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Are you running out of money Gerry or still just a greedy ass-hole that will
say anything for a buck?
Nelson

"Gerry Armstrong" <gerry@gerryarmstrong.org> wrote in message
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> Webbed at:
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a8/complaint-rpt-doj-2004-02-16.
html
>
> Ralph F. Boyd, Jr.
> Assistant Attorney General
> Civil Rights Division
> 950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (#3623)
> Washington, DC 20530
> (202) 514-2151
> Fax: (202) 514-0293
> TDD: (202) 514-0716
>
> U.S. Department of Justice
> Civil Rights Division
> 950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
> Criminal Section, PHB
> Washington, DC 20530
> (202) 514-3204
> Fax: (202) 514-8336
>
> COMPLAINT REPORT
>
> I, Gerry Armstrong, declare:
>
> 1. My address is:
> #1-49450 Alexander Avenue
> Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 1L5
> Canada
> 604-XXX-XXXX
> gerry@gerryarmstrong.org
>
> 2. I am a citizen of Canada with Canadian passport No. JS274969.
> I became a legal resident of the U.S. in 1977, with Alien Registration
> No. A036304599.
>
> 3. Federal crimes have been committed by the violation of the
> following:
>
> 1. 18 U.S.C. §241
> 2. 18 U.S.C. §242
> 3. 18 U.S.C. §371
> 4. 18 U.S.C. §1512
>
> 4. The participants in these crimes include those individuals or
> entities who comprise the "beneficiaries" identified or described in
> paragraphs 1 and 4 of a document entitled "Mutual Release and
> Settlement Agreement," which purports to be a contract between those
> individuals and entities and me executed in December, 1986,
> specifically:
>
> Church of Scientology International, its officers, agents,
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns
> and legal counsel;
> Church of Scientology of California, its officers, agents,
>
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>
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors,
> successors, assigns and legal counsel;
> Religious Technology Center, its officers, agents,
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors,
> successors, assigns and legal counsel;
> all Scientology and Scientology affiliated organizations and
> entities and their officers, agents, representatives,
> employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns and
> legal counsel; Author Services, Inc., its officers, agents,
> representatives, employees, volunteers, directors,
> successors, assigns and legal counsel;
> L. Ron Hubbard, his heirs, beneficiaries, Estate and its
> executor;
> Author's Family Trust, its beneficiaries and its trustee; and
> Mary Sue Hubbard.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/mutual-release-1986.html
>
> 5. I am providing URLs, as such exist on the date of this
> complaint, for documents cited to herein, because the photocopying of
> these documents and appending the photocopies hereto as exhibits, and
> mailing these exhibits, is financially prohibitive. All webbed
> documents cited to herein are, to my knowledge and to the best of my
> ability, true and correct copies of the original documents from which
> the webbed copies have been made. If required, in the course of the
> official investigation and prosecution resulting from this complaint,
> I can and will provide true and correct hard photocopies of
> any documents cited to herein.
>
> 6. All of the individuals and entities that comprise the
> "beneficiaries" are under the ultimate control and direction of one
> David Miscavige, who possesses the official titles within the global
> Scientology enterprise of Captain of the Sea Organization ("SO") and
> Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center ("RTC"). The SO
> is an unincorporated pseudo-military entity, members of which occupy
> positions in other Scientology organizations, corporations and
> entities. The global Scientology enterprise is a dictatorship,
> Miscavige is the dictator, and corporate identities and borders are
> ignored, or are employed by Miscavige and his ruling clique at their
> whim for purposes of control and evading legal liability for the
> enterprise's crimes and torts.
>
> 7. The events relating to these crimes committed by these
> individuals and entities span a thirty-five year period, occurred in
> many locations, and involve numerous civil and criminal legal cases
> and proceedings. I am limiting what facts and events I am including in
> this report to only those I believe are necessary to demonstrate the
> commission of these crimes and to make the circumstances and actions
> and the special Scientology terms, policies and practices
> understandable. I am also providing some of my arguments or reasoning
> for why certain acts or communications by these individuals
> and entities constitute these crimes in order to assist investigators
> and prosecutors, to explain my own actions, and to ensure that these
> arguments or reasoning are considered and addressed.
>
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>
> 8. I got into Scientology in 1969 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and
> left the organization in Los Angeles, California in December 1981. I
> was recruited into the organization with a number of promises or
> representations, which included:
>
> - that Scientology was a mathematically precise and exact
> science;
> - that no other subjects on earth except physics and chemistry
> have had such grueling testing;
> - that it was based on the scientific research of L. Ron Hubbard;
> - that he was a Civil Engineer and a Nuclear Physicist;
> - that he had many degrees and was very skilled by reason of
> study;
> - that he was crippled and blinded in the Second World War and
> cured himself with his mental science;
> - that Scientology "auditing" psychotherapy raises IQ an average
> of a point per hour;
> - that auditing is conducted using an "electropsychometer," or
> "E-meter," which is a precision scientific instrument that sees below
> a person's consciousness and gives an "auditor" a keen look into the
> heads and hearts of people being "audited;"
> - that Scientology improves the health, intelligence, ability,
> behavior, skill and appearance of people;
> - that Scientology produces the ability to handle any and all
> problems;
> - that Scientology auditing produces a mental state called
> "Clear," whereat the person has complete recall of everything that
> ever happened to him or anything he ever studied, he does mental
> computations and studies anything in less than one-hundredth the time
> such computations or studies took before "clearing," he never gets
> colds, his vigor, persistence and tenacity to life are very much
> higher than anyone has thought possible, and his physical vitality and
> health are markedly improved and all psychosomatic illnesses have
> vanished and will never return;
> - that Scientology is offered with a money-back guarantee;
> - that Scientology is the most ethical organization on the
> planet;
> - that Scientology works, works uniformly, and is the only system
> on earth that works for improving the health, intelligence, ability,
> behavior, skill and appearance of people;
> - that Scientology is the only hope for mankind's survival;
> - that Scientology can and does do exactly what it says it can
> do.
>
> 9. From February 1971 until I left in December 1981, I was a
> member of the SO, which is structured similarly to the United States
> Navy. Within the SO "ranks and ratings" system, I rose to the rank of
> Ensign. Until September 1975, I was on board the "Apollo," the SO's
> "flagship," from which during those years Scientology was operated.
> L. Ron Hubbard, his wife Mary Sue, and their four children were on
> board, along with an average of over 400 other people comprising
> "crew," plus auditing or training customers. During those years, the
> ship moved between ports in Morocco, Portugal, Spain and the
> Caribbean.
>
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>
> 10. Hubbard, as the "Commodore" of the SO, controlled and
> directed all activities on board the "Apollo," and all Scientology
> organizations and activities internationally through a number of
> networks including the Commodore's Staff Aides ("CS Aides"), the
> Flag Bureaus ("FB"), the Commodore's Messengers Organization ("CMO"),
> the Flag Banking Officers ("FBOs), the L. Ron Hubbard Communicators
> ("LRH Comms"), the Flag Operation and Liaison Offices ("FOLOs") and
> the Guardian Office ("GO"). Under Hubbard, Mary Sue Hubbard, as the
> "Controller" ran the GO, which dealt with Scientology's
> non-Scientologist contacts and public, and included the organization's
> finance, public relations, legal and intelligence activities.
>
> 11. During my years on board, I held the positions of
> "Storesman," "Boats and Transport In-Charge," "Legal Officer," "Public
> Relations Officer" and "Intelligence Officer." I gained knowledge of
> organization communication and command channels, operations, personnel
> and security. During those years, the ship operation and all personnel
> maintained an intelligence cover of, and pretended to be, "Operation
> and Transport Corporation" ("OTC"), a Panamanian business management
> company. All personnel were required to hide the fact and deny that we
> were Scientologists or had anything to do with Scientology. Any
> failure to maintain our OTC "shore story" or cover, or any disclosure
> of any connection to Scientology was a "security breach,"
> considered "treason," and severely punished.
>
> 12. I also gained knowledge of Hubbard's and Scientology's
> worldview, aims, and "Ethics," which is the organization's system of
> rewards and punishment, including its "Suppressive Person" ("SP")
> doctrine and "Fair Game" policy. In their worldview, Hubbard and
> Scientology divide mankind into two groups, Scientologists and non-
> Scientologists, called "wogs." The term "wogs," in its original
> meaning, and in its present meaning outside of Scientology, is a
> racial epithet equivalent to "niggers." Inside Scientology, "wogs" is
> also a racial epithet, referring to "Homo sapiens." Hubbard and
> Scientology teach that wogs or Homo sapiens are an inferior race, also
> described derogatorily in Scientology teachings as "homo sap," "raw
> meat," or "common ordinary run-of-the-mill garden-variety humanoids."
> Hubbard and Scientology teach that Scientologists comprise a new and
> superior race of hominid called "Homo Novis" or "Homo Scientologicus."
>
> 13. Hubbard and Scientology teach that wogs are less aware, less
> intelligent and less ethical than Scientologists, and that wogs think
> in two dimensions, whereas Scientologists think in three dimensions.
> Hubbard and Scientology teach that wogs have never evolved a workable
> mental technology but only vicious technology, whereas Scientologists
> have in Scientology the only workable mental technology. Hubbard and
> Scientology teach that outside of Scientology is the "wog world,"
> which is a "hell," and a "jungle of noncompliance and false reports."
> Hubbard and Scientology teach that "wog justice" is "injustice" and
> that only Scientology's "ethics and justice" system works.
>
> 14. Hubbard and Scientology teach that Suppressive Persons, or
> SPs:
>
> - are the two and one-half percent most evil wogs in the world;
> - are insane;
>
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>
> - are psychotic;
> - are criminal;
> - are destructively antisocial;
> - are committing hidden crimes continuously;
> - are dramatizing the overt or covert but always complex and
> continuous determination to destroy;
> - goof up or vilify any effort to help anybody and particularly
> knife with violence anything calculated to make human beings more
> powerful or intelligent;
> - automatically will curve any betterment activity into something
> evil or bad;
> - are the only thing wrong in this universe;
> - are at the root of every bad condition;
> - can have no friends;
> - include Hitler, Stalin, Dillinger and Genghis Khan;
> - fill the institutions with victims, the hospitals with the sick
> and the graveyards with the dead;
> - are the only people who do not get gains from Scientology
> auditing therapy;
> - are without any rights of any kind and actions taken against
> them are not punishable.
>
> 15. Hubbard and Scientology teach that it is acceptable, ethical,
> and in fact laudable, for Scientologists to take aggressive,
> antisocial and even criminal actions against SPs.
> Hubbard called this philosophy, policy and practice "Fair Game." In
> one of his "ethics" policy letters, which is commonly known as the
> "Fair Game Policy," Hubbard laid out how people declared to be SPs
> were to be dealt with.
>
> 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.
>
> HCO Policy Letter 18 October 1967, "Penalties for Lower Conditions"
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/sp/pl-penalties-for-lower-conds.h
tml
>
> 16. Hubbard and Scientology taught that anyone connected to a
> Suppressive Person is a "Potential Trouble Source" ("PTS"), so called
> because he is going to make trouble for the organization. They taught
> that connection to an SP is the cause of all illness, and that
> a PTS will get better then get worse because of that connection. A
> person determined to be PTS was denied auditing and training and
> removed from certain organization positions until he had "handled" the
> SP he was connected to or "disconnected" from the SP. Scientology has
> claimed throughout the past thirty-five years that "disconnection" is
> not a practice of the organization, but it definitely was and
> continues to be.
