a continuation of religious retaliation by legal means.

Obedience over ethics: Inside Scientology’s attorney manual

From Scientology’s policy “Handling Attorneys”:

“Get the attorney to fully agree to the (Scientology) strategy before proceeding. If they do not agree, you may need to replace them.”

“Do not allow an attorney to write correspondence or make statements that depart from the PR strategy.”

“Even if the lawyer thinks the strategy will not work, it must be followed to the letter unless OSA INT says otherwise.”

“Use attorneys to feed information to law enforcement when we want to seed a case or destroy an enemy.”

“If a lawyer becomes uncooperative, you should use external pressure to bring them into line — remind them who is paying.”

These are not metaphorical guidelines. These are religious orders being enforced through money, power, and fear.

“Make the suit as expensive as possible for them and as inexpensive as possible for us.”

“A duped litigant can often be separated from the action if approached correctly. This must be handled delicately and with complete deniability.”

“Make it clear — without directly stating — that the person’s future peace may depend on how they handle this now.”

This is intimidation, not litigation. It mirrors Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter HCOPL 5 Sept 1971R, which directs members to bring opponents into an “amenable frame of mind” — through psychological pressure and the threat of future consequences.

“Restimulate the Court”: Judges are emotional targets. In Scientology doctrine, “to restimulate” means to provoke instability, overwhelm, or confusion. It is not an accident. It is a calculated technique of disruption.

From Scientology’s “religious” litigation policies…

“It is in your interest to restimulate the court as much as possible.”

“By adroit use of selective restimulation you can create an image of sanctity for you and evil for them that not even a hardened judge could escape from.”

This is not litigation strategy. This is psychological manipulation, intended to destabilize judges and influence their rulings through emotional pressure rather than evidence or law.

Scientology’s legal operatives are not trained to persuade. They are trained to provoke, using language, volume, repetition, filing patterns, emotional narrative construction, and even courtroom behavior to mentally exhaust judges, juries and confuse proceedings, and frame their opponents as criminals, irrational or aggressive.

This is psychological manipulation of the court. Judges and juries are targets for emotional engineering, not neutral arbiters in Scientology’s worldview.

Legal warfare is a religious mandate. From Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs Network Orders (OSA NW), also part of the unchangeable and unalterable “religion “ and Scientology policies.

“Legal is a type of warfare. A warfare of better reasons.” — OSA NW Order, Scientology Policy – “Legal Principles”

“The purpose of the (law)suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win.”

“Don’t ever defend. Always attack.”

“Enemies of Scientology must be obliterated.”

These are not historical documents. These are binding doctrine for every lawyer representing Scientology today — including Gary Soter.

Victims who have been forced into Scientology's fake arbitration system include:

1. Valerie Haney – forced to sign waivers under duress and then compelled into fake arbitration.

2. Chrissie Carnell Bixler et al. – rape and stalking victims forced to arbitrate due to Scientology membership agreements until a California appellate court disagreed.

3. The Garcias – defrauded ex-members pushed into arbitration that Scientology admits doesn’t exist for non-believers.

4. Baxter v. Scientology – Sea Org labor trafficking survivors compelled into religious forums.

5. Jane Doe v. Scientology – sexual assault victim stripped of court access via religious pretext.

Despite bar complaints, IRS Complaints, court sanctions, public exposure, and sworn declarations, the California Bar has taken no action against this coordinated abuse of process.

• They have ignored repeated reports of coercion, forged documents, false affidavits, and fake arbitration.

• They have permitted lawyers like Soter, Yingling, Moxon and countless others to operate as religious operatives, not officers of the court.

• They have enabled the abuse of victims, whistleblowers, journalists, survivors, courts, and judges.

1980s: Internal files from Scientology’s archives contain no fewer than 15 distinct references to Soter’s legal work during the 1980s.

These include his participation in “handling cycles” — operations explicitly designed to suppress victims, intimidate whistleblowers, and obstruct legal complaints against Scientology. He appears repeatedly in documents issued under the Guardian’s Office (later renamed OSA), placing him within Scientology’s intelligence command structure even in that early period.

