From: Astrid <Astrid7777777@yahoo.com>
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Subject: The mother of all articles about Celebrity Scientology, from 1993
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:05:50 -0800 (PST)

http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/Scien12.html

It’s been a while since I read the above 1993 article from PREMIERE magazine about celebrity Scientology, yet it remains as the most insightful and chilling articles about the grip Scientology has over many stars.

One former celebrity member, Diana Canova, describes how she would get a “choking anger” any time Scientology was criticized. Come to think of it, that’s pretty much programmed into all scilons.

As the Scientology ship sinks in the age of the web, this article is a reminder of why many celebrities will NEVER wake up, even when on deck with icy water up to their chins. They will remain oblivious to the dirty tricks employed by the cult or even proud of them. This cult could dwindle into a celebrity cult with rich people, and celebrity worshippers.

I wonder how many new celebrity stories there have been, since 1993. Why haven’t they been told as they were here? Is it because Cruise/Travolta/Alley got so powerful?

The article describes why Scientology is the perfect fit for actors. They have fragile egos, and Hollywood careers can be all over the place. They need something to prop them up when they aren’t doing well. They need to be love bombed and surrounded with support. John Travolta talks about how fragile he was to criticism, as he would listen to it early in his career and it would get him down. Scientology wants success for all the actors in the cult, so it surrounds these fragile actors with people who want their success, for the sake of saving the planet.

Even if DM talks about Travolta behind his back, if that’s out of Travolta’s awareness, it doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t seem to have hurt his career at all. Celebrity scientologists won’t care if DM beats his staff either, because it doesn’t affect them. Paul Haggis had a disconnection with his wife’s parents, so he was really in a different category. He had other issues as well.

By taking such a lead in activities for the cult, as Cruise, Travolta, and Alley have done, any criticism of the cult at all, is trying to tear them down as people, because they are Scientology.

Again, I don’t think Paul Haggis was spokesperson for any of their front groups, as Alley is for Narconon or Travolta helps the VMs and has done other things.

This article is also special for the Rathbun/Rinder quotes:
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But they admit without hesitation that they still use private detectives to investigate their enemies, including Bowers–they even provided documentation of Scientology detectives secretly videotaping a sting operation against a hostile former church member. “I have no problem with that,” says Marty Rathbun, president of the church’s Religious Technology Center.

Scientology official Marty Rathbun denounces Behar as “a criminal of the lowest order” for referring people to the “kidnappers” at CAN.

Rathbun and Jentzsch responded by calling [Hana] Whitfield a CAN operative and an accomplice to a 30-year-old murder, a charge PREMIERE could find absolutely no evidence to support. “It’s totally bogus,” says Whitfield’s lawyer, her voice trembling with outrage. “They know it’s false.”

According to former members and press reports, the few who attain the highest level of instruction learn the following secret theology: 75 million years ago a tyrant named Xenu imprisoned other aliens near volcanoes on Earth and then nuked them, leaving their spirits, or “thetans,” to wander the planet and attach themselves to humans–to be purged through further courses. While Scientology officials dispute this account of their beliefs–spokesman Rinder calls it “garbage, completely untrue”–they refuse to provide a more accurate version, saying upper-level church beliefs are for insiders only.

I was the hostile former church member whose secret videotaping by Scientology in the cult’s “sting operation” Rathbun said he had no problem with. See this letter I wrote to Premiere:

THE GERALD ARMSTRONG CORPORATION
[former address]
San Anselmo, California 94960
Gerald Armstrong
President

FAX COMMUNICATION COVER SHEET

DATE: October 11, 1993
TO:  Letters Editor, Premiere
TELEPHONE:
FAX TELEPHONE:  (310) 820-3192
FROM: Gerald Armstrong
TELEPHONE: (415)[former no.]
FAX TELEPHONE:  (415) )[former no.]
PAGES INCLUDING COVER SHEET: 5
ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENT: Letter response to Miscavige response to Richardson Scientology article
INSTRUCTIONS: Have courage!