>
> 17. The "Suppressive Person Doctrine," "Fair Game," "conditions"
> -- such as "liability," "enemy" and "treason" -- and penalties or
> punishment are part of the body of Scientology writings and practice
> called "Ethics." The other two sectors are "technology," or "tech,"
> and "administration," or "admin." "Tech" generally refers to
>
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>
> "auditing," which is Scientology's psychotherapy, and "training,"
> which is the provision of courses to teach students in Scientology
> materials and procedures. "Admin" generally refers to the management
> of organizations and the "technology" of management, including
> recruitment, advertising, marketing, selling, personnel, communication
> systems, finance and productivity control.
>
> 18. "Ethics" was considered the most vital of the three sectors
> of Scientology, and was administered very rigidly. The Sea Org's
> stated purpose was "To get in Ethics on the planet," and the SO
> operated on a military-like system with military-like discipline.
> Command lines ran down from Hubbard as the Commodore and compliance
> lines ran up to him. Non-compliance with any order from any senior
> staff member was immediately punished with a minimum of a "liability
> condition" assignment, and could be considered "mutiny." "Liability"
> meant that the person assigned that condition had "taken on the
> color of the enemy," so he was ostracized, had to do an "amends
> project" consisting of many hours of extra work, had to "deliver an
> effective blow to the enemies" and then had to petition the group to
> be readmitted.
>
> 19. Organization Ethics personnel used the E-meter to perform
> "meter checks" on staff to determine if they were "out-ethics;" e.g.,
> committing "overts" (the Scientology word for "crimes") against the
> organization, "counter-intention" to the organization, or a "security
> risk" to the organization. Auditors used the E-meter as a lie detector
> to perform "security checks," or "sec checks," on staff or public
> Scientologists to discover their overts or crimes, their sexual
> histories, incidents from their past that might be embarrassing, or
> incidents for which they could be prosecuted or blackmailed. What a
> person being audited or sec checked said was written down in detail,
> and this record was maintained by the organization in "auditing
> files," "ethics files" and "intelligence files."
>
> 20. In 1974, Hubbard created the "Rehabilitation Project Force"
> ("RPF"), a guarded labor detail or camp, where Sea Org personnel were
> summarily ordered for indefinite periods for any infraction or on any
> whim. Hubbard's published criteria, any one of which could result in
> assignment to the RPF were: 1. an "R/Ser;" 2. a "low OCA non-
> producer;" 3. a "repeated stat crasher;" or, 4. an "overt product
> maker." An "R/Ser" is a person on whom an auditor observes a "Rock
> Slam," a particular needle movement on the E-meter, during auditing or
> sec checking. An R/S meant that the person had an "evil intention"
> toward Hubbard or Scientology.
>
> 21. The "OCA," or "Oxford Capacity Analysis," is a "personality
> test" that Scientology uses as a recruitment device to draw people
> into the organization, and as a measurement of people's personality
> "improvement" as they progress on their "auditing programs." A "low
> OCA" is a test score with one or more points below an arbitrary line.
> A "stat crasher" is a person deemed to be responsible for a statistic
> dropping in an area, or project or on an organization post. All of
> Scientology is operated and controlled by a system of "statistics" or
> "stat management." Every person and post is "statistized" and
> must report stats daily and weekly. "Downstats" are punished, whereas
> "upstats" can to a degree protect a person from punishment. An "overt
> product maker" is a person whose
>
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>
> work contains errors, whose production is deemed unacceptable for some
> reason, or requires correction or repair.
>
> 22. People ordered to the RPF were subjected to a number of
> punitive and degrading conditions that included segregation from the
> "crew," restriction from crew areas, wearing black boiler suits,
> reduction in "pay" to one-quarter the base amount, not speaking to a
> crew member unless spoken to, having to run everywhere, doing hard
> manual labor and all the dirtiest work, getting a maximum of seven
> hours sleep, and eating after the crew whatever was left over. RPFers
> had to audit each other through a long auditing program that contained
> many hours of sec checking, and which could last for months or even
> years. RPFers had no free time, got no days off, and could not read
> newspapers or magazines, listen to radio, or watch TV. RPFers could
> not make telephone calls unless such were specifically ordered and
> monitored, and Ethics personnel read all mail RPFers received, and
> read and censored all mail RPFers sent out from the RPF.
>
> 23. Scientology claims that assignment to the RPF is voluntary,
> or even a privilege, but that is not true. Anyone who asked to leave
> instead of doing the RPF program was assigned to the "RPF's RPF," an
> even more degrading and punitive experience, where the person was
> guarded at all times, allowed only six hours sleep, docked all pay,
> had to eat after the RPF had eaten whatever they left, and did the
> filthiest of the dirty work. The RPF's RPF member could not leave, and
> in fact no Sea Org member could leave, until he had been intensely sec
> checked and had signed a list of his "crimes" that had been "culled"
> from his auditing files. Also before the person could leave, all his
> personal belongings were searched and he was stripped of any
> Scientology materials, even if he had personally purchased them.
>
> 24. The RPF and the RPF's RPF operated as a forced labor and
> reindoctrination camp and as a system and procedure to break the will
> of anyone thought to be "out ethics" or "counter intention" to Hubbard
> or his organization and activities. It was a shocking, degrading
> experience to be ordered to the RPF, and the threat of RPF
> assignment was used to keep non-RPF crew in line and producing. I was
> threatened several times with RPF assignment during my SO years, and
> assigned twice for a total of twenty-five months.
>
> 25. Hubbard and Scientology taught that the need for the severe
> "Ethics" penalties and conditions such as the RPF was because for the
> "technology" to work it was first necessary to "get in ethics."
> Hubbard and Scientology taught that since the "tech" was
> mankind's only hope for survival, it was necessary that the people
> using and delivering that "tech" be highly disciplined and ethical.
> Hubbard and Scientology taught that:
> "The purpose of ethics is to remove counter intentions from the
> environment. And having accomplished that the purpose becomes to
> remove other intentionedness from the environment."
> In other words, anyone or anything that was "counter intention" to
> Scientology's intentions or activities, and anyone with an intention
> that differed from the organization's intentions was unethical and was
> to be removed from the environment.
>
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>
> Hubbard laid down Scientology's intentions by order and as policy, and
> his intentions were forwarded and opposition removed down through the
> organizational hierarchy.
>
> 26. In the fall of 1975, almost all of the "Flagship Apollo's"
> crew left the ship and flew from the Caribbean to the U.S. to
> establish the "Flag Land Base" ("FLB") in Clearwater, Florida. A
> skeleton crew was left on board to maintain and sell the ship. The
> organization's equipment, files and other materiel were shipped by
> containers to Florida and brought to Clearwater. The majority of the
> non-U.S. citizens went to Daytona Beach to set up a temporary base in
> a leased motel, and the majority of the U.S. citizens went to
> Clearwater to clean up and renovate buildings the organization had
> purchased to set up the FLB. Hubbard and his immediate personal staff
> lived during this period in a Daytona Beach apartment building not far
> from the temporary base. In early December 1975, the Daytona Beach
> operation moved into the Clearwater buildings, and Hubbard and an
> expanded personal staff moved into a vacant apartment complex in
> Dunedin, Florida, just a few miles from Clearwater.
>
> 27. Upon my arrival at the Daytona Beach base, I was posted in
> the Guardian's Office Intelligence Bureau, coding and decoding GO
> telexes, gathering information locally in areas of concern to base
> operation and our beachhead in Florida, and compiling information on
> potential security risks among the crew, and among customers arriving
> for auditing or training. My then wife Terri was posted as Commanding
> Officer of the Commodore's Messenger Organization ("CO CMO"), and
> worked directly with Hubbard. After a few weeks, Mary Sue Hubbard
> decided that I was a security risk because my mother was "antagonistic
> to Scientology" and Mrs. Hubbard had me transferred out of the
> Intelligence Bureau. I spent a number of days typing and printing
> mission orders that Hubbard was writing that ordered and operated
> various missions, projects or phases concerning the base being
> established in Clearwater. I was then assigned to L. Ron Hubbard's
> External Communications Bureau ("LEC"), posted as Deputy LEC Aide, and
> sent to the Dunedin apartment complex to set up an office for the
> LEC Bureau.
>
> 28. Until into 1976, Scientology hid its purchase of the
> Clearwater properties, and the fact that it was Scientology and
> Scientologists operating in Clearwater, behind a cover organization
> called "United Churches of Florida" ("UCF"). The FLB crew, as well as
> people arriving for auditing and training, were required to hide from
> public view any jewelry, insignia, mimeographed issues, books or other
> literature that might identify them as Scientologists, or the
> operation as Scientology, and it was an act of "treason" to
> commit any security breach that might reveal what was going on. The
> cover was eventually blown because of official scrutiny from the city
> government, media investigations and security lapses.
>
> 29. I was on post as D/LEC Aide at the Dunedin apartment complex,
> which had the cover of "United Churches Extension" ("UCE"), until late
> May 1976. I coded and decoded L. Ron Hubbard's telex traffic, and
> handled his dispatch traffic and mail to and from Scientology
> organizations around the world. Hubbard continued to run all aspects
>
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>
> of the global Scientology enterprise, and directly ordered and
> supervised activities at the Clearwater base, including GO legal,
> media, PR and intelligence actions.
>
> 30. In about February 1976, the UCE cover was blown and Hubbard
> and his location were identified in the local press. As a result, he
> fled by car from Dunedin with two crew, including my senior, the LEC
> Aide, and eventually hid out for four months in a secret location in
> Washington, D.C. During these months, I relayed Hubbard's telex and
> dispatch traffic from Scientology organizations around the world via
> UCE to the Washington, D.C. hideout, and relayed his telex and
> dispatch traffic via UCE to the FLB and to organizations
> internationally. I also was required to participate in creating the
> illusion for organization personnel that Hubbard was still in Dunedin,
> and creating the illusion for non-organization persons that Hubbard
> was outside the U.S.
>
> 31. In May 1976 I was sent on a mission to establish a staging
> area in an apartment complex in Culver City, California for Hubbard
> and his personal staff in anticipation of their moving to a new secret
> base then being purchased in La Quinta, California. I drove by car
> along with three CMO personnel from Dunedin to Culver City and set up
> an office and telex relay unit in the apartment complex. Mrs. Hubbard
> and her personal staff arrived within a few days, and L. Ron Hubbard
> and the SO personnel traveling with him arrived a day or so later.
>
> 32. Within a few days of Hubbard's arrival, I got into an
> argument with Mrs. Hubbard's "Communicator," or secretary. Hubbard
> deemed me a security risk, and ordered the head of the U.S. GO
> Intelligence Bureau to come to the apartment and drive me to the Los
> Angeles Intelligence Bureau offices then located in a building called
> the Fifield Manor. For the next approximately three weeks I was locked
> up in a small room with Intelligence Bureau staff members posted to
> guard me at all times, and I was kept under guard whenever I was
> allowed out of the room to go to the bathroom or for other needs.
