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Rev. Dennis L Erlich

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Apr 7, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/7/97

Faithful Reader,

It would be a public service if one of you could web all of Bob's
past editorials about the scienokult from his Newkirk paper. It
is some of the funniest and most insightful satirical writing
I've ever read.

Thanks in advance,

Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * *
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Apr 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/9/97

On 7 Apr 1997 13:44:00 -0700.
inF...@primenet.com (Rev. Dennis L Erlich).
From: inFormer Ministry.
Wrote on the subject: Bob Lobsinger's writings:

Well, how much is it, and where can I find it? I still have plenty of
space on my server. Please tell me where I can find them, and I will
take a look at them.

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Rev. Dennis L Erlich

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Apr 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/9/97

>The.Galacti...@ThePentagon.com (Anti-Cult):

YHN:

>>It would be a public service if one of you could web all of Bob's
>>past editorials about the scienokult from his Newkirk paper. It
>>is some of the funniest and most insightful satirical writing
>>I've ever read.

AC:

>Well, how much is it, and where can I find it? I still have plenty of
>space on my server. Please tell me where I can find them, and I will
>take a look at them.

I thought his editorials had been posted and were perhaps
archived somewhere. If not, I'll just have to find, scan and
post them.

I'll get back to you.

Rev. Dennis L Erlich

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Apr 10, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/10/97

Here's some stuff of Bob's I found. Below is, I believe, the
first thing he wrote about the cult's Oklahoma operations. Over
the next several years he wrote a number of updating articles and
editorials. Let me know if you'd like to see them posted to ars.

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<H2><CENTER>Narconon-Chilocco Drug Treatment Plant May Be Part Of
Notorious Religious Cult</CENTER>
</H2>
By Robert W. Lobsinger 
Herald Journal Publisher 
April 27, 1989 
 
NEWKIRK, OK - A proposed drug treatment and rehabilitation center
which could be in operation on Indian land at the former Chilocco
Indian School north of Newkirk by June 15th may be part of a
notorious religious cult. Narconon was approved for a 75-bed
facility by the State Health Planning Commission in January of
this year as part of The Chilocco Development Authority. The
projected cost is $400,000 for renovation and the five Indian
tribes involved are projected to receive $16,000,000 in lease
payments over 25 years. 
According to published reports, Narconon is the drug
rehabilitation program for the Church of Scientology founded by
L. Ron Hubbard. Last Friday Sociology Professor Richard Ofshe of
the University of California at Berkley confirmed that Narconon
is an organization of the Church of Scientology. "I think
it's common knowledge out here", he said. In a 1981 Reader's
Digest article, the Church of Scientology was described as a
"frightening cult". 
Tribal members contacted about the Chilocco project were not
aware of a possible connection to the Church of Scientology. All
they've been told is that it is a "private
corporation." 
Pawnee office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs said they were not
aware of the connection, and were very "surprised"
because the "state" and the "governor's
office" were involved in getting Narconon to come to
Chilocco. 
Narconon's literature says nothing about any connection with the
Church of Scientology, but does say it adheres to the methods of
L. Ron Hubbard. Narconon material presented to Newkirk Mayor
Garry Bilger at ceremonies held at Chilocco on Saturday, April 8,
says only that "the Narconon program owes its success to the
'unique technology' of L. Ron Hubbard. Narconon uses the
Hubbard® Method of drug rehabilitation to handle the root
causes of why the person took drugs in the first place." 
The only connection between Scientology and Narconon in its own
material seems to be a reference to "RTC" that appears
in literature from Narconon. In fine print, it says that
"Hubbard is a trademark and service mark owned by
"RTC" and is used with its permission. In literature
received by the Newkirk Library from the Church of Scientology
advertising books by L. Ron Hubbard, a footnote announces that
Dianetics, Scientologist, and Scientology are trademarks and
service marks owned by Religious Technology Center (the same
RTC?) and are used with its permission. Narconon is a drug
treatment program founded by William Benitez about 1965 while he
was in the Arizona State Prison, according to "The Truth
About Drugs" by Gene Chill and John Duff. The book proudly
proclaims that Narconons programs are based on the technology of
L. Ron Hubbard, but makes no mention of Scientology. 
"The Truth About Drugs", a Narconon publication, says
that Narconon is a multi-phase program that includes drug free
withdrawal after a full medical exam; a Purification Program that
cleanses the body of remaining accumulations of drugs; training
and counseling to bridge the individual over to life as a drug
free, contributing member of society. Narconon was first
established by Benitez after other programs he tried had failed.
It took 9 months to get the program approved for use in the
Arizona State Penitentiary and was expanded to other prisons in
1969, then to the public in 1972. Narconon works in two fields,
Rehabilitation and Education. Educational efforts were begun in
1979 by former drug user John Duff, one of the authors of
"The Truth About Drugs." Duff is currently National
Director of Narconon's Drug Education program.. Narconon -
Chilocco has announced intentions of being in operation by June
15. It has received the approval of the State of Oklahoma to
begin with a 75 bed capacity, but Narconon staff member Edna
Fulton, quoted in the April 9th issue of the Ponca City News,
said she expects approval for reasonably rapid expansion. It
could eventually house up to 1,400 "patients" and
whatever "staff" would be necessary. 
The Los Angeles based Association for Better Living &
Education (ABLE), sent Rena Weinberg to Chilocco to present
Narconon and the Chilocco Development Authority with a
$200,000.00 check to be used in establishing the local Narconon
facility. 
According to the Ponca City News, Weinberg said ABLE operates
internationally and has been impressed with the success of the
Narconon recovery program, hence the donation. 
The address of ABLE is 3540 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 300, Los
Angeles, California. The address of Narconon International
Association is... 3540 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300, Los Angeles,
Ca. The address of Narconon Drug Education, U.S. is 3540 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 303, Los Angeles, CA. Same building, same floor,
same offices. 
Narconon's material says it is currently operating 26 treatment
facilities in 11 nations: Nine facilities in the United States,
five in California, two in Colorado, one in Massachusetts, and
one in Louisiana. According to the Golden, Colorado, Transcript,
the Narconon unit in Golden just opened in the fall of 1988. 
Layffayette Ronald Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska in 1911.
His father was a navy commander. According to Life Magazine,
Hubbard, while in the far east on tour with his father,
"studied with lama priests." 
Although he attended college, and often claimed a degree, he
never finished his schooling. During the 1930s, he traveled in
Central America and wrote Science Fiction, Westerns, and
Screenplays. 
According to Time Magazine, Hubbard made up his own history and
travels, claiming that he was a World War II hero and a nuclear
physicist. His book, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of
Mental Health" first appeared as an article in Astounding
Science Fiction magazine. Hubbard later claimed his book was
a science, and eventually, a religion. In order to have
freedom from interruptions so he could study and write more
books, his followers say he took to life on the high seas, living
and operating from a fleet of ships cruising in international
waters. His detractors say he was avoiding legal problems in
several countries. According to Time Magazine, Hubbard's son,
Ronald DeWolf, changed his name to disassociate himself from his
father, whom he calls, "one of the biggest con men of the
century." 
In 1949, Hubbard told a group of science fiction writers,
"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really
wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start
his own religion." Hubbard reportedly died as
mysteriously as he had lived. The Church of Scientology announced
in February 1986 that L. Ron Hubbard died "last week."
No actual date of death was ever given, and some wonder if the
body was really his. 
Science Fiction Encyclopedia says that Scientology is a dramatic
example of Science Fiction pulp being put into practice in the
real world. How L. Ron Hubbard came to believe his own si-fi
is a remarkable story. That he has managed to establish and
propagate it into a growing "religion" is a tribute to
his ability as a believable writer. 
Time magazine says Scientology originally surfaced as
"Dianetics", a pseudopsychological fad that flourished
in the early 1950s. Newsweek calls Dianetics a "far-out
book" that took Hubbard only 60 days to write but became a
best seller within months of publication in 1950. Hubbard has
been described as a "sometime explorer, engineer, and
science-fiction writer" in Newsweek, and the magazine notes
that at the Church of Scientology's First National Conference on
Public Action and Social Reform in Los Angeles in 1974,
"representatives of the California Legislature presented a
special commendation to Narconon, Scientology's program to fight
drug abuse." Over 1,500 Scientologists attended the
meeting. 
In 1952, Hubbard announced the birth of the Church of
Scientology, an "applied religious philosophy" which
retained most of the basic features of Dianetics. 
According to Time, Scientology has several levels of liberation
leading one to a state of "clear", in which all
"engrams" from this or past lives have been erased.
"Engrams", a biological term, was borrowed by Hubbard
to mean the mental quirks he felt caused all psychic problems.
 
Once "clear" a Scientologist takes on super-human
qualities and becomes an "Operating Thetan" with
extraordinary powers. Hubbard was an "Operating
Thetan." 
Hubbard called his Dianetics, "a milestone for Man
comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention
of the wheel and the arch." This blend of Eastern
philosophy, psychoanalytic technique and futuristic theory
"concocted" by Hubbard offered everyone self help
answers to an array of psychic and bodily ills. One of the
reasons Hubbard incorporated his theories into a religion was
partly to avoid attacks from medical and psychiatric critics.
World Headquarters is in Los Angeles. Hubbard's Dianetics became
Scientology's scripture. Through Dianetics, Hubbard claimed he
could raise IQs, cure bad eyesight, the common cold, and
radiation burns, among other things. 
The book, "All God's Children" by Carroll Stoner and Jo
Anne Parke says that Scientology is attractive to "those who
are, or think they are, in trouble." Stoner and Parke say
that Scientology is different from most religious cults because
members rarely live in communal systems and most live and work in
the outside world. 
To the average person, Science Fiction Encyclopedia says,
Dianetics offered several attractions: It took only hours of
training in order to be able to practice. No formal education was
necessary. It offered a model of the mind that was at first
simple and coherent, and it offered diagnosis of why so many feel
they are unappreciated failures. Further and most important, it
offered a cure. 
From science fiction to science, then to religion, Hubbard's
Dianetics drew big followings. The group expanded overseas and
established centers in Australia and South Africa as early as
1953. Still, it was seen by the skeptical as a crafty tax dodge,
even though it does have some of the trappings of a genuine
religion. 
Hubbard's new religion combined parts of Hindu, Veda and Daharma,
Taoism, Old Testament wisdom, Buddhist principles, Early Greek
thinking and other tidbits. 
But primarily, the religious status offered the advantages of tax
exemption and less government scrutiny than one receives in the
fields of medicine or science. Religious regulation is looser
than scientific or medical regulation. Time says the church
concerns itself little with God, and mostly with the here and
now. One recruit who quit called it "A Church with a
cashier's booth." 
In order to reach the state of "clear", a recruit must
travel down a path of successive courses with
"auditors" processing him through each level with an
E-meter. 
An E-meter, or "electroencephaloneuromentimograph", is
essentially a crude lie detector, with which the
"auditor" questions the recruit about intimate details
of his life. When the needle jumps, an "engram" or sin
has been uncovered, and the "auditor" helps the recruit
confront and erase the "engram." E-meters were
developed by Hubbard to speed up the Dianetics process of
clearing engrams. Auditing is similar to confession in other
religions. The E-meter and its use appear to be the only
"unique technology" every developed by Hubbard. An
E-meter is a galvanometer attached to two cans. V-8 juice cans
seem popular for the purpose, according to some reports. 
The first level course releases a person from his problems,
according to Life. The second covers "Overts" (harmful
or contrasurvival acts) and Witholds. Next comes a Freedom
Release, then an Ability Release and Power Processing. Once these
first five levels have been attained, further processing must be
done at special Scientology complexes, such as Saint Hill,
Sussex, England, which are only for advanced enlightenment. These
higher levels will take a person to "clear." 
Scientologists, Newsweek says, believe that man is a spiritual
creature descended from a race of omnipotent "Thetans"
who decided to experiment with life on earth, and gave up some of
their powers to do so. (There are at least two different versions
of this story in print.) But anyone can retrieve those lost
powers by overcoming the "engrams" that have cluttered
their personality during the eons of their existence. Such an
"engram"-free person is said to be "clear." A
"clear", according to Science Fiction Encyclopedia, is
a person who has erased the aberrations from his
"thetan" and in return has powers of telepathy,
radically increased intelligence, the ability to move outside his
body, a photographic memory, and the ability to control processes
such as growing new teeth. 
Some reports say it takes about 60 hours of auditing and a course
in Dianetic training in order to reach "clear." The
first "clear" was a South African medical student named
John McMaster, who made the trip in 1966. 
Dianetics was a secular movement until Hubbard discovered the
existence of the "Thetan". Thetans are reincarnated
over trillions of years. Hubbard has been quoted as saying that
he felt as good as anyone who was several trillion years old
could expect to feel. 
Over the years, Scientology has taken on trappings of more
conventional religions, including ministers who perform legal
marriages, baptisms, funeral services, liturgies, clerical
collars, and a vague sort of theology that rarely mentions
anything about eternal salvation or God. "All God's
Children" states that in 1969 the US Court of Claims defined
the beliefs of the Church of Scientology as belief in a
"spirit" or "Thetan" which is said to reside
within the physical body of every human being. They believe that
the spirit is immortal and that it receives a new body upon the
death of the body in which it resides." Life magazine
reports that Hubbard's teachings include belief in two minds, the
Analytic and the Reactive. One, the Analytic, is a perfect
computer while the other is a mass of "engrams" that
provides incorrect data to the Analytic computer. The Reactive
mind works like an adding machine with old totals still in its
works. Unless it is "cleared", it continues to feed the
wrong answers to the Analytic mind even though a new problem has
been punched in. The idea is to clear the Reactive mind of false
data so the Analytic mind can work properly. 
Another interesting theory espoused by Scientology is that many
illnesses are caused by "engrams", including
dermatitis, arthritis, allergies, bursitis, ulcers, migraine
headaches and even cancer. So getting rid of "engrams"
is pretty important. 
According to The Scientology Catechism, it costs between $2,500
and $5,000 to go "clear". Paying for courses is a
matter of personal integrity, the Catechism states, but charity
cases are considered, and should see the chaplain. 
It also says training scholarships are available for some groups,
including workers in approved rehabilitation programs. 
Life magazine reported that in order to become an Operating
Thetan, Class VIII - the highest classification at the time, it
would cost as much as $15,000. 
Introductory lessons cost $15, childrens courses $10, or less. A
sample audit might cost $5 and last two hours. Some reports say
"auditing" through Grade IV costs $650. Other reports
show a twelve and a half hour "Life Repair" session
with E-meter at $625. 
But printed case histories abound telling of individuals who have
paid well over $100,000.00 before becoming disillusioned with the
program. Costs vary from independent church to church.
Churches are authorized franchises, with each setting it's own
fees, and forwarding 10 percent to the Mother Church, in Saint
Hill, Sussex, England. 
Critics charge that the church reduces followers to the status of
working slaves with jobs in the church to pay the price of
tuition for further courses, a charge the church Catechism
denies. 
In 1968, Life magazine estimated membership at between 2 and 3
million people. Most recruits, it said, were young, intelligent,
and idealistic. Newsweek in 1974 said the number of members
claimed by the church was 3.2 million around the world. 
Time said that church recruits tended to be young, drifting,
fairly well educated and in search of psychological answers more
than spiritual ones. One famous member of the church was former
pro-quarterback John Brodie, who said Scientology healed his
throwing arm, Time reports. The Church of Scientology has a
record of being litigious. For instance, in August of 1978,
the Los Angeles Times was slapped with a million dollar suit
after it ran a series about the Church of Scientology. According
to a Newsweek story, the Scientologists claimed that the paper
conspired with the FBI and Justice Department to violate the
church's civil rights by poisoning the atmosphere before a trial
of church officials on charges of scheming to steal government
documents. 
In 1977, Newsweek reported in the same issue, a San Diego Union
reporter took a Scientology course, identifying herself only at
its end. Two days before publication of her story about the
session, the paper was sued for $10,000 for invasion of privacy.
Scientologists offered to drop the suit if the Union dropped the
story. When the article ran anyway, the suit escalated to
$900,000 and charges of fraud and deceit were added.
Scientologists say the press has unfairly characterized them as a
bizarre fringe group, Newsweek says. 
After the Church of Scientology filed a million dollar libel suit
against the Clearwater (Fla.) Sun in 1976, the paper countersued
for abuse of legal process and subpoenaed the church's financial
records and officials. The Scientologists decided to drop their
case, according to the Newsweek report. One media lawyer
said, "A full-scale lawsuit would open them up to full
disclosure, and most cults can hardly afford full disclosure in
the courtroom." The Newsweek article referred to was
authored by Betsy Carter with Michael Reese in San Francisco, and
Martin Kasindorf in Los Angeles as well as from bureau
reports. 
In 1976, Time reported that England banned foreign Scientologists
from entering the country because of the increasing number of
complaints about the group. Questionable practices reported
in various countries included the recording of
"auditing" sessions that made members susceptible to
blackmail; "Disconnect" orders requiring devout members
to sever ties with antagonistic family or friends (Supressive
Persons); "Fair Game" rules which said a defector from
the group could be "deprived of property or injured by any
means... sued, lied to, or destroyed." The same article
tells the story of the deceptive purchase of the Fort Harrison
Hotel in downtown Clearwater, Florida. A group calling itself the
Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. purchased the
building for cash and said it was to be used as headquarters for
the "United Churches of Florida," a new ecumenical
group. The sale won approval of local clergymen. But
strangers moved in, and an investigation soon traced the money
paid for the building to the Church of Scientology. 
As mentioned above, Clearwater Sun was sued over the
investigation. So was the St. Petersburg Times and Radio Station
WDCI. In addition, Clearwater Mayor Cazares was also sued... all
unsuccessfully, but at great defense expense, which ultimately
the church was ordered to pay. "We are not a
turn-the-other cheek religion" a church spokesman identified
as Arthur Maren is quoted as saying at that time. Clearwater
is now home of the Flag Land Base of the Church and offers the
same advanced training previously available only in Saint Hill,
Sussex, England, or on the ocean fleet. 
Despite the legal hassles upon moving to town, the Scientologists
seem to have had few other problems with their Clearwater
neighbors once the truth about who they were and where they came
from was made known. Scientology has a long history of
problems with the rest of the orthodox world. The most recent
came after a nine month Spanish probe into the group's Narconon
unit in that country. 
According to a December 1988 edition of the Orange County
(California) Register, the president of the Los Angeles based
Church of Scientology and 10 other members were arrested in an
investigation of alleged fraud and tax evasion charges. 
Judge Jose Maria Vazquez Honrubia of Madrid, Spain, said
Narconon, a church-linked drug-rehabilitation program, swindled
its clients and lured them into Scientology. Church President
Heber Jentzsch was released on $1.1 million bail, and 10
foreigners were expelled from the country. 
Earlier, the Register noted that Jentzsch and 70 other people
were detained as part of an investigation into charges of fraud,
criminal association and tax evasion. Judge Vazquez Honrubia said
authorities had frozen $1.76 million in bank accounts belonging
to officials of the US based Church of Scientology and the
Church's Drug-Rehabilitation program, Narconon. Spain has
twice refused to grant the organization legal status as a
religious entity in that country. 
The Spanish probe.. Spanish Inquisition, according to church
officials... was prompted by complaints from Spaniards who said
they had been swindled out of money through drug-rehabilitation
programs and other activities related to the Church of
Scientology. 
In 1983, Hubbard's wife was sentenced to four years in prison for
conspiring with other Scientologists to bug and burglarize
government agencies including the IRS, Time magazine
reported. 
A Portland, Ore., jury awarded $2 million to Julie C. Titchbourne
on August 15, 1979, according to the World Book 1980 Yearbook.
She was a former member of the Church of Scientology, and accused
the cult of defrauding her on its promise to give her a better
life. 
Five Scientologists were sentenced to prison terms of four or
five years in December, 1979 after they were convicted of
conspiring to obstruct justice and to obtain government documents
pertaining to the cult. During a telephone conversation last
Friday, while researching this story, the California Attorney
General's office in Sacramento volunteered that they were very
familiar with the operations of Narconon and Scientology, and had
in fact convicted and jailed a "spy" whom they had
discovered working in their offices. 
Hubbard was sentenced in his absence to 4 years imprisonment in
Paris in 1978 after being found guilty of obtaining money under
false pretences through Scientology, according to the Science
Fiction Encyclopedia. The same book also reports that Hubbard
was deported from the United Kingdom as an undesirable alien in
1968, after which he took to his fleet of ships to direct his
worldwide operations. Life and Newsweek also reported the
incident. Life said the British government felt Scientology to be
"Socially harmful," and barred foreign Scientologists
from entering the country to participate in the World Scientology
Congress scheduled at the Saint Hill, Sussex, England church
complex. Newsweek said the British government's ban on foreign
Scientologists was because of the groups "authoritarian
principles... a potential menace to the personality and well
being of those so deluded as to become its followers," and
because of the cult's "technology of the human spirit"
as well as its rejection of psychiatry and other scientifically
endorsed approaches to mental health problems. But even
before that, the cult had its problems. A Board of Inquiry
(released as the Anderson Report of 1965) in the State of
Victoria, Australia in 1963 found that "Scientology is evil;
its techniques are evil; its practice a serious threat to the
community, medically, morally, and socially; and its adherents
sadly deluded and often mentally ill." The board reached its
conclusions after examining 151 witnesses. Scientology was banned
in Victoria. 
The Australian government branded Hubbard a "fraud" in
1965, and called Scientology "evil, fantastic and
impossible, its principles perverted and ill-founded, its
techniques debased and harmful," according to Time. 
Life magazine, in 1968 quotes the Victorian government as calling
Scientology "the world's largest organization of unqualified
persons engaged in the practice of dangerous techniques which
masquerade as mental therapy." In 1971, Scientologists
won a fight with the Food and Drug Administration over their
E-meters. The agency had confiscated them from the group's
Washington D.C. headquarters in a raid in 1963. The Feds claimed
that Scientology falsely promised the cure of "neuroses,
psychoses, schizophrenia and all psychosomatic
illnesses." 
After years of legal wrangling, Scientologists got their E-meters
back, but only after agreeing to put disclaimers of any
therapeutic power on the machines. 
The IRS in 1959 got courts to deny Scientology a tax exemption.
But after the case was over, the cult won limited recognition as
a religion according to a Newsweek report in 1974. 
From the beginning, Hubbard's methods and technology have drawn
sharp professional criticism. Newsweek noted that the medical and
psychiatric community responded "with alarm" to
Hubbards book. Professional psychologists condemned Dianetics as
amateurish and potentially dangerous meddling with serious mental
problems, according to Time. A journalist who took the courses
said in Life magazine that Scientology "is scary" and
uses potentially disastrous techniques. He reports that Dr.
William Menninger denounced Dianetic Auditing as potentially
dangerous.

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In article <334e0669...@204.245.3.50>,

inF...@primenet.com (Rev. Dennis L Erlich) wrote:
}Here's some stuff of Bob's I found. Below is, I believe, the
}first thing he wrote about the cult's Oklahoma operations. Over
}the next several years he wrote a number of updating articles and
}editorials. Let me know if you'd like to see them posted to ars.
}
}---------------------
}
}<H2><CENTER>Narconon-Chilocco Drug Treatment Plant May Be Part Of
}Notorious Religious Cult</CENTER>
}</H2>
}By Robert W. Lobsinger 
}Herald Journal Publisher 
}April 27, 1989 
}

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"It's just complete, *utter lies*. Firstly, number one, there is no
basement...there's no basement in the Ft. Harrison." -Leisa Goodman,
Scientology PR, on "Inside Scientology", Channel 28 News, Tampa Bay.

"Listen. If your accusation is that someone did something to kill
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Ron Newman

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Apr 10, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/10/97

In article <334e0669...@204.245.3.50>, inF...@primenet.com says...

>Here's some stuff of Bob's I found. Below is, I believe, the
>first thing he wrote about the cult's Oklahoma operations. Over
>the next several years he wrote a number of updating articles and
>editorials. Let me know if you'd like to see them posted to ars.
>
>---------------------
>
><H2><CENTER>Narconon-Chilocco Drug Treatment Plant May Be Part Of
>Notorious Religious Cult</CENTER>
></H2>
>By Robert W. Lobsinger 
>Herald Journal Publisher

Dennis, I'd love to see them posted, but only as plain text, not as HTML.

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Thank you.

Rev. Dennis L Erlich

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Apr 11, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/11/97

>Ron Newman <rne...@cybercom.net>:

>Dennis, I'd love to see them posted, but only as plain text, not as HTML.

Got it, Sheriff.

>Please do NOT post HTML to this or any other Usenet newsgroup.

If you go light on me this time, I'll never do it again. I swear.

>Thank you.

No, thank ~you~.

----------

I found a compilation Bob made of his writings and some stories from
other papers that were published concurrently in his newspaper. He was the
owner and publisher of the Newkirk Herald Journal. For years, his paper
opposed the Nar-con drug-to-cult conversion clinic in Chilocco, Oklahoma.
The writings chronicle the little town's battle against cult takeover. Bob
had gotten and given permission for these writings to be published.

The writings are in the form of four large messages. Easiest for me
would be just to post them to the group and let folks do whatever they want
with them. Howzat seem to you?

I enjoyed reading Bob's editorials (Harold's Journal) as much as I ever
enjoyed any satirist's writings. In case you hadn't noticed, I am a fan of
Mr. Lobsinger.

Martin Hunt

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Apr 12, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/12/97

In article <335c68bd...@204.245.3.50>,

inF...@primenet.com (Rev. Dennis L Erlich) wrote:

}>Ron Newman <rne...@cybercom.net>:
}
}>Dennis, I'd love to see them posted, but only as plain text, not as HTML.
}
} Got it, Sheriff.
}
}>Please do NOT post HTML to this or any other Usenet newsgroup.
}
} If you go light on me this time, I'll never do it again. I swear.
}
}>Thank you.
}
} No, thank ~you~.

Again, if anyone has some documents they want to strip the html tags
from fast, get htmstrip.exe. Alternatively, email the documents to me
and I'd be happy to do it for ya.

Doing it by hand for some large documents with many tags could
take some time. Htmlstrip.exe does it in a second, flawlessly.

Dominion

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Apr 12, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/12/97

mar...@islandnet.com (Martin Hunt) wrote:

>Again, if anyone has some documents they want to strip the html tags
>from fast, get htmstrip.exe. Alternatively, email the documents to me
>and I'd be happy to do it for ya.

>Doing it by hand for some large documents with many tags could
>take some time. Htmlstrip.exe does it in a second, flawlessly.

I would also point out that if you use netscape you can save any HTML
document as plain text. Just go to the "File" menu, pick "Save As"
You will get a save window requesting the directory you want to save
the document in. Look at the bottom of the window where is shows the
"Save as type -HTML Document. By clicking on the arrow next to it,
you will get a drop down menu with the choices "HTML DOCUMENT (*.htm)"
"Plain Text (*.txt)" and "All Files (*.*). Click on Plain Text. Above
this will be the "File Name" window. Be sure to change the name from
*.htm to *.txt and volia, you have saved an HTML document to a TXT
document.

Internet Explorer can do the same thing. I have no idea about Lynx
tho. I have not used it in a long long time. ;)

Martin Hunt

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Apr 12, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/12/97

In article <5io2t2$c...@news1.iamerica.net>,

co...@brokersys.com (Dominion) wrote:
}
}I would also point out that if you use netscape you can save any HTML
}document as plain text. Just go to the "File" menu, pick "Save As"
}You will get a save window requesting the directory you want to save
}the document in. Look at the bottom of the window where is shows the
}"Save as type -HTML Document. By clicking on the arrow next to it,
}you will get a drop down menu with the choices "HTML DOCUMENT (*.htm)"
}"Plain Text (*.txt)" and "All Files (*.*). Click on Plain Text. Above
}this will be the "File Name" window. Be sure to change the name from
}*.htm to *.txt and volia, you have saved an HTML document to a TXT
}document.
}
}Internet Explorer can do the same thing. I have no idea about Lynx
}tho. I have not used it in a long long time. ;)

Hey, this works great! The only thing htmstrip.exe does better is
automagically set the line lengths, but that's easily done.

Thanks for the tip, Dominion. Not being much of a Windoze user, I
don't know all these little tricks. Now I'll have to use what you've
just taught me to post the who's who update I'm still working on.
Keeping FAQs in just one form and running a conversion is much easier
than maintaining both an html version and a plaintext version for
posting.

ttyl,
martin.

Frank Copeland

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Apr 14, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/14/97

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: It's very easy in Lynx. Just say
:
: lynx -dump http://www.foo.com/whatever/it/is > filename

Or even easier, when you are browsing the page just hit 'P' and pick 'Save
to file' from the menu.

- --
Home Page: <URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/>
Not the Scientology Home Page: <URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/scn/>

Keep it in Usenet. E-mail replies and 'courtesy' copies are not welcome.
If you're selling, I ain't buying.

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Rev. Dennis L Erlich

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Apr 14, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/14/97

The Narconon Story
in
Oklahoma

As Recorded In The Pages of the
Newkirk Herald Journal
Newkirk, Oklahoma 74647
With Articles Reprinted From Some Other Publications Included

Narconon-Chilocco Drug Treatment Plant May Be Part Of Notorious Religious
Cult

By Robert W. Lobsinger
Herald Journal Publisher
April 27, 1989

NEWKIRK, OK - A proposed drug treatment and rehabilitation center which
could be in operation on Indian land at the former Chilocco Indian School
north of Newkirk by June 15th may be part of a notorious religious cult.

Narconon was approved for a 75-bed facility by the State Health Planning
Commission in January of this year as part of The Chilocco Development
Authority. The projected cost is $400,000 for renovation and the five
Indian tribes involved are projected to receive $16,000,000 in lease
payments over 25 years.

According to published reports, Narconon is the drug rehabilitation program

for the Church of Scientology founded by L. Ron Hubbard. Last Friday
Sociology Professor Richard Ofshe of the University of California at
Berkley confirmed that Narconon is an organization of the Church of

Scientology. "I think it's common knowledge out here", he said. In a 1981

Reader's Digest article, the Church of Scientology was described as a

"frightening cult".

Tribal members contacted about the Chilocco project were not aware of a
possible connection to the Church of Scientology. All they've been told is

that it is a "private corporation."

Pawnee office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs said they were not aware of

the connection, and were very "surprised" because the "state" and the
"governor's office" were involved in getting Narconon to come to Chilocco.

Narconon's literature says nothing about any connection with the Church of
Scientology, but does say it adheres to the methods of L. Ron Hubbard.

Narconon material presented to Newkirk Mayor Garry Bilger at ceremonies
held at Chilocco on Saturday, April 8, says only that "the Narconon program

owes its success to the 'unique technology' of L. Ron Hubbard. Narconon

uses the HubbardŽ Method of drug rehabilitation to handle the root causes

of why the person took drugs in the first place."

The only connection between Scientology and Narconon in its own material
seems to be a reference to "RTC" that appears in literature from Narconon.

In fine print, it says that "Hubbard is a trademark and service mark owned
by "RTC" and is used with its permission. In literature received by the

Newkirk Library from the Church of Scientology advertising books by L. Ron
Hubbard, a footnote announces that Dianetics, Scientologist, and
Scientology are trademarks and service marks owned by Religious Technology
Center (the same RTC?) and are used with its permission.

Narconon is a drug treatment program founded by William Benitez about 1965
while he was in the Arizona State Prison, according to "The Truth About
Drugs" by Gene Chill and John Duff. The book proudly proclaims that

Narconons programs are based on the technology of L. Ron Hubbard, but makes
no mention of Scientology.

"The Truth About Drugs", a Narconon publication, says that Narconon is a

multi-phase program that includes drug free withdrawal after a full medical
exam; a Purification Program that cleanses the body of remaining
accumulations of drugs; training and counseling to bridge the individual
over to life as a drug free, contributing member of society.

Narconon was first established by Benitez after other programs he tried had

failed. It took 9 months to get the program approved for use in the Arizona
State Penitentiary and was expanded to other prisons in 1969, then to the
public in 1972. Narconon works in two fields, Rehabilitation and Education.
Educational efforts were begun in 1979 by former drug user John Duff, one

of the authors of "The Truth About Drugs." Duff is currently National

Director of Narconon's Drug Education program.

Narconon - Chilocco has announced intentions of being in operation by June

15. It has received the approval of the State of Oklahoma to begin with a
75 bed capacity, but Narconon staff member Edna Fulton, quoted in the April
9th issue of the Ponca City News, said she expects approval for reasonably

rapid expansion. It could eventually house up to 1,400 "patients" and
whatever "staff" would be necessary.

The Los Angeles based Association for Better Living & Education (ABLE),

sent Rena Weinberg to Chilocco to present Narconon and the Chilocco
Development Authority with a $200,000.00 check to be used in establishing
the local Narconon facility.

According to the Ponca City News, Weinberg said ABLE operates

internationally and has been impressed with the success of the Narconon
recovery program, hence the donation.

The address of ABLE is 3540 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 300, Los Angeles,

California. The address of Narconon International Association is... 3540
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300, Los Angeles, Ca. The address of Narconon Drug
Education, U.S. is 3540 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 303, Los Angeles, CA. Same
building, same floor, same offices.

Narconon's material says it is currently operating 26 treatment facilities

in 11 nations: Nine facilities in the United States, five in California,
two in Colorado, one in Massachusetts, and one in Louisiana. According to
the Golden, Colorado, Transcript, the Narconon unit in Golden just opened
in the fall of 1988.

Layffayette Ronald Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska in 1911. His father
was a navy commander. According to Life Magazine, Hubbard, while in the far

east on tour with his father, "studied with lama priests."

Although he attended college, and often claimed a degree, he never finished
his schooling. During the 1930s, he traveled in Central America and wrote
Science Fiction, Westerns, and Screenplays.

According to Time Magazine, Hubbard made up his own history and travels,

claiming that he was a World War II hero and a nuclear physicist.

His book, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" first appeared

as an article in Astounding Science Fiction magazine.

Hubbard later claimed his book was a science, and eventually, a religion.

In order to have freedom from interruptions so he could study and write
more books, his followers say he took to life on the high seas, living and
operating from a fleet of ships cruising in international waters. His
detractors say he was avoiding legal problems in several countries.

According to Time Magazine, Hubbard's son, Ronald DeWolf, changed his name
to disassociate himself from his father, whom he calls, "one of the biggest

con men of the century."

In 1949, Hubbard told a group of science fiction writers, "Writing for a

penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million
dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion."

Hubbard reportedly died as mysteriously as he had lived. The Church of
Scientology announced in February 1986 that L. Ron Hubbard died "last
week." No actual date of death was ever given, and some wonder if the body
was really his.

Science Fiction Encyclopedia says that Scientology is a dramatic example of

Science Fiction pulp being put into practice in the real world.

How L. Ron Hubbard came to believe his own si-fi is a remarkable story.
That he has managed to establish and propagate it into a growing "religion"

is a tribute to his ability as a believable writer.

Time magazine says Scientology originally surfaced as "Dianetics", a

pseudopsychological fad that flourished in the early 1950s. Newsweek calls

Dianetics a "far-out book" that took Hubbard only 60 days to write but

became a best seller within months of publication in 1950.

Hubbard has been described as a "sometime explorer, engineer, and
science-fiction writer" in Newsweek, and the magazine notes that at the

Church of Scientology's First National Conference on Public Action and

Social Reform in Los Angeles in 1974, "representatives of the California

Legislature presented a special commendation to Narconon, Scientology's

program to fight drug abuse." Over 1,500 Scientologists attended the
meeting.

In 1952, Hubbard announced the birth of the Church of Scientology, an
"applied religious philosophy" which retained most of the basic features of
Dianetics.

According to Time, Scientology has several levels of liberation leading one
to a state of "clear", in which all "engrams" from this or past lives have
been erased. "Engrams", a biological term, was borrowed by Hubbard to mean

the mental quirks he felt caused all psychic problems.

Once "clear" a Scientologist takes on super-human qualities and becomes an
"Operating Thetan" with extraordinary powers. Hubbard was an "Operating
Thetan."

Hubbard called his Dianetics, "a milestone for Man comparable to his

discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch."

This blend of Eastern philosophy, psychoanalytic technique and futuristic

theory "concocted" by Hubbard offered everyone self help answers to an

array of psychic and bodily ills. One of the reasons Hubbard incorporated
his theories into a religion was partly to avoid attacks from medical and
psychiatric critics. World Headquarters is in Los Angeles. Hubbard's

Dianetics became Scientology's scripture. Through Dianetics, Hubbard
claimed he could raise IQs, cure bad eyesight, the common cold, and
radiation burns, among other things.

The book, "All God's Children" by Carroll Stoner and Jo Anne Parke says
that Scientology is attractive to "those who are, or think they are, in
trouble." Stoner and Parke say that Scientology is different from most

religious cults because members rarely live in communal systems and most
live and work in the outside world.

To the average person, Science Fiction Encyclopedia says, Dianetics offered

several attractions: It took only hours of training in order to be able to
practice. No formal education was necessary. It offered a model of the mind
that was at first simple and coherent, and it offered diagnosis of why so
many feel they are unappreciated failures. Further and most important, it
offered a cure.

From science fiction to science, then to religion, Hubbard's Dianetics drew

big followings. The group expanded overseas and established centers in
Australia and South Africa as early as 1953. Still, it was seen by the
skeptical as a crafty tax dodge, even though it does have some of the
trappings of a genuine religion.

Hubbard's new religion combined parts of Hindu, Veda and Daharma, Taoism,

Old Testament wisdom, Buddhist principles, Early Greek thinking and other
tidbits.

But primarily, the religious status offered the advantages of tax exemption

and less government scrutiny than one receives in the fields of medicine or
science. Religious regulation is looser than scientific or medical
regulation.

Time says the church concerns itself little with God, and mostly with the
here and now. One recruit who quit called it "A Church with a cashier's
booth."

In order to reach the state of "clear", a recruit must travel down a path
of successive courses with "auditors" processing him through each level
with an E-meter.

An E-meter, or "electroencephaloneuromentimograph", is essentially a crude
lie detector, with which the "auditor" questions the recruit about intimate
details of his life. When the needle jumps, an "engram" or sin has been
uncovered, and the "auditor" helps the recruit confront and erase the
"engram." E-meters were developed by Hubbard to speed up the Dianetics

process of clearing engrams. Auditing is similar to confession in other

religions. The E-meter and its use appear to be the only "unique
technology" every developed by Hubbard. An E-meter is a galvanometer

attached to two cans. V-8 juice cans seem popular for the purpose,
according to some reports.

The first level course releases a person from his problems, according to
Life. The second covers "Overts" (harmful or contrasurvival acts) and

Witholds. Next comes a Freedom Release, then an Ability Release and Power
Processing. Once these first five levels have been attained, further
processing must be done at special Scientology complexes, such as Saint
Hill, Sussex, England, which are only for advanced enlightenment. These

higher levels will take a person to "clear."

Scientologists, Newsweek says, believe that man is a spiritual creature

descended from a race of omnipotent "Thetans" who decided to experiment

with life on earth, and gave up some of their powers to do so. (There are
at least two different versions of this story in print.)

But anyone can retrieve those lost powers by overcoming the "engrams" that

have cluttered their personality during the eons of their existence.

Such an "engram"-free person is said to be "clear." A "clear", according to

Science Fiction Encyclopedia, is a person who has erased the aberrations

from his "thetan" and in return has powers of telepathy, radically

increased intelligence, the ability to move outside his body, a
photographic memory, and the ability to control processes such as growing
new teeth.

Some reports say it takes about 60 hours of auditing and a course in
Dianetic training in order to reach "clear." The first "clear" was a South

African medical student named John McMaster, who made the trip in 1966.

Dianetics was a secular movement until Hubbard discovered the existence of
the "Thetan". Thetans are reincarnated over trillions of years. Hubbard has

been quoted as saying that he felt as good as anyone who was several
trillion years old could expect to feel.

Over the years, Scientology has taken on trappings of more conventional

religions, including ministers who perform legal marriages, baptisms,
funeral services, liturgies, clerical collars, and a vague sort of theology
that rarely mentions anything about eternal salvation or God.

"All God's Children" states that in 1969 the US Court of Claims defined the
beliefs of the Church of Scientology as belief in a "spirit" or "Thetan"

which is said to reside within the physical body of every human being. They
believe that the spirit is immortal and that it receives a new body upon
the death of the body in which it resides."

Life magazine reports that Hubbard's teachings include belief in two minds,

the Analytic and the Reactive. One, the Analytic, is a perfect computer

while the other is a mass of "engrams" that provides incorrect data to the

Analytic computer. The Reactive mind works like an adding machine with old

totals still in its works. Unless it is "cleared", it continues to feed the

wrong answers to the Analytic mind even though a new problem has been
punched in. The idea is to clear the Reactive mind of false data so the
Analytic mind can work properly.

Another interesting theory espoused by Scientology is that many illnesses
are caused by "engrams", including dermatitis, arthritis, allergies,

bursitis, ulcers, migraine headaches and even cancer. So getting rid of

"engrams" is pretty important.

According to The Scientology Catechism, it costs between $2,500 and $5,000

to go "clear". Paying for courses is a matter of personal integrity, the

Catechism states, but charity cases are considered, and should see the
chaplain.

It also says training scholarships are available for some groups, including

workers in approved rehabilitation programs.

Life magazine reported that in order to become an Operating Thetan, Class

VIII - the highest classification at the time, it would cost as much as
$15,000.

Introductory lessons cost $15, childrens courses $10, or less. A sample
audit might cost $5 and last two hours. Some reports say "auditing" through
Grade IV costs $650. Other reports show a twelve and a half hour "Life
Repair" session with E-meter at $625.

But printed case histories abound telling of individuals who have paid well
over $100,000.00 before becoming disillusioned with the program.

Costs vary from independent church to church. Churches are authorized
franchises, with each setting it's own fees, and forwarding 10 percent to
the Mother Church, in Saint Hill, Sussex, England.

Critics charge that the church reduces followers to the status of working

slaves with jobs in the church to pay the price of tuition for further
courses, a charge the church Catechism denies.

In 1968, Life magazine estimated membership at between 2 and 3 million

people. Most recruits, it said, were young, intelligent, and idealistic.
Newsweek in 1974 said the number of members claimed by the church was 3.2
million around the world.

Time said that church recruits tended to be young, drifting, fairly well

educated and in search of psychological answers more than spiritual ones.
One famous member of the church was former pro-quarterback John Brodie, who
said Scientology healed his throwing arm, Time reports.

The Church of Scientology has a record of being litigious.

For instance, in August of 1978, the Los Angeles Times was slapped with a

million dollar suit after it ran a series about the Church of Scientology.
According to a Newsweek story, the Scientologists claimed that the paper
conspired with the FBI and Justice Department to violate the church's civil
rights by poisoning the atmosphere before a trial of church officials on
charges of scheming to steal government documents.

In 1977, Newsweek reported in the same issue, a San Diego Union reporter

took a Scientology course, identifying herself only at its end. Two days
before publication of her story about the session, the paper was sued for
$10,000 for invasion of privacy. Scientologists offered to drop the suit if
the Union dropped the story. When the article ran anyway, the suit
escalated to $900,000 and charges of fraud and deceit were added.

Scientologists say the press has unfairly characterized them as a bizarre
fringe group, Newsweek says.

After the Church of Scientology filed a million dollar libel suit against

the Clearwater (Fla.) Sun in 1976, the paper countersued for abuse of legal
process and subpoenaed the church's financial records and officials. The
Scientologists decided to drop their case, according to the Newsweek
report.

One media lawyer said, "A full-scale lawsuit would open them up to full

disclosure, and most cults can hardly afford full disclosure in the

courtroom." The Newsweek article referred to was authored by Betsy Carter

with Michael Reese in San Francisco, and Martin Kasindorf in Los Angeles as
well as from bureau reports.

In 1976, Time reported that England banned foreign Scientologists from

entering the country because of the increasing number of complaints about
the group.

Questionable practices reported in various countries included the recording
of "auditing" sessions that made members susceptible to blackmail;
"Disconnect" orders requiring devout members to sever ties with
antagonistic family or friends (Supressive Persons); "Fair Game" rules
which said a defector from the group could be "deprived of property or

injured by any means... sued, lied to, or destroyed."

The same article tells the story of the deceptive purchase of the Fort

Harrison Hotel in downtown Clearwater, Florida. A group calling itself the
Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. purchased the building for cash

and said it was to be used as headquarters for the "United Churches of
Florida," a new ecumenical group. The sale won approval of local clergymen.

But strangers moved in, and an investigation soon traced the money paid for
the building to the Church of Scientology.

As mentioned above, Clearwater Sun was sued over the investigation. So was

the St. Petersburg Times and Radio Station WDCI. In addition, Clearwater
Mayor Cazares was also sued... all unsuccessfully, but at great defense
expense, which ultimately the church was ordered to pay.

"We are not a turn-the-other cheek religion" a church spokesman identified

as Arthur Maren is quoted as saying at that time.

Clearwater is now home of the Flag Land Base of the Church and offers the

same advanced training previously available only in Saint Hill, Sussex,
England, or on the ocean fleet.

Despite the legal hassles upon moving to town, the Scientologists seem to

have had few other problems with their Clearwater neighbors once the truth
about who they were and where they came from was made known.

Scientology has a long history of problems with the rest of the orthodox
world. The most recent came after a nine month Spanish probe into the
group's Narconon unit in that country.

According to a December 1988 edition of the Orange County (California)

Register, the president of the Los Angeles based Church of Scientology and
10 other members were arrested in an investigation of alleged fraud and tax
evasion charges.

Judge Jose Maria Vazquez Honrubia of Madrid, Spain, said Narconon, a

church-linked drug-rehabilitation program, swindled its clients and lured
them into Scientology.

Church President Heber Jentzsch was released on $1.1 million bail, and 10

foreigners were expelled from the country.

Earlier, the Register noted that Jentzsch and 70 other people were detained

as part of an investigation into charges of fraud, criminal association and
tax evasion. Judge Vazquez Honrubia said authorities had frozen $1.76
million in bank accounts belonging to officials of the US based Church of
Scientology and the Church's Drug-Rehabilitation program, Narconon.

Spain has twice refused to grant the organization legal status as a
religious entity in that country.

The Spanish probe.. Spanish Inquisition, according to church officials...

was prompted by complaints from Spaniards who said they had been swindled
out of money through drug-rehabilitation programs and other activities
related to the Church of Scientology.

In 1983, Hubbard's wife was sentenced to four years in prison for

conspiring with other Scientologists to bug and burglarize government
agencies including the IRS, Time magazine reported.

A Portland, Ore., jury awarded $2 million to Julie C. Titchbourne on August

15, 1979, according to the World Book 1980 Yearbook. She was a former
member of the Church of Scientology, and accused the cult of defrauding her
on its promise to give her a better life.

Five Scientologists were sentenced to prison terms of four or five years in

December, 1979 after they were convicted of conspiring to obstruct justice
and to obtain government documents pertaining to the cult.

During a telephone conversation last Friday, while researching this story,

the California Attorney General's office in Sacramento volunteered that
they were very familiar with the operations of Narconon and Scientology,

and had in fact convicted and jailed a "spy" whom they had discovered
working in their offices.

Hubbard was sentenced in his absence to 4 years imprisonment in Paris in

1978 after being found guilty of obtaining money under false pretences
through Scientology, according to the Science Fiction Encyclopedia.

The same book also reports that Hubbard was deported from the United

Kingdom as an undesirable alien in 1968, after which he took to his fleet
of ships to direct his worldwide operations. Life and Newsweek also
reported the incident. Life said the British government felt Scientology to

be "Socially harmful," and barred foreign Scientologists from entering the

country to participate in the World Scientology Congress scheduled at the
Saint Hill, Sussex, England church complex. Newsweek said the British
government's ban on foreign Scientologists was because of the groups

"authoritarian principles... a potential menace to the personality and well

being of those so deluded as to become its followers," and because of the
cult's "technology of the human spirit" as well as its rejection of

psychiatry and other scientifically endorsed approaches to mental health
problems.

But even before that, the cult had its problems. A Board of Inquiry

(released as the Anderson Report of 1965) in the State of Victoria,

Australia in 1963 found that "Scientology is evil; its techniques are evil;

its practice a serious threat to the community, medically, morally, and

socially; and its adherents sadly deluded and often mentally ill." The

board reached its conclusions after examining 151 witnesses. Scientology
was banned in Victoria.

The Australian government branded Hubbard a "fraud" in 1965, and called
Scientology "evil, fantastic and impossible, its principles perverted and
ill-founded, its techniques debased and harmful," according to Time.

Life magazine, in 1968 quotes the Victorian government as calling

Scientology "the world's largest organization of unqualified persons

engaged in the practice of dangerous techniques which masquerade as mental
therapy."

In 1971, Scientologists won a fight with the Food and Drug Administration

over their E-meters. The agency had confiscated them from the group's
Washington D.C. headquarters in a raid in 1963. The Feds claimed that

Scientology falsely promised the cure of "neuroses, psychoses,

schizophrenia and all psychosomatic illnesses."

After years of legal wrangling, Scientologists got their E-meters back, but

only after agreeing to put disclaimers of any therapeutic power on the
machines.

The IRS in 1959 got courts to deny Scientology a tax exemption. But after
the case was over, the cult won limited recognition as a religion according
to a Newsweek report in 1974.

From the beginning, Hubbard's methods and technology have drawn sharp

professional criticism. Newsweek noted that the medical and psychiatric

community responded "with alarm" to Hubbards book. Professional

psychologists condemned Dianetics as amateurish and potentially dangerous
meddling with serious mental problems, according to Time. A journalist who

took the courses said in Life magazine that Scientology "is scary" and uses

potentially disastrous techniques. He reports that Dr. William Menninger
denounced Dianetic Auditing as potentially dangerous.

---------------------------------------------------------------

HAROLD'S JOURNAL
Editorial Comment By RWL - 27 April 1989

Backwater Cowboys

Whoa, now! Maybe it's time for us backwater Cowboys and Indians to slow
down our wagons and ponies a bit, before we git stampeded into thunderation
by a bunch of slick talkin' riverboat shysters toutin' some new fangled
snake oil cure for the fire-water frazzles.

Like olden days when Dr. Malingerer visited the town with his wagon of
"tonic" guaranteed to cure everything from gout to the vapors in man or
beast, we're about to be hoodwinked by another bunch of bamboozelers.

We need to wake up quick and smell the horse apples. This Narconon outfit
appears to be a front for the Church of Scientology and it's founder L. Ron
Hubbard. It looks right like a religious cult... a religious con that makes
TV preachers look like choir boys.

Hubbard's Wagon seems to be filled with bottles of hocus-pocus, engrams,
E-meters and other imaginary whoo-ha designed to dazzle the desperate and
free from their wretched bodies not only their "Thetans", but also their
bucks.

That this pseudo-theological mumbo-jumbo not only exists, but is actually
growing is a credit to Mr. Hubbard's ability as a convincing science
fiction writer.

Conanon..., I mean Narconon is settin' up shop at Chilocco with some
"generous" assistance from a philanthropic outfit called the Association
for Better Living & Education (ABLE) which says it has been impressed with
Narconon's worldwide record. Just like it was a separate outfit looking for
a good cause. And the Naronon guy profusely thanks the ABLE lady for the
"donation" that will insure the success of the Chilocco project! How
wonderful it all is. The melodrama is tearjerking.

ABLE and the Narconon International Association share the same building in
Los Angeles. In fact. they share the same floor of the same building. In
fact, they share the exact same office suite of the same floor of the same
building. Why did they bother to come here to "donate" the money from their
left hand to their right? Unless it was a hokum-pokum show for us dummies
out here in the gulch!

They ain't selling snake oil, tax free cigarettes, or nickel bingo. What
they're selling is hope, vitamin pills and steam baths. Packaged in
blarney. Their own propaganda says their treatments "cannot be construed as
a recommendation of medical treatment or medication and it is undertaken or
delivered by anyone on his own responsibility." In other words, if it don't
work, tough cookies.

Narconon says it has an 86 percent cure rate, but a West Berlin study
showed the rate to be about 10 percent. Of course, if the first two weeks
of the basic program don't work - and they probably won't - there are many
more courses available that might. Nineteen volumes of them, in fact. All
part of the "unique technology" of Mr. Hubbard. How much money can Narconon
rake out of Indian Health Care funds that could otherwise be used for
legitimate medical expenses?

Information we have read suggests that dependency upon drugs is simply
replaced with dependency upon Scientology. A sociology professor in
California has warned us that similar establishments have been used by this
group in the past as warehouses for dissident members. The isolation is
ideal. The lack of outside scrutiny is perfect. The potential is
frightening beyond anything we have dealt with before.

These mental messiahs with forked tongues are treading on our Indian
neighbors' hopes of economic and social development. What they really want
is the isolation of Indian land, exempt from state and local law
enforcement jurisdiction. And in the deal, they'll get a ready made crop of
Indian "patients." With Indian Health Care picking up the tab for nearly
all of them while they get "processed" down the path of "enlightenment."

And beyond the swindle of Indian health care funds, how many patients will
actually wind up believing they are "Super Thetans" capable of taking
intergalactic voyages by leaving their bodies behind? How many people will
forgo medical care while trying to "erase" the "engrams" that are causing
their heart trouble? How many will die? It only takes a few more courses to
get there. And money, of course.

How many of our sons and daughters will wind up working as Scientology
missionaries or Narconon staffers in order to pay for their unending array
of enlightening courses?

In return, Narconon is offering a measly $3.2 million per tribe for a 25
year lease on misery. Our Indian neighbors have again been let down by the
"agencies" designed to help and protect all of us from shysters and
swindlers. Especially the Oklahoma Health Planning Commission, which must
have had it's head plugged into an E-meter not to discover the true nature
of this malignity. Surely information so readily available in the Newkirk
Public Library is available in Oklahoma City.

If you think this all sounds like I've been smoking funnygrass, I suggest
you trot on over there and look it up yourself. If you need a list of
references, I've got lots of 'em. But just reading today's paper will give
you the general idea. And you won't need an E-meter to get the mental
picture.

We've already got too many drunks and dopers. Do we want a bunch of space
cadets, too?

We may be the only voice crying in the wilderness, but we suggest that
Narconon is no answer to our area's drug problem, or it's economic problem.
It would behoove us all to encourage Hubbard's hucksters to hook up their
horses and get their asteroids on down the road.

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Learn To Live With It...
State Boys Say Chilocco Is A Done Deal

NEWKIRK, May 11, 1989 - About 80 persons appeared at the Newkirk City
Commission meeting Monday evening for an informational session on the
Chilocco Indian School project. Present at the meeting were Mr. Howard
Miles, designee of the Commissioner of Health, who presides over the
Oklahoma Health Planning Commission; Mr. Leroy Bridges, public affairs
specialist with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health; and Mr. William
Mehojah, chairman of the Kaw Tribe, along with several members of the
Chilocco Development Authority. Mr. Miles, Mr. Bridges, and Mr. Mehojah
were at the meeting at the invitation of Mayor Garry Bilger.

Mr. Miles explained to the group the purpose of the Health Planning
Commission, which is to oversee the growth of health services in the state
so that they occur in an orderly fashion and along guidelines of an
existing 4 year plan. He said the operators of the proposed Chilocco
project have complied with the existing rules and regulations of the State
of Oklahoma, and that they have been issued a Certificate of Need, that the
statutory period of objection is over and that the certificate is not
subject to recall, even in court.

The next step, Mr. Miles said, is for the Oklahoma Health Department to
issue a license, which, in the case of alcohol and drug abuse facilities,
concerns only the physical facilities. The buildings. Plans are presented
to the State Health Department, which assigns an architect, who approves
the plans. Then the work proceeds, and when finished, the State Health
Department inspects the facility for compliance with the approved plans. If
the facility is approved, it is licensed. The State Health Department
license applies only to the physical facility, and has nothing to do with
the program or staffing.

That falls under the Department of Mental Health, which certifies the
program and staffing, and is Mr. Bridges' department.

Mr. Bridges said that plans for the Chilocco project were submitted and
will go through the regular process just like any other project in the
state. He said that once the facility has been licensed by the State Health
Department... when the facility has been approved... the State Mental
health Department will send an inspection team to the site to approve the
program, if it complies with the normally accepted standards for such
facilities in the State of Oklahoma.

He said that according to documents submitted to his department by the
operators, the staff would consist of "certified alcohol and drug
counselors, certified drug counselors, medical doctors, and nurses... This
is the kind of program that all of the people comply with before they are
certified in the State of Oklahoma.

Concerning the patients, Mr. Bridges said "All of 'em will be referred from
other states into here except the local Indian people who will be given a
chance to have first choice on beds out there if they are not able to pay.
The local Indian people. All the rest of them will be from other states.
Nobody from Oklahoma except the Indian people."

Mr. Bridges pointed out that if the program and treatment proposed for the
Chilocco center does not violate the laws of the State of Oklahoma, the
state can not refuse to issue a Certification from the Mental Health
Department

He said he called Mr. John Wilson, of the Alcohol and Drug Authority of the
State of California, who reported they "had no problems" with the
organization. He presented several other instances of reference checking
his department had made in regard to the matter, and reported that no
negative information had been received.

Following the presentation by Mr. Bridges and Mr. Miles, there was a
question and answer session.

In response to a question about prior notice, Mr. Miles pointed out that
notice was published in the Newkirk Herald Journal in January of this year
that the operators had applied for their Certificate of Need, well in
advance of the hearing.

To a question concerning the unanimity of the decision to lease Chilocco,
Miles said he couldn't answer, but that the documents his department
received were in order. He said the Bureau of Indian Affairs had approved
the lease contract, but that he didn't know if the decision by the Chilocco
Development Authority had been unanimous or just by majority, and that he
had no information concerning any internal problems of the CDA.

If the validity of the CDA's decision to lease Chilocco comes under
question, then the matter would be in the jurisdiction of the Federal
Courts, he said. One person suggested that the authority of a tribal
chairman was in question due to an election dispute.

Another questioner was assured that no Indian Health funds would be used,
that no money from any governmental agency would be used in establishing
the center.

"They're a legitimate service, and they've received a legitimate hearing,
and a legitimate authority to proceed." according to Mr. Miles, "If they do
what they said they were gonna do, they'll be all right. And if they don't
do it, there is a process that works that will usher them across the state
line."

He added, "Let's just assume there is no such thing as Narconon, and all we
re talking about is the Church of Scientology. What difference does it
make?" If they do what they've applied for, and they do what they've been
approved for, he said, then they have complied with state law.
"Now, if they start making it into something more than that, they start
doing things that exceed their authority, if they violate the laws of the
state in any manner than they have to answer for that."

"All we can go on is the history of what they've done, the record they've
made in the United States and their statements they've made..."
Miles said the terms of the agreement between the operator and the CDA were
none of the state's business. "The business arrangements... are not a
function of our commission."

In response to the question of law enforcement and state regulation, Miles
said, "Well, first of all let me say that there is control. The Chilocco
Development Authority and Narconon both, have placed themselves under the
jurisdiction of the State of Oklahoma for operation of a health care
facility."

"They are not functioning as Indian country he said, "The county sheriff
will have police jurisdiction there, State Highway Patrol will have
jurisdiction there, State Bureau of Investigation will have jurisdiction
there, the investigative staff of the State Department of Health... will
have jurisdiction there. So it will not he without government controls."

They could have sought exclusion from state laws, and in light of court
decisions recently, they could have gotten exclusion, he said, but instead,
they voluntarily placed themselves under state jurisdiction.

Mr. Bridges responded to a question about payment for services at Chilocco.
He said that all patients will be from out of state, except local Indians
who do not have the ability to pay.

"Nobody pays for it"

"They have provided 25% of the beds for the local Indian people, and nobody
pays for it. They would be provided that opportunity."

A prison was a possibility at one time at Chilocco," one member of the
audience said, "but the problem was jurisdiction. They couldn't waive
jurisdiction then, so I don't see how the state can change jurisdiction
now."

Dave Baldwin, a member of the CDA answered that the State of Oklahoma
couldn't afford the $17 million to construct the prison, jurisdiction was
not the problem.

One lady said she would have preferred the prison, "I know something about
the Church of Scientology, I know a lady and her son is in it - and I know
what happened to them," she said. "That's why I am so concerned." She
received a round of applause.

Another in the audience asked if patients would be restricted to the
Chilocco facility. Mr. Miles said State law prohibits restricting movement
of residents. Mr. Bridges said there were already three treatment plants in
Kay County, and saw no reason to be concerned about the freedom of movement
that Chilocco patients would have.

"Chilocco - they are somewhat isolated, these are not prisoners." Bridges
said they are just people like us who have alcohol or drug problems, who
have insurance. He said they just want to come here for treatment and go
back home.

Mr. Bridges pointed out the CDA members in the audience, Dave Baldwin,
Cynthia Stoner, and Mr. Mehojah. He noted that Bill Grant, who was not at
the meeting, had told him just last week what a wonderful program Chilocco
was. Bridges asked Mr. Mehojah to confirm Grant's attitude, which he did.
"A lot of the workers out there will be local Indian people, they're gonna
be trained and brought on." Bridges said. He suggested there was nothing to
fear from them.

Miles responded to a radio reporter's question about the alleged connection
between Narconon and the Church of Scientology: "the answer we received was
that there was no direct relationship between the Church of Scientology and
Narconon. That there were members of the Church of Scientology who had been
involved in the creation of Narconon, but the two organizations are totally
separate. We questioned whether or not the philosophy of L. Ron Hubbard
would be used, because they were mentioned in the application. And it was
pointed out that only 4 methods, not the philosophy, would be utilized.
Those methods with the exception of sauna, are common to all alcohol and
drug treatment procedures. The sauna, well we don't have any feel for
it..."

He then referred to the lady who said she knew someone in the Church of
Scientology, "I've shared the same experience and I think my reaction
probably was very similar to hers." But that experience, he said, was not
grounds for refusing permission to operate in the state.

Bridges told the radio reporter that counselors will be certified in
Oklahoma "by a local certifying group that certifies all the alcohol and
drug counselors."

Some of the members of the CDA told of being in a Narconon facility last
week in downtown Los Angeles, and gave glowing reports of what they saw
there. They told of people cured of addiction in only 10 weeks, and of a
five year follow-up program.

Miles said that most Narconon facilities are out-patient clinics, and that
the Los Angeles program is the only in-patient program in operation. He
said the OHPC had checked with state people in several states while
gathering information for the certificate of need hearing.

As an example of how the investigation works he told an anecdote about a
nursing home operator who wished to locate in the state, but when
investigation proved the man's previous operations had been closed by
health officials in six states, he was refused a certificate. "He had no
standing because his history was all negative."

"We try to check deep enough to try to determine something about the
character of the applicant Miles added.

How many doctors, someone asked, and from where, and how often will the
state check the facility? Bridges answered that most places like this
contracted with local doctors. "Quite often," he responded to the query
about inspection.

Miles added that the facility would be inspected at least 6 times a year,
unannounced. He said the program meets the legal requirements of the state,
and "that's the end of it"

Kaw Tribal Chairman Mehojah reviewed the history of Chilocco for the group,
and said the CDA had been working to find a use for the land. He said they
had tried to do what they felt best for the economic benefit of the Indian
people, and to provide jobs. He said the contract they have entered into
has a 5 year review clause, but that a corporation needs a long term lease
in order to recoup their investment. He said the BIA had approved the
contract as a sound document that would protect the Indians. He also told
of his visit recently to the Los Angeles facility where he observed people
undergoing treatment.