October 11, 1993
Letters Editor
PREMIERE
1990 South Bundy Drive, Suite 250
Los Angeles, CA 90025
By Fax: 310-820-3192

Dear Editor:

Word on the street is that the Scientology organization cut a deal with Premiere following John Richardson’s September article: print our fearless leader’s response and we won’t sue you or anyone who contributed to the article.  Rod Lurie of Los Angeles magazine, which did its own story this month on Scientologist Tom Cruise, tells me a Scientology lawyer tells him that the deal covers only Premiere; the contributors are hung out as fair game.

Those of us on the street who reject Scientology’s bullying would rather have heard that the organization had been told to stick it in its corporate ear, but we do understand why Premiere would agree to such a deal.  It judiciously eliminates the threat of litigation from this nation’s most threateningly litigious entity, and it gets to print David Miscavige’s response.  He not only proves Richardson’s point about the organization’s pervasive meanspiritedness, but evinces Scientology’s silliness.  Miscavige uses many too many words, and even too many numbers, for a simple two-page response.

But I shouldn’t criticize Mr. Miscavige’s style when his response was actually quite helpful to my cause.  He admits to knowing that Richardson “had unparalleled access to top [Scientology] officials, conducting four days of interviews.” Richardson tells me that the top officials the organization allowed him to interview are Mark Rathbun, Mike Rinder and Heber Jentzsch, and he tells me that these three, unsolicited, provided him with documents concerning me, which he has now provided to me.

Although I was introduced to John Richardson before his article appeared, he did not interview me, and I contributed not one of its, according to Mr. Miscavige, 8700 words. Nevertheless, just in case Richardson did consider interviewing me, Rathbun, Rinder and Jentzsch, in true Hubbardian spirit, gave him a couple of juicy, what the organization calls “dead agent documents,” to destroy my reputation beforehand.

Richardson states in his article that “they even provided documentation of Scientology detectives secretly videotaping a sting operation against a hostile former church member.  ‘I have no problem with that,’ says [Mark] Rathbun, president of the church’s Religious Technology Center.”  Judge Donald Londer in the Multnomah Superior Court in Portland, Oregon, where the organization first “broke” the videotape operation in 1985, had no problem with it either, but for a different reason. Londer, who viewed the videotapes in their entirety, not just Scientology’s edited bits, stated that they were illegally obtained, but allowed them into evidence because be found them “very, very damaging against Scientology.” The Jury in that case, polled after the trial, stated that the videotapes confirmed that, contrary to Scientology’s claim that by renaming its infamous Guardian’s Office in 1982 it had ended its dirty tricks against perceived enemies, its tricks were alive and kicking and just as dirty in 1985.

LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, on the other hand, had a huge problem with the videotape operation.  Scientology’s pet private investigator, Eugene M. Ingram, who, according to published reports, had been busted from the force for pimping and taking payoffs from drug dealers, paid an active LAPD officer Philip Rodriguez to sign a phony authorization for the videotaping and wire taps.  Rodriguez was suspended six months for his part in the operation, and Gates declared in a public statement:

“The (Rodriguez) letter purports to authorize Ingram to engage in electronic eavesdropping.  The letter, along with all purported authorization, is invalid and is NOT a correspondence from the Los Angeles Police Department.  The Los Angeles Police Department has not cooperated with Eugene Ingram.  It will be a cold day in hell when we do.”

In characteristic purported ignorance, Scientology’s top officials continue to this day to call this illegal operation “police-sanctioned,” and continue to use it to attack me, even though its use still only demonstrates that ”fair game,” the organization’s doctrine of opportunistic hatred, with its gargantuan bag of tricks and dirt, is still flailing about in 1993.

The other document Miscavige’s minions provided Richardson was a two-page recitation of a dream I had in 1985.  I gave a copy of it to a friend and fellow writer, Dan Sherman, whom the organization was using to get close to me to set me up, and who participated in the videotape operation.  The organization used the dream in 1986 as an exhibit to a document filed under seal in the original case in which it sued me, labeling the dream “a sickening personal creative work” which demonstrated my “extremely aberrated activities.”

The dream was a dream, the recitation was true, and the language is starkly crude because that is what its literature called for.  But Rathbun, Rinder and Jentzsch did not provide the dream to Richardson for its literary value, but its value in destroying my character; for to the organization, if it suits its purposes, dreams are reality, and truth is whatever can be twisted therefrom.  As to the organization’s use of the dream in violation of a court order specifically sealing it, that is not even close to surprising.  Scientology’s leaders, pursuant to Hubbard’s orders, abuse the legal process every day of every year and hold our courts in constant contempt.

