42 Facts About Paulette Cooper

Paulette Cooper was born on July 26,1942 and is an American author and journalist whose writing against the Church of Scientology resulted in harassment from Scientologists.

Paulette Cooper endured many years of attacks from church leadership and their agents, including lawsuits, smear campaigns, overt and covert surveillance, outright threats, and even a criminal frame-up.

Paulette Cooper countersued them three times before finally settling with the church in 1985.

Paulette Cooper has authored or co-authored nearly two dozen books, covering a wide range of topics including travel, missing persons, psychics, and pets, in addition to Scientology.

Paulette Cooper's books have sold close to half a million copies in total.

Paula "Paulette Cooper" was born on July 26,1942, during the Nazi occupation of Belgium.

An American Jewish couple, Ted and Stella Cooper, arranged for Paulette to come live with them in New York City in 1948.

Paulette Cooper graduated from Brandeis University with a psychology degree in 1964, having completed a summer course in comparative religion at Harvard.

Paulette Cooper later earned a master's degree from The City College of New York.

Early in her career, Paulette Cooper distinguished herself in her work for advertising agencies, including the prestigious BBDO.

Paulette Cooper enjoyed the challenge of working in the field of copywriting.

Paulette Cooper called a former boyfriend who had himself experimented with Scientology and told him about the visitor's claim that he was Jesus.

Paulette Cooper began work on a Scientology article in earnest.

Paulette Cooper procured a copy of the Anderson Report, a damning 1965 indictment of the church from the Australian state of Victoria, which denounced the church's methods as psychologically abusive and recommended banning it.

Shortly after its publication, Paulette Cooper received two anonymous, telephoned death threats warning her to stop writing about Scientology.

Paulette Cooper pitched this expose as a trove of "exciting, interesting, unknown, controversial material".

Paulette Cooper received many obscene phone calls and some threatening ones.

At the hearing, the prosecutor revealed that Paulette Cooper's fingerprint was found on the second bomb threat letter.

Paulette Cooper had had access to her typewriter while they were collaborating.

On May 17,1973, Paulette Cooper was indicted in connection with the threats.

Paula disappeared soon after Paulette Cooper discovered a photo of a woman who resembled her in Scientology's Freedom magazine.

Paulette Cooper made a deal with the US Attorney's office in which she admitted no guilt.

Paulette Cooper had failed a polygraph early on, but she passed a truth-serum test shortly before the indictment was dropped.

Paulette Cooper was ultimately vindicated when the FBI raided Scientology offices in 1977 and recovered documents relating to the operation.

Later that year, Paulette Cooper began receiving copies of her medical records in the mail from anonymous senders.

In 1976, Hubbard and his operatives in the GO, frustrated by their failure to silence Paulette Cooper, developed an ambitious new campaign to discredit her.

Paulette Cooper suspected such an attempt when a stranger approached her in a bar with a clipboard.

Documents seized in the raid detailed other criminal activities, and the FBI reached out to Paulette Cooper for help with the investigation.

In February 1985, Paulette Cooper finally settled with the church for an undisclosed amount.

Paulette Cooper was one of the speakers at an anti-Scientology rally in Clearwater that drew 10,000 local residents.

Paulette Cooper was interviewed for the story and described her indictment ordeal.

On May 8,1982, Paulette Cooper testified at the Clearwater Hearings, held by city officials over five days to investigate the Scientology takeover.

Paulette Cooper connected them with newspaper reporters and magazine writers and encouraged them to tell their stories.

Paulette Cooper encouraged fellow journalists to cover the church critically.

Paulette Cooper wrote an article entitled "The Scandal of the Scandal of Scientology", published in 2007 in Byline magazine, the publication of the New York Press Club.

Also in 2011, Paulette Cooper learned that a Vanity Fair journalist she considered a friend had been secretly working for the church for two decades; among other services, he had spied on Paulette Cooper.

Paulette Cooper continues to speak out about the Church of Scientology, enjoying high regard from online activists, ex-Scientologists, and others.

Paulette Cooper produced many of these for the National Enquirer, which employed her beginning in 1974; though she avoided assignments that invaded the privacy of celebrities, she pursued Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for years, once ending up in the foreground of a photo of Onassis published by the New York Post.

Paulette Cooper currently writes a column about pets for the Palm Beach Daily News.

Paulette Cooper has authored or co-authored nearly two dozen books, covering a wide range of topics including travel, missing persons, psychics, and her favorite subject, pets.

Paulette Cooper has ghost-written several books, including one for Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry S Truman.

Paulette Cooper married television producer Paul Noble on May 17,1988.