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THE PARTIES
7. Plaintiff MICHAEL PHILIP PATTINSON ("Plaintiff") is an individual
currently residing in the State of California, County of Los Angeles. Plaintiff is a
citizen of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Plaintiff
is a professional artist and the holder of a Master of Arts Degree from Dundee University
in Scotland. Plaintiff has had a 25-year career internationally selling graphic art with
over 99% of the sale of his art work being to private and corporate collectors. Plaintiff
is the pioneer of the "musicalist" art style in that he paints visual renditions
of pieces of music. This style has met with good success whenever properly marketed and
not subjected to exploitation and destruction by the Defendants herein. Plaintiff has
appeared on U.S. television with his art and has had exhibitions in over twelve different
countries during his career as an artist. During almost the entirety of Plaintiff's
artistic career, he has been a member of the various churches and corporations of
Scientology which have, at various times, both exploited and destroyed his business of
selling works of art and his life generally. Prior to, and during, his association with
Defendants Plaintiff was and is a Christian.
8. The so-called religion of SCIENTOLOGY was founded by L. Ron Hubbard
(hereinafter "Commodore Hubbard" or "Hubbard"), who set forth certain
purported "scientific" theories in a number of writings published in the
early-1950s, including: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and Science
of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior. Subsequently, in or about the mid-1950s,
and publications such as "Professional Auditor's Bulletin No. 32 (7 Aug.,
1954)" Hubbard began representing that his published, and unpublished, theories were
both alternatively "scientific" and "religious." Such representations
were and are false and fraudulent and comprise some of the facts giving rise to
Plaintiff's various claims for relief set forth herein. "Scientology [claims to be]
the science of knowing how to know answers. It is an organized system of Axioms and
Processes which resolve the problems of existence." (A Manual of the Dissemination
of Material, 1955). However, the processes are fraudulent and dangerous and the
axioms, like other writings of Commodore Hubbard, are plagiarized.
9. The Scientology entities named as Defendants herein are part of the single
entity or juggernaut of Scientology. The corporate Defendants herein are components of the
larger conglomeration of approximately 150 shell corporations, "fronts" and
other organizations which, in the aggregate, are also referred to as Scientology and/or
the Scientology Enterprise.
10. Defendant Church of Scientology International ("CSI") is, and at all
relevant times was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. As recently as October 29, 1997,
CSI was found by the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County to be one of the
alter ego-control entities of Scientology. CSI is currently the official Mother Church of
Scientology. However, CSI is not a church within the traditional meaning of the word. It
is a mere corporate middle management entity masquerading as a Church for tax exempt
purposes. CSI houses the Scientology unit called the Office of Special Affairs
("OSA"). OSA is Department 20 on the Scientology Organization Board, or Org
Board, and was formerly known as the Guardian's Office ("GO"). It is responsible
for handling all external threats to the Scientology enterprise. OSA is the Scientology
Enterprise's CIA-style intelligence and dirty tricks bureau. Its staff and spies practice
"TR-L", a secret training routine, a claimed trade secret and copyrighted
practice, inter alia, that teaches Scientologists how to effectively LIE.
They also tell "acceptable truths." The overwhelming majority of the revenues of
CSI (in excess of $40 Million a year) are used to fund a litigation juggernaut of lawyers,
paralegals and private investigators conducting intelligence, intimidation, covert
operations (both legal and illegal) litigation blitzkriegs and wars of attrition that,
among other things, are intended to silence and punish critics of Defendants and to
conceal the criminal, fraudulent and other activities perpetrated upon the Plaintiff and
others, and to further the expansion of Scientology, and its worldwide totalitarian
political domination, by any means whether legal or illegal. In addition, CSI operates an
800 plus acre facility at Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California, located in the
California high desert. This facility masquerades as CSI's Golden Era Film Production
studio but in reality is also known to senior Scientology executives as "the
Base," or "Gold," and is the location of one of Scientology's
Rehabilitation Project Force "re-education" facilities which are described by
various former Scientology victims as a "gulag" or "concentration
camp" styled punishment camp where people have been held under armed guard for years
and at which others have simply disappeared. Although most Scientologists do not know
where Captain Miscavige lives, his primary office and residence are also located at
"the Base." The Base has been described in sealed testimony as a heavily
fortified and dangerous facility which houses large stocks of munitions, bombs, assault
weapons, a high mountain lookout and bunkers intended to repel a Waco-styled ATF or FBI
assault. The Scientology organization takes unusual measures to prevent or punish those
who would fly over the Base and take aerial photographs. The Base is also the location of
facilities and amenities that unlawfully inure to the benefit of certain Scientology
celebrities (Exhibit "A" hereto).
11. Defendant Church of Spiritual Technology ("CST") is, and at all
relevant times was, a California non-profit corporation with its principal place of
business in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. "CST
has the power . . . to [take] over the religious trademarks and use of the
Advanced Technology, thereby gaining direct control over all Scientology Organizations
. . ." Church of Spiritual Technology v. United States, 26b CL Ct.
713 aff.991 F.2d (sic) (1992) Accordingly CST, has ultimate power over the entire vast
domain of all Scientology-related entities and individuals and businesses owned by
Scientologists. CST does business as the L. Ron Hubbard library with its primary
business address at a rental mailbox located at Village Mail Corp., 419 Larchmont,
Box 162, Los Angeles, California. CST's founders and special directors are Lymon
Spurlock, Sherman Lenske, Meade Emory and Leon Misterek. Lyman Spurlock is the only
Scientologist and is a CPA. The other co-founders are non-Scientologist tax attorneys.
Indeed, Meade Emory is a former assistant to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue
Service. Through a complex series of assignments and agreements, commencing in 1982, CST,
doing business as the L. Ron Hubbard library, now owns all copyrights to all works
created by L. Ron Hubbard, plus all copyrights to "look-alike" works that
are "based on or derived from" the works of L. Ron Hubbard, but are
"by" the Church of Scientology and others. In addition to owning and licensing
all such copyrights, it possesses the right to seize all Scientology trademarks and to
seize all of Scientology's so-called advanced technology. CST is a "low profile"
Scientology entity the incorporation and activities of which were not disclosed to
Plaintiff.
12. Defendant Religious Technology Center ("RTC") is, and at all relevant
times was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City of Los Angeles,
County of Los Angeles, State of California. As recently as October 29, 1997, RTC was
found by the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County to be one of the alter-ego
control entities of Scientology. RTC is one of the corporations that controls the
copyrights and trademarks pertaining to the works of L. Ron Hubbard and various
others. Its function is to preserve the "purity" of Scientology by constantly
examining and critiquing all other Scientology entities, and businesses owned by
Scientologists, regarding their operations, including the delivery of supposedly religious
service "technology" as well as management operations. This gives it de facto
command control over every aspect of every Scientology corporation, entity, business owned
by a Scientologist, and individual Scientologist without regard to the alleged separate
management and structure of such entities.
13. Relief Defendants William J. Clinton, Samuel R. Berger,
Madeleine K. Albright, Robert E. Rubin, William K. Daley, Charlene
Barshefsky and Michael P. Dolan, elected or appointed members of the Executive Branch
of the United States Federal Government, are sued herein as Relief Defendants, and are
solely sued for the purpose of making them "Relief Defendants" in
connection with certain of the unlawful and unconstitutional activities alleged, including
but not limited to multiple violations of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment
to the United States Constitution alleged of the Scientology and Scientology affiliated
Defendants and for the sole purposes of the Declaratory and Injunctive Relief requested
herein in the Twenty-Ninth Cause of Action. Plaintiff seeks no damages or other
compensation from any of the Relief Defendants or from the U.S. Federal Government.
Plaintiff does not allege that the Relief Defendants necessarily know of the various
reprehensible and unconstitutional conduct set forth herein at the time they engaged in
the excessive entanglement of Church and State. However, now that the Relief Defendants
are on notice of these matters they should do no less than to convene Department of
Justice, IRS, Senate, and Congressional inquiries into the actions of Defendants who are
now "state actors' by virtue of express compliance and collection provisions of the
IRS Secret Closing Agreement.
14. Defendant Church of Scientology of California ("CSC") is, and at all
relevant times was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. Until 1982, CSC was the Mother Church
of the Church of Scientology. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges
that in 1982, as part of a fraudulent and criminal conspiracy led by Defendant Captain
Miscavige, and known as Mission Corporate Category Sort-Out ("MCCS"), and in
order to avoid the claims of creditors, such as judgment creditor Lawrence D.
Wollersheim, and other litigants, and the payment of properly due taxes and government
supervision, CSC transferred its assets to other Scientology corporations and entities for
no consideration.
15. Defendant Sea Organization ("Sea Org"), is, and its alter-ego Sea Org
Reserves, Ltd., and at all relevant times was, an unincorporated California-based entity
or association housed in the various business offices of that state's corporate party
Defendants herein, and is one of the alter-ego entities which control the Scientology
enterprise throughout the world. The Sea Org is an elite fraternal para-military and
totalitarian organization comprised of various Sea Org units existing within the
formalized structures of Scientology. The Sea Org is, in reality, the heart of R.I.C.O.
enterprise alleged herein. Upon information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that the
formalized structures of Scientology are mere corporate shells and shams operating in
concert and under the directions of the Sea Org The various Sea Org units are the actual
Scientology organization. The Sea Org is governed by the Sea Org Board, maintains its own
bank accounts, and maintains the Sea Org reserves. The Sea Org is "the absolute power
center" of the whole "Scientology" enterprise said to be located worldwide,
including 150 satellite or affiliated entities claimed to exist in the United States and
listed in the Clinton Administration's 1993 IRS letter "conditionally approving
Defendants' tax exempt status." Defendant Sea Org Captain Miscavige sits alone as
"the absolute power center," controlling absolutely by whatever
traditional/Hubbard/ Miscavige means are required to further Scientology's worldwide
political and economic takeover, whether lawful or unlawful. The Sea Org Reserves were not
reported to the IRS, as part of the 1993 Scientology-IRS Settlement Agreement,
notwithstanding their source being the various Scientology Section 501(c)(3)
tax-exempt entities and the Plaintiff's monies, time and trust as set forth herein. The
Sea Org reserves or bank accounts are used to hold, hide, transfer and manipulate funds
properly belonging to the Scientology enterprise and beneficially owned by its members
and, in part, contributed to by the Plaintiff.
16. At all times mentioned herein, Defendant Captain David Miscavige ("Captain
Miscavige") was domiciled in the State of California and at various times, held
numerous `posts', and wore numerous `hats', within Scientology, including being a
Commodore's Messenger, Mission Ops/Mission Corporate Category Sort-out ("MCCS"),
an Executive of ASI, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of RTC, the Managing Agent of
CST, the Managing Agent of RTC, the Managing Agent of CSI, the head of the Sea Org, the
worldwide ecclesiastical head of Scientology, and the Supreme Commander of Scientology,
including the Pacific Area Command ("PAC") and holds the pseudo naval rank of
Captain within the Sea Org, into which is paid a large portion of Scientology's vast tax
free net income and profits contributed to partially by Plaintiff. In actuality, Captain
Miscavige, is the Church of Scientology's Captain Bligh. At various relevant times herein,
Captain Miscavige had direct oral and written communications with Plaintiff, including
communications relating to his completion of the New OT-VII and New OT-VIII course levels,
and thus, Captain Miscavige has unique and percipient knowledge as to certain of the
relevant matters herein. In 1993, in a 1933 Nuremberg-Nazi like rally, Captain Miscavige
proclaimed Scientology's "War against the IRS" (the United States Internal
Revenue Service) to be over, with a saving of taxes and penalties otherwise due the United
States Government, State Governments and local taxing authorities in the approximate
amount of one billion dollars minus the twelve million dollars paid to I.R.S. in
the secret settlement (Exhibits "B", "C", and "D" hereto).
As part of said conditional settlement and secret closing agreement, the Clinton
Administration agreed to permit Captain Miscavige and certain of the other Scientology
Defendants to monitor, supervise and compel their own "compliance", and that of
all Scientologists, with the tax laws of these United States thereby constituting the
Defendants "state actors" and agents of the I.R.S. At all material times Captain
Miscavige has used the Scientology Enterprise to implement and enforce both Commodore
Hubbard's irrevocable policies and his own daily orders.
17. Defendant Author Services, Inc. ("ASI") is, and at all relevant times
was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City of Los Angeles, County
of Los Angeles, State of California. ASI was the alter-ego of L. Ron Hubbard and
subsequently ASI was the alter-ego of Defendants Pat Broeker and Captain Miscavige. ASI is
the corporate successor to the Scientology division which, prior to Commodore Hubbard's
death, allegedly in 1996, handled all of Hubbard's personal accounts including his
Scientology income of $1 million per week in 1980 (a period of time in which
he claimed to be virtually uncompensated for his "contributions" to Scientology)
and which virtually controlled the financial policies of all Scientology organizations. As
such, ASI had control of the finances of non-profit corporations within Scientology and
continues to do so. ASI is an integral, if not key part of Scientology and, at all
pertinent times, was, and continues to be, an active participant in the conspiracy herein
alleged.
18. At all times mentioned herein, Plaintiff is informed and believes and thereon
alleges that Defendants Author Family Trust, and the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard, are
entities that are residents of the State of California and subject to the control of
Defendant Norman Starkey.
19. At all times herein, Defendant Norman Starkey was and is a "junior"
or subordinate of Miscavige and/or L. Ron Hubbard, and since January 24, 1986 has
functioned under a various array of titles, including: Executor of the Estate of
L. Ron Hubbard and Trustee of Authors Family Trust; Executor of the Estate of
L. Ron Hubbard; Executor of the Will of L. Ron Hubbard, d.b.a. L. Ron
Hubbard Library; Executor of the Will of L. Ron Hubbard; Trustee of Authors Family
Trust - B; Trustee of the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard and Trustee of Authors Family
Trust; Trustee of Authors Family Trust - B d.b.a. L. Ron Hubbard Library and
Trustee of Authors Family Trust. Among other things, Norman F. Starkey has been a
principal participant in the fraudulent and unlawful transfer of approximately 8,000
copyrighted titles, between the years 1982 through to the present, in violation of
applicable law and the rights of third parties including Commodore Hubbard's wife and
heirs.
20. Defendant Religious Research Foundation is incorporated in Liberia and has been
utilized by Defendants to channel monies contributed by Plaintiff into non-church accounts
controlled by Commodore Hubbard and his successors for their personal and unlawful
inurement.
21. Defendant the Commodore's Messengers Org ("CMO") is comprised of a
group of Sea Org members who operate, using monies partially provided by Plaintiff, to
ensure that the orders and whims of Commodore Hubbard and his successor Captain Miscavige
are complied with instantly.
22. Defendant World Institute of Scientology Enterprises ("WISE") is, and
at all relevant times was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City
of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
23. Defendant World Institute of Scientology Enterprises International ("WISE
Int.") is, and at all relevant times was, a California corporation with its principal
office in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. WISE is
represented as being a secular association for Scientology members who wish to be licensed
to use Scientology's technology in their businesses and to pay licensing fees of ten
percent (10%) of their gross income to the Church of Scientology for so doing. In reality,
through these licensing arrangements, and coerced membership of Scientologists, and the
employment of other Scientologists as employees who also must pay fixed donations to the
Church, WISE is a massive money making commercial enterprise that funnels large revenues
"up lines" to the now tax exempt Church in the form of the 10% licensing fees
from the businesses' profits and fixed donations from the businesses' owners and
employees. At any time, an RTC Mission can enter, search and make seizures at WISE
businesses. WISE has been engaged in major commercial frauds perpetrated, among other
places, in Germany and is currently, along with Applied Scholastics, the principal vehicle
for the expansion of Scientology through Eastern Europe. Through this vehicle, and its
recruiting fronts such as Sterling Management Services and Hollander, WISE recruits
Eastern European businessmen to become members of WISE and then Scientologists who,
through auditing, reveal sensitive commercial and governmental confidential information
that is then utilized by the Scientology enterprise to advance its anti-social,
undemocratic and unlawful goals. The 1993 secret IRS closing agreement between the Clinton
administration and Scientology required Scientology to dissolve WISE. However, the same
Clinton administration and Scientology agreement permits Scientology to be the actual
monitor of its own compliance with United States tax laws and thus WISE continues to
conduct its activities, both lawful and unlawful. Although the Scientology enterprise
described WISE as a secular fraternal business association it is, in reality, one of the
ten major Scientology activity sectors represented on Scientology's governing Watchdog
Committee and is so indicated on the internal Scientology enterprise command chart.
24. Defendant Majestic Cruise Lines, was a division of the Foundation Church of
Scientology Flagship Service Organization, is and at all relevant times was, a foreign
corporation with a place of business at 118 North Fort Harrison Avenue, Clearwater,
Florida and which also transacted business within the City of Los Angeles, County of Los
Angeles, State of California.
25. Defendant M.V. Freewinds is, and at all relevant times was, a
foreign registered motor vessel owned and operated by Majestic Cruise Lines by and, on
behalf of Defendants. The M.V. Freewinds generally operates from various
Caribbean ports and in international waters. It is believed to be a vessel that does not
comply with many applicable regulations concerning seaworthiness and properly qualified
and experienced crews. Thus, activities on the ship are outside of the jurisdiction of the
United States government. Large quantities of semi-automatic and military assault weapons
are kept on board and are inspected from time to time by Mexican authorities and other
regional governments. The M.V. Freewinds also houses those certain
Scientologists of senior stature, and who have been engaged in activities, that require
them to be removed from law enforcement or civil jurisdiction, and are either on the RPF
or being held in armed protective custody in furtherance of various Scientology schemes to
obstruct justice. Recently, it appears that the Defendants have engaged in a number of
sham ownership and leasing transfers intended to obstruct justice and to safeguard the M.V.
Freewinds from attachment and arrest in this litigation.
26. Defendant International Association of Scientologists ("IAS") is, and
at all relevant times was, a corporation having its principal place of business in care of
St. Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England, but which also did business within
the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
27. Defendant Church of Scientology, Flag Service Organization ("FSO")
is, and at all relevant times was, a Florida corporation with its principal office in the
City of Clearwater, State of Florida, but which did business within the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. For example, FSO solicits heavily in
California and conducts substantial business in California. At one point, FSO was a
division of CSC; subsequently, as part of Captain Miscavige's MCCS, it was spun off as an
individual corporation and its assets transferred, without consideration, to avoid
credit-worthy litigants' claims such as those of judgment creditor Lawrence Wollersheim
and plaintiff herein. FSO also maintains facilities, such as "The Hacienda", the
Q.I. Hotel, and the Sand Castle Hotel, in Clearwater, Florida where other Scientology 'Rehabilitation
Project Force', or gulag/ concentration camp-style facilities are located, and other
facilities where armed, patrolling guards are clearly visible to Scientologists and others
including Scientology school children.
28. Defendant Flagship Service Organization, aka FSSO, Freewinds Relay Office, is,
and at all times was, a Florida corporation with its principal office in the City of
Clearwater, Florida, but which does business within the City of Los Angeles, County of Los
Angeles, State of California.
29. Defendant Building Management Services is a California non-profit religious
corporation, with its principal offices in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles,
State of California, which has used monies contributed by Plaintiff to purchase properties
in which some of the conduct complained of herein has occurred. Building Management
Services is a low profile corporation holding major Scientology-owned real estate, as part
of "Mission Corporate Category Sort-out" and the plan to ensure that any
judgment creditors of the Scientology enterprise are unable to effectively collect and
satisfy upon such civil judgments.
30. Defendant Church of Scientology of Paris is, and at all relevant times was, a
French corporation with its principal office in the City of Paris, France, but which does
business within the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
Church of Scientology of Paris is one of the French Scientology corporations. In 1996, the
former head of the French Scientology enterprise, Jean-Jacques Mazier, was convicted of
fraud and second degree murder, along with 13 other Scientologists, in connection with the
death of a French Scientologist who committed suicide after being unable to endure the
Scientology enterprise's pressure for more money, more money and yet more money any
longer.
31. Defendant Church of Scientology Celebrity Center International is, and at all
relevant times was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
32. Defendant Church of Scientology Celebrity Center Paris is, and at all relevant
times was, a French corporation with its principal place of business in Paris, France, but
which does business within the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of
California.
33. Defendant Mary Sue Hubbard ("MSH") is a resident of the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. Until his death, allegedly on
January 24, 1986, Commodore L. Ron Hubbard exercised dominion and control over
all Scientology corporations through, until 1981, the Guardian's Office ("GO")
which organization was headed by his wife MSH. Upon information and belief, MSH has
converted millions of dollars of Church of Scientology funds, partially contributed to by
Plaintiff, she has fraudulently taken or "culled" information from "PC
files" to be used for purposes of blackmail and extortion and made an agreement,
under fraud, duress and undue influence, with Norman Starkey as Executor, to waive her
rights to her community property share of the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard. Between the
latter part of 1979 and mid-1980, MSH was one of the 11 highest officials of the GO who
were convicted of a variety of serious crimes by the United States Government, some of
which are described in a 286 page "Stipulation of Evidence filed in United
States v. Mary Sue Hubbard, Crim. Case No. 78-401 (D.C.D.C. 1978) and
executed by MSH. Said "Stipulation of Evidence" is a detailed stipulation of the
operation of the G.O. (now O.S.A.) to destroy some of the enemies of Scientology, one of
which was the United States Government itself. These crimes were discovered in the course
of the largest-ever raids conducted by the F.B.I. and they constituted the most extensive
clandestine infiltration of the United States Government ever known. In mid-1980, in a
deceptive "putsch" or take-over, involving misrepresentations by Captain
Miscavige to Commodore L. Ron Hubbard, Captain Miscavige removed MSH as the
"Controller" of the Guardian's Office, and Captain Miscavige now has MSH under
virtual house arrest in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. Plaintiff is
informed and believes that had Defendants not entered into the 263 page "Stipulation
of Evidence" in United States v. Hubbard, 474 F.Supp. 64 (1979), with the
predecessors of the various Relief Defendants named herein, then certain of the Relief
Defendants, such as the Government of the United States of America, would have publicly
revealed certain additional evidence of the following: Defendants' extensive infiltration
of the United States Government, and through the United States' electronic monitoring of
encrypted and/or coded foreign diplomatic communications, the recruiting of senior
government officials into the Scientology "religion," the using the 'auditing'
and/or "confessional" or "sec check" processes to obtain classified
information regarding, inter alia; international currency and commodity
price movements from certain recruited government officials, and Defendant's conduct of
paid intelligence operations in the United States on behalf of foreign governments, and
then employing said knowledge to the financial benefit of the Defendants and at the
expense, cost and detriment of Plaintiff generally.
34. Defendant Pat Broeker is an individual whose current whereabouts are unknown to
Plaintiff, but understood to be known to Defendant Captain Miscavige and his hired
"investigator" , intimidator and enforcer, former LAPD officer Eugene Ingram,
who himself is the subject of numerous arrest warrants in various of these United States
and abroad, and many of the other individual Defendants herein. Until Commodore Hubbard's
death, allegedly on January 24, 1986, Defendant Pat Broeker was in hiding with
Commodore Hubbard and communicated Commodore Hubbard's orders to Captain Miscavige. At
that time, Plaintiff is informed and believes that Pat Broeker and Captain Miscavige
together improperly controlled approximately $150 million of Scientology Enterprise
monies which included monies which were contributed by Plaintiff, or which were the
product of his labor, without authority to do so. Defendant Pat Broeker was Commodore
Hubbard's designated successor until Captain Miscavige engineered a "putsch" or
take-over to remove him and to confine him at one of Defendants' RPFs' or concentration
camps, in Riverside County, California before allowing him to disappear into monitored
obscurity and non-contactability. Defendant Pat Broeker committed tortious and other
wrongful acts against Plaintiff while domiciled here.
35. Defendant Anne Broeker is, and at all relevant times was, a California resident
and admitted tortious and other acts against Plaintiff while domiciled here in California.
She is currently believed to be residing, under armed guard, at Scientology's base at
Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, County of Riverside, State of California. Upon information
and belief, Anne Broeker escaped from said Scientology base, described in the court sealed
declaration of Andre Tabayoyan (which is available on the Internet) as being "heavily
armed and dangerous" and was allegedly captured and kidnapped (by Lieutenant Rathbun
using a plane owned by Defendant John Travolta, and is now allegedly being held against
her will at said Scientology desert base which also accommodates the Rehabilitation
Project Force ("RPF"), described by many former Scientologists as a form of
"gulag" or "concentration camp." Until Commodore Hubbard's death,
allegedly on January 24, 1986, Ann Broeker was in hiding with Commodore Hubbard and
assisted Pat Broeker to communicate Commodore Hubbard's orders to Captain Miscavige.
36. Defendant Lyman Spurlock, is a subordinate of Captain Miscavige, who is
currently in charge of all of Church of Scientology finances and assets throughout the
world. Spurlock, together with Captain Miscavige and Starkey, wrongfully controls
Scientology assets, comprising monies contributed by Plaintiff, through various
Scientology corporate shells and corporate mazes. At various times since 1981, Spurlock
has been "Director of Legal Affairs" for ASI and RTC and he directed and
coordinated the creation of most of the Defendant corporations that took place within
Scientology in 1981 and 1982. " Prior to 1981, Spurlock held numerous other high
ranking positions within Scientology and he is a member of the Sea Org. Defendant Spurlock
is also one of the four co-founders of Church of Spiritual Technology doing business as L.
Ron Hubbard Library and which has ultimate power over the entire domain of all
Scientology-related entities, individual side projects and businesses owned by individual
Scientologists.
37. Defendant Terri Gamboa, is a resident of the State of Arizona but, at certain
relevant times, was a California resident and subordinate of Miscavige in which capacity,
she received orders and directions from DM and through ASI, exercised wrongful control and
dominion over assets of Scientology which included monies contributed by Plaintiff. She
committed tortious and other acts against Plaintiff while she was domiciled in California.
She is now subject to intimidation, by Defendants, intended to keep her forever silent
about the matters set forth herein.
38. Defendant Mark Fisher is a resident of the State of Arizona but, at relevant
times, was a California resident and a subordinate or "junior" of Captain
Miscavige in which capacity he received orders and directions from Captain Miscavige and
participated in the wrongful control and dominion over assets of the Scientology
enterprise comprised, in part, of monies contributed by Plaintiff. He committed tortious
and other wrongful acts against the Plaintiff while domiciled here in California. He is
now subject to intimidation, by Defendants, intended to keep him forever silent about the
matters set forth herein.
39. Defendant Vicki Aznaran is a resident of the City of Dallas in the State of
Texas but, at certain relevant times, was a corporate officer of RTC who exercised
wrongful control and dominion over assets of Scientology comprised, in part, of monies
contributed by Plaintiff. Subsequently, along with Jesse Prince, she was imprisoned under
armed guard at one of the Scientology `gulags' located in the California desert. She is
now subject to intimidation, and a "gag" agreement by Defendants, intended to
keep her forever silent about the matters set forth herein. She committed tortious and
wrongful acts against the Plaintiff while domiciled here in California.