This organization has sued me four times, six times attempted to have me jailed on evidence it fabricated, and employed a pack of private investigators who harassed and assaulted me, threatened to put a bullet between my eyes, took a number of shots at framing me, filed perjured affidavits about me, ran into me with a car, and tried to involve me in a freeway “accident.”  All for daring to speak honestly and openly about my own experiences in my own life.  The organization this year has tried to have me jailed and has sued me, claiming $950,000 in damages, for nothing more than writing a letter to David Miscavige urging a peaceful resolution to Scientology’s conflicts. [ http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/armstrong-ltr-1992-12-22.html ]

Miscavige says that it “is only the great ideas that generate controversy; it is only great thinkers who are the subject of sustained attacks.” I have been attacked by his organization for almost twelve years. I don’t think that’s great, and I don’t think my ideas merit all the attack. My message is simply this: honestly and openly repudiate fair game, or get out of the religion business.

I am a man who says that Scientology, as it is practiced and directed by its leaders, is not a religion, and it should not use the extraordinary protection our Constitution confers on religions to mask its antisocial nature and acts.  I am one of those critics John Richardson says the organization has targeted with its ugly smear attempts.  Premiere has given David Miscavige two pages to promote his organization’s religiosity and has thus escaped its litigiousness.   How about a half page for me and I won’t sue either.

Gerald Armstrong
San Anselmo, CA

[former address]
San Anselmo, CA 94960
(415) [former no.]

Days C/O Hub Law Office
[former address]
San Anselmo, CA 94960
(415) [former no.]
(fax ) [former no.]

Editor – I am a writer, philosopher and artist.  I presently work with San Anselmo attorney Ford Greene, who also represents me in my litigation with the Scientology organization.  I can provide documentation of any of my claims in this letter if you ask.

Holy Crowley, that was 17 years ago.

As an aside — as far as my reason for writing about this now is concerned — I have fully reversed my position regarding Scientology as it is practiced and directed by its leaders not being a religion. The most duplicitous, money-mad, destructive, dangerous, totalitarian cult imaginable can be a valid religion, as Scientology, with the US Government’s agreement, has long since proven. All that is necessary for any organization, no matter how commercial, wicked or criminal, to be accepted as a “religion” by the US is for the organization to itself determine it’s a religion.

When Richardson was researching his article for Premiere, Rathbun, Rinder and Jentzsch gave him a bunch of black PR about me; even though Richardson hadn’t interviewed me, and I hadn’t participated in his article in any way. This is preemptive fair game that Hubbard urged in scripture against Scientology’s victims. “To get wholly over to cause we must select targets, investigate and expose before they attack us.” HCOPL 25 February 1966 “Attacks on Scientology (Additional Pol Ltr).”

By preemptively attacking me, when I was not involved in Richardson’s piece, the cultists incited me to respond with my letter to Premiere to correct the record, or present my side of the controversies I knew the cultists had created. Scientology then used its “settlement contract” to punish me for responding to its attack, and successfully got a crooked or deranged California Superior Court Judge to go along with them.

See, e.g., my separate statement of disputed and undisputed facts in opposition to motion for summary adjudication of the twentieth cause of action (injunctive relief) of the second amended complaint in Scientology v. Armstrong, Marin County Superior Court, case no. 157680:

My separate statement quotes from Scientology’s separate statement in support of its motion for summary adjudication:

C. Armstrong Breached The Agreement By Discussing His Claimed Experiences In And Knowledge Of Scientology With Media Representatives In Violation Of Paragraph 7(D) Of The Agreement.
[...]
64. In October, 1993, Armstrong wrote a lengthy letter to the editor of Premiere Magazine in which he discussed his claimed Scientology experiences.

Plaintiff’s Evidence: 64. Armstrong letter to Premiere Magazine Exhibit 1GGG.

