OFFICE OF SPECIAL AFFAIRS NETWORK ORDER
OSA NW ORDER 15 18 February 1988
OSA NW
_Confidential_intended to injure, impede or destroy the activity or life of another person, group or nation, usually issued from a false or removed source from the actual instigator.
_BLACK_PROPAGANDA_
(Originally written by LRH on 12 January 1972.
Issued as an OSA NW Order on 18 February 1988.)
Black propaganda is a covert communication of false data
It is used heavily in "psychological warfare."another or a group or a nation as undesirable or evil.
It is a specialized technology of its own.
It relies chiefly on the technique of "classification" of
It has many counter weapons and is itself essentiallyfragile because it is false.
Dianetics, Scientology and myself for a very long timehave been subjected to a very standard black propaganda campaign instigated by trained persons - the AMA in the US, the British Psychological Association in Australia, the National Association of Mental Health in England and internationally.
What is being attempted by black propagandists is to_classify_ us firmly in the public mind by constant repetition of certain words like "cult." The more we let such propagandists do this, the more chance we give them, the more opportunity they have.
A black artist has to be carefully trained to do this andI am suddenly quite interested in such fellows. It isn't just "the way things are written." Such are well trained intelligence pros in the field of psychological warfare.
Psychiatry today advises advertising and propaganda anddesigned of course this campaign we have experienced.
The subject is even touched on by Dr. Thomas Szasz as apsychiatric technique in his book _Ideology_and_Insanity_, page 49, chapter 4, page 53 section IV, page 67 section IX and his whole article "Psychiatric Classification as Personal Restraint", page 190 of the same book. Of these, page 53 section IV is the most interesting in application to this subject of classification.
"Classification is a social act. The
Classification of individuals or groups entails the
participation of at least three different types of
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persons: Classifier, Classified, and a publicpsychological warfare (black propaganda) or advertising, it is nevertheless a key point in psychiatric planning of any campaign.
called upon to accept or reject a particular
classification."
While Szasz is not using it as it applies to
The AMA counts on this utterly.victory.
So this is their one trick.
To cancel an enemy's chief weapon is in itself a part of
To cease to be the effect of classification and becomein our turn the cause of it, the classifier, is to win the propaganda game.
Our propaganda is dirty but it is not black because it istrue. Black propaganda is essentially false.
We can do this trick by survey and attack. As what isattacked is already popularly evil, we become re-classified as attackers and the enemy as bad hats as they're _for_ the evil if they attack us.
We won't be running a _black_ campaign as we deal intruth.
Black campaigns ARC break people since they depend onfalse reports and are thus out-_R_. Hence your dead agent actions work.
We just run propaganda campaigns.popularly considered evils. This de-classifies us from former labels. It re-classifies our attackers as evil people. Which they are.
The objective is to be identified as attackers of
In the book _Black_Boomerang_ by Sefton Delmer (1962)published by Secker and Warburg, London, Delmer gives various formulas of black propaganda used in WW II. They used _intelligence_ to get enough facts to run a convincing but fake "German radio station" from England.
Since WW II psychiatry has moved its techniques intoadvertising and propaganda and the think of these is in the Szasz references above.
So we
1) Seek to avoid opportunities for the enemy to classify
us.
2) Contest or expose any previous classification as
false (dead agentry, etc.)
3) Engage in a series of campaigns which confuse past
classification,
4) Achieve for ourselves a dominance in classifying
ourselves and others.
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Out of this strategic planning can come operatingpolicies and campaigns.
L. RON HUBBARD
Founder
Adopted as official
Church policy by
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