SCIENTOLOGY

 A simple search on the net should end anyone from considering joining this cult

Scientology was started in the 1950s by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard in fulfillment to his declared aim to start a religion to make money. [Reader's Digest, May 1980, p.1 - In the late 1940s, pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard declared: "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion"] 

Scientology is an offshoot to a method of psychotherapy he concocted from various sources which he named "Dianetics"- a form of regression therapy.

It was then further expanded to appear more like a religion in order to enjoy tax benefits. He called it "Scientology".

On the surface the Church of Scientology seems reasonable.

• The insane content of it is only revealed to a person when the early stuff has done its work & made them more susceptible.

• After a short while a person "believes" that Scientology is doing them good.

• They are then persuaded to help their new-found group further by donating money &/or working for the organization for almost no money.

Penthouse Interview With L. Ron Hubbard Jr. 

- "Scientology & all the other cults are one-dimensional, & we live in a three-dimensional world.

Cults are as dangerous as drugs. They commit the highest crime: the rape of the soul." L. Ron Hubbard Jr. - Penthouse, June 1983
 

• For more than twenty years L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., has been a man on the run.

• He has changed residences, occupations, & even his name in 1972 to Ron DeWolf to escape what he alleges to be the retribution & wrath of his father & his father's organization-- the Church of Scientology.

• His father, L. Ron Hubbard. Sr., founder & leader of Scientology, has been a figure of controversy & mystery, as has been his organization, for more than a generation.

• Its detractors have called it the "granddaddy" & the worst of all the religious cults that have sprung up over the last generation.

• Its advocates-- & there are thousands--swear that the church is the avenue for human perfection & happiness. Millions of words have been written for & against Scientology. Just what is the truth?
   

Ron Hubbard, Sr., & the very few who have worked at the highest echelons of the organization have never spoken publicly about the workings & finances of the Church of Scientology.

• Firsthand allegations about coercion, black-mail, & just how billions of dollars the organization is said to possess have been accrued & spent is lacking: that is, until very recently.

• In an extraordinary petition brought November 10, 1982, in Superior Court in Riverside, Calif., by L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., to prove that his father is dead & that his heirs should receive the tens of millions of dollars being dissipated from his estate, some of the mystery about Scientology has begun to unravel. Some of the details are shocking.

L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., is a survivor.

• His appearance on earth, May 7, 1934, was the result of failed abortion rituals by his father, & Ron, after only six & a half months in the womb & at 2.2 pounds entered the world.

• His mother, Margeret ("Polly") Grubb, was to have one more child, Catherine May, before her husband ditched her in 1946 to enter into a bigamous marnage with Sarah Northrup. A half sister, Alexis Valerie, survived that union. Soon after that, the founder of Scientology married Mary Sue Whipp, the current Mrs. L. Ron Hubbard, Sr., who at this writing is serving four years in federal prison for stealing government documents.

• There were four childrens: Diana & Quentin, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1976; Arthur, who has been missing for several years; & Suzette.

Ron Jr. says that he remembers much of his childhood.

• He claims to recall, at six years, a vivid scene of his father performing an abortion ritual on his mother with a coat hanger.

• He remembers that when he was ten years old, his father, in an attempt to get his son in tune with his black-magic worship, laced the young Hubbard's bubble gum with Phenobarbital.

• Drugs were an important part of Ron Jr.'s growing up, as his father believed that they were the best way to get closer to Satan --the Antichrist of black magic.

Ron Jr. also recalls a hard-drinking, drug-abusing father who would mistreat his mother & other women, but who, when, under the influence, would delight in telling his son all of his exploits.

Finally, Ron Jr. remembers his father as a "broke science-fiction writer" who espoused that the road to riches & glory lay in selling religion to the masses.

• Nineteen fifty was a watershed year for the sixteen-year-old Ron Jr., when his father's book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health was published.

