Exposed: Scientology’s Holy War
Bruce Livesey On the 30-Year Vendetta Against Gerry Armstrong
The first time I met Gerry Armstrong, I thought he was paranoid. I’d driven down from Vancouver, summer 2007, into the verdant Fraser Valley to Chilliwack, BC, a somnolent, wind-blown town surrounded by jagged mountain ranges. A place as far removed from Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Scientology’s loopiness as one can possibly get. Armstrong and his third wife Caroline live in a walk-up, one-bedroom apartment above a tiny strip mall that’s seen better days.
When I arrived, Armstrong suggested we drive to a nearby park, rather than talk in their apartment. It was a beautiful July day and, except for a couple of stoners milling about out of earshot, the three of us were alone on the manicured grass beside a pond. Now sixty-one, Armstrong is an alarmingly small man, with elfin features, a beaky nose, sallow skin and large limpid blue eyes. The baseball cap he wore to ward off the hot sun made him look even more vulnerable. Amiable, soft-spoken with no trace of aggression, he chose his words with deliberation. Caroline seemed protective of him.
Full article online at Maisonneuve
The following images were published in the hard copy magazine article.
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- The Armstrong kids in Chilliwack ca. 1952
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- Gerry in Chilliwack in his mid-40s, 1993.
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- Gerry and second wife Jocelyn in the Sea Org, 1980
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- Armstrong’s wedding aboard the Apollo 1974
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- The Church of Scientology’s Holy Trinity
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- The Apollo
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- Church private eye sent to watch Gerry, taken by Armstrong in 1982.
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- Church private eye sent to watch Gerry, taken by Armstrong in 1982.
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- The SP or “Suppressive Person” order issued against Gerry in 1982, complete with stamp from later trial proceedings.
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- Gerry protesting in Brighton, England, 2001.
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- Gerry protesting in Vienna, (sign in German) 2001.
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- Gerry and Caroline in Leipzig, 2002. Credit Tilman Hausherr
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