I am looking for details on LRH's Operation De-Oppression of the late 1970's. This program was supposed to have identified the sources of oppression in CoS such as low pay, poor clothing and food for SO, downstat MEST, and technical problems leading to stalled Bridge Progress. Operation De-Oppression also allowed Franchise Holders to express their problems. I read a claim in which Operation De-Oppression boomed the Orgs and the Franchises.

Coming as Operation De-Oppression did prior to the Missionaires Massacre and DM's rise to power, one wonders if this was a covert operation organized by the Shadowmen to determine all those who would need to be purged when DM was elevated to power by the Shadowmen. By "Shadowmen" I mean those tax attorneys and others who orchestrated CST and RTC and the takeover of LRH's Estate.

Time to connect more dots.

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I can offer only one assumption as a potential explanation for such an operation.

Key to LRH PR "Technology" is that "HE&R is the primary barrier to production." Thus the purpose of any PR campaign is to remove HE&R. It is the ultimate in not doing anything about the situation itself while making it seem so -- the exact strategy at play throughout the cult.

So I would say that the operation was an internal PR campaign, the purpose of which was to elevate LRH's reputation as someone who cared about staff. If he had a similar working principle to DMs -- and I have every reason to believe he did -- it was LRH himself who was the one creating the problem he now appeared to be handling.

Of course, the real reason could me more complex as you point out.

Easy. It was just a smoke screen so Hubbard could put money in his pocket.

Staff had poor pay than and have poor pay today. What was true than is true now. No matter how much 'programs' that might be created to get staff to have decent pay, its bull because the purpose is to have people work for those up the lines that fill their bank accounts.

Period.