Following Mehojah's comments, Miles informed the group that if they had any
reason to believe that the operators were not complying with state law that
they should contact the State Attorney General, the Commissioner of Health,
or the Commissioner of Mental Health.

Miles and Herald Journal Publisher Bob Lobsinger sparred a bit over an
editorial, for which Lobsinger offered apology. Then they sparred again
over references in a recent story. Miles suggested Lobsinger had misread
the material, but changed his mind when Lobsinger produced the magazine and
showed him the passage in question.

This segment of the meeting ended, and commissioners proceeded to other
items on the agenda.

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HAROLD'S JOURNAL
Editorial Comment By RWL - 11 May 1989

Well, now. Haven't I been put in my place.

I guess now I know better than to mess with big, important folks from LA.
Narconon, it turns out, is a wonderful program after all. They said so. And
that, of course, is what AP reported last weekend, gutsy organization that
they are.

Now, we already had enough of Narconon's own material to tell you what they
would say about their program. Of course it's wonderful. What else would
you expect them to say?

We thought you had a right to know what they weren't saying. And we found
plenty they were staying quiet about.

There is no shame in not knowing the difference between an ugly duck and
the goose that laid the golden egg. The shame is in not changing ones
thinking when one finds out the difference.

Mr. Miles, from the Health Planning Commission is a likable individual in a
tough spot. His head is not hooked to an E-meter after all. He simply has
to live by somebody else's regulations. Mr. Bridges is a fine fellow, too,
with a sincere, personal interest in trying to help the Indian people. But
he's in the same situation. Which boils down to the fact that the state can
do nothing about the situation because everything is quite legal.

Narconon says it is not connected in any way with the Church of
Scientology. Fine. It was just started by Scientologists, and
Scientologists run it. But that is a coincidence of nature...

Suppose that next week, Doc S. announces he is going to start a Birth
Control Clinic that adheres to the methods of John Paul II. What are you to
believe about his operation?

This deal is no different. A consistent history and long term reputation,
documented in print doesn't change just because one refuses to read it or
check it out. No matter how many times you "play it again, Sam," the record
stays the same.

We'd all like the Chilocco project to be the grand and glorious
establishment it's makers say it will be... helping humanity and providing
economic assistance to the Indian people as well.

But I'm afraid if it looks like a duck, and sounds like a duck, and walks
like a duck, it's probably a duck.

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Planned Newkirk Drug Clinic May Be World's Biggest

By Michael McNutt
Enid Bureau
May 18, 1989

NEWKIRK-Backers of a drug rehabilitation center scheduled to open later
this year on the Chilocco Indian School grounds north of here say the
facility has the potential to be the biggest of its kind in the world.

However, residents in this northern Oklahoma town eight miles from the
Kansas border are concerned Narconon International is a front for the
Church of Scientology, and, instead of rehabilitating alcohol and drug
addicts, it will recruit new members and raise money for the controversial
group.

The person overseeing renovation work at Chilocco for Narconon is
identified as an "experienced purification rundown in charge" by the Church
of Scientology's official newsletter.

"Trained Scientologists to staff huge Oklahoma facility," reads a headline
in the February 1989 issue of "The Auditor," a copy of which was made
available to "The Oklahoman." Narconon, the article states, gets
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's "technology applied broadly in the
society."

Meanwhile, state officials who approved a certificate of need for the
facility say it should not matter who operates the facility as long as they
follow accepted practices and standards in the field.

Representatives of five Indian tribes who stand to earn $16 million over
the next 25 years by leasing the Indian school campus to Narconon say they
have visited Narconon's drug rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles and are
satisfied the organization is legitimate.

Harold Miles, with the State Department of Health and a member of the
Health Planning Commission which approved a certificate of need license for
Narconon in January, said no one opposed the organization then and now it
is too late to appeal the state decision.

Narconon still must get a license and be certified by the state, Miles
said.

Unrest over Narconon developed after the Newkirk newspaper published two
stories quoting various publications that Narconon was associated with the
Church of Scientology, which often is referred to as more of a cult than a
religion.

Betty Cook of Enid, with the Oklahoma Cult Awareness Network, said Narconon
is a "front group" for Scientology.

And in the September 1981 issue of "Reader's Digest," then-senior editor
Eugene H. Methvin called Narconon "Scientology's biggest social reform
gimmick."

Miles said state officials could find no link between Narconon and the
Church of Scientology and that California officials were satisfied with
Narconon's 25-bed drug rehabilitation center in Los Angeles.

According to published reports, the joint Narconon-Chilocco Development
Authority received $200,000 from the Association for Better Living &
Education, an organization identified in "The Auditor" as part of Narconon.
Miles and Leroy Bridges, with the State Department of Mental Health, tried
to assure about 100 people who jammed into a public hearing held here last
week that the state would inspect regularly the facility once it opened.

Renovation of several buildings on 165 acres of land leased by Narconon is
underway with the facility scheduled to open in August or September.
Once opened, the program will be veiwed by Mental Health Department workers
for certification, Bridges said, and will be reviewed continuously at least
six times a year.

Miles said Narconon is subject to punitive action if workers operate
outside the law or its program outlined to the state.

"Narconon is a legitimate enterprise, proposing to do a legitimate
service," he said. "If they do what they said they're going to do, they
will be all right, and if they don't do it, there is a process at work that
will usher them across the state line."

John Duff, president of Narconon, said the 23 year old agency is not
directly connected with the Church of Scientology.

"It's a non-issue question," he said.

But Duff said the church is a supporter of Narconon and provides
volunteers.

Hubbard, Duff said, once gave Narconon $75,000 because Narconon uses five
of his methods-complete withdrawal, supplements, balanced diet, exercise
and using a sauna.

Hubbard, a science fiction writer who started Scientology in 1953, died in
1986. Advertisements for his 1950 book, "Dianetics; The Modern Science of
Mental Health," still can be seen on television.

At first, the Narconon facility at Chilocco will use five or six of the 80
buildings on the campus in developing a 75-bed facility.

Renovation costs are expected to cost at least $400,000, Duff said. About a
dozen Indians have been hired to do the work and three Narconon staff
members are at Chilocco.

Duff said 25 percent of those beds will be set aside for indigent Indians
who suffer from chemical substance abuse.

Chilocco is being developed as a national program and most of its clients
will be referred to the facility from Narconon offices throughout the
country and will come from other states and Canada, Duff said.
Duff said he expects Narconon will employ a staff of about 35 and said he
did not know if Edna Fulton, now serving as project director at Chilocco,
will continue in that capacity.

However, "The Auditor" article stated that Tom Armstrong, identified by
Cook as a Scientologist leader, will be in charge of the Chilocco project
and that Fulton will be a member of the core staff.

Duff would not discuss the specifics of the contract with the five Indian
tribes that make up the Chilocco Development Authority-Pawnee, Ponca,
Otoe-Missouria, Kaw and Tonkawa-saying only the tribes would divide $16
million over the next 25 years with an option to renew the lease another 25
years.

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Sounding OFF
Letters To The Editor - May 11, 1989

Narconon Official speaks Out...

To The Editor:
Our society today is faced with a battle against drugs that can literally
destroy our future generations.

There are 500,000 or more people dealing drugs in the United States alone
selling billions of dollars in drugs each year and our children are the
customers.

Narconon International is in the forefront of the battle against drugs and
is saving lives around the world through its' drug prevention and
rehabilitation programs.

Over the last 23 years Narconon has successfully rehabilitated tens of
thousands of drug addicts and has spoken to over 1/2 million students in
schools, parents, teachers and professionals in the community through the
Narconon drug education program.

In Spain an outside study was done that showed 69.2% of those that
completed the Narconon program were successfully off drugs after 2 years.
In Sweden an outside study found that 78.6% of those that finished the
program were successfully off drugs after 2 years.

We have recently acquired a 25 year lease of the former Chilocco Indian
Agricultural School from the Chilocco Development Authority made up of
representatives from the Kaw, Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, Ponca & Tonkawa
Northern Oklahoman Tribes.

A national drug rehabilitation program is being set up at Chilocco with 75
beds and we are currently in the process of complying with the Oklahoma
State Department of Health - fire, safety & health codes.
This facility represents a powerful tool against those that are pushing
drugs and there will be those that will not want Narconon to succeed at
Chilocco because they are for drugs and are on the other side in the battle
against drugs.

A recent article in the Newkirk Herald Journal critical of Narconon and our
efforts to stop drugs was simply a collection of old articles and opinions.
If the writer of this article was to have done an article in 1933 about a
Jewish project in Germany based on research in newspaper articles back
then, what would have this article said? Put them in the oven" If his
"research" consisted of paraphrasing articles about Native Americans
written 100 years ago what would his article have said?

It is very simple. Narconon is a non-profit public benefit corporation with
the job of saving lives and getting these former drug addicts back into
society as productive drug-free members. This is our job and has been for
the last 23 years. Our success is based on hard work and a drug
rehabilitation program that was developed by L. Ron Hubbard, on of the most
acclaimed and widely read authors of all time. The Board of Directors of
Narconon International adopted this program because it is highly successful
and has proven itself over the years. Only those that are in favor of a
drug ridden society or those who are directly profiting from the drug
racket would oppose such a program.

We look forward to the Narconon Chilocco New Life Center becomes a bright
spot in society bringing new life to those addicted to drugs and it has
been an honor to us to be able to work with the Kaw, Otoe-Missouria,
Pawnee, Ponca, Tonkawa, the Oklahoma Indian Business Development Center and
the Oklahoma Health Planning Commission.

We invite you to call or visit our facility once we are underway and as
employment is available we will be notifying the local papers. If you have
questions about Narconon I would love to hear from you. Please write: John
S. Duff, President, Narconon International, 3540 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA. 90010.
Respectfully Yours,
/s/ John S. Duff
President
Narconon International

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HAROLD'S JOURNAL
Editorial Comment By RWL - 11 May 1989

We're Pretty 'Clear' On That!

We have this terrible urge to refer to the writer of the above letter as
"Duffy Duck", but we won't, simply because we feel a certain sympathy for
individuals so taken in by the ruse of Scientology. Beyond that,
personality is not at issue, no more than is qualified and appropriate drug
rehabilitation, or freedom of religion.

What is at issue is the long and spurious reputation of Scientology.
Documented in print since the imagination of the first "Thetan.".
"Old articles," he calls them, without refuting their accuracy. As old as
Scientology itself. And as new, too. Scientology's own magazine, The
Auditor, in it's February 1989 edition further confirms our opinion.
"Trained Scientologists to staff huge Oklahoma facility," brags the
headline of one article. And yet with straight face they tell us there is
no connection.

Americans will tolerate practically anything one chooses to believe in the
name of religion, if they are convinced it is a religion to begin with.
Scientology is science fiction. Unlike religion, it was science fiction at
its conception, albeit good enough science fiction that the naive amongst
us began to believe it was real science.

Only when the scientific community in mass began to debunk it did it decide
to become a "religion." And that, my friends, is why it has been so poorly
tolerated in spite of the legal manipulations it has undertaken to make it
look like religion. It remains what it has always been. Science fiction.
Accepting the occasional abuse of religious freedom is still preferable to
limiting religious freedom.

Scientology is a successful business enterprise. It accepts people who are,
or think they are, in trouble. Often it even relieves them of their real or
perceived problems as it allows them to brainwash themselves down the
unending path of L Ron's "unique methods and technology."

Narconon is simply one of many methods Scientology uses to get their
"technology applied broadly in the society," as The Auditor gently puts it.
Hubbard said it more bluntly in a 1960 Communications Order to his
followers: "It is a maxim that unless you have bodies in the shop you get
no income. So on any pretext get the bodies in the place..." If the "shop"
can offer a service, like drug detox, along the way that will be paid for
by insurance or some other third party, then so much the better.

We have little doubt that the Narconon drug detoxification methods work as
well as any other dry-out clinic. We find it interesting that L. Ron
Hubbard claims patent to food, exercise, and vitamin therapy. We'll concede
sauna baths may be his own idea. And we will give him full credit for the
"counseling and training" sessions that go along with it.

What is unique about Hubbard's methods is not that he feeds his patients,
or exercises them, or gives them vitamins. The "unique" part is that his
counseling and training methods dissipate dependency on drugs while
creating dependency on Scientology. And maybe that's not all bad, if only
they were straight forward enough to admit it.

It would be interesting to know how many Spanish Narconon patients were
Scientologists after their treatment. That would tell us an awful lot more
than cure rates. We suspect the number is about 69.2%.

These are some of our concerns about Narconon and Scientology. But in a
fashion true to their historical reputation and background, they have
failed to address them, and instead resort to calling our citizens drug
racketeers "in favor of a drug ridden society..." for questioning their
motives.

It's a duffy... I mean daffy world they want us to live in, we're pretty
"clear" on that.

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Renovation Underway At Chilocco Indian School

08 June 1989
NEWKIRK, - Renovations have begun on buildings at nearby Chilocco Indian
School, according to Simon Hogarth, a representative of the Association for
Better Living and Education (ABLE) which owns Narconon, the proposed drug
rehabilitation center to be located on the grounds.

A press release issued Monday by Hogarth said that Narconon has obtained a
Certificate of Need from the Oklahoma State Planning Commission to
establish a 75-bed facility at Chilocco for drug and alcohol abusers.

The center is currently employing 25 people and now has one local
volunteer. Edna Fulton, the Executive Director, is from Los Angeles,
California. Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Culleeney recently arrived with their two
children from Glendale, California. Mr. Jim Davidson is from Bristol,
Virginia. The volunteer was not named.

Sixteen local residents are employed on the renovation crew and five local
residents are working in the office and are beginning on the job training,
according to the release.

"We have been working closely with the Native American Leaders at the
Chilocco Development Authority," Miss Fulton said, "and look forward to
bringing back life to the Chilocco facility."

According to it's promoters, "The Narconon program, which has proven
successful throughout the world, utilizes the drug rehabilitation
technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard, philosopher, humanitarian and one
of the most acclaimed and widely read authors of all time."

The release continues, "Narconon's program is a completely drug-free method
of helping abusers to kick the habit. It combines a regimen of vitamins
with the use of sauna and exercise, which enables an individual to rid his
body of toxic drug residues. The program not only safely gets a person off
drugs, but eliminates the adverse effects of drugs that continue long after
such substances have been ingested."

Narconon's release continues, "The Chilocco program will service people
from all over the United States who wish to free themselves from the
debilitating consequences of drug and alcohol abuse."

Miss Fulton predicts the renovations will cost in excess of $1 million and
the program plans to provide more jobs for local residents. Visitors are
invited to tour the grounds during daylight hours, seven days a week.
Opening of the facility is now scheduled for September, according to
Hogarth.

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Changing Strategy - Scientology Now Steps Right Up To Controversy

By Stephen Koff
St. Petersburg Times
Reprinted 13 July 1989

CLEARWATER, FLA. Dec. 23, 1988 - After years of sparring with the townsfolk
and veiling itself in secrecy, the Church of Scientology has succeeded in
turning Clearwater into its spiritual mecca. Scientologists quietly run
teen nightclubs, schools, day-care centers, management consulting firms and
other businesses, records and interviews show.

Now the strategy of the organization, longtime observers say, is to
confront controversy, gain converts and make money - lots of it.
Scientology's Clearwater operation brings in $1.5-million to $2-million a
week, say church watchers who include Clearwater police, former Scientology
security chief Richard Azneran and former Scientologist-turned-author Bent
Corydon.

Fee schedules show how the dollars add up: 12 1/2 hours of basic
Scientology counseling in Clearwater costs $8,000, not counting meals and
accommodations.

Scientology brochures boast that Clearwater has the "largest community of
Scientologists in the world," with more than 1,000 Scientologists served by
"several hundred" staff members.

Authorities cannot confirm those numbers, but the claim itself is a
dramatic change from the secretive Scientology of 1975, when the
organization used an assumed name - United Churches of Florida, Inc. - to
buy the Fort Harrison Hotel for $2.3-million in cash. Armed guards ringed
the downtown hotel, and for weeks the church would not reveal its true
identity.

The stealthy move was followed by deep suspicion between the Scientologists
and community leaders. Church documents seized by the FBI later would show
that Scientologists tried to frame then-Mayor Gabe Cazares with a
hit-and-run accident, and Bette Orsini, a St. Petersburg Times
investigative reporter, was targeted as a Scientology "enemy" and harassed.
But some things have changed in 13 years - among them the way Scientology
presents itself.

"It's obvious that there's some effort to be less visible, in terms of
either making attacks on people or in terms of making more of a splash
around here," said Jim Sheeler, Clearwater's community development manager.
"They want to be part of the community," said C. David Carley, Jr.,
chairman of the Citizens Bank of Clearwater, "And you cannot blame them for
that."

Scientology officials, most notably spokesman Richard Haworth, are frequent
guests on local radio shows and a prime=-time staple of Vision Cable's
community access channel. "They have a public relations campaign to present
themselves as the person you work with, your friend, or the person next
door," said Randy Kabrich, programing director for Q105-FM, a station on
which Haworth has denounced Scientology's detractors. "And I am not aware
of any other religious group, cult or non-cult, that has gone to that
extent."

Scientology officials and their lawyers would not comment for this series
of articles. Asked again for comment (after last week's story first
appeared) chief Scientology counsel Earle C. Cooley of Boston said, "The
article that appeared... is the most vicious and malicious perversion of
the truth that I have seen in 32 years."

Suprisedby sponsors

Sometimes, it's hard to tell when the Scientologists are involved in an
event or promotion. Some visitors say they were invited to Clearwater by
innocuous-sounding groups that turned out to be promoting Scientology
principles or programs.

For instance, leaders of American Indian tribes were brought to the Fort
Harrison in February (1988) by the Concerned Businessmen's Association of
America. Their invitations mentioned programs for drug and alcohol abuse
prevention, but said nothing about Scientology, according to Indians who
received them.

The Concerned Businessmen's Association, based in Glendale, Calif., is a
group of Scientologists.

"I thought it was going to be a group of concerned businessmen who had
money to help Indian tribes," said Raymond Reyes, then executive director
of the Coeur d'Alene tribe in Idaho and now director of Indian education at
Gonzaga University. "I thought it was going to be a group of fundees who
could meet funding sources, Instead, it was all this L. Ron Hubbard stuff."
The Concerned Businessmen's Association did not respond to repeated calls
and a letter from the St. Petersburg Times.

U.S. Rep. Floyd Flake, D-N.J., accepted a trip to attend a black history
and arts seminar at the Fort Harrison last year. He said he thought the
sponsoring group was called Celebration of the Arts.

"We did not know it was Scientology," said Flake's press aide Edwin Reed,
who also attended. "We didn't really realize that, but with L.Ron Hubbard's
(pictures) all around, (we thought), "What in the heck is this?""

Taxes and public relations

That's a question many Clearwater residents are still trying to answer,
despite Scientologists' attempts to fade into the mainstream. Former mayor
Cazares said, "Just the fact that they're quiet doesn't mean that they're
not active. The nature of the beast has not changed."

Longtime residents "still believe that something is going on," said current
Mayor Rita Garvey, "The general public is still leery and would like to see
them out of town, which of course is not a reality, but the public's still
concerned."

So are Pinellas government officials. The City of Clearwater and the church
are in the midst of a five-year legal fight over an ordinance that, if
enforced, would require Scientology to disclose extensive information about
its finances. The church says the law is unconstitutional.

Then there's Scientology's tax bill; with more than $21-million in assessed
property, the Church of Scientology is the biggest property owner in
downtown Clearwater. Since moving to Clearwater, the organization has
assembled 12 properties on nine parcels of land. It hasn't paid property
taxes since 1981, and its tax bill to date stands at $2.84-million, said O.
Sanford Jasper, Pinellas tax collector.

Pinellas Property Appraiser Ron Schultz argues that Scientology should have
to pay the taxes. To that end, County Attorney Susan Churuti said in court
documents that the church's Clearwater operation is merely an "alter ego:
of California-run Scientology operations - which, according to a federal
judge, helped enrich the group's founder, L.Ron Hubbard. The Pinellas tax
battle may be settled in court in 1989, said Circuit Judge Howard P. Rives.
Several years ago, the church offered to pay its tax bill in a display of
public spirit - as long as the money was considered a "gift" rather than a
tax. But Schultz said he was in office to assess taxes, not gifts. He
declined the offer, and insisted on calling taxes just that: taxes.

Community influence

While the church presses its tax case in the courts, it continues to extend
its influence in the community and court public opinion. The church's own
publications reinforce the theme of a community-minded public relations
strategy.

The scientology magazine Impact recently recycled this message from group
founder Hubbard: Hit for the key sports by whatever means, the head of the
women's club, the personnel director of a company, the leader of a good
orchestra, the president's secretary, the advisor of the trade union - any
key spot. Make a good sound living at it, drive a good car, but get your
job done, handle and better the people you meet and bring about a better
earth."

Scientologists hold key spots in a variety of ventures around Pinellas, and
several private businesses in Clearwater - Snow Software, Arlene's
Childcare and Making Magic, Inc., a distributor of velvet art, among them -
are run by church members, according to a Scientology directory. These
businesses' owners would not talk to a reporter, saying their religion has
no public relevance.

Three Clearwater enterprises, however, have stronger ties to the church:
True School, Jefferson Academy and Singer Consultants.
True School, at 1831 Drew St., and Jefferson Academy, 1740 N. Highland
Ave., are private "Hubbard Method" schools that use an approach developed
by Scientology's founder.

Vivian Godfrey, one of two teachers at Jefferson, said that "Hubbard
educational technology deals only with education ... The school has
absolutely no connection with the Church of Scientology."

Ms. Godfrey and the other teacher, Sandy Mesmer, are listed as
"participating members of the Church of Scientology" in Who's Here?, a
directory of church members around Tampa Bay.

As for True School, an advertisement in Who's Here? lists "child auditing"
among the school's programs. Auditing, a form of counseling, is the basis
of Scientology practice. True School officials did not respond to a
reporter's requests for an interview.

Singer Consultants, 1001 S. Myrtle Ave., is a management consulting firm
catering to chiropractors. Like California-based Sterling Management
Consultants (dentists) and Uptrends of New Hampshire (computer
professionals), Singer is licensed by Scientology to teach Hubbard
"management technology." Marketing, billing and staff development are
emphasized and clients say Scientology is touted as a self-improvement
option.

Singer managers did not return a reporter's calls, but last year said they
don't recruit for the church. However, a recent Singer advertisement in a
directory of Scientologists said that "more people have been moved onto and
up the Bridge" - a term referring to fulfilling Scientology's goals - "by
this group than any other in history, and this is just the beginning."

Elsewhere around Clearwater:

Muriel McKay, once a Scientology public affairs official, serves on the
executive committee of the Pinellas County Republican Party and represents
a Clearwater voting precinct.

"She conducts herself admirably," said Edrie Kennedy, the GOP's
parliamentarian. "She is officious, she is not pushy, she is a really good
member." Ms. McKay did not respond to several telephone messages from a
reporter seeking her comment.

The teen nightclubs Off Limits, in Clearwater and Brandon, are owned and
operated by a partnership of at least two Scientologists. Off Limits serves
no alcohol and "provides a safe place for kids to have fun," said part
owner LaVonna Applebaum.

County licenses and state corporate records show that the partnership that
owns the clubs is named Tone 40 Limited. "Tone 40" is a term distinctive to
Scientology: it is the ultimate level on Scientology's "tone scale" of
existence, which runs from 0.1, for dying, to 40, for "serenity of
beingness," according to the Dianetics and Scientology Technical
Dictionary.

"The church has absolutely no connection with the business, just as the
Catholic Church has no connection with businesses owned by members of that
church," said Ray Cassano, listed on state records as the sole director of
Tone 40 Limited.

Richie Stone, 18, is a former bouncer at the Clearwater club, 14100 U.S. 19
S. He said Ms. Applebaum used to tell employees, "Why don't you all go to
the classes with us? It's good for your attitudes. It's good for your
tempers."

Ms. Applebaum said, "Quite frankly, if I can find a way to help somebody, I
try to help - if they ask for it. If they did not ask for help, I would not
offer it."

Stone said he did not seek that advice.

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Mayor Bilger...
"They Totally Misrepresented What They Are Doing"

By Scott McCartney
Associated Press Writer
13 July 1989
NEWKIRK, OK., (AP) Crews chip away old paint and hack at knee-high weeds at
the abandoned Chilocco Indian School, seemingly unaffected by the tempest
brewing in this remote corner of Oklahoma.

When a California group received state permission for a 75-bed drug and
alcohol treatment center, Newkirk thought the project on the reservation
six miles away would solve local economic troubles brought on by oil and
farming slumps.

But the initial euphoria, like the old paint, has chipped away, replaced by
distrust, frustration, even fear.

Townspeople say Narconon International hasn't been honest about its
affiliation with the Church of Scientology, its financing, its medical
credentials and its plans for the project, which will draw mostly
out-of-state clients.

They say Narconon denied the project had anything to do with Scientology
until Newkirk officials turned up a Scientology magazine with a story
headlined "Trained Scientologists to Staff Huge Oklahoma Facility."

And the mayor says Narconon tried to dupe locals at a staged ceremony,
where a $200,000 check and a glowing study were presented to Narconon by a
group that turned out to be part of Narconon itself.

Now the town fears it could earn a "cult image" because of the project's
ties to Scientology, which follows the teachings of the late science
fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Former members have accused Scientology of
fraud and mental abuse, and the Internal Revenue Service has challenged its
tax-exempt status as a religion.

"People interested in coming to this town will see the Church of
Scientology thing - the cult thing - and I think that that image will hurt
our possibilities for growth and development," Mayor Garry Bilger said in
an interview last month.

Some townspeople say they worry about the kind of people the project will
attract and that the stately 80-building campus, built of native Oklahoma
stone and tucked more than a mile off the nearest road, will become a
Scientology recruiting station.

"I don't think any of us are against drug abusers getting rehabilitation,"
said Mike Clifton, pastor of the First Christian Church. "(But) there's
a lot of concern in the community because we really don't know what these
folks are exactly about. What really worries us is what they're not
saying."

In the basement of the First Baptist Church, pastor Mark Jones is making
copies of a videotape of a British Broadcasting Corp. documentary on
Scientology, which he showed to his congregation at a worship service.
The tapes, along with Scientology literature, have been circulating in this
town of 2,400. There have been town meetings and public forums, including a
sometimes heated session with state officials who approved the Narconon
project before the town knew it was supported by Scientology.

"The town got the shaft," said insurance agent Charles Eisenhauer. "I don't
think anybody can undo anything that's been done so far." The center is
scheduled to open in September.

Narconon officials say Newkirk's concern is inflated and unwarranted.

Narconon is a legitimate, worldwide drug and alcohol rehabilitation program
with 23 years' experience and an 86 percent success rate, they assert.
Narconon spokesman Gary Smith said he tried to reassure the town that
Narconon's "sole intention is to get people off drugs." He said the town
has been misled.

"There's fear being put into the town by false information being fed in
there by somebody who's in favor of drug abuse. They're either connected to
selling drugs or they're using drugs," Smith said.

Smith declined to be more specific about the identity or whereabouts of
these "outside sources with criminal motives."

"Trust me, I know," he said.

Another Narconon attempt at persuasion provoked an angry response.
In a letter printed May 18 on the front page of the weekly Newkirk Herald
Journal, Narconon president John Duff wrote: "There will be those that will
not want Narconon to succeed at Chilocco because they are for drugs and are
on the other side in the battle against drugs."

Jones, the Baptist minister, responded the following week, writing he
"resented the implication, or more accurately the accusation, that was made
by Narconon's Mr. Duff. He accused me of supporting illegal drug use in our
area if I did not swallow his program hook, line and sinker."

Bilger said he had been so optimistic about the promise of a revitalized
Chilocco that last December he wrote Oklahoma health officials supporting
Narconon.

But the mayor said his winter hope turned to disillusionment by spring when
he learned of Narconon's history, and he came to believe he had been misled
when Narconon held an emotional ceremony April 8 in which the Association
for Better Living and Education presented a glowing study of Narconon and
the $200,000 check.

Later Bilger learned that ABLE shared a street address in Los Angeles with
Narconon, and is identified in a Scientology magazine as part of Narconon.

"They totally misrepresented what was going on," Bilger said.

"I came away with the impression that we had an independent group here
interested in mankind and they had researched the Narconon process. Then I
find out ABLE and Narconon are part of the same organization," he said.
"I try to be straightforward, and when somebody doesn't do that, I wonder
why."

In late June, Narconon's Smith used a copy of Bilger's December letter of
support to suggest to The Associated Press that the mayor supported
Narconon.

Bilger says the December letter no longer reflects his feelings.

"I imagine if I was in his shoes I'd use it, too," Bilger said. "I just
think now it (Narconon) is a problem and if all the facts were out at the
time, things might have been done differently."

The Chilocco Indian School closed in 1980 and was declared surplus property
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which turned control over to five Indian
tribes - Ponca, Kaw, Pawnee, Otoe-Missouria and Tonkawa.

Last year, Narconon invited representatives of tribes throughout the
country to a meeting in Clearwater, Fla. Narconon touted its program and
said it was looking for a site for a treatment center. Currently,
Narconon's only U.S. inpatient center is a Los Angeles clinic with 12 beds.

A Ponca representative told Narconon about the Chilocco site. The 25-year
lease eventually drawn up offers the tribes a percentage of gross earnings,
up to $16 million. The tribal leadership remains enthusiastic about the
Narconon project.

In January, the Oklahoma Health Planning Commission gave Narconon approval
for an initial 75 beds. The group seeks 150 beds with growth projected to
400.

Robert Lobsinger, publisher of the weekly Herald Journal, was by then
becoming curious about Narconon. In Newkirk's tiny library he found
articles about ties to Scientology and past run-ins with officials. His
first story, published April 27 under the headline "Chilocco Drug Treatment
Center May Be Part Of Notorious Religious Cult," set the town abuzz.

Townspeople said they have repeatedly asked Narconon what medical
credentials they have, and so far, have received no answer.

"My first question is, do they think that everyone down here is stupid?
said Jones. "People around here are not world travelers, but they've got a
lot of common sense and they ask a lot of questions."

"We've encountered deceit from the beginning," he said. "There have been
smoke screens everywhere, and there have been flat-out lies."

In May, state officials told residents they believed Narconon was a
legitimate enterprise and would be inspected by the state once operating.
"A lot of people want to get their church (Scientology) involved and the
way state law is written... church affiliation has nothing to do with it.
The state of Oklahoma shouldn't get involved in discussions of church
affiliations," said Leroy Bridges, Department of Mental Health spokesman.
Sheriff Glenn Guinn says he and others are not reassured by the state, or
by the Narconon officials with whom he has met. He said he was originally
told the alcoholism and drug abuse center would be for local Indians but
now has learned only 25 percent of the beds have been promised to indigent
Indians.

Narconon, like Scientology, has had a sometimes turbulent history. In Spain
last year, authorities charged Narconon with swindling clients and luring
them into Scientology. Seventy-one people were arrested, including
Scientology president Heber Jentzsch. Hundreds of document were seized, and
a Spanish judge froze bank accounts holding $900,000 while an investigation
continues.

Scientology, founded by Hubbard in 1954, has grown into an international
religion that at its mid-1970s peak claimed 6 million members and $100
million in annual earnings. The faith is based on Hubbard's concepts of
mental health through which members can achieve a "clear state."

Critics have labeled Scientology a cult. Scientologists have battled the
IRS and fought lawsuits filed by former members. In June, the Supreme Court
ruled that "fixed donations" made by Scientology members are not tax-exempt
contributions.

Narconon is supported financially by Scientology, spokesman Simon Hogarth
acknowledged, but the group maintains it has no "direct ties" to
Scientology.

Narconon says its rehabilitation program is based on Hubbard's methods,
using withdrawal, diet supplements, exercise and sauna sessions to treat
addicts.

William Mehojah, chairman of the Kaws, said the tribes would not allow
Scientology activities at Chilocco and would hold Narconon to its contract.
"We are attempting to provide service to people who need it," Mehojah said.
"This is our way of combating (society's) drug problem. This is our stand."

Hogarth said Narconon has "had a very good response" from Newkirk, which he
said had eagerly embraced the idea of a drug and alcoholism treatment
center.

But Bilger said he did not think Hogarth changed any minds. "I am still
concerned and I think most people in town feel that way," the mayor said.
"Nobody wanted that thing to be a success more than me. Now I'm
disappointed. I still hope there's a way it can work for everyone. But
right now, I'm disappointed."

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Scientology Faces New Charges Of Harassment

By Stephen Koff
St. Petersburg Times
Reprinted 06 July 1989

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 22, 1988 - The year was 1976, one year after the
Church of Scientology had secretly moved its spiritual headquarters to
Clearwater (Fla.), and Mayor Gabe Cazares was complaining too loudly for
the church's comfort.

So, as documents seized by the FBI would later show, the church's
Clearwater office devised a scheme to "ruin Mayor Gabriel Cazares'
political career by spreading scandal about his sex life."

Church officials came up with ways to get Cazares' school records, birth
records, anything - from checking with the Catholic Church to looking in
graveyards for headstones with Cazares' name - that might discredit the
mayor.

The next year, the FBI raided church offices and seized hundreds of
documents. Eleven church members were subsequently convicted of crimes. And
the Church of Scientology promised that it had cleaned house. Such dirty
tricks, said the church, were things of the past.

Consider, then, the more recent case of Charles O'Reilly, an aggressive
California lawyer who was another thorn in the side of Scientology.
O'Reilly represented some former Scientologists who were suing the church,
and he refused to settle their cases. One client, who said the church
nearly drove him insane, had won a $30-million verdict against the sect.
Church executives were irate, one of their former lawyers recalled in sworn
testimony.

So in the spring of 1987, top-ranking Scientologists and lawyers called a
meeting at their headquarters on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles to talk
over the O'Reilly matter. According to their former lawyer, Joseph Yanny,
the Scientologists planned to steal confidential files on O'Reilly from the
Betty Ford Center and other alcohol - and drug - treatment centers. Yanny
said the Scientologists figured that such records could be used to
blackmail O'Reilly.

Ultimately, the plan to steal the records was scaled back, then dropped
altogether. But the idea was similar to other plans that were carried out,
say former top Scientology officials and representatives. Although such
claims have been made before by alleged victims of the church's tricks, the
new charges are coming from people who were inside the highest circles of
Scientology.

These officials include a church executive who recently left Scientology, a
former church security chief, a California lawyer who until recently helped
formulate Scientology's legal strategy, the church's former international
president, and dozens of former church members, including one who has
written a book critical of the church and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.

Cumulatively, the new charges lead to a stinging conclusion about
Scientology: Despite its assurances of reform, a pattern of abuses
continues against church critics. In some cases, those abuses cross the
line of criminal law, according to authorities.

A judge in Spain recently reached the same conclusion. After a nine-month
investigation, Judge Jose Maria Vazquez Honrubia on Nov. 20 (1988) detained
71 Scientologists in Madrid and ordered 11 of them jailed. Those held
included Heber Jentzsch, a 53-year-old American and president of the Church
of Scientology International. After three weeks, Jentzsch and the church
members were released on $1.1-million bail but now must report to the court
three times a week. They could face charges of coercion, fraud, flight of
capital, illicit association and labor law violations. They say they are
the victims of an international conspiracy.

Similarly, 15 Scientologists and the church itself are awaiting trial in
Canada on charges stemming from a 1983 police raid in which about 2 million
stolen government documents were seized from church offices. Scientology
lawyers said the sect would donate money to charity if charges against the
church were dismissed, but Ontario Attorney General Ian Scott declined the
offer.

Scientologists and their lawyers would not answer questions for this series
of articles.

The church and the St. Petersburg Times are adversaries in a federal court
case, and chief Scientology counsel Earle C. Cooley of Boston attributed
the church's "no comment" to that dispute. The Times seeks to unseal files
in four lawsuits against Scientology settled in 1986. Although court files
are normally open, the judge granted the church's request to seal these
cases over the objections of opposing lawyers. The Church of Scientology
now wants to keep them closed. Times lawyers argued in a motion in October
that closing the files violates the First Amendment. The First Amendment to
the Constitution, among other things, gives a guarantee of a free press,
and Times lawyers said that closing the files interferes with the
newspaper's right to gather and publish news.

The Times won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for exposes of abuse by the church.
In 1984, California Superior Judge Paul G. Breckenridge ruled that "the
organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid."

"It hasn't changed at all," said William Franks, who until 1982 was
chairman and executive director of the Church of Scientology International.

Franks left the church after a showdown between church leaders and owners
of numerous Scientology "missions," or franchises.

Franks has said that despite public statements, it became clear that church
executives never intended to change Scientology's character. Franks is now
a businessman in Philadelphia; his replacement as Scientology's
international president was Jentzsch, who is now out on bail in Spain.

Embarrassing the opposition

Although it has a large presence in Pinellas County (Fla), Scientology
keeps its business headquarters in California, and it was there that top
Scientologists and lawyers gathered to talk about O'Reilly, the lawyer who
was causing them trouble.

Joseph Yanny, 38, was one of those lawyers. He has since fallen out with
the church, but at the time, he was one of Scientology's top lawyers. Yanny
began representing Scientology in trademark matters in 1983. His other
clients include Corona Beer and the rock group Grateful Dead. By 1985,
Yanny was "closely involved in the formulation of legal strategy,"
according to court documents filed by Scientologists.

"I and others were told by (Scientology executive) Marty Rathburn that on
orders of David Miscavige, the successor of L. Ron Hubbard as the head of
the cult, that the medical records of O'Reilly were to be stolen from the
Betty Ford Center, and another location in Santa Barbara, to show that he
was using cocaine, discredit him, and possibly blackmail him into easing
off on his $30-million verdict now on appeal," Yanny said last summer when
questioned by Scientology lawyers.

Yanny balked. "I wanted no part of any criminal conduct to obtain the
stuff," he said in an interview with the Times. "An alternative plan was
quickly arrived at to settle my nerves," he said when questioned by other
lawyers.

The new tack: Rather than steal the records, lawyers would get them through
the judicial process. Subpoenas were prepared for records from the Betty
Ford Center, the Eisenhower Medical Center and Cottage Care Center, all in
California. Specifically requested in the subpoenas, which are now on file
in federal court, were "records of admittance for treatment of alcohol
an/or drug use or dependency, records of treatment of Mr. O'Reilly for
alcohol and/or drug usage, records concerning any known distribution or
receipt by Mr. O'Reilly of any illegal drug."

Yanny said he protested again, saying the Scientologists were abusing the
legal system. He said he refused to sign the subpoenas, and although they
were filed with the court, they were ultimately never served. Yanny
resigned as church counsel.

Since then, Yanny has been sued by the Church of Scientology, which says
that after quitting he supplied church adversaries with privileged
Scientology legal information.

An account from inside

She was 22, a former Unitarian. He was a former Marine air traffic
controller with two tours in Vietnam. They were taking courses at
Mountainview Junior College in Dallas when Vicki McRae met Richard Azneran.
"He told me that there was a guy in Austin named Whit Whitford who was a
Scientologist... and that this fellow could do all sorts of magical things,
like make butterflies come out of the sky and things like that," she
remembered when questioned by lawyers in June.

"That conversation ended pretty quickly, because I told him I thought it
was bulls-."

Ms. McRae's skepticism yielded to Azneran's curiosity, though, and before
long both were Scientologists, later they became husband and wife.
Scientologists - their leader called the group a religion, but said it
didn't require abandoning other religious beliefs. It was a religion of
man: a belief that through a form of one-on-one counseling called
"auditing," man could free himself of deep-rooted psychological baggage and
live a self-determined life. This auditing was accomplished with the help
of an "E-meter," a device similar to a lie-detector.

The founder of this religion was L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer
in the 1940s whose 1950 book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
planted the seed for the Scientology movement. In its simplest explanation,
Dianetics was a science of the mind, and Scientology was the theology it
embraced.

Hubbard wrote that the human mind is a camera with thousands of tiny
images. These "engrams" were regularly picked up by the mind - they could
have been recorded by a person almost as early as conception - and
profoundly affected human behavior, even creating physical maladies. They
had to be excised before man could rid himself and the planet of neurosis,
war, crime and disease, Hubbard said. The end result was a state called
"clear."

Vicki Azneran, like millions of other people around the world, was
intrigued. She began taking Scientology courses at a Dallas Dianetics
center and soon joined the staff. In time she advanced to the national
staff, putting in 18-hour days in exchange for $10 a week plus room and
board and auditing privileges, she said. She was rewarded with prestige,
and in 1983 was promoted to president of Religious Technology Center (RTC).

This was the Scientology branch, based in Los Angeles, that made sure
Hubbard's teachings were delivered in a standard format. The position made
her one of the highest-ranking Scientologists in the world.

Vicki Azneran had become part of Scientology's elite. She knew the complex
myriad of organizations and sub-organizations and how they fit together.
She now says that Scientology's corporate web was created as a way of
beating taxes. She also knew other details, and recently testified about
them in federal court proceedings.

Among other things, she disclosed the systematic destruction of church
documents. Scientologists feared those records might show that Hubbard
secreted millions of dollars of church money into his own accounts, she
testified. (A federal Judge last year ruled that Hubbard did just that.)
Since the church claimed to be not-for-profit - a contention disputed by
the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - any such records could be damaging.

Vicki Azneran said she and her husband helped make sure the records were
never released. They shredded financial documents in 1980 in Clearwater,
she said, and again in 1981. Then in 1986, she said, she and Richard
"participated in the coverup of expenditures... in anticipation of an IRS
audit" in California.

Meantime, in 1984, she said, she destroyed other documents - which a
California judge had ordered the church to yield. The church had personal
records on Gerry Armstrong, a former Scientologist in litigation with the
sect. Now Judge Paul Breckenridge of California Superior Court was ordering
the Church of Scientology to turn over these records, called "PC" files, or
pre-clear files. The files, kept on all Scientologists, contain personal
information - from secret desires to confessions of misconduct - extracted
during auditing sessions.

"I removed documents from Gerry Armstrong's PC folders to keep them from
being turned over to the court," Vicki Azneran said. "I went through them
and removed things from them. And some of those things I destroyed, and
some of them I gave away or gave to someone in OSA (Office of Special
Affairs), I believe."

Richard Azneran, who also had risen through the ranks - becoming Hubbard's
public relations representative and later supervising church security -
said culling pre-clear files was standard church practice. He said he also
carried out similar tasks.

Among the duties he described in depositions: bugging staff members' rooms,
digging through adversarial lawyers' garbage and investigating so-called
enemies of the church.

In 1985, Scientology executive David Miscavige told him to set up
eavesdropping equipment in all the offices of Author Services Incorporated,
Azneran said. Author Services is Scientology's for-profit division,
licensing the copyrights to the prolific Hubbard's works. Miscavige feared
a raid by the IRS and wanted to photograph and record "everything that any
agent ever said to each other" so it could be used in plotting a defense,
Azneran said.

Rick Azneran also devised and helped implement a system to destroy church
computer tapes, he said.

The way it worked, records from the church's Southern California centers
were transferred from computer discs to tapes and taken to rented storage
facilities in Ventura, Orange and Riverside counties outside Los Angeles
County to create possible jurisdictional problems for the police.

Electronic machines that erase magnetic tapes "were set up in a row right
next to the storage racks where the daily backup tapes were kept," Azneran
said. "We drilled on a regular basis being able to destroy the information
on those magnetic tapes in a given amount of time, which is what we thought
we would have should there be a raid."

And what if the FBI or IRS tried to force their way into the actual
computer centers?

The Scientologists had thought of that, too, Azneran said. "Earlier on in
the computer rooms, the glass... that had been installed was all two-inch,
two-and-a-half-inch bullet-proof glass so that they couldn't break in with
sledge hammers and so forth."

Punishment and escape

Why are the Aznerans saying such terrible things about their former
colleagues?

It goes back to 1986 - specifically, Jan. 24, the day the reclusive L. Ron
Hubbard, 74, died of a stroke at his ranch in Creston, Calif. There was
some struggle within Scientology's top ranks to succeed Hubbard, and Vicki
Azneran found herself in the wrong faction, she says now.

As a result, she was sent to the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), a
military-like work detail that former members say exists at nearly all
major Scientology centers. Her assignment was to Happy Valley, a
Scientology camp in the California desert. Guards ordered her to run
wherever she went and sleep with a dozen women in one room, and a female
guard stayed with her when she showered, she said.

She herself had dispatched dozens of others to the RPF for misdeeds against
the church, she said. She had personally done stints in the RPF on her way
up the Scientology ladder.

But this time was different, she said. This time, she was sick. A uterine
infection gave her a fever, and the guards wouldn't let her leave to see a
doctor.

So in March of 1987, when two companions ran away and later came back in a
rented car, she joined them and left. She had decided, as had Richard, it
was time to leave Scientology, she told lawyers.

Their separation from the church seemed amicable. They even accepted a
$20,000 loan, to be paid back at 5 percent interest over 10 years. They
took the money and started a private investigation firm in Dallas.
But Vicki and Richard Azneran held a grudge.

On April 1 this year (1988) they filed a $70-million lawsuit in U.S.
District Court in Los Angeles against the Church of Scientology of
California, RTC and other church divisions, and several Scientology
executives. The 11-count suit claimed false imprisonment, infliction of
emotional distress, loss of consortium, conspiracy, fraud, breach of
contract, invasion of privacy and breach of duty to pay minimum wage and
overtime.

Scientology lawyers denied the charges.

Suing their lawyer

On June 15, Scientology lawyers called Yanny, the former lawyer, to a
meeting. "They told me they were going to sue me," Yanny said. "Howard
Weitzman (a prominent Los Angeles lawyer) said they wanted to make this all
go away. He said to me, "This doesn't have to happen if you can make the
Azneran case go away."

"End of meeting."

"And so I got sued, And fur started flying."

The Church of Scientology International, the Church of Scientology of
California and RTC charged in the suit, filed eight days after the meeting,
that Yanny violated the attorney-client privilege. According to the
Scientologists, Yanny presided over a series of "clandestine meetings" in
March at his Hermosa Beach home with various Lawyers, aides, the Aznerans
and Bent Corydon. Corydon, of Riverside, Calif., wrote the 1987 book L. Ron
Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?, and has faced a barrage of litigation from the
church.

The Scientologists said that Yanny, who had inside information, now was
aiding, even encouraging, the Aznerans. As proof, the Scientologists
presented affidavits from two former employees of Yanny who said they were
present during the meetings with the Aznerans and Corydon. The
Scientologists also submitted photographs, taken by a private investigator,
showing Corydon's car parked behind Yanny's house. On the basis of this
information, a California Judge ruled that neither Yanny nor his lawyers
could represent the Aznerans because of an appearance of impropriety.

Although Yanny acknowledged a friendship with the Aznerans and Corydon, he
said he has not helped them with their suits. But the Scientologists had
other charges as well. Their suit said that of the $1.8-million Yanny's
firm billed the sect in four years, a substantial portion was padded or
fraudulent. And they said that Yanny performed incompetent work "while
under the influence of drugs and alcohol."

Later they amended the suit. They dropped the part about incompetence,
drugs and alcohol.

The rearview mirror

Joe Yanny took a plane from Los Angeles to Dallas and then another to
Pittsburgh last June (1988). In Pittsburgh, he rented a car to go to his
sister's home in Bellaire, Ohio.

He said he thought he was being followed.

The Grateful Dead, one of his clients, was playing in Buckeye Lakes while
he was in Ohio, so Yanny and three friends got into the car and drove to
the concert. Coming back, he though he was being followed.

He sped up and lost the tail. But when he got into town, alongside his
sister's house, four police cruisers pulled up with lights flashing.

The officers said they had a tip, phoned in anonymously to the Ohio Highway
Patrol. Yanny, they said they were told, had firearms and cocaine in the
car.

"I was told at that point in time that I and those in my company could be
searched, including the vehicle, or that I could be arrested on the spot,"
Yanny said. "The choice was mine."

He agreed to be searched, as did the others. The police found nothing.

The next day, Bellaire police stopped a different rented car in town. The
men in the car gave a story the police did not believe, so the police
persisted, and the men in the rental car finally acknowledged that they
were watching Yanny.

"The police were informed that these people had been hired by - the name
Economic Research Group from New York was mentioned," Yanny said in a
deposition. "They were from the Washington, D.C., area and had been hired
by a firm named Williams & Connelly. At least this is the information that
was given to the Police. (Williams & Connelly) had represented the cult of
Scientology on various matters, and various of its chief executives such as
David Miscavige."

Williams & Connelly lawyer Gerald Feffer said he would likely know of any
Scientology matters involving the firm, but knew nothing about the
incident. He said he has used the Economic Research Group - an
investigation firm that would not return a reporter's calls - but said, "I
don't, and would never, under any circumstances, hire anyone to harass
anybody."

Capt. Robert Wallace of the Bellaire police said: "Mr. Yanny's account
would be correct. And yes, the Bellaire Police Department can confirm
that." He said the only part of the story he could not verify was whether
the private investigators phoned in the tip about Yanny carrying drugs. But
he said: "It is extremely coincidental, to say the least."

(The above story is reprinted with permission from the St. Petersburg,
Fla., Times, December 22, 1988.)

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Narconon One Of Many Scientology Organizations

By Stephen Koff
St. Petersburg Times
Reprinted 06 July 1989

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. Dec. 12, 1988 - Operating under auspices of the Church
of Scientology are dozens of groups, many of them separate legal entities.
Untangling Scientology's lines of organizations can be difficult; even the
sect's own charts that have been used in court cases are complex. Here are
some of Scientology's organizations.

Flag Service Organization - The legal name of Scientology's Clearwater
(Fla.) operation, which serves as the sect's spiritual headquarters. Before
1981 the organization was part of the Church of Scientology of California,
and Pinellas County (Fla.) officials contend that Flag is still an "alter
ego" of the California church. The distinction could be worth millions of
dollars in tax exemption, and Scientology lawyers deny the Pinellas claim.

Sea Org - Short for Sea Organization, a corp of dedicated Scientologists
who wear navy-style uniforms and sign billion-year loyalty contracts.
(Scientologist believe in reincarnation.) Before Scientology's move to
Clearwater in 1975, members of the Sea Org served with sect founder L. Ron
Hubbard aboard ships roaming the globe.

International Association of Scientologists - A group formed by church
leaders in 1984 to combat "external" threats to Scientology such as
lawsuits and critical media coverage. Membership in the association makes
one an official member of the church, according to association
publications.

The Freewinds - A 500-passenger ship bought in 1986 by the International
Association of Scientologists. Previously berthed in St. Petersburg as the
cruise ship Boheme, the Freewinds was renovated and now is based in the
southern Caribbean, where upper-level Scientology training is offered.
Among those who have cruised are Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis,
who took a honeymoon trip on the ship in October.

Bridge Publications - Publisher of L. Ron Hubbard's works, including his
Battlefield Earth science fiction series and the seminal Scientology work
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Bridge is a for-profit
company.

Concerned Businessmen's Association of America - A Glendale, Calif. - based
group of Scientologists that promotes drug-free living through its "Way to
Happiness" book and like-named campaign, targeted to school-age children.
The association's Intertribal Council brought American Indian leaders to
Scientology's Clearwater headquarters in February (1988) to talk about drug
treatment programs. A related group, called the Hubbard Foundation, did
detoxification of the Blackfeet reservation in Montana "for a while," said
Jim Ferres, Blackfeet treatment services director. "They don't do it
anymore... I view alcoholism as a disease, and don't believe in this guru
kind of stuff."

Narconon - A Scientologist-run drug education and rehabilitation program
based on a regimen of megavitamins and saunas. Narconon boasts an 80
percent success rate, but health officials and former Narconon employees
dispute that claim. Narconon offices were among those raided in the Spanish
investigation of Scientology in November.

(Ed note - in a March 29, 1989 story, the St. Petersburg Times also
reported that 75 Scientologists were to go before an Italian court in Milan
to face a list of charges including fraud, extortion and tax evasion
related to the Italian Scientology, Dianetics, and Narconon operations. The
action followed a massive investigation started in 1981)

WISE - An acronym for World Institute of Scientology Enterprises, the
sect's division that teaches "Hubbard management tech" to businesses and
professionals. Among the Scientologist-run consulting firms licensed under
WISE are Singer Consultants (specializing in chiropractors), Sterling
Management Consultants (dentists) and Uptrends (computer professionals).
Anywhere from 20 percent (a Singer estimate) to 50 percent (an Uptrends
figure) of WISE clients wind up taking Scientology courses or buying
Hubbard books.

Citizen's Commission on Human Rights - A Scientology division that crusades
against many applications of psychiatry, particularly the use of Ritalin, a
drug used to control hyperactivity in children. Scientology has a
distinctly anti-psychiatric, anti-medical bent, which psychiatrists say is
a result of Dianetics being shunned by organized medicine.

(The above article is reprinted from the St. Petersburg Times, Dec. 22,
1988, with permission)

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Scientology Cosmology...
Cruel Ruler Of Universe Turns Earth Into Prison

By Stephen Koff
St. Petersburg Times
Reprinted 06 July 1989
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA., Dec. 23, 1988 - It was like something out of a
science fiction script - but L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology,
claimed it was fact.

"Xenu," he called the central character. Xenu ruled the 90-planet Galactic
Confederation 75-million years ago, when overpopulation was a problem.
So Xenu solved the problem: He trapped selected beings and flew them to
volcanoes on Earth, then called Teegeeach. He then dropped powerful H-bombs
on the volcanoes.

The beings were destroyed in a wall of fire. However, their spirits, or
"thetans," weren't. Gathering them into clusters, Xenu trapped the thetans
in frozen alcohol and glycol.

Then he finished his cruel plan: He electronically implanted the thetans so
they would reproduce in subsequent generations of man and cause sexual
perversion and other abnormal behavior.

The implants are in us - each of us - today.

Though such beliefs may seem far-fetched, Scientology documents show they
are part of upper-level Scientology training known as OT III, short for
Operating Thetan III. OT III is the third of 15 steps on Scientology's
advanced ladder, climbed by believers after reaching the state of "clear."
OT III training, which is supposed to remove the implants by revisiting the
Xenu incident and breaking through the wall of fire, is offered in
Clearwater at a cost of $6,500, according to a fall 1988 rate sheet.
Details of OT III are considered confidential. When church documents
describing Xenu surfaced during a 1985 trial in Los Angeles, Scientology
lawyers tried unsuccessfully to immediately seal them. Gerald Armstrong, a
former Scientologist who discovered that many of Hubbard's credentials and
claims were false, described in a court document why the group so closely
guards Xenu.

"In Scientology, people are told that if they read even part of the story
before they have progressed through all the various lower Scientology
steps, at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars, their subconscious
minds will be restimulated, and they will "freewheel, ..."" Armstrong said,
"Their mind will go out of control, they will not be able to eat or sleep
and they will die."

A Hubbard memo obtained by Clearwater police said pneumonia may also
result, as the implants are calculated to kill by pneumonia anyone who
tries to "solve" them - sort of like a pharaoh's curse, Hubbard noted.
That's why only properly applied training would succeed, Hubbard said.
Armstrong said the Xenu story was identical to the screenplay for Revolt in
the Stars, a film written by Hubbard. The film never got commercial
financing and was not released.

(Above story is reprinted from the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times, Dec. 23,
1988 with permission. It is one of several published reports reflecting the
same incident - all reports are essentially the same in content.)

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Mail From Everywhere...
Mayor Launches Narconon Inquiry After Receiving Adverse Reports From At
Least Five Other States

27 July 1989
Newkirk Mayor Garry Bilger says in the past two weeks he has been receiving
mail from all over the country since an Associated Press article concerning
Narconon Chilocco was released.

The article, which appeared in newspapers from Corpus Christi, Tx. to the
New York Times, seems to have prompted the letters to Bilger. "I haven't
received a letter favorable to the Narconon program yet... they are all
negative."

For example, a writer from Illinois says, "I can empathize with your town's
plight and have the utmost admiration for those who are fighting to close
down Narconon's newest operation before it actually is in operation.
"... it is strictly a method of recruitment, and their recovery claims are
unfounded," the letter continues. The writer goes on...

"The Oklahoma Health Plan (sic) Commission had better do some fast and
thorough homework - the information is available. They probably have never
before been confronted with such a slick and deceptive organization."

Enclosed with the letter were clippings about Narconon's troubles in Italy
and Spain.

A hand written letter from Pennsylvania says, "Without becoming too
emotional, I want to tell you (my sister) gave thousands of dollars to
Scientology, left all her Christian upbringing behind, and let Ron Hubbard
rule her life with his values and teachings. Scientology is very sneaky,
with their pseudonyms such as "Big Apple Schools" and "Narconon" - and
practically took over a town in Florida."

She concludes, "Please, be very careful in letting them come into your town
on their false pretenses."

Another example: "I have just read the New York Times article on your
situation with Narconon and Scientology," this former Scientologist writes.
"...I will tell you straight out that Narconon is a sham. It is a front and
a device used by the Church of Scientology to lure people into Scientology.
You must realize that you are dealing with a very determined and ruthless
bunch of fanatics. They resort to any deceit, any trickery to get their
way... which is to promote and lure people into Scientology. Narconon fits
very nicely into this as most people are concerned about Drug abuse and
addiction and will give time and money to anything that looks like it might
help.

Narconon is an elaborate scheme to entice people into Scientology, to
promote Scientology and the name of L. Ron Hubbard. It looks like a noble
work for the good of society. They will trot out a handful of people who
will claim that they were helped with Narconon. They might even bring out a
celebrity or two. Scientology will use very little of their own money in
this con. They will go after Grants, donations, etc. and they are very
skilled in getting other peoples money."

"...Sadly enough, most of the lower level Scientologists are not aware of
the con and deception that they are involved with. They don't realize that
they have been brainwashed. I didn't and went busily around promoting
Scientology and Narconon all the while believing that I was working in a
noble cause...."

"You can use what I have said here in any way you find useful. I would ask
that you don't give my name or address to anyone connected to Narconon or
Scientology.

Gary Smith, the Narconon spokesman quoted in the Times article, is lying
through his teeth. You can quote me - I was there," concludes the writer.
Included with the letters are newspaper clippings from across the country
alleging that Narconon units in at least five states have been shut down or
severely curtailed over the years after questions were raised about their
effectiveness and ties with Scientology.

In Michigan, for instance, a prison psychologist is reported to have
charged that Narconon is a "con" to gain money and recruits for the Church
of Scientology. A California report done for that state's Department of
Health said Narconon's use of megavitamins to detoxify addicts is a
"hazardous" and "in some cases lethal" practice.

Prison programs in Delaware, Connecticut and Minnesota were reported
terminated after questions were raised about the program's effectiveness.

In Clearwater, Florida, the program apparently never got off the ground,
Scientology spokesmen complained in one clipping, due to the "climate"
created by negative media reports about the Church of Scientology.

Michigan prison psychologist John Hand has been quoted as saying, "They are
phony, a front for the Church of Scientology. We found out in Michigan that
most of the money that we were paying Narconon was laundered back into the
Church of Scientology." Gary Smith, Narconon's spokesman, was quoted in the
same article, and branded Hand's assertion that money in Michigan was
"laundered" as "ridiculous."

"It's just a basic technology whereby a person can get off drugs, back into
life and be happy. We don't push it (Scientology) on anybody. We never
have," Smith was quoted as saying.

But in view of the mounting material from across the country, as well as
reports from abroad, Mayor Bilger has instructed an attorney to contact
Corrections Department and Health Department officials in Michigan,
California, Delaware, Connecticut, and Minnesota to find out the truth
about the allegations.

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Commission, Chamber, School Board
City Leaders Call For State Review Of Narconon Program At Chilocco Indian
School North Of Town

17 August 1989
Newkirk's School Board, City Commission, and Chamber of Commerce have
jointly sent a 67 page document to 16 State and National leaders asking
them to support a special review of the Narconon-Chilocco drug
rehabilitation program and it's connection with Scientology.

The cover letter of the package of exhibits says in part, "Based on this
information, it appears that Narconon's primary objective is Scientology
recruitment and not drug abuse treatment. Our community is very concerned
and we are requesting your help in obtaining a complete review of their
operation and the licensing procedure which allows Narconon to operate in
Oklahoma. It is signed by the Mayor, the President of the Newkirk Board of
Education, and the President of the Newkirk Chamber of Commerce.

The first exhibit alleges that there have been several instances of
misrepresentation made by Narconon to the community, and the balance of the
package contains individual documents, media reports, and sources of
further information that the signers hope will cause officials to take a
second look at Narconon.

Mayor Garry Bilger feels that it is pretty well documented that Narconon is
a Scientology controlled organization. He points to a ceremony held at
Chilocco on April 8, 1989. At the ceremony Bilger observed a representative
of the Association For Better Living and Education (ABLE) "donate" at
$200,000.00 check to Narconon for seed money to get the project started.

Bilger contends that at the ceremony an obvious effort was made to have
everyone believe that ABLE and Narconon were two entirely separate
organizations that had nothing to do with each other until then.
But Narconon's own promotional material says it is owned by ABLE. And ABLE
turns out to be one of the many organizations on the Scientology
organization chart.

At a public meeting in Newkirk on May 8, 1989, Mr. Leroy Bridges of the
State Mental health Department told a group of about 80 people that there
would be "no Oklahoma patients" treated at the facility, except for a few
indigent Indians. Mr. Bridges also said that no state money would be
involved.

But a document in the package, written sometime before July 1988, allegedly
by Mr. John Duff, president of Narconon International, lists local and
Oklahoma people as the top priorities in the Narconon marketing plan. It
also lists "State Contracts that pay for beds," as a priority.

At the same meeting, Mr. Bridges told the citizens of Newkirk that Narconon
had voluntarily placed itself under jurisdiction of the state for matters
of law enforcement and inspection of their program and facilities.
However, a letter from Sheriff Glenn Guinn included in the package says,
"As I understand it, I have no authority on Chilocco land. Everything at
Chilocco comes under the F.B.I., and we have one F.B.I. agent in this area
stationed at Enid."

The document allegedly authored by Mr. Duff also says that it is
"essential" to procure state certification and licensing "because we will
be providing services to both Indian and Non-Indian people paid through a
fee for service, insurance coverage and possible state contracts. State
licensing is mandatory for us to be able to accept Non-Indian clientele."
The package sent to the state says, "We find it curious that Narconon wants
to be licensed in order to collect on state contracts and insurance
policies from people Mr. Bridges has flatly said would not be served at the
facility."

Narconon has consistently said it is not connected with the Church of
Scientology, but the material in the package sent to the state seems to
indicate that except for a "cold turkey" detoxification period, nearly all
of the rest of the treatment consists of courses and programs also found on
the Church of Scientology's religious progress chart known as "The Bridge
To Total Freedom."

City leaders are also questioning the cure rates claimed by Narconon. They
consider it an exaggerated figure and say they have seen no data to support
it. Several individuals involved in drug and alcohol rehabilitation in this
area have said the cure rate for any program is between 15% and 30% at
best.

Narconon spokesmen have said that the conversion rate of Narconon patients
to Scientology is, variously, between 1% and 3%, and "under 10%." But an
evaluation Team Report made to the California State Department of Health
said "it was clear that nearly all the patients hoped to become
Scientologists." Other reports from former Scientology members and Narconon
patients puts the figure at between 50% and 75%.

