Helnwein & Scientology: pp. 114-117
Joe's Garage
Reichelt, 350 pages of the total 490 pages available at
http://members.tripod.com/has00.htm. The more I read of it, the more
interesting it gets. And it apparently has made Scientology nervous, as
they have recently dedicated some major DA to its author. This particular
section mentions opera singer Julia Migenes, who you will see here in the
news, no doubt shortly. And for the anal-retentive people (you know who
you are), the reference to Donald Duck is a joke ...
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[image]
The Scientology ARC triangle on the back page of the Helnwein 1976 ZKK
catalogue
The Scientology Staff in the ZKK
After the end of the first "test phase" in fall 1976, ZKK "President
Helnwein" (Profil - quote) drew self-critical balance into his second art
catalog "Art + Communication 76 / II", which listed the artistic part of
the activities in the art center during this first period. This time,
besides Helnwein and his friend, Angelika Blaskovich, it showed the people
responsible for the organization as Toni Griebaum, Jochen Wahl, Robert
Schoeller, Liane Pach and Fritz Fuhrmann.
Jochen Wahl
In the German Scientology magazine for members, "Ursprung," published and
distributed in 1975 by the Scientology Church of Germany with its offices
in Munich, successful Scientologists were portrayed along with their
pictures. They included ZKK member Jochen Wahl. As did his friend,
Helnwein, he studied art in Vienna under Rudolf Hausner. Stamped by the
Viennese school, he got mainly involved with graphics, sculpture and
painting in the style of the old masters. In 1975, Jochen Wahl literally
stated in his success report, "For me, as an artist, the
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Jochen Wahl and Gottfried Helnwein in Vienna (from: " 1976 ZKK Catalog")
realizations from Scientology are of inestimable worth. Not only have I
been able to enliven my conceptual ability, but one of my biggest wins is
probably that I can now accept and assimilate several standpoints. Besides
that L. Ron Hubbard's research into the phenomenon of work has helped me
to be able to do things which before I only dreamt of - without
difficulties in starting, without difficulties in the material or even
difficulties in bringing a matter to an end. As concerns interpersonal
relations, I can say that my marriage is going very well - no snarling
battles with insidious tricks, as communications had used to be. I have
not been a Scientologist for very long, but the results which I have
gotten from Scientology have decisively changed me - and in ways that I
could only ever have dreamt of."
Jochen Wahl was then also able to promptly and successfully use his
new-found "knowledge" in the ZKK. However, that was only for a short two
years. Then the center was reorganized. In 1978, Wahl traveled back to
Stuttgart to put on an exhibit in the Niedlich Gallery. "Jochen Wahl
worked for a long time with Gottfried Helnwein in the Viennese
Communication Center," as proudly reported in spring of 1978 in issue 24
of "Mission" magazine of the Scientology mission in Stuttgart.
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Gottfried Helnwein
Those thanked in the exhibition catalog of fall 1976 for "their support"
included Scientologist celebrities Chick Corea and Karen Black, as well as
a certain Donald Duck, who apparently is not a Scientologist, but who
knows ....
From the forward, "The ZKK is a collection of art work. Painters Helnwein,
Schwertberger, Hechelmann and Wahl decided ... together to start an
experiment. The ZKK was founded on that account. Now the "Art +
Communication 76" campaign has been arranged with Angelika Blaskovich and
Toni Griebaum. The form of the event was chaotic. The attempt was made to
simply get as much experience as possible.
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Helnwein beside his picture in the ZKK (from: " 1976 ZKK Catalog")
The intention was not to increase the quality, to perfect the technique or
to cultivate a presence, but to have communication take place and to have
as many people as possible participate. So far, we have not been
subsidized. The members raise the money all by themselves... The goal is
to become independent in relation to production, means of production,
publication and operation. And spontaneous."
On the cover of the catalogue was another Helnwein photograph, the letters
"arc" on a white background were on the back cover, and inside were
several Helnwein drawings. There were also many photographs of several
events in the ZKK, including one with Wolfgang Ambros and Julia Migenes,
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opera singer and an enthusiastic celebrity Scientologist since the '60s.
Even Vienna's mayor-to-be Helmut Zilk was wishfully portrayed as a
"member" of the ZKK, as was U.S. jazz pianist Chick Corea listed as
"friend," also a top Scientologist and, at OT VIII since 1990, the highest
grade, the same as Helnwein's wife, Renate.
[image]
Scientologist Chick Corea in the ZKK (from: " 1976 ZKK Catalog")
In the opinion of former "members," including course participant Steiden
from Vienna, many events, cleverly disguised as cultural arrangements,
took place mainly for only one reason: to put positive attention on L. Ron
Hubbard and his Scientology Utopia for the purpose of obtaining
money-bearing course participants for "Scientology." Indeed, Helnwein
ended up managing to do just that in many cases.
Helnwein's Scientology Center was financed mainly by course participants
with payments for auditing and courses, by private membership fees and by
selling works of art by Helnwein and other artists at the campaign
building.
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Joe Cisar: http://cisar.org/rfs0100.htm
Award site: http://alt-charlemagne-award.de
Why would Gottfried Helnwein, one of the world's leading Scientologists,
lie? See http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm
Joe's Garage
which are available at http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm
This section describes a few people which whom Gottfried Helnwein was
active in Scientology back in 1976 and is relevant in that Helnwein was
still dealing with some of them 20 years later, but, he said, not as a
Scientologist, a claim upon which ample suspicion has been cast. By the
way, although Gottfried Helnwein said he left Germany because he was
discriminated against for being a Scientologist, he seems to have been
under investigation at the time as part of a huge Scientology tax evasion
ring which forwarded funds to Scientology outside of official channels.
Angelika Blaskovich
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Angelika Blaskovich (from: " 1976 ZKK Catalog")
Angelika Blaskovich, one of the organizers, on the subject
in the exhibition catalog "76 / II", "...Where does the money
come from? That seems to be the key question and the
solution for everything and everyone. How much and how
often, that brings the desired category, it must indeed come
from somewhere, now from up to about 20 people, none
over thirty and, on the average, very well-mannered.
Nobody has made contributions, no bank ... no private
individual, no public hand has so much as lifted a finger to
support us in what we have been doing... Several days ago,
production of our first TV children's film was contracted.
(ARD, Sueddeutscher Rundfunk, Producer: Fritz Hechelmann)..."
Fritz Hechelmann
Not only did Friedrich "Fritz" Hechelmann, as a producer,
bless the German television audience of ARD with his
above-mentioned (Scientology) children's film in 1976, he
had also delivered his success report for publication in the
German Hubbard headquarters Munich Scientology
magazine, "Ursprung."
"Fritz Hechelmann, Artist and Producer: I have attained
important realizations through the technology of
Scientology; these are still helping me
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to realize my goals in my career and in life without
difficulties. With the attainment of these realizations, much is
operating in parallel. For instance, the relations to my family
and all other human contacts are forming very intensively
and harmoniously. Through this I can concentrate on my
optimal career intention. As a painter, illustrator and
producer of children's film for television, it is easy for me to
translate my visual conceptions onto film without
compromise. My ability to think has developed extensively
through Scientology's technology, thereby making the
quality of my creations more intensive. The reader can
convince himself of that. My illustrated picture books can
be ordered in every book store ... Scientology has helped
me in the realization of this project. At first I used a part of
Scientology's technology, and the results exceeded my
expectations. Through this I see great potential for my
further personal development."
Robert Schoeller
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Robert Schoeller (from: " 1976 ZKK Catalog")
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Today ZKK comrade-in-arms Robert Schoeller, for more
than 24 years now, is still a fervent adherent of Hubbard
and one of the best friends of the Helnwein family. In spite
of that, to all appearances, and in spite of his denial in the
Viennese "News" magazine, issue 43 / 96, that he had ever
written anything like this, and that this was in all likelihood a
counterfeit, on September 25, 1985 Helnwein wrote a
"knowledge report," comparable to an East German Stasi
report, on his friend Robert along with his long-term female
companion, Gudrun, in which he denounced them to
Scientology ethics officers, responsible for criminal
measures, in Florida. But more on that later.
Fritz Fuhrmann
Another founding member of the ZKK, Friedrich "Fritz"
Fuhrman, also an oldie in Scientology just like his old friend
Gottfried Helnwein, is, 16 (!) years later, one of the top
management functionaries of the Scientology organization in
Austria. He functions as the "leading publisher and
distributer" of member magazine "Bruecke" number 86 /
1991 of the Scientology Church of Austria with its offices
on 13 - 15 Schottenfeldgasse in Vienna, which in this issue
under the title "What has the 20 year anniversary of the
Scientology Church in Austria brought?" celebrates its own
existence as well that of twenty (!) other "missions" in
Austria. In this way, Scientology is on an absolute course
of expansion in Austria. Thanks to many former members
of the ZKK.
[The ZKK was Helnwein's first "art center", actually a front group for
Scientology. Helnwein is also of interest to people in the USA as he has
given testimony to the U.S. government that he was discriminated against
in Germany as a Scientologist. Unfortunately for him, he was also making
sworn statements in Germany that he was not a Scientologist. That had a
tendency to damage his credibility.]
Joe's Garage
Helnwein in his "Center for Art and Communiation," (ZKK) which was really
a front group for Scientology. In this particular section, the ZKK is
described in a Scientology magazine. Scientology periodicals, naturally,
have been a valuable source of information about Scientology over the
past years ...
Scientology in Germany praises Helnwein for his services - 1977
Back in early 1977, "College," the leading Scientology
membership magazine of the time, published in issue Nr. 18 /19 1977
its first highly official public hymns of praise for
the two only existing Scientology training establishments in
Austria at the time: the "Scientology Church Vienna" and
Helnwein's "Center for Art and Communication."
Under the heading "Glance towards Austria" was written:
"Somewhat later than in the Federal Republic [of
Germany], Scientology got a foothold in our
neighboring state of Austria. The only two Scientology
training establishments there, as of 1977, are in their
capitol of Vienna. In the Scientology Church in Vienna
one can, as in Munich,
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[images]
Scan of original German
Helnwein's Scientology Center in Vienna was presented
in Germany in "College" Scientology magazine in
1977.
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go to the academy and train up to Class IV auditor.
The staff at the local church presently consists of 23
people who visibly confront a constantly greater
expansion. In order to make up for a shortage of
trained staff, the Viennese organization sent four
people to Flag Land Base in the USA in order to be
able to considerably increase the level of training and
auditing. Through its own newspaper, lectures and the
distribution of tests, the young organization has gotten
a constantly growing number of students and members.
The Center for Art and Communication moved into the
heart of the city, in one of the liveliest pedestrian zones. It is
managed by the renowned painter Gottfried Helnwein, who
has created a cultural reference point with a large number
of artists. Large posters on the street point out the most
diverse events at this center, which puts on a constant
program of exhibitions ranging from films to concerts. On a
surface area of 400 square meters, 12 full-time staff (!) and
4 half-time people work on implementing their highly set
(by Scientology) goals. Besides training up to Dianetics
Auditor, one can obtain outstanding auditing from a Class
IX Auditor there.
Besides the above-mentioned posters, art catalogs (!) are
offered and regular introductory lectures are held. The
understandably constantly increasing interest in Scientology
has forced this association for art and applied philosophy to
move to new, bigger spaces. Meanwhile, endeavors are
also in process to create training centers in the other major
cities of Austria."
But it never came to that. Not until seven years later, in
winter of 1984, did Helnwein open another, but not
publicly propagated culture and training center in his new
residence in Burgbrohl Castle near Cologne for the
Scientology training of freshly recruited Hubbard adherents
from the surrounding area.
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Spiritual Research Workgroup
>The following are pages 120-122 of Peter Reichelt's book, 360 pages of
>which are available at http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm
>Julia Migenes, who made the news recently from Mainau, assisted Gottfried
>Helnwein in his "Center for Art and Communiation," (ZKK) which was really
>a front group for Scientology.
I was on staff in this center at the time where Julia Migenes was
on lines (she later moved away from Vienna).
She was not assisting in the center - she was just a student,
and a student rarely to be seen.
Heidrun Beer
Workgroup for Fundamental Spiritual Research and Mental Training
http://www.sgmt.at
Joe's Garage
Europe. Scientology uses its specially recruited artists exactly for that
purpose, among other things. Here is the story of some struggling
Scientology artists trained at Helnwein's Center for Art and Communication
(ZKK) They were interested in using "art" to spread Scientology. People
were lured into the "Art" center for the purpose of selling them
Scientology courses. What is art good for, anyway?
This part mentions Heidrun Beer, who is very much alive and well
and who has also duly made a correction on a previous intro by me.
(Thanks, Heidrun) This part also mentions Julia Migenes, who is one
of the Scientolog artists who has been in the news recently, acting
in a promotional role for the ZKK.]
The End of the first Helnwein Scientology
"Art Center" - Vienna in Fall 1977
In March 1977, the ZKK's third catalog was presented to
the public, this time with a project before the gates of
Vienna in the the Perchtoldsdorf Culture Center. For the
last time, between March 26 and April 3, 1977,
exhibitions, concerts and seminars were announced daily.
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Once again with performers including Helnwein, Wahl,
Hechelmann, Schwertberger, Zadrazil, Gansert and
Schoeller. But the participation of the Austrian media had
already waned noticeably. Deep disappointment spread
within the ranks of the artists.
In the same month, one of the last articles on the work in
the center under Helnwein's management appeared. For
the last time, the editors of the "Schoener Leben" magazine
gave the ZKK a generous platform for their
self-presentation and another publicly effective opportunity
to recruit new adherents for Scientology, under the guise of
individual "cultural offers."
"Schoener Leben" magazine's issue nr. 1 wrote in its
forward, under "Internal," "...The unusual thing about the
Viennese Center is that the contact to the public for
which it is striving is not an excuse to meet buyers, but
rather is meant to be, as the group's chief, painter
Gottfried Helnwein has credibly assured us - a platform
for a conversation with every individual who sees art
as more than just an item for consumers ..." In the
middle section the editors gave the Viennese artists' exact
words, "We understand as much about art as you. We
are the Viennese Center for Art and Communication ...
With fascination we observe how art adapts daily to
people. We want to make as much known as possible
about these unconscious processes. We now introduce
ourselves: Gottfried Helnwein ... Julia Migenes, Ivan
Eroed" (cofounder of Scientology Austria in 1972, today
employed as a music professor in Vienna).
"You now know our names ... That is not enough for
us. We want you to visit us personally in our work
spaces and studios. ... Art is for us: conversation,
understanding, feeling, learning and doing. We wish to
collect as much experience as possible. We cannot do
that alone. Therefore we ask your assistance through
this magazine ... Our current policy is that entrance is
free for everybody who is prepared to collect
experience and to exchange experiences..."
Even false promises could no longer help the center. After
only two years at a Scientology attempt to infiltrate the
Austrian cultural scene, it was suddenly all over for the
Helnwein center in summer 1977. The "ambitious"
Scientology project to build a "Celebrity Center" had failed.
The experiment had prematurely come to an end. Gottfried
Helnwein, the "Executive Director" (ED) of the Viennese
Scientology Mission, the Center for Art and
Communication, as he was described by former Viennese
Scientology staff member Heidrun Beer on
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[image]
The ZKK presented itself in the "Schoener Leben" magazine in 1977.
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[image]
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[image]
Calendar of events at the ZKK - 1977
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the internet under the alias of "Clear Baby" and still is today
- Helnwein, in his function as ED had recruited "Clear
Baby" as staff for his "mission" in 1977 - was at the end of
his rope. Was that possible?
Helnwein "fled" for seven months of spiritual recuperation
(or possibly for the purpose of atoning for his
transgression?) to the USA. In summer 1975 Hubbard had
opened his new "FLAG" headquarters, in spite of massive
protests by the people there, in the little run-down seaside
city of Clearwater on the Gulf Coast of sunny Florida. The
"Fort Harrison," formerly a luxury hotel in the center of the
small city, was to be promoted within a short period of time
in what he called the "FLAG" service center to the Mecca
for all Scientologists worldwide. Included among them
were Gottfried and his wife Renate. That was to be the
only place to offer the highest Scientology courses (OT and
auditing). In the same building could also be found the
leadership of Hubbard's intelligence service, which had
been incorporated at the time under the title of "Guardian
Office." It was not until 1983 that the GO received the new
designation of "Office of Special Affairs," or OSA for
short.
The Helnwein Center on the second story of 8 Singer Str.
would be dissolved starting that day. Long-time course
supervisors for Scientology courses and auditing, like his
wife-to-be Renate and future former member Heinrich P.
Steiden, moved shortly thereafter into the so-called
"Scientology Center - Vienna - Association for Art and
Applied Philosophy." That is where, from 1978 under a
new name and management, structurally altered a little bit,
but contextually the same, "activities" went on as they had
in Helnwein's former ZKK.
In the years that followed, "Guru" Helnwein pursued further
developments of Scientology Austria with great interest in
the background as a "gray eminence." Nevertheless, he did
not let it be known that he was personally, successfully
involved with the new Hubbard disciples in the Viennese
Org (Organization). One prominent example of that is
athlete Rudi Kruspel.
It was not until four years later that Helnwein expressed
himself for the first time publicly, albeit shortly, as to the
reasons "his" center failed. In the art book "Helnwein"
which appeared in 1981 from Orac-Pietsch publishing:
"I had always wanted to develop other new projects.
That was supposed to happen with the "Center." There
have indeed been very definite
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moments in very definite places where suddenly much
that was unheard of would happen, where important
things were created. The farm house in Paris at the
turn of the century, the Berlin of the 1920s and
Liverpool at the time of the Beatles. But I soon had to
recognize that one cannot plan something like that and
that it cannot be synthetically produced."
And one more time in 1992 in the book, "Malerei muss
sein wie Rockmusic" ["Painting has to be like rock
music"], which appeared from C.H. Beck publishing.
