Caroline’s LFBD F/N item was: because the truth would set a lot of people free, and it serves their purposes to keep people trapped. I think that’s a pretty good answer, well supported with known wisdom or knowledge, history and current facts.

Marty and Mike have spent their adult lives using Scientology to prevent Scientologists, and wogs, from being set free. Marty and Mike also spent those years using Scientology to victimize people who would set free entrapped Scientologists or wogs by telling them the truth. Their life’s work has required of Marty and Mike virtually constant lying, and even criminal behavior toward their victims.

The universal desire, effort, postulate of Scientologists is to have lies be true. This is the essence and goal of the left hand path, and any ‘ologies, ‘isms or ‘ics on that path.

Hubbard represented this in Scientology, as you know, by “8-8008,” here truthfully restated: the attainment of infinity, that is the first eight, is achieved by the reduction of infinity, or all that is real or true, that is the second eight, to zero, which is the first zero and the building of one’s own zero, or nothingness, illusion or lie, from zero to an infinity, or what is real or true, and by that one achieves the attainment of infinity. (Ref. 9ACC 14, 5412CM24, from Scientology’s Technical Dictionary)

One of the first points of programming to “achieve this attainment” is the law that it is carefully observed that the science of Scientology does not intrude into the Dynamic of the Supreme Being. (Fundamentals of Thought) That is the dynamic of infinity, the dynamic of everything, the dynamic of everything’s cause. Scientologists with a clue learn that law extremely early in their indoctrination.

The dynamics do not have the reality Scientologists give them, and can easily be demonstrated as serving malignant narcissists. Scientologists certainly use them to make themselves right and the 8-dynamicless masses, us wogs, wrong, and they justify diabolical behavior as “ethical” with their dynamics. They do all sorts of things to make their dynamics true, but their dynamics are untrue. Everything, on the other hand, where Scientologists are prohibited by Scientology from intruding, cannot but be real and true.

Scientologists know they must not intrude into, or look to, everything – infinity, their 8th Dynamic – for guidance or wisdom in their ethics, their choices or their lives. What they must look to for guidance or wisdom is what is not included in everything, or infinity. And what is not included in everything is nothing, or illusions or lies. By making what is essentially nothing or illusion their guide or source of their wisdom, Scientologists achieve the attainment of building zero into infinity. They don’t achieve anything, of course, everything remains everything, infinity remains infinity, and zero remains zero.

Scientology’s “axioms,” wildly vaunted by Scientologists as proof of their cult or philosophy’s truth and scientificalness, also direct and manipulate their thoughts and actions, and serve their universal postulate. Axiom 35, for example, states:

THE ULTIMATE TRUTH IS A STATIC. A Static has no mass, meaning, mobility, no wave-length, no time, no location in space, no space. This has the technical name of “Basic Truth.”

http://www.bonafidescientology.org/Append/01/page16.htm

It is a common “understanding” of sociopaths that truth has no meaning. And the reality is that the ultimate truth has all the meaning in the world.

You’re undoubtedly very familiar with the law in axiom 38 that “anything, to persist, must contain a lie.” This serves Scientology and Scientologists’ universal postulate and sociopathic purposes in two ways. Psycho-philosophically, it justifies their relentless lying about their cult and its founder, since they want Scientology to persist, or keep working. Scientologists are terrified that if they tell the truth about Scientology it will as-is and disappear. Conversely, Scientologists can all “righteously” black PR the people telling the truth about Scientology as liars because the cult is still here and persisting. It is axiomatic to Scientologists that people are lying about their cult because it hasn’t disappeared.

Scientologists constantly program and reprogram themselves with their universal postulate when they proclaim and swear that what’s true is what’s true for them. The only things that can be true for them that are not already true are lies.

The universal Scientology postulate of having lies be true degenerates into the postulate to have some lies be true, or to have even one lie be true. This hopeless postulate, I’m sure you noticed, degenerates into the endless effort to get others to agree that a lie is true. By that agreement, Scientologists postulate and agree, they create reality, that is, they make a lie true. Thank God, of course, they don’t.

The effort you observe by Marty and Mike to rewrite or whitewash Hubbard’s and Scientology’s history is the organized execution of Scientology and Scientologists’ universal postulate to have lies be true, or at least get them believed as true. The acceptance of Scientology and its founder remains Marty and Mike’s “purpose” and “valuable final product,” and this can only be achieved by getting people to believe lies about Scientology and its founder.

Both for personal and legal, as well as psycho-philosophical and conscience-based reasons, I want the truth being true. Actually, I know the truth is true, and don’t have to want it or postulate it. This is an essence of the right foot path.

Pretended belief in the truth of a lie is indispensable to keeping Scientology working, and keeping others keeping Scientology working. Marty, Mike and Miscavige share sets of identical lies they all say are the truth: “Scientology works,” “L. Ron Hubbard discovered the only thing that works,” “plus he was a war hero with purple hearts,” “auditing raises IQ a point per hour on average,” “Clear is a state beyond anything man ever before achieved,” “it’s an evolutionary leap called Homo novis,” “OT is even better,” “we’re at cause over matter, energy, space, time, thought, life, you name it,” etc. These and thousands of similar and supporting lies, of course, are used to lure in, keep in, enslave and rip off human beings exactly like us.

Another set of lies that Marty, Mike and Miscavige share and say are true concern Scientology’s wog victims. Marty, Mike and Miscavige all proclaim Hubbard’s Suppressive Person doctrine true, good and knowledge they want others to have, when in fact the doctrine is utterly false, utterly evil and utterly indefensible by anything but more lying, which is no real defense at all.

Marty, Mike and Miscavige all share the lie that SPs are criminal and destructive, when in truth SPs are good people who speak the truth about Scientology despite the hatred and abuse heaped on them by Marty, Mike, Miscavige, et al. Marty, Mike and Miscavige share the same doctrine and system for creating enemies and justifying their attack and pursuit. Marty, Mike and Miscavige also share the same set of enemies, the people they all call haters or worse, the people who tell the truth that might set their underlings and supporters and even themselves free.

Marty, Mike and Miscavige share the identical black propaganda on me, and the same postulate to have their lies about me be true. They’ve worked for years in their adult lives to have me criminally prosecuted on their false charges and even imprisoned so their lie that I’m a criminal becomes true. They degrade my image to beast level to make their lies that I’m degraded true, and to render praiseworthy the campaign to destroy me. They have had me physically assaulted, terrorized, threatened with assassination, bankrupted and in countless ways bullied, to stop me from telling the truth.

Because of the nature of the activity of postulating and working to have lies be true, Scientologists, in accordance with a parallel postulate, appoint people who tell the truth their executioners. Hubbard, as you know, wrote in his famous bulletin “What Is Greatness?”

There are those who appoint one their executioners. Sometimes, for the sake of safety of others, it is necessary to act. But it is not necessary to also hate them.

Because of the intensity and massive scope of Scientology and Scientologists’ thirty year war to have their lies about me be true, and because I engage the Scientologists in the psycho-philosophic zone plus the legal zone, where lies and truth are unavoidable issues, they have appointed me virtually every Scientologist’s executioner.

How great is that? Or, isn’t that just great!

Marty, Mike and Miscavige actually contracted virtually every Scientologist to appoint me their executioner when they identified and listed the Scientologists as beneficiaries in the 1986 Scientology v. Armstrong contract. Marty, Mike and Miscavige then imposed the criminal-executioner appointment and relationship even more emphatically on Scientologists by listing them again as beneficiaries in their unconscionable and unlawful injunction in 1995. “All Scientology and Scientology affiliated Churches, organizations and entities, and their officers, directors, agents, representatives, employees, volunteers, successors, assigns and legal counsel.” The Freezone. Ron’s Org, the Indies, are all Scientology entities. Along with their officers, directors, agents, representatives, employees, volunteers, successors, assigns and legal counsel they are all beneficiaries, and all have appointed me their executioner.

People with consciences who tell the truth don’t wish for or welcome anyone, let alone a whole army or navy, appointing them their executioner. I certainly have done what I could to get them to withdraw this insane appointment they’ve made, other than stop telling the truth that is. Once a person has told the truth for a while, I think stopping is virtually impossible, but it seems that that is all the Scientologists will accept to end the endless executioner appointing.

I’ve written to Scientologists and Scientology orgs or entities around the world, beseeching them to remove themselves as beneficiaries, and of course as appointers of me as their executioner, but none have responded. I provided a “Beneficiary Removal Form”.

I wrote to cult head Miscavige — and this a matter in every way of RTC concern, — and implored him to remove himself and his underlings as beneficiaries.

I’ve written Scientology’s attorneys, who are also beneficiaries.

I wrote Tom Cruise, who is DM’s most important underling, and reported best friend.

Despite Cruise’s star status, and despite whatever his friendship with DM is, DM made Cruise a beneficiary in the unlawful and disgusting Scientology v. Armstrong injunction, and had Cruise appoint me as his executioner.

“What Is Greatness?” was significant to me inside the cult, and I’m sure to many Scientologists. (Scientology site: What is Greatness?) It’s dated March, 1966, which was when Hubbard started the GO, or at least published HCOPL 1 March 1966 “The Guardian.” I think I hung onto “What Is Greatness?” enough that it might have shown up in my ethics file or pc folders, because there were early Internet attacks on me using “What Is Greatness?” as a button on me.

I had a friend, a very smart professional, who said to me, not long after Hubbard’s death, and quite seriously, “You killed him, Gerry.” Of course I hadn’t. All I had done was tell the truth about things that needed the truth told about them when there was the opportunity to tell it. I could see, however, where, following the Breckenridge decision, following his failed ops to silence me, and in the grip of long term malignant narcissism, Hubbard could have seen me as the executioner he’d appointed. He couldn’t come out of hiding, the Scientology v. Armstrong judgment in LA identified him as virtually a pathological liar, and the criminal division of the IRS was using the judgment and case documents to go after him and the organization.

My career as an appointed executioner should have ended there, but DM then appointed me his executioner. He must have thought the truth was killing him, and he went to extremes to suppress it and silence the people telling it. He committed and got others to commit countless pettinesses and crimes to appoint me their executioner.

Marty spent his years in the Sea Org with me as his appointed executioner, and over the past couple of years has newly appointed me his executioner.

Appointing me as their executioner must mean Scientology’s myriad beneficiaries are feeling something different from great, I guess. Postulating me as executioner imputes to me the evilest of intentions toward them and a threat to their dynamics, which means their “eternity.” I’m a living threat to their universal postulate to have lies be true. Their willingness to fight back was triggered a generation ago and we have been at war ever since.

Scientologists war on me because I tell the truth. Yet telling the truth is the only real hope I have to end the war. I want their war on me and persons acting in concert with me to be over, because it’s time, although it always was time. Ending their war is as easy for the Scientologists as not appointing anyone their executioners.

1. Communicate to me;

2. Debrief to me and my legal representatives;

3. Execute declarations that contain facts elicited in the debrief;

4. Make himself available to testify in any legal proceedings to correct the injustices or situations he helped make.

Other wogs have been saying that he should answer me, and there’s even a thread on ESMB “Marty Rathbun needs to answer Gerry Armstrong’s questions.”

I appreciate the support for calling Marty to do the decent, responsible, right and beautiful thing in the Scientology v. Armstrong war. I’m writing this to correct the idea that Marty has never answered me, as “answer” is understood by wogs.

Scientologists are taught that an answer to be an answer must be a logical answer, and an illogical answer is no answer at all. This is crucial in the Scientology system because Scientologists are also taught to judge people’s stupidity and insanity by “the length of time it takes to get a logical answer,” which Scientology and Scientologists call “communication lag,” or “comm lag.” Back in February, I wrote to Tommy Davis about comm lags and Scientologists’ failure over many years to logically answer my many logical questions or concerns.

The Scientologists I’ve sent my logical communications to over the past thirty years naturally included Marty when he was in the Sea Org, and clearly he saw most of those communications personally. Clearly too, he was included in the great mass of Scientologists that never in all those years offered a logical answer to my logical communications.

Since Marty has been communicating publicly after he says he left the Sea Org, I’ve sent him several logical communications directly, and I still haven’t gotten from him a logical answer. By Scientology scriptural tech and standards, his decades-long comm lag identifies him as almost immeasurably stupid and insane. Hubbard wrote in cult scripture that the longest comm lag he had ever encountered was ten years. And Marty’s comm lag is three times that long.

As I said, however, I don’t use Scientology’s definition and standards for what constitutes an answer to my communications. An answer can be illogical, dishonest, evasive, or anything else; and it’s still answer; just an illogical answer, a dishonest answer, etc. Although Marty’s answer to me was illogical, dishonest and evasive, and by his own Scientology scripture wouldn’t be an answer, it’s an answer to me, and to wogs generally.

I don’t accept Hubbard and Scientology’s tech or science regarding communication lags and the significance or meaning they attach to the length of time it takes to get a logical answer from someone. As Marty demonstrates, people aren’t necessarily stupid or insane when they withhold logical answers to logical communications, and instead respond with illogical answers. Such people can be independent psychopaths, or they can be under orders, as many Scientologists are, to withhold logical answers and give illogical answers.

Between May and September 2009, I wrote Marty several very logical communications that he didn’t answer. His one answer to me was in response to my sincerely and patiently logical letter to him of September 4, 2009, I titled “Apology Not Needed or Wanted.” I told Marty that, contrary to what some people were saying about my needing or wanting an apology from him for the many years of criminal and sociopathic actions he perpetrated against me, I really didn’t need or want an apology from him. I stated fairly clearly what I needed and wanted:

What needs attention and resolution are ongoing black PR, ongoing injustices, ongoing human rights violations, and the ongoing effects of other crimes, which you were involved in and can help resolve.

[…]

If you stick with the Scientology position that the orders jailing me and fining me for expressing my sincere religious beliefs, experiences and knowledge about this religion, or any other religion, are desirable, moral or lawful, then you support Miscavige on this most key issue confronting Scientologists. On the other hand, if you really want to bring Miscavige to justice, to get justice for the victims of his regime’s injustice, and to actually defend human rights, then these orders and my relationship with Scientology and Scientologists provide an excellent opportunity. My case and the orders against me are all about human rights, and I have fought for this opportunity for over twenty-seven years. The help I need from you is your knowledge of what you were doing, or getting others to do, or of what Scientology was doing, that was not lawful, or fair, or conscionable, or even arguably advisable in its conspiracy to silence, imprison, ruin, and beastify me. If you tell the whole time, place, form and event, my attorney and I will make great use of it to do great good.

I also identified in my letter with sufficient specificity some of the black PR, and several of the ongoing injustices, ongoing human rights violations, and the ongoing effects of other crimes, which Marty was involved in and has the knowledge and ability to resolve.

Marty’s answer:

From: [  ]@[  ] [mailto:[  ]]

Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:15 AM

To: gerry@gerryarmstrong.org

Subject: Re: Apology Not Needed or Wanted

Gerry,

I have a hard time following your communication. There are some critical differences between you and I:

a) You were willing to lie and did. I’m not.

b) You decided to become a victim, and relish it so much you’ve continued to be one to this day. Everything you utter is through the prism of a victim and to the degree that it is refracted as such, it is false. I am devoted to helping people from entering the dark, dank dungeon of victim-hood.

c) You sold out  twenty-three years ago – and are apparently still mad at yourself for the indelible taint it left. I will never sell out.

If you made a genuine reach to reverse the downward spiral a-c set you on then I’d be glad to assist in your about-face and ascent.