Other exhibits contained in the package mailed to state officials consists
of charts, news reports from around the country and several foreign
countries, a radio transcript, and 13 pages of references for further
reading or information which city leaders hope will be enough to convince
the state that it needs to take a much closer look at this project before
it is licensed for operation in the State of Oklahoma.

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Scientific And Medical Accuracy Of Narconon Program Questioned

17 August 1989
A Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Oklahoma
calls it "pure unadulterated 'cow pies'".

A Doctor of Internal Medicine in Ponca City says it is "filled with ...many
false generalizations, internal inconsistencies, outright lies, and
potentially dangerous treatments."

They are talking about the Purification part of the Narconon drug
rehabilitation program that will be offered at Chilocco.

According to a document called the Narconon Technical Line-Up copyrighted
1984 by Narconon, their rehabilitation program consists of several steps:
First, there is a Detoxification and Withdrawal program, followed by a Drug
Education/Orientation lecture, Hard TR's (Training Routines), the
Purification program, Objectives, the Drug Rundown, and the Way To
Happiness Rundown.

Several area individuals have ask for and have been promised a copy of the
Narconon "protocols" that will be used when Narconon is in operation, but
after several weeks, nothing has been forthcoming from Narconon.

However, Narconon and Scientology documents have been provided by former
Scientologists, Narconon volunteers, and Narconon patients which give a
pretty clear idea of program contents.

One of those documents, a Hubbard Communications Bulletin called "The
Purification Rundown Replaces The Sweat Program" is said to contain the
core of L. Ron Hubbard's "technology" regarding the removal of toxic
substances such as drugs from the body.

It is a regimen which includes exercise, sauna sweat out, nutrition
including vitamins, minerals, etc, as well as oil intake, and a properly
ordered schedule of activity.

This and several related documents were offered for evaluation by a
University of Oklahoma Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and by a
Ponca City Doctor who specializes in internal medicine. Their reports are
being forwarded by city leaders to the State Health Department.

The OU Professor in his August 4, 1989 report, writes, "My overall comment
on Mr. Hubbard's literature is that there is an absolute lack of data to
support his assertion that the Purification Program succeeds in doing what
the presently adopted programs fail to do. The documents reviewed also
contain many truths and half-truths."

"However," he continues, "there is no evidence that Mr. Hubbard's approach
will cure these ills.

"(Hubbard's statement that) "There is no such thing as a fat cell" is a
meaningless statement," the professor says. "'Fat tissue' should be adipose
tissue which consists of many cell types and the major lipid storage cell
is termed a 'brown cell'"

Where Hubbard suggests that in 1973 someone got a Nobel Prize for curing
insanity with niacin, the OU report says it is "too absurd to comment on."
As far as can be determined, the professor said by telephone, no such prize
was ever given.

The OU report complains of a lack of scientific data within the documents
to support the statements made, and concludes that, "Overall the program
proposed by Mr. Hubbard is pure unadulterated 'cow pies'. It is filled with
some scientific truth but mainly is illogical and the conclusions drawn by
Mr. Hubbard are without any basis in scientific fact."

A report received August 14 from a Ponca City doctor specializing in
Internal Medicine says...

"As a previous Medical Director of two alcohol and drug rehabilitation
units, I feel I am qualified by training, interest and experience to
comment specifically on the proposed treatment center's so called
The Purification Rundown is apparently either all or part of Narconon's
initial detoxification program. The ... document is in general a poorly
written program. There is extremely poor organization. The material is full
of generalizations that have no substantiation in fact. There are internal
inconsistent statements. There is no documentation.

The Purification Rundown is somewhat patterned after many reputable
detoxification programs in which diet, exercise, education and behavioral
modification are used. But due to the above mentioned deficiencies as well
as several outright untruths, I think that it is fair to say that the
Purification Rundown is without merit."

Some specific points made in the report: "There is certainly no scientific
documentation that exercise significantly speeds up the detoxification
process."

"The author states throughout, that sweating increases the rate at which
drugs in general leave the body. This is certainly untrue of many drugs, as
most drugs of abuse are eliminated from the body by detoxification through
the liver, or by passage through the kidney, or occasionally by passage
through the lungs. Although minute quantities of some drugs may appear in
the sweat it is such a small fraction of drug elimination that no matter
how much a patient were made to sweat it could not significantly increase
his clearing of most drugs."

"The author states 'There is no such thing as a fat cell.' This is
absolutely false and can be disproven by any college student who has had a
course in Histology."

"The author's recommendation for taking Vegetable Oil to replace the oils
in our fat tissue that are contaminated with drugs has no documentation or
basis in fact."

"Perhaps the most blatantly false statement made in the entire document (is
where the) author states, 'niacin's biochemical reaction is my own private
personal discovery in the middle of the 1950's. Niacin was discovered
several decades before the 1950's and its importance and multiple
biochemical reactions have been studied from that time until present."

"The author further goes on to state 'Niacin runs out radiation'... There
is no scientific documentation that niacin in any way gets radiation out of
the body. The symptoms of which the author talks are due to dilation of the
blood vessels of the skin and is a known side-effect of niacin
administration."

The report continues... "there are aspects ... which I find medically
unsafe. (Parts of the program) suggest that the author expects that in many
cases heat exhaustion will occur. Any treatment which leads to heat
exhaustion is unsound and unsafe."

Regarding suggested use of a medical officer, the report states, "It seems
quite apparent that medical officer does not equate with medical doctor or
physician as the author...goes on to say 'the medical officer gives a
person an OK to go on to the program after insuring the person's blood
pressure is normal and he is not anemic. The medical officer does these
checks himself where he is trained to do so'. Therefore, it seems medically
unqualified persons are going to be supervising this program which I think
is quite dangerous."

The report concludes, "While a drug free society is a worthwhile goal of
any institution, when the initial entry into this program, i.e. the
Purification Rundown is filled with so many false generalizations, internal
inconsistencies, outright lies, and potentially dangerous treatments, I
think it is without question that Narconon will be a detriment to the
Newkirk area, Kay County, and the State of Oklahoma as a whole."
City leaders say they intend to forward complete, signed copies of the two
reports to the same state and federal officials who previously received
other packages of material concerning Narconon.

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Narconon Researches Opposition
Scientology Group Hires Investigator, Buys Ad

31 August 1989
According to a story by Michael McNutt in the August 25th edition of The
Daily Oklahoman, an alleged Scientology group operating as Narconon near
Newkirk has hired a private investigator to find the extent of illegal drug
use in Kay County and the identity of those opposing "effective drug
rehabilitation programs."

Actually, the private investigator was hired over a month ago. Newkirk
Mayor Garry Bilger says that he was visited by Woody Bastemeyer, owner of
Western Investigating, 4423 N. Greenvale Circle, Stillwater, about July
20th.

Bilger said Bastemeyer told him he had been hired by Narconon to find out
who had been supplying the city with information about Scientology and
Narconon, and was particularly interested in the source of a British
Broadcasting Company documentary program on Scientology that has been
circulating in the area.

Several other area residents have also reported being contacted by Mr.
Bastemeyer.

Bastemeyer resurfaced around the first of August, according to Bilger, and
wanted, but didn't receive, copies of letters the mayor had received from
dissident Scientologists from across the country. He also visited with some
local law enforcement people at that time.

On Tuesday, August 22, an advertisement appeared in the Ponca City News. It
was placed by Western Investigating, and asked people to give the names,
addresses, place of employment, and type of vehicle driven by anyone known
to be selling drugs or opposed to "effective drug rehabilitation programs."

On Thursday, August 24, Kay County Sheriff Glenn Guinn was contacted by
Bastemeyer who was requesting information about Newkirk Herald Journal
Publisher Bob Lobsinger's wife and children.

The Western Investigating ad reappeared the next day in the Ponca City
News.

According to the story in the Oklahoman, Narconon plans to use the
information to convince opponents in the area that a need exists for their
drug treatment facility.

The North Central Major Crimes Task Force ran a similar ad in June, asking
readers to identify who is selling drugs and where the suspect lives and
works. The Western Investigating ad, however, also asks readers to list
"anyone who may be opposed to effective drug rehabilitation programs."
Narconon's Gary Smith is quoted in the Oklahoman article as saying, "That's
in there from past experiences that we've had in other areas,... It's
something that we're investigating."

The Oklahoman says Smith told them they only intend to send those people
informational brochures, "We're not trying to hurt anybody or do any kind
of blackmail thing," Smith is quoted as saying, but added that information
about suspected criminal activity will be "turned over to the proper
authorities."

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Open Letter To Kay County Residents About Narconon

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
August 25, 1989

OPEN LETTER TO
CITIZENS OF NEWKIRK
AND KAY COUNTY:

In response to your packet and the numerous letters of protest concerning
the Narconon Drug treatment facility to be located at the Chilocco Indian
School complex, I want you to know that I, too, am extremely concerned and
am doing everything I know to stop this development.

I have contacted and expressed my concerns to every individual and entity
in state government that I felt might be of assistance in this matter and
the process is continuing.

At my request, all notice of applications for certification, staff reports
and board agendas concerning drug rehabilitation centers in North Central
Oklahoma will be forwarded to certain community leaders. Before licensing
or certification will take place, the citizens of Newkirk will have the
opportunity to air their concerns at public hearings. I have been assured
that certification does include a thorough review of rehabilitation
methods.

The article in Friday's Oklahoman would be humorous if this situation
weren't so serious. The Narconon group has hired a private investigator to
identify those opposing "effective drug rehabilitation programs". I believe
everyone in Kay County realizes this opposition has nothing to do with drug
rehabilitation and everything to do with Scientology. From the responses I
have received, I believe Narconon could much more quickly get a list of
those opposing them by xeroxing a Newkirk phone book and marking off those
few that might be employed by them or are otherwise connected.

For those who may be reading about this for the first time, the Church of
Scientology was founded by L. Ron Hubbard. L. Ron Hubbard originally was a
science fiction writer before starting his Church of Scientology. A quote
later attributed to him was "Why write science fiction for a penny a word?
If you want a million dollars, start a religion."

A former Scientologist, who has since escaped the church, has given some
insight into the secret "O.T. Levels of Scientology". "OT" stands for
"operating thetan". A "thetan" is supposedly a spirit or being that
controls behavior. The "O.T. Levels of Scientology" are based on the story
of "Xenu", ruler of the 90-planet Galactic Confederation about 75-million
years ago. According to closely guarded Scientology materials, "Xenu"
trapped selected beings in volcanoes on Earth, then dripped powerful
H-bombs, thus killing their physical bodies. He then implanted their
"remaining spirits", so they would produce abnormal conduct in all future
generations of the Human Race. According to the story, only Scientology can
remove the "thetans" and end aberrant behavior.

I believe the primary objective of Narconon is Scientology recruitment.
Newkirk City officials sent information concerning the treatments at
Narconon to a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of
Oklahoma and to a Medical Doctor, specializing in Internal Medicine and
practicing In Ponca City, Oklahoma. One called the program "pure
unadulterated cow pies", while the other said the program was "without
merit".

What we must do is start a public awareness campaign to educate everyone
about the Narconon Drug Treatment facility and what appears to be their
suspect activities. The methods used in Newkirk closely parallel their
methods used in every city they have entered. Just reading ahead to the
next chapter, I envision those in Newkirk, who are leading the charge in
"uncovering" them, being set up and accused of some sort of criminal
activity which will be uncovered by the Narconon's private investigators.
hopefully, by disclosing what has happened in other cities, we can take the
air out of their sails in advance.

I encourage everyone to become aware of these people and spread the word.
If you would like to know more or receive a packet of information
concerning this organization, you may contact me.

While the people of Newkirk are relatively aware of this situation, this
letter is being sent to all Kay County media to assist you in your efforts.
Sincerely,

/s/ Jim Reese
State Representative
District 38
State Capitol Bldg.
1 (800) 522-8502
or (405) 447-7332

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Bellmon Advised Against Signing Narconon Support Document

07 September 1989
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Gov. Henry Bellmon is being advised not to get
involved in a dispute over a proposed drug treatment center in Newkirk, an
aide says.

''It would be inappropriate for the governor to sign any document endorsing
a drug treatment center prior to completion of the Department of Mental
Health's review of the facility for certification,'' Andrew Tevington,
Bellmon's aide, said Wednesday.

A group of Native Americans asked Bellmon to sign a proclamation about drug
abuse that mentions the Narconon Chilocco New Life Treatment Center.
A few members of the group made speeches on the south steps of the Capitol
Wednesday, saying five Indian nations in Oklahoma have banded together to
address the problem of drug abuse.

But some critics feel the group is simply trying to promote the Narconon
center because the company wants to use 165 acres of the 96-year-old
Chilocco Indian School, which closed in 1980.

The Chilocco Development Authority has representatives from the Ponca, Kaw,
Pawnee, Otoe-Missouria and Tonkawa tribes. The authority leased Chilocco to
Narconon for 25 years in an arrangement that could bring in up to $16
million.

The Native American group's proclamation says the Indian nations were
showing their dedication to the war against drug abuse by helping establish
the Narconon center.

The Narconon proposal has generated opposition in Newkirk because of
Narconon's reported link to the Church of Scientology, which some consider
a religious cult.

Narconon plans to open a 75-bed center this fall, and buildings are being
renovated.

The Oklahoma Health Planning Commission approved Narconon's application in
January, granting the organization approval for an initial 75 beds.

Organizers said the Narconon center will draw on the group's six outpatient
clinics in the United States and Canada. Some beds will be available for
local drug abusers as well, officials said.

The state Department of Mental Health will assess the Narconon drug
treatment program when it is in place and rate it according to accepted
standards in the field, state officials said.

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State Worker Linked To Narconon Promoter
Mental Health Staffer's Activities Probed

By Randy Ellis
and Michael McNutt
Oklahoman Staff Writers
14 September 1989

As an employee of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health, Leroy Bridges
"actively lobbied" his colleagues in support of Narconon International's
proposed drug treatment center near Newkirk, a memo states.

Meanwhile, Bridges had ties to a consulting firm hired by Narconon
International to help that controversial drug treatment organization in its
application for a certificate of need from the Oklahoma Health Planning
Commission.

Bridges denies any wrongdoing, but his activities are being probed by
federal investigators.

Records on file in the Oklahoma Secretary of State's office show that
Bridges filed a document June 6, 1988, in which he applied to reserve the
name Treatment Development Corporation.

Treatment Development Corp. was hired by Narconon International to help the
Los Angeles based firm with its certificate of need application, according
to both Bridges and Sherry Barry, a Norman woman who heads Treatment
Development Corp.

The proposed treatment center has been controversial because of Narconon's
links to the Church of Scientology; which some people consider a cult.
Bridges acknowledged reserving the name Treatment Development Corporation,
but said he did not have any direct connection with the consulting firm.

"If you'll look at the documents, you'll see that the corporation and
everything was set up for Sherry," Bridges said. "She set it up. Since l'm
at the Capitol Building, I've done this for several people-check a name. I
Just reserved the name until she could set it up."

Barry also denied that Bridges, whom she described as a friend, has any
role with the company which is operated out of her Norman apartment

However, attorney Richard Mildren, who is listed as service agent for
Treatment Development Corporation, said he agreed to serve in that capacity
at the request of Bridges, whom he described as a friend.

Mildren said Bridges also apparently signed him up to serve as service
agent for Narconon International.

Mildren said he knew almost nothing about either corporation and didn't'
even know he was listed as the service agent for Narconon International
until he received a notice from the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

Mildren said a senior partner in his law firm has asked him to withdraw as
Narconon's registered agent and he is trying to take that action.
Mildren said he did not know if Bridges received money for his actions in
behalf of Narconon or Treatment Development Corporation. Bridges said he
was not paid.

Both Barry and Bridges attended a ceremony in April at the old Chilocco
Indian School with Narconon and tribal officials associated with the
Chilocco Development Authority.

Bridges was listed as vice chairman of the Oklahoma Cultural Diversity and
Economic Development Task Force and a member of the founding board of Red
Earth Inc., while Barry was listed as being with Treatment Development
Corporation.

Opposition to the facility began a month later when a Newkirk newspaper
editor published articles linking Narconon to the Church of Scientology.
During a public hearing held in May by Newkirk city officials, Bridges,
along with Howard Miles, a member of the Health Planning Commission, tried
to calm residents' fears about the Narconon facility.

Bridges said Narconon's drug treatment plan was based on philosophies of
Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, but said he found the plan to
be acceptable and added it would have to be certified by the state
Department of Mental Health before Narconon could open.

Although Bridges presented for Newkirk residents a positive view of
Narconon, such views were not universal with the Mental Health Department.
Steve West, director of the alcohol and drug abuse division of the
Department of Mental Health, had expressed strong opposition to Narconon's
proposed treatment center in an October 18, 1988 memo to Frank James, who
was then mental health commissioner.

West cited Narconon's relationship with the Church of Scientology and
stated, "As I understand it, Narconon will allow indigent clients to work
off their bill. The Indians they are supposed to be helping could become
indentured servants."

"I have heard they want to start with 150 beds and eventually go to 1,000.
This is a factory, not a center.

"Narconon has never been certified as a treatment program in California
where they currently operate," he said.

"Although Leroy Bridges has been favorably impressed with this program and
actively lobbied for its existence, I cannot agree," West wrote. "I think
from what I have heard, there is little substance to the program and we
could regret, ever getting it started in Oklahoma."

Bridges, in an interview last week, said he no longer is involved in state
Department of Mental Health dealings with Narconon's proposed facility.
Bridges, who had served as legislative liaison for the Mental Health
Department, was reassigned earlier this year by interim Commissioner Don
Anderson and is now coordinator of special projects.

Mental Health administrators sent out a memo last week reminding employees
to remain impartial concerning Narconon's proposed treatment center.
Barry said she "sometimes" still does consulting work for Narconon, which
is now seeking certification from the state Department of Mental Health to
open its 75-bed facility.

(Staff writer Ed Godfrey contributed to this report. It is reprinted with
permission from the Saturday Oklahoman and Times, September 9,1989)

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 14 September 1989

When Hell Freezes Over

The Newkirk Herald Journal will heartily support the Narconon/Scientology
drug abuse treatment program at Chilocco as soon as Narconon...

1) produces the necessary scientifically acceptable studies that they
should have done during the 23 years they claim to have been in business...
studies done by non-Scientologists, reviewed thoroughly by Oklahoma
professionals, that will confirm without doubt that their system is safe,
effective, reliable, and medically sound.

2) can prove that their treatment program does not consist of any of the
first half dozen steps up the Scientology chart of religious progress known
as the Bridge to Total Freedom.

3) can provide accurate and accountable reports of results they have
attained instead of wild guesses.

4) can prove that they have never, do not currently, and will not in the
future use any type of "religious artifact" or require as part of the
treatment, the services of a minister (or auditor) of any church in their
treatment program, at Chilocco, or at any other Narconon establishment.

or when Hell freezes over, whichever comes first.

We will heartily support any drug abuse treatment program that can comply
with these few simple requirements that insure quality treatment,
separation of church and state, and basic honesty. And we have, in fact,
suggested to Drug Czar William Bennett that Chilocco would indeed make an
excellent facility for legitimate drug treatment. We hope he is listening.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 05 October 1989

They're Shooting Themselves In The Foot...Again!

Since Scientology/Narconon can't refute facts, and they won't address the
real concerns, all they have left is to attempt to discredit. And, as the
reaction to their mailing last week proved, they did a rather miserable
job, even, of that. More unity has been demonstrated in Newkirk than we can
remember in the past decade.

Scientology spent a lot of money, used a lot of words, and managed to make
just about everybody in town unhappy with them, especially our former
mayor, who said Monday that he felt he had been "raped."

We didn't dream up Scientology. We didn't create its nefarious 30 year
history.

Scientology did.

We didn't attempt to frame people like Paulette Cooper and Gabe Cazares and
Michael Flynn.

Scientology did.

We didn't break into Government offices.

Scientology did.

We didn't hire any "private investigators" to try to discredit Scientology.
Scientology discredited themselves without our help.

We didn't ruin Scientology's reputation.

Scientology did.

We didn't shoot Scientology in the foot.

They did it all by themselves.

We just made sure everybody noticed. Which is our job.

***

We simply insist that any drug rehab program at Chilocco be proven safe,
effective, reliable, and medically sound by independent scientifically
acceptable studies verified by Oklahoma professionals.

We insist that any drug rehab program at Chilocco not consist of any
portion of the religious dogma of any religion, or require the services of
a minister of any religion, or the use of any religious artifact as part of
the treatment.

And we insist on basic honesty and accountability.

Why can't they do that?

Is it because their program has never been independently proven safe,
effective, reliable, and medically sound?

Is it because their treatment program does consists of the first steps up
the Scientology chart of religious progress known as the Bridge to Total
Freedom, thereby violating the principle of separation of church and state?

Is it because they do require the services of a "minister" of the church of
Scientology in their treatment?

Is it because they have no accurate and accountable reports of the results
they have attained?

***

Item: "Noisy Investigations" are a trademark of Scientology. It's standard
procedure to attempt to discredit those who oppose them. Eugene Ingram,
sent by Scientology to "investigate" many of Newkirk's leading citizens, is
reportedly a former Los Angeles Police Officer who left the department amid
a cloud of un-prosecuted allegations that he was involved in pandering,
pimping, prostitution, and harboring narcotics dealers. The charges were
later dropped for lack of evidence once he left the force. He was later
allegedly implicated in an attempt to frame Boston lawyer Michael Flynn.
Currently, there is a warrant outstanding for his arrest in Kay County
allegedly on charges of impersonating an investigator and carrying a
concealed weapon.

This is the type of individual a "church" sends out to investigate us?

Item: Harassment is another tactic often used. KOCO's Larry Blunt was
threatened with legal problems and told he would lose his job for reporting
on Narconon. A KOTV reporter and cameraman were pushed around when they
attempted to report on Narconon. Mr. Ingram subtly suggested that Newkirk
Mayor Garry Bilger and School Board President Jana Shafer would be subject
to some kind of phony "conspiracy" lawsuit if they didn't retract their
opposition to Narconon. The Newkirk Herald, he suggested, would face legal
trouble for running a "hate" campaign.

The only people who are allowed to have an opinion, it appears, are
Scientologists. And they are only allowed to have one... the one written by
their late leader, L. Ron Hubbard. Free thinking is not a hallmark of
Scientology.

Item: Deception is a Scientology artform. It's called Training Routine L.
Persons properly trained in TR-L can "outflow false data effectively." It
is the opposite of TR-1 (which, incidentally, is one of the drills used in
Narconon's program).

The person who visited Mayor Bilger last Monday may have been trained in
TR-L. He said he had a daughter in a government class at Ponca City High
School who was supposed to interview a small town mayor to find out what
his accomplishments were... what his goals were, and how small town
government worked.

It was a good story, except that Ponca City High School has no one enrolled
by this person's name.

The person who called the Herald Journal a few weeks ago may have been
trained in TR-L. He said he had been hired by Prudential Life Insurance to
locate RWL and another person because we were beneficiaries of a policy
from Atlanta, Ga. Mostly, he wanted the other person's address. He said we
were both in line for a lot of money. He was told to put it in the mail.

It was a good story, except that Prudential Life insurance doesn't know
anything about it, and nothing ever arrived in the mail.

The person from Brooklyn, N.Y. who wrote and called several ministers in
town, all the city commissioners, and RWL several months ago told a sad
story about a child hooked on drugs who wanted her to send money for
Narconon, she said. But she had heard this "bad publicity" about Narconon
and wanted to know the source of it...

It was a good story, except she gave a couple of different names but the
same phone number to several different people. One time it was her son on
drugs - the next, it was her daughter. She probably had poor TR-L.

We suspect all of the above incidents (and a few others) are deceptive
attempts to gain information from those opposed to Scientology/Narconon. We
can't prove it, of course, but it's funny we never received any "stories"
that wouldn't check out before Narconon arrived in our midst.

These "Battle" tactics were outlined by their leader, L. Ron Hubbard, in
1969. Some more of his advice (paraphrased to avoid infringing on the
gentleman's many copyrights) is as follows:

1. Make those who oppose Scientology unpopular to the point of total
annihilation.

2. Gain the backing or fidelity of the news media. (Are you awake, Ark
City?)

3. Get command or loyalty of top political figures.

4. Take over those who oversee finance, and shift them into an unstable
situation.

5. Blame everything on a conspiracy headed by psychiatry and psychology.

6. Always attack. Never defend.

7. Never be reasonable. Give non-sequiteur answers (double talk)

8. Fight on somebody else's turf, never Scientology's.

9. Cut off communications, funds, connections. Deprive the opposition of
political advantages. Take over opposition territory. Raid and harass.

10. Public Opinion is what Scientology is trying to win. Make people love
Scientology and hate the opposition by using standard wartime propaganda...
complete with "atrocity, war crimes trials, the lot."

11. Preserve and improve the image of Scientology and degrade the image of
the opposition to "beast level."

There's more, but you get the point.

If we are running a "hate" campaign, it is a campaign against deception,
against harassment, against fraud, against smear tactics, against
frame-ups, and against intimidation.

But we surely don't hate Scientologists. They are more the victims than we
are of their own warped management practices.

We could care less what the "religious beliefs" of Scientology are. But we
are very aware of the outrageous behavior of the organization. We don't
think it is deserving of our taxes or our insurance benefit money. The war
on drug abuse is too important to allow a dime of it to be waisted on an
outfit like Scientology's Narconon.

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Sounding Off
Letters To The Editor - 05 October 1989

To the Editor:
September 9, I wrote a letter to Narconon at Chilocco in support of their
drug rehabilitation center which I felt to be a necessity because of the
drug problems that our country faces today.

I feel very strongly that we need growth in our community and that a drug
center would be an asset to us. In the letter that I wrote, I told Mr.
Ingram that he could use it in it's entirety, but not to use any single
part of it.

On September 22, a letter was sent to every resident of Newkirk, which had
only two small excerpts of the letter that I wrote. I feel I have been
used, and that the purpose of my letter has been distorted.

I feel that I owe Bob Lobsinger and the people of Newkirk an apology for
the way my letter was used against the community.

I still feel that a drug rehabilitation center would be an asset to our
community. But I do not think that any state or federal funds should be
used to support any church related facility.

Yours truly,
Lanio Roberts

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LETTER OF COMMENDATION

BE IT KNOWN on this 12th day of September, 1989, that the NEWKIRK BUSINESS
CLUB has unanimously voted to present this letter of commendation to
BOB LOBSINGERowner and editor of the NEWKIRK HERALD JOURNAL, for his
journalisticendeavor which alerted and informed this community of the
non-credibility of the Church of Scientology and Narconon.

WE COMMEND his quiet, indepth search for facts which have yet to be
discredited by either party.

WE COMMEND his initial presentation and follow-up which were written with
integrity and which have since been channeled through the news media with
their credibility still intact.

WE COMMEND his fortitude in pursuing such a task and his courage in
printing his findings - qualities found lacking in many editorial offices
today.

AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, WE COMMEND him for his loyalty and service to this
community and his commitment to his profession. He surely bears the mark of
a true journalist.

SIGNED IN GRATITUDE by the officers and members of the NEWKIRK BUSINESS
CLUB.

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Poncans Question Legality Of Chilocco Lease Agreement

02 November 1989

The Ponca Tribe is concerned that the lease allowing the controversial
Narconon drug treatment center to establish itself at Chilocco Indian
school north of Newkirk could be illegal, a Ponca tribal leader said
Saturday.

In a report published in Sunday's Oklahoman, Ponca Tribal Chairman Delbert
Cole was quoted as saying that business committee members are concerned
that past committee chair-woman Cynthia Stoner "overstepped her scope of
authority" because the tribe cannot legally lease tribal land for more than
10 years.

The Narconon lease agreement with the Chilocco Development Authority is for
25 years. The Ponca Tribe is one of five tribes who own the Chilocco land.
The other members are the Pawnees, Kaws, Tonkawas and Otoe-Missourias.
Ponca leaders have decided to get a legal opinion on the lease. "We think
the lease is invalid since this has occurred," Cole said. Cole also said
his committee is unsure if the Tonkawas had signed the Narconon lease.
Narconon recently announced that the BIA has approved their master
renovation plan and that they intended to proceed with the project.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 07 December 1989

Oklahoma 'Cult'-ural Center Of Universe?

Oklahoma is becoming the CULT-ural Center of the Country, it would appear.
With the announcement in last Friday's Daily Oklahoman that the Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi plans to build a 640 acre "City of the Immortals" west of
Tulsa, and Scientology already trying to set up shop on Chilocco Indian
Land, maybe it's time our legislators looked into whatever it is that makes
Oklahoma appear to be such fertile ground for every wierdo bunch that falls
off a lotus leaf.

Yogi, in case you don't remember, is the guru of TM - Transcendental
Meditation - to whom the Beatles once pledged allegiance. It's another
authoritarian cult which relies on the four techniques of Mind Control.

Yogi controls his followers physical environment, their thoughts, their
emotions, and their sources of information. No different than our own
problem up north.

Yogi has a sense of humor about him, however. He calls his followers by an
endearing ancient Sanskrit term, which, when translated, means "Jackasses."
Like Scientology, TM has it's assortment of celebrities they parade about
in public relations dog and pony shows. Some of them include Joe Namath,
Carol Burnett, and the Rolling Stones.

Like Scientology, TM has a variety of front organizations, including
Students International Meditation Society, World Plan Executive Council,
American Foundation for Creative Intelligence, American Meditation Society,
and the Institute for Fitness and Athletic Excellence, all designed to
recruit new members.

Unlike Scientology, the leader of TM has a real college degree in physics.
TM's purpose is to relieve tension and stress, increase productivity,
heighten creativity and intelligence. Sound familiar?

The techniques include a few extensive and expensive lectures on the basic
methods of meditation, and upon graduation, each student receives his own
secret and personal mantra or chant syllable to be repeated privately for
twenty minutes each morning and evening to "clear" his mind and relax his
body.

Adherents find it astounding that if they become disillusioned with one TM
teacher and quickly switch to another, the new teacher will quite often
issue a second personal mantra that is identical to the first one issued.
How insightful TM truly is!

The true insight is that there were only 16 mantras ever issued, based on
the age of the seeker. A secret personal mantra will change only if the
seeker has celebrated a particular birthday since the issuance of his last
mantra. How simply deluding cults can be.

Graduation includes submission to the Puja ceremony, including repeated
bowing and worship of a picture of Guru Dev, the Maharishi's main source of
inspiration, who was an Indian Hindu religious leader who died in 1953.

TM is camouflaged Hinduism, and few TM devotees in the West realize they
are paying for an ancient Eastern religion in a new package.
Hindus believe there are seven levels of growth from "sleep" up through
"unity consciousness", where a student breaks free from the need of passing
through reincarnations and reaches oneness with god.

Maharishi says that through his methods a person can learn to float or
levitate and pass through walls.

We hope our legislators are successful in finding a way to make them pass
through Oklahoma.

In the meantime, our Scientology friends from up north have re-emerged from
obscurity and have spent every afternoon from last Wednesday to Saturday
out "surveying" Newkirk citizens in front of the Post Office, at EZ Mart,
and near the cafe. They don't tell you who they are unless you ask.

They want to know what you like and dislike about Newkirk; who you like and
dislike in Newkirk; and what a "new group" would have to do to become
"accepted" in Newkirk.

You, of course, have no obligation whatever to participate in this silly
little exhibition... even if they run over and write down your license
plate number. They are desperately trying to find someone in town who will
support their activities...

For the most part, they are sincere, dedicated, albeit misguided low level
Scientologists who think they are saving the world. If you've read all I've
printed on the subject, you know more about Scientology than they do.

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Essay On Destructive Cults

07 December 1989

Webster's New World Dictionary defines a "Cult" as a group of followers.
Which means all of us are cult members to some degree. All of us belong to
something, or follow some line of thinking or belief.

Where two are gathered together, any one of three things may happen: If
both are leaders, a state of war develops. If both are followers, a state
of confusion develops. But if one is a leader and one a follower, a new
cult develops.

And so, cults are nothing to be unduly concerned about.

But according to author Steve Hassan, when cults develop and grow by
implementing components that result in total control of their members'
minds, the cult is said to be destructive. Hassan, who holds a master's
degree in counseling psychology from Cambridge College, is the author of
"Combatting Cult Mind Control", and a former member of the Moonies. Much of
the information in this editorial is extracted from his book.

Mind control is not brainwashing. Brainwashing is coercive. The victim
knows from the start that he is in the hands of an enemy, and usually
complies only to gain relief from some type of oppression, and then
attempts to justify the compliance by changing his beliefs to fit his
action. The effect is usually not lasting, and disappears once the
threatening force is gone.

Mind control is more sophisticated and subtle. Victims are manipulated and
deceived instead of being directly threatened. They respond to prescribed
choices and never realize what is happening to them. Mind control is more
permanent and more devastating than brainwashing.

There are four recognized components of Mind Control, according to Hassan:
control of behavior, control of thoughts, control of emotions, and control
of information. All destructive cults employ these four components in order
to gain "voluntary" compliance from their members.

Once a leader can regulate a person's physical reality (control behavior),
including where he lives, what he wears, when he sleeps, or what jobs he
does... then that person begins to think that what is happening to him is
what is supposed to be happening to him. Bingo... control of thought is
automatic.

Thought control in most destructive cults is reinforced by the foundation
of a new language system and an absolute doctrine that allows no gray area,
but develops a bipolar attitude about reality. Everything is "in or out",
"black or white", "us or them".

Thought-stopping rituals are employed by most destructive cults to block
out negative thoughts. After all, if the leader is perfect, and the
doctrine is perfect, then any negative thought about them must be a defect
in the follower. So he puts the thought out of his head. Before he starts
feeling guilty about thinking it...

Because if he does, he's sucked into the next level of Mind Control...
emotional control. Since the leader is perfect and the doctrine is perfect,
a destructive cult member feels guilty if he doubts. And he fears that his
doubts will become exposed and earn the wrath of the group. He also fears
that if he doesn't live up to the group's expectations, he will be the
cause of their failure, and subject to whatever bogeyman the group has
devised to punish such failure.

Finally, if a destructive cult member has no access to external
information, he has nothing by which to judge his situation. Many cult
members shun external information sources, because the leader and the
doctrine are perfect... so why bother with anything else? Often, even
information about the cult itself is controlled from within. The higher
levels are confidential, or the inner circles are unknown to those in the
outer circles. A destructive cult prospect doesn't know what all he is
buying until he's trapped. If it were all laid out to start with, nobody
would join. That's why information control is necessary to the success of
destructive cults.

By this point, a recruit is deep into the quagmire of Mind Control and will
protest vehemently that he is not a victim of "brainwashing." And he's
right, nobody brainwashed him. But the results are the same, and they last
longer.

Destructive cults actively recruit new members, often through deceptive
"front" organizations.

Destructive cults claim to offer absolute Truth. Their teachings are not
(to them) mere theory or speculation. The most effective cult doctrines are
those which are unverifiable and unevaluable.

Destructive cults reduce everything to a bi-polar attitude: "for us, or
against us."

Destructive cults generate some kind of external "pet devil" with which
to threaten their members if they should doubt, or fail, or ever leave the
group.

Destructive cults lead their members to believe they are somehow superior
to all other humans on the earth.

Destructive cults put the will of the group above the will of the
individual. This is often reinforced with simplistic games or rituals of
some type designed to make the individual subservient to the group.

Destructive cults teach that the end justifies the means.

Destructive cults teach strict obedience to superiors and encourage the
development of behavior patterns that are similar to those of the leader.

Destructive cults offer acceptance by the group for good performance, and
conversely, withhold it for poor performance.

In destructive cults, fear is a major motivator. Guilt is a close second,
and shame is third. Only the cult leader is perfect, so everyone below is
fearful that those above will find out their shortcomings. Cult members
feel constantly guilty for having those real or imagined shortcomings, and
are ashamed that they haven't worked harder to get rid of them.

Destructive cult members swing from emotional highs, to emotional lows
regularly. Lows are not long tolerated, and result in more indoctrination,
or even ejection from the group if they last too long.

Destructive cults tend to re-write their members' past, manipulate their
present, and distort their future. Disrupting time orientation is an
honored technique of all such cults.

And, finally, there is never a legitimate reason for leaving a
destructive cult. The only reason members leave a perfect system, is
because they are imperfect in some respect, and will be punished for it.

No matter which destructive cult you choose, the above 13 items will almost
universally apply.

Study the methods of est, LaRouche, Transcendental Meditation, Truth
Station, Nichiren Soshu (Soka Gakkai), The Way International, Children of
God, Temple of Set, Synanon, Scientology, The Peoples Temple, Unification
Church, Hare Krishnas, House of Judah, Ramtha, Garbage Eaters, Rajneesh,
ECK, Church Universal and Triumphant, Elan Vital, Posse Comitatus, or any
of the others.... they use the same techniques, even though each of them
claims unique and absolute ownership of the "truth."

You'll notice that not all destructive cults are religious in nature. There
are, in fact, destructive cults in several arenas: Religious, of course,
but also Political, Psychotherapy / Educational, and even Commercial.
Still, the overriding principles of their success are the same thirteen
items above. The more faithfully they adhere to those principles, the more
successful they become.

See how easily the 13 techniques of Mind Control are implemented with
regard to our current problem in this area:

Scientology has it's many front orgs (Narconon, Criminon, Concerned
Businessmen of America, Foundation for the Advancement of Science and
Education, and most recently the Save Our Society campaign, among many,
many others.) all recruiting for the cause.

Scientology's doctrine is absolute truth to Scientologists. It is also
extraordinarily unverifiable and unevaluable, often confusing
inscrutability with wisdom.

Scientology reduces reality to the bi-polar "us against them" attitude:
Persons opposed to their drug treatment program are obviously (to them)
drug pushers.

Scientology tells it's members that it is the "Road to Total Freedom" and
without their training, persons are doomed to life after aberrated life
with no hope of freeing the Operating Thetan (god) trapped in this parade
of physical bodies throughout eternity.

Scientology teaches its members that they are the most superior humans on
the planet. Members have an arrogance, a truculence about them that belies
this training, and insulates them from the reasonable world.

Scientology teaches that the goal and purpose of its existence is to
"Clear the Planet." Everyone in Scientology is working for the goal of the
group. Group dependency is developed through the early training steps
called TR's and similar repeated drills throughout a member's career in
Scientology.

Scientology's history of break-ins, frame-ups, harassment, and
intimidation confirms that anything that furthers the ends of Scientology
is an acceptable means.

Scientology requires strict obedience without question by all its
members, and has developed a complicated structure of enforcement agencies
to insure compliance, such as the Ethics Office, Finance Police, Guardian's
Office (now the Office of Special Affairs), Religious Technology Center,
and others.

Scientology pays it's staff members based on production. The more
recruits, the more they get paid. Performance is rewarded, failure to
perform up to "stats" might result in a stint on the "Rehabilitation
Project Force" doing laundry or chipping paint.

Scientologists fear reprisals from their superiors, but recognize it only
as their own failure to come up to expectations of the group. They think
there is something wrong with them if they can't produce the expected
result, which fosters guilt and shame. They also fear being thrown out and
facing an eternity of reincarnation without ever attaining "Total Freedom".
To a believer, this is a worse fate than any offered by "outside" beliefs.

Scientologists have been dumped when they became ill, or were otherwise
unable to perform for the group. Others are routinely RPF'd to menial tasks
when they have an attitude problem. Low attitude is not tolerated for long
without some kind of official sanction being taken. Highs are reinforced
through constant "auditing" to produce "wins" for the members. Hassan
compares this process to post hypnotic suggestion.

Just about every recruit into Scientology in the past 30 years has been
told that with his or her help, Scientology could "Clear The Planet" in
this decade. But the decades have come and gone, and the older ones are
still telling the younger ones the same thing. Members view their
pre-Scientology life as unbelievably bad, and see the future outside of
Scientology as unbearable, all reinforced with continual "auditing".

The only right way to leave Scientology is to become "Totally Free" like
founder L. Ron Hubbard, who, they say, "causatively" left his body to go to
a higher plane of existence. "Causatively" means he was in charge of his
body and determined when he wanted it to die.

In simpler terminology, he was the cause of his own death.

Can we assume, then, that suicide is at the end of the "Road to Total
Freedom"?

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 04 January 1990

God Didn't Quite Get It Right...

God, it appears, didn't do it right.

It took the omnipotent and very late Operating Thetan L. Ron Hubbub to get
the 10 Commandments written up proper for us aberrated humans.

Only there are 19 of 'em instead of 10.

That's something God would have known if He'd only consulted with L-Boy a
bit sooner and not been in such a hurry to get them written in stone.

But you know better, now.

If you subscribe to the esteemed journal from our south, you now know that
"The Way To Happiness" has been plotted out for you by his eminence, LRH,
and delivered to you in booklet form, courtesy of Narconon-Chilocco.

Forget God.

Forget your upbringing and your traditional values.

They are all figments of your aberrated human condition. Only L. Ron Hubbub
knows the way to your salvation.

In its simplistic manner, "The Way To Happiness" looks suspiciously like it
has been crudely translated from stone tablets found near Mount Sinai,
without giving credit to the Original Author. Hubbard, instead, wants all
the credit for guiding the world's morality.

"The Way To Happiness" is produced by The Way To Happiness Foundation, a
substructure of the cult of Scientology. It is distributed by The Concerned
Businessmen's Association Of America, another substructure of the cult of
Scientology. (which incidentally, is the outfit that first seduced our
Indian tribes to Clearwater, Florida, where they were sold the bill of bads
known as Narconon, which is yet another substructure of the cult of
Scientology) It is published by a Scientology controlled firm called Bridge
Publications, Inc., whose sole purpose is the promulgation of the works of
L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology and self-proclaimed Source of
all true wisdom and knowledge in the universe.

And all of it is designed to get you to go "up the Bridge to Total
Freedom."

"The Way To Happiness" is an innocuous piece of prose. Had there not been a
much earlier version, written on Greater Authority and in a more
consolidated form - there might have even been a need for such a document.

We refer Mr. Hubbard to section 13 of his little booklet. "Do not Steal."

He tells us that stealing is an admission that one can not come by
something honestly. Or that one is suffering from a flash of insanity. It's
one or the other, he tells us.

From which was he suffering when he hit upon the unscrupulous idea of
taking credit for a paraphrased version of the Ten Commandments?

From which was he suffering when he hit upon the idea of taking credit for
Abreaction Therapy (a part of Dianetics that works), when that type of
treatment was fully described years earlier (1923) in the book "Mneme" by
Richard Simon?

From which was he suffering when he hit upon the idea of taking credit for
the science of General Semantics (the study of differentiation, another
part that works) which was formulated in 1933 by noted Polish mathematician
Count Alfred Korzybski and expounded upon in his book "Science and Sanity"?

From which was he suffering when he hit upon the idea of rehashing and
incorporating into his "technology" some of the strange and occult works of
Aleister Crowley (who signed himself "The Beast 666), and other
practitioners of "Black Magick"?

Plagiarism, according to an old journalistic wit, is stealing from one
source. Research, on the other hand, is stealing from many sources.

In this regard, and this regard alone, Elron appears to have been a true
"researcher."

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 11 January 1990

It's time for your lesson on the way to get happy. Today we will discuss
Chapter 9, "Don't Do Anything Illegal." So go dig your little book out of
the trash and study along with the rest of us.

The Father of World Morality, who wrote the book, tells us that an illegal
act is an act which can result in retribution by the state and courts.

Like, for instance, infiltrating government and private offices to steal
documents and inserting disinformation in particular files. Those are
illegal acts.

As he prepared to sentence the top Scientology Guardian's Officer and wife
of the "Source" of the Way to Happiness for her part in instigating and
carrying out such schemes, US District Judge Charles R. Ritchey told Mrs.
L. Ron (Mary Sue) Hubbard that "we have a precious system of government in
the United States... For anyone to use the benefits of those laws or to
seek under the guise of those laws to destroy the very foundation of the
government is totally wrong and cannot be condoned by any responsible
citizen." She got 5 years and $10,000 in fines.

Nine Scientologists were convicted, including none other than a Scientology
Guardian's Office deputy named Henning Heldt.

Henning Heldt is also one of the three original founding directors of
Narconon. The other two are Scientology "Reverend" Arthur Marin, who has
seen his own troubles with the law, and William Benitez, who was already in
jail when he was lured into Scientology. All three signatures are clearly
visible on the original incorporation papers dated 16 May, 1970, and filed
with the Secretary of the State of California on 20 May, 1970.

Mrs. Hubbard's husband, that omnipotent Operating Thetan of the highest
order, most knowledgeable and aware person on the planet... or in the
universe for that matter... didn't know any of this illegal stuff was going
on.

"I learned about it like everyone else, after the fact and could only shake
my head in dismay..." he is quoted as saying with a naivete that seems
inappropriate to his OT status.

Elron was, in fact, labelled an "Unindicted Co-Conspirator" by the FBI.
This is the type of person we are to entrust with our morality? With our
mental health? With our eternity?

Put the book back in the trash.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 08 March 1990

Premonitions...

Since last we visited on the subject, Narconon and it's progenitor,
Scientology, have been staying out of our spotlight. This week, however,
they have resurfaced with predictions that they will be open in a couple of
months.

So, to bring you up to date on what's been happening in the wierd world of
Operating Thetans, here are bits of a few of the tales we've uncovered
recently:

We have talked with several former Narconon employees who all tell of
being required to study Elron's Organization Executive Course material...
and when they elected not to, were somehow discredited and fired within a
few weeks. The Organization Executive Course is a massive collection of
"Official Policies of the Church of Scientology." It says so on every page.

One individual tells of being ordered to set beer cans inside the living
quarters of another employee whom they wished to find a reason to
terminate. He was later terminated himself amid a flurry of police activity
that resulted in lots of intimidation but no charges being filed because
all of the allegations against him were so obviously phony. He was not
drunk. There was no hostage. The gun was his .22 rifle that was unloaded in
the gun rack in his vehicle where it had been since he went to work there
months earlier. Police released him immediately, and within a half hour, he
was trying to contact me to tell his harrowing story.

Another former employee says he found himself on the way from his
assigned living quarters at Chilocco to jail in Pawnee on what he says were
trumped up charges... and they obviously were, because he is out free now
with nothing filed and no court date. Just released. And told not to set
foot on Chilocco again. I don't think they let you out that easy if you've
really pulled a knife on someone and threatened their life, and that's what
he tells me they were accusing him of.

It appears that if you don't want to study the policies of the Church of
Scientology, you won't have a job for long at Chilocco. Even subcontractors
working out there have been encouraged to take their courses.

On a broader scale, Scientology made news again in California in January,
where police found a Scientologist who was "treating" his mentally ill wife
according to the tenants of his "religion" by keeping her locked up in her
bedroom with only a mattress on the floor. The windows were boarded up,
according to the news report, and she was fed through a slot in the door.
No charges filed. Police were studying the tenants of the "religion" at
last report. The wife, however, was reported to be recovering nicely in a
real hospital.

Scientologists in Clearwater, Fla. who run a currency exchange and gold
bullion business were busted by federal agents in the middle of December
for allegedly operating a money laundering scheme. No word on whether they
think Scientology is suspected of being directly involved or not. Hard to
tell the bad apples from the bad apples, I guess.

American Airlines received so many complaints that it announced in
December that it would no longer carry Scientology ads in its monthly
in-flight magazine, American Way. The ads were apparently part of a huge PR
campaign by Scientology that is running in such magazines as House and
Garden, Discover, Business Week, and Newsweek. Over $300,000.00 has been
spent on Newsweek alone, according to published reports.

The IRS suspects that the Church of Scientology of Clearwater, Fla. has
violated it's tax-exempt status, and wants to study 47 categories of
Scientology documents for the years 1985 thru 1987, according to a January
report.

About a week ago, a former Scientology lawyer, Joseph A. Yanny, who left
the organization after allegedly being asked to perform illegal tasks for
the cult, won a $154,000.00 judgement. A jury felt he had been a victim of
Scientology's "Fair Game" policy which allows Scientologists to trick, sue,
lie to, or destroy their enemies. The judgement was the largest the judge
would allow. Scientology had sued Yanny for allegedly padding his bills to
them while he was still in the cult, but the jury found no evidence of that
whatsoever.

On March 23 of this year, a former Scientologist named Lawrence
Wollersheim will have his day before the Supreme Court of the United
States. Wollersheim was also a victim of the "Fair Game" policy according
to a jury which was so outraged that it awarded him a $30,000,000.00
verdict. That's $30 million. The award was reduced on appeal to
$2,500,000.00, which is still a tremendous amount of money.
Wollersheim contends that Scientology makes a mockery or counterfeit of
religion by such tactics as the "Fair Game" policy, and should be once and
for all exposed and the abuses ended. His appeal before the Supreme Court
may accomplish that.

Scientology doesn't want the case to go that far. They have offered, in
writing, to pay him off with $4 million rather than go to the Supreme
Court. When he refused that, they made him a verbal offer of $6 million to
settle. Which he also refused. This man must have gone thru terrors unknown
to turn down $6 million dollars just to take a chance on a court decision.

In another pending case, a former very high level Scientologist is
accusing the organization of ordering her to a "Rehabilitation Project
Force" where she was forced to run around an orange telephone pole every
day from 7 am until 9:30 pm for about 120 days, with minimal break periods.
Her husband, during one period of his tenure with the "church", says he
also fell into disfavor because his construction project was not proceeding
fast enough, and was forced to work without pay from 9 am to 12 midnight
without any days off, to sleep outdoors, and to eat only rice and beans.

These are premonitions of just some of the things to come if Narconon is
allowed to open at Chilocco and Scientology is allowed to get a foothold in
our state. Send this column to Secretary of State Hannah D. Atkins, Room
101, State Capitol Building, Oklahoma City, Ok 73105, and ask her to see to
it that there is a Public Hearing in Newkirk before Narconon is licensed to
operate in Oklahoma.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 24 May 1990

New Law Will Help...

Thanks to your enduring help, the Oklahoma State Legislature has passed (91
to 0 in the House and similar in the Senate), and Governor Henry Bellmon
has signed a law which should insure that Oklahoma will certify only
legitimate, medically safe drug and alcohol treatment facilities for
operation in our state. Practitioners of Body Thetan exorcism and other
hocus pocus won't cut it.

The law requires that drug abuse treatment providers be accredited by the
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, or be in
compliance with approved medical and professional standards as determined
by the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Board of the State of
Oklahoma.

It requires a pre-certification review of any new applications that appear
to use nontraditional methods of treatment, and allows the certification
board to select an independent, recognized authority in Oklahoma to review
such programs and to make recommendations to the board as to the validity
of the proposed program.

It also mandates that all claims made by such organizations, including but
not limited to patient count and success rates, must be documented and
verifiable by the Board.

Narconon is not and has never been accredited by anyone, anywhere, except
other Scientology organizations.

Narconon's "treatment" approach is at the very best "nontraditional", and
should require intensive review by independent (read "non-Scientology"),
recognized Oklahoma authorities.

Narconon has publicized outrageous patient count figures and ridiculous
"cure rates" that simply cannot be documented and verified to anyone's
satisfaction except other gullible Rondroids.

Failure to comply with these provisions of Oklahoma Law will result in the
withholding or withdrawal of Certification in the State. Operation without
Certification is a misdemeanor. Punishable, my lawyer says, by up to a year
in jail and $1,000 fine. Per day.

Further, without State Certification, Narconon-Chilocco will not be an
eligible facility for use by persons with insurance coverage. Nor will it
be eligible to apply for state or federal programs that pay for treatments.

Narconon's Certificate of Need - which foolishly allowed them to set up
shop at Chilocco in the first place - expires June 30, 1990. Narconon is
supposed to apply for state licensing and certification before then. As of
Monday, May 21, they have not done so.

The State Alcohol and Substance Abuse Department requires that a provider
apply for a "temporary certification" before they begin delivering
treatment. Once they are in operation, they must apply for "permanent" or
12 Month Renewable Certification. In order to apply for either, the
provider must have a valid Certificate of Need..

Two things come to mind:

First, if the Great Xenu Zappers intend to become Certified in the State of
Oklahoma, they must apply before June 30, or their Certificate of Need goes
Ka-Poofy.

Second, they haven't even applied for their temporary certification yet,
but they're already bragging all over California about how many people have
gone through their treatment program at Chilocco. The Attorney General has
copies of their brochures telling all about it. He probably had a Rock Slam
when he found out.

Of course, there is always the possibility that Scientology has no
intention of complying with state law. Which comes as no surprise, either.
Never before has Scientology spent anywhere near this much money on a
Narconon unit. Usually, the big money is used for major headquarters
establishments like Clearwater, FL., or St. Hill in Sussex, England.
Chilocco is larger, more isolated, and much more insulated from government
scrutiny than any of their other establishments. Jumpin' BTs, that's a
spooky thought...

But Narconon continues to blunder forward at Chilocco, as always, ignoring
the real issues and planning their grand opening for June 29. They're
selling $2,000.00 apiece tickets to this public relations gimmick, which
will feature a recognition ceremony for dupes who have donated money to the
project. (Scientology never spends its own money), a reception with
"opinion leaders, celebrities, politicians and Native American leaders from
around the United States," tours, an Indian Pow Wow, and Western barbeque.
It's all designed, the flyer says, to "help establish overwhelming public
popularity for LRH."

Overwhelming the public with phony publicity stunts is a Scientology
hallmark. It is interesting to take note of the following Church of
Scientology Board Policy Letter of 12 January 1973, Reissued 29 June 1975,
entitled "The Safe Point" (Paraphrased, of course, to avoid copyright
infringement):

Public Relations actions to be taken in a new location can proceed so far
as to create a whole new history and future for the planned organization.
The Organization can be made to appear long-lived, entrenched, permanent,
dependable, competent, prolific, and expanding all before it even gets
started.

Public Relations people plant in advance everything that is associated with
the new organization except the product it is to produce. Once public
relations in a new area is under control, the new organization can start up
without any waves and will be considered totally ordinary and satisfactory.
In other words, mock it up. Which is what they did, and is why they should
never be given any status as a legitimate organization in our state. This
new state law will go far towards accomplishing that end. Our State
government is listening to us. They might like to receive a thank-you note
for sticking their political necks out for us.

By the way, tickets to the big bash are limited to the first thousand sold,
but I wouldn't get in any hurry to buy one. I don't think they are
refundable.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 07 June 1990

About a year ago, Narconon said they would be completely under Oklahoma
jurisdiction and would comply with Oklahoma health Department requirements
and all other state laws.

Saturday, on KFOR-TV, Narconon told the world that they are on Indian Land,
and not subject to Oklahoma rules and laws.
Surprise, surprise. More lies, more lies.

Add it to the collection...

1. There's no connection between Narconon and Scientology.
Fact: Narconon was founded by Scientologists, is run by Scientology, is
staffed by Scientologists, and uses Scientology "technology" exclusively in
it's programs.

2. ABLE (Association for Better Living and Education) is a philanthropic
organization that has studied Narconon and found it worthy of a $200,000.00
"seed money" donation to get Narconon started at Chilocco.
Fact: ABLE is on the Command Chart of Scientology, it was founded by
Scientologists, is run by Scientology, is staffed by Scientologists, and it
owns Narconon, among other Scientology fronts, which it operates solely for
the purpose of "pushing LRH's (L. Ron Hubbard, founder) Tech out into
society." That's cult recruiting.

3. Narconon does not recruit for Scientology.
Fact: A person doing the "Narconon Technical Line-Up" is doing the exact
same things he would be doing if he walked in the front door of a
Scientology organization and signed up. Whether he was a drug addict or
not. Whether he knows it or not. And usually, he doesn't. That's cult
recruiting.

4. Narconon has worldwide success and acceptance.
Fact: Narconon has only one small in-patient facility in the US, and a few
"offices" around the country. More Narconon programs have been shut down
across the country than are currently in operation. Usually, they shut down
when their corporate and government funding sources find out they are a
fraud... not because they have cured all the drug addicts in the area!

5. Narconon has an 86% "cure rate".
Right! And I sell 100,000 papers each week. I can't document that claim,
and neither can they. Anything that sounds too good to be true usually is.

6. Scientology helps people in a troubled world...
Fact: It helps separate them from their money. It takes control of their
mind and does their thinking for them. It demands their total commitment
and ability. And finally, it throws them away when they finally figure out
they've been conned. And if they object or protest, they are declared
"Suppressive Persons", subject to any evil any other Scientologist can
dream up to harass and ruin them. Documented proof? Courts have ordered
Scientology to pay millions to the victims of such "fair game" tactics.

7. Scientology enhances one's appreciation of his own Christian religion.
Fact: In the "confidential" upper level of Scientology known as OT III,
Hubbard categorically informs his thoroughly brain-baked followers that
"there is no Christ."

There isn't enough room to continue. Scientology is a lie. Narconon is a
part of Scientology. Narconon has lied to the people of Oklahoma since it
first cast greedy eyes on the Chilocco complex. Saturday's television
announcement is only the latest confirmation that they intended to deceive
us from the beginning.

An organization that teachers "Truth is what is true for you" admits it
doesn't know the difference. An organization that allows the end to justify
the means admits to its own immorality. An organization that requires the
total commitment of its followers before they can be trusted with its
secret upper levels is paranoid. And an organization which does all of
those things is a destructive mind controlling cult.

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Grand Oepning Set This Weekend...
National Chilocco Alumni Association Unanimously Passes Resolution And
Position Statement Opposing Narconon

OKLA CITY, 28 June 1990- The National Chilocco Alumni Association
unanimously approved a resolution on Saturday, June 9, strongly opposing
the establishment of Scientology's front organization Narconon on the old
Chilocco Indian Agricultural School just north of Newkirk.

The resolution, presented to the membership during the business meeting at
the annual Chilocco Reunion in Oklahoma City, was overwhelmingly approved
following about 30 minutes of discussion.

Copies of the resolution were to be forwarded to all of the members of the
Chilocco Development Authority, the chiefs or chairpersons of each of the
five tribes which own Chilocco Campus, and will be distributed across the
state for publication or broadcast.

The National Chilocco Alumni Association has members in nearly every state
in the union, and former Chilocco students represent dozens of tribes from
Alaska to Florida.

In addition to the resolution, the Chilocco Alumni Association has issued a
Position Statement which reads as follows:

"Chilocco Indian Agricultural School came into being by an act of Congress,
approved May 17, 1882, which appropriated $25,000 for the puropse of
constructing a building. It opened its doors in 1884; sadly, it lcosed its
doors as an educational center for Indian children in 1980... less than a
century later. We use the term educational center because Chilocco was more
than a school; it was:

A home for those who had none.

A family for those who had none.

Parents for those who had none. A teaching center for those with a thirst
to learn.

A training ground for those with a desire for new skills.

A discovery in the pride of being Indian.

The memories of thousand of students from five generations inhabit the
halls and grounds of Chilocco. These lives have touched others from coast
to coast, to Europe, to Southeas Asia, and all parts of the globe. In more
cases than our pleasant to remember, many of our own never came home from
those far-flung lands.

The lives of our graduates have inspired and influenced the course of other
lives because of the skills and direction discovered at Chilocco. We have
contributed to the fields of medicine, education, business, law, trades and
fine arts, and just about any other profession which comes to mind. We are
legion!

Chilocco, then, holds a very special place in the hearts of all of us. It
is home! As our home, it retains certain ideals which we hold dear:
dignity, respect, honesty, courage, and integrity.

When representatives of Narconon first spoke to us, they said we were
always welcome. Today, they require us to pay for the privilege of walking
those grounds which we made sacred.

When representatives of Narconon first spoke to us, they said we were free
to visit. Today, they restrict, under arms, those grounds which we roamed
in the freedom of a family.

When representatives of Narconon first spoke to us, they said they worked
to help cure those illnesses of alcohol and substance abuse which afflict
us. Today, they train their own in disciplines which are foreign to
everything the Indian holds dear.

When representatives of Narconon first spoke to us, they said 15 out of
every 100 beds would be free for Indians. Today, they have fewer than 100
beds, none of which are free.

When representatives of Narconon first spoke to us, they said they had no
connection to the Church of Scientology. Today, they recruit freely on the
campus of Chilocco.

In short, Narconon dishonors all Chiloccoans!

For the reasons specified above, we, the members of the Chilocco National
Alumni Association have passed the resolution which is attached to this
position statement. There are many other reasons for the objection to the
use of the Chilocco campus by Narconon, but, we feel that those we have
stated amply justify the position we publicly take."

Resolution

"A Resolution Duly Adopted By The Chilocco National Alumni Association
Rejecting The Continued Use Of The Chilocco Campus By Narconon
Whereas, Narconon representatives informed the Chilocco National Alumni
Association that the campus was to be used as a drug rehabilitation center
only; and

Whereas, Narconon misrepresented the use of the Chilocco campus, as stated
by John Duff (Tulsa, June '89), by developing a training center for
Scientology; and

Whereas, Narconon further misrepresented the use of the Chilocco campus, as
stated by Ms. E. Fulton (Tulsa, June '89), who proclaimed that Narconon had
no connection with the Church of Scientology; and

Whereas, Narconon has begun an active recruiting campaign on the Chilocco
campus for the Church of Scientology

Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved the Chilocco National Alumni Association
does not support the continued use of the Chilocco campus by Narconon; and

Be It Further Resolved the Chilocco National Alumni Association rejects in
the strongest possible terms, the use by Narconon of the name Chilocco for
any purpose; and

Be It Further Resolved the Chilocco Natioanl Alumni Association urges the
Board of the Chilocco Development Authority to consider other, more
appropriate ventures for the use of the Chilocco campus; and

Be It Finally Resolved the Chilocco National Alumni Association requests
the Chilocco Development Authority to require Narconon to discontinue the
use of the name Chilocco in further activities.

Certification

We, james R. McGirt, President, and Emily King Bunny, Secretary, Chilocco
National Alumni Association, do hereby certify that this Resolution is a
true and exact copy as approved by the membership at the annual meeting
held on June 9, 1990. There was a quorum present and this Resolution was
adopted unanimously with none opposed and none abstaining."

Attached to the Position Statement and Resolution were the names of the
members of the National Chilocco Alumni Association Board of Directors, and
names of the presidents of each of the Regional Chilocco Alumni chapters.
One of the members told the group she was from California and her daughter
had "gotten hooked up" with Scientology out there. "I know what it's all
about!" she told the audience.

Another person related how she had stopped by Chilocco on the way to the
annual meeting. "They stopped us at the gate, made us sign in, and tried to
charge us $5 each for a tour!" she said indignantly. "We couldn't go
anywhere by oruselves.. we had to have a guide. I know that campus
intimately. It's my home! I know it better than any of those people. I sure
don't need a guided tour." Others told similar stories.

This Friday, Narconon has announced it will begin its three day grand
opening celebration at the Chilocco campus. But it will apparently do so
with no support from the Chilocco Alumni Association. And little support
from the leadership of the five tribes who own the campus. According to one
tribal chairperson, chairpersons from three of the tribes have indicated
they will not attend the ceremony; another tribe is considering boycotting
the event, and only one tribal chair appears to be interested in attending
the $2,000.00 per person event. Instead, there will be a special meeting of
the members of the Chilocco Development Authority Friday, during which the
lease agreement with Narconon will be discussed.