40. Defendant Mark or "Marty" Rathbun is either a resident of the State
of California and/or does business within the State of California and at all relevant
times was a subordinate or "junior" of Captain Miscavige, exercising wrongful
control and dominion over assets of Scientology partially comprised of contributions by
Plaintiff and engaged in fraudulent conduct directed at Plaintiff. Currently, Defendant
Rathbun holds the rank of Lieutenant in the Sea Org and occupies the post of Inspector
General Religious Technology Center. In or about late 1993/early 1994, Defendant Rathbun
"blew his post", left Scientology and was later "returned" and held
captive at sea aboard the M.V. Freewinds while he was being re-educated and
"rehabilitated".
41. Defendant Michael Rinder was formerly an Australian citizen and resident, who
has at material times occupied the `Post' and worn the `Hat' of Commanding Officer, Office
of Special Affairs (C.O. O.S.A.) As such he commands the litigation harassment,
intimidation and intelligence gathering operations of the Scientology Enterprise.
Defendant Rinder is now a resident of the State of California and conducts business in the
City of Hollywood California. Defendant Rinder personally met with Plaintiff and had
participated, with Scientology attorneys Elliot Abelson and William Drescher, in the
perpetration of the various criminal and tortious conduct alleged herein. He has also
participated in the suborning of perjury, and attempted obstruction of justice, from
persons such as Vicki Azneran, Richard Azneran, R. Vaughn Young, Stacey Young, Andre
Tabayoyan, Robert F. Lewis, Esq. and Garry Scarff.
42. Defendant Ray Mithoff is, and at all relevant times was, a resident of the
State of California and a subordinate of LRH, MSH and Captain Miscavige and currently
holds the rank of Commander in the Sea Org and the post of Senior Case Supervisor (C/S)
International. At various times, notwithstanding his alleged former illicit hallucinogenic
drug activity, he was RTC Inspector General Tech and participated in various of the frauds
perpetrated upon Plaintiff. He is also believed to maintain a secret list of
"mysterious" Scientology related deaths believed in some way, inter alia,
to be connected to the unlawful practice of medicine using the E-meter.
43. Defendant Heber Jentzch is a resident of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los
Angeles, State of California, a former actor and comic, and since 1983 has been the
President of CSI. As President of CSI and as the principal public relations spokesperson
for Scientology, he has participated in the various fraudulent representations perpetrated
upon the Plaintiff. In November 1988, Rev. Jentzch was arrested in Spain and held in
jail for 30 days on charges of fraud, forgery, kidnapping, coercion, failure to meet
Social Security payments and illegal association. Rev. Jentzch fraudulently
engineered his release upon $1 million bail and he is still awaiting trial. If
convicted, he faces a possible sentence of sixty (60) years in a Spanish prison.
44. Defendant Danny Keogh is a resident of the State of Florida who has minimum
contact with the State of California. He has participated in the various fraudulent
representations and misconduct perpetrated upon the Plaintiff. Defendant Keogh is the
former husband and reported current lover of Scientologist Lisa Marie Presley. Upon
information and belief, Defendant Keogh and Lisa Marie Presley were divorced, "for
the greater good of scientology" and "the greatest number of dynamics", so
that she could try and recruit singer Michael Jackson into Scientology, and to that end
Scientology operatives assisted in the "handling" of the various pedophilia
investigations being conducted into Mr. Jackson at that time.
45. Defendant Jacqueline Van Der Linde (Govan) is a resident of the City of
Clearwater, Florida, a field staff member of Defendants, and was at one time was a member
of the Guardian's Office and at the orders of Commodore Hubbard and certain of the other
Defendants herein participated in the instructions to Plaintiff to lie about the
Scientology presence in, and intended takeover of, the City of Clearwater by masquerading
as members of the United Churches of Florida as more fully described herein. She has
"minimum contacts" with the State of California.
46. Defendant Mary Voegeding is the President of Flag Land Base at Clearwater,
Florida and is a person who personally participated in the fraudulent and unlawful conduct
perpetrated upon the Plaintiff. She has "minimum contact" with the State of
California.
47. Defendant Alain Franck Rosenberg is the Executive Director of Celebrity Center
Paris, one of the Defendants herein, who does business within the State of California and
who participated in the perpetration of the various fraudulent and wrongful conduct
Defendants perpetrated upon Plaintiff herein. He has both minimum contacts "with the
State of California" and "national contacts" with these United States.
48. Defendant Guillaume Lesevre is the Executive Director of CSI (ED Int.) and in
that capacity is the Executive Director of the Scientology Enterprise worldwide. The
"post" or "hat" of ED Int was once held by Hubbard. As one of the most
senior staff members of the Scientology Enterprise he has participated in the fraudulent,
tortious and other wrongful conduct that Defendants have perpetrated upon the Plaintiff
herein. Defendant Lesevre also holds the rank of Captain in the Sea Org. In addition,
Defendant Lesevre and Plaintiff had personal and direct communication on the issue of
resolving the injustice perpetrated upon him, as more fully described herein, and the
restoration of the OT levels wrongfully stripped from Plaintiff after he had paid over
$500,000 dollars to obtain those same OT levels. Thus, Defendant Lesevre has unique
percipient knowledge of the matters complained of herein.
49. Defendant Sarit Rosenberg is the President of Celebrity Center Paris which does
business among other places, in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of
California and who personally participated in some of the most egregious of the tortious
and wrongful conduct perpetrated by Defendants upon Plaintiff. She has "minimum
contacts" with the State of California and "national contacts" within these
United States.
50. Defendant John Travolta ("Travolta"), at various relevant times
herein, was a resident of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of
California. Furthermore, he has committed tortious acts against Plaintiff while domiciled
in California. Defendant Travolta is a "celebrity member" of the Church of
Scientology. He has also been a member of Scientology for a period of time similar to that
of Plaintiff. Defendant Travolta has been a prolific, principal public spokesperson and
recruiter for the Church of Scientology, owing fiduciary duties to his fellow
Scientologists, making statements, now known to be material misrepresentations, which
Plaintiff reasonably relied upon to his detriment. Said misrepresentations continued until
the time Plaintiff ceased Scientology training and auditing. Defendant Travolta has also
helped to lure young actors and actors through the Celebrity Center and into Scientology
using the heavily Scientology staffed Beverly Hills Playhouse as a recruitment vehicle.
Because Plaintiff had been lured into Scientology upon, among other things, the
representation that Scientology counseling and courses would "handle" or cure
his homosexuality or "ruin", Plaintiff relied, to his detriment, upon Defendant
Travolta's public statements as a spokesperson for Defendants, endorsing Scientology and
the practices of Defendants. More recently, as part of what has been called
"Cult-Gate", Defendant Travolta has reportedly been responsible for subverting
the President of the United States into intervening, through the United States' Secretary
of State and the National Security Advisor, in the internal affairs of the Government of
Germany and, through the United States' Department of Commerce and the United States'
Trade Negotiator, in the internal affairs of the Government of Sweden by placing it on a
301 Watch List with associated threats of United States' Government's Trade Sanctions
against the Government of Sweden for refusing to comply with Defendants' demands, and the
Clinton Administration's Demands, concerning public availability of scriptures allegedly
relating to their so-called religion. Indeed, Defendant Travolta has stated "I found
Washington fascinating, like a puzzle. If you know it well enough, you can infiltrate
and get things done. We got tons done."(emphasis added) Thus, Defendant Travolta has
knowingly participated in the intentional violation of the Establishment Clause of the
First Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus instigating the "excessive
entanglement of church and state." Defendant Travolta has known of Scientology's
"gulags" and "concentration camps, otherwise known as RPF's, through both
personal observation and information received from a certain former Scientologist, but has
deliberately chosen to turn a blind eye to their existence and to refrain from disclosing
his knowledge to people such as Plaintiff who trusted and relied upon him as a principal
spokesperson on behalf of the Defendants. Indeed, when the movie "Saturday Night
Fever" was first released, he knowingly arranged for a hard to obtain copy of the
movie to be shown to members of the Sea Org sentenced to armed confinement in the RPF, or
"gulag" in Scientology's buildings in Hollywood, California. Defendant
Travolta's public statements, "handling" and subsequent marriage were material
statements Plaintiff reasonably relied upon, as Commodore Hubbard intended when he taught
Defendants how to "use" celebrities such as Defendant Travolta, for the
recruitment, brainwashing and retention of the Plaintiff and others.
51. Defendant Jane Kember was at material times a resident of the State of
California, has conducted business in the State of California, and whose last known place
of residence was 24 Tennyson Rise, East Grinstead Sussex, U.K. Defendant Kember was one of
the senior Scientologists convicted of the largest ever criminal infiltration of the
United States Government. She has requisite "minimum" and "national
contacts".
52. Defendant Captain Mark Yaeger is a resident of the City of Los Angeles, County
of Los Angeles, State of California and C.O. "CMO Int." (Commanding Officer,
Commodore's Messenger Organization International) and has participated in the conspiracy
and other wrongful conduct herein alleged, including but not limited to the June through
October, 1993 telex traffic concerning Plaintiff.
53. Defendant Wendell Reynolds is a resident of the City of Los Angeles, County of
Los Angeles, State of California. In 1982 Defendant Captain Miscavige appointed him Head
of the International Finance Police of the Scientology Enterprise.
54. Defendant Kendrick L. Moxon ("Moxon") is a resident of the City
of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California and was a Deputy Guardian
engaged (as an unindicted co-conspirator) in the vast Scientology criminal activities
leading to the arrest and imprisonment of certain senior Scientologists in Washington,
D.C. and elsewhere, for the largest ever known criminal infiltration of the United States
Government, in which capacity he has been responsible for, or participated in, various of
the criminal, fraudulent and unethical activities alleged herein and either directed at,
or damaging to the Defendant. Moxon is employed within the Office of Special Affairs as an
attorney although he has variously held himself out as an attorney with the law firms of
Bowles & Moxon, Moxon & Bartilson and Moxon & Kobrin. The
Office of Special Affairs, in addition to handling legal matters in accordance with
Scientology policies of abusing the legal system, has, since the closing of the Guardians
Office, controlled and directed many of Scientology's covert intelligence gathering and
harassment operations. Defendant Moxon conceived the Bowles & Moxon Plan 100 to
destroy IRS ? 501(c)(3) organization the "Cult Awareness Network", filed over 50
meritless lawsuites intended to and which did, bankrupt it completely, and directed and
participated in various of the human rights violations, civil rights violations abuses and
abuses of the legal and judicial system alleged herein.
55. Plaintiff is ignorant of the true names and capacities of Defendants,
Does 1 through 10, and therefore sues said Defendants by fictitious names. Plaintiff
will seek leave to amend this complaint when the true names of said Defendants have been
ascertained. Plaintiff is informed and believes and on that basis alleges that each of the
fictitious Defendants was in some way responsible for, participated in or contributed to
the matters and things of which Plaintiff complains herein and, in some fashion, has legal
responsibility therefore.
56. The designation of any Scientology entity, including Defendants herein, as a
church and/or non-profit entity is a fraudulent sham. It is designed to exploit the
protection of the First Amendment, to obtain tax exemptions and to prevent the regulation
of Scientology "counselors" or "counseling techniques" by state
regulatory agencies. The religious claims also serve Defendants' commercial public
relations ("PR") purposes. Commodore Hubbard and his successors, including the
Defendants herein, have profited and benefited from the income, perks and power of
Scientology, and the labor and financial contributions of Plaintiff herein. The
Scientology enterprise sells written materials and purported psychological counseling,
Scientology services and Scientology auditing at a huge profit, and to its unjust enrichment,
at the expense of Plaintiff. Accordingly, whenever the reference to Scientology as a
religion and its entities as "churches" is made herein, it should not be
construed as Plaintiff's acquiescence in those designations, but is rather used, on
occasion, to aid in the clarification of the different entities involved in the fraud
perpetrated by the Defendants herein, on behalf of the Scientology enterprise, upon the
Plaintiff.
57. Defendants are part of an ongoing criminal enterprise, and criminal association
in fact, referred to herein as the SCIENTOLOGY enterprise. The persons in control of this
criminal enterprise are members of controlling groups such as the "Sea Org," the
"Office for Special Affairs" ("OSA"), "Approval Lines" and
"The Commodore's Messenger Org" ("CMO"). At all relevant times, the
corporate Defendants, the unincorporated Defendants, the individual Defendants and the Sea
Org have conducted and been engaged in the promulgation and sale of the writings and
practices of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology as a unified business enterprise.
58. The various corporate Defendants herein are co-conspirators subject to a unity
of control. The separate alleged corporate structures were created as part of a scheme to
avoid liability for the acts of the enterprise, including the avoidance of taxes, civil
judgments and criminal penalties. Because of the unity of control, unity of personnel,
overlapping boards of directors, overlapping executives, overlapping attorneys, including
some from the nation's most prestigious law firms, commingling of assets, and commonality
of business objectives, the attempt at separation of these corporations, and other
entities, and all of Scientology's other corporations and entities, should be disregarded
by the court. In particular, there exists, and at all times relevant hereto, has existed,
such a unity of control and interest among the corporate Defendants, and the Sea Org, such
that any individuality and separateness between each of them has ceased and each is the
alter-ego or agent of the others in that, among other things:
(a) Each corporation is controlled, dominated, managed and operated by certain
Managing Agents of Scientology (as hereinafter defined) with corporate individuality
considered only for the sake of appearances;
(b) Each corporation or trust is a shell instrumentality and sham conduit
through which said Managing Agents carry on their domination of Scientology and the
related entities, including the named Defendants herein, and the business of developing,
marketing and selling the ideas of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology;
(c) The corporate formalities maintained by the corporations are mere fraudulent
facades;
(d) There is a concealment and misrepresentation of the responsible management
of each such entity;
(e) There is use of a corporate entity to procure staff or employees of other
affiliated Org. corporations and Sea Org;
(f) Although the corporations nominally use separate counsel, all counsel are
controlled and directed by the Managing Agents, and the retention of ostensibly separate
counsel is merely one aspect of the fraud designed to create the appearance of independent
corporate entities.
59. Adherence to the fiction of the separate existence of the Defendant
corporations and of the Sea Org would permit an abuse of corporate privilege and would
promote injustice in that, via the unified control, the assets of the corporate Defendants
and Sea Org can be transferred at will and, thus, concealed from corporate debts,
liabilities, government obligations and taxes and other obligations. Adherence to the
fiction of the separate existence of the Defendant corporations and the Sea Org would also
be inequitable because the Managing Agents and/or subdivisions of the Scientology
enterprise can transfer personnel and control of documents from one entity to another,
thus allowing the Defendants to avoid legitimate discovery and thereby to effect the
continuing abuse of process, obstruction of justice, manipulation of the judicial system,
improper and unlawful manipulation of the political system and of the government, and
caused the unconstitutional and excessive entanglement of Church and State, including but
not limited to numerous officials within the Clinton Administration, the President of the
United States and his National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. Defendants have also
subverted various and sundry other government officials, including but not limited to
officials of the United States Internal Revenue Service, (`Scientology's Puzzling Journey
From Tax Rebel to Tax Exempt'. Douglas Frantz, New York Times, Sunday, March
9, 1997), Exhibit "D", to the furtherance of their unlawful, criminal,
fraudulent activities, and subversive totalitarian objectives.
60. In addition, Defendants have engaged in the furtherance of their criminal and
fraudulent conspiracy to establish their totalitarian anti-democratic beliefs upon all
persons within the world by recruiting and subverting the new Prime Minister of Russia,
attempting to take over other governments such as those of former Rhodesia and certain
Mediterranean Islands, and otherwise suborning every potential "terminal"
capable of being used to further the anti-democratic, anti-social, criminal and fraudulent
beliefs and activities of Defendants and all those associated with, or assisting them,
such as "celebrity members" Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
61. At all relevant times mentioned herein, each of the Defendants was the
co-conspirator, "senior," "junior," partner, agent or employee of the
other acting within the course and scope of that agency, employment or conspiracy and did
the acts herein, or participated in some way in the acts alleged herein, pursuant to said
relationship. Specifically, all named Defendants are the agents, partners, joint venturers
and/or conspirators of each other Defendant and they should all be liable for the acts of
the others.
62. Alternatively, at all times herein mentioned, each of the Defendants and/or
their predecessors, affiliates, subsidiaries and related entities, and each of the Doe
Defendants, was the agent, servant, employee, fellow member, associate and/or joint
venturer or conspirator of each of the other remaining Defendants and was at all times
acting within the purpose and scope of said agency, employment or joint venture, and
acting with the express and/or implied knowledge or consent of the remaining Defendants,
and each of them. The acts of each Defendant were approved and/or ratified by each other
Defendant and, together, constitute a single course of conduct.
63. At all times mentioned herein, each and every Defendant was the authorized
agent, servant and/or employee of each and every other Defendant and was acting within the
scope of his/her authority as agents, servants and employees with the permission and
consent of their co-Defendants. Reference to "Defendants" shall mean Defendants
and each of them.
64. The Managing Agents of Scientology currently include Captain David Miscavige,
Lieutenant Marty Rathbun and Norman Starkey, who operate through divisions known as the
Sea Org, the "Watchdog Committee," and an elite organization of aides known as
the "Commodore's Messengers" ("CMO"). Before his death in 1986,
Commodore L. Ron Hubbard was also one of the Managing Agents and, at various times,
so also have Defendants Pat Broeker, Mary Sue Hubbard, Terri Gamboa, Mark Fisher and Vicki
Aznaran been Managing Agents of the Scientology enterprise.
65. Each of the individual, corporate and other entity Defendants, and Does 1
through 10, are or have been principal officers or controllers, or both, of all of
Defendant corporations listed herein. There exists a unity of interest in ownership
between the individual Defendants listed above and the corporate Defendants listed above.
Any individuality and separateness between the individual Defendants and the corporate
Defendants has ceased. The individual Defendants are alter-egos of the corporate
Defendants and vice-versa, and the corporate Defendants are mere shells, instrumentalities
and conduits through which the individual Defendants have transacted business with the
Plaintiff to such an extent that the corporate entities do not exist. Adherence to the
fiction of the existence of the corporate Defendants as entities distinct from the
individual Defendants would work a fraud, promote injustice, or both.
66. The acts and conduct of Defendants, and each of them, as hereinafter set forth,
are continuing and are part of a massive international conspiracy originated, agreed to,
orchestrated and accomplished by Defendants, and each of them, to carry out the events and
circumstances as herein alleged with a total disregard for the constitutional, civil,
human and contractual rights of Plaintiff, to damage Plaintiff, and to cheat Plaintiff out
of his money, property, services and information.
67. The acts complained of herein were variously authorized by Commodore
L. Ron Hubbard, Pat Broeker, Captain Miscavige, and the other Defendants, prior to
their occurrence or ratified after the fact by their representatives and/or the
Defendants, and each of them, named herein.
68. The individual Defendants named herein have been variously subordinates or
"juniors" of Commodore L. Ron Hubbard, Pat Broeker and Captain Miscavige
and have assisted each of them, and others, in wrongfully controlling Church of
Scientology assets, consisting at least in part of moneys contributed by Plaintiff,
through various corporations such the corporate and associational Defendants herein.
69. The corporations named herein were formed, among other things, for the purpose
of creating a corporate maze through which those in control of Scientology could and did
channel church monies, and Plaintiff's monies, through individuals and entities such as
Defendant Religious Research Foundation, into Commodore L. Ron Hubbard's personal
accounts, and the accounts of others, and for the purpose of divesting the Church of
Scientology of California, and other entities, of their assets as part of a criminal and
fraudulent conspiracy directed at the Plaintiff, other members of the Church of
Scientology, judgment creditors of various of the Churches of Scientology, (such as
judgment creditor Lawrence D. Wollersheim, LASC Case No. C132027), the United
States Government, other national governments, and their citizens generally.
DEFENDANT'S CRIMINAL AND FRAUDULENT EIGHTIES
85. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows: In
approximately March 1980, upon the disappearance of Commodore L. Ron Hubbard, the
assets and property of the Church of Scientology were not under the control of any
Scientology corporation or its officers or directors. Although each Scientology
corporation had a charter, a Board of Directors and officers, said charter, Board of
Directors, and officers had no actual authority or control of any nature or description.
In 1966, when Commodore Hubbard "purportedly" resigned his position as
"Executive Director International" of all Churches of Scientology throughout the
world, which was then the highest Scientology executive management post, he simultaneously
created the "Guardian's Office," now OSA, as Department 20 on the
Scientology Org. Board, and designated his wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, as
"Controller" of all Scientology organizations throughout the world and over the
Guardian's Office. Between 1966 and early 1981, Commodore L. Ron Hubbard, Mary Sue
Hubbard, and the Guardian's Office exercised total control over all Church assets, bank
accounts, property and trademarks including monies contributed by Plaintiff and the
product of his trust and labor.
86. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows: Prior
to 1973, and continuing to the present, both before and after the indictment and
conviction of Mary Sue Hubbard and other high-level Scientology officials (such as Jane
Kember), Captain Miscavige, Pat Broeker, Anne Broeker, Norman Starkey, Vicki Aznaran,
Terri Gamboa, Mark Fisher, Lyman Spurlock, gradually began to assume complete dominion and
control over all Scientology assets and property throughout the world, although they
received no corporate authority to do so. In early 1981, Commodore Hubbard, even though he
held no official position in any Scientology corporation, allegedly authorized Captain
Miscavige to take control of Church assets to the detriment of his designated successor
Pat Broeker and with the assistance of monies and labor contributed by Plaintiff. At the
same time, Commodore Hubbard appointed William Franks as "Executive Director
International" and ordered Franks to become a signatory on certain bank accounts in
Luxembourg containing approximately $150 million dollars. Although Franks held the
highest official management position in the Church of Scientology, he received his daily
orders from Captain Miscavige upon the representation that Commodore Hubbard was issuing
daily dispatches containing orders which must be followed in the distribution of assets of
the Church of Scientology. Franks himself was required to sign an undated letter of
resignation as "Executive Director International."
87. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows:
Between June 1981 and December 1981, conflict developed between Captain Miscavige and
Franks over control of Church bank accounts. In November 1981, Captain Miscavige had
Franks physically locked up in a room for several weeks while Captain Miscavige assumed
control of all Scientology corporate bank accounts, and other assets. Throughout this
period, Captain Miscavige was represented by attorneys Sherman Lenske and John Peterson
(now deceased) and Captain Miscavige paid them millions of dollars in attorneys' fees in
connection with their assistance in achieving this unauthorized and illegal takeover, all
without the knowledge and consent of Plaintiff but, at least in part, with monies that
were the product of Plaintiff's financial contributions, trust and labor.
88. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows: In
early 1982, Sherman D. Lenske, Esq., on behalf of Defendants Captain Miscavige,
Spurlock, Starkey and several others, incorporated ASI which became the corporate entity
controlling Church of Scientology bank accounts and assets in violation of applicable law,
rules, and regulations, and the representations of certain Defendants. In fact, the
officers and directors of ASI, which included Captain Miscavige, Starkey and Spurlock,
possessed no authority from any Church of Scientology corporation to control its bank
accounts and property.
89. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows: At the
same time as the incorporation of ASI, Sherman D. Lenske, Esq. on behalf of Captain
Miscavige, incorporated Religious Technology Center ("RTC") and Church of
Spiritual Technology ("CST"). Between January 1982 and June 1982, Lenske
represented ASI, RTC, CST, Commodore L. Ron Hubbard and various Scientology
corporations in the fraudulent transfer of monies, property and assets from various
Scientology corporations to Commodore L. Ron Hubbard personally. Lenske also prepared
wills and inter vivos trusts on behalf of Commodore Hubbard, which
were witnessed, among others, by Defendants Pat Broeker and Anne Broeker. Starkey (and
therefore RTC became the trustee of said Trust(s). The assets of various Scientology
corporations, which were taken over by ASI in 1982, included bank accounts, personal
property, real property and current income of the various corporations and property which
lawfully belonged to MSH and the children of LRH, but which Captain Miscavige procured
with use of monies and labor fraudulently obtained from Plaintiff. The Charters of these
corporations were violated in the take-over by ASI. The Charters of each corporation
provided that the corporate affairs were to be regulated and managed by the Board of
Directors of said corporations when, in fact, the various Boards of Directors of each
Scientology corporation were illegally controlled by ASI, Captain Miscavige, Broeker and
Commodore Hubbard. Prior to his death, allegedly in 1986, Commodore Hubbard personally
managed, directed or through the other managing agents (such as Captain David Miscavige)
and their subordinates, the entire Scientology enterprise, including the Defendants
herein. His management design was to ignore the formal structure of the many entities and
to operate them as his personal domain and he did so, and Defendant Captain Miscavige
continues to do so today. The goal of this management technique was, first and foremost,
to optimize Commodore Hubbard's personal income in violation of the prohibition against
personal inurement imposed on institutions seeking charitable, religious, tax-exempt
status under IRC Section 501(c)(3). This facade of independent corporations was
created to make the structure of the Church more defensible to criminal investigation and
civil liability while still being managed by the same unity of control under the direct
command of Commodore Hubbard and his several top aides including Captain Miscavige,
Starkey, Epstein and Spurlock.
90. This management maze also permits money to be shifted among entities to hide
their profit-making reality and to avoid taxes and judgments. Furthermore, insofar as
actual control of the entities was/is in the hands of individuals who are not within the
formal corporate structure, the conduct of affairs of each of the several entities could
be kept secretive.
91. In or about October of 1982, certain of the Defendants, including Captain
Miscavige conspired to steal millions of dollars from lower level Scientology missions or
franchises and persons including the Plaintiff. This was done by requiring the franchise
("Mission") holders to attend a meeting ("the Mission Holders
Meeting") in Clearwater, Florida, and San Francisco, California where they were
intimidated, "overwhelmed" and defrauded, and utilizing the monies, forced
donations, trust and labor of Plaintiff in the process but without the knowledge and
consent of the Plaintiff. Among other things, 600 persons were declared "Suppressive
Persons" and their assets and livelihoods confiscated by Defendants to the direct
detriment and damage of Plaintiff's own art clientele.
92. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows: On or
about October 17, 1982, after establishing ASI, CST and RTC, and obtaining control
over all Scientology corporate bank accounts throughout the world, and using monies, trust
and labor contributed by Plaintiff, and procured through the fraud of Defendants upon
Plaintiff, Captain Miscavige held a meeting of approximately 400 franchise holders
operating Scientology corporations in San Francisco, California at which he appeared
dressed in a naval full-dress uniform, as did other of the Defendants. At said meeting,
Captain Miscavige informed the various franchise holders of the fact that he and the RTC
had taken over all Scientology organizations. Captain Miscavige stated as follows:
All the Scientology/Dianetics trademarks were previously owned by L. Ron Hubbard.