Helnwein said, "That happened for various reasons; it
was an important experience for me. I tried out
something completely different: painted and drew less,
organized and talked more, brought people together -
for a time, then it was gone. Then I wanted to get away
again."
After his return from his almost 3/4 year "studies layover" in
the USA, including Florida and the west coast, in 1978 he
rented his own studio back in Vienna again, this time by
himself in order to seek commercial success, mainly by
drawing hyperrealistic portraits of celebrities for magazine
covers. His change of style onto this very popular stage
finally brought him the financial success he had hoped for,
along with devastating criticism for his art, which apparently
made no difference to him.
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Joe's Garage
and is a lead-in into the way Scientology artists have financed OSA public
relations programs, such as Narconon.
Rudi Kruspel
In fall 1978, he got to know his later assistant Rudi
Kruspel, with whom he is said to be maintaining a more
than friendly contact since that time. The former Austrian
champion diver, who lost his left leg as a consequence of
an unfortunate training jump and who subsequently became
addicted to drugs, has a lot to thank Helnwein for. He let
Kruspel live at his place. In return for that, he helped
Helnwein in renovating his studio, developed photos for
him and now and then took care of Helnwein's children.
Kruspel very quickly became the family "man" of all trades.
Helnwein, in turn, supported him in his painting and paved
the way for him to an artistic career. Kruspel came to fame
thanks to Helnwein's personal support; he trained him as a
painter and got him off drugs.
By 1982 he already had several of his own very successful
art exhibitions of his own pictures behind him. In the media
in Austria, he had Helnwein celebrated as the savior of a
"stray sheep." On September 14, 1982 on the ORF
broadcast, "Panorama" a show ran about the "new,"
successful, now drug-free life of Rudi Kruspel, the painter.
From the program announcement of the AZ Austrian
newspaper of the same day, "The article reported how
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internationally renowned ex-champion high diver, Rudi
Kruspel, mastered his serious loss. Kruspel, who was
addicted to alcohol and drugs for ten years after the
amputation of his leg, has new meaning in his life after
meeting Gottfried Helnwein, the painter. He
successfully fought his addiction and turned into a
painter. In 'Panorama,' he talked about the hardest years
of his life." But all that is only a part of the truth, because
Rudi Kruspel did not just learn painting techniques from
Helnwein, through him he also made the acquaintance of
Scientology, the "wonder drug."
Renate Helnwein, the Scientology course supervisor in the
Center for Art and Communication, which in 1977 closed
its portals for the next five years, was also there in Vienna,
as reported by "Profil" magazine in 1980: a highly "involved
combatant in grievances against psychiatry, and since
1974, just as involved in Scientology (!)...".
Thanks to Helnwein's successful recruitment, that is how it's
been for Rudi Kruspel, too, who since 1978 has also been
an active - that means he pays cash - "successful"
Scientologist, and was to remain one until far into the
1990s.
In 1987, the Austrian Scientology "Bruecke" magazine
published Kruspel's "success story" after nine years "in
Scientology" under the title, "Successful Scientologists
count their Wins":
Rudi Kruspel, Painter: "I have many courses which I
really would have liked to have taken and surely still
will ahead of me, and therefore I am very happy. Even
the smallest course I have studied has brought about
very great, positive changes in my life, and with each
individual course I find out that I can apply the data I
study in each area of my life and that it always works. I
have only had this experience in the study of
Scientology, and I profit from that as an artist, as well
as in all other areas of my life so that I consider the
value of these courses to be 'unpayable'! I know 100%
that only with the training would I have had these
many wins in auditing, stayed stable and been able to
expand so that I can be OT to the degree I want and
that I can get EVERYTHING I want!"
The "New" ZKK in Vienna - 1981
In 1982, after a five year break, a new Scientology "Center
for Art and Communication" opened up under the same
name in Vienna on 19 - 21 Neulinggasse. This time it was
without the official personal involvement of Gottfried
Helnwein, who now stayed hidden in the background,
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but with intensive involvement of Helnwein confidantes,
such as his personal assistant of the time, Evi Morell, who
later went on to be a long-term Executive Director of
Scientology Austria.
From the October program of the "new" ZKK,
"Wednesday, October 6, 1982, 7:30 p.m. - Viewing the
exhibition of Rudi Kruspel ... Kruspel, who was recently
seen on the Panorama TV broadcast, is showing a cross
section of his creations. With this exhibition, he intends to
support the Narconon drug rehabilitation project, a method
that uses no medications or narcotics ... Saturday, Oct. 16
and Sunday Oct. 17, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. - Seminar "The
Fundamentals of Art." For all who have wanted to increase
their creative abilities and are interested in more knowledge
of artistic effects. "Uncertainty is there where knowledge is
missing." (L. Ron Hubbard) Contribution: 600 Austrian
shillings. The art workshop "The Fundamentals of Art" was
also offered in ZKK's November 82 program.
Only two years later in 1984/1985, Helnwein's old friend
and helper Kruspel was to help establish a new branch of
the Duesseldorf Scientology Celebrity Center, a so-called
"City Office," on Helnwein's new Germany primary
residence, and move together with the Helnwein clan into
the two free-standing buildings directly adjacent to each
other on the lavish estate of a castle which bore the same
name as the small village of Burgbrohl.
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 360 pages of which are available at
http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm This section describes
how Gottfried Helnwein and other Scientology con "artists" financed
Narconon for OSA.]
Narconon - Chilocco USA I
"Narconon" is one of the very many Scientology cover
companies. Rudi Kruspel is not the only one who supports
"Narconon." His friend and "savior" Gottfried Helnwein,
still today, is a great supporter and major sponsor, as is
evident in an article in the American Scientology
membership magazine "Celebrity," 1990 edition - with the
copyright notice in the masthead on page 3: "Copyright
1990 by the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre
International.... All rights reserved." What is interesting
about that is that the "Celebrity" magazine logo, as well as
the words Celebrity Center, Dianetics, E-meter, Hubbard,
LRH, Scientologist and Scientology are service and trade
marks in the possession of so-called "Religious Technology
Center" (RTC) whose offices are in Los Angeles, which
was bequeathed all rights to his creations by founder
Hubbard. The word "Narconon," in contrast, is a trade
mark in the possession of ABLE International.
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Scientology member "Celebrity" magazine is distributed
from "The Church of Scientology, Celebrity Centre
International, 5930 Franklin Ave., Hollywood, California,"
a place which is very well known to Gottfried Helnwein
and his wife Renate from many personal visits, and not just
between 1988 and 1993.
One can find the Scientology hotel at the same address as
the editorial staff of "Celebrity"; it is the "Manor Hotel,"
(King Ludwig says "Hi"), a five-star luxury hotel under
business management of the Scientology Church
International (SCI). That is where the Helnwein family's
"main support point" is during their visits to Los Angeles,
which sometimes last several weeks.
According to statements made by local hotel staff in August
1996, it is also possible for other prominent Scientologists,
not just John Travolta and Tom Cruise, but also for Priscilla
Presley, to not only admire Gottfried Helnwein's art work
which is on display there, but also to commercially acquire
it.
On page 12 of this "Celebrity" issue of spring 1990, it
states revealingly in black and white that the painter
Helnwein is an extraordinarily generous "big spender" for
the Scientology organization of Narconon:
[from photocopy: Renowned fine artist Gottfried Helnwein
donated a great deal of art to the cause of Narconon (R)
Chilocco New Life Center in Oklahoma. From the sold
donated pieces, over $150,000 was donated to Chilocco
(which will be one of the world's largest drug rehabilitation
centers when it opens).]
"Celebrity" magazine announced that Helnwein
donated his art work for the "Narconon" Scientology
organization - 1990
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 132
In this over two square kilometer large institution is a highly
controversial drug therapy center ("We declare war on all
drugs") which uses Scientology healing methods developed
by Ron Hubbard which are dubious, and not just in the
USA, which will house, after construction, over 500
full-time "SC staff" and more than 1,000 people who are
suffering from drug addiction. Thanks to the generous
financial support of famous Scientologists like Helnwein,
the highly controversial "Chilocco" center has been
ceremoniously opened on June 29, 1990 in the presence of
over 1,500 invited top Scientologists from the entire world,
in a whirlwind two day celebration near the small town of
Newkirk. At the wish of the PR department director
Jessica Byrnes - like her friend Renate Helnwein a
long-term "patron" of the IAS whose financial assistance
helped to fill up the war chest of the worldwide OSA
operation - the opening speaker of the Chilocco "New Life
Center," the renowned long-established promoter of
Scientology ideals, Hubbard admirer and management
U.N. staff member in New York City, is to be the Austrian
Dr. Hans Janitschek - he is the president of the
International Writers Society. His longtime friend, Renate
Helnwein, is to take over the execution of this difficult
mission. Whether she will be successful remains to be seen.
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 360 pages of which are available at
http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm. This section
gives some background to Gottfried Helnwein's political influence-taking.]
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 132
[...]
The relationship between Gottfried Helnwein, Hans Janitschek and
Scientology President Heber Jentzsch
For many years now, Dr. Hans Janitschek, friend and biographer of Austrian
media czar Hans Dichand who, among other things, is the publisher of the
influential Viennese "Kronen" newspaper and a major Helnwein admirer and
promoter since 1972, has successfully plunged into battle for Narconon.
Many quotes from Janitschek praising the ideas and the project of Narconon
can be found in recent years in countless Scientology publications.
The honorary Viennese resident Dr. Hans Janitschek, as does his age-old
friend Helnwein, is among the especially close friends of long-term
Scientology President and the highest official representative of the
organization worldwide, Heber Jentzsch.
Janitschek and Jentzsch met more than once in New York
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 133
[image]
"Scientology President Jentzsch in 1988 in the UNO, thanks to his
"door-opener" and friend Hans Janitschek (from: "SC Today" 1988, CSI
OSA)"
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 134
to talk about the continued future and expansion of the Scientology
organization. According to information from high-ranking ex-members, they
also talked about their leading Austrian comrade-in-arms residing in
Germany and Europe's most prominent Scientology member, Gottfried
Helnwein.
On March 27, 1993, Scientology chief Jentzsch sent a hand-written letter
from Los Angeles to his good old friend and helper, Gottfried Helnwein, in
Burgbrohl, with the words, "My dear friends Gottfried and Renate." In
this very personal letter, Jentzsch described how he and Hans Janitschek
had wandered through the streets of Manhattan together and had a few
"thoughts" about the further development of Scientology in Germany.
Helnwein was to take on a "special function" in that which Jentzsch did
not more closely approach in his personal letter. Scientology President
Jentzsch closed his very friendly letter to Helnwein with the words, "...
much love, your Heber Jentzsch."
This direct, friendly relationship is more than enough to show the high
value which the artist Helnwein has taken on since 1985, after his
tactical move from Vienna to Burgbrohl, as "secret" governor of the
Scientologists in Germany and especially well instructed informant for
specifically German, but also political affairs - Helnwein has been very
close friends for many years to Green Party Federal Assembly Vice
President Antje Vollmer - for the highest management crew of the
organization in the USA. In that he is among the five most important
celebrity members which the Scientology organization has worldwide. To be
sure Helnwein, to the regret of the supreme leadership in Los Angeles,
quite the opposite of other worldwide famous Scientologists like John
Travolta and Tom Cruise, uses his activities for Scientology, unnoticed by
the broad German public, as a sort of "burr under the saddle" of his
homeland of choice and desire, Germany, occasionally blowing the whistle
to the Scientology center in Florida, in the best Stasi tradition, on his
old Scientology friends who sometimes came to visit him in his castle if
they were not 100% "on lines" or carries out the dirtiest hate campaign
against Germany as an "innocent Scientologist persecuted by the Germans"
in Washington, such as happened in January 1997. The only bad luck the
alleged non-Scientologist had was with his actual deed of betrayal in
Washington when the American Scientology headquarters, as thanks for his
lecture to the staff of the U.S. State Department, in an official press
release of January 14, 1997
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 135
fully intentionally outed him as a Scientologist, thereby finally bringing
his years of hard legal and media work in building a house of lies in
Germany to a thunderous and deafening collapse in the shortest amount of
time. Since then, Helnwein has not operated above water in Germany.
Neither have his promoters Vollmer or Biolek.
Ed
Joe's Garage wrote:
>
> [The following are pages 132-134 of Peter Reichelt's book, Helnwein and
> Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 360 pages of which are available at
> http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm. This section
> gives some background to Gottfried Helnwein's political influence-taking.]
>
> Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 132
>
> [...]
>
> The relationship between Gottfried Helnwein, Hans Janitschek and
> Scientology President Heber Jentzsch
>
> For many years now, Dr. Hans Janitschek, friend and biographer of Austrian
> media czar Hans Dichand who, among other things, is the publisher of the
> influential Viennese "Kronen" newspaper and a major Helnwein admirer and
> promoter since 1972, has successfully plunged into battle for Narconon.
The way this reads it isn't clear who the various "who"
clauses refer to. How much of it refers to Hans Dichard?
Thanks for your work posting the reichelt book.
Ed
Anton Hein
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000 06:41:46 -0400, Joe's Garage <swa...@xenu.net> in
alt.religion.scientology wrote
(<Pine.LNX.3.96.10007...@darkstar.zippy>):
>[The following are pages 132-134 of Peter Reichelt's book, Helnwein and
>Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 360 pages of which are available at
>http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm. This section
>gives some background to Gottfried Helnwein's political influence-taking.]
>
>Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 132
>
>[...]
>
>The relationship between Gottfried Helnwein, Hans Janitschek and
>Scientology President Heber Jentzsch
>
>For many years now, Dr. Hans Janitschek, friend and biographer of Austrian
>media czar Hans Dichand who, among other things, is the publisher of the
>influential Viennese "Kronen" newspaper and a major Helnwein admirer and
>promoter since 1972, has successfully plunged into battle for Narconon.
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 360 pages of which are available at
http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm. This section gives
place by OSA, which also works to align President Clinton's policy on
drugs with to Scientology's policy (see http://cisar.org/971100a.htm). As
you'll see, OSA, which has a defense budget larger than that of some
countries, makes short shrift of an American village.]
Narconon - Chilocco II
The American Narconon center was regarded from the first
rather suspiciously and, above all, negatively.
The village of Newkirk with its 2,500 inhabitants, only two
miles away, had tried to prevent "Chilocco" for years,
particularly by publishing extensive information on the
organization in the local paper. This strong public
counter-attack brought Scientology's intelligence agency,
OSA, into the plan.
As the well-known daily newspaper the Los Angeles Times
revealed in its June 29, 1990 edition, only 10 days after the
opening of the center, the Scientology management, one of
whose leading directors is concurrently the boss of the
notorious OSA, had used their Hollywood resident
attorney Cooley, as they had done several times over the
years since 1980, to hire Eugene Ingram the detective, an
ex-LA police sergeant fired in 1981 for aiding in illegal
prostitution and currently employed primarily by
Scientology and OSA INT staff, who was reported as late
as November 1991 to be involved in murder contracts
against two Scientology opponents.
The L.A. Times wrote, "When he needed information, he
simply turned to his former friends in the L.A. Police
Department.... In 1989, Ingram, together with several
of his detective colleagues, suddenly appeared on
assignment for the Scientology secret agency
management in the little town of Newkirk in
Oklahoma. They began investigations of the city
workers who lived there and work against the owner
and publisher of the local daily newspaper. The
publisher fought stubbornly with all the editorial means
at his disposal against the nearby 'Narconon' drug
center. At the high point of the dispute, Bob Lobsinger's
daily paper revealed that secret printed Scientology
documents showed that, in reality, the Scientology
organization was in administrative control of
'Narconon.' Because of this revelation,
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 136
an anti-Narconon sentiment began to spread extensively in town.
The OSA struck back. In September 1989, the 2,500
inhabitants of Newkirk received an 'open letter' which
announced that private detective Ingram had been hired to
investigate all the enemies of Narconon in the city. It was
written in the letter that 'individual residents had used
everything they could to libel the Scientology Church.' After
private detective Ingram showed up in town, he
immediately tracked down the 12 year old son of the
mayor in the town library, gave him his calling card and
communicated to the puzzled boy that his father should give
him a call. His mother was shocked when her son told her
about it. Other detectives also "visited" the court buildings
of the city, where they searched publicly accessible records
for 'dirty facts' out of the past of a few prominent local
residents. 'They investigated the director of the bank, the
president of the chamber of commerce and, of course, the
mayor, too,' said publisher Lobsinger.
Garry Bilger, mayor of Newkirk, and strictly an opponent
of Narconon, also told of an unannounced visitor to his
office spaces who wanted to interview him. 'He was taking
photographs in my office, and I asked him to stop
immediately. When I asked him whether he was a
Scientologist, he ran without answering out of my office.' -
'Scientologists always proceed according to the same
mode of conduct. First they try to be very aggressive in
order to intimidate you. That is not something we need in
Newkirk. ... That shows me that they are far from being
harmless. The city will continue fighting Narconon until all
the Scientologists have disappeared,' Mayor Bilger told the
Los Angeles Times. However, neither he nor the
courageous inhabitants of Newkirk could prevent the
opening of the center in June 1990.
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 360 pages of which are available at
of the financial connections between Helnwein, OSA and Narconon.]
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 137
Helnwein helps Narconon in Germany - The OSA/DSA Letter of 1992
In 1989, Helnwein was not only extremely generous in
supporting the American Scientology model drug center in
Newkirk, Oklahoma with more than DM 350,000 in sales
from the art work (!) which he donated to Scientology; he
was also doing it up in grand style outside his front door in
his chosen homeland of Germany, as demonstrably proven
by the contents of a confidential letter from the German
Scientology secret service OSA/DSA of May 7, 1992.
