Celebrities in scientology FAQ
Tilman Hausherr
Archive-name: scientology/celebrities
alt.religion.scientology,rec.arts.movies,alt.showbiz.gossip
Hi there. My name is Tilman Hausherr, and I am the self-appointed
maintainer of the "scientology celebrities FAQ", posted from time
to time in "alt.religion.scientology". My e-mail address is
til...@berlin.snafu.de, more stuff about scientology can be found
at http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/
This file can be found at http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/celeb.txt
0. Change history
1. Disclaimers
2. How names get in this FAQ
3. Names
4. Testimony of Diana Canova
5. Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyon
6. Harassment of Mike Farrell
7. Why do celebrities get into scientology ?
8. Identification of not well-known sources
9. Credits
0. Change history
31.1.1996: Added who got Kelly Preston in, Martin von Haselberg
21.1.1996: Added stuff about Horst Buchholtz, added Diane Venegas
20.1.1996: Added so much that I can't mention it all. Read the whole
document again. The main list is now sorted.
2.1.1996 Added info on Greta van Susteren
1.1.1996: Added Melanie, added remark about Greta van Susteren, added
name of Travolta C/S
21.12.1995: Full entry for Vonni Ribisi, Geoffrey Lewis
17.11.1995: Added excerpt on harassment of Mike Farrell
14.11.1995: Added Leif Garrett's occupation, corrected attribution
error for Hal Puthoff and added information,
more on Linda Blair
25.10.1995: more on Linda Blair and Van Morrison; full entry for Gaiman
added Lou Rawls, John Dalmas
7.10.1995: more on Travolta, Isaac Hayes, Anne Archer
full entry on Mario Feninger, Lee Purcell
added Mark Isham, Marissa Ribisi,
more "awards" for Sonny Bono
5.9.1995: added "The road to freedom" CD
1.9.1995: mentioned that Sonny Bono is on a Copyright committee
23.8.1995: added remark about Linda Blair
13.8.1995: added Greta van Susteren and John "Bhopal" Coale
30.7.1995: added level of Tom Cruise
16.7.1995: added Charles Manson
25.6.1995: added Anne Archer's job
14.6.1995: added Katselas, California Magazine, Michael D. Roberts
11.6.1995: added some structure, and answer to "why" question,
added movies to Lehman
27.5.1995: more exact newspaper references
21.5.1995: Added a source for Peggy Lipton
Candice Bergen
Demi Moore
Emilio Estevez
16.5.1995: Cohen music in "NBK"
12.5.1995: Sonny Bono thanks Elron
8.5.1995: slightly corrected Damian Pope's part
6.5.1995: Added Alley's start in the cult
29.04.1995: Peggy Lipton, also added some names from NPoorman,
deleted Helmut Berger.
Bernard Paul (Circus Roncalli)
Corea "liner notes"
17.04.1995: William Burroughs (correction again)
16.04.1995: Leonard Cohen
Kate Ceberano
William Burroughs (correction)
added info from Damian Pope
"libeled" Sonny Bono some more
1. Disclaimers
Legal disclaimer:
Being in the FAQ means that "I have read somewhere that someone is
a scientologist".
* If you feel that someone is wrongly placed on this FAQ, please tell
me, and I'll see what I can do.
* If you want a name added, please try to give a reference. If you
don't have one, then YOU are the reference (if I feel you are credible),
which means that if you can't prove this, the celebrity can
successfully sue you.
* If you find an error (wrong profession, typo, person left scientology),
please tell me as soon as possible.
Social disclaimer:
I do NOT advise you to get into scientology ! Do not buy their books,
except from a used book shop. Do not read their books, unless you also
read books critical about scientology. Just because a celebrity does
something silly doesn't mean YOU should. Doing weird things is a
tradition of stage actors, and there is no need that the rest of the
world population takes this as an advice.
Carrying a celebrity in this FAQ shouldn't be considered as a
"public statement" of me. It doesn't mean that any action should be
taken by the reader. In most cases, the status of those celebrities
is not known (only taken courses, OT, ...).
If you're a scientologist, you'll be happy to be in good company.
If you're not, maybe you'll think twice before writing fan mail.
2. How names get in this FAQ
I will keep only e-mail names where I don't have any book or newspaper
reference, i.e. I will delete names as soon I get a confirmation.
Those e-mail references are only about the celebrity name,
not necessarely about the description text. "name withheld" means that
I know who the person is. I will do this only with persons that I
already know and trust.
I will also name persons who are no longer scientologists, i.e. who
have been declared, or who "simply" left. More entries on
ex-scientologists are welcome !
The part "greatest achievements" will depend highly on my opinion,
and won't be "politically correct".
3. Names
Name: Kirstie Alley
Profession: interior decorator, then actress
Status: Patron, New OT5, Freedom Medal
international spokesperson for Narconon International
claims Narconon Intemational's substance abuse center
in Los Angeles helped her kick her cocaine habit in 1979.
Achievement: "A bunny's tale", "Star Trek 2", "Look who's talking",
"Cheers", hanging on the wall of my office
Source: TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93, Daily Oklahoman 11.10.90,
Impact #34, #42
Her husband Parker Stevenson is also involved
Name: Amanda Ambrose
Profession: singer
Status:
Achievement:
Source: The Auditor 136, npoo...@aol.com (NPoorman), Impact #12
Name: Anne Archer
Profession: actress
Status: in, Clear, Key to Life
International spokesperson for "Applied Scholastics"
Achievement: wife in "fatal attraction"
Ironically, one of the movies is titled
"CLEAR and present danger"
Source: WIS, TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93, California Magazine 6/91
Celebrity #280, #281
married to Terry Jastrow, producer of sports shows
Name: Candice Bergen
Profession: actress
Status:
Achievement: Murphy Brown, Oliver's Story, Starting Over, Gandhi, Stick
Source: DWT...@aol.com: "she was 'around' LA Org and AOLA in 1969"
and "I saw her at the original celebrity center",
but does not know if she did take courses / had auditing
Name: Karen Black
Profession: actress
Status: in
Achievement: "The Monkey" in "Portnoy's complaint", "Five easy pieces"
Source: Premiere 9/93, California Magazine 6/91, Impact #12,
San Diego Union 15.4.1990
Name: Linda Blair
Profession: actress
Status:
Achievement: threw up lots of pea soup in "The Exorcist", having her skirt
ESPed in "zapped again", film-mother of "seven" on MWC.
I wonder if the film "deep death" was financed by CCHR
scientologists, since it deals with an evil psychiatrist
who practices a "deep sleep" therapy.
Coincidence ? CCHR had uncovered a "deep sleep"
therapy in Chelmsford hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Source: "Der Sektenkonzern", "Berliner Zeitung" 23.7.92
(only for the name)
to...@jolt.mpx.com.au (Tony McClelland):
This is the only event that I am aware of
where the CofS has benefited the community
in their 45 year history.
Name: Darius Brubeck
Profession: musician, member of the "Brubeck Band"
Status: OT2 or higher
Achievement:
Source: Auditor WW #80 (1972), Jon Atack
Name: Sonny Bono
Profession: singer, actor, republican rep., pizza delivery man in congress
member of the House Subcommittee on Courts and
Intellectual Property
Status: introduced by Mimi Rogers; took some courses, says
he's a roman catholic, not a scientologist (LA Times).
He says in Esquire:
"I openly studied scientology to the degree that they
did some courses on ethics, and then said thank you and
left. (...) The scientology - there was no cult thing there."
From dro...@huey.csun.edu (David D. Rogers):
According to Corydon's book, he was quoted as saying:
"My only sorrow is that L. Ron Hubbard left before I
could thank him for my new life," in a full-page ad
featured in several newspapers after Elron's death.
Achievement: Congressman (R), Palm Springs Mayor, Cher's ex-husband.