Marty

By saying that he had a hard time following my communication, which was simply written and easy for people of average intelligence to read, Marty implies that my communication was illogical. This is a falsehood that Marty has used elsewhere as well, and other Scientologists use, to justify their total failure and refusal to communicate a logical answer.

Marty’s answer is illogical, in addition to being dishonest and cruel, because he imposes a set of impossible tasks for me to perform before he will assist me to correct the injustices he perpetrated. He doesn’t say how he will assist me, but how I want him to assist me is broadly described in my letter he was answering, and narrowed down to the four easy tasks for him listed above.

Marty says he will know when I’ve accomplished his set of impossible tasks when he observes what he describes as a genuine reach from me to reverse the downward spiral he also says he observes I’ve been set on. This is itself an obviously impossible task for me to perform because there is no dwindling spiral I’ve been set on. Having to reach to reverse what doesn’t exist is the kind of impossible, and frankly degrading and psychopathic tasks victimizers insist their victims perform to stop the victimizing.

Marty’s impossible tasks for me that I must perform before he will consider that I have made a genuine reach to reverse the downward spiral he says I’m on include: accept that lies are true and the truth is lies; stop relishing what I don’t relish; stop being what I am not; stop being what I am, which relevantly includes being his victim; stop uttering everything I utter through a nonexistent prism; stop being mad at myself when I’m not; stop being indelibly tainted by nothing.

Marty postulates me into a dark, dank dungeon of victim-hood, where it is clear he puts his and his cult’s wog victims. He says he’s devoted to keeping people from entering his dark, dank dungeon, which makes sense because people might stumble across the victims he’s postulated into his dungeon. His assertion that everything I utter is through some prism he defines, and that everything I utter is false, is the logic of a psychopath.

So Marty has answered me, and although his answer was dishonest, contemptuous and illogical, it was an answer. It hasn’t changed and doesn’t change what I want and need Marty to do, nor our relationship.

I am not blind to the fact that doing the decent, responsible, right and beautiful thing regarding me and other wogs he has victimized is not in what Marty considers his best interests. It might never be in what he considers his best interests to do the decent, responsible, right and beautiful thing about his victims. Lots of people, I’m quite sure, harden their hearts and never do this thing their whole lives.

It is possible, and not all that hard, for Marty to see that doing this thing is in his best interests, because, of course, it is. Whatever fear it is that has kept him his whole adult life from doing that good thing can be shown to be utterly illusory just by doing it.

I realize that if Marty were to unharden his heart toward his victims, because of its adamantine condition as a result of decades of hardening, it would be a Damascus Road sort of incident for him. It’s very rare, almost never heard of among people with his condition, but I still believe it’s within their understanding and power, and certainly well within Everything’s possibilities.

It is a condition that he really is responsible for. The victimizer always tries to make his victims responsible for their conditions. But the victimizer really is responsible for his condition as a victimizer. It’s an extremely difficult task for the victims of many victimizers to stop being victims. It isn’t accomplished with psychopathic semantics like Marty uses about victims in his answer, while the victimizer keeps right on victimizing them.

For the victimizers to stop being victimizers, that’s as easy as it gets. Victimizers don’t keep being victimizers because stopping is beyond their comprehension or control, or an impossible or even difficult task. They keep victimizing because it serves their purposes, that is, it’s pro-survival, and, because it serves their purposes, can even be fun, and a game.

Marty is not too unintelligent to know what it would take – almost a reversal of the impossible tasks he has laid before me. And he’s intelligent enough to know what a Damascus Road moment would be for him. In the Scientology v. Armstrong, et al. war, of course, such a moment for Marty is on the legal stage and quite dramatic.

President Barack Obama
The White House

Dear President Obama:

I have a solution for the debt ceiling crisis, plus the debt crisis underlying it, and the debt underlying that, and actually a number of related societal crises, and I’m writing to offer my help. I made much the same offer to President Clinton and President George. H.W. Bush, although not at the point of a debt ceiling crisis. The solution remains the same, and in this debt ceiling crisis it provides a clear way to go, and a very happy result. I wrote President George W. Bush about different things, and didn’t really suggest my economic solution because it seemed he was already having trouble keeping it all together. Through all you US Presidents, however, I haven’t stopped thinking about the US and the world’s economic problem and the solution, and I haven’t withheld the solution from anyone or any country but kept it available for anyone interested.

Lawrence Wright, writing in The New Yorker in its February 14, 2011 Anniversary Issue about, of all things, “Paul Haggis vs. Scientology,” related a conversation he had with one Tommy Davis concerning my economic solution.

Davis passed around a photograph of Armstrong, which, he said, showed Armstrong “sitting naked” with a giant globe in his lap. “This was a photo that was in a newspaper article he did where he said that all people should give up money,” Davis said. “He’s not a very sane person.”

Armstrong told me that, in the photo, he is actually wearing running shorts under the globe. The article is about his attempt to create a movement for people to “abandon the use of currency.”

The article Wright mentions was from the Marin Independent Journal in November 1992. I really was wearing a pair of running shorts, which I still possess, and are seen in these 1995 and 1996 photos. A Scientologist public relations person, who is also the son of a Hollywood actress, pronouncing some common, average Homo sapiens not very sane, is not only defamation, but a reason to read what that citizen had to say.

The movement or idea I envision is not for people to abandon the use of currency, which is both a ridiculous and virtually impossible concept. The idea is for people to end the use of money as currency, or to move society off the money standard, which is eminently prudent and doable. Any currency functions as a means of exchange, and a means of exchange will still be needed, even if money is no longer needed, after its replacement, as society’s dominating means of exchange, or currency.

In your early days as President, and earlier as candidate, you gave some of us hope because it sounded like you were going to think outside the box. I believe you even said in some speech I caught, perhaps in connection with the banking crisis or one or another meltdown crisis, that you were looking for people who think outside the box. The box, of course, is the money system and the money standard. The US box, as everyone knows, is the biggest box on earth.

As you can imagine, I’ve known for many years that thinking outside the box was strangely rare, and that communicating what I thought often encountered seemingly utter inability. Outside the box thinkers, as you also can imagine, and see, sometimes still communicate despite all their bad encounters. The seeming inability to think outside the box appeared rooted in a fear of going there to think, even for a second. This is a conundrum because thinking outside the box has been touted by almost everyone, including you, as a valuable and desirable ability.

I’ve experienced some psychically violent reactions when the idea of thinking outside the box was presented, but I’m just an average and common guy, as I said. As President of the country that thinks inside the biggest box, however, if you were to think for a moment outside it, and report what you found, you could do a world of good. You could prove there’s nothing to fear actually thinking outside the box, or at least less to fear than inside the box, and you could lead a lot of people to think outside it with you. The solution to the problems of the money system is outside it, and recognizing that idea and initiating that solution would be an excellent legacy from your Presidency.

Very early in your administration, when you were setting up an economic advisory group, at the point of one financial catastrophe or another, I recall you signaled that there would be no thinking outside the box on your team, and that everyone was devoted to the box and in agreement on the need to think within it. I do understand that you have said and done a great deal to get the box to work. You borrowed incredible sums to bail out or energize the box and stop it from recessing, depressing, collapsing, melting down, blowing up or any of the myriad other terrifying consequences and futures the box can have for us. Now your citizens and children in future generations, everyone thinking inside the box agrees, are locked even tighter and longer in the box.

What can peacefully, safely, sanely and humanely replace money as currency, whether everyone becomes able to think outside the box or not, is reason and the computer. Reason has been available at times and in places for almost ever, and always could have replaced money as currency if there had been enough of it. In all those years, however, there never was the computer, or the computerized society we now blessedly live in, which makes this shift off the money standard possible just with the reason we currently possess. The computer is already performing many of the functions that money did in the pre-computer era, so money’s complete replacement with the computer is not all that difficult. I wrote about the computer as currency in 1992,  and developments in the computer world since then have all supported the conclusion that the computer and reason can replace the money system. Developments in the financial world, the economic world, the social world, the political world, the war world and other worlds have all supported the co-conclusion that the money system and standard — the box – has to be replaced.

The box is inefficient, oppressive, threatening, and clearly drives people to homelessness, desperation, to crime and to all sorts of other antisocial and destructive behaviors. The box has become even more oppressive to your citizens, and to Homo sapiens everywhere, now that its viable replacement is available, and a way can be seen out from under that oppression. The box causes wars and makes all but a few box operators losers and victims in its wars. It wastes lives, ruins others, denies education to the educable, and educates everyone in the inevitability and inescapability of the box that oppresses them. Its senseless drive to keep itself working not only harms its human workers but the planet and its wonders that actually sustain them.

The money age can end, and its human box can be thanked for outlasting its usefulness, and be peacefully retired. Government and societal transparency becomes real, operations can be streamlined, communications can flow a bit faster, universal health care becomes instantly available, and free, and people become a bit more honest. The brilliant minds now occupied with basic survival in the box, or consumed with finding in it an advantage or angle, can freely turn that brilliance to the real problems in the real world that will remain when the unreal box folds up.

The immediate debt ceiling crisis is extremely easy to resolve. Just raise it, and borrow whatever is needed, or print as much money as needed, to give the Government and citizens the time and peace of mind they need to work out the details for moving the country off the money standard and onto the reason standard. Moving society off the money standard also accomplishes the elimination of the national debt, and in fact every monetary debt. It is not hard to see that if the debt can be eliminated by moving society off the money standard, it doesn’t matter how huge the debt is to be eliminated. Therefore, borrow or print as much as you need to pay the bills and move society off the money standard as soon as humanly possible.

The Marin IJ observed in 1992 that I hadn’t been tapped for an economic advisory post, and this is still true today. It is also true that this remains a pretty good suggestion, and I’m making it to you now, Mr. President. I would probably be the only outside the box thinker on any of your teams, so my ideas could easily be overruled by everyone, my thinking wouldn’t have to be scary to anyone, and all the thinking inside the box could still get done almost as usual. Hiring me, however, would signal, that although you were hedging your bet, you were granting outside the box thinking some credence.

Obviously when people use the term “thinking outside the box,” they often mean thinking inside the box somehow differently from someone else thinking inside the box. I wouldn’t do this, and not because I’d want to be the only outside the box thinker in your Government or anywhere. I would welcome people who think outside the box, and would welcome being replaced by better outside the box thinkers. You could hire me for a year, say until next year’s federal election, and if you did I could even help you win it. I’m a Canadian, but that’s no problem. I don’t cost much even now, and I’d be thinking and working at all times toward doing whatever I do for free.

The debt ceiling deal shouldn’t take you and Congress more than an hour or two. Please take care of it, buy a little time, and at least start thinking about thinking outside the box that’s got you all thinking inside it.

Yours hopefully,

Gerry Armstrong
#2-46298 Yale Road
Chilliwack, BC V2P 2P6
Canada
gerry@gerryarmstrong.org
604-703-1373

From: [X] @ReligiousFreedomWatch-RU.org

Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:09 AM
To: gerry@gerryarmstrong.org
Subject: A question to work out

Gerald,

My name is Nikolay and I am representing the Religious Freedom Watch Russia. Recently you’ve been to Russia and RFWRU team is working on some materials on your activity as a critic of Scientology.

We want to make an article on site and we’d like to workout some moments with you. Just to make a try, let’s start from that question:

As you say, there were several physical assaults (six?) and several threats of murder toward you and once you’ve been almost pushed away from highway. Have you made corresponding statements to police and do you have a police records on that?

I hope you don’t mind to have this conversation with me as we want to recreate the whole story picture using certain and reliable facts and documents. So your answers may affect the final state of the article.

Nikolay Varshavsky
ReligiousFreedomWatch-RU.org

Nikolay Varshavsky
ReligiousFreedomWatch-RU.org

Dear Mr. Varshavsky:

Thank you for your communication.

I’m glad you only say that my answers may affect the final state of your article about me. If you’d said that my answers will affect the final state of your article, I’d almost have to laugh. All the answers and facts in the world haven’t affected what Scientology and Scientologists have written about me over the past many years.

No, I don’t mind having this conversation with you. I’ve tried religiously, in fact, to find a Scientologist who would honestly engage me about my experiences and knowledge, and so far failed utterly. I wrote last year to Mike Rinder, who executed years of fair game against me for Scientology, about my appeal and my long search for an honest Scientologist. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/4717

If you become that first honest Scientologist, I would be forever grateful, and it would be a boon and blessing for you too.

I’m glad that you say you want to recreate the whole picture of my story. You doubtlessly understand that I don’t believe you. Importantly, for me to begin to believe you, I need some evidence that you honestly do, as you say, want to recreate that whole story picture. I want to recreate it in a number of arenas, most importantly in court, under oath, to judge and jury. I know my whole picture story well enough to know if you become honest about wanting to recreate it. And, as I mentioned, I’ve kept my eyes peeled for any sign of an honest Scientologist for many years.

Since the time I left the cult, Scientology and Scientologists have been trying without cessation to prevent my whole picture story from being recreated. All of the assaults and threats from Scientologists or their agents that you’re asking about were motivated by that same Scientology-wide intention, to prevent my whole picture story from being recreated by shuddering me into silence.

What Scientology and Scientologists over the past many years have tried to make the world think is my whole picture story has been what your scripture calls black propaganda or black PR. Your web site is a black PR organ for the Scientology cult, and your page on me is black PR. http://religiousfreedomwatch-ru.org/religious-extremists/gerald-armstrong

Scientology and Scientologists have pretended for those past many years that their black PR on me is my whole picture story, but that is simply more black PR, more lies. Your black PR on me is part of my whole picture story, but as black PR. Similarly, the assaults and threats you’re asking about are part of my whole picture story, as assaults and threats.

Your Russian black PR page on me is, of course, a virtually direct translation of Scientology’s “Gerry Armstrong” page on its US-based black PR web site with the same design and name as yours, “Religious Freedom Watch.”
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/anti-religious-extremists/gerald-armstrong/

Both Scientology black PR sites, of course, are controlled by cult head David Miscavige.

It is well known that the individual under Miscavige who is the “administrative contact” for the English language black PR site is Joel Phillips. I wrote Miscavige and Phillips objecting to their page on me, principally their very sick black PRing me as an “anti-religious extremist.” One of Phillip’s functions, and presumably one of yours, is to hide the black PR’s source, which is Miscavige.

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/armstrong-ltr-miscavige-2006-11-23.html

Because of their virtually conscienceless condition, which is tragically very common among Scientologists, neither Miscavige nor Phillips responded to my reasoned objection, but have continued their black PR attack. Scientologists’ attack reaction is, as you know, justified, and in fact mandated, in your scripture from Scientology inventor L. Ron Hubbard. He directed the “right thing” Scientologists are to do about “any threat:” “Don’t ever defend. Always attack.” Obviously Scientologists view me, or tell each other they view me, as a threat, or you wouldn’t attack me, even with your black PR pages on me.

As I’m sure you are aware, a document purporting to be a spreadsheet of West United States Scientologists who are trusted to do “volunteer” work for your Office of Special Affairs was recently released, and stated that Joel Phillips: “Works for Invest OSA INT.” “Invest,” or “Investigations,” as you know, is a Scientology euphemism for “Intelligence.” Phillips works for the Office of Special Affairs International’s Intelligence Section. This fact was already obvious to people like me, and not really vital because he works for Miscavige who runs everything including intel, but it was nice to see Phillips’ intel work acknowledged in an internal Scientology document.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=tA86cAV6FR9JdHCatI7yQLA&authkey=CKvMx94N#gid=11

His wife Tina Phillips, according to this spreadsheet, also does work for OSA.