> While locked up, I was required to write up "confessions" of my
> overts, or crimes, and critical thoughts about Hubbard and the
> organization. Toward the end of that period, my wife Terri arrived
> from Florida and was also locked up and guarded with me.
>
> 33. In the beginning of July, Hubbard ordered Terri and me to
> return to Florida by plane accompanied by two GO Intelligence
> personnel as guards. Upon our arrival at the Flag Land Base we were
> shown a telex from Hubbard ordering us to the RPF, and a "Flag
> Conditions Order" announcing our assignment was issued.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/fco-4517-rpf-assignments.html
> Initially, we were the only RPF members in Clearwater. Within a few
> days, more FLB crew began to be assigned, and over the next seventeen
> months until I graduated the RPF complement grew to about eighty.
>
> 34. During the majority of those months, I was the RPF Bosun, the
> most senior RPF member. At one point, I was demoted from the Bosun
> post, and Terri was demoted from the "Master at Arms" ("MAA") post,
> the second in command of the RPF, for "out ethics."
>
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>
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ed-81-rpf-bosun.html We
> were both also assigned an extra month in the RPF as punishment for
> "criminal neglect" and "slackness."
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/eo-24-addl-rpf-duty.html
> After about four months, I was reposted as Bosun, and kept that post
> until I "graduated" at the beginning of December 1977.
>
> 35. As the Bosun, I acquired knowledge of RPF policies,
> punishments and other practices. I was required to detain people
> against their will, prevent them from leaving, keep them under guard,
> force them to perform hard labor as punishment without pay, subject
> them to invasive and coercive interrogations, and force them to sign
> lists of their "crimes" extracted from their auditing files. I was
> required to forcibly separate RPF members from spouses and children,
> cut them off from information in the outside world, and enforce the
> idea that they were "criminals." The RPF was a degrading experience
> that violated people's civil rights and human dignity.
>
> 36. I was also required to participate in deceiving local
> officials, people's families and the whole world about conditions in
> the RPF and about violations of local housing and safety regulations.
> On a number of occasions while I was in the Clearwater RPF, we
> received advanced warnings of official inspections and the whole of
> the RPF complement were required to hide the fact that approximately
> forty people were sleeping in an unventilated storage room, and more
> were sleeping in a parking garage. We were required to hide the fact
> that the RPF "course room" was in the same unventilated storage space,
> and we were required to cover all our mattresses, clothing and course
> materials with sheets or blankets to make the space appear to be used
> for storage. We were required to delay any punishments of RPF members
> until the inspectors had left, and we were required to move any RPF's
> RPF details out of any area that might be inspected.
>
> 37. In July 1977, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
> raided Scientology's GO Intelligence Bureaus in Los Angeles and
> Washington D.C. as a result of an organization intelligence operative
> informing the FBI about illegal activities. Eleven intelligence
> personnel were subsequently charged with Federal crimes, nine of whom,
> including Mary Sue Hubbard, were found guilty of one plea-bargained
> felony count after a non-jury trial based on an October 1979
> Stipulation of Evidence.
> http://www.xenu.net/archive/go/legal/legal.htm The remaining two GO
> personnel were tried and found guilty of nine counts of aiding and
> abetting second degree burglaries. All eleven were ultimately fined
> and incarcerated in Federal prisons. At least thirty-four other
> Scientologists, including L. Ron Hubbard, were named as unindicted co-
> conspirators. The Scientologist informant was granted protective
> custody by the U.S. Marshals Service.
>
> 38. The illegal activities detailed in the Stipulation of
> Evidence included infiltrating and burglarizing U.S. Federal offices,
> theft from those offices, buggings, forging of official identification
> cards, making false statements before a grand jury, cover-up of
> crimes, harboring and concealing a fugitive, and kidnapping. Offices
> infiltrated or burglarized by the Scientology operatives included the
> Intelligence Division of the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S.Department of
> Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, the Drug
>
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>
> Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Courthouse for the District of
> Columbia, the U.S. Post Office, the Labor Department's National
> Office, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of the Treasury,
> the U.S. Customs Building, U.S. Attorney's office, and private law
> firms. The Scientology operatives' plans also included the penetration
> of on e hundred thirty-six additional government agencies including
> the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the CIA, the Executive
> Office of the U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, and a number of U.S. Embassies
> and Consulates abroad.
>
>
> 39. The Sentencing Memorandum dated December 16, 1980 filed in
> case of the two separately tried Scientology officials provides the
> Government's view of the organization's criminal conspiracy, its "fair
> game doctrine," and its campaign to destroy its "enemies'" civil
> rights.
>
> [The Scientology conspirators] challenged and attempted to undermine
> the judicial and governmental structure of the United States.
> [...].
> Thus, they perpetrated a fraud upon the American judicial system.
> [...].
> These crimes included: the infiltration and theft of documents from a
> number of prominent private, national, and world organizations, law
> firms, newspapers, and private citizens; the execution of smear
> campaigns and baseless law suits 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 documents which led to the indictment of at least one innocent
> person; and violation of the civil rights of prominent private
> citizens and public officials.
> [...]
> [T]hese documents establish beyond question that the defendants, their
> convicted co-defendants, and their unindicted co-conspirators, as well
> as
> their organization, considered themselves above the law. They believed
> that 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 exercising the First Amendment rights secured them by the
> Constitution. The defendants and their cohorts launched vicious smear
> campaigns, spreading falsehoods against those they perceived 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. Allard v. Church of
> Scientology of California, [58 Cal. App. 3d 439, 129 Cal. Rptr. 797
> (Ct.
>
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>
> App, 1976), cert denied, 97 S. Ct. 1101 (1977)]. That doctrine
> provides that anyone perceived to be an enemy of Scientology or a
> "suppressive person," "[m]ay be deprived of property or injured by any
> means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the
> Scientologist. [He m]ay be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed." Id.
> This policy, together with the actions of these defendants who
> represent the very top leadership of the Church of Scientology, bring
> into question their claim that their Church prohibited the commission
> of illegal acts.
> [...]
> The defendants directed and encouraged a number of covert operations
> against private individuals and public officials to destroy and
> discredit these persons because they had either attempted to exercise
> their First Amendment rights by criticizing Scientology or by
> attempting to carry out their duties as public officials.
> [...]
> That these defendants were willing to frame their critics to the point
> of giving false testimony under oath against them, and having them
> arrested and indicted speaks legion for their disdain for the rule of
> law. Indeed, they arrogantly placed themselves above the law meting
> out their personal brand of punishment to those "guilty" of opposing
> their selfish aims. ¶The crimes committed by these defendants is of a
> breadth and scope previously unheard. No building, office, desk, or
> files was safe from their snooping and prying. No individual or
> organization was free from their despicable scheming and warped minds.
> [...]
> These defendants rewarded criminal activities that ended in success
> and sternly rebuked those that failed. The standards of human conduct
> embodied in such practices represent no less than the absolute
> perversion of any known ethical value system. 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."
> That these defendants now attempt to hide behind the sacred principles
> of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the right to privacy --
> which principles they repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to violate
> with impunity -- adds insult to the injuries which they have inflicted
> on every element of society. ¶These defendants, their co-conspirators,
> their organization, and any other individual or group that might
> consider committing similar crimes, must be given a clear and
> convincing message: criminal activities of the types engaged in here
> shall not be tolerated by our society.
>
http://www.suppressiveperson.org/writings/usa-v-kember-budlong-sentencing-me
mo-1980-01-72.pdf
>
> 40. At the end of December 1977, Terri and I were ordered to the
> secret Scientology base that had been established on some properties
> in La Quinta, California. Within a day of our arrival, Hubbard also
> arrived at the properties from Sparks, Nevada. He had fled from La
> Quinta in July 1977 at the time of the FBI raids on the GO's
>
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> Intelligence Bureaus, and had hidden out in Sparks with a very few
> personal staff Scientologists. When the GO determined that Hubbard
> would not be indicted in the Grand Jury investigation resulting from
> the FBI raid, it was considered that it was safe for him to return to
> the La Quinta base.
>
> 41. For the next approximately nine months, I worked in various
> positions on a Cinematography crew Hubbard had ordered be assembled at
> La Quinta to shoot Scientology training movies for which he had
> written the scripts. My posts included Set Builder, Assistant Camera,
> Lighting Grip, Location Scout, Sets In-Charge and Assistant
> Producer, and I acted in several of the films. The base personnel's
> initial "cover" for the people and activity on the properties was that
> we were all "friends of Norton Karno." Karno was an attorney who had
> worked for the GO, handled aspects of Hubbard's tax matters, and had
> been involved in the purchase of the La Quinta properties. When the
> movie making increased and started including night shoots, the Cine
> crew grew to about a hundred Sea Org members, and a studio was built
> on another property that had been purchased nearby in Indio, our cover
> was changed to "Perfect Pictures," a company producing "educational
> films."
>
> 42. Security was top priority at La Quinta, as it had been at the
> Dunedin, Florida and Culver City, California apartments where I had
> been with Hubbard. The location of the base was kept secret from our
> families, and even from almost all other Scientologists. In addition
> to my movie-making duties, for my first few months at La Quinta I also
> stood a shift every second day as a night guard outside Hubbard's
> residence. I had to stay perched in a tree, watch for anyone
> approaching the property, and alert a security unit and Hubbard's
> Messengers by radio if anyone did approach. I was drilled to deny I
> knew Hubbard, to refuse service of process, kick into the dirt any
> documents served, and delay anyone coming onto the property long
> enough so that Hubbard could make an escape in a car that was kept
> close by for that purpose.
>
> 43. In late September 1978, Hubbard got the idea that I, and five
> other Cine crew including Terri, were "joking" about his movie making,
> and he ordered all of us to the RPF unit that had been formed at the
> La Quinta base. I had not been "joking," and I requested a "Committee
> of Evidence," a Scientology "justice" procedure, to review my
> assignment. The "Committee" found me "guilty," however, and it took me
> another eight months to get "reprieved" and admitted back into regular
> crew.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/findings-recs-1978-10-04.html
> During most of my time in the RPF at La Quinta I worked on renovating
> Hubbard's residence, carpeting and tiling floors, painting rooms,
> cleaning and re-insulating the ducting, and laying brickwork for his
> walkways.
>
> 44. Around the time of my RPF assignment, the La Quinta cover was
> blown by some former crew members who went to the media about abuses
> at the base. As a result, Hubbard ordered another property purchased,
> a resort and golf course at Gilman Hotsprings, near Hemet, California,
> and he himself left the La Quinta base and hid out for some weeks in
> motels with a few personal staff. In early December 1978, the RPF
> members at La Quinta were ordered to Gilman Hotsprings, also known as
> the "Special
>
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> Unit," or "SU," to renovate and decorate a house that Hubbard had
> chosen for his residence, and to renovate and decorate offices for him
> on the property. Over the next several months, the RPF removed all old
> insulation from Hubbard's house, and re-insulated, rewired, replumbed,
> cleaned, painted, tiled, refurnished and redecorated it, and did the
> same for his offices.