L. Ron Hubbard has donated the vast majority of those to a corporation which some of
you have probably never heard of, by the name of Religious Technology Center.
93. Captain Miscavige further stated that every franchise holder would be required
to sign a new agreement with RTC and that if they did not do so, they would be "fined
or thrown into [a Scientology] jail." Individuals who objected to the RTC and ASI
take-over of the assets were literally locked into rooms and interrogated with a crude lie
detector called an E-Meter and were either forced to sign the new agreements or removed
from their positions and deprived of their business, property and possessions. For
example, certain persons expressed disapproval and an unwillingness to take part in the
conspiracy and they were summarily ordered to the RPF "Running Program" in,
among other places, the State of California's high desert, for 120 days - all with
the benefit and use of Plaintiff's monies and labor. This was a forced program which
involved the victim running around an orange telephone pole in the middle of the desert.
For example, former RTC "boss", Defendant Vicki Aznaran, has testified that she
was forced to literally run from 7:00 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. daily and was
confined under armed guard. Vicki Aznaran and other victims were allowed only 30 minutes
for lunch and for dinner. She finally escaped down a riverbed. Similarly, former
"senior management" Scientologist, Jesse Prince, escaped with the help of local
Indians, after years of being imprisoned at this high security, "re-education"
gulag, from which countless persons have literally disappeared (Exhibit "E").
94. In or about 1982, at a public event attended by Plaintiff at the Flag Land Base
in Clearwater, Florida, Captain Miscavige proudly proclaimed that he was working with
Scientology's attorneys, as "Mission Ops" (meaning he was in charge or
"i/c"), on a program known as "Mission Corporate Category Sort-Out"
(or "MCCS") to reorganize the entire corporate structure of the Scientology
enterprise with the specific intention that any further litigation against Defendants by
enemies of Scientology, would be certain to either fail, be overwhelmingly and
prohibitively expensive and, even if successful, would thwart satisfaction of any judgment
entered against the Scientology enterprise.
95. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows:
Between March 1982 and November 1982, Commodore Hubbard, Pat Broeker, Captain Miscavige,
Spurlock and others through ASI illegally transferred over 30 million dollars of
funds belonging to the Church of Scientology, and in part contributed by Plaintiff's
monies, trust and labor, to bank accounts of ASI and Commodore Hubbard in Liechtenstein
and Luxembourg. These funds were transferred based on overly false or exaggerated billings
by ASI to the Church of Scientology and contrary to representations made to Plaintiff in
publications such as "What do your donations buy?"
96. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows:
Between November 1982 and the present, the Church of Scientology has paid millions of
dollars, in part comprised of Plaintiff's monies, trust and labor, in attorneys' fees to
various lawyers, who were instructed to engage in criminal, fraudulent and unethical
conduct (e.g. , Church of Scientology v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
86 U.S. Tax Ct. Rptr. 381 (1984); U.S. v. Katter, 840 F.2d 118 (1st Cir.
1988); Church of Scientology v. Wollersheim, 42 Cal.App.4th 628 (1996)), at
the expense of Plaintiff's monetary, trust and labor contributions to Defendants, without
the requisite authority of the officers and directors of the Church of Scientology
corporations. These attorneys' fees, and investigator's fees have been used as a
money-laundering scheme to pay covert operatives, private investigators, and other costs
in connection with a scheme to harass, intimidate, coerce and destroy all opposition to
the Defendants as set forth below.
97. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows:
Between January 1982 and the present, Captain Miscavige and ASI, and certain others of the
allegedly conspiring
Defendants herein, have illegally expended the following sums for unlawful purposes.
(a) In April 1982, Captain Miscavige ordered the payment of $250,000. 00, from
funds unknowingly and/or unwittingly contributed to by Plaintiff's monies and labor, to
"set up": and frame United States District Judge Ben Krentzman in a scheme to
compromise him with drugs and prostitutes.
(b) In April-June 1982, Captain Miscavige and ASI ordered the payment of
thousands of dollars from funds unknowingly and/or unwittingly contributed to by
Plaintiff's monies and labor, to Attorney Dan Warren in Daytona, Florida to "pay
off" State Circuit Judge James Durden who was then sitting as Justice on a
Scientology case.
(c) In March 1983, Captain Miscavige, Lenske, Peterson and ASI ordered the
payment of in excess of one million dollars to "set up" and frame Attorney
Michael Flynn of Boston, Massachusetts, in an alleged attempt to forge a two-million
dollar check of L. Ron Commodore Hubbard. Millions of dollars, from funds unknowingly
and/or unwittingly contributed to by Plaintiff's monies and labor, were paid to John
Peterson (deceased) and Eugene Ingram, a private investigator, to perpetrate the above
described illegal scheme (U.S. v. Kattar, 840 F.2d 118 (1st Cir. 1988)).
(d) In 1986, Captain Miscavige instituted the fraudulent sale of so-called
"Special Properties", some quite erotic, to mask approx. $50,000,000. 00 of
alleged charitable Church money that had been lost on bad business oil well investments.
The "Special Properties", program enabled Captain Miscavige to sell the many
hundreds of pages of blank paper with L. Ron Commodore Hubbard's signature on a
similar place on each page. Upon information and belief, Captain Miscavige had used this
large supply of signed blank pages to create fraudulent transfers, trust and testamentary
instruments purportedly executed by the fugitive Commodore Hubbard, which Captain
Miscavige then notarized despite the obvious conflict of interest. Contrary to applicable
law, Captain Miscavige has never deposited those notary logs with the State of California
and has refused to produce them in discovery in cases such as RTC v. Erlich, RTC v.
Lerma, RTC v. FactNet, RTC v. Ward and RTC v. Henson.
(e) In the late 1980's continuing through to today, Defendants have engaged in
numerous fraudulent credit card, bank loan, family loan and student loan schemes, and
financial frauds, including one called "the Amex Cycle". The proceeds of this
massive continuing financial fraud are used to finance the activities of the Scientology
enterprise by means of purchaser through "fixed donations" for publications
produced by persons being paid approximately $50. 00 per week. This scheme is enhanced by
the use of outside `F.S.M.'s", or "Registrars", who are paid huge
commissions to "reg" people into making such "fixed [tax free]
donations" to the criminal Scientology enterprise.
98. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows:
Between 1972 and 1982, from funds unknowingly and/or unwittingly contributed to by
Plaintiff's monies, trust and labor, Defendants conspired together to defraud the Church
of Scientology of in excess of 100 million dollars. This conspiracy was accomplished
by the following overt acts:
(a) Commodore L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard created a Liberian
Corporation called Religious Research Foundation (RRF) with numbered bank accounts in
Liechtenstein and to which, and for which, Defendants' extorted monies from Plaintiff.
These bank accounts and RRF were dominated and controlled by Commodore L. Ron
Hubbard.
(b) Between 1972 and 1982 in excess of 100 million dollars belonging to the
Church of Scientology was illegally and secretly diverted into the RRF bank accounts,
including monies contributed by Plaintiff, by Commodore L. Ron Hubbard for his
personal use and under his control.
(c) RRF provided no goods or services to Plaintiff, and had no legitimate
corporate existence other than being a depository of funds illegally obtained, partially
from Plaintiff, and fraudulently controlled by Commodore Hubbard.
(d) Between 1980 and 1984 false and fraudulent back-dated invoices were created
to transfer RRF funds directly into L. Ron Commodore Hubbard's bank accounts and to
the financial detriment of Plaintiff. Plaintiff does not know the amount of money diverted
totally to Hubbard's bank accounts but believes it to be in excess of 30 million
dollars.
(e) The aforesaid funds illegally diverted were then within the estate of
L. Ron Hubbard, where they were in the possession, custody and control of Norman
Starkey. These funds were illegally seized and stolen by Captain Miscavige and other of
the Defendants in a fraud perpetrated upon, inter alia, the Plaintiff, the
Hubbard family heirs and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The current whereabouts of the
aforesaid funds is unknown to Plaintiff but believed to be known to Captain Miscavige,
Starkey, Spurlock, Rathbun, Moxon and the other Defendants herein.
99. For many years, Scientology has been embroiled in litigation. One of its
written policies is to use litigation to "overwhelm," "harass" and
wear down perceived enemies and would-be commercial competitors . According to Scientology
dogma and religious scripture, "the purpose of a lawsuit is to harass, not win on the
merits." Another Scientology directive is to "always attack, never defend."
Such litigation is intended to eliminate, harass and intimidate witnesses, and to obstruct
justice, and is funded by illegally and fraudulently obtained funds from Plaintiff among
others. Defendants' engage in this massive over-litigation and abuse of the legal system
in violation of their express contrary representations to the IRS, and in breach of their
fraudulent settlement with the IRS which has deprived the United States taxpayers of over
one billion dollars in tax revenues otherwise due and payable by Defendants to the IRS in
the year 1993(http:\www.lermanet2.com/cos/taxanalysts/secretagreement.txt).
DEFENDANTS' FAIR GAME POLICY
144. At various times herein, the Defendants, as part of a conspiracy to obstruct
justice or otherwise control and silence dissenters and opponents such as the Plaintiff
herein, practiced what came to be known as the "Fair Game" policy. Pursuant to
this practice, an enemy of Scientology "may be deprived of property or injured by any
means, by any Scientologist, without any discipline of a Scientologist. He may be tricked,
sued or lied to, or destroyed." Despite public disavowal of the term
"Fair Game" (for conceded public relations purposes), Defendants retain the
policy itself in force and practice. Accordingly, defendants, in concert with others,
continue to engage in illegal, outrageous, oppressive, tortious and harassing activities
against those who they deem to be "enemies" of Scientology. One result of the
ruthless and sometimes illegal acts engaged in by Defendants is that the enterprise is
able to carry out its pattern of illegal, racketeering activity against the Plaintiff and
others, with the knowledge that only rarely will witnesses dare to come forward and
testify against Defendants.
145. Defendants' "Fair Game" Policy was not disclosed to Plaintiff when
he was recruited by Scientology and this was a material non-disclosure by Defendants. The
"Fair Game" policy directs that any individual or employee who expresses a lack
of loyalty to Defendants is open to any form of harassment, economic ruin, or subject to
any covert plan designed to cause economic ruin, or subject to any covert plan designed to
cause emotional or physical harm and/or financial ruin. The plans include the destruction
of a person's business, reputation, and/or framing of false charges of criminal acts.
Throughout Plaintiff's affiliation with Defendants, he was constantly psychologically
tormented with threats of becoming "Fair Game" within the context of the
specialized meaning given the term by Defendants. At certain times during the course of
his affiliation with Defendants, Plaintiff was subjected to "Fair Game" and
ruined financially and vocationally, at the hands of, and for the benefit and unjust
enrichment of, Defendants. Plaintiff now knows of innumerable other occasions of Fair Game
being applied to various other people that Defendants viewed as potentially threatening
their unlawful and fraudulent activities as more fully described herein. Amongst these
people were Federal and State Judges and other officers of the court and professors and
doctors who have made a study of Defendants' brainwashing techniques, all of which
encompass other criminal activities, which were contrary to the national security
interests, of these United States, but, which were consistent with Defendants'
anti-democratic objectives and activities. Wires were used extensively in their Fair Game
threats and attempts against Plaintiff, as were the U.S. Mail services.
146. Defendants have represented that they cancelled Fair Game but they did not
tell Plaintiff that Scientology's Fair Game Policy has been recognized and discussed in a
number of cases including: Church of Scientology v. Armstrong, 232 Cal.App.3d
1060, 1067 (1991); Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology, 212 Cal.App.3d 872,
888-89 (1989); Allard v. Church of Scientology, 58 Cal.App.3d 439, 443 n.1
(1976); United States v. Kattar, 840 F.2d 118, 125 (1st Cir. 1988); Van
Schaick v. Church of Scientology, 535 F.Supp. 1125, 1131 n.4 (U.S.D.C. Mass.
1982); Christofferson v. Church of Scientology, 57 Ore.App.203 (1982).
147. The Defendants Fair Game policies and practices are intended to "utterly
destroy", professionally, financially and personally, any person who actively seeks
to suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist by "Suppressive Acts" which
are defined as "actions or omissions undertaken knowingly to suppress, reduce or
impede Scientology or Scientologists." The handling of Suppressives is set forth in
Scientology Ethics Issues which consist, to a large degree, in the protection of
Scientology from external threats. "The Purpose of Ethics is TO REMOVE
COUNTER-INTENTIONS FROM ENVIRONMENT" (HCOPL 18. 6. 68 Ethics; caps in original).
148. In mid-March 1955, Commodore Hubbard wrote "I call to your
attention a situation of any besieged fortress. If that fortress does not make sallies, it
does not send forth the trolls to attack and harass, . . . that for fortress may, and most
often does, fall.
The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to attack .
. . it is an entirely moral duty to be punitive against strangers and outsiders ho would
stop the progress of this [Scientology] civilization." (Emphasis added) The
"utter destruction" of persons such as Plaintiff is set forth in various of the
Scientology Defendants' written policies.
149. Some of these written policies are set forth in Commodore Hubbard's MANUAL OF
JUSTICE where he states "people attack Scientology: I never forget it, always even
the score." Commodore Hubbard subdivides the administration of justice into four
phases: (a) intelligence activities; (b) investigation of evidence; (c) judgment or
punishment; and (d) rehabilitation. In the Manual of Justice, intelligence is defined as
"that activity which collects data and keeps it adding up so that we know our foes
from our friends and so that we can act to separate out the sources of trouble in any
given situation." Investigation is defined as the "careful discovery and sorting
of facts. . . overt investigation of someone or something attacking us by an outside
detective agency should be done more often and hang the expense . . . . Hire them and damn
the costs when you need to." (emphasis added) Commodore Hubbard also writes
herein that the critic will sure shudder into silence." The policy continues,
"tell the detective we don't care if they know you're investigating them for us. In
fact, the louder the better." The policy also states that Scientology
"punishment" is "gruesome to see sometimes and in this instance there are
men hiding in terror on Earth because they found out what they were attacking. There
are men dead because they attacked us - for instance Dr. Joe Winter. There are men
bankrupt because they attacked us - Purcell, Ridgeway, Seppos." (emphasis added)
In the same policy and practice manual, Commodore Hubbard also writes "remember that
- by investigation alone we can curb pushes and crush wildcat people and unethical
'Dianetics and Scientology' organizations. [emphasis added]
150. The Defendants also have a pattern and practice, of abusing the
non-Scientology or "wog" legal system to utterly destroy persons such as
Plaintiff. Part of this policy is set forth in a 1955 Hubbard publication The
Scientologist a Manual of Dissemination of Material. This directive of the Defendants
makes it clear that they have a policy and practice to use the courts to harass and ruin
people rather than to win.
"The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The
law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on
the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, would generally be
sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin utterly."
151. These Defendantsss also run what is known as Black Dianetics on persons as
explained in the Research and Discovery Series on 17 December 1951. "A person
can drive himself mad without any trouble . . . there is much date on how to make people
insane, uncomfortable, sick or dead as there is on how to make them well . . . once in a
while, in order to learn something, it is necessary to look at it. With Black Dianetics
you could tailor-make any kind of insanity you wanted to. Similarly, in the same series on
28 June 1951, it is proscribed that there will have a "dianetics contain(s) the
answers to the riddle of insanity. It also contains perforce the answer to the riddle of
insanity. "Anyone of us can take a human being and with malice aforethought drive him
stark" staring crazy with greater efficiency than even psychiaty does.
152. The Defendants also have a written policy and practiceof using "manufactured"
allegations as a threat. On August 15, 1960, the "Department of Government
Affairs" was established with a policy written by Commodore Hubbard. In that issue,
Hubbard ordered:
If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always
find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace. Peace is
bought with an exchange of advantage, so make the advantage and then settle. Don't ever
defend. Always attack.
Don't ever do nothing. Unexpected attacks in the rear of the enemies front ranks
work best." (emphasis added.)
153. The Defendants also have a policy and practice which, when it was first
instituted, was called "Fair Game", and which is still in existence
today. It exists for the "handling" of Suppressive Persons, despite the claims
of the Scientology organization to the contrary.
154. On March 7, 1965, Commodore Hubbard wrote Hubbard Communications Office Policy
Letter (HCOPL) of March 7, 1965, titled "Ethics: Suppressive Acts: Suppression of
Scientology and Scientologists: the Fair Game Law." This Scientology policy document
provides the official definition of "Fair Game."
By Fair Game is meant, without rights for self, possessions, or position, and no
Scientologist may be brought before a Committee of Evidence or punished for any action
taken against a Suppressive Person or Group during the period that person is 'fair
game.'" (A revision of December 23, 1965, changed it to read, "by FAIR GAME is
meant, may not be further protected by the codes and disciplines of Scientology or the
rights of a Scientologist.")
155. The Defendants' policy statement also defines a "suppressive person"
as follows:
A SUPPRESSIVE PERSON OR GROUP is one that actively seeks to suppress or damage
Scientology or a Scientologist by suppressive acts.SUPPRESSIVE ACTS are acts calculated to
impede or destroy Scientology or a Scientologist and which are listed at length in this
policy.
156. The same Defendants' policy letter also lists some of the suppressive acts to
include "public statements against Scientology; proposing, advising or voting for
legislation . . . or laws directed toward the suppression of Scientology; testifying
hostilely before state or public inquiries into Scientology to suppress it; bringing
civil suit against any Scientology organization or Scientologist . . .; demanding the
return of any or all fees paid for standard training or processing actually received in
part and still available but undelivered only because the departure of the person
demanding; testifying as a hostile witness against Scientology in public; being at
the hire of anti-Scientology groups or persons; delivering up the person of a
Scientologist without defense or protest to the demands of civil or criminal law;
receiving money, favors or encouragement to suppress Scientology or Scientologists, etc.,
etc., etc. (emphasis added)
157. The Scientology Defendants have a further policy and practice of harassing
critics as set forth in HCO Executive Letter 27 September, 1965, referring to how a
certain group of critics were to be destroyed: "They are each fair game, can be
sued or harassed . . . harass these persons in any possible way." (emphasis
added]
158. The policies and practices of the Scientology Defendants in utterly destroying
persons such as Plaintiff are further set forth in an L. Ron Hubbard Executive Directive
of 2 December, 1966 entitled "Confidential: Ranch 5 Project: Project Squirrel".
In that policy order the Guardian's Intelligence Office for the Western United States is
ordered to take certain steps in order to "successfully bring the following facts
into public consciousness:
a. People who attack Scientology are criminals;
b. That one attacks Scientology he gets investigated for crimes;
c. If one does not attack Scientology then despite not being with it, one is
safe.
159. Elsewhere in this issue Commodore Hubbardd writes "there is no overt in
bringing good order." An "overt" in the Scientology lexicon is a
"transgression" or "wrong." In other words, the Defendant
Scientologists have a policy and practice of the end justifying the means.
160. The Defendants have claimed that they no longer have a policy and practice of
Fair Game being directed at persons such as Plaintiff as a result of Public Communications
Office Policy Letter of 21 October, 1966 entitled "Cancellation of Fair Game."
The entirety of the policy letter (P/L) is stated "the practice of declaring people
FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public
relations. The P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an
SP." (emphasis added). In fact, it has become apparent that "Fair Game"
has evolved as the underlying, often unspoken, "theme" or modus vivendi
which motivates the behavior of the Defendants. Thus, even though nothing may be
specifically said regarding the "policy" of "Fair Game"and its direct
application regarding a particular individual, it is so pervasive as a gestalt that the
Defendants members come to unconsciously apply the policy in the conduct of their daily
lives, defining friends, colleagues and family members as "enemies", should they
in any way oppose Scientology, and thence subjecting these "enemies" to
personal versions of the institutional policy of "Fair Game".
161. The claims of the Defendants that the Fair Game policy has been cancelled are
false and fraudulent. The words "Fair Game" were banned from Scientology
documents authorizing Scientologists to trick, sue, lie or destroy Suppressive Persons for
public relations reasons. The policy letter does not change the treatment of such persons
as Plaintiff and expressly states that this "policy letter does not cancel any policy
on the handling of an SP." As alleged herein, suppressive persons, such as Plaintiff,
were to be attacked, tricked, sued, lied to or destroyed. Accordingly, the Defendants
fraudulently claim that this policy did not change despite their knowledge that the policy
letter does not cancel the orders that suppressives are to be "tricked, sued or lied
to or destroyed."
162. The false and fraudulent claims of the Defendants in this regard are further
evidenced to the publication of the March 7, 1965 policy letter, under the "Fair Game
Law" title, as late as 1980 in Volume I of the Organization Executive Course:
"An Encyclopedia of Scientology Policy" by L. Ron Hubbard. The issue
"Suppressive Acts: Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists: the Fair Game
Law" appears on page 552 et seq. The Defendants' false and fraudulent conduct in this
regard is further evidenced by subsequent reprints of these volumes laundering out certain
phrases and issues of Commodore Hubbard, without telling Scientology members, and contrary
to an issue called "The Integrity of Source" which prohibits anyone other than
Commodore Hubbard from making changes to his writings.
163. The fraudulent false claims by the Defendants as to the cancellation of Fair
Game, as practiced against persons such as Plaintiff, is further evidenced by voluminous
documents and witnesses to the contrary and numerous subsequent court decisions including
but not limited to the authorities listed herein.
164. The Defendants also have a policy and practice, directed to persons such as
the Plaintiff, which was instituted on February 16, 1969 entitled "Confidential:
Battle Tactics" where the Defendants are ordered to use military tactics and strategy
in dealing with the "enemy" such as Plaintiff. The policy and practice letter of
16 February 1969 orders the Defendants to conduct "wars of attrition on a basis of
total attrition of the enemy. So never get reasonable about them. Just go all the way in
and obliterate them. One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections. He raids and
harasses. Seeing it as a battle one can apply battle tactics to thought actions.
Intelligence identifies targets and finds out enemy plans and purposes, enemy connections,
dispositions, etc. Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like war".
(emphasis added) The same policy and practice issue also orders the Defendants to use
intelligence to get the "who, when, where, what."
165. On January 8, 1991, The Fair Game Law was, in essence, reissued under the
title "Suppressive Acts Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists".
166. The Defendants' policies and practices as to the destruction of persons such
as Plaintiff, were also set forth in Hubbard Communications Office Policy letter of 17
February, 1966 which created the Public Investigation Section. In pertinent part, the
policy letter states as follows:
a. The purpose of this Section is:
To help LRH investigate public matters and individuals who seem to impede human liberty
so that such matters may be exposed and to furnish intelligence required in guiding the
progress of Scientology;
b. It is comprised wholly of professional investigators.
c. The statistics of the section is dual consisting of the number of cases
successfully investigated on specific projects and the number of derogatory news stories
appearing that week related to enemies of Scientology related to a specific project. The
statistic of each individual investigator is the number of cases personally investigated
through a completed useful report. . . production of the section is the number of cases in
a project processed.
d. It will be seen that the section has all the usual functions of an
intelligence and propaganda agency. It finds the data and sees that it gets action.
The section investigates the attacking group's individual members and sees that the
results of the investigation get adequate legal action and publicity. The mechanism
employed is very straightforward. We never use the data to threaten to expose. We simply
collect it and expose. Standard intelligence procedures are used. The usual precautions
against libel, slander, and false arrest are taken.
Projects must be studied for legal liabilities by the legal section before being
commenced upon. But no project may be stopped by the legal section - their whole function
is to find out how to make it safe.
The section should note that press and the public are interested in murder, assault,
destruction, violence, sex and dishonesty in that order.
Investigations which can uncover these factors and the activities of individuals of a
group attacking Scientology are valuable in the degree that they may contain a number of
these factors. The more factors a case contains the more important the case is. The idea
is that the press feeds on these factors and we feed them someone else's. (emphasis
added)
Associating the attacking group's activities with reprehensible groups in the past by
using familiar descriptive words will be found very effective. For example, if the word
"white" has been made hateful to the public by some past criminal group we use
"white" in our descriptive terminology concerning the group that is attacking us
and whom we are investigating.
Section investigators would do well to study the technology on suppressive persons.
Such attacking groups with which the section would deal derive their power from
pretense and secrecy. It will be seen the power vanishes under calm investigation,
particularly when it is well known to them that we are investigating. . . in that way we
then get rid of suppressive groups by investigation and disclosure."
167. As set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Defendants' policies
and practices in connection with the investigation, harassment and total destruction of
critics and others impeding their objectives are conducted through what, on February 17,
1966, was the Public Investigation Section of the Guardian's Office and which is now the
Office of Special Affairs of the Church of Scientology International and its legal unit
which includes the law firm of "Moxon & Kobrin."
168. The Defendants also have a policy and practice, as set forth in Hubbard
Communications Office Policy Letter of 18 February, 1966, entitled "Attacks on
Scientology (continued)" Defendants' policies "stopping attacks" are
required to include "investigating noisily the attackers. . . these people who
attack have secrets. And hidden crimes." (emphasis added) They are afraid. The
purpose of the Scientologist's investigation policy and practice is to cause the
suppressor to "withdraw" and "collapse".
169. The Defendants also have a further policy and practice set forth in Hubbard
Communications Office Policy Letter of 25 February, 1996 entitled "Attacks on
Scientology (Additional Pol. Ltr."). In this policy statement, the Defendants are
instructed as to the correct procedure for handling persons such as Plaintiff:
"This is correct procedure:
(1) Spot who is attacking us.
(2) Start investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using our own
professionals, not outside agencies.
(3) Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them.
(4) Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the
press.
(5) Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way." (emphasis added)
170. The same policy letter of the Defendants states that "the way we will
eventually stop all attacks from there on out is by processing the society as follows:
(1) Locate a source of attack on us;
(2) Investigate it;
(3) Expose it with wide, lurid publicity. We investigate and expose - the attack
ceases."
171. In addition, the same policy statement of the Defendants provides "don't
worry about libel if our facts indicate rottenness. The last thing that target will do is
sue as then we would have a chance to prove it in court, which they are terrified of our
doing." (emphasis added)
172. Responsibility for conducting the Defendants' policies and practices for
destroying persons such as Plaintiff was transferred from the Public Investigation Section
to the Guardian's office on March 1, 1966 in a Hubbard Communications Policy Letter
entitled "The Guardian". The Guardian's office, Division 20 on the Scientology
organization board, has been renamed and is now the Office of Special Affairs of the
Church of Scientology International in which the fictitious law firm of Moxon & Kobrin
is part of the unit. Instructions to Guardian's Office members were and are set forth in
the B1-B2 hatpack, part of which was utilized as recently as 1988 as the job description
for the President of the Church of Scientology International and includes instructions as
to infiltration, bribery, buying information, robbery and blackmail. The first Guardian
appointed was Commodore Hubbard's third wife Mary Sue Hubbard.