1990s: His name appears in OSA litigation memoranda, where he is listed as a recurring legal participant in strategy meetings and document preparation for Fair Game legal actions. These were not passive defense cases-they were offensive legal campaigns consistent with Hubbard’s directives to “obliterate” enemies through legal pressure.

2000s–2010s: Soter played a central role in suppressing Bruce Hines, a former Sea Org executive turned whistleblower. Internal memos confirm he recommended issuing pretextual cease-and-desist letters-not to resolve issues, but to set up retaliatory lawsuits.

And the same must be said for the countless attorneys who have used their licenses, not to uphold justice, but to operate as part of a criminal religious network designed to silence victims, suppress evidence, and obstruct the legal system itself.

They have violated the foundational duties of the legal profession:

• The duty of candor to the tribunal

• The duty to uphold the rule of law

• The duty to refuse to assist fraud

• The duty to protect access to justice for the vulnerable

Instead, these lawyers have willfully acted under religious orders, not legal ethics. They have executed operations — not representation. They have coordinated threats, surveillance, coercion, and delay-not advocacy. They have knowingly pushed abuse survivors into fabricated arbitration, where the outcome is dictated by Church policy and the victim is denied all due process. They have buried criminal behavior under privilege, destroyed documents, intimidated witnesses, and filed motions not to protect clients-but to destroy opponents.

This is not zealous defense.
This is not religion.
This is not protected speech.
This is systemic legal corruption operating in a religious disguise.

These attorneys are not simply aggressive. They are agents of a doctrinal machine. They are part of an ongoing scheme that uses courts as weapons, not venues of justice.

And by continuing to look away, the IRS, the judiciary and the Bar have become silent collaborators in a decades-long abuse of law.

To every judge and legal regulator reading this: This profession has standards. Enforcement is not optional.

You cannot claim neutrality when lawyers are following religious battle plans instead of legal ethics.

You cannot permit a legal system to function when one side follows the law and the other follows scripture written to destroy it.

This quote reveals a strategy of coercion and entrapment-using legal tools not to protect rights but to create court-usable “evidence” of harm by baiting targets into response.

This weaponized approach to law, meant to produce a chilling effect across the Ex-Sea Org community, directly mirrors L. Ron Hubbard’s military-style legal doctrine found in his 1969 “Battle Tactics” memo:

“The end product of war... is to bring about a more amenable frame of mind on the part of the enemy.” — Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter (HCO PL 16 Feb 1969, reissued 1987)

ShamWow Litigation (2010s): Soter also played a behind-the-scenes legal role in the Church’s handling of Vince Shlomi, known publicly as the “ShamWow” pitchman, who filed suit against Scientology alleging that the Church sabotaged his business and used internal intelligence against him. Internal materials show Soter participated in efforts to quash the lawsuit via religious arbitration, using psychological pressure and doctrinal manipulation to coerce Shlomi into compliance.

2020s: Soter remains active in operations against victims such as Valerie Haney, deploying Scientology’s fake arbitration scheme and coercive legal measures designed to strip plaintiffs of court access.

His participation reflects an ongoing role in Scientology’s “punitive defense” strategy — one rooted not in civil law, but in religious warfare.

“The purpose of the (law)suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win.” — L. Ron Hubbard. “If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.”

These statements are not metaphor. They are doctrine. And Soter and countless others have followed them for over 40 years.

This isn’t isolated aggression — it’s a decades-long system rooted in Hubbard’s religious doctrine and implemented in courts nationwide.

Wollersheim v. Scientology:

• In 1980, Lawrence Wollersheim, a former Scientologist, sued the Church for emotional damages related to abusive practices including auditing and Suppressive Person, Penalties for Lower Conditions: Enemy Condition: Fair Game.