>
> 45. In the spring of 1979, on the same day that I was reprieved
> from the RPF, my wife Terri announced to me that she had been ordered
> that either she divorce me or she could not continue to be a Messenger
> for Hubbard. She said that she had chosen Hubbard and that was the end
> of our relationship. I continued to work on renovating Hubbard's home,
> posted as the LRH Renovations In-Charge. In the summer of 1979, I
> was posted as the D/CO HU SU, the head of Hubbard's "Household Unit"
> at Gilman. My "juniors" included the LRH Steward, the LRH Carpenter,
> the LRH Groundsman, the LRH Electrician and the LRH Gear In-Charge,
> who was responsible for his personal belongings stored on the Gilman
> property.
>
> 46. During this period of time, Hubbard stayed with a number of
> Sea Org members on his personal staff in an apartment complex in
> Hemet. He came to the newly renovated and decorated house at Gilman on
> a number of occasion for clandestine meetings with Mrs. Hubbard or to
> supervise photographic shoots on the property. I was responsible for
> ensuring his home was clean and set up for his stay, and for his
> security arriving and leaving the Gilman base. Security for the entire
> base was top priority as it has been at La Quinta. Our initial "shore
> story" at Gilman was a fake organization called the "Scottish
> Highland Quietude Club." I had a cover name of "Gerald Amery," that
> had been arranged when I was in La Quinta, and I was given a "home
> address" in Los Angeles at a location I had never been to, but which
> was controlled by the GO.
>
> 47. At the beginning of 1980, the threat of an imminent raid by
> some law enforcement agency was announced by the CMO at Gilman.
> Everyone was required to go through all their documents and find and
> remove anything that showed Hubbard's control of Scientology, his
> control of organization monies, his ordering of staff at Gilman or
> staff anywhere to do anything, his having been at Gilman, or his
> intention to live there. A commercial paper shredder was rented and
> operated day and night for weeks to destroy hundreds of thousands, or
> millions, of pages of incriminating documents, and the shredded paper
> was removed from the property by truck.
>
> 48. During this shredding operation, the LRH Gear I/C came to me
> with a box of Hubbard's papers from his personal storage and asked me
> if they should be shredded. I determined that the papers were old
> letters, diaries and other records predating the Scientology
> organizations and without any value as evidence to whatever law
> enforcement agencies could conduct a raid. I determined that these old
> papers had historical value, however, so I moved them to Hubbard's
> Personal Public Relations Bureau ("LRH PPRO Bu"). I also went into
> Hubbard's storage, found several more boxes of his early papers, and
> moved these as well to the PPRO Bu.
>
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>
> 49. I then wrote a petition to Hubbard, informing him of the
> discovery of his old papers, and requesting to be posted in the PPRO
> Bu to handle research for his biography and related projects, which
> included a film of his life, a museum, and a "Nobel Prize Project"
> that Hubbard had ordered to have the Scientology organization get him
> a Nobel Prize. In my petition, I suggested that my duties would
> include collecting up Hubbard's documents, manuscripts and writings of
> any kind from around the world, interviewing people who had personal
> contact with Hubbard, and liaising with a biographer.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/historical/armstrong-pet-lrh-
1980-01-08.html
>
> 50. Hubbard approved my petition, I transferred to the PPRO Bu,
> and was posted as the LRH Biography Researcher, and LRH Archivist.
> Because of his fear of being served with subpoenas in then pending
> civil lawsuits and an approaching Tax Court trial, within about a
> month of my posting, Hubbard fled from the Hemet location along with
> two personal staff members, and went into deeper hiding. At the same
> time, because of a continuing fear that the Gilman Hotsprings property
> might be raided by law enforcement, most of Hubbard's personal staff,
> including the PPRO Bu, moved our files, equipment and operations to
> the Scientology Complex on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. It was
> felt that in the LA Complex we could blend in with other "lower level
> organization" Scientology staff members, and not be targeted in a
> raid.
>
> 51. During my first several months in LA in 1980, I was also
> assigned as "Mission Second," the Sea Org Missionaire under the
> "Mission In-Charge," on a mission for Hubbard called "Mission
> Corporate Category Sort-out" ("MCCS"), the purpose of which
> was to work out an organization strategy and corporate restructuring
> so that Hubbard could continue to control and direct the global
> Scientology enterprise but avoid legal accountability. As MCCS Second,
> I dealt with Hubbard's and the organization's attorneys and acquired a
> knowledge of then-existing legal problems, threats and illegalities.
> Because of attempts to serve Hubbard in various lawsuits, I was
> required to not admit to Scientologists or wogs that communications
> from the organization could be gotten to him. I knew this was untrue,
> however, and that he was in continual communication through his
> personal Scientology staff, and I sent him materials myself
> during this period.
>
> 52. In October 1980, one of Hubbard's attorneys arranged for a
> wog writer Omar Garrison to contract with a Scientology publishing
> company in Denmark to write Hubbard's biography. As called for in the
> contract, I became Garrison's research assistant, and worked with him
> in this capacity until I left the organization in December 1981. I set
> up an office for Garrison in the LA Scientology Complex, and provided
> him with office equipment and supplies. I provided him with
> approximately one hundred thousand pages of material from Hubbard's
> personal archive, scheduled interviews with Hubbard's family members
> and other people who had known him personally, and helped
> Garrison in answering his questions and in any way possible.
>
> 53. Throughout 1980 and 1981, I assembled an archive of
> approximately five hundred thousand pages of documentation covering
> Hubbard's family, education, writings,
>
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>
> military service, travels, accomplishments and other relevant parts of
> his history. I traveled to England, Florida, Washington, Oregon,
> Nevada, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, Iowa, Kansas, British Columbia and
> Manitoba collecting biographical material, doing genealogy research or
> contacting Hubbard's relatives or former associates. On behalf of
> Scientology, I also purchased a number of people's collections of
> Hubbard-related documents and memorabilia. I purchased file cabinets
> and a photocopier, made bound volumes of document copies, and
> organized and filed originals and copies. I read and studied thousands
> of pages of Hubbard's personal records, many of them in his own
> handwriting.
>
> 54. Through this study of Hubbard's personal records I slowly
> came to the conclusion that he had lied about virtually every part of
> his life, and even in the statements he had made about himself, or had
> Scientology's representatives make about him, which had drawn me into
> the organization, and kept me laboring and subjected to frightful
> abuse all those years. I discovered and documented during the period
> when I possessed Hubbard's personal records that contrary to his
> representations, he:
>
> - was not a scientist;
> - was not an engineer;
> - was not a nuclear physicist;
> - did not have many degrees and was not very skilled by reason of
> study;
> - had not been crippled or blinded in the Second World War;
> - had not cured himself with his mental science;
> - had not been awarded twenty-one medals, including two purple hearts.
>
> Hubbard lied about his travels, his "expeditions," his family, his
> friends, his military service, his involvement in "black magic," his
> "research," his honesty, his "ethics," his intentions, wogs,
> Scientologists, and the promised results of Scientology.
>
> 55. Through my study of Hubbard's documents and his life, by the
> time I left Scientology in December 1981, I had also shed much of the
> brainwashing or programming about the "technology" and the
> organization with which I had been inculcated throughout my more than
> twelve years of involvement. I concluded that, contrary to Hubbard's
> and the organization's representations, Scientology:
>
> - was not mathematically precise and not an exact science, indeed was
> no science at all;
> - had not had a more grueling testing than all other subjects on earth
> except physics and chemistry;
> - was not based on Hubbard's scientific research;
> - does not work uniformly, and is not the only system on earth that
> works for improving the health, intelligence, ability, behavior, skill
> and appearance of people, indeed does not work for improving the
> health, intelligence, ability, behavior, skill and appearance of
> people;
> - does not produce the ability to handle any and all problems, indeed
> it causes terrible problems;
> - is not the most ethical organization on the planet, indeed it is an
> extremely unethical organization;
>
>
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>
> - is not the only hope for mankind's survival, indeed is no hope for
> mankind's survival but is a threat to survival;
> - did not do and could not do what it says.
>
>
> 56. By the time I left the organization, it was becoming obvious
> to me that I had been defrauded out of all the years I had served
> Hubbard and Scientology and the money I had paid and the effort I had
> made to obtain their promised results. I concluded that, contrary
> to Hubbard's and Scientology's representations, as a result of
> applying or being subjected to the application of their "technology:"
>
> - I had not improved in health, intelligence, ability, behavior or
> skill;
> - I did not have the ability to handle any problem;
> - having attained the state of "Clear," I did not have complete recall
> of everything that ever happened to me or anything I ever studied, I
> could not do mental computations and study anything in less than
> one-hundredth the time, or indeed any faster than, such computations
> or study took before "clearing," I still got colds, my vigor,
> persistence and tenacity to life were not higher than anyone had
> thought possible, my physical vitality was not markedly improved, and
> all psychosomatic illnesses had not vanished to never return;
> - Scientology "auditing" psychotherapy did not raise my IQ an average
> of a point per hour, indeed, after over a thousand hours of auditing,
> my IQ had not been raised even a single point.
>
> 57. Initially, during 1980, when I started to discover that
> Hubbard's own documents contradicted his published statements about
> his history, I "explained away" the discrepancies to myself, or held
> any judgment in abeyance, thinking that further research would resolve
> the discrepancies. I also remained completely devoted to Hubbard and
> to Scientology right up until I had no choice but to leave the
> organization. Gradually, however, I came to see that Hubbard was in
> fact lying, and I began to espouse the idea that for Scientology to
> succeed, for Hubbard to be able to come out of hiding, and for his
> work to be accepted legitimately, we Scientologists had to ourselves
> stop lying and stop disseminating Hubbard's lies.
>
> 58. In pursuit of this idea, I critiqued, edited or rewrote a
> number of public relations pieces about Hubbard, "about-the-author"
> sections of his books, or biographical sketches that Scientology was
> disseminating. I attempted to prevent the publication of new writings
> containing falsehoods, and to get the organization to remove earlier
> writings containing falsehoods from its literature. Some of the people
> responsible for these publications were grateful for my research and
> for my identification and correction of falsehoods they contained. A
> very senior executive close to Hubbard, however, Norman Starkey,
> became enraged because I was questioning and disproving Hubbard's
> claims. Starkey threatened me, and ordered that I be "sec checked" to
> find out what I had been saying that was critical of Hubbard, and what
> documents I had been giving to the biographer Garrison. I was able to
> talk my way out of the sec check, and wrote my concerns in a dispatch
> to the staff member who had been ordered to get me sec checked.
>
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>
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/historical/armstrong-ltr-cirr
us-1981-11-25.html
>
> 59. I had remarried in December 1980 to another SO staff member
> Joyce, and in October 1981 she transferred to the PPRO Bu to work with
> me on the Hubbard biography. Through her study of Hubbard's documents,
> Joyce also came to realize that he was lying about himself and about
> Scientology, and that the organization was publishing and
> disseminating his lies, and enforcing belief in those lies among
> Scientologists. It is strictly forbidden for Scientology staff
> members, even spouses, to discuss their criticisms of Hubbard or the
> organization; nevertheless, Joyce and I began to talk between
> ourselves about the lies we had discovered, about organization
> criminality, and about our fears of being found out and locked up or
> worse. During our final few weeks in the SO, we suspected that we were
> being electronically bugged, and we only discussed our criticisms,
> fears and plans while away from the Scientology property, or in
> our room in whispers with a radio turned up loud.
