6) Operation Snow White
It sounds charming, but it was anything but. “Operation Snow White” is the name given to the unprecedented infiltration of the US government by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s. Classified government files regarding Scientology were stolen from dozens of government agencies. The core mission of the program was to expose and legally expunge “all false and secret files of the nations of operating areas” and to enable Church seniors and L. Ron Hubbard himself to “frequent all Western nations without threat.”
In 1977, the FBI finally cracked Snow White open which led to the arrest and imprisonment of a senior Church official.