In a "fund-raising" letter to Stuttgart Hubbard adherents
who were potentially capable of providing financial
support, DSA secret service agent Richard Eisenboeck,
c/o Scientology Church Germany, 105 Frankfurt Ring
(OSA office), 8000 Munich 40, wrote, "I would like to
give you a short report on a financial project very
important to Narconon and the OSA. Possibly someone
has already spoken to you about it, but here is the
entire story:
Gottfried Helnwein has stated that he is ready to put one of
his latest photo-realistic paintings - Marilyn Monroe, see
enclosed photo - on the market in a worldwide limited
edition of 450 copies for the purpose of supporting
Narconon and OSA (comparable works from Helnwein
are conservatively estimated at DM 5,000 per lithograph
(!); that would make a total of about DM 2.2 million (!) for
the Scientology organization! - the author) Exclusive
distribution runs through us and a Swiss litho-attorney
and the pure profit flows to us (OSA - the author) and
to Narconon. If desired, the lithograph will be
autographed. Helnwein's lithographs are not just
copies, but a valuable investment. The objective
lithograph is a classic piece of aesthetics, a timeless
myth, and last, but not least - a direct donation to
Narconon and OSA with no burden upon the
purchaser, since he is getting more than the full value
for his money. The Monroe lithograph is almost twice
as big as many other lithographs from Helnwein's
output. The lithograph will be produced in the middle
of the month of May (1992) by the artist in Switzerland,
and will also be available in May. The above
subscription price will be valid until distribution begins.
If you really want to do me and us a favor, then decide
to buy one or more Monroe lithographs and,
additionally, make use of your contacts who are
interested in art NOW.
Finally, this is about helping Narconon and OSA.
Narconon must raise several hundred thousand marks in
the next few weeks in order to meet budget."
What was meant was the Narconon "drug" center in Schliersee,
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 138
[This page is a transcript of the letter cited in the book.]
Stuttgart, May 7, 1992
Dear Klaus,
I would like to give you a short report on a financial project
very important to Narconon and the OSA. Possibly
someone has already spoken to you about it, but here is the
entire story:
Gottfried Helnwein has stated that he is ready to put one of
his latest photo-realistic paintings - Marilyn Monroe, see
enclosed photo - on the market in a worldwide limited
edition of 450 copies for the purpose of supporting
Narconon and OSA. Exclusive distribution runs through us
and a Swiss litho-attorney and the pure profit flows to us
and to Narconon. If desired, the lithograph will be
autographed.
Helnwein's lithographs are not just copies, but a valuable
investment. The objective lithograph is a classic piece of
aesthetics, a timeless myth, and last, but not least - a direct
donation to Narconon and OSA with no burden upon the
purchaser, since he is getting more than the full value for his
money. The Monroe lithograph is almost twice as big as
many other lithographs from Helnwein's output.
The lithograph will be produced in the middle of the month
of May by the artist in Switzerland, and will also be
available in May. The above subscription price will be valid
until distribution begins.
If you really want to do me and us a favor, then decide to
buy one or more Monroe lithographs and, additionally,
make use of your contacts who are interested in art NOW.
Finally, this is about helping Narconon and OSA.
Narconon must raise several hundred thousand marks in
the next few weeks in order to meet budget. That is
supposed to be accomplished mainly through this project.
The only reason that we are putting so much stress on this
project is that we want Narconon to remain on our front
door step and not have to be forced to emigrate.
Narconon can then also pay off OSA's bills, that is how we
will recover our expenses.
In anticipation of your FAST response by telephone and
with best regards,
Richard Eisenboeck
c/o Scientology Church Germany
Frankfurter Ring 105
8000 Munich 40
for the time being I can be reached in Stuttgart at 0711/649
11 15 or 640 37 73
P.S. Also, enclosed is the latest "Freiheits-Spiegel" for
Baden-Wuerttemberg. Enjoy your reading!
Scan of original German
Helnwein and the DSA/OSA secret service in Germany 1992
Richard Eisenboeck, like Helnwein, is a "Patron"
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 139
Bavaria, under the management of Scientologist Horst
Niesel, one of Helnwein's longtime acquaintances, who
advertised for drug addicts in newsletters such as the one
of April 5, 1986, "... You have already often heard of us.
Today I would like to inquire of you whether you know
people who have difficulties with drugs or alcohol.
Please send us their names ..." To be sure, these efforts
to harvest customers were not exactly blessed with
success. For years The Center at Schliersee had to survive
on allowances from OSA/DSA in Munich.
Renate and Gottfried Helnwein also had frequent personal
contact with Horst Niesel's center for reasons including the
sponsorship of Narconon, Inc. The Helnwein couple also
met conspiratorially with Niesel to discuss other financial
modalities of survival, such as happened on May 17, 1991
in Vienna in the office of long-term "Patron" Anton "Toni"
Morell, who enjoyed 100% trust as Helnwein's business
manager of his Austrian WISE corporation "Gottfried
Helnwein, Inc.", barely one week before the opening of the
Helnwein exhibition "Kindskopf" in the Minoriten Church in
Krems near Vienna.
Other high-ranking Scientologists like OT and painter
Helnwein's good friend Detleff Foullois, who was
sentenced in 1993 in the state court in Rostock to several
years in prison for tax evasion, was said to have donations
of up to DM 20,000 channeled to Schliersee in the fall of
1991 at Helnwein's intercession. Foullois, with his "Cosmos
Computer, Inc." computer company in Hamburg, was also
a member of WISE, the Scientology business association.
Like Helnwein, he was also a "Patron" (generous donor) of
the IAS (International Association of Scientologists).
Detleff Foullois, together with his partner Koenig, outfitted
and networked the Germany Scientology organizations with
computer hardware and software. The OSA - intelligence
agency - computer system, with its offices in Munich and
Duesseldorf, have also been running under his set-up since
the early 1990s. All important German-speaking business
bosses in WISE are in constant contact with each other.
The true commercial holders of power of the Scientology
organizations located in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
are individual, well-to-do WISE members like the
high-ranking Scientologists Kempe, Fliegerbauer, Foullois,
Herold, Stricker, Heilig, Brase, Epple, Annau, along with a
handful of other persons. Helnwein, in charge of his
company "Gottfried Helnwein Inc." was member of
WISE's Austrian
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 140
net of Scientologists. These people, in the real sense of the
word, are the "godfathers" of the organization. They hold
the commercial threads together.
A conspicuously large number of threads run to Gottfried
Helnwein, the real "capo di capi," although not as a WISE
member in Germany, but "only" on a detour through
Austria. For many years he has had direct private and
business contact with many of these people and not
infrequently issues, with his wife Renate, Scientology
"management instructions" in regards to doing business
together.
But help came too late for the Schliersee Narconon. Not
just for it, but also for the one in Berlin; they were closed
on grounds of questionable practices such as those
committed by multiple Narconon staff members in
Germany who were convicted for deprivation of liberty,
coercion and violations of medical practice. Only the center
in Itzehoe is open at this time.
In the summer of 1990 Helnwein himself was reveling in his
castle in Burgbrohl, the occasion of which was the filming
of a production for Austrian television of a session for a
new Saturday evening show planned by Dietmar
Schoenherr and television producer Peter Reichelt for the
ORF by the name of "Kinderspiel" ["Child's Play"] before
the audience, some of whom were celebrities like Dieter
Schoenherr, for example, who was destined to become
moderator and his co-moderator Desiree Nosbusch, about
the qualities of the Narconon center, particularly the new
model center in the USA.
The last Narconon building remaining in Germany is located
in Itzehoe in northern Germany. On May 28, 1996,
journalist Stephan Clausen wrote an article which appeared
on the front page of the Itzehoe newspaper entitled,
"Doubts about Therapy in Narconon - Fatal Case."
Clausen wrote, "After the death of the director of the
Narconon drug self-help establishment, the presiding
authorities performed a painstaking examination of
events.... In a report by 'S-Zett' television magazine by
independent broadcaster Vox, former drug addicts
brought up serious accusations against the
establishment. For instance, an ex-junkie and drug
addicts were treated in Narconon by lay people under
use of force with practices clearly ascribed to
Scientology. According to expert opinions, these
methods are medically objectionable. Up to now,
though, there has been no way of interceding because
the Narconon patients admitted to the Itzehoe Hospital
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 141
could not be brought to give testimony. The death
which has just become known, however, of the director
of the Itzehoe Narconon, Wolfgang Hafner, has shaken
up the authorities. Hafner, who died in April with
jaundice, could have been saved, according to
statements from the county hospital, if he would have
been delivered there in time. He was brought fully
disabled into the clinic, where he died shortly
afterward... Presumably Hafner was the victim of the
'therapy' which he had propagated himself - auditing
and the Purification Rundown, practices of the
Scientology organization. In the rundown, the addict is
supposed to regularly sweat the poison out of his body
by spending hours in the sauna. In auditing, the junkies
are supposed to learn how to free themselves from
space and time as a spiritual being..."
The future fate of the last Narconon center remaining in
Germany is currently being decided upon by the authorities.
DSA/OSA agent Eisenboeck continued in his Helnwein -
Art Fund Raising" letter of May 7, 1992 to describe the
manner in which the center in Schliersee should be saved,
with Helnwein's help, from closing:
"That is supposed to be accomplished mainly through
this (Helnwein) project. The only reason that we are
putting so much stress on this project is that we want
Narconon to remain on our front door step (in Schliersee)
and not have to be forced to emigrate. Narconon can then
also pay off OSA's bills (!), that is how we will recover
our expenses. In anticipation of your FAST response by
telephone and with best regards - Richard Eisenboeck."
So not even Gottfried Helnwein, in spite of his fulminating
yet so lucrative efforts, could stave off the approaching
close of his "brother in faith" Niesel's Schliersee
Scientology clinic due to acute financial problems.
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 360 pages of which are available at
somebody who used to work for OSA tells of the parllel world which OSA
occupies under the umbrella of "Scientology".]
An OSA man tells his story
The Scientologist who received the secret service flyer
from German OSA man Eisenboeck, and who shortly
before had left his organization, turned on May 10, 1992,
soon after receiving the fund-raising letter, to Germany's
most effective and celebrated Scientology critic, Renate
Hartwig: "Just this morning something happened which
I absolutely have to tell you about, because on Mother's
Day Sunday at 8:30 in the morning I actually received
a
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 142
special delivery letter from Richard Eisenboeck of OSA,
who apparently has not yet realized that I have had it
with their organization. This letter came along with a
slander rag from OSA, called 'Freiheitsspiegel,' which
was printed in an issue of 500,000 copies. ... I am
sending you this letter mainly because, as an artist, it
really burns me up by hitting an especially sore point,
namely the fact that there is already one artist, in this
case Helnwein, who, on top of that, has almost the
same style as I do, who is being used by OSA to help
make money for OSA by selling his art work. Also take
note of the spot in the letter where Eisenboeck writes:
'Narconon can then also pay off OSA's bills.'
This brought a few things to mind which occurred during
my own brief activities in 1989 which aided OSA in
Munich: namely, that OSA represents Missions and other
Scientology establishments in court, legally represents
Missions and carries out PR campaigns for them, conducts
surveillance and gathers information on critics and
Scientologists in the vicinity of the Missions, and then sends
bills for their activity to the Missions. It runs practically the
same as the Mafia: the Missions, according to OSA
directives, have the duty of reporting to OSA any criticism
or press negative to Scientology in their area. Without
asking permission from the Missions, OSA then takes over
the role of 'Guardian' for the Missions, raises a cloud of
activity and pretext against the alleged 'enemy,' then
submits a bill for a horrendous sum to the Missions for its
own activity, whereby the Missions are then indebted to
and dependent upon OSA, and, of course, able to be
pressured any time by OSA in the event that the Mission
no long remains loyal and 'on lines.' And in case OSA
actually does not have any money or, for instance, has to
run off 500,000 copies of an issue of 'Freiheitsspiegel' to
inform society about Scientology's enemies, pressure on the
Missions is simply increased with the same argument that is
used by the IAS (International Association of
Scientologists). Moreover, IAS works together with OSA
and directly coordinates the 'fund-raising operations' with
the 'guardian operations' by OSA. The arguments of IAS
and OSA are always the same 'or else your Mission will be
closed and you can no longer be free.'
The parallel to the 'protection money' coercion method of
the Mafia is
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 143
always the same ... Besides that, I was assigned as staff
member in the Ethics Department of the Scientology
Church Bavaria out of Munich. The name of my post
was 'Ethics Officer Administrator' - in plain language,
administrative assistant to the ethics officer. It was my
mission to put ethics folders of staff as well as publics of
the organization in alphabetical order. In doing that, I
also had to file individual reports and descriptions
about the so-called HCO auditing, that is an auditing
which has nothing to do with 'Bridge auditing'; the staff
member is checked out on the e-meter as to whether
they have done something which could be a danger to
the organization. Since I was a part time staff member,
I got to eyeball these descriptions as I filed them in the
ethics folders. As someone who was not involved, it
was no problem for me to read about the most intimate
revelations of the staff and customers. Auditing reports
were also received there which included one from a
female staff member who, while being checked out in
the Ethics Department, had to tell the auditor whom in
the organization she had and was having sexual
relations. In that report the staff member even
described each individual act, with the exact location,
time, form and precise duration of the experience. And
I could read X number of such reports by staff, almost
like porno books, even though these were very personal
descriptions which really had nothing to do with me
and with which I had nothing to do.... I would be happy
to state and repeat this at any time under oath or
before a court."
The U.S. magazine "Celebrity", as do other magazines of
the Scientology organization, obtains sponsor information
on generous payments from famous donors since the late
'80s almost exclusively from the donors themselves,
because it is a special honor for every Scientologist, as a
financially capable supporter, to publicly get positive
mention as a "good Scientologist." Not even Gottfried
Helnwein is an exception to that, as we shall see.
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 360 pages of which are available at
short story of a man who, when confronted by Scientology, did not grab his
wallet with both hands and run like hell.]
Vienna 1980/1
Two detailed articles in the Viennese news magazine "Profil" of
1980 and 1981 are conspicuous in that the one in the former issue
deals almost exclusively with Helnwein's art and the other, entitled
"Human Tragedies," warns about dangers, such as that which
emanate from Scientology.
In this story about Scientology in Austria, a case will be spotlighted
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of a 23 year old technical student from Upper Austria, who, for a
short time, had an intense relationship with Scientology in Vienna,
and who went "deep into debt for them. After the mandatory,
free personality test, together with scheduling an introductory
communication course for a relatively ridiculous 300 Austrian
shillings, the student, on his first day of contact with
Scientology, was found to be worthy of obtaining the lauded
state of being 'cleared' of all worldly ills.
Most of the obstacles consisted mainly of things like taking the
'Student Hat,' the 'mini-tape-recorder course,' along with the
Purification Rundown. Confronted with the specially made price of
60,000 Austrian shillings (about DM 8,600): 'I stayed extremely
entirely calm, as if I found that to be quite normal, but I never in
my dreams thought that I would go along with that.' 24 hours later,
his nightmare turned into reality.
When the not exactly overly strong-willed man appeared at the
second session of his cheap course, a well-intentioned, talkative
duo was already there waiting for him. The student's excuses - he
said he could not raise or obtain the required sum in his wildest
dreams, not even get a loan - boomeranged on him: 'In a bank on
Graben in downtown Vienna sits someone who has sympathy with
us,' he was informed. One hour later the contract was perfect and
the count-down to the beginning of his new life had started. His
first discomforts were to be first overcome in the 'Purification
Rundown,' for which 15,385 shillings of the 60,000 he had paid
were deducted. The superficial check-out by a house doctor cost
another 2,000 shillings, then began the big sauna marathon in
which not only everything negative was sweated out of him, but
also, as a bonus, he was to be protected from radiation, as
promised by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. ... Already
sick with doubt, he steamed together with other participants for
three hours at a time every day in a public sauna, not forgetting to
take the all important miracle vitamin of niacin, as prescribed by
Scientology, in ever increasing doses. The medical supervision
proved to be exemplary, every day he received a slip of paper
with profound tips like 'eat many vegetables' and 'sleep well.'
During one round, an older gentleman finally helped him with the
key liberating experience, 'They have already gotten to know us
with time and have told us they're sorry, that we supposedly have
to pay so much money for the sauna.' ...
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His efforts to disappear without saying anything finally let the
student get a look at what was going on behind the scenes of
the 'non-profit organization.' Full-time professional
Scientologists ... eventually did not know what else to do but
to explain to him about their performance-oriented starvation
wages.... The constant telephone calls have meantime
stopped, but he still gets letters with the friendly request 'to
think everything over once more,' months after racking up his
debt
Renate Helnwein, '...for six years now ... hired Scientologists have
had limited understanding for the overdrawn loan payer: 'A poor
dummy, but things like that happens sometimes.' She is not sorry
about her own investments in the amount of about 80,000 shillings,
however, she has stopped letting critical remarks about herself go
by a long time ago: 'I don't even read the lies that are spread about
us any more...'."
One year later, in 1981, the magazine "Profil" wrote about
Gottfried Helnwein in its story "Horrors and Heroes":
"The graphic artist, who found 'clarity in what I wanted' in the
American Scientology movement and who continues to regard
the controversial life management sect as 'a hammer'
currently stands on the verge of a decision. The Hamburg art
high school offered him a teacher's chair last week for media
illustration. But at the same time he would like to start an idol
series with Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol and Muhammed Ali..."
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 360 pages of which are available at
about some false invoices and tax evasion. Antje Victore's boss was also
convicted for tax evasion. She is the fake Scientology asylum woman.]
Gottfried Helnwein, Inc. in Vienna in 1981 and the
problems with the tax authorities in Austria since 1994
On December 2, 1981, to better market his art work in Vienna,
Gottfried Helnwein founded the "Gottfried Helnwein Corporation,
Inc.", HRB nbr. 28.946, of which he was sole business manager.