>
> 60. Omar Garrison also recognized that there was a huge
> discrepancy between what Hubbard and the organization had written and
> published about Hubbard's history and what was revealed in the source
> materials I was providing from his personal archive. Garrison had
> written three books about Scientology before undertaking the Hubbard
> biography, and came to realize that the organization personnel with
> whom he had dealt in writing the earlier books had provided him with
> false information. Garrison was determined that in the biography
> project he would not write a panegyric or anything untrue or
> unconscientious. He also understood that this determination to write
> the truth could bring him into conflict with the people running
> Scientology and responsible for the project, including with Hubbard
> himself.
>
> 61. After I was threatened by the senior executive and ordered to
> be sec checked about what I was saying about Hubbard, and because of
> our dawning awareness of organizational fraud and criminality, which
> we could no longer justify, Joyce and I decided to leave the SO and
> Scientology. Because of our fear that we would be forcibly
> detained, separated, locked up, sec checked, stripped of all our
> personal Scientology-related possessions, and forced to sign
> "confessions" of our "crimes," we knew that we could not announce our
> plan to leave, but had to escape. By this time I knew that sec
> checks were invasive, abusive interrogations to break people and
> obtain information with which to blackmail and control them, and I
> knew that I would never again submit to being sec checked by the
> Scientology organization.
>
> 62. I also knew that because of the knowledge I had of Hubbard's
> and his organization's lies, fraud and other criminal activities,
> because of the enormous security threat my leaving would be considered
> by organization leaders, and because of my determination to not submit
> to further abuse by Scientology and Scientologists, there was a very
> high likelihood that I would be murdered if anyone discovered my
> intention to leave. Over a two-week period, Joyce and I moved our
> small amount of personal effects out of our room and off the
> Scientology Complex property a bit at a time. On December
> 12, 1981 we borrowed one of Garrison's vehicles, carried our last
> personal belongings
>
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> out of the organization, delivered to Garrison a final batch of
> biography materials, and drove to Canada.
>
> 63. This was a very troubling time for Joyce and me because we
> had been lied to, abused and cheated out of so many years of our lives
> in Scientology, had no money, and now felt threatened for fair game.
> Nevertheless, we tried to make the best of our circumstances, to not
> become embittered, and to get on with our lives. At Garrison's
> request, because he still needed my help on the Hubbard biography
> project and offered me a job in his small publishing company, Joyce
> and I returned to California in early 1982 and got an apartment in
> Costa Mesa. Soon after our arrival, we both got jobs in a law firm in
> Newport Beach, where we worked until 1984. I continued to help
> Garrison, who also had an apartment with his wife in Costa Mesa, with
> various aspects of the biography project.
>
> 64. Very soon after our arrival back in California, because of
> communications with family and friends, Joyce and I knew that GO
> Intelligence Bu personnel were investigating us, and we picked up
> surveillance near our apartment. A few of the GO intel reports from
> that period are listed on this web page:
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/scientology-ops-docs.html
> E.g., http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/b1-dr-1982-02-22.html
> On February 18, 1982, Scientology published a "Suppressive Person
> Declare" on me for the "high crimes" of leaving the SO and leaving
> Scientology, and for "spreading destructive rumours" about Hubbard.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ga-sp-declare.html
>
> 65. By the time that Scientology issued its SP Declare on me, I
> knew that such publications were instruments of the organization's
> policy and practice of "black propaganda," or "black PR," which is
> itself a key component of fair game. Hubbard defined black PR as:
>
> - the destroying of the reputation or public belief in persons,
> companies or nations;
> - a common tool of agencies who are seeking to destroy real or fancied
> enemies or seek dominance in some field;
> - using slander or lies to weaken or destroy;
> - using imagination in order to degrade or vilify or discredit an
> existing or fancied image.
>
> Suppressive Person Declares are used by Scientology to degrade or
> vilify a person whom organization leaders consider an "enemy" and want
> to destroy. SP Declares are an instrument in a campaign to destroy a
> target's reputation among all Scientologists and to create an
> atmosphere in which further fair gaming of the target becomes
> laudable.
>
> 66. Hubbard stated in one of his policy directives that labeling
> someone an "SP" "is a kind action." By the time I left the Sea Org,
> however, I knew that Hubbard's statement is utterly false, a
> justification for antisocial and criminal actions toward SPs pursuant
> to black PR and fair game, and actually a further act of cruelty
> toward people labeled "SP."
>
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>
> By that time, I knew that the people Scientology was declaring,
> labeling and targeting as "Suppressive Persons" were:
>
> - not the two and one-half percent most evil wogs in the world;
> - not insane;
> - not psychotic;
> - not criminal;
> - not destructively antisocial;
> - not committing hidden crimes continuously;
> - not dramatizing the overt or covert but always complex and
> continuous determination to destroy;
> - not goofing up or vilifying any effort to help anybody and
> particularly knifing with violence anything calculated to make human
> beings more powerful or intelligent;
> - not automatically curving any betterment activity into something
> evil or bad;
> - not the only thing wrong in this universe;
> - not at the root of every bad condition;
> - not incapable of having friends;
> - not in a class with Hitler, Stalin, Dillinger and Genghis Khan;
> - not filling the institutions with victims, the hospitals with the
> sick and the graveyards with the dead;
> - not the only people who do not get gains from Scientology auditing
> therapy; and, - not without any rights of any kind.
>
>
> 67. By the time I left the SO, I knew that the threat of being
> labeled an "SP" was used inside the organization to terrify and
> control Scientologists, and was a greater threat even than being
> RPFed. There was no real recourse to being declared an SP, because it
> meant that the declared person was in a class of people whose
> condition, according to Scientology teaching, cannot be changed, just
> as many other conditions or handicaps or a person's race cannot be
> changed. Scientologists used the label of SP very frequently, and
> people in my own life, including in my own family, were identified to
> me as SPs. Because Scientology taught that SPs cause all illness,
> every time an organization member became ill, it was necessary to
> "find the SP" to whom he was connected and "disconnect" from that SP.
> It was a "high crime" for any Scientologist to remain connected to an
> SP, and punishable with being "declared" oneself. Hubbard's SP
> doctrine, policies and practices and their enforcement by Scientology
> brought Scientologists to hate, fear and fair game SPs, who were in
> truth generally ordinary, decent, loving human beings.
>
> 68. In April 1982, Scientology leaders set up a "sting" purchase
> of three sets of photographs of Hubbard and other people in the Sea
> Org that were owned by two other former SO members and me. When I
> delivered the photos to the "purchaser" to examine before the "sale,"
> Scientology personnel seized two of the sets. I went into the Los
> Angeles Complex along with Joyce and Mr. and Mrs. Garrison and
> demanded return of the photos stolen from me and the other ex-SO
> members. The Scientology personnel to
>
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>
> whom I spoke refused to return the photos, and my ex-wife Terri told
> me as a threat to get a lawyer.
>
> 69. Within a few days of Scientology's theft of the photos, I
> contacted Boston, Massachusetts lawyer Michael J. Flynn, whom I knew
> to be representing a number of people in lawsuits against the
> organization. A few days after that, Flynn flew me to Tampa, Florida
> and had me driven to Clearwater where he and a number of his clients
> were participating in a hearing into Scientology being conducted by
> local government officials. I told Flynn about my history,
> circumstances and the threat I was experiencing, and he agreed to
> represent me against the organization.
>
> 70. On April 22, 1982 Scientology published another SP Declare on
> me, this time charging me falsely with eighteen additional "crimes" or
> "high crimes," including theft, reselling organizational material for
> private gain, submitting false purchase orders and willful loss or
> destruction of organization property.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ga-sp-declare-rev.html
> In its SP Declare, Scientology also falsely claimed that I was
> promulgating false information about Scientology, Hubbard and
> Scientologists, creating and transmitting erroneous information under
> the guise of "documentation," falsifying reports, and altering
> documents.
>
> 71. Upon receiving this second SP Declare, I was shocked and
> terrified because of the blatant lies about me it contained and
> because it signaled that Scientology was going to go all out to
> destroy my reputation, credibility and life. I therefore asked Omar
> Garrison for copies of documents that I believed I would need to
> defend myself legally and to demonstrate that what I had been
> promulgating was true information about Hubbard and Scientology, that
> my reports were not false, and the Hubbard documents were not altered.
> Garrison was himself fearful that Scientology would steal the
> documents I had provided to him for the Hubbard biography, so had
> already copied much of the documentation and stored the duplicate
> documents away from his home. He agreed that I could have whatever
> documents I believed were necessary to defend my wife and me and
> disprove the black PR on me that Scientology was promulgating.
>
> 72. After obtaining the documents from Garrison, I sent them to
> Flynn in Boston and to the law firm of Contos & Bunch in Woodland
> Hills, California, who had also agreed to represent me as Flynn's
> co-counsel. During this period, I also began to write declarations
> concerning my experiences inside Scientology and my knowledge of
> Hubbard's lies and organization fraud and criminality. These
> declarations would be used by civil litigants against Scientology and
> by law enforcement agencies in their investigations of the
> organization. E.g.,
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1982-07-22.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/affi-1982-07-26.html
>
> 73. In August 1982, using the corporation Church of Scientology
> of California ("CSC") as plaintiff, the organization filed a lawsuit
> against me in Los Angeles Superior Court, Case No. C 420153, alleging
> conversion of the biography documents and breach of fiduciary duty.
> Mary Sue Hubbard intervened, alleging conversion and invasion of
>
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>
> privacy. I filed a cross-complaint for fraud, intentional infliction
> of emotional distress, libel, breach of contract, and tortious
> interference with contract. In September, the Court ordered that the
> documents I had obtained from Garrison and sent to my attorneys be
> delivered to the Clerk of the LA Superior Court for keeping during the
> litigation.
>
> 74. From at least July to September 1982, Scientology hired a
> number of private investigators or other agents to spy on, harass,
> threaten and terrorize my wife and me. Acts by organization agents
> during this period include:
>
> - physical assault, by being struck and pushed around;
> - getting in my wife's and my space and face in an intimidating
> manner;
> - coming onto our property;
> - frightening our neighbors;
> - spying on and frightening our law firm co-workers;
> - running into me bodily with a car;
> - terrorizing us on a highway by getting in front of us and slamming
> on the brakes, and then coming alongside and into our lane to push us
> off the road;
> - following us in an intimidating manner wherever we went for days on
> end.
>
> 75. While the civil litigation proceeded, Scientology attempted
> to get the Los Angeles Police Department to bring criminal charges
> against me, falsely claiming that I had stolen the documents, which I
> had provided Garrison pursuant to the contract drafted by Hubbard's
> attorney. Also during this period, beginning soon after I left the SO,
> the organization's intelligence bureau ran an operation to get a
> Scientology operative, a writer named Dan Sherman, to pretend to
> befriend me and get close to me. See, e.g., step15 in the GO
> Intelligence Bureau's "Armstrong Project" dated February 17, 1982:
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/gerry-armstrong-project.html
>
> 76. Not long after the "Armstrong Project" started, Scientology's
> Guardian's Office intelligence functions were taken over by renamed
> organization components Office of Special Affairs ("OSA") and
> Religious Technology Center ("RTC"), and Sherman continued to be
> operated against me by OSA and RTC. He wrote me a number of letters
> and met me on a number of occasions, pretending to be antipathetic to
> organization management and supportive of me and the stand I had taken
> against organization fraud and abuses. He fooled me completely into
> believing he was an actual friend who actually liked me.