It is understandable that Phillips, who is a clear Scientology black propagandist, works for OSA Intelligence, because Hubbard wrote in your scripture that black PR basically “is an intelligence technique.” If you really do, as you claim, represent Scientology’s Russian black PR site, it is reasonable as well to acknowledge that you also work for Scientology’s Intelligence apparatus. Your effort here to obtain details from me would be for your cult’s malevolent intelligence purposes, and not to recreate my whole picture story.

Phillips claimed authorship of a 2007 article “Behind the Scenes at Religious Freedom Watch,” that mentions the Religious Freedom Watch “teams.”

The backbone of the site is the investigators. We have a team in America and a team in Europe. Sometimes they travel back and forth. These people have years of training and have served in very high positions. They make it their life’s work to identify bigots, zealots, extremists, perverts and terrorists. You will see the fruits of their work on the site. Everything is checked and documented. You won’t just find a lot of hair brained yelling and screaming. You’re going to find photographs, interviews, court papers, in a word, PROOF that what you’re reading is true.
http://religiousfreedomwatch.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/behind-the-scenes-at-religious-freedom-watch/

I imagine that you are on the European team that sometimes travels back and forth to America. Your team works for OSA Intel Int.

It is indeed possible to see the fruits of your Religious Freedom Watch teams on your sites, because your fruits are black PR. The checking and documenting that is done is to check and document that the black PR is what Miscavige intends and accepts. The yelling and screaming, of course, is probably done by the victims of your “investigations” and your black PR. But that Miscavige, Phillips, you, or anyone else has proof that what people read on your sites is true, is a conscienceless lie. Miscavige’s Religious Freedom Watch teams’ life’s work is to black PR Scientology’s victims as bigots, zealots, extremists, perverts, terrorists, etc.

It is instructive about Scientology and Scientologists that on your US-based site all the other Scientology targets and I are labeled and black-PRed as “anti-religious extremists;” and on your Russian site we are all labeled and black PRed as “religious extremists.” This contradiction even shows up in the URLs for your two sites’ black PR pages on me.http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/anti-religious-extremists/gerald-armstrong/
http://religiousfreedomwatch-ru.org/religious-extremists/gerald-armstrong

I am, as Miscavige and Phillips know, and doubtlessly you know, neither a religious extremist nor an anti-religious extremist. I know all the other people personally that you black PR on your Russian site as “religious extremists,” and I am convinced that you Scientologists from Miscavige on up, know that these people you target are also neither religious extremists nor anti-religious extremists.

You imply that it was my recent trip to Russia that precipitated your Russian Religious Freedom Watch team’s getting to work on materials to recreate the whole story picture about me. This could be ironic to me because your Russian Religious Freedom Watch black PR site was a factor in my decision and planning to make the trip. I also mentioned your site in a number of talks or interviews I participated in during this trip to Russia.

In that sense, I could thank you and your fellow black PR agents because my visit to your great country (I’m assuming you’re really a Russian, and not Danny Sherman with an accent) was more successful, memorable and meaningful than I ever imagined. I actually consider your contacting me now, even if for your antisocial intelligence purposes, a big win from my Russian mission. I returned to Canada never more hopeful that Scientology’s persecution of the good people who might act in concert with me can be terminated, and that justice for Scientology’s victims, including me, can be achieved.

I became aware of your Russian black PR site last November on the WhyWeProtest forum in a thread entitled “Russian Orthodox Priest now on RFW (Russian version).” http://forums.whyweprotest.net/threads/russian-othodox-priest-now-on-rfw-russian-version.65205/

Obviously, your Russian site focuses its black PR attacks on Russian targets, principally Dr. Alexander L. Dvorkin, who is, to Scientology’s leadership, a bigger threat to Scientology’s plans and operations in Russia than I am. Your black PR on me in Russian, thus far, as I mentioned, is merely the mindless regurgitation of a translation of Miscavige’s black PR on me from Scientology’s US-based site.

While I was still in Russia, as I’m sure you know, another Scientology-affiliated Internet entity “portal-credo.ru” published much the same black PR in Russian in the form of an interview about me by one Valery Stepanov with your fellow Scientologist Alexei Danchenkov. I had the article translated and then posted a response for Mr. Danchenkov, and for everyone else, on my blog. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/5011

Because of the facts and nature of your relationship with me, and because of the legal implications of your communication, I will do the same with this response. I am sure you’ve already read my response to the black PR attributed to Mr. Danchenkov, so let me urge you to read it again, because it applies and responds to several black PR points on your Russian Religious Freedom Watch site. It’s also part of my whole picture story, and necessary if you really want to recreate it.

The principal purpose for your black PR on me on your site, of course, is to black PR Dr. Dvorkin, by association with me, since I am an already extensively black PRed Scientology victim. On your US-based Religious Freedom Watch site, you Scientologists black PR many more people by associating us with each other, as I noted above, and identifying us all as “anti-religious extremists.” I had responded to the black PR association on this site between Dr. Dvorkin and me in my 2006 letter to Miscavige and Phillips.

[Your black PR:] “At a meeting of hate groups in Russia, Armstrong met with deprogramming proponent Alexander Dvorkin.”

[My response:] I have never attended any meeting of hate groups in Russia at any time, nor have I attended any meeting of any hate groups in any other country. I have met Dr. Dvorkin several times in Russia and in other countries, he has translated for me on several occasions, and I have been able to observe him for several hours at a time on many occasions. At no time did I observe him attend a meeting of hate groups, discuss attending any meeting of hate groups, or suggest that I or anyone else attend any meeting of hate groups. At no time did he propose deprogramming me or anyone else, as you define “deprogramming” on your hate sites; i.e., activities involving kidnapping and assaults or such stupidities. He is a Doctor of Theology, a religious man in the sincerest rational meaning of the word, and a teacher in religious studies and in religious organizations. He is one of the people identified on your hate sites as an anti-religious extremist that I know with complete certainly is not an anti-religious extremist.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/armstrong-ltr-miscavige-2006-11-23.html

Your black PR attacks on Dr. Dvorkin and me by association with each other has actually made us associate more with each other, so I thank all you Religious Freedom Watch team members for that. I think this is an expected result among conscienceful people whose associations or relationships people like your team members attack and threaten with your black PR. I had the opportunity, in fact, to observe Dr. Dvorkin each day during my recent trip to Russia, in many settings and circumstances, and over many hours, and became even more convinced of the blackness of Scientology and Scientologists’ black PR on him. I also became more determined to end your persecution of such good people. So thank you for that as well.

I mentioned above that there are legal implications to your communication to me, which I’m sure you know about, but perhaps haven’t fully understood. Whether you are a formally employed OSA staff member or merely a “volunteer,” or if you really believe you are only a Religious Freedom Watch team member, you, Mr. Varshavsky, are a “beneficiary” of Scientology’s infamous Armstrong injunction. This order of the California Superior Court prohibits me from communicating about Scientology or about you or any other injunction beneficiary. I wrote about the injunction, its beneficiaries, and how it relates to Russia and Russians in my recent response to your fellow beneficiary Alexei Danchenkov. I said that a major purpose of my trip to Russia was, in fact, to discuss the injunction and encourage action to get it declared unlawful and lawfully unenforceable. What times I was assaulted or threatened by whom are extremely tangential to the live, personal, global issue of your injunction, your efforts to enforce it, and how you use it.

The beneficiaries in this matter are every Scientology or Scientology-affiliated church, organization or entity and all of their officers, directors, agents, representatives, employees, volunteers, successors, assigns and legal counsel. As you can envision, this is a cult-sized number of beneficiaries around the world, and you can easily find yourself among them. The injunction also prohibits me from assisting victims of any of you beneficiaries, or assisting people adverse in some way to any of you. People adverse to Scientology and Scientologists, and adverse to any normal people who are beneficiaries, comprise, as you know, the Suppressive Person class. These prohibitions are unlawful, the injunction was obtained by unlawful means, and Scientology’s actions to enforce the injunction have been unlawful.

Each Scientologist or Scientology agent who assaulted or threatened me, and the people like you who black PR me or run covert ops on me, are all beneficiaries of the injunction that prohibits me from communicating about any of you. Your Scientology-affiliated entity Religious Freedom Watch is a beneficiary of the injunction. It is impossible, of course, to tell, or recreate, my whole picture story without violating your injunction’s prohibitions. The prohibitions contain no lower limit for what constitutes a “violation;” so one word from me about Scientology or any of the beneficiaries, or the slightest assistance to a Suppressive Person, are valid, punishable injunction violations. Directing you to documents, or telling or recreating anything from my past, so that you, as you claim, are able to recreate my whole picture story, requires clearly gargantuan violations on my part.

The Armstrong injunction’s prohibitions, as you know, also apply to persons “acting in concert” with me. The prohibitions are just as unlawful for people acting in concert with me as they are for me personally. People acting in concert with me, in fact, comprise a class of citizens that you beneficiaries unlawfully threaten, and whose rights you unlawfully violate. To act in concert with me means that people do the things that I, and they, are prohibited from doing: discussing Scientology and you beneficiaries, and assisting your victims or opponents. The people who most act in concert with me are those who facilitate my violations of your injunction. Such people assist me in some way to tell or recreate my whole picture story, or assist me to assist the beneficiaries’ victims or opponents. If you honestly wanted to recreate my whole story picture, you would be acting in concert with me, for which I would be grateful. Even now, you are inciting me, or perhaps even extorting me, to violate your injunction.

You write that you want to recreate my whole story picture using certain and reliable facts and documents, and you ask me if I have made statements to the police about the Scientology beneficiaries’ assaults and threats, and do I have records of that. Yes I have, and yes I do.

More importantly, you beneficiaries already possess many, if not all, of such statements. You beneficiaries also possess all the records of your own statements about me to police, in numerous cities and countries.

David Miscavige can issue an order that all of OSA Intel’s, RTC’s, et al.’s records relating to me be supplied to you, or me or anyone, and it all could be done in a few days. The beneficiaries have known about assaults and threats against me since 1982, and have known that the number of physical assaults has stood at six since August 2004, which was the last assault recorded. I think we can both agree that there is no real urgency to getting facts and documents from me relating to twenty-nine years of assaults and threats because you now want to recreate my whole story picture.

Nevertheless, to make my work collecting and organizing my facts and documents for you as efficient and unburdensome as possible, please provide me all the facts and documents you beneficiaries possess about me. If you do this, I will be able to see if you are missing any facts or documents that would prevent you from recreating my whole picture story, which you say you want to do. I would then provide you with the facts and documents you’re missing, and a whole picture story would practically be guaranteed.

One final note, if you do become honest, and perhaps can’t stand the ignominy of being a beneficiary in Scientology’s unlawful injunction that suppresses and destroys so many people’s basic human rights, please take advantage of this Beneficiary Removal Form http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/10

I look forward to receiving the facts and documents I’ve requested.

Sincerely,

Gerry Armstrong

Translation of this article: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/archives/5029

Интересные вещи происходят в последнее время в российском сектоведении. На днях, в Москве побывал Джеральд Армстронг. Личность в определенных кругах очень известная, если не легендарная. Но чтобы понять, кто это и почему так важен его визит, следует начать совсем не с него, а с учения о дианетике и саентологии, Лафайета Рональда Хаббарда, и того, почему культ саентологии в таких справочниках, как «Религии и секты в современной России» Новосибирского апологетического центра и «Сектоведение. Тоталитарные секты» А. Л. Дворкина обозначен, как тоталитарно-деструктивная секта.

Scientology and the “Democratic GULAG”

by Alexander Chaussov
June 4, 2011

Interesting things have been happening lately concerning cults in Russia.  Gerald Armstrong recently visited Moscow.  He is very well known, if not a legend, in certain circles.  However, to understand who he is and why his visit is so important, we must begin not with him, but with the teachings of Dianetics and Scientology, with Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, and why the Scientology cult is called a totalitarian and destructive sect on reference websites such as “Religions and Sects in Russia Today” by the Novosibirsk Center for Apologetics Research and Alexander L. Dvorkin’s “Sectarian Studies: Totalitarian Sects”.

The Scientology cult has been operating in Russia since the 1990s. It is essentially a network of ramified organizations which offer techniques to become no more, no less than a superhuman, or an “Operating Thetan” (OT).  Of course, this is not for free.  According to reference materials published by the St. Irenaeus of Lyon Center, the method for becoming a superman devised by Hubbard (the founder of Scientology) is based on telling the organization every detail about oneself, even the most intimate ones.  A closer look at the information on “Sectarian Studies: Totalitarian Sects” shows that the cult has its own intelligence gathering structures and that the goal of this organization is money and power.  Moreover, this power should preferably be worldwide and total.

In the 1990s, Russia became a “field of experimentation” for Scientologists.  They conducted experiments on children affected by the Chernobyl accident (documentary film: Svoboda ot sovesti ["Freedom of Conscience"]).  They conducted experiments in business with lethal results at the Moscow ventilator factory.  At one time, even Sergei Kiriyenko was recruited into Scientology, and we shall tactfully pass over in silence a great number of Russian regional officials.

Cartoon by Igor Kolgarev: Stubble-faced plumber conducting brain surgery while reading from a book entitled "Dianetics". A portrait of Hubbard hangs on the left above a stack of books. The spine of the top book says "Hubbard", the third book below this top book says "Scientology".

Up to the 1990s, Scientology was also a problem for authorities in the U.S., who waged a campaign against it.  It is true that this campaign ended, in actual fact, in victory for Scientology, with full legal recognition as a religious community, this despite the fact that cult’s founder, the late Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, once said: “If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.” In other words, even the father/founder of Scientology understood very well how much his “religion” had to do with religion.

In Russia, there is now a complete network of Scientology centers. They are not as actively involved in the social and political life of the country as during the “dashing nineties”, but, nevertheless, the public has has no insurance against getting caught up with this sect and parting with a substantial amount of money and property in the name of total personal progress.

This is precisely why the visit of Gerald Armstrong and his public appearances in the media are so important.  It’s because Armstrong rose through the ranks of the Scientology cult to the post of legal officer for the organization, so he witnessed from the inside how everything happens.  He left several years later, after he realized that Scientology is a totalitarian sect.

Armstrong has already given an interview about his life in the cult to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.  Information has it that a detailed interview with him will air on VGTRK [All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company] early this summer.  In principle, everything about him should appear in the Yandex search engine for anyone who wishes to look him up, but I would like to draw attention to one interesting feature of “American democracy”.  In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Mr. Armstrong said, among other things, that “The RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force) is a Scientology prison …  It was created in 1974.  People are sent there if, for example, the movement’s leaders think people aren’t working as hard as they should.  Or for some other arbitrary reason.  When I was there, a man was punished simply because of a smell that Hubbard didn’t like.  The duration of the sentences is not specified and the ‘convicts’ get only a quarter of their salary.   When they move about, they always have to run.  They are fed leftovers.  They are not allowed to talk, except to answer questions …   The purpose of this ‘gulag’ is to break a person’s will.  Moreover, for repeated violation of rules, there is an even more brutal prison, the ‘RPF’s RPF’, where a person is generally kept under 24-hour surveillance.

“… a U.S. court even decided last year that Scientologists have the right to hold people captive, to track them down and to forcibly bring them back and lock them up, because this is based on doctrine.”

This is what happens when democracy and the rights of religious minorities are implemented in a liberal manner.  If we believe the words of Gerald Armstrong, one year has already passed since the U.S. permitted religious concentration camps.  It seems to me that, even if we have “an insufficient level of democracy”, taking it to that level would make it possible to democratize everything, even complete “Hitlerization” or “Hubbardization”, whichever is deemed more practical.