The starting capital of the company was 500,000 shillings. The
purpose of the firm included "the trade, evaluation, import and
export, exhibiting and holding exhibitions and other presentations
of paintings, sculptures and miscellaneous works of art, along with
the publication, distribution and sale of art prints and graphics of
all sorts...".
At the end of 1984, Helnwein moved, according to his own
statement, together with his
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family from Vienna to Burg Brohl into the castle of the same name
near Cologne. Shortly after his move, on November 14, 1985,
Helnwein stepped down as business manager of his corporation.
He installed one of the best friends of the Helnwein family as the
new business manager, Anton "Toni" Morell, a great adherent of
the Scientology Organization, just like Gottfried and Renate
Helnwein were then.
In the magazine of the International Association of Scientologists
(IAS), "Impact," issue 39 from 1991, which was published in
England, there is found on page 45 a list of the so-called "patrons"
of the association.
"Patrons," according to statements made in this magazine, are
donors who have made contributions of at least $40,000 to the
IAS, and to their "war chest" in particular. Under the column title
of "Austria" are 24 names under the designation of "Patrons." One
of them is Toni Morell, the business manager of "Gottfried
Helnwein, Inc.," whose company name was modified on
November 4, 1993 to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Kunstverlags GmbH" ["Kunstverlags GmbH: Art Publishing,
Inc.]. People doing business in the company initially included
Katharina and Peter Markowitsch, along with Gottfried Helnwein,
and later included Anton "Toni" Morell and Peter Tovornik.
Specifically, this company distributed Helnwein posters
worldwide, including the famous "James Dean" poster and that of
Edward Hoppers "Nighthawks" - posters taken from paintings of
Presley, of Bogart and one of Monroe at a bar. In Helnwein's
words, the James Dean poster was one of the "most sold" posters
of the world.
The relatively large sales income then flowing to Vienna from
around the world was also one of the main reasons Helnwein was
obliged to confide in especially clever tax advisors since 1981.
Helnwein found one of them in Viennese Scientologist Dr. Erwin
Annau, an iridescent figure in Austria's Scientology scene. Erwin
Annau, who was still on staff in the Wolfgang Annau tax office at
the time, became the tax advisor to "Gottfried Helnwein, Inc." in
Vienna, and also to the Helnwein couple. Annau's first goal was to
decrease the official income with "operationally" related expenses.
In doing so, he came across the ingenious idea of listing Gottfried
Helnwein's "donations" - fees for Scientology courses and his visits
to Scientology's pre-eminent Flag Sea Org headquarters in
Clearwater, Florida - as "artistic" consultation, which could then
be accounted for and written off as work-related expenses.
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The people at Flag headquarters were happy to help out. In 1982
alone, the FSO (Flag Service Organization, 210 S. Fort Harrison
Ave., Clearwater, Florida 34616, USA), presented a "bill"
calculated just over DM 12,000 to "Gottfried Helnwein,
Neustiftgasse in Vienna" for culture management and counseling
courses." The sum of the bill was to be paid, at the instructions of
the FSO per telex, by transferring money to a secret FSO special
bank account in the Luxemburg "Creditbank." Events similar to
that occurred the following year, after Helnwein's emigration to
Germany in winter 1984.
In 1985, Annau, full of pride and arrogance about the supposed
stupidity of the Viennese tax authorities which were supposed to
have checked out Helnwein's 1983 tax returns, communicated to
his friend Helnwein that the "Scientology expense model" had once
again, as it had in the previous year, been accepted by the tax
authorities without problems. Annau also had something prepared
for "Helnwein Inc." Besides Helnwein, Annau also gave tax advice
to other top Scientologists in Austria, including Juergen Walter
Apple. Like Annau, since 1994 Epple has been entangled in an
extensive tax evasion scandal, the investigation of which has
included the "Scientology Austria" organization. The reason for
that: issuance of various false invoices.
The "Gottfried Helnwein, Inc." company, which in any case was
involved in a wide-scale investigation by Viennese tax authorities,
was also found in these investigations to have been issued a false
invoice from an Epple company, whose offices were in the
Italian-Swiss tax haven of Campione, of over DM 100,000 for
various "consultant" activities by Mr. J. W. Epple. The written
"advice" consisted of two reports written independently of each
other:
a. analysis of balance statements for business years 1981 to 1984
and b. analysis and prospective development of a Scientology
Celebrity Center under the personal management of Gottfried
Helnwein in Burgbrohl, Germany from 1985. Looking through the
text of the second analysis, it becomes particularly clear how
extensively and how much detail plans with Helnwein for
construction and operation of a new Scientology Organization in
Germany were, and even that the development costs were to be
written off in taxes in Austria.
Even after Helnwein's move from Vienna to Burgbrohl,
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and his replacing himself with "Patron" Toni Morelli as company
business manager, Erwin Annau was still acting as his tax
consultant. In 1989, Annau broadcast a flyer to all his Scientology
customers, in particular to Viennese WISE members; WISE is a
sub-organization of Scientology, exclusively for commercial
corporations, self-employed and independent professionals who,
for payment of a large membership fee and a percentage of their
sales which flow to the Florida center in a roundabout way, may
follow business doctrine. In his information letter, he
communicated instructions he had received from the WISE center
in Florida that "all future payments should be made to the new
bank account ... in the Luxemburg Creditbank, keyword 'FSO'."
Anton "Toni" Morell, business manager of WISE member
"Gottfried Helnwein, Inc.," also settled an open invoice by sending
a check for "consulting activities" shortly after receiving the flyer in
an amount of over DM 17,000 to the Luxemburg Creditbank
account given to him by Annau, payable to FSO in Clearwater. In
1994, the bank account number was altered a third time and the
"WISE members" were notified.
----
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 400 pages of which are available atabout how false invoices have been issued by Scientology/Scientologists
for tax evasion. The important (i.e., wealthy) Scientologists seem to have
been involved in a tax evasion conspiracy. Antje Victore's boss was also
convicted for tax evasion. Victore is Scientology's fake asylum woman.]
The secret raid against Scientology in Austria - 1994
Finally, after months of preparations, the justice department in
Austria delivered a powerful blow to "Scientology Church Austria"
the week of 7 - 11 November 1994. Tax investigators confiscated
the organization's bookkeeping documents in search-and-seizures
carried out across Austria. At that point, the state attorney's office
took over investigation on suspicion of wide-spread tax evasion.
A total of 30 offices and residences were searced from top to bottom. "The operation by the revenue agency is threatening a vital nerve of
Scientology in Austria," as reported by journalists Hannes
Reichmann and Guenther Zaeuner of "Wirtschaftswoche" of
November 24, 1994, in their cover story "Suggestions of
Money-Laundering." Another legal process which is dangerous to
the organization is still active under file number 26b Vr 6047 / 93
of investigative Magistrate Peter Seda, and is being worked by the
revenue office in Vienna. "Wirtschaftswoche" continued, " ...
What began last year as a simple routine check for a total of
15 people in Vienna has since grown into a monster process
with the plot line of a psycho-thriller
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... After anonymous tips were received, criminal tax
proceedings were initiated in summer 993 against 15 people,
their sales people and tax advisor. In places, the court record
reads like a secret dossier of the former DDR's State Security:
the 15 possible tax violators, from Dr. Franz Josef Hofer (No.
1) to Dr. Wolfgang Freisleben (No. 15) maintained apparently
tight and closely-guarded business relations with each other.
A sample: 'For alleged items, which were in fact manipulated
by No. 3, No 6 entered figures in the amount of 255,474
Austrian shillings or about DM 37,000. For descriptions of
standard performance, No. 7 entered payments, incorrectly,
to No. 3 in the amount of 3.4 million shillings, or about DM
490,000.' The search-and-seizures yielded immediate results
for the tax investigators: 'In the seizures carried out so far,
prepared flyers on the methods of creating false invoices were
found, for which purpose donations from companies to the
Scientology Church were to entered on the books as expenses.
Furthermore, from the Scientology organizations, there were
suggestions made on money-laundering in the form of rights
to music or art being bought, which then, after a duration of
one year would be able to be resold at a price 10 to 15 times
higher untaxed to the Scientology company ETICO Ltd. in
London.' The happy reaction of one of the tax investigators,
'That is indeed fabulous. There it states how one evades taxes
in real life.' Besides the fact that a tax adviser from the sect
had received the notorious 'instructions' of how donations to
Scientology should be treated in a manner so as to avoid as
much tax as possible, yet more jewels were found in the
investigative records: 'The organs of Scientology act under
the company "Graphik und Design Business Managing
Sportmanaging Consulting." The tax advisor is also a
Scientologist who holds sales seminars for Scientology
and who gives course participants false invoices. Two false
invoices for 1986 of over 495,000 shillings, about DM 71,000,
and 290,000 shillings, about DM 42,000 have been found. A
suspicion exists that No. 14 routinely wrote false invoices.
'While the agents have not yet managed to investigate a
corporation of this name, the identity of the tax advisor has
been established: No. 14 in the procedure is well-known
Scientologist, tax advisor and Helnwein's close friend, Dr.
Erwin Annau. ... Under Nos. 3 and 15 in the court files are
the names of Juergen Walter Epple and Wolfgang Freisleben.
A couple of years ago, both were operating an agency
specializing in bank and stock businesses,
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'Epple Inc.' in Vienna, in which the tax investigators are
interested under the heading of 'tax protection relay points of
the Epple company'."
Scientologist Epple, in turn, is also accountable for the false
invoice, produced in 1985, to Gottfried Helnwein, Inc. At the end
of August, 1993, the trail finally led in Scientology's direction:
'Furthermore, suggestions of money-laundering were made by
Scientology organs Nos. 9 to 13, in the form that rights to art or
music had been bought for them.' These "organs" turned out to be
Fritz Spohn, Gerald Peissl, Christine Schwab, Juergen Winter, as
well as Friedrich Rainer. The investigations are still continuing and
in April 1997, over 3 years after investigations began, are far from
over.
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 400 pages of which are available at
http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm. This section tells
1995 and 1996, the years before he testified in U.S. Congress that he was
discriminated against for being a Scientologist.]
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[...]
The tax raids at Burgbrohl on Helnwein - 1995 and
1996
Early November 1995 - Austrian news magazine "News," with the
headline "Helnwein subject of tax investigation," announced the
beginning of a comprehensive investigation by German revenue
agents of several top Scientologists who resided in Germany for
extensive tax evasion practices which followed the known
Austrian model. News: "Twelve agents confiscated Helnwein's
books. Now the German revenue agents are also after the
Austrian ... twelve Burgbrohl tax investigation agents
stormed the German domicile of Viennese painter Gottfried
Helnwein and confiscated all his accounting books. Helnwein:
'I have nothing to hide, but that was a low shot.'
Now he wants to strike back: 'In December I am getting a
studio in the tax shelter of Switzerland, then another one in
Los Angeles, for me to paint. Then the Germany revenue
agents will have nothing to show for their work.'" Those few
sentences are still everything that Helnwein has stated about his tax
affair. On November 30, 1995, the first German press organ, "Die
Rheinpfalz" Ludwigshafen daily newspaper, finally reported on the
investigators' operation. "The tax investigators in Coblenz have
searched the residence of Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein
in Burgbrohl (Ahrweiler County) and confiscated his
accounting books. This has been verified for us. Helnwein,
himself, did not wish to make a statement. On the level of
state politics, there was much lively discussion about
Helnwein's connection to the Scientology Organization
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[image includes a disgruntled looking Helnwein]
"News" - magazine in November 1995
when the artist and Donald-Duck-collector arranged an
exhibition in the Mainz State Museum as part of the
Rheinland-Pfalz summer of culture."
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 400 pages of which are available at
http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm. This section tells
Foullois was one of the people whom alleged asylum seeker Antje Victore
worked closely together with in the "Werbeideen" company. Perhaps she was
talking about him and his partner when she said Scientologists were being
persecuted/prosecuted in Germany.]
The "IAF AG" in Vienna
In this German tax detective story, too, all clues led to Vienna. A
main role was played by Viennese art dealer Peter Grebner,
Gallery Spectrum business manager in the '70s and '80s. In the
beginning of his career in 1974, Helnwein successfully exhibited, in
the Gallery's spaces in Vienna, a "one-man show" consisting of the
first retrospective of his "early works." Therefore, Helnwein has
had a lot to be thankful for from Peter Grebner back to the early
'70s. In the years that followed, there were extensive, mutual
business relations, which lasted into the '90s.
According to information from Austrian authorities, Gallery
operator Grebner was chairman of a company in 1993 and 1994,
the offices of which were in 134 Maria Hilfer Str. in Vienna.
Grebner's "International Art Funding AG Inc. - Vienna
representative" had just one fatal flaw: it never existed.
Nevertheless, between 1992 and 1994, Grebner's non-existent
"IAF AG" booked many demands for commission for various
activities involving "art purchases" with Gottfried Helnwein. The
demands on those were supposed to have run over DM 250,000.
Naturally, these accounts decreased Helnwein's income and
reduced his taxes considerably.
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Transcript
Transaction number: III KLs 3/93
Rostock State Court
Judgment
in the name of the people
In the criminal matter against
K[blacked out]-E[blacked out] H[blacked-out],
born on [blacked out]
residing at [blacked out]
German male, single
H[blacked out] D[blacked out] F[blacked out],
born on [blacked out]
residing at [blacked out]
German male, married
the 3rd major criminal chamber - commercial crime chamber - of
the Rostock State Court, based on the proceedings of June 24,
29 and July 8, 1993, participated in by the following:
Judge for the State Court [blacked out] as chairman
Judge [blacked out], Judge [blacked out] as
co-presiding judges,
Master [blacked out]
Engineer [blacked out]
as jurymen,
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Helnwein's friends and top Scientologists, "Patrons" Detleff
Foullois and Karl-Erich Heilig, were sentenced in July 1993
by Rostock State Court to 2 years, 2 months incarceration for
tax evasion in the amount of millions. In 1991, both
"donated" over DM 10 million to Scientology in the USA
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State attorney [blacked out]
as official of the state attorney's office,
Attorney [female] [blacked out]
Attorney [male] [blacked out]
as defense of the accused H[blacked out]
Attorney [male] [blacked out]
Attorney [male] [blacked out]
as defense of the accused F[blacked out]
Justice department employee [female] [blacked out]
as recorder of the proceedings
have found as just:
The accused are sentenced on account of continued
tax evasion to incarceration for
2 years and 2 months each
The accused will bear the cost of the proceedings
Proscriptions applied
[list of German regulations and paragraphs can be seen on the
scan of the original German document.]
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Because the sales of H's company officially exploded in winter
1990/91 - in January 1991 the sales were over DM 3 million -
and H's company "Werbeideen" had at its disposal, by contract
with its customers, a large cash balance, the two accused mutually
decided together that amounts in the millions were going to be
donated to the Scientology Church and various of its
sub-organizations. In 1990 alone, the two withdrew about DM
4.1 million of net sales of DM 5.5 million in advertising and
donated the major portion of this withdrawal to the Scientology
Church and its sub-organizations. Up to April or May 1991, the
two together gave the Scientology Church an amount no less than
DM 7 million. According to statements by the accused H. the
amount of the contribution could have also been far over DM 10
million. This was the sum calculated by the accused H. in a memo
of June 3, 1992. Due to a lack of standard bookkeeping, the sums
listed in that letter were based on the estimates of the accused H.
But in his opinion, the donated sums could also have been much
higher.
When the accused H. recognized that business was going well, he
decided to go to the USA in order to study so-called
"Management Tech" by L. Ron Hubbard with the Scientology
Church, and to reach the step of "Clear" on "the Bridge to Total
Freedom." He therefore stayed in the USA from October 24 -
November 12, 1990, from December 23, 1990 - early February
1991, from March 6 - April 29, 1991 and from May 2 - end of
June 1991. He again stayed in the USA from March to the end of
April. During this time
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the accused F. carried on business for H's company
"Werbeideen," which the accused H. had legally empowered the
accused F. to do with a notarized certificate.
As a result of the large withdrawals made by the two accused H.'s
company "Werbeideen" had great cash liquidity problems in spring
1991. These were exacerbated, in addition, by the decreasing
sales of H's company in February. The accused therefore
attempted to delay payments to creditors. That is exactly how the
two accused misled the Guestrow Revenue Office. For instance,
accused F. submitted tax returns of commercial operation to
Guestrow Revenue office on May 8, 1991, and made the
following statements in regard to profits and sales tax:
Projected profit in the current calendar year 0 DM, in the coming
calendar year 20,000 DM.
Projected amount of sales in current year 500,000 DM, projected
amount of sales in the coming year 700,000 DM.
As also in the following period H's company submitted no sales
tax or wages tax, the revenue office order an audit, which finally
took place on August 7, 1991, after an appointment cancellation.
This special audit was terminated during its course by the finance
office based on unexpected bookkeeping and postponed
indefinitely until the evidence could be reviewed.
Immediately before that, with a date of August 5, 1991 H's
company "Werbeideen," through Mr. Achim D. submitted a first
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sales tax return for the fourth quarter of 1990 with false figures.
The details are still being looked into in the tax determinations.
In any case, shortly before the Guestrow Revenue Office's special
audit, Mr. Reto B. wrote to the accused F. and others, on
ARTAG ARTIST AG Bern letterhead as follows:
Bern, July 31, 1991
Dear D.[blacked out]
Now I have already been home for a good week. In the
meantime, I have the data concerning taxes in Switzerland, which I
describe for you as follows:
For legal persons, we have three taxes:
1) State / Local / Church Tax
2) Direct federal tax
3) Capital tax
Here are the maximum tax rates:
1) State / Local / Church tax = 11.9 %
2) Direct federal tax = 9.8 %
3) Capital tax 2.5 %
Tax types 1) and 2) are taken from taxable profit (after taking out
tax to be paid). Tax type 3) is calculated from the company capital
(stock capital, legal reserves and profit balance).