In a June 23 story in the Tulsa World by Patti Weaver, the head of the
Chilocco Development Authority, Robert Chapman, is quoted as saying he was
not pleased with the terms of the lease. CDA vice chairman Delbert A. Cole,
who is also chairman of the Ponca tribe, said in the same article that he
considers the lease "a bad business deal."

"Our attorney is researching the business lease to find out if it is stated
anywhere they (Narconon) must have state certification before they can
operate." Cole said.

Narconon and Scientology printed material indicates that Narconon has been
treating patients since about March at the Chilocco facility. But State
Mental Health Department spokesperson Rosemary Brown said Narconon has not
applied for state certification. Narconon's certificate of need expires
June 30, and Brown said it would be impossible for them to obtain
certification by that date since the board does not meet until July 12.

"We want them to abide by state rules and regulations," Chapman said. "I
expect them to be state certified like the plans in the beginning.

Cole told the World he has been instructed by the Ponca tribal council "not
to have anything to do with Narconon."

"They sidestep the issues. We can't get a direct answer from them" Cole
said of his difficulty in getting information from Narconon officials.

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Narconon Patient Says Center Treating Mostly Non-Indians

NEWKIRK July 5, 1990- John Carraro is a bright, articulate, street smart
heroin junkie. Not at all what one would expect of a 12 year needle
veteran.

He's 33 years old and he tested positive for HIV virus 5 years ago. He
could develop AIDS symptoms at any time, but so far he has been lucky.
John Carraro is Italian, with a bit of German mixed in. He's from Long
Island, New York. He is not Indian.

He's been on a methadone maintenance program for the past year and a half,
but says he has occasionally laced his dose with cocaine. He says he wanted
to get off the daily methadone routine, and a customer at his parent's
record and book store suggested he try Narconon.

That's how John Carraro came to be one of about 15 non-Indian patients who
he says were being treated at the unlicensed and uncertified Narconon
facility at Chilocco last week.

Carraro says one of the 20 patients at Narconon was an Indian. Of the rest,
he says a few were from foreign countries - Australia, for instance. The
others were non-Indian Americans just like him.

Carraro was planning his get-away from Narconon the same day that an AP
report appeared in the Ponca City News and other state papers quoting
Narconon attorneys as saying only Indian patients were being treated at the
facility.

"They said the only knowledge that they had about it was Indians at the
time (being treated, ... They said they didn't think the state had any
licensing power over Indian activities on Indian Lands." said District
Attorney Joe Wideman, who's comments were reported in a Daily Oklahoman
story last Thursday.

Carraro, who says he told Narconon officials he was HIV positive, became
concerned when he found out there were no trained doctors or nurses at
Chilocco.

"They did take me to a doctor in Arkansas City for a physical," he said.
"You know, the stethoscope on the chest, and we talked about my hernia.
They drew blood and did some of the blood work in his office. But the HIV
test they had to send off. I guess I won't be around here long enough to
find out the results, but it doesn't matter. I've been tested before, and
it always comes out positive." Carraro said.

Carraro doesn't know how he contracted the HIV virus. "I had some surgery
and a blood transfusion just before they started screening for HIV. But it
could have been needles, or it could have been some of the women I used to
hang out with. You'd think they would have somebody on the (Narconon) staff
who would be trained to deal with stuff like that. All they did was tell me
not to mention it to anyone."

Carraro, who said Scientology was never officially mentioned during his
short stay at Narconon, thumbed through copies of Hubbard Communications
Bulletins.

HCOBs, as they are called, are instructions written by Scientology founder
L. Ron Hubbard to his followers. One of them is called Training and CCH
Processes.

"Yeah, we did that," he said, referring to the training drills.

"I did up to about (drill number) six. It was insane. That stuff has
nothing to do with drug treatment."

He says they told him the drills were supposed to improve his ability to
communicate.

They gave him "Cal-Mag," a concoction of oil, vinegar, calcium, and
magnesium. "Only we called it 'Cal-Gag.'" He started on two glasses of the
stuff a day, then he said they wanted him to increase it to four glasses a
day. "All it did was give me the runs," he said.

Cal-Mag is described in an HCOB document called "The Purification Rundown
Replaces The Sweat Program," which bears a typed signature reading "The
Boards of Directors of the Churches of Scientology", but says nothing about
Narconon.

"Yeah, that's it." Carraro said, looking at the document. "They also gave
us vitamin pills. They called them Drug Bombs. And they do the sauna thing
for 5 hours a day. I didn't get that far."

The vitamin and sauna regimen is also described in the Purification HCOB.
The same document suggests that administrators of the program "see that the
person understands that the action is being undertaken to help free him as
a spirit and is not a medical treatment." It also says they should make no
promises.

Carraro told of being offered "touch assists", which are Scientology
"physical therapy" routines that are said to relieve the pain and anxiety
of an injury or other lamentable experience.

"I saw all that L. Ron Hubbard stuff when I first got there, and I knew
something was wrong," Carraro said Saturday morning. "He used to do science
fiction stories and started one of those 'new age' religions or something.
His picture is all over the place out there."

Friday, Carraro left Narconon by a back road. He took only a couple of
bottles of water, and one change of clothes in his backpack. "They had
these security guards with walkie-talkies chasing me all around in a field.
When they stopped me, they had their clubs out and one of them said he had
been told to handcuff me and bring me back, if he had to."

"A guy named Jeff, who is a staff member in training or something, came by
and told them to back off." Jeff tried to change Carraro's mind, but
finally dropped him off at EZ Mart in Newkirk. John met some local people
who put him up over night in the 77 Ranch Motel, and Saturday morning, he
contacted the Herald Journal with his story.

John Carraro is home in Long Island now, And his parents are relieved.
"The literature we asked for on Narconon didn't arrive until the day after
we put him on the plane. When I read 'L. Ron Hubbard', my heart sank. I
thought, 'what have I done to my boy'. If I'd have known about that L. Ron
Hubbard stuff before, I would have never put him on the airplane." his
mother said.

The Carraros paid $6,000.00 in advance, with another $4,000.00 due later
for John's treatment at Chilocco. The money was in an envelope, sealed
inside John's luggage. The Carraros say they intend to press for a refund,
and the return of John's belongings.

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Sounding Off
Letters To The Editor - 19 July 1990

Dear Newkirk Friends,

I am writing you on my typewriter, but from my heart.

This letter of thanks is very important to me as it is a reminder of the
warmth and concern that was extended to me during a most difficult time. I
shall never be able to forget the immediate response that was given to me
unquestioningly and without hesitation. From the "gang" down at the CharRon
to Officer Stone, an unwavering community effort seemed more than a little
evident in answering the alarm that I sounded, and which was evidently on
standby in all your hearts and minds.

But the real aim and purpose of this note is to remind you of what you are
up against...

For whatever is going on out at the "space camp", you can be sure it is not
of any God that we as Christians of any denomination look to.

You are a rare people in a time when most of the country is looking for
"magic" solutions to all their troubles, when half the world seems to need
a drug, or a drink, or an empty promise to lean on, it is a pleasure and
comfort to know there are people who still know that a friend is really all
the help that most of us ever really needed.

So, thanks friends,

/s/ John J. Carraro
New York

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The Scientology Story

By Robert Welkos and Joel Sappel,
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
Was Reprinted With Permission In Several Parts
During July and August 1990

State Asks Court For Injunction To Halt Narconon Operation At Chilocco

NEWKIRK August 2, 1990- Kay County district Attorney Joseph A. Wideman,
Monday filed a petition seeking to enjoin Narconon International, Inc.,
from operating an unlicensed and uncertified alcohol and drug abuse
treatment service at Chilocco. The application for injunction names the
State of Oklahoma Commissioner of Health Joan K. Leavitt, M.D., and the
Oklahoma State Department of Health as plaintiffs, and Narconon
International, Inc. as defendant. Narconon's service agent of record was
served with the appropriate papers about noon Monday, Wideman said.
There will be a hearing on the state's application for injunction before
the chief judge of the District Court, Neal Beekman, on Tuesday, August
14th at 9 a.m. in Courtroom A at the Kay County Courthouse in Newkirk.
The petition filed by the state says that Narconon is operating an
uncertified and unlicensed alcohol and drug abuse treatment service in
violation of Oklahoma law. It notes that while Narconon is housed on Indian
land, it is operated by non-Indians and is providing services mainly to
non-Indians.

Narconon, according to the petition filed Monday, is housing persons in
need of substance abuse treatment and is providing care and receiving
compensation without being licensed by the Oklahoma State Department of

Health or being certified by the Department of Mental Health. The petition
says Narconon has been in violation of state law since February 1990 and
continuing through the present.

The state's petition asks the court to "temporarily and permanently enjoin
the Defendant from operating an unlicensed alcohol and drug abuse treatment
service..." and asks that Narconon be made responsible for attorney fees
and court costs.

In an attached brief supporting its case, the state says that...

"The defendant (Narconon) has failed to become certified and licensed by
the proper regulatory bodies prior to its operation. Therefore, injunctive
relief should be granted."

"The integrity of legitimate treatment services are jeopardized when
unauthorized and unlicensed facilities are allowed to operate. Injunctive
relief is necessary, appropriate, and mandated by both case law and
statute.

The second major proposition of the supporting brief argues that the state
does have licensing and certification jurisdiction over Narconon, even
though it is on Indian land.

"The state courts have jurisdiction over the conduct of defendant, a
non-Indian entity engaging in activity on Indian Land due to the state's
strong interest in providing health care to its citizens and its minimal
impact on Indian self-government.

Wideman said Monday that there are four considerations that determine
whether the state maintains jurisdiction in such cases: First, Federal law
must not pre-empt state law in the matter at issue. Second, state law must
not infringe upon the rights of reservation Indians to govern themselves.
Third, the organization itself is non-Indian owned and operated, and
fourth, it is treating primarily non-Indians.

Concludes the brief: "This Court has jurisdiction over this cause since
state action is not federally pre-empted and tribal self-government is not
burdened. Narconon is neither owned nor operated by Indians. Their facility
is primarily treating non-Indians.

Narconon has failed to become certified and licensed by the proper
regulatory bodies. Injunctive relief should be granted."

Narconon spokesman Bruce Pyle has been quoted in printed reports as saying
Monday that Narconon still intends to apply for state certification and
licensing. Narconon's Certificate of Need expired June 20. Pyle would not
comment on whether non-Indian patient have been treated at the facility.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 09 August 1990

Today's installment of the Scientology Story is the last in this series
researched and produced by the Los Angeles Times. Your knowledge of this
dangerous, destructive and sinister mind control cult will protect you and
your family from its attempts to expand by feeding off of an unsuspecting
society.

For nearly two years now, Scientology and its recruiting front, Narconon,
have tried to gain acceptance in our area. They have attempted every
devious and deceptive practice one can imagine. They have been caught in
their own lies almost every time they have opened their mouths.

Pseudo-medicine and psychobabble aside... the fact remains that Narconon is
operating an unlicensed and uncertified facility at Chilocco, in violation
of Oklahoma State Law. The State Health Department has asked the District
Court for an injunction to shut the operation down. District Attorney Joe
Wideman has filed the paperwork, and next Tuesday at 9 am in Courtroom A at
the Kay County Courthouse in Newkirk, Judge Beekman will be asked to issue
that injunction.

You can be sure that Scientology will be well represented by duped
believers and slick lawyers, all bent on protecting their investment in
fraud and deception.

The Health Department deserves your support... and your silent presence in
the courtroom... next Tuesday morning, as they assert their right to
protect your health and welfare from such charlatans. Sometimes government
does work to your benefit. Give it a helping hand Tuesday morning. Be
there.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 16 August 1990

Shifting Into Their 'Delay Game'

In predictable fashion, Scientology's Narconon managed to avoid the
injunction hearing set for last Tuesday by asking for a "continuance". They
got the hearing delayed until September 7 at 2:30 pm because their latest
lawyer had a vacation scheduled for this week. Or quickly scheduled one.
In the meantime, Narconon continues to operate an unlicensed and
uncertified facility.

The date for the new hearing is September 7, incidentally, not September 2
which is a Sunday. The wrong date was widely publicized earlier this week
in other area papers. But it makes little difference...

In the meantime, Narconon continues to operate an unlicensed and
uncertified facility.

According to District Attorney Joe Wideman, Narconon has until about August
30 to ask for "removal" to Federal Court.

In the meantime, Narconon continues to operate an unlicensed and
uncertified facility.

That would negate the September 7th day in District Court... and a new
date, probably in October, will have to be set for Federal Court in
Oklahoma City instead of Newkirk. So few of us will be able to attend
anyway.

In the meantime, Narconon continues to operate an unlicensed and
uncertified facility.

In October, Narconon will probably ask for a "continuance" in Federal
Court... and a new date will be set for November.

In the meantime, Narconon continues to operate an unlicensed and
uncertified facility.

You kinda get the picture?

It has been written by the guru of psychobabble that his followers are
never to allow legal problems to interfere with the delivery of "services".
They recognize how easy that is to do. We hope the court system also
recognizes that fact, because...

In the meantime, Narconon continues to operate an unlicensed and
uncertified facility.

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Judge Gives Narconon 30 Days To Comply With State Law

By Michael McNutt
Enid Bureau, Daily Oklahoman
Reprinted 13 September 1990

A judge on Friday ordered the Oklahoma Department of Mental health to
determine by next month whether a substance abuse center operating without
state approval should be certified to remain open.

In the meantime, the Narconon Chilocco New Life Center will be allowed to
operate, but is prohibited from accepting new patients, according to an
order issued by District Judge Neal Beekman.

Thirty-five patients are at the facility, located on the grounds of the old
Chilocco Indian School, said Bill Burkett, an Oklahoma City lawyer
representing Narconon.

Friday's hearing, attended by more than 60 people, was held after the state
Department of Health sought a temporary injunction to shut down the
facility.

Beekman issued his order after both sides came to an agreement during more
than two hours of discussion in his chambers.

Rob Cole, a lawyer with the State Health Department, said officials with
the agency will have access to Narconon records to make sure no additional
patients are accepted until the facility wins state certification and
licensing.

"I don't envision them violating the court order," he said. "Significant
sanctions would be imposed if they violate the court order."

Tim Bowles, a lawyer with Narconon's offices in Los Angeles, refused to
comment after the hearing.

But Burkett said he was confident Narconon could meet the mental health
department's certification requirements.

"We don' see any problems with that," he said. If Narconon is turned down
in its certification bid, "then it's a new problem," he said.

The facility, operated by Narconon International, has been treating
patients since February without a license from the Department of Health or
certification from the Department of Mental Health.

Narconon originally contended the facility was exempt from state law
because it is on Indian land. But Narconon's agreement to comply with
Beekman's order seems to make that argument moot.
Narconon last month applied to have its program certified by the Mental
Health Department. An agency spokeswoman said then that Narconon's program
could not be inspected sooner than November and that the State Mental
Health Board would not act until January.

Beekman ordered the Mental Health Department to inspect Narconon by the end
of this month and have its staff make a recommendation on certification at
the board's October meeting.

Janie Hipp, an assistant state attorney general assigned to the Mental
Health Department, said the state agency can meet Beekman's schedule.
Hipp said people wanting a public hearing would have to make a written
request to the Mental Health Department after the staff recommendations are
released but before the October board meeting.

Most of the people attending Friday's hearing said they were against
Narconon primarily because of its ties with the Church of Scientology,
which some consider a cult.

"I would like to see Narconon removed from Kay County, the state of
Oklahoma and the United States." said one man, who like most other would
speak only on terms of anonymity. "I do not like the Church of
Scientology."

If Narconon wins certification from the Mental Health Department, it still
must be licensed by the Health Department. (Reprinted with permission from
the Saturday Oklahoma, September 8, 1990)

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Commissioners Request Public Hearing In Newkirk On Narconon Certification

NEWKIRK, Sept. 13, 1990 - The letters slipped quietly from one commissioner
to the next. Each read the words on the papers, and signed them without
comment or conversation. The letters were to State Department of Mental
Health officials, formally requesting a copy of the department's evaluation
and inspection team report and recommendations regarding the certification
of Narconon as soon as the report is available.

The letters also formally ask for a public hearing in Newkirk prior to the
October board meeting of the Department of Mental health "so that citizens
will have the opportunity to voice their opinion about Narconon."

The Mental Health Department will be sending a two person audit team to
evaluate and inspect the Narconon facility within the next week or so,
according to Mental Health Department spokesperson Rosemary Brown. Neither
person on the team will be medically qualified, she said, but both will be
experienced, qualified and educated social workers. One holds a master's
degree, she added.

Judge Neal Beekman last Friday ordered that the certification process be
expedited so that it may appear on the October agenda of the Mental Health
Board. Narconon applied for certification on August 28th after the State
health Department announced they would seek an injunction to stop operation
of the unlicensed and uncertified facility, which began treating patients
in February.

In order to apply for certification, Brown said it was necessary to have a
current Certificate of Need. Narconon's Certificate of Need expired June
30, but Health Department spokesman Brent VanMeter said Tuesday that
Narconon had requested an extension "prior to June 30th." Although
Narconon's request for an extension had not been granted as of Monday
afternoon, VanMeter said they were considering it a current certificate.

Judge Beekman's decision left open the option of a public hearing on the
matter should anyone wish to request one. The Newkirk City Commission did
just that Monday night.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 13 September 1990

The State Health Department struck a temporary deal with the devil last
Friday afternoon.

They agreed to allow the unlicensed and uncertified Scientology
organization known as Narconon to continue in operation with its current 35
"patients."

But there are some important details in the fine print.

For one thing, Narconon, by agreeing to the settlement, has accepted the
jurisdiction of the state, and will find it very difficult to bring up the
matter of Indian sovereignty again in the future.

For another, Narconon is now tied to a time frame of about 30 days in which
to get it's act together. It's been trying for 18 months or longer and
hasn't been able to, so there is little reason to believe it will change
its ways by the October meeting of the Mental Health Board.

In the meantime, Narconon can not accept any new patients until it complies
with state law.

Had the court issued an injunction, chances are Narconon would have ignored
it anyway until the appeals processes had been exhausted. That could have
taken years.

The State Mental Health Department will send a two person audit team to
Narconon this month to study their "treatment" program and make
recommendations to the Mental health Board, which will decide whether or
not to certify Narconon at it's October meeting.

The evaluation team report will be a public document. you can request a
copy by writing Don Anderson, Chairman of the Department of Mental health,
P.O. Box 53277 Capitol Station, Oklahoma City, OK 73152. They will send it
as soon as it is available..

If necessary, once the evaluation report is complete - anyone can call for
a public hearing in Newkirk on the matter. The City Commission already has.
If for some unimaginable reason the evaluation team is snowed into
recommending certification there will be a public hearing called, and your
comments will be attached to the report that goes before the Mental Health
Board.

Scientology has characterized members of the Mental health profession as
"barbarous criminals bent on creating insanity and madness with their tools
of torture."

On of Scientology's avowed goals is the worldwide replacement of legitimate
mental health care with the hocus-pocus of Dianetic processing.

Scientology echoes the shallow thinking of their founder, who made such
obtuse and absurd pronouncements as "There is no such thing as a fat cell,"
and "Niacin runs out radiation." Statements, incidentally, which are
indigenous to the Narconon treatment program. Others, equally foolish,
abound.

Scientologists quote with reverence this man who claimed to be a nuclear
physicist after taking and flunking one course in molecular phenomena at
George Washington University... this phony who's doctorate degree came from
a mail-order diploma mill.

It is difficult to believe that the Oklahoma Mental Health Board, composed
primarily of eminent mental health professionals with legitimate
credentials, could ever condone the operation of an establishment like
Narconon in our state... let alone certify it as coming any where close to
the professional standards they are sworn to uphold.

It would be prudent, nevertheless for each of us to notify the members of
the Board of Mental health of our concern that they be aware of the deep
deception and doublespeak of which Scientology is capable... that they
inform and educate themselves about it's history, methods, and purposes,
before they make their decision. If nothing else, send them this column.
Their addresses follow:

Mrs. Dorothy Stanaslaus, Chairperson, 701 E. 11th Claremore, OK 74017;
Murray E. Abowitz, Esq., Box 1937, Oklahoma City, OK 73101; Dr. Stewart R.
Beasley, Ph.D. Box 1573, Edmond, OK 73083; Dr. Helen Randolph Carter, 1001
Dean Place, Oklahoma City, OK 73117; Dr. John W. Drake, M.D., 31200 West
Wilshire Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73116; and Mr. LaVern Phillips, 2315
Downs Avenue, Woodward, OK 73801.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 20 September 1990

First, sincere thanks to the many, many good folks of Newkirk, Kildare, and
surrounding area who donated the $1,300.00 it cost to have our special
section printed and inserted in the Ponca City news a couple of weeks ago.

From the people who received it, we have heard nothing but praise for
bringing it to their attention.

Your commitment to helping inform the rest of the people in our County of
the facts about Scientology and its front groups such as Narconon is very
gratifying. Credit for your individual gifts will be made privately,
because however much we would like to acknowledge them publicly, it would
not be prudent. But all you have to do is simply look around you. It makes
us very humble to live in such a town, in spite of the time I spend on my
soap box.

Second, the latest Narconon snafu seems to have come from the State Mental
Health Department itself. Last Thursday, they dispatched Bill Marion and
Margaret Bradford to Chilocco to perform their audit inspection of
Narconon's operation.

Concurrently, the Mental Health Board was meeting in Vinita. Board members
were appraised of the court ruling at that meeting, and they decided that
the court had no jurisdiction to order them to expedite the inspection,
since they were not a party to the court action. It was, they decided, a
matter between the State Health Department and Narconon. So they recalled
their auditing team in mid investigation. Narconon has to be loving that.

The Mental Health Board is now waiting for their legal counsel to review
the situation and tell them what the appropriate action should be.

Judge Beekman said Monday he was unaware of the Mental Health Board's
action. District Attorney Joe Wideman was out of town and unavailable for
comment.

It sounds like a game of hot-potato catch to me.

In the meantime, it appears that the economic boom Narconon promised our
area is turning bust, as predicted. Narconon claims to have spent gobs of
money renovating Chilocco. But a lot of the folks who did the work are
wondering where their money is.

Empire Plumbing Supply is the first firm we know of to take legal action.
They're suing Narconon for $21,471.03 in plumbing supplies for which they
haven't been paid. It's case number C-90-220 at the court house.

Monday morning, an air conditioning contractor in Arkansas City called us
saying he was near bankruptcy because he hasn't been paid for labor or
supplies used trying to get Narconon in shape for their Grand Opening bash
last June 30.

Monday afternoon, a sign painter in Arkansas City called saying someone
should warn the public about that "wonderful, caring organization that's
trying to help people" just north of us a Chilocco. He hasn't been paid,
either, he said.

An Arkansas City appliance dealer says he hasn't been paid for renting an
air conditioner and refrigerator to Narconon "for Barbara Mandrell's"
appearance during the Grand Opening 3 months ago. Narconon wanted to buy
television sets and air conditioners on credit, he added, saying he refused
to go along with that economic boom.

Another Ark City merchant, not affected by Narconon's credit buying spree,
says friends of his in the furniture business are wondering when they'll
get paid. A ceramic tile supplier is wondering the same thing. So is the
gas company. So are a bunch of motels in the area, which housed all of
those big shots brought in to witness the GO Show.

Word is the Indian tribes haven't been paid for equipment they have been
renting to Narconon, either. Last Friday, tribal workmen going through town
said they were headed to Narconon to confiscate the equipment and lock it
up in the armory out there.

Barbara Mandrell reportedly took home over $60,000 for her 2 hour
performance. Quite a gold mine. The merchants who provided the materials
and performed the labor to get the Con-anon Show ready got what was left.

The shaft.

Funny how they can find the money to pay for the smoke and mirror show but
can't find the money for the hardware behind it.

None of Newkirk's merchants seem to have been victimized by the scam,
however. And we'll take a little bit of the credit for that, thank you.

Third, word from the hinterland indicates that Scientology intends to
continue the fraud. Propaganda circulating out West this week suggests that
people should donate $1,000.00 to $500,000.00 to Narconon Chilocco for
"Phase Two" which will bring the facility up to 1,000 beds and 400 staff
and "trainees" by March 1991.

Never mind that they aren't licensed or certified. Never mind that their
Certificate of Need was limited to 75 beds, and that it expired June 30th.
Never mind the Court Order forbidding them to accept new patients. Never
mind that they haven't even paid for the last batch of work and goods they
ordered.

If you liked the economic benefits Narconon brought you with Phase One,
wait til you get a taste of Phase Two!

And finally, another little tidbit we uncovered this week, that Narconon
hasn't been making much noise about in this part of the country:
The "Criminal Rehabilitation Branch of Narconon, International" known as
"Criminon" now claims to have programs established in five Oklahoma penal
facilities" Jack Brandon at McAlister, Joseph Harp at Lexington, the
Lexington Assessment and Reception Center, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary
at McAlister, and the Oklahoma State Reformatory at Granite.

Who's paying for those?

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New City Fire Response Policy Excludes Chilocco Indian Lands

NEWKIRK Sept. 27, 1990 - Fires starting on Indian Land will no longer be
extinguished by the Newkirk Fire Department.

City Commissioners Monday evening voted to adopt that new policy, and to
inform each of the tribes who own land in the area, the Chilocco
Development Authority, and Narconon of their decision by letter.
Land covered by the policy includes the area of Chilocco leased by
Narconon, the area controlled by the CDA, and the adjacent lands owned by
the Cherokee, Ponca, Otoe, Pawnee, Kaw, and Tonkawa tribes. The policy does
not affect the Kaw Housing development east of Newkirk.

The policy is not unlike that adopted previously which applies to Corps of
Engineers land near Kaw Lake. The Corps of Engineers has a no pay policy,
and has told the city to let fires on their land burn. City Manager David
Haynes said fighting fires on Indian land is also a losing proposition. He
cited an unpaid $1,400 bill sent to Narconon for fighting a wild trash
fire, and an outstanding $300.00 bill for a fire run to Chilocco several
years ago before Narconon entered the picture.

The Fire Department will continue to respond to fires starting outside of
Indian land, and to fires that spread off of Indian land and threaten
non-Indian property. Privately, commissioners and the city manager agreed
that in the event of any life-threatening danger, the department would be
obligated to respond, no matter where the fire was located or where it
started. Letters from the city attorney notifying the proper officials of
the policy change should already be in the mail.

On September 27, 1990, a two column by eight and a half inch blank spot
appeared in the Newkirk Herald Journal right on the front page.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 04 October 1990

Narconon Public Hearing NHS Auditorium, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 1 pm

About our blank spot last week - We had proof that Darrell Ayoub of
Carlsbad, Ca., was admitted to Narconon as a patient on September 12th,
just five days after Narconon agreed in court that they would take no more
patients until they were certified.

What we didn't have was confirmation of the exact sequence of events
leading up to his enrollment on September 12th, and the Health Department
man didn't call with that information soon enough for us to leave it in the
paper.

According to Health Department investigators and Mrs. Ayoub, a Narconon
salesman arrived at the Ayoub home on September 6th and spent 3 hours
trying to "hard sell" the program to them.

Darrell, a 23 year old who got himself messed up fooling with
methamphetamines about a year and a half ago, has been under psychiatric
care, and has previously undergone treatment at the Betty Ford Center.

On September 7, he decided to accept the Narconon sales pitch, but on the
8th changed his mind and rejected the idea. Then, Darrell got into trouble
with the law and wound up in jail. Guess who bailed him out? The Narconon
salesman, of course, who convinced his grandmother that he would go back to
jail if he wasn't immediately sent to Chilocco for treatment. Ayoub was
actually enrolled as a patient at Narconon on September 12th.

We don't know how Health Department lawyers view this infraction, but we
didn't expect Narconon to have the integrity to tell the Ayoubs that they
couldn't accept Darrell on September 12th because they were unlicensed and
uncertified and under a court order not to accept more patients. She found
that out later.

Five thousand of the $15,000.00 treatment fee was wired to Narconon up
front. But within a week, Darrell was wanting out, and his parents began
investigating. When they discovered more about this outfit, they demanded
he be returned to them, and on Friday evening, September 21st, Darrell was
sent home on a plane from Wichita, according to Mrs. Ayoub.

We jerked the column because Scientology scares the bejabbers out of us,
and we don't want to give them any options by accidently printing something
we aren't sure of. We're not as free to twist the facts as some.

Scientology, on the other hand, seems to be "Totally Free" to do whatever
they see fit. The Ayoub case is just the latest demonstration of their
continuing deceit.

It started when they adamantly denied their connection to Narconon. When
Narconon's Incorporation papers prove it was founded by Scientology's Rev.
Arthur Maren, Scientology Guardian's Officer Henning Heldt, and yes,
William Benitez.

It continued when they tried to fool us into believing that ABLE, one of
their sub-organizations, was an independent philanthropic group that had
donated $200,000.00 in seed money to get Narconon started, when in fact
ABLE owns Narconon.

It became almost humorous when they tried to make us believe they had an
86% cure rate and world wide acceptance when in fact their cure rate claims
are unsubstantiated and they have closed more Narconon units in the US than
they currently have operating. Did they run out of addicts to cure, or
what?

It grew when Narconon said they weren't going to recruit local people, when
in fact, that was the very first marketing item on their Action Plan. Not
to mention the solicitation cards mailed out to most residents just last
weekend.

It got deeper the day they told the Health Department they were only
treating Indians. That was the day John Carraro, a German-Italian from New
York, got away from them and told us most of the patients out there were
non-Indians just like him.

It got thicker still when they enrolled Ayoub.

That's what we find the most repulsive of all about this whole
organization. The hypocrisy and deception foisted upon us at every turn.

Scientology claims to be the "Bridge to Total Freedom." And according to an
old 1974 Narconon News, Narconon is "the bridge to the Bridge of Total
Freedom." The illustration shows that Narconon leads invariably to
Scientology. It proves our case that Narconon is primarily a Scientology
recruiting tool. Which is the biggest deceit of all. No matter the good
Narconon may do, the end never justifies the means. Their motive is the
worldwide expansion of "LRH Tech"; drug treatment is simply an exploitable
method of accomplishing that end.

The State Mental Health Department has called a Public Hearing for next
Tuesday at 1 pm at the School Auditorium. Go and tell 'em you're tired of
listening to Narconon's lies.

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Narconon Friends, Foes Voice Views On Certification

By Michael McNutt
Enid Bureau, Daily Oklahoman
11 October 1990

Some praised the Narconon Chilocco New Life Center as the best substance
abuse facility in the country while others said during a public hearing
Tuesday it is a cult recruiting tool.

About 400 people crowded into the West Chapel of the Marland Mansion
complex for a chance to listen to speakers argue whether the center should
be certified by the state mental health department.

Most of the people wore "I Support Narconon Chilocco" pins, and staff
members brought their children who wore Narconon T-Shirts.

Gary Smith, president of Narconon Chilocco, said about 30 people were
brought in from Los Angeles, Texas, and New York to speak or attend the
hearing.

Actor Parker Stevenson read a letter from actress Kirstie Alley, his wife
and spokeswoman for Narconon Chilocco, stating that she owed her success to
the Narconon program.

Alley claimed Narconon International's substance abuse center in Los
Angeles helped her kick her cocaine habit in 1979.

But Bob Lobsinger, publisher of the Newkirk Herald Journal, called the
Narconon program "a recruiting front" for the Church of Scientology.
Dr. Forest S. Tennant, who once served as drug adviser to the National
Football League, said Narconon's program "equals or exceeds" national
standards.

Lobsinger quoted from a 1974 report Tennant made on Narconon's Los Angeles
center in which he wrote of a "relationship between Narconon and the Church
of Scientology that specifically religious practices are commonly used in
the treatment of clients."

Narconon Chilocco has been operating since February without a state
license. It applied for mental health department certification last month
after state officials sought to shut down the facility.

The State Mental Health Board is scheduled to make a decision on Narconon's
application for the 75 bed center at its October 18 meeting in Norman.

Newkirk mayor Garry Bilger and other residents of the tiny Kay County town
spoke out against Narconon Chilocco's application because of the program's
ties to the Church of Scientology.

Bilger said investigators and lawyers hired by Narconon wrote letters and
visited town residents to intimidate them to not speak out against Narconon
Chilocco.

Smith said that Narconon was founded using beliefs of the late L. Ron
Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. Treatment at Narconon
includes saunas and vitamins, methods advocated by Hubbard.

Sandy Wyninger, Los Angeles, who said she spent 13 years as a Church of
Scientology minister, claimed the center should not be certified because it
only replaces drug addiction with a dependency on Scientology.

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State Mental Health And Substance Abuse Board To Consider Narconon
Certification At Today's Meeting

NEWKIRK, Nov. 8, 1990 - The Oklahoma Board of Mental Health meets at 9 am
today at Western State Hospital to consider the certification of Narconon,
the controversial drug treatment program at Chilocco Indian School north of
Newkirk.

Narconon Wednesday morning asked the Oklahoma City District Court for an
injunction to prevent the Board from discussing their certification at the
meeting. At press time the results of that court action were unknown.
A charter bus-load of between 30 and 40 Newkirk citizens plan to leave this
morning at 4 am to attend the meeting and express their opposition to
certification of the facility, which has been operating since February. The
bus was paid for by donations from Newkirk and area residents concerned
about the unlicensed establishment.

Early last week, according to sources, a Blue Ribbon Panel of experts was
to have visited the facility, but was denied access by Narconon officials.
The panel was to have been headed by Jerrold Jaffe, a drug abuse and
treatment expert with the federal government; Dr. L.J. West, professor of
psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles; and David
Dietch, who has served as chief executive of a large chain of drug abuse
treatment centers in the U.S.

About the same time, Dennis Clarke, president of the Citizen's Commission
on Human Rights appeared on a Ponca City television and radio station and
contended that the leaders of the inspection team were prejudiced against
both the Church of Scientology and Indians. In answer to a question, Clarke
said his commission was founded by the Church of Scientology. Narconon is
also an organization closely connected to Scientology, and uses treatment
methods prescribed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Last Thursday, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Department officials
completed and released to Narconon it's recommendation that the facility
not be certified.

"We are outraged," said Gary Smith, president of the Narconon center at
Chilocco in an interview with the Saturday Oklahoman. Smith said that the
recommendation was based on "biased, false, distorted information on
Narconon."

Mental Health Department spokeswoman Rosemary Brown said the agency would
not comment on Narconon's allegations of persecution. We were hoping that
we would have an orderly process of discussion of this at the board
meeting," she said. "We prefer not to discuss it outside that setting where
everything is on the record and official."

Claims of a conspiracy within the state mental health department in
handling of Narconon's certification application surfaced Monday afternoon.
Representatives of Narconon said they discovered a predated, unsigned
letter in the files of the mental health department notifying Narconon that
the program's certification has been denied. "We have finally found our
smoking gun," Smith said. "There definitely is a conspiracy here."

But mental health spokeswoman Rosemary Brown denied the accusation, and
said that the letter was routinely prepared in anticipation that the board
would follow the agency's staff recommendation that Narconon not receive
state certification.

"There's nothing sinister here. It's simply a time saving measure to
expedite the notification procedure," Brown said. If the board rejects the
staff's recommendation and certifies Narconon, a new letter will be
prepared, Brown said. The board concurs with staff recommendations "more
times than not," she said in an interview with the Daily Oklahoman on
Tuesday.

The staff recommendation was prompted, according to the Oklahoman story, by
Narconon's failure to allow an independent review team to inspect the
center's "non-traditional" treatment techniques at the center, Brown said.
Smith claimed in the same story that the team included "religious and
racial bigots," who were predisposed to rule against the center. Brown said
claims by nearby residents of harassment by Narconon employees, the
center's failure to pay contractors and the absence of Narconon staff
members at a state training seminar also contributed to the staff's
negative recommendation, according to the Oklahoman story.

Smith claims the conspiracy involves "the department of mental health or
someone in it."

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 15 November 1990

Justice Should Be Blind, But Not Ignorant

Geeese, I was gonna leave it alone for awhile and see what the rest of the
world was doing, but as a true "born again Wog" I just can't resist...

Most of you know by now that Narconon managed to get Judge Leaman Freeman
to toss out the State Mental Health Department staff recommendation against
the certification of Narconon.

"Biased", he said.

Then Narconon went to Federal Court and screamed Indian sovereignty again,
just for good measure.

So the board, without benefit of staff counsel or recommendation, did
nothing.

But they have a much truer picture now of the beast than they might have
had before last Thursday's meeting in Ft. Supply.

The Mental Health Department's staff had probably figured out that L. Ron
Hubbard was totally unqualified to be in the drug treatment business;
-that his program has never been independently proven medically or
scientifically acceptable;

-that it inculcates the Scientology religion in its patients as part of the
treatment;

-that more Narconon units in the US have been closed than are currently in
operation;

-that the cult exhibits identifiable attributes of mind control;

-and that it is maliciously antagonistic towards the mental health
professions.

Lots of documentation proves it. Lots of people know it.

Even former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop knows it. He belongs to
the National Coalition Against Health Care Fraud, which is vigorously
protesting the promotion of the "Hubbard Method" (that's what they call
Narconon's Purification program when they don't want you to know it's the
Purification program).

If they do their job about half thoroughly, anybody the board picks to
review Narconon will come up "biased". The Judge can make a career of
tossing them out, one after the other.

All the way up to Dr. Koop.

'Spose the judge would throw him out too?

Standardly applied, this precedent setting decision could help establish
the system of "Hubbardian Justice" broadly in society:

-Toss out the evidence, the witnesses, and the facts.

-Have the defendant tell his story to the jury.

-And then have the jurors vote to let him go.

That how a Com-Ev party works? (inside joke)

If only the unbiased are allowed to provide information to the board,
Narconon and it's stable of Scientology experts and lawyers should also be
disqualified.

Talk about biased...

These are the folks who believe that psychiatrists and psychologists are
outright murders and classify them as criminals.

These are the people who follow a man who proclaimed that they should take
over total control of all mental healing in the West.

These are the "beings" who proclaim themselves superior to all others on
earth... Who derisively refer to the rest of us as "Wogs"... Whose leader
was the epitome of sanity, so rational that he believed he had visited
Heaven. Twice.

These are the folks who find themselves in the awkward position of applying
to the State Board of Mental Health for permission to propagate their
folly.

No wonder they're trying to intimidate our legal system. They know the
Mental Health Department has the facts. And they know the courts don't.
Justice may be blind, but it should not be ignorant.

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Tulsa Psychiatrist To Review Narconon Program For Board

By Michael McNutt
Daily Oklahoman, Enid Bureau
20 December 1990

A state agency barred by a court order from inspecting a Kay county
substance abuse center named a Tulsa man Thursday to evaluate the facility.
Dr. John Chelf, a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in addiction,
will make the review and report to the State Mental health Board, said
Rosemary Brown, a spokeswoman with the Oklahoma Department of Mental
Health.

The Narconon Chilocco New Life Center last month successfully blocked board
members from reviewing reports from an earlier inspection. They claimed the
documents were biased against the facility because of its ties with the
Church of Scientology.

Mental health board members last month talked of naming the agency's
advocate general, the person who represents complaining patients of mental
health and substance abuse facilities but reconsidered after Narconon
objected, Brown said.

An Oklahoma County associate district judge last month ruled the department
was biased against Narconon. The ruling came a day before board members
were scheduled to act on certifying the program, which has been questioned
because of its emphasis on saunas and vitamins, a method devised by L. Ron
Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology.

Chelf has the freedom to make an evaluation of Narconon by himself or ask
for help from experts not employed by the mental health department, Brown
said. (Reprinted with permission from the Daily Oklahoman, Friday, December
14, 1990)

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 14 February 1991

Kaws Want Narconon Out

Great purple postulations!

The Kaw Tribe has approved a resolution calling for the termination of the
lease between the Chilocco Development Authority and Narconon
International, Inc.

The resolution lists seven points the tribe says represent "a flagrant
disregard of the proprieties" between the parties involved.

The resolution says Narconon lease payments have been consistently late,
and some have been returned due to insufficient funds. It says there have
been difficulties encountered in the process of (Narconon) returning
(borrowed) property to the Chilocco Development Authority, and that the
tribe suspects Narconon of fraud in the reporting of the number of patients
served. It says Narconon has failed to become certified under the State
Department of Mental Health, that Narconon is suspected of fraud in
reporting of their direct relationship to the Church of Scientology, and is
suspected of dumping solid waste materials on Kaw Nation property.

The resolution "recommends and fully supports the termination of the Lease
Agreement..." and "officially directs and authorizes" Kaw Chairperson Wanda
Stone to initiate the process to terminate the lease. The resolution was
approved on February 2, 1991 by the Executive Committee with 6 votes in
favor, none against, and one abstention.

Good sense prevails.

Narconon responded characteristically, in a letter to the tribe, by
attacking former Scientologists who have come to their senses and subtly
suggesting that there will be "trouble" if the tribal leaders don't agree
with them. All the while failing to address any of the real problems and
concerns that exist about their organization.

Narconon begins it's second year of unlicensed and uncertified operation
this month. You try opening a barber shop without a license and see how
long it takes the state to shut you down.

Even if you call it the Church of the Holy Haircut, they'll be on you in a
New York minute. Narconon will blame the delay on the state, of course. But
the fact is, they can't be certified because their "treatment " is
"Scientology religion" and the state cannot sanction or franchise any
religion. As medical or scientific protocol, it is pure malarkey. But you
can't collect insurance money or public assistance selling religion unless
you can dupe enough people into believing it is medicine. Trouble is, we
didn't dupe up right.

We've been content, lately, to allow the system to run it's course, but
Scientology apparently is becoming worried again. One of the other front
groups, "The Citizen's Commission on Human Rights:, which attacks
legitimate mental health care, appears to be targeting the Laureate
Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital in Tulsa. Big article in Tuesday's Tulsa
World.

Funny thing. That hospital is where Dr. Dwight Holden works. Who's Dr.
Dwight Holden? One of the certifying members of the State Board of Mental
Health, of Course. Before they're done, they'll try to intimidate and
frighten him and everyone else on the board. It's standard Scientology
operating procedure. Nothing's changed.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 09 May 1991

While we've been content, lately, to let the system work, Goofyology has
been milking the media for publicity every chance it gets. This week, they
really got their wish... compliments of Time Magazine.

For those of you who have been unable to locate a copy of the May 6th Time
Magazine anywhere in the county, we are reprinting the entire cover story
in today's Herald Journal. Including a page from the International Edition
that didn't appear in the domestic issue.

The Time story, as did the Los Angeles Times series last summer, further
confirms everything we have uncovered about the menace of the Rondroids..
Empty news stands all over the county attest to the high interest this
story has generated... or the high interest someone has in preventing you
from reading it!

Scientology is not an organization we need in our midst, no matter how many
TV barmaids they parade before the governor.

It was just another of their desperation dog and pony shows to try to
generate a little free publicity and impress folks who don't know any
better yet.

Hollywood, long the neurotic center of the universe, and it's equally
strange population of overpaid shiny people fails to impress most
Oklahomans, who tend to laugh at them instead of with them. There's a big
difference; it just doesn't show up as good in Nielson ratings.

But nothing has changed in the past few months. Narconon is still
unlicensed, uncertified, unsavory and unsafe, trying to market their brand
of "religion" in a medical package, and hoping the state people won't
notice the difference.

And they are still saying one thing and doing another:

Like circulating flyers soliciting new customers among the kids at
Tri-State in Enid last weekend. Just a few months ago, they were telling us
they had no intention of treating any Oklahomans. (Not that out-of-staters
deserve that kind of treatment, either...)

Maybe they really do wake up in a new world every day!

During the last week in April, Dr. John Chelf of Tulsa visited Narconon,
and his report to the Mental Health Board is due later this month. Barring
more Narconon induced delays, the matter of licensing and certification
should come up on their June agenda.

Scientologist like to call their upper level members "OTs" (Operating
thetans). These are the wisest most knowledgeable, lucid, rational, sapient
individuals in the clut... They claim to have magical "abilities" to make
things happen.

So it's perplexing to them when us backwater Okies don't buy their
bilgewater.

It's simple: "Livin' in the real OT (Oklahoma Territory) gives us some
"abilities" of our own. Like the ability to think for ourselves. The
average Okie is more "OT" by accident that Hubbard's Thetan ever was on
purpose. Dr. Chelf's credentials suggest he is an above average Okie.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 01 August 1991

Caught It In The Wringer, Again

Scientology, according to Time Magazine, engages in everything from
outright deception and burglary to dirty tricks like going through people's
garbage in order to advance their agenda.

Propaganda intended to refute those "dirty trick" charges was mailed by
Narconon (which still claims no connection with Scientology) to most of you
last week... ironically using exact names and addresses somehow
"appropriated" from the circulation list of the Newkirk Herald Journal.

None of our news rack customers received the package of slick, expensive
booklets, but all of our mail customers did. All were addressed the same
unique way we carry the names on our computer. And there were far too many
of them to fall into the realm of mere coincidence, as will be alleged by
Narconon, which has managed once again to get it's Thetan caught in the
wringer.

Not only that, but the names they took came from a list of active
subscribers from the second half of last year. New subscribers since
January did not receive the package. We know where the list came from. They
know where it came from, and now you know where it came from, because you
know if you're on our circulation list or not, when you subscribed, and
whether or not you received their stuff. It was our list. No doubt about
it. The mailing was simply too selective to have come from public records,
phone books, or anywhere but our office.

In their feeble attempt to rebuild a self-sullied reputation, Scientology's
package of public relations pizzazz weakly attempted to construct a
"conspiracy" between Time Magazine and dozens of other companies, business,
and individuals on two continents which it blames for the Time
allegations... a story that courageously confirmed everything we have been
telling you for two years.

In Scientology lingo, it's a "Dead Agent" package... designed to discredit
an "enemy" agent to the point that he will be ineffective and hence, a
"dead" agent. True to Scientology policy, they have attempted to divert
attention from Scientology's own misdeeds by pointing fingers and blaming
everyone else for their problems. Just because every reporter who pokes
around in their sordid history comes up with the same set of facts, they
want you to believe there is a grand conspiracy out to malign them.

In this desperate and poorly thought-out effort to polish their reputation,
these folks apparently believed using our circulation list to invade your
privacy would help them achieve that goal. Did it?

While they were at it, they got ahold of an un-circulated brochure printed
on July 13th for the Cult Awareness Network, which is having its annual
National Conference in Oklahoma City this November.

Michael McNutt, a reporter for the Daily Oklahoman; George Tomick from
KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City and I have agreed to host a media workshop at the
conference, although none of us are members of CAN. That information was
only listed on those brochures. Nowhere else!

On Tuesday night, July 16th, McNutt received a telephone call at his home
from an oft-quoted local Narconon spokesman. The caller had a "pile" of
suggestions for McNutt, including the comment that McNutt's professional
reputation would be ruined if he didn't back out of the CAN workshop.

The caller also suggested that there would be demonstrations and possibly
violence at the CAN conference and it wouldn't be very safe for McNutt to
attend.

Can, whose leadership boasts Catholic priests, Jewish Rabbis, all kinds of
Protestants, some nothings, and an especially healthy sprinkling of former
Ministers of Scientology, is considered a "National Anti-Religious Hate
Group" by Scientology. They have a "Dead Agent" pack already made up on
that, too, which you may be getting next, addressed with our labels.
The District Attorney and the State Attorney General kind of wonder how
they got those addresses. So do we.

You don't suppose they dispatched an Operating Thetan to leave his body and
slither through the crack beneath our door and then telepathically extract
the contents of our circulation file from the computer? They can do that,
you know! Most of them are already out of their mind, so leaving their body
is no big deal. They haven't got it all perfected yet, though. When they
get back, TR-L (outflowing false information effectively) sets in, and they
can't remember what they did while they were gone, so they make something
up to explain it... like a phone book story, or something.

Or did they just grovel round in our trash, instead? Like ordinary mortal
scumbags do.

Which was it, guys? An OT in action, or just Dirty Tricks? Did you really
think that either would enhance your reputation in our community?

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Narconon Granted Further Licensing Delay By State Board Of Mental Health

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP), Oct. 24, 1991 - The state Board of Mental Health and
Substance Abuse has voted to postpone a decision on whether to grant
certification to the controversial Narconon Chilocco New Life Center.

Board members announced at 11:45 p.m. Friday that they would make their
decision on the center's application Dec. 13.

The center near Newkirk in far northern Oklahoma was the subject of a
daylong public hearing Friday on Narconon's petition for state
certification. More than 250 people attended the hearing, 200 of which
supported the facility.

State Mental Health Department staffers are recommending Narconon's
certification request be denied. And Dr. John Chelf, a Tulsa psychiatrist
hired by the board to evaluate Narconon, submitted a report questioning its
effectiveness.

He said during an April visit, he was told patients dependent on alcohol
and drugs were treated mostly with saunas and vitamins. Chelf said such
treatment during the withdrawal process could be risky.

However, Narconon medical director Dr. Ray Stowers testified that he
prescribes Valium and sedatives by phone to patients going through
difficult withdrawals.

After some board members questioned why Narconon has no licensed person,
like a nurse, on staff to distribute medicine, Narconon lawyer Harry Woods
Jr. said the center would hire one.

Under further questioning, Stowers agreed that the center's program is not
actually "drug-free," as its literature claims.

Mike St. Amnons, the center's public relations director, said under
questioning that Narconon's manual describing the program as drug-free
should be changed.

Among those testifying on behalf of Narconon was actress Kirstie Alley, who
credits the Narconon program with saving her life. Ms. Alley now is
national spokeswoman for Narconon.

"I think it's the best rehab in the world," said Ms. Alley, who has given
about $380,000 to Narconon Chilocco for renovation work and scholarships
for patients.

Ms. Alley, who said she broke her cocaine habit after undergoing a Narconon
program in Los Angeles, advised the board members not to worry about
details and to certify Narconon because the treatment works.

A Los Angeles doctor who developed the National Football League's drug
treatment program testified that Narconon's program is safe.

"Does it work?" Dr. Forrest Tennant asked. "Beats me. There's no scientific
evidence that it does. What's important is they apparently don't hurt."

St. Amnons testified that the set fee for treatment at Narconon Chilocco
was $20,000, up from $12,000 when the center began operations. He said that
members of the Five Civilized Tribes received free treatment.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 24 October 1991

The Guru Of Gubblebum

It appears that if you offer a drug treatment program that consists of
standing on your head, eating mashed potatoes, and reciting Alice in
Wonderland while chewing bubble gum, you have a fair chance of getting
certified as legitimate health care in Oklahoma.

As long as it "doesn't hurt anyone."

All you need is a TV barmaid to swear it worked for her.

Never mind that four of your own doctors say there is no scientific
evidence that it works.

Never mind that the only real independent study ever proposed for your
program was turned down by the research facility's committee on Human
Subject Review as unfit for human experimentation.

Never mind that you advertise it as "over 75%" successful when fewer than
half your patients even complete the course.

Never mind that your policy calls for a "totally drug free" program, when
it really isn't.

Never mind that you've been trying to get licensed for a couple of years
and are just now getting around to hiring a real nurse to pass out the
pills you advertise that you don't give.

Never mind that your "medical director" of 2 months tenure botched two
blood tests and had another test report came back "almost incompatible with
human life," and nobody on your staff was even trained well enough to weed
them out from the material you presented to the state certification board.
(That certainly shows your expertise.)

And never mind that standing on your head causes your customers' brains to
melt until they absorb any goofball thing you tell them while they're in
this upside down trance.

Never mind that all of your training material has to be "secularized" to
hide it's origins because you're a disciple of the Guru of Gubblebum...
that everything you teach your customers while they're in this condition is
the output of that dead egocentric who decided to call his ramblings a
religion because real science laughed at him.

Imagine.. the Guru of Gubblebum, perched upside-down on a W-meter (Weight
Meter, or bathroom scales), spouting the verses of Alice, with mashed
potatoes running out of his ears as he tries to chew his way into a state
of infinity.

I believe I'd try to keep the Mental Health Board from hearing about that
connection myself. Yep. I believe I'd scream for my first amendment rights,
too.

Never mind that it's mostly a program of mind-manipulation. Druggies, after
all, need their brains washed. They need to learn to communicate the good
old fashioned way, with words like "beingness," "entheta," "PTSness,"
"havingness," "C/S-ing," "Q and A-ing," and other "enturbulating" terms of
common, everyday usage.

Never mind that most of your graduates proudly announce that they are
taking your "job placement" training; or are already working for you (in
the medical records department?). You're not, after all, in the business of
recruiting members for the guru, it's just that they naturally tend to lean
that direction when they get done standing on their heads.

Never mind that stuff. You have a pretty fair chance of eventually getting
a license because you "don't hurt anyone." That's great medicine. That's a
real comfort to the consumer.

You want a license to be proud of?

First get real proof that the program works. Second, clean up the petty
stuff. Third, put a sign out there saying it's a religious organization
operated by the followers of the Guru of Gubblebum for the spiritual
treatment of drug abuse.

Then fully publicize all the tenants of Gubblebumism so your customers can
decide if they want to join or not before they spend their shekels. All the
tenants. Even those "confidential" ones.

No one will die of pneumonia. Trust me.

You do that, and most of your entheta will evaporate into nothingness. And
I'll even quit Q and A-ing you.

(The events, processes and characters depicted in this editorial are
fictional and any resemblance to any persons, processes, or events in the
MEST Universe, living or dead, is purely coincidental)

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Publisher To speak At National Cult Awareness Conference Friday

Robert Lobsinger, speaking November 1 at the Cult Awareness Network (CAN)
annual national conference at the Sheraton Century Center Hotel in Oklahoma
City, will detail the deceptive history behind Scientology and the
establishment of Narconon in Oklahoma. Lobsinger is owner and publisher of
the Newkirk Herald Journal. He will speak at 12:00 noon.

When Scientology established its questionable drug treatment program,
Narconon, at Chilocco Indian School in 1989, it was Robert Lobsinger who
recognized Narconon's connection to Scientology, and he received a joint
commendation from the Oklahoma Legislature for his courageous coverage of
the Scientology issue in Oklahoma. The May 6, 1991 TIME Magazine cover
story labeled Scientology "the cult of greed," and characterized the cult
as being responsible for "ruined lives, lost fortunes," and federal
crimes."

Despite controversial and exhaustive hearings on Narconon's Chilocco
facility, it remains uncertified and the Oklahoma Mental Health Board has
given Narconon until December 13th to comply with all state regulations.
This makes Lobsinger's presentation to the national Cult Awareness Network
particularly timely and important, providing facts crucial to the people of
Oklahoma, on a cult which this month's Reader's Digest identifies with the
headline "A dangerous cult goes mainstream."

Also featured as a speaker by CAN on November 2, will be William A.
Kolibash, United States Attorney for the Northern District of West
Virginia. Kolibash successfully prosecuted the leader and a devotee of the
infamous West Virginia-based hare Kirshnas earlier this year for
racketeering activity, concluding murder and other crimes. A third devotee
was convicted of mail fraud.

Kolibash will focus on successful prosecution of destructive cults where
criminal activity exists.

Michael McNutt of the Daily Oklahoman and George Tomek of KFOR-TV of
Oklahoma City will participate with Lobsinger in a program on November 2 on
"Responsible Media Coverage of Cults."

CAN is a national non-profit educational organization with 23 affiliates
nationwide which was formed in 1978, the year of the Jonestown
murder-suicides of 913 followers of Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple. It
receives and responds to more than 15,000 inquiries annually concerning
destructive cults and problems they pose to society. CAN's 2,000 members
include mental health professionals, educators, clergy, law enforcement,
ex-cult members and families victimized by cults.

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 31 October 1991

That 'Anti-Religious Hate Group'...

Many of you have been told by Scientology that I am a member of the Cult
Awareness Network, which it calls a "national anti-religious hate group."
But as usual, they are wrong on all counts. First, I am not a member of
CAN. Until Scientology tried to sneak their Narconon unit into Chilocco, I
had no idea there even was a Cult Awareness Network. But thank goodness
there is.

Second, this "anti-religious hate group" boasts highly credentialed clergy
of all religions. It even has a healthy sprinkling of Scientology
"ministers" among it's ecumentical ranks.

Third, CAN "hates "no one. It was born of the love parents and family
members have for the victims of destructive cults. CAN's purpose is to
educate. It monitors the activity of some 200 destructive cults, be they
political, psychotherapy, commercial, religious, or just weird in nature.
The common denominator of all destructive cults is that they operate on the
illogical and immoral principal that the end justifies the means. Most
destructive cults also have a single source authoritarian leadership, and a
body of "protected" knowledge, made available only to the most trusted
inner circle of members. Many destructive cults also employ the techniques
of mind control.

CAN gathers facts that identify these socially destructive organizations
and makes that information available to anyone who asks.

Legitimate, commercial concerns do not feel the need to attack the Cult
Awareness Network. Legitimate Political organizations have felt no need to
lambast CAN. The scientific community feels unthreatened by CAN. Genuine
religions see no need to denigrate CAN.

Suppose CAN came out with some ridiculous claim that GM was really a
"cult". Would GM spend a fortune harassing CAN members? Would they
demonstrate at CAN functions? Would they protest the designation with all
the fury and wrath at their disposal?

No I suspect they would laugh. Because the claim would melt under the
slightest scrutiny. And that, of course, is why CAN doesn't claim GM is a
cult. Because it simply isn't.

But for some reason, Scientology, which claims it is not a cult, feels it
necessary to attack CAN; to demonstrate at it's conferences; to spread
disinformation and innuendo about its members; and to whimper and whine to
the media about its rights being violated. Methinks they doth protest too
much.

Funny how only the cults get worked up about the Cult Awareness Network.
Funny how Scientology, which claims to have the bridge to total freedom
(however confidential they try to keep it) can be so vehemently opposed to
a tiny group like CAN which only works to protect freedom of thought.
Could it be that they have another agenda for your thoughts?

---------------------------------------------------

How Germans Feel About Narconon
reprinted from
Der Spiegel
October 21, 1991
with permission

Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 07 November 1991

'Deaths In Dianetics/Scientology
Institutions Spur Inquiry'

Suppose your newspaper received the following press release:

"Deaths In Dianetics/Scientology Institutions Spur Inquiry

Charging that it has uncovered a number of questionable deaths in Dianetics
and or Scientology Institutions, a national citizens rights group today
launched a probe into all deaths of members of those organizations over the
last decade.

The probe was initiated in a letter from the Citizens Commission on Freedom
of Thought (CCFOT) Executive Director to David Miscavige, Chairman of
Religious Technology Co., the parent organization of Dianetics/Scientology,
requesting the name and cause of death of all persons who died while
undergoing Dianetics or Scientology training courses since 1980.

According to CCFOT, the high number of questionable deaths among members of
the Dianetics/Scientology organizations apparently arises from a lack of
concern for the lives of persons who have been placed in the hands of
Scientology auditors.

One of the cases under investigation by CCFOT involves a person who
apparently died during the group's "Purification Rundown", which includes
several hours a day in a sauna.

"It appears that this person was killed by the Scientology treatment he was
given, and yet no autopsy was performed" said the Director. "It is
intolerable that deaths like this have occurred with no concern
demonstrated by the Scientologists involved for the possibility that they
are actually killing their patients."

CCFOT's letter specifies that if patient confidentiality provisions
prohibit the release of names, the list may consist solely of total deaths
and an enumeration of the reported causes of death.

"The lives of thousands of Scientologists depend on a thorough
investigation of all deaths of members of all Dianetics / Scientology
groups. Only by finding out the causes of these deaths will it be possible
to prevent future needless deaths at the hands of Scientology," said the
Director.

CCFOT was established in 1991 by the Cult Awareness Network to investigate
and expose Scientology's violations of Freedom of Thought through mind
control techniques."

Sounds horrible, doesn't it? Yet a very similar release was received this
week by most newspapers in the state. Except that it was from Scientology's
Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, charging the state Mental Health
Department with alleged abuses.

Forty years Scientology has been around, and it's not until they fear they
won't get their phony Narconon drug program licensed that they decide to
give a damn about Oklahoma's mentally ill. We trust that the state
recognizes this simple ploy for what it is - further attempts to intimidate
the state into granting legitimacy to a huge confidence game.

Further - we wonder just how Scientology would respond to such a probe of
their own inner sanctum. Proven charges of abuses can be rectified in the
state system. Scientology operates in the murky area beyond laws which
protect their members' interests.

One suspects that CCFOT would have little success in gaining any credible
information from Scientology on the subject, in spite of the fact that
former members tell many harrowing tales of suicides and mysterious deaths
allegedly attributable to the organization's methods of operation.

We suspect that CCFOT would be met only with predictable self-righteous
rage and demagoguery. Nevertheless, if the kettle is going to start calling
the pot names, maybe it should be done.

---------------------------------

Anti-Cult

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Apr 15, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/15/97

On 7 Apr 1997 13:44:00 -0700.
inF...@primenet.com (Rev. Dennis L Erlich).
From: inFormer Ministry.
Wrote on the subject: Bob Lobsinger's writings:

>Faithful Reader,
>

>It would be a public service if one of you could web all of Bob's
>past editorials about the scienokult from his Newkirk paper. It
>is some of the funniest and most insightful satirical writing
>I've ever read.
>

>Thanks in advance,

>
> Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * *
> <dennis....@support.com>
> <inF...@primenet.com>
>

The articles will be available at
http://www.users.wineasy.se/noname/lobsinger/index.htm

They can also be reached from a link on my mainpage as stated in the
sig.

I will add articles as soon as I get my hands on them. For now,
there's just one article available.

Note to Scientologists: Remember when you were a free citizen of a
free country, when you were able to read whatever you wanted without
the censorship of the leaders in your totalitarian cult.

Remember when you were considered to be an adult that could choose
what you wanted to do.

Remember when you weren't infested with Hubbard's brain-ghosts in the
shape of Body Thetans and all other kind of bullshit from the
drug-addict L.Ron Hubbard.

Remember the days when you weren't an addict that needed auditine in
order to handle your life.

Remember the days when you were sane enough to see the difference
between a bad and criminal science-fiction cult and reality.

Remember the days when you were paid to work.

Remember the days when you were not a slave......

******* I'm so entheta I mock up *your* reactive mind too *******

Rev. Dennis L Erlich

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 14 November 1991

Human history is long, tedious road with many missing bricks. It is based
on a few artifacts, some rather outstanding individual lives, some written
words, and a lot of oral tradition. The farther back in history one
travels, the less clear the picture. Details fall by the wayside.

Assumptions take their place. Current events become history. History
becomes archeology. Archeology becomes educated guesswork. Guesswork
becomes theory.

Suppose.... just suppose there was a way to rebuild the entire history of
the human race. One life at a time. Accurately, completely, in absolute
minuscule detail. What a remarkable historical record could be constructed,
like a long road, one brick at a time. What a boon to the artifact hunters,
to the historians, to the politicians who seemed doomed to repeat history
for lack of knowledge about it. What a solid, incontrovertible record that
would be. No more guesswork. No more wondering.

Our friends up north have, they claim, the ability to recall their past
lives over trillions of years. They know who they were, and what they did
or did not do in those past lives. They can replay their "whole track" of
lives, even back into other planets and galaxies.

Now, with this remarkable trait, and a membership now claimed to be at 8
million, they could put down an awful lot of bricks on our historical road.
Lets see. Eight million members each with a span of say, 50 years per life.
Why, in just the span of the last 10,000 years, that works out to about
1,600 million lives. That's a bunch of bricks, and would pave a lot of
history. Probably more history than we really need to reconstruct.