Ex-legal officer of the Scientology organization Gerald Armstrong: “I landed in a jail for cult members because I got into an argument with the secretary of Hubbard’s third wife”

In the U.S., his former coreligionists long ago declared him an outlaw

[discussion]

by Alexey Ovchinnikov
Photo: Marina Volosevicha and AP
June 1, 2011

Gerald Armstrong came to Moscow to warn the country about the danger that threatens it

According to their rules, they can now hunt him down and, without qualms, take his life.  All the sins of Canadian Gerald Armstrong stem from the fact that he left the so-called “Church of Scientology”, where he was a personal assistant to the organization’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard.  He travels the world describing what goes on behind the scenes in this organization which he openly brands as a cult.  Gerald Armstrong was recently in Moscow and, following a conference with students at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University, he answered questions from Komsomolskaya Pravda.

THE SMARTS TO ESCAPE

- Mr. Armstrong, how did you get into this cult?

- I became involved in Vancouver in 1969. I, like many people, was attracted by the idea of improving my intelligence through Scientology.

- Did it improve?

- (Laughs). Actually, yes: I acquired enough smarts to escape from the cult, but I spent twelve and a half years there.

- Did you personally know the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard?

- Indeed. I rose to the post of legal officer.  I was responsible for contacting customs officials and police in the countries at whose ports we stopped.  Later, I became the public relations officer and then the intelligence officer on board the “Apollo”, the ship on which Hubbard sailed with his admirers, hiding from the taxation authorities of various countries.  The ship was the headquarters of Scientology’s elite order, the “Sea Organization”, the nerve center of the entire Scientology organization.  I was Hubbard’s personal archivist.  But I twice did time in the “Rehabilitation Project Force” or RPF.

Church of Scientology

A PRIVATE GULAG IN THE U.S. IS LEGAL

- What is the RPF?

- The RPF is a Scientology prison, similar to a gulag.  It was created in 1974.  People are sent there if, for example, the movement’s leaders think people aren’t working as hard as they should.  Or for some other arbitrary reason.  When I was there, a man was punished simply because of a smell that Hubbard didn’t like.  The duration of the sentences is not specified and the “convicts” get only a quarter of their salary.   When they move about, they always have to run.  They are fed leftovers.  They are not allowed to talk, except to answer questions …   The purpose of this “gulag” is to break a person’s will.  Moreover, for repeated violation of rules, there is an even more brutal prison, the “RPF’s RPF”, where a person is generally kept under 24-hour surveillance.

- What offense did you commit?

- I dared to talk back to the secretary of Hubbard’s third wife. The second time I went to the RPF was because Hubbard thought I was joking about how he was making films.

- Does the RPF exist today, after the U.S. recognized Scientology as a religion?

- Oh, yes!  In fact, a U.S. court even decided last year that Scientologists have the right to hold people captive, to track them down and to forcibly bring them back and lock them up, because this is based on doctrine.  They declared me an SP …

THE MOST FAMOUS SCIENTOLOGIST: TOM CRUISE

- What is an SP?

- A Suppressive Person.  According to Scientology, these are the people who are responsible for every evil on earth.  Myself, for example (laughs).  In reality, SP’s are ordinary people who are not afraid to tell the truth about Scientology.  This doctrine by itself makes the organization criminal.  Every new Scientologist is told at the very first encounter that Scientology is continually at war.

- With whom?

- With the SP’s.  SP’s are subject to the so-called “Fair Game” policy.  According to the rules laid down by Hubbard, any Scientologist may take away the possessions and even the life of an SP.  If you are declared an SP, other Scientologists are not allowed to communicate with you.  On the internet, there is a video in which perhaps the best known Scientologist today, Hollywood actor Tom Cruise, at a ceremony to award him a special Scientology medal, expresses the hope that before long there won’t be any SP’s left in the world.

- This sounds like Nazism …

- This is the closest parallel that comes to mind.  Hitler’s “Untermensch” doctrine really is similar to a number of Scientology doctrines.

- Have they tried to kill you?

- They don’t seem to have tried outright, but there have been six assaults.  I was once hit by a car.  In Southern California, agents of the “church” tried to run me off the freeway at high speed.  They would go further, I’m sure, but they are afraid they would go to jail.  There have been countless threats and lawsuits.  In the U.S., they fabricated a case against me and, as a result, I have no right to utter the words “Scientology”, “Dianetics”, “Hubbard”, and so on.  For each utterance, I am to be fined fifty thousand dollars.  So I’ve already spent a couple of millions speaking with you (laughs).  The court allowed them to say anything they please about me.  That’s justice, American-style …

- How did this happen?

- As I’ve already said, the case was fabricated.  Without corruption and blackmail, they couldn’t have gotten away with this.  According to my information, they have spent about five million dollars in legal fees on me.

The most famous Scientologist in the world, Tom Cruise, delivers a speech at the opening of the new Church of Scientology in Madrid. "Get full auditing and you will become a rain man!"

CONDOLEEZZA RICE PROTECTED SCIENTOLOGY

- Mr. Armstrong, at one time, several U.S. federal agencies declared that Hubbard was wanted and they were searching for him all over the planet.  Then suddenly, it was peace and harmony; they even recognized Scientology as a religion …

- In my opinion, it’s all obvious.  At first, the U.S. federal government genuinely and very strongly opposed Scientology.  In 1977, FBI agents searched the organization’s offices in Washington and Los Angeles, and they found hundreds of documents that had been stolen from government agencies.  The then head of the FBI later told reporters that “Scientology has one of the most effective intelligence services in the U.S., on par with even the FBI.”  Beginning in 1993, the process suddenly went in the opposite direction: Scientology was recognized as a religion  …

- Bill Clinton came to power in 1993 …

- Yes, and he also sympathized with Scientologists.  Madeleine Albright and then Condoleezza Rice openly defended the organization. They actually made it their ally.  Since that time, they have been protecting Scientology around the world.  I think this decision was made on the advice of the intelligence services.

A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY

- What did that accomplish?

- Scientology itself is a highly developed intelligence agency.  I’ll elaborate a little about how it works.  According to Hubbard’s doctrine, every Scientologist must continually raise their intelligence and seek self-improvement through a procedure called auditing.  During this process, which on the surface looks beneficial (and is conducted using a primitive lie detector called an E-Meter), all of a person’s secrets are divulged: details concerning the family, complexes, grudges, sexual experiences, and every personal story.  Scientology claims that this is a kind of confession, but it is not.  All of the information is recorded and forwarded to the organization’s intelligence department.  This information can then be used to blackmail the relatives or friends about whom information was confided during auditing.

- A powerful tool to gain leverage …

- Exactly!  Moreover, the Hubbard-style intelligence department itself searches for people who take an interest in it, but it collects embarrassing information about them first.  This includes politicians, officials of international organizations, police, FBI agents …

Likewise for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the IRS.  My information is that, when the IRS declared that Hubbard was wanted, Scientologists collected information on all top IRS officials and paid for any information which could embarrass them.  It is highly probable that they found something against the then director of the IRS, because the IRS suddenly formed a friendly relationship with Scientology.  The same goes for the U.S. intelligence services, as I said earlier.  So the presence of Scientology in any country is a danger not just to individuals and to public order.  It is also a matter of national security.  I spoke about this recently with your Justice Ministry …

A MONIED CULT

- What did you discuss, if it’s not a secret?

- I reiterated to them what I know about Scientology, and I talked about my legal predicament and how this can help Russia with your country’s position in relation to Scientology.  After all, Scientologists have on several occasions filed lawsuits against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights for refusing to re-register the “church”.  However, my own situation (and not only mine) clearly shows that Scientology is organized so as to violate human rights.  Any member of this organization is a direct participant in an all-out effort to suppress human rights.

- But recently, a huge Scientology center opened right in the middle of Moscow on Taganskaya Square …

- Yes, I saw that building.  I saw posts by your bloggers who went in and took a lot of pictures there.  It’s all very opulent, and this is evidence that, in Russia, they have a lot of money.  It’s also evidence that Scientologists in Russia are, unfortunately, quite at ease.  Your government has already shut down several active schools, but sadly, it has not yet issued a single warning to Russia’s citizens about the dangers of this cult.  In Germany, for example, the government regularly talks about this on its websites and in its publications and brochures.  I would strongly recommend that Russia do the same if, of course, you want to preserve Christian morals in society, including the institution of the family.

THE GURU LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING

- Why did you leave the organization?

- One day, an order came to destroy all documents showing Hubbard’s involvement in Scientology and its finances.  It was feared that the FBI would find them.  While riffling through old papers, we found about twenty boxes of Hubbard’s personal documents.  I asked for permission to read them, to later compile an updated version of his biography, and I began to study them.  I discovered that Hubbard lied to everyone about everything.  For example, he said that he was an engineer and a nuclear physicist, that during wartime he was crippled and blinded, that he was awarded 27 combat decorations …

- And in reality?

- He was expelled during his second year of university.  He spent the entire war on the home front, and so he was not injured, he was not blinded, and he did not receive 27 decorations.  And then Scientology completely fell apart for me.  I knew that my IQ had not increased one point and that I had not acquired any superpowers …  I had wasted twelve and a half years of my life …  I read his notes: “Every man is my slave.”  He programmed himself to have limitless power.  To do this, he even used psychotropic substances.

IN RUSSIA, SCIENTOLOGY AROUSED THE INTEREST OF ENTERTAINERS AND PROFESSORS

- Tom Cruise and John Travolta are the most famous Scientologists in the U.S.  Do you know of any Russian celebrities who are involved in this organization?

- There are some, of course, but I do not know their names.

- “I can’t name them at the moment,” interjects Alexander Dvorkin, a leading Russian expert on sectarian studies, “But when the Scientologists had just arrived in Russia, many of our stage celebrities and even university professors were actively interested.  One of these professors even opened an L. Ron Hubbard reading room at his department and posthumously awarded Hubbard an honorary doctorate.”

- Are celebrities recruited with their knowledge or by trickery?

- In Hollywood, many understand that a connection with Scientology can give their career a big boost.  When a movie starring Tom Cruise comes out, every cult member is obliged to buy 30 tickets to see the movie or to purchase DVD’s.  Scientology has a very powerful intelligence gathering appartus, so when a reporter wants to meet with Cruise himself, the actor is provided a complete file on the reporter, including all of the person’s weak spots.

September 1997, Paris. French scientologists outside the German embassy protesting against the prohibition of Hubbard's teachings in Germany.

FROM KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA‘S FILES

“If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion!”

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was an American science fiction writer and the founder of the “Church of Scientology”.  He was born in 1911, in Nebraska.

Hubbard initially wanted to become a nuclear physicist, but he was unable to pass the exams for the introductory course.  Being in need of money, he began to write science fiction stories.

At the start of World War II, he was drafted into the Navy, but he sat out the war on the home front.  He “distinguished himself” only once: by lying that he had located a Japanese submarine, alerting commanding officers, and firing at the submarine for several hours.  When it was discovered that the submarine was a figment of his imagination, he became very upset and, for some reason, he fired all his ship’s guns at an island belonging to Mexico, a U.S. ally.  Rear Admiral Braisted noted in Hubbard’s fitness report after the incident: “Consider this officer lacking in the essential qualities of judgement, leadership and cooperation. He acts without forethought as to probable results.”

Hubbard was then assigned ashore due to illness (ulcers).  After his discharge, he bombarded the FBI and the CIA with letters in which he proclaimed his desire to destroy the communists.  These agencies quickly stopped paying attention, deeming him mentally unstable.

In 1945, Hubbard met John Whiteside Parsons, a devotee of Aleister Crowley (one of the most well-known Satanists of the twentieth century), and he regularly frequented occult circles.

In the late 1940s, he invented his own religion and, according to the recollections of friends, he did not stop using drugs.

It is reported that in 1949, at a science fiction writers convention in New Jersey, Hubbard said: “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”  In 1950, he published his bible, entitled “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health”.  Four years later, the “International Church of Scientology” was born.  Since then, Hubbard’s teachings have made their way around the world.

In some countries, Hubbard was declared persona non grata.  From 1977 to 1981, Hubbard lived on a yacht in international waters, a fugitive from the justice system of different countries.  Shortly after his return to the United States, he went into hiding and remained in the U.S. until his death in 1986.  In 1996, the State Duma adopted a resolution classifying the “Church of Scientology” as a destructive religious organization.

According to some accounts, Hubbard’s dream of making a fortune by inventing his own religion came true: at the time of his death, his wealth reached 640 million dollars …

Church of Scientology of Moscow spokesman and editor-in-chief of “Right to Freedom”, Alexei Danchenkov: “Armstrong was invited to Russia as an expert on Scientology, but he left the church 30 years ago”

Interview by Valery Stepanov
for “Portal-Credo.Ru”

Gerald Armstrong spoke a few days ago at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University in Moscow and he was presented as a former senior official of the Church of Scientology.  Is his name familiar to you?

Aleksei Danchenkov: Actually, Gerald Armstrong was a former clerk of the Church of Scientology of California.

Well yes, haven’t we all been clerks at one time or another?

It’s like saying, for example, that Aleksei Danchenkov is a former child, or a former room-cleaner, or a former bed-wetter.

The problem, however, is that Mr. Danchenkov implies that during my twelve plus years inside Scientology all I did was be a clerk. I’m already aware, of course, that this is a long term, planet-wide “attack line” on me by Scientology agents. See, for example, this June 1983 article in Penthouse containing an interview the magazine conducted with Heber Jentzsch, the clerical President of the cult:

Jentzsch: Mr. Armstrong is my step-son-in-law. I know him quite well. He was a clerk, and he also drove a car. And that’s all he ever did. When he left, he sort of tried to raise his status. If he thinks he’s been hounded by Scientologists, I’ll offer this: he says he’s getting phone calls? We’ll go to the police and put a tap on the phone. You know what a tap is, right? It just traces the phone call. So let’s find out where the phone calls are coming from, because it isn’t coming from our people. And I want to know. So to every guy who’s screaming that, that’s the thing I offer. http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/scien240.html

It seems reasonable that Mr. Danchenkov as well as being a former clerk or child also also drove a car. Although we have never, to my knowledge, met, his name is somewhat familiar to me because of news reports such as:

http://www.xenu-directory.net/news/images/thecompiler-1999-3.pdf#page=1

http://www.moreaboutscientologycult.eu/usa/us-articles-associated-press-ap-6.pdf

Mr. Danchenkov and his Scientologist accomplices are further implying, of course, that “clerk” is some unimportant, degraded position in Scientology, and that the Scientologists filling that position are necessarily prevented from acquiring any experiences or knowledge that could conceivably make them experts in anything.

The truth is that I successfully held several positions during my years in Scientology, and none were termed or described as “clerk.” Another truth is that in those actual positions and years I acquired a great deal of experience and knowledge. I have also acquired a great deal of experience and knowledge in the almost thirty years since I left Scientology. Throughout these post-Scientology years, I also was in many positions and had functions different from clerk; for example, as a Scientology target, victim and opponent, and as a witness, writer, speaker and researcher.

Along with certain God-given abilities, and the necessary willingness, of course, my honestly acquired, now forty-two years of experience and knowledge have, in fact, made me an expert on Scientology. My experience, knowledge and testimony is particularly expert regarding Scientology’s “Suppressive Person” doctrine, or “SP” doctrine, and regarding the doctrine’s application, which  is commonly called “fair game.”