Example: 1) State / Local / Church tax
= Fr. 5,000,000 x 11.9 % = Fr. 595,000.-
2) Direct federal tax
= Fr. 5,000,000 x 9.8 % = Fr. 490,000.-
3) Capital tax
= Fr. 50,000 x 2.550 %o = Fr. 127.50
--------------------
= Fr. 1,085,127.50
This Fr. 1,085,127. can be taken deducted from the amount to be
taxed. That means that the annual tax burden of a pure profit
(before taxes) of Sfr. 5,000,000.0 is about Fr. 800,000.- That is
about 16 % taxes. ./.
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Bank connection: Swiss Volksbank, Worb, account
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[letterhead paper] ARTAG ARTIST AG
- 2 -
The above tax rates are the maximum tax rates. If this tax burden
should still be too high for you (which I would absolutely
understand), then there is the possibility of opening a public
company in Canton Zug as a relay point for further transactions to
an internationally based company on the Channel Islands, like
Jersey (St. Helier) or on the Isle of Man
From the personal experience of my trustee (tax advisor and
financial office of my company), Jersey Island is tax free for
companies which do not carry out business in Great Britain. My
trustee could identify other possibilities for tax-free islands. That
would be quickly possible with his Comm Lines to England and
Jersey.
If, under these circumstances, a statement of pure profit for the
corporation were not desired in Switzerland (e.g., through
payment of the income minus the administrative costs to the
International company), the corporation would not have to be
founded in the City Zug, but could be founded in the domicile of
my tax advisor. This would have not tax disadvantages, since no
profit would arise, but would have great administrative
advantages.
The latter named variant would mean that you would not have to
pay any taxes, and legally! So why send the money via
Switzerland to Jersey Island? Is that not an unnecessary Via? -
No! The tax officials in Germany would have to be familiar with
the relevant tax shelters. Eventually the German tax authorities
could enact an open tax procedure. License fees in Switzerland are
essentially less conspicuous. As an unbeatable advantage for you
and a gigantic disadvantage for German tax investigators there is
the Swiss bank secret. It would be absolutely impossible to find
out anything about your financial relations, if a numbered account
existed. The company on Jersey Island has its office on Jersey
Island. The bank connection or, as the case may be, the account,
will be carried on in Switzerland. I recommend that you take this
suggestion. To sum it up once again shortly:
1) Founding of a stock corporation with initial capital of Fr.
50,000 in Utzigen (Bern Canton) in the domicile of my trustee.
Company: H[blacked out] (Switzerland) AG
2) Opening of a company on Jersey Island
Company: H[blacked out] International, Ltd.
3) Establish a license contract between H[blacked out] Germany
and H[blacked out] (Switzerland) AG
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Bank connection: Swiss Volksbank, Worb, account 5323 - 10 -
457.774.9
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 158
[letterhead paper] ARTAG ARTIST AG
- 3 -
4) Open an account at a major Swiss bank for the company:
H[blacked out] International Ltd with offices in Jersey.
5) Regular license payments from H. Germany to H. (Switzerland)
AG.
6) Regular money transfers from H. (Switzerland) AG to the
account of H. International Ltd, Jersey Island (account in
Switzerland)
Wow! You know, in putting this data together I have realized
what advantage there is to be gained from the Swiss banks in
taxes. To the extent that you send money from Germany to
Switzerland, this money disappears from any revenue agent in the
entire world to some little tax-exempt island. The real advantage
of the bank secret consists of that where the money is going
cannot be looked into. Keep it in Switzerland or have it leave
Switzerland again.
In any case, I am very proud of being able to show you this legal
tax variant and of being in the position of executing it for you.
I hope you like this suggestion as much as I do. What does this
financial counseling cost?
Founding expenses of the company: H. (Switzerland) AG
One-time investment of Sfr. 50,000.-. After incorporation,
this capital will be available again.
Incorporation costs:
Start-up deposit Sfr. 1,500.-
Notary costs Sfr. 1,500.-
Production of statutes
incl. stock certificate Sfr. 1,500.-
Filing in Swiss
trade register Sfr. 500.-
Expenses Sfr. 1,500.-
One-time founding expenses
of the company in Switzerland Sfr. 8,500.-
One-time founding expenses
of the company in Jersey Island, about Sfr. 6,500.-
------------
total founding costs about Sfr. 15,000.-
Scan of original German
Bank connection: Swiss Volksbank, Worb, account 5323 - 10 -
457.774.9
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[letterhead paper] ARTAG ARTIST AG
- 4 -
Trustee administrative costs 2 % of the money which goes through
the bank account of H. (Switzerland) AG, but a minimum of Fr.
5,000 a month.
To found a stock company, at least 3 natural persons are
necessary. Of those, a majority must be Swiss citizens. If K.-E.
and you are co-founders of the company H. (Switzerland) AG,
then three Swiss citizens must be present. These people form the
administrative board of the firm.
I recommend the following three Swiss: P. G. (trustee), T. L., R.
B.
This tax model is a much-used system. The essential advantages
are
- low administrative costs
- highest security possible for the money in a major Swiss
bank
- The money remains in Switzerland (even the money of the
company on Jersey Island)
My tax advisor has established this model for an international
Scientology firm and it has been in use for over one year without
any objections (that means tax-free).
If need be, the money generally collected can be administered to
by my trustee.
I am available for any further general questions. Moreover, a
residence for you and your family, along with K.-E. in Switzerland
would be quite a fun thing. Tax-exempt, pleasant, beautiful
landscapes. Switzerland has mountains, lakes, and not least of all,
H.T. and I live in Switzerland. Wouldn't that be something for the
future. The H. Holding company in Switzerland.
Scan of original German
Tobias Leutenegger, long-term business partner of Helnwein,
resided at the same address as "ARTAG ARTIST AG" in Bern.
Like Helnwein, a "Patron"
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 160
In Vienna, it was very quickly determined that the IAF was a
non-existent company on paper only. For that reason, the
company could not account for delivering any service. What is
interesting are the people and institutions who supposedly made
purchases of pictures with Grebner's IAF. First came the group of
old-time Scientologists, the duo around Helnwein, Mssrs. Kurt
Fliegerbauer and Mario Herold; the trio had known each other
since the '80s, because of the Viennese Wuerthle Gallery, until
1995 under management of the daughter of media czar Hans
Dichand, a great collector of Helnwein's artwork since the '70s
(!), and the "Pfalz" Gallery in Kaiserslautern, under the direction at
the time of Mrs. Dr. Fiedler - Bender, who in summer 1995 made
negative headlines nationwide as new director of the state museum
in Mainz with her "Carl Barks" exhibition, organized by Helnwein.
Even the respectable "German Mail Museum" in Frankfurt am
Main, directed at the time by Thomas Werner, was said to have
been "serviced" by Grebner's IAF. The "fake invoice" tax saving
operation by friends Helnwein and Grebner even caused another
search operation to take place in Helnwein's castle and other
business partners in February 1996 which resulted, according to
press reports, in bringing an extensive network of Scientology
companies to light. The center point of the operations was
Gottfried Helnwein. As of March 1997, that tax investigative
procedure was still open. The extensive investigations by German
agencies in the Helnwein case are still not settled, and are being
conducted in parallel to those in Austria.
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, 450 pages of which are available atabout the first time Gottfried Helnwein was outed as a Scientologist by
"Stern" magazine. This may give you a premonition of why Helnwein decided
later on to deny he was a Scientologist at all. Perhaps you may even
pause to reflect upon people who make a point of expounding upon the
supposedly self-evident fact that they are sober, clear, rational _and_
logical.]
The "Stern" Outing - December 19, 1984
While preparations to move by the Helnwein family had moved
into high gear in December 1984 and they were on the verge of
going from Vienna to Germany, Helnwein was "outed" as an active
member of Scientology for the first time in a newspaper article
outside of Germany.
On December 19, 1984, "Stern" magazine, in its article "Yearning
for Immortality," issued strong warnings about Hubbard's retinue:
"Businesses of the aggressive 'Scientology Church' have been
prohibited nationwide. The adherents of the psycho-sect also
include well-known artists ... As far as the city of Duesseldorf
is concerned, the alleged 'church' is simply 'immoral.' A judge
in the London High Court believes it is 'corrupt, sinister and
dangerous'."
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 161
As far as Viennese horror painter Gottfried Helnwein, 36, is
concerned, that is all just "nonsense." He views the criticism as
more evidence of a campaign against minorities which he says is
being systematically carried out against Scientology. Helnwein
who, together with Roncalli Circus director Bernhard Paul, has
been called a Hubbard adherent, told 'Stern': 'Scientology has
stabilized me. I am off of all alcohol and drugs.' He said he got into
the sect ten years ago. Since then he believes Hubbard's deluded
philosophy is 'sober, clear, rational and logical,' and does not want
to be aware that Scientology has less to do with belief than it does
with psycho-terrorism and money-sharking.
With artistic coquetry he maintains that he has never heard, for
example, that pressure has been put on apostate sect members.
He said he would speak out in favor of 'anybody who feels
threatened by Scientology, but does not know how to defend
themselves.' An offer that sect dissidents would be better off not
taking up. That is because Helnwein, a 'long-term, active member,'
according to information proudly relayed by the Munich
Scientology center, has to carry out the policy instructions of sect
boss Hubbard: dissidents are critics and, consequently
'suppressive persons.' Against whom Scientology may proceed
ruthlessly ... But he who is not enlightened by Scientology, as
Hubbard threatens, will fall 'into the black pit of oblivion.' And
what artist would want that."
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, almost all of which is available at
http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News/has00.htm. This section gives a
simple lay-out of the estate which Gottfried Helnwein rented from another
lifer Scientologist.]
The move to Burgbrohl - 1984, or Scientologists
among themselves - Helnwein and Kempe
1984. On the Burgbrohl castle estate stand two castles,
Helnwein's so-called "fortress" and the so-called "castle," which
are separated by only about 50 yards.
Fortress and castle, defense installation and a grand, lordly
residence, are combined in Burgbrohl in an impressive style. The
installation consists of an outer wall which contained domestic
quarters, today holding the Helnwein's living spaces, studio, offices
and secretariat behind an impressive portal, built in 1731, and the
castle, with more living spaces for the Helnwein family in the style
of the 17th and 18th century, a large, but not magnificent structure
with two wings. On the ground floor there is another studio for
Gottfried Helnwein.
In December 1984, Helnwein rented the fortress for a duration of ten years
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 162
for himself and his family from Marieta Kempe, since 1987 an "OT VII" like
her friend Renate, a Scientologist with the highest possible training. Her
husband, the successful real estate broker, Klaus Kempe from Duesseldorf,
graduated Scientology level "OT VII" two years later. On May 17, 1982,
businessman Kempe "outed" himself for the first time publicly as a
Scientologist in a personal statement. In a letter to the youth protection
spokesman of the city of Duesseldorf, he reported of "my experiences with
the Scientology Church," Kempe: "In December 1980 I was looking for a new
sales director for my real estate office. After an ad was placed to that
effect, a Mario Herold introduced himself."
Joe's Garage
Helnwein and Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, available froma description of some Scientologists' eerie attachment for MEST in the
form of art.]
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 163
Helnwein and Herold in Leipzig and on Ruegen - 1994 and 1995
Fourteen years later in the summer of 1994, Helnwein was to set
up for Scientologist and business consultant Mario Herold an
office on 44 Prinz-Eugen Str. in Leipzig, a so-called "Case Study"
(C/S) room for internal Scientology technical surveillance activity.
Helnwein was to develope an artistic concept for a so-called
"creative floor." As a fee, Herold had mentioned a contribution in
the amount of DM 150,000.
[images of office showing window in Herold's office]
The office of Scientologist Mario Herold on 44 Prinz-Eugen
Str. in Leipzig, furnished by Gottfried Helnwein in 1994
(photo: AR)
On the first floor, easily visible for an observer from the street,
was an over-sized Helnwein photo-portrait of original Stone Keith
Richard, of the Rolling Stones, (see arrow). Herold today, like the
Scientologist construction business man Kurt Fliegerbauer who is
active in Zwickau, is a proud owner of one of the most extensive
Helnwein picture collections, with a value of several hundred
thousand deutschemarks. The showpiece of his collection is a new
version of Helnwein's most famous work "James Dean," with a
value of DM 100,000. Of his Helnwein collection, Herold's
favorite picture, however, is the over-sized painting "MIG 23." To
be sure, just as often as it did for his colleague in faith Helnwein,
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 164
MARIO HEROLD
[address & phone nr.]
Mario Herold, Prinz-Eugen-Str. 44, 04277 Leipzig
Mr. Gottfried Helnwein
at the Burg
56659 Burg Brohl
HE 0341-311574 12.12.1994
1 Payment in the amount of DM 80,000.-
Dear Gottfried,
enclosed is a settlement check in the amount of DM 80,000. This
does not quite come up to our agreed upon amount regarding flow
of payments.
If everything would have run as planned, I would be ready to plan
and to realize 2 more pictures of Mig size under the same
conditions.
Furthermore, I was thinking that 9 portraits of philosophers would
be appropriate for my assessment room, which give me the power
of knowledge.
So I wish a super production.
Since I know that you in the not too distant future will come into
the same condition in which I find myself, and my condition would
be a miniature preparation for that, it is an honor for me to be able
to do the beginning of this superseries. With my action, I will also
open the flow to you and set it in motion, so that essentially
MORE can flow to you.
ON THAT YOUR DREAM IN DIV 3 WILL NOW BE REALIZED!!!
cordially,
/signature/
M. Herold
Scan of original German
Scientologists among themselves: Herold to Helnwein on
December 12, 1994
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 165
his passion for collecting brought him into financial arrears, a
mortal sin for Scientologists. On more than one occasion, Herold
had to apologize to Helnwein for not keeping his "cycle," the
timely payment of open bills. In the most proficient Scientology
language, Mario Herold wrote his friend Helnwein on December
12, 1994, "Dear Gottfried, enclosed is a settlement check in
the amount of DM 80,000. This does not quite come up to our
agreed upon amount regarding flow of payments. If
everything would have run as planned, I would be ready to
plan and to realize 2 more pictures of Mig size under the same
conditions. Furthermore, I was thinking that 9 portraits of
philosophers would be appropriate for my assessment room,
which give me the power of knowledge. So I wish a super
production. Since I know that you in the not too distant future
will come into the same condition in which I find myself, and
my condition would be a miniature preparation for that, it is
an honor for me to be able to do the beginning of this
superseries. With my action, I will also open the flow to you
and set it in motion, so that essentially MORE can flow to
you. ON THAT YOUR DREAM IN DIV 3 WILL NOW BE
REALIZED!!! cordially, M. Herold" The handbook of "Modern
Management Technology Defined - Hubbard Dictionary of
Administration and Management" by L. Ron Hubbard, under the
key word "DIV 3" reads: Division 3 - Financial department of
a Scientology directed organization.
Only 12 weeks later, Herold's financial situation in regard to his
Helnwein cycle, i.e., "open bills," appears to have worsened again.
On March 10, 1995, Helnwein's wife and financial administrator
received a fax from Leipzig which clearly stated what "dilemma"
Mario Herold must have found himself in - torn out of the
Hubbard doctrines. The content of his pleading letter also showed
the great fear that Herold must have had for Helnwein. Herold:
"Dear Renate, This cycle has given me no rest. I'm now having
a problem with it and I would like and I have to solve it. The
course of this cycle has indeed been talked through by us
many times, and I will take responsibility for this cycle and my
difficulty in duplicating. I now have DM 95,000 for this art
cycle and this money is ready. The supreme rule of solvency is
to expend less than you take in. If I put DM 22,000 to the
cycle, then I have expended more than I have taken in,
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 166
and so I have produced insolvency. Now there are several
solutions to my problem:
1. We agree on a deal which stays in my scope of DM 95,000
which I have available, with all the diverse coincidental
expenses and which satisfies both sides.
2. But I am also ready to do the complete deal and pay the
remaining DM 15,000 as well as the about DM 22,00. In this
case I would then like to give all "FACES" photos to a
museum or something. This process has nothing to do with
you, but is a liability for me or punishment for my actions of
expending more than I took in and for not paying attention,
and should serve me as a type of lesson so that this type of
thing does not happen again.
3. Perhaps, though, you know of a better solution
Maybe you have problems understanding my viewpoint, but I
have worked very hard for my present condition. In doing
that I have kept certain rules and these rules have led me into
this condition. And one of these rules was:
1. Give out less than I take in and
2. First you earn and then you expend.
I would simply like not to deviate from these rules. Now I
have the following problem.
a. If I pay the DM 22,000 which I stupidly have not FPd, then
I would break both rules at the same time. For breaking these
rules I would have to set my own punishment, otherwise life
will do it.
b. If I don't pay, then you would feel ripped off and say I am
hard of hearing and have a faulty memory.
So I have made two suggestions here and now you
decide for one or both or maybe you have yet a better
suggestion. best regards, Mario"
Gottfried Helnwein must have decided positively on one of
Herold's suggestions, because only seven months later, another
meeting was on Helnwein's schedule at the castle for October 20,
1995. One of the people invited to this meeting was Mayor
Liedke of the Ostseebad community of Sellin on Ruegen Island.
The reason was the intended closure of a contract with Helnwein
on an artistic operation called "Seebruecke" ["Lake Bridge"]
with a planned honorarium in the amount of DM 500,000 for
Helnwein. The agent for this cultural project this time was also
Mario Herold from Leipzig.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 167
Renate
10 Mar 1995
Mario Herold
Dear Renate,
This cycle has given me no rest. I'm now having a problem with it
and I would like and I have to solve it.
The course of this cycle has indeed been talked through by us
many times, and I will take responsibility for this cycle and my
difficulty in duplicating.
I now have DM 95,000 for this art cycle and this money is ready.