What credibility it would add to the organization able to accomplish such a
task... To fill in those gaps in history where little is known. To build
upon what is recorded and known. To prove their ability to the world, and
give humanity back it's heritage in three dimensional detail...

With this possibility in mind, I asked some of those who have "experienced"
their past lives, just who they were in the "before." It was a meagre
attempt to reconstruct some small measure of history myself, and thus prove
it possible to regain all lost knowledge of the past.

My interviews so far have included one Joan of Arc, a couple of Napoleons,
several Julius Caesars, a few Jesus Christs, and one "biological" father of
Jesus Christ. But no stable boys, hod carriers, or potato farmers. And each
of them knows of others who have also been Napoleon, or Julius Caesar, or
Jesus Christ. Absurd as it may seem, they believed it. It was true for
them.

So much for an accurate historical record based on the recall of past
lives. But then, what would you expect from an outfit that teaches "Truth
is what is true for you"?

Which is exactly what is taught at Narconon, on page 201 of Book 6.

An organization that removes the anchor points of reality from people's
lives is a dangerous entity. Few things are absolute. Real truth is one of
them. Without absolute truth, nothing can be proven correct, nothing can be
proven false. Anything can be good or bad as the organization's goals
suggest. It leads invariably to the false logic that the end justifies the
means.

An organization which has historically proven that it will use any means to
accomplish it's goals is ultimately destructive in nature. Critical
thinking ceases. Thought control sets in. Absurdity becomes reality.

Should the Mental Health Board fail to recognize these flaws in the
Narconon ointment, and mistakenly license Narconon as legitimate health
care in the state, they will ultimately have more Napoleans than they can
say grace over.

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Good Inspection Won't Ensure Narconon Permit

By Michael McNutt, Enid Bureau
The Daily Oklahoman, Tuesday, December 10, 1991

A controversial drug and alcohol treatment center seeking state
certification received high scores on a recent state inspection, but that
is no guarantee of certification, a state official said Monday.

"The only official word is that the (Department of Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Services) staff denied it last time, and it doesn't look
like there's going to be much change on that," Guy Hurst of the Oklahoma
Attorney General's office, said.

Hurst, who represents the mental health department staff, said no official
recommendation has been prepared yet by the staff members.

Gary Smith, president of Narconon Chilocco New Life Center near Newkirk,
issued a press release stating the facility's high scores "show that we do
meet or exceed the mental health standards for drug and alcohol
rehabilitation centers."

The Oklahoma Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Serivces is
scheduled to issue a decision Friday on whether to certify Narconon
Chilocco, which has been accepting patients since February 1990. The state
inspection report will be one factor the board will consider.

Board members, who met for almost 16 hours in October to hear comments
about Narconon's operation, set 13 requirements for certification. One was
allowing department staff on campus to ascertain compliance with the
requirements.

Others were to improve medical records kept at the treatment center and to
hire appropriate, medically trained employees to administer medication and
supervise the center's sauna and exercise programs.

A five member team inspected the center last month, Smith said.
He released a document Monday showing Narconon scored 100 percent on
governing authority, 92 percent on program management and 90 percent on
program services.

Hurst said the center needed to score 100 in all three areas.

But Smith said state regulations require only a minimum of 75 percent to
qualify for provisional certification.

Smith did not send the rest of the inspector's report, which listed several
deficiencies.

Hurst said those deficiencies included failing to have enough nurses to
dispense medication and failing to keep complete medical records.
"They're serious (deficiencies) in that they're all required," he said. "If
you don't have them, you're not supposed to be licensed."

Smith said patients are closely monitored by the medical staff, "but it
didn't show on the records."

He also said the center has hired two registered nurses and plans to hire
an additional nurse today. Hurst said Narconon Chilocco needs at least four
nurses.

He said inspectors also listed concerns over the lack of drug and alcohol
education materials given to patients. Patients are given mostly materials
from the late L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology.
Board members during their October hearing expressed concerns about medical
procedures, and they asked for improvements in record keeping and patient
monitoring to make sure they face no health risk as patients go through
Narconon's treatment of vitamins, sauna and exercise.

Narconon has billed its treatment at "totally drug-free" but its recently
appointed medical director, Dr. Ray Stowers, told board members that drugs
are used on some patients in the withdrawal phase.

--------------------------------

Narconon Certification Hearing
Tomorrow, Friday, December 13, 1991
9:00 a.m.
Department of Mental Health Building
1300 North 13th Street
Oklahoma City, Ok
Public Encouraged To Attend

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State Mental Health Board Denies Narconon Certification Bid

By Robert W. Lobsinger
19 December 1991

The State Board of Mental Health Friday denied certification for a
controversial drug and alcohol treatment center known as Narconon, and gave
the facility seven days to move out its patients.

The meeting was attended by 136 interested spectators, about 60 of them
from Newkirk. Almost no one attending actually heard what was going on
because of the lack of space in the meeting room. Most spectators stood or
sat patiently in the ante-rooms as the board heard testimony. Media
coverage was abundant, however.

The board's decision ended a lengthy effort by Narconon Chilocco New Life
Center to win certification for their treatment modalities, which were
formulated by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.

But another battle is brewing, as Narconon attorney Harry Woods, Jr.,
indicated at the meeting that he would appeal the board's decision in
Oklahoma County District Court.

Narconon's president, Gary Smith, said in television and newspaper
interviews following the decision that certification was denied because the
Mental health Department was putting their bias and prejudice into their
reports, which have twice recommended against certifying the facility.

The Oklahoma Board of Mental health and Substance Abuse Services voted 6-0
to deny certification for Narconon, which sought permission to operate a 75
bed facility north of Newkirk at the former Chilocco Indian School. Dr. Sue
Ellen Read abstained from voting because she did not attend an October
hearing when members listened to more than 12 hours of evidence before
delaying their decision again until last Friday.

Dr. Dwight Holden, who toured the facility a week ago today, said it lacked
a certified drug and alcohol abuse counselor and the staff had little
formal training in the field.

Dr. Stewart R. Beasley, Jr., asked that the 27 patients currently enrolled
at Chilocco be transferred to other facilities within seven days because
"the program is basically unsafe. Their well being is at risk." His motion
to that effect was approved by the board over the objection of Mr. Murray
Abowitz, who felt a longer period of time should be given for the transfer.
The program relies on a sauna and exercise program and until October was
advertised as being "drug-free".

But at the October hearing, Dr. Ray Stowers of Medford, who had been hired
in September by Narconon as their medical director, told the board that
drugs were administered during the detoxification part of the program.

Holden said Dr. Stowers efforts at making improvements at the facility were
noticed, but he said there were too many health concerns to certify it.
There "is a need to prove the safety and effectiveness" of such unorthodox
treatment programs, Holden said.

State Attorney General's office lawyer Guy Hurst said the state will ask
for dismissal of an Oklahoma County court order that allowed Narconon to
treat up to 40 patients while its certification was pending. State
officials will have authority to shut down the facility once the seven day
transfer period is over, Hurst said, even though the facility is on Indian
land, because it is a non-Indian operation. Tribal police could be asked to
intervene if jurisdictional problems arise, he added.

The Board refused a request by Woods to allow the facility to continue in
operation until the appeal process is exhausted. Hurst noted that such a
process could take several years if the matter goes before the Oklahoma
Supreme Court.

Board members made their decision after a 3 hour closed deliberative
session, following about 4 hours of testimony including that of two former
students who, among other things, said that the sauna temperatures were as
high as 200 degrees. One graduate of the program said he was told he could
drink "a few" beers after completing the program without problems. But, he
said, he went back to Narconon twice after going on drinking binges
following his graduation from the program. "I believed them," he said.

Reasons for denial of certification were listed in a document called
Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, which was released following the
meeting by Hurst. Some of those findings are quoted as follows:

Findings of Fact

"In reviewing the application and determining the merits of the application
the Board on the October 18, 1991 and December 13, 1991 hearings heard
evidence and considered the issues of safety and effectiveness of the
treatment modality utilized by the Applicant.

Most drugs of abuse are removed from the body by detoxification and
excretion through the liver, kidneys, and the lungs. Although minute
quantities of some drugs may be found in sweat the amount represents a
small fraction of drug elimination.

The Narconon drug treatment modality treats all drug addictions the same.
No scientific evidence was produced to show that all drug addictions are
properly treated in the same manner.

The terms "patient," "student" and "client" are used interchangeably in
these Findings.

The Narconon Program exposes its patients to the risk of delayed withdrawal
phenomena such as seizures, delirium and/or hallucinations.

The Board has not considered any evidence of the beliefs or opinions of any
witness on matters of religion in making its findings of fact. To the
extent there may be some affiliation between Narconon and any religion such
affiliation has been totally disregarded by the Board. The Board has not
made its decision on certification based upon any consideration of religion
or religious affiliation.

The Board concludes that the Applicant, Narconon International, has the
burden of proving that its program meets all requirements for certification
and specifically the burden of proving its program is both safe and
effective. Narconon has not sustained its burden of proving its program is
either safe or effective. However, regardless of whether Narconon
International has the burden of proof the Board concludes there is
substantial credible evidence, as found by the Board, that the Narconon
Program is unsafe and ineffective.

The Narconon program requires its patients to sweat up to five hours per
day, seven days a week, for approximately thirty days. The rationale,
according to Narconon for the sweat-out is to rid the body of fat-stored
drugs and chemicals through sweat. However, there is no scientific basis
for the technique. Most drugs of abuse are removed from the body by
detoxification and excretion through the liver, kidneys and (in some
instances) through the lungs. Although minute quantities of some drugs may
be found in sweat, the amount represents such a small fraction of drug
elimination that no matter how much an individual sweated through exercise
or saunas, the clearance of most drugs of abuse would not be significantly
increased.

The Narconon program includes the administration of high doses of vitamins
and minerals to the Narconon patient as part of their treatment. The use of
high amounts of vitamins and minerals in the amounts described administered
by Narconon can be potentially dangerous to the patients of Narconon
according to the more credible medical evidence.

The relationship between drug abuse and psychiatric disorders is well
established. Most drug abusers who enter residential drug treatment
facilities have high levels of anxiety, depression, hostility or apathy.
Further, a chemical dependency disorder may co-exist with - or be secondary
to - a specific psychiatric illness, such as schizophrenia or major
depression, which should be treated by established psychiatric procedures.
The Narconon program presents a potential risk to the patients of the
Narconon program that delayed withdrawal phenomena such as seizures,
delirium or hallucination that are occasionally seen several days after
cessation of drugs such as benzodiazepines may be misinterpreted by
Narconon's non-medical staff as the effect of mobilizing the drug from fat
during the sauna sweat-out procedure period. There is also a potential risk
that the reported re-experience of the abused drugs' effect during the
sauna sweat-out program may be the result of misinterpreted symptoms of
hyperthermia or electrolyte imbalance since vital signs and serum
electrolyte levels have not been consistently monitored during the
sweat-out procedures or when a student is reporting the phenomena.

The progress notes for the patients at Narconon do not consistently
evidence that vital signs are recorded every six hours in the
detoxification process; nor do the progress notes record fluid intake for
detoxification clients.

Discharge summaries of patients at Narconon were not routinely completed
within fifteen days of the patient's discharge.

The clinical records of patients at Narconon do not consistently reflect
the recording of vital signs every six hours for clients as required under
non-medical detoxification standards of the Department.

There is credible evidence by way of witness testimony and review of
Narconon charts which reflect that there were patients who had psychiatric
problems who were taken off of their previously prescribed psychiatric
medication who did not do well and subsequently developed psychiatric
problems. This evidence indicates a lack of safety and effectiveness in
connection with the program.

Clients of Narconon suffering from psychiatric illness, when taken off
their prescribed medications, did poorly in the Narconon program and were
placed in a segregated facility called "destim". This practice endangers
the safety, health and /or the physical and mental well being of Narconon's
clients.

Narconon's program lacks any acceptable degree of quality control of the
sauna temperatures and treatment. Such a lack of control endangers the
safety, health and/or the physical or mental well being of its clients.

Narconon hires former students to work at Narconon - Chilocco immediately
upon graduation and the former students work directly with the present
students. While former patients of drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinics
can be employed in such clinics after graduation, the former patient's
recovery from his addiction should be established with more passage of time
to ensure sobriety and to avoid putting patients in contact with addicts
who are not fully recovered. This practice could negatively impact the
safety and effectiveness of the program.

Narconon does not maintain a sufficient level of follow-up of its students
after graduation, which impacts the effectiveness of the program allowing
for relapses and lack of recovery.

During an on-site visit in November 1991 a student was found with a
potentially dangerous low level of potassium which could lead to cramps,
(muscular, skeletal problems) and cardiac arrhythmia.

The vast majority of time spent in the Narconon treatment plan and course
work does not in any way relate to or involve education about drug and
alcohol abuse treatment, issues, and/ or addiction. The Narconon treatment
plan thus has deficiencies which render it ineffective. The Narconon
treatment plan is general in nature, applies categorically to all students
and is not individualized. The treatment plan also lacks measurable
individualized objectives which the students should seek to achieve in the
program. For instance, the treatment plan sets a patient's objective as
follows: "To have a clear mind." This objective is essentially meaningless.
In order for a bonafide drug treatment plan to be effective it is essential
to have individualized measured objectives which Narconon's treatment plan
lacks.

Part of the Narconon treatment program involves touch assists between
patients. Touch assists involve massages between patients in rooms by
themselves. Narconon has both male and female patients who are involved in
the drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. This practice of touch assists
could likely lead to improper sexual contact between drug addicts or
alcoholics in the process of recovery. An accepted standard in such
programs is for the patients to keep their hands to themselves. The
practice of touch assists between male and female patients who are
recovering drug addicts or alcoholics in private rooms renders the program
unsafe in this respect.

The discharge planning is not adequate and commences only very shortly
prior to discharge. This lack of discharge planning renders Narconon's
program ineffective.

Narconon clients are counseled by Narconon staff that it is acceptable for
the client to drink alcohol after being discharged from the Narconon
program and if the client is incapable of being able to drink alcohol, then
this fact evidences the client's need for further treatment. Such
counseling endangers the client's safety, health and /or the physical or
mental well being, and is not in accord with acceptable drug and alcohol
counseling and treatment.

Narconon employes staff inadequately educated and trained in the care and
treatment of drug and alcohol abuse clients. Such a practice endangers the
safety, health and/or the physical or mental well being of the clients of
Narconon.

Narconon permits clients under treatment for drug and alcohol abuse to
handle and provide medications to fellow Narconon clients, to supervise the
sauna treatment of fellow Narconon clients, and to supervise Narconon
clients with psychiatric disorders. Such practices endanger the client's
health and safety and are not in accord with acceptable drug and alcohol
treatment.

There is substantial medical literature which indicates that sauna therapy
may pose significant health risks to intravenous heroine addicts, which is
likely to be treated at Narconon, because such drug use may impair normal
physiological response and problems associated with high temperature saunas
which could be detected.

The Narconon Program includes running to stimulate circulation followed by
prescribed periods in a sauna for up to 5 hours at extremely high
temperatures (i.e. 135° to 200° F) and as such endangers the safety, health
and/or the physical or mental well being of its clients. Such a procedure
exposes the client to the health hazards of dehydration and heat injury.
This sauna regime also creates a risk of hyperthermia and electrolyte
imbalance.

Narconon restricts access by Narconon clients to their personal physicians,
family, attorneys, clergy and others by not permitting communications
except at limited and designated hours. such a practice may endanger the
physical or mental well being of Narconon's clients.

The Narconon program fails to provide adequate follow-up and treatment for
Narconon clients demonstrating abnormal lab tests and other medical
problems. Such failures endanger the safety, health and/or the physical or
mental well being of the Narconon clients and is not in accord with
acceptable drug and alcohol care and treatment.

There was no evidence that the Narconon staff inventoried and verified the
medications brought on to the campus by Narconon clients. such a failure
endangers the safety, health and/or the physical or mental well being of
Narconon's clients.

The Board recognizes that Narconon has in the past few weeks adopted many
new policies. The evidence did not disclose adherence to many if not all of
these policies. There was no measurable and identifiable compliance by
Narconon to its newly adopted policies in the areas of taking and
recordation of vital signs, drug and alcohol instructions to clients,
handling of medications, withdrawal and discharge procedures, lab testing,
procedures for emergency medical supplies and others.

Narconon clients are routinely administered clonidine. Narconon fails to
provide adequate supervision for clients prescribed this medication given
this drug's risks and potential for adverse consequences. Such failure to
adequately supervise endangers the safety, health and/or the physical or
mental well being of the Narconon clients.

The vast majority of Narconon's course materials in its drug and alcohol
abuse program are not designed to educate and/or treat clients in the area
of drug and alcohol abuse. In addition, there was only evidence of
occasional lectures to Narconon clients in areas of drug and alcohol abuse.
As such, Narconon's program lacks sufficient instruction and education in
the area of drug and alcohol abuse.

There is no credible scientific evidence that the Narconon program is
effective in the treatment of chemical dependency.

There is no credible scientific evidence that exercise speeds up the
detoxification process.

Large doses of niacin are administered to patients during the Narconon
program to rid the body of radiation. There is no credible scientific
evidence that niacin in any way gets radiation out of the patient's body.
Rather, the more credible medical evidence supports the existence of
potential medical risks to persons receiving high doses of niacin.

There is no credible evidence establishing the safety of the Narconon
program to its patients.

There is no credible evidence establishing the effectiveness of the
Narconon program to its patients.

Conclusions Of Law

Any finding of fact which should be included in the conclusion of law such
matters are included hereby by reference.

In order for the Application to be granted by the Board it must be shown by
a preponderance of the evidence that the program is safe and effective for
the non-medical residential treatment of alcohol and drug abuse.

Th purpose of Mental health law in the State of Oklahoma is to provide
humane care and treatment of persons who require treatment for drugs or
alcohol abuse. Residents of the State of Oklahoma are entitled to medical
care and treatment in accordance with the highest standards accepted in
medical practice. 43A O.S. Supp. 1990, §1-102.

The Narconon Chilocco program does not conform to the principles of
traditional chemical dependency treatment. The Board's conclusion that the
Narconon Chilocco program is non-traditional does not form the basis, in
any respect, for the Board's decision on the Narconon application for
certification.

No scientifically well-controlled studies were found that documented the
safety of the Narconon program. There are potential dangers from the use of
non-medical staff who may be unable to interpret the possibility of
seizures, delirious, cardiac arrythmia, or hallucinations that are
phenomena associated with the cessation of drugs. There is also a potential
risk of the reported reexperience of the abused drug effect during the
sauna sweat out program may be the result of misinterpreted symptoms of
hyperthermia or electrolyte imbalance. Moreover, the multiple findings of
fact heretofore entered by the Board establish that Narconon's program is
not safe.

Drug treatment program offered by Narconon Chilocco is an experimental
treatment and not proven safe or effective and is not in accord with the
highest standards accepted in medical practice as required by statute.

No scientifically wee-controlled independent, long-term outcome studies
were found that directly and clearly establish the effectiveness of the
Narconon program for the treatment of chemical dependency and the more
credible evidence establishes Narconon's program is not effective. The
Board determines that the Narconon Program is not effective in the
treatment of chemical dependency.

The Board concludes that the program offered by Narconon Chilocco is not
medically safe.

The Board has reviewed the proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law
submitted by the Department and Narconon. Any proposed finding of fact
and/or conclusion of law inconsistent with those entered by the Board is
denied.

Certification is denied."

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Harold's Journal
Editorial Opinion By RWL - 19 December 1991

We have printed, today, the reasoning behind the Mental Health Board's
decision not to certify Narconon as legitimate health care in the state of
Oklahoma. All of it. It's long. But it is important that somebody put it in
the public record.

The simple fact is that Narconon is unsafe and ineffective as health care.
Period. Never was, never will be. It's exactly what we said it was two and
a half years ago: a snake oil cure, which at any price is a rip-off.

Thanks to the Mental Health Board, taxpayers' money and insurance benefits
will not be wasted on Hubbard's Hucksters. Desperate people will no longer
be fed false hopes and dangerous hocum, at least at Chilocco.

However, the Narconuts continue to blow smoke up the media's tailpipe,
blaming their failure to pass muster on everyone and everything else except
the real problem: It doesn't work, and it isn't safe.

Over 20 years they've been taking people's money and yet there is not one
piece of scientifically credible evidence that their program works. Four of
their own doctors admitted that at the hearings.

Is it safe? Sure, most people survive it. That's not the point. The point
is that someone might not survive a 200 degree sauna. Keep in mind that
water boils at 212 degrees. One can bake brownies in less than 5 hours at
200 degrees, but that's how long debilitated addicts are expected to spend
in the Narconon sauna each day.

Considering that all of Narconon's staff (except their new medical
director, incidentally) have been through the program at least once, it is
not difficult to understand why they have such a hard time comprehending
the board's decision.

Their brains have obviously been baked. Which is further indication that
Narconon doesn't work and is unsafe.

We were especially unimpressed with Ms. Bimbo Barmaid for informing us of
how arrogant and irresponsible the Mental Health Board is. Fortunately, she
doesn't run anything but her mouth. And even then, she usually uses
somebody else's words. Someone might pay attention to her if she had the
credentials of even one member of the Mental Health Board. No matter how
often she reads the script they give her, she can't make Narconon safe, and
she can't make it work.

Narconon's latest tactic is to start a petition drive across the state.

They've been spotted lurking in the dorm halls at OSU, and were invited off
the property at Wall-Mart and Food Warehouse in Ponca over the weekend.
With assistance from the police.

The idea apparently is that if enough people sign a petition to do
something that is dangerous, the people who know better will let them do it
anyway. This is Narconon's concept of helping their fellow man? All the
names in the world on a petition don't make the Narconon system work, and
they don't make it safe.

In addition, they have again resorted to their old tactic of harassing
people. At least one Mental Health Board member is getting strange phone
calls and being followed where ever he goes. A lot of us in Newkirk have
been through that foolishness before, too. Harassing board members doesn't
make the Narconon program work, and it doesn't make it safe. Harassment
like this just makes them more obnoxious.

Then there is the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), Narconon's
sister org, which appears right on que to charge the Mental Health
Department with undocumented heinous crimes everytime it looks like
Narconon is going to get tossed out on it's ear. Trying to intimidate the
Mental Health Department doesn't make the Narconon system safe, or
effective.

All of these things they do, without addressing the real problem: Narconon
is dangerous and it doesn't work. Until they recognize that fact, they
might as well be trying to teach a pig to sing.

Which wastes a lot of time and it irritates the pig.

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Freeman Gets Narconon Appeal

By Michael McNutt
Enid Bureau

December 26, 1991

An Oklahoma County judge who previously has ruled in favor of Narconon
Chilocco New Life Center has been assigned to hear the center's latest
court case, a lawyer for the center said Saturday.

Harry Woods Jr. said a court appeal of the state mental health board's
denial of certification for the facility has been assigned to District
Judge Leamon Freeman.

Freeman also will rule on a request to allow Narconon Chilocco to remain
open through the appeal process, Woods said.

The actions were filed just before court offices closed Friday in Oklahoma
County, Woods said. No hearing date has been set for the request to stay
the mental health board's decision, pending appeals.

State officials likely will file motions arguing against the appeal, and
against allowing Narconon Chilocco to remain open through the appeal
process, which could take as long as two or three years.

Lawyers for Narconon Chilocco originally said the appeal would be filed in
Oklahoma County but then said it would be filed in Kay County District
Court because that is where the facility is located.

But Woods said he found a 1991 court case that allowed Narconon Chilocco to
file its appeal in Oklahoma County because that is the home county of the
state mental health board and the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Services.

Freeman last November granted a stay for Narconon Chilocco that allowed the
facility to remain open and to accept new patients while it went through
the state licensing process.

Freeman's order countered an earlier order by a Kay County judge that
blocked Narconon Chilocco from accepting any more patients until it is
certified.

Freeman also last year blocked the state mental health board from using a
mental health department staff report recommending denial. Freeman said the
staff report was biased and criticized the department for using an expert
he considered biased against Narconon Chilocco.

"It's like having an independent investigator to look into the situation in
Kuwait and sending Saddam Hussein to do it," Freeman said last November.
Narconon Chilocco, ordered by the state board to close last week, was
allowed to remain open to take care of its 27 patients. Oklahoma County
District Judge John Amick's order was to remain in effect until a hearing
could be scheduled on the facility's request to continue operating during
the appeal process.

However, Narconon Chilocco cannot accept new patients, Amick said.
Amick made his ruling after a lawyer for the state mental health board
asked for dismissal of Freeman's 1990 order that allowed Narconon Chilocco
to operate until the board ruled on certification.

State officials said the order should have been dropped because the state
mental health board made a ruling on certification.

Woods said Freeman probably will set a hearing next month on Narconon
Chilocco's stay request.

On the appeal, Freeman can overturn the board's denial or order a new
hearing by the board, Woods said. The judge also can uphold the board's
findings.

Narconon Chilocco's appeal claims that "throughout its application for
certification Narconon has been subjected to an excessive wave of
constitutional violations, statutory violations, disparate treatment," Gary
Smith, Narconon Chilocco's president, said.

"We were forced to take this measure to protect the rights of our present
and future clients that do the Narconon program," Smith said.

A petition drive is under way to garner support for the facility, with more
than 1,000 signing, Smith said. More than 3,000 letters from supporters
have been sent to state officials, he said. (Reprinted with permission,
Sunday Oklahoman, Dec. 22, 1991)

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Narconon Denied Request to Accept Former Patient

By Michael McNutt,
Enid Bureau, Daily Oklahoman
Thursday, Jan. 9, 1992

A drug and alcohol treatment center ordered last month to shut down was
denied permission Friday accept a former patient who asked to return to the
facility.

State lawyers, meanwhile, argued that a stay requested by Narconon Chilocco
New Life Center to remain open should be turned down because it never was
licensed by Oklahoma.

Oklahoma County District Judge Leeman Freeman denied a request from
Narconon Chilocco to admit the former patient, said to be from New York.
Freeman said lawyers for Narconon Chilocco could file a similar request
with District Judge John Amick, who is presiding over an Oklahoma County
case filed by Narconon Chilocco last year against the Oklahoma Board of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

Harry Woods Jr., Narconon Chilocco's lawyer, said the facility is
considering filing the request with Amick.

Mental health board members last month voted to deny certification for
Narconon Chilocco's treatment program, saying it was medically unsafe and
experimental.

Narconon Chilocco, which has been accepting patients since February 1990,
has appealed and asked that a stay be issued allowing the facility, located
north of Newkirk, to remain open until a hearing on its appeal could be
heard.

Guy Hurst, assistant state attorney general, said Friday that Narconon
Chilocco's request for a stay order is inappropriate because the facility
never was licensed by the state.

Stays usually are granted to a licensed facility that asks to remain open
after a state board suspends its license, he said.

"There's nothing to stay," Hurst said. "They were unlicensed. There was a
hearing. They're still unlicensed."

Hurst said he will make the same argument later this month when Freeman
presides over a hearing on whether a stay should be issued.

Freeman also is expected to hear Narconon Chilocco's appeal. That hearing
is scheduled for May 15.

When board members denied certification, they also prohibited Narconon
Chilocco from accepting new patients.

At the time of the board's decision, Narconon Chilocco had 27 patients.
Hurst said he was told the facility Friday had 16 patients.

Immediately after the Dec. 13 decision Narconon Chilocco officials started
a petition drive seeking signatures in support of the center.
A Newkirk area resident, meanwhile, has started his own petition drive,
seeking signatures of those who support the board's decision.
"All we're doing is affirming our support of that agency of government that
has made that decision," Frank Johns said. "We feel a decision has been
made by a bona fide agency of government and it should be abided by."

(Reprinted with permission, Saturday Oklahoman, January 4, 1992)

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Narconon Files Appeal To Operate Center

By Michael McNutt, Enid Bureau, Daily Oklahoman
Thursday, Jan 16, 1992

A drug and alcohol treatment center denied state approval has filed court
papers asking a judge to overturn the state action and allow it to operate.
Lawyers for Narconon International, which operates Narconon Chilocco New
Life Center north of Newkirk, on Friday filed a petition for a judicial
review in the Ponca City division of Kay County District Court.

No hearing date has been set.

In their 103 page document, lawyers ask District Judge Neal Beekman to set
aside the Dec. 13 decision by the Oklahoma Board of Mental health and
Substance Abuse Services to deny certification for Narconon Chilocco's
treatment program.

Board members said the center's treatment program, which relies heavily on
vitamins and a sauna and exercise program, was experimental and medically
unsafe.

Board members also ordered that Narconon Chilocco be closed by Dec. 23, but
lawyers appealed the board's action. That appeal kept the facility open.
However, the center is prohibited from admitting new patients.
The center, which sought approval for 75 beds, had 27 patients on Dec. 13,
and 16 last week.

Lawyers for Narconon Chilocco last week were unsuccessful in getting a
court order to allow the center to admit a former patient who they said
needed follow-up treatment.

Meanwhile, a Feb. 27 hearing has been scheduled in Ponca City to take up
the issue of a petition filed in 1990 in Kay County to close the facility.
District Attorney Joe Wideman is expected to make oral arguments during
that hearing on why the facility should be closed.

The case has been pending since 1990 because the judge postponed acting on
the application to close the drug treatment center until after the state
mental health board ruled on its certification application.

Narconon Chilocco began accepting patients in February 1990, and applied
for state certification only after state officials sought a court order to
close it.

Lawyers for the treatment center then tied up the process in the court
system for about a year, forcing the board to hire an independent inspector
to evaluate the program.

Mental health department staffers were allowed to get back into the
certification process four months ago. Staff recommended denial of the
center's application. (Reprinted with permission from the Sunday Oklahoman,
Jan. 12, 1992)

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Board Reply Opposes Narconon

By Michael McNutt
Enid Bureau

January 23, 1992

A request for a court order to allow Narconon Chilocco New Life Center to
remain open and continue treating patients should be rejected, according to
papers filed Wednesday (Jan 15) in Oklahoma County.

Narconon Chilocco should be shut down to comply with a Dec. 13 ruling by
the oklahoma Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services instead of
being allowed to remain open while lawyers for the facility appeal the
board's action, the documents said.

The papers were filed in Oklahoma County District Court by board lawyer
George S. Corbyn Jr., in response to Narconon Chilocco's motion seeking a
stay.

District Judge Leamon Freeman is scheduled to rule on the matter Jan. 31.
Meanwhile, lawyers with the state attorney general's office have filed
court papers seeking to dismiss Narconon Chilocco's appeal in Oklahoma
County District Court.

Guy Hurst, an assistant state attorney general, said Narconon Chilocco
filed its appeal in the wrong county. The appeal should be filed in Kay
County, where the 75-bed facility is located.

Lawyers for Narconon Chilocco last week (also) filed (their) appeal in Kay
County District Court.

Narconon Chilocco lawyers have kept the facility open by going to court and
filing requests for a stay and asking a judge to over rule the mental
health board's decision.

The center, which had 27 patients when the board denied its application for
certification, now has 16.

Corbyn said Narconon Chilocco's request for a stay should be denied because
the facility, which has been accepting patients since February 1990, never
was licensed.

He and his law firm were hired by the mental health board after Narconon
Chilocco last year won a court ruling prohibiting the attorney general's
office from participating at that time in the case.

In its request for a stay, lawyers for Narconon Chilocco said mental health
board members did not use substantial evidence in denying the facility's
request for certification and were biased because of Narconon
International's ties with the Church of Scientology. (Reprinted with
permission from the Daily Oklahoman, Thursday, January 16, 1992)

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Narconon Loses Bid To Stay

By Michael McNutt
Enid Bureau, Daily Oklahoman

February 2, 1992

An unlicensed alcohol and drug treatment center has lost its bid to remain
open while it appealed a state board's ruling that its treatment program is
medically unsafe and should be shut down.

Oklahoma County district Judge Leamon Freeman denied a request from
narconon chilocco New Life Center to remain open and accept new patients
because the facility never has been licensed. The center has been accepting
patients since February 1990.

Freeman on Wednesday (Jan. 29) said he could not issue a stay order because
the center was not licensed before the Oklahoma Board of Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Services voted last month to deny certification.

Guy Hurst, a lawyer in the state attorney general's office, said Thursday
(Jan. 30) it was unclear what action state officials would take. It is
clear the facility cannot accept new patients, he said.

Narconon Chilocco's financial director said the center could close if it
cannot immediately start admitting new patients.

Lawyers for Narconon Chilocco on Thursday (Jan. 30) filed a request in
Oklahoma County District Court for a permanent injunction to prohibit state
officials from closing the facility, six miles north of Newkirk.

Harry Woods Jr. said the motion was filed before District Judge John Amick,
who last month left in place a restraining order allowing Narconon Chilocco
to remain open after the state mental health board voted to deny
certification.

Board members also had voted to have Narconon Chilocco closed within a
week, saying they feared for the safety of the 27 patients then at the
facility.

Board members said Narconon Chilocco's treatment program, which relies
heavily on vitamins, sauna and exercise, was medically unsafe and
experimental.

Lawyers for Narconon Chilocco have filed appeals in Oklahoma and Kay
counties.

If Freeman had upheld Narconon Chilocco's request for a stay, it would have
allowed the center to accept up to 40 patients and operate until the appeal
was decided.

A hearing is scheduled next month in Ponca City on the state's request to
shut down Narconon Chilocco because it is operating without a state
license.

Barred from admitting new or former patients since Dec. 13, the center is
unable to earn money and is being forced to scale down its operation to
stay financially afloat, according to an affidavit signed by the financial
director for Narconon Chilocco.

The center recently started training staff members for other Narconon
cneters, but the revenue is considerably less than that from patients, who
pay an average of $21,000 for a three-month program, said Maureen St.
Amand.

St. Amand said Narconon Chilocco owes creditors $328,000. Contributions and
fees raised from training staff fall far below the facility's $172,000
monthly operating expenses, she said.

As of last week, narconon Chilocco had 15 patients, but eight are Indians
who are receiving free treatment, as provided in the center's agreement to
lease the old Chilocco Indian school.

"Without the immediate reinstatement of Narconon's ability to enroll new
students at Chilocco, the facility will have to close for lack of revenue,"
she said. (Reprinted from the Daily Oklahoman, Friday, January 31, 1992
with permission. Staff writer Charolette Aiken contributed to this report.
It was originally slated to run in the Feb. 6 issue of the Herald Journal,
but was pulled for space and later updates as the next item indicates.)

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Narconon Ordered To Move
Patients, End Treatments

By Michael McNutt, Enid Bureau, Daily Oklahoman
Feb. 6, 1992

Narconon Chilocco New Life Center was ordered Friday (Jan. 31) to move its
patients out and stop providing drug and alcohol abuse treatment in 10
days.

Oklahoma County District Judge John Amick set the Feb. 10 deadline after he
denied another request from the unlicensed facility to remain open and
admit new patients.

Narconon Chilocco lost a request earlier this (last) week for a court stay
to continue operating while it appeals a decision by the Oklahoma Board of
Mental health and Substance Abuse Services that denied certification for
its treatment program.

Amick also dismissed a temporary restraining order he issued last year to
allow Narconon Chilocco to treat up to 40 patients while its certification
application was pending.

With the mental health board denying certification and the denial of
Narconon Chilocco's request for a stay, the temporary restraining order no
longer was applicable, lawyers for the state said.

The center could appeal to the state Supreme Court for another district
court hearing.

Harry Woods Jr., a lawyer for Narconon Chilocco, said he is discussing
options with officials at the facility, at the old Chilocco Indian school
about six miles north of Newkirk.

Three pending legal matters concerning Narconon Chilocco are two appeals
seeking to overturn the mental health board's decision and a hearing later
this month on a state petition for a permanent injunction to close Narconon
Chilocco.

An appeal decision could take two years.

Guy Hurst, a lawyer with the attorney general's office, said the mental
health department will offer Narconon Chilocco help in relocating its 15
patients.

Narconon Chilocco began accepting patients in February 1990 and did not
seek state certification until state officials filed papers in Kay County
District Court to close it. (The above was reprinted from the Saturday
Oklahoman & Times, Feb. 1, 1992 with permission)

In an Oklahoman story of Tuesday, Feb. 4, Narconon spokesmen are quoted as
saying that they intend to stay at the facility and continue legal attempts
to keep the facility open.

Attorney General's lawyer Guy Hurst said Tuesday afternoon that there will
be another hearing in Oklahoma District Court Judge Leamon Freeman's court
today, but that he had not yet seen the pleadings.

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Narconon Tries Defense On Indian Sovereignty

By Michael McNutt
Daily Oklahoman Enid Bureau
March 5, 1992

Lawyers for an unlicensed drug and alcohol treatment center argued Thursday
that it is exempt from state regulations under the cloak of Indian
sovereignty.

Narconon Chilocco New Life Center is on the campus of the old Chilocco
Indian school north of Newkirk and as a result is exempt from state efforts
to shut it down, lawyer Harry Woods Jr., said.

But state lawyers, in a hearing in which the Oklahoma State Department of
Health is seeking a court injunction to shut down Narconon Chilocco, said
the facility's location is not enough to claim Indian sovereignty.

Narconon Chilocco is a non-Indian entity that treats non-Indians, Robert
Cole, a lawyer for the health department said.

Henry Hartsell, Jr., a public health administrator with the health
department, said to claim sovereignty a facility must be owned by Indians,
on Indian land, and treat only Indians.

Hartsell noted that the state recognizes sovereignty for a Cherokee Indian
treatment center and a Choctaw Indian drug and alcohol treatment center
because each meets those three requirements.

District Judge Neal Beekman presided over the five-hour hearing and took
the matter under advisement.

He asked lawyers on both sides to prepare written arguments within three
weeks. He said he could make a ruling by the end of next month.

Woods said the state should back away from regulating the center.

He showed a letter sent earlier this week from the U.S. Bureau of Indian
Affairs to Narconon Chilocco to show that the federal government is taking
on jurisdiction.

But the letter, from L.W. Collier, Jr., area director of the BIA office in
Anadarko, tells Narconon Chilocco it has a month to get its program
certified by the state or it will be violating its leas with the Chilocco
Development Authority, an Indian board that manages the Chilocco campus.
Collier's letter says Narconon Chilocco agreed to comply with Oklahoma laws
in the lease, which includes getting its program certified by the Oklahoma
Board of Mental health and Substance Abuse Services.

Collier also told Narconon Chilocco to make arrangements to move its
patients to licensed facilities.

Marcellus Chouteau, a former Kaw tribal chairman and former chairman of the
Chilocco Development Authority, testified that the BIA made a mistake in
giving the state of Oklahoma any authority in the Narconon Chilocco lease.
"That land is Indian land," he said. "The state has no part in it. We had
governments even before this state became a state. Now the state of
Oklahoma is trying to cram it down our throats."

Narconon Chilocco started accepting patients in February 1990. State
officials sought an injunction to close it, and an application for
certification filed with the state mental health board has been rejected.
(Reprinted with permission from the Daily Oklahoman, Friday, February 28,
1992)

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Narconon To Ignore BIA Order To Close Chilocco Facility

By Michael McNutt
Enid Bureau

12 March 1992

An unlicensed drug and alcohol treatment center on Indian land will
continue to treat patients despite receiving notice from the Bureau of
Indian Affairs that it should close because it violated terms of its lease,
the facility's president said.

Gary Smith, president of Narconon Chilocco New Life Center, is asking to
meet with BIA officials to go over reasons why his facility should be
allowed to continue operating.

"We find no valid ground to make plans for transfer of Narconon's
students," Smith said. "Under the high level of medical supervision in
place, Narconon is currently and will continue to deliver its life-saving
services to those in need as required by the lease."

L.W. Collier Jr., area director of the BIA office in Anadarko, said
Narconon Chilocco must comply by March 25 with regulations of the Oklahoma
State Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services or it should
transfer its patients.

"I'm sure we'll meet with them eventually," Collier said Monday. "Whatever
was contained in that letter is still in effect until something happens
that they convince us otherwise that we're wrong."

Collier, in a letter dated February 25 to Narconon Chilocco, said a lease
that allows Narconon Chilocco to use the old Chilocco Indian school
includes a provision that requires it to comply with state laws.

Narconon Chilocco, which has been accepting patients since February 1990,
was denied certification late last year by the state mental health board.
Board members questioned the safety and effectiveness of its treatment
program.

Narconon Chilocco has appealed in Oklahoma County District Court.
To generate revenue in the meantime, Narconon Chilocco has taken in staff
people from Narconon centers around the world for training classes.
Non-Indian patients last month were transferred to a Narconon facility in
Los Angeles, but Narconon continues to treat Indian patients at Chilocco.
State lawyers argue that Narconon Chilocco needs a state approval to
operate. Exemptions are given to facilities on Indian land, but they also
have to be owned by Indians and must treat only Indians.

Last month a Kay County district judge took under advisement a motion by
state lawyers to close down Narconon Chilocco because it is unlicensed.
Narconon Chilocco lawyers claim the facility is exempt from state
regulations and is protected by Indian sovereignty.

The lease between Narconon Chilocco and the Chilocco Development Authority,
an Indian board responsible for managing the old Indian school about six
miles north of Newkirk, states that Narconon Chilocco will not use the
premises for "any unlawful conduct or purpose which is in violation of ...
the laws of the state of Oklahoma."

Any violation of this clause, the lease states, "shall render the lease
voidable."

But Smith said there is no requirement in the lease that Narconon Chilocco
be certified or licensed by the state of Oklahoma.

Nor, he said, "was any such state approval made a prerequisite for
operation by Narconon or the CDA under the lease."

Smith said the only agreement between Narconon Chilocco and the tribes
concerning state approval was that Narconon Chilocco voluntarily would seek
state certification "in order to increase the facility's client base
through availability of third-party insurance payments."

"If unsuccessful with the state, it was and is Narconon's intent to seek
other tribally endorsed sources of accreditation to allow such third-party
payments."

Smith said an on-site inspection is scheduled for April by the Commission
on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.

Smith also took issue with the BIA that training staff violates terms of
Narconon's lease.

An integral part of Narconon Chilocco's drug and alcohol rehabilitation
program is the training staff from other Narconon centers, Smith said.
(Reprinted with permission from the Daily Oklahoman, Tuesday, March 10,
1992)

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Editorial Opinion
Harold's Journal
12 March 1992 - By RWL

They said: "Narconon has gotten over a hundred thousand people off drugs."
You heard 'em.

They said "Narconon has no connection with the Church of Scientology."
You heard 'em. I heard 'em. Everybody heard 'em. Over and over for the past
3 years! We didn't believe it, but we heard it.

Now comes Narconon head duck John Duff before KOCO's TV cameras recently,
to tell us we didn't hear that after all. Duff was in Oklahoma City
lobbying legislators when the cameras caught up with him. Heber Jebbies,
prexy of the "church" with which Narconon is not connected, was there with
him, smiling and blaming all of Narconon's problems on psychiatry, as
usual.

Says Daffy, uh, Duff: Narconon , over the past 24 years, has graduated
about 14,000 people. On TV he says this, in a fit of uncharacteristic
honesty...

The rest, he says, went through the same program in the Church of
Scientology, which up til now had no connection with Narconon.
Fact is, everybody who joins the Church of Scientology takes the Purif.
Drug users, occasional aspirin poppers, and even folks who once got a bad
sunburn are all considered "abberated" by drugs, medicine, sunshine, or
something equally horrible that requires them to get saunafied,
vitaminized, and have their oil and their minds changed.

Narconon just "borrowed" the extra statistics to make themselves sound
better. After all, it's the same thing, we find out now. This from folks
fond of spouting off about their "ethics."

Lets look at these new statistics a bit closer. Narconon has been in
business about 24 years. They say they currently have 33 facilities around
the world.

That's an average of less than 18 grads per unit per year. If you give them
credit for a 70% cure rate (it used to be higher than that, but nobody was
buying it) that gets them a grand total of 12.6 successes per facility per
year. If you take the more credible industry rate of 30% success at the
outside edge, it gives them 5.4 cures per facility per year.

This is the most effective drug rehab program in the world?
Not. As the kids say.

The Narconon program is so indefensible they have nothing left but to
attack those who have exposed it. And the onslaught of character
assassination is well underway. Rep. Jim Reese is now a victim of their
maliciousness, as is the Cult Awareness Network, and myself. The problem
with that tactic is that it doesn't solve their real problem. It merely
attempts to shift the focus and avoid the issue. It doesn't make the
Narconon program safe or effective.

They are accusing Rep. Reese of the crime of informing himself about
distructive cults and attempting to protect our state from their noxious
activities. Disgusting conduct!

So far, they've accused me of gathering facts and documents about
Narconon's program, passing them on to the people who make decisions about
such things, and reporting the story to you. No one asked us to do it. No
one paid us to do it. We did it because it was the right thing to do for
our community and our state. Such odious behavior!

Of course, it sounds more sinister than that when they say it. It's
supposed to sound sinister. That way, you'll decide that I'm an obnoxious,
smart-alec so and so. Which may be true, but it still doesn't make
Narconon's program safe or effective.

On our daughter's wedding day, they subpoened me to appear in California,
with all my source notes. It was invalid and we ignored it. On my birthday,
they tried to make me give up my notes, documents, and even my telephone
bills. Harassment is their forte.

It's all a fishing expedition. As sure as the sun comes up every morning,
my sources will become the next victims of harassment and intimidation if
Narconon is allowed access to my notes. Consequently, we chose to invoke
the newsman's shield, and refused to answer.

Were it not for the courage of those sources, we would not have been able
to expose the facts about Narconon that they find so impossible to
disprove. We'll be back in court again next week to continue to protect
those sources.

But none of this legal wrangling makes Narconon safe or effective.
Narconon is scared to death of the Cult Awareness Network, which simply
attempts "to promote public awareness of the harmful effects of mind
control, confining (its) concerns to unethical or illegal practices without
judging doctrines or beliefs."

Narconon is scared to death of independent scientific research. Why else do
you suppose they prefer to spend millions on lawyers but not a penny for
scientific proof?

Narconon is still an unlicensed and uncertified entity squatting on Indian
Land in violation of the Mental Health Board, a court order, their own
lease, and now, the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Only distructive cults fear information and education about cults. Only
charlatans fear independent research. Only bogus treatment programs fail
certification. Only those so arrogant as to believe they are above the law
(Totally Free), feel the need to ignore it.

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Editorial Opinion
Harold's Journal
02 April 1992 - By RWL

For three years, Narconon has had the opportunity to provide the Mental
Health Board - and Oklahomans in general - with substantial facts regarding
their operation. What have they told us?

They have told us that Narconon has treated "hundreds of thousands" of drug
addicts in the past 24 years. Then they said it was more like 14,000. They
"borrowed" the rest of them from the church with which they aren't
associated.

They have told us that their cure rate is, well, "over 50%", or maybe "70%"
or even an astounding 86%, depending on who's doing the talking.
Narconon's drug expert told WJlA-TV awhile back that counseling-type
programs were useless.

Then he told us he fully supported Narconon's counseling-type treatment
program.

We've heard Narconon say theirs is a totally drug free program. We've been
told by their "medical director" that he prescribes withdrawal drugs.

We've heard Narconon's "expert" tell us that he doesn't know if Narconon's
program works or not, but he doesn't think it hurts anyone. Yet two
Michigan Universities say the method is not suitable for human
experimentation.

In Oklahoma, they say their purification rundown is a secular treatment
program; In Italy, they say it is a religious ritual, and even got a court
to agree with them.

On Chilocco renovations, they say they've spent, lets see... once it was $3
million, then it was $5 million, then it was back down to $2.6 million,
then it was...

Narconon believes it is OK for their supporters to send information to the
Mental Health Board, but it's not OK for anyone else to send information
the same board.

Narconon seems to feel it is OK for their attorney to invite board members
to visit them (ex-parte) and hear their side of the story, but it is not OK
for me to invite board members (ex parte) to talk with former patients and
staff who tell a much different story.

Narconon says it will abide by state laws. Narconon says it doesn't have to
abide by state laws...

etc, etc, ad infinitum...

Everyone knows what a spoonerism is: The transposition of syllables that
render unintended meanings, such as "The queer old dean" instead of "The
dear old queen." It was such a frequent trait of W.A. Spooner that it came
to bear his name.

Another quirk of speech is about to gain similar recognition. A narconism
is the making of two or more contradictory statements with a straight face,
none of which can be believed.

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Narconon, Critics Spar as Hearing Nears

By Michael McNutt
Daily Oklahoman, Enid Bureau

09 April 1992

With a crucial court date coming up next month, representatives of Narconon
Chilocco New Life Center are trying to silence their most vocal critics.
Narconon's targets, a local state representative and a Newkirk newspaper
publisher, say they will remain vigilant of the facility that has operated
two years without state approval at the old Chilocco Indian school about
six miles north of Newkirk.

Despite Narconon Chilocco's actions against them, they say the center
continues a program the Oklahoma Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services has found medically unsafe and experimental.

"They're trying to shift the emphasis primarily off of them and onto
somebody or anybody else," said Robert Lobsinger, publisher of the weekly
Newkirk Herald-Journal. "They have a tradition of trying to assassinate the
reputation of their critics."

"Their program is still unsafe and ineffective and they haven't done a
thing to improve it. All they've done is attempt to ruin everybody else."
Narconon Chilocco president Gary Smith says he is trying to get a fair
hearing by exposing what he says resembles a conspiracy to prevent the
center's operation.

"There's a lot of different players in this but they're all kind of hooked
together," he said.

Since the mental health board denied certification in December, the
center's lawyers have gone to court several times to try to keep its doors
open.

Narconon Chilocco now is challenging the state's authority because the
center is on Indian land and has treated only American Indians since
February.

While a Kay County district judge considers a state request to close it,
the center's lawyers are gearing up for a May 15 appeal in Oklahoma County
District Court of the board's ruling.

In the past several weeks, Narconon Chilocco has tried to discredit Rep.
Jim Reese, R-Deer Creek, and Lobsinger.

Narconon lawyers sought telephone records and Lobsinger's files on the
center because Lobsinger sent state officials articles about Narconon
International, the center's parent organization, and the Church of
Scientology, which has ties with Narconon.

Lobsinger eventually complied with a court order last month to answer
questions about his correspondence with state officials, but he was not
required to turn over his records.

However, he may be charged court costs, which could reach about $3,000 with
attorney fees.

"Certainly they can break me but that doesn't make their program work any
better," Lobsinger said.

The center has issued a news release quoting Oklahoma County District Judge
Leamon Freeman describing Lobsinger as "an obnoxious smart alec so and so."
Freeman, who excused himself from the case after receiving mail from
Lobsinger said he refused to answer him because "I wouldn't put myself in
the gutter with him."

In refusing to release his records, Lobsinger sought protection under state
shield laws that protect news reporters.

Oklahoma County District Judge Daniel Owens ordered Lobsinger to answer
their questions.

"I'm adamantly opposed to newspaper people using their newspaper as a club
and a shield and basically saying they can do anything they want because
they are affiliated with the newspaper, and this is what is happening in
this case," Owens said.

"This was not a newsman working on a story, but a newsman on a personal
crusade."

Lobsinger said he did not object to answering questions but "what I didn't
want to do was give them free access to all of my records."

The center also issued a news release saying Smith filed a complaint
against Reese with the Kay County Republican Party and claimed he was using
a public office to advance a personal campaign.

Reese has opposed the center since learning it is connected to the Church
of Scientology.

In August 1989 Reese said he would do "everything I know how to stop this
development" after he received material calling Scientology "the most
dangerous religious cult in America."

Smith said Reese is using his office, time and stationery paid by state
taxpayers "to spread lies and rumors about the religious beliefs of some
Narconon staff."

"If he had his way," Smith said, "Representative Reese would wipe out a
successful drug rehab facility just because he disagrees with the religion
of some of its staff."

In a complaint to Deanna Hunter of Ponca City, Smith asked for action
against Reese to curtail his "offensive and possibly illegal behavior."
Smith said Reese is showing bias by sponsoring legislation to change
procedures to certify alcohol and drug abuse facilities.

Hunter answered Smith in a letter calling Reese "one of our outstanding
Republican legislators."

"Jim is in good standing with the Kay County Republican Party and he has
our full support," Hunter wrote.

Legislation Reese sponsored two years ago eliminated the Oklahoma health
Planning Commission, which initially approved Narconon Chilocco, and placed
its duties in the state health department.

This session, he is sponsoring a bill to allow the mental health board to
use evidence besides information given at public meetings and for the
public record.

The evidence could consist of letters, telephone calls or observations by
mental health staffers.

"Anything that they (state inspectors) find out there on a site visit
should be able to be used," Reese said.

Smith says the center opposes the bill because false information could be
submitted against an applicant.

He claims a reason Narconon was denied certification was "communications
coming to the board from all over the place, and they were taking it,
outside of the realm of what their responsibilities were as an
investigative body."

Reese said he does not intend to bow to Narconon pressure.

"They're grasping at straws trying to attack people who have opposed them,"
he said.

Lobsinger says he is not surprised Narconon is lashing out.
"It's predictable," he said.

Lobsinger exposed the center's Scientology ties in early 1989, shortly
after it won a certificate of need from the state and announced plans for
its 75-bed treatment center.

Since then, Lobsinger has written editorials urging the state to close the
center.(Reprinted with permission)

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Editorial Opinion
Harold's Journal
09 April 1992 - By RWL

In the 1970s, Maharishi Mehesh Yogi, the guru of Transcendental Meditation,
managed to convince many schools, prisons, and even some facets of the US
Military that his system of behavior control through TM would eliminate
many of their deportment problems, including drug abuse.

Transcendental Meditation is a repackaged version of the ancient Hindu
religion. Hindu is as venerable a religion as exists in the world. To
repackage this religion and install it as mandatory activity in public
schools, prisons, and military institutions, however, is a violation of the
principle of separation of church and state. TM advocates claimed the
repackaged version was not religion.

TM critics fell into two categories:

One group opposed TM on the basis that it was religious in nature and its
use should not be mandated by government.

Another group simply said it didn't work and could even be unsafe. TM had
little scientific evidence to counteract that claim.

***

Narconon, the licensee of the Church of Scientology's religious
Purification Rundown and related courses, wishes to sell this repackaged
Scientology program as a state authorized treatment for drug and alcohol
abuse. Narconon's advocates claim the repackaged version is not religion.
Narconon's critics fall into two groups:

Some oppose the certification of Narconon on the basis that it is religious
in nature and should not be approved as state authorized treatment because
it would violate the principle of separation of church and state.

Others oppose Narconon because they say it is unsafe and ineffective.
Narconon can provide no credible independent scientific evidence to the
contrary.

***

If, as a religious experience, one wishes to believe he can learn to
levitate... or purge contaminates from his body through sweating in a
sauna..., so be it. There is no scientific basis for either claim. As
religion, there doesn't have to be. Shouldn't be.

But as public policy, approved and authorized by the state, there must be.
And there isn't.

***

Ultimately, the courts decided that TM was indeed repackaged religion and
the practice of establishing mandatory TM training in public facilities
ceased in this country.

While Scientology seems to have a long way to go before it gains respect as
a venerable religion, the principle remains the same in both cases. It will
be interesting to see if the courts can dispense consistent opinions, or if
they are just interested in slapping around obnoxious newsmen.

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Commission Ignores Narconon Request For Newkirk Fire, Ambulance Protection

(Exerpt from June 11, 1992 City Commission story)

City Manager David Haynes told the commission that the city has received a
request from Narconon asking for fire and ambulance service to their
facility at Chilocco. He also passed out copies of a letter from the city
attorney of Arkansas City, Otis W. Morrow, to Narconon which said in part,
"... the City (of Arkansas City) has concluded it's relationship with
(Narconon)... the city will no longer provide fire protection or ambulance
service after May 25, 1992."

Morrow's letter cited Narconon's failure to complete a written contract for
such services, and its failure to provide any kind of remuneration for
services rendered during the past two years as reasons for the termination
of services. The commission was uninterested in taking any action on the
request.

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In The Meantime...

Most of the action regarding the Narconon story had shifted during April
and May to the Oklahoma City area, outside of our territory. Court
decisions and other reports were carried across the state by larger
newspapers.

In a nutshell, Judge Beekman of Kay County issued a permanent injunction
shutting Narconon down for operating without a license. The next day, he
gave them 10 days to appeal to the State Supreme Court. The injunction had
been sought by the State Health Department. It is now before the state
Supreme Court.

Narconon lawyers deposed me per Judge Freeman's order, but I refused to
answer on the grounds that the subpoena exceeded the scope of Freeman's
order, and took the Shield Law.

Narconon went to Judge Daniel Owens' court to get an order compelling me to
answer. Judge Owens compelled me to answer within the scope of Judge
Freeman's order. I gave my deposition the same day in Oklahoma City.
Narconon then went back to court to try to collect $7,000.00 in costs and
fees because of the "delay" I had caused them by refusing to answer. Judge
Owens agreed, but only allowed them $2,150.00. The decision was made not to
pay; however citizens in Newkirk are holding fund-raisers to collect the
money, which will be sent directly to Judge Owens.

Judge Freeman refused to overturn the Mental Health Board's decision not to
certify Narconon. This was the hearing in which my deposition was used by
Narconon to try and show a big conspiracy to defraud them of their rights.
This matter is also before the Supreme Court.

During this period, the Tonkawa Tribe, one of the five who own Chilocco,
has decided to go into the Health Regulation business and set up their own
Health Department (probably courtesy of Narconon lawyers) which immediately
certified Narconon.

Narconon also applied to CARF (Committee on Accreditation of Rehabilitative
Facilities) out of Tuscon, AZ., for accreditation. CARF sent several
investigators to Narconon, which immediately hired two of them as
"consultants". CARF granted Narconon a one year accreditation.

Narconon has asked for another hearing before the Mental Health Board,
hoping to receive an "exception" to the state law requiring state
certification because they are accredited by CARF. That hearing is supposed
to be in July.

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Editorial Opinion
Harold's Journal
25 June 1992 - By RWL

Henry David Thoreau, of Walden's Pond fame, intrudes into my life from time
to time.

He is not my favorite author, nor my favorite philosopher. I'm not an avid
naturalist as was he. I don't even have a pond.

But Thoreau taught me that one of the most important lessons a man can
learn in this life is to do what he has to do, when it has to be done,
whether he likes it or not.

Thoreau believed strongly in the independence of man. Of his right to think
for himself and determine his own destiny free of coercive
authoritarianism.

The smart alec old writer landed in jail on account of that kind of
thinking. But from all accounts he could sleep with a clear conscience.
Now some judge in Oklahoma City has decided that I'm to pay $2,150.00 for
not giving a coercive authoritarian cult free access to my notes and
sources.

Like Thoreau, I'm not disposed to paying anyone for the right to keep what
is mine. Which means I'm probably looking at a new orange jump suit in
Glenn Guinn's Concrete Hilton next to the court house.

It is time, maybe, to quit being a taxpayer and allow the system to feed,
clothe, and house me for awhile instead of the other way around.

I could appeal to the Supreme Court, of course, for another $6 to $10
thousand, but it would be imprudent to sell one of my children.
Scientology's sharks know that.

One can obviously get all the "due process" one can purchase. Scientology
can buy more of it than I can... and probably will. They are now suing
practically the rest of the world including the University of California,
Time Magazine, Eli Lilly, and Reader's Digest. It's the old "Everybody else
is out of step but my Ronnie" syndrome.

We broke the story of Narconon's connection with the cult of Scientology
nearly 3 years ago. Since then they have proven by their actions to be
equal to the sordid reputation which preceded them to our area. They are
masters of deception, magicians of manipulation, and proliferators of
propaganda designed to entrap the unwary.

They have pervaded every worthy cause from environmental awareness and tax
reform to drug rehabilitation in order to further their own growth.

Narconon is but one tentacle.

When Blind Justice cannot see this, ignorant justice is the result, and the
legal system fails. Consumers must beware, because they will most certainly
be alone.

Those of you who can read, must read! Those of you who can hear, must hear!
Those of you who can question, must question! Otherwise, the lure of the
cult, with it's ready-made answers to all of life's problems, will be the
totalitarianism of the next century. The L. Ron Hubbards of the world will
be your dictators.

If this newspaper has provided the information necessary to keep our
readers from succumbing to this threat, no matter what the consequences, it
has been worth the risk.

Except for paying those consequences, my job is mostly complete. I did what
I had to do, when I had to do it, whether I liked it or not.

I would like to believe that truth is mighty and will prevail. But as Mark
Twain once noted, "There is nothing the matter with this except it ain't
so."

I sleep well at night, however. Something sharks and dictators have trouble
doing.

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Letters To The Editor 02 July 1992

To The Editor:

I read with much interest and pride your June 25 editorial opinion. What a
privilege to live in a small community with a newspaper editor who is
willing to risk his all for what he believes in. We have followed with much
interest all the action our local community and the total Kay County
community have involved themselves in since the onset of Narconon.

If the Newkirk Community and the Kay County Community were to have a
candidate for a "True Patriotic American Citizen" you should be the winner
by a country mile.

Thanks again for your involvement in not only the Narconon issue but all
issues of importance for the preservation of our American Way.

Sincerely,
Al and Theda Sheets

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Editor Risks Jail Rather Than Pay Narconon Court Costs

(ED NOTE: The following appeared on National AP newswire July 4, 1992, but
was not reprinted in the Herald Journal. The story originally by Tim Foltz
of the Tulsa Tribune was carried by the Tulsa World, Daily Oklahoman, Ponca
City News, and other papers across the country.)

NEWKIRK, Okla. (AP) _ Local citizens have opened their wallets in support
of a newspaper editor ordered to pay the costs a controversial drug
treatment center incurred in forcing him to reveal information about
sources for stories on the facility.

"Bob has gone out on a limb to make sure everyone knows what has transpired
with Narconon and the Church of Scientology," said Newkirk Mayor Garry
Bilger. "We really appreciate what he has done."

Citizens intend to pay the court fees, and already have collected $1,800,
Bilger said.

District Judge Daniel Owens in Oklahoma County ordered Robert Lobsinger of
the Newkirk Herald Journal on June 9 to pay $2,150.32 in attorney fees to
Narconon Chilocco.

Narconon is fighting a state effort to close the unlicensed drug-treatment
center, on Indian land near Kansas.

Lobsinger and his 1,500-circulation newspaper have done extensive stories
on Narconon and its ties to the Church of Scientology.

The Oklahoma Press Association will defend Lobsinger if the editor asks for
its help, OPA manager Ben Blackstock said.

"Narconon jumped in and tried to silence (Lobsinger) in my opinion,"
Blackstock said.

Lobsinger said he'll go to jail rather than pay Narconon's costs.

"I just cannot in good faith pay for this," Lobsinger said. "If they come
and get me and take me to jail, I guess that's what will happen. But
there's a principle."

District Judge Daniel Owens in Oklahoma County ordered Lobsinger on June 9
to pay $2,150.32 in attorney fees to Narconon Chilocco.

Oklahoma County District Judge Leamon Freeman in February granted
Narconon's request to take Lobsinger's deposition on his interviews with
state Mental Health Board members about the center.

"The next thing I knew, I was served with a subpoena asking for three years
of my phone records, all my contacts, all my correspondence, videotapes and
all my notes," Lobsinger said. "Frankly, it scared ... me."