• While in the 1980s self-help books hold little novelty, Dianetics was a pioneer of that genre. Happiness in 1950 could be a reality, if only one practiced the strange amalgam of science fiction & psychoanalysis offered in the senior Hubbard's best-seller.

• It was an unexpected success for Hubbard, then living in New Jersey, when the mailman would deliver daily sacks of letters from the unhappy & desperate who had read the book & wanted L. Ron Hubbard to take them to the promised land.

• It was a dream come true --a science-fiction writer who not only created a world of fantasy but packaged it & sold it as reality.

In 1950 L. Ron Hubbard opened a Dianetics clinic, where the hopeful & newly converted could come, for a fee, & their ills --from loneliness to cancer --would be cured.

• Danetics was the new Scientific Revolution. & L. Ron Hubbard was its prophet.

• Scientology is essentially a self-help therapy. It is based on one premise that by recalling negative experiences or "engrams", a person can free himself from repressed feelings that cripple his life. This liberation process is assisted by a counselor called an "auditor" who charges up to hundreds of dollars a session. The auditor's basic aid is the "E-meter", a skin galvanometer that is said to help him ascertain the problems of his client.

Soon the New Jersey authorities & the American Medical Association challenged the veracity of the new faith.

• L. Ron Hubbard met the challenge by fleeing the state (not the last time this was to happen). A frequent memory of Ron Jr. is his father's packing up shoe boxes with thousands of dollars to move on to greener & safer pastures.

• Coming into manhood in the early fifties, Ron Jr. learned the virtues of flimflam & keeping one step ahead of the law & creditors. But he admits that he accepted his father's teachings & example as correct. By the time his father started the modern Church of Scientology in Arizona & New Jersey in 1953, young Hubbard was not only a disciple but a willing organizer in the new movement. He was to be so throughout the 1950s.

• While Ron Jr. may never have questioned his father & the mushrooming cult of Scientology, a growing uneasiness began to take hold of him.

• In 1953 he married Henrietta, whom he never allowed to join the church. They were to have six children --Deborah, Leif, Esther, Eric, Harry & Alex, age twelve, who suffers from Down's Syndrome-- plus six grandchildren, none or whom were ever members of Scientology. The importance of family life, especially in contrast to his own up-bringing, caused Ron Jr. to question his life as a member of Scientology, albeit privately.

• Other factors also caused Ron Jr. to think about breaking away from the cult that was dominating his life.

• His father's autocratic & arbitrary control of Scientology often led to violence, & the young Hubbard began to be disturbed by his own participation.

• Certain questionable transactions involving drug dealing & the transfer of large sums of money abroad by his father was another troubling factor. But, he says, the breaking point came over his father's involvement with the Russians.

• Finally, in 1959, when his father was in Australia, Ron, his wife, & two children fled the Church of Scientology.

According to Ron Jr., life was to become a nightmarish existence.

• No matter, where the family went in the United States, it would not take long for a member of the organization to find them. Because he knew too much about Scientology & its founder, Ron says, attempts were made to ensure his silence. For many years L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. kept a low profile.

• Keeping silent did not end Ron's terror of what his father & followers might do to him & his family.

• In 1976 his half brother Quentin died under mysterious circumstances that Ron is certain was murder. Quentin, a son of Scientology's leader, was a drug abuser & an embarrassment to his father.

• Whether all these questions were signs of paranoia finally became less important to Ron than discovering, once & for all, the truth about his father.

• In 1980 Ron became convinced that his father was dead, & that his death was being kept a secret by the Church of Scientology, lest knowledge of his death cause chaos in the organization. He filed his petition & an open war was declared.

• Should he win the suit by proving that his father is either dead or incompetent, Ron & other family members will receive the millions of dollars believed to be part of L. Ron Hubbard's estate.

For some thirty years, stories, rumors, & innuendo about the Church of Scientology have been whispered, & sometimes reported, internationally.

