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🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Leah and Mike talk with Paulette Cooper, a journalist who became the object of the single largest Fair Game campaign in history. She was framed, sued, smeared, spied on and harassed. And ultimately vindicated when the FBI raided scientology and uncovered their secret operations.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Scientology Fair Game. I think I got that right, Mike. |
| 0:09.0 | Yep, you got it right this week. |
| 0:11.0 | So, yes. |
| 0:12.0 | Anyway, once again, we have a guest that we just love and admire, Paul at Cooper. |
| 0:18.0 | Thank you so much for joining us this week, Paul. It's such an honor and a pleasure to have you to talk to us. |
| 0:27.0 | You, in my mind, are the OG of fair game victims. You are the original and the... |
| 0:38.0 | You're a woman who survives something that I think is absolutely remarkable, not just your life vis-a-vis Scientology, but your life before Scientology. |
| 0:50.0 | And, you know, your whole story is just incredible. It's such... always such a pleasure to be able to talk to you and let's get going here. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm just fascinated by you and your strength and your courage. And you continue to talk, which is not usual for somebody you were never a Scientologist. |
| 1:10.0 | And I'm going to let you tell your story. So, let's go back, Paul at. |
| 1:14.0 | Hi. My name is Paul at Cooper. |
| 1:17.0 | And... |
| 1:18.0 | Hi, Paul at. |
| 1:19.0 | Hi there. And I was born in Belgium during the war. |
| 1:24.0 | And I am Jewish and my father was taken and killed in Auschwitz. |
| 1:31.0 | And right after I was born, my mother was taken and she was killed in Auschwitz. |
| 1:37.0 | And actually, I have a blood sister and the two of us were also supposed to be taken to Auschwitz and killed. |
| 1:48.0 | And one week before, we were saved. And how actually I can thank my fight against Scientology for that. |
| 1:58.0 | Why? |
| 1:59.0 | Because I did not know how I was saved. |
| 2:03.0 | And what happened was that there was a new story about me fighting Scientology. |
| 2:09.0 | And this was just a few years ago. And it mentioned that I was born... |
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