The supreme rule of solvency is to expend less than you take in. If
I put DM 22,000 to the cycle, then I have expended more than I
have taken in, and so I have produced insolvency. Now there are
several solutions to my problem:
1. We agree on a deal which stays in my scope of DM 95,000
which I have available, with all the diverse coincidental expenses
and which satisfies both sides.
2. But I am also ready to do the complete deal and pay the
remaining DM 15,000 as well as the about DM 22,00. In this
case I would then like to give all "FACES" photos to a museum or
something. This process has nothing to do with you, but is a
liability for me or punishment for my actions of expending more
than I took in and for not paying attention, and should serve me as
a type of lesson so that this type of thing does not happen again.
3. Perhaps, though, you know of a better solution
Maybe you have problems understanding my viewpoint, but I
have worked very hard for my present condition. In doing that I
have kept certain rules and these rules have led me into this
condition. And one of these rules was:
1. Give out less than I take in and
2. First you earn and then you expend.
I would simply like not to deviate from these rules.
Now I have the following problem.
a. If I pay the DM 22,000 which I stupidly have not FPd, then I
would break both rules at the same time. For breaking these rules
I would have to set my own punishment, otherwise life will do it.
b. If I don't pay, then you would feel ripped off and say I am hard
of hearing and have a faulty memory.
So have have made two suggestions here and now you decided
for one or both or maybe you have yet a better suggestion.
best regards,
Mario
Scan of original German
Scientologists have problems, too!
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 168
In March 1997, Liedke verified the dealings between Helnwein
and Herold which, according to what he said though, took place
solely on Ruegen. Plans included, according to Liedke, the
construction of a roofed, year-round, utilitarian art center (!) on
the generally much loved "Lake Bridge" of the Sellin lakeside
resort, which went far out into the Ostsee lake and is one of the
landmarks of Ruegen Island. Another "Bridge to Freedom" for
Helnwein? Similarities to the "Bridge to Total Freedom," as
Scientology founder Hubbard entitled his science fiction creation,
are probably sheer coincidence. After the mayor found out from a
third party about Helnwein's managing staff inside the Scientology
organization, he ended any further cooperation with him in short
order in November 1995, and put the planned project "on ice"
until further notice. Fees for Helnwein's and Herold's activities up
to that point, according to Liedke, had not been paid
In January 1996, Helnwein finally flew with his friend Herold into
Russian St. Petersburg. Maybe seeking a successful trial run in
matters of Scientology's "eastward expansion"? During that trip, a
meeting with the management of the Russian State Museum took
place in preparation for a museum retrospective "Gottfried
Helnwein: One-Man Show." The show, which consisted of 93
works, had premiered in November 1996 in the Petersburg
Museum in Hokkaido, Japan. After that it was to show in
Ingolstadt in April 1997, and then in his home town of Vienna
from September 1997. Both shows, however, were cancelled in
March 1997 by the cultural institutions without more precisely
describing the reasons.
[image scan of graduates and releases of Advanced Organization
Saint Hill UK, includes Mario Herold and Peter Tovornick]
Mario Herold became "OT 3," also Peter Tovornick,
Helnwein's Viennese business partner. Graduation site: East
Grinstead in England
(from "The Auditor" 228, 1988)
In the preceding year, Renate Helnwein became a "New OT
5" in the same place; her friend Herold made "Academy
Level 0"
(from "The Auditor" 223, 1987)
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, available from
Klaus Kempe gives a good 1st person narrative of what the initial
"honeymoon" with Scientology is like before reality of dependency sets
in.]
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 169
Klaus Kempe - The Real Estate Broker
Klaus Kempe again in his letter of May 1982: "After a personal meeting
with Mario Herold, we agreed on a sales course for the distribution staff,
which then took place as agreed. I found this training very motivating,
positive and, mentally speaking, very good and exciting. Among other
things, Mr. Herold told us about an ARC triangle - it had to do with the
connection between affinity, reality and communication in regard to
speaking to customers. After this lecture for the staff, Mr. Herold sold
me a book entitled "Dianetics" which I read on my skiing vacation. This
book is rather basic in the Scientology Church and its content has several
views to improve the understanding of self and others. I have sent you a
copy. After studying this book, I felt a need to get to know and try out
more of the fundamentals. Therefore I went to 55 Oststrasse in the local
Duesseldorf Scientology center and took a communication course there,
which I will graduate in the coming weeks. The course cost DM 265 and has
brought me considerable success. Moreover, today we are giving this course
as a sales communication course to all our staff (for free, naturally).
Attached, you will also receive my success story.
Then I graduated a Purification Rundown, which consists of an extensive
sauna program, along with consuming vitamins and athletic activity. Also
here, I can only talk about positive experiences, as you can see from my
success report, which is also attached. The course cost DM 1,700. After
graduating the Communication Course, my wife also went to Oststrasse and
took their communication course and then took the Purification Rundown
together with me. I had been in the Evangelical Church since 1973, where I
had to pay over DM 5,000 taxes, but went into the Scientology Church about
the middle of 1981. There, for the rest of my life, I had to pay a
one-time contribution of DM 300. I can describe the students who are
taking the same courses as I only as positive and successful people who,
besides being students, are also housewives and in business. The access to
these spaces is rather free and open. Here, anybody can really come and go
as he likes and also decide on the time
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 170
he takes his course and what his areas of interest are. The most important
basics of thinking positively, acting positively and understanding for my
fellow human beings has also motivated me very much professionally and
given me new goals. We, that means my wife and I, then got auditing in
fall 1981; I've enclosed a small brochure on that for you. The points of
this brochure are discussed before an auditor, existing charge is
localized with an e-meter and removed. My personal relations to myself, to
my wife and to my environment has thereby decisively improved.
In February 1982, we took a Student Hat course in Flag in Clearwater,
Florida, which removes many learning problems and study problems in
today's daily routine and removes misunderstandings. This course, for both
my wife and me, cost U.S. $1,500, and we were also very satisfied with
this course. At the moment we are getting some more auditing and,
ourselves, are studying the facts about auditing. I would also be happy
to send you the training material for this ....".
The first contact between Helnwein and real estate broker Kempe took place
by fall 1983. At that point in time, Helnwein was searching for a
residence in Germany to suit his purposes. In December 1983, Kempe was
sending his first lucrative real estate offers to Helnwein in Vienna.
Nevertheless, nobody told him at first about all the purposes it would
have to serve. At the end of January 1984, Helnwein flew to Clearwater,
Florida for two months in order to continue his training at Flag. In fall
of the same year, Helnwein finally got lucky in Germany, thanks to Kempe's
untiring efforts. Burgbrohl Castle was selected as the future Helnwein
headquarters. The people of the small, sleepy cow town were not yet aware
of anything that to happen once the celebrity artist arrived.
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, available from
own Scientology center in Burgbrohl. There is also a standard article
from a "Dianetics" newsletter which talks about those ever-lovin'
"Merchants of Chaos," the ones who are responsible for Scientology not
working. Finally, there are some interesting statistics at the end about
the number of OT8s in Scientology as of 1995, among other things. Enjoy.]
The first success report from Burgbrohl
In December 1984, Helnwein finally moved, lock, stock
and barrel, from Vienna to Germany in order to
establish a new "Scientology Center" at Burgbrohl. Just
16 months later, on April 22, 1986, Gottfried's wife
Renate announced the first success in the establishment
and operation of their center to their Burgbrohl brokers,
Marietta and Klaus Kempe in Duesseldorf.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 171
[image of Renate Helnwein speaking into telephone]
"OT 8" Renate Helnwein at Burg Brohl - 1992
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 172
To M.
Marietta and Klaus Kempe
23 Aschenbach Str. Duesseldorf
Burgbrohl, April 22, 1986
Dear Maritta [sic] and dear Klaus!
So far as I know we were at Flag per DU and if it is
OK with you we will just simply stay here.
Surely you have already heard from Adelheid what all is
happening on the Burg. We have auditing here and there
are courses two times a week and we have already
started many upstat people. It is really insanely fun to
see that the people one brings are also really
WINNERS.
We're doing better and better here and recently we
were in Vienna once and Gottfried said that he did not
regret one second there.
Now that it is spring it is especially beautiful and we
have already done very much in the park. After work it
is often very much fun to do some Mest work in the
garden.
Things are also going best with the art, the stats are
going up more and more and we have several top
exhibitions. Gottfried has done very many new pictures
and at the moment he is painting an absolute
masterpiece, "Humphrey Bogart," an uncannily beautiful
mood similar to that of James Dean. Maybe you'll also
want to take a look at the pictures and also see the
progress at the Burg. Next we want to go shopping for
the Burg, I would enjoy hearing from you.
See ya soon,
Renate Helnwein
/signature/
Scan of original German
The Helnwein Scientology Center in Burg Brohl,
1986
Helnwein is proud of his "success"
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 173
Renate Helnwein: "Dear Maritta and dear Klaus! So
far as I know we were at Flag per DU and if it is OK
with you we will just simply stay here.
Surely you have already heard from Adelheid what
all is happening on the Burg. We have auditing here
and there are courses two times a week and we have
already started many upstat people. It is really
insanely fun to see that the people one brings are
also really WINNERS.
We're doing better and better here and recently we
were in Vienna once and Gottfried said that he did
not regret one second there.
Now that it is spring it is especially beautiful and we
have already done very much in the park. After
work it is often very much fun to do some Mest work
in the garden.
Things are also going best with the art, the stats are
going up more and more and we have several top
exhibitions. Gottfried has done very many new
pictures and at the moment he is painting an
absolute masterpiece, "Humphrey Bogart," an
uncannily beautiful mood similar to that of James
Dean. Maybe you'll also want to take a look at the
pictures and also see the progress at the Burg. Next
we want to go shopping for the Burg, I would enjoy
hearing from you.
See ya soon, signed: Renate Helnwein
As early as September 1985, only 9 months after her
arrival in Germany, Renate Helnwein held 9th place easy
among a total of 35 FSM staff with a total of two
"started people" in the Duesseldorf Scientology
organization there, with FSMs being Field Staff
Members, who are independent recruiting
representatives similar to independent newspaper
vendors. Duesseldorf was the location of the
organization in which she and her husband carried out
sales as local Scientologists - the Helnwein "Burgbrohl
City Office" was administratively subordinate to the
major Duesseldorf organization.
"Started people" are people whom FSMs have gotten
interested in Scientology for the first time and recruited
them for courses, either in Burgbrohl or in Duesseldorf,
or for auditing or acquiring literature from L. Ron
Hubbard.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 174
Number 0985
DIANETIC MAIL
Communication for members of Duesseldorf
Scientology
[image of a cartoon character]
L. Ron Hubbard:
The True Story of Scientology
The true story of Scientology is simple, meaningful and
direct. It is easily told:
1. A philosopher developed philosophy about life and death.
2. People find it interesting.
3. People find out that it works
4. People tell others about it
5. It grows
If we examine this extremely precise and very short
story, we see that there are a few very disturbing
elements in our civilization which intend that something
else about Scientology be believed.
These disturbing elements are the Merchants of Chaos.
They operate with confusion and disturbance. Their
daily bread is earned by causing chaos. If this chaos
were to decrease, their income would also decrease.
Politicians, reporters, psychiatrists with their
electroshock machines, drug producers, the military and
weapons manufacturers, the police and undertakers, to
name the ones leading the list, feed themselves only from
a "dangerous environment." Even individuals and family
members can be merchants of chaos.
It is in their interest to have their environment appear as
threatening as possible, only then can they make a profit.
Their income, their force and their power climb in direct
proportion to the degree of threat which they can
introduce into people's environments. With this threat,
they can coerce people, without question, for income,
expenses, money circulation and wages. Those are the
merchants of chaos. The presume that if they do not
produce it, sell and buy it, they would be poor.
For example, we talk about "good press." Does
anything like that exist today? Go through a newspaper
once. Is there anything good on the front page? You're
much more likely to find murder, sudden death, fights
and catastrophes. And although that is bad enough, it is
made more sensational so that it appears even worse.
That is the cold-blooded product of a "dangerous
environment." People don't need this news, and if they
needed it, then they need the facts, not the unrest. But
when one irritates enough people, that can also be used
to produce money. And that is the basic formula for
blackmail. That is the way newspapers are sold. Their
force is great enough to bring in income. A newspaper
has to have chaos and confusion, a "newspaper report"
has to contain "conflict," they say. Therefore there is no
good press. There is only bad press everywhere. In a
society where the merchants of chaos reign, it is insane
to look for "good press."
Let's take a look once what has to be done with the true
story of Scientology in order to make it into "a
newspaper story" according to modern press criteria.
Conflict must be emphasized where there is none.
Therefore the press must invent conflict and disturbance.
[Scientology emblem]
Copyright 1985 by Scientology Duesseldorf. All rights
reserved
Scientology is an applied religious philosophy
Dianetics is a technology of mental healing
We thank L. Ron Hubbard for the kind permission
...[end]
Scan of original German
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 175
For their sales work, these FSMs receive a commission
in the amount of 10 percent of all income that these new
"started" people will spend inside the organization.
Certainly a lucrative lure, for Renate Helnwein, too.
Klaus Kempe was found on the list with Renate
Helnwein, but down at twelfth place. "Celebrity Center
Duesseldorf" chief Adelheid Rech-Gesche was down to
a disappointing 31st place, as published by membership
magazine "Dianetic Post" edition 0985 on page 6.
[image of list of Scientology "statistics".
Renate started 2 people on the Scientology "Bridge."]
Renate Helnwein recruiting new Scientologists!
Also in August 1987, Gottfried Helnwein again stayed
for a little while at "Flag" in Clearwater, Florida. He had
also long been interested in buying some suitable real
estate there, in the pleasant vicinity of L. Ron Hubbard's
Mecca for Scientologists. Finally, in 1988, two and a
half miles north of the Scientology headquarters, he
acquired a beach villa with his own strip of beach and a
boat dock on the Gulf Coast. However, he did not set
up a studio there. That was located next to the
Scientology spaces back in Burgbrohl.
Both the private and the business relations of the
Scientology Helnwein family and Kempe continue
unabated through the present day. Together with
Renate, and now and again with Gottfried Helnwein,
people take courses in the Flag headquarters founded
by Hubbard, the Scientology Mecca in Clearwater on
the Gulf Coast of Florida with over 1,000 of the best
trained Scientology staff and, according to Hubbard, the
"best auditors in the world," today spread out among 14
buildings in all areas of "Hubbard City." For any
Scientologist, it is the greatest experience ever to be
able to study at Flag, Ron Hubbard's sanctuary. In
1995, the Scientologists celebrated their 20 year
anniversary of the existence of their "land base" in
Clearwater.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 176
In the beginning of 1975, the Hubbard organization,
after searching for years, acquired their first building on
location although it was rather run-down and used as a
hotel prior to that time, the Fort Harrison Hotel. A
twelve story building, the largest in Clearwater and
directly in the center of the small city, was renovated in
"record time," primarily by a crew of more than 100,
composed exclusively of "conspicuous" members of the
elite Sea Org unit, the Scientology rehabilitation camp of
the RPF, and opened amid great interest by residents on
December 15, 1975 not as a hotel, but as the new top
training site for worthy Scientologists in good standing.
Until 1987, "Flag" was the only place in the world in
which the secret advanced Scientology courses, the
so-called "OT" courses V to VII were offered. It was
not until 1988 that the Hubbard organization released
the OT VIII course, and that today is still the highest
step obtainable in Scientology courses on the "Bridge to
Total Freedom."
From that point in time in summer of 1988, the "OT VII"
course, for reasons of security, was offered solely on the
"Freewinds," a luxury cruise ship, freshly renovated at
great material expense, on the waters of the Caribbean.
The Scientology management, under the leadership of
Hubbard successor, David Miscavige, financed the
renovation of the ship primarily from generous
"donations" from over 1,000 OT VII graduates, all
members of the IAS who waited yearningly and greedily
for the "release" of L. Ron Hubbard's new "OT VII"
creation, which, according to supreme guru Hubbard, is
the "first actual OT grade."
As of the end of 1995, close to 2,000 (!) wealthy
Scientologists have attained their "OT VIII" on the
"Freewinds," among them, as of 1989, Renate Helnwein
and, as of 1994, her husband Gottfried Helnwein, as has
recently reported by a former Scientologist! Estimated
total income for the Scientology organization for the past
eight years from these 2,000 "Operating Thetans VIII,"
donated with pleasure of course, is over DM 1.2 billion!
The entire number of members of the Scientology
organization's IAS, based on known membership
numbers worldwide, can be calculated at only 75,000
paying students. Approximately 8,000 "paid" staff
receive money from the organization worldwide. In
Germany, the number of members is about 6,000, of
those about 80 people in "official" management functions
inside the German organization.
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, available from
section, the title tells it all.]
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 177
"Take the cans" - Flag without End
The opening advertising paragraph of a written page of
the Scientology organization to advertise for visitors to
Flag from various membership magazines goes:
"'Take the cans!' It is time to begin your session with
one of the world's best auditors: a flubless Flag
Auditor! You will find yourself in the hands of staff
who are truly interested in your well-being.
Whatever you need in order to begin your journey to
OT - at Flag you can obtain it from one of the
world's best auditors!"
Gottfried Helnwein and his wife Renate are not the only
ones who have frequently "taken the cans" since 1982
under Florida's sun in Clearwater, in the Mecca of the
Scientologists. Also several of their earlier Viennese
friends from their former ZKK days in the early '70s,
like Gottfried's partner at the time, Angelika Blaskovich
("Source" magazine regularly publishes the names of all
participants of Flag courses - Source 49 - 1984) in the
same year as Gottfried H., and the American singer and
song instructor, Amanda Ambrose (Source 57 - 1988),
a friend of the family for decades.