Obviously, the final judgment of L. Ron Hubbard. Jr., & his allegations remains to be made. But because of his high-level involvement for such a long time with this controversial organization, he himself has become a newsworthy figure.

To find out what this man at the center of an international firestorm is like. Penthouse sent contributing editor Allan Sonnenschein to Carson City, Nev, where he met Hubbard in the small three-bedroom apartment in which he lives (he manages the apartment complex). "DeWolf." Sonnenschein told us, "is a stocky & ruddy-complexioned man, with thinning red hair.

Despite his almost continuous involvement with lawyers of both sides of his case, DeWolf was very relaxed during the several hours. I spent with him. He seemed convinced that his desire to tell his story after all these years was of vital importance ... & he spoke with a firmness & intensity befitting a person who claims to be risking his life by speaking out."

Because of the seriousness of Mr. DeWolf's charges & because his father has affected the lives of thousands, if not millions, of people, Penthouse will be launching an independent investigation of these charges. The results will be published in a forthcoming issue.

Penthouse: Before you filed your lawsuit & began speaking openly about Scientology, there was very little news of it in the media. Why do you think there has been so little investigation of Scientology?

Hubbard: it's very simple. Scientology has always had a "fair-game doctrine"--a policy of doing absolutely anything to stop an investigation or publication of a critical article in a magazine or newspaper. They have run some incredible operations on the several people who have tried to write books about Scientology. It was almost like a terror campaign. First they'd try throwing every possible lawsuit at the reporter or newspaper. We had a team of attorneys to do just that. The goal was to destroy the enemy. So the solution was always to attack, full-bore, with every possible resource, from every angle, instantaneously it can certainly be overwhelming. A guy would get slapped with twenty-seven lawsuits, & our lawyers would start depositioning absolutely anybody who ever knew the man, digging up dirt while at the same time putting together an operation that would get him into further trouble. I know of one case, concerning Paulette Cooper, who wrote a book called The Scandal of Scientology, in which they spent almost $500.000 trying to destroy her.

Penthouse: So you think the press was intimidated?

Hubbard: Oh, absolutely. All the way through, since the fifties. I found this very sad. It seemed very much like Germany in the thirties. The freedom of the press seemed buried. They got scared. They thought. "Well, who wants to go through ten years of lawsuits, just because we printed the name L. Ron Hubbard?" I'm delighted to see that Penthouse has the balls to print this interview.

Penthouse: Why do you think it's so risky?

Hubbard: My father drilled into all of us: Don't go to court thinking to win a lawsuit. You go to court to harass, to delay, to exhaust the enemy financially, physically, mentally. You file every motion you can think of & you just lock them up in court. The courts, for my father, were never used to seek justice or redress, put to destroy the people he thought were enemies, to prevent negative stories from appearing. He just wanted complete control of the press --& got it.

Penthouse: What exactly is Scientology?

Hubbard: Scientology is a power-&-money-&-intelligence-gathering game. To use common, everyday English, Scientology says that you & I & everybody else willed ourselves into being hundreds of trillions of years ago --just by deciding to be. We willed ourselves into being ourselves. Through wild space games, interaction, fights, & wars in the grand science-fiction tradition, we created this universe --all the matter, energy, space, & time of this universe. & so through these trillions of years, we have become the effect of our own cause & we now find ourselves trapped in bodies. So the idea of Scientology "auditing" or "counseling" or "processing" is to free yourself from your body & to return you to the original godlike state or, in Scientology jargon, an operating Thetan --O.T. We are all fallen gods, according to Scientology, & the goal is to be returned to that state.

Penthouse: & what is the Church of Scientology?
Hubbard: It's one of my father's many organizations. It was formed in 1953, basically to avoid the harassment of my father by the medical profession & the IRS. The idea of Scientology didn't really exist before that point as a religion, but my father hit upon turning it into a church after he started feeling pressured.