• Scientology responded with a RICO suit, anti‑SLAPP motions, and repeated delays. The appellate court recognized Fair Game as official church policy and ruled Scientology's lawsuit was intended to chill Wollersheim’s legal speech

• The Church ultimately paid over US $8 million-after a 22-year legal onslaught aimed at exhaustion!

Headley v. Scientology:

• Claire and Mark Headley, former high-ranking Sea Org members, sued over human trafficking and forced labor.

• Scientology invoked the ministerial exemption to remove their case to federal court and delay it substantially

• This exemplifies a doctrinally mandated tactic: use church status to avoid transparency.

DeCrescenzo v. Scientology (2009–2018):

• Laura DeCrescenzo sued over forced labor and coercion from age 12.

• In 2018, Scientology settled just weeks before trial-after protracted procedural delay and threat of countersuits

Remini v. Scientology (2023–2025):

• Filed in August 2023, this is a civil lawsuit against the Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige, alleging stalking, harassment, defamation, witness intimidation, and psychological terror spanning over a decade.

• According to the suit, Scientology orchestrated a targeted campaign of retaliation in response to public criticism and investigative work. The tactics mirror Scientology’s internal directives for dealing with “Suppressive Persons” and include:

  • Seven break-ins into a gated community — including one direct intrusion into a private residence, by individuals with known connections to the Church or its operatives

  • Stalking of an underage daughter, including surveillance and targeting through school-related activities

  • Smear campaigns orchestrated by Scientology's Office of Special Affairs (OSA), which included false allegations, reputational attacks, and the use of “civilian Scientologists” to attack online with coordinated messaging

  • Interference with professional relationships, including pressuring networks, employers, and sponsors to cut ties.

  • Loss of income and job opportunities as a result of Scientology’s ongoing intimidation of third parties.

  • Intentional psychological pressure designed to isolate, intimidate, and destabilize a family.

• Most disturbing, the lawsuit alleges that Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon attempted to frame me for a crime I had no involvement with, submitting false materials and narratives to law enforcement. Moxon later perjured himself in court proceedings connected to the smear campaign — a pattern consistent with Scientology’s internal policies on weaponizing litigation and attacking perceived enemies.

• Scientology responded with an anti-SLAPP motion, attempting to dismiss the suit by falsely framing their actions as protected free speech and religious expression. This tactic, drawn directly from Scientology’s “punitive defense” doctrine, was rejected by the court, which found the lawsuit had demonstrated a likelihood of prevailing on the merits.

• The case is now on appeal, a move in line with Scientology’s documented strategy to delay proceedings indefinitely, drain plaintiffs’ resources, and avoid exposure in open court. Internal directives such as “Delay is your best friend” and “Put them into an amenable frame of mind” describe exactly this tactic — litigation as exhaustion and intimidation, not resolution.

Remini v. Scientology is more than a celebrity dispute. It is a window into how Scientology’s religious policies are executed through legal proxies and operatives to destroy those who speak out.

What has been done in this case has been done to countless others — only without the platform or legal firepower to fight back. This case represents what so many others are denied: a chance to confront Scientology’s weaponization of law, surveillance, and religious impunity.

If this case makes it to trial, it could mark the first time a jury sees not just Scientology’s misconduct, but the system of policies and lawyers enabling it.

Doctrine-Driven Litigation Is the Norm

Anti-SLAPP abuse: Suppressing critics through delays (Wollersheim, Remini)

Ministerial exemption: Shielding from liability through religious status (Headley)

Religious arbitration: Forcing victims into biased internal tribunals (Garcias, Haney, Baxters-Paris)

Countersuits & economic attrition: Filing baseless suits to silence opposition (DeCrescenzo, Wollersheim)

Every strategy aligns with L. Ron Hubbard’s doctrine — including Suppressive Acts, Enemy Condition: Fair Game, “always attack, never defend,” and the use of the legal system as a weapon. These actions aren’t legal missteps, they’re religious mandates enforced through ecclesiastical channeling.

This record proves Scientology uses and abuses the courts consistently, not incidentally, across decades and high-profile cases.