173. Elsewhere Commodore Hubbard writes "there is no overt in bringing good
order." An "overt" in the Scientology lexicon is a transgression or wrong. In
other words, the Defendant Scientologists have a policy and practice of the ends
justifying the means.
174. The Defendants' "Fair Game" policies and practices, directed at
persons such as Plaintiff allegedly cancelled on 21 October, 1966, were further set forth
in a Hubbard Communications policy letter of 18 October, 1967 entitled "Penalties for
Lower Conditions" and instructed Fair Game to be automatically issued on anyone
(including staff members) who was an "Enemy or Suppressive . . . SP order. Fair
Game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any
discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
175. Following the alleged cancellation of Fair Game on 21 October, 1966, the
Defendants instituted a new Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter on 16 February
1969 entitled "Confidential: Targets, Defense" in which are listed vital targets
in which the Defendants must invest most of their time:
T1 Depopularizing the enemy to a point of total obliteration.
T2 Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or the proprietors of all
news media.
T3 Taking over the control or allegiance of key political figures.
T4 Taking over the control or allegiance of those who monitor international
finance and shifting them to a less precarious finance standard.
176. The Defendants' policies and practices directed at totally destroying persons
such as Plaintiff are further set forth in a Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter
of December 2, 1969 entitled "Confidential: Intelligence - Actions: Covert
Intelligence: Data Collection." The Defendants' policy and practice, in this regard,
is to assign a target, such as Plaintiff, to a "case officer" who functions as
an "intelligence officer." The written policy states "the case officer may
'run' several agents."
177. Defendants' written policy statement further provides that "essentially a
covert operation is intended to embarrass, discredit or overthrow or remove an actual or
possible opponent. It is a small war carried on without its true source being disclosed.
It follows all the rules of war but uses propaganda, psychological effect, surprise,
shock, etc., to achieve its ends. Covert operations are weak in that they fade out on
exposure.
178. "Thus a covert operation has to lead to an overt operation to succeed.
Our tactics of offense and defense are based on data. We need dates to predict his
offensives and counter them and data to use in our attacks on him. We remove his agents
and vanquish his troops and directly attack his central group. That is sound tactics. By
demonstrating his falsity about us we rehab our own repute (a long road back). By showing
his sources to be false we get them expended. By showing him to be brutal, venal, and
plotting, we get him discarded. Our direct assault will come when they start to arrest
his principals and troops of crimes (already begun). Our total victory will come when we
run his organizations, perform his functions and obtain his financing and
appropriations". (emphasis added)
179. The Defendants' policies and practices on "utterly destroying"
persons such as Plaintiff are also set forth in Hubbard Communications Office Policy
Letter of 15 August, 1967 titled "Discipline: SP's and Admin: How Statistics
Crash." In that policy letter, the Defendants are told that the head of the
Scientology Organization, then and now, will stop at nothing to destroy persons such as
Plaintiff.
However, if anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate or stop Scientology
or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday School teacher. There is
probably no limit on which I would do to safeguard man's only road to freedom against
persons who, disdaining processing, seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists.
180. The Defendants' policies and practices are in totally destroying persons such
as Plaintiff are further set forth in Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter of 16
February, 1969 titled "Confidential: Enemy Hands." Among other things, it
provides that:
persons hostile to Scientology usually have criminal backgrounds even when in public
life. One doesn't always find these even when they exist but one at least finds
connections which are useful. Therefore, do exposes of such people in the area of their
subjects or interests, not bringing us or any real ally into it. Use "counter
opinion" names as investigation subjects, find their terrain, find the crimes on it
and attack on that terrain and the enemy not ourselves will be in trouble.
181. The policies and practices of the Defendants, towards persons such as
Plaintiff, are also set forth in a Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin of 5 November,
1967 entitled "Critics of Scientology."
Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have
investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which
that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of
Scientology who do not have criminal pasts. Over and over we prove this. Politician A
stands up on his hind legs in a Parliament and brays for a condemnation of Scientology.
When we look him over we find crimes - embezzled funds, moral lapses, a thirst for young
boys - sordid stuff. Wife B howls at her husband for attending a Scientology group. We
look her up and find that she had a baby he didn't know about. . . We are slowly and
carefully teaching the unholy a lesson. It is as follows: 'we are not a law enforcement
agency but WE WILL BECOME INTERESTED IN THE CRIMES OF PEOPLE WHO SEEK TO STOP US. IF
YOU OPPOSE SCIENTOLOGY WE PROMPTLY LOOK UP - AND WILL FIND AND EXPOSE - YOUR CRIMES. IF
YOU LEAVE US ALONE WE WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE. IT'S VERY SIMPLE. EVEN A FOOL CAN GRASP THAT.
AND DON'T UNDERRATE OUR ABILITY TO CARRY IT OUT. . . THOSE WHO TRY TO MAKE LIFE HARD FOR
US ARE AT ONCE AT RISK. (emphasis added)
182. The Defendants also have a practice and policy, set forth in a Bulletin
Commodore Hubbard wrote on October 23, 1983, called "SEC Checking: Note, where
he writes, in effect, that actions committed against Scientology's "enemies"
are not of moral or ethical interest. Only those committed against Scientology.
183. The policy and practice of the Defendants, in investigating and destroying
persons such as Plaintiff, also extends to international spying. On 7 May, 1971 a Hubbard
CEO [Guardian Order] 070571 entitled "Secret: Notes on SMERSH" states, under
"CHARACTER ATTACKS", that "the Nazi brought personal character destruction
up to a fine art in its propaganda activities" and under "PENETRATION"
states that: "penetration is always a win. We have made it in finding WHO attacks
Scientology from where by doing that. This gives us ever further penetration. We have
found as well the X intelligence officer mouth pieces [sic] in the UK that
influenced that government and pushed Nazi aims. We are getting ever further penetration
now into who is keeping this planet upset."
184. The policy and practice of the Defendants, in utterly destroying persons such
as Plaintiff, is further set forth in a Guardian order (CEO 011272 LRH) titled
"Confidential: BLACK PROPAGANDA" also known as "Black PR," short for
"Black Propaganda." In that order, the Defendants are instructed that "Black
Propaganda is a covert communication of false info intended to injure, impede, or destroy
the activity or life of another person, group or nation, usually issued from a false or
removed source from the actual instigator." (emphasis added) Black Propraganda is
used heavily in 'psychological warfare.'" The policy and practice order continues to
state "our propaganda is dirty but it is not black because it is true. Black
propaganda is essentially false. You can do this trick (as in the new operating plans I
wrote) by survey and attack. We just run propaganda campaigns. (emphasis added)
185. The false and fraudulent statements of the Defendants, that Fair Game no
longer is practiced against persons such as Plaintiff, is further evidenced by the
280-page (plus exhibits) "Stipulation of Evidence" executed by the United States
Department of Justice, Mary Sue Hubbard and eight other senior Scientology executives
detailing Scientology's Snow White Project, or Operation Snow White, where assistant U.S.
attorney Raymond Banoyun gives a succinct stipulated description of how Fair Game was
conducted after 1968, and an admission by the Defendants therein that Fair Game continued
even beyond the conviction of Mary Sue Hubbard in a statement by the U.S. Government
questioning "whether these illegal activities were ever terminated by these
defendants." These illegal activities" included: the infiltration and theft
of documents from a number of prominent private, national world organizations, law firms,
newspapers and private citizens; the execution of smear campaigns and baseless lawsuits
for the sole purpose of destroying private individuals who had attempted to exercise their
First Amendment Rights to freedom of expression; the framing of private citizens who had
been critical of Scientology, including the forging of the documents which led to the
indictment of at least one innocent person; and the violation of the civil rights of
prominent citizens and public officials." (emphasis added)The stipulation by
representatives of the organization also notes how Mary Sue Hubbard had said on the
witness stand that she and her co-defendants "felt they could do to others what ever
they perceived, however erroneously, others were doing to them."
186. The Defendants have consistently but fraudulently claimed that their
activities directed against persons such as the Plaintiff are to protect their church from
harassment. The Defendants know, or ought to have known, that this defense was rejected in
Allard v. Church of Scientology of California, 68 Cal. App. 3d 439, 129 Cal. Rptr.
797 (CT at 1976) cert. denied, 97 S. Court 1101 (1977) where it was held as follows:
The defendants contention that they committed the crimes of which they stand convicted
in order to protect their church from government harassment collapses when one reviews a
sample of the remaining documents seized by the FBI during the execution of the two Los
Angeles search warrants. If anything, these documents establish beyond question that the
defendants, their convicted codefendants, and their indicted co-conspirators [which
included Commodore Hubbard and current Scientology counsel Kendrick L. Moxon,. Esq.], as
well as their organization, considered themselves above the law. They believe they had
carte blanche to violate the rights of others, frame critics in order to destroy them,
burglarize private and public offices and steal documents outlining the strategy of
individuals and organizations that the church had sued. These suits were filed by the
church for the sole purpose of financially bankrupting its critics and in order to create
an atmosphere of fear so that critics would shy away from the First Amendment Rights
secured them by the Constitution. The defendants and their cohorts launched vicious
smear campaigns, spreading falsehoods against those they perceive to be enemies of
Scientology in order to discredit them and, in some instances, to cause them to lose their
employment. . . . To these defendants and their associates, however, anyone who did not
agree with them was considered to be an enemy against whom the so-called "Fair
Game" doctrine could be invoked. . . . (emphasis added) It is interesting to note
that the founder of their organization, unindicted "co-conspirator, L. Ron
Hubbard," wrote in his MODERN MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY defined that "truth is what
is true for you," and "illegal" is that which is "contrary to
Scientology policy" and not pursuant to Scientology's "approved program."
Thus with the Commodore's blessing they could wantonly commit crimes as long as it was in
the interests of Scientology. These defendants rewarded criminal activities that ended in
success and sternly rebuked those that failed. In view of this, it defies the
imagination that these defendants have the unmitigated audacity to seek to defend their
actions in the name of religion."
187. In addition to the Plaintiff, the thousands of persons around the world who
have been subjected to the Defendants Fair Game policies and practices, even since its
alleged cancellation in 1967, include Michael J. Flynn, Esq., Bruce Bunch, Esq., Charlie
B. O'Reilly, Esq., Barry Van Sickle, Esq., Joseph A. Yanny Esq., Toby Plevin, Esq., Ford
Greene, Esq., Federal District Court Judges Charles Richey and James Ideman; Vaughn Young,
Stacy Young, Robert Minton, Hanna Whitfield, Jerry Whitfield, Uwe Geertz, Richard Behar,
Paulette Cooper, Cynthia Kisser, Garry Scarff, Dennis Erlich, William Jordan, Lawrence
Wollersheim, Arnaldo Lerma, Bent Corydon, David Mayo, Judge Swearinger, Bill Swearinger,
and thousands, of officials of the United States Internal Revenue Service, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice.
188. The Defendants' Fair Game policies and practices on "utterly
destrying" persons such as Plaintiff are also set forth in "Hubbard
Communications Office HCO Executive Letter of 5 September 1966. To: Scientologists from
Ron, titled Subject: How to do a NOISY Investigation, which states in pertinent
part:
Here's what you do. Soon as one of these threats starts you get a Scientologist or
Scientologists to investigate noisily. You find out where he or she works or worked,
doctor, dentist, friends, neighbors, anyone and 'phone em up and say. I am
investigating Mr./Mrs. . . . for criminal activities as he/she has been trying to
prevent man's freedom and is restricting my religious freedom and that of my friends and
children, etc. . . ." You say now and the,"I have already got some astounding
facts", etc., etc. (Use a generality) . . . It doesn't matter if you don't get
much info. Just be NOISY -- it's very odd at first but makes fantastic sense and
WORKS. . . . Scientologists are really terribly ethical.
189. These Defendants also have policies and practices designed and intended to
cause and permit them to lie under oath as to the existence and application of the
policies and practices intended to destroy persons such as Plaintiff. These policies and
practices include TR-L(Training Routine - Lying), Hatting the Witness, and Addendum to
Hatting the Witness, How to Tell an Acceptable Truth. The Defendans also have Board policy
letter revised 8 May 1975 titled Religion which provides that "what is true
for you is what you have observed for yourself. Nothing in Dianetics and Scientology is
true for you unless you have observed it. And it is true according to your observation,
that is all." Because Scientology is a totalitarian, closed compartmentalized
organization, and because Scientology staff and members only operate in discreet closed
sectors, they are able to plausibly claim that anything they have not personally observed
is untrue.
190. The Defendants have a practice and policy of utterly destroying a person such
as Plaintiff as set forth in Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter of 27 October
1964 titled "Policies on Handling Physical Healing, Insanity and Potential Trouble
Sources". In that policy letter, Potential Trouble Sources (PTS's) are defined so as
to include:
"persons intimately connected with persons (such as marital or familial ties) of
non-antagonism to mental or spiritual treatment or scientology, persons who have ever
threatened to sue or embarrass or attack or have publicly attacked Scientology or been a
party to an attack and all their immediate families, persons attempting to sit in judgment
on Scientology in the hearings including judges, newspaper reporters and magazine writers.
Such persons are to be "handled by firm legal stands."
191. The Defendants, and other Scientology staff members (including any who are
lawyers or investigators) are subject to harsh punishment for failing to apply Scientology
policies and bulletins such as those set forth above. Such punishments have included being
locked in a room and screamed at by several persons until a staff member
"breaks" or confesses; being locked up chain lockers on Hubbard's boat on his
orders; being thrown overboard with hands and feet tied; being put on diets of rice and
beans; being kept awake for day-after-day without sleep; being made to sleep on floors, in
closets or in "pig's berthing", spending years at hard labor at the notorious
(and secret) gulags known as the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), being physically
assaulted and beaten (sometimes by Captain Miscavige himself) for refusing to comply with
orders and being made to run in the desert sun until dropping from exhaustion and then
being made to run some more, etc. Although such abuses are well known by Scientology staff
members, such as the Defendants herein, it is a crime against Scientology, subject to
harsh punishments, to make them known to the non-Scientology world, which might then
intrude. To prevent that from happening, Scientologist are subjected to Scientology's own
justice system which includes Committees of Evidence and the procedures set forth in
Hubbard's original " MANUAL OF JUSTICE" which divides the whole subject of
justice for a Scientologist into four phases: (1) intelligence activities; (2)
Investigation of Evidence; Judgment or Punishment; and Rehabilitation. The practice of
Defendants herein of punishing persons such as Plaintiff, for failing to effectively carry
out the policies and practices set forth above include deprivation of liberty, freedom,
human rights, civil rights and even the final vestiges of any human dignity.
192. The Defendants also have a Board policy letter issued 30 May 1974 entitled PR
Series 24, handling hostile contacts/dead agenting which Commodore Hubbard described as
the technique of proving utterances false and attributes it to the "First Book of
Chinese Espionage." It consists of disproving utterly the false statement with
documents or demonstration or display. One has to have a kit (a collection of documents)
or the ability to demonstrate or something to display." In addition, if there will be
a long term threat you are to immediately evaluate and originate a black PR campaign to
destroy the person's repute and to discredit them so thoroughly that they will be
ostracized. In other words, handle the hell out of it. (LRH)"
193. The Defendants also have a policy and practice as set forth in an issue 27
March 1972 titled Counter Attack Tactics stating that "those who attack Scientology
... are provenly suppressive. Part of this policy involves destroying critic's careers.
"These persons can always lose their jobs. These jobs, permitting them power to
destroy, are valuable to them. This is A POINT OF VULNERABILITY. If the person's job is
also not valuable to him or if he cannot be cost his job, something can be found which he
is seeking to protect and it can be threatened."
194. The Defendants also have a policy and practice reissued 10 January 1991 titled
OFFENSES AND PENALTIES where crimes are described as the second most serious offense in
Scientology and include "placing Scientologists at risk", being a knowing
accessory to a suppressive act." High Crimes are defined to include "committing
suppressive acts". The Defendants have a further policy and practice reissued on
January 30, 1991 entitled SUPPRESSIVE ACTS , SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND
SCIENTOLOGISTS. This policy letter reissues the definitions of suppressive persons and
suppressive acts as set forth in the FAIR GAME first issued March 7, 1965 and claimed by
the Defendants to have been cancelled on 21 October 1966. A suppressive person or group
"is one that actively seeks to suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist by
suppressive acts". Suppressive acts are acts calculated to impede or destroy
Scientology or a Scientologist." They include:
A. Testifying or giving data against Scientology falsely or in generalities or
without personal knowledge of the matters to which one testifies;
B. Disavowal of Scientology or Scientologist in good standing with Scientology
organizations;
C. Public statements against Scientology or Scientologists.
D. Proposing, advising or voting for legislation or ordinances, rules or laws
directed toward the suppression of Scientology;
E. Testifying hostilely before state or public inquiries into Scientology to
suppress it;
F. Bringing civil suit against any Scientology organization or scientologist;
G. Writing anti-Scientology letters to the press or giving anti Scientology or
anti Scientologist data to the press;
H. Being at the hire of anti-Scientology groups of persons;
I. Delivering up the person of a Scientology without justifiable defense or
lawful protest to the demands of civil or criminal law.
J. Moreover, "the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics"
requires that actions destructive of the advance of the many, overtly or covertly,
undertaken with the direct target of destroying Scientology as a whole or a scientologist
in particular, be summarily handled due to the character of the reactive mind and the
consequent impulses of the insane or near insane to ruin every chance of mankind via
Scientology.
195. The Defendants policies and practices in connection with the policy formerly
known as Fair Game, were further set out in a Scientology policy directive issued 13
August 1982 titled SUPPRESSIVE ACT DEALING WITH A DECLARED SUPPRESSIVE PERSON.
196. Notwithstanding the Defendants' alleged claimed cancellation of Fair Game on
21 October 1966, on 8 June 1979 the Sea Organization issued a Flag conditions order
declaring a person "having blown [or left] the Sea Organization as a DECLARED
SUPPRESSIVE PERSON and that the person was not permitted any auditing or training in any
Church of Scientology at all until he has fully done the requirements of steps A to E of
HCO PO that SUPPRESSIVE ACTS, SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND SCIENTOLOGISTS THE FAIR GAME
LAW 23 DEC 65. "
197. The Defendants Fair Game policy was further set forth in a HCO POLICY LETTER
of 16 MAY 1980 TITLED ETHICS, SUPPRESSIVE ACTS, SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND
SCIENTOLOGISTS WHICH SPECIFICALLY REVISES THE FAIR GAME ISSUE OF 23 DECEMBER 1965 ARE AS
REVISED ON 31 DECEMBER 1979. In part Commodore Hubbard writes that "in 1965 [he]
issued policy letters to help create a calmer environment in which Scientologists could
pursue their religion. These were our ethics policy letters." This reissue by
Commodore Hubbard was made notwithstanding his March 22, 1976 affidavit stating there was
never any attempt or intent on my part by the writing of these [ethics policies] or any
others for that fact to authentica a legal or harassment type acts against anyone."
198. The Defendants policy and practices in connection with ;aspects of Fair Game
such as Penalties for Lower Conditions were re-emphasized in a policy letter of 6 October
1970 titled ETHICS PENALTIES which stated in connection with earlier cancellations
"it does not cancel the penalties formerly assigned and as outlined in the cancelled
Penalty Policy Letters listed above."
199. The Fair Game policy of the Defendants was further discussed by Commodore
Hubbard in 1969 on a tape entitled "About Rhodesia": but now of course where we
have heard is getting ethics too heavily on scientologists and too lightly on the
surrounding environment. That is fatal to do it. Reverse that way. That is fatal. What we
ought to do is reverse that. ... You should upgrade your idea of an SP man. Meet one
sometime. A real one is a monster. A real SP is not just a difficult person. He is only
about two and a half cent of the human race and he is utterly nuts." By this, Hubbard
meant that the fair gaming of non-scientologists in the environment should be increased
and suppressive person as two and a half percent of the human race, could be eliminated
when Scientology took control over the entire human race.
200. The Defendants policy and practices towards critics was further explained in a
newsletter by L. Ron Hubbard titled INVADING PRIVACY issued May 13, 1959 where he rights,
[b] you have to be willing to invade Privacy very definitely. Well, when you realize that
the highest point of aberration on the third dynamic was the first time you decided not to
invade somebody's privacy and that nearly everything you have suffered from since was a
determination not to invade somebody's privacy, you will see at once where these connect
on an 8-C'ing somebody into a service urn.
201. The Defendants policy and practices on handling suppressive persons was
further set forth in a book published by Commodore Hubbard titled the creation of human
ability (a handbook for scientologists which was reprinted as late as 1976 and where
Commodore Hubbard sets forth various ways of processing people including "R2-45: AN
ENORMOUSLY EFFECTIVE PROCESS FOR EXTERIORIZATION BUT ITS USE IS FROWNED UPON BY THE
SOCIETY AT THIS TIME." Similarly, in Technique 88 On Control and Lying, he wrote THE
ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM.
202. The Scientology defendants also have a practice and policy set forth, an HCO
policy letter of 25 April 1968 titled INTELLIGENCE ACTIONS. . The stated actions of
intelligence are:2. Investigate for crimes the individuals who are creating trouble. ...
This is standard 1, 2, 3 action and should not be deviated from. The maxim is ... when
under attack ... attack. The point is .. even if you don't have enough data to win the
case ...STILL ATTACK; LOUDLY.. The reason is,.it is only those people who have crimes that
will attack us and they will soon back off for fear of being found out when attacked
back."
203. The Defendants also have a policy and practice set forth in HCO BULLETIN OF 15
SEPTEMBER 1981 TITLED THE CRIMINAL MIND. Ironically, Commodore L. Ron Hubbard sets forth
the policy that "the criminal accuses others of things which he himself is doing ...
the criminal mind relentlessly seeks to destroy anyone it imagines might expose it. The
criminal only sees others as he himself is." In other words, through this Official
Scientology Policy Letter, Commodore Hubbard established a Scientology policy and practice
of the pot calling the kettle black.
204. The Defendants Fair Game policy allegedly cancelled on 21 October 1966 was
also referred to in a 1968 publication by L. Ron Hubbard under the title Scientology Basic
Staff Hat Book No. 1 which deals among other things with "ethics (conditions and
other ethics policies)," Under "other ethics policies," the FAIR GAME LAW
of 1 March 1965 is republished on page 40(despite its purported earlier cancellation. Also
published on page 26 is the HCO Policy Letter of 18 October 1967 setting forth penalties
for lower conditions including "ENEMY-SP ORDER FAIR GAME. MAY BE DEPRIVED OF PROPERTY
OR INJURED BY ANY MEANS BY ANY SCIENTOLOGIST WITHOUT ANY DISCIPLINE OF THE SCIENTOLOGIST,
MAY BE TRICKED, SUED OR LIED TO OR DESTROYED.
205. The Defendants Fair Game policies and practices include declaring its own
members, or non-members opposing scientology, suppressive persons by way of Suppressive
Person declares and stating that they are subject to "Fair Game".
206. The Defendants also have a policy and practice set forth in a December 1968
order re: INTELLIGENCE where it is stated "the following are possibilities for
collecting data.
1. Infiltration.
2. Bribery
3. Buying information.
4. Robbery
5. Blackmail.
The last two are of course illegal.
207. The Defendants have an Executive Directive from the Office of Special Affairs
International issued in 1991 titled Confidential, Department of Special Affairs,
Investigations Office Full Hat Check Sheet. In accordance with HCO PL 17 Feb 1966, Public
Investigation Section, the Investigations Officer is "to help LRH investigate public
matters and individuals which seem to impede human liberty so that such matters may be
exposed and to furnish intelligence required in guarding the progress of Scientology. The
materials to be studied include the Department of Special Affairs Investigations Office
full hat pack, the Art Of War by Sun Su Tzu and War by Klausewitz. It includes the study
of HCO EXEC LTR 5 SEPT 66, HOW TO DO A NOISY INVESTIGATION.
THE DEFENDANTS' FRAUD CONTINUES
208. From 1974 to 1975, Plaintiff continued to rely on Defendants'
misrepresentations and participated in Scientology training courses, and underwent
auditing, in Paris, France. Plaintiff made payments for such courses and auditing, at that
time and at all times during his relationship with Defendants, in detrimental reliance
upon the express and implied representations, and material non-disclosures, of various of
the agents of the Defendants concerning the source of the purported beliefs, and the
effectiveness of Defendants' practices, as set forth hereinabove and hereinafter, and the
representation that Plaintiff could have his money back if he became dissatisfied with
Scientology training and/or auditing. Furthermore, at all relevant times between 1973 and
June 1997, agents of the various Defendants represented to the Plaintiff the various
purported physical and mental advantages to be obtained through following the practices of
Defendants and, in particular, as to his continued good health and well being, and the
"handling" of his homosexuality, as long as he continued in the courses of
Scientology study and auditing in accordance with Defendants' express and implied
representations and material non-disclosure. Based on those representations, and the
material non-disclosures, described herein, and in the face of representations by various
agents of the Defendants that he had no need of conventional, medical or mental health
therapy to, among other things, "handle" his homosexuality or "ruin,"
Plaintiff refrained from seeking such conventional therapy or counseling, or other
conventional medical attention, while a member of Scientology and to his physical, mental
and financial detriment.
209. In or about April 1975, as indicated above, Plaintiff became a staff member at
the Scientology Org. in Paris, France. During his tenure as a dedicated Scientology staff
member in Paris, he worked from 9:00 a.m. to approximately 11:30 p.m. seven days
a week for months at a time for pay that was at or below the poverty level. Because
Defendants regarded Plaintiff's departure from the staff of the Paris Org. to be a breach
of his commitment to Defendants, Defendants then submitted Plaintiff with a
"freeloader bill" in the amount of $30,000. 00. Such monies allegedly
represented the dollar value of the "indoctrination procedures" Plaintiff had
received from the Defendants while being on staff at the Paris Org. That is, Defendants,
charged Plaintiff for each "session" in which the E-meter had been used
"all indoctrination sessions and other "services" received whilst he was
engaged in virtual slave labor for the Scientology organization at the Paris Org. At that
time, Plaintiff did not know that Scientology was a ruthless, subversive and criminal
organization which would not, and could not, be constrained by any criminal or civil law.
However, Plaintiff did know that Scientology organizations had a pattern and practice
under which they would attempt to destroy Plaintiff's ability to earn a livelihood through
the use of litigation, harassment, invasion of privacy and other practices that can
loosely be described as Scientology's policy and practice of "fair game" despite
the feigned and fraudulent cancellation. Plaintiff understood that the consequences of
failing to pay the "freeloader bill" was a certainty of "fair game"
and/or "disconnection" from friends within "the group". The
indoctrination and brain washing techniques, charged for by way of the "freeloader
bill" were dubbed "courses" and "auditing sessions" by
Defendants. These are the same monies which the Church refers to as "fixed [tax free]
donations" when dealing with public persons such as Plaintiff. The "freeloader
bill" was nothing less than criminal extortion, coupled with the threat of Plaintiff
becoming "fair game." As a result of the psychological trauma and indoctrination
techniques implied by Defendants, and each of them, Plaintiff was unable at that time, and
at all times thereafter until very recently, to comprehend his legal rights with regard to
the actions of Defendants and was not sufficiently conscious of the nature and effects of
the acts of Defendants, and each of them, so as to be able to take legal action or hire an
attorney to defend himself against Defendants' continuing demands and conduct until
mid-May 1998, at which time, he resolved to seek legal assistance of his counsel herein.
