From: rogue@ccs.neu.edu (R Agent) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Rogue & Elana, for posterity Date: 27 Nov 1995 04:34:47 GMT Organization: College of Computer Science, Northeastern University Message-ID: <49bf57$2jn@camelot.ccs.neu.edu> Some of the Scientologist posters have recently been making light of the suspicious attitudes many critics have, both about the motives of Scientologists or their apologists and over our own safety, epsecially regarding anonymity. If there was ever any doubt that there is an ongoing effort to expose the identity of anonymous critics, the following exchange answered that question in my mind. Sept 9 was the date of the most recent picket. I had volunteered my account to be used as the local contact. The day before the picket I received this email: |To: rogue@ccs.neu.edu |Subject: Cult Protest |From: elorrell@phantom.com (Elana Lorrell) |Message-ID: |Date: Fri, 08 Sep 95 14:06:59 EDT |Organization: [MindVox] / Phantom Access Technologies / (+1 800-MindVox) | |Hey Rogue, |I wanted to attend this Saturday's protest of the scientology cult in |Boston. I heard that you were going to be doing something with this |demonstration on the net and I was wondering if you could give me |specifics on where to meet, who to contact, etc. |I'm not real familiar with Boston but I will be there this weekend |for a conference and should have time to attend this demonstration. |What this group is doing to the freedom of speech in this country is |totally fucked. If we don't stop it now it will only get worse. |thanks in advance | |E I replied, giving her directions and time to the Org. In response, Elana sent me this: |Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 01:09:43 -0400 (EDT) |From: Elana Lorrell |Subject: Re: Cult Protest |To: R Agent |In-Reply-To: <199509090114.VAA11617@denali.ccs.neu.edu> |Message-ID: | |Hi Rogue! | | Thanks for the information on how to get to the "Org" (whatever |the hell that is). | | I will be leaving for Boston from New York tomorrow morning at |around 5 am. My conference doesn't start until Saturday evening so I |should be at the "Org" probably around 1 pm after I check into my |hotel and get settled in. | | I don't know anybody in Boston and I will be traveling alone so |maybe after my conference meetings on Saturday night you could give |me a tour of Boston? I'll buy you a drink for your troubles. | | I'm going to feel a little silly asking everybody if they are |the "Rogue Agent" so keep an eye out for me. I'm about 5'3" tall, I |have blonde shoulder length hair, hazel eyes and slender. | | If you could mail back a description so I know who to look for, |I'd appreciate it. I'll have my portable with me so I'll be able to |pick up your mail any time tomorrow. | |E It was a curious turn of events. But it was late and I figured I'd just go to the picket and see how things turned out. As it happened, I had a last-minute crisis pop up and I couldn't go. Imagine my surprise a few days later when I read this post to a.r.s: |From: elorrell@phantom.com (Elana Lorrell) |Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology |Subject: RUMOR |Date: 13 Sep 1995 16:22:00 GMT |Organization: [MindVox] / Phantom Access Technologies / (+1 [212] 989-2418) |Lines: 5 |Message-ID: <4370f8$2tc@dockmaster.phantom.com> |NNTP-Posting-Host: mindvox.phantom.com |X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] | |Rumor has it, Wolly's in deep doo-doo. The cat got out of the bag |when the Church got access to his files - the incriminating evidence |on his cronies and lies are now with the Church and you can bet this |is not going to be so easy for Wolly to shake off. I replied in my inimitable fashion: :From: rogue@ccs.neu.edu (R Agent) :Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology :Subject: OSA Covert Op exposed! :Date: 13 Sep 1995 18:09:04 GMT :Organization: College of Computer Science, Northeastern University :Lines: 77 :Message-ID: <4376o0$2r2@camelot.ccs.neu.edu> :References: <4370f8$2tc@dockmaster.phantom.com> :NNTP-Posting-Host: denali.ccs.neu.edu : :In article <4370f8$2tc@dockmaster.phantom.com>, :Elana Lorrell wrote: : :Hi Elana! I'm sorry we couldn't meet at the Boston picket, but the :fact that you've turned out to be an OSA operative means that was :probably for the best. : :>Rumor has it, Wolly's in deep doo-doo. The cat got out of the bag :>when the Church got access to his files - the incriminating evidence :>on his cronies and lies are now with the Church and you can bet this :>is not going to be so easy for Wolly to shake off. : :If the CoS misused their access to Larry's files and extracted :anything beyond evidence of copyright infringement, I can't imagine :what the legal consequences would be for them. Sanctions against the :lawyers, immediate dismissal of the lawsuit and possibly even :criminal charges come to mind. :Any attempt to use it would be clearly tainted and inadmissable. Any :lawyers care to comment? [note: see the recent _Biased Journalism_ for speculation and inside information on CoS & INet misusing their access to Larry's files] :From her post it seems Elana is rather rabidly pro-CoS, and seems to :have some inside information. But that's not how she presented :herself to me in this email she sent the night before the Sept 9 :picket: : :|Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 01:09:43 -0400 (EDT) :|From: Elana Lorrell :|Subject: Re: Cult Protest :|To: R Agent :|In-Reply-To: <199509090114.VAA11617@denali.ccs.neu.edu> :|Message-ID: :| :|Hi Rogue! :| :| Thanks for the information on how to get to the "Org" :|(whatever the hell that is). : :Whoops! Looks like you know all too well what an Org is, eh Elana? : :| I will be leaving for Boston from New York tomorrow morning :|at around 5 am. My conference doesn't start until Saturday evening :|so I should be at the "Org" probably around 1 pm after I check into :|my hotel and get settled in. : :What conference did you go to, Elana? Was it perhaps the Auditors :Day celebration? [note: Auditor's Day, a major CoS holiday, was the same day as the picket] :| I don't know anybody in Boston and I will be traveling alone :|so maybe after my conference meetings on Saturday night you could :|give me a tour of Boston? I'll buy you a drink for your troubles. : :Sure, sounds like a plan. Maybe we can double with Tom and Linda. : :| I'm going to feel a little silly asking everybody if they are :|the "Rogue Agent" so keep an eye out for me. I'm about 5'3" tall, :|I have blonde shoulder length hair, hazel eyes and slender. : :I (quite fortuitously, it seems) had something come up at the last :minute and was unable to attend. Did anybody who went see a picketer :matching this description? : :| If you could mail back a description so I know who to look :|for, I'd appreciate it. I'll have my portable with me so I'll be :|able to pick up your mail any time tomorrow. : :Sorry I took so long getting back to you. : :|E : :[posted and mailed] Elana never replied. Maybe we are a paranoid, suspicious lot. But you know the old joke - "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you". I'd also like to point out that I've had some gentle gibes tossed my way about my credulity when someone posts an extremist post which is obviously (to everyone else) a troll. This post is my answer to my detractors. Having seen firsthand how bizarre CoS is willing to get, I defy anyone to tell me they can come up with a weirder troll than my reality. RA rogue@ccs.neu.edu (Rogue Agent/SoD!/TOS/attb) - pgp key on request - ------------------------------------------------------------------ The NSA is now funding research not only in cryptography, but in all areas of advanced mathematics. If you'd like a circular describing these new research opportunities, just pick up your phone, call your mother, and ask for one.