Marie Evans, attorney with the Oklahoma City law firm representing
Narconon, said her side did not mean the subpoenas to be invasive.
"We never intended to ask for more than the production of the documents
Judge Freeman outlined," Ms. Evans said.

Lobsinger cited the shield law, which protects journalists from revealing
some sources, in refusing to give the deposition.

On a motion from Narconon, Owens directed the editor to give the deposition
but said Narconon attorneys could ask Lobsinger only about the interviews
with state Mental Health Board members.

Owens' June order directed Lobsinger to pay Narconon attorneys' costs of
motions against Lobsinger and their car rental to drive to Newkirk to get
the deposition.

"The time and expense involved in obtaining what turned out to be a fairly
short and simple deposition was oppressive to the plaintiff and cannot be
condoned by the court," Owens said in his order.

Lobsinger gave the deposition. He said the order to pay Narconon's legal
costs was unfair, but he can't afford to appeal it.

Oklahoma's shield law has never been tested in court, Blackstock said.
Lobsinger's case would have been a good time for the OPA to test it, he
said.

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Letters To The Editor 02 July 1992

June 13, 1992

A Resolution Duly Adopted by the Membership of the Chilocco National Alumni
Association condemning the Narconon actions toward the Newkirk
Herald-Journal...

Whereas, the Narconon organization made certain representations to the
Chilocco National Alumni Association which were never fulfilled; and
Whereas, the Chilocco National Association unanimously adopted a resolution
opposing the Narconon operation on the former Chilocco Indian School
campus; and

Whereas, Mr. Robert Lobsinger, in his capacity as owner and editor of the
Newkirk Herald-Journal has diligently made public the activities of the
Narconon organization; and

Whereas, the Narconon organization has opposed the public reporting of
their activities by the Herald-Journal.

Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved the Chilocco National Alumni Association

reaffirms its opposition to the Narconon use of the former Chilocco Indian
School campus as expressed in the resolution adopted June 9, 1990; and

Be It Further Resolved the action of Narconon against the Newkirk
Herald-Journal is condemned as vindictive and irresponsible and an attempt
to prevent public disclosure certain actions by Narconon; and

Be It Further Resolved Mr. Robert Lobsinger is commended for his courageous
and continuing public reporting of questionable activities by Narconon; and

Be It Finally Resolved the Chilocco National Alumni Association strongly
reaffirms its opposition and condemnation of Narconon and its activities on
the former Chilocco Indian School campus.

Adopted by Chilocco National Alumni Association
June 13, 1992

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Letters To The Editor 9 July 1992

To The Editor:

I have just finished reading your article concerning those pesky folks
located north of Newkirk.

I congratulate you on your dedication in attempting to keep us informed
about "Ronnie and his buddies".

Do you suppose that if Narconon was located close to the Oklahoma City area
that it's possible the judge would feel differently about the whole
situation?

This state has survived quite well without them for sometime and I'm sure
the drug problem is more severe in California than in north central
Oklahoma.

Maybe they need to have it simplified for them: You're not wanted here, or
needed. Take your beliefs, idealisms, money and leave. Basically, don't let
the door hit you in the butt!

Keep up the good work.

TB
Ponca City

To The Editor:

Check for the Newkirk Defense Fund. We hope it goes over the top and you
appeal!

BC
Enid

To The Editor:

Hooray for you! My little check may help some! I feel Narconon is
questionable and we don't need more queer places.

Most sincerely,
MB
Ponca City

To The Editor:

I do not have much to give - would like to help so here's my check. Good to
have someone fight Narconon.

HPH
Newkirk

To The Editor:

I support you completely. We need more like you.

CJ
Ponca City
(Many other letters of support also printed in July 16th issue)

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Editorial Opinion - 9 July 1992
Harold's Journal
By RWL

It is both humbling and heartening to have received such widespread support
in the community. We thank you - no matter what the outcome of this
situation - from the bottom of our hearts.

It is not difficult to expose the frauds this organization perpetuates on
society, but it is sometimes difficult to understand the judicial system
that is supposed to protect us from such groups.

We would be appalled if our judicial system allowed an organization
convicted of criminal activity in another location to set up shop in our
state. But that is just what it is being asked to do.

Within just the past 10 days or so, the "church" of Scientology was
convicted in Toronto, Canada of breach of trust for planting spies in the
offices of the Ontario Provincial Police and Attorney General's Office, and
stealing documents from them.

In Oklahoma, it seems, all they have to do to try and get private
information is lumber into a courtroom.

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Editorial Opinion - 16 July 1992
Harold's Journal
By RWL

The many letters, cards, and notes sent to the Newkirk Defense Fund
continue to come in from across the state and nation.

We have been notified that because of your efforts, the unjust assessment
has been paid from those donations; the challenge to our sources has been
thwarted, our notes have been protected, and our nose is still here at the
grindstone.

It is too little to offer our thanks for your encouragement and support,
and your deep understanding of the seriousness of the problem. We have not
seen a complete list, nor do we yet know how much money has been raised in
our behalf, but be assured that every one will be acknowledged. All 2,000
plus of them.

You are a vast army, educated to carry forward what we have exposed.
Scientology is not merely the over-zealous new fangled religion it claims
to be, but a political entity determined to either swallow you up or run
you down.

Consider the words of L. Ron in Dianetics, page 534:
"Perhaps at some distant date only the unaberrated (Scientologist) person
will be granted civil rights before law. Perhaps the goal will be reached
at some future time when only the unaberrated person can attain to and
benefit from citizenship. These are desirable goals..."

Indeed.

Desirable for whom?

To this point, Narconon remains unlicensed by the state of Oklahoma. It is
awaiting a decision (maybe in Septermber) by the State Supreme Court on
whether or not to enforce a State Health Department injunction to shut them
down for operating without a license. Narconon has also asked for a new
trial in Kay County Court since Oklahoma County Court refused to overturn
the Mental Health Board's decision not to license them. And in addition,
they have asked the Mental Health Board to consider giving them an
"exemption" from state law since they have obtained C.A.R.F. accreditation.
(And incidentally, they have "hired" the first two C.A.R.F. inspectors sent
to evaluate their operation.) These last two items are set for August 14,
1992.

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State Board OKs Exemption For Narconon

By Michael McNutt,
Enid Bureau
August 20, 1992

A controversial drug and alcohol abuse center in north-central Oklahoma
achieved a big victory Friday in its two-year battle for state approval.

Less than a year after calling Narconon Chilocco New Life Center's
treatment program unsafe and experimental, the Oklahoma Board of Mental
health and Substance Abuse Services voted unanimously Friday to exempt the
facility from a requirement to be certified by the state.

The decision came after Narconon showed it had gained approval from a
private organization, the Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation
Facilities. That allows for an exemption under state law, said Patrick
Ryan, an attorney representing the board.

Ryan said the board's decision was based entirely on the statutory
exemption.

"That's different from certifying them," he said. "The board has not ever,
and did not by today's action, give a stamp of approval of Narconon. It
simply says because of the statute, we're going to recognize it (the
exemption)."

Narconon Chilocco still must be licensed by the state Health Department.
The state licensing would be based primarily on whether a facility's
buildings, which were the old Chilocco Indian School north of Newkirk, meet
fire and safety codes.

The health department could rule the center does not need a state license,
harry Woods, a lawyer for Narconon Chilocco, said.

"I expect that the department of health will recognize that with this
exemption from certification, Narconon can lawfully operate in Oklahoma,"
Woods said. "The form of the action would either be a license, or a
decision by them that we don't need a license."

Narconon Chilocco officials said Friday they were confident the center
would be licensed, possibly by the end of the month.

Gary Smith, Narconon Chilocco president, said he was pleased the center is
the closest yet to being allowed to operate at full capacity.

Smith said Narconon Chilocco will go ahead with plans to operate a 75-bed
facility but will wait until the state Health Department rules before
accepting new patients.

Those patients would pay more than $20,000 for a three-month program that
is based on saunas and vitamins.

Long-range plans call for doubling the center's capacity within the next
five years.

"We're going to make sure that we're doing this the way we're supposed to,"
Smith said.

After being denied certification last year, Narconon Chilocco limited its
operation to accepting Indian patients whose bills were paid by
contributors. Smith said Friday there were seven patients and 24 employees.
State mental health board members, who voted in December against Narconon
Chilocco, agreed Friday with the center's contention that it was eligible
for the exemption because it was accredited in June by the private
Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.

The state attorney general's office, however, argued against the exemption,
saying that the board did not have the authority to exempt a drug and
alcohol abuse center based solely on the commission's accreditation.
"The statute says that only a list of certain people can be exempted," said
assistant attorney general Guy Hurst. "All others need to be certified."
Hurst said he also does not believe Narconon Chilocco is eligible for
licensing by the state Health Department because the center was not
certified by the mental health board.

"The way I read the statute is the only way you can get licensed from the
health department is to be certified - if you're exempted from
certification you can't get licensed," he said.

Lawyers for the state health department were unavailable for comment.

Narconon Chilocco accreditation expires in June 1993. If it fails to get
accredited next year, it likely will have to return to the state mental
health board to ask for certification, officials said.

Woods, who guided Narconon Chilocco through several state hearings and
lawsuits, said the center plans to drop two lawsuits it filed against the
state mental health board.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Newkirk said many residents were disappointed by
the state mental health board's action.

Many in the town said they were opposed to Narconon Chilocco because of its
ties with the Church of Scientology. Some said they were threatened after
they spoke against it in 1990.

Garry Bilger said residents felt helpless as their concerns about Narconon
Chilocco's treatment program and the safety of patients seemed to be lost
in legal arguments made by Narconon Chilocco to state officials and in
subsequent lawsuits filed against the state.

"It got so tangled in regulations and laws and rules," he said. "We would
like to see them gone from this area because we definitely do not agree
with some of the things that they're doing." (Reprinted from the Saturday
Oklahoman & Times, August 15, 1992. The Associated Press contributed to
this report.)

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But....
It ain't over
Til its over....

Narconon Granted License
From State Health Agency

(The following is reprinted with permission from the Daily Oklahoman,
Tuesday, October 27, 1992.)

By Michael McNutt
Enid Bureau

It's been described as controversial, weird, unsafe and strange, but now
Narconon Chilocco New Life Center can be called licensed.

The Oklahoma State Department of Health issued a license Monday to the drug
and alcohol abuse center, marking the first time since it opened for
business more than two years ago that it officially can be called legal.
The president of Narconon Chilocco called it a milestone.

The license issued Monday dealt with the structures and buildings making up
Narconon Chilocco, located on the campus of the old Chilocco Indian school
about six miles north of Newkirk. The license is good for a year and can be
renewed.

The center passed an inspection last week that looked at the conditions of
buildings and food and sanitary services to see that fire safety and health
codes are being met, said Brent VanMeter, the health department's deputy
commissioner for special health services.

Gary Smith, president of Narconon Chilocco, said plans are being made to
get the center ready to accommodate as many as 75 patients at a time.
"Receiving this license from the department of health signifies a milestone
in our desire and original intention to supply drug and alcohol
rehabilitation services to those in need," he said. "Our purpose has always
been to help those with drug and alcohol problems. "We are just very
excited," Smith said.

Narconon Chilocco opened in February 1990. Its critics questioned its ties
with the Church of Scientology and were skeptical of its treatment plan
that includes spending time in saunas and taking special vitamins and
supplements.

Members of the Oklahoma State Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services, before deciding a legal loophole allowed the center to bypass
board certification, called Narconon Chilocco's treatment plan experimental
and medically unsafe.

State licensing makes it easier for Narconon Chilocco or its patients to
get reimbursement for its services through insurance companies.
Smith said plans continue to be developed to double the size of its patient
beds, but no application would be filed until after the center's census
reaches and stays around 75 patients.

The center had 14 patients Monday, Smith said. Most of the patients were
from various Indian tribes. Narconon Chilocco has limited treatment
primarily to Indians since the mental health board voted not to certify its
treatment plan last December and while various court appeals and cases were
pending.

Smith said he is unsure when the center will reach capacity. Narconon
Chilocco's program lasts about three months and costs $22,750.
State licensing became possible after the mental health board in August
granted Narconon Chilocco an exemption from certification because its
program was accredited by a private agency, the Commission for
Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.

The accreditation runs through June 1993 and the exemption from mental
health board certification will continue as long as Narconon Chilocco is
accredited by the commission.

Newkirk Mayor Garry Bilger said a majority of residents in town still
challenge the center's effectiveness and purpose.

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Meanwhile...

On Monday, October 9, 1992 I received a call from a frightened and
distraught young lady who said her mother was Edith Clark who works at
Narconon. She told the usual horror stories about her mother not being paid
on time, if ever. Long hours of overtime at no pay. Unpaid bonuses, etc.
She said there were several non-Scientologist employees there all of whom
were wanting to leave, but couldn't because they had no money and no way to
get out. She relayed other stories as well, but they were all second hand,
about "trainees" at Narconon wading waist deep in the sewer lagoon raking
sewage out so it would appear to be working properly; about bad food and
vermin infestation; about child abuse and neglect....

I suggested she visit with Brent Van Meter at the Health Department, and
she said she had already talked with him. When I talked with Van Meter
later, he confirmed her story, but said his inspectors probably wouldn't
find anything wrong unless they caught them in the act. He said he was
thinking of applying for a special appropriation to keep an inspector on
the site permanently.

On Tuesday, October 27, Edith Clark, Jean Chance, Mr. and Mrs. Gene
McCormick, their niece Carol Shumate, and another man not associated with
Narconon called me - interrupted a phone call with an emergency message, in
fact - wanting to come to the office and tell their stories. It was the day
after Narconon was issued their Health Department license.

I stalled them off until the next day, and then set up an interview for
them with Channel 5, Channel 9, and McNutt of the Daily Oklahoman.

On Wednesday afternoon, they arrived and confirmed everything Clark's
daughter had told me the week before. They had been allowed to leave as
soon as the license was in place. They think they quit, but it appears to
be a concerted effort by Scientology to starve them out. All of them agreed
that Narconon was moving in more and more Scientology staff people to take
their places.

McNutt's story in the Thursday, October 29, 1992 Daily Oklahoma tells part
of their story....

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Late Narconon Pay, Tie to Scientology Hit

By Michael McNutt
Daily Oklahoman, Enid Bureau

Thursday, October 29, 1992

NEWKIRK - Several former employees of Narconon Chilocco New Life Center
criticized the facility Wednesday for failing to promptly pay their
salaries and overtime, and claimed that the recently licensed drug and
alcohol abuse facility is a front for the Church of Scientology.

Gene McCormick, who quit as Narconon Chilocco's chief of security on
Monday, and Edith Clark, whose duties included head of international
training, had the harshest words for the 75 bed facility when the group met
with reporters Wednesday in a downtown Newkirk building.

Clark said Narconon Chilocco owed her an undetermined amount of back wages
because she said the facility refused to pay her overtime even though she
says she worked 60 to 70 hours a week.

Clark, who worked at Narconon Chilocco for 19 months, said she has
complained to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Most employees are paid minimum wage and have to sign contracts, Clark
said. Many are required to read material that comes from the Church of
Scientology.

"It's a front for Scientology," McCormick said.

More Scientologists are scheduled to arrive at the facility shortly, he
said.

Narconon Chilocco president Gary Smith called comments from his former
employees unfortunate.

"In the last 2 1/2 years we have employed over 300 people and now there a
few that are complaining," Smith said in a statement. "It's unfortunate
that anyone would continue to oppose our efforts to get people off drugs.
"We are a licensed facility and have passed all tests and inspections, I
can find 1,000 supporters of Narconon Chilocco for each detractor," he
said. "We are open and we will continue to get people off drugs."

Bruce Pyle, a public information officer at the facility confirmed
McCormick and Clark worked at the facility.

Smith has denied any ties with the Church of Scientology.

However, Narconon Chilocco staff members said during public hearings last
year that some materials from the late L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of
Scientology, are used in some drug and alcohol rehabilitation courses.

McCormick said he never was approached to join the Church of Scientology,
but he has seen Scientology literature given to staff and trainees.

Pictures of Hubbard are hung in each of the buildings but religious
pictures or books are banned at the facility, he said.

Clark said she was asked several times to read Scientology material, and
she believes Narconon Chilocco is being used as a recruiting tool by the
Church of Scientology.

"Why would they make me study it if it's not a front for Scientology?" she
said. "If it's not Scientology, why would they force the people to study
it"

"The whole point is they want to turn anybody there into a Scientologist."
McCormick called Narconon Chilocco disorganized, and said he has seen a
number of former students who completed the program return because they
failed to stay off drugs or alcohol.

He said it was common for trainees to walk the six miles from the Narconon
Chilocco campus to Newkirk to go to bars and drink beer.

McCormick said Narconon Chilocco has trouble keeping patients. Some leave a
week or two after arriving because of austere conditions.

Clark said living quarters are not air-conditioned, and dining and kitchen
facilities were dirty. She said she often saw cockroaches in the kitchen.
Hamburgers and hot dogs make up most meals, she said, for staff and for
patients who pay $22,750 for a three-month course.

"For people that pay the amount of money they do to come through the rehab
center is ridiculous," Clark said.

She said some trainees at the facility have contagious diseases and some
lack proper immigration cards.

McCormick said he quit after two-and-a-half years because of late pay.

On December 1, 1992, the United States Department of Labor Office in Tulsa
confirmed that there was an investigation underway regarding the cases of
at least one of the non-Scientology employees who had left Chilocco
following their Health Department licensing. Results of the investigation
are unknown at this time and it may be late December or early next year
before they can be obtained through the Freedom of Information act.

Reports have come in, unconfirmed as yet, that the remaining few
non-Scientology employees at Narconon have been asked to leave, including
Bill Grant and his wife, who are supposed to be some kind of relatives to
Garry Smith's wife.

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Narconon's State Taxes Overdue; Warrant Filed

By Michael McNutt
Daily Oklahoman, Enid Bureau

Thursday, Feb. 25, 1993, Pg 4

NEWKIRK -- A drug and alcohol abuse center that fought more than two years
to get a state license apparently needed to be reminded to pay its state
taxes.

The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission this week filed a tax warrant
against Narconon Chilocco New Life Center stating that it failed to pay
almost $3,000 in unemployment compensation taxes last year.
Gary Smith, Narconon Chilocco's president, said Wednesday that failure to
pay the tax was an oversight.

"It should have been paid," Smith said. "it's just an administrative
oversight but it's being taken care of now."

Smith said the non-profit facility plans to pay the overdue tax this week.
The warrant, filed Tuesday, states Narconon Chilocco failed to pay $2,999
in unemployment compensation taxes for the second and third quarters of
1992.

Narconon Chilocco also was hit with a $364 penalty and was charged $74 in
interest on the overdue tax.

The warrant seeks a total payment of $3,438.

After a series of delays, the Oklahoma State Department of Health issued a
license last fall to Narconon Chilocco, which opened for business more than
two years earlier.

Narconon Chilocco is located on the campus of the old Chilocco Indian
School about six miles north of Newkirk.

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Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993
Saturday Oklahoman & Times, Pg 11:
Narconon Chilocco Pays Taxes

NEWKIRK -- A drug and alcohol abuse center has paid its delinquent tax
bill. Narconon Chilocco New Life Center paid $3,438 in overdue unemployment
compensation taxes and penalties to the Oklahoma Employment Security
Commission, according to a warrant filed Thursday in Kay County District
Court.

Narconon Chilocco settled its delinquent tax two days after the state
commission filed a claim seeking payment.

Narconon Chilocco President Gary Smith said that failure to pay the tax was
an oversight.

The employment commission filed the warrant against Narconon Chilocco
because the center failed to pay $2,999 in unemployment compensation taxes
for the second and third quarters of 1992.

Narconon Chilocco also was hit with a $364 penalty and was charged $74 in
interest on the overdue tax.

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Editorial Opinion - 12 November 1992
Harold's Journal
By RWL

Last weekend, we had the very great pleasure of attending the annual
national convention of the Cult Awareness Network. This year it was held in
Los Angeles. You'll remember Oklahoma City hosted the event last year,
where I was asked to speak, and was honored to receive the Leo J. Ryan
Award.

Congressman Leo J. Ryan died in his attempt to find the truth about Jim
Jones and the People's Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana. Over 900 people,
under the mind controlling influence of Jim Jones, committed suicide at his
request. Those who didn't were murdered, along with Congressman Ryan and
several others. That tragic event took place the same year we came to
Newkirk to publish the Newkirk Herald Journal.

The Ryan Award is presented each year to the person "who exhibits
extraordinary courage, tenacity and perseverance in the battle against
tyranny over the mind of man."

And so it was with great satisfaction that we were present this year to see
the award presented to Rich Behar, Associate Editor of Time Magazine, for
his courageous 1991 story on Scientology, which we were pleased to reprint
in full shortly thereafter.

Mr. Behar most surely deserves the award. He has attempted to do for our
nation what we have tried to do for Newkirk and Oklahoma. We applaud his
work, and we hope his efforts inspire others in the national media to delve
deeply into this subject matter, instead of treating such subjects as
humorous, harmless kooks.

The conference was marred by a few picketing members of Scientology who
mostly made themselves look like the southbound ends of northbound horses.
Among those speaking at the conference were Dr. Robert J. Cialdini,
professor of psychology at Arizona State University and author of the book
Influence. His presentation was interrupted by a false fire alarm.

The presentation by Dr. Louis Jolyon West, M.D., professor of psychiatry at
UCLA, was delayed by the vain attempt of cult members to have him arrested
so he couldn't speak. Dr. West is also a former Ryan Award winner.

They arrogantly attempted to confound the registration of guests at the
conference in order to disrupt and delay the first presentation of the
conference, which was successfully delivered by Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer,
Ph. D. She is an Adjunct Professor in the department of psychology at the
University of California at Berkeley, and a past Ryan Award winner.

Speaker at the Leo J. Ryan Award Banquet was the original host of the
"Tonight Show", Mr. Steve Allen. Mr. Allen also happens to be a member of
the Cult Awareness Network Advisory Board, and himself the father of a cult
victim, now successfully recovered from the experience. It was our pleasure
to be invited to join Mr. Allen at the speakers table during the banquet. A
new and strong supporter of the efforts of the Cult Awareness Network is
Mr. Mike Ferrell of M.A.S.H. fame, who spoke briefly to the audience of his
advocacy of human rights and strong family commitments. He attended with
his teenaged son.

Not all celebrities are nuts, after all.

It can only be a testament to the effectiveness of the Cult Awareness
Network in spreading the truth about dangerous and destructive cults that
Scientology has currently filed over 30 lawsuits against the organization
in an attempt to "legally" silence its supporters.

When all it really has to do is quit acting like a destructive cult.

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Bob Lobsinger Wins Beachy Musselman Award For Research Of Narconon Facility
Near Newkirk

The Oklahoma Publisher
February 1993

Bob Lobsinger, editor and publisher of the Newkirk Herald-Journal, was the
1993 recipient of the annual Beachy Musselman Award.

The award was presented at the OPA (Oklahoma Press Association) Mid-Winter
Convention, Feb. 4-7, in Oklahoma City.

Lobsinger has owned the Herald-Journal since 1978.

For three years he reported on the Church of Scientology and Narconon. His
relentless research turned up ties between the church and Narconon, a drug
rehabilitation facility that developed a drug treatment facility at the
nearby old Chilocco Indian School.

The facility, which had been a residential school for Indians for many
years, had fallen into disuse. The Chilocco Development Authority, composed
of representatives of four (sic - actually five) area Indian tribes, leased
the school site to Narconon in 1989.

As Narconon fought to obtain a state license for the center, Lobsinger
reported extensively on the center and its connections to the Church of
Scientology in the Herald-Journal.

In February 1992, Narconon attorneys were granted a request to take
depositions from Lobsinger on his interviews with state Mental health Board
members about the center.

He was then served with a subpoena asking for three years of phone records,
all contacts, all correspondence, videotapes and notes.

Lobsinger refused to give the deposition, citing the shield law.

An Oklahoma County district judge upheld the motion, but said Narconon
attorneys could ask Lobsinger about the interviews with the state Mental
health Board members. The judge then indicated Lobsinger could be held
responsible for the costs and fees because Narconon's attorneys were not
told before the deposition that he would decline to answer questions.
On June 9, 1992, Lobsinger was ordered to pay $2,150.32 in attorney fees
for Narconon. (When Lobsinger refused to pay) Community residents supported
Lobsinger's position and raised money to pay his fine.

In 1991, he received the Leo J. Ryan Award from the Cult Awareness Network
for his coverage of the Narconon Center.

A 1962 graduate of Enid (Memorial) High School, Lobsinger attended Phillips
University; the University of Georgia; University of Maryland; Oklahoma
State University, and Northern Oklahoma College at Tonkawa (sic - not
entirely accurate).

After being discharged from the U.S. Army as a staff sergeant, he worked
for several Florida newspapers, the Enid News and Eagle, Atlanta (Ga.)
Journal Constitution and the Ponca City News. (sic - chronology not
accurate)

He and his wife Susan have four children: Michael Robert, Judy Sue, John
Allen and Steven Richard.

The Beach Musselman Award is presented annually by the Oklahoma Newspaper
Foundation from a gift in memory of the late Norman Beachy Musselman,
publisher of the Shawnee News-Star from 1945 to 1963 and president of OPA
in 1962.

The $750 award, donated by N. Burkey Musselman, son of the newspaperman, is
now in its 19th year.

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Narconon's Trash Service Halted

By Michael McNutt
Oklahoman & Times, Enid Bureau
Saturday, March 6, 1993

NEWKIRK -- An official of a sanitation company said Friday the firm has
stopped trash and garbage pickup service for a drug and alcohol abuse
center because it failed to pay its bill.

Gary Davis, owner of Davis Sanitation of Tonkawa, said Narconon Chilocco
New Life Center has not paid its trash service bill in more than four
months.

"We just felt like we couldn't let them get behind any more than they
were," Davis said.

Davis said his company earlier this week removed its four trash dumpsters
that Narconon Chilocco had been using for its trash and garbage.
"I don't know what they've got going on up there but we've had an awful
time," he said.

"We've always had to call them and just plead with them to pay their bill
and they say that they're waiting for somebody to donate some money."
Narconon Chilocco owes about $1,800, Davis said.

Gary Smith, president of Narconon Chilocco, said he was unaware there was a
problem with paying the facility's trash bill.

"I don't handle that end of it," Smith said.

"All I know is we've got dumpsters out here. I don't know what exactly
happened. It's the estate manager's job. We're fine on the trash."
Smith said he did not know whose trash dumpsters were on the grounds of his
center.

"It's a little out of my area," he said.

Davis said his company is the primary trash service in rural Kay County
areas.

Trash service would resume to Narconon Chilocco, located on the campus of
the old Chilocco Indian school about six miles north of Newkirk, if and
when the facility pays its outstanding bill, Davis said.

"We're not coming back until they pay us up," he said.

A suit in Kay County District Court in order to get payment, Davis said.
Delinquent payment of bills during 1991 was one concern state officials had
when they considered a request from Narconon Chilocco to be licensed.
Concerns about Narconon Chilocco's financial stability was one reason the
center's application was denied by the state Department of Mental Health
and Substance Abuse Services.

Narconon Chilocco eventually obtained a state license last year after it
received accreditation from a private nonprofit group.

Last week, Narconon Chilocco paid $3,438 in overdue unemployment
compensation taxes and penalties to the Oklahoma Employment Security
Commission.

Narconon Chilocco settled its delinquent tax two days after the state
commission filed a claim seeking payment.

Smith said that failure to pay the tax was an oversight.

The unemployment security commission filed the warrant against Narconon
Chilocco because the facility failed to pay $2,999 in unemployment
compensation taxes for the second and third quarters of 1992.

Narconon Chilocco also was hit with a $364 penalty and was charged $74 in
interest on the overdue

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Indian Leaders Want Narconon Chilocco Audit

By Michael McNutt
Daily Oklahoman, Enid Bureau

Thursday, March 25, 1993

NEWKIRK -- Some Indian leaders are disappointed with the amount of revenue
being generated by a drug and alcohol abuse treatment center that promised
to pay five tribes millions of dollars over the next two decades.

As a result, the leaders of the Kaw and Pawnee tribes have asked the
federal Bureau of Indian Affairs to audit the Narconon Chilocco New Life
Center to determine whether the non-Indian facility is meeting payment
terms of a 25-year lease.

In 1989, Narconon Chilocco leaders said it would pay the five tribes of the
Chilocco Development Authority $16 million during the next 25 years in
return for leasing the old Chilocco Indian school for a 75-bed drug and
alcohol abuse treatment center.

"At the rate we're going, we won't even get a million," said Wanda Stone,
Kaw tribal chairwoman.

Stone said payments the tribes receive from Narconon Chilocco usually are
tardy.

"They haven't paid us with a payment since last September," she said.
Stone and Robert Chapman, chairman of the Pawnee tribe's business
committee, said the Indian tribes must depend on Narconon Chilocco to
provide figures to determine lease payments.

Narconon Chilocco agreed on lease payments based on the number of patients
and the amount of money patients pay per month.

Payment schedules for patients range from no charge for low-income Indians
to about $30,000 for a three-month treatment.

"There's no scale of any kind that we can base what we should be getting,"
Stone said. "All we know is what they send us."

Narconon Chilocco's plans to develop the facility were stalled for more
than two years while it tried to get state approval.

Stone said an audit released by Narconon Chilocco showed it had underpaid
about $4,600 to the authority through September.

However, an analysis by a former financial officer of the Kaw tribe on
Narconon Chilocco's figures showed the facility owed more than $133,000,
Stone said.

"A lot of it was, expenses that they took out were not allowable," she
said.

There is no provision in the lease for an independent audit.

Gary Smith, Narconon Chilocco president, said the facility's audit is
accurate. The BIA has the right to conduct an audit of his facility. He
said questions about Narconon Chilocco's audit are based on
"misinterpretation of the actual audit," Smith said.

He said he did not know the amount of money his facility has paid in lease
payments the past three years but said it was more than $150,000.
Smith said Stone's and Chapman's allegations were made to cover up the fact
that the BIA has been asked to audit financial records of the development
authority.

"It's nothing more than a smoke screen from anybody that might have
something that they might be a little nervous about," Smith said.
Stone said the Narconon Chilocco audit was prepared on plain paper without
letterhead or other information stating who conducted the audit.
Chapman and Stone reported the information to about 30 members of the
Pawnee, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, Kaw and Tonkawa tribes, each of which has a
representative on the authority.

"We wanted tribal members to understand that we're not stealing from
them... We just haven't received our fair share, as we have always
suspected," Chapman said.

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inF...@primenet.com (Rev. Dennis L Erlich).
From: inFormer Ministry.

Wrote on the subject: Re: Bob Lobsinger's writings:

> Harold's Journal
> Editorial Opinion By RWL - 14 November 1991

[posted/mailed]

Jesus Christ!! This was a long story. As usual when it comes to the
criminal cult of Scientology and its affairs. I will start webbing the
different articles one by one. They will be found beginning at
http://www.users.wineasy.se/noname/lobsinger/index.htm and pages
linked from that page. The first page will also be reachable from my
mainpage.

Give me a couple of days to arrange the articles. This story is really
worth webbing and reading, beacuse it clearly shows the criminal cults
way of handling the world. They will go to the end of the world to get
what they want. My God, this criminal organisation must be stopped at
any cost.

***** Body thetans? We don't need no stinking Body Thetans! *****

********* http://www.users.wineasy.se/noname/index.htm **********
****** The.Galacti...@ThePentagon.com (Anti-Cult) ******
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Here's How Germany Views Its Narconon

Reprinted with Permission from
Der Spiegel
21 October 1991

(Editor's Note: The following is reprinted with permission. Copyright 1991,
Der Spiegel. Distributed by The New York Times Special Features. Der
Spiegel is a German magazine similar to our Life magazine. This article
appeared in the October 21, 1991 issue.)

The enterprising Scientology sect increases its profits thanks to the
misery of addicts. The cover organization, Narconon, offers drug
rehabilitation therapy that, in the opinion of experts and doctors in the
field, is not only useless but also dangerous. Former drug addicts tell of
spending five hours a day in the sauna and of brain-washing, including
hours of monotonous repetition of meaningless phrases. Many families spend
all their savings to cure their drug-addicted offspring but most of

Narconon's "graduates" are no less addicted than when they went in. Former
patients claim Narconon is only in it for the money.

Christoph Hubler, 22, from Switzerland slides around on his chair,
scratches his thigh then his face. As the minutes pass he becomes
increasingly restless. The apprentice metal-worker desperately needs a fix.
He last injected himself last night now it is already midday and the effect
of the heroin has worn off. Christoph jumps up and rushes with long strides
toward the bathroom.

He is a depressing sight, particularly for his father. Only a few months
ago the Swiss electrician Hansjorg Hubler scraped together the francs
needed to pay for therapy for his son. Now he says, "It was all a senseless
waste."

Christoph spent ten weeks at the picturesque Bavarian Schliersee. At
Fiechhauson, 50 kilometers south of Munich, an ominous sounding
organization called "Narconon" runs a home for all addicts midst the
rolling pastures. They treat all types of addicts: alcoholics, people
dependent on pills, and heroin addicts like Christoph. According to the
organization's statute the patients are supposed to learn to lead a "life
of self-responsibility without their addictive drug."

A noble goal, but the reality looks different. Since Christoph was at the
home he is more addicted than ever before. He not only shoots as much as
before - the countless red marks on his arms attest to that - but he now
also regularly throws back large quantities of alcohol. "One arrives as a
junkie," he says, "and leaves an alcoholic."

What happens in this idyllic location is far from a conventional drug
therapy. The Scientologists - who have 200,000 followers and turnover of
150 million Deutschemark (about 255 million dollars) a year in Germany
alone - use unsuitable methods to get people off drugs. The result is
usually a new addiction. Instead of cocaine or heroin they provide the drug
of the soul - Scientology.

The house set in the foothills of the Alps is one of many such centers run
from the headquarters in Los Angeles. In Western Europe they already boast
500 homes in England, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and Italy and other countries.
And in the Bavarian center the first Russian is being trained. She will
take the hardened ideology of Scientology back to her homeland, where
alcoholism is widespread and the drug Mafia pursues its trade.

The desperate parents of the drug addicts, who entrust their children to
Narconon throughout the world, usually have no idea that they have become
involved with a front organization of the profit-addicted Scientologists.
For the Hublers Narconon was the last, deceitful hope. Christoph says, "the
Narconon people are addicted themselves, addicted to money."

While Christoph was rolling joints and drinking vodka with his pals at the
Schliersee, Narconon employees were putting pressure on his parents. His
father had to pay ever-increasing sums of money. In total Mr. Hubler paid
over 15,000 Deutschmark.

Narconon closely follows the motto of the Scientology sect's founder,
Lafayette Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986 at the age of 74. The discoverer of
this pseudo-scientific hocus pocus, gave this advice: "Make money, make
more money, make other people make money."

The disciples at Narconon follow this order. It is officially an
independent subsidiary of Scientology. The Scientologists have developed
countless supposedly humanitarian initiatives around their "church." One
example is the "commission for the violations of psychiatry against human
rights." Another is the "organization for the furthering of religious
tolerance and interhuman relations."

In fact all these activities like the drug rehabilitation program are only
to further the fame and increase the paying followers of the sect.

Therapy for addicts is a market with fantastic possibilities. In former
East Germany alone 2 million people are said to be alcoholic. Specialists
estimate that about a million people are dependent on pills and over
100,000 take hard drugs. The health insurance spends about 800 million DM
every year on the treatment of addicts.

With his sound nose for good business, Hubbard already prescribed his
lessons for drug therapy in the mid-sixties. The purification of a novice
Scientologist uses rituals like the ones used to treat addicts.

The American founder had a naive belief that the components of the drug are
deposited in the lymph of the addict. With a "purification rundown" these
substances are supposed to be washed from the body.

For that the patients, known as students at Narconon, take sweat cures
lasting several weeks. They spend nearly five hours a day in the sauna.
Vigilli Venzin, a Swiss drug expert, says the method is "absolute rubbish
and medically questionable." He says a short sauna wouldn't harm the
addicts since they are easily cold. But more than two hours a day is "far
too much, unhealthy." Doctors specializing in the field agree, "medically
all trash" says Klaus Behrendt of Hamburg's General Hospital Ochsenzoll. He
runs the detoxification unit of the hospital and says intensive saunas for
addicts is "medieval."

Two days after the latest shot, heroin is broken down so much that it is no
longer detectable. In "very unusual exceptions" this decomposition process
can last a week, says Behrendt.

These days most addicts take several drugs at the same time. They take
heroin or cocaine as well as codeine or the sleeping tablet Rohypnol. In
those cases the withdrawal is totally unpredictable. Two weeks after the
last drug consumption some patients still get cramps and hallucinations.
Experienced drug experts from the Munchen advice center, "Con-Drobs"
attempt such complex detoxification "only under constant medical
supervision," says Gerhard Eckstein, the administrator of Con-Drobs,
"otherwise it would be much too risky."

At Narconon they aren't as concerned. The junkie is examined by Narconon's
doctor, who lives 15 kilometers away, before starting the treatment, and
after that the only doctor who comes is the emergency doctor. And that
happens all the more often for the lack of supervision.

Time and again one of the "students" collapses. "The sauna is like
torture," says Kurt Siegenthaler, 39, "but what comes after is even more
dangerous."

Siegenthaler is also Swiss. He is alcoholic and sniffs cocaine. He spent a
year at Narconon and survived the psychological suction the Scientologists
practice on the drug addicts.

After the cleansing ritual for the body follows the purification of the
spirit. The first session for beginners consists of standing and staring
each other in the eye for hours. After that they partake in a nonsensical
dialogue. For example: Question" "Do birds fly?" Answer: "Yes, thanks." "Do
birds fly?" "No thanks." "Do birds fly?" "Maybe." The dialogue is repeated
for hours.

In an advanced exercise the "patient" stands before a blank wall.

Organizer: "Look at this wall." Answer: "Thank you." "Go over to the wall."
"Thank you." "Touch the wall." "Thank you." "Turn around." "Thank you."
Then on to the next wall. The ritual continues up to eight hours a day.
The monotonous courses go on until the "student" has an experience of
awakening. "At some point you just take off," Siegenthaler describes.
Christoph Hubler says, "They all totally float."

Venzin observed the results of this brain-washing in his patient, 21 year
old Susanne. After three months she was "absolutely depersonalized." When
she came back from the Narconon center she spoke like a computer. She only
came out of the trance after two months and promptly relapsed into drug
abuse. She now lives in a park in the middle of Zurich, the center of the
drug scene. The heroin addicts take their fix in sight of the police.
Afterwards they lie like corpses on the grass or walk around as in a
drunken stupor. Here Susanne has refound nearly all the Swiss "students"
who were at Narconon with her.

Horst Niesel, the 43 year old head of Narconon for Germany, Austria and
German-speaking Switzerland claims to have a 50 percent success rate. But
the "pupils" have other memories. Siegenthaler can't remember one client
who stayed clean. "After a few weeks they were nearly all there again," he
says. An alcoholic from Berlin has been back over a dozen times. Most of
them just can't do without Narconon.

The logical consequence of the detoxification cure is Scientology. The
pupil learns during his endless sessions to give himself unconditionally to
his trainer. The rehearsed skills are of no practical worth outside of
Scientology. The addict can only make progress within the sect.

Narconon does not strengthen the patient's autonomy, as the propaganda
claims, but rather weakens the people, who have suffered years of
disappointments and the worst despondence as drug addicts.

That is why this kind of therapy results in a new dependency. Narconon only
achieves a "transferal of addiction," says Axel Siefert of Munich's state
drug advisory center, "We don't send anyone there." Narconon is cut off
from serious doctors and advisers. In the mid-seventies the Berlin branch
managed for a while to obtain state drug program funds. But the error was
quickly rectified.

The organization moved to Bavaria in 1984, first to Gmund and then to its
present location, a former children's home on the Schliersee. There is room
for 40 addicts, but the building is usually only half full. The patient or
their families have to come up with the fee of 120 DM a day. The
rehabilitation course at Narconon is not covered by any medical insurance.
Narconon still finds people willing to admit themselves because the waiting
lists are so long at other centers. Addicts have to wait three to six
months to be taken in by Con-Drobs in Munich, and the waiting list in
Switzerland for heroin addicts is up to two months. Narconon takes everyone
immediately. The aspiring patient only has to bring along enough money.

Narconon agents regularly do the tour of the "fix-scene" in search of new
clients. The Scientology subsidiary even pays commission for new names and
addresses.

Since the rent of the Narconon building is 12,400 DM a month Mr. Niesel
doesn't like to see his victims leave. New arrivals not only give up their
identity papers, but also hand over all their cash. That way the patient
finds it difficult to leave without permission.

Briska Vogt, 25, and her boyfriend Andreas, 27, who is a heroin addict,
only lasted a week at the Schliersee. One Sunday afternoon the couple
climbed out of a window and fled, hitching a ride to Munich. They had the
police help them get their belongings back. But there was one good thing
about the shock experience with Niesel's band. That week was such a
nightmare for Andreas that he hasn't touched heroin since. The Narconon
experience doesn't strengthen other inmates. Drug therapist Venzin knows of
two addicts who have given themselves that final "golden shot" shortly
after leaving Narconon.

Pius Keel, a confirmed Scientologist of 22, ended his stay at the
Schliersee tragically. He got himself into deep debt for his community.
After some time at Narconon he complained to his mother about the
"barefaced swindle." Narconon is only "about money," he said. On September
14, 1990, after less than two months at Narconon, Pius packed his bags and
threw himself under a train.

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The
SCIENTOLOGY STORY

Newkirk Herald-Journal Extra
Special Report
Paid Supplement
Reprinted With Permission From The Los Angeles Times

Defining The Theology...
The Religion Abounds in Galactic Tales; Deepest Secrets Known to Few

By Joel Sappell and
Robert W. Welkos
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

What is Scientology?
Not even the vast majority of Scientologists can fully answer the question.
In the Church of Scientology, there is no one book that comprehensively
sets forth the religion's beliefs in the fashion of, say, the Bible or the
Koran.

Rather, Scientology's theology is scattered among the voluminous writings
and tape-recorded discourses of the late science fiction writer L. Ron
Hubbard, who founded the religion in the early 1950s.

Piece by piece, his teachings are revealed to church members through a
progression of sometimes secret courses that take years to complete and
cost tens of thousands of dollars. Out of a membership estimated by the
church to be 6.5 million, only a tiny fraction have climbed to the upper
reaches. In fact, according to a Scientology publication earlier this year,
fewer than 900 members have completed the church's highest course,
nicknamed "Truth Revealed."

While Hubbard's "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" typically
is one of the first books read by church members, its relationship to
Scientology is like that of a grade school to a university.
What Scientologists learn in their courses is never publicly discussed by
the church, which is trying to shake its cultish image and establish itself
as a mainstream religion. For to the uninitiated, Hubbard's theology would
resemble pure science fiction, complete with galactic battles,
interplanetary civilizations and tyrants who roam the universe.

Here, based on court records, church documents and Hubbard lectures that
span the past four decades, is a rare look at portions of Scientology's
theology and the cosmological musings of the man who wrote it.
Central to Scientology is a belief in an immortal soul, or "thetan," that
passes from one body to the next through countless reincarnations spanning
trillions of years.

Together and collectively, thetans created the universe - all the stars and
planets, every plant and animal. To function within their creation, thetans
built bodies for themselves of wildly varying appearances, the human form
being just one.

But each thetan is vulnerable to painful experiences that can diminish its
powers and create emotional and physical problems in the individual it
inhabits. The goal of Scientology is to purge these experiences from the
thetan, making it again omnipotent and returning spiritual and bodily
health to its host.

The painful experiences are called "engrams." Hubbard said some happen by
accident - from ancient planetary wars, for example - while others are
intentionally inflicted by other thetans who have gone bad and want power.
In Scientology, these engrams are called "implants."

According to Hubbard, the bad thetans through the eons have electronically
implanted other thetans with information intended to confuse them and make
them forget the powers they inherently possess - kind of a brainwashing
procedure.

While Hubbard was not always precise about the origins of the implants, he
was very clear about the impact.
"Implants," Hubbard said, "result in all varieties of illness, apathy,
degradation, neurosis and insanity and are the principal cause of these in
man."

Hubbard identified numerous implants that he said have occurred through the
ages and that are addressed during Scientology courses aimed at
neutralizing their harmful effects.

Hubbard maintained, for example, that the concept of a Christian heaven is
the product of two implants dating back more than 43 trillion years.
Heaven, he said, is a "false dream" and a "very painful lie" intended to
direct thetans toward a non-existent goal and convince them they have only
one life.

In reality, Hubbard said, there is no heaven and there was no Christ.
"The [implanted] symbol of a crucified Christ is very apt indeed," Hubbard
said. "It's the symbol of a thetan betrayed."

Hubbard said that one of the worst implants happens after a person dies.
While Hubbard's story of this implant may seem outlandish to some, he
advanced it as a factual account of reincarnation.

"Of all the nasty, mean and vicious implants that have ever been invented,
this one is it," he declared during a lecture in the 1950s. "And it's been
going on for thousands of years."

Hubbard said that when a person dies, his or her thetan goes to a "landing
station" on Venus, where it is programmed with lies about its past life and
its next life. The lies include a promise that it will be returned to Earth
by being lovingly shunted into the body of a newborn baby.

Not so, said Hubbard, who described the thetan's re-entry this way:
"What actually happens to you, you're simply capsuled and dumped in the
gulf of lower California. Splash. The hell with ya. And you're on your own,
man. If you can get out of that, and through that, and wander around
through the cities and find some girl who looks like she is going to get
married or have a baby or something like that, you're all set. And if you
can find the maternity ward to a hospital or something, you're OK.
"And you just eventually just pick up a baby."

But Hubbard offered his followers an easy way to outwit the implant:
Scientologists should simply select a location other than Venus to go "when
they kick the bucket."

Another notorious implant led Hubbard to construct an entire course for
Scientologists who want to be rid of it.

Shrouded in mystery and kept in locked cabinets at select church locations,
the course is called Operating Thetan III, billed by the church as "the
final secret of the catastrophe which laid waste to this sector of the
galaxy." It is taught only to the most advanced church members, at fees
ranging to $6,000.

Hubbard told his followers that while unlocking the secret, he "became very
ill, almost lost this body and somehow or another brought it off and
obtained the material and was able to live through it."

Here's what he said he learned:
Seventy-five million years ago a tyrant named Xenu (pronounced Zee-new)
ruled the Galactic Confederation, an alliance of 76 planets, including
Earth, then called Teegeeack.

To control overpopulation and solidify his power, Xenu instructed his loyal
officers to capture beings of all shapes and sizes from the various
planets, freeze them in a compound of alcohol and glycol and fly them by
the billions to Earth in planes resembling DC-8s. Some of the beings were
captured after they were duped into showing up for a phony tax
investigation.

The beings were deposited or chained near 10 volcanoes scattered around the
planet. After hydrogen bombs were dropped on them, their thetans were
captured by Xenu's forces and implanted with sexual perversion, religion
and other notions to obscure their memory of what Xenu had done.
Soon after, a revolt erupted. Xenu was imprisoned in a wire cage within a
mountain, where he remains today.

But the damage was done.

During the last 75 million years, these implanted thetans have affixed
themselves by the thousands to people on Earth. Called "body thetans," they
overwhelm the main thetan who resides within a person, causing confusion
and internal conflict.

In the Operating Thetan III course, Scientologists are taught to scan their
bodies for "pressure points," indicating the presence of these bad thetans.
Using techniques prescribed by Hubbard, church members make telepathic
contact with these thetans and remind them of Xenu's treachery. With that,
Hubbard said, the thetans detach themselves.

Hubbard first unveiled his Scientology theories during a series of often
breathless lectures he delivered in Wichita, Kan., Phoenix and Philadelphia
in 1952.

His talks were sprinkled with tales of interplanetary adventures he said he
had experienced during earlier lives.

There was the time, for instance, that Hubbard said he was resting in a
peaceful valley on a barren planet in some remote galaxy, and decided to
spruce up the place. He said he "fixed up a lake" and "managed to coax into
existence a few vines."

Then, "all of a sudden - zoop boom - and there was a spaceship," Hubbard
recalled, saying "I got pretty mad about the whole thing."

"I remember bringing a thunderstorm," Hubbard said. "Moved it over the
ship. ... And then [I] let them have it."

Hubbard told associates that he had been many people before being born as
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard on March 13, 1911, in Tilden, Neb. One of them was
Cecil Rhodes, the British-born diamond king of southern Africa. Another,
according to a former aide, was a marshal to Joan of Arc.

After Hubbard's death in 1986, a Scientology publication described him as
"the original musician," who 3 million years ago invented music while going
by the name "Arpen Polo." The publication noted that "he wrote his first
song a bit after the first tick of time."

Hubbard realized that his accounts of past lives, implants and
extraterrestrial creatures might sound suspect to outsiders. So he
counseled his disciples to keep mum.

"Don't start walking around and telling people about space opera because
they're not going to believe you," he said, "and they're going to say,
`Well, that's just Hubbard.' "

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About This Section

The Newkirk Herald Journal today reprints a multi-part series on the Church
of Scientology, the controversial organization founded by the late author
L. Ron Hubbard. This special report was researched and written by Joel
Sappell and Robert W. Welkos, staff writers at the Los Angeles Times.

The series was published by the Los Angeles Times in July of this year, and
has also been published by the St. Petersburg, (Fla.) Times.
Los Angeles, Ca., and Clearwater, Fl., both have large Scientology
installations, but neither city has a Scientology controlled organization
as large as the 167 acre unlicensed and uncertified Narconon facility
currently operating on Chilocco Indian School land. For that reason, the
series deserves publication in this area. The Newkirk Herald Journal
appreciates the co-operation of the management of the Los Angeles Times to
whom we are indebted for both the copy and the permission to reprint it.
Since its creation nearly four decades ago, Scientology has grown into a
worldwide movement that, in recent months, has spent millions of dollars
promoting its founder and his self-help book, "Dianetics: The Modern
Science of Mental Health."

In the past five years alone, more than 20 of Hubbard's fiction and
nonfictionbooks have become national best-sellers - most of them achieving
that status after his death in January, 1986.

Scientology executives estimate the church's membership to be more than 6.5
million, although some former members believe the actual number is smaller.
Scientology's largest stronghold is in Hollywood, the organization's
management nerve center. The church is also a major presence in Clearwater,
Fl., where Scientologists from around the world go for training.

No other contemporary religion has endured a more turbulent past or a more
sustained assault on its existence than the Church of Scientology. It has
weathered crises that would have crippled, if not destroyed, other
fledgling religious movements - testimony to the group's determination to
survive.

Eleven of its top leaders - including Hubbard's wife - were jailed for
burglarizing the U.S. Justice Department and other federal agencies in the
1970s. Within the church, there have been widespread purges and defections.
Some former members have filed lawsuits accusing the church of intimidating
its critics, breaking up families and using high-pressure sales techniques
to separate large sums of money from its followers.

In 1986, Scientology paid an estimated $5 million to settle more than 20 of
the suits, without admitting wrongdoing. In exchange, the plaintiffs agreed
never again to criticize Scientology or Hubbard and to have their lawsuits
forever sealed from the public view.

Through all this, the church has persevered, dismissing its critics in
government, psychiatry and the media as "criminals" and "anti-religion"
demagogues who have conspired to persecute Scientology.

Today, the Scientology movement is writing a new chapter in its history,
one that has attracted a new generation of supporters and detractors.

Through official church programs and a network of groups run by Scientology
followers, the movement is reaching into American society as never before
to gain legitimacy and new members.

The apparent intent is to position Hubbard as a sort of 20th-Century
Renaissance man, lending new credibility to his Scientology teachings.
Among other things, church members are disseminating his writings in
schools across the U.S., assisted by groups that seldom publicize their
Scientology connections.

Scientology followers also have established a number of successful
consulting firms that sell Hubbard's management techniques to health care
professionals and businessmen. In the process, many are steered into the
church.

And Scientologists are the driving force behind two organizations active in
the scientific community. The organizations have been busy trying to sell
government agencies and the public on a chemical detoxification treatment
developed by Hubbard.

There is little question that, although Hubbard is gone, Scientology is
here to stay - and doing its best to meet his expectations. "The world is
ours," he once told his adherents. "Own it."

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L. Ron Hubbard: A Religion of a Man's Imagining

The Mind
Behind
The Religion
A Path From 'Pulp Fiction' To 'Sacred Scriptures'

By Joel Sappell and
Robert W. Welkos
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES - It was a triumph of galactic proportions: Science fiction
writer L. Ron Hubbard had discarded the body that bound him to the physical
universe and was off to the next phase of his spiritual exploration - "on a
planet a galaxy away."

"Hip, hip, hurray!" thousands of Scientologists thundered inside the
Hollywood Palladium, where they had just been told of this remarkable feat.
"Hip, hip, hurray! Hip, hip, hurray!" they continued to chant, gazing at a
large photograph of Hubbard, creator of their religion and author of the
best-selling "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health."
Earlier that day, the Church of Scientology had summoned the faithful
throughout Los Angeles to a "big and exciting event" at the Palladium. They
were told nothing more, just to be there.

As evening fell, thousands arrived, most decked out in the spit-and-polish
mock Navy uniforms that are symbolic of the organization's paramilitary
structure.

The excited assemblage was about to learn that their beloved leader, a man
who dubbed himself "The Commodore," had died. Yet, death was never
mentioned.

Instead, the Scientologists were told that Hubbard had finished his
spiritual research on this planet, charting a precise path for man to
achieve immortality. And now it was on to bigger challenges somewhere
beyond the stars.

His body had "become an impediment to the work he now must do outside of
its confines," the awe-struck crowd was informed. "The fact that he ...
willingly discarded the body after it was no longer useful to him signifies
his ultimate success: the conquest of life that he embarked upon half a
century ago."

The death certificate would show that Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, 74, who had
not been seen publicly for nearly six years, died on Jan. 24, 1986, of a
stroke on his ranch outside San Luis Obispo, Calif.

But to Scientologists, the man they affectionately called "Ron" had
ascended.

The glorification of L. Ron Hubbard that brisk January night was not
surprising. Over more than three decades he had skillfully transformed
himself from a writer of pulp fiction to a writer of "sacred scriptures."
Along the way, he made a fortune and achieved his dream of fame.
"I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it
will take a legendary form, even if all the books are destroyed," Hubbard
wrote to the first of his three wives in 1938, more than a decade before he
created Scientology.

"That goal," he said, "is the real goal as far as I am concerned."
From the ground up, Hubbard built an international empire that started as a
collection of mental therapy centers and became one of the world's most
controversial and secretive religions.

The intensity, combativeness and salesmanship that distinguish Scientology
from other religions can be traced directly to Hubbard. For, even in death,
the man and his creation are inseparable.

He wrote millions of words in scores of books instructing his followers on
everything from how to market Scientology to how to fend off critics. His
prolific and sometimes rambling discourses constitute the gospel of
Scientology, its structure and its soul. Deviations are punishable.
Through his writings, Hubbard fortified his clannish organization with a
powerful intolerance of criticism and a fierce will to endure and prosper.
He wrote a Code of Honor that urged his followers to "never desert a group
to which you owe your support" and "never fear to hurt another in a just
cause."

He transmitted to his followers his suspicious view of the world - one
populated, he insisted, by madmen bent on Scientology's destruction.
His flaring temper and searing intensity are deeply branded into the church
and reflected in the behavior of his faithful, who shout at adversaries and
even at each other. As one former high-ranking member put it: "He made
swearing cool."

Hubbard's followers say his teachings have helped thousands kick drugs and
allowed countless others to lead fuller lives through courses that improve
communication skills, build self-confidence and increase an individual's
ability to take control of his or her life.

He was, they say, "the greatest humanitarian in history."

But there was another side to this imaginative and intelligent man. And to
understand Scientology, one must begin with L. Ron Hubbard.
In the late 1940s, Hubbard was broke and in debt. A struggling writer of
science fiction and fantasy, he was forced to sell his typewriter for
$28.50 to get by.

"I can still see Ron three-steps-at-a-time running up the stairs in around
1949 in order to borrow $30 from me to get out of town because he had a
wife after him for alimony," recalled his former literary agent, Forrest J.
Ackerman.

At one point, Hubbard was reduced to begging the Veterans Administration to
let him keep a $51 overpayment of benefits. "I am nearly penniless," wrote
Hubbard, a former Navy lieutenant.

Hubbard was mentally troubled, too. In late 1947, he asked the Veterans
Administration to help him get psychiatric treatment.

"Toward the end of my [military] service," Hubbard wrote to the VA, "I
avoided out of pride any mental examinations, hoping that time would
balance a mind which I had every reason to suppose was seriously affected.
"I cannot account for nor rise above long periods of moroseness and
suicidal inclinations, and have newly come to realize that I must first
triumph above this before I can hope to rehabilitate myself at all."
In his most private moments, Hubbard wrote bizarre statements to himself in
notebooks that would surface four decades later in Los Angeles County
Superior Court.

"All men are your slaves," he wrote in one.

"You can be merciless whenever your will is crossed and you have the right
to be merciless," he wrote in another.

Hubbard was troubled, restless and adrift in those little known years of
his life. But he never lost confidence in his ability as a writer. He had
made a living with words in the past and he could do it again.

Before the financial and emotional problems that consumed him in the 1940s,
Hubbard had achieved moderate success writing for a variety of dime-store
pulp magazines. He specialized in shoot'em-up adventures, Westerns,
mysteries, war stories and science fiction.

His output, if not the writing itself, was spectacular. Using such
pseudonyms as Winchester Remington Colt and Rene LaFayette, he sometimes
filled up entire issues virtually by himself. Hubbard's life then was like
a page from one of his adventure stories. He panned for gold in Puerto Rico
and charted waterways in Alaska. He was a master sailor and glider pilot,
with a reported penchant for eye-catching maneuvers.

Although Hubbard's health and writing career foundered after the war, he
remained a virtual factory of ideas. And his biggest was about to be born.
Hubbard had long been fascinated with mental phenomena and the mysteries of
life.

He was an expert in hypnotism. During a 1948 gathering of science fiction
buffs in Los Angeles, he hypnotized many of those in attendance, convincing
one young man that he was cradling a tiny kangaroo in his hands.

Hubbard sometimes spoke of having visions.

His former literary agent, Ackerman, said Hubbard once told of dying on an
operating table. And here, according to Ackerman, is what Hubbard said
followed:

"He arose in spirit form and looked at the body he no longer inhabited. ...
In the distance he saw a great ornate gate. ... The gate opened of its own
accord and he drifted through. There, spread out, was an intellectual
smorgasbord, the answers to everything that ever puzzled the mind of man.
He was absorbing all this fantabulous information. ... Then he felt like a
long umbilical cord pulling him back. And a voice was saying, 'No, not
yet.' "

Hubbard, according to Ackerman, said he returned to life and feverishly
wrote his recollections. He said Hubbard later tried to sell the manuscript
but failed, claiming that "whoever read it (a) went insane, or (b)
committed suicide."

Hubbard's intense curiosity about the mind's power led him into a
friendship in 1946 with rocket fuel scientist John Whiteside Parsons.
Parsons was a protege of British satanist Aleister Crowley and leader of a
black magic group modeled after Crowley's infamous occult lodge in England.
Hubbard also admired Crowley, and in a 1952 lecture described him as "my
very good friend."

Parsons and Hubbard lived in an aging mansion on South Orange Grove Avenue
in Pasadena, Calif. The estate was home to an odd mix of Bohemian artists,
writers, scientists and occultists. A small domed temple supported by six
stone columns stood in the back yard.

Hubbard met his second wife, Sara Northrup, at the mansion. Although she
was Parsons' lover at the time, Hubbard was undeterred. He married Northrup
before divorcing his first wife.

Long before the 1960s counterculture, some residents of the estate smoked
marijuana and embraced a philosophy of promiscuous, ritualistic sex.
"The neighbors began protesting when the rituals called for a naked
pregnant woman to jump nine times through fire in the yard," recalled
science fiction author L. Sprague de Camp, who knew both Hubbard and
Parsons.

Crowley biographers have written that Parsons and Hubbard practiced "sex
magic." As the biographers tell it, a robed Hubbard chanted incantations
while Parsons and his wife-to-be, Cameron, engaged in sexual intercourse
intended to produce a child with superior intellect and powers. The
ceremony was said to span 11 consecutive nights.

Hubbard and Parsons finally had a falling out over a sailboat sales venture
that ended in a court dispute between the two.

In later years, Hubbard tried to distance himself from his embarrassing
association with Parsons, who was a founder of a government rocket project
at the California Institute of Technology that later evolved into the famed
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Parsons died in 1952 when a chemical explosion
ripped through his garage lab.

Hubbard insisted that he had been working undercover for Naval Intelligence
to break up black magic in America and to investigate links between the
occultists and prominent scientists at the Parsons mansion. Hubbard said
the mission was so successful that the house was razed and the black magic
group was dispersed.

But Parsons' widow, Cameron, disputed Hubbard's account in a brief
interview with the Los Angeles Times. She said the two men "liked each
other very much" and "felt they were ushering in a force that was going to
change things."

In early 1950, Hubbard published an intriguing article in a 25-cent
magazine called Astounding Science Fiction. In it, he said that he had
uncovered the source of man's problems.

The article grew into a book, written in one draft in just 30 days and
entitled "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health." It would become
the most important book of Hubbard's life.

The book's introduction declared that Hubbard had invented a new "mental
science," a feat more important perhaps than "the invention of the wheel,
the control of fire, the development of mathematics."

Hubbard himself said he had uncovered the source of, and the cure for,
virtually every ailment known to man. Dianetics, he said, could restore
withered limbs, mend broken bones, erase the wrinkles of age and
dramatically increase intelligence.

Not surprisingly, the nation's mental health professionals were
unimpressed.

Famed psychoanalyst Rollo May voiced the sentiments of many when he wrote
in The New York Times that "books like this do harm by their grandiose
promises to troubled persons and by their oversimplification of human
psychological problems."

But "Dianetics" was an instant best-seller when it hit the stands in May,
1950, and made Hubbard an overnight celebrity. Arthur Ceppos, who published
the book, said Hubbard spent his first royalties on a luxury Lincoln.
Hubbard had tapped the public's growing fascination with psychotherapy,
then largely accessible only to the affluent. "Dianetics," in fact, was
popularly dubbed "the poor man's psychotherapy" because it could be
practiced among friends for free.

In the book, Hubbard claimed to have discovered the previously unknown
"reactive mind," a depository for emotionally or physically painful events
in a person's life. These traumatic experiences, called "engrams," cause a
variety of psychosomatic illnesses, including migraine headaches, ulcers,
allergies, arthritis, poor vision and the common cold, Hubbard said.
The goal of dianetics, Hubbard said, is to purge these painful experiences
and create a "clear" individual who is able to realize his or her full
potential.

Catapulted from obscurity, Hubbard decided in the summer of 1950 to prove
in a big way that his new "science" was for real.

He appeared before a crowd of thousands at the Shrine Auditorium to unveil
the "world's first clear," a person he said had achieved a perfect memory.
Journalists from numerous newspapers and magazines were there to document
the event.