210. When Plaintiff refused some of the demands made by Defendants, his business
was viciously ruined and destroyed, on more than one occasion by Defendants. Such
activities were carried out by the use of the phone wire and the activities of Defendants
such as Captain Miscavige. At various times herein material, Defendants through their
various agents and operatives, have largely destroyed Plaintiff's businesses, interfered
with his prospective economic advantage and destroyed his finances generally.
211. Defendants have also improperly sought and have obtained business and
financial information from Plaintiff, business associates and others by fraudulent means
and through the use of the wires and mailmails.
DEFENDANTS FURTHER DEFRAUD, DEVASTATE AND DESTROY PLAINTIFF
232. As a Scientologist, Plaintiff was also required, under circumstances of fraud
and undue influcence, to give up his right of access to the regular judicial process,
contemptuously known to Defendants as "wog justice", and to subject himself to
the Defendants' justice system involving Committees of Evidence arbitrarily convened
pursuant to the authority of the International Justice Chief of Scientology.
233. From 1991 and the present day, Plaintiff was the subject of vicious and
destructive machinations by various Churches of Scientology which were engaged in tortious
activity intended to harm Plaintiff's name, reputation and financial well-being to the
benefit of Defendants and the detriment of Plaintiff. Defendants' intentional acts and
omissions subjected Plaintiff to a tangled web of expensive "justice handlings"
within the Scientology enterprise. As a result, and in addition to the intentional
destruction of his personal and emotional well-being, Plaintiff had to pay the Defendants
and others over $120,000 merely to clear his name of the untrue allegations and false
accusations that certain of the Defendants had made against him.
234. Defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations to Plaintiff, as set forth herein,
were continued through a Commodore Hubbard policy prohibiting Plaintiff from discussing
his "case" with other Scientologists and thereby prevented him from learning of
the experiences, abuse, deprivation and frauds being perpetrated upon other victims of
Scientology. Defendants thereby intentionally caused Plaintiff to delay discovering the
fraud they were deliberately perpetrating upon him by manipulating him into believing that
any failures of Scientology processing and courses to deliver what had been represented,
and not disclosed, was due to his own mistakes and errors and not a shared experience with
others and which was a Scientology crime to discuss with others. Plaintiff's manipulation
and isolation was aggravated by Defendants' use of so-called Scientology celebrities to
engage in fraudulent misrepresentations directed to, among others, the Plaintiff. In
October, 1997 Plaintiff became aware, of what the May 6, 1991 Time
magazine cover story "Scientology, The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power", which
referred to as Captain Miscavige's repeated joking to other Scientologists and staff
members about John Travolta's allegedly "promiscuous homosexual" behavior which
Defendants had previously prohibited Plaintiff from reading. A mere two weeks after the National
Enquirer had published a report of John Travolta's two-year liaison with a male
porn star, Paul Baressi, John Travolta married fellow Scientology celebrity, Kelly
Preston, and thus at a material time contributed to Plaintiff's continuing belief in
Defendants' express and implied misrepresentations, in part because of the example of
Defendant Travolta and other celebrities recruited by Defendants, scientifically proven
Scientology processing and courses would "handle" Plaintiff's own homosexuality.
235. After Plaintiff completed Scientology's most advanced course, New OT VIII, in
February 1990, he returned to Paris, France, believing that his personal problems
("ruin") such as his homosexuality finally had been resolved. However, two
months later, Plaintiff's "ruin", being his homosexual urges, returned even more
strongly than before. Although Plaintiff had done the New OT VIII course on the M.V.
Freewinds, at such great expense as to totally bankrupt him financially, he could
not return to the M.V. Freewinds for further "handling" of his
"ruin" unless he paid the Defendants even more money. Accordingly, as part of
Plaintiff's volunteered effort to do better, he initiated a confession of sins with the
hope of unburdening his conscience and with the trust that such would be kept within the
bounds of the priest-penitent privilege and confidentiality represented in Hubbard's
writings to exist within the Scientology enterprise. Contrary to Defendants'
misrepresentations as to the confidentiality of Scientology processing, and the claimed
priest-penitent privilege, Plaintiff's confessional statements were disseminated from the M.V.
Freewinds to the Celebrity Center in Paris, France. Plaintiff suffered severe
emotional distress as a result of Defendants' conduct in this regard which was for the
purpose of causing Plaintiff's Scientology friends to "disconnect" from him, to
not purchase his art work and thereby to destroy his business, and to otherwise engage in
conduct contrary to the express representations and material non-disclosures, Defendants
had made to Plaintiff throughout his 25-year relationship with the Defendants.
236. In April 1991, Plaintiff, being a professional artist of considerable repute,
started an independent group of artists and art lovers for the purpose of assisting them
to do better in the field of art as a result of learning from the experiences of
Plaintiff. Plaintiff's art group successfully grew until April 9, 1991 when
Mrs. Sarit Rosenberg, President of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center in
Paris, France, ordered Plaintiff to her office for a "interview." Plaintiff was
ordered to cease all activities concerning his independent art group and was told that if
he failed to do so his life in Scientology would be made "a living hell" by the
use of Defendants' administrative personnel to cause all of Plaintiff's Scientology
friends to "disconnect" from him, and that Scientology's upper management would
cancel his "O.T. status" completely, and that official Scientology publications
or "issues" would be directed against him, and they were. Defendants interfered
with Plaintiff's independent art group, by threatening to destroy his continued
association with Scientology which, in his mind at the time, and according to the
teachings of Defendants, would forever prevent him from realizing the promised benefits of
the "Bridge to Total Freedom," (and would deprive him of the immortality they
had promised him) and would forever consign him to a virtual state of living hell even
though Defendants have no concept of heaven or hell, or "deity", and Commodore
Hubbard had actually mocked it, claimed to have visited the "rather shabby"
heaven and that "there was no man on the cross".
237. Defendants' intentions in this regard were to maintain absolute
"control" over any business, economic, artistic or celebrity actions by
Plaintiff anywhere near the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center in Paris, France, or
anywhere else. Plaintiff further knew, and then believed, as other Scientologists had
since approximately 1976, when Commodore Hubbard wrote "this is our planet, move
in", that Commodore Hubbard had effectively given Scientology sole possession of the
entire planet Earth and that it should be assimilated into Scientology's own total and
exclusive control, domination and use, including all people, financial wealth, media and
political control and the internment and extermination of all those who stood in the way.
Such persons are defined by Defendants as being "unethical" and
"criminal" thus their elimination would create an ethical world without crime.
238. Consequently, Plaintiff's formation of an independent art group that was not
under Defendants' direct control conflicted with the aforesaid supreme decree from
Commodore Hubbard as carried out by Defendants. Notwithstanding, Plaintiff refused to
disband his independent group of artists and art lovers, which was intended to improve his
earning capacity. Defendants then used their official Scientology positions to ensure that
the M.V. Freewinds Management organization cancelled Plaintiff's "O.T.
status" completed on May 2, 1991, despite his having paid many hundreds of
thousands of dollars to progress along the "Bridge to Total Freedom" towards
alleged immortality. In addition, Defendants ordered those members of Plaintiff's
independent art group, who were also Scientologists belonging to the Celebrity Center,
Paris, Jean-Jacques Mazier to "disconnect" from Plaintiff, to telephone
Plaintiff and to berate his personal character, advising him that they had orders from the
President of Celebrity Center, Paris, to terminate all connection with him and to demand a
full refund of all membership dues or other monies paid to Plaintiff as part of his
independent art group. In addition, Defendants caused their staff members to write secret,
false and defamatory "Knowledge Reports" ("KRs") concerning Plaintiff,
so as to give the fraudulent appearance of multiple independent sources providing
"False Data" about him when, in fact, such persons were only robotically
relating what Defendants, through their agents, had instructed those persons to write.
Said "Knowledge Reports" were sent, without the knowledge or consent of
Plaintiff, to the M.V. Freewinds and to the upper management of the
Scientology enterprise in order to destroy Plaintiff's reputation, to prevent Plaintiff
from receiving fair justice and to prevent him from having a chance to properly defend
himself before the Scientology courts of justice known as Committees of Evidence and
Courts of Ethics.
239. The aforesaid conduct of Defendants destroyed the reputation of Plaintiff,
caused him severe emotional and financial damage, and involved him in six further years of
"carrot and stick", reward and punish, constant expense and effort to regain the
New OT VIII level and other advanced levels which Plaintiff had completed at the expense
of many hundreds of thousands of dollars but which Defendants had arbitrarily and
fraudulently stripped from him as set forth above. During this period of time, Plaintiff
was in communication with the most senior echelons of the Scientology hierarchy including
Captain Miscavige personally. In 1996 Captain Miscavige ordered a meeting of those few
Scientologists who had completed the new OT VIII level during which he advised them that
Scientology's OT VII course had not worked, was not working, had been re-engineered, and
would have to be done again by all those who had previously completed OT VII and New OT
VIII. In addition those approximately 1,200 persons would have to again pay Scientology
the subsequently increased price or tax-exempt "fixed donation" of approximately
$20,000 before doing so again and even through they had already paid for those very same
courses once already. However, at the instructions of Captain Miscavige, and others,
Plaintiff was not permitted to attend this briefing because his O.T. status had been
arbitrarily stripped from him by virtue of the reasons set forth above.
240. In his efforts to regain his New OT VIII status, and thereby regain the
"past life handlings" and future life promises he had paid Defendants enormous
sums of money for, Plaintiff discovered that Defendants, contrary to their earlier
representations and material non-disclosures, to be engaged in the operation of a totally
uncaring bureaucracy that was not interested in his physical well-being, his spiritual
well being, his state of mind or the promised handling of his "homosexuality"
but which instead seized upon any opportunity whatsoever to extract more and more money
from Plaintiff, for services that did not resolve things at all, and all because senior
Scientology officials had lied, in accordance with Defendants' policies, to make it look
as though Plaintiff was guilty of "overts", "withholds",
transgressions and misconduct against Scientology. As part of the continuing fraudulent
misrepresentations being perpetrated by Defendants upon Plaintiff, they alleged that
Plaintiff "must have done something to 'pull in' the trouble "to
himself"." This Scientological teaching is a fraudulent misrepresentation
because Defendants are institutionally incapable, in accordance with Commodore Hubbard's
writings or policies, of doing anything wrong and that therefore, Plaintiff's continued
"ruin" or "unhandled" homosexuality was his own fault and that
whatever problems Plaintiff was having with Scientology only existed because certain evil
persons and groups were trying to destroy it. Thus, Defendants continued to perpetrate
upon the Plaintiff the material non-disclosures referred to herein, all in accordance with
Defendants' policies and practices including that of "make money, make more money,
make even more money."
241. In May 1991, the Master-At-Arms of the M.V. Freewinds,
Ms. Christine McNocher, telephoned Plaintiff in Paris and advised him that there had
been bad "Knowledge Reports" received about him. Without any specificity, the
Master-At-Arms ordered Plaintiff to immediately report (at his own expense) to the M.V.
Freewinds, in Nassau, the Bahamas, or a "Suppressive Person Declare"
would be issued by Defendants and he would be expelled from the Scientology enterprise
forever and thus stripped of all the "gains" these very same Defendants had
promised he would achieve if he paid them the vast sums of money they coercively and
fraudulently extracted from him. This caused Plaintiff severe emotional distress and he
borrowed money from his parents in order to try to ensure his survival in accordance with
Defendants' policies, practices and teachings. Not only was Plaintiff's ordered visit to
the M.V. Freewinds very expensive, but he was treated extremely harshly and
rudely which only worsened the emotional trauma and distress to which Defendants were
intentionally and/or negligently subjecting Plaintiff. Defendants then ordered Plaintiff
to return to the M.V. Freewinds for a "Committee of Evidence" the
next month, June 1991.
242. In June 1991, at the orders of Defendants, and at his own personal expense,
Plaintiff again travelled from Paris, France to the M.V. Freewinds. There he
was held forcibly against his will and additionally was forced to pay $7,400 for further
Scientology auditing that he could not afford at the time. Defendants even threatened
Plaintiff with the withholding of his passport from him until such time as he paid the
demanded amount of money. Plaintiff tried to retrieve his passport from the ship's
"Port Captain's" office but his passport was being held in the safe and he was
not permitted to retrieve it until such time as he paid the monies demanded and received
the auditing processes ordered by Defendants. Without the monies Defendants had extorted
of Plaintiff and accompanied by their threats of coercion, Plaintiff could not return home
from the Netherlands Antilles. However, if he did not pay the extorted monies, and did not
undergo the ordered auditing, Defendants would charge him a further $100 per day to remain
upon the M.V. Freewinds all to his financial detriment and the continuing
destruction of his art business. At the time, Plaintiff was unaware that Defendants also
utilized the M.V. Freewinds to engage in their criminal and fraudulent
conduct in international waters and to imprison major security threats such as Lieutenant
Rathbun after he "blew his post", left Scientology and was "returned"
to Scientology in late 1993/early 1994.
243. Contrary to their representations, and at the express written orders of
Defendant Captain Miscavige, Defendants did not hold a Committee of Evidence regarding
Plaintiff on the M.V. Freewinds in the Caribbean but instead ordered
Plaintiff to travel at his own expense to Copenhagen, Denmark for the Committee of
Evidence to be held there, which Plaintiff duly attended at his own and great expense but
which was finally canceled by Captain Miscavige before it could deliver its findings
publicly. In the meantime, on May 2, 1991, and contrary to the representations made
to Plaintiff when he joined Scientology, Defendants stripped Plaintiff of his O.T. status
in an "issue dated May 2, 1991. " Defendants' said conduct, contrary to
public representations to the contrary, caused Plaintiff severe and devastating personal
humiliation and distress and cost him the loss of large sums of money, time, labor and
trust.
244. Defendants' "cycles of action" against Plaintiff were intended to,
and did, severely damage him financially and put him heavily into debt. During 1990 and
1991, Plaintiff had given a total of $6,000 to WISE in order to obtain the right to use
Hubbard Technology in his business, and to be a representative on a "Charter
Committee." Defendants then in an official publication from the Paris Celebrity
Center, "removed [Plaintiff] from post" in WISE but never refunded his money
despite his having obtained nothing in exchange for it. Defendants further failed to
disclose to Plaintiff that they have ignored the provision in the Secret IRS tax
settlement agreement that W.I.S.E. be dissolved by 1995.
245. In the Summer of 1991, Plaintiff started a new business of making beautiful
greeting cards for sale. Mr. Bruno Spinozzi, a fellow "public"
Scientologist at Celebrity Center, Paris, became his business partner and together they
invested substantial time and effort into the new business which had its first successes
at a Paris trade show. In October 1991, Defendants then decided to destroy Plaintiff's new
business and did so by ordering Bruno Spinozzi into Defendants' premises for an
"interview" in which he was provided false, defamatory, negative and damaging
information about Plaintiff and threatened with a discontinuation of his own route up the
"Bridge to Total Freedom" in Defendants' Scientology Organization if he did not
obey Defendants' instructions to stop doing business with Plaintiff. Defendants' threats
so intimidated Bruno Spinozzi that he withdrew from the new business venture with
Plaintiff and demanded Plaintiff buy back his investment and release him from all
partnership obligations on the spot. Plaintiff, not having the time also to do
Mr. Spinozzi's job in the new business, had to cease business operations.
246. In April 1993, as part of a "cramming and correction" ordered by the
results of a Committee of Evidence requested by Plaintiff as part of his continuing
efforts to clear his name, the case supervisor (or C/S) ordered Plaintiff to pay $7,400
and to take a security or "sec - check" as a result of Plaintiff continuing to
maintain his innocence in connection with the False Reports made about him by Sarit
Rosenberg of the Scientology Enterprises' Celebrity Center in Paris, France. The Director
of Processing informed Plaintiff that he would be subjected to the best
"Sec-checker" they had available i.e. , Katie Heller, a United States
citizen. After approximately seven hours of gruelling coercive interrogation which
Defendants call a "sec. check", Defendants could find no wrongdoing, or
"overts" of any magnitude by Plaintiff. Plaintiff was then sent to
"attest" to the completion of the sec check which he did, and wrote a
"success story" in which he stated that he was relieved to have been finally
found "innocent". The "Declaration of Innocence" was so unacceptable
to Defendants' Sea Org Case Supervisor that, as punishment and retribution, Plaintiff was
ordered back to further "sec-checking" or coercive interrogation, which also
resulted in no wrongdoing being discovered. Both sec-checks were deemed by defendants to
have exhausted the $7,400. Plaintiff had paid them in good faith but with no beneficial
result in exchange.
247. In the Summer of 1993, Defendants subjected Plaintiff to a further attack upon
his integrity and reputation. The "ethics" officer of the Scientology Celebrity
Center, Paris was given orders to call in all of Plaintiff's Scientology friends and
fraudulently misrepresented to them that Plaintiff had "stolen a document" from
the M.V. Freewinds relating to the conduct of Mr. A.F. Rosenberg.
Defendants also, and in accordance with their written policies and practices, told
Plaintiff's Scientology friends other lies of a personal nature until they were in a state
of shock about what a bad person he must be. Plaintiff's friends each were ordered to
write a "Knowledge Report" on what they had learned from Defendants'
representatives but to omit any reference to the fact that Defendants had provided them
that "False Data." Said "Knowledge Reports" were then sent to
Plaintiff's Scientology "ethics files" on the M.V. Freewinds and
to the International Management of Defendants' Scientology enterprise without Plaintiff's
knowledge or consent. Plaintiff did not receive copies of said "Knowledge
Reports", and he only discovered these "Knowledge Reports" in 1996 when he
was permitted to superficially inspect the contents of his Scientology "ethics
file" at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida. At that time, Plaintiff
discovered not only that a total of 23 false "Knowledge Reports" (KRs) had been
written about him, 15 of which had not been disclosed to him, but that there were also two
to three hundred pages of Scientology enterprise written telexes about him (many from
"CMO") during the period of June to August 1993 alone. At that time, Plaintiff
demanded to read the telexes but the "Ethics" Officer left the room with the
"ethics" folders, removed the telexes and came back with "culled"
folders so that Plaintiff could no longer see what had been written about him.
Notwithstanding, Plaintiff concluded that a wide ranging conspiracy of considerable
magnitude had been perpetrated against him by Defendants. Plaintiff learned further, that
in July 1993, Ms. Olivia Pilo of the Scientology Celebrity Center, Paris, had
telephoned business partners of Plaintiff in Milan, Italy, to ask them, on behalf of
Defendants, if they had any "dirt" on Plaintiff that Defendants could use
against him.
248. Defendants' attacks on Plaintiff, and the international repercussions of
Defendants' attacks upon Plaintiff, not only destroyed Plaintiff financially, but pushed
him heavily into further debt to the benefit of Defendants. Defendants destroyed
Plaintiff's credit in France and it became impossible for Plaintiff to continue his career
as an artist in France as a result of the incessant harassment from Defendants and their
unrelenting pressure for even more money. Consequently, Plaintiff moved to Mexico to try
to convalesce and regain his financial stability. Having been destroyed financially by
Defendants, Plaintiff lost all of his possessions in Paris because he could not pay the
property storage dues while he was attempting to re-establish his career in Mexico. In
1994-1995, Plaintiff found that he was unable to sell his paintings in Mexico because of
that country's severe economic crisis, Plaintiff then proceeded to the Flag Land Base in
Clearwater, Florida with the intention, and with faith based on Defendants'
misrepresentations dating back 25 years, that his problems could be resolved by Defendants
and their "processes".
249. From 1995 through the end of May 1997, Plaintiff's "condition"
worsened because of Defendants' misrepresentations. The more Plaintiff tried to clear his
name, and to regain the O.T. status he had paid for and had completed, the worse
Defendants' treatment of him because at the time, Plaintiff had been so coercively
indoctrinated, brainwashed, subjected to hypnotic suggestions and other methods of mind
control,that he did not recognize the mentally manipulative effect of Defendants
"carrot and stick", bait and switch "ethics" handlings, rewards and
punishment.
250. In 1996, an RTC "Board of Review" issued a mild vindication of
Plaintiff but still failed to take any corrective action to repair the vast damage that
Defendants had inflicted upon him. All this time, the President of Scientology Celebrity
Center in Paris Jean-Jacques Mazier was a greater source of income for Defendants than was
Plaintiff and although the Rosenbergs were at the Flag Land Base at the same time as
Plaintiff, Defendants, including Captain Miscavige, refused to get the Rosenbergs and
Plaintiff together to try and resolve their mutual difficulties leading Plaintiff to
conclude that money took precedence over Scientology's practice of justice as far as
Defendants were concerned.
PLAINTIFF DISCOVERS THE DEFENDANTS' FRAUD
270. By June 1997, Plaintiff began to discover that Defendants' various
representations to him, dating from 1973 through 1998, were in reality fraudulent
misrepresentations and material non-disclosures and that Scientology was not a legitimate
religion, that its claims to be a religion were a fraudulent and criminal facade, and that
its claims to be consistent and compatible with other religions were merely part of the
fraud that Defendants had perpetrated upon the Plaintiff. Accordingly, in June 1997,
Plaintiff had become so disenchanted with the various practices and claims of Scientology,
so destroyed by its policies, bulletins, "upper levels" and practices, and so
dissatisfied with the services provided by Defendants herein, that he slowly lost his
faith in, and in connection with, Scientology irrespective of the knowledge that
Defendants would carry out their "fair game" practices against him for the
purpose of destroying and ruining him utterly in accordance with Defendants' policy
letters, bulletins and so-called copyrighted and trade secret "scriptures".
Notwithstanding, and at least until May 29, 1998, Plaintiff was a member of the Church of
Scientology and remains a lifetime member of the International Association of
Scientologists, for which he paid Defendants $2,000. 00 and is still deemed by Defendants
to be one of their OT Ambassadors.
271. On May 17, 1997, the aforesaid Mary Voegeding wrote a letter to Plaintiff
stating that she did not know where he got the idea that his Petition for Eligibility had
been refused and that he had used up all "lines" in order to get his Petition
resolved. She further said that she felt compelled to tell Plaintiff that the Board of
Review that was convened had cancelled all of the "injustices" against Plaintiff
and that she understood he was trying to get the matter resolved which was her intention
as well. To that end, Defendants' representative stated that there was obviously a
personal "upset" with another parishioner and that there was a policy to resolve
"this type of thing." She went on to state that she was trying to apply
Scientology policy and that she looked forward to helping him out. Nearly one week after
Voegeding's letter, Plaintiff again attempted unsuccessfully to regain the OT levels
Defendant's had fraudulently stripped from him. Again, Defendants' efforts to regain his
OT status failed, after giving Defendants nearly twenty five years of his time, trust,
labor and money and reasonable relying, to his detriment, upon Defendants' representations
and material non-disclosures in connection with Defendants' selling Plaintiff "The
Bridge" and promising that they would cure or "handle" his homosexuality
and other issues.
272. Contrary to the material misrepresentations, and material non-disclosures, of
Defendants and their agents, upon which Plaintiff reasonably relied to his detriment and
damage, Plaintiff has, among other things, discovered the following wrongful conduct by
Defendants despite Defendants' maintaining his O.T. Ambassador Status as recently as
May 2, 1998:
(a)
That the corporations and churches of Scientology are not a bona fide
legitimate religion but a vast money making invasive and subversive political movement,
commercial enterprise and mafia-like criminal organization that had perpetrated a fraud on
the Plaintiff;
(b) That Defendants were engaged in the operation of a para-military,
psycho-terrorist and politically subversive organization engaged, among other things, in
the denial of the civil rights, and the human rights of the Plaintiff;
(c) That Defendants had maintained a totalitarian-like compartmentalization
within the Scientology enterprise in order to prevent Plaintiff discovering the real truth
regarding the actual nature of the Scientology enterprise and the material non-disclosures
that Defendants withheld from the Plaintiff;
(d) That Defendants recruited and used celebrities to further their frauds and
crimes against the Plaintiff as set forth herein;
(e) That Commodore Hubbard did not write many of the works that Defendants
claimed to Plaintiff he did and that many of these works, and/or portions thereof, were
plagiarized and stolen from others, some even having their source in black magic and
Satanism. The works and authors plagiarized and stolen by Commodore Hubbard including
those of: Ren� Descartes (1596-1650); Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677); Oahspe (1882), a New
Bible in the Words of Jehovah and his Angel Embassadors; Emmanuel Velikovsky; Alistair
Crowley (The Cult Initiate) and M.L. Mathers (The Golden Dawn). To
conceal his plagiarism, and to permit Scientology to engage in fraudulent copyright and
trade secret filings and litigation, Commodore Hubbard made himself the Supreme God,
created his own words, language and lexicon, rewrote the works of others and called them
his own, and to that end, created a dictionary, axioms, ethics an initiations that he
claimed were written by him who he labelled "Source" and decreed that no changes
could be made to his writings, Policy Letters, Issues, Bulletins, etc., except by him.
Accordingly, per standards tech., Scientology's written policies and practices are sealed
in stone as of, at the very latest, January 24, 1986.