Her husband, Fenton E. Jones, in any case a
Scientologist and American attorney with law offices in
Chicago, has managed a trust for the Helnwein couple
since the late 1980s in a secret trust account with the
Sun Bank in Tampa, Clearwater branch. This account
may have been used for more than just Helnwein's
payments of his financial costs for his villa on 300 Palm
Bluff Street in north Clearwater. In addition, for his
private business, Helnwein himself uses the First
National Bank of Florida of Tampa, also from the
Clearwater branch.
And also his most important studio assistant for many
years, Rudi Kruspel (Source 63 - 1988 - "L11
Rundown"), who left Helnwein's castle studio at the end
of 1987, bound for Florida for a long-term visit to
Florida after he had moved from Vienna with him in late
1984 to Burgbrohl, stayed for a while in sunny Florida.
The same way with his Viennese ZKK co-organizers
Fritz Fuhrmann and Robert Schoeller, graduated from
the shamefully expensive "L 12 Rundown" (Fritz F. -
Source 68 - 1989) course with terrible difficulties, and,
as the case may be, the notorious "PTS SP Course Part
One" (Robert S. - Source 70 - 1989).
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 178
[image of a friendly auditor handing you the cans]
"Take the cans!"
Gottfried Helnwein also took the cans
(from: "Source" 62, page 24)
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, available from
fund-raising for the Super Power building in Clearwater, which has been
started but still is not finished. There is also a transcript of a
knowledge report Gottfried Helnwein wrote on one of his old buddies'
girlfriends who knew what the OT3 data was.]
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 179
Robert Schoeller -
The Helnwein Knowledge Report - 1985
Robert Schoeller also went to Clearwater in 1991, but
he went there to take the "Dynamic Sort-out
Assessment" course (Source 82 -1991). In fall 1995,
Schoeller even appeared as a "Cornerstone Club
Member," as a money donor, in edition 6 of the official
magazine "The Cornerstone" for the so-called "Super
Power Expansion Project" in Clearwater, Florida. That
project was about a "quite extraordinary" Hubbard
course which was then being offered for the first time.
Because of small imperfections in the "FSO Delivery
Building," the building in which that course was being
offered, it had to be renovated, and that had to come
from the "donations" of the knowledge-hungry
Scientologists who would absolutely love to take the
course. For that purpose, a fund-raising department was
created with its own "Chief Fund Raiser." Today the
building has still not been erected...
Further evidence of Helnwein's activities inside the
Scientology organization is provided by a personal
"Knowledge Report" of September 25, 1985 which he
transmitted from Burgbrohl to Clearwater, to the
criminal investigative officer of Hubbard's Flag
headquarters. His victim, in that case, was one of his
good old Viennese friends, painter Robert Schoeller and
his female companion, Gudrun.
This Stasi-like report exposed Helnwein as an
unscrupulous traitor of the most evil sort. He wrote it
thirteen years before announcing to Alfred Biolek on
German television in November 1996 that he had "taken
a few courses in Scientology out of curiosity." From the
text of the secret document, the original of which can be
found in a Hamburg safety deposit box, can be clearly
seen how very involved Helnwein was for decades in
the courses of control and denunciation. Scientology
critic Renate Hartwig compares a "Knowledge Report"
to a report of the former Stasi secret police on critics of
the GDR regime. The context reveals Helnwein as
having lied for years about his actual past.
Gottfried Helnwein wrote from Burgbrohl, "To the
Public MAA (Master at Arms is a "police" officer, an
administrator of a military court - author) Flag Land
Base (Clearwater). Copy to Robert Schoeller and
Gudrun.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 180
[spelling errors retained in transcript]
Helnwein - Knowledge Report
Re: Robert Schoeller and Gudrun
Burgbrohl, September 25, 1985
Two weeks ago, my friend Robert Schoeller visited me
here in my home, his 2nd Dy. Gudrun was with him.
Before Robert brought Gudrun to Flag, she was very
antagonistic against SCN. (That was approximately one
year ago, I wrote an Knowledgereport to the FSO
MAA at that time). Robert stayed at the FSO
approximately one year, went up to OT 3 and had lots
of winns, he worked also on the Restaurations Projekt.
Gudrun at the same time did almost not move on the
bridge and as Robert told me at his last visit here, she is
still uncertain about SCN. (per Robert she has still
friends which are against SCN.) Robert old me further
that Gudrun met a blown case 12 Auditor in N.Y. who
told her that SCN is bullshit.
Robert told me further that Gudrun knows the OT 3
data. I asked him "who told her?" he said "I forgot to
ask, I don't know."
Gudrun also enturbulated my area here, when she
stayed with Robert, - without asking me, she tried to
take one of my staff members off post, to do a job for
her, without asking me.
this is ok
Gottfried Helnwein
The end of a relationship - thanks to Helnwein?
In the view of Gudrun Derlin, the female former
companion of Schoeller, Helnwein's "Knowledge
Report" led to Schoeller sending to her from the Flag
headquarters in early 1986 the "disconnection from
Gudrun", can also be called "throwing her out of the
organization."
Gudrun Derlin on the matter: "The Scientology Octopus
intended to ruin my love and life relationships and
gave my male friend an alternative: 'Either you get
rid of your girlfriend or you must leave the
organization.' My friend, as a good Scientologist,
decided in favor of the sect. As far as I know, he is
still in today."
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 181
[scanned image of knowledge report,
this is also posted to alt.binaries.scientology with
the "take the cans" advertisement.]
Helnwein betrayed his friend Robert Schoeller and
his girlfriend in 1985
One year later, Schoeller had to separate from the
girl, Gudrun.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 182
"His decision put my life in absolute chaos. I had the
feeling my heart had been torn to pieces and shortly
thereafter I went into a Florida swamp to throw
myself .... in fall 1986. I was able to complete the
final separation from Robert Schoeller in friendship,
and from that point on I worked again as an
independent art agent in Vienna...."
Joe's Garage
Scientology (H A S):Lies and Treason, available from
well-worded segment in which Gudrun Derlin, a woman, tells about some of
her experiences with her Scientology boyfriend, Robert Schoeller. She
obviously is familiar with operating methods used by cults.]
Gudrun Derlin
How did the relationship to Schoeller turn out? Gudrun
Derlin continued in her autobiographical review in
March 1997: "Easter, 1982. At 30 years old I met
Robert, a highly gifted Viennese painter in Hamburg.
Start of a romantic relationship and a decision to
manage him. Move to Vienna. Whirlwind life out of
suitcases. Residences in Austria and the USA.
Introduced R.S. to Viennese high society and
Hollywood circles. Visited castles and large ranches.
We were looked upon as a couple of everyone's
dreams, possibly similar to Claudia Schiffer and
David Copperfield. That exacerbated problems in
the relationship. R.S. could no longer hide the fact
that he was a Scientologist. He was drawn into
Scientology in the early 1970s during his study at the
Academy of Fine Art in Vienna by Gottfried
Helnwein, his Viennese painter friend. He got
acquainted with him and other celebrity
Scientologists, like jazz pianist Chick Corea, the
Munich artist Waki Zoellner, illustrator Fritz
Hechelmann and Bernhard Paul, the director of the
Roncalli Circus. Bernhard the Clown is close friends
with Gottfried Helnwein, but will probably not
become a Scientologist of strong conviction. ... My
friend requires me to take Scientology courses so
that I can "better understand" Scientology. For
tactical reasons I go along with him and go through
the "regression therapy" into "other lives." I always
experienced "earlier" adventures: one time, as an
ape, I was squatting in a tree watching cave men,
another time I was flying in a space capsule through
the cosmos, visiting alien planets. I became aware
that if I were to give credence to these experiences,
then I would be snagged on the hooks of
Scientology. Suggestions are made to the adherents
of Scientology that all personal problems, like
weakness in character or an inferiority complex, can
be solved with the help of course in which you
"study" Scientology and by a hypnotic regression
technique called "auditing." Besides that, people are
told they will receive "power over MEST (matter,
energy, space and time)." Since that, of course,
never has lasting success, and the fantasies, as it is
known, have no bounds, you remain dependent upon
the organization. A person allegedly can change
himself only with the aid of Scientology. The
organization has an answer for everything and is
always right.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 183
It plays the role of God for those dependent upon it. ...
Scientologists really only receive power over other
Scientologists, within a given sphere of "higher
levels" they also develop magical abilities and
establish contact with "Thetans," translated that
means "spirits." Those are then "saved" in a
spiritualistic manner by "auditing." Staunch
Scientologists audit ghosts several hours a day!
Their own "body Thetans" and many others ...
Scientology goes completely along with the zeitgeist
and all the other esoteric teachings whose core
beliefs state, more or less: "You yourself are God,
you only have to find Him (again) in yourself." This
seductive thought is as old as humanity. ... I started
to do some research on the organization, in
California, in Florida and New York. Delivery of
confidential material (the OT3 material and more)
to opposing organizations and "Spiegel" magazine
in Hamburg. ... Up to this point in time, my life's
companion had spent about half a million marks on
Scientology. ... I stayed for over a year as a
"celebrity" in "Flag" in the Fort Harrison Hotel in
Clearwater, Florida, the Scientologists'
headquarters. In my research, I met people in the
USA who had broken with Scientology, which, with
long-term Scientologists, is very seldom the case. ...
Shortly thereafter Gudrun, together with her friend,
visited Helnwein at his castle in Burgbrohl. The end of
the story has already been told.
Gudrun Derlin did an in-depth analysis of her experience
with Helnwein: "For me it was characteristic that
Helnwein often let himself be seen in military garb.
It was clearly visible to even a neutral observer that
there were two parts to his true presence: his
sympathy for Fascism along with his compulsion to
hide things by means of diversionary measures. It is
similar to the decades he has spent hiding his
completely bald head under various long-haired,
black wigs. As Robert told me, Helnwein lost all his
hair, which he was so proud of, within a short period of
time in the mid '70s. The reason for that was said to
have been an auditing session gone wrong. He didn't
want to say anything more about it. The goal of
Helnwein, the PR genius, has been and still is to
become world-famous, no matter how, as I have
often heard from his own lips during supper over at
his place. One analyzes his "shock pictures," behind
which a piece of Scientology ideology also lurks for
the purpose of gaining influence for Scientology as a
public opinion leader.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 184
When I met Helnwein, he was a radical, dedicated
disciple of the Hubbard teachings. His language was
always staunchly, resolutely 'pro-Scientology' and
against the 'aberrated (crazy) rest of the world,'
Scientology opponents in particular! One of his
favorite words, for example, was 'merciless.' He
suffered from a strong inferiority complex and
hoped to be able to build himself back up with
Scientology. It was through him that my friend,
Robert Schoeller, was brought 'on-lines' in the 1970s
in Vienna, that means he was recruited into
Scientology. Helnwein is not a victim, but a
perpetrator!"
----
Joe's Garage
briefly on Helnwein's L-10 accomplishments, then moves right into the
artistic highlights of 1987 in Bremen, an art exhibit starring Nazis and
cattle.]
Helnwein's L-10 Course in Flag
In 1990 at Flag, Gottfried Helnwein's artist
comrade-in-arms, not only in one of his many art
operations in 1987 in Bremen, but also the translator of
a William Burroughs' text in Helnwein's "Faces"
collection of photographs which appeared in 1992,
Swiss author Tobias Leutenegger, stage name "Tobias
C. Biancone," graduated the comprehensive,
multiple-week "L-10 Rundown" course, which alone
costs over DM 70,000, with Renate Helnwein.
Gottfried Helnwein also took the notorious "L-10
Rundown" course at about the same time as his Swiss
artist friend. This course is reserved exclusively for the
Scientology top elite.
Bremen and Tobias Biancone (Leutenegger) - 1987
At 7:30 p.m. on September 5, 1987 in Bremen, an art
spectacle called "The Sub-Human" was staged by
Helnwein in the Bremen Art Auditorium. This was the
artistic highlight of 1987 in Bremen. A new word was
even created for it - "Exhibition Opera" - which was
supposed to get across the idea that that the Helnwein
performance was a completely new drive in the direction
of "total art work." By using "Opera," Helnwein, the
Scientology organizer, and his friend and author Tobias
Biancone (Leutenegger) were referring to the opera that
had been reserved mostly for the contemporary currents
of the other arts in the past decades. The "Opera" was
a big public success and the media outdid themselves.
Two days later, the "Weser-Kurier," a Bremen daily
newspaper, reported on the event in its criticism, "The
Nazis and the Cattle":
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 185
"Rarely is Bremen put in the picture with major
promotional expenditure for a privately organized
art event. ... Helnwein has attained a certain degree
of fame and notoriety in the international art scene
in that he has, in recent times, been going against
his own image... 'Exhibition Opera' - that is a
conglomerate of various elements, of pictures,
music, performance, improvisational theater and
video, which work together to form a media
spectacle which is both optically and acoustically
impressive. Helnwein was also engaged in like
manner with the trivial and subtle aesthetics of
National Socialism and tried self-revelation using
their own means, like when he confronted the
audience with the ideological concepts of National
Socialism, such as the presentation of the 'seat forms
of the higher and the lower races' or the German
repertoire of songs at the time, in tormented
penetration over five monitors. Often it was only
broken snips of words and pictures that hammered
rhythmically out of the screens, accompanied by a
low droning, increasing to a roar, sound of the
Patchwork group."
A composer born in 1956 in Vienna was responsible for
the "music," George E. Buigner, who had founded a
video production company one year previous in 1986,
"George Buigner and Detleff Foullois." In 1987 he
opened the "Pyramid Music" company in Hamburg,
Vienna and Zurich. His partner, Detleff Foullois, was
one of the most important Scientologists in Germany at
the time besides Helnwein. In 1990 he outfitted the
German Scientology offices with computer equipment.
"While this was going on, two cooks, dressed in
German military uniforms were carrying out a
pseudo-religious mess ritual at the podium. It closed
with explosive sound effects - then silence: soldiers
with blackened faces pulled five messy, clopping
cows behind them into the hall, were photographed
with flashbulbs, then led them out again. End of the
presentation. The cattle were guilty. And the Nazis
knew that, too. Perhaps that was their reason for
preferring paintings which had cows in them which,
today, are stored under lock and key with other
National Socialist paintings under state supervision
in a warehouse of the Munich chief finance
directorate. Five of those 'cow pictures' were lent
out to the 'Exhibition Opera.' Woe to him who likes
them!"
Joe's Garage
[citing Gudrun Derlin:]
> Helnwein often let himself be seen in military garb. It was clearly
> visible to even a neutral observer that there were two parts to his true
> presence: his sympathy for Fascism along with his compulsion to hide
> things by means of diversionary measures. It is similar to the decades
> he has spent hiding his completely bald head under various long-haired,
> black wigs. As Robert told me, Helnwein lost all his hair, which he was
> so proud of, within a short period of time in the mid '70s. The reason
> for that was said to have been an auditing session gone wrong.
If you suddenly go bald due to some "bad auditing" - No problem!
Scientology can also do a bad job of cut-and-pasting somebody else's hair
to cover it up in their photos. Same thing if you lose you entire head :-)
Joe's Garage
about two wins for Scientology: cow pies on stage and Tobias Leutenegger
bragging about how great OT 3 is. There are also some miscellaneous
stories.]
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 186
The Sub-Human
The "Bild" newspaper of the same day, September 7,
1987, viewed it somewhat more pliantly. It reported the
event in bold letters: "Cowpies on Stage: Six cows and
steaming cowpies - all a part of the premiere of the
Exhibition Opera 'The Sub-Human' in the art auditorium.
A member of the audience was outraged, 'Garbage!'
The controversial Viennese artist has brought about a
cultural scandal. He hung up Nazi pictures and brought
cows up to dirty the art auditorium. Helnwein also
wanted to use the art of the Third Reich for his
'Sub-Human' Opera. So he dug five old farm pictures
from the 1930s out of the Munich archives (scenes in oil
of cows on farms). The audience of about 100 (40 DM
admission) wrinkled their noses as the stage of the art
auditorium turned into an evil smelling 'soup.' That was
accompanied by flickering, soundless segments of
movies without any connection whatsoever on six video
screens. People in gray cloaks and Nazi caps led in six
cows. The aisle to the stage was plastered with steaming
cowpies. The horror story lasted for 100 minutes.
Helnwein said, 'I'm looking for a new art form.' A visitor
said, 'Garbage. That has nothing to do with art.
Helnwein is ruining his reputation. Rightwing radical
groups sounded out Bremen before the election.
Hanging up Nazi pictures is tactless.' Bremen business
people sponsored the event by contributing more than
100,000 German marks. Art auditorium director
Salzmann said, "That was a very distressing scene when
the cows came in - but an interesting project. Bremen
must keep itself open to experiments in art, no matter
what people think of it.'"
Helnwein's consultant, Peter Reichelt, especially enjoyed
this "scandal," since he was directly responsible for the
"combination" of pictures and cows within this
community project "Sub-human" in the scope of his
employment as consultant for Helnwein. Even today, it is
surely the most spectacular and, above all, a realized,
Helnwein project.
In 1988, Helnwein and Biancone also planned a similar
spectacle on the former Nuernberg grounds of
the Reichsparteitag, but which did not take place,
however, because of a lack of sponsors.
In 1989, Helnwein even sold his Scientology comrade in
Clearwater a portion of his estate, a small residence with
a garden, right next door to his villa. Up until the time
Helnwein bought it back in 1996, they were next-door
neighbors, the Helnweins and the Biancones.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 187
In issue 217 of the "Auditor" Scientology magazine from
1987, Tobias Leutenegger from Bern, alias Tobias
Biancone, wrote in the "Letters to the Editor" column:
"Dear editor, what a joy to find an old photo of me
(from earlier Scientology times in England) in issue
214. I can still remember exactly how I sat by the
river back then and wrote a poem. How times have
changed since then! Where am I today? After I
reached 'OT III,' I traveled to Flag in Clearwater
and took all the courses there up to the 'New OT
VIII' prepatory course to become a 'New OT VIII' on
the virgin voyage of the 'Freewinds' ship. What else?