Coordinated international evasion: Scientology lawyers operate as religious operatives, not legal professionals

Two confidential documents dated January 2006, now verified among over 5,500 newly leaked internal Scientology files, expose in granular detail how the Church of Scientology planned and executed a covert corporate restructuring in Brussels to avoid a criminal investigation.

These “Eyes Only” intelligence documents were reviewed and approved by Monique Yingling, Jim Harris, Pascal Vanderveeren, and Kay Gaetjens, along with a directive chain that included the Chairman of the Board RTC (David Miscavige) and OSA International Legal executives.

“We do not want to move the existing tainted Church under criminal investigation into the new building and drag in its dirty laundry.” (Confidential Scientology memo, 11 January 2006)

“This is my legacy and I know I have to deal with it… Monique had Jim Harris verify all the US regulations.” (Same memo, addressed to COB RTC)

The plan was clear: abandon the criminally exposed Brussels Church entity and transfer all operations, staff, files, and assets into a new shell corporation in California called the Churches of Scientology of Europe (CSE).

This U.S. entity, set up with no financial or legal ties to the old corporation, would take over all delivery of services but disavow all responsibility for the conduct that led to the Belgian investigation. It would register as a foreign religious branch, claim ecclesiastical delivery of services, and protect the building’s ownership by hiding it behind a Delaware nominee corporation. The goal was to avoid criminal charges while maintaining total operational continuity.

This was not an isolated incident. These tactics were explicitly patterned after a similar operation executed in France in the 1990s when Scientology restructured to evade criminal exposure.

This Brussels operation was signed off by legal advisors Monique Yingling, Kay Gaetjens, and Jim Harris.

Actor and Scientology celebrity Jim Meskimen, acting as a church operative, was also involved.

It was directed under the chain of command of OSA International, the Church’s intelligence division, and was justified by Hubbard’s religious doctrine.

This confirms what former insiders have long alleged: Scientology lawyers do not act independently. They act as ecclesiastical enforcers of religious policy.

It is time the Bar, the courts, the judiciary, and the public stop treating Scientology’s legal misconduct as isolated, aggressive litigation. It is not. It is religious policy in action, executed by attorneys who have knowingly abandoned their professional duties in favor of serving the doctrinal demands of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

The Scientology internal documents speak for themselves. These are just a few of the 5,500 recently leaked Scientology files that expose a system of retaliatory litigation, judicial manipulation, and coercive abuse carried out by lawyers who act under orders — not ethics.

The Brussels shell corporation scheme proves Scientology is willing to create new legal entities to distance itself from criminal investigations, while secretly transferring operations, assets, and staff into the new entity under false legal separations. That project was overseen by Monique Yingling, Pascal Vanderveeren, Jim Harris, and Belgian counsel acting under instructions from OSA International and the COB office.

But this is not new. The Goodrich Evaluation — (Scientology unchangeable policy) — directs lawyers to manipulate depositions to provoke the plaintiff into emotional collapse on the stand:

“He will give the appearance of mental instability and guilt any time a cross examiner wishes… carried in the right fashion during cross examination, his blow-up could be timed… to coincide with a point which would look like an admission of guilt.”

Lawyers are told to file outrageous counterclaims and to create the illusion of criminal conspiracy by the plaintiffs-regardless of evidence:

“Work the case into a criminal type counter charge by whatever means.”
“Lead the plaintiff into making statements under oath that can be shown to be false. Then move to charge for perjury.”

In another leaked Scientology unchangeable policy: Legal Strategy, attorneys are instructed:

“If the court system can be used to harass and hurt us, then this reveals it can be used. Develop new ways to use it against litigants so they wish to God they had never had the idea of harassing us.”
“The strategy could be called punitive defense.”

Another, Scientology policy: Handling Attorneys, instructs:

“If a lawyer becomes uncooperative, you should use external pressure to bring them into line-remind them who is paying… Even if the lawyer thinks the strategy will not work, it must be followed to the letter unless OSA Int says otherwise.”

In Scientology’s doctrine, litigation is not a tool for justice. It is war.

