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🗓️ 15 October 2024
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Scientology spies were trained in all covert operations techniques: surveillance, recruiting agents, infiltrating enemy lines, and blackmail. However, a suspicious librarian and a determined FBI agent brought the largest single spy operation in US government history to an end.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Ryan Levy. |
0:01.0 | Hi, I'm Ryan Levy. |
0:09.0 | Hi, I'm Ryan Levy. |
0:11.0 | Welcome to Cyber reasons's malicious life. It was a mission that required the very best secret agents the Church of Scientology had. |
0:39.0 | Back in the fall of 1973, the head of Scientology's global espionage operation, Snow White, had received intel |
0:46.4 | indicating that the Washington D.C. office of Interpol possessed potentially harmful |
0:51.9 | information about L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology's founder. |
0:56.0 | It is important that we get cracking and obtain these files, |
1:00.0 | and I leave you to work out how, she told one of her associates. |
1:04.3 | For a whole year the church failed to obtain those files. |
1:09.0 | And so on this October 30th, 1974, a man with a bushy brown mustache and curly hair |
1:17.2 | boarded a plane from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. |
1:22.1 | He was known by Anon-degel, Don Alverzo. Rumor headed that Don used to fly helicopter missions in Vietnam. |
1:31.0 | He was known as one of the best most experienced agents in the Church of Scientology's spywing, the Guardian's office. |
1:39.0 | Recently, for example, he'd broken into a law firm representing a newspaper that had been investigating the church, |
1:45.9 | copying documents under the cover of night for three days straight. |
1:50.4 | His partner's heart would race during those nights, but Alverso always seemed to be unfazed. |
1:57.0 | In fact, his partner said he was usually smiling. |
2:01.0 | Now, Alverso was flying to meet with the church's top agent in the nation's capital, |
2:07.0 | a 24-year- and mysterious, Meisner was young and ambitious. |
2:22.7 | It's been just four years since his first forade into Scientology, |
2:27.2 | so eager to join that he dropped out of college for it |
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