Relations With Academics, Authors and The Media
As Justice Latey observed, L. Ron Hubbard created written policies that enemies are to be harassed using legal and extra-legal means, including frivolous lawsuits. At one point, the Church had 36 libel writs against British newspapers. An internal document from 1971 said that the Church's UK legal department "seldom, if ever, assesses its chances of winning before commencing action. (...) Legal UK has been in courts more often in the past three years than the rest of the Scientology world combined. (...) Do not worry about whether you will win or lose, but direct all effort and concentration on the legal technicalities required to achieve legal confrontation."
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