Cher: "A politician is usually a null, so the job fits him".
"The Progressive": (first mentioned to me in october 1995)
"#8 on the list of 'The Ten Dimmest Bulbs in Congress'
"Bono's mental shortcomings have long made him a
subject of scorn among California politicians."
Source: TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93, LA magazine 10/93,
"Bigger Secrets", LA Times 5.12.91, Esquire 11/94,
California Magazine 6/91
Name: John Brodie
Profession: football player
Status: introduced by Mimi Rogers when she was 15, she was his
auditor. Was in from 1970-1982, went up to OT7.
he says: "I was involved for specific purposes. When I
completed those, I moved out".
<name withheld>:
"He dropped out dissatisfied after being a real spokesman
for Scn. Scn goes through these people like Kleenex and
no one remembers the used-to-be's. Like Brodie. In the 70s,
he was BIG, not only as a football name but for Scn!!
Then - poof - gone! He dropped out and so they dropped him,
of course. Brodie prefers to not talk about it."
more from California Magazine:
"I will talk about the gains I've had, but I won't talk
about all the mishmash that some people seem concerned
about. I'm not part of the organization, so how can I
speak about it ? I can only speak about the integrity
of the services delivered, and I feel very good about
that"
Achievement: quarterback for the SFO 49ers
Source: California Magazine 6/91
Name: William Burroughs
Profession: writer
Status: Clear# 1163 in the 60ies, but later satirized the movement
in several essays, which were later collected in the book
"Naked Scientology" [Expanded Media Editions 1985, Bonn,
Germany, 3-88030-011-9]
Achievement: "Naked Lunch"
Source: "A piece of blue sky"
Name: David Campbell
Profession:
Status: in
Achievement: Oscar according to Impact #12, but this cannot be
confirmed by Microsoft CINEMANIA
Source: Celebrity #280, Impact #12
Name: Diana Canova
Profession: actress
Status: out (see below)
Achievement: Corinne in "soap" (the long hair girl)
Source: Premiere 9/93
Also read her testimony in this FAQ
Name: Nancy Cartwright
Profession: actress
Status: in, New OT IV, Key to Life, Life Orientation,
represents "The Way to Happiness"
Achievement: voice of Bart Simpson
Source: WIS, WP 10.12.94 & 25.12.94, TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93
California Magazine 6/91, Celebrity #280
Name: Leonard Cohen
Profession: songwriter, poet
Status: out
Achievement: "suzanne", really cool music at the prison riot scene
in "natural born killers"
Source: himself in interview with the "jewish book news"
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/cpage/Leonard_Cohen/interview.html
"I looked into a lot of things. Scientology was one of them.
It did not last very long. But it is very interesting, as
I continue my studies in these matters, to see how really
good Scientology was from the point of view of their data,
their information, their actual knowledge, their wisdom
writings, so to speak. It wasn't bad at all. It is scorned,
and I don't know what the organization is like today, but
it seems to have all the political residue of any large
and growing organization. Yes, I did look into that and
other things."
Name: Kate Ceberano
Profession: jazz singer
Status: "Who weekly" from June 27th, 1994:
"As a third generation Scientologist, Ceberano periodically
sends herself off on 'self-imposed sabbaticals', often
to Florida"
but Kate says:
"The Church has helped me maintain my sense of purpose.
You work bloody hard studying and Scientology provides
you with the means and the tools to be the best you can be."
Achievement: Successful recording career as a musician for years,
had her own late night jazz music and talk show, but it
didn't go into a 2nd season.
Source: WIS, dam...@physics1.physics.monash.edu.au (Damian Pope)
Name: Stanley Clarke
Profession: jazz bassist
Status: out
Achievement: Friend of Chick Corea
Source: "name witheld" (for the above)
Name: Keith Code
Profession: motorcycle racer and trainer "California Superbike School"
(with interruption between 1993 - 1995 when his backers
mysteriously withdrew their financial support, now open
again with less ambitious schedule)
Status: in since the late 60ies, Patron
His ex-wife, Barbara Code, was "Communicator" (secretary)
to Deputy Guardian United States, Henning Heldt (one of
the convicted 11), during the time he committed his crimes.
Achievement: Two of his students, Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey, are
multiple World Grand Prix winners
His books (Twist of the Wrist I & II) and related video
are considered the best available tutorials.
1987 Redesigned part of Laguna Seca Race Course to conform
to World GP Motorcycle Racing.
1992 (ca) named Motorcyclist of the Year by
Motorcyclist Magazine (U.S.)
Tried to prove the validity of Dianetics in 1994 by competing
with age 46 in 250cc AMA championship, withdrew after failing
badly in the first few races.
Source: WIS, Celebrity #280, Impact #25, #42,
smok...@ix.netcom.com (Neal Hamel) for the details
Name: Chick Corea
Profession: jazz pianist
Status: in, entered 1968
New OT8, Patron with honor, Freedom Medal
Achievement: getting "canceled" from a concert in germany
Source: himself in ads, FOCUS Dec 12/94, TIME May 6/91,
WIS, Impact #12, #34, #42, Celebrity #284, "Ich klage an",
California Magazine 6/91, "A piece of blue sky";
he also thanks LRH on inside his CD covers
His wife Gayle Moran is also involved (Impact #7)
Statement in Impact #12, p.20:
"I have some personal policies as a performer.
I consider it's my job to audit an audience."
About acknoledging Ron in his records:
"But many Scientologists and even Sea Org members
have told me that it is because of that simple
action that they are now Scientologists."
Name: Raven de la Croix
Profession: actress
Status:
Achievement: "Up!"
Source: Director Russ Meyer in an interview for german book
"Russ Meyer", he called scientology "one of the nastiest cults"
Name: Tom Cruise
Profession: actor
Status: got in after marrying Mimi Rogers (Premiere)
at least OT3
Achievement: milk-face in many films: "Top Gun", "The firm", ...
Successfully avoided to be subpoenaed by hiding in the
men's roon (from Steve Fishman's press release)
Source: TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93, LA magazine 10/93
Andre Tabayoyon decl.
Name: Cathy Lee Crosby
Profession: actress
Status: out
npoo...@aol.com (NPoorman): one AOLA reg told me,
"Oh, she's crazy!"
Achievement: "Wonder Woman" (before Lynda Carter)
Source: npoo...@aol.com (NPoorman),
dei...@sover.net (Deirdre)
Name: Xavier Deluc
Profession: actor
Status: in, Clear, L 11 & 12 rundown, Patron with Honors
Achievement: lost his lawsuit again UNADFI (french cult info org) in 1994
Source: Impact #42
Name: Placido Domingo, Jr.
Profession:
Status: in, Clear, Sunshine Rundown, Method One Word Clearing,
Grade 0-4, Past Life Remedy, New Era Dianetics Drug Rundown,
Marriage Counseling
Achievement:
Source: Celebrity #278
also listed are Maria Domingo and Marilu Domingo
Name: Ron Ely
Profession: actor
Status:
Achievement: "Tarzan", "Doc Savage"
Source: dei...@sover.net (Deirdre): "I know this one only
because I saw him there once and later saw his pc folders"
But:
luv...@primenet.com (John Luvalle) believes that a
different Ron Ely was a student at ASHO, and it was
his folders that Deirdre saw.
Name: Emilio Estevez
Profession: actor
Status: out, and won't discuss it.
"I don't want my phones tapped" (refers to 1978 verdict)
Achievement: "Repo Man" (in that film they make fun about "Dioretix",
see more about this in the fun section of my web page)
"Young Guns", "Loaded Weapon"
Source: CLEO 6/95
Name: Mario Feninger
Profession: composer and concert pianist
Status: in, Class VIII auditor
Achievement:
Source: Celebrity #278, Ursprung #45
I consider it very probable that the "Antonio Ferraro"
figure in Margery Wakefield's auto-biographic book
"The road to Xenu" is actually Mario Feninger !