He placed on display one Sonya Bianca, a young Boston physics major. But
when Hubbard allowed the audience to question her, she performed dismally.
Someone, for example, told Hubbard to turn his back while the girl was
asked to describe the color of his tie. There was silence. The world's
first clear drew a blank.

"It was a tremendous embarrassment for Hubbard and his friends at the
time," recalled Arthur Jean Cox, a science fiction buff who attended the
presentation.

More problems were on the way for the man whose book promised miracles but
whose own life would move from one crisis to the next until his death.
He became embroiled, for instance, in a nasty divorce and child custody
battle that raised embarrassing questions about his mental stability.
His wife, Sara Northrup Hubbard, accused him of subjecting her to
"scientific torture experiments" and of suffering from "paranoid
schizophrenia" - allegations that she would later retract in a signed
statement but that would find their way into government files and continue
to haunt Hubbard.

She said in her suit that Hubbard had deprived her of sleep, beaten her and
suggested that she kill herself, "as divorce would hurt his reputation."
During the legal proceedings, Sara placed in the court record a letter she
had received from Hubbard's first wife.

"Ron is not normal," it said. "I had hoped you could straighten him out.
Your charges probably sound fantastic to the average person - but I've been
through it - the beatings, threats on my life, all the sadistic traits
which you charge - 12 years of it."

At one point in the marital dispute with Sara, Hubbard spirited their
1-year-old daughter, Alexis, to Cuba. From there, he wrote to Sara:
"I have been in the Cuban military hospital, and am being transferred to
the United States as a classified scientist immune from interference of all
kinds. ... My right side is paralyzed and getting more so.

"I hope my heart lasts. I may live a long time and again I may not. But
Dianetics will last ten thousand years - for the Army and Navy have it
now."

Hubbard, who had earlier accused his wife of infidelity and said she
suffered brain damage, closed his letter by threatening to cut his infant
daughter from his will.

"Alexis will get a fortune unless she goes to you, as she then would get
nothing," he wrote.

He also wrote a letter to the FBI at the height of the Red Scare accusing
Sara of possibly being a Communist, along with others whom he said had
infiltrated his dianetics movement.

The FBI, after interviewing Hubbard, dismissed him as a "mental case."
In one seven-page missive to the Department of Justice in 1951, he linked
Sara to alleged physical assaults on him. He said that on two separate
occasions he was punched in his sleep by unidentified intruders. And then
came the third attack.

"I was in my apartment on February 23rd, about two or three o'clock in the
morning when the apartment was entered, I was knocked out, had a needle
thrust into my heart to give it a jet of air to produce 'coronary
thrombosis' and was given an electric shock with a 110 volt current. This
is all very blurred to me. I had no witnesses. But only one person had
another key to that apartment and that was Sara."

After months of sniping at each other - and a counter divorce suit by
Hubbard in which he accused his wife of "gross neglect of duty and extreme
cruelty" - the couple ended their stormy marriage, with Sara obtaining
custody of the child. In later years, Hubbard would deny fathering the girl
and, as threatened, did not leave her a cent.

Not only was Hubbard's domestic life a shambles in 1951, his once-thriving
self-help movement was crumbling as public interest in his theories waned.
The foundations Hubbard had established to teach dianetics were in
financial ruin and his book had disappeared from The New York Times
best-seller list.

But the resilient self-promoter came up with something new. He called it
Scientology, and his metamorphosis from pop therapist to religious leader
was under way.

Scientology essentially gave a new twist to the Dianetics notion of painful
experiences that lodge in the "reactive mind." In Scientology, Hubbard held
that memories of such experiences also collect in a person's soul and date
back to past lives.

For many of Hubbard's early followers, Scientology was not believable, and
they broke with him. But others would soon take their place, conferring
upon Hubbard an almost saintly status.

But as Hubbard's renown and prosperity grew in the 1960s, so, too, did the
questions surrounding his finances and teachings. He was accused by various
governments - including the U.S. - of quackery, of brainwashing, of bilking
the gullible through high-pressure sales techniques.

In 1967, Hubbard took several hundred of his followers to sea to escape the
spreading hostility. But they found only temporary safe harbor from what
they believed had become an international conspiracy to persecute them.
Their three ships, led by a converted cattle ferry dubbed the "Apollo,"
were bounced from port to port in the Mediterranean and Caribbean by
governments that wrongly suspected the American skipper and his secretive,
clean-cut crew of being CIA operatives.

While anchored at the Portuguese island of Madeira, they were stoned by
townsfolk carrying torches and chanting anti-CIA slogans.

"They [were] throwing Molotov cocktails onto the boat but they weren't
lit," a crew member recalled. "Fortunately, this was not an experienced
mob."

The years at sea were a watershed for Hubbard and Scientology. He
instituted a Navy-style command structure that is evident today in the
military dress and snap-to behavior of the organization's staff members.
Hubbard named himself the "Commodore," and subordinates followed his orders
like Annapolis midshipmen.

As former Scientology ship officer Hana Eltringham Whitfield put it:
"Scientologists on the whole thought that Hubbard was like a god, that he
could command the waves to do what he wanted, that he was totally in
control of his life and consequences of his actions."

Staking A Claim To
Blood Brotherhood

As L. Ron Hubbard told it, he was 4 years old when a medicine man named
"Old Tom" made him a "blood brother" of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana,
providing the inspiration for the Scientology founder's first novel,
"Buckskin Brigades."

But one expert on the tribe doesn't buy Hubbard's account.

Historian Hugh Dempsey is associate director of the Glenbow Museum in
Calgary, Alberta. He has extensively researched the tribe, of which his
wife is a member.

He said that blood brothers are "an old Hollywood idea" and that the act
was "never done among the Blackfeet."

As for "Old Tom," Dempsey has informed doubts. For one thing, he said, the
name does not appear in a 1907 Blackfeet enrollment register containing the
names of hundreds of tribal members.

For another, "It's the kind of name, for that period [1915], that would
practically not exist among the Blackfeet," he said. "At that time,
Blackfeet did not have Christian names."

In 1985, church leaders produced a document that they say proves Hubbard
was not lying.

Typed on Blackfeet Nation stationery, it states: "To commemorate the
seventieth anniversary of L. Ron Hubbard becoming a blood brother of the
Blackfeet Nation. Tree Manyfeathers in a ceremony re-established L. Ron
Hubbard as a blood brother to the Blackfeet Tribe."

The document actually is meaningless because none of the three men who
signed it were authorized to take any action on the tribe's behalf,
according to Blackfeet Nation officials.

The document was created by Richard Mataisz, a Scientologist of fractional
Indian descent. Mataisz said in an interview he tried to prove that Hubbard
was a Blackfeet blood brother but came up empty-handed.

"It's not," he said, "something you go down to the courthouse and look up."
So Mataisz, using the name Tree Manyfeathers, said he held a private
ceremony, made Hubbard his own blood brother and, along with two other men,
signed the commemorative document.

"You should not give it [the document] very much credibility," said John
Yellow Kidney, former vice president of the tribe's executive committee. "I
don't."

Burglaries And Lies Paved A Path To Prison

A Web Of Criminal Conspiracy To discredit The Church's Foes
Resulted In 5-Year Sentences For 11 Defendants.

By Robert W. Welkos
and Joel Sappell
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - It began with the title of a fairy tale - Snow White.
That was the benign code name Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard gave to an
ominous plan that would envelop his church in scandal and send its upper
echelon to prison, a plan rooted in his ever-deepening fears and
suspicions.

Snow White began in 1973 as an effort by Scientology through Freedom of
Information proceedings to purge government files of what Hubbard thought
was false information being circulated worldwide to discredit him and the
church. But the operation soon mushroomed into a massive criminal
conspiracy, executed by the church's legal and investigative arm, the
Guardian Office.

Under the direction of Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue, the Guardian Office
hatched one scheme after another to discredit and unnerve Scientology's
foes across the country. Guardian Office members were trained to lie, or in
their words, " to outflow false data effectively." They compiled enemy
lists and subjected those on the lists to smear campaigns and dirty tricks.
Their targets were in the government, the press, the medical profession,
wherever a potential threat surfaced.

The Guardian Office saved the worst for author Paulette Cooper of New York
City, whose scathing 1972 book, " The Scandal of Scientology," pushed her
to the top of the church's roster of enemies.

Among other things, Cooper was framed on criminal charges by Guardian
Office members, who obtained stationery she had touched and then used it to
forge bomb threats to the church in her name.

" You're like the Nazis or the Arabs - I'll bomb you, I'll kill you!"
warned one of the rambling letters.

The church reported the threat to the FBI and directed its agents to
Cooper, whose fingerprints matched those on the letter. Cooper was indicted
by a grand jury not only for the bomb threats, but for lying under oath
about her innocence.

Two years later, the author's reputation and psyche in tatters, prosecutors
dismissed the charges after she had spent nearly $20,000 in legal fees to
defend herself and $6,000 on psychiatric treatment.

It seemed that no plan against perceived enemies was too ambitious or
daring.

In Washington, Scientology spies penetrated such high-security agencies as
the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service to find what
they had on Hubbard and the church.

In nighttime raids, they rifled files and photocopied mountains of
documents, many of which the church had unsuccessfully sought under the
federal Freedom of Information Act.

The thefts were inside jobs; the Guardian Office had planted one agent in
the IRS as a clerk typist and another in the Department of Justice as the
personal secretary of an assistant U.S. attorney who was handling Freedom
of Information lawsuits filed by Scientology.

So bold had they become that one Guardian Office operative slipped into an
IRS conference room and wired a bugging device into a wall socket before a
crucial meeting on Scientology was to be convened. The operative rigged the
device so he could eavesdrop over his car's FM radio.

The U.S. government was losing a war it did not even know it was fighting.
But that was about to change.

Two Scientologists used fake IRS credentials to gain access to government
agencies and then photocopied documents related to the church. Their
conspiracy was exposed when one of the suspects, after 11 months on the
lam, became worried about his plight and confessed to authorities,
prompting the FBI to launch one of the biggest raids in its history.
Armed with power saws, crowbars and bolt cutters, 134 agents burst into
three Scientology locations in Los Angeles and Washington.
They carted off eavesdropping equipment, burglar tools and 48,000 documents
detailing countless operations against " enemies" in public and private
life.

In the end, Hubbard's wife and the others were found guilty of charges of
conspiracy and burglary. The grand jury named Hubbard as an unindicted
co-conspirator; the seized Guardian Office files did not directly link him
to the crimes and he professed ignorance of them.

In a memorandum urging stiff sentences for the Scientologists, federal
prosecutors wrote:

"The crime committed by these defendants is of a breadth and scope
previously unheard of. No building, office, desk, or file was safe from
their snooping and prying. No individual or organization was free from
their despicable conspiratorial minds. The tools of their trade were
miniature transmitters, lock picks, secret codes, forged credentials and
any other device they found necessary to carry out their conspiratorial
schemes."

The 11 defendants were ordered to serve five years in federal prison. All
are now free.

Church leaders today maintain that this dark chapter in their religion's
history was the work of renegade members who, yes, broke the law but
believed they were justified because the government for two decades had
harassed and persecuted Scientology.

Boston attorney Earle C. Cooley, Scientology's national trial counsel, said
the present church management does not condone the criminal activities of
the old Guardian Office. He said that one of Hubbard's most important
dictums was to " maintain friendly relations with the environment and the
public."

"The question that I always have in my mind," Cooley said, " is for how
long a time is the church going to have to continue to pay the price for
what the (Guardian Office) did. ... Unfortunately, the church continues to
be confronted with it.

"And the ironic thing is that the people being confronted with it are the
people who wiped it out. And to the church, that's a very frustrating
thing."

The Final Days...
Deep In Hiding, Hubbard Kept A Tight Grip On The Church

By Robert W. Welkos
and Joel Sappell
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard often said that man's most
basic drive is that of survival. And when it came to his own, he used
whatever was necessary - false identities, cover stories, deception.
There is no better illustration of this than the way he secretly controlled
the Church of Scientology while hiding from a world he viewed as
increasingly hostile.

Hubbard was last seen publicly in February 1980, in the desert community of
Hemet, Calif., a few miles from a high-security compound that houses
thechurch's movie and recording studio. His sudden departure fueled wild
and intense speculation.

The church said Hubbard went into seclusion to continue his Scientology
research and to resurrect his science fiction-writing career. But former
aides have said he dropped from sight to avoid subpoenas and government tax
agents probing allegations that he was skimming church funds.

Publications throughout the world ran stories about Hubbard's
disappearance. " Mystery of the Vanished Ruler" was the headline in Time
magazine.

In 1982, Hubbard's estranged son filed a probate petition trying to wrest
control of the Scientology empire. He argued that his father was either
dead or mentally incompetent and that his riches were being plundered by
Scientology executives.

The suit was dismissed after Hubbard, through an attorney, submitted an
affidavit with his fingerprints, saying that he was well and wanted to be
left alone.

No doubt, Hubbard would have chuckled with satisfaction over the
speculation surrounding his whereabouts. For he had always considered
himself a shrewd strategist and a master of the intelligence game,
endlessly calculating ways to outwit his foes.

Hubbard took with him only two people, a married couple named Pat and Anne
Broeker.

Pat Broeker, Hubbard's personal messenger at the time, had gone into hiding
with him once before and knew how to ensure his security. Broeker relished
cloak-and-dagger operations. His nickname among Hubbard's other messengers
was " 007."

Anne had been one of Hubbard's top aides for years. She was cool under
pressure and able to defuse Hubbard's volatile temper.

Hubbard and the Broekers spent their first several years together on the
move. For months, they traveled the Pacific Northwest in a motor home. They
lived in apartments in Newport Beach and other suburbs of Los Angeles.
Then, in the summer of 1983, they decided to settle down in a dusty ranch
town of Creston, Calif., population 270, where the hot, arid climate would
be kind to Hubbard's bursitis.

About 30 miles inland from San Luis Obispo, it was a perfect spot for a man
of notoriety to live in obscurity. In those parts, people don't ask a lot
of questions about someone else's business.

Hubbard and the Broekers concocted an elaborate set of phony names and
backgrounds to conceal their identities from the townsfolk. Pat and Anne
Broeker went by the names Mike and Lisa Mitchell. Hubbard became Lisa's
father,Jack, who impressed the locals as a chatty old man, charismatic but
sometimes gruff.

They purchased a 160-acre ranch known as the Whispering Winds for $700,000,
using 30 cashier's checks drawn on various California banks. Pat Broeker
told the sellers, Ed and Sherry Shahan, that he had recently inherited
millions of dollars and was looking to leave his home in Upstate New York
to raise livestock in California.

At the time, the Shahans were suspicious. As Ed Shahan recalled, " They
were having trouble deciding whose name to put the property in."
In less than three years, Hubbard poured an estimated $3 million into the
local economy as he redesigned the ranch to his exacting and elaborate
specifications.

He launched one project after another, some of them seemingly senseless,
according to local residents. He ordered the construction of a quarter-mile
horse-racing track with an observation tower. The track reportedly was
never used.

The 10-room ranch house was gutted and remodeled so many times that it went
virtually uninhabited during Hubbard's time there. He lived and worked in a
luxurious 40-foot Bluebird motor home parked near the stables.

All this was done without work permits, which meant that Hubbard and his
aides would not have to worry about nosy county inspectors.

Like Hubbard's aides in earlier years, the hired help saw extreme sides of
the man who was chauffeured around the property in a black Subaru pickup by
Anne Broeker.

Fencing contractor Jim Froelicher of Paso Robles remembers asking him for
advice on buying a camera. Several days later, Froelicher said, Hubbard
presented him with a 35mm camera as a gift.

Longtime Creston resident Ed Lindquist, on the other hand, said painters
dropped by the local tavern at lunch to talk about how the " old man" was
acting eccentric. They said he had them paint the walls again and again
because they " weren't white enough," according to Lindquist.

Scientology officials insist that Hubbard was in fine mental and physical
health during his years in seclusion. Most of his days, they say, were
spent reading, writing and enjoying the ranch's beauty and livestock, which
included llamas and buffalo.

But Hubbard was doing much more, according to former aides. Even in hiding,
they say, he kept a close watch and a tight grip on the church he built -
as he had for decades.

As early as 1966, Hubbard claimed to have relinquished managerial control
of the church. But ex-Scientologists and several court rulings have held
that this was a maneuver to shield Hubbard from potential legal actions and
accountability for the group's activities.

Over the years, efforts to conceal Hubbard's ties to the church were
extensive and extreme.

In 1980, for example, a massive shredding operation was undertaken at the
church's desert compound outside Palm Springs after Scientology officials
received an erroneous tip of an imminent FBI raid, according to a former
aide.

" Anything that indicated that L. Ron Hubbard controlled the church or was
engaged in management was to be shredded," recalled Hubbard's former public
relations officer, Laurel Sullivan.

For more than two days, Sullivan said, roughly 200 Scientologists crammed
thousands of documents into a huge shredder nicknamed " Jaws." Documents
too valuable to destroy, she added, were buried in the ground or under
floorboards.

In his self-imposed exile, Hubbard continued to reign over Scientology with
almost paranoid secrecy.

He relayed his orders in writing or on tape cassettes to Pat Broeker, who
then passed them to a ranking Scientologist named David Miscavige, the man
responsible for seeing that church executives complied.

Hubbard's communiques travelled a circuitous route in the darkness of
night, changing hands from Broeker to Miscavige at designated sites
throughout Southern California. To mask the author's identity, the missives
were signed with codes that carried the weight of Hubbard's signature.
Sometimes Broeker himself appeared from parts unknown to personally deliver
Hubbard's instructions to church executives.

From his secret seat of power in the oak-studded hills above San Luis
Obispo, Hubbard also made sure that he would not be severed from the riches
of his Scientology empire, high-level church defectors would later tell
government investigators.

They alleged that Hubbard skimmed millions of dollars from church coffers
while he was in hiding - carrying on a tradition that the Internal Revenue
Service said he began practically at Scientology's inception about 30 years
ago. Hubbard and his aides had always denied the allegations, and accused
the IRS of waging a campaign against the church and its founder.

While Hubbard was underground, the IRS launched a criminal investigation of
his finances. But the investigation would soon be without a target, and
ultimately abandoned.

By late 1985, Hubbard's directives to underlings had tapered off. At age
74, he no longer resembled the robust and natty man whose dated photographs
fill Scientology's promotional literature. Living in isolation, separated
from his devoted followers, he had let himself go.

His thin gray hair, with streaks of the old red, hung without sheen to his
shoulders. He had grown a stringy, unkempt beard and mustache. His round
face was now sunken and his ruddy complexion had turned pasty. He was an
old man and he was nearing death.

On or about Jan. 17, 1986, Hubbard suffered a " cerebral vascular
accident," commonly known as a stroke. Caring for him was Gene Denk, a
Scientologist doctor and Hubbard's physician for eight years.

There was little Denk could do for Hubbard in those final days -the stroke
was debilitating. He was bedridden and his speech was badly impaired.
One week later, at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, Hubbard died.
Throughout the night, according to neighbor Robert Whaley, heavy traffic
inexplicably moved in and out of the ranch. Whaley, a retired advertising
executive, said that he was kept awake by headlights shining through his
windows.

For more than 11 hours, Hubbard's body remained in the motor home where he
died. Scientology attorney Earle Cooley had ordered that Hubbard not be
touched until he arrived by car from Los Angeles with another Scientology
lawyer.

The next morning, Cooley telephoned Reis Chapel, a San Luis Obispo
mortuary, and arranged to have the body cremated. With Cooley present,
Hubbard was transported to the mortuary.

Once chapel officials learned who Hubbard was, however, they became
concerned about the church's rush to cremate him. They contacted the San
Luis Obispo County coroner, who halted the cremation until the body could
be examined and blood tests performed.

When then-Deputy Coroner Don Hines arrived, Cooley presented him with a
certificate that Hubbard had signed just four days before his death. It
stated that, for religious reasons, he wanted no autopsy.

Cooley also produced a will that Hubbard had signed the day before he died,
directing that his body be promptly cremated and that his vast wealth be
distributed according to the provisions of a confidential trust he had
established. His once-ornate trademark signature was little more than a
scrawl.

After the blood tests and examination revealed no foul play, coroner Hines
approved the cremation. With Cooley's consent, he also photographed the
body and lifted fingerprints as a way to later confirm that it was the
reclusive Hubbard and not a hoax.

Within hours, Hubbard's ashes were scattered at sea by the Broekers and
Miscavige.

Two days after Hubbard's death, Pat Broeker stood before a
standing-room-only crowd of Scientologists at the Hollywood Palladium. It
was his first public appearance in six years, and he had just broken the
news of Hubbard's passing.
The cheers were deafening.

Broeker announced that Hubbard had made a conscious decision to " sever all
ties" to this world so he could continue his Scientology research in spirit
form - testimony to the power of the man and his teachings.

He " laid down in his bed and he left," Broeker said. " And that was it."
Hubbard left behind an organization that would continue to function as
though he were still alive. His millions of words - the lifeblood of
Scientology - have now been computerized for wisdom and instructions at the
touch of a button.

In Scientology, he was - and always will be - the " Source."

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Church Scriptures Get High-Tech Protection

By Robert W. Welkos
and Joel Sappell
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - Scientology is determined that the words of L. Ron Hubbard
shall live forever.

Using state-of-the art technology, the movement has spent more than $15
million to protect Hubbard's original writings, tape-recorded lectures and
filmed treatises from natural and man-made calamities, including nuclear
holocaust. The effort illustrates two fundamental truths about the
Scientology movement: It believes in its future and it never does anything
halfheartedly. In charge of the preservation task is the Church of
Spiritual Technology, which functions as archivist for Hubbard's works.
It has a staff - but no congregation - and its fiscal 1987 income was $503
million, according to court documents filed by the church.
The organization has purchased rural land in New Mexico, Northern
California and Southern California's San Bernardino Mountains to store the
Hubbard gospel.

According to Church of Spiritual Technology documents, the New Mexico site
has a 670-foot tunnel with two deep vaults at the end. The tunnel is
protected with thick concrete and has four doors with "maintenance-free
lives of 1,000 years." Three of the doors purportedly will be "nuclear
blast resistant."

All this to house mere copies of the original works, which include 500,000
pages of Hubbard writings, 6,500 reels of tape and 42 films. The originals
themselves are being kept under tight security on a sprawling Scientology
complex near Lake Arrowhead, Calif.

While details of the facility are sketchy, a San Bernardino County
sheriff's deputy, who requested anonymity, said the group had burrowed a
huge tunnel into a mountainside.

At the Lake Arrowhead repository, sophisticated methods are being used to
prepare Hubbard's works for the bomb-proof vaults. Here, according to
Scientology officials and documents, is the process:

First, the original writings are chemically treated to rid the paper of
acid that causes deterioration. Next, they are placed in plastic envelopes
that church officials say will last 1,000 years.

From there, they are packaged in titanium "time capsules" filled with argon
gas to further aid preservation.

Hubbard's writings also are being etched onto stainless steel plates with a
strong acid. Scientology officials said the plates are so durable that they
can be sprayed with salt water for 1,000 years and not deteriorate.
As for Hubbard's taped lectures, they are being re-recorded onto special
"pure gold" compact discs encased in glass that, according to Scientology
archvists, are "designed to last at least 1,000 years with no deterioration
of sound quality."

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Scientology Markets Its Gospel With High-Pressure Sales Pitch

By Joel Sappell and
Robert W. Welkos
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - Behind the religious trappings, the Church of Scientology is
run like a lean, no-nonsense business in which potential members are called
"prospects," "raw meat" and "bodies in the shop."

Its governing financial policy, written by the late Scientology founder L.
Ron Hubbard, is simple and direct: "MAKE MONEY, MAKE MORE MONEY, MAKE
OTHERS PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MONEY."

The organization uses sophisticated sales tactics to sell a seemingly
endless progression of expensive courses, each serving as a prerequisite
for the next. Known collectively as "The Bridge," the courses promise
salvation, higher intelligence, superhuman powers and even possible
survival from nuclear fallout - for those who can pay.
Church tenets mandate that parishioners purchase Scientology goods and
services under Hubbard's "doctrine of exchange." A person must learn to
give, he said, as well as receive.

For its programs and books, the church charges "fixed donations" that range
from $50 for an elementary course in improving communication skills to more
than $13,000 for Hubbard's secret teachings on the origins of the universe
and the genesis of mankind's ills.

The church currently is offering a "limited time only" deal on a select
package of Hubbard courses, which represent a small portion of The Bridge.
If bought individually, those courses would cost $55,455. The sale price:
$33,399.50.

As a promotional flyer for the discount observes, "YOU SAVE $22,055.50."
To complete Hubbard's progression of courses, a Scientologist could
conceivably spend a lifetime and more than $400,000. Although few if any
have doled out that much, the high cost of enlightenment in Scientology has
left many deeply in debt to family, friends and banks.

Ask former church member Marie Culloden of Manhattan Beach, Calif., who
describes herself as a "recovering Scientologist."

"I'm trying to recover my mortgaged home," says Culloden, who spent 20
years in Scientology and obtained three mortgages totaling more than
$80,000 to buy courses.

The Scientology Bridge is always under construction, keeping the Supreme
Answer one step away from church members - a potent sales strategy devised
by Hubbard to keep the money flowing, critics contend.

New courses continually are added, each of which is said to be crucial for
spiritual progress, each heavily promoted.

Church members are warned that unless they keep purchasing Scientology
services, misery and sickness may befall them. For the true believer, this
is a powerful incentive to keep buying whatever the group is selling.
Through the mail, Scientologists are bombarded with glossy, colorful
brochures announcing the latest courses and discounts. Letters and
postcards sound the dire warning, "Urgent! Urgent! Your future is at risk!
... It is time to ACT! NOW! ... You must buy now!"

By far the most expensive service offered by Scientology is "auditing" - a
kind of confessional during which an individual reveals intimate and
traumatic details of his life while his responses are monitored on a lie
detector-type device known as the E-meter.

The purpose is to unburden a person of painful experiences, or "engrams,"
that block his spiritual growth, a process that can span hundreds of hours.
Auditing is purchased in 12-hour chunks costing anywhere between $3,000 and
$11,000 each, depending on where it is bought.

Even Scientology's critics concede that auditing often helps people feel
better by allowing them to air troubling aspects of their lives - much like
a Catholic confessional or psychotherapy - and keeps them coming back for
more.

The church makes no apologies for the methods it uses to raise funds and
spread the gospel of its founder. Scientology spokesmen said in interviews
that it takes money to cover overhead expenses and to finance the church's
worldwide expansion, as it does for any religion.

"You can't do it on bread and butter," said one.

Church leaders will not discuss Scientology's gross income or net worth.
But they contend that Scientologists who pay for spiritual programs are no
different from, say, Mormons who tithe 10 percent of their income for
admittance to the temple, or from Jews who buy tickets to High Holiday
services or from Christians who rent church pews.

"The fact of the matter is that the parishioners of the Church of
Scientology have felt and continue to feel that they get full value for
their donations," said Scientology lawyer Earle C. Cooley.

Many Scientologists say that Hubbard's teachings have resurrected their
lives, some of which were marred by drugs, personal traumas, self doubts or
a sense of alienation. They say that, through the church, they have gained
confidence and learned to lead ethical lives and take responsibility for
themselves, while working to create a better world.

Scientology "works," they say, and for that, no price is too high.

"It takes money," acknowledged Scientologist Sheri Scott. "It took money
for my father to buy his Cadillac. I wish he'd sell the damn thing and give
me the money [for Scientology].... I have never felt cheated at all."
"I'm not glued to the sky or anything. I'm a very normal person," she
added. "I just wish more people would take a look, would read [about
Scientology], before they decide we're cuckoo."

While other religions increasingly advertise and market themselves, none
approaches the Church of Scientology's commercial zeal and sophistication.
Its tactics come directly from Hubbard, who wrote entire treatises on how
to create a market for, and sell, Scientology.

He borrowed generously from a 1971 book called "Big League Sales Closing
Techniques." Touted as the "selling secrets of a supersalesman," the book
was written by former car dealer Les Dane, who has conducted popular
seminars at Scientology headquarters in Florida.

Hubbard said that Scientology must be marketed through the "art of hard
sell," meaning an "insistence that people buy." He said that, "regardless
of who the person is or what he is, the motto is, `Always sell
something....' "

Hubbard contended that such high-pressure tactics are imperative because a
person's spiritual well being is at stake.

Among other things, he directed his followers to: "rob the person of every
opportunity to say `No.' "; "help prospects work through financial stops
impeding a sale"; "make the prospect think it was his idea to make the
purchase"; utilize the two man "tag team" approach, and "overcome and
rapidly handle any attempted prospect backout."

One of the most important techniques in selling Scientology, Hubbard said,
is to create mystery.

"If we tell him there is something to know and don't tell him what it is,
we will zip people into" the organization, Hubbard wrote. "And one can keep
doing this to a person - shuttle them along using mystery."

Frequently, a person's first contact with Scientology comes when he is
approached by a staff member on the street and offered a free personality
test, or receives a lengthy questionnaire in the mail.

Using charts and graphs, the idea is to convince a person that he has some
problem, or "ruin," that Scientology can fix, while assuaging concerns he
may have about the church. According to Hubbard, "if the job has been done
well, the person should be worried."

With that accomplished, the customer is pushed to buy services he is told
will improve his sorry condition and perhaps give him such powers as being
able to spiritually travel outside his body - or, in Scientology jargon, to
"exteriorize."

Former church member Andrew Lesco said he was told that he "would be able
to project my mind into drawers, someone's pocket, a wallet and I would be
able to tell what's inside ...."

Church members are required to write testimonials - "success stories" - as
they progress from one level to the next.

The testimonials regularly appear in Scientology publications. Usually
carrying only the authors' initials, they are used to promote courses
without the church itself assuming legal liability for promising results
that may not occur, according to ex-Scientologists. Here is an example:
"We were having trouble with the windshield wipers in our car. Sometimes
they would work and sometimes they wouldn't.... We were driving along, and
my husband was driving. I got to thinking about the windshield wipers, left
my body in the seat and took a look under the hood. I spotted the wires
that were shorting and caused them to weld themselves together, like they
were supposed to be. We haven't had any trouble with them since."
Scientology staffers who sell Hubbard's courses are called "registrars."
They earn commissions on their sales and are skilled at eliciting every
facet of an individual's finances, including bank accounts, stocks, cars,
houses, whatever can be converted to cash.
Like all Scientology staffers, a registrar's productivity is evaluated each
week. Performance is judged by how much money he or she brings in by
Thursday afternoon. And, in Scientology, declining or stagnant productivity
is not viewed benevolently, as former registrar Roger Barnes says he
learned.

"I remember being dragged across a desk by my tie because I hadn't made my
[sales quota]," said Barnes, who once toured the world selling Scientology
until he had a bitter break with the group.
Barnes and other ex-Scientologists say that this uncompromising push to
generate more money each week places intense pressure on registrars.
Another former Scientology salesman in Los Angeles said he and other
registrars would use a tactic called "crush regging." The technique, he
said, employed no elaborate sales talk. They repeated three words again and
again: "Sign the check. Sign the check."

"This made the person feel so harassed," he said, "that he would sign the
check because it was the only way he was going to get out of there."
A 1984 investigative report by Canadian authorities quoted a Toronto
registrar as saying that members of the public want to be "bled of their
money.... If they didn't, they would be staff members eligible for free
training."

The Canadian report also recounted a meeting during which Scientology
staffers chanted: "Go for the throat. Go for blood. Go for the bloody
throat."

Former Scientologist Donna Day of Ventura, Calif., said that church
registrars accused her of throwing away money on rent and on food for her
cats and dogs - "degraded beings," they called her pets. They said the
money should be going to the church.

"I was so upset, I finally left the house with them sitting in it," said
Day, who sued the church to get back $25,000 she said she had spent on
Scientology.

Several years ago, church members persuaded a Florida woman to turn over a
worker's compensation settlement she received after the
death of her husband, Larry M. Wheaton, who left behind two children, ages
3 and 7. He was the pilot of an Air Florida jet that plunged into the
Potomac River after it had departed National Airport in Washington, D.C.,
in 1982.

The Wheatons were longtime church members.

Joanne Wheaton gave nearly $150,000 to the church and almost as much to a
private business controlled by Scientologists. But the deal was blocked
when a lawsuit was brought by an attorney appointed by the court to protect
the children's interests.

The suit claimed that the Scientologists had disregarded the future welfare
and financial security of the Wheaton family by taking money that was
supposed to be used solely for the support of the children and their
mother.

After protracted discussions, the money was refunded and the Scientologists
who negotiated the deal were expelled by the church for their role in the
affair.

For years, one of Scientology's top promoters was Larry Wollersheim. He
traveled the country inspiring others to follow him across Hubbard's
Bridge. Then he became disenchanted with the movement.

In 1980, he filed a Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit, accusing the church
of subjecting him to psychologically damaging practices and of driving him
to the brink of insanity and financial ruin after he had a falling out with
the group.

Three years ago, a jury awarded him $30 million. The award was recently
reduced to $2.5 million.

During the litigation, Wollersheim filed a 200-page affidavit in which he
offered this analysis of what keeps Scientologists hooked:

"Fear and hope are totally indoctrinated into the cult [Scientology]
member. He hopes that he will receive the miraculous and ridiculous claims
made directly, indirectly and by rumor by the sect and its members.

"He is afraid of the peer pressure for not proceeding up the prescribed
program. He is intimidated and afraid of being accused of being a
dilettante. He is afraid that if he doesn't do it now before the world ends
or collapses he may never get the chance. He is afraid if he doesn't claim
he received gains and write a success testimonial he will be shunned....

"How many people could stand up to that kind of pressure and stand before a
group of applauding people and say: 'Hey, it really wasn't good.'?"
Wollersheim said that the courses provide only a temporary euphoria.

"Then you're sold the next mystery and the next solution.... I've seen
people sell their homes, stocks, inheritances and everything they own
chasing their hopes for a fleeting, subjective euphoria. I have never
witnessed a greater preying on the hopes and fears of others than has been
carefully engineered by the cult's leader."

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The New Man In Control

A Protege Of L. Ron Hubbard Now Leads The Church, Wielding Power With The
Stern Approach Of His Mentor

By Joel Sappell and
Robert W. Welkos
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - The Church of Scientology today is run by a high-school
dropout who grew up at the knee of the late L. Ron Hubbard and wields power
with the iron-fisted approach of his mentor. At 30, David Miscavige is
chairman of the board of an organization that sits atop the bureaucratic
labyrinth known as the Church of Scientology. This organization, the
Religious Technology Center, owns the trademarks that Scientology churches
need to operate, including the words Scientology and Dianetics. The
Religious Technology Center licenses the churches to use the trademarks and
can revoke permission if a church fails to perform properly. Therein rests
much, but not all, of Miscavige's power. He is the man in control, charting
a direction for the organization that is at once expansionist and combative
- in keeping with the dictates and personality of Hubbard, his role model.
He refused repeated requests to be interviewed for this report.

Church spokesmen say Miscavige is a tireless, no-nonsense leader who works
15-hour days and whose vision is guiding the church's foray into mainstream
society. " He has a tremendous ability to cut through bull and get to the
point," said one Scientology spokesman, who has worked closely with
Miscavige. " He's an initiator," said another. High-ranking former
Scientologists describe him as a ruthless infighter with a volatile temper.
They say he speaks in a gritty street parlance, punctuated with expletives.
One recalled the time that Miscavige became enraged with the performances
of Scientology staffers on a church record album. He propped its cover
against an embankment outside his Riverside County, Calif., office and shot
it repeatedly with a .45-caliber pistol, said the associate. To the public,
the Rev. Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology
International, is portrayed as Scientology's top official. He appears
regularly at news conferences and on talk shows, and was one of a group of
Scientologists detained recently by Spanish officials investigating the
church. In reality, Jentzsch appears to be chiefly responsible for church
public relations. The real power is consolidated among a handful of
Scientologists, led by Miscavige, who keep low public profiles.

Miscavige's climb to prominence is a lesson in the origins and nature of
power in the church that Hubbard built. At the age of 14, with the blessing
of his Scientologist parents, Miscavige joined a cadre of trusted
youngsters called the " Commodore's messengers." In the beginning, they
merely ran Hubbard's errands. But as they emerged from adolescence, Hubbard
broadened their influence over even the highest-level church executives. In
time, the messengers controlled the communication lines to and from Hubbard
- a critical component of power in an organization that revered him as
almost saintly. When messengers spoke, they did so with Hubbard's
authority. Bad-mouthing a messenger, Hubbard said, was tantamount to
personally challenging him. When Hubbard went into hiding in 1980, he left
behind but did not forget Miscavige, one of his favorites. It was
Miscavige's job to ensure that Hubbard's orders, secretly relayed to him,
were followed by church executives. In effect, Miscavige became the sole
link between church leaders and Hubbard. Miscavige also was put in charge
of a profit-making firm called Author Services Inc., which was established
in 1981 to manage Hubbard's literary and financial affairs. The job further
enhanced Miscavige's reputation as having Hubbard's confidence.

Church defectors say Miscavige wasted no time flexing his new muscles.
Among other things, he spearheaded a purge in 1981 of upper-echelon
Scientology executives accused of subverting Hubbard's teachings and
plotting to seize control of the organization. He also cracked down on
owners of Scientology franchises, or missions, who pay the church roughly
10 percent of their gross income. At a 1982 church conference, Miscavige
accused the mission owners of cheating the " mother church." He and his
aides announced that " finance police" would audit the missions to ensure
that the church was getting its fair share of money. And the audits would
cost the missions $15,000 a day. In taking command of Scientology after
Hubbard's death, Miscavige survived a challenge from two other Hubbard
lieutenants once thought to be his likely successors: Pat and Anne Broeker,
who had been in hiding with Hubbard.

The power struggle was so intense at one point that even Hubbard's final
Scientology writings, revered as sacred scriptures, became the object of a
tug of war between Miscavige and Pat Broeker, who threatened to use them to
start his own church. Miscavige today has achieved exalted status within
the Scientology movement. He has personal aides who walk his dog, shine his
shoes and run his errands, according to Vicki Aznaran, a top Scientology
executive who left the church in 1987 after a falling-out. In his rare
public appearances, he is surrounded by respectful subordinates. And like
Hubbard, who was frequently referred to by his initials, David Miscavige is
called D.M.

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The Courting Of Celebrities

Testimonials of the famous are prominent in the church's
push for acceptability. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley
are the current headliners.

By Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - The Church of Scientology uses celebrity spokesmen to endorse
L. Ron Hubbard's teachings and give Scientology greater acceptability in
mainstream America.

As far back as 1955, Hubbard recognized the value of famous people to his
fledgling, off-beat church when he inaugurated "Project Celebrity."

According to Hubbard, Scientologists should target prominent individuals as
their "quarry" and bring them back like trophies for Scientology.
He listed the following people of that era as suitable prey: Edward R.
Murrow, Marlene Dietrich, Ernest Hemingway, Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo,
Walt Disney, Henry Luce, Billy Graham, Groucho Marx and others of similar
stature.

"If you bring one of them home you will get a small plaque as a reward,"
Hubbard wrote in a Scientology magazine more than three decades ago.
Although the effort died, the idea of using celebrities to promote and
defend Scientology survived - though perhaps not as grandly as Hubbard had
dreamed.

Today, the church's most famous celebrity is actor John Travolta, who
credits Hubbard's teachings with giving him confidence and direction.
"All I've had are benefits," said Travolta, a church member since 1975.

Another Scientology celebrity is actress Kirstie Alley, co-star of the
television series "Cheers." Last year, Alley and Travolta teamed up in the
blockbuster comedy film, "Look Who's Talking."

Alley is international spokeswoman for the Scientology movement's
controversial new drug and alcohol treatment center in Chilocco, Okla.,
which employs a rehabilitation regimen created years ago by Hubbard.
A former cocaine abuser, Alley has said she discovered Hubbard's Narconon
program in 1979 and that it "salvaged my life and began my acting career."
Alley also has become active in disseminating a new 47-page booklet on ways
to preserve the environment. The booklet, entitled "Cry Out," was named
after a Hubbard song and was produced by Author Services Inc., his literary
agency. Author Services is controlled by influential Scientologists.

In April, Alley provided nationwide exposure for the illustrated booklet -
which mentions Hubbard but not Scientology - when she unveiled it on the
popular Arsenio Hall Show. Since then, it has been distributed to prominent
environmental groups throughout the U.S.

Besides Alley and Travolta, the Scientology celebrity ranks also include:
jazz pianist Chick Corea; singer Al Jarreau; actress Karen Black; opera
star Julia Migenes; Priscilla Presley and her daughter Lisa Marie Presley,
and Nancy Cartwright, who is the voice behind Bart Simpson, the
wisecracking son on the animated TV hit, "The Simpsons."

U.S. Olympic gymnast Charles Lakes also is a prominent Scientologist.
After the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, Lakes appeared on the cover of
Celebrity magazine, a Scientology publication that promotes church
celebrities. In an interview with the magazine, Lakes credited Dianetics
for his success and strength.

"I am by far the healthiest person on the team," he said. "They [other team
members] are actually resentful of me because I don't have to train as long
as they do."

Celebrities are considered so important to the movement's expansion that
the church created a special office to guide their careers and ensure their
"correct utilization" for Scientology.

The church has a special branch that ministers to prominent individuals,
providing them with first-class treatment. Its headquarters, called
Celebrity Centre International, is housed in a magnificent old turreted
mansion on Franklin Avenue, overlooking the Hollywood Freeway.

In 1988, the movement tried to associate itself with a non-Scientology
celebrity, race driver Mario Andretti, by sponsoring his car in the GTE
World Challenge of Tampa, Fla. But the plan backfired.
When Andretti saw seven Dianetics logo decals stripped across his Porsche,
he demanded that they be removed.

"It's not something I believe in, so I don't want to make it appear like
I'm endorsing it," he was quoted as saying.

For years, Scientology's biggest celebrity spokesman was former San
Francisco 49ers quarterback John Brodie.

Brodie said that when pain in his throwing arm threatened his career, he
applied Dianetics techniques and soon was "zipping the ball" again like a
young man.

Although he still admires Hubbard's teachings, Brodie said he gave up
promoting them after some of his friends in Scientology were expelled and
harassed during a power struggle with church management.

"There were many in the church I felt were treated unfairly," Brodie said.

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Defectors Recount Lives Of Hard Work, Punishment

By Robert W. Welkos
and Joel Sappell
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - Doris Braine says the transformation of her Patty Jo was
heartbreaking.

"It was," she said, "like my darling daughter had died."

Before Patty Jo went to work for the Church of Scientology at the age of
20, she had been "fun and pretty and a joy to be with," recalled her
72-year-old mother. "Suddenly, she became a totally different person,
shooting fire from her eyes."

There were those hateful looks, and the dozens of letters that Patty Jo
returned unopened. For two years, she would not even speak to her mother,
who had criticized Scientology and refused to hand over $2,000 for church
courses.

And Patty Jo had taken to calling Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard her
father.

"I would cry all the time," recalled Braine, a retired college dean. "I had
to psych myself up to go to work, be charming and do a good job. But all
day long I thought about her. I prayed my head off that someday she would
be able to get out of it.

"It took 15 years, but I think it was worth every prayer I said."

In 1982, Patricia Braine left Scientology, disillusioned with the church
and disappointed with herself for succumbing to an environment that, she
said, twisted her thinking and isolated her from a world she had hoped to
make better.

Scientology, she said, "promises you euphoria but ends up taking your body,
heart, mind, soul and family.... We were so brainwashed to believe that
what we were doing was good for mankind that we were willing to put up with
the worst conditions."

Over the years, defecting Scientologists have come forward with similar
accounts of how their lives and personalities were upended after they
joined the church's huge staff. They say the organization promised
spiritual liberation but delivered subjugation.

In interviews and public records, former staffers have said they were
alienated from society, stripped of familiar beliefs, punished for aberrant
behavior, rewarded for conformity and worked beyond exhaustion to meet
ever-escalating productivity quotas.

"Slave labor" is how Canadian authorities in 1984 described the Scientology
work force.

Worldwide, there are nearly 12,000 church staff members, many of whom are
in Los Angeles, one of the organization's largest strongholds. They have
kept Scientology afloat through a turbulent history that, arguably, would
have sunk any other newly emerging religion.

Day and night they labor single-mindedly at jobs ranging from the
meaningful to the menial. Some work in administrative areas such as
promotion, legal affairs, finance, public relations and fund raising.
Thousands of others deliver the church's religious programs. Still others
proselytize on city sidewalks, sell books and wash dishes.

Scientology spokesmen insist that the staff is treated well and not
exploited. They say that the detractors simply lacked the devotion to
advance the religion's aims and the morality to abide by its high ethical
standards.

Current staff members say that their lifestyle is no more unusual or harsh
than that of a monk. Joining the Scientology staff, they say, was the
supreme expression of their devotion to create, in Hubbard's words, "a
civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the
able can prosper and honest beings can have rights."

The elite of Scientology's workers, at least 3,000 of them, belong to a
zealous faction known as the Sea Organization and are given room, board and
a small weekly allowance.

They sign contracts to serve Scientology in this and future lifetimes - for
a billion years. Their motto is: "We come back."

Dressed in mock navy uniforms adorned with ribbons, they bark orders with a
clipped, military cadence. They hold ranks such as captain, lieutenant and
ensign. Officers, including women, are addressed as "Sir."

Hubbard called himself "The Commodore," a reflection of his infatuation
with the U.S. Navy. "The Sea Org is a very tough outfit," he once said.
"It's no walk in the park.... We are short-tempered, but we do our job."
Scientology staffers enter a clannish world of authoritarian rules and
discipline based on Hubbard writings. His works govern every detail of the
operation, from how to disseminate his teachings to how to cook baby food.

When staffers observe transgressions of Hubbard's dictums, they are
required to inform on each other. The church says "knowledge reports" help
the organization correct problems and ensure a high standard of operation.
But critics contend that the practice works to stifle expressions of
discontent or doubts about the church, even between husbands and wives.
To break the group's rules or fall below work quotas can subject even top
Scientologists to grueling interrogations on a lie detector-type device
called the E-meter, and perhaps land them in the Rehabilitation Project
Force, or RPF.

The Rev. Ken Hoden, a church spokesman in Los Angeles, once described the
RPF like this: "You just do some grounds work for a few weeks. That's all."
Others, however, have called it in hindsight the most degrading ordeal of
their lives - although one that they believed at the time was leading them
to spiritual salvation.

RPFers, as they are called, are separated from their family and friends for
days, weeks, months or even longer. They cannot speak unless spoken to,
they run wherever they go and they wear armbands to denote their lowly
condition.

The RPF provides the church with a pool of labor to perform building
maintenance, pull weeds, haul garbage, clean toilets or do anything else
church executives deem necessary for redemption.

Former Sea Organization member Hana Eltringham Whitfield said in an
affidavit that she once saw an RPF work crew eating like "unkempt
convicts," digging their hands into a large communal pot of food because
there was no cutlery or plates.

"The Church of Scientology, which was dedicated to saving the planet from
insanity, had succeeded in turning these human beings into savages," said
Whitfield.

Bill Franks, the church's former international executive director, said
that he once lived in a crowded garage for seven months while assigned to
the RPF.

"We were indoctrinated on a continuous, daily basis that we were
suppressive people, that we were anti-social people, that we were
criminals," said Franks, who had a falling out with the church in the early
1980s. He was accused by senior Scientologists of engineering a coup to
wrest control of the church from them.

The Church of Scientology says that the RPF was established in 1974 so that
errant Sea Organization members would have a place to both work and study
Hubbard's writings without distractions or substantive duties.

But Hubbard's former public relations officer, Laurel Sullivan, testified
in a Scientology lawsuit that Hubbard told her the RPF was created because
"he wanted certain people segregated" whom he believed were "against him
and against his instructions and against Scientology."

In Scientology, a staff member is evaluated based on his or her
productivity. Hubbard made it clear in a 1964 directive that there is no
excuse - short of death - for missing work.

"If a staff member's breath can be detected on a mirror," Hubbard said, "he
or she can do his or her job."

Measuring weekly productivity, Hubbard said, eliminates personality
considerations from staff evaluations. Critics, however, say the system is
dehumanizing.

"There is no time for anything else, for compassion, for talking or going
out," said Travers Harris, who left the Sea Organization in 1986 after
nearly 14 years. "The only communication is about work. When work is
finished you are too tired [and] you have to go to bed."

Several years ago, some branches of the church initiated a pilot program to
boost productivity even higher.

Under the so-called Team Share Program, staffers who repeatedly failed in
their jobs could be exiled to cramped living quarters called "pigs
berthing" and fed only rice and beans. Those who kept their productivity up
would be afforded special privileges and the distinction of wearing a
silver star.

Staffers become so consumed by their jobs that their children sometimes get
lost in the shuffle, according to former staff members who had youngsters
and those who cared for them.

At best, they say, children see their parents one hour a day at dinner and
perhaps late in the evening. Sometimes, according to ex-staffers,
youngsters have gone for days without a visit from their parents, who
believe that their work for the group is transcendent.

In 1984, a British justice cited the case of a staff member who left her
job to seek medical help for a daughter who had broken her arm.
"She was directed to work all night as a penalty," the justice noted.
He recounted the case of another woman who refused to take a church job
that would have separated her from her daughter for two months.
"She was shouted at and abused because she put the care of her child
first," the justice wrote in connection with a child custody battle between
a father who was a Scientologist and a mother who had defected. The mother
was awarded custody.

Former staff members say that they tolerated the harsh conditions for many
reasons. They say they were captives both of their dreams of creating an
enlightened world through Scientology and of their fears of leaving the
organization.

Staff members are continuously told that there is no safe refuge for them
outside the group because society is a breeding ground for criminals, the
insane and people too ignorant to see that Scientology is the answer to
mankind's problems.

In the church, non-Scientologists are derisively called "wogs," defined by
Hubbard as "a common, ordinary, run-of-the-mill garden variety humanoid....
Somebody who isn't even trying."

A recruitment flyer for a school run by Scientologists exemplifies this
mind-set:

"If you turn your kids over to the enemy all day for 12-15 years, which
side do you think they will come out on?" the flyer asks rhetorically. The
enemy, in this case, is public education.

The organization's fear of hostile outside influences is so
institutionalized that potential staff members are grilled about whether
they are government agents or reporters or whether they harbor critical
thoughts of Hubbard. Their answers are monitored on the E-meter.

Security around church buildings is elaborate and sophisticated. Remote
cameras sweep the streets outside. Scientologists with walkie-talkies scout
the perimeters.

In time, the staff member's world orbits ever more tightly around one man -
Hubbard.

"You finally are to the point where you do not examine, logically,
Scientology," said former Scientologist Vicki Aznaran, who until two years
ago was one of the most powerful figures in the church and is now locked in
litigation with Scientology.

"You are cut off from anything that might give you another viewpoint," she
said.

Some stay because they fear calamity will befall them if they are denied
church courses they have been told are vital to spiritual and physical
stability.

Former Sea Organization member Janie Peterson, for one, once testified that
she was "so indoctrinated into Scientology that I felt ... I would die"
upon leaving.

Other former members said they felt trapped by the church's "freeloader
debt" policy.

Many Scientologists join the staff as a way to obtain the church's
expensive services for free. But should they leave before the expiration of
their employment contracts - ranging from two years to 1 billion years -
they must pay for the programs they had received at no cost. This
"freeloader debt" can reach thousands of dollars.

And on top of all this is the haunting fear that they will be ostracized by
family and friends for shunning the religion.

"For those like myself who had been in Scientology for years, Scientology
was our entire life, our friendships, our work, our home," said ex-Sea
Organization member Whitfield, who spent nearly two decades on the staff.
"The organization had made us grow so entirely dependent on it, it was
almost inconceivable to leave.

"After all, we had no job skills, no jobs and we believed we would be
immediately hit with thousands of dollars of freeloader debt."
Whitfield said that she, like others, defected after reaching the
conclusion that the church seemed "only interested in controlling" its
members.

"I have looked back and said to myself, 'What an indoctrinated fool I was.
What a fool.' "

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Scientology Courts Power Brokers To Help Expansion

From Politicians To The Leaders Of Business, The Courts and The Media, The
Church Works To Win Allies To Smooth The Way For Expansion.

By Joel Sappell and
Robert W. Welkos
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - To create a favorable environment for Scientology's
expansion, church executives are working to win allies among society's
power brokers and opinion leaders.

It is a theme expounded in church publications.

"We need to be able to approach the right people in order to get things
done," wrote Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology
International, in the newspaper Scientology Today. "We need to find out how
to reach key people in the media, in government, in the control points of
society, the people who run things."

Underscoring the campaign's breadth and determination, a pull-out
questionnaire entitled "Communication Lines to the World" was inserted in
the newspaper. It asked Scientologists to list their connections to people
in six areas:

POLITICS: "This would be political figures on a local, state or national
level, such as local city officials, mayors, governors, senators,
congressmen, and members of parliaments. It would also include government
agency officials and civil servants."

MEDIA: "This would be any media terminals that you know, such as owners
or proprietors of magazines, newswire services, newspapers or publishing
houses, TV and radio networks or stations and publishers and editors of any
type of news media."

LEGAL: "This would be any judges, law enforcement officials, lawyers,
barristers and so on."

FINANCIAL-CORPORATE: "This would be any members of the board or
presidents, vice presidents or other senior officials-executives with banks
or other financial institutions (such as savings and loan companies, credit
unions, etc.) financiers (this could be government or private industry)
stockbrokers, financial advisers and commodities brokers."

ENTERTAINMENT / CELEBRITIES: "This would be any producers or directors in
the stage, motion pictures or television; actors, artists, writers and any
opinion leaders in these areas."

OPINION LEADERS: "This would be anyone who is respected by or who
influences the opinion of individuals in the above categories."

While developing support in the secular community, Scientology has also
been working hard to gain support from mainstream religious figures.
Spearheading this effort is the Religious Freedom Crusade, a Scientology
group that has attracted officials of various faiths. The crusade's
rallying cry is that court actions brought against the Church of
Scientology by disaffected members or government agencies pose a
constitutional danger to all religions.

In 1988, Scientologists mustered a multi denominational coalition to push a
bill through the California Legislature requiring judicial approval before
religious groups or non-profit organizations can be sued for punitive
damages.

The Church of Scientology had a special interest in the legislation: It has
been ordered at least twice to pay huge punitive awards to
ex-Scientologists, although one award was reduced on appeal and the other
was set aside.

Scientologists not sure how to recruit religious allies got some tips in a
document provided to the Los Angeles Times by an ex-member, who said it was
distributed at a Scientology meeting in the mid-1980s.

The document suggested that Scientologists, after selecting an appropriate
church, should attend Sunday services and praise the minister: " 'Your
sermon was brilliant! Would you be willing to speak at our church?' (He'll
have a hard time refusing that one!)."

It advised them to establish good communication with the minister's wife
because "she can be an ally or an enemy and you want her support if
possible."

After the service, "make friends with other congregation members," the
document added. "... Circulate, but be sure to spend a few minutes with the
minister and to meet his wife and family. ... If you haven't gotten the
minister's phone number earlier, get it before you go."

Finally, the document urged, get the ministers to write a notarized
affidavit or letter stating that "Scientology is a bona fide religion."

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Influence...
Scientology Seeks Broader Role In Schools, Business, And Scientific
Community

By Robert W. Welkos
and Joel Sappell
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - Emerging from years of internal strife and public scandal,
the Scientology movement has embarked on a sweeping and sophisticated
campaign to gain new influence in America.

The goal is to refurbish the tarnished image of Scientology founder L. Ron
Hubbard and elevate him to the ranks of history's great humanitarians and
thinkers. By so doing, the church hopes to broaden the acceptability of
Hubbard's Scientology teachings and attract millions of new members.
The campaign relies on official church programs and a network of groups run
by Scientology followers. Here is a sampler of their activities:
-Scientologists are disseminating Hubbard's writings in public and private
school classrooms across the U.S., using groups that seldom publicize their
Scientology connections.

-In the business world, Scientologists have established highly successful
private consulting firms to promote Hubbard as a management expert, with a
goal of harvesting new, affluent members.

-Scientologists are the driving force behind two organizations active in
the scientific community. The organizations have been busy trying to sell
government agencies a chemical detoxification treatment developed by
Hubbard.

The Scientology movement's ambitious quest to assimilate into the American
mainstream comes less than a decade after the church seemed destined for
collapse, testifying to its remarkable determination to survive and grow.
In 1980, 11 top church leaders - including Hubbard's wife - were imprisoned
for bugging and burglarizing government offices as part of a shadowy
conspiracy to discredit the church's perceived enemies.

Today, Scientology executives insist that the organization is law-abiding,
that the offenders have been purged and that the church has now entered an
era in which harmony has replaced hostility.

But as the movement attempts to broaden its reach, evidence is mounting
that Hubbard's devotees are engaging in practices that, while not unlawful,
have begun to stir memories of its troubled past.

Scientology
and the Schools

The Scientology movement has launched a concerted campaign to gain a
foothold in the nation's schools by distributing to children millions of
copies of a booklet that Hubbard wrote on basic moral values.

The program is designed to win recognition for Hubbard as an educator and
moralist and, at the same time, introduce him to the nation's youth.
The pocket-size booklet, entitled "The Way to Happiness," is a compilation
of widely agreed upon values that Hubbard put into writing in 1981. Its 96
pages include such admonitions as "take care of yourself," "honor and help
your parents," "do not murder" and "be worthy of trust."

The booklet notes in small print that it was written by Hubbard as "an
individual and is not part of any religious doctrine."

But Scientology publications have called the campaign "the largest
dissemination project in Scientology history" and "the bridge between broad
society and Scientology."

Scientologists estimate that 3.5 million copies have been introduced into
4,500 elementary, junior high and senior high schools nationwide.
Altogether, more than 28 million copies have been translated into at least
14 languages and distributed throughout the world.

The booklet is distributed by the Concerned Businessmen's Association of
America, an organization not officially connected to the church but run by
Scientologists.

The Scientology connection is downplayed by the group. Its leader, Barbara
Ayash of Marina del Rey, a Los Angeles seaside community, said that she
launched the association after five of her children became involved with
drugs.

Her group runs a nationwide contest encouraging students to stay off drugs
by following the precepts in Hubbard's booklet. Participants in the "Set a
Good Example" contest must come up with projects using the booklet as their
guide. By focusing on the drug issue, the association has won the backing
of school officials and political figures unaware of its links to
Scientology.

In Louisiana, a junior high school distributed Hubbard's booklet to
students and then had them pledge in writing:

"I promise to do my best to learn, practice and use the 21 points of good
moral conduct contained in 'The Way to Happiness' book to improve myself,
set a good example for my friends, and to help my family, my community and
my country."

As an incentive to get campus administrators on board, the association
awards $5,000 to the winning elementary, junior high and senior high
schools.

At contest awards ceremonies, the winners and Hubbard's book share the
spotlight.

For example, during a ceremony at the Charleston, W. Va., civic center,
then-Gov. Arch Moore and other dignitaries were each presented a
leather-bound copy of "The Way To Happiness."

Scientology critics contend that the contest is being used to enlist new
church members, who, as the theory goes, may be so inspired by "The Way to
Happiness" that they will reach for Hubbard's other writings. They argue
that the booklet's distribution in public schools violates constitutional
mandates separating church and state.

But Ayash of the businessmen's association insists that her group has no
motive other than to help children lead better lives. "The Way to
Happiness," she said, shows them the path in simple, direct language.
For the most part, school officials whose campuses have participated in the
contest said they were unaware of Hubbard's Scientology connection or that
his followers were directing the contest. They said Scientology was not
openly promoted and they did not regret taking part.

But one California public school system recently banned the contest after
administrators conducted an investigation and learned that Hubbard was the
author of Scientology's doctrine.

For three years, students at El Capitan Middle School in Fresno
participated in the nationwide contest. In spring 1989, the students won
second place for organizing an anti-drug relay in which they passed each
other a symbolic "torch" - Hubbard's booklet.

Deluxe leather-bound copies were presented to mayors of the 15 cities along
the relay route.

Last fall, the contest's sponsors decided to accelerate their efforts in
Fresno County, urging the entire 5,000-student Central Unified School
District to participate, instead of just one school. But they ran up
against Geoff Garratt, the district's director of educational services and
personnel.

Garratt said that, while he was aware of Scientology, he had never heard of
Hubbard. He said he learned of the connection at the local library, where
he went to investigate Hubbard's background.

"The more I investigated," Garratt said, "I found it [the businessmen's
association] represented a very small self-interest group: Scientology."
Among other things, he said, he discovered that the association had the
same phone number and address as the local Dianetics center.

Garratt said he rejected the association's plea to expand the contest,
fearing that the booklet's distribution in the public schools might violate
constitutional prohibitions against mixing matters of church and state.
Garratt said that the association refused to consider the possibility of
holding the contest without Hubbard's booklet. "They said flat out,
'Without the book, there is no contest.' "

Scientologists also are attempting to install a Hubbard tutorial program in
public schools, using a church-affiliated organization called Applied
Scholastics.

Yellow posters advertising Applied Scholastics have appeared in storefront
windows throughout Los Angeles. They promise better learning skills but
make no mention of the church.

Applied Scholastics currently has plans to build a 1,000-acre campus, where
the organization would train educators to teach Hubbard's tutorial program.
A recent Applied Scholastics mailer predicted that the training center will
be a "model of real education for the world" and "create overwhelming
public popularity" for Hubbard.

Developed for students of Scientology, the Hubbard program is built upon an
elementary premise: learning difficulties arise when students read past
words they do not understand.

"The misunderstood word in a subject produces a vast panorama of mental
effects and is the prime factor involved in stupidity," Hubbard wrote in
1967. "This is a sweepingly fantastic discovery in the field of education."
The chief solution he propounds is simple: students must learn to use a
dictionary when they encounter an unfamiliar or confusing word.
In recent years, Applied Scholastics has targeted predominantly minority
schools, where many students tend to do poorly on standardized tests.
Applied Scholastics considers these schools fertile ground because campus
administrators are willing to try new approaches to improve scores.

The Compton (Calif.) Unified School District in 1987 and 1988 allowed the
Hubbard program to be tested with 80 students at Centennial Senior High
School. The program there was run by a substitute teacher named Frizell
Clegg, a Scientologist who was an Applied Scholastics consultant.
Clegg, who refused to be interviewed, was suspended from his teaching
duties in 1988 after he reportedly gave discourses on Scientology in a
history class. He no longer teaches at the school.

In applying for district financing, Clegg said that the educational program
was "developed by American writer and educator L. Ron Hubbard." Excluding
any reference to Hubbard's Scientology connection, he persuaded the board
to provide $5,000 to tutor 30 sophomores with low reading scores and to
conduct a parent workshop.

After the program grew to 50 students, Applied Scholastics submitted a
proposal increasing the number of students to 125 and the cost to $27,000.
District officials killed the program, believing that Applied Scholastics
was seeking to expand too quickly. Officials were also displeased that the
group, without district approval, was using its involvement with Centennial
to market the program elsewhere, according to Acting Superintendent Elisa
Sanchez.

In promotional literature, Applied Scholastics made claims of remarkable
success at Centennial High. While some parents said that the program helped
their children, Sanchez said the claims made by Applied Scholastics were
unsubstantiated.

Converting the
Business World

Scientology is using a network of private consulting firms to gain a
foothold in the U.S. business community.

