Is there someone has news from Laurel Sullivan?
roger gonnet
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Laurel Sullivan, former publicist tor Church of
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, stands outside
LA Superior Court where she testified that she had
become "a target" of hostility by church members.
24 MAY 1984
Ex-publicist says
she was 'target'
of Scientologists
Former assistant to L. Ron Hubbard
testifies in suit to recover documents
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - A former publicist for Church of
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard testified Friday
that she left the church in November 1981 because she
had become "a target" of hostility by church mem-
bers.
Ex-publicist Laurel Sullivan, 34, was cross-exam-
ined by church attorney Robert Harris in a lawsuit
brought by the church and Mary Sue Hubbard, the
founder's wife, seeking to recover allegedly stolen
documents from former church archivist Gerald
Armstrong.
Sullivan said that after she was "busted" from her
job as Hubbard's publicist, she got a job in the church
archives, where Armstrong was gathering material
for a Hubbard biography. As the project continued,
she said, she began to fear that some people would see
the biography as a downgrading of Hubbard's image
.and that she would then become "a target."
Harris, asking her to explain, showed her a
Scientology document entitled "Penalties for Lower
Conditions," from which she read excerpts in court.
; She said when someone becomes "a target" -
which she said was one of the "lower conditions" -
they may be "tricked" or "lied to" or sued by any
Scientologist.
-"I felt that revealing all the details of his life was not
necessary," she said of the biography, that some rev-
elations "would make him (Hubbard) look less like a
god and more like a man, like everyone else."
But she said no one on the biography project meant
to denigrate Hubbard, and "nobody has it in mind
now."
Seeing herself as a "target," she said, she told
Armstrong of her plans to leave the church.
* She said she also encouraged Armstrong to leave
the church.
"I said, 'How about you guys? Are you going?'," she
said. "Jerry said, 'I can't.' He said he had an obliga-
tion to Omar (Garrison, author of the proposed biogra-
phy), to the project."
However, Harris read from a deposition she had
given earlier, indicating Armstrong had told her he
would leave the church.
- "He didn't say when," she testified Friday.
- Scientologists contend Armstrong had already de-
cided to leave the church when he amassed documents
on Hubbard. But Armstrong said the five boxes of
papers being sought were gathered with Hubbard's
permission and that he kept them after he left only to
prove he was innocent of church allegations that he
made false statements to discredit Hubbard.
; On Thursday, Sullivan said Hubbard had ordered
shredding of some documents that indicated Hubbard
maintained some control of church operations. The
shredding was ordered at a time when church officials
feared a raid by federal agents, she said.
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Skipper
A lot of people who worked directly with Hubbard are like that, either
too cowardly to speak out, or paid off. In her case, I'd guess $$$.
In article <44b52df4$0$4317$626a...@news.free.fr>, roger gonnet
Quaoar
> She stays quiet. Probably paid off.
>
> A lot of people who worked directly with Hubbard are like that, either
> too cowardly to speak out, or paid off. In her case, I'd guess $$$.
>
>
From reading ARS and OCMB and everything else available for a decade,
it is clear to me that many targets of the kult simply decided to do
something else to advance their lives. 'Cowardly' is, IMO, a quick,
unreasoned accusation. Many exes who are just now coming forward after
years or even decades after leaving $cientology state that they left and
went forward with their lives even though they were firmly antithetical
to $cientology. I see nothing wrong with pursuing one's own best
interests, given the kult's known desire to destroy.
"Paid off" or face certain destruction: what would you decide?
Q
roger gonnet
"Quaoar" <qua...@tenthplanet.net> a écrit dans le message de news:
28ydncNnxLqO6yjZ...@comcast.com...
Laurel has not been coward at all; I've posted this because she went before the
Court and witnessed of infamous practices by her ex-patron hubbard. Read the
article
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