(f) That Plaintiff had a "direct line to Source", i.e. ,
Commodore Hubbard, and that the letters he received "from Ron" were genuine when
in fact they were not;
(g) That many of the Defendants' so-called religious symbols, such as the
Scientology cross, are in fact Satanic and/or black magic symbols contrary to
representations Defendants had made to Plaintiff;
(h) That Commodore Hubbard had studied and practiced black magic and other
satanic and occult teaching and rituals, such as those of Alistair Crowley, with Jack
Parsons and Sara Northrup-Hubbard. Furthermore, that in the late 1940's Hubbard had
practiced black magic and the occult in Pasadena, California and, among other things, had
tried to create a "moon child" and had written "the blood letters" at
that time (http://www.factnet.org/scientology/satanism.htm>);
(i) That Defendants do not tolerate the concurrent practice and existence of
other religions by either its own members or others, contrary to representations
Defendants had made to Plaintiff;
(j) That Defendants' statements to Plaintiff regarding its treatment and
attitudes towards minorities such as women, non-whites, Arabs, Asians Blacks and gays were
false and fraudulent and that Scientology was in reality a bigoted hate-group falsely
claiming to be a bona fide, compatible peaceful church as part of a "Trojan
Horse" vehicle or stealth attack to achieve its totalitarian objectives;
(k) That Defendants wrongfully failed to advise Plaintiff, at the time they
recruited him, of their "war" against the Mental Health Profession and their use
of tax-exempt monies and those of Plaintiff, to totally destroy the Mental Health
Profession and every individual mental health practitioner, "psych-busting", the
role of front groups and hate groups, such as Citizen's Commission for Human Rights
("CCHR"), and the CAN Reform Group, New CAN, the CAN Unit within OSA and the
Bowles and Moxon "Plan 100" to maintain one hundred malicious and meritless
lawsuits against the IRS Section 501(c)(3) non-profit educational Cult Awareness
Network so as to totally bankrupt and destroy it, and fraudulently misusing one Jason
Scott to that despicable anti-social end that turned the non-profit corporate and tax laws
on their head, a plot to murder Ford Greene, Esq. and then CAN President Cynthia Kisser
and her daughter, the destruction of old CAN by Kendrick L. Moxon, Esq. and others,
as described by the Washington Post and other Media in late 1996, and
additionally in early 1994, and by the CBS Sixty Minutes TV Show in late
1997;
(l) That Defendants had engaged in fraud in not telling Plaintiff about the
criminal history and massive criminal activities of Department 20 of OSA including
but not limited to the conduct of covert intelligence activities, some for foreign
governments, "Operation Snow White" and the other widespread illegal conduct of
Defendants' discovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the largest raids ever
undertaken, on the Church of Scientology. Defendants subsequently claimed that these
criminal activities had been conducted by a small unit within the Guardian's office and
that all persons responsible for this criminal conduct had been expelled from Scientology.
Plaintiff has recently learned that this was not true and that, in fact, some of the old
Guardian's office B1 - B2 unit, such as unindicted co-conspirator such as
Kendrick L. Moxon, Esq., are now occupying significant positions or "posts"
within the Scientology enterprise and others are conducting covert operations on behalf of
the Scientology enterprise. Furthermore, the 1988 Hat Pack, or job description, of the
president of CSI, Heber Jentszch, contained many policy letters, bulletins and
instructions on how to commit criminal activities, that had been contained in the B1-B2
"Hat Pack", some of which are even the original Guardian's office issues.
Furthermore, Defendants had failed to tell Plaintiff of their policy and practice of
segregating Red Box Data which Defendants define to include documents evidencing the
involvement of Scientology or Scientologists in criminal activity;
(m) That Defendants had engaged in fraud in not telling Plaintiff of the real
truth regarding L. Ron Hubbard's background, Satanic practices, illicit drug use,
psychiatric drug use, the abuse of his wives and children, abuse of his followers, abuse
of the legal system, criminal convictions, and the "suspicious" circumstances,
and fraudulent conduct, preceding, surrounding and following his death;
(n) Defendants had engaged in fraud in not telling Plaintiff, at the time of his
recruitment, about Hubbard's attitude toward children as being "expensive
inconveniences" and that Scientology Sea Org staff members are routinely ordered to
have abortions because children interfere with "production" and require
"family time";
(o) Defendants further engaged in fraud by not telling Plaintiff, at the time of
his recruitment or thereafter, that they maintained special schools, and cadet org.
facilities, where children were coercively indoctrinated, subject to substandard living
conditions and diet, subjected to hard labor, indoctrinated with L. Ron Hubbard's
study tech to their academic disadvantage, subjected to sexual and other abuse that was
not timely or properly remedied and punished by Defendants, subjected to deficient diets
and allowed to be plagued by such things as head lice and other infestations.
(p) Defendants engaged in fraud by not disclosing to Plaintiff the various
matters referred to in a document called "Separate Statement Linking Declarations to
Claims Filed in Connection with F.R.Civ.P. Rule 11 Request" in the case of CSI v.
Fishman and Geertz, many of which were and are available on the internet in the form
of the Declarations of Andre Tabayoyon, Mary Tabayoyon, Robert Vaughn Young, Stacy Young,
Hana Whitfield, Vicki Aznaran, Richard Aznaran and Lawrence Wollersheim;
(q) Defendants had engaged in fraud, through material non-disclosure, against
Plaintiff in connection with the death of L. Ron Hubbard and the administration of
the L. Ron Hubbard estate. Some of these facts and material non-disclosures were set
forth in an "Ex Parte Petition for Stay in Proceedings in Estate
of L. Ron Hubbard", California Superior Court, County of San Luis Obispo, Case
No. 20885. Specifically, Captain Miscavige concealed the following material facts
from the Plaintiff:
(r) That Defendants had engaged in fraud in not advising Plaintiff of the full
extent of the Rehabilitation Project Force, alleged Scientology-related deaths, suicides
and financial frauds and Scientology's past criminal convictions, public investigations,
lawsuits and other anti-social activities and conduct in violation of the Constitutional
and civil rights of both its own members and its critics. Specifically, Defendant John
Travolta was personally aware of the existence of the Rehabilitation Project Force through
personal observation and the experiences of one of his former friends. Defendant Travolta,
in his capacity as a principal Scientology spokesperson upon whom Plaintiff reasonably
relied, failed to make public statements designed to inform Plaintiff of the deprivations
associated with the RPF concentration camp-like facility at the New Era Film Studios at
Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California, and other such "gulags" located
elsewhere in these United States and abroad;
(s) Defendants also failed to ensure that its other celebrity spokespersons and
recruiters, including but not limited to Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Mimi Rogers, Kelly
Preston, Isaac Hayes, Maxine Nightingale, Chic Corea, Edgar Winter, Lisa Marie Presley,
Priscilla Presley, Mario Feninger, Cyprien Katsaris, Xavier Deluc, Julia Migines-Johnson,
Michael Roberts, Bob Adams, Parker Stevenson, Craig Jensen, and others, were fully and
properly briefed, informed and knowledgeable as to all of the activities of the
Scientology enterprise as alleged herein before permitting and/or requiring them to make
false and/or misleading public statements and/or representations in support of
Scientology, many of which were reasonably relied upon by Plaintiff to his manifest damage
and detriment.
(t) That contrary to their representations, Defendants do use hypnosis,
brainwashing, mind control and other mentally manipulative and coercive indoctrination
techniques. Defendants also failed to inform Plaintiff that they regularly employed
"Black Dianetics" or "Reverse Processing" to manipulate, injure or
destroy persons perceived as engaged in thought processes and conduct antithetical to
Defendants. Defendants define "Black Dianetics" as hypnotism.
(u) That Defendants omitted to tell Plaintiff that it obtained IRS
Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status through intimidation, misuse of his monies
contributed to Defendants, the use of private investigators, blackmail, and other matters
which are more properly described in the March 9, 1997 New York Times
article written by Doug Frantz. Defendants also failed to tell Plaintiff that it conducted
further forms of tax fraud in connection with obtaining its tax-exempt status, as set
forth in the secret IRS closing agreement, by removing and destroying documents that
otherwise might be inspected by the IRS. By way of example, former Scientologist Andre
Tabayoyan subsequently testified that he removed twelve ocean-going sea containers of
commingled RTC, CSI and other documents from the Defendants' base at Gilman Hot Springs,
where Captain Miscavige principally works, prior to the IRS inspection in connection with
Defendants' coerced settlement with the IRS. The land on which the 12 ocean-going sea
containers of concealed documents had been located was then backhoed to camouflage the
fact of their former location. (http:/wpxx.02. tax1.
uniwuerzburg.de/~krasel/CoS/aff/aff_at.html).
(v) That Defendants had misused monies that Plaintiff contributed to and donated
to them by engaging in criminal conduct, fraudulent conduct, financial fraud, loan fraud,
credit card fraud including but not limited to "the Amex Card Cycle", tax fraud,
and the use of lawyers (such as Samuel D. Rosen, Barbara Reeves, Paul Hastings, et
al., law firm and private detectives (such as Eugene Ingram) to intimidate, silence
and destroy all those who criticized Defendants, the activities of Defendants or who
otherwise might expose the fraud that was being perpetrated upon Plaintiff and to, inter
alia, require some attorneys and others to make certain kickbacks to Defendants,
such as the purchase of limited editions, "special properties" and/or artwork.
Recalcitrance resulted in threats and blackmail being made by the use of wires;
(w) That Defendants also failed to disclose to Plaintiff that Scientologists
cannot, per Scientology policy, testify without bias or truthfully against the interests
of a Scientologist or Scientology and that they are subject to violations of the laws of
civil and human rights if they fail to testify according to TR-L (Training Routine Lying),
the policy letters entitled "Hatting the Witness" and "Addendum to Hatting
the Witness", and to tell "acceptable truths" as defined by Defendants'
policy;
(x) That Defendants had misused Plaintiff's contributions and "fixed
donations" for the purpose of improperly recruiting, abusing and even imprisoning
children and teenagers in violation of applicable wage and labor laws, and other basic
human rights and basic human dignities entitlements, upon the fraudulent claim that they
were religious volunteers engaged in religious activities;
(y) That contrary to the Defendants' representations, express and implied, to
Plaintiff, Defendants engaged in the systematic abuse of families and children and
prohibited all Sea Org staff members at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida, and
elsewhere from having children, and ordered woman to have abortions, even if they were
married and wished to have children, under threat of expulsion from the Sea Org;
(z) That Defendants misused Plaintiff's contributions such as Scientology
"front groups" donations with fraudulent claims regarding A.B.L.E., Applied
Scholastics, The Way To Happiness, Narcanon, and Criminon, CCHR, etc. and Defendants'
improper pressure upon certain Los Angeles City Council members in connection with the
renaming of Berendo Street as L. Ron Hubbard Way and the fraudulent representations
the Los Angeles Unified School District in connection with the use of Hubbard text books
in Los Angeles' Schools, all without Plaintiff's knowledge and consent;
(aa) That Defendants misused Plaintiff's contributions and fixed donations in
connection with their representations as to the treatment, handling and ultimate
internment and extermination of homosexuals, and the treatment, or "off loading"
or "dumping" of ill, "broke" and/or older Scientologists and Sea Org
staff members who were no longer financially productive to Defendants;
(bb) Defendants also failed to disclose to Plaintiff that their Narconon and
Crimanon programs were, in reality, an ineffective public relations sham, closed down in
some countries, and that persons at certain Narconon facilities were housed in
substandard, freezing cold housing infested by rats and other vermin along with program
participants who were engaging in major drug use upon the Narconon premises, and that
Narconon program participants had been subjected to dangerous processes and practices that
resulted in human indignities and health problems including liver damage, massive hair
loss and other permanent health damage.
(cc) At the time of his recruitment, Defendants also failed to disclose to
Plaintiff their HCO Bulletin (revised as of 26 August 1992), entitled "Pain and
Sex," where L. Ron Hubbard writes that pain and sex are invented tools of
degradation which interfere with the production of money for Defendants.
(dd) That Defendants misused Plaintiff's contributions and fixed donations in
connection with their claims to "Clear the Planet," create "an ethical
society" and a "world without crime and drugs" and failed to timely
disclose to him that "Clearing the Planet" meant ruling the World, eliminating
and/or exterminating critics or opponents of Scientology and that an "ethical"
planet meant one ruled only and exclusively according to Scientology practices and further
that "criminals" were those who were impeding the Scientology enterprise
worldwide takeover;
(ee) That contrary to Defendants' representations, Plaintiff was subjected to
dangerous and life-threatening practices in connection with the "Purification
Rundown" even when he was sick, pursuant to Commodore Hubbard's rule that "what
turns it on turns it off" even if the illness resulted from the sauna and other
"prescribed" vitamins in excessive doses pursuant to Defendants'
"Purification Rundown". Defendants also failed to disclose to Plaintiff that
persons with liver conditions, such as former alcoholics and persons with
Hepatitus C, were routinely cleared for the "Purification Rundown", and the
consequent prolonged unsafe exposure to high sauna temperatures and the administration of
dangerous quantities of niacin and other vitamins;
(ff) That Defendants fraudulently misused Plaintiff's contributions and fixed
donations in connection with their handling of psychotic breaks known as "Potential
Trouble Source Type III" and the use of the "Instrospection Rundown",
and other Scientology policies, practices and processes, resulting in alleged murders,
suicides, instructions to commit murder and suicide, financial fraud, damaged bodies,
broken families, damaged minds and destroyed lives, all of which Defendants failed to
timely bring to Plaintiff's attention. Furthermore, Defendants failed to explain to
Plaintiff what has happened to the thousands of Scientologists who have literally
disappeared, some later to be discovered dead, in mysterious circumstances as represented
by the German ARD television documentary "The Dark Side of
Scientology," and disclosed in the Tampa Courthouse files relating to the
death of Lisa McPherson;
(gg) Contrary to Defendants' claims, the use of the E-Meter and the practice of
auditing was a dangerous and potentially life-threatening fraud;
(hh) That Defendants engaged in misrepresentations and material omissions to
Plaintiff, in connection with the use of portions of his monies and donations for the
activities of OSA, lawyers and private investigators against former Scientologists,
critics of Scientology and the like;
(ii) That contrary to Defendants' claims to Plaintiff, Scientology does not work
as claimed and the "Bridge to Total Freedom," from the Personality Test through
new OT VIII, and all related writings such as Dianetics, The Modern Science of
Mental Health, Scientology, A World Religion Emerges in the Space Age, What
is Scientology, and all of the so-called Advanced Technology, or upper levels, are a
fraud despite Defendants' contrary representations, and material non-disclosures, made to
Plaintiff;
(jj) That in blatantly defiant violation of U.S. Federal Court injunctions, and
contrary to their express representations to Plaintiff that Defendants were law abiding
entities and peaceful citizens, Defendants were engaged in the unlawful practice of
medicine through various of Commodofe Hubbard's policies, practices and procedures, such
as Nots 34 and the related use of the E-Meter;
(kk) That Defendants, and each of them, contrary to their misrepresentations and
material omissions to Plaintiff, used parts or all of Plaintiff's contributions and
donations for the purpose of a vast criminal and fraudulent conspiracy intended to
infiltrate and take over the world, all governments, media and businesses, and generally
to act contrary to anything Plaintiff would knowingly have agreed to provide his labor,
contributions and donations for had Defendants timely disclosed such matters to him;
(ll) That at the time of his recruitment, Defendants did not advise Plaintiff
that they would, in effect, censor the information on Scientology that he would be
permitted to receive from the non-Scientology or "wog" world. Specifically, any
anti-Scientology material, called "entheta press" by Defendants, could not be
read by Plaintiff, thus permitting Defendants to continue the fraud and other wrongful and
illegal conduct being perpetrated upon the Plaintiff. In such manner, Defendants ordered
Plaintiff not to read or otherwise access materials that may have otherwise permitted him
to discover the frauds and other wrongful conduct alleged herein, such as: (a) the
over 8,000 newspaper and magazine articles, in English alone, that have been critical of
the Scientology enterprise; (b) books such as: A Piece of Blue Sky -
Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed by John Atak; The Scandal of
Scientology by Paulette Cooper; Scientology: The Now Religion, by George Marko;
The Mind Benders by Cyril Vosper; Inside Scientology by Robert Kaufman, Religion
Inc. - the Church of Scientology, by Stewart Lamont and L. Ron Hubbard,
Messiah or Madman by Bent Corydon; (c) magazine and newspaper articles such as Readers'
Digest, L.A. Times, Time Magazine, Gauntlet,
Daily Mirror, Esquire, Premier Magazine, Spy
Magazine, the New York Times, Washington Post, and the
Wall Street Journal; (d) television documentaries such as Cranada
T.V.'s The Shrinking World of L. Ron Hubbard, Nightline,
ARD (Germany), April 2, 1997, the Dark Side of Scientology; 60
Minutes, Turning Point, or that Defendants had acted to prevent the CNN
organization from airing two extensively researched documentaries on Scientology and its
activities; (d) with Defendants' censorship activities extended to the Internet, the
seizure of dissidents' computers, computer files and books. For example, Netcom, Erlich,
Lerma, FactNet, Grady and Ward; (e) that Defendants' censorship and propaganda
activities would extend to "spamming" the Internet with thousands of websites
for Scientologists, designed to "overwhelm" and block out anti-Scientology
material on the Internet, and the requirement that Scientologists use filtering devices,
referred to as the "Scientology Netnanny," to prevent Scientologists from
accessing Internet sites of "suppressive persons" and Internet sites containing
material critical of Scientology or of particular Scientologists.
(mm) Defendants' material non-disclosures to Plaintiff, involved among other
things, their policy and practice of preventing his exposure to any materials and
information critical of Scientology, thus delaying his discovery of the Scientology
enterprise being a mafia-like, international commercial enterprise and political movement
maintaining the post-founding pretense of religiosity in order to operate tax-free in
countries where it was convenient to do so.
(nn) Among other things, Defendants prevented Plaintiff from timely learning
that: L. Ron Hubbard had been found by a California court to be "a pathological
liar when it comes to his history, background and achievements" and that he was in
hiding at the time of his death which was accompanied by many irregularities. Church of
Scientology v. Armstrong, Los Angeles Superior Court, Case No. C420153
[http://www.kvalito.no/~xenu/arcive/armstrong, and
http:/www.sklynet/~sloth/sci/armstrong.html]
(oo) The Church of Scientology had instituted its operation "Snow
White" and "Project Target Dodell" to conduct the largest- ever known
infiltration of the United States government, and at least 12 of its major departments,
including the IRS and the Justice Department. Furthermore, that 11 of L. Ron
Hubbard's subordinates, including Defendant Mary Sue Hubbard, received prison sentences
for their parts in these vast criminal activities which included theft of U.S. Government
documents, obstruction of justice, and other "fair game" related activities
against the United States Government. Moreover, that Defendant Moxon was an unindicted
co-conspirator in these matters and his material role in the obstruction of justice and
falsifying of documents was discussed in the 284-page stipulation of evidence between the
Scientology enterprise and the United States Department of Justice.
(pp) In 1992, the Church of Scientology had become the first religious
organization in Canada to be convicted of criminal conduct. Specifically, stealing
documents from law firms, public associations and government entities as well as breach of
trust. Furthermore, that in the mid-1990's Defendants had been ordered to pay millions of
dollars to a Canadian lawyer, Casey Hill, for slandering his reputation in furtherance of
Defendants' "fair game policy".
(qq) In 1996, former French Scientology leader, Jean-Jacques Mazier had been
convicted of second degree murder and fraud in driving Scientologists Patrice Vic to
suicide (negligent homicide) and that 13 other Scientologists had been convicted of fraud
and other misdemeanors in the same trial. (rr) That in 1948, Commodore Hubbard had
been convicted of fraudulent conduct in San Luis Obispo, California, and again, in 1978,
Commodore Hubbard had been convicted of criminal fraud in France, and sentenced to a four
year prison term. Although convicted in absentia, Commodore Hubbard had
never exercised his right to go France and contest the conviction. The same judgment
against Commodore Hubbard also sentenced Henry (Hank) Zaarhuis (Scientology's executive
director for France), Jacqueline Valentin (president of Scientology, France) and Georges
Andreu to prison sentences of one to three years.
(ss) The president of CSI, Heber Jentzsch, had been arrested in Spain in 1998
and, after 30 days in prison, had been freed on $1 million bail and pending trial,
along with many other Scientologists, on criminal charges that included infiltrating
government agencies, stealing government documents and tax fraud.
(tt) Scientologists had been convicted of Scientology-related criminal conduct,
including fraud, in other nations such as Italy and Switzerland.
(uu) Evidence of Scientology-related instructions to commit murder, suicide and
financial fraud have been posted all over the Internet as a result of the Church of
Scientology International v. Fishman and Goertz, USDC, Central District of
California, Case No. CV916426HLH.
(vv) Scientology had not chosen to be a church in Greece where it traded as a
"center for applied philosophy".
(ww) In France, the Ministere de L'Interen et des Cultes, had stated that it was
totally out of the question to consider any Church of Scientology application for
religious tax-exempt status and that an Assemble � Nationale (French Parlaimant) report
on cults had concluded that Scientology appears to be one of the most
"dangerous" groups.
(xx) In 1998, Scientology had been ordered to close permanently and liquidate in
Greece after police raids on Scientology facilities had disclosed, among things,
"enemy lists" including the name of the head of the Greek Orthodox Church.
Defendants also failed to disclose to Plaintiff that the Greek court of appeal had
described Scientology as an organization with totalitarian structures and trends, aiming
at power and money and applying dangerous methods without preventing the possibility of
suicide of its members who were brainwashed. In addition, it held that Scientology was an
economic enterprise and not a religion.
(yy) That Scientology is under police and secret service surveillance in Germany
which considers it to be a threat to democracy as a totalitarian conspiratorial movement
with global political aims, and a commercial enterprise engaged in commercial and other
frauds.
(zz) That Scientology had been denied tax-exempt status in many German states
because it is a commercial enterprisean organization which under the disguise of a
religious group combines elements of business crimes and psycho-terror against its own
members with economic activities and sectarian traits, and that the focal point of their
activities appeared to be in the area of economic crimes.
(aaa) A high ranking member of Scientology's Office of Special Affairs, Kurt
Weiland, had twice been convicted of criminal slander (of another religion) in Germany,
fined and judicially threatened with imprisonment.
(bbb) That on October 11, 1994, a member of the German Parliament had
asserted that "Scientology was not a religion but a conspiratorial movement with
global political aims." Furthermore, that German labor minister Norbert Blum had
stated that "Scientology is not a church or a religious organization. Scientology is
a machine for manipulating human beings." In addition, during September 1994, the
German Federal labor minister had said he regarded "the sect as a criminal money
laundering organization which, under the cover of religion, wants to spread its blinded
ideology worldwide and stops at nothing to do so." Moreover, he had stated: [it is
high time by now to use all public means to make it clear to the ringleaders of this
cartel of oppression, which despises human beings, what they are: criminals! Scientology
is trying to span the world like a giant Octopus: potential members are driven into
psychological and physical dependence. They are brainwashed, their personalities are
systematically destroyed. Then they are exploited materially without restraint. Although
all of this is known to us far too little has been done so far to fight this organization
really effectively.]
(ccc) Similarly, that Renate Rennebach, a Social Democratic member of
Parliament, had called for the Scientology enterprise to be outlawed saying:
Scientology is far the most dangerous and most widespread of the psycho terror groups.
Moreover, Scientology, despite official denials, is pursuing an expansion strategy that
strives for nothing less than global domination. Germany today, tomorrow the world.
(ddd) That in 1994, officials in Bremen, Germany, had passed resolutions
forbidding Scientology from calling itself a not-for-profit organization stating "we
are convinced that the organization, in contradiction to the ideals proclaimed in their
statute, is pursuing financial goals as its highest priority". In September 1993, at
the same time as the United States Internal Revenue Service granted Scientology tax-exempt
status, the Breman government had ordered this Scientology organization to report every
commercial endeavor just like any other commercial enterprise and effectively denied it
tax-exempt status. It was further stated:
we are convinced that this organization, as opposed to their alleged idealistic
aspirations, primarily pursues commercial goals. It will no longer be permitted to present
itself as a charitable society while offering its products and recruiting new members.
273. Similarly, a Christian democratic youth leader, Stefan Schwartz, had stated:
it is a psycho-sect that makes people financially dependant on it and then squeezes
them like lemons.
274. Similarly, an investigation conducted by the German Department of Criminal
Prosecution had concluded that Scientology is a "ideology with pronounced
totalitarian ground rules, whose goal is the economic exploitation of clients who've been
made dependent. These ideas, goals and practices are not compatible with the norms and
values of the constitutional laws." In addition, the German labor court had also
ruled that Scientology must be treated like any other commercial enterprise and that it is
not a tax-exempt non-profit organization.
(eee) That Commodore Hubbard had said that he had been to heaven, discovered it
to be "a scruffy kind of place", that there was "no man on the cross"
and that he would return as the anti-Christ.
(fff) Commodore Hubbard's policies and practices provided for the Scientology
enterprise to "take over the control or allegiance of key political figures",
the heads or proprietors of all news media, those who monitor international finance and to
"clear the planet", exterminate undesirables (such as homosexuals) and rule the
world according to Scientology (e.g. , "Targets, Defense": HCOPL 16 Feb.
1969, Reiss. 24 Sept. 1987). Those who stood in the way, or who criticized Scientology,
were to be labeled criminals liars and ultimately exterminated.
(ggg) Commodore Hubbard and all American Scientologists, had been banned from
entering Great Britain during the 160's and that the English High Court had held that
Scientology is immoral, socially obnoxious, corrupt, sinister and dangerous and that its
essential practice, auditing, "is a process of conditioning, brainwashing and
indoctrination."
(hhh) Scientology had been banned in Rhodesia and in certain states in Australia
and that restrictions had been placed on it, and Scientologists, in Great Britain and New
Zealand.
(iii) Scientology was not permitted to run schools in Lausanne, Switzerland,
because the Scientology methods of teaching were "dangerous."
(jjj) Scientology did not operate as a church in either Israel, Sweden or
Mexico.
(kkk) Scientology had framed critic Paulette Cooper on false bomb threat charges
which were only dropped after the FBI discovered the relevant documentary evidence of
Scientology's involvement during its 1977 raids on Scientology.
(lll) Scientology had been the subject of numerous damning government
investigations in various countries resulting in reports such as: the Anderson Report,
the Foster Report, etc.
(mmm) Scientology had drills to teach Scientologists how to lie, in courts, to
the media and even to the U.S. Congress in a convincing manner.
(nnn) That the former head of Defendant Religious Technology Center, Vicky
Aznaran, had publicly stated: "This is a criminal organization, day in and day out.
It makes Jim and Tammy Baker look like kindergarten." Time Magazine,
May 6, 1991, p. 51.
(ooo) That plaintiff's friend, the late Lisa McPherson a Scientologist engaged
in fraudulent business activities for the benefit of the Scientology enterprise, had (in
November 1995) been engaged in a traffic accident after which she fled naked down the
street screaming for help. That she had been taken to a psychiatric hospital and had been
removed, against medical advice, by Scientology staff members. That 17 days later, after
being kept under a 24-hour watch, and being handled according to Scientology's
"Introspection" or "Isolation Rundown", she had died. During her last
days she had spat out food, banged violently on the walls of her room (cell) and
hallucinated. That the coroner had found her covered with cockroach bites and opined that
she had been deprived of water for at least her last five to ten days and had died of a
blood clot brought about by severe dehydration. Prior to the accident, Lisa McPherson had
told her parents that she was leaving the Scientology enterprise and would be home by
Christmas.
(qqq) The Defendants engaged in baseless and contrived issue of judicial
restraining orders to prevent certain Scientology critics from demonstrating outside, and
picketing, Scientology facilities because, among other things, such activities cause
Scientology staff members to defect from the enterprise.