Name: Neil Gaiman
Profession: artist (sandman comics)
Status: SP in 1983; was Class VIII auditor, ran the Birmingham
org for a while
but scientologist Mark Pope (Mark...@aol.com) claims
on 4.4.1995: "Neil is a long time Scientologist".
(This might be wishful thinking, i.e. not believing
that a son of a scieno in good standing is an SP)
Achievement: e-mail me !
Source: inf...@best.com (Mike MacLeod):
"My auditor is a friend of the elder Gaiman."
+ <name withheld> for most of it
The Times, 13.8.1968
Neil Gaiman is the son of David Gaiman, who was a high
co$ official (GO, from 66-83) and is currently active
in Russia. (DG's involvement was/is much, much too big
to cover here; DG was an SP for a time)
Name: Josele Garza
Profession: racing driver (from Mexico)
Status: Patron, New OT5
His mother Nadina is New OT7 and CL4
Achievement: Impact #12 does not mention that he ever won a race,
so he probably didn't.
Source: Impact #12
Name: Paul Haggis
Profession: screenwriter, story editor, TV producer
Status: Lifetime member on the Honor Roll
Achievement: "executive producer of "The Facts of Life"
Source: Impact #12
Name: Martin von Haselberg
Profession: commodities trader, performance artist
Status:
Achievement: Bette Midler's husband !
Source: Jon Atack:
"I coached him on TRs 6-9 at St. Hill UK in 1976.
I coached tens of people on different TRs, but I never met
anyone who was as good as von Haselberg. He never smiled,
never fluffed a line. Nothing distracted him. But then he
told me he was an actor, so he was already well trained
in bullbait lockjaw. He described the performances that
he and his partner did. They had shaved heads and
communicated only through what sounded like cartoon noises.
They packed a set of suitcases one inside the other. Each
suitcase contained a 'ceremony'. In one they had toothpaste,
which they squeezed all over one another. They performed in
Germany and had recently annoyed a leading politician,
so he said. It was very much in tune with what Joseph Beuys
and his chums were doing in the German art world.
I liked him, he was bright and interesting and far from
being a drone."
Name: Isaac Hayes
Profession: Musician, actor
Status: got in thru Reverend Alfreddie Johnson
plans to train up to Class VIII
spokesman for "World Literacy Crusade", a front group
which promotes scientology's "Study Technology"
Freedom Medal
Achievement: Oscar for "Theme from Shaft"
Source: St. Petersburg Times 25.2.94 & 6.12.94, WP 10.12.1994
Celebrity #278
Name: Amy Heckerling
Profession: director
Status:
Achievement: Look who's talking 1 & 2
[TH: I wonder if the baby was also a scientologist !]
Source: "Der Sektenkonzern"
Name: Phillipe de Henning
Profession: racing driver, fashion designer
Status: New OT5, IAS lifetime member, IAS sponsor,
Achievement: won "24 heures du Mans" in its own class, with the
"Dianetique" car
Source: Impact #12
Name: Gottfried Helnwein
Profession: graphic artist
Status: Patron
Achievement: James Dean picture, Man with forks in his eyes
Source: himself in ads, "Der Sektenkonzern", STERN 9/93,
Impact #34, bot not in Impact #42 !
Religion Inc, p. 73
Name: Mark Isham
Profession: composer
Status: in, clear, Patron, "L" Rundown
Jon Atack: "involvement must be fairly deep - Impact #16
shows his 16th confessional folder in a photo on p.25."
Achievement: Oscar nomination for "A River Runs Through It"
grammy award winner
Composed the music for at least 15 films (CINEMANIA)
Ironically, one of the movies is titled
"A midnight CLEAR"
Source: WIS, Celebrity #278, #280, Impact #16, #42
Name: Al Jarreau
Profession: singer
Status:
Achievement: "Moonlightning" theme song
Source: "Der Sektenkonzern", "Ich klage an", LA Times 16.2.1992
Name: Terry Jastrow
Profession: producer/director ABC sports
Status: in
Achievement: Emmy Arwards
Source: WIS 1992
married to Anne Archer
Name: Carolyn Judd
Profession: writes and produces ads
Status: in, New OT8, Key to Life
Achievement: clio award for JEEP ad
Source: Celebrity #280
Name: Kimberley Kates
Profession: actress
Status: in, Clear, Key to Life and Life Orientation Course
Achievement: "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"
Source: WIS, Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #280, #278
Name: Milton Katselas
Profession: acting teacher, director
Status: in, introduced Kelly Preston
Achievement: one of Hollywood's most successful acting teachers,
heads the Beverly Hills Playhouse,
"Butterflies are free",
Source: Premiere 9/93, California Magazine 6/91, Details 2/96
Name: Lamia Khashoggi (formerly Laura Biancolini),
Ali Khashoggi
Profession:
Status: The mail:
"She donated over 3,000,000 UKP. Bob Rich is assigned
to look after son Ali as his permanent shadow"
Achievement: being married by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi
Source: The Mail on Sunday, 13.10.1991
Name: Nicole "nic" Kidman
Profession: actress
Status: in
Achievement: wife of Tom Cruise, "far and away", "Batman forever"
Source: Premiere 9/93, LA magazine 10/93
Name: Charles Lake
Profession: gymnast
Status:
Achievement: US olympic team
Source: LA Times june 1990 series
Name: Ernest Lehman
Profession: screenwriter, producer, director
Status:
Achievement: "The Sound of Music", "Portnoy's complaint", "Family Plot"
Source: Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #280
Name: Juliette Lewis
Profession: actress
Status:
Achievement: "Natural born killers"
Source: Premiere 9/93, St. Petersburg Times 25.2.94, FOCUS Dec 12/94
Name: Geoffrey Lewis
Profession: actor, Juliette's dad
Status: in; DWT...@aol.com: "as early as 1970, maybe sooner"
Achievement: sidekick in Clint Eastwood movies
"Every Which Way but Loose"
Source: Premiere 9/93, DWT...@aol.com
Name: Lightfield Lewis
Profession: actor
Status: in, Expanded Grade completition
Achievement:
Source: Celebrity #280
Name: Bobby Lipton
Profession: actor
Status: out 1971
Achievement:
Source: Premiere 9/93
Name: Peggy Lipton
Profession: actress
Status:
Achievement: "Twin Peaks" (the nice restaurant owner)
"The Mod Squad", a 60ies TV series (the "d" is not a typo)
Source: NPoo...@aol.com (Noel Poorman):
She DID take Scn. courses. I know, because she and KAREN
BLACK twinned as students on Foundation (nights and
weekends) in the early '70s at C.C./L.A. the same time I
was on course.
"Premiere" 9/93 says that they pressured her brother Bobby
to get her in.
DWT...@aol.com saw her when he was ethics officer
Name: Robert F. Lyons
Profession: actor and drama teacher
Status: in
Achievement: rather a grade "b" actor
Source: npoo...@aol.com (NPoorman): "He stayed active for years
and could be seen around the A.O.L.A. frequently."
Name: Lenny Macaluso
Profession: musician, song writer, producer
Status: in since 1968, New OT8, CL5, Key to Life, Life Orientation,
Patron
Achievement: worked 4 years for Tina Turner
Source: Impact #12, #42
Name: Shirley Maclaine
Profession: actress
Status: ?
Achievement: making a fool of herself on David Letterman's show
Source: "Der Sektenkonzern", "Berliner Zeitung" 23.7.92.
Name: Charles Manson
Profession: murderer
Status: out *before* the murders
got 150h of auditing while in prison (before), later
sympatised with the squirrel group "The Process".