Mr. Danchenkov’s black propaganda statement about me to portal-credo.ru is his fair game assignment, his visible application of the antisocial and dangerous SP doctrine. The operators of portal-credo.ru, Valery Stepanov, et al., also, of course, facilitate and forward fair game. They share the agreement that I am a legitimate target for attack and pursuit. Black propaganda or black PR is the policy and practice and facet of fair game provided by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbbard of manufacturing and disseminating false and defamatory information about a person to destroy his reputation, credibility, relationships, opportunities and livelihood.

I’m a very accessible person, and no one attempted to check any of Mr. Danchenkov’s charges with me. The reasons for not checking what are presented as statements of fact are obvious and further explained in my response.

I have been recognized in legal proceedings as an expert on Scientology, and have testified in several legal proceedings as an expert. I have written and executed many expert declarations for use in legal proceedings relating to Scientology, written and published considerable material on Scientology, and, as the interviewer notes, I have spoken publicly on the subject in different places.

I am willing to engage Mr. Danchenkov in a debate concerning Scientology, founder Hubbard, their claims, activities, products, intentions, history and nature. Since I left Scientology, I have never found a Scientologist willing to engage in a debate on these important issues, and I believe that this universal refusal to engage in a debate is because the Scientologists, virtually universally, recognize that I am the expert they say I am not.

He left the church in 1981, stealing more than 10,000 pages of documentation.

Now, Mr. Danchenkov is lying, and libeling me.

It is true that Scientology and Scientologists attempted to have me convicted of theft of documents. It is true that they filed a lawsuit against me alleging that I stole documents. It is also true that Scientologists like Mr. Danchenkov and their collaborators have been telling the lie that I stole documents since I escaped from their cult. But they are all simply lying.

The law enforcement authorities that Scientology and Scientologists pressured to bring criminal charges against me refused. The civil case that the Scientologists brought against me was decided in my favor, and the Court stated in the judgment:

“The court finds that while working for L. R. Hubbard. . . [I] . . . had permission and authority from plaintiffs and LRH to provide [contracted writer] Omar Garrison with every document or object that was made available to Mr. Garrison, and further, had permission from Omar Garrison to take and deliver to [my] attorneys the documents and materials.”

The Court also ruled that because I was subject to “fair game,” by which Scientology “harassed and abused” people “it perceives as enemies,” the “reasons and justification” for my actions were “manifest.”
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/ga/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/breckenridge-decision1.pdf

This judgment was affirmed in 1991 in the California Court of Appeal.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/ga/wp-content/uploads/1991/07/283calrptr917.pdf

Despite these judicial rulings and their affirmance on appeal, because of the relevant Scientologists’ seemingly conscienceless condition, they have continued to falsely assert, as Mr. Danchenkov is doing, that I stole documents.

He is currently wanted by the police of the United States on a number of charges for which he could face imprisonment and be required to pay fines for contempt of court.

If it is true that I am wanted by the police of the United States on a number of charges, it would be yet another instance and operation of fair game Scientology and Scientologists are perpetrating. It is my belief, however, that Mr. Danchenkov is not correct, that I am not wanted by the police of the US, and that he knows I am not wanted by these police.

It is true that Scientology has been successful in obtaining a series of unlawful jail sentences against me for lawful violations of an unlawful injunction that the cult obtained against me in Marin County, California Superior Court in 1995. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/ga/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/injunction-1995-10-17.pdf

Scientology’s injunction unlawfully prohibits me from discussing Scientology, Hubbard, Scientology organizations, and even Scientologists such as Mr. Danchenkov, who is a Scientology employee. The injunction also unlawfully prohibits me from helping Scientology or Scientologists’ victims, or people adverse to Scientology or Scientologists. Such persons all comprise the “Suppressive Person” class, which is identified as a hated and persecuted religious class by Scientology “scripture.”

Scientology’s injunction is unlawful and lawfully judicially unenforceable, and no person has a duty to comply with unlawful orders. Nevertheless, Scientology has been successful in having certain California courts unlawfully enforce its unlawful injunction and issue unlawful orders to fine, jail and financially ruin me.

Since Scientology is considered a religion in all US states, Scientology’s injunction is equivalent to a secular court order that prohibited a person from discussing Christianity, Jesus Christ, Christian Churches, and Christians, and prohibited the person from helping anyone adverse to, or for that matter not adverse to, some named church or religion. The jail sentences Scientology has been able to obtain against me are as unlawful as jailing people for discussing Christianity, Jesus Christ, Christian Churches, and Christians, or for helping or not helping anyone adverse or not to Christianity or any other religion.

It is both ironic and fully understandable that Mr. Danchenkov has for many years been involved in the effort to portray Scientology and its members as defenders and advocates for religious freedoms around the world. See, for example, this comment I happened to include in a letter in 2004 to Scientology collaborator Joseph K. Grieboski:

Your research associate Kyle Ballard writes this about his project “The Study of Religious Freedoms in Russia:

In modern democracies, religious freedoms are fundamental. Thus, as Russia is shedding its Communist ideology and emerging as a democratic state, religious freedoms have become essential. With this in mind, I traveled to Moscow and Nizhniy-Novgorod to attend the Experts Conference on Religious Freedoms in Russia and to study the position of religious minorities in Russian society.

My assistant was Alexei Danchenkov, Russian national and a legal analyst and spokesman for the Church of Scientology. In attendance at the conference were academics, journalists, state servants, political advisers, and religious freedoms advocates from both Russia and the United States. The conference provided an open forum to discuss the state of religious freedoms in the Russian Federation and allowed U.S. experts to share the American experience. Moreover, because the Church of Scientology works extremely hard on religious freedom issues, I was provided with much information the struggles of religious groups around the world.

Scientology is a global, well-documented suppressor and destroyer of basic human rights, including, most egregiously, freedom of religion. To cloak this antisocial reality, Scientology has people make ridiculous claims, such as, for example, that Scientologists are “religious freedom advocates,” or that “Scientology works extremely hard on religious freedom issues.”

Very relevantly, Mr. Danchenkov, as “Church of Scientology of Moscow Spokesman” and “Editor-in-Chief of “Right to Freedom,” is a contracted “beneficiary” in Scientology’s injunction that unlawfully and unarguably suppresses and destroys my basic freedoms including my religious freedom. He is also a contracted beneficiary in Scientology and Scientologists’ unlawful efforts to enforce their unlawful injunction. He benefits personally by having me jailed and fined.

The injunction’s unlawful prohibitions, moreover, also apply to “persons acting in concert” with me. There are, of course, many people around the world, indeed many in Russia, who act in concert with me, in defiance of Scientology and Scientologists’ injunction. Consequently, the conspiracy against human rights, particularly religious freedom, in which Mr. Danchenkov is a beneficiary and participant, is truly monstrous.

I was in Russia, in fact, on this occasion, to discuss my amazing Scientology-related legal situation, and specifically how it applies to persons and groups acting in concert with me. I was also helping to organize the class of Russian citizens who act in concert with me, in order to oppose Scientology’s injunction and have it declared unlawful and unenforceable.

The class of people acting in concert with me, as considered by Scientology’s injunction, have never had an opportunity to be heard or even to appear in the Court that made them subject to that Court’s orders. The same Court issued its unlawful orders against me without giving me a fair trial, or even an unfair trial, but at least I got to make an appearance in the case. The whole class of persons acting in concert with me has never had the opportunity to appear in Court, and had no notice that the Court would or might issue such an order that directly, adversely, and unlawfully, affects the class. I was in Russia because it is time that this grotesque injustice is ended.

- Is Mr. Armstrong really an expert on Scientology?

Yes.

I am not, however, claiming or suggesting that this is in some way an enviable status. Indeed, experts on Scientology, that is, those who tell the truth, tend to be victimized and their lives made as miserable as Scientologists can make them. It is simply a statement of fact, no matter how unenviable, that I am such an expert.

For me to deny this fact, in order, for example, to get Scientologists to stop victimizing me, is pointless because, as indicated above, they know that I am the expert they say I am not. The Scientologists would clearly still know this, and accordingly still fair game me, even if I said as they say that I’m not the expert they say I’m not.

I do not believe that being an expert on Scientology is a unique or rare ability or station. In fact, I believe that virtually anyone who learns and communicates the truth about Scientology can be an expert. My goal is to have as many other people as possible have the same expertise I now have, because, the more people that have that expertise, the safer for all of us.

- In 1984, Gerald Armstrong was preparing a plot to seize the assets of the Church of Scientology.

This is false. There was no such plot.

The truth is that Scientology’s intelligence personnel, operated at that time by L. Ron Hubbard and his successor David Miscavige, concocted a plot to make it appear that I was plotting to do things I wasn’t plotting to do. They were the plotters. I was the mark. The cult’s covert operatives sent to contact me – Dan Sherman, David Kluge and Mike Rinder – claimed they were members of a group of Scientologists who wanted to take control of Scientology from Miscavige, end his era of criminality, and in fact have him jailed for his crimes. The operatives insisted on meeting in secret because, they said, everybody in their group was afraid for their lives.

This group of “ethical” Scientologists approached me with the come-on that they wanted my help against their criminal bosses because, they said, I had successfully stood up to them and their criminal cult. Scientology leaders and intelligence personnel know that I’m a person who is often very willing to help people, and they have used this “help button” many times to get close to me, run intelligence operations on me, and try to entrap me. Sherman, Kluge and Rinder and their operators attempted to inveigle me into unethical or criminal activities, but were unsuccessful.

When the circumstances of this crime were uncovered, an investigation was conducted concerning Armstrong’s plans.

This is false. I committed no crime. The videotapes Scientology made were illegal, and what the cult has done with the illegal videos is tortious and illegal. Since the whole “Armstrong Operation” was schemed, programmed, manned, drilled and executed by Scientology and its agents, the idea of Scientology and its agents uncovering the operation and conducting an investigation into the operation is blackly funny.

For more details regarding the Armstrong Operation, see this declaration of February 20, 1994: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-20.html
Also see this related declaration of February 22, 1994: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/decl-1994-02-22.html

During this investigation, he was recorded on videotape stating that he intends to fabricate and plant incriminating documents on Church premises, where they would be discovered during a subsequent raid.

This is false. What I suggested is that if these people, who were asking for my help, and who were claiming to want to reform Scientology and end its criminal activities, really meant it, they should document what they knew of their cult’s criminal activities so that there was an accurate record no matter what happened.

As an action in their fair game campaign, Scientology and Scientologists pervert what I was suggesting, as Mr. Danchenkov is doing here, to assert that I wanted to “fabricate” documents or evidence. All I was doing, however, was attempting to lawfully help and encourage the people who came to me for help to stand up against a dangerous evil. These people, of course, were fakes, who didn’t want to reform Scientology, but were, like Mr. Danchenkov, working for that dangerous evil.

Armstrong admitted that his goal was to overthrow the supreme leader of the Church, using sexual enticement in a scheme which Armstrong named “Operation Long Prong”.

As stated above, the removal of Scientology head David Miscavige and prosecuting him for crimes were the goals that the “reformers,” the cult’s own covert operatives, claimed were theirs. Those goals would not prevent me from helping these people as reformers, because Miscavige is a clear sociopath and has committed crimes for which he should be prosecuted. Those were not specifically my goals, however, in agreeing to help his agents who were claiming to be his victims.

What are relevant at this time, since this “interview” for portal-credo.ru is all about me, are my actual and current goals regarding Scientology and Scientologists. I stated these five easy goals in a letter to Miscavige in 2008.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/armstrong-ltr-miscavige-2008-03-13.html
I’ve also communicated them publicly on numerous occasions for other Scientologists and for normal people over the past few years.

1. Release everyone from any restraint that prohibits them from speaking freely about their experiences and knowledge.
2. Repudiate the “Suppressive Person” doctrine.
3. Pay reparations to everyone harmed by Scientology or Scientologists or their agents’ application of the SP doctrine.
4. Pay back Scientology’s fraud victims.
5. Tell the truth.

When I reflect on my state of mind back in 1984, my goal then was to have Scientologists stop their war on me, my family, friends, and everyone. That’s essentially what Scientology and Scientologists promised in a group settlement with their victims in December 1986. Scientology and Scientologists, however, have never stopped their war on us, so that goal has not been attained. The five easier goals are reasonable steps or requirements to show that the war has been stopped.

“Operation Long Prong” was a thoughtlessly scribbled, tasteless note of a joke I wrote, actually to ridicule Scientology and Scientologists’ spy mentality. Ultimately, the joke may have been what Scientology’s intelligence personnel and leaders estimated was enough to destroy my reputation or my ability to continue to oppose their aggression and abuses. Their estimate was wrong, however, and my bad jokes have not destroyed me. I wrote in my February 20, 1994 declaration:

It has not ceased to be embarrassing to me whenever the organization trots out the Armstrong videotapes, because I do say some silly and raunchy things. But the organization has never been able to embarrass me into silence and it won’t now.

Some of Armstrong’s actions are quite revealing.  For example, he posted a message on the internet about his letter to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War.  In the letter, he offered himself to Hussein as a hostage in the Iraqi war.  The letter ends with the words: “If either side failed to perform any part of the agreement, the other side could execute me.”

Mr. Danchenkov implies that what is quite revealed by my November 1,1990 letter to Saddam Hussein is something deranged or nefarious about me.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/saddam-bill-wgert-and-me.html#saddam

Elsewhere Scientologists or their agents make more explicit claims about the letter; for example that it shows my “mental stability is questionable,” or evidences a “personality disorder.” See, for example, Scientology’s US-based website: http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/anti-religious-extremists/gerald-armstrong/

In addition to his unlawful activities, Armstrong’s mental stability is questionable. Armstrong once posted a message on the Internet concerning a letter he sent to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. In the letter, he offered himself to Hussein as a hostage in the Iraqi war. “If either side failed to perform any part of the agreement, the other side could execute me,” he concluded. Armstrong makes clear in his posting that he did not think the letter to Hussein was a joke, but was deadly serious. He quite proudly republishes it and other similar writings from time to time. To further demonstrate how out of touch he is with reality, Armstrong had himself photographed by a newspaper naked while holding a globe to promote his theories of destroying all money.

Also see Scientology’s Russia-based site: http://religiousfreedomwatch-ru.org/religious-extremists/gerald-armstrong

В дополнение к его незаконной деятельности, душевное здоровье Армстронга находится под вопросом. Однажды Армстронг в одном из своих сообщений в интернете привел письмо, которое он послал Саддаму Хусейну во время войны в Персидском заливе. В этом письме он предлагал самого себя в качестве заложника для Хусейна во время войны в Ираке. «Если какая-либо из сторон не выполнит какую-то часть соглашения, вторая сторона будет вправе казнить меня» — написал он в заключение. Армстронг четко заявляет в своем сообщении, что он не рассматривал письмо к Хусейну как шутку, наоборот — это было в высшей степени серьезно. Он с достаточной гордостью публикут это и другие похожие послания время от времени. Для большей демонстрации того, насколько он потерял связь с реальностью, Армстронг сфотографировался для одной из газет, будучи голым и держа Землю, для продвижения своих теорий уничтожения всех денег.

Importantly, also consider Scientology and Scientologists’ submission to the US’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on which its many entities in 1993 were granted tax exemption, and consequently US Federal Government protection and promotion.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/irs/index.html

There are several pages of black propaganda on me in Scientology’s submission, which its leaders and the people preparing the submission knew to be false. Such false statements to the IRS are grounds to have Scientology’s tax exemption withdrawn, if the US Government had the will. The statements also evidence the importance the IRS had placed on the Scientology v. Armstrong case in previous denials of the cult’s demands for tax exemption. See, for example:

Church of Scientology v. Gerald Armstrong:
We have included some background information here and an epilogue to the decision in question. That is because the Service has continuously thrust the Armstrong case at us, demanding an explanation. The Armstrong case decision was so inflammatory and intemperate that it was used to stigmatize the Church in the legal arena and make other outrageous decisions possible. As we shall demonstrate below, all this decision ever involved was Armstrong’s state of mind, which subsequently obtained evidence proved conclusively to be one sordid, sado-masochistic nightmare.

