Talk:Office of Special Affairs
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Guardian's Office[edit]
Somehow this has slipped through the cracks. Guardian's Office redirects to Office of Special Affairs, which doesn't mention the FBI raid and the resulting criminal trial, and instead merely mentions the GO "was disbanded in 1983" as if it was simply an administrative reorganization of departments. Of course OSA is the reincarnation of the GO, but there is no one place in Wikipedia describing what is the GO. Of course, the articles Mary Sue Hubbard and Operation Snow White describe the raid and trial in depth. But what reader would find the content there if they were searching for the Guardian's Office?
We either need a standalone article named Guardian's Office, or a large section in Office of Special Affairs, which includes a description of the GO's position within the Church of Scientology network, what was its mission and what sort of work it performed, a link to sub-article List of Guardian's Office operations (or maybe put the content in there and rename without "List of"), a description of the FBI raid, a description of the criminal trial and the result of the trial, the overthrow of the GO by David Miscavige (with Mike Rinder), and the subsequent establishment of the Office of Special Affairs (OSA). ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 04:34, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
OSA/GO techniques & methods[edit]
Perhaps we should add a section for the types of techniques or methods OSA (and GO) use to achieve their aims. There's a stub article Noisy investigation which is a fair game technique, but isn't even mentioned in Fair game (Scientology). Fair game is its own large category of OSA ops. But OSA also employs black propaganda, litigation, Slapp lawsuits, Dead agenting, Suppressive person declarations, and manipulates disconnection orders. I'm sure there are more methods than I can think of right at this moment. ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 04:42, 2 December 2023 (UTC)