“One never knows legally what can be done until one tries it... Legal is not a positive subject of blacks and whites. It is empirical.”

“The enemy says boggle-woggle. You give a better reason. That’s all law is.”

“Attackers of Scientology are cowards. The first factor is handled by a good legal attack on them personally and individually.”

Scientology weaponizes the “religious angle” to silence victims

When abuse survivors, whistleblowers, or former members bring valid legal claims against a Scientologist or the Church of Scientology, the response is never a factual rebuttal.

It is a pre-written religious narrative.

From the top down, Scientology has institutionalized the strategy of flipping the courtroom — framing the victim as the aggressor, and the Church as the persecuted faith.

This is not just spin, it is codified religious policy

In other unchangeable and unalterable Scientology Policies: “About Trial Tactics,” and “Anti-Religious Movement,” and Office of Special Affairs Network Order (OSA NW Order 6), Scientology’s use of the “religious angle” as a legal weapon, including their strategy to:

• Frame victims as religious bigots

• Claim harassment any time they are held accountable

• Turn courts into platforms for religious manipulation rather than fact-finding

“Turn every technical point into a persecution point… Strip authority off the attackers and win.” - L. Ron Hubbard, About Trial Tactics

In any case involving fraud, trafficking, abuse, or harassment, Scientology immediately reframes the lawsuit as a religious attack, harassment against them, regardless of the actual content of the claims.

This strategy is designed to:

• Invoke First Amendment protections to shut down discovery

• Paint plaintiffs as “anti-religious bigots”

• Claim any legal accountability is harassment of their religious beliefs

In OSA NW Order 6, the Church explicitly instructs legal operatives to label whistleblowers and victims with emotionally charged terms like:

“Religious bigot,” “hate criminal,” “pervert,” “extremist,” “mentally unstable.”

These labels are used regardless of truth to trigger institutional hesitation, manipulate judges, and poison public opinion. The goal is to deter lawsuits by smearing anyone who dares to file one.

Scientology frames this as attack on them, and that the victim is the harasser.

From Scientology’s litigation directives written by L. Ron Hubbard: “They are only trying to prove we’re unorthodox. This to them is a terrible crime. To the public, it’s expected. So they bungle along endlessly.”

Rather than defending their actions, Scientology relies on invoking its unorthodoxy as both justification and shield.

The moment they are challenged in court — whether for fraud, coercion, or abuse, they claim they are being attacked for their beliefs.

“I’d take up Christ… and mention that men crucified him and identify the judge unconsciously with Pilate.”

Hubbard’s tactic is not subtle.

He explicitly instructs Scientology lawyers to cast judges as religious persecutors, attacks (on them) and harassment (of Scientology) and Scientology as the modern equivalent of a crucified religion.

This is not a metaphorical defense. It is intentional emotional manipulation designed to provoke sympathy, cloud judgment, and derail litigation on constitutional grounds. Hubbard calls this tactic “selective restimulation.”

In nearly every recent case involving Scientology from its inception, Scientology attorneys have attempted to:

1. Claim the plaintiff is attacking their religious rights

2. Reframe systemic abuse or human rights violations as constitutionally protected “religious practice”

3. Smear the plaintiff as a “religious bigot” to create public and judicial bias

This is not accidental. It is part of a decades-old doctrine laid out by Hubbard:

“You’re actually fighting every future Scientology case when you testify in court…
The hearing must be turned into a demonstration of religious persecution.”

Harassment, according to Scientology, means being sued, being reported for criminal actions.

Internal documents also show how any lawsuit filed against the Church or a Scientologist is labeled as “harassment” by default, regardless of merit.

“Use interrogatories and depositions to bluntly demand connections with the FBI, CIA, IRS… Make it a solid rule in every trial or court action.” — Anti-Religious Movement, Scientology policy

This tactic is not to gather truth. It’s to confuse the court, shift blame, and justify retaliatory operations. If you sue Scientology, they claim you are part of a government or psychiatric conspiracy. That is the basis on which they claim your lawsuit is “harassment.”