Achievement: head behind the Sharon Tate / LaBianca murders
Source: "Blue Sky", Bugliosi's "Helter Skelter",
dennis....@support.com (Dennis Erlich):
"I was there when we had to destroy all records
involving him"
and
"It was in 69, shortly after the murders (which happened
nearby the org in which I was working) that the whole
org was searched and any reference to Charles Manson
was vetted and destroyed."
Name: Anita Mally
Profession: actress, screenwriter
Status: in, New OT8, Key to Life, Life Orientation, Patron with Honors
Achievement: managed to write (and get aired and rerun) a german TV series
that had scientology elements (engrams, auditing) in it
("Die Trauminsel"). Praise IAS for "fighting the ennemy"
Source: Impact #42, "Ich klage an"
Name: Melanie
Profession: folk singer
Status: participated in the "Portland crusade" after the
(later overturned) $35,000,000 judgement for
Julie Christopherson-Titschbourne
Achievement: Woodstock participant, famous in the 70ies:
"Look what have they've done to my song, ma", "Lay Down",
"Brand New Key", "Animal Crackers", "Ruby Tuesday" remake
having *me* as a fan for her 70ies songs
Source: Chicago Tribune 21.5.1985, LA Times 20.5.1985
St. Petersburg Times 17.12.1992
(scientology-sponsored performance)
Name: Julia Migenes
Profession: opera singer (soprano)
Status: in since 1966, New OT5, Freedom Medal
luv...@primenet.com (John Luvalle):
LRH had her leave Sea Org to pursue her career.
Achievement:
Source: WIS, WP 10.12.94, Impact #12, #42
Name: Demi Moore
Profession: actress
Status: out: was seen leaving the Celebrity Centre but gave up
when Bruce Willis made her clear that he didn't want
his children raised in scientology
Achievement: "Disclosure", "Ghost", cool "Vanity Fair" covers
Source: CLEO 6/95, The observer 19.3.95 (name only),
Hana Whitfield in the Sally Jesse Raphael show 9.7.91
Name: Floyd Mutrux
Profession: screenwriter, director, producer
Status:
Achievement: "Dick Tracy" according to Premiere, but this is confirmed
neither by CINEMANIA nor by the Internet Movie database.
Source: WIS, Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #278
Name: Maxine Nightingale
Profession: singer
Status: in
Achievement:
Source: WIS, St. Petersburg Times 25.2.94, Celebrity #280
Name: Noelle North
Profession: dancer, actress (voice-overs)
Status:
Achievement:
Source: Impact #12
Name: Bernhard Paul
Profession: clown, manager of "Circus Roncalli"
Status: out, according to himself
Achievement: not getting bankrupt with a circus
Source: "Der Sektenkonzern":
It is often alleged that the name "Roncalli" comes from
"I call Ron". He disputes this, and says that it comes
from a script "Sarah Roncalli - the daughter of the moon"
(other sources say it is the "widow of the moon"). It is
also inspired by pope John 23, who's last name was
Roncalli. Anyway - today he says that he has nothing to
do with scientology.
Name: Brad Pitt
Profession: actor
Status: out
Premiere: "drifted thru", took his courses while dating
Juliette Lewis. Interest waned after it.
Achievement:
Source: Premiere 9/93, CLEO 6/95
Name: Jeff Pomerantz
Profession: actor
Status: in, New OT7, Sea Org member, Freedom Medal, Senior Honor Roll
"Hollywood says no to drugs" campaign , got an invitation
by Nancy Reagan to The White House.
luv...@primenet.com (John & Michele LuValle):
"We saw him and Richie Ettricks chatting and laughing with
some folders of the Fishman case in the LA courthouse
on 15.8.1995; later that day, the papers were sealed."
Achievement: "General Hospital", "One life to live", "Dynasty"
The Internet Movie database has none of these
Source: Premiere 9/93, LA Times 5.11.1985
Impact #12, #63
Name: David Pomeranz
Profession: composer (Hollywood scores), singer
Status: in
Achievement:
Source: WIS, Celebrity #280, #278, Impact #12
Name: Priscilla Presley
Profession: actress
Status: in
Achievement: "The naked gun", "Dallas", perfume, wife of Elvis
Source: Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #280
Name: Lisa Marie Presley
Profession: Elvis heir
Status: in since 1978
Achievement: Married to Michael Jackson - now filed divorce
Source: Premiere 9/93, Reuter 5.10.88
See also: http://www.docs.uu.se/~y89hbo/presley/lisa.html, about
the allegation that LMP is another person
Name: Lee Purcell
Profession: actress
Status: clear
Achievement: 2 Emmy nominations, "Big Wednesday"
Source: Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #280
Name: Harold Puthoff
Profession: mathematician, physics scientist, ESP researcher
currently works on "stochastic electrodynamics"
see "http://www.ibg.uu.se/elektromagnum/physics/Puthoff/"
Status: OT3, says that he severed all ties a couple of decades ago
Achievement: holds patent on tunable laser,
"analyzed" psychics Uri Geller and Ingo Swann,
and soiled the reputation of SRI
Source: Randi's "Flim Flam!", Randi's "The truth about Uri Geller",
nor...@netcom.com (Jon Noring) about "severed all ties"
Name: Michael D. Roberts
Profession: actor
Status: in, Patron, IAS Field Disseminator, Senior Honor Roll
Achievement: "Baretta", "Rain Man", "The Ice Pirates"
Source: California Magazine 6/91, Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #280,
WIS, Impact #12, #42
Name: Pamela Roberts
Profession: actress, clothes designer
Status: in, Field Disseminator
Achievement: appearences in "General Hospital" and "Hill Street Blues"
Source: Impact #12
Name: Elena Roggero
Profession: italian singer, songwriter
Status: in since 1991, Freedom Medal, IAS sponsor, clear
"say no to drugs" spokesperson for Italy
Achievement:
Source: Impact #63
Name: Kelly Preston
Profession: actress
Status: lifetime member of IAS, introduced by Milton Katselas,
L12 rundown
Achievement: "Twins", married to Travolta
Source: WIS, TIME May 6/91, "Impact 49" in "Ich klage an",
Details 2/96
Name: Vonni Ribisi
Profession: actress
Status: in
Achievement: "My two dads"
Source: Premiere 9/93, Celebrity #280
Name: Marissa Ribisi
Profession: actress
Status: in, Key to Life and Life Orientation Course
Achievement: "The Brady Bunch Movie"
Source: Celebrity #280
Name: Amanda Rice, formerly "Raven"
Profession: stripper
Status: "residential counselor" for Narconon
Achievement: being the "other woman" in the
Kiefer Sutherland - Julia Roberts breakup
Source: Portland Oregonian 29.6.92
(Note that this is probably not the same as
Raven de la Croix, since that one is claimed to have an
adult son, according to the interview with Russ Meyer)
Name: Pablo Roehrig
Profession: painter
Status: Patron
Achievement:
Source: "Ich klage an", STERN 9/93, Impact #34, #42, Die Woche
Name: Mimi Rogers
Profession: actress
Status: in, (2nd generation in Co$)
introduced Sonny Bono, Tom Cruise, John Brodie
Achievement: ex-wife of Tom Cruise and Jim Rogers
lingerie appearance on "Dream On" (wow !)
born-again fundamental christian in "The Rapture"
Source: CINEMANIA, TIME May 6/91, Premiere 9/93, LA magazine 10/93,
Chicago Tribune 14.8.1988
John Atack: "She is the daughter of former Mission Holder
and Hubbard crony Phil Spickler (whom I interviewed in 1986).