And my separate statement presents these facts in opposition to Scientology’s motion:

107. From the time Armstrong petitioned the Court of Appeal, Scientology has continued its fair game attacks on him without ceasing. These fair game attacks include, but are not limited to:
[…]
J. Providing documentation to Premiere magazine about Armstrong, including partial transcripts of the illegal Ingram videotaping of Armstrong and then using the settlement agreement to punish Armstrong for responding;
[Defendant’s Evidence] J.  Exhibit 1(Q), Article “Catch a Rising Star,” by John H. Richardson in Premiere, September, 1993, p. 88; Scientology’s motion for summary adjudication, at 8:18; Scientology’s evidence, Exhibit 1GGG, letter from Gerald Armstrong to Premiere.

From the opposition to Scientology’s motion for summary adjudication re injunctive relief that attorney Ford Greene wrote:

Scientology provided documents to Premiere Magazine regarding Armstrong including partial transcripts of the illegal Ingram videotaping of Armstrong and then using the settlement agreement to punish Armstrong for responding thereto. (Id. at ¶ 107, J)

From Scientology’s permanent injunction, currently in force:

6. Between 1992 and the present, Armstrong breached paragraph 7(D) of the Agreement by contacting media representatives, granting interviews and attempting to assist media representatives in the preparation for publication or  broadcast magazine articles, newspaper articles, books, radio and television programs, about or concerning the Church and/or other persons and entities referred to in paragraph 1 of the Agreement. These media representatives included:
[…]
*        Premiere Magazine: letter to the editor, in October, 1993 [Sep.St.No. 64]

From my opening brief in my appeal from the injunction:

D. Fair Game After Armstrong’s First Response

From the time GA petitioned the Court of Appeal, Scn has continued to fair game him without letup. These attacks include, but are not limited to: (SS 107A-L, CT 8495-503; CT 5913-4)
[…]
Providing documentation to Premiere magazine about GA, including partial transcripts of the illegal Ingram videotaping of him and then using the settlement agreement to punish GA for responding (Article “Catch a Rising Star, 9/93, CT 7672; GA letter, 10/11/93, CT 4811-4; CT 4524.48; Scn’s motion for summary adjudication of 20th cause of action, CT 4524.11; CT 9790)

How DM, Rathbun, et al. got my appeal dismissed is a crime that Rathbun could correct, except that he still executes Miscavige’s command intention in the Scientology v. Armstrong war. But that’s for a future date.

I’m telling my old Premiere story, another time, because it’s so like a current New Yorker  Magazine story. I was recently contacted by Lawrence Wright, who, it was reported a couple of months ago, has been writing a profile of Paul Haggis. Wright told me he had approached Scientology, which is practically a duty since Haggis’ departure from the cult is so dramatic and well-known, making his whole time as a Scientologist very relevant. And Scientology had given Wright a bunch of black PR on me.

Wright had never communicated with me prior to meeting with the Scientologists, and I’d had nothing to do with his project. I’ve never communicated to Paul Haggis that I’ve been aware of, although we could have things to talk about if we talked.

The Scientology spokesman telling Wright tales of Gerry Armstrong was Tommy Davis. It was Davis that Haggis had sent his 2009 Scientology resignation letter to. I liked what he wrote in his letter about underdogs. It felt that he was talking about the way I think about bullies and their victims.

I’ve got a number of things to write Davis about, now that I know he knows so much about me. But I’ll mention here one somewhat eye-popping mouthful of bullshit he plated as a true confection. It’s obvious that by presenting BS for consumption Davis was implying that he’s been fed it, found it tasty or at least workable, and has kept on eating it. This is a phenomenon that keeps some things in Scientology from ever changing.

Anyway, one of the tidbits Davis tried to get Wright to eat was the crap that I had posed nude in a newspaper. Davis apparently served it up with a photo of me sitting with a globe in my lap. Here’s the whole story,  with links to the subject newspaper article in the Marin Independent Journal, and to some earlier black PR from Scientology that included the posing-nude-in-a-newspaper BS.

Actually, I was wearing a pair of sensible and respectable black running shorts. They were the same pair I was wearing in this photo, also taken in Marin County during the same time period.

I addressed this particular load of BS to Mike Rinder when we met one in Marin in 1994. Rinder acknowledged that Scientology was black PRing me, and not dead agenting me, because it was false, but said to me, about as menacingly as he could dramatize, that they were going to keep right on black PRing me until I shut up.