(rrr) That these material non-disclosures are only a few of the numerous adverse
judicial, legislative, public inquiry and executive branch condemnations of the activities
of Defendants and the policies and practices of the Scientology enterprise which have been
issued by almost all of the nations of the western world. Had Defendants permitted
Plaintiff to access these various judicial, official investigation, legislative and
executive branch pronouncements as to the fraudulent and criminal nature of the policies
and practices of the Scientology enterprise, he would not have suffered the deprivation of
civil and human rights, and the financial exploitation and destruction, that he endured
for nearly 25 years.
275. Defendants' criminal and fraudulent conduct directed at Plaintiff also
included, but was not limited to, the following documents, policies, practices, procedures
and activities which were material non-disclosures, when Defendants' recruited the
Plaintiff:
(a) The HCOB titled "The By-Passed Case" written by L. Ron
Hubbard and denoted as "Top Secret" wherein Hubbard describes the fact that it
is possible for a Thetan (in this case, meaning a person receiving auditing) to go all the
way up the "Bridge" without ever actually getting any auditing himself as a
spiritual being, but paying for hundreds or thousands of hours of auditing, at a cost of
at least four hundred thousand dollars, without any personal benefit whatsoever. The
Plaintiff read this HCOB in 1982 at the Sand Castle Scientology (Clearwater, Florida)
courseroom for New OT VI in a "pack" with other "top secret" and
"trade secret" documents.
(b) The document written on May 2, 1991 that stripped the Plaintiff of all
"O.T. status" in one fell swoop without any recourse. The Plaintiff had paid a
great deal of money (approximately $500,000. 00) to Defendants for the "O.T."
levels and then Defendants publicly cancelled his attainment of them without due
compensation.
(c) The denial, by Defendants, of the Plaintiff's Constitutional, human and
civil rights to fair justice by Hubbard's policies preventing access to any national
justice system of legitimate recourse for real wrongs perpetrated against the Plaintiff by
Defendants.
(d) The use, by Defendants, of a deliberate and calculated attempt at the
overthrow of national (including the United States) justice systems by the deliberate
abuse of these national justice systems as a weapon of chaos, disarray, harassment,
disenchantment and painful injustice until, in the ensuing chaos, Defendants can impose
"as a solution" its own Hubbardian "justice policies," take control of
the entire national justice system and thereby secure Defendants' planned take-over of the
national government by the fact that no one could then prevent it, as national justice
procedures (including the U.S. Supreme Court) will then be in the sole hands of Defendants
herein.
(e) The application, by the Sea Org, of Commodore Hubbard's directive of (circa)
1976: "THIS IS OUR PLANET, MOVE IN!" and the ensuing devouring of the resources
of individual human beings and the high pressure abrasive tactics drilled into Defendants'
"registrars" from the groups comprising the Defendants. The Defendants' goal of
"taking over the Planet" and imposing a worldwide totalitarian Scientology
government upon it was not disclosed to Plaintiff when Defendants recruited him.
(f) The strenuous creation, maintenance and amplification of a false and
misleading "front" of a clean, well-intentioned group working for the good of
"Mankind" with self-sacrificing devotion whereas, in reality, as Plaintiff has
now discovered, the Defendants named herein, were actually working behind this false front
in a direction that was 180 degrees the opposite, and through which Defendants
impoverished Plaintiff by excessive "donations" of multiple kinds and amounts of
money. Defendants also worked constantly to ensure their own "survival" at any
and all costs to Plaintiff, regardless of the consequences to Plaintiff, and especially
with regard to perceived "enemies" even within the loyal following and even
"educating" lawyers such as Samuel D. Rosen, Esq., and Barbara Reeves, Esq.
of the hitherto reputable Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker law firm, and Gerry
Feffer, Esq. of the Williams & Connally law firm, to call opposing litigation
counsel "enemies", to lie about facts and other matters to judges, and to treat
them in accordance with standard scientology technology ("standard tech") which
includes the application of "Fair Game" to opposing counsel and the conduct of
litigation wars of attrition using litigation juggernauts and blitzkriegs.
(g) Contrary to Defendants' representations to Plaintiff, he discovered that
Defendants' representations at their frequent "false front" rallies were either
unverifiable, false and/or contrary to his own personal observations of the truth.
Moreover, that Defendants had misused his financial contributions and his time, trust and
loyalty to the detriment of many of Mankind, and had used the notion of "Clearing the
Planet" (per Hubbard's writings) to clear away Plaintiff's personal funds, credit,
wealth, well-being and real personal empowerment. Defendants are, through their policies
on "weekly stats", a self-serving monster-machine that sacrificed Plaintiff to
Defendants' own arrogant self-images and ends.
(h) Specifically, by way of example only, Defendant Starkey and others have
misrepresented to Plaintiff that certain of Hubbard's books such as Dianetics, Battlefield
Earth and Mission Earth, were on the New York Times best seller
list at the number one point for several weeks when the true facts were that Defendants
carried out a secret operation using personnel from throughout the Scientology enterprise,
and using monies Plaintiff had contributed to, to purchase those books back from retail
book stores as false and fraudulent customers to create a false front and fraudulent claim
of a best seller when in fact the book(s) was a poor seller.
(i) In addition,Defendants Lesevre and Jentszch and others misrepresented to
Plaintiff the total number of Scientologists worldwide as being in the many millions when
the real facts were that the total number of active Scientologists world wide was only in
the low hundreds of thousands which Plaintiff personally observed through over 300
personal visits to various Scientology organizations and missions from 1979 to 1996, and
that the majority of persons who received Scientology services did so for an average of 18
months before leaving Scientology disillusioned and defrauded. Defendants also failed to
disclose to Plaintiff that former senior management Scientologist Robert Vaughn Young had
actually invented the original figure in response to a media inquiry and because
Scientology must always be seen to be expanding that Defendants had periodically inflated
the fraudulent membership figure upward. By way of further example, in a
satellite-transmitted event from Los Angeles, Defendant Lesevre falsely claimed that a
certain group of award-winning Field Staff Members ("FSM's"), some from Mexico,
had increased the total worldwide active membership of Scientology by 12,000 people
whereas in reality there had been triple and quadruple counting of persons who were not
even members as they had merely attended seminars in Mexico for a weekend and were thus
only "active" Scientologists for a mere two days. Plaintiff contends that
Defendants' false and inflated membership statistics were part of the fraud defendants
perpetrated upon him.
(j) The fraud perpetrated by the Defendants of selling Plaintiff an "OT
VIII bracelet" for the sum of $3,250, whereas its true value at resale in 1994 was
$125.
(k) The experience of Plaintiff in January 1986, at the Flag Auditorium in
Clearwater, Florida, when Captain Miscavige, Pat Broeker and Annie Broeker gave the news
of the death of L. Ron Hubbard to Plaintiff, as part of an official
"event," but wherein the true facts presented later turned out to be untrue and
fraudulently misrepresented. The Plaintiff alleges fraudulent and criminal
misrepresentation and non-disclosure of the relevant details relating to the death of
L. Ron Hubbard, and the subsequent management of Scientology in key aspects since
that date. The Plaintiff thereafter paid in good monies and earned funds on the basis of
the misrepresentations, and material non-disclosures, made by Defendants Miscavige and the
Broekers in the whole "passing of L. Ron Hubbard" sequence of events where
they merely stated that Hubbard had "dropped his body" to "continue his
research elsewhere" whereas the undisclosed truth was at shocking varience with
Defendants' representations.
(l) The activities performed by the Guardian's Office, and in particular by
Defendant Jacqueline Govan (now Jacqueline Van Der Linde, of Clearwater, Florida) in
direct and personally coordinated manipulations by Commodore Hubbard (now deceased),
Defendant Mary Sue Hubbard and others, to involve the Plaintiff, by the coercion of group
loyalty, in the false front called "United Churches of Florida" in 1975 and
1976. Defendants knew and intended that the "United Churches" contrived
appearance was a sham, but instructed Plaintiff to lie publicly to prevent discovery of
the Scientology presence in Clearwater by the local civic authorities. Defendant Van Der
Linde worked to perpetrate this contrived fraud, as did others in the Guardian's office
and the Sea Org Miscavige was part of this as a "Commodore's Messenger."
(m) The experience by the Plaintiff, in 1996 of a filmed psychological
conditioning technique called "Orientation." In this film produced by Defendants
as part of the intense hype of Defendants, Plaintiff was subjected to an attempted
hypnosis brought about by the content of the film that "anyone not doing Scientology
should use the solution of blowing their brains out" (which Hubbard also calls
"R2-45", or route out of this life using a 45 caliber pistol). This hypnotic
suggestion was later used on Plaintiff by Lieutenant Marty Rathbun in the Flag Land Base
in Clearwater, Florida. Plaintiff has now discovered that the technique was, apparently,
designed to provoke a suicide by any followers who might think of, or act upon, the idea
of leaving Scientology. Plaintiff then learned that Commodore Hubbard's Policy Letter that
refers to the fate of opponents or detractors of Scientology acts as a basis for the
hypnotic suggestion in that film. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants have used on him
Commodore Hubbard's hypnotic and destructive techniques to create harm to the Plaintiff
without either his informed consent or knowledge.
(n) The takeover of the entire Scientology enterprise by Captain Miscavige. This
takeover commenced in 1980 with Captain Miscavige's overthrow of Defendant Mary Sue
Hubbard as Guardian, allegedly on Commodore Hubbard's express orders, the perpetration of
frauds and false pretenses upon Commodore Hubbard himself by Captain Miscavige, the
alteration (by Captain Miscavige) of orders issued by Commodore Hubbard to others of the
Defendants herein, the fraud in connection with Commodore Hubbard's 1982 will, 1983
codicil, 1982 copyright and trademark transfers to RTC, 1986 will, 1986 and 1987
agreements with Hubbard's heirs and family members, the fraudulent concealment of material
information regarding the surrounding circumstances of Commodore Hubbard's final years,
death and cremation, the fraudulent and criminal transfer of Commodore Hubbard's
copyrights, trade marks and other intellectual property through Norman Starkey to
Defendants RTC and CST and the associated fraud and duress upon Commodore Hubbard's heirs
and rightful copyright awards due inter alia, to the "will
bumping" provisions of the 1909 Copyright Act.
(o) Furthermore, the manufacturing of false allegations against Defendants Pat
and Annie Broeker in order to remove them as Commodore Hubbard's successors and Captain
Miscavige's orders that Pat and Annie Broeker be held under armed guard at Scientology's
high desert para-military base at Gilman Hot Springs, near Hemet, California, where
Defendant Annie Broeker remains, today and from where Defendant Pat Broeker was allowed to
leave subject to constant Scientology monitoring and surveillance. In addition, the
fabricated removal of RTC inspector general, Vicki Aznaran and RTC executive, Jesse Prince
and Captain Miscavige's orders that they be held under armed guard at the Scientology high
desert base at Gilman Hot Springs where Vicky Aznaran was compelled to run around a pole
in the hot desert sun for 12 hours a day, one hour one way and one the next, before
finally escaping. Similarly, Jesse Prince was held for years under armed guard before he
finally escaped with the help of local Indians (Exhibit "E"). These facts were
material non-disclosures to Plaintiff as were Captain Miscavige's iron-fisted subsequent
running of the Scientology enterprise and his violent treatment and insults to senior
Scientology executives as well as his personal involvement in the "fair game"
activities of the Scientology enterprise directed at persons such as: Julie
Christopherson, Gerald Armstrong, Lawrence Wollersheim, and Jason Scott.
(p) The action, by Defendants, of prescribing excessive and dangerous doses of
niacin and vitamins during the "Hubbard Purification Rundown". In this program,
in 1979, under the supervision of the Scientology case supervisor, the Plaintiff was
instructed to take, over a period of approximately three weeks, such daily doses as
10,000 mg. (40 pills of 250 mg. each for the first three days) of vitamin B1 and
up to 5 grams (5,000 mg. of niacin, etc.) and subjected to no less than five
hours a day in a sauna at a constant high temperature. During this
"Purification" program perpetrated upon Plaintiff without adequate disclosure
and informed consent, Plaintiff suffered temporary but very distressing, paralysis and
vomiting during the Defendants-supervised minimum of five-hour daily sauna sessions in a
sauna at extremely high heat. The promise to Plaintiff, in the Hubbard Communications
Office Bulletin (HCOB) on the program administered by Plaintiff, was that it would make
Plaintiff survive the Third World War. However, Plaintiff suffered hardship and barely
survived the hazardous doses of sauna and vitamins, all resulting from misrepresentations
and material non-disclosures, of Defendants. Furthermore, Defendants failed to advise
Plaintiff that the "Purification Rundown" had caused serious illness and even
death in some people and that the Scientology enterprise had paid money to settle
threatened resulting lawsuits.
(q) The practice, by Defendants, of creating a moronic and/or docile permanent
dependency on themselves by Scientology followers through the methods of inner esoteric
language, elimination (by indoctrination and by auditing and training) of a follower's
sociability in the "wog" (non-Scientology) world, and by alienation of other
spheres and support structures of society that otherwise followers might enjoy in the
absence of Commodore Hubbard's critical written tirades, tapes, policy letters, issues and
bulletins.
(r) The use, by Defendants, on many occasions of the "eligibility"
process by RTC to degrade, vilify, control and secure contribution and blind loyalty of
the Plaintiff. As part of this Plaintiff was subjected to an emotionally wrecking
religious deprogramming by Lieutenant Rathbun and RTC.
(s) The trespassing on Plaintiffs' rented premises, by the President of Flag
Land Base, Mary Voegeding, and by Danny Keogh (Lisa Marie Presley's husband) in late 1996
at 1540 Gulf Blvd., Clearwater, Florida. This is a secured building, but said persons
broke in and entered it illegally by bypassing undetected two security perimeters and were
waiting for Plaintiff to return home so that Plaintiff would be "handled" to
prevent bad consequences to Defendants from Plaintiff's most severe "upset"
after the RTC "religious deprogramming".
(t) The fact that the "New OT VIII" paid for and completed by the
Plaintiff, was at variance with the Hubbard outline written in the Hubbard Communications
Office Bulletin on the "tech line-up" and on the future O.T. levels being, one
by one, each longer and more onerous than the previous one. New OT VII took Plaintiff
seven years to complete, but new OT VIII took only three weeks, for a result that was
demonstrably "non-OT." Attesting to the "end phenomenon" was a
revelation of the truth that the "buildup" and hype of Defendants was not met by
a corresponding result delivered. Plaintiff's experience with "New OT VIII"
causes him to allege fraudulent misrepresentation of the magnitude of this Scientology
level, as to all of Scientology's copyrights, training, processes and "upper
levels."
(u) The fact that Commodore Hubbard and these Defendants introduced dangerous,
and coercive techniques and procedures into Scientology, and thence into the life of the
Plaintiff, without his knowledge or informed consent by including data learned from
notorious black magic practitioners such as Alastair Crowley (aka "The Beast
666") and Jack Parsons with whom Hubbard tried to create a satanic moon child in
Pasadena, California in the late 1940's and Defendants' failure to disclose, to Plaintiff,
the contents of: the Affirmations, the Blood Ritual, Hubbard's damning letters to his
three wives, the voluminous files that the Federal Bureau of Investigation maintained on
both Hubbard and his Scientology enterprises, and the massive amount of damning documents
seized by the F.B.I. in its two largest-ever, raids upon Scientology facilities in
Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California, in 1977. These documents are now part of the
publicly available records of the U.S. Department of Justice and F.B.I.
(v) The fraudulent series of actions and omissions by RTC and other Defendants
in the refusal to allow Plaintiff to have access to the information in the
"secret" 13 page document written by Defendants' "Inspector General"
on the defects of the delivery, practice, results and techniques of the "New OT
VII." Plaintiff alleges fraud and misrepresentation in the delivery of his own
"New OT VII" which caused the most severe emotional, spiritual and mental
suffering in the life of the Plaintiff from 1982 onwards. Denial of access by physical
barring, and by the spurious need for a new "eligibility," requiring a definite
relinquishing of the Plaintiff's religious convictions, by order of Captain Miscavige and
Lieutenant Rathbun and RTC as a specific condition of access was a breach of the
Constitutional rights of Plaintiff as well as a cruel and unusual procedure. This was
especially so in light of the fact that Plaintiff did "New OT VII" and had
several "life difficulties" in many "areas" afterwards.
(w) Specific denial of self-chosen Christian religious practices by
"ethics" handlings that deem those beliefs to be "other practices"
which are therefore, by RTC practice and Commodore Hubbard's policies, to be eliminated
from the life of the follower of Defendants as part of required Scientology conditions
before any further progress on the "Bridge to Total Freedom" would be permitted
by Defendants.
(x) The specifically denoted anti-democratic nature of Scientology, as
indoctrinated by Commodore Hubbard and Defendants in the policy letter "Keeping
Scientology Working" No. 1, which was not disclosed to Plaintiff at the time of
his recruitment. This indoctrinated Plaintiff, while he was in Scientology, to have a
disdain for the constitutionally designed system of all democratic governments.
Furthermore, RTC and other Defendants actively worked to expand the anti-democratic
"cluster of fanatics" called collectively "Scientology" and this was
not disclosed to Plaintiff at the time of his recruitment into the Scientology enterprise.
(y) The hazardous and anti-"wog" brainwashing writings of Commodore
Hubbard, and his "destructive" enterprise called Scientology, that alienated
Plaintiff from valid non-Scientology groups and persons who could have materially
benefitted Plaintiff, and thereby created a less ample life for Plaintiff for a period of
nearly twenty-five of his life's most fruitful years, none of which was disclosed to him
when Defendants recruited him.
(z) The negative influence to Plaintiff's detriment, over a period of nearly 25
years by the popular in-group neuroses and psychoses copied from Commodore Hubbard by
virtually all loyal followers, and by Defendants in particular, e.g. , the notions
that the police are always destructive, that enemies abound everywhere against
Scientology, and that it is fashionable to be critical of everyone Commodore Hubbard
criticized, etc.
(aa) The malicious practice by Defendants of harassing Plaintiff (in
"ethics" and "confessionals") for any critical thoughts, comments, and
writings, but failing to treat their management's own criticisms in a like manner. This
was particularly arduous for the Plaintiff in trying to establish his innocence (never
conceded fully even after six years of continued efforts and at least $150,000 in costs)
after the attack upon him by false "Knowledge Reports" from Sarit Rosenberg and
others of Celebrity Center Paris and OSA Paris, as set forth elsewhere herein.
(bb) The blatant and harmful inconsistencies in Scientology, applied against
Plaintiff by Defendants, including the Hubbard teaching that "a thetan is basically
good" and then the "Fair Game" type or style of active applications that
deny any goodness in the person. Plaintiff alleges that the Hubbard standard
"tech," applied upon him by Defendants without adequate informed consent,
contains destructive and insidious inconsistencies which have harmed his well-being.
(cc) Defendants' open and harmful practice of riveting the total attention of
Plaintiff, on the almost absolute necessity to "have total faith in the tech"
and to leave no room or attention or time for placing faith in a deity, God or Supreme
Creator. Thus, while misrepresenting the non-religious nature of Scientology, Defendants
effectively eliminated the Plaintiff's opportunities for genuine Christian religious faith
in God, divine self or any other notion of deity. This denied Plaintiff many years of
active Christian religious practice and was detrimental and damaging to him.
(dd) The fraudulent practices of the International Association of Scientologists
("IAS") where it denies, in practice, the advertised goals it is supposed to
have, and instead used funds from the trusting Plaintiff to: lobby local, state and the
federal governments; antagonize foreign governments, such as Germany and Sweden for
example; feed its own image with expensive "public relations"; and generally
create new "wars" for Defendants to use to extract further donations from
Plaintiff. Defendants failed to disclose to Plaintiff that the IAS took over one million
dollars from Gerhard Haag, in Germany, to "protect and defend Scientologists
. . ." and that when Haag and his business were later ruined by
"enemies" of Scientology, stirred up by rabid International Association of
Scientologists creations of antagonisms, the IAS refused to render assistance to Haag.
Haag was totally ruined and had to flee to painful exile in Albania. As Haag was a major
customer for the Plaintiff's paintings thereby Plaintiff was materially and extensively
harmed by this criminal and fraudulent conduct of the IAS which had secured his paying
membership with representations of behavior to the contrary.
(ee) Defendants pretending to be a religion whereas its religious content, both
in theory and practice, instead of relating to the infinite, is in fact only relatively
infinitesimal and is illustrated merely by way of curiosa in the Hubbard writings. This
failure to really BE a religion while strenuously and avidly (for tax purposes and
avoidance of governmental scrutiny) portraying Scientology as a "religion" was a
major deception, fraud and misrepresentation that Defendants perpetrated upon Plaintiff
and that negatively affected and damaged the Plaintiff over many years.
(ff) Defendants inducing Plaintiff to pay for their Ministers Course, which
requires only several days of study and "play" such as "doll drills",
but which entitled Plaintiff to wear a clerical collar, perform weddings and to call
himself a Reverend. After Plaintiff had assisted with the unsuccessful defense of
Commodore Hubbard on charges of fraud, in 1978, Defendants arbitrarily stripped him of his
status as a Scientology reverend because it would be a public relations problem if the
media learned that a Scientology reverend was gay. Since Plaintiff had to be a
"minister" in order to use an E-meter in Paris at that time, he could no longer
perform the functions of his post at the Paris Org. Plaintiff went to Commodore Hubbard
personally. Plaintiff was advised that although he could remain in Scientology, he would
have to pay a $30,000 "freeloader's debt" in order to do so.
(gg) Defendants, through WISE's accepting Plaintiff's funds (of at least $6,000)
and then failing to deliver any service of commensurate value and the failure by WISE
International to defend Plaintiff when he was under attack by Celebrity Center, Paris.
Instead, Defendants told Plaintiff that any monies WISE would receive from him, at that
time, would be specifically designated to expand WISE's influence in Russia and to
infiltrate the government and business hierarchy of Russia with the aim of taking them
over for WISE, which it did specifically in connection with the provision of Scientology
training to the new Prime Minister of Russia. Said monies were also used for Scientology's
"Albania Project" and various fraudulent business activities in Germany. Said
conduct of Defendants was breach of the good faith and fiduciary duty they owed Plaintiff.
(hh) The Hubbard goal of getting the preclear to be "three feet back of his
head" was applied to Plaintiff by Defendants, particularly during such processes
(both in training and auditing) as "Opening Procedure by Duplication" and L-10,
as well as in other Scientology procedures. This goal effectively goes towards the
disconnection of the human spirit from the traditional "spiritual centres" that
allow connection with one's divine self, etc. and is therefore a practice that is directly
anti-religious contrary to Defendants' representatives, is contrary to Plaintiff's own
Christian beliefs and was a material non-disclosure when Defendants recruited Plaintiff.
(ii) Defendants' advertising of "OT states" influenced Plaintiff,
particularly from early Advance Scientology magazines. No such "O.T. states"
were delivered by Defendants to Plaintiff despite the many hundreds of thousands of
dollars paid to Defendants by Plaintiff. Defendants' frantic and perpetual drive for
"higher stats" was instrumental in denying Plaintiff adequate inner peace to be
able to progress in contact with any concept of a Supreme Being. This was especially
onerous where Defendants were constantly pressuring Plaintiff for more monies, more
donations, more course points, etc.
(jj) The fanatical drive of Defendants' International Scientology management for
"more money, more stats, more donations" was, in its incessant invasiveness a
major factor which led to the Plaintiff losing whatever course and case "gains"
might have accrued during Scientology services at various times. In this way, by the focus
being almost exclusively on financial contributions without end from Plaintiff to
Defendants, and through the coerced creation of erroneous and major personal debts
thereby, was the Plaintiff denied the potential alleged benefits from the services he had
paid for and worked for so hard. Contrary to their representations, Defendants' focus was
NOT on the personal well-being of Plaintiff and other Scientologists but was virtually
exclusively the opposite.
(kk) The no-results and bad results Plaintiff obtained in his dealings with
Defendants in his association with them, particularly the denial of effective measures to
obtain financial and material recourse and/or damages resulting from the attacks on
Plaintiff from Celebrity Center, Paris.
(ll) The destruction of several of Plaintiff's businesses by Defendants through
various harmful and treacherous methods in the name of Scientology fanaticism.
(mm) The insidious practice by RTC, and collaborated with by the other
Defendants, of using "eligibility" procedures with no firm guidelines or
definite standards which failed to act as a prevention of human "whims" in
deciding a Scientologist's whole future, was destructive to Plaintiff. Moreover, the
planned systematic requirement of relinquishing "other religious practices" is a
covert method of destroying, in the silent privacy of an "ethics" handling, the
congregations of all real religious faiths, one person at a time, and was forced upon
Plaintiff by Defendants to the detriment of Plaintiff and his lifelong Christian belief.
(nn) The all-pervading active practice and pervasion of the idea that "MAN
IS HERE TO SERVE SCIENTOLOGY" rather than the advertised notion of "Scientology
is here to serve Man" is the reverse of Defendants' representations to Plaintiff
which very severely prejudiced and damaged the Plaintiff. The factual reality of
Scientology was the fraudulent opposite of what had been put forward in promotional
literature, Hubbard's writings and in verbal representations by Defendants to the
Plaintiff. The bright side of the "IMAGE" of Scientology was what the Plaintiff
paid for. The dark side and true side of the Scientology financial, political and
racketeering enterprise is what the Plaintiff received.
(oo) False billing of Plaintiff by Defendant Flag Crew Org in 1998.
(pp) The criminal inequity where the Plaintiff was held to reveal all his
misdeeds, but where Defendants concealed all their misdeeds and stacked up
"withholds" ("an unspoken, unannounced transgression against a moral code
by which the person was bound").
(qq) Defendants' kidnapping and false imprisonment of Plaintiff in Paris,
France, on M.V. Freewinds in 1991 and at Flag Land Base in 1996. These
incidents were severely harmful to Plaintiff.
(rr) Defendants' fraud upon Plaintiff, whereby it was broadly advertised that
"OT VIII CAN ONLY BE DELIVERED ON A SHIP" so Plaintiff donated monies to
contribute to the purchase of the M.V. Freewinds. In fact, as Plaintiff
discovered after doing OT VIII, it could also be delivered on a land base (and is intended
to be so delivered by the "Universe Corps"). Contrary to Defendants'
representations as to why they needed vast amount of funds to purchase the M.V.
Freewinds, the IAS' real intention was just to get off the land and into
international waters so as not to be held accountable for its fraud, other illegal and
wrongful conduct and "war tactics." The public or "shore-story" was,
as usual in Scientology, very different, if not the exact opposite, from the reality
behind the scenes.
(ss) Defendants' Fraud Upon Plaintiff. On about 1995, when Plaintiff was
at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida, at a public event, Defendant Michael Rinder
and another Scientology senior executive misrepresented to Plaintiff that the CSI v.
Time Magazine litigation had been settled, and that Defendants were very happy
with what they had received, whereas the real truth was that Defendants lost their
lawsuit, on summary judgment, against Time Magazine, which was filed ostensibly on behalf
of Plaintiff, among others.