After the 'SHSBC,' I still was constantly going up the
Training Route and had an ungodly amount of
training as an auditor. I also went further up the
'Bridge' on the Administrative side. Recently I took
two 'ethics courses" for the first time ('Intro to
Scientology Ethics' and 'Ethics Specialist'), Staff
Status 0/I/II and then Exec Status One.
I am currently also improving as an author. I have just
written a piece that is supposed be produced next
Spring and a movie script besides.
'Saint Hill' (one of the two Scientology European
headquarters) is also, above anything else, the home of
the 'Saint Hill Special Briefing Course' (SHSBC) for me,
where one can 'train' and 'audit.' It is a place where I
can feel the presence and the spirit of L. Ron Hubbard.
I am thankful that I can be there until I meet him
sometime personally in the future. All love, Tobias
Biancone."
For the "SHSBC" course, the "auditors" at Saint Hill,
England, need at least 22 weeks without interruption,
from 8 in the morning to 7 in the evening! In order to
participate in this course, one must already be a trained
"Auditor IV" and "Clear."
But world-famous film star and comrade in faith John
Travolta has also gone the route of "OT III" in
Clearwater (Source 78 - 1991) and the "Hubbard Key
to Life Course" (Source 93 - 1994)
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 188
along with his actress colleague Kelly Preston (L-11
Rundown and OT II - Source 93), as well as Elvis
Presley's daughter, Renate Helnwein's friend and
Michael Jackson's ex-wife, Lisa Marie did, from "New
OT I" (Source 82 - 1991) to "New OT V" (Source 94
-1994).
Julia Migenes, old-time Scientologist and top
advertisement who was under the personal care of
Hubbard in the 1960s and Helnwein in the '70s -
comrade-in-arms from the ZKK days in Vienna - went
to Clearwater in 1993 for the "Int By Dynamics" course
(Source 88 - 1993).
Also one of Helnwein's intimate acquaintances and
"New OT VI" Farhad Raschidi (Source 38 - 1982 and
Source 73 - 1990 "New Hubbard Professional TR
Course"), a dentist who was practicing in Berlin, to
whom Helnwein publicly expressed extraordinary
gratitude for his "great support," visited the Flag
organization. Dr. Raschidi, just as much as Renate and
Gottfried, was a generous "Patron" donor for
Scientology. Several members of his immediate family
are also found on the official list of donors in the U.S.
Scientology member magazine "Impact" issue 39 from
1991. Under the "R's" in the column of German patrons
are: Arian, Daria, Farhad and his wife Heidi Raschidi, a
donation from each of them of at least $40,000!
Under the "H's" in the same edition, what a coincidence,
his good friends Renate and Gottfried Helnwein are
listed as "Patrons." Neither Helnwein's friend Marieta
(the lessor of the Helnwein castle in Burgbrohl), nor her
husband, are missing from the list.
In his book which appeared in 1989, "Self-made Men
and Millionaires," author and Scientologist Mehler asked
the dentist, Dr. Farhad Raschidi, "I have learned from
well-informed circles, as they are so nicely called, that
you have donated about 300,000 German marks to an
organization (by that is meant Scientology) which works
for human rights and for improvement in various areas?
Does this illustrate your concept of money?" His answer:
"The 300,000 DM is an over-exaggeration; it was only
295,000 DM... I think it is right and economical to put a
major portion of my income at the disposal of
constructive organizations." In that regard, Dr. Raschidi
is similar to his friend Helnwein.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 189
The "Patrons" column for Austria again includes
Helnwein's friend, OT colleague, and musical
comrade-in-arms from the ZKK in the mid-70s, Fritz
Spohn, and painter Robert Schoeller, Helnwein's
co-organizer of the ZKK, as major donors.
Furthermore there is the author Tobias Leutenegger,
alias Tobias Biancone from Switzerland, with whom
Helnwein carried out several of his art projects in recent
years and who, since 1989, is his a next-door neighbor in
Clearwater, Florida.
All these people belong to the exclusive, worldwide
circle of about 1,400 "Patrons" today, who, since the
introduction of the "Patron Status" have "sacrificed,"
between 1985 and today, the unbelievable sum of 1
billion German marks (!) to the American Scientology
membership organization IAS - without getting any
services in return. 1,000 million German marks in the
"war chest" of David Miscavige and Co. to shut down
their opponents worldwide. A budget which is truly
worthy of a medium-sized Ministry of War...
Also on station in Clearwater at the same time as the
Helnwein family was the director of the Duesseldorf
"Celebrity Center," Adelheid Rech-Gesche (Source 51
- 1985), whom Gottfried Helnwein, according to his
own "sworn affirmation" of May 15, 1992, did not meet
in Clearwater, Florida, but in Burgbrohl. Interestingly
enough, by 1985, the three close "Patron" friends,
Renate Helnwein, Marieta Kempe, Helnwein's landlord
of his castle in 1984, and Adelheid Rech-Gesche,
Celebrity Center chief from Duesseldorf were in the
same Flag Scientology course, the "False Purpose
Rundown Auditing" in Clearwater, Florida.
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pretty much the crux of the whole book. Not only was Helnwein a
Scientologist in Germany, but as pitiful as he was he could actually pull
rank on the President of Scientology Germany. Not at all your typical
celebrity Scientologist, and don't miss the next installment of this
series to fill in the little missing link.]
Helmuth Bloebaum - Reiner Weber -
Claudia Kauer - Edith Buechele
The connection between Helnwein and the
DSA/OSA intelligence agency
German "Patron" Helmuth Bloebaum, official President
of "Scientology Germany" and thereby also the boss of
the DSA/OSA, the German branch of the international
Scientology intelligence agency, and several years later
in the summer of 1992 the one who provided Helnwein
with an "alibi of innocence" by saying that he was still
"not at all a Scientologist" before several German courts,
also participated in various intensive training and
continuing education courses (Source 57 and 60 -
1988) since 1988 in Helnwein's secondary Clearwater
residence, the "Flag Land Base," the Scientology
Mecca, just as did Helnwein.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 190
In his "sworn affirmation" of May 11, 1992, he testified
before the Coblenz State Court on behalf of his friend
Helnwein as follows: "My name is Helmuth Bloebaum.
I have been employed ... without interruption in the
legal office of the Scientology Church Germany. I
am well-informed about the origin and expansion of
the Scientology Church in the German-speaking
world because the establishment of new
communities, associations or centers, as a rule,
must, even today, be carried out with the
coordination of the legal office of Scientology
Church Germany, Inc., for instance, in order to
obtain an association charter and other
miscellaneous legal formalities. On the basis of my
employment in the legal office, just as on the basis
of my assignments as the President of the German
Church, I have come repeatedly into contact with
the Mother Church, the Church of Scientology
International, Inc. with its offices in Los Angeles, in
the USA. Since 1983, I have regularly visited the
Mother Church almost once a year. My last stay of
this sort lasted from January to May 1990 in Los
Angeles.
The headquarters of the Scientology Church, that means
the center, the administrative and legal seat, as well as
the church management of the Mother Church, namely
the Church of Scientology International, Inc., is located
in Los Angeles, California. We are in contact almost
daily via fax, telephone or telex with staff of the
above-named Mother Church. The offices of the
'Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc.',
a daughter church of the Mother Church in the USA, is
located in Clearwater, Florida."
In 1992, Bloebaum went on to affirm that Scientology
Church Germany, Inc. had never intended, planned or
tried, and now the special captiousness, 'to erect an
establishment ... in the vicinity of the castle in
Burgbrohl."
No, not in the vicinity, but right in the middle of, and that
was back in 1984! There is no question today about the fact.
Bloebaum also took special care to help his long-term
friend Helnwein out of a jam a year later, as the rumors
abounded about Helnwein's membership in the
Scientology organization. In May 1993, Helnwein once
again fell into the crossfire of the media. Investigative
journalists who had been at his heels for years for the
purpose of uncovering his lies reported at that time,
again in accordance with reality:
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 191
1. Helnwein is a "Patron."
2. He had donated a minimum of $40,000 to
Scientology's "war chest."
3. His listing as a "Patron" in "Impact" magazine was
correct and
4. He is a "Class 4 Auditor."
Helnwein urgently needed new "testimony" from the
German organization that all of this was not so and as
"proof" of the righteousness of his claims which he had
presented to the public. Helnwein desperately sought
ways out of the situation which was slowly becoming
precarious for him. Above all, he needed the "OK" from
the Scientology management in Los Angeles for his
strategy of an "artist unjustly accused of being a
Scientologist" to fit in the long-term planning of the OSA
management under David Miscavige and Kurt Weiland
for the open reproach against German officials for
alleged discrimination against Scientologists in Germany.
On July 14, 1993, Helnwein's favorite attorney in
matters of Scientology, Christian Reinking from
Duesseldorf, surely advised in advance by telephone,
sent a 2-page letter to the regular attorney of
"Scientology Church Germany, Inc., Wilhelm Bluemel in
Munich. Helnwein very quickly made the public aware
of the contents of that letter in which he made diverse
"rectifications" and gave written notice to the
Scientology organization in Munich. A sensation?
Nothing. This, in turn, was just more of the Scientology
disinformation campaign of the worst sort which
Helnwein had been staging perfectly since 1991 in Germany.
After the five-day time limit set by his attorney Reinking
to impart an "explanation" went by without a response,
attorney Bluemel was given until Monday, July 19, 1993
at 12 noon to answer Helnwein "in due form" -
apparently Scientology Germany President Bloebaum
did not find the letter so urgent at first - Helnwein slowly
got nervous and impatient. The "official" stage obviously
was not working so properly. Therefore Helnwein
retreated to the OSA/DSA he was used to - the stage
of the intelligence service and their kind of news
transmission.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 192
After the time limit had run out, Gottfried Helnwein,
described by a high-ranking former Scientologist as an
"OSA FSM" (Unofficial staff member of the OSA), then
sent a secret message through the OSA computer in
Duesseldorf to HELMUTH BLOEBAUM in Munich
and EDITH BUECHELE - ED OSA EUROPE in Copenhagen.
Edith Buechele sits in the headquarters of
Scientology Europe in Copenhagen as the OSA chief
with the title "Executive Director" of the OSA
intelligence agency in Europe; her husband from
Switzerland, Klaus Buechele, is the representing
Director of the worldwide OSA headquarters in Los
Angeles and both of them are under the supreme
management of another one of Helnwein's friends, the
Austrian Kurt Weiland. Today, Mike Rinder is the chief
of OSA INT.
Helnwein word for word [first in German, then the
translation]:
"Dear Terminal,
1.Ich brauche dringend die
Erklaerungen von Euch, die mein
Anwalt bei Bluemel angefordert
hat.
2.Wir muessten dringend ein
Meeting machen, um ein paar
wichtige Sachen zu klaeren.
3.Warum habt ihr eigentlich den
Lehrer T. Gottschalk aus der
Sweiz oeffentlich geoutet? Diese
Info hat nur dem enemy genuetzt.
Gruss
G.H."
"Dear Terminal,
1.I urgently need the statements from
you which my attorney had asked
Bluemel for.
2.We urgently need to have a meeting
to clear up a few important matters
3.Why did you really publicly out the
teacher T. Gottschalk from
Switzerland? That info only helped
the enemy
greetings
G.H."
You won't find better proof of Helnwein's false
statements to the German public when he said: "I am not
a Scientologist, I am not a 'Patron,' I am not an 'auditor,'
I am not an 'Operating Thetan,' I only took a couple of
courses in Vienna in the early 1970s" and much more.
That brings Helnwein's house of lies crashing down, no
ifs, ands or buts!
Next page: OSA secret agent Helnwein wrote to the
OSA headquarters Europe in Copenhagen, as well
as German OSA central in Munich - 1993.
[image: scanned image of Helnwein's secret message to local OSA]
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without a doubt that Gottfried Helnwein was not just another celebrity
Scientologist.]
[This is the letter from Gottfried Helnwein to the President
of Scientology Germany which the following text refers to.]
"Dear Terminal,
1. I urgently need the statements from
you which my attorney had asked
Bluemel for.
2. We urgently need to have a meeting
to clear up a few important matters
3 .Why did you really publicly out the
teacher T. Gottschalk from
Switzerland? That info only helped
the enemy
greetings
G.H."
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 194
The Helnwein Order
In regard to Helnwein's item 1.: Shortly after sending off
his secret message, his so urgently desired seal of
approval arrived, as ordered, on July 7, 1993 -
"Statement" from "President" Helmuth Bloebaum of the
Scientology Church Germany, Inc. Bloebaum said, "...
On the basis of my knowledge of the matter, I
hereby verify, without qualification, that Mr.
Helnwein does not hold any post nor does he serve
in any other capacity in any Scientology Church,
Mission or other organization of the Church. He is
not employed nor does he do volunteer work for the
Scientology Church."
But that was not good enough. Two days later, on July
29, 1993, Helnwein got another letter from Bloebaum.
Under "Subject: Your attorney's letter," he affirmed for
Helnwein, "We admit that the use of your portrait
photos and accompanying text occurred without
your permission. We obligate ourselves in the future
to use neither graphic presentation nor text from
you for advertising purposes." Even that was not
concrete enough for Helnwein. Therefore Bloebaum
even had to write a third (!) letter. Under "To whom it
may concern" he wrote the following on August 19,
1993, "From the research I have undertaken in all
official Scientology churches in Europe and the USA, I
have come to the clear and unequivocal conclusion that
Gottfried Helnwein has not graduated from nor obtained
any training for the so-called "Class IV auditor." The
same thing was verified by all posts. The report which
states the opposite in a membership magazine of the
Scientology Church in the USA is definitively untrue and
is based on an editorial oversight. signed, Helmuth
Bloebaum."
Even repeating the lie multiple times could not turn it into
truth ...
On January 14, 1997, the Scientology headquarters
itself in the USA verified for the Deutsche Presse
Agentur in Washington, "Helnwein is a Scientologist."
So those kind of "verifications" from Bloebaum quickly
turn into wastepaper when even the headquarters of the
Scientology organization publicly names Helnwein a
"Scientologist." The Moor was apparently just doing his
duty ...
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 195
Helnwein - The OSA-FSM and his contact to the OSA - 1993
In regard to Helnwein's item 2: In the time that followed,
Helnwein got the meetings he wanted with OSA's top
people, all of them Sea Org members - The Sea Org is
Scientology's elite unit which was established by
Hubbard in 1967 as his private army; Helnwein's eldest
son, Cyril, has also been a member of the Sea Org since
1991 in Clearwater, Florida, because of various
"important matters," according to Helnwein.
An intensive strategy meeting followed as early as July
27, 1993 with Kurt Weiland, the worldwide intelligence
agency chief of OSA. Among other things, that meeting
dealt with the content of a "Pro-Helnwein" interview for
the Ariman publishing house in Freiburg. It then
appeared in Fall 1993 in issue 43 of the "Ketzerbrief"
under the title "Depraved Art."
One day later, on July 28, 1993, that was followed by a
secret meeting with attorney Bluemel, the legal advisor
of the Scientology Church in Germany, under the
leadership of Helmuth Bloebaum. The result of this
meeting was then Bloebaum's pro-Helnwein "testimony"
of July 29, 1993.
Helnwein was said to be having a panic attack at the thought
that his undercover operations for OSA in Germany and in
the USA in summer 1993 could become public. Therefore
he urgently and immediately needed the concentrated
help of the Sea Org OSA headquarters in Los Angeles,
with the best PR people, "cover-up" specialists in order
to stave off, at any cost, further risk of calamity in the
form of a detailed expose story about Helnwein's true
story in Scientology. Successfully. Until today, those
facts remained hidden, thanks to OSA International in
Los Angeles, under its director of the time from Austria,
Kurt Weiland, who yielded to his successor, Michael
"Mike" Rinder in 1995. After that Weiland was only his
representative. In spite of a "master performance" by
Weiland.
Helnwein's Wish: Thomas Gottschalk should suffer longer
In regards to Helnwein's item 3: Thomas Gottschalk -
the talk show MC was outed as an alleged Scientologist
on July 12, 1993 on SAT-1. "Bild" newspaper gratefully
took up the "scandal" and Gottschalk's alleged
membership in the sect was in the German headlines in
the days that followed;
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 196
until Thomas Gottschalk appeared on the cover of
"Stern" magazine, issue 30 of 1993. "Stern" did some
thorough research and found that there existed a
Gottschalk namesake in the 75,000 members
worldwide (!). This information as to mistaken identity
had even been told to the "Stern" editors by the German
Scientology organization in Munich. It was quickly found
out that the real "Scientologist Thomas Gottschalk" was
a high school teacher in Switzerland, whose residence
was a farm house in Thun. The TV hoax of the year was
exposed and the "real" Thomas Gottschalk was
reinstated, thanks to the informative assistance of
Bloebaum in Munich. But one leading member of the
Scientology organization was not satisfied with this
"outing" of the special kind - Gottfried Helnwein from
Burgbrohl.
If it would have been up to him, Helnwein would have
let the media have at the TV talk show host for months
as a "celebrity Scientologist." But Bloebaum had simply
checked off his list and quickly got a receipt.
As Helnwein wrote to the OSA headquarters in Munich
and Copenhagen at the end of July 1993, "Why did you
really publicly out the teacher Gottschalk from
Switzerland? That info served only the enemy (enemy,
that is all non-Scientologists! - the author). greetings,
Gottfried Helnwein."
This is where Helnwein's true character, using lies and
treason for the organization, comes to the surface. How
often had Gottschalk previously invited Helnwein to his
show's stage. How amicable were the interchanges
between the two, even after Gottschalk was so unpleasantly
cuaght in the headlines in July 1993. Gottschalk
had no idea that he had a "field staff member" of the
OSA on his broadcasts. How could he. If it would have
been up to Helnwein, Gottschalk would have stayed
caught the gruesome situation for a longer time. He surely
would have been "done for" in Germany for a long time.