He is out"
Name: Jim Rogers
Profession:
Status: in
Achievement: ex-husband of Mimi Rogers
Source: Chicago Tribune 14.8.1988, DWT...@aol.com,
Name: Gloria Rusch-Novello
Profession: singer, vocal teacher
Status: in
Achievement:
Source: WIS, Celebrity #278, #280
married to Joh Novello
Name: Billy Sheehan
Profession: rock bassist
Status: in since 1972, Clear in 1978, L Rundown,
Expanded Grades completition
Achievement: plays in band "Mr. BIG"
Source: WP 10.12.94, Mike MacLeod: has been on late night infomercials
WIS, Celebrity #278, #280, Impact #42
Name: Andrik Schapers
Profession: singer (from The Netherlands)
Status: Patron
Achievement:
Source: Impact #12
Name: Greta van Susteren and John "Bhopal" Coale
Profession: lawyers
Status: in; Greta: "I like the ethics"
Achievement: Greta is a legal talker for CNN, e.g. for the OJ trial,
co-hosts CNN's "Burden of Proof".
Photos:
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/OJ/daily/9512/12-06/index.html
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/OJ/daily/9512/12-05/pm.html
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/OJ/daily/9-26/pm/index.html
Their law firm is charged by the West Virginia's disciplinary
board for active soliciting, which is illegal there.
The lawfirm "Coale, Allen and Van Susteren" represented
Amy Frith on a lawsuit against Wellspring, a cult recovery
facility.
Greta was named one of the 20 Outstanding Young Lawyers
in America by "American Bar Association Barrister Magazine."
John filed Lisa Marie Presley's divorce (CNN 18.1.1996)
Source: Washington Post's Mark Gunther 12.8.1995,
<name withheld> on Amy Frith
Name: Jeffrey Scott
Profession: script writer
Status:
Achievement: emmy award
Source: Impact #12, (also refers to Impact #6)
Name: Ingo Swann
Profession: writer, psychic, now a painter
see also
http://www.newshare.com/Reporter/archives/reporter12-06.1.html
Status: OT7, now SP
Achievement: Exteriorized to Jupiter (Randi's "Flim Flam!")
"Star fire"
Source: inf...@best.com (Mike MacLeod), DWT...@aol.com
and dei...@sover.net (Deirdre) about the SP status
Martin Gardner's book for "OT7"
Name: John Travolta
Profession: actor
Status: in, entered 1975, got in thru Joan Prather
lifetime member of IAS, OT5 or higher, Key to Life
Achievement: "Grease", "Pulp Fiction"
Source: himself in ads, himself on "Entertainment tonight",
Celebrity #280, WIS
jo...@server.nlbbs.com (Joe Harrington):
"Travolta was working on OT5 early spring of 1990.
He used to call his Case Supervisor on the phone
and discuss his case.
This is STRICTLY forbidden as per Hubbard's
"Ivory Tower Rule". But, money talks. When he came
to Flag, he would drive around Clearwater in his
65 Mustang convertible and they would keep the
restaurant open after hours for him and his entourage.
ALL staff members were forbidden to speak with him."
(Joe later named the C/S as Richard Reiss. Reiss was also
The auditor of Jon Atack)
Name: Misha Segal
Profession: composer
Status: in
Achievement:
Source: Celebrity #280
Name: Don Simpson
Profession: producer
Status: out
He said, "I've now almost gone clear, why ain't I
happier ?". Response: "Things will be okay when you
go through OT3." At that point he realized it was a con.
He was brought in by Floyd Mutrux
Don Simpson died 19.1.1996
Achievement: "Top Gun"
Source: Premiere 9/93
Name: Sharon Stone
Profession: actress
Status: "she is going to courses" (Berliner Zeitung)
Achievement: screaming in movies with Richard Chamberlain, spreading
her legs on the silver screen
Source: "Der Sektenkonzern", "Ich klage an",
"Berliner Zeitung" 23.7.92.
Name: Frank Stallone (Sly's brother)
Profession: actor, singer, songwriter
Status:
Achievement: bartender in "Barfly"
Source: "Bigger Secrets", Chicago Tribune 21.5.1985
Name: A.E. van Vogt
Profession: science-fiction writer
Status: No involvment in scientology itself:
Prominent advocate of Dianetics, recruited by his
fellow-SF writer Hubbard in 1950 and called him "the boss".
He ran the Los Angeles Dianetics Foundation in late 1950.
said in his book "Dianetics and the Professions", 1953:
"Financial disaster was inevitable". A.E. van Vogt
endorsed LRH's "Battlefield Earth" as a 'masterpiece'
on its cover, but confessed in an interview with RM that
he had been daunted by its size and had not actually
bothered to read it. <g>
Sort of a "pre-scientologist".
Achievement: "Slan", the "Null-A" books
Source: Russell Miller's book, thanks to:
inf...@best.com (Mike MacLeod)
to...@sidaway.demon.co.uk (Tony Sidaway)
av...@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Martin Hunt)
Name: Cass Warner Poole
Profession:
Status: in
Achievement:
Source: Celebrity #280
Name: Edgar Winter
Profession: blues player
Status: in
Achievement:
Source: Andre Tabayoyon decl, California Magazine 6/91,
Celebrity #280, San Diego Union 15.4.1990
(Celebrity also mentions his wife, Monique Winter)
Name: Dick Zimmerman
Profession: celebrity fotographer
Status: in for over 20 years (in 1992), New OT6, IAS sponsor
Achievement:
Source: Impact #42
Name: Glenn Zottola
Profession: trumpeteer
Status: in, OT
Achievement:
Source: Celebrity #278, Source #78
Here's some e-mails / posts from different persons that are not
classified yet. I have deleted names with "weak" references, or
names which are already in public sources. If anyone has more information,
e-mail is welcome.
From inf...@best.com (Mike MacLeod)
Wings Hauser (actor)
"from SCN literature"
Nicky Hopkins (rock pianist)
"I sat next to him one day at Flag. Nicky died last year."
[= 1984]
Moon Martin (obscure rock star; wrote "Bad Case of Lovin' You")
"SCN promo (finished such-and-such course)"
John Campbell (science fiction editor)
"Well-known public in '50's"
From npoo...@aol.com (NPoorman)
Stephen Boyd (actor, "The Oscar" et al)
Joan Prather (actress: got a refund?)
Clive Clerk (actor, singer)
Jim McMullin (actor, "Downhill Racer" w/Redford)
John Savage (actor, "Onion Fields" et al)
MICHAEL WADLER and BARBARA BECKLEY, leading lights
of the Colony Theatre, a little theatre rep group, in L.A.
They've won many L.A. Drama Critics Awards for their
productions. It was Michael who, earlier, as director,
cast the unknown John Larroquette in a production of
"Enter Laughing" in the mid-'70's (the Cast Theatre, L.A.),
where an agent saw him and the rest, as they say, is
history. Larroquette met his future wife, a Scientologist,
Elizabeth ('Liz) Cookson, in that production. They're still
together.
Horst Buchholtz: I saw him at the C.C./L.A. briefly, with his wife,
being disseminated to in the privacy of her office by Yvonne Gilham
in the late '60s. [TH: Yvonne Gilham = Yvonne Jentzsch ?]
DIANA VENEGAS, a beauty queen from South America (represented her
country [Venezuela?] in either Miss Universe or Miss World contest),
started in N.Y., then moved to L.A. where she became a classed auditor
and an OT. She opened her own lace-gowns boutique in Beverly Hills
with her mother in the latter '70s.
[Patron with Honors = $100,000 donation, Impact #42,
WIS: husband is Dr. David Singer, from "Singer Consultants", now
divided / entered to "IMV" and "Singer Enterprises"]
From Damian Pope:
I also have a copy of a Scientology publication called
"The Church of Scientology - A vital force in your community" :)
It seems to be a Church of Scientology International publication as
it was copyrighted by Church of Scientology International in 1991.