This is not a defense. This is strategic fraud.

Any time a victim tries to hold Scientology accountable through legal means, the Church:

• Reframes the case as an attack on religion

• Smears the victim as a criminal, bigot or extremist

• Uses religious status to evade discovery, block trial, or push fake arbitration

• Demands the judge view themselves as a potential persecutor of faith

This is not legitimate defense. It is a tactical distortion of the First Amendment used to shield abuse, silence survivors, and discredit any attorney, jurist, or institution that allows a case to move forward.

“You don’t defend. You accuse them of destroying religion. You restimulate the judge. You create an image of sanctity for yourself and evil for them.”

That is not legal defense. That is religious warfare conducted through the courts.
And it is being used systematically, intentionally, and without oversight.

These policies are permanent religious orders.

Under HCO PL 16 Feb 69 “Battle Tactics”, lawyers and intelligence staff are instructed:

“We must ourselves fight on the basis of total attrition of the enemy. So never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate him.”

“The only safe public opinion to head for is they love us and are in a frenzy of hate against the enemy…. The inevitable counterattack is then against the leader of the enemy camp.”

From Scientology policy Counterattack Tactics:

“Wherever an attack is in progress... at once swiftly draw up a program... identify the instigator... cost him his job…. These persons can always lose their jobs. That is a point of vulnerability.”

“If he cannot be made to cost his job, find what he’s seeking to protect and threaten it.”

Legal is the final battlefield and it is run as war

“Legal… is the last line of defense. It always wins. It never gives up…. In Legal, every case… is treated like a war. None are ever treated like a skirmish.”
- OSA Litigation Branch Scientology policy

This is not metaphor. The OSA Litigation Branch is instructed to:

• Use Scientology’s policies: The Data Series and war tactics to destroy opponents

• View all litigation as military conflict

• “Offensively litigate” until the matter is won, buried, or settled in Scientology’s favor

As part of this doctrine, lawyers are never instructed to seek truth or resolution. They are trained to use legal tools as blunt instruments of submission, intimidation, and public relations control.

“The Investigation Bureau… evaluates and finds the correct Whos and Whys… and renders them harmless…. Handled situations, attacks and attackers are the products of this branch.”
-OSA Investigation Bureau Scientology Policy

OSA’s legal apparatus does not track cases or truth. It tracks eliminated victims and whistleblowers trying to see their day in court against Scientology or a Scientologists as neutralized threats, and “handled attackers”.

All legal work is routed through:

• Investigation & Handling Branch: identifies who to target

• Legal Branch: executes the operation through lawsuits, court manipulation, or settlements

• PR Bureau: spins the outcome for public perception

These branches are coordinated internationally under a command structure led by the Watchdog Committee and Office of Special Affairs International.

“Litigation… is treated like a war… No litigation should be carried beyond the point of putting the opposition into an amenable frame of mind… Attorneys are coordinated, briefed, hatted, and trained to run their cases to a successful conclusion per OSA NW Order ATTORNEY HIRING.” -OSA Legal Bureau policy

This again confirms that even non-Scientologist attorneys working with Scientology must conform to its religious policies. Their mandate is not legal representation-it is obedience to the religious chain of command.

Named legal tactics are scripted to exhaust, manipulate, and eliminate. These tactics are laid out in the same document and cross-referenced with earlier OSA Network Orders and Hubbard directives. They include:

• Using PR to dead-agent (discredit) victims and whistleblowers

• Staging favorable lawsuits to create protective precedents

• Driving plaintiffs into submission through delay and attrition

• Spreading influence through “external security” and “government reform” campaigns

The Legal Safeguards Branch is tasked with ensuring “legal rudiments” are in place so no litigation can reach Scientology unshielded.

This means firewalling records, corporations, contracts, and trademarks under doctrinal guidelines, not regulatory norms.