>
> 77. In the spring of 1984, a thirty-day bench trial of
> Scientology's and Mrs. Hubbard's complaints took place, presided over
> by LA Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge, Jr. My
> cross-complaint had been severed from the complaints and was not
> tried. On June 20, 1984 Judge Breckenridge issued a Memorandum of
> Intended Decision, which became the Judgment in the case on August 18,
> 1984.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/breckenridge-decision.html
> Judge Breckenridge ruled against Scientology and Mrs. Hubbard, finding
> that I had organization authorization to provide Garrison with the
> documents from Hubbard's
>
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>
> archive, and that I was justified in obtaining documents from Garrison
> and sending them to my attorneys to defend my wife, myself and my
> reputation from fair game.
>
> 78. Judge Breckenridge was highly critical of Scientology for its
> fair game doctrine and of Hubbard for his lying and tyranny.
>
> In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil rights, the
> organization over the years with its "Fair Game" doctrine has harassed
> and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as
> enemies. The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and
> this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH.
> The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar
> when it comes to his history, background, and achievements. The
> writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism,
> greed, avarice, lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness
> against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile.
>
> 79. Judge Breckenridge condemned the organization's practice of
> "culling" Scientologists' supposedly confidential "auditing files."
>
> [Mrs. Hubbard] was the head of the Guardian Office for years and among
> other things, authored the infamous order "GO 121669" which directed
> culling of supposedly confidential P.C. files/folders for purposes of
> internal security.
> [...]
> The Douglasses and Dincalcises were disaffected Scientologists who had
> a concern for their own safety and mental security, and were much in
> the same situation as defendant. They had not been declared as
> suppressive, but Scientology had their P.C. folders, as well as other
> confessions, and they were extremely apprehensive.
> [...]
> The court is satisfied that [Defendant Armstrong] did not unreasonably
> intrude upon Mrs. Hubbard's privacy under the circumstances by in
> effect simply making his knowledge that of his attorneys. It is, of
> course, rather ironic that the person who authorized G.O. order 121669
> should complain about an invasion of privacy. The practice of culling
> supposedly confidential "P.C. folders or files" to obtain information
> for purposes of intimidation and or harassment is repugnant and
> outrageous. The Guardian's Office, which plaintiff headed, was no
> respector of anyone's civil rights, particularly that of privacy.
>
> 80. Judge Breckenridge also commented on the activities of the
> individuals Scientology had hired to harass my wife and me, and on the
> organization's effort to prevent one of my witnesses from testifying.
>
> After the within suit was filed on August 2, 1982, Defendant Armstrong
> was the subject of harassment, including being followed and surveilled
> by individuals who admitted employment by Plaintiff; being assaulted
> by one of these individuals; being struck bodily by a car driven by
> one of these
>
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>
> individuals; having two attempts made by said individuals apparently
> to involve Defendant Armstrong in a freeway automobile accident;
> having said individuals come onto Defendant Armstrong's property, spy
> in his windows, create disturbances, and upset his neighbors. During
> trial when it appeared that Howard Schomer (a former Scientologist)
> might be called as a defense witness, the Church engaged in a somewhat
> sophisticated effort to suppress his testimony. It is not clear how
> the Church became aware of defense intentions to call Mr. Schomer as a
> witness, but it is abundantly clear they sought to entice him back
> into the fold and prevent his testimony.
>
> 81. Judge Breckenridge ruled that my attorneys and I were "free
> to speak or communicate upon any of [my] recollections of [my] life as
> a Scientologist or the contents of any exhibit received in evidence or
> marked for identification." And concerning the documents held by the
> Court Clerk, the Judge ruled:
>
> As to the equitable actions, the court finds that neither plaintiff
> has clean hands, and that at least as of this time, are not entitled
> to the immediate return of any document or objects previously retained
> by the court clerk. All exhibits received in evidence or marked for
> identification, unless specifically ordered sealed, are matters of
> public record and shall be available for public inspection or use to
> the same extent that any exhibit would be available in any other
> lawsuit.
> ...
> All other documents or objects presently in the possession of the
> clerk [ ] shall be retained by the clerk, subject to the same orders
> as are presently in effect as to sealing and inspection, until such
> time as trial court proceedings are concluded as to the severed cross
> complaint.
>
> 82. Within a day of Judge Breckenridge's decision, Joyce and I
> flew to the United Kingdom where I testified in a child custody case
> trial involving Scientology, Re: B & G (Wards) in the High Court in
> London. In a lengthy judgment issued July 23, 1984, Mr. Justice Latey
> censured Hubbard's lying, and a number of Scientology policies and
> practices including teaching people to lie, intelligence operations,
> punishment and persecution, the Suppressive Person doctrine,
> disconnection, fair game, and use of the law to harass. Justice Latey
> quoted Hubbard's directive that provides the organization's
> litigation strategy:
>
> "Level "O" Checksheet by L. Ron Hubbard":
>
> "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 authorised, will
> generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If
> possible, of course, ruin him utterly."
>
> Some of the Scientology jargon in its own documents, which I have been
> citing may not be clear to someone who has not had to undergo the task
> of having them explained over the weeks. But their meaning is clear
> and they
>
> 24
>
> show out of the cult's own mouth the frightening, disgraceful and
> illegal lengths to which it is prepared to go and does go.
> http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/latey.html#7a
>
> 83. While Joyce and I were in the UK, Scientology agents
> surveilled us, made a hang-up call to our hotel, followed us, and
> generally terrified us. Three Scientology agents harassed us at the
> airport when we were flying back to the U.S., falsely accusing me of
> passing "sealed documents" to a bearded Arab in a London tavern. I
> wrote a declaration detailing this harassment upon arrival back in the
> U.S.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/decl-1984-07-01.html
> Some time later, Scientology produced declarations from two hired
> private investigators falsely swearing that they had observed me pass
> documents to a bearded Arab as the organization's agents falsely
> stated to Joyce and me at the London airport.
>
> 84. Throughout my LA Superior Court trial, Scientology operative
> Dan Sherman continued on his intelligence program, continued to
> profess his friendship, and was able to insinuate himself into the
> group of people opposed to organization abuses who attended the trial.
> Sherman met with Flynn and me, claiming to be disaffected with the
> organization, and told us that he was in communication with a group of
> Scientologists within the organization who were also opposed to the
> abuses and criminality of "management," wanted to reform the
> organization, and respected what we were doing in exposing the abuses.
> Sherman said that the core group, which numbered about thirty-five
> individuals, called themselves the "Loyalists," because they were
> "loyal" to what was good and honest in Scientology.
>
> 85. After the trial ended, but before Joyce and I flew to the UK,
> one of the "Loyalists," who identified himself as "Joey," and who I
> later learned was a David Kluge, phoned and asked if I wanted to get
> my auditing files. Scientology's leaders knew I wanted these files
> because I was attempting to get them in discovery, and my ex-wife
> Terri had reported that I wanted them in a debrief she wrote after a
> meeting we had in March that year.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/gamboa-debrief-1984-03-12.html
> I declined Kluge's offer because, even though the files were my
> property, my obtaining them could be construed as accepting stolen
> property, and because I was due to fly to the UK the same day the
> "Loyalists" said my files would be available. From what I now know, I
> have no doubt that this op was designed to entrap me in the commission
> of a crime.
>
> 86. After I returned to the U.S., Sherman and Kluge reestablished
> contact with me, and we met a number of times over the next five
> months. In late July 1984, Scientology commenced a media and legal
> attack on Michael Flynn falsely accusing him of masterminding a plot
> to cash a forged check for $2,000,000.00 on one of Hubbard's bank
> accounts. Sherman and Kluge communicated that the "Loyalists" knew
> that it was a frame-up and that organization leaders were behind it,
> and the "Loyalists" were working to prove it was a frame-up. I was
> certain Flynn was innocent, and of course he was my
>
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>
> attorney and friend, so I was grateful for the "Loyalists'" help in
> clearing his name, and I was willing to help them as I could.
>
> 87. Over the next few months, the "Loyalists" sent me a number of
> messages via Sherman relating to the Flynn frame-up, including what
> they claimed was documentary evidence to be passed on to Flynn and the
> Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston who was investigating the case.
> Because of their claimed fear of being discovered by organization
> leaders and murdered, I met with "Loyalists" Kluge and Mike Rinder in
> "secret" prearranged locations in Griffith Park and a Los Angeles
> area cemetery. Kluge also took me to a meeting with a woman he
> identified as "Rene," a "rich Scientologist who had been abused by the
> organization and who might back the "Loyalists" financially," and a
> meeting with an "attorney" "named" "Thomas Janeway." Kluge also
> attempted to get me to fly to Las Vegas to meet another "financial
> backer," but on my attorney's advice because of the risk I didn't make
> the trip. Knowing what I now know, there is no doubt that each of
> these meetings was recorded, and was set up to entrap me.
>
> 88. During this period, agents of the FBI who were involved in an
> investigation of the organization contacted me, and I met with them
> and discussed my Scientology experiences and knowledge. Justice
> Department attorneys who were litigating Scientology-related cases
> contacted me, and I communicated with them and provided them with
> declarations concerning my experiences and knowledge. Officers in the
> Ontario Provincial Police and the Clearwater, Florida Police
> Department who were investigating Scientology also contacted me, and I
> provided them with testimony about Hubbard, the organization and my
> experiences.
>
> 89. A short time after my LA trial, agents in the Criminal
> Investigation Division of the IRS in Los Angeles contacted me, and I
> met with them and provided them with whatever information I had
> concerning Hubbard and Scientology. The IRS obtained access to certain
> documents and audio recordings of MCCS legal strategy meetings that
> the Court Clerk had retained in my case, and which became the subject
> of the series of cases entitled U.S. v. Zolin. E.g.,
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/us-v-zolin-us-sup-1989-06-21.htm
l
> See also,
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/other-scientology-litigation.htm
l
>
> 90. I naturally informed the IRS CID agents with whom I
> communicated about the "Loyalists" and about their activities, plans
> and fears as Sherman, Kluge and Rinder expressed them to me. The CID
> agents indicated that they wanted the "Loyalists" to contact them, and
> that the CID would protect them, even by getting them into a witness
> protection program. I conveyed the CID's communications to the
> "Loyalists" via Sherman and Kluge, and also gave them the contact
> information for a Justice Department attorney involved in federal
> Scientology-related litigation.
>
> 91. On November 8, 1984, immediately following a Griffith Park
> meeting with Sherman, and during a meeting with the CID in the LA
> Federal Building, my car, which I had parked in an underground parking
> garage nearby, was broken into and a briefcase
>
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>
> containing original, irreplaceable writings and artwork and other
> documents was stolen from my locked trunk. My attorney Julia
> Dragojevic wrote to Scientology lawyer John Peterson demanding return
> of my property.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/dragojevik-ltr-1984-11-09.htm
l
> A few days later I made a report of the theft to the LAPD.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/police/pol-rpt-1984-11-8-prelim.
html
>
> 92. On November 30, Peterson wrote to Ms. Dragojevic asserting
> that Scientology had no knowledge of the theft and suggesting that the
> FBI or the IRS were responsible.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/peterson-ltr-1984-11-30.html
> In 1991 and 1992, Vicki Aznaran, who had been a high organization
> executive working closely with David Miscavige, and who had left in
> 1987, told me that Miscavige had admitted to her that he possessed the
> materials stolen from my car, and described them to her as "weird
> poetry." In a number of conversations between 1998 and 2001, Jesse
> Prince, another former high Scientology executive who had worked
> closely with organization leader Miscavige, also told me that
> Miscavige bragged to him about possessing the materials stolen from my
> car, and described them similarly as "weird writing" and "letters to
> Hubbard."
