Remember that 2005 episode of South Park where they satirized Scientology by neutrally describing their core beliefs? Well, Scientology does. Recently revealed internal documents reveal that they spent a good year investigating creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker for evidence that could be used to discredit them for making Scientology seem like a creepy cult.

The documents were leaked by former Church of Scientology executive Marty Rathbun; the 2005 South Park episode “Trapped in the Closet,” which seriously just described the origins and core beliefs of the organization, sparked a year-long investigation by the church’s covert Special Affairs operatives, whose existence alone is almost too good to be true.

Says the AV Club:

Scientology operatives staked out the South Park production offices to compile personal information on the staff, and even concocted schemes to infiltrate the writers’ room… through that mole, the Church established “leads” on several friends of Parker and Stone—including then-married couple John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn.

Marvelous.

[Source: AVC]