Declaration of Dennis Erlich

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Gerald Armstrong
715 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
San Anselmo, CA 94960
(415) 456-8450
In Pro pria Persona

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, a California not-for-profit
religious corporation,

Plaintiff,

vs.

GERALD ARMSTRONG; MICHAEL WALTON; THE GERALD ARMSTRONG CORPORATION a California for-profit
corporation; DOES 1 through 100, inclusive,

Defendants.

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CASE NO. 157 680

DECLARATION OF DENNIS ERLICH IN OPPOSITION TO MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY
ADJUDICATION OF 20TH CAUSE OF ACTION; AND 13TH, 16TH, 17TH & 19TH CAUSES OF ACTION OF SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT

Date: 4/21/95
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Dept: One
Trial: 5/18/95

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DECLARATION OF DENNIS ERLICH

I, Dennis Erlich, declare:

1. I am over the age of 18 years. I am a resident of the State of California. I have personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein, and if called upon as a witness I could testify competently thereto.

2. I was member of Scientology from 1968 to 1982. I studied and was extensively trained in all of the bulletins, policies, directives, other writings and taped lectures, of Scientology's founder and leader, L. Ron Hubbard, concerning his psychotherapy ("auditing") and the training of Scientology's psychotherapists ("auditors"). In 1977 I was posted personally by Hubbard as the Chief Cramming Officer, Flag, responsible for the training and correction of the highest level auditors, training supervisors and "case supervisors," those people who directed Scientology's auditing of its members, in the whole Scientology world.

3. During my time in Scientology I read and studied Hubbard's bulletins and other writings concerning Christ, Christianity and God. True and correct copies of two of his bulletins, " Routine 3 Heaven," dated May 11, 1963, and "Resistive Cases Former Therapy," dated September 23, 1968, are appended hereto as Exhibits [A] and [B] respectively.

4. These bulletins are consistent with Hubbard's other writings for indoctrinated Scientologists on the subjects of Christianity and God. Hubbard taught that the ideas of

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Christ, Heaven and God are electronically installed "implants" in humans' minds by "implanters" at "implant stations" for the humans' enslavement. Hubbard also taught that only Scientology could remove these implants and rescue humans from this religious enslavement.

5. Inside Scientology at the organizational level in which I worked, it was accepted that anyone who believed in Jesus Christ or God, or who prayed to a Supreme Being was dramatizing an implant. Such a person was considered a "former therapy case" or "resistive case." He was not trusted in the organization, and as long as he remained, the efforts of his auditor and case supervisor were to destroy his belief in his religion, Christ or God. Such a person, if he continued his belief in Christ or God, was labelled "PTS Type III," Hubbard's designation for a "psychotic."

6. Hubbard and Scientology claimed to Scientologists and to people considering buying "services" that he had discovered and developed his psychotherapy techniques through scientific research and that the promises of Scientology auditing; e.g., increased IQ, cure of diseases and increased abilities, were scientifically proven and guaranteed. Scientology also claimed and claims in the media. and in the legal arena, in order to avoid liability for not delivering on its promises, that the organization is a religion organized solely for religious purposes. Scientology claims as well that everything written by Hubbard about Scientology,

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including its financial and management policies, its intelligence training policies, its "black propaganda" policies directing and calling for character assassination, its policies calling for the use of the law to harass, and its policies calling for antisocial and criminal acts against critics, including Hubbard's "fair game" policy, are religious scriptures.

7. Scientology claims that the "fair game" policy was canceled and its practices, which included theft, trickery, cheating, lying, suing and destroying labelled "enemies" has been discontinued. It hasn't. I have been "fair game" for years. Scientology has carried out a black propaganda campaign to destroy my reputation, it has stolen my property, and it has sued me. Scientology, as presently directed by its leaders, has no respect for civil rights and is utterly ruthless in its efforts to crush, through financial, public relations, legal and extra-legal means anyone its leaders perceive as threats to their goal of world wide power.

8. I am familiar with the information about Hubbard's misrepresentations about his past and his promises, and some of the noxious practices of Scientology, which was made public for the first time through the efforts of Gerry Armstrong, particularly during his trial in 1984 before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge. This information was important in my becoming free from Scientology's mind control, and I know it has been important for many others as well. I

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am also familiar with Scientology's efforts to destroy Armstrong's credibility so he and his information would not be believed, and to silence him through the courts so that the organization could say whatever it wants about him without his being able to respond. This is what fair game is all about. It would be a black day for people of good will and free minds everywhere if Scientology is successful in these efforts.

I declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the California that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed in Glendale, California this 6TH day of APRIL, 1995.

[signed]

DENNIS ERLICH