Notice Rinder’s May 9, 1994 letter to Mirror Group Newspapers:

Gerald Armstrong:

Armstrong has not been to the property occupied by Golden Era Productions since November 1981, well prior to Golden Era Production ’s establishment. He has not set foot in any Church of Scientology since December 1981.

By involving himself with Church of Scientology litigation, Mr. Armstrong is in violation of a legal agreement he made in 1986. Were the Mirror to call him as a witness, your client would become a party to that violation. However, your client would be advised not to rely on information from Mr. Armstrong. He has now distinguished himself by posing naked in a newspaper claiming that the solution to the national debt is for everyone in the United States to simply renounce money. He claims himself to be the “Founder of the Organization of United Renunciants.”

And see my letter to the Mirror Group Newspapers in response to Rinder’s lies.

The cultists then did the same thing they did with my letter in response to the black PR they provided Premiere. They used it in their motion for summary adjudication, and included it in their permanent injunction against me, which is currently, and unlawfully, in force.

See, e.g., my separate statement of disputed and undisputed facts in opposition to motion for summary adjudication of the twentieth cause of action (injunctive relief) of the second amended complaint in Scientology v. Armstrong, Marin County Superior Court, case no. 157680:

65. In May, 1994, Armstrong sent a letter to the Mirror Group newspapers, United Kingdom, in which he discussed his claimed Scientology experiences and offered to testify voluntarily on behalf of Mirror Group, should it become involved in litigation with CSI.
Plaintiff’s Evidence:
65. Armstrong letter to Mirror Group Newspaper, Exhibit 1HHH.

[...]

107. From the time Armstrong petitioned the Court of Appeal, Scientology has continued its fair game attacks on him without ceasing. These fair game attacks include, but are not limited to:
[…]
D. Scientology (CSI) director Michael Rinder on May 9, 1994, wrote a letter to the Mirror Newspaper Group in London, United Kingdom in which he stated that Armstrong “has now distinguished himself by posing naked in a newspaper;”
D. Exhibit 1(N), Letter from Michael Rinder, Church of Scientology International executive and director of plaintiff herein, to Mirror Group Newspapers in London, United Kingdom dated May 9, 1994, at p. 2.

From Scientology’s injunction:

6. Between 1992 and the present, Armstrong breached paragraph 7(D) of the Agreement by contacting media representatives, granting interviews and attempting to assist media representatives in the preparation for publication or  broadcast magazine articles, newspaper articles, books, radio and television programs, about or concerning the Church and/or other persons and entities referred to in paragraph 1 of the Agreement. These media representatives included:
[…]
*        Mirror-Group Newspapers: United Kingdom, in May, 1994 [Sep.St.No. 65]:

From my opening brief appealing the injunction:

D. Fair Game After Armstrong’s First Response
From the time GA petitioned the Court of Appeal, Scn has continued to fair game him without letup. These attacks include, but are not limited to: (SS 107A-L, CT 8495-503; CT 5913-4)

[…]

• Scn director Michael Rinder wrote a letter to the Mirror Newspaper Group in London, United Kingdom in which he stated that GA “has now distinguished himself by posing naked in a newspaper” (Rinder letter, 5/9/94, CT 7524)
• Scn President Heber Jentzsch wrote a letter, sent with documents about GA, to E! Television in which he stated that GA “has no relation to art or artists…except, of course, for the photo of himself, nude, hugging the globe (Jentzsch letter 8/5/93, CT 7693)

I wrote to Rinder this past April, and mentioned his threat that the cult was going to keep on black PRing me:

I wanted to communicate civilly, because it is important to me that something be done about the Scientology v. Armstrong, et al. war. Lies maintain the war. You remember, I’m sure, when I spoke to you about your black PR, saying to me that you — meaning you, Miscavige, Scientology, the attorneys, the PIs, et al. — were going to keep right on black PRing me until I shut up.

I was motivated to write Rinder by his post he titled “Where is Heber?” Rinder wrote that Tommy Davis, whom he calls “Teflon Tommy” has been caught in more lies than Baghdad Bob and looks more and more like a sleazy used car salesman. That very well may be, but they’re the same lies Teflon Mike, Teflon Heber, Teflon Marty and Teflon Davey have been telling for decades.

OSA Texas Letter to Craig Branch of 10-21-1996

These excerpts were taken from Scientology’s Form 1023 Submission to the Internal Revenue Service on which the organization’s tax exemption granted by the IRS in 1993 is based.

