Catalogue / DISC-0087DISC-0087 / ITEM-0047
New OT VIII study and procedure: anonymous 1991 debrief Church of Scientology · United States / worldwide
Disclosure date 2008 Date precision Year Disclosure method Reconstruction Extent Partial Record review Reviewed View in explorer ↗ This record as JSON
Restricted material and access A memory reconstruction of claimed OT VIII instruction, preserved within a leaked document collection.
Material type Graded doctrine Restricted to The debrief claims OT VIII eligibility after earlier levels; its author also requests limited Freezone circulation Restriction mechanism grade_requirement Stated reason Author opposes elite-only access but asks recipients to keep the debrief from the church Tradition origins 1954 Recorded practice status Unknown
Status as of Not recorded Status claims Not recorded Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.
What this disclosure covers New OT VIII Study and Procedure Debrief, pp. 523–527; opening and procedure inspected.
The debrief dates its claimed recollection to 1991; the source compilation was published in 2008.
The source Author Attributed to L. Ron Hubbard; anonymous compilers and reconstructors Original publication 2008 Linked edition Not recorded Format Collection Provenance anonymous_posting Rights of source work Copyrighted Identifiers Not recorded Source content hash sha256:c3c4977e9b31de16ce9ca0af0dd31ac0e526a3a51a341adcae0b27f9b7be190c Retrieved the 612-page PDF and torrent metadata on 2026-11-04. PDF bytes and SHA-256 match the release page. Inspected selected OT III, NOTs and New OT VIII sections, including the page image of p. 523. This establishes copy identity, not authenticity of every component. The OT VIII debrief explicitly says it was reconstructed from memory.
WikiLeaks dates release to 24 March 2008 and attributes apparent removal to Freezone participants. The original acquisition route is not independently established. The archive combines claimed original materials with reconstructions. A republished copyright demand names NOTs, OT II and OT III; it does not authenticate all sections. See artifact records for payload and torrent identities.
File or recording · Collection Open artifact / recovery route ↗
Artifact ID ARTF-0001 Inspection Partial Inspected parts 612-page container identified; contents pp. 7–8 and selected sheets pp. 247, 373, 399–400, 410 and 523–527; image of p. 523 SHA-256 c3c4977e9b31de16ce9ca0af0dd31ac0e526a3a51a341adcae0b27f9b7be190c IPFS CID Not recorded BitTorrent info-hash Not recorded Complete PDF captured; selected content inspected. Computed SHA-256 and byte count match the release page. This does not authenticate all components.
File or recording · Torrent metadata Open artifact / recovery route ↗
Artifact ID ARTF-0002 Inspection Complete Inspected parts Parsed torrent metainfo; computed SHA-1 of exact bencoded info dictionary; file name and declared payload length SHA-256 94eb443b61f573f659b14792dcdae3c1db3c5389c2ce0c9412920d84c9d6df79 IPFS CID Not recorded BitTorrent info-hash 4bc8f8fbf0bb7f7c674ae4fb21d67aed6778b6a4 Metadata-only artifact; no torrent client or swarm transfer used. Declares a 17788660-byte payload and 262144-byte pieces. Its SHA-256 identifies the torrent metadata, not the PDF.
Claims about this item These claims may cite other sources for the same restricted item. Supporting and contradicting evidence remain separate.
CLM-0161 · Content The New OT VIII debrief explicitly calls itself a reconstruction from memory rather than an original or perfect course record.
Claim support Single source Record review Reviewed Period 1991-dated debrief published in the 2008 compilation Locators SRC-0097: p. 523, opening paragraph Sources counted as independent Not recorded Supporting sources Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Checked the page image. The author’s confidence in recall is not independent validation of fidelity.
SRC-0097: Source authenticity is uncertain; this is separate from the truth of its assertions. ARTF-0001: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions. CLM-0162 · Content The debrief includes clay demonstrations, identity comparisons, repeated spotting exercises and interpretations of meter responses.
Claim support Single source Record review Reviewed Period 1991-dated debrief Locators SRC-0097: pp. 524–527 Sources counted as independent Not recorded Supporting sources Contradicting sources: none recorded.
Records content of an anonymous reconstruction, not authenticated church instructions or demonstrated results.
SRC-0097: Source authenticity is uncertain; this is separate from the truth of its assertions. ARTF-0001: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions. CLM-0163 · Stated reason The debrief’s author rejects elite-only access while asking recipients to keep it within an independent network and away from the church.
Claim support Single source Record review Reviewed Period 1991-dated debrief Locators SRC-0097: p. 523, opening paragraph Sources counted as independent Not recorded Supporting sources Contradicting sources: none recorded.
This is the anonymous author’s stated distribution rationale; the alleged security arrangements were not independently confirmed.
SRC-0097: Source authenticity is uncertain; this is separate from the truth of its assertions. ARTF-0001: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions. Evidence qualifications SRC-0097 · source_authenticity_uncertain: Source authenticity is uncertain; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.ARTF-0001 · artifact_partial: Artifact inspection is partial; use only its recorded inspected portions.Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.
Item notes The debrief is not an original course sheet. Its author’s identity, delivery history, accuracy and claimed effects remain unestablished.
