感谢记者Emma的最好。@ NatSecGeek (英语).)),被联调局的一行文件与科学会的"匿名计划钱币学"(Chanology)的抱怨联系在一起,已经向公众发布. 托尼·奥尔特加报告:
“我们有两个FBI的文件要你翻过去 在268页和180页上 他们都是额外的发布 我们得到的感谢 她提出的文件请求数目。”
Best is one of the most prolific FOIA requesters in the country — the FBI has described them as sitting at or near the top of its list of “vexsome” requesters, even weighing prosecution over their use of public-records law — and in 2017 Best also helped put the CIA’s roughly 13-million-page CREST archive of declassified documents online. The Scientology files came out of a FOIA lawsuit Best filed against the bureau that same year.
To understand why the FBI had a file at all, it helps to revisit how Project Chanology began. On January 14, 2008, a Church of Scientology promotional video featuring an intensely earnest Tom Cruise was posted to YouTube and quickly went viral. The church moved to scrub it from the internet, issuing a copyright claim against YouTube on January 16, and the clip was pulled — but the site Gawker refused to take its copy down, with editor Nick Denton calling it newsworthy. That attempt at suppression is exactly what drew the attention of 无名被设计成网络审查 奥尔特加已经准备好 事发的背后故事.
On January 21, 2008, Anonymous launched the campaign publicly with a now-iconic YouTube video, “Message to Scientology” — a two-minute production of time-lapsed clouds and robotic text-to-speech narration that branded the church a “dangerously insane cult” and ended with the words that became the movement’s signature: “We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.” Created by activist Gregg Housh, the clip racked up hundreds of thousands of views within days and helped make the video manifesto a permanent fixture of Anonymous communications. A second video, “Call to Action,” followed on January 27, calling for protests outside Scientology centers, and on February 10, 2008, an estimated 6,000 to 8,300 masked demonstrators turned out in cities across the U.S. and Europe — the moment Project Chanology pushed Anonymous out of imageboard culture and into real-world activism, and cemented the Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta as the collective’s public face.
Although the church initially dismissed Anonymous as a “pathetic” collection of “computer geeks,” it complained to the FBI that it was under attack by a “terrorist” organization. That framing was tied in part to a series of letters containing a mysterious white powder that were mailed to church facilities. The powder turned out to be harmless starch, and Anonymous denied sending the letters.
新出道的文件显示联邦调查局认真对待教会的抱怨. 该局在圣地亚哥开始调查,那里的教会办事处一直收到骚扰邮件、电话和传真。
“The San Diego church offices have also received black facsimiles. The church has received 20 to 30 of these facsimiles. They incorporated photos of Guy Fawkes (17th-century Englishman notorious for plotting to blow up Parliament as part of an extremist Catholic campaign against Protestant rule), numerous cartoons, etc., all of which had the effect of consuming a substantial quantity of ink.”
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Ortega’s report walks through additional incidents the bureau looked into, all of which led to dead ends. Taken together, the files offer a fascinating — and frequently comical — glimpse into how the FBI approached the Anonymous movement in its early days, and into the Church of Scientology’s “inner snowflake.”
该局投入了相当多的时间、资金和精力来调查匿名者,即使它努力让教会拿出任何证人进行采访。 最终,案件发作:
“大约两年后,没有找到有价值的调查线索。 根据案件的年代、缺乏明确的威胁以及缺少任何其他调查线索,作者要求结案。”
That quiet closure is its own kind of footnote to history. Project Chanology eventually wound down by around 2010, but it had already done something lasting — it transformed Anonymous from a loose troll collective into a recognizable force in digital activism, and the tactics, imagery, and “Expect us” ethos forged in the fight with Scientology would echo through nearly every Anonymous operation that followed.
还有,看 奥尔特加的报告全文,它以易于阅读的格式提供文档。
Emma Best kept filing. The same FOIA practice that produced these Scientology files later helped force other U.S. intelligence dumps into public view, and the Church of Scientology never did get the “terrorist” case it wanted. The files remain the best official snapshot of how the bureau treated a Guy Fawkes fax campaign as a two-year investigation and then quietly closed it.
与赞助联盟有关: 试图澄清对匿名的误解, 匿名官员曝光,以及 匿名新闻.
一条街道在清水, 和档案德国终于关闭
The bureau’s closing memo is still the cleanest official description of Project Chanology: two years, no witness the church would produce, no articulated threat, case closed. That paperwork has a cousin. In 2026 Germany’s federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ended a surveillance practice aimed at Scientology that had run for nearly thirty years. 无国界人权, drawing on Bitter Winter, reported in May that the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz quietly dropped the monitoring so agents could spend time on violent extremism, Russian espionage, cyberattacks, and terrorism. Several states, including Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, and North Rhine-Westphalia, had already stepped back. On June 22, 2026, the Church of Scientology International issued its own statement calling the end of the program proof that no extremist network had been found. Those are not the same claim. One is a church declaring vindication. The other is an intelligence office admitting, without a parade, that the file had outlived the threat it was written to catch. The San Diego faxes that ate the toner fit the second reading.
Emma Best did not stop at the 2017 lawsuit. On May 14, 2019, Best filed a separate MuckRock request for FBI records mentioning Project Chanology, including the January 21, 2008 video, the early denial-of-service actions, the black faxes, and the later push to have the Internal Revenue Service examine the church’s tax exemption. 请求 已被列入公开备审目录,等待答复。 Ortega出版的268页和180页的发行量仍然是该局纸上关于Guy Fawkes面具和淀粉信的可读核心.
原作"科学论"仍收录于YouTube. 在Church0fSciences频道上的副本, 活动公开当天发文,已经吸取了550万次浏览。 改变的是教堂的足迹,而不是口号. 托尼·奥尔特加于2026年9月22日报道., that Clearwater’s city council had voted 3-2 in June to vacate South Garden Avenue. Scientology’s plan folds that short downtown street into a 3,100-seat L. Ron Hubbard Hall and an L. Ron Hubbard Park beside the Flag Land Base, the Fort Harrison Hotel, and the Flag Building. A petition effort, Save the Garden, was having signatures examined when he published. The FBI never got its San Diego witnesses. A city council handed over a street anyway.
Ortega’s docket, published with that Clearwater story, still carries the criminal case that grew up after Chanology’s street phase. Actor Danny Masterson was sentenced on September 7, 2023, to 30 years to life after a Los Angeles jury convicted him of raping two women. As of September 22, 2026, Ortega wrote that the appeal was fully briefed. Separate civil fights, including labor-trafficking claims and suits naming the church beside Masterson, were still caught in religious-arbitration arguments. None of that is in the 2008 FBI file. The file is about ink, starch, and a movement the church wanted labeled terrorist.
盖·福克斯的面具卡住了 一个高中任务围绕 V 为文德塔 所以AEGIS联盟的叙述 曼西中央站出来 属于此文件, 如 之后反对新纳粹网站的运动. Both used the posture Chanology taught: no headquarters, a video instead of a press office, and a target picked for what it tried to hide. Germany’s intelligence service and the FBI both eventually wrote, in their own language, that the dramatic threat file was not the one worth staffing. Clearwater’s street vote is the reminder that a closed investigation is not a smaller church. More of that record is in 匿名与赞助联盟新闻.
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