Much of this information has been covered before or is covered in more detail in the responses to specific subparts of Question 10 that follow. Consider the following:

* The decision in “Gerry Armstrong as a CID operative”

Gerry Armstrong’s case is one of those described in detail in response to Question 10.e.ii.

Armstrong’s fanatical hatred of Scientology ingratiated him with the LA CID and earned him the status of IRS operative in an unlawful scheme to infiltrate and destroy the Churchthrough, among other things, the seeding of Church files with forged or manufactured documents. Armstrong was a link between the CID and Michael Flynn, whose multi-jurisdictional litigation campaign against Scientology was encouraged and assisted by the CID. (See pages 10-8 to 10-16 of our response to Question 10 of your second series of questions). The allegations, first manufactured by Armstrong and Flynn, have been adopted and parroted by many of the other tort litigants whose cases are described in the response to Question 10.e(i). In exchange, Gerry Armstrong has been insulated from liability for his theft of Church documents and encouraged to continue and to expand his nefarious efforts.

……….

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. Furthermore, Armstrong’s state of mind horror stories have fallen on deaf ears in recent litigation. Relying on Armstrong or the Armstrong decision is wholly unjustified.

During the later years of his tenure as an employee of the Church, Gerald Armstrong was placed in charge of a huge quantity of documents that belonged to Mr. Hubbard that contained private and personal information regarding Mr. Hubbard. Part of his duties included research to support the work of an author who had been retained to write an authorized biography of Mr. Hubbard.

In late 1981 after the initial clean out of the higher levels of the Guardian’s Office, and when investigations were turning toward identifying those in alliance or sympathy with the GO, Armstrong suddenly vacated Church premises and left its employ, taking with him huge numbers of confidential documents that belonged to Mr. Hubbard or his wife which the Church was holding as bailee. It was no coincidence that Armstrong left at that time because he had repeatedly expressed his ambition to join the GO and work in Bureau 1 (Information Bureau), the same area of GO that had been responsible for the criminal acts of the 70’s.

Armstrong also had been a long-time friend and confidant of Laurel Sullivan. Just prior to the take over the GO taking place, Sullivan had made a proposal to place convicted GO members into corporate positions of control throughout the top of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. She was also found to be spying on the CMO for the GO during the early days of the CMO’s investigation into the GO. Armstrong assisted and supported Sullivan in her efforts.

In the summer of 1982 the Church received evidence that Armstrong had stolen thousands of documents from archives when he left the Church. Church counsel wrote to Armstrong, demanding that he return them. Armstrong denied the theft. Once the demand for return of documents was made, Armstrong turned the stolen documents over to Michael Flynn, with whom Armstrong decided he could make a lot of money.

In August 1982, the Church sued Armstrong for conversion, breach of fiduciary duty and confidence, and invasion of privacy based on Armstrong’s theft of extensive amounts of private papers owned by the Church or the Hubbards. The Church sought return of the papers and the imposition of a constructive trust over them, and any proceeds derived from them, as well as preliminary and permanent injunctive relief against dissemination or disclosure of the private documents.

In September 1982, Armstrong, represented by Flynn, answered the complaint and raised the defense that he was justified in stealing the documents entrusted to him as a fiduciary because he wished to make public information about Mr. Hubbard and the Church out of fear for his safety and well-being. His defense was stricken on four different occasions by three different judges.

In April 1984, the case was assigned for trial before Judge Paul Breckenridge, Jr. At that time, the Church presented motions in limine to prevent Armstrong from introducing the stolen, confidential documents since their introduction into evidence would vitiate the very rights of privacy the action sought to protect. The Court not only allowed Armstrong to introduce the confidential documents, but also allowed him to raise his four- times stricken defense with a new perverted twist. He would not have to prove there was anything to fear from the Church, but only his state of mind when he stole the documents. The Church was completely ambushed in the trial by these documents, as in most cases Armstrong had stolen the only copy that existed. Then, after he and Flynn had ample time   to prepare their case from them, the documents were placed under seal in the Court. Although the inflammatory allegations that Armstrong made and purported to support with these documents could have been shown to be false or grossly distorted by other evidence, the Church had no chance to prepare and put on that evidence before being hit with the documents in court.

