for the penalty of a person who becomes fair game pursuant to the issue of a Suppressive Person
Order. Such a person is assigned the condition of "Enemy ... Fair Game. May be deprived of
property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the
Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."1 The policy underlying the Fair
Game Law and the issue of Suppressive Person Orders is largely one which borders on coercion
and action taken on grounds such as those set out in items B.2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the
preceding paragraph constitutes, in the view of the Commission, an unwarranted invasion of
personal freedom.
9.5. The fierceness with which the fair game law has been applied and the willingness
to trick and destroy is also demonstrated by the case of Dr. E.L. Fisher, M.P., which the
Commission investigated with care. Dr. Fisher is and was at all relevant times the duly elected
Member of Parliament for the constituency of Rosettenville, Johannesburg, Transvaal. In that
capacity and his further capacity of a medical practitioner he received representation from
members of the public in regard to the practice of Scientology within the borders of the
Republic of South Africa. Dr. Fisher, pursuant to these representations raised the issue in
Parliament on several occasions requesting the appointment of a Commission to enquire into
Scientology. This conduct on the part of Dr. Fisher was no doubt seen as an attack on
Scientology and constituted him the perpetrator of a suppressive act. Mr. Hubbard writes
"Politician A stands up on his hind legs in a Parliament and brays for a condemnation of
Scientology. When we look him over we find crimes - embezzled funds, moral lapses, a thirst
for young boys - sordid stuff."2 As such the provisions of an Executive Directive requiring
an investigation of Dr. Fisher became operative. The terms of the Directive are startling and
read as follows:
"BRANCH 5 PROJECT
PROJECT SQUIRRELø
1. The Guardian's Intelligence Officer for the Western U.S.
should make further appointments to execute 'Project Squirrel'.
2. The project consists of the following:
(a) Listing all SPs engaged in Squirrel actions or anti-
Scientology actions.
(b) Get each one investigated (proper evidences and witnesses,
not rumour).
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1Hubbard L. Ron: HCO Policy Letter of 18th October, 1967. Issue IV. Penalties for lower
conditions. Hubbard Communications Office, East Grinstead, Sussex, England.
2Understanding. Issue 89. Official Periodical of Scientology in South Africa. Published by
the Hubbard Scientology Organization in Johannesburg. Critics of Scientology by L. Ron
Hubbard (1967), p. 1.
øSquirreling is defined in the Scientology Abridged Dictionary as "The action of altering
Scientology; off-beat practices."
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