“OSA PR is the PR Bureau of Scientology-it is offensive and constantly reaching out to create new positive images… PR briefings, press releases, press books, and DA (Dead Agent) packs are prepared… Unprofitable images are handled in coordination with the Investigation and Legal Bureaux.” — PR Bureau Scientology Policy

Legal and PR are not separate silos.

They collaborate to control perception in courtrooms, media coverage, and even within professional legal bodies. Their coordination is not protective-it is manipulative.

This is a religious command-and-control system operating through attorneys. The Office of Special Affairs does not merely manage risk. It manufactures legal outcomes using:

• War-based tactics

• Prewritten strategy templates

• Court manipulation

• Religious mandates

• Obedient attorneys trained not in law, but in compliance

No real religious organization with tax exemption runs an intelligence, legal, and media control unit like OSA.

And no U.S. attorney, judge, or regulator can claim ignorance once these documents are known.

Scientology’s own policies proves that OSA’s structure is permanent, global, and embedded in the Church’s core mission.

It operates under the Watchdog Committee, bypassing national boundaries, constitutional ethics, and legal standards.

OSA exists not to defend religion, but to impose it, through infiltration, misdirection, and overwhelming legal and financial pressure.

Judges must stop accepting Scientology’s claims of arbitration, neutrality, and First Amendment protection without examining the doctrinal machinery behind them.

These attorneys are not representing a client.

They are advancing Scientology policies:

Scientology must become indispensable, and all victims and whistleblowers must be silenced.

This is not a legal team — it’s a religious intelligence operation. The lawyers representing Scientology are not simply aggressive, they are embedded in an ecclesiastical chain of command, trained to use law as a weapon, not a tool of justice. They share strategy. This conduct is not theoretical. It is ongoing.

Judges and every lawyer representing a Scientology plaintiff, must understand: these are not difficult litigants. These are attorneys functioning under religious command, executing a system designed to dismantle legal process. This is not litigation. It is strategic religious warfare masquerading as law.

This is not a church defending itself in court. It is the coordinated legal arm of a criminal enterprise, more than 150 attorneys acting as agents of a religious doctrine that mandates deception, harassment, and total domination.

This is not litigation. This is strategic religious warfare carried out under color of law.

The documents you’ve read are only a fraction of what exists. There are thousands more. The Bar has been warned. The courts have been misled. Victims have been silenced.

Now the record is public.

Anyone who wants these files — any of the 5,500 internal Scientology documents, the “religious policies,” the memos, the legal orders, the court manipulation strategies, I will give them to you. No red tape. No agenda. Just ask.

This information belongs in the hands of every attorney, journalist, judge, legislator, government agency, victim and victim advocates who still believes in the rule of law.

Because we can’t carry this alone anymore. As we have been.

I am tired.

We are tired, battered and bruised.

We are just a handful of victims, advocates for victim, advocates for ourselves, whistleblowers, and journalists who have been pleading to government agencies and courts to hear us.

This was never supposed to be our job.

We didn’t set out to become the one exposing a multi-billion-dollar criminal organization with tax exemption operating as a religion.

But here I am, watching them crush whistleblowers, threaten survivors, buy silence, rewrite facts, and manipulate judges into doing their bidding.

Scientology has criminalized the act of seeking justice.

Victims are punished for telling the truth.

Survivors are punished for speaking out. And these judges, who swore oaths to uphold justice and defend the Constitution, keep throwing our cases into fake arbitration rooms guarded by Scientology’s internal religious courts and our cases constantly being threatened by Scientology tactics that are written and executed every day.

They are letting a private, authoritarian, doctrinal machine determine who gets to be heard. And who doesn’t.

We need help.

This has gone on long enough. It is enough.

All we want is for our cases to make it to the courtroom. We want what any citizen is supposed to have — our day in court, in front of a jury, without being dragged into religious entrapment or legal exhaustion.

If that’s too much to ask, then something is very, very broken.

So, I ask you now, not as a lawyer, not as a policymaker, not as a professional, but as a human being: To Those Who Can, Please do your job.

We’re doing ours.

— Leah Remini

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