[…]

Our consistent view has been that the civil litigants are solely motivated by greed. The exception is Armstrong who we truly believe to be psychotic. During the 1980’s, the IRS used every single civil litigant against Scientology as an IRS witness. The government, however, has no business in taking sides in a religious or civil dispute. It is indeed ironic to note that once the Flynn civil litigation in the 80’s was settled, with the exception of Armstrong, we hear no more of their “horror stories” from these paragons of virtue claiming to be interested only in “principle” and “what is right.”

http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/irs/csi-prod-1993-11-04-152016-152073.html

Scientology and Scientologists are driven to use whatever exists and whatever can be manufactured therefrom to show that their thoughts, words and actions against me are right, and completely justified, indeed necessary and honorable. One of their most important and often repeated pieces of “evidence” that I’m truly psychotic is my 1990 letter to Saddam.

The letter, obviously, is unrelated to Scientology. It could stand alone for consideration without reference to Scientology. Anyone could have written it without my history and present relationship with Scientology. The cult made the letter “relevant” in a lawsuit it filed and prosecuted improperly against me in the 1990’s. Once it obtained the letter in the legal proceeding, Scientology has used it in its black PR campaign.

I’ve just re-read the letter. It is grammatically solid, philosophically consistent, literary, and sincere. I was, of course, aware that there was little likelihood that Saddam would pay any attention, or even hear of my offer. I was, nevertheless, willing to make my life available if called for to avert or in relation to the coming war. Doubtlessly my offer on behalf of people who don’t participate in national negotiations could have been preferable to the wars that have since happened in Iraq.

The letter does not, however, evidence a personality disorder, legally, medically or societally, any more than any other understandable and sincere offer within a person’s capability in a tense situation evidences a personality disorder. Scientology’s leaders do not truly believe I’m psychotic, but clearly believe that their survival depends on getting others to believe I’m psychotic so that what I say won’t be believed.

In addition to black PRing me for writing Saddam Hussein to try to prevent war, Scientology also black PRs me for my writings about my plan for peacefully resolving the world’s economic problems. Scientologists have demonstrated that no matter what I say or do, no matter how unrelated to Scientology, no matter how enlightened, beneficial or even holy, they will attack it to attack me.

Yet, the attacks on me, and my associates, besides being hurtful, are irrelevant. It would not matter if I was truly psychotic, or truly evil, or the evilest person on earth, it is not right or lawful to try silence me about the Scientology religion and its religionists, by court order, by threat, or by any other means. And I am not such a person.

Armstrong had himself photographed by a newspaper naked while covering himself with a globe, which, according to him, symbolizes the idea of refusing any money.

This is false, and Scientologists know it’s false. They know I was wearing running shorts, which was completely appropriate apparel for the occasion.

President Jentzsch’s 1993 letter to Entertainment Television: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/jentzsch-ltr-1993-08-05.html

Former international chief spokesperson Mike Rinder’s 1994 letter to the Mirror Newspaper Group: http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/rinder-ltr-1994-05-09.html

Current international chief spokesperson Tommy Davis recently made the same naked claim as reported in Lawrence Wright’s profile of Paul Haggis, “Apostate,” in the February 14, 2011 issue of The New Yorker.

Davis passed around a photograph of Armstrong, which, he said, showed Armstrong “sitting naked” with a giant globe in his lap. “This was a photo that was in a newspaper article he did where he said that all people should give up money,” Davis said. “He’s not a very sane person.”

Armstrong told me that, in the photo, he is actually wear­ing running shorts under the globe.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright

This photo, which was published in Runners World in the February 1995 edition, shows me wearing the same pair of shorts while running. http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/rat/runners-world-1995-02.html

- Why then was this man, who has been outside more than 30 years since he was a member of the Church, invited into the country and called one of the leading experts on Scientology by the chairman of the Expert Council of the Russian Ministry of Justice?

The real reason, ironically, is just because of what Scientology and Scientologists like Mr. Danchenkov have done during those almost 30 years to unlawfully silence me, in knowing violation of international human rights charters, and even US Federal criminal statutes.

I was in Russia in fact to offer my legal case and situation with Scientology to the Russian Ministry of Justice and to other Ministries and officials who must deal with the cult’s fraud, abuses and criminality.

That Scientology can get and has gotten people to conspire to suppress and destroy human and legal rights, and allow themselves to be contracted beneficiaries in that illegal conspiracy, is enough reason for Russia and every country to act to properly warn its citizens about Scientology and its conspiracy against rights.

The Chairman of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Justice Dr. Alexander L. Dvorkin, St.Tikhon’s Orthodox University, and other Russian institutions and Russian citizens deserve gratitude and respect for their courage in inviting me speak and for daring to act in concert with me.

- I believe that more qualified experts have a different point of view.

I would very much like to find out who these more qualified experts are. I am already certain that Scientology’s less qualified experts, for example Gordon Melton, James R. Lewis, Massimo Introvigne or Eileen Barker, have a point of view that is radically different from mine, simply because they’re Scientology’s experts, or its collaborators. I have never found, however, a more qualified expert whose point of view is radically different from mine. And neither Mr. Danchenkov nor portal-credo.ru, unfortunately, identifies who these more qualified experts are.

Gerry Armstrong
#2-46298 Yale Road
Chilliwack, BC V2P 2P6
Canada
604-703-1373

Translation and transcript

Gerry Armstrong

Prof. Alexander Dvorkin

Alexander Dvorkin (AD): I’ll translate from here.

Gerry Armstrong (GA): And I say in English, Christ is risen.

AD: Indeed he is risen.

GA: You all know my name is Gerry Armstrong, and I’m here from Canada. This is my fourth visit to Russia.

I was in, first of all Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and now Moscow, and actually this is my fourth trip to Moscow, because I flew in here and had experiences here before as well.

I just want to, first of all, correct something which was put in the announcement here in the University’s publication. To my knowledge, Scientology has never attempted to murder me. It’s very understandable that that would be reported because I have been assaulted six times, and they have threatened to assassinate me. But to my knowledge, they have never tried, and I’m here safely.

I wish to speak briefly tonight about an aspect of Scientology which makes the organization dangerous. And then I’ll attempt to explain why I’m here in Russia, another time.

Some of you may have seen a rather famous video of the most famous Scientologist, Tom Cruise. This was published on the Internet in 2008, and it was made by Tom Cruise at the time he received, in 2004, Scientology’s Freedom of Valor award. Tom talks about people that are referred to as “Suppressive Persons”, or “SPs.” And SPs, Scientology teaches, are the most evil, 2 1/2% of people on the planet. And Tom says he welcomes the day when there will be no SPs left on Earth. Scientology teaches that Suppressive Persons are basically equivalent to what are known in the psychology science as sociopaths or psychopaths. And Scientology teaches that they cannot be cured, and that they are responsible for all accidents, illness and every evil on Earth. I am an SP.

(Applause)

In truth, Scientology does not attack or go after real criminals, real psychopaths, real sociopaths. SPs or Suppressive Persons are simply ordinary people in every walk of life who tell the truth about Scientology. The Suppressive Person doctrine makes Scientology a criminal organization. The enforcement or application of the Suppressive Person doctrine is known by the name, “Fair Game.” The founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard wrote extensively about Suppressive Persons. When he wrote about it, he said in Scientology policy, which they call scripture, that SPs are fair game, they may be tricked, lied to, cheated, stolen from and destroyed. Scientology declared me an SP in early 1982 and have fair gamed me ever since.

Besides the physical assaults that I mentioned, I have been run into physically with a car, this was by an agent hired by Scientology. They terrorized my wife and me on a freeway in southern California, and they did similarly with myself and friends on an autobahn in Germany. They have sued me six times, driven me into bankruptcy. They’ve tried to have me prosecuted on false criminal charges, including with the FBI, the District Attorney in Los Angeles, and even the legal authorities in Ekaterinburg.

The Suppressive Person doctrine is used to terrorize Scientologists, keep them in a constant state of fear, and likewise to terrorize people like myself, who is outside the organization.

They have created and disseminated around the world a mass of what they call “black propaganda”. It was Hubbard’s practice and policy to destroy people’s reputations, credibility, livelihoods, relationships and their lives with black PR. And if you look up who Gerry Armstrong is on the Internet, you will find a mass of black PR about me. They disseminated black PR on me, calling me a criminal and worse right here in Russia, including to the FSB. And they also attempted to get the United States embassy here in Moscow to pick me up.

The Suppressive Person doctrine is what is used to justify the break-up of families. If Scientology declares someone a Suppressive Person, other Scientologists may not communicate to them, and pursuant to their policy, may not even grant them credence. There is an element in Scientology however, that does deal with Suppressive Persons, and they deal with them in an aggressive, criminal manner.

Scientology is actually at war. Because however, they cannot pick up guns, and cannot bomb us, just for fear of prosecution, much of their attacks on Suppressive Persons like myself are in secret, covert intelligence matters. One of the first things that a new Scientologist learns is that they are at war, and consequently, Scientologists virtually automatically know that they are to attack, to ruin the lives of any Suppressive Person. So, to me the Suppressive Person doctrine is unjustifiable. There is no excuse. It is indefensible.

The closest historical parallel would be the Nazi’s “Untermensch” doctrine. So the way that the Nazis treated the Jews is very similar to the way Scientology treats or would like to treat Suppressive Persons. The Suppressive Person doctrine justifies an endless array of immoral and criminal activities.

Scientology is under incredible pressure around the world and more and more people are becoming educated about the organization. I think that that can be evidenced just by the number of people here who have come to hear about the organization. Scientology cannot stop the spread of information now about its practices and about its intentions. As the pressure mounts on Scientology, also the risk, the threat, to individuals like me and to other people in society, mounts. And yet there is no choice but to keep talking and keep educating people, and keep spreading the word.

And I would like to thank all of you for coming here and for being willing to listen, and I hope and pray that you also spread the word.

I would like now to just touch on my legal situation and what brings me here specifically at this time. I am subject to an order in the United States which prohibits me from even saying the word, “Scientology.” How Scientology obtained that order is a very long story, but it essentially involves massive abuse of the legal process. And while I am prevented from saying the word “Scientology” or mentioning one word about my now-42 years of experience and knowledge about this organization, Scientology believes and the court has agreed with them, that they can say whatever they want about me, no matter how false or defamatory, and I cannot respond.

This order is on penalty of $50,000 per utterance. So this is a very valuable talk to you.

I am also subject to another order which permits Scientology to have me jailed and further fined for anything I say. I cannot talk about Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, any Scientology organization, including all of their directors, officers, employees, volunteers, agents and attorneys. Similarly with Scientology’s affiliated organizations or entities such as their front groups Criminon, Narconon, Citizens Commission on Human Rights — that’s the organization that they use to attack psychiatry, their Volunteer Minister organization, their Way to Happiness  organization — “The Way to Happiness” is a little booklet that Scientology hands out at disaster sites. And similarly all of their directors, officers, employees, volunteers, agents and attorneys. So virtually every Scientologist here in Russia, it applies to them as well. This order also applies to anyone acting in concert with me.

So Dr. Dvorkin and his organization act in concert with me, and now St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University acts in concert with me. I have been invited, in fact, here on other occasions, by the Russian Orthodox Church. So I have your wonderful and massive church acting in concert with me.

This order, series of orders and judgments sound completely bizarre, but it is very real. And it is my hope to both do something about this order, these orders while I’m here, and to offer this extraordinary legal situation and my experience to Russia, who is standing up, to whatever degree, to Scientology.

The European Human Rights court has sided with Scientology, and my case, and my situation demonstrates that Scientology is a massive human rights abuser.

In that Scientology in the United States is considered a religion, and seeks here in Russia to be recognized as a religion, these orders would be equivalent to penalizing someone $50,000 per utterance for saying the name “God” or sending someone to jail for talking about his experiences or knowledge in the Christian religion.

And tomorrow I believe I will be speaking to the Russian Justice Department to offer them whatever assistance can be made of myself and my strange, extraordinary legal situation.

So I think, if it would be okay, I would like to open up the –

Maybe you should say a few words about your biography.

Oh, my biography, okay.

I got into Scientology in 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. And I was brought in, in the same way that Scientology lures everyone in: promises of increased intelligence quotient or IQ. Scientology promises that IQ’s will go up, on average, 1 point per hour of their therapy, their psychotherapy called auditing. IQ is something which is measurable and is a secular matter, not a religious matter. I had over a thousand hours of Scientology auditing. (Laughs) You can tell, right? (Laughs) But at least I acquired sufficient smarts to be able to leave the organization.

In 1971, I joined what is known as the Sea Organization. This is the organization, the part of Scientology which runs it around the world. Also in early 1971, I was sent to the ship which L. Ron Hubbard was on, the Apollo. At that time, we were in Morocco, and we sailed up and down the Moroccan coast and to Portugal, and Spain and the little Atlantic islands, Madeira, the Canaries. I started off on board washing dishes. I became the storesman briefly, and then I became the ship’s driver, the driver of a little car which we had on board.

Beginning of 1972, I became the ship’s legal officer. I was responsible for customs, immigration, police. The port authorities, tug boats, I hired them. I then became the public relations officer, and then in 1974, I became the ship’s intelligence officer. At that time, because of difficulties we were having in Europe, the ship sailed across the Atlantic and we spent the next year in the Caribbean.

Hubbard was on board during most of those years. He was off the ship briefly in 1973 because he was convicted of fraud in France. In 1975, the ship’s complement came ashore in Florida, and I was close to Hubbard at the time. I was then handling his communications.

I was sent on a mission from Florida to Los Angeles to set up a base. I got in an argument with his wife’s, Mary Sue Hubbard’s, secretary. Hubbard had me locked up, and then assigned me to Scientology’s prison system, the Rehabilitation Project Force, or RPF. The existence of these RPF re-education camps is a reason why every country should warn their citizens about this organization. I spent 17 months in the RPF at that time. I got out and was transferred again to California, to work with Hubbard shooting movies. And again he assigned me to the RPF, this time for joking. He got the idea that I was joking about his movie-making. In fact, I was not. As I can see you are all able to laugh. Inside Scientology it was a crime to laugh about the wrong thing. I stayed 8 months at that time in the RPF, and then, when I got out, I worked in Hubbard’s Household Unit at a new base that they had bought in Gilman Hot Springs, California. Gilman Hot Springs is the current headquarters of Scientology. The present leader, David Miscavige, lives there.

At the beginning of 1980, there was a threat of a raid. I understood what that meant, because the Federal Bureau of Investigation had raided Scientology in 1977, and 11 of its intelligence personnel were charged in United States Federal Court, convicted and sentenced to prison. There was a constant threat and awareness wherever I was in Scientology, of a raid by police or other authorities. And at that time, everyone was ordered to destroy any documents which showed that Hubbard had been to the property, that he intended to live there, that he controlled Scientology or controlled Scientology finances. In this search for documents which incriminated Hubbard, one of my juniors discovered a box of very old material in his personal archive.

She brought this box to me and I decided that it should not be destroyed because of its historical value. And then we discovered approximately 20 boxes of similar material in Hubbard’s personal effects.

