Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <d...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Much later, after the FBI had seized documents from the CoS and made
them publicly available, Paulette Cooper took on Michael Flynn as her
attorney and *she* sued the "Church" of Scientology[tm].  She
certainly had a valid case and had documents seized from the "Church"
by the FBI as proof of her accusations.

Michael Flynn had taken on a number of ex-Scns as clients.  Lavenda
Van Schaick was the first of these, but the number grew to somewhere
around 50 all told.  Among those clients was Gerry Armstrong, along
with Paulette Cooper.

It sure does seem to me, looking back on it, that Michael Flynn had
the golden opportunity to "utterly destroy" the "Church" of
Scientology[tm] at that point.  Between Paulette Cooper's
documentation and Gerry Armstrong's collection of LRH documents,
it would appear that Flynn had Hubbard and his organization nailed.

From the CoS viewpoint, it's no wonder that they made Flynn's life a
living hell.  He had, to all intents and purposes, the stuff that
could blow apart the entire CoS web of lies, deceit, and dirty tricks.

But then things started unravelling.  People started bailing out of
Flynn's campaign, firing him as their attorney and reaching private
settlements with the CoS.  I'm interested in finding out who started
that stampede for the exits.

As an aside, I believe that Gerry Armstrong was one of the last of
Flynn's clients to abandon ship.  By that time, it would appear that
Flynn's "big guns" had already left and Flynn realized he no longer
had an open and shut case against the cult.  Flynn himself reached a
settlement with the "Church" and he convinced Gerry Armstrong to do
the same.  Armstrong, of course, later regretted the settlement
agreement he reached with the CoS and is still battling over the terms
of the agreement.

Diane Richardson
refe...@neont.com