It also lists singer Maxine Nightingale, John Travolta, musicians
Nicky Hopkins and Dave Gibbons, and Olympic gymnast Charles Lake
as being Scientologists. (does also list Kate Ceberano)
From gi...@oslonett.no (Gisle Hannemyr)
Nicky Hopkins rock musician
Leif Garrett ? [actor, "Outsiders"]
Carlos Palomino jock
Bruce Penhall actor
Didn't preserve sources, but most of these are from CoS promotional
literature and informercial TV-spots where the celebrities were doing
"testimonials".
Also Irish musician Van Morrison dedicated his 1983 album "Inarticu-
late speech of the heart" to L. Ron Hubbard. It has been claimed
that at one point, he was involved with scientology to the point
where he was serving as an "auditor". Van denies this, and has
said that he did some courses, then dropped out.
[Atack: VM was associated with scientology for a short while]
(( There is a lot of references to religious and mystic experiences in
Van Morrison's music, and it ranges from tributes to Jehova's
Witnesses ("Kingdom Hall") to Zen ("Enlightment"), so the LRH
reference can be considered just be another of Van Morrison's
skirmishes with religion. ))
From jul...@zoom.com (Alex France):
Van Morrison was also involved briefly as you suspected.
I suspect that his album (a terrific album)
'No Guru, No Method, No Teacher', refers at least partly to his
leaving Scn.
Another very prominent person who has been involved is Lou Rawls.
A photograph of Rawls graduating from the Communications Course
(the standard first course for new members) is shown in an old
G.O. publication in my collection. (The Indispensability of
Scientology, Vol 1 Issue 3) The photo is cited as being from
the Las Vegas Voice, 9/25/75. I've never seen Rawls mentioned
in connection with Scn elsewhere, so it would be reasonable to
assume that he is another who 'drifted through'.
[AF added later that Lou Rawls is a singer]
A name I think you missed was John Dalmas, a moderately successful
writer of SF. John's early books (The Scroll of Man, Emergence)
are absolutely packed with Scn references - for instance, the
former of these starts with a restating of LRH cosmology in
biblical language. John also has published in the Free Spirit
(Vol 10, Issue 2) so mark him as another ex.
From Premiere 9/93 :
Lesser-known Scientologists in show biz:
Judy Norton-Taylor (The Waltons), child TV actor
Michael Wiseman (Predator 2) and Gary Imhoff
(the forthcoming Thumbelina). Then there are actor and acting
teacher Manu Tupou (Hawaii); and director Dror Soref
(The Seventh Coin), who cut his teeth on Scientology films
and now has a deal at Paramount. People who have drifted
through Scientology include Jerry Seinfeld, Patrick Swayze,
Harvey Haber (brother of CAA cofounder Bill Haber).
From: ge...@cougar.vut.edu.au (David Gerard):
'The Auditor(R): The Monthly Journal of Scientology(R) -- AOSH ANZO 136'
"The Road To Freedom" album of LRH(tm) songs released on CD!
Attendees of the 23rd of June event were able to snap up the brand new
edition of "The Road To Freedom" album now available on CD and cassette.
This album features such leading artists as John Travolta, Chick Corea,
Julia Migenes, Karen Black, Nicky Hopkins, Amanda Ambrose, Gayle Moran
and Leif Garrett. This album is a unique and highly enjoyable collection
of songs composed by L. Ron Hubbard(R) to impart to the listener some of
the basic knowledge that Scientology offers. Whilst viewed as controversial
by those who seek to oppose man's spiritual freedom, the lyrics on this
album offer answers to questions man has asked for eons."
Unclassified stuff:
Ursprung# 45: Judy and Bob Mazzarella
Ursprung# 77: Ludwig Fisher, actor and artist
Impact #12: Ron Moss, Chick Corea's manager
The Auditor WW #68: Malcolm LeMaistre of The Incredible String Band
Susie Watson-Taylor, manager of The Incredible String Band
The Auditor WW #80: Robin Williamson of The Incredible String Band
The Auditor EU/AF #203: Ryan Paris, clear, musician and singer
The Auditor WW #80: Peter Winsnes, actor (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Impact #12: Nicky Hopkins
Impact #12: Peter Schless, composer, synthetisist and producer
Margie and Mel Nelson, Gordy Gale,
Bill Lorentzen (Patron)
Newsday 23.5.95 Eduardo Polomo "award winning latino star" :-)
WIS: Judy Norton, actress/singer. Scieno before "Waltons"
Allegations from Jon Atack:
- Gloria Swanson was involved in 1950.
- Lillian Collins, wife of the former MD of William Collins publishers
(the biggest publisher in the world, now merged with Harper & Row
as Harper Collins), is a longterm member. She left briefly in 1984,
but according to rumour was lured back by the promise of OT8.
She allegedly told a former member that she had often wondered why
she always needed so much more auditing than anyone else,
and had realised that it was because she could pay.
- Willie B. Wilson has been a member since the 1960s.
He is an oil-billionaire and a crony of former president George Bush.
Of course, it was Bush's Tax Commissioner who first proposed a deal
with Scn in 1991.
- Michael Parsons, a Mission Holder, rose to fame for robberies
committed in Sacramento.
- Eden Vanning - first violin Florida Symphony, Impact 7, p.38.
- Helena Rojo, Mexican songstress, Impact 10, p.35.
- Sasha Malinin, Russian pop star, Auditor WW 249, p.4.
- Hans Gunter Arenz, racing driver, Auditor WW 249, p.4.
- Fermin Sanchez, racing driver, Dianetics team, New Era PR file
'Planetary Expansion', 20 October 1987.
- Although Aldous Huxley was not impressed by Hubbard's attempts to
audit him, his daughter Faith became deeply involved in the 1970s.
It is rumoured that she spent $2 million on the word-clearing e-meter.
She is believed to have left by 1984.
- Laura Archera Huxley - Aldous' second wife, who became a
pop psychologist, 'took dianetic auditor training in 1950 and became
an HDA, and for a time in the mid-fifties was on the CADA
[California Association of Dianetic Auditors - which was not under
Scn or Hubbard control] board', A.E. van Vogt in
CADA Dianetic Journal Notes, vol.4, no.1.
- Tony Jacklin - golfer, involved for many years - Daily Mail, 17 July 1979.
- Lisa London, casting director, Celebrity 264, p.6.
- Tony Morales, drummer with the Rippingtons, Auditor Eu & Af, 255, p.2.
- Hossam Ramzy, North African percussion ensemble leader,
has played with Peter Gabriel (recorded on Passion) and most recently
with Page and Plane. Auditor WW 256, p.4.
- Oscar Saldarriagia - donated starter packages for 48 countries.
Is a Sea Org member at Flag Land Base. From Columbia.
[found in Impact #12 - but doesn't seem to be a celebrity?!]
4. Interview of Diana Canova
Here are some small excerpts from an article from "Premiere" 9/93
(I claim "fair use"): an interview with Diana Canova, showing good reasons
for not entering scientology:
"I remember having a choking anger against anyone who ever said
anything against Scientology," says actress Diana Canova (Soap),
a former member. "I would get crazy, I was just so angry. I would
have done anything for them."
During her seven years in Scientology, Canova experienced
the Celebrity Centre from both sides of fame. "When I started, I
wasn't in television yet. I was a nobody--I'd done some TV, but I
was not one of the elite, not by a long shot--until I did Soap.
Then it became . . . I mean, you really are treated like royalty."
"There was always pressure to get other celebrities in"
Canova found the Scientologists straightforward in their desire
for lucre. "The first time I walked in those doors, they said,
'Just give us all the money in your bank account. You'll get it
back tenfold.'" When she joined, auditing prices were about $25.
"It went up to about $175 in the early '80s," she recalls. "That
was shocking to me. I was beginning to wonder, Is it really worth
it? They're telling you, 'Don't spend $100 an hour on a shrink's
couch, it'll ruin your mind.' Auditing is so much better?"
