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DECLARATION OF GERALD ARMSTRONG I, Gerald Armstrong, declare: 1. I am over 18 years of age and a resident of the State of California. I have personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein and if called upon to testify thereto I competently would. 2. I am making this declaration in response to certain statements, principally those concerning me, made by David Miscavige in his declaration executed February 8, 1994, and filed in the case of Scientology v. Fishman & Geertz, United States District Court for the Central District of California, Case No. CV 91-6425 HLH(Tx). 3. Mr. Miscavige states that I am a proven liar because he has found a discrepancy between a finding of Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. in his decision rendered June 20, 1984 in the case of Scientology v. Armstrong, Los Angeles Superior Court No. C 420153 (Armstrong I), and a statement allegedly made by me and secretly recorded by Mr. Miscavige's covert intelligence operatives in the fall of 1984. (Miscavige dec. p. 31, l. 22 - p. 32, l. 5). Mr. Miscavige is employing one of Scientology's confusion techniques the organization's founder L. Ron Hubbard dubbed "dropped out time." Mr. Miscavige's incidents, which he has linked for purposes of confusion, are years apart. 4. In this civilization fear is generally accepted to be an emotion or state of mind which can either be present or not present, or perhaps present in degrees. It is fairly well accepted that a not abnormal person can be afraid one |
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day, when, for example there are a couple of unidentified men at four a.m. outside the person's bedroom window where no men ought to be at four a.m., and not afraid on another day, when the person is, for example, watching the Dodgers beat the Giants. That the person claimed to be afraid at four a.m. Sunday and not afraid at the Wednesday ballgame does not make that person a proven liar. In my case there were more than two years between one time when I was afraid and the next occasion when Mr. Miscavige says I said I was not afraid. 5. In his decision, a true and correct copy of which is appended hereto as Exhibit [A] , Judge Breckenridge states:
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6. It is clear that Judge Breckenridge in his statements about my fear of organization legal and extra- legal attacks is referring to my state of mind in the period between the organization's publication of its "Suppressive Person Declares" on me in early 1982 and its filing of Armstrong I in August, 1982. This fear was not irrational or unfounded as the organization itself proved when it harassed my wife and me as Judge Breckenridge found, and did file harassing and costly lawsuits against me. All of these harassing and criminal acts were carried out during Mr. |
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Miscavige's control of such activities, which he claims to have wrested from the Guardian's Office, which, itself, just as he himself, according to Mr. Miscavige, "used unscrupulous means to deal with people they perceived as enemies of the Church." (Miscavige dec. p. 17, l. 17). 7. Mr. Miscavige's new Guardian's Office, the Office of Special Affairs, did not end its criminal and abusive tactics with the incidents listed by Judge Breckenridge, but has added ten more years of "fair game" attacks since the 1984 decision, including, but not limited to:
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8. The videotapes from which Mr. Miscavige claims to quote were made in November, 1984. In order to provide a context for how I came to be involved with his operatives who set up the videotaping and to clarify the words of both the operatives and myself which were recorded, and a few of which Mr. Miscavige claims to quote, I am appending hereto as Exhibit [B] a copy of a declaration/screenplay outline I have just completed and called "Find a Better Basket." 9. When I state on the 1984 videotape that I am not afraid, I am answering one of the operatives' questions or challenges which he has been drilled to state. In responding the way I did I am honestly communicating one of the changes I had perceived in my psyche over the almost three years since I left the organization. Because the organization teaches its members to put their faith in what cannot protect them; e.g., data, wins, attacks, hatred, disconnection, leverage, lawsuits, private investigators, fair game, L. Ron Hubbard or David Miscavige; it leaves them with a seemingly irreducible fear. Those who put their faith in God, Wherein lies perfect protection, give up their
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fear. There will still be times when fear will arise, but the reestablishing of faith in God will every time cause that fear to disappear into the nothing it is. I was beginning to learn that wisdom by the time of the 1984 videotaping. In fact it was that learning which seemed to move me to associate with the operatives who only sought my destruction. I have stated many times that I have an undeniable concern that before it comes to its senses or saner minds prevail in the organization its power structure headed by Mr. Miscavige will have me assassinated or do something else diabolical and dangerous, and this has produced in me an awareness of threat and is a fact of my present psychological condition. The power structure is quite capable of violent and criminal acts, or of purchasing such acts. The power structure is armed, and its head PI Eugene M. Ingram has threatened to kill me. The power structure makes a religion of terrifying countless vulnerable and innocent people who do not have my certainty and do not have my skills to fight the organization's tyranny. For these reasons I oppose its tyranny and its suppressive doctrines and practices. Mr. Miscavige should not be pointing out imagined inconsistencies in whether one of his victims in one year or another was afraid or not of his vicious organization, but should be eliminating all of its viciousness so that no one ever again is made afraid by it. 10. Mr. Miscavige calls the videotaping of me "a police-sanctioned investigation." (Miscavige Dec. p. 31, l. |
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28) This is a lie Mr. Miscavige must tell as if his life depends on it. I provided the truth in "Find a Better Basket."