(tt) Defendants' fraud upon Plaintiff in not disclosing the heavily armed,
fortified and dangerous character of the Scientology base at Gilman Hot Springs, the
military assault weapons and other armaments on the M.V. Freewinds, and the
armaments at other Scientology locations at http://www.wpxx02. taxi.uniii-wuerzburg.de
/~krasel/cos/aff/aff-at.html).
276. The various misrepresentations, and material non-disclosures, made by
Defendants to Plaintiff regarding the "Bridge to Total Freedom", which in
reality is the Bridge to Total Servitude, the handling of his "ruin" and his
resulting immortality, were false, misleading and untrue in numerous respects including,
but not limited to, the following: the Bridge To Total Freedom, and Defendants' upper
levels or Advanced Technology, were not about religion, self awareness or self improvement
but were merely a means of extracting money from the Plaintiff in return for false
promises and material non-disclosures, such as Hubbard's own writing and statements
including but not limited to "Let's form a religion, that's where the real money
is," and "Make money, make money and make more money." Moreover, and
contrary to Defendants misrepresentations to Plaintiff, once he was enticed into the
destructive and dangerous cult called Scientology through high pressure sales techniques,
other even less savory methods were used to extract everything he owned and everything he
could borrow as well. Defendants misrepresented to Plaintiff that they could benefit his
life in ways that only corresponded to the Plaintiff's "buttons" to extract more
money from him, and from others, which was not the truth.
THE FRAUDULENT UPPER LEVELS/ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND DEFENDANTS' "TRADE"
SECRETS
277. Contrary to Defendants' material and fraudulent representations and material
non-disclosures, that their processes, practices and courses are "scientifically
proven; including, but not limited to The Role of Earth tape
upon which Plaintiff reasonably relied, the "Bridge to Total Freedom", and all
of Defendants' writings, teachings and upper levels, are a form of
"bait-and-switch" fraud in that what Plaintiff was told he was buying turned out
to be something different and materially much more expensive. Contrary to Defendants'
fraudulent and material misrepresentations, and material non-disclosures, the aforesaid
"bait-and-switch" fraud is now known by Plaintiff to work as follows, and had
Defendants disclosed these matters to Plaintiff at the time they recruited him he would
never have purchased their courses, auditing and cure or "handling" of his
homosexuality or "ruin".
(a) Person With A Clipboard.
Contrary to Defendants'misrepresentations and material non-disclosures, Plaintiff now
knows that Defendants' first "suck" the "raw meat" (new recruits) in
with a fake survey to get them into conversation about how the world could be a better
place and how they themselves could be happier. Defendants do this to persuade the
"raw meat" to come back to Defendants' premises where they can be worked on
further and pressured to take the first steps towards the coercive indoctrination and
total servitude that Defendants perpetrated upon the Plaintiff.
(b) Misleading Personality Test.
Defendants then persuade persons such as Plaintiff to do a 200 question plagiarized
Personality Test which is allegedly designed to indicate weaknesses in a person's
character, or a failing in their life, that Defendants will use to sell them a Scientology
course. Plaintiff now knows that no one ever passes Defendants' misleading and plagiarized
Personality Test and that all persons who take it are urged to engage in corrective
Scientology counseling at considerable expense.
(c) The First Course.
In Paris, France, in 1973, Defendants' used the results of the Personality Test to find
the Plaintiffs' weakest aspects which they called his "ruin" and they persuaded
him to do an affordable course that they claimed would improve the Plaintiff's life. These
early courses were comprised largely of common sense approaches to life and personal
organization. Unlike most financial scams, Plaintiff discovered that lower level
Scientology processing made some sense, and may perhaps do some good, whereas expensive
upper level, secret processing made no sense, did no good, and was dangerous and
destructive.
(d) Dianetic "Auditing".
After the first course and its mediocre results, Defendants told the Plaintiff that
what he really needed was Dianetic "Auditing". Plaintiff was told that he had
mental blocks or "engrams" and that once these were removed then he would live a
healthier and happier life and would have a hugely improved memory. By then, Plaintiff was
spending more money than he had intended, but for Plaintiff it was affordable at that
time.
(e) Enter Scientology.
During his Dianetic "Auditing the Plaintiff was tricked into giving away intimate
details of his life that he would not normally have told others. Through these auditing
questionnaires Defendants intended to obtain Plaintiff's weaknesses that they could
exploit to obtain even more monies. Defendants' practices against Plaintiff in this regard
were also hypnotic in their effects and produced a euphoria such as to cause Plaintiff to
become mildly "hooked." Although, Plaintiff found the results hard-earned and
temporary, he was then persuaded that he needed, not Dianetics, but Scientology
"auditing" also known as "processing" which is much more expensive.
But by this time Defendants' deception had "hooked" Plaintiff and he relied upon
Defendants' representations that he would get the changes in his life, and the
"handling" of his "ruin" that were promised by Defendants and their
agents, if he only paid more and more money for the next level of processing, and the
level after that, and then the level after that.
(f) The "Purification Rundown".
Plaintiff, in early 1979, was told that the reason he was not getting the benefits
Defendants had promised him was as result of the impurities in his body, especially drugs
(either street drugs or prescription medications). Plaintiff was told that drugs are evil
and must be removed from his body (even through Defendants' then and at all subsequent
times failed to advise him that the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, was
himself a drug addict who, later upon his death was discovered with ten (10) puncture
marks on his body which his own doctor admitted resulted from the administration of
psychiatric drugs contrary to Scientology's teachings and then all would be well. Indeed,
Commodore Hubbard's own son alleged that Hubbard had written much of Scientology's
copyrights and trade secrets while high on powerful, illicit, mind altering drugs. The
"Purification Rundown" was sold to Plaintiff. The "Purification
Rundown" involved spending many hours each day in a very hot sauna for a number of
weeks, while taking huge and dangerous doses of vitamins and minerals. During this altered
mental state, Plaintiff was being subjected to further mental manipulation and coercive
indoctrination by Defendants' agents.
(g) Scientology Auditor Training.
The next significant sale that Defendants made to Plaintiff was "Auditor"
training. Plaintiff was told that getting "professional" Scientology auditing
would cost from $150 to $300 per hour but that it would be cheaper for him to train as an
auditor himself and receive auditing from somebody he was training with (called
"co-auditing"). Defendants sold Plaintiff this training. Defendants induced
Plaintiff to engage in such training extensively, as set forth herein, including, but not
limited to, Level Two (2) auditor training, Security Checking, the False Purpose Rundown
and Solo Auditing.
(h) The E-Meter.
In order to train as an auditor, Defendants required Plaintiff to purchase a device
called an "E-Meter" which in reality is a primitive lie detector which is sold
for sums in excess of $3,000, and sometimes for as much as $27,000, even though the
components are worth less than $400 and at least one United States Court has held that,
although not conclusive, such pricing is indicative of financial fraud being carried out
by Defendants upon persons such as Plaintiff.
(i) Repair Auditing.
On the basis of Defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations and material non-disclosures,
Plaintiff paid many tens of thousands of dollars in order to train as an auditor without
being told that "auditing" is a never-ending and costly affair, and that it can
be addictive and self-perpetuating and that it can lead to ill health, depression, mental
problems, psychotic breaks ("PTS Type III") phenomena, suicide and death from
the use of the E-Meter, and Nots 34, as a substitute for regular medical attention and
that its use for medical purposes had been enjoined by the Federal Courts at the request
of the U.S. Department of Health. Defendants failed to disclose the existence of this
federal judicial injunction to Plaintiff when selling him additional auditing courses. In
this regard, Defendants also failed to disclose to Plaintiff the Hubbard-Scientology
technology-related deaths of Plaintiff's close friend and confidante Lisa McPherson, as
well as those of Roxanne Friend, Noah Lottick, Yvonne Jentszch, Miscavige's mother-in-law,
Flo Barnett, Quentin Hubbard, Susan Meister and many, many others who died while receiving
Defendants' Scientology processing or technologies of the mind instead of regular medical
attention. The auditing problems encountered by Plaintiff, resulting from Defendants'
fraudulent misrepresentations and material non-disclosures, required him to purchase
"repair auditing" a the higher cost which he had been assiduously trying to
avoid. Plaintiff was then persuaded by Defendants that "professional" auditing
is what he really needed, rather than "co-auditing" with a fellow
"student" and that he needed several twelve and one-half 1/2 hour
"intensives" of said "auditing," seventy or eighty intensives being
typical in his and other cases in the course of the Scientology "Bridge to Total
Freedom" that no one has ever fully crossed.
(j.) "C/S ing."
Although Plaintiff had paid exorbitant sums of money for auditing he still
regularly ran into problems and did not seem to be getting the benefits Defendants
represented he would, and that he had hoped for. His "case" was then specially
reviewed by a "Case Supervisor" (or "C/S" for short). Plaintiff was
"C/S' ed" at various of Defendants' "Advanced Centers" where the
auditing cost was approximately double that charged at other of Defendants' locations.
Plaintiff's C/S spent over two days going through Plaintiff's auditing records (called
"FOLDERS") at a cost of many hundreds of dollars per hour extracted by, and paid
to, Defendants. Plaintiff then handed over to Defendants his money from then on in the
hope that his "ruin" would be "handled". By this time, Plaintiff was
enthusing a great deal over each piece of auditing he received from Defendants partly in
order to try to avoid this expensive C/Sing and, under Defendants' coercive
indoctrination, wrote apparently enthusiastic "Success Stories" that other
people being audited would see pinned up on the bulletin boards so as to induce them to
purchase more of this "auditing" on the basis of such "success
stories", which he and other Scientologists (including celebrity Scientologists) were
required to write to perpetrate Defendants' fraud upon himselfand others, and to
unwittingly make Plaintiff and others a part of that fraud.
(k) ) The State of "Clear".
When Defendants decided that Plaintiff had been "cleared" of all
"engrams" he was permitted to attain the fraudulent state of "Clear".
However, Plaintiff qualified for the state of "clear" without receiving all of
the gains that had been promised Plaintiff in the books such as Dianetics, Scientology,
A World Religion Emerges in the Space Age, Science of Survival, The Second
Dynamic and other of Defendants' plagiarized, fraudulently and criminally copyrighted,
falsely trade secrets and otherwise misused intellectual property. Although Plaintiff
qualified for the State of Clear by "erasing" "engrams" in his
"reactive mind," the result was not as written in Dianetics the Modern
Science of Mental Health. Although Plaintiff had paid Defendants approximately $50,000
or more at this point in time, in order to reach the supposed state of "Clear",
he had not received all the benefits he had been promised from this alleged state of
"Clear". Defendants then told Plaintiff that he was Clear but "only on the
first dynamic" (meaning relating to himself) and that Plaintiff was now at
"risk" and must progress rapidly up the "Bridge to Total Freedom" in
order to "handle" his "ruin" and attain "immortality".
(l) "O.T." Levels.
Having gone Clear, Defendants then induced Plaintiff to believe that not only would he
get all he ever dreamed of, as well as handling his "ruin", out of the O.T.
levels, but that additionally he would get "special powers" and that these were
just around the corner. Plaintiff was then persuaded to sell almost everything he had, to
take out huge loans under false representations, material non-disclosures, and pretenses
to do these "secret" O.T. levels, and to sign under duress, coercion and mental
manipulation an agreement that he would not tell anybody about the contents of the O.T.
levels not knowing that Defendants' purpose in doing so was their fear that the O.T.
levels were mere science fiction and quackery and that the Defendants' Scientology
enterprise would stop making "more money" if their contents were common
knowledge.
(m) OT I.
Plaintiff paid thousands of dollars to embark upon his OT levels. Although Plaintiff
had paid thousands of dollars for the OT I religious training he found it very simple and
to be merely a walk around town spotting things. However, Defendants convinced Plaintiff
that he should be happy because he had had a "win" (i.e. , felt good) and
that the really high powered "stuff," that would make him a "super
being" with extraordinary powers, was just around the corner.
(n) OT II.
Defendants' misrepresentations and material non-disclosures, induced Plaintiff to
undergo OT II processing in which Defendants supposedly audited out the
"dichotomies" and "implant word-patterns" that were supposedly
contained in the Plaintiff's mind at a very deep level, and that were stopping Plaintiff's
mind from achieving super normal powers over matter, energy, space and time
("M.E.S.T.). Defendants taught Plaintiff that long ago Thetan's (spirits) were
trapped and implanted with contradictory and hypnotic word-suggestions while being
tortured. Defendants induced Plaintiff to undergo OT II processing using the E-Meter as a
guide for the purpose of stripping away the "charge" of these implanted painful
word patterns or "engrams".
(o) OT III (Xenu and "Body Thetans") .
Defendants next induced Plaintiff to pay many thousands of dollars for the OT III level
or "wall of fire" purported "end phenomenon" or "Freedom from
Overwhelm". Plaintiff was required to sign a waiver, to the effect, that any damage
or injury he suffered during OT III auditing was his own responsibility. Defendants then
taught Plaintiff that seventy five million years ago, our planet, then called
"Teegeeack," had been one of the seventy six planets of the Galactic
Confederation which was badly over populated, with tens of billions (average
178 billion) on each planet. Xenu, the president of the Galactic Federation, had
ruled that the excess population should be sent to "Teegeeack" (earth) in propeller-driven
DC-8's, put on the sides of some volcanoes (which the geological record shows didn't
exist at the time) and subjected to nuclear explosions many times more powerful than the
two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. Defendants further taught Plaintiff that the
spirits (or "Thetans") who were the victims, were then "implanted"
with religious and technological images including "Christ" for thirty-six days
before being sent in boxes to either Hawaii or Las Palmas to be stuck together into
"clusters". Defendants further taught Plaintiff that human beings were actually
a collections of these Thetans, comprised of a "cluster" of "Body
Thetans", and that Xenu had been rounded up six years after the event and was now
imprisoned in a mountain in an unspecified area (but now know to be in the Pacific
Northwest of the United States). Defendants further taught Plaintiff about an earlier
incident of some four quadrillion years ago when unsuspecting Thetans were all subjected
to short, high volume waves of light and "shattering series of snaps" and then
saw a chariot with a trumpeting cherub and that after a loud set of cracks the Thetan was
overwhelmed by darkness and that this was an "implant" which was supposedly the
gateway to our Universe. Defendants further taught Plaintiff that if he mishandled this
information he could die from "freewheeling" through the 36-day implant without
sleep and die of exhaustion and pneumonia and that anyone remembering this material would
also die. Defendants did not tell Plaintiff the information that they have temporarily
convinced Judge Hupp of the United States District Court for the Central District Court of
California to seal in the case of CSI v. Fishman & Gertz, Case
No. CV 91-6426-HLH, to wit, that many persons (including certain Scientology
celebrity members) have suffered psychotic breaks whilst undergoing OT III processing.
Defendants furthermore failed to disclose the fraudulent and plagiarized sources of
"the incident". On the contrary, Defendants misrepresented to Plaintiff that the
entirety of OT III was written by Commodore Hubbard and as a secret religious scripture.
(p) OT IV - "The OT Drug Rundown".
By this point in time, Defendants had induced Plaintiff to part with well over $100,000
and Plaintiff had reasonably concluded that with all his Body Thetans gone he should have
gained the promised happiness, super powers and power with which to exteriorize from his
body and travel to far away places without his body which could be left behind and picked
up later. Thus, having "baited" Plaintiff with claims of clearing
"engrams," Defendants then "switched" Plaintiff to the unnecessary and
expensive clearing of "body thetans" or "bts". In what Plaintiff now
concludes was also a classic "bait-and-switch" financial fraud perpetrated upon
him by Defendants in the fraudulent name of religion, Plaintiff was then told he had
thousands more body Thetan's inside him that would have to be given their own audited
"Purification Rundown", only this time Defendants called it the "OT Drug
Rundown". By this point, Defendants had so brainwashed, mentally manipulated,
hypnotically induced and/or otherwise coercively indoctrinated Plaintiff that he was
incapable of stopping and wondering why his original "Purification Rundown"
didn't do both jobs and was therefore induced to part with many more thousands of dollars
to pay for the auditing of the Body Thetans themselves that were trapped within his body.
Plaintiff had to pay for the auditing of these BT's and Clusters because they could not
pay the requisite "fixed donations" to Defendants whose "Doctrine of
Exchange" prohibits anyone, even Body Thetans and Clusters, from receiving
Scientology training unless the tax-free "Fixed Donations" arbitrarily charged
and changed by Defendants were paid by Plaintiff.
(q) OT V - "NOTs" (New Era Dianetics For OTs) .
After completing OT IV, Defendants induced Plaintiff to undergo training and auditing
on OT V and the NOTs materials which are known as "the living lightning of life
itself" which Plaintiff was dismayed to find also dealt wholly, solely and only with
Body Thetans that were former (past lives) "other people" trapped within his
body and each of which was able to talk to him and through him. However, Plaintiff
discovered this time that the auditing course was being delivered to dead space aliens
within his body who could not pay for this processing themselves and so Plaintiff had to
write the large checks to Defendants in order that these dead space aliens within him
receive Defendants' processing.
(r) Suppressive Body Thetans.
Defendants then induced Plaintiff to part with even more money, by this time, several
hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate, on the misrepresentation that although
Plaintiff still did not have the "gains" that he had hoped for it was as a
result of "Suppressive Body Thetans" inside him that could only be
"handled" during further numerous twelve and one-half hour
"intensives" at approximately $600 dollars an hour.
(s) OT VI and OT VII - Dead Body Thetans.
Although Plaintiff had been induced by Defendants to pay Defendants several hundred
thousands of dollars at this point in time, for so-called "religious"
counseling, he still had not received the promised benefits he expected and he still had
not handled his "ruin" as initially and repeatedly by promised by Defendants.
Instead, Defendants then told Plaintiff that he had thousands more dead, or near dead Body
Thetans inside him, and that he must now use his mental powers to send telepathic thought
beams and commands into his body to drive these Body Thetans out of his body. Hubbard's OT
VII writings describe most government employees as "animated dormant clusters"
of dead space alien spirits. Defendants even told Plaintiff to use an imaginary hand
called a "Thetan Hand" to cut these Body Thetans away and to scoop them out of
his body. By this point and time, Defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations and material
non-disclosures, had caused him to spend over $300,000 in the pursuit of
"handling" his homosexuality and becoming a person with super powers,
"handling past lives", the ability to leave his body by way of
"exteriorization" and the prospect of "picking up" a much better body
when he dropped his body at the end of this cycle (died) and moved onto the next cycle
(life). Plaintiff knew that Defendants naval-uniformed paramilitary Sea Org members had
signed solemn contracts to serve Defendants for the next one billion years and that they
would do so by picking up new bodies at the end of each life until they had served out the
terms of their billion year contract in exchange for pay in the amount of approx. $30. 00
per week. This knowledge reinforced the coercive manipulation Defendants were exercising,
and exorcising, over Plaintiff's mind.
(t) New OT VIII.
Defendants then induced Plaintiff to pay a further sum, then in excess of $15,000 (but
now approximately $41,000) to undergo OT VIII training and processing which Defendants
misrepresented would finally handle or cure his "ruin" by making him very
"OT", and which would provide him with the promised super powers over matter,
energy, space and time ("at cause" over "MEST"). Contrary to
Defendants' representations, the only significant thing that Plaintiff learned on the OT
VIII level, after paying Defendants approximately $500,000, was Hubbard's statement that
"Now he knew who he wasn't, and he was interested in finding out who he was."
Hubbard purportedly intended the result of New OT VIII, as far as the Plaintiff is
concerned, to be "Truth Revealed" by attesting that "Now he knew who he
wasn't, he was interested in finding out who he was." By this point, Defendants had
so brainwashed Plaintiff, controlled his mind and manipulated his thinking that Plaintiff
did not at that time recognize this statement of Commodore Hubbard as being the ultimate
fraudulent hoax that it is. Furthermore, and contrary to Plaintiff's fraudulent
misrepresentations, Plaintiff's homosexuality, had not been "handled" or cured
and he was still gay after more than twenty years of Defendants' fraudulent promises and
processing.(u)Plaintiff was promised by Defendants, in a writing by L. Ron Hubbard,
in a Policy Letter called "O.T. Orgs", that OT VIII contained technology that
would "blow all stops" in the life of persons, such as Plaintiff, and thereby
give huge new OT powers and abilities. However, and contrary to these and earlier
representations, when Plaintiff did what is called "New OT VIII" there was no
such process or technology contained within it. Accordingly, a further fraudulent
misrepresentation had been perpetrated by Defendants upon Plaintiff since he had paid
substantial monies for the OT VIII "rekindling failed purposes technology." RTC,
and other of the Defendants herein, thereby prevented Plaintiff from receiving what had
been promised him by Commodore Hubbard himself through the representations of
Defendants.(v)"New OT VIII" was allegedly completed, by Commodore L. Ron
Hubbard himself, at least Plaintiff believed so at the time, because Defendants had
delivered him a verbal "New Year's Message" purportedly from Commodore Hubbard
himself at the Scientology "New Year's Event" on December 31, 1985.
Plaintiff has now learned that said New Year's message was seemingly delivered by
Defendants using a faked voice of Commodore Hubbard produced by a method using a voice
synthesizer and therefore, it not being a message from Hubbard himself, Defendants had
further defrauded Plaintiff. Plaintiff's purchase of the level of New OT VIII was after he
heard that public event tape recording broadcast Defendants represented was from Hubbard
himself. Defendants' failure to deliver New OT VIII as described in the said Policy Letter
constitutes further fraud perpetrated upon Plaintiff by Defendants. The apparent removal
of the technology of Hubbard's original OT VIII, by Captain Miscavige, RTC, Commander
Mithoff and others, was an intentional disempowerment of the Plaintiff through the
withholding of technology that may otherwise "blow all stops" in the life of the
Plaintiff, such as resolving his "ruin" or homosexuality, which was what
Plaintiff had expressly paid Defendants to receive in a complex continuing fraud
commencing nearly twenty five years ago.
278. Plaintiff also personally knew Quentin Hubbard in 1976 in Clearwater, Florida.
Plaintiff now knows that since Quentin Hubbard was a Class XII Auditor, yet was still
homosexual, that he was living proof that Scientology does not work, and therefore became
a liability to his father L. Ron Hubbard and to the Scientology enterprise. He
allegedly committed suicide but apparently died an "assisted" death which his
father desired but expressly said "Keep me out of it".
279. Although Plaintiff did not receive the promised gains from OT VIII processing,
he was lead to believe that he had stupidly "misowned" some of the mental
anguish that had cropped up on his extremely expensive prior auditing and that now he had
to correctly adjudge the true ownership of the mental anguish and it would
"blow," and when all of that was "blown," and there would be
"Truth Revealed". However, at this point, like Commodore Hubbard himself said,
Plaintiff now didn't know who he really was. Moreover, at this point in time, Plaintiff
had been so brainwashed by Defendants, and trapped in such a web of deceit of Defendants'
creation, subjected to such intensive thought reform and, hypnosis and subjected to the
control of other Scientology members, that he believed and continued to detrimentally rely
upon Defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations made through the misuse of copyrights and
claims of religious trade secrets sought to be enforced through the Federal Courts and
United States Government through the litigation and lobbying activities of Defendants
upon, among others, such persons as the Relief Defendants.
280. In addition to the oral and written misrepresentations made, and set forth
above, and the material non-disclosures set forth elsewhere herein, these
misrepresentations on the part of all Defendants were also made over the same period of
time by way of the various publications, tapes, books, and promotional materials supplied
by Defendants and their agents to Plaintiff.
281. As set forth herein, the various misrepresentations, and material
non-disclosures, made to Plaintiff were false, misleading and untrue in numerous respects
including, but not limited to, the said representations concerning the qualifications and
life history of L. Ron Hubbard, the scientific basis for Scientology, the source of
Scientology materials and the "technology," the nature and quality of
Scientology services, the "scientific" underpinning for the tenets of
Scientology, the validity and proper use of various copyrights and trademarks, and other
intellectual property claimed to be created, and owned by Defendants and the various
benefits, including ongoing good health and being "cured" of homosexuality, that
Plaintiff could expect from purchasing Scientology courses and auditing from Defendants.
In addition, Defendants made representations to Plaintiff, from time to time, that
problems he believed he was suffering as a result of ill health were not, in fact, health
problems, but were problems that could and would be cured by purchasing more services of
Scientology, and in particular, by continued auditing, NOTs 34 and certain other NOTs
materials that constitute the illegal practice of medicine by Defendants, hiding behind a
fraudulent facade of religion, and of which Defendant failed to inform Plaintiff of when
they recruited him into their fraudulent religion to receive the training and auditing
described herein.
282. In addition to fraudulent misrepresentations, inducing Plaintiff to part with
the massive monies being reclaimed herein, Defendants also failed to make material
disclosures, of the other facts set forth herein, relating to the life history of
Commodore L. Ron Hubbard, the Satanic and black magic basis for much of his work, the
improper registration and use of copyrights and trademarks, the plagiarized basis of much
of Commodore Hubbard's work, the criminal and fraudulent activities of Defendants and
others as set forth herein and reported in such publications as Time Magazine
(May 6, 1991: "Scientology, Thriving Cult of Greed and Power"), and the
various and fraudulent misrepresentations, non-disclosures and other matters connected
with Defendants' claim to be a peaceful, law abiding and bona fide, legitimate religion
and Defendants' fraudulent renewed application to the United States Internal Revenue
Service, in 1991, for tax exempt status which Defendants blackmailed and otherwise coerced
the Commissioner of the United States Internal Revenue Service into granting in 1993, on
condition that Defendants' activities were in accordance with their fraudulent
misrepresentations to the United States Government, which they were not, and that they
would conduct their activities, which they did not, in accordance with representations
made to United States Government, and the Clinton Administration's Secret Settlement or
Closing Agreement with Defendants permitting Defendants to monitor their own
compliance with the tax laws of the United States despite Defendants' numerous criminal
convictions in the United States and in other countries.
283. In addition, Defendants' material non-disclosures of the other criminal and
fraudulent conduct set forth herein induced Plaintiff to provide Defendants with the labor
and monies that he did and induced Plaintiff to believe that Defendants were not engaged
in activities contrary to their IRS Section 501(c)(3) status including, but not
limited to, unlawful lobbying and improperly pressuring United States' government
officials, including the President of the United States himself, to utilize the United
States' Foreign Policy and Cabinet Officials such as the National Security Advisor, the
Secretary of State and United States Trade Negotiator, to carry out Defendants'
"religious" objectives in Germany and to threaten the government of Sweden with
trade sanctions, and to actually impose a 301 Special Watch, if it did not remove
Defendants' fraudulent and criminal documents, masquerading as religious scriptures, from
the publicly available Swedish Parliament and Government files and records, as demanded by
Defendants and through Defendants' lobbying activities, by the United States Government
itself, all of this in violation of the Establishment Clause and Excessive Entanglement
provisions of the Constitution of the United States.