"It took me years before I decided to quit," says Canova.
"I guess finally I was so fed up with being afraid. You've heard all
these horror stories . . . I believed them."
And we listen to Canova when she warns us: "They're capable of
doing a lot of things."
Canova says she spoke up because she thought it was important.
"I see some of my friends having to keep their mouths
shut for personal reasons, for business reasons," she says. "I
don't believe that's right. If it's going to be termed a
religion, or a church, then those kinds of fears have no business
being there. Nobody should be afraid. And you can quote me on that."
5. Declaration of Andre Tabayoyon
[From the case Church of Scientology International vs.
Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz, US District Court, Central
District of California, Case No. CV 91 6426 HLH (Tx),
dismissed by CSI against themselves with prejudice.]
[David Miscavige is the current leader of scientology]
DECLARATION OF ANDRE TABAYOYON
I, ANDRE TABAYOYON, declare as follows:
(...)
115. I witnessed money from various non profit Scientology
organizations, and labor provided by various non profit Scientology
organizations being used for the personal benefit it of Miscavige, Tom
Cruise, other Scientology senior executives and other Scientology
celebrities (such as John Travolta, Chick Corea and Priscilla Presley).
116. I also saw monies and/or personnel from various Scientology
non profit religious organizations being used for the personal benefit
of Miscavige. We constructed a music room for him, a lounge, a dressing
room, a personal exercise room and personnel storage rooms. The
approximate cost of this was between $250,000, $300,000. This does not
include the cost of labor since RPFers, or slave labor was used on these
projects for personal enurement of Miscavige.
117. Miscavige, other senior Scientologists and certain
celebrities would also use the movie theater we constructed on the base
to view first run movies provided to him by his acquaintances in the
movie industry. The cost of this was easily $150,000. This cost does
not include labor (again slave labor) or expensive film projection
equipment.
118. During the 1980's, Miscavige befriended the actor Tom Cruise
and they spend a lot of time together on the Hemet base. Their special
chef, Sinar Parman, would prepare them fancy meals. Often they would
hang out alone in the space designated for L. Ron Hubbard on the Clipper
Ship we built in the desert. This space had a small kitchen, a little
dining room, a little bar and a bed. They also had the exclusive use of
the officers lounge. On other occasions Miscavige and Cruise would work
out in the expensive gym we built for exclusive and restricted use. No
one else was allowed to talk to Tom Cruise when he was on the base. One
time one of the gardeners spoke to him and this caused a major flap on
the base. At Gold, Miscavige is known by his initials DM and Tom Cruise
by his initials TC. From the late 1980's until I left the Gold, Tom
Cruise was provided a personal and exclusive apartment and storage
facilities by the Scientology organization and at Scientology's expense.
Tom Cruise kept two Yamaha motorcycles, a Mercedes Benz automobile and a
large motor home at Gold. These were stored in what used to be
Hubbard's garage and parking lot. Obviously, Miscavige and Cruise have
developed a special relationship. One is a young world domineering
celebrity. The other is a young domineering cult leader who seeks to
'clear' the world and to rule it according to Scientology beliefs and
practices.
119. When Tom Cruise got married to Nicole Kidman, they and David
Miscavige went to a Colorado Ski Resort for the marriage ceremony. A
Sea Org staffer (Sinar Parman) was taken along to do personal cooking
for Tom Cruise and Miscavige at the expense of Scientology not for
profit religious organizations. This left only 3 cooks at Gold to cook
for 800 people three times a day.
120. I personally participated in the construction of an apartment
at the Gold base, using extensive funds from various non profit
Scientology religious organizations, for the personal and exclusive use
of Tom Cruise. This was done on the orders of David Miscavige. Even
though Miscavige has claimed to be Chairman of the Board of RTC, here he
is directing the expenditure of CSI money and the deployment of CSI
labor -- both paid and slave. Other apartment cottages were built for
the use of John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Edgar Winters, Priscilla
Presley and other Scientology celebrities who are carefully prevented
from finding out the real truth about the Scientology organization. The
labor used to construct Tom Cruise's apartment was provided by Gold, a
division of CSI, and persons from a myriad of Scientology organizations
serving time in the RPF. The RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force) is the
Scientology gulag or concentration camp. Using RPFers to renovate and
reconstruct Tom Cruise's personal and exclusive apartment at the
Scientology Gold base is equivalent to the use of slave labor for Tom
Cruise's benefit. The Tom Cruise apartment at the Gold base is located
at the golf course end of the Gold base, closest to State Street. When
Tom Cruise visits the Gold base, and stays in his personal apartment, he
is cared for by a Sea Org steward.
121. We also had to renovate the Tom Cruise apartment at the Hemet
Base after it was damaged by a mud slide. The repairs had to be
performed on an emergency basis. Both the Gold crew and the RPFers were
placed on extended hours to restore the apartment. Again, Tom Cruise
was benefiting from the use of what is essentially prison slave labor
being worked almost around the clock.
122. Tom Cruise also enjoyed use of facilities constructed on the
Gold base that were not available to any Scientology staff except the
senior most Scientologists on the base, particularly Miscavige and his
lieutenants. For example, I saw Tom Cruise use the exercise room which
was off limits to at least 98 percent of the staff. Tom Cruise also had
unrestricted access to the Ship which has a sauna, jacuzi and a large
Olympic sized swimming pool. With regard to the Miscavige/Cruise gym
this was built in conjunction with the estates facility in approx. 1989.
The gym building cost approx. $150,000 (again using slave labor) and
contains a complete lineup of the most modern weight training equipment.
It is one of the most incredible gyms imaginable and is for the
exclusive use of Tom Cruise, David Miscavige and other specially and
specifically approved by him. It also has an incredible shower area.
123. To assure that Tom Cruise's stays at the Hemet base were
enjoyable, special provisions were made for him and restrictions were
imposed on the staff at the Hemet base. Millions of Church dollars were
spent so that millionaire Tom Cruise could regularly visit the
Scientology base and be friends with Miscavige. For example, Tom Cruise
received special meal services, special room services and the Hemet base
staff was restricted in its access to Hemet base facilities. Indeed, a
girl by the name of Jennie Matsamura was assigned to take care of him
and his renovated cottage. The Hemet base staff was barred from going
where Tom Cruise might be present. Construction and renovation work
that was done on the base for Tom Cruise's benefit often had to be torn
up and redone because the coloring was slightly off or there were a few
inches of group that didn't quite match in color. Once we had to pour a
concrete walkway so that Tom Cruise would not have to walk on the desert
soil. Before the concrete dried it rained. The concrete was spoiled.
Miscavige went into a fury over that.
124. On one occasion, prior to a Cruise/Kidman visit, Miscavige
decided to redo the meadow in beautiful flowers; Tens of thousands of
dollars were spent on the project so that Cruise and Kidman could romp
there. However, Miscavige inspected the project and didn't like it. So
the whole meadow was plowed up, destroyed, replowed and sown with plain
grass.
125. Tom Cruise also received his upper level auditing at the Gold
base. All of his auditor training was provided under the auspices of
RTC and delivered by RTC. Officially, RTC has no auditing service
delivery capability. It exists solely to enforce the Scientology
trademarks. This is yet another example of how the purported corporate
compartmentalization exists only for the "WOG" world and has no meaning
within Scientology. At the time I left Gold, Tom Cruise had completed
Dianetics, Level O-IV, the Key to life course, the Life orientation
course and he was audited up to OT III.
126. OT III deals with body thetans ("bts") and clustered body
thetans ("clusters") . In essence, OT III deals with "the incident"
which Hubbard claims to have been the most engramic incident responsible
for the current state of man. According to OT III, 75 million years
ago, the solution to overpopulation in a space confederacy (consisting
of 26 planets) was solved. Now, each leaf on the Sea Org symbol
represents one of those planets. Each of these planets had approx.
