David Gaiman
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David Gaiman is a prominent member of the Church of Scientology who lives in the UK. He and his wife Sheila joined in the early 1960s and he was public relations director and commonly in the media during the British controversies over Scientology in the 1960s and 1970s. During that period, he held the titles Deputy Guardian for Public Relations World Wide and Minister of Public Affairs for the Churches of Scientology Worldwide. He was declared (expelled) in 1983, but has since rejoined the Church and done much work for them in Russia as well as in the UK.
He attested to the state of Clear in 1966, listed in Scientology magazines as Clear #51 [1]. He attested to the level of Operating Thetan VIII (OT VIII), the highest level available in Scientology, in 2005 [2].
As Deputy Guardian for Public Relations World Wide (DGPRWW), Gaiman was involved in Operation Snow White:
In a World Wide project issued 16 September 1975 by aide David Gaiman, Deputy Guardian for Public Relations World-Wide, an operation is ordered to plant false information in U.S. Security agency computers, "to hold up the American security to ridicule, as outlined in the GO by LRH." It describes the plan as "to take a cat with a pedigree name ... and to get the name into a computer file, together with a record whether it be criminal, social welfare, driving or whatever; and to build the sequence of events to the point where the creature holds a press conference and photographic story results." The project called for the use of plants to place the false information into U.S. security agency computers. [3]
He was involved in covert operations to infiltrate the American Medical Association, illegally obtain documents, and leak damaging information from those documents to the press. His superior, Jane Kember, noted:
David has laid down a strategy which is to enable us to contain the scene. Our plants when trapped are Freedom investigative reporters just like any other newspaper. The plants themselves do not have to confess or be named ... We can undercut AMA's continual effort to expose us by indicating it is a smokescreen to prevent Freedom from publishing ... [4]
He and Sheila run a vitamin shop in East Grinstead, G and G Foods, near Saint Hill Manor, specialising in vitamins for the Scientology Purification Rundown.
His son, Neil, is a famous fantasy writer. His daughter, Claire Edwards, is head of Scientology Missions International [5].
[edit] References
- ^ Auditor 29 (1967).
- ^ Freewinds 57 (2005). Retrieved on 2006-10-22.
- ^ USA v. Jane Kember, Morris Budlong - Sentencing Memorandum
- ^ USA v. Jane Kember, Morris Budlong - Sentencing Memorandum
- ^ Freedom Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-10-22.
[edit] Further reading
- Paulette Cooper, The Scandal of Scientology Appendix
- C.H. Rolph, Believe What You Like, chapter 9
- David Gaiman: Scientology service completions