>
> 93. In 1985, I filed a California Public Records Act request
> seeking records that the LAPD possessed concerning me, including
> concerning the November 8, 1984 theft of my briefcase, documents and
> art. From subsequent correspondence with the LA City Attorney's
> office, and from a study of what was and was not found in the LAPD's
> files concerning the theft, I have formed a belief that the LAPD's
> records were altered and/or destroyed in order to prevent an
> investigation of this crime. See, e.g.,
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/police/ga-ltr-boeckman-1985-12-1
9.html
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/police/boeckman-ltr-1986-03-10.h
tml
>
> 94. During the "Loyalist Op," Sherman told me that Scientology's
> leaders had hired as their top private investigator Eugene Ingram, who
> had been a sergeant in the LAPD's vice squad, and who reportedly had
> been fired for, among other crimes, pimping and aiding drug dealers.
> Sherman told me that the Loyalists said that the organization had
> hired Ingram because he still had a lot of friends on the LAPD who
> owed him favors. I knew that Ingram was involved in the Scientology
> operation to frame Flynn with the forgery of the $2,000,000 check, and
> I telephoned his office once to advise him he was framing the wrong
> man. I didn't get Ingram when I called, but he called me back and
> threatened that he was going to put a bullet between my eyes. I
> believe that Ingram is an unscrupulous and criminal individual and
> that, as he threatened, he would murder if he thought he would get
> away with the crime.
>
> 95. At one point, the "Loyalists," via Kluge and Sherman, asked
> for my help with a lawsuit by which they said they wanted to legally
> and safely take control of the organization from the leaders whom they
> identified as "criminals." At my request, Flynn drafted a "bare bones"
> complaint for the "Loyalists," which I gave to them and discussed
> with Sherman and Kluge. Because both of them claimed that they knew
> little about legal matters, a pair of meetings to discuss the
> complaint were set up on November 17 and 30,
>
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>
> 1984 in Griffith Park in LA with the person they said was the
> "Loyalists'" legal expert. This turned out to be Michael Rinder, whom
> I had known on the "Apollo" in the SO. At our meetings, Rinder also
> appeared to have little understanding of the complaint or the
> legal concepts involved, and our conversations were frustrating. Now I
> know that his lack of understanding was faked as part of the
> Scientology intelligence op he was being run on to entrap me.
>
> 96. While Scientology's leaders ran their "Loyalist" intelligence
> op, they continued a global public black PR campaign against me. See,
> e.g., OSA International Executive Directive No. 19, dated September
> 20, 1984, entitled "Squirrels," the "routing" on which shows it was to
> be posted on every Scientology organization notice board and
> distributed to every Scientologist. "Squirrels," according to
> Scientology teachings, are "Suppressive Persons" whom the organization
> claims are engaging in "weird practices," or "altering Scientology,"
> and who are hated and vilified by organization Scientologists. The
> black PR language Scientology uses in this document to attack me and
> the other five named individuals, is disgusting and shocking.
>
> Their actions are destructive and aimed at the enslavement rather than
> the freedom of man[...]
> [They] have attempted to taint government with their false
> reports[...]
> [They] have offered false testimony to the IRS in order to protect
> their [crimes] against mankind[...]
> [They] have misrepresented Scientology practices to the FBI or Justice
> Department in a futile attempt to taint the minds of the government
> and the courts against the Church of Scientology[...]
> [T]heir continued desire to drag others to the level of beasts and
> animals devoid of spiritual qualities places them in the psychiatric
> camp of those who manufacture madness for profit.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/osa-int-ed-19-squirrels.html
>
> 97. Also during this period, Joyce concluded that she could no
> longer bear the constant threat from Scientology that we had
> experienced virtually every day since leaving the organization. I saw,
> however, that I could not escape the conflict, that the threat would
> be present whatever I did or wherever I went, and that I had a
> responsibility to continue to oppose the organization and hopefully
> bring it to end its abusing and fair gaming of people. As a result,
> Joyce and I decided to separate, so that I could carry on the battle
> and she would be to some extent free of the threat she felt while
> living with me. In December 1984, I moved out of our Costa Mesa
> apartment, and traveled to my family's home in British Columbia for
> the holidays. Before I left, Kluge called me and told me that the
> "Loyalists" wanted action not words, that I had said something wrong,
> and they no longer trusted me.
>
> 98. After returning from B.C. in early 1985, I stayed with
> friends in southern California for some weeks, then traveled to
> Portland, Oregon to testify on behalf of the plaintiff in the trial of
> Julie Christofferson-Titchbourne v. Scientology, Multnomah County
> Circuit Court No. 7704-05184. During my cross-examination, Scientology
> attorney Earle C. Cooley revealed that Ingram had videotaped and audio
> taped my
>
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>
> meetings with Kluge and Rinder for the organization. Scientology
> lawyer Peterson claimed that the taping operation had been authorized
> by the Los Angeles Police Department, and the organization produced
> three letters dated November 7, 13 and 28 1984 signed by an LAPD
> officer Phillip Rodriguez, directing Ingram to electronically
> eavesdrop on me, Flynn and others.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/police/rodriguez-auth-1984-11-07
.html
>
> 99. On April 23, 1985, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates
> issued a public statement completely repudiating Scientology's claim
> that the LAPD had authorized Ingram's eavesdropping and declaring the
> Rodriguez "authorizations" invalid.
>
> It has come to my attention that a member of the L. A. P. D. very
> foolishly, without proper authorization and contrary to the policy of
> this Department, signed a letter to Eugene M. Ingram, believed to have
> been drafted by Ingram himself. The letter purports to authorize
> Ingram to engage in electronic eavesdropping. The letter, along with
> all the purported authorization, is invalid and is NOT a
> correspondence from the Los Angeles Police Department.
> The Los Angeles Police Department has not cooperated with Eugene
> Ingram. It will be a cold day in hell when we do.
> I have directed an official letter to Ingram informing him that the
> letter signed by Officer Phillip Rodriguez dated November 7, 1984, and
> all other letters of purported authorizations directed to him, signed
> by any member of the Los Angeles Police Department, are invalid and
> unauthorized. Internal Affairs Division is now investigating the
> entire incident.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/images/gates-announcement.gif
>
> 100. Scientology sought to have the videotapes of the meetings
> with Kluge and Rinder admitted into evidence in the Christofferson
> trial, and the presiding Judge Donald F. Londer initially refused,
> ruling that the organization had made them illegally. After viewing
> the tapes in chambers, however, he stated that "the tapes are
> devastating, very devastating to the church," and for that reason
> admitted them into evidence. Despite Chief Gates' denouncement of
> Ingram, Rodriguez and their eavesdropping "authorizations," and
> despite Judge Londer's ruling that the tapes were illegal, and his
> comment that they were devastating to Scientology, the organization
> immediately commenced a black PR campaign against me concerning the
> videotapes that continues to this day.
>
> 101. Even while the Christofferson trial proceeded, Scientology
> published and disseminated internationally an edition of its black
> propaganda magazine ""Freedom"" containing a mendacious and perverse
> account of their "Loyalist" operation.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/freedom-1985-04-1.html
> The tapes were terribly embarrassing to me because I curse and make
> some bawdy jokes while being covertly videotaped. The tapes were also
> psychologically devastating to me because of the betrayal, entrapment
> and hatred by Sherman, Kluge, Rinder, Miscavige and Scientology that
> they represent to me. The tapes do not, however, contain or show
>
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> what the organization and its agents have for more than eighteen years
> claimed they contain and show.
>
> 102. Because of Scientology's unceasing lying about its
> "Loyalist" operation, including lies by organization leader Miscavige
> in a sworn declaration, I have detailed what actually happened in
> several declarations since 1985. See, e.g., two declarations I
> wrote in response to Miscavige and Scientology lies that were filed in
> the case of Scientology v. Fishman & Geertz, USDC for the Central
> District of California, Case No. CV 91-6425 HLH(Tx).
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-22.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-20.html
>
> The tapes show that in the fall of 1984, during the reign of the
> organization's present supreme leader [Miscavige], the fair game
> doctrine was alive and as unfair as ever. The tapes show a
> mean-spirited, mendacious and malevolent organization using
> well-drilled operatives and electronic gadgetry to attempt,
> unsuccessfully, to set up an unwitting, funny, sometimes silly,
> clearly helpful, at times foul-mouthed, but otherwise ordinary human
> male.
>
> 103. Immediately following Scientology's disclosure of the
> videotapes in the Christofferson trial, the organization used staff
> members Kenneth Hoden, Kathleen Gorgon, Heber Jentzsch and David
> Butterworth and its attorney John Peterson to attempt to get the LA
> District Attorney to prosecute Flynn, LAPD Chief Gates, two IRS CID
> agents and me on various false criminal charges trumped up out of the
> "Loyalist" op. This effort to have us prosecuted for Scientology's own
> illegal actions, with organization personnel delivering voluminous
> materials ("data on the background of Jerry Armstrong") to the office
> of the DA, and meeting and telephoning several times with DA
> staff, continued until at least April 1986. At that time, the DA wrote
> a lengthy letter rejecting each Scientology charge, criticizing the
> organization's refusal to divulge requested necessary information, and
> concluding that "there is no evidence in support of the allegations of
> criminal conduct."
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/d-atty-ltr-to-hoden-1986.html
>
> 104. Hubbard provided Scientology's philosophy and policy
> underlying the organization's continuing conspiracy to have me
> prosecuted on false criminal charges in a very central directive
> entitled "The Scientologist - A Manual on the Dissemination of
> Material," originally published in 1955, and republished several times
> since.
>
> The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything
> is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every
> battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal
> conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN
> CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN. And the
> public, seeing that you won, will then have a communication line to
> the effect that Scientologists WIN. Don't ever let them have any other
> thought than that Scientology takes all of its objectives.
>
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> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/dissem-of-material-1976.html
>
> 105. In the same directive, Hubbard laid out the other key part
> of Scientology's legal/litigation strategy.
>
> 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, will generally be sufficient to cause his
> professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.
>
> Employing the courts and law enforcement agencies to do Scientology's
> "much more charging" on its manufactured evidence, and using the law
> to harass and ruin people utterly, are, of course, unlawful uses of
> the law and justice system.
