Vosper was born in 1935 in
Hounslow, Middlesex (now part of
Greater London) and lived his early life in Britain. He joined the
Hubbard Association of Scientologists International (the overseas arm of the
Church of Scientology) in 1954 at 19. He soon became a Scientology
auditor. In 1956, he was personally cited by
L. Ron Hubbard for his "test work and the wonderful results [he has] obtained on pcs
[preclears] processed under various directives." Vosper joined Hubbard's staff at
Saint Hill Manor in the 1960s, working as the Dissemination Secretary, World Wide and Dissemination Secretary, Evening and Weekend Foundation. He was expelled in September 1968 for alleged disciplinary offences. The Church was permitted to appeal the case but the
Court of Appeal rejected the Church's appeal, finding "
fair dealing in
The Mind Benders in criticising scientology and that it was in the public interest to investigate and disclose." Following the outcome of the case, Vosper asserted that he had been subjected to "dirty tricks" carried out by the Church. According to him, a copy of his manuscript disappeared from his lodgings and, while on holiday in Spain, he was questioned by the police when they opened a parcel addressed to the place in which he was staying, containing obscene caricatures of the Spanish dictator
General Franco. Vosper subsequently became a
deprogrammer, working to extract individuals from groups he considered to be
cults. In November 1987, while a committee member of the British
anti-cult group
Family, Action, Information, Rescue (FAIR), he was convicted in
Munich on charges of
false imprisonment and causing bodily harm to German Scientologist Barbara Schwarz in the course of a deprogramming attempt. He received a five-month suspended sentence. ==References==