I petitioned Hubbard to then assemble an archive of his personal documents and do the research for a biography. Ironically, Hubbard approved my petition, and I spent the next 2 years assembling this archive and working with an outside non-Scientologist writer by the name of Omar Garrison.

During the course of my research and study of his personal documents, I deprogrammed myself. And I documented that he had lied about virtually every aspect of his life. He claimed for example to be a civil engineer and a nuclear physicist, and this was very significant to me. It was what was in Scientology advertisements which brought me in and kept me there for all those years. He and Scientology claimed that he had been crippled and blinded during the Second World War. He claimed to have been awarded 27 medals, including 2 Purple Hearts.

He lied about his family, he lied about his wives, and he lied about explorations which he had claimed. So he was not a civil engineer, not a nuclear physicist. He flunked out of his second year of university. Regarding medals, he received 4 standard service medals. He was not crippled and blinded. He was never wounded in action. He in fact was a malingerer.

Importantly, when I began to see that Hubbard was virtually a pathological liar, the whole of Scientology fell apart for me. I had to confront the fact that Scientology does not work. As I mentioned, my IQ did not go up 1 point. I didn’t have any of the promised super powers, and I had to confront the fact that I had wasted all those years, and also confront the fact that now I was going to have this aggressive, criminal organization, target me.

So I made plans and escaped. If I had not escaped, I would have again been locked up, and because of my state of mind at that time, and my firm opposition to Scientology, I would have been kept there and killed. But I did successfully escape and, as I knew would happen, Scientology immediately targeted me. In addition to assaulting me, which I’ve mentioned, they have sued me six times. The first case in which they sued me went to trial in Los Angeles in 1984. This is a very famous judgment in which the judge condemned fair game as a practice and declared Hubbard to be a pathological liar.

Scientology could not stop attack however, but have continued to this day to consider me a major enemy.

(Applause)

(Question and Answer period)

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD:About ruining families, how did Hubbard explain that he had several wives. How did he explain it to other people if he was so much for the good family? How come he himself couldn’t have one?

GA: I think the answer is obvious. He was a liar, and Scientologists are liars. Scientology claims, as Hubbard claimed, to have the technology to improve family relations. But, in truth, they break up families. Hubbard broke up families and he broke up his own family.

Hubbard’s second marriage was bigamous. He kidnapped the daughter of his second marriage and took off with her to Cuba in 1951. And then he denied his paternity and blamed someone else for being her father. And I met that daughter, and she of all of his 7 children, looked most like him.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD:Is there a connection between Scientology and Masons?

GA: I don’t believe there is a connection, direct connection between Scientology, but there is a definite connection between Scientology and occultism. During the time when Hubbard claimed that he had already started Scientology, he was involved with one John W. Parsons, who was a devotee of Aleister Crowley. And Aleister Crowley is the founder of the Ordo Templi Orientis, which is a black magic occult group.

It is certain that there are aspects of occultism in Scientology. Hubbard of course claimed that Scientology is scientific in its basis, but the real source of Scientology is occultism.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: How Scientology is dangerous for Scientologists and how did it lure people in?

GA:It’s dangerous to an individual psychologically. It alters the human psyche, replaces the extremely valuable human conscience with Hubbard’s system. It’s dangerous to families, which I’ve mentioned. It’s dangerous to finances. It is dangerous to people outside, which I mentioned, like myself. It’s dangerous to the social order. It’s dangerous to nations. It’s dangerous to businesses.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: Now, in Russia, we can often hear that the United States has an exemplary democratic state and exemplary judicial state. So how is it possible, in such an exemplary state, such a wild decision against you, and could it be explained by a very high degree of corruption?

GA: It is explained by a high degree of public relations and also by a high degree of corruption that the public relations covers.

Very importantly, the United States has a completely different view of religious freedom than what Europe and we recognize. Freedom of religion in the United States has come to mean freedom for the religious corporation to suppress and destroy the religious freedoms of its individuals.

There was a judgment in fact, last year, in 2010, in which the court ruled that Scientology was free to lock people up, and if they escaped, go back and bring them back and lock them up. And the basis for that is because it is the religious doctrine of the corporation to do so. So it’s quite easy to understand why Scientology chose to be a religion, so that it can get away with abusing people and other human rights abuses. That’s another case that I hope to speak to the Justice Ministry about.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: But maybe you should also tell about support of Scientology by the Government of the United States as of 1993. Will you say a few words?

GA: The United States Federal Government for many years opposed Scientology and, in fact, as I mentioned, raided Scientology’s intelligence bureaus in 1977. And until 1993, denied Scientology tax exemption. But for a number of reasons, in 1993, the federal government made a strategic decision to quit opposing Scientology, and to make an ally of Scientology. And since 1993, they have promoted and defended Scientology around the world. I believe that this was a strategic decision made by the US intelligence community.

I may have mentioned Scientology at its core and in operation is a massive intelligence organization. They obtain and use intelligence from all levels of society. From their own personnel during the auditing process, each person divulges their innermost secrets, their innermost thoughts, their whole sexual history, details about their families, anything embarrassing, anything for which they could be prosecuted. All of this information, details, are written down or otherwise recorded.

Scientology equates that process with the process that you know of confession. But the people to whom the confession is made, the auditor, do not keep those secrets secret. That information is provided to Scientology’s intelligence and enforcement arms, attorneys, any way that Scientology can use it.

Additionally, Scientology’s intelligence personnel seek data, information, intelligence from every stratum of society. From government, police, businesses, the entertainment industry, medical organizations, schools, everything. The flow of information that Scientology obtains on a daily basis is massive. And so it’s very easy to see why the United States would want to have Scientology as an ally, rather than working against them.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: And you should mention that all this information flows one way. The orders come from Los Angeles and …

GA: The orders in Scientology all come from Los Angeles, and the flow of intelligence information all goes to Los Angeles. So it’s very easy to see why the United States would defend and promote Scientology around the world, and in so doing turn its back on Scientology’s victims.

The federal government knows about my case and it is indeed a problem for them. So, for me, the threat is really not only from Scientology, but from the US federal government and its intelligence tentacles.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: First question: As you went to Scientology, probably you were looking for the truth, so now, after all these years in Scientology and after Scientology,the picture of the world that you had was totally ruined. So what now? How do you see the world now? And what is the truth for you today?

Second question: You partially answered it … So, in Scientology, when we want to use a person, I understand I have to compromise him several times in order to turn him into a slave of the organization. So I would like to learn what kind of hooks they use in order to make men its slave.

Russia also has secret services, Aren’t you afraid that they might somehow want to use your information, to recruit you, or eventually to recruit you, or something?

That was a strange question.

So first question about your world view and, second, aren’t you afraid to be recruited by Russian secret services?

GA: Since I left Scientology, I have indeed sought the truth and I have found that the truth is within me. I became a Christian, and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. God is Truth. So, I now know that I was kept safe, throughout my whole experience in Scientology, throughout all of these years as fair game. And not by anything that I did, but by what God did in me.

Regarding the FSB, for example, I would welcome an opportunity to speak to them. I doubt that they would recruit me. I think that I am probably too independent thinking and I, some time ago, I gave up the idea of intelligence, that is espionage, completely. So I do not get involved in schemes or secret machinations, but again I would welcome to talk to them. I must trust that they have the interest of the country as their first directive, so in that sense, we share to a small degree, a common enemy. And I would hope that if they did contact me, that they would use my information, my situation, judiciously to help Russia and Russians. I am not an intelligence operative and I could not be one. Thank you for excellent questions.

Audience member (translated by AD):

My name is Sergey, and I have two questions. If not secret, what will you talk about tomorrow with the Ministry of Justice? (laughter and applause)

Second question: how widespread is Scientology in Russia? How can it be dangerous to Russia and why would Scientology be interested in the Russian people?

GA: As I understand, the first question had to do with the Ministry of Justice.

AD: What exactly are you going to talk there about?

GA: I am going to talk … Really, I hope to answer all of their questions, but I will be talking about legal matters. I mentioned that Russia has legal matters concerning Scientology in the European Court of Human Rights. And, as I also mentioned, there are many individuals in Russia and organizations in Russia which act in concert with me. My goal is to have my legal situation, as it affects me and others, end, but while it is going on, to make as much use of it as possible.

What was the second part?

AD: The history of Scientology in Russia and why Scientology would be interested in Russia.

GA: I probably do not have as much information as maybe even you have about Scientology in Russia. But when the Soviet Union broke apart, there was a flood of Scientologists and other cults from the West, into Russia. In a sense, Russia at that point became fair game for Scientology. Russia had to some extent been cut off from knowledge about organizations like Scientology. And consequently, Scientology expanded in Russia and spread rather rapidly. Scientology always lies about its membership. For decades it has been claiming to be the world’s fastest growing religion. Just today, Dr. Dvorkin had some statistics that Scientology claimed about its membership here.

AD (adding after Russian translation): They claim 125,00 followers in Moscow (laughter), 500,000 in Russia.

GA: So behind Scientology’s spread, there is now a spread of information. And as this crowd here evidences, people are becoming educated about this cult. And Russia is already a civilized, educated country. So, my prediction would be that education here will beat Scientology. The mass of material on the Internet at this point makes it virtually impossible for Scientology to get what it wants, which is total control.

Consequently, Scientology is expanding now, into third world countries. And that’s another area of serious danger. And the dangers of Scientology are really what I already articulated. They are dangers to the individual, dangers to family, danger to democracy, danger to society, danger to the nation. And all of those dangers have to be recognized to really deal with Scientology as a threat.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: Today, how many people … are there more people like you who decide to leave the cult and to fight it?  And are there any programs for rehabilitation for ex-Scientologists?

GA: I left at the end of 1981. And at that time there were very few people who were speaking out. Now, I would say that the numbers have multiplied considerably, but Scientology is still able to silence people who leave. They silence them by legal means, by threat, by holding over them connections to their families and friends who are still inside. Scientology also runs covert operations in order to compromise people who leave, and even sets up its own phony organizations which pretend to offer help to victims of Scientology.

So, in a sense, there are more people speaking out. The Internet is full of critical material about Scientology. In the last three years, there have been four very critical books written about Scientology. And those are all by people who were highly placed and left recently. I look at it this way, that Scientology is still an incredible threat, but the result is in the balance, so that they have neither won nor lost.

But all signs, to me, point toward Scientology’s power being removed and that Scientologists are on the wrong side of this battle. And when things are in a balance like this, just a little poke can move that, a little word can have a great effect.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: Could you tell a little bit more about the Rehabilitation Project Force that you talked about, those camps?

GA: Hubbard created the Rehabilitation Project Force in the beginning of 1974. People were assigned to it if he viewed them as non-producers, that is, they didn’t work hard enough. And people could be assigned for a simple movement of the needle on an E-Meter.

AD (in Russian): Describes the E-Meter for the audience.

GA: And in reality, people were assigned completely arbitrarily. If Hubbard detected a smell that he didn’t like, the person who created that smell could be sent to the RPF. The sentences to the RPF were not pronounced in terms of years, but you had to work your way through a program that could take many years.

RPF members did hard, dirty physical work. They received 1/4 of the pay of regular Scientology Sea Org members.

So when I was assigned, at that time, I was then getting $17.20 a week. And in the RPF I received $4.30 a week.

RPF members were not allowed to talk to other crew members unless they were spoken to. They had to run everywhere. They wore black boiler suits everywhere. For the slightest infraction, they had to run up and down stairs and perform other physical punishment. And they were subjected to endless hours of what are called security checks. And that’s when the E-Meter is used as a lie detector. The whole purpose of the RPF was to break the will of someone who is assigned.

If someone objected to the RPF, or for some other minor infraction, they could be assigned to the RPF’s RPF, which was an even more degrading experience. The person was guarded fulltime and could not speak. And this could go on for an indeterminate amount of time. Anyone who wanted to leave was locked up.

The RPF ate after the rest of the Sea Org crew ate, whatever was left. So it was meant to be a degrading experience.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: You were recruited in 1969 and, in 1971, you were intelligence officer, though you started as a dishwasher, so what kind of special gifts you had that Hubbard liked you so much, appointed you to such a high …?

GA: I was actually the intelligence officer beginning in 1974. And I really don’t know why, except that I was very compliant, and I had basic street sense, street smarts, and I had been, by that time, I had been inside for 5 years, and had, in that capacity, already dealt with outside people in my capacity as Legal Officer and then Public Relations Officer.

I knew how to write, and I had very high test scores, so I think that Hubbard and his people took these things into account. They needed somebody and, by a series of ironies, they decided on me. At that time too, I also had an affinity for intelligence, so I was not a security risk. And I think I was simply in either the right or the wrong place at the right or wrong time, depending on how you look at it.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: Do you have some sense of disappointment that, perhaps you had your own plans for life, your own kind of ideas, and then you kind of spent all your life fighting against Scientology? Is there a sense of disappointment and, perhaps, there is no time for you to look more into Christianity? Is there a kind of disappointment that your life was somehow wasted fighting Scientology?

GA: When I reflect on it, there are times when, naturally, I have some regret about the precarious situation that I’m in. But when I reflect a little deeper, I have to be grateful for the experience that I was given, and the opportunity that I have even now. It is something that no one has to do. You don’t have to go to prison to experience freedom, but at the same time, you can get out of the prison experience something that is valuable and, in this case, something which can help others so they don’t have to do it. So in that sense, I don’t consider that my life is a total waste.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: Are there social networks on the Internet that are created by Scientology and supported by Scientology?

GA: Yes there are. Scientology has a very large Internet presence. It has agents on the Internet. It hires outside professionals, computer Internet security professionals, and they use the Internet to attack their opponents. But the Internet is a great leveling of the battlefield. And because Scientology’s opposition has truth on its side, then ultimately the Internet and all forms of communication assist the opposition more than they assist Scientology.

AD: But, Gerry, the question was, you know, social networks like Twitter, or something, I’m not very familiar with them, but you know there are social networks where people communicate. Are there such things created by Scientology?

GA: I don’t think that they have separate networks. But they use those networks, they use those forums.  They have their in house network, which is not accessible. So they are connected themselves.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: Since you saw the documents of Hubbard, what’s more in Hubbard’s personal diaries. Is it more Satanism and occultism coming from Parsons or more “science fiction” fantasies of Hubbard himself? That’s the first question.

Second question: Apparently, he [audience member]says Scientology spends about half of its budget for legal matters, legal issues, to fight its opponents, and he says that Scientology puts a lot of money into recruiting legal students in Russia. So, what’s your assessment, you know, how much they spend on recruitment?

GA: The documents that I had possession of, and many of them were entered into evidence in the first case in which Scientology sued me, they do expose Hubbard’s occult past, his occult writings. And there were some very important documents like that which affected me greatly. These were documents which are often called Affirmations or Admissions. This is a record that Hubbard kept in which he programmed himself. And he writes such things as “Men are my slaves.” So they are the writing of a person who is trying to program power into himself. It’s an occult practice. And the documents also expose his relationship with Parsons and Crowley. They expose his own considerations about his sexual prowess and sexual inadequacy. There is evidence there of his drug consumption, and even while he was on the ship many years after this, he was dosing himself with testosterone. In my observation, that’s how he maintained his aggressive nature, and his bulk. He was a very big, bulky man, but he gave the signs of someone who was taking hormones.

His science fiction sort of writings appear in what are called the OT or Operating Thetan levels. He was, of course, a science fiction writer during the time he was starting Scientology. And even during the last eight years, nine years of his life, he wrote more science fiction. In fact he turned, you may know the Xenu story, but he turned that story into a novel and a screenplay. He gave it the title “Revolt in the Stars” and he attempted to have a movie made with his screenplay. I had the job, just after I was out of the RPF in December 1977, I had the task of editing and proofreading the 2 manuscripts.