During the trial, Armstrong presented testimony from numerous witnesses who testified for the purpose of establishing Armstrong’s supposed “state of mind” with regard to his alleged justification for stealing the documents. Each of the witnesses was hostile to the Church and, in fact, was a plaintiff against or taking a position adverse to the Church in other litigation in which Flynn was the counsel. Each witness gave general  testimony about his or her own viewpoint on relationships with the Church in an effort to bolster Armstrong’s state of mind justification defense.

The Court did not allow the Church to put on evidence to rebut the testimony of those witnesses. The Court also declined to allow the Church to put on evidence explaining the confidential documents and precluded the Church’s proffered rebuttal evidence on the ground that the adverse testimony was admitted only for the purpose of establishing Armstrong’s state of mind and not for the truth or falsity of the matter testified about.

On July 20, 1984, Judge Breckenridge issued a Statement of Intended Decision which became final a month later, which held that the Church had “made out a prima facie case of conversion….breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of confidence” (as the former employer who provided confidential materials to its then employee for certain specific purposes, which the employee later used for other purposes to employer’s detriment).

Judgment, however, was entered in favor of Armstrong.

The Statement of Decision adopted as the facts of the case the allegations which Armstrong had made in his trial brief. These allegations included the statements on which Armstrong premised his justification defense; i.e., that defendant “… became terrified and feared that his life and the life of his wife were in danger, and he also feared he would be the target of costly and harassing lawsuits.” The judge went on to pontificate on the psychological mind-set of not only Mr. Hubbard, but Scientology at large. The only lawsuit that there was to fear was the one that was ultimately filed for return of the stolen documents. It never would have been brought had Armstrong voluntarily returned the documents when asked, despite the theft.

The IRS CID, however, absorbed Breckenridge’s findings as the definitive statement of what Scientology is, and used this decision and the Flynn witnesses who testified at the trial as the nucleus of their investigation. The Church tried repeatedly to explain to the IRS that the Armstrong decision was nothing more than a statement concerning Armstrong’s state of mind. The CID and EO weren’t interested, as they found in Armstrong a kindred spirit who echoed their own sentiments.

They therefore embraced Armstrong and the Flynn witnesses and used their fabrications as the basis for their investigations and denials of exemption.

Evidence found after the Armstrong trial proves not only that Armstrong never was afraid of the Church as he claimed at trial, [...]

This is Hubbard the stark raving mad “scientist” assuring us suckers that this bulletin “is based on over a thousand hours of research auditing.” It’s “scientific research,” he says, “not in any way based upon the mere opinion of the researcher.” And he certifies that the rest of “Scientology data reflects long, arduous and painstaking research over a period of some thirty years.”

The Scientology cult promotes that it is compatible with Christianity. That’s why they keep this bulletin secret. Scientololgy is compatible with Christianity as lies are compatible with truth, as hate is compatible with love, as death is compatible with life. Scientology is lies, hate and death.

Scientology is Hubbard’s trap for anyone he could lure in, with his lies of science and research and his false promises of freedom. He implanted people with the implant he told them he was freeing them from. He was right down there with the father of lies.  — GA

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex.
HCO BULLETIN OF MAY 11, AD13

Central Orgs.

Franchise

ROUTINE 3 HEAVEN

[...]

For a long while, some people have been cross with me for my lack of co-operation in believing in a Christian Heaven, God and Christ. I have never said I didn’t disbelieve in a Big Thetan but there was certainly something very corny about Heaven et al. Now I have to apologize. There was a Heaven. Not too unlike, in cruel betrayal, the heaven of the Assassins in the 12th Century who, like everyone else, dramatized the whole track implants – if a bit more so.

Yes, I’ve been to Heaven. And so have you. And you have the pattern of its implants in the HCO Bulletin Line Plots. It was complete with gates, angels and  plaster saints – and electronic implantation equipment. So there was a Heaven after all – which is why you are on this planet and were condemned never to be free again – until Scientology.

Before you went to Heaven you were not really very bad or very good, but you didn’t think you had lived only once and you had a good memory and knew who you were and enjoyed life. Afterwards —

The symbol of the crucified Christ is very apt indeed. It’s the symbol of a thetan betrayed.

[...]