The firms promise businessmen higher earnings but appear to be mainly
interested in recruiting new members for the church.

Although these profit-making firms operate independently of each other,
they sell the same product: Scientology founder Hubbard's methods for
running a profitable enterprise. The Church of Scientology has for years
employed these same methods - heavy marketing, high productivity and rigid
rules of employee conduct - to amass hundreds of millions of dollars for
itself.

Critics contend that the consulting firms are concealing their Scientology
links so they can attract to the church prosperous people who might
otherwise be put off by Scientology's controversial reputation.
The strategy appears to have proven effective.

A Scientology publication in 1987 reported that the consultant network
earned a combined $1.6 million a month selling Hubbard's management methods
to a variety of professionals, many of whom have reported improved incomes.
It also said that 50 to 75 businessmen were recruited monthly into the
church, where each week they spent a total of $250,000 on Scientology
courses.

Two of the movement's firms have been ranked by Inc. magazine as among the
fastest growing private businesses in America.

The consulting firms use seminars and mailers to attract health
professionals, salesmen, office supply dealers, marketing specialists and
others.

Those who have dealt with the firms describe the process this way:
Businessmen are drawn into Scientology after they have gained confidence in
Hubbard's non-religious management methods. They are often told that, to
achieve true business success, they should get their personal lives in
order. From there, the church takes over, encouraging them to purchase
spiritual enhancement courses and begin a process called "auditing."

During auditing, a person confesses his innermost thoughts while his
responses are monitored on a lie detector-type device known as the E-meter.
Auditing must be purchased in 12-hour chunks, costing between $3,000 and
$11,000 each, depending on where it is bought.

Spearheading all this is an arm of the church called World Institute of
Scientology Enterprises, or WISE.

In recent months, WISE has been encouraging Scientologists nationwide to
become consultants within their respective professions. The appeal is
simple: make money while disseminating your religion.

In the process, WISE profits, too. It trains and licenses the firms to sell
Hubbard's copyrighted "management and administrative technology." WISE
charges roughly $12,000 for its basic no-frills training course. For
consulting services, it charges $1,875 a day.

On top of this, the consulting firms that sell Hubbard's business methods
must pay WISE 13 percent of their annual gross income.

At the heart of Hubbard's business system is a concept he called
"management by statistics," which he said guarantees optimum office
efficiency. Scientology critics maintain, however, that it creates an
oppressive and regimented workplace environment.

An employee is judged solely upon his productivity, which is charted on a
graph each week. Sagging productivity could bring a rebuke from the boss.
Or it could lead to an employee's firing.

The management techniques promoted by the consulting firms are identical to
those used by the church, except that all Scientology references have been
deleted from the materials. The consultants even employ the most basic
instrument used by the church to recruit new members off the street - a
200-question personality test that purports to let people know if they have
ruinous personality flaws.

The consultants encourage businessmen and their employees to purchase
Scientology courses to remedy personality problems uncovered by the test.
One of the most successful consulting firms licensed by WISE is Sterling
Management Systems, which targets dentists and other health care
professionals. For the past two years, Inc. magazine has ranked it among
America's fastest-growing privately held businesses.

Sterling, based in Glendale, Calif., claims to be the "largest health care
management consulting group in the U.S."

A company spokesman said that the firm charges clients $10,000 for its
complete line of Hubbard courses and 30 hours of private consultation. The
spokesman said that Sterling has helped dentists increase their income an
average of $10,000 a month.

He insisted that the company has "no connection" to the church, but added:
"If people are interested in Scientology, we will make it available to
them."

Sterling publishes a tabloid called "Today's Professional, the Journal of
Successful Practice Management." Mailed free to 300,000 health care
professionals nationwide, it is filled with "management" articles by
Hubbard that are actually excerpts from Scientology's governing doctrines.
The company also holds nationwide seminars that, according to its
promotional literature, have been drawing 2,000 people a month.
Sterling Management was founded in 1983 by Scientologist Gregory K. Hughes,
at the time a prosperous dentist in Vacaville, Calif. Hughes holds seminars
across the country, offering himself as evidence that Hubbard's methods
work.

In promotional publications for Sterling, Hughes has said that his annual
income soared from $257,000 in 1979 to more than $1 million in 1985. In one
month alone, he has claimed to have seen 350 new patients.

Sterling's paper, Today's Professional, has boasted that "the techniques
that produced amazing results when applied to Greg's practice are being
applied all over the U.S."

But neither the paper's readers nor those who attend Hughes' seminars are
told that his dental office, which employed the high-volume Hubbard
techniques that he imparts to others, has been accused by former patients
of dental negligence and malpractice.

Hughes currently is under investigation by the California Board of Dental
Examiners. The board already has turned over some of its findings to the
state attorney general's office, which will determine whether action should
be taken against Hughes' dental license.

To date, there are more than 15 lawsuits are pending against Hughes and his
dental associates, alleging either negligence or malpractice. He has denied
the allegations.

Attorney E. Bradley Nelson is representing most of those who have sued
Hughes.

"It is my opinion," he said, "that the overall quality of care took second
place to the profit motive. ... I've never seen anything approaching this
volume of complaints against one dentist in such a short period of time."

In mid-1985, Hughes closed his office without warning to devote full time
to Sterling. He left behind a reputation so tarnished that he was unable to
sell his million-dollar-a-year practice, according to dentists in the area.
"He actually had to walk away," said Roger Abrew, co-chairman of the peer
review committee of the local dental society.

He also left behind patients with worse problems than they had before they
were treated by Hughes' office, according to Abrew and other dentists, who
have since been treating them. The dentists said that, based on their
examinations, Hughes' office performed both substandard and unnecessary
work.

"I think its kind of ironic to see a guy who did such a botched job of
dentistry teaching others," said dentist David C. Aronson, summing up the
sentiments of most of his colleagues in the small Northern California
community.

Hughes, who continues to conduct his "Winning With Dentistry" seminars,
refused to be interviewed for this story. But Frederick Bradley, an
attorney defending him in the lawsuits, suggested that the Vacaville
dentists may simply resent his client's success because their patients had
deserted them for Hughes.

Another firm once licensed by Scientology's WISE organization to sell
Hubbard's management techniques was Singer Consultants. Before it merged
with another management company, Singer was ranked as one of the nation's
fastest growing private businesses.

The company focused its training on America's chiropractors. It brought
hundreds of new members into the church and triggered a nationwide
controversy among chiropractors over its links to Scientology. In fact, a
chiropractic newspaper devoted almost an entire issue to letters praising
and condemning Singer Consultants, which was located in Clearwater, Fla.,
where Scientology is a major presence.

"We felt that there were young doctors who didn't know they were being
solicited to do something above and beyond the practice of their
profession," said Dynamic Chiropractic editor Donald M. Peterson,
explaining why his Huntington Beach, Calif.-based newspaper entered the
controversy.

Singer Consultants was headed by Scientologist David Singer, an
accomplished speaker and chiropractor who held nationwide seminars to pitch
Hubbard's business methods.

Two years ago, the company was absorbed into another management firm owned
by Scientologists.

Although Singer refused to be interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, he told
Dynamic Chiropractic: "Hubbard was a prolific writer and wrote on a
multitude of subjects. We do not, have not and will not make part of our
program the teaching of any religion."

Scientology
and Science

Hubbard was so proud of a detoxification treatment he developed - and so
hungry for plaudits - that he openly talked with his closest aides about
winning a Nobel Prize.

Although the man is gone, Scientologists are keeping the dream alive. They
have embarked upon a controversial plan to win recognition for Hubbard and
his treatment program in scientific and medical circles.

The treatment purports to purge drugs and toxins from a person's system
through a rigorous regimen of exercise, saunas and vitamins - a combination
intended to dislodge the poisons from fatty tissues and sweat them out.
Physicians affiliated with the regimen have touted it as a major
breakthrough, and a number of patients who have undergone the treatment say
theirhealth improved. But some health authorities dismiss Hubbard's program
as a medical fraud that preys upon public fear of toxins.

In the Church of Scientology, the treatment is called the "purification
rundown." Church members are told it is a religious program that, for about
$2,000, will purify the body and spirit. In the secular arena, however,
Scientologists are promoting it exclusively as a medical treatment with no
spiritual underpinnings. In that context, it is simply called the "Hubbard
Method."

The treatment is being aggressively pushed in the non-Scientology world by
two organizations that sometimes work alone and sometimes in tandem. They
have no formal church ties but both are controlled by church members.
Seeking customers and credibility, the two groups have targeted government
and private workers nationwide who are exposed to hazardous substances in
their jobs. They have pressed public agencies to endorse the method,
lobbied unions to recommend it and written articles in trade journals that
seem to be little more than advertisements for the treatment.

One of these groups is the Los Angeles-based Foundation for Advancements in
Science and Education. The non-profit foundation has forged links with
scientists across the country to gain legitimacy for itself and, thus, for
Hubbard's detox method.

Among its key functionaries is a toxicologist for the Environmental
Protection Agency, whose advocacy of the treatment has raised
conflict-of-interest questions.

Building credentials and allies, the foundation has channeled tens of
thousands of dollars in grants to educators and researchers studying
toxicological hazards, most of whom were unaware of the organization's ties
to the Scientology movement.

In 1986, for example, the foundation gave $10,000 to the Los Angeles County
Health Department for a study of potentially harmful radon gas. County
officials say that they were not apprised of the organization's links with
the Scientology movement.

Bill Franks was instrumental in creating the foundation in 1981 when he
served as the Church of Scientology's executive director, a post from which
he was later ousted in a power struggle. Franks described the foundation in
an interview as a Scientology "front group."

"The concept," he said, "was to get some scientific recognition" for
Hubbard's treatment without overtly linking it to the church.
Buttressing Franks' account, the foundation's original incorporation papers
state that its purpose was to "research the efficacy of and promote the use
of the works of L. Ron Hubbard in the solving of social problems; and to
scientifically research and provide public information and education
concerning the efficacy of other programs."

The document was later amended, however, to remove Hubbard's name,
obscuring the foundation's ties to the Scientology movement and its founder
in official records.

Hubbard's name, however, continues to appear regularly in the foundation's
slick newsletter. In the latest edition, for instance, three different
articles advocate the "Hubbard method" as an effective therapy for chemical
and drug detoxification.

A fourth article did not mention Hubbard by name, but reported favorably on
Narconon, his drug and alcohol rehabilitation program, which is run by
Scientologists.

The other organization in the outreach effort is HealthMed Clinic, which
administers Hubbard's treatment from offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento,
Calif., and is run by Scientologists.

An independent medical consultant in Maryland who reviewed the program for
the city of Shreveport, La., dismissed Hubbard's treatment as "quackery."
The foundation and HealthMed have attempted to create an impression that
they are linked only by a shared concern over toxic hazards. In reality,
however, they operate symbiotically.

The foundation, for its part, tries to scientifically validate the Hubbard
method through studies and articles by individuals who either are
Scientologists or hold foundation positions. HealthMed then uses the
foundation's credibility, writings and connections to get customers for the
treatment.

According to state corporate records, the foundation also holds stock in
HealthMed. Moreover, the foundation's vice president, Scientologist Jack
Dirmann, has served as HealthMed's administrator.

In 1986, four doctors with the California Department of Health Services
accused HealthMed of making "false medical claims" and of "taking advantage
of the fears of workers and the public and about toxic chemicals and their
potential health effects, including cancer." The doctors also criticized
the foundation for supporting "scientifically questionable" research.
The state physicians, who evaluate potential toxic hazards in the
workplace, leveled the accusations in a letter that triggered an
investigation by the state Board of Medical Quality Assurance. That probe
was concluded last year without a finding of whether the detox treatment
works. Investigators said that they were stymied by HealthMed's refusal to
provide patient records and by a lack of complaints from those who had
undergone the regimen.

The four physicians who prompted the investigation said that they decided
to study the Hubbard treatment after receiving calls from union
representatives, public agencies and individual workers throughout the
state who had been solicited by the clinics. Among them were the California
Highway Patrol, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and the Los Angeles County Fire and Sheriff's
departments.

"It was the accumulation of these calls that led us to say, 'Hey, this is
going on all over the state. Let's look into it,' " recalled Gideon Letz,
one of the doctors.

The foundation and HealthMed have worked particularly hard to tap one large
pool of potential clients: firefighters. The Hubbard method has been
pitched to them as a cure for exposure to a carcinogen sometimes
encountered during fires. Known as PCBs, the now-banned chemical compound
was once widely used to insulate transformers.

City officials in Shreveport, La., said they paid HealthMed $80,000 - and
were ready to spend a lot more - until they hired a consultant, who
denounced the treatments as unnecessary and worthless.

What happened in Shreveport is a case study of how the foundation and
HealthMed have worked together to draw customers through methods that
critics contend are exploitative.

In April 1987, dozens of Shreveport firemen were exposed to PCBs when they
responded to an early morning transformer explosion at the Louisiana State
University Medical Center. In the aftermath, some began to complain of
headaches, dizziness, skin rashes, memory loss and other symptoms that they
attributed to the exposure.

Blood and tissue tests by the university medical center showed no abnormal
levels of PCBs in their systems. But the firemen wondered if the university
was trying to protect itself from liability because the explosion had
occurred there.

Searching for alternatives, one of the firemen came across an article in
Fire Engineering magazine. Headlined "Chemical Exposure in Firefighting:
associate for the Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education."
Lionelli discussed the frightening consequences of chemical exposure and
then got to the point. He said that the foundation had found an effective
detoxification technique developed by "the late American researcher L. Ron
Hubbard" and delivered by HealthMed Clinic.

The article did not mention another of Hubbard's notable developments -
Scientology.

The firemen contacted HealthMed, and, before long, were sold on the
program. They went next to Howard Foggin, then the city's medical claims
officer, and gave him HealthMed literature and a Washington, D.C., phone
number the clinic had provided them. It was for the office of EPA
toxicologist William Marcus.

Marcus, a non-Scientologist, is a senior adviser to the foundation. But it
is his authoritative position with the EPA's office of drinking water that
helps impress potential HealthMed clients.

When Shreveport officials called Marcus, he vouched for HealthMed. The EPA
had spoken, or so the city's claims manager thought back then.
"All he told me was, it seemed I had no alternative but to send those
people to Los Angeles" for HealthMed's treatment, Foggin said, adding: "I
felt I had to get moving on it fast."

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Marcus acknowledged that he
recommended HealthMed, but he denied any conflict of interest.
"They called me and I talked to them," Marcus said. "I told them that
basically there was no other game in town. ... I think L. Ron Hubbard is a
bona fide genius."

Marcus said he receives only travel-related expenses for the foundation
work.

His boss, Michael Cook, said he is satisfied that Marcus did not act
improperly. He said that Marcus has insisted "he made it clear that he was
not speaking as an EPA employee. Certainly that is what we would hope and
expect he [would] do."

In all, HealthMed brought about 20 Shreveport firefighters to Los Angeles
to treat what the clinic described as high levels of PCBs in their blood
and fatty tissues. For the most part, the firemen returned home saying that
they felt better.

Although city officials had learned of Hubbard's Scientology connection,
they were unconcerned.

Then, as HealthMed's bills mounted, two private insurance carriers for
Shreveport suggested that city officials hire an independent analyst to
review the treatment before doling out more money. The city agreed and
commissioned a study by National Medical Advisory Service Inc., of
Bethesda, Md.

The report, prepared by Dr. Ronald E. Gots, was an indictment of
HealthMed's professionalism and ethics. The bottom line:
"The treatment in California preyed upon the fears of concerned workers,
but served no rational medical function. ... Moreover, the program itself,
developed not by physicians or scientists, but by the founder of the Church
of Scientology, has no recognized value in the established medical and
scientific community. It is quackery."

Gots' 1987 report ended the city's involvement with HealthMed.
"I think we were misled," lamented city finance director Jim Keyes.
"Somebody should have laid everything out on the table."
Neither HealthMed nor the foundation would return phone calls from The
Times.

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Books: Costly Strategy Continues To Turn Out Bestsellers

By Robert W. Welkos
and Joel Sappell
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - Call it one of the most remarkable success stories in modern
publishing history.

Since late 1985, at least 20 books by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
have become bestsellers.

In March of 1988, nearly four decades after its initial publication,
Hubbard's "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" was No. 1 on
virtually every best-seller list in the country - including The New York
Times.

Ten hardcover science fiction novels Hubbard completed before his death
four years ago also became best sellers, four of them simultaneously on
some lists.

The selling of L. Ron Hubbard was envisioned, planned and executed by
members of the Church of Scientology, who say that worldwide sales of
Hubbard's books have topped 93 million. The sales have been fueled by a
radio and TV advertising blitz virtually unprecedented in book circles, and
has put on the map a Los Angeles publishing firm that eight years ago did
not even exist.

In some cases, sales of Hubbard's books apparently got an extra boost from
Scientology followers and employees of the publishing firm. Showing up at
major book outlets like B. Dalton and Walden books, they purchased armloads
of Hubbard's works, according to former employees.

As a writer, Hubbard was extremely prolific. He wrote short stories. He
wrote books. He wrote screenplays. And, for more than 30 years, he wrote
thousands of directives and scores of personal improvement courses that
form the doctrine of Scientology.

The promotion of Hubbard's books is part of a costly and calculated
campaign by the movement to gain respect, influence and, ultimately, new
members. In the process, Hubbard's followers hope to refurbish his
controversial image and position him as one of the world's great
humanitarians and thinkers.

Hubbard's writings have become a means by which to spread his name in a
society that often equates celebrity with credibility. It is not with
whimsy that the church often calls its spiritual father "New York Times
best-selling author L. Ron Hubbard."

The church once summed up the strategy in a letter recruiting
Scientologists for Hubbard's public relations team, an operation that
thrives despite his death. Sign up now, the letter urged, and "make Ron the
most acclaimed and widely known author of all time."

But apparently Hubbard's followers have not trusted sales of Hubbard's
books entirely to the fickle winds of the marketplace.
Sheldon McArthur, former manager of B. Dalton Booksellers on Hollywood
Boulevard in Los Angeles, said, "Whenever the sales seem to slacken and a
[Hubbard] book goes off the best sellers list, give it a week and we'll get
these people coming in buying 50 to 100 to 200 copies at a crack - cash
only."

After Hubbard's first novel, a Western adventure called "Buckskin
Brigades," was re-released in 1987, the book "just sat there," recalled
McArthur, whose store was across from a Scientology center.
"Then, in one week, it was gone," he said. "We started getting calls
asking, 'You got 'Buckskin Brigades?' " I said, 'Sure, we got them.' 'You
got a hundred of them?' 'Sure,' I said, 'here's a case.' "

Gary Hamel, B. Dalton's former manager at Santa Monica Place, a mall in the
Los Angeles beach suburb of Santa Monica, had similar experiences. He said
that "10 people would come in at a time and buy quantities of them and they
would pay cash."

Hamel also speculated that some copies of a Hubbard science fiction novel
were sold more than once.

He said that while he was working at the B. Dalton in Hollywood, some books
shipped by Hubbard's publishing house arrived with B. Dalton price stickers
already on them. He said this indicated to him that the books had been
purchased at one of the chain's outlets, then returned to the publishing
house and shipped out for resale before anyone thought to remove the
stickers.

"We would order more books and ... they'd come back with our sticker as if
they were bought by the publisher," Hamel said.

Hubbard's U.S. publisher is Bridge Publications Inc., founded and
controlled by Scientologists - something that Bridge does not publicize.
Company officials refused to be interviewed about book sales or any facet
of the firm's operations.

But former employees alleged in interviews with the Los Angeles Times that
Bridge encouraged and, at times, bankrolled the book-buying scheme.
Mike Gonzales, a non-church member who worked in accounts receivable, said
that one supervisor gave him hundreds of dollars for weekend forays into
bookstores.

In one month alone, he said, he bought and returned to Bridge 43 books in
Hubbard's "Mission Earth" science fiction series. And, according to
Gonzales, he was not alone.

"We had 15 to 20 people going all over L.A," he said.

During a shopping spree at B. Dalton in the Glendale Galleria, a Glendale,
Calif., shopping center, Gonzales said, he bumped into three Bridge
co-workers.

"There we were, four people in line buying 'Buckskin Brigades,' and [the
clerk] blurted out, 'You know why they do that? To get on the best sellers
list!' "

Corinda Carford, who was Bridge's sales manager for the East Coast, said
she was instructed by two superiors to go to bookstores and buy Hubbard's
books if sales were sluggish.

"They would tell me to go and count the books and ... if it looks like
they're not selling, go and buy some books," Carford recalled. She said she
was troubled by the request and bought only four copies of one Hubbard
paperback.

Carford said that Bridge executives also asked her in late 1988 and again
in early 1989 to obtain the names of bookstores whose sales are the basis
for The New York Times best-seller list.

"It happened more than once," she said. " ... My orders for the week were
to find the New York Times' reporting stores anywhere in the East so they
could send people into the stores to buy [Hubbard's] books."

Carford said she questioned several bookstore operators but they refused to
cooperate.

"That is confidential information," she said.

Carford said she left Bridge after a pay dispute and now works for another
publishing firm.

Another former Bridge employee, salesman Tom Fudge, said a supervisor once
handed him a list of booksellers purportedly monitored by The New York
Times. He said he was instructed to promise each one that Hubbard's books
would "sell well" if they stocked more copies.

"I was told that they [Bridge] had Scientologists who would go out to
specific stores and buy copies of the books," Fudge said.

An attorney who represents Bridge and Scientology denied that the
publishing firm possessed a list of bookstores The New York Times uses to
determine best sellers.

"The list does not exist," insisted Boston lawyer Earle Cooley, who
characterized the former employees as "disgruntled" and "antagonistic"
toward Bridge and Scientology.

Adam Clymer, a New York Times executive, said the newspaper had examined
the sales patterns of Hubbard's books. In a two-year span, Hubbard logged
14 consecutive books on The New York Times list.

Clymer said that, although the books had been sold in sufficient numbers to
justify their best-seller status, "we don't know to whom they were sold."
He said that the newspaper uncovered no instances in which vast quantities
of books were being sold to single individuals.

Science fiction and self-improvement books have always been big sellers in
America, and Hubbard's works have long had a strong following.
But Bridge learned quickly that to make him a best-selling author in the
1980s, it had to aggressively market his writings, especially within the
bookselling industry.

As part of its campaign Bridge has purchased full-page ads on the cover of
Publishers Weekly, an important trade magazine.

For a time, the firm was enticing book distributors to place large orders
by offering them free television sets and VCRs.

Marcia Dursi, director of book operations for ARA Services in Maryland,
which distributes paperbacks to supermarkets and airports, said she was
offered a TV for the employee lunchroom.

"I don't have to be bribed," Dursi said she responded.

Former Bridge consultant Robert Erdmann said that, although other
publishers offer incentives, he stopped the practice at Bridge because "it
could be perceived as influence peddling."

Erdmann, a non-Scientologist, was an industry veteran hired by Bridge to
help make inroads in the competitive publishing world.

Because the Scientologists at Bridge "did what we told them to do," Erdmann
said, "Dianetics" is no longer "the passion fruit of the Pacific that
people in the Midwest are afraid to eat."

When it was first published in 1950, "Dianetics" rode best-seller lists for
several months before sales dwindled. But it has remained the bedrock -
"Book One" - of Hubbard's Scientology movement.

In "Dianetics," Hubbard said that memories of painful physical and
emotional experiences accumulate in a specific region of the mind, causing
illness and mental problems. Hubbard said that, once those experiences have
been purged through cathartic procedures he developed, a person can achieve
superior health and intelligence.

So revered is the book that Hubbard scrapped the conventional calendar and
renumbered the years beginning with the date of its publication. To
Scientologists, 1990 is "40 AD" (After Dianetics).

From the outset, the Scientology movement has made the book the centerpiece
of its campaign to generate broad interest in Hubbard's writings.

In the last few years, millions of dollars have been spent on "Dianetics"
advertising to reach a targeted audience of young professionals who want to
improve their lives and careers.

The ads have appeared on television, radio, billboards and bus stops.
"Dianetics" has been a sponsor of the California Angels and Los Angeles
Rams games on radio. Race cars in world-class competitions like the
Indianapolis 500 have sported "Dianetics" decals. In New York City
recently, 160 billboards promoting Hubbard were purchased in subway
stations.

Next month, in what may be the Scientology movement's biggest promotion yet
for the book, Dianetics will be a sponsor of Turner Broadcasting System's
1990 Goodwill Games, an Olympics-style event bringing together 2,500
athletes from more than 50 countries for two weeks in Seattle.

Among other things, there will be Dianetics commercials during the
internationally televised competition and Dianetics signboards at sporting
venues. Goodwill Games spokesman Bob Dickinson said that Dianetics and 12
other sponsors - including Pepsi, Sony and Anheuser-Busch - have paid "lots
and lots of money" for the exposure, but he would not provide a specific
figure.

"It is safe to say it is in excess of several million dollars," Dickinson
said.

Word of the sponsorship has triggered more than 100 complaints from
disaffected Scientologists and critics of the church to TBS, the
Atlanta-based cable network owned by media entrepreneur Ted Turner. Most
have accused the network of providing a global forum for the Church of
Scientology.

But Dickinson said that Dianetics, not Scientology, is the event's sponsor
and that "we really don't make any value judgment in terms of the product
of the sponsors. They have a right to advertise." He added that Dianetics
for years has been buying air time on TBS.

Although Dianetics advertisements never mention Scientology, the book's
promotion is a key component of the church's efforts to win new converts.
Scientology literature calls the strategy the "Dianetics route." The idea
is to attract readers to Dianetics seminars and then enroll them in
Scientology courses.

Given the success of the Dianetics campaign, Bridge now seems confident
that the public will clamor for Hubbard's Scientology writings.

Hubbard books that for decades had no audience outside Scientology are
scheduled to be mass-marketed into the next century, complete with costly
promotional campaigns as big as that for "Dianetics."

One of them, Hubbard's 1955 "Fundamentals of Thought," has "Scientology"
splashed across its cover, the first test of whether Hubbard's image has
been so greatly improved that the public is finally ready to accept his
religion.

Even long-forgotten science fiction that Hubbard wrote back in the 1930s
will be dusted off, dressed in eye-grabbing covers and pushed as though it
were written today.

In recent months, billboards have appeared along Los Angeles freeways and
such well-traveled thoroughfares as Sunset Boulevard.

With the sea as a backdrop, they show a smiling Hubbard of earlier years,
the wind tousling his red hair. Below his robust image is the phrase: "22
national bestsellers and more to come. ..."

The selling of the late L. Ron Hubbard has only begun.

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A Lawyer Learns What It's Like To Fight Scientology

Joseph Yanny represented the movement until a falling out.
Now he says lengthy litigation and mysterious harassment
indicate he's become 'Public Enemy No. 1.'

By Robert W. Welkos
and Joel Sappell
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles attorney Joseph Yanny was driving through rural
Ohio in the pre-dawn hours in 1988 when he was pulled over by police, who
had received a tip that he was carrying a cache of cocaine and guns in his
rental car.

A telephone caller had supplied authorities in Ohio with Yanny's name, the
car's description and license number, and the route he would be traveling
to his sister's house after a rock concert by one of his clients, the
Grateful Dead.

Yanny was frisked and the vehicle was searched. No drugs or firearms were
found, and he was released.

Police later concluded that the tipster had given a false name, leading
them to speculate that Yanny had been set up for harassment.
And Yanny, though he can't prove it, is certain he knows by whom: his
former client, the Church of Scientology.

"I am," he said with some pride, "probably Public Enemy No. 1 as far as
they are concerned."

Today, Yanny and Scientology are locked in bitter litigation. Their dispute
illustrates how battles with the Church of Scientology often degenerate
into nasty, costly wars of retribution and endurance.

Yanny worked for the church from 1983 to 1987, earning, by his estimate,
$1.8 million in legal fees.

His chief job was to represent Scientology in a suit it brought against a
former top church executive accused of conspiring to steal the church's
secret teachings. In 1986, Yanny scored a major victory for the church
during a pretrial hearing.

But then Yanny and Scientology had a falling out. He says he severed ties
because he disagreed with the tactics the group uses against its critics.
Scientology says Yanny was dismissed because his performance was
"inadequate." They call him an "anti-church demagogue."

Scientology lawyers sued Yanny, accusing him of switching allegiances and
of violating the canons of his profession. They say he fed confidential
church information to former members locked in legal battles with
Scientology. He denies the accusation.

They further accused him of submitting "extremely inflated" bills and of
working while intoxicated, an allegation that was subsequently dropped.
Since the litigation began, Yanny says, he and his friends have been the
target of harassment.

He says that his Century City Los Angeles law firm was burglarized four
times and that Scientology-related documents turned up missing; that he has
been spied upon by a church "plant" working as a secretary in his office;
and that private investigators have camped outside his Hermosa Beach
residence and shadowed him when he left.

Jon J. Gaw, a Riverside, Calif.-area private investigator who has handled a
number of Scientology-related probes in recent years, said in a deposition
that he used as many as "seven or eight" investigators to conduct
surveillance of Yanny between June 1988 and March 1989. Two of his
operatives took up residence on a nearby street, Gaw said, and tailed Yanny
whenever he ventured outside.

Gaw said he later learned that private detectives for another agency hired
by Scientology lawyers had been spying on Yanny at the same time. That
agency employed a woman to live next door to him.

The woman, Michelle Washburn, said in a deposition that she was hired by Al
Bei, a former Los Angeles police officer who has worked as a private
investigator on Scientology-related cases.

She said that Bei instructed her to take notes on Yanny's "comings and
goings." She also sat by her window photographing everyone who visited him.
She said she regularly gave Bei the film and her notes. Bei declined to
comment.

In Bellaire, Ohio, police who searched Yanny's rental car for drugs and
guns later discovered that a team of out-of-state private investigators in
four vehicles had been tailing the attorney.

Police Capt. Robert Wallace said that one of the private detectives he
questioned initially tried to mislead officers, claiming that the
detectives were there to subpoena someone in a neighboring town.
Wallace said that the private detective then said he had been hired to
follow Yanny by Williams & Connelly, a prominent Washington, D.C., law firm
that represents Scientology on tax issues. An attorney who handles
Scientology matters at the firm declined comment when questioned by the Los
Angeles Times recently. In a published report in late 1988, however, he
said that he had no knowledge of the episode.

Yanny, for his part, is pursuing a strategy that is reminiscent of the
take-no-prisoners tactics of the church.

He and his anti-Scientology allies have submitted sworn court declarations
designed to discredit the church.

Earlier this year, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury agreed that
Yanny had not submitted inflated bills to the church and awarded him
$154,000 in damages. The judge who presided over the case is now weighing
whether Yanny should be allowed to assist individuals in litigation against
his former client, the church.

Yanny said that he initially agreed to be one of Scientology's lawyers
because he thought the controversial church was being denied its day in
court.

"There came a point where I was rudely awakened that Scientology wanted
their day in court," Yanny said, "but they wanted to assure nobody else got
them."

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Suits, Protests Fuel A Campaign Against Psychiatry

As part of its strategy, the movement created a nationwide uproar
over the drug Ritalin, used to treat hyperactive children.

By Joel Sappell and
Robert W. Welkos
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - In recent years, a national debate flared over Ritalin, a
drug used for more than three decades to treat hyperactivity in children.
Across the country, multimillion-dollar lawsuits were filed by parents who
contended that their children had been harmed by the drug.

Major news organizations, including the Los Angeles Times, devoted
extensive coverage to whether youngsters were being turned into emotionally
disturbed addicts by psychiatrists and pediatricians who prescribed
Ritalin.

Protests were staged at psychiatric conferences, with airplanes trailing
banners that read, "Psychs, Stop Drugging Our Kids," and children on the
ground carrying placards that pleaded, "Love Me, Don't Drug Me."

In 1988, the clamor reached a point where 12 U.S. congressmen demanded
answers from the Food and Drug Administration and three other federal
agencies about the safety of Ritalin. The FDA assured the legislators that
the drug is was "safe and effective if it is used as recommended."

The Ritalin controversy seemed to emerge out of nowhere. It frightened
parents, put doctors on the defensive and suddenly called into question the
judgment of school administrators who authorized the drug's use to calm
disruptive, hyperactive children.

The uproar over Ritalin was triggered almost single-handedly by the
Scientology movement.

In its fight against Ritalin, Scientology was pursuing a broader agenda.
For years, it has been attempting to discredit the psychiatric profession,
which has long been critical of the self-help techniques developed by the
late L. Ron Hubbard and practiced by the church.

The church has spelled out the strategy in its newspaper, "Scientology
Today."

"While alerting parents and teachers to the dangers of Ritalin," the
newspaper stated, "the real target of the campaign is the psychiatric
profession itself. ... And as public awareness continues to increase, we
will no doubt begin to see the blame for all drug abuse and related crime
move onto the correct target - psychiatry."

The contempt Scientologists hold for the psychiatric profession is rooted
in Hubbard's writings, which constitute the church's doctrines. He once
wrote, for example, that if psychiatrists "had the power to torture and
kill everyone, they would do so. ... Recognize them for what they are;
psychotic criminals - and handle them accordingly."

Hubbard's hatred of psychiatry dated back to the 1950 publication of his
best-selling book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health." It was
immediately criticized by prominent mental health professionals as a
worthless form of psychotherapy.

Hubbard used his church as a pulpit to attack psychiatrists as evil people,
bent on enslaving mankind through drugs, electroshock therapy and
lobotomies. He convinced his followers that psychiatrists were also intent
on destroying their religion.

A church spokesman said that psychiatrists are were "busy attempting to
destroy Scientology because if Scientology has its voice heard, it will
most assuredly remove them from the positions of power that they occupy in
our society."

Scientologists call Ritalin a "chemical straitjacket" leading to
delinquency, violence and even suicide. They claim that it is being used to
indiscriminately drug hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren each day.
Medical professionals say that the Scientology claims cannot be supported
and are causing undue panic.

Known generically as methylphenidate hydrochloride, Ritalin is intended for
youngsters afflicted with "attention deficit disorder," more commonly known
as hyperactivity. It is a central nervous system stimulant that,
paradoxically, produces calmer behavior in young people. The government
classifies it as a controlled substance.

FDA statistics show that between 600,000 and 700,000 people (70 percent of
them children or adolescents) are being treated with Ritalin. Between 1980
and 1987, the latest period for which statistics are available, the FDA
received 492 complaints of serious problems resulting from the drug. The
agency said this level number of complaints indicates the drug is safe.

Medical experts agree that some doctors may be too quick to prescribe
Ritalin as the sole treatment for problems that warrant a more moderate or
creative approach. But, they add, the drug itself is not to blame.

Scientologists have waged their war against Ritalin and psychiatry through
the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a Los Angeles-based non-profit
organization formed by the church in 1969 to investigate mental health
abuses.

Its members often wear shirts reading "Psychiatry Kills" and
"Psychbusters." They have recently broadened their campaign against
psychiatric drugs to include Prozac, the nation's top selling
anti-depressant, with 1989 sales estimated at $350 million.

Throughout the world, the commission has consistently fought against
electroshock therapy and lobotomies, practices that Scientologists believe
are barbarous and should be banned.

In the United States, the commission has encouraged parents to file
lawsuits against doctors who have prescribed Ritalin to their children and
then has provided nationwide publicity for the suits.

The commission's president is veteran Scientologist Dennis Clarke. Although
he is not a doctor, Clarke has positioned himself as the country's most
quoted Ritalin expert. In public appearances, Clarke cites a litany of
alarming statistics, some of which are exaggerated, unsubstantiated or
impossible to verify.

Some medical experts agree that the use of Ritalin in the schools has grown
dramatically over the last two decades, but not to the level claimed by
Clarke.

For example, Clarke has maintained that in Minneapolis, 20 percent of
children under 10 attending mostly white schools in 1987 were on Ritalin
and the percentage was double that in predominantly black schools.
"If they are saying that is the statistic in Minneapolis, they are lying,"
said Vi Blosberg, manager of health services in the 39,000-student
district. She said that fewer than 1 percent of students districtwide were
taking Ritalin or other drugs used to control hyperactivity during the year
in question.

Using its statistics, the Citizens Commission in late 1987 lobbied the
congressional Republican Study Committee to push Congress for an
investigation of Ritalin.

Its campaign attracted the attention of Rep. Cass Ballenger, R-N.C., who is
on the House Education and Labor Committee.

Ballenger's legislative director, Ashley McArthur, said that she met with
the Citizens Commission because the statistics about Ritalin abuse "caught
our attention." She said that Ballenger and 11 congressional colleagues
sent letters to four federal agencies, including the FDA, requesting
reports on Ritalin usage and safety.

McArthur said she later learned that Scientologists were behind the
Citizens Commission and that some of the information they provided did not
"add up."

"Once we knew their whole organization was run by Scientologists, it put a
whole different perspective on it," McArthur said. "I think they'll try to
use any group they can."

A recent Scientology publication said that the anti-Ritalin effort was "one
of [the commission's] major campaigns in the 1980s."

"Hundreds of newspaper articles and countless hours of radio and television
shows on this issue resulted in thousands of parents around the world
contacting [the commission] to learn more about the damage psychiatrists
are creating on today's children," the article stated.

"The campaign against Ritalin brought wide acceptance of the fact that [the
commission] and the Scientologists are the ones effectively doing something
about the problems of psychiatric drugging," the publication added.

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Feud With IRS

Neither Side Blinks - Yet

Among its many adversaries, the Church of Scientology's longest-running
feud has been with the Internal Revenue Service. So far, neither combatant
has blinked. Over the past three decades, the IRS has revoked the
tax-exempt status of various Scientology organizations, accusing them of
operating in a commercial manner and of financially benefiting private
individuals. From the late 1960s through mid-1970s, IRS agents classified
Scientology as a "tax resister" and "subversive," a characterization later
deemed improper by a judge.

In 1984, the IRS's Los Angeles office launched a far-ranging criminal
investigation into allegations by high-level Scientology defectors that the
movement's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, had skimmed millions of dollars from
the church.

The probe was dropped after Hubbard's death in 1986. A Justice Department
source told The Times that, with the primary target gone, the point was
moot. But church executives say the IRS had no case because the allegations
were untrue.

Scientology, for its part, has brought numerous lawsuits against the IRS,
accusing the agency of everything from harassment to illegally withholding
public records. In the 1970s, overzealous Scientologists went so far as to
bug an IRS office in Washington, D.C. - a crime that led to their
imprisonment.

More recently, through a group called the National Coalition of IRS
Whistleblowers, Scientologists have embarrassed the very branch within the
agency that initiated the criminal investigation of Hubbard.

The coalition, founded in the mid-1980s by the Church of Scientology's
Freedom magazine, helped fuel a 1989 congressional inquiry into alleged
wrongdoing by the former chief of the IRS's Criminal Investigations
Division in Los Angeles and other agency officials.

Based on public records and leaked IRS memos, the coalition disclosed that
the former Los Angeles supervisor and several colleagues bought peoperty
from an El Monte firm being audited by the IRS. Soon after, the audit was
dropped with a finding that the firm owed no money. The supervisor has
denied acting improperly.

The whistle-blowers coalition, whose members also include past and present
IRS employees, provided the information to a House subcommittee, which was
investigating the IRS at the time. The allegations received nationwide
exposure during later hearings by the subcommittee, prompting a promise
from IRS Commissioner Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. to toughen ethical standards in
the agency.

The coalition's spokeswoman, Scientologist Lisa Lashaway, also appeared on
NBC's "Today" show with a subcommittee member, where the two criticized the
conduct of the IRS unit.

Although Scientologists do much of the legwork for the coalition, its
president and chief point man is retired IRS agent Paul Des Fosses, a
non-Scientologist who left the IRS in 1984 after a stormy relationship with
the agency.

"They've given us a lot of support," DesFosses said of the Scientologists
in a recent interview. "That's understandable because people who are under
attack by the IRS are suddenly very concerned with IRS abuse."

Despite his close working relationship with Scientology, DesFosses said
church members never told him that Hubbard was under criminal investigation
by the IRS when they offered to organize and assist his whistle-blowers
group.

"No, I wasn't aware of it," DesFosses said when informed by The Times. "I
would be very surprised to learn that."

(Ed Note: In late 1993, the IRS exonerated many of the Scientology
Organizations with which it had been feuding for years, even some in which
the court system, on whose docket the cases were already placed, later
agreed that the IRS' position was correct.

-ROBERT W. WELKOS and JOEL SAPPELL

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Squirrels...
When The Doctrine Leaves Scientology

By Robert W. Welkos
and Joel Sappell
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

The Church of Scientology hates "squirrels."

That is the scornful word L. Ron Hubbard used to describe non-church
members who offer his teachings, sometimes at cut-rate prices. Most are
ex-Scientologists who say that they believe in Hubbard's gospel but left
the church because its hierarchy was too oppressive.

"We call them squirrels," Hubbard once wrote, "because they are so nutty."
Hubbard contended that only church members are were qualified to administer
his self-improvement-type courses. Outsiders, he said, inevitably misapply
misapplied the teachings, wreaking spiritual harm on their subjects.

But those who have launched "independent" Scientology-style centers say
that Hubbard concocted this as an excuse to eliminate competition so he
could charge exorbitant prices for his courses.

As far back as 1965, Hubbard demonstrated his disdain for breakaway groups,
ordering his followers to "tear up" the meetings of one such organization
and "harass these persons in any possible way."

The intolerance still exists.

In 1988, the California Association of Dianetic Auditors - the oldest
Scientology splinter group in existence - said that it uncovered a scheme
by more than 100 Scientologists to secretly infiltrate the association and
seize control of its board of directors.

The association's then-vice president, Jana Moreillon, said that she
discovered the infiltration after scanning some Scientology publications.
There, she found the names of many of her group's newest members listed
among Scientologists who had just completed church training.

Moreillon said the association eventually purged or denied membership to
116 suspected Scientologists.

In recent years, a shadowy group of church members dubbed the "Minutemen"
crashed meetings of independent Scientologists. They heckled speakers,
screamed obscenities and threw eggs. Los Angeles police officers had to be
summoned by the owner of a Chinatown restaurant to evict militant
Scientologists who disrupted a fund-raising dinner held there by breakaway
church members.

The church has denied any direct involvement in the raids. But a former top
Scientology official said in a recent court declaration that the harassment
campaign was ordered by church executives.

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The 'Org Board'...
Hubbard's Plan For Improving On
'80Trillion Years' Of Management

By Robert W. Welkos and Joel Sappell
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - A key element of the management techniques that
Scientologists sell to businessmen is L. Ron Hubbard's "organizational
board."

Used also by the Church of Scientology, the "Org Board" divides an
organization into seven divisions - executive, personnel, sales, finance,
training, marketing and qualifications. Each division's duties are spelled
out, along with the basis for evaluating employee performance.

In describing the Org Board's virtues, Scientology consultants omit
Hubbard's colorful account of its origins - an account reminiscent of one
of his science fiction tales.

During a 1965 lecture to Scientologists in England, Hubbard said that his
board is a refined version of one that was used for "80 trillion years" by
an "old galactic civilization."

Hubbard said that the civilization died (he did not say when) because its
organizational board lacked one division that he incorporated into his
modern-day version.

Declared Hubbard: "We don't want these temporary fly-by-night affairs!"

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Escalante...
Foundation Funds Assist Celebrated School Teacher

By Robert W. Welkos and Joel Sappell
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - The Scientology movement's Foundation for Advancements in
Science and Education has befriended one of America's most celebrated
teachers, Jaime Escalante of Garfield High School.

Escalante is the East Los Angeles teacher profiled in the hit 1988 film
"Stand and Deliver," which chronicled his success in teaching advanced
calculus to barrio students.

During the last few years, the foundation has provided Escalante with tens
of thousands of dollars for computers, audiovisual aids, tutors and
scholarships. In addition, the foundation has solicited contributions from
major corporations to help Escalante's Garfield High mathematics program
grow in size and sophistication.

In fact, the foundation has been Escalante's primary benefactor.
He is now teaming up with the foundation to develop a series of 12
educational videos for distribution by the Public Broadcasting System.
Called "Futures," the series is intended to motivate students by showing
them the relevancy of math in the workplace. The foundation's president
will be the executive producer, while Escalante will be host of the series.
Escalante says he was unaware of the foundation's links to Scientology.

"No, no," he said, "they [foundation officials] never mentioned that name."
But, he added, it makes no difference.

"From my point of view," he said, "I really don't mind what they are. The
only thing I care about is that they help my students, my kids. That's my
main goal."

The foundation, for its part, has not been reticent about publicizing its
support of Escalante. Its promotional literature regularly includes
photographs of Escalante in his classroom or standing side-by-side with
beaming foundation executives.

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Attack: Scientology Takes Offensive Against An Array Of Suspected Foes

By Joel Sappell and
Robert W. Welkos
(c) 1990, Los Angeles Times

"Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars."
- L. Ron Hubbard

LOS ANGELES - The Church of Scientology does not turn the other cheek.
Ministers mingle with private detectives. "Sacred scriptures" counsel the
virtues of combativeness. Parishioners double as paralegals for litigious
church attorneys.

Consider the passage that a prominent Scientology minister selected from
the religion's scriptures, authored by the late L. Ron Hubbard, to inspire
the faithful during a gala church event.

"People attack Scientology," the minister quoted Hubbard as saying. "I
never forget it; always even the score."

The crowd cheered.

As far back as 1959, Hubbard warned that illness and even death can befall
those seeking to impede Scientology, known within the church as
"suppressive persons."

"Literally, it kills them," Hubbard wrote, "and if you don't believe me I
can show you the long death list."

He told the story of an electrician who bilked the organization. "Within a
few weeks," Hubbard said, "he contracted TB."

Scientology seems committed not only to fighting back, but to chilling
potential opposition. For years, the church has been accused of employing
psychological warfare, dirty tricks and harassment-by-lawsuit to silence
its adversaries.

The church has spent millions to investigate and sue writers, government
officials, disaffected ex-members and others loosely defined as "enemies."
Teams of private detectives have been dispatched to the far corners of the
world to spy on critics and rummage through their personal lives - and
trash cans - for information to discredit them.

During one investigation, headed by a former Los Angeles police sergeant,
the church paid tens of thousands of dollars to reputed organized crime
figures and con men for information linking a leading church opponent to a
crime that it turned out he did not commit.

Early last year, an American Scientologist was arrested in Spain for
possessing dossiers containing confidential information on a member of
Parliament and a Madrid judge who oversaw a fraud and tax evasion probe of
the church. The dossiers included personal bank records and family
photographs, according to press accounts.

Before a British author's critical biography of Hubbard was even released
two years ago in Europe, the church had him and his publisher tied up in a
London court for alleged copyright infringement. The writer speculated that
Scientology sympathizers had somehow managed to obtain pre-publication
proofs of the book.

Scientology spokesmen insist that the organization is doing nothing illegal
or unethical, and is merely exercising its constitutional rights with
vigor.

They argue that Scientology has been targeted by hostile government and
private forces - including the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI, the
press, psychiatrists and unscrupulous attorneys - that have persecuted the
church since its founding three decades ago.

As a matter of self-preservation, lamented Scientology attorney Earle C.
Cooley, the church has been forced to fight back and then has been unfairly
chastised for its aggressiveness.

"When we were attacked at Pearl Harbor we didn't just sit back and defend
there," Cooley declared. "We tried to get out on the offensive as quickly
as possible. ... To sit back and ward off the blows is ridiculous."

Underlying the church's aggressive response to criticism is a belief that
anyone who attacks Scientology is a criminal of some sort. "We do not find
critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts," Hubbard wrote back
in 1967. "Over and over we prove this."

When Scientology takes the offensive, L. Ron Hubbard's writings provide the
inspiration. Here is a sampling of what Hubbard wrote:

"The purpose of the [lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than
win."

"If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any
organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to
cause them to sue for peace.... Don't ever defend. Always attack."

"We do not want Scientology to be reported in the press, anywhere else
than on the religious pages of newspapers.... Therefore, we should be very
alert to sue for slander at the slightest chance so as to discourage the
public presses from mentioning Scientology."

"NEVER agree to an investigation of Scientology. Only agree to an
investigation of the attackers. ... Start feeding lurid, blood, sex crime,
actual evidence on the attack to the press. Don't ever tamely submit to an
investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way."

Obedience to these rules is not discretionary. They are scripture and, as
such, have guided a succession of church leaders in their responses to
perceived attacks.

Ironically, Hubbard's doctrinal dictums have often served only to escalate
conflicts and reinforce the cultish image that the church has been trying
to shake.

In the early 1970s, British lawmaker Sir John Foster offered a seemingly
timeless observation on Scientology in a report to his government.

He wrote that "anyone whose attitude is such as Mr. Hubbard displays in his
writings cannot be too surprised if the world treats him with suspicion
rather than affection."

Defeating its antagonists is considered so vital to the religion's survival
that the church has a unit whose mandate is to bring "hostile philosophies
or societies into a state of complete compliance with the goals of
Scientology."

Called the Office of Special Affairs, its duties include developing legal
strategy and countering outside threats.

Its predecessor was the Guardian Office, whose members became so
overzealous that Hubbard's wife and 10 other Scientologists were jailed for
bugging and burglarizing U.S. government agencies in the 1970s.

Now, Scientology spokesmen say, attorneys are hired to handle conflicts
with church adversaries to ensure that history does not repeat itself. The
attorneys, they say, employ private detectives to help prepare court cases
- a role that, in the past, would have been filled by Scientologists from
the Guardian Office.

But some former Scientologists contend that the private detectives have
simply replaced church members as agents of intimidation. The detectives
are especially valued because they insulate the church from deceptive and
potentially embarrassing investigative tactics that the church in fact
endorses, according to this view.

One of the first private detectives hired by the church was Richard Bast of
Washington, D.C.

In 1980, he investigated the sex life of U.S. District Judge James Richey,
who was presiding over the criminal trial of Hubbard's wife and the 10
other Scientologists. Richey had issued rulings unfavorable to them.

Bast's investigators found a prostitute at the Brentwood Holiday Inn in Los
Angeles who claimed that Richey had purchased her services while staying at
the hotel during trips to Los Angeles. Bast's men gave her a lie detector
test and videotaped her account.

That and other information obtained by Bast's investigators was leaked to
columnist Jack Anderson, and appeared in newspapers across the country.
Soon after, Richey resigned from the case, citing health reasons.

In 1982, Bast surfaced again, this time in Clearwater, Fla., where the
church's secretive methods of operating had stirred community anxiety.
Bast's detectives, posing as emissaries of a wealthy European
industrialist, lured some of the community's most prominent businessmen
aboard a luxurious yacht. Their pitch: the industrialist wanted to invest
$100 million in Clearwater's decaying downtown.

But there was a catch, recalled developer Alan Bomstein, one of the
businessmen being wooed. The emissaries said that their boss was dismayed
by the conflict between Clearwater and Scientology, and wanted the
businessmen to help quash a public inquiry into the church's activities.

When the businessmen refused, Bomstein said, the emissaries vanished. Two
years later, Bast revealed the deception in a court declaration. He said
the undercover operation was necessary to learn whether Clearwater's elite
were conspiring to run the church out of town.

More recently, Scientology investigations have been run by former Los
Angeles Police Department sergeant Eugene Ingram, who was fired by the
department in 1981 for allegedly running a house of prostitution and
alerting a drug dealer of a planned raid (In a later jury trial, Ingram was
acquitted of all criminal charges).

When he needs help, Ingram has sometimes turned to former LAPD colleagues.
Ex-officer Al Bei, for example, played a key role in a 1984 investigation
of David Mayo, an influential Scientology defector who had opened a rival
church near Santa Barbara. Scientologists believed that Mayo was using
stolen Hubbard teachings.

Bei and other investigators questioned local businessmen, handing out
business cards that said, "Special Agent, Task Force on White Collar
Crime."

Their questions suggested - falsely - that Mayo was linked to international
terrorism and drug smuggling, according to court records. At a local bank,
Bei tried without success to obtain Mayo's banking records and implied that
Mayo was engaged in money laundering, an executive of the bank said.

The investigators rented an office directly above Mayo's facility and
leaned from the windows to photograph everyone who entered.
Mayo eventually obtained a court order barring Ingram Investigations and
church members from going near Mayo or his facility. The judge said the
investigation amounted to "harassment."

On another occasion, Bei surfaced on a quiet residential street in Burbank,
Calif, where he questioned neighbors of two highly critical former
Scientologists, Fred and Valerie Stansfield. The Stansfields had
established a competing center in their home to provide Scientology
courses.

One of the neighbors said in a declaration that Bei attempted to "slander"
the Stansfields with such questions as: "Did you know that Valerie told
someone that she had pinworms two years ago?"

Los Angeles police officer Philip Rodriguez is another who has assisted
Ingram in Scientology investigations.

In late 1984, he provided Ingram with a letter on plain stationery saying
that Ingram was authorized to covertly videotape a hostile former member
suspected by church authorities of plotting illegal acts against the
church.

Although the letter was written without official police department
approval, Rodriguez's action lent an air of legitimacy to the
investigation. In fact, when church officials disclosed its results, they
described the operation as "LAPD sanctioned" - a characterization that
Police Chief Daryl F. Gates angrily disputed.

Rodriguez was suspended for six months for his role in the affair.

And when the clandestine videotapes were introduced in an Oregon court to
discredit testimony by the former member, the presiding judge said: "I
think they are devastating against the church. ... It [the investigation]
borders on entrapment more than it does on anything else."

Another former LAPD officer, Charles Stapleton, worked part time for Ingram
while teaching law at Los Angeles City College.

"Gene is a very thorough investigator," Stapleton said in an interview. "He
is determined to do the finest job he possibly can and he will employ
whatever methods or tactics are necessary to do that job."

Stapleton said he "bailed out" after Ingram asked him to tap telephones.
"Who's going to know?" he quoted Ingram as saying.

"I will know," Stapleton said he replied.

"I was told that if I didn't want to do it, he knew somebody who would,"
Stapleton said, adding that he did not know whether any telephones had, in
fact, been monitored.

Ingram denied ever asking Stapleton to tap telephones.

"I've never done it and I've never asked anyone to do it," Ingram said.
"It's just not worth it. It's a crime. You're going to get caught, so why
do it?"

Ingram also said that he had not harassed anyone during his probes. He
describes himself simply as "aggressive."

"People who claim that I have conducted an improper investigation against
them probably have so many things to hide," said Ingram.

Church lawyer Cooley backed the investigator, saying: "I know of no
impropriety that has ever been engaged in by Mr. Ingram or any other
[private investigator] for the church. Mr. Ingram has done nothing wrong."
Last year, Ingram and his colleagues surfaced in the small town of Newkirk,
Okla., to investigate city officials and the local newspaper publisher. The
publisher has been crusading against a controversial Scientology-backed
drug treatment program called Narconon.

At the core of the dispute is a contention by publisher Bob Lobsinger that
Narconon concealed its Scientology connection when it leased an abandoned
school outside town to build the "world's largest" drug rehabilitation
center.

Lobsinger's weekly newspaper has written about Scientology's troubled past,
and published internal documents on the drug program. In the process, he
has helped rally community opposition.

Fighting back, Scientology attorneys in September mailed an "open letter"
to many of Newkirk's 2,500 residents announcing that Ingram had been hired
to investigate Narconon's adversaries. The letter said that "a few local
individuals have sought to create intolerance by broadsiding the Churches
of Scientology in stridently uncomplimentary terms."

After arriving in town, Ingram tracked down the mayor's 12-year-old son at
the local public library, handed him a business card and told the boy to
have his father call, Lobsinger said. "It was just a subtle bit of
intimidation," he said. "It certainly did not do the mother much good. She
was very unnerved."

Lobsinger said that investigators also camped out at the local courthouse,
where they searched public records for "dirt" on prominent local citizens.
"They were checking up on the banker, the president of the school board,
the president of the Chamber of Commerce and, of course, the mayor and his
family, and me," Lobsinger said.

Newkirk Mayor Garry Bilger, who opposed the drug treatment program, said
that a man who he believed was a church member tried to coax him into
disclosing personal information. Bilger said the man showed up without an
appointment and claimed that he was helping his daughter with a report on
small-town government for a class at a nearby high school.

"He wanted to interview me and take pictures around the office but I didn't
allow that," the mayor recalled. "Finally, I said, 'Are you with
Scientology or Narconon?' He said, 'I don't know about those people.' But
he did, because he got outta there in a hurry."

Before the man left, he gave Bilger the name of his daughter. The mayor
then checked with the school system and was told that no such girl was
enrolled.

"They have a standard pattern," Bilger said of the Scientologists. "They
try to be very aggressive. They try to intimidate. This is not the kind of
atmosphere we need in the Newkirk community. ... This tells me they are far
from being harmless."

Scientology critics contend that one church writing, above all others, has
guided the organization and its operatives when they fight back. It is
called the Fair Game Law.

Written by Hubbard in the mid-1960s, it states that anyone who impedes
Scientology is "fair game" and can "be deprived of property or injured by
any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist.
May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."

Church spokesmen maintain that Hubbard rescinded the policy three years
after it was written because its meaning had been twisted. What Hubbard
actually meant, according to the spokesmen, was that Scientology would not
protect ex-members from people in the outside world who try tried to trick,
sue or destroy them.

But various judges and juries have concluded that while the actual labeling
of persons as "fair game" was abandoned, the harassment continued unabated.
For example, a Los Angeles jury in 1986 said that Scientologists had
employed fair game tactics against disaffected member Larry Wollersheim,
driving him to the brink of financial and mental collapse. He was awarded
$30 million. In July, the state Court of Appeal reduced the amount to $2.5
million but refused to overturn the case.

Wrote Justice Earl Johnson Jr.: "Scientology leaders made the deliberate
decision to ruin Wollersheim economically and possibly psychologically. ...
Such conduct is too outrageous to be protected under the Constitution and
too unworthy to be privileged under the law of torts."

In a recent lawsuit, former Scientology attorney Joseph Yanny alleged that
the church and its agents had implemented or plotted a broad array of
fair-game measures against him and other critics, including intensive
surveillance and dirty tricks.

Earlier this year, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury awarded Yanny
$154,000 in legal fees that he said the church had refused to pay.
Among other things, Yanny said in his lawsuit that he attended a 1987
meeting at which top church officials and three private detectives
discussed blackmailing Los Angeles attorney Charles O'Reilly, who won the
multimillion-dollar jury award for Wollersheim.

According to Yanny, the plan was to steal O'Reilly's medical records from
the Betty Ford Clinic near Palm Springs, then exchange them for a promise
from O'Reilly that he would "ease off" during the appeal process.
Yanny, who later had a bitter break with Scientology, said he objected and
the idea was dropped. The church denies such a discussion ever took place.
"There is not a scintilla of independent evidence that Yanny's counsel was
ever sought for any illegal or fraudulent purpose," church attorneys argued
in court papers.

Numerous other church detractors have said in court documents and
interviews that they, too, were victims of fair game tactics even after the
policy supposedly was abandoned.

John G. Clark, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard
Medical School, said he once criticized the church during testimony before
the Vermont Legislature. Scientology "agents" retaliated, Clark alleged in
a 1985 lawsuit, by trying to destroy his reputation and career.

He said in the lawsuit that they filed groundless complaints against him
with government agencies, posed as clients to infiltrate his office, dug
through his trash, implied that he slept with female patients and offered a
$25,000 reward for information that would put him in jail.

"My sin," Clark said in an interview, "was publicly saying this is a
dangerous and harmful cult. They did a good job of showing I'm right."
Scientologists, for their part, have described Clark as a "professional
deprogrammer," who in court cases has diagnosed members of religious sects
as mentally ill without conducting direct examinations of them. They have
branded his professional work as fraudulent and his psychiatric theories as
"childish and nonsensical."

In the words of one Scientology spokesman: "It's a crime that he's walking
on the street right now."

In 1988, the church paid Clark an undisclosed sum to drop his lawsuit. In
exchange for the money, Clark agreed never again to publicly criticize
Scientology.

On the opposite coast, psychiatrist Louis "Jolly" West, who formerly
directed the UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of
California, Los Angeles, said that he also has had felt the wrath of
Scientology.

West, an expert on thought-control techniques, said his problems began in
1980 after he published a psychiatric textbook that called Scientology a
cult.

West said that Scientology attempted to get him fired by writing letters to
university officials suggesting that he is was a CIA-backed fascist who has
had advocated genocide and castration of minorities to curb crime.
He said that Scientologists once managed to get inside a downtown Los
Angeles banquet room before guests arrived for a dinner celebrating the
Neuropsychiatric Institute's 25th anniversary. On each plate, West said,
was placed "an obscenely vicious diatribe" against him and the institute
-neatly tied with a pink ribbon.

So consumed are some Scientologists by their zeal to punish foes that they
have violated the confidentiality of one of the religion's most sacred
practices, according to a number of former members.

These former members accuse others in the church of culling confessional
folders for information that can be used to embarrass, discredit or
blackmail hostile defectors -a practice once called "repugnant and
outrageous" by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge. Some of these
former members say they themselves took part in the practice.

The confidential folders contain the parishioners' most intimate secrets,
disclosed during one-on-one counseling sessions that are supposed to help
devotees unburden their spirits. The church retains the folders even after
a member leaves.

Last year, former church attorney Yanny said in a sworn declaration that he
was fed information from confessional folders to help him question former
members during pretrial proceedings. Yanny said he complained but was
informed by two Scientology executives that it was "standard practice."
Church executives have steadfastly denied that the confidentiality of the
folders has been breached. They maintain that "auditors" -Scientologists
who counsel other members -must abide by a code of conduct in which they
promise never to divulge secrets revealed to them "for punishment or
personal gain."

"And that trust," the code states, "is sacred and never to be betrayed."
Often, those who buck the church say their lives are suddenly troubled by
unexplained and untraceable events, ranging from hang-up telephone calls to
the mysterious deaths of pets.

Los Angeles attorney Leta Schlosser, for one, said someone developed "an
unusual interest" in her car trunk while she was part of the legal team in
the Wollersheim suit against Scientology. She said it was broken into at
least seven times.

She said her co-counsel, O'Reilly, discovered a tape recorder, wired to his
telephone line, hidden beneath some bushes outside his home.

Then there is the British author, Russell Miller. After his biography of
Hubbard was published, an anonymous caller to police implicated him in the
unsolved ax-slaying of a South London private eye.

Miller was interrogated by two detectives, who concluded that he was
innocent. Det. Sgt. Malcolm Davidson of Scotland Yard told the Los Angeles
Times that the caller "caused us to waste a lot of time investigating" and
"caused Mr. Miller some embarrassment."

There is no evidence that ties the church to any of these incidents, and
Scientology officials deny involvement in clandestine harassment or illegal
activities. They suggest that church foes may themselves be responsible as
part of an effort to discredit Scientology.

Today, the Scientology movement is engaged in a sweeping effort to gain
influence across a broad swath of society, from schools to businesses, in
hopes of winning converts and creating a hospitable environment for church
expansion.

And Hubbard's followers apparently consider his theology of combat an
important component.

In 1987, they elevated to high doctrine a warning he wrote two decades ago
in a Scientology newspaper, addressed to "people who seek to stop us."
"If you oppose Scientology we promptly look up - and will find and expose -
your crimes," he wrote. "If you leave us alone we will leave you alone.
It's very simple. Even a fool can grasp that.

"And don't underrate our ability to carry it out. - Those who try to make
life difficult for us are at once at risk."

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