>
> 106. In addition to making countless false statements about what
> the illegally made videotapes show or contain, Scientology also
> altered the tapes, at a minimum deleting audio sections where the
> organization's agents acknowledge and discuss its criminal
> activities. Scientology also created at least one radically edited
> videotape version of my meetings with Kluge and Rinder that uses
> certain of my statements out of order and out of context, and adds a
> Scientologist narrator to create a false and perverse picture of what
> was occurring. A number of people have told me that the organization
> ordered Scientologists to attend showings of edited versions of the
> videotapes at various Scientology locations internationally, and then
> "regged" (used high pressure sales techniques on) each of the
> attendees for $2000 for the organization's International
> Membership Unit's "war chest." I was told that Scientology's "target"
> for this "reg cycle" was 25,000 Scientologists, or $50,000,000. See,
> e.g., this announcement of the videotape playing that was posted
> inside and around the Scientology complex in LA and distributed to
> Scientologists in or about May 1985.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/ias-flyer-1985-04.html
>
> 107. In September 1985, I moved to Boston to work as a paralegal
> in Michael Flynn's law office. In October, Scientology had one of its
> personnel file a criminal complaint with the FBI falsely accusing me
> of impersonating a Bureau agent. Scientology lawyer Roger Geller also
> participated in the impersonation frame-up, calling and repeatedly
> writing the FBI to pressure them to prosecute me.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/fbi/index.html
> Scientology lawyer Peterson used the Boston Scientologist's false
> complaint, and made the same false impersonation charge, and a false
> and execrable charge that I was conspiring "to destroy a religion," to
> bolster the organization's continuing pressure on the LA DA to charge
> me in the videotape frame-up.
>
> I am sending you with this letter an affidavit from a Boston Church of
> Scientology staff member who was interrupted and harassed by Gerald
> Armstrong on Sunday, October 13, 1985. Armstrong impersonated an FBI
> officer during this encounter. A complaint has been lodged with the
> Boston FBI office and is being followed up by that office right now.
> You will recall from our complaint that Armstrong has sought the
> shelter of more than one government agency in the midst of his
> conspiracy to
>
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> destroy a religion. He is a) continuing to do that; b) continuing his
> pattern of harassment against the Church of Scientology.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/fbi/peterson-ltr-1985-10-24.html
>
>
> 108. The period I was in Boston and working at the Flynn law
> firm, until December 1986, I felt constantly under attack and
> threatened by Scientology. Organization agents surveilled, followed
> and photographed me, staked out and photographed my residence,
> and frightened my housemates. Scientology continued its global black
> PR campaign against me, including the "papering" of Boston with issues
> of the organization's ""Freedom"" magazine.
> See, e.g.,
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/freedom-1986-02-special-4.html
>
> 109. The litigation of my cross-complaint continued in LA, and
> was made very unpleasant and troubling by the organization's dishonest
> and abusive litigation tactics. Scientology is in fact globally
> infamous for such practices, including obstruction, refusal
> to comply with court ordered discovery, and destruction of evidence.
> See, e.g.,
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-ideman1993-06-21.html
> At one point, for no reason but vindictiveness, the organization
> culled statements from my "confidential" "priest-penitent privileged"
> auditing files, gave them to lawyers and filed them in court. The
> culled statements concerned embarrassing incidents from my
> past, my sexual history, and indiscretions from my youth, plus
> "incidents" that never happened but which Scientology manufactured for
> black PR purposes.
>
> 110. I had by this time come to see this Scientology practice of
> obtaining a person's "confessions" in auditing by creating a
> relationship of "trust" and promising confidentiality, and then using
> those "confessions" against him, as the most despicable of
> the organization's many abhorrent activities. The organization's
> culling of my auditing file, and dissemination of my "confessions" and
> invented "crimes," was an emotional nightmare for me. Two years later,
> Vicki Aznaran revealed that when my auditing files were ordered
> produced in discovery in my case she had been ordered to remove and
> destroy anything that would have helped me or been damaging to
> Scientology.
>
> During litigation between Gerald Armstrong and Scientology, which was
> before Judge Breckenridge of Superior Court for Los Angeles County,
> the court ordered the production of Armstrong's pre-clear ("PC")
> folders. These are files maintained by Scientology on those who
> submit to interrogation sessions in a process called auditing. During
> the course of that litigation I was ordered to go through Armstrong's
> folders and destroy or conceal anything that might be damaging to
> Scientology or helpful to Armstrong's case. As ordered, I went through
> the files and destroyed contents that might support Armstrong's claims
> against Scientology. This practice is known within Scientology as
> "culling PC folders" and is a common litigation tactic employed by
> Scientology.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/aznaran/decl-aznaran-1988-08-09.
html
>
> 111. In addition to framing Flynn with the $2,000,000 check
> forgery, procuring the phony "authorization" to wiretap him from
> corrupt LAPD officer Rodriguez, and
>
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> attempting to have Flynn prosecuted by the LA DA on false charges,
> which fair game actions are mentioned above, Scientology subjected
> Flynn to years of other legal and extralegal attacks and threats and a
> relentless global black PR campaign.
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/scientology-fair-games-flynn.html
> The organization knowingly procured false sworn statements accusing
> Flynn of a multitude of crimes from infamous criminals, including a
> man imprisoned for murder. The organization filed these false sworn
> statements in numerous legal proceedings including my own.
> Organization agents toured U.S. cities holding press conferences to
> black PR Flynn with the procured false sworn statements and their own
> false charges.
>
> 112. Scientology sued Flynn and his co-counsel some thirteen
> times, and filed numerous false bar complaints against him.
> Organization agents surveilled, followed and photographed him in
> Boston and when he traveled, and infiltrated his office by pretending
> to be abused and disaffected ex-Scientologists seeking legal help. The
> organization harassed and terrified his family and severely disrupted
> their lives, and harassed his associates and former clients. Flynn
> sued Scientology, Hubbard and Ingram and described organization fair
> game actions against him in numerous public statements
> and sworn declarations. See, e.g.,
>
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/flynn/affi-flynn-1984-08-10.html
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/flynn/decl-flynn-1985-04.html
>
> 113. Flynn was for several years a principal guiding spirit and
> driving force in the legal battle against Scientology in the U.S., and
> even internationally, and was involved as attorney of record or of
> counsel on behalf of more than twenty claimants against the
> organization. During the time he represented me or I worked in his
> office, he had settled a number of individual Scientology cases, and
> on various occasions had had discussions with organization lawyers
> concerning the possible settlement of all the Scientology-related
> cases in which he was involved. In the fall of 1986, Flynn informed
> his clients in those cases, including me, that he had reached an
> agreement with Scientology for a global settlement, and he and I
> agreed on a monetary figure to settle my case.
>
> 114. My cross-complaint was then set for trial in early 1987, and
> all the organization fraud, internal abuse and external fair game that
> would come out in a public trial in Los Angeles was certainly a
> motivating factor in Scientology's desire to settle with Flynn and
> all his clients, many of whom would be witnesses for me. He
> communicated that Scientology's leaders said they wanted peace, and
> that they had promised that if a global settlement happened they would
> end fair game forever. I was happy to settle my case and end the war
> with Scientology, because it meant, I believed, that there would be no
> lengthy appellate process, and that I would be able to live in peace.
> By this time too, much of my potential testimony was already publicly
> available in trial or deposition transcripts, or in the many
> declarations I had written since leaving the organization, so I
> felt that with Scientology's promise to end fair game I had fulfilled
> my responsibility to the organization's victims and had earned the
> peace promised.
>
> 115. I had testified about fifty days in trial or deposition in
> perhaps ten cases, Scientology's lawyers usually conducted abusive,
> threatening examinations, and the end
>
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> of fair game, I believed, would also end my involvement as a
> knowledgeable witness to organization fraud, abuse and fair game. In
> my observation, Scientology used depositions for intelligence
> gathering and for harassment, and one of the results was to
> cause friends and associates of an organization litigation target to
> disassociate from and stop supporting him. In fact, partly in response
> to Scientology's use of the law to invade, threaten and destroy
> relationships, earlier in 1986 I had founded a church, one of the
> purposes and functions of which was to protect the relationships of
> the organization's victims.
>
> 116. I have written about the circumstances at the time of the
> "settlement" in many declarations, and have waived the attorney-client
> privilege between Flynn and me as to our conversations concerning the
> "settlement." See, e.g.,
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1997-01-26.html
> 12:18-18:14.
> I was aware of Scientology's "settlement contracts" by which the
> organization sought to prevent its litigation opponents and even its
> own members from disclosing their knowledge of its activities, and I
> had signed such documents while inside the organization. See, e.g.,
> this "non-disclosure and release bond" that I was required to sign
> while on the RPF in Clearwater in 1977, and which at my 1984 trial was
> ruled to be unenforceable.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/non-dsclsre-rls-bond.html
>
> 117. During the period when Flynn was involved in settlement
> negotiations with Scientology's lawyers, I had spoken and written
> memos to him stating that I would not be bound by such a
> non-disclosure clause. I was willing to not contact the wog media
> about Scientology because an ending of media involvement would help
> facilitate the organization's cessation of fair game; in fact I was
> glad to not have to respond with media interviews, as I often found
> them stressful or silly. Since leaving the organization, I had given
> interviews to several newspapers; major news magazines such as Time,
> Newsweek, People and Forbes; and television news programs such as
> 20/20, 60 Minutes and the CBC's 5th Estate; and I had given in-depth
> interviews over a number of days to three different authors writing
> books about Hubbard and Scientology. Having for years made all my
> Scientology experiences and knowledge available to the media, I was
> willing to voluntarily stop being available; but I was unwilling to be
> compelled by "contract" to not discuss my organization knowledge and
> experiences with anyone because such silence would be nonsensical and
> impossible.
>
> 118. I was not shown the "contract" Scientology wanted me to sign
> until after I had flown from Boston to LA where Flynn had been
> arranging the global "settlement" with organization lawyers, and upon
> reading the document I was shocked and sickened.
> http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/a1/mutual-release-1986.html
> The "contract's" language prohibiting any discussion of my experiences
> or knowledge of Scientology, prohibiting any assistance to the
> organization's adversaries including governmental agencies, punishing
> me with a $50,000 "liquidated damages" penalty per utterance, and
> requiring that I avoid service of subpoenas, was far worse, and more
> ludicrous, cruel and impossible than I had ever imagined. See, e.g.:
>
> [Para. 7D] Plaintiff [Armstrong] further agrees that he will maintain
> strict confidentiality and silence with respect to his experiences
> with the Church
>
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> of Scientology and any knowledge or information he may have concerning
> the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, or any of the
> organizations, individuals and entities listed in Paragraph 1 above.
> Plaintiff expressly understands that the non-disclosure provisions of
> this subparagraph shall apply, inter alia, but not be limited, to the
> contents or substance of his complaint on file in the action referred
> to in Paragraph 1 hereinabove or any documents as defined in Appendix
> "A" to this Agreement, including but not limited to any tapes, films,
> photographs, recastings, variations or copies of any such materials
> which concern or relate to the religion of Scientology, L. Ron
> Hubbard, or any of the organizations, individuals, or entities listed
> in Paragraph 1 above. [ ] Plaintiff agrees that if the terms of this
> paragraph are breached by him, that CSI and the other Releasees
> would be entitled to liquidated damages in the amount of $50,000 for
> each such breach. All monies received to induce or in payment for a
> breach of this Agreement, or any part thereof, shall be held in a
> constructive trust pending the outcome of any litigation over said
> breach. The amount of liquidated damages herein is an estimate of the
> damages that each party would suffer in the event this Agreement is
> breached. The reasonableness of the amount of such damages, are hereto
> acknowledged by Plaintiff.
>
> [Para. 7G] Plaintiff agrees that he will not voluntarily assist or
> cooperate with any person adverse to Scientology in any proceeding
> against any of the Scientology organizations, individuals, or entities
> lis