The implant station existed on the order of magnitude of 43,000,000,000,000 years ago. (The dates may be part of the implants but do not appear so at this time. However, a possibility of correction of dates is reserved).

Some have been through it once, some more than once.

The first time I arrived and the moment of the implant To Forget was dated at 43,891,832,611,177 years, 344 days, 10 hours, 20 minutes and 40 seconds from 10: 02½  PM Daylight Greenwich Time May 9, 1963. The second series was dated to the moment  of the implant To Forget as 42,681,459,477,315 years, 132 days, 18 hours, 20 minutes and 15 seconds from 11:02½ PM Daylight Greenwich Time May 9, 1963.

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Both series have the Gates of Heaven visible. The last implant of both consists of “entering” Heaven. The last goal of both is To Be In Heaven.

The gates of the first series are well done, well built. An avenue of statues of saints leads up to them. The gate pillars are surmounted by marble angels. The entering grounds are very well kept, laid out like Bush Gardens in Pasadena, so often seen in the movies. Aside from the implant boxes which lie across from each other  on the walk there are other noises and sounds as though the saints are defending and berating. These are unimportant to the incident.

The second series, probably in the same place, shows what a trillion years of overt acts does (or is an additional trickery to collapse one’s time). The place  is shabby. The vegetation is gone. The pillars are scruffy. The saints have vanished. So have the Angels. A sign on one (the left as you “enter”) says “This is Heaven”. The right has a sign “Hell” with an arrow and inside the grounds one can see the excavations like archaeological diggings with raw terraces, that lead  to “Hell”. Plain wire fencing encloses the place. There is a sentry box beside  and outside the right pillar. The road “leading up” to the gates is deeply eroded.  An effigy of Joseph, complete with desert clothing, is seen approaching the gates  (but not moving) leading a donkey which “carries” the original Madonna and child from  “Bethlehem”. The implanting boxes lie on either side of this ” entering” path at path level.

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Further, we have our hands on an apalling bit of technology where the world is  concerned. With rapidity and a Meter it can be shown that Heaven is a false dream  and that the old religion was based on a very painful lie, a cynical betrayal.

What does this do to any religious nature of Scientology? It strengthens it. New religions always overthrow the false gods of the old, they do something to better man. We can improve man. We can show the old gods false. And we can open up the universe as a happier place in which a spirit may dwell. What more can you expect? This actually places us far beyond any other beings that are about. It puts us, through increased beingness and a restoration of life, in control of much destiny.

We have now only a few unsolved problems about life, huge though they may be, such as the construction of bodies and how does one establish the character of and communicate, if feasible, with beings who are making trees and insects. There are a few things like these. But I imagine when we finally manage to communicate with  beetles under rocks and free them, we’ll no doubt find the Creator of Heaven who  43 + Trillion years ago designed and built the Pearly Gates and entrapped us all.

Good Lord, I’d hate to be guilty of that overt. But never mind – you aren’t either. That guy is GONE (I hope!)

(Note: This HCO Bulletin is based on over a thousand hours of research auditing, analyzing the facsimiles of the reactive mind, and with the help of a Mark V Electrometer. It is scientific research and is not in any way based upon the mere  opinion of the researcher. This HCO Bulletin is not the result of the belief or  beliefs of anyone. Scientology data reflects long, arduous and painstaking research over a period of some thirty years into the nature of Man, the mind, the human spirit and its relationship to the physical universe. The data and phenomena discovered  in Scientology is common to all minds and all men and can be demonstrated on anyone. Truth does not require belief to be truth any more than water requires anyone’s  permission to run down hill. The data is itself and can be duplicated by any honest researcher or practitioner. We in Scientology seek freedom, the betterment of Man, and the happiness of the individual and this comprises our attitude toward the data found. The data, however, is simply itself, and exists whatever the opinion of anyone may be. The contents of this HCO Bulletin discover the apparent underlying  impulses of religious zealotism and the source of the religious mania and insanity which terrorized Earth over the ages and has given religion the appearance of insanity. As the paper is written for my friends it has, of course, a semblance of irreverence).

(Note: All our data on the whole track remains factual and is not taken from any implant. The only error released earlier was the time factors involved in GPMs).

LRH:jw
Copyright © 1963
by L. Ron Hubbard
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