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A copy of Officer Rodriguez's "authorization" is appended hereto as Exhibit [C], and a copy of Chief Gates' public announcement is appended hereto as Exhibit [D]. 11. Mr. Miscavige claims that his illegal videotapes of me capture me acknowledging my real motives, to overthrow his organization's leadership and gain control of it. (Miscavige Dec. p. 32, l.1 - l.3) This is absurd. His own people, operated by him, came to me with their idea, approved by him, as outlined in "Better Basket," of wresting control of the organization from what they called the " criminals" running it. I have never had a desire control the Scientology organization or Scientology, although I recognize that its leaders should be restrained from further abuse of anyone. My real motive in my day-to-day relationship with its leaders is to get it out of the litigation business and get it to cease its assault on the justice system, its abuse of innocence and its threatening of me, my friends and people of good will everywhere. I know David Miscavige personally. I know him to be a bully, a liar and a perfect replacement for L. Ron Hubbard at the controls of his empire. I also know that God is in him as He is in everyone else and that bullying and lying are just mad and useless efforts to fight that fact. 12. Mr. Miscavige states that I advise one of his |
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covert operatives to accuse the organization of various criminal acts and when I am told that no evidence exists to support those charges I respond to "just allege it." (Miscavige Dec. p. 32, l. 5 - l. 8) "Better Basket" describes something of the context in which I make a statement differentiating between "allegations" and "proof." The operative I'm talking to is Mike Rinder. Before this meeting I had already, on request of the "Loyalists," provided them with a "bare bones" draft of a complaint. Complaints contain allegations. Complaints do not contain proof. Rinder, who had been represented to me as the Loyalists' " best legal mind" couldn't seem to get the distinction between allegations and proof in the complaint, and I was frustrated in our conversation because he seemed so dense. Now, of course, his denseness is fully understandable. He had to appear stupid and had to deny that there was any "proof" of the sort of allegations that would be made in a complaint because he knew he was being recorded on a videotape which was going to be used to attack, and if possible destroy me. Even what the organization has done to me alone (see, e.g., crimes listed by Judge Breckenridge and the list in paragraph 7 above) is enough for actual true-hearted reformers to bring a lawsuit to take control of the organization from the criminals now in charge. 13. During Mr. Miscavige's videotape operation a briefcase containing a book of my original drawings and writings and other documents was stolen from the trunk of my |
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against public policy and illegal. Mr. Miscavige, moreover, entered into a separate illegal contract with Mr. Flynn, which prohibits Mr. Flynn from assisting me in any litigation against the organization. If Mr. Flynn were to assist me he would again be subjected to "fair game." Mr. Miscavige would be wise to rescind all these illegal contracts and discontinue his abuse of the legal process and totally eliminate from his organization the doctrine and practice of fair game, and not merely deny its existence. 15. Mr. Miscavige claims to know a great deal about the IRS dropping me as a witness because of his videotapes. In truth I was not dropped as a witness at all, and my credibility, despite more than twelve years of his organization's attacks on it, is intact. One of the conditions of the 1986 "settlement" with Mr. Miscavige's organization was that in order for the organization to discontinue the "fair game" against Mr. Flynn I had to sign a knowingly false affidavit, essentially stating that Mr. Miscavige's new regime had discontinued the organization's criminal activities. Mr. Flynn claimed that the organization had already tried to murder him and he felt his life and his family were in danger. I fully believed Mr. Flynn because I had myself been the target of fair game for five years by then and had likewise been threatened with murder. I, along with several other of Mr. Flynn's clients, therefore signed these false affidavits which the organization had prepared. The organization then filed the false affidavits in its IRS litigations. Mr. Miscavige |
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makes much of the IRS granting his organization tax exempt status. Our government's turning its back on this organization's thousands of victims and apparently ignoring its obnoxious, irreligious and criminal core nature, however, does not make this victimization and antisocial nature either right or religious. 16. Mr. Miscavige also claims that Scientology's philosophy and practice of opportunistic hatred, called "fair game" by L. Ron Hubbard, its originator, doesn't exist. It does. I declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed at San Anselmo, California, on February 22, 1994.
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