150-200 billion citizens each. The overpopulation solution was to
disembody all the spirits ("mass murder") with the use of glycol
(alcohol and sugar) injected into the spinal cord causing an immediate
freezing up of the body and the unconsciousness of the being (soon to
become a bt or cluster) . The frozen bodies were then collected and
transported to earth (called Teegach by Hubbard) in space ships
resembling Boeing 707 jetliners. The bodies were piled up, as in the
Nazi massacres, on the top of various mountain sites around the then
earth. Inside these mountains were 17 strategically placed enormous
atomic bombs -- bigger than any built this century. After the citizens
who had been selected to be part of the solution were placed on the
mountains, the hydrogen bombs were ignited from a remote space station
(lunar moon) by the officers of Xenu who ruled the space confederacy.
After the explosions the now disembodied thetans were electronically
trapped and transported to areas now known as Hawaii and Las Palmas
where there were pre-constructed implant stations. Then there was a
long and arduous process of packaging the disembodied thetas (spirits)
into clusters with ideas, morals, social values, emotions, sensations,
pains and attitudes of what we now observe as human life. The clusters
were then dispersed over planet earth through the medium of ice. The
ice then melted and the first stage of implant command became activated.
This is known as 'Survival' in Dianetics. The bts or clusters then seek
a human body. When the bt or cluster occupies the body it will either
begin running or operating the body or the engramic commands earlier
received in the implants take place. This will occur over and over
again in what is known as the life cycle -- each time resetting the
implant and restarting its effect with a death or end of cycle.' This
technology can be used for tailor made psychosis, neurosis and general
madness. Indeed, implant technology of this sort can be used for many
purposes. Using implant technology, Hubbard teaches how you can cause
someone to do whatever you want them to do, starting at the prenatal
stage.
127. The purpose of auditing at the OT III level, such as Tom
Cruise has received, is to contact and audit the bts and clusters so
that the bts and clusters leave the body of the auditor. The purpose of
this is to free the person from the determinism of the bts and clusters.
However, the bts and clusters that are released by the solo auditor are
now back at the beginning of their implant which they received 75
million years ago. Survival then retriggers the basic implant which
then picks up a body, or attaches to one that is already occupied, and
re begins the whole cycle.
128. The ultimate goal of auditing is the return of self
determinism and abilities of the person being audited. In other words,
to return the person to the state they were in 75 million years ago
before Xenu handled the over-population problem.
129. Tom Cruise also audited Kevin Catano up to grade IV. Kevin
Catano was a member of the Sea Org security force at Gold. Usually a
Sea Org member in the security force would be audited only by a Sea Org
member -- not a public scientologist let alone Scientology celebrity.
130. Tom Cruise's p.c. (pre-clear) folder was kept in the Gold
case supervision (c/s) office which I had access to as a security
missionaire. It contains supposedly confidential information derived
during auditing sessions. However, the contents of such pre-clear
folders have been culled and used against people. it is my opinion,
based on my Scientology training, education and experience, that such
information is collected by the Scientology organization in order to be
able to exert control and influence over people such as Tom Cruise or
John Travolta should they ever attempt to leave the Scientology
organization.
131. In 1989/1990 we also constructed a tennis court at Gold for
the exclusive list of Celebrities and Miscavige. Non profit Scientology
religious organization funds were used for this inurement project. The
tennis court cost at least $200,000 to build. The rubber coating alone,
on the tennis court, cost $80,000. Then there was the landscaping and
rose garden around the tennis court.
(...)
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United
States of America and of the State of California that the foregoing is
true and correct. Executed in Los Angeles, California this 5th day of
March, 1994.
Andre Tabayoyon
6. Harassment of Mike Farrell
["Fair Use" excerpt of Premiere, Sept 1993, "Catch a rising star"]
To this day, people who tangle with Scientology find themselves
subject to aggressive efforts at intimidation. Mike Farrell, who
played B.J. on the television series M*A*S*H, crossed paths with
the church when he contacted the Cult Awareness Network for
information on a film project about child abuse. After gaining
great respect for their work, he attended a fund-raising event at
a private home in Beverly Hills, where he was confronted by angry
picketers. "There were people taking photographs, being very
obvious, getting video footage of the guests as they went in
and out -- obvious harassment," he says.
Farrell says he asked one of the pickets if he was a
Scientologist, and the man said yes. In an effort to be fair,
Farrell had lunch with Reverend Heber Jentzsch, president of the
Church of Scientology International, and investigated
Scientology's charges against CAN. The actor says he found them
to be based on "sham, invective, and distortion." Later, at a CAN
convention near the L.A. airport, Farrell encountered more angry
Scientologists. "Not only did they picket, but they sort of get
in your face and give you this loud and incessant spiel that
doesn't allow for dialogue -- it's just a kind of attempt to
intimidate."
In the last few months Farrell has gotten numerous strange phone
calls, one telling him (falsely, as it turned out) that an old
friend had died. There have been so many that now when he gets
calls after midnight at his home, he answers, "Hubbard was
crazy." Sometimes, he says, there's a long silence before the
caller hangs up.
7. Why do celebrities get into scientology ?
Why do they join ? Because other celebrities already did, and because
some behind the scenes people are working to get them lured in.
It is also a stage tradition to maintain small superstitions, like
"lucky shoes", etc.
Besides that, people usually join a cult when beeing in a
"transition state", like starting in college, getting divorced,
getting fired, starting new job, etc. And actors are always in
transition: after having completed an assignment, they have fears:
- Will the film, musical or play be a success ?
- Will they get a new job ? This must be terrible, and totally new
for most of us, since we get paid every month and only search
a new job every few years.
The last one makes actors very vulnerable to someone selling
certainty or confidence.
Celebrites won't get subjected to the dirty tactics
(hard sell, long silly studies) that average clients get.
I assume that they get a "light" version of scientology and will
surely not be audited by people who had only a few days training.
Do they profit from scientology ? The question is if anyone gets
a profit from scientology. A good quote from Chris Schafmeister
was "Do you attribute it to scientology when you had a 'success'
in the restroom ?". The answer is that some people do attribute
their successes to scientology. When someone has no success with
scientology, then it is policy to attribute the failure that person,
to a staff member, but never to scientology itself.
Are they dupes ? A celebrity in show-business is not a celebrity
because of smartness, but because of good look or good performance.
Celebrities also live in their own "party forever" world. This does
surely not include reading TIME magazine or the Washington Post.
This doesn't mean that all people who join are dumb, it was just
an answer to the question.
8. Identification of not well-known sources
US sources:
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"Celebrity": A publication of the scientology "celebrity centre"
"Impact": The magazine of the International Association
of Scientologists (IAS)
WIS "What is Scientology ?" a doorstopper send around
to promote the cult
German sources:
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"Berliner Zeitung": Berlin daily newspaper, rather liberal
"STERN": Weekly news magazine (It's the magazine who screwed
up on Hitler's diaries <g>)
rather left-winged
"SPIEGEL": Weekly news magazine (wrote a story about the
NARCONON scam that was republished in the US,
also had recently an article by Robert Vaughn Young),
left-winged, hated by consevatives
"FOCUS": Weekly news magazine, conservative
"Ich klage an": Book by an anti Co$ activist.
(See Don Lindsay's FAQ for a review)
"Der Sektenkonzern": Book about Co$ by two journalists.
(See Don Lindsay's FAQ for my review)
"Die Woche": Weekly german newspaper
"Ursprung": A scientology publication
Australian sources:
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CLEO: Australian women's magazine
Who Weekly: Australian edition of "People"
(the name "People" was already taken)
9. Credits
Thanks to all who contributed; special thanks to the people who sent
me the Celebrity and the Impact magazines