He also, you probably know, wrote “Battlefield Earth”, which was turned into one of the world’s worst movies. And then he wrote, just towards the end of his life, the book “Mission Earth”, which was divided into 10 books. There are aspects of science fiction and his science fiction fantasies which go throughout Scientology. Right in Scientology scripture, there are stories of the Marcabians, the Fifth Invaders, the Fourth Invaders, but in the personal archive documents which I had possession of, they were not concerned with science fiction of that nature, but definitely dealt with his occult period, his occult practices.

Did I answer?

Audience member (in Russian): Thank you very much.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: So then about Scientology programs. If they spend half of their budget for fighting the opponents, then how much is left for recruitment?

GA: Okay, I do not believe that they spend anywhere near half of their budget on legal matters. Just on me, they have probably spent $5 million on legal fees. And they do maintain a network of highly priced lawyers around the world. I had not before considered what you said about them recruiting among legal students, but that makes a lot of sense, and I could believe that they would have a program like that. They do spend a lot of money on marketing. They just purchased a massive printing and publishing company in Los Angeles. They just purchased an operating television station in Los Angeles. They already had a fairly large film studio and, of course, they have connections into virtually all the film studios in Hollywood. And the amount of publishing that they do is enormous. But I do not know the specifics of their budget.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: So for a long time you knew Hubbard. So what was he like in personal relationship and how did he treat people who surrounded him?

GA: Everyone who was close to him, who worked with him, kept him in a degree of awe. He could be very charming. He was certainly charismatic, almost hypnotic. At the same time he had a hair-trigger anger, and if he was displeased in any way, he could become violent in a flash.

There was a study which was done within the last few years of his personality, and he was identified as a malignant narcissist. So he was ruthless regarding anyone who crossed him in any way.

Now I see him as a gargantuan liar. That was the key aspect of his personality and the way he dealt with people and the way he handled problems in life. When everything is added up, I see him, from my study, and my understanding of psychology, as a rather classic sociopath. And he got many people under his spell. But when you broke from his spell, then he became a violent enemy.

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: You said that, in 1993, America changed, began to cooperate with Scientology. Can you tell in detail what happened then, how did it happen and who was responsible for this decision? Do you have any names perhaps?  It could be that even the President of the US at that time was …

GA: Clinton.

AD: …was responsible?

(Question from the audience in Russian)

AD: So he [audience member] asked about Russia. He said, “Well, you asked me later about Russia.”

GA: Up until 1993, the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service, had denied Scientology tax exemption. Scientology or Scientologists under the direction of Scientology had filed over 2,000 lawsuits against the IRS. Each one of those lawsuits would require an attorney be assigned from the US Justice Department. So, it was costing the federal government an incredible amount of money to defend these lawsuits. Litigation in the United States is very costly, so when the IRS granted tax exemption, Scientology dismissed all these lawsuits. So that’s one factor.

Scientology as I mentioned, is an intelligence organization. They were investigating everyone in the IRS. They were recruiting whistleblowers.

AD: Whistleblowers? Like private investigators?

GA: Former IRS employees who had information which was damaging to the IRS. They had private investigators investigating the IRS. And I don’t have any specific information about what they found on IRS agents or the people who control the IRS, but there’s a great deal of speculation that they had damaging information on the Director of the IRS and other IRS agents.

So that’s a second factor.

And the third factor has to do with the US intelligence community seeing this as a strategic decision which benefited the United States because it would potentially create an alliance which would–there is a friendly relationship and a contractual relationship between Scientology and the IRS. So there’s the opportunity which I mentioned for a flow of intelligence between Scientology to the IRS to the federal government. There are Scientology high tech firms which are involved in communication security. They are the kind of firms that the federal government would like to have on their side.

So all of these factors add up to that decision, and, of course, all national governments form alliances with very unsavory countries, unsavory dictators, and the US has certainly done that historically, so this is not a particularly exceptional strategic decision to make.

What is exceptional about it is that it further victimizes the US’s own citizens.

AD: All about the person. At what level this decision was taken. Was the President responsible?

GA: Well, on paper at least, the decision was made by the Director of the IRS. But it is also known that the President at the time, Bill Clinton, had a very friendly relationship with Scientology. And the Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, under Bill Clinton, acted for Scientology. The decision is so important that it seems impossible that the President didn’t know, or that the intelligence community didn’t know, the FBI didn’t know, the CIA didn’t know. The only thing that makes sense is that they all knew, they all agreed. They all came to that decision.

AD: I think that was the last question.

(Applause)

Vice-Rector, Father Georgiy Orekhanov (in Russian, translated by AD):

I think it will be a common opinion that today’s meeting had a unique character. We received a very unique person. And we all became his friends, with all the consequences following it.

(Laughter followed by applause)

And we’ll be very happy to have you as our guest as often as possible each time you will come to Russia. Thank you very much for your exciting story and for answering questions.  And welcome to St. Tikhon’s!

(Applause)

GA: Thank you, and thank you all.

2:12 -End-

Gerry Armstrong’s Truth about Scientology
by Alexander Filippov

May 20, 2011

Gerry Armstrong, former personal secretary to L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, spoke on May 18 at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University.  The meeting was attended by clergy, professors, university staff and many guests.

Gerry Armstrong

The university lecture room was completely filled with people and those for whom there weren’t enough seats stood in the aisle.  The meeting lasted over two hours and translation was provided by Alexander Dvorkin, a scholar at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University who specializes in nontraditional religious movements and sects.

The Scientology sect has spread throughout the world and the organization collects information about its members which it uses to totally control all aspects of their lives, leaving them no possibility of privacy.

Mr. Armstrong’s testimony and analysis are very important for gaining a true understanding of the Scientology organization, its development, its doctrine, its crimes, the scale of its expansion and the ways to combat it because, having been secretary to Hubbard for many years, he possesses full and accurate information.

Gerry Armstrong spoke about the doctrine and the history of the “Church of Scientology”, one of the most dangerous cults in the world today, about the threat the sect poses for private individuals and for society as a whole, and about his work in this organization, his personal impressions of his encounters with Hubbard, the contents of Hubbard’s personal documents, his escape from the totalitarian organization, and the fight that ensued.

Biography of Mr. Armstrong, former personal secretary to L. Ron Hubbard

“I got into the Scientology cult in 1969 and, in 1971, I joined the “Sea Organization” (which runs the sect around the world).  I was sent to the ship which Hubbard was on and there I became a dishwasher, then a storesman, and the ship’s driver for a little car we had on board.  In 1972, I became the legal officer.  Then I became responsible for public relations and for the organization’s intelligence department.

“But sometime later I was locked up in a secret prison and ’sentenced’ to confinement in the ‘Rehabilitation Project Force’ (RPF), which is like a reeducation camp (the very existence of the RPF should be grounds for citizens of all countries to recognize the threat the cult poses to human rights).  When the punishment was over, I was again working with Hubbard”, said Armstrong.

The cult’s reeducation camps

Hubbard created Scientology’s reeducation camps in 1974.  People could be sent there if he thought they weren’t working hard enough, if someone looked the wrong way or laughed at him, or for a simple movement of the needle on an electropsychometer (E-meter).  The electro-psychometer was “invented” by Hubbard and is a primitive lie detector; it has a display with a needle and two tin can electrodes through which a current passes.

Persons subjected to punishment were not allowed to speak, except to answer questions.  They wore a special black outfit.   For any “crime”, they had to run up and down stairs or perform other physical punishment.  They were fed leftovers from the plates of Sea Organization members.  The purpose of the camp was to break the will of the inmate.  A person who objected to anything during the punishment would be kept under surveillance 24 hours a day.  Victims were generally forbidden to speak and the duration of confinement was not specified at all.

“When Hubbard thought I was joking about how he made films, I was again sent to the RPF.  This time I spent 8 months there.  Then I started working at the Scientology headquarters in California.”

During searches, U.S. police found documents that resulted in jail sentences for certain Scientologists, so when it became known in 1979 that a new search was imminent, Armstrong was ordered to destroy all of L. Ron Hubbard’s documents.

At that time, all members of the sect were afraid the FBI would search the headquarters.  Hubbard gave orders to destroy all personal documents that incriminated him.  Armstrong and his subordinates faithfully searched for documents and destroyed them, until one of his juniors found about 20 boxes of various documents relating to Hubbard’s youth, including personal diaries.  Armstrong said the documents were very valuable and should not be destroyed.  He petitioned Hubbard to authorize the preparation of a new biography.

Ironically, Hubbard approved the petition, and Mr. Armstrong spent two years collecting documents.  During this work, Armstrong said, “I actually deprogrammed myself, realizing that the leader’s every word was a lie.”  It turned out that he was not a hero, he spent the entire war on the home front, evading military service, he was not a nuclear physicist, he was not injured and he did not receive 27 medals for bravery.

L. Ron Hubbard

The truth about L. Ron Hubbard

Gerry Armstrong described his impressions about working with L. Ron Hubbard and the reasons for which he decided to escape from the sect. “When I realized that Hubbard was a pathological liar,” said Armstrong, “Scientology fell apart for me.”"The diaries I had with me after escaping and which I used in the courts against the cult show the connection between Hubbard and occultism.  There were also documents called ‘affirmations’ that Hubbard used to program himself with a certain emotional momentum, for example, by reciting the phrase: ‘All people are my slaves.’

“The diaries also document his connection with Parsons and describe his sexual perversions.  In addition, Hubbard was a drug addict and he pumped himself up with testosterone, which further increased his aggressiveness.  All this is laid out in the documents.  He gave the impression of a man strung out on hormones,” confided Armstrong.

According to Armstrong, Hubbard was a narcissist and a sociopath: “He certainly had a certain charm, when he wanted to, but he constantly kept everyone under pressure and, if something wasn’t to his liking, he would throw a terrible tantrum.  Hubbard was ruthless with anyone who said anything contrary to his opinion.  He was a pathological liar on a gargantuan scale, a classic sociopath.”

What influenced Hubbard more: delusions or Satanism?  In response to this question, Armstrong said that Hubbard wrote a lot of fiction; he was not connected with the Masons.  The real source of Scientology is a direct relationship with occultism and Satanism, which he picked up from Parsons, a devotee of European Satanist Aleister Crowley.

From the sect to Christianity

Having decided to act against the terrifying Scientology machine, Armstrong realized that all the anger of this aggressive organization would be unleashed against him.  “Because I knew too much, I would have been locked up again and I would not have come out alive.  I thought of escaping and I managed to escape,” said Mr. Armstrong.

As expected, the organization began its fight against the escapee.  The first lawsuit was initiated in 1984 and, since then, the organization has considered Gerry Armstrong its number one enemy. There have been six attempts on his life in the U.S. and in Germany.  A campaign of “black PR” is being waged against him on the internet.

Armstrong said that, after he left the sect, he became a Christian and found the truth: “God is truth. I thank God for this experience, which allowed me to appreciate the value of freedom.  My task is to do my utmost so that other people do not lose this freedom.”

Mr. Armstrong described how the cult prosecuted him in America.  A U.S. court handed down an absurd decision that stipulates Mr. Armstrong has no right to even utter the word “Scientology”, and that whenever he pronounces the word “Scientology”, he has to pay a fifty thousand dollar fine.  “So our meeting today is very valuable,” joked Armstrong.  This decision also applies to individuals and legal entities “who act in concert with Mr. Armstrong”, for example, said Armstrong: St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University, which invited him to Russia, the St. Irenaeus of Lyon Center and the entire Russian Orthodox Church.  While he is not allowed to speak, the cult is allowed to say whatever it wishes about Mr. Armstrong.

Father Georgiy Orekhanov asked how American democracy could produce such a wild court decision.

Father Georgiy Orekhanov

The guest speaker replied: “Due to corruption and pressure on the court, with the help of embarrassing material gathered by the cult’s intelligence agents.”

How is Scientology a threat to individuals and to the world?

Speaking about the dangers of Scientology, Armstrong said that Scientology destroys the morals and the psyche of an individual, replacing human principles by Hubbard’s system of values.  It destroys families and can ruin businesses.  It is a threat to the societies and to the countries in which it operates.  The cult’s methods violate laws and human rights at all levels: from total espionage to direct crimes such as kidnapping people, holding them in Scientology prisons, and even murder.

“Scientology continues to be incredibly dangerous, but we – those who fight the cult – are not going away.  However, it would be wrong to think that our victory is near.  They have not yet won, but they haven’t lost,” warned Armstrong.

The organization is in a state of war with the entire world: “The first thing a new Scientologist learns is that Scientology is at war.”

One of the elements of Scientology doctrine is the policy concerning “suppressive persons” – people who are supposedly to blame for all the troubles on earth.  Scientologists are supposed to subject them to “Fair Game”, whereby cult members must strive to inflict maximum damage to “suppressive persons”, to seize their property and, if necessary, to kill them.  The list of people that Scientologists believe are the cause of all misfortunes includes, for example, critics of Scientology such as Gerry Armstrong and Alexander Dvorkin.

Answering a question from the pravmir.ru correspondent about how Scientology obtained its tax exemption from the U.S. government, Armstrong cited four factors.

First factor. Scientologists filed more than two thousand lawsuits against the U.S. government.  For each of these claims, the U.S. Department of Justice had to appoint a lawyer.  These lawsuits were costing the government a great deal of money.  When tax-exempt status was granted, Scientology withdrew the lawsuits.

Second factor. Scientologists researched the biographies of all high officials of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), they hired former IRS personnel and they paid for any information that could undermine the IRS, hiring private investigators to follow the officials.  “I have no information concerning exactly what they learned about the officials, but they probably found compromising evidence.”

Third factor. In Armstrong’s opinion, the decision was influenced by America’s intelligence agencies (FBI and CIA), who considered that the information the sect could provide the government might be useful.  This would not be a historical first.  It is possible for the government to make agreements with dictators and even with socially dangerous organizations.

Fourth factor. On paper, the decision was made by the director of the IRS.  However, it is known that then U.S. President Bill Clinton had friendly relations with the cult and that his Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was actively defending its interests.  The decision to cooperate with the Scientology cult was so important that it would be absolutely unbelievable to assume that the President, the Secretary of State, and the heads of the intelligence agencies did not know about it.  We must assume that they knew about it and agreed with it.

Scientologists hire experts in the field of internet technologies and they use the personal data that trusting account holders share in social networks such as Facebook or vkontakte.ru: “I don’t think they operate their own social networks, but they use all the available ones.”

In 2010, a court handed down a ruling which said that Scientologists have the right to forcibly hold people and, if they escape, to pursue and capture them.  The basis for this decision is that this “is a matter of religious doctrine”.

“It is clear why Scientology chooses to be called a religion.  In America, this allows it to bully people and violate human rights, if it is written in religious scripture,” explained Armstrong. “I will also speak about this with the Ministry of Justice of Russia,” said Gerry Armstrong, elaborating on the plans for his visit to Russia.

Russia and Scientology – Who will win?

Despite all the power of this totalitarian sect, the Scientology “church” can be defeated.  Gerry Armstrong sees the proof of this in what he has witnessed during his lifetime: “More and more people today know the truth about this organization.”  Armstrong came to Russia to help prevent the spread of Scientology in our country.

Link to a complete audio recording of Gerry Armstrong’s May 18, 2011 conference at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University:
http://media.pravmir.ru/mp3/armst.mp3
Duration: 2 hours 11 min. 57 sec.