![]() ![]() ![]() The government was sufficiently impressed that the prosecutor dropped the case against her, but her reputation was ruined, she was broke, and her health was uncertain. Finally, she persuaded a doctor to give her sodium pentothal, or “truth serum,” and question her under the anesthesia. At one point, she weighed just eighty-three pounds. After having been indicted for perjury and making bomb threats against Scientology, Cooper had gone into a deep depression. One of the files was titled “Operation Freakout.” It concerned the treatment of Paulette Cooper, the journalist who had published an exposé of Scientology, The Scandal of Scientology, six years earlier. “VERY EARLY ONE MORNING in July 1977, the FBI, having been tipped off about Operation Snow White, carried out raids on Scientology offices in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, carting off nearly fifty thousand documents. ![]()
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