Penthouse: Didn't your father have any interest in helping people?

Hubbard: No.

Penthouse: Never?

Hubbard: My father started out as a broke science-fiction writer. He was always broke in the late 1940s. He told me & a lot of other people that the way to make a million was to start a religion. Then he wrote the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health while he was in Bayhead, New Jersey. When we later visited Bayhead, in about 1953, we were walking around & reminiscing --he told me that he had written the book in one month.

Penthouse: There was no church when he wrote the book?

Hubbard: Oh, no, no. You see, his goal was basically to write the book, take the money & run. But in 1950, this was the first major book of do-it-yourself psychotherapy, & it became a runaway best-seller. He kept getting, literally, mail trucks full of mail. & so he & some other people, including J. W. Campbell, the editor of Astounding Science Fiction , started the Dianetics Research Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey. & the post office kept backing up & just dumping mail sacks into the building. The foundation had a staff that just ran through the envelopes & threw away anything that didn't have any money in it.

Penthouse: People sent money?

Hubbard: Yeah, they wanted training & further Dianetic auditing, Dianetic processing. It was just an incredible avalanche.

Penthouse: Did he write the book off the top of his head? Did he do any real research?

Hubbard: No research at all. When he has answered that question over the years, his answer has changed according to which biography he was writing. Sometimes he used to write a new biography every week. He usually said that he had put thirty years of research into the book. But no, he did not. What he did, reaily, was take bits & pieces from other people & put them together in a blender & stir them all up --& out came Dianetics! All the examples in the book --some 200 "real-life experiences" --were just the result of his obsessions with abortions & unconscious states... In fact, the vast majority of those incidents were invented off the top of his head. The rest stem from his own secret life, which was deeply involved in the occult & black-magic. That involvement goes back to when he was sixteen, living in Washington. D.C. He got hold of the book by Alistair Crowley called The Book of Law. He was very interested in several things that were the creation of what some people call the Moon Child. It was basically an attempt to create an immaculate conception --except by Satan rather than by God. Another important idea was the creation of what they call embryo implants --of getting a satanic or demonic spirit to inhabit the body of a fetus. This would come about as a result of black-magic rituals, which included the use of hypnosis, drugs, & other dangerous & destructive practices. One of the important things was to destroy the evidence if you failed at this immaculate conception. That's how my father became obsessed with abortions. I have a memory of this that goes back to when I was six years old. It is certainly a problem for my father & for Scientology that I rememoer this. It was around 1939, 1940, that I watched my father doing something to my mother. She was lying on the bed & he was sitting on her, facing her feet. He had a coat hanger in his hand. There was blood all over the place. I remember my father shouting at me. "Go back to bed!" A little while later a doctor came & took her off to the hospital. She didn't talk about it for quite a number of years. Neither did my father.

Penthouse: He was trying to perform an abortion?

Hubbard: According to him & my mother, he tried to do it with me. I was born at six & a half months & weighed two pounds, two ounces. I mean, I wasn't born: this is what came out as a result of their attempt to abort me. It happened during a night of partying --he got involved in trying to do a black-magic number. Also, I've got to complete this by saying that he thought of himself as the Beast 666 incarnate.

Penthouse: The devil?

Hubbard: Yes. The Antichrist. Alestair Crowley thought of himself as such. & when Crowley died in 1947, my father then decided that he should wear the cloak of the beast & become the most powerful being in the universe.

Penthouse: You were sixteen years old at that time. What did you believe in?

Hubbard: I believed in Satanism. There was no other religion in the house! Scientology & black magic. What a lot of people don't realize is that Scientology is black magic that is just spread out over a long time period. To perform black magic generally takes a few hours or, at most, a few weeks. But in Scientology it's stretched out over a lifetime, & so you don't see it. Black magic is the inner core of Scientology --& it is probably the only part of Scientology that really works. Also, you've got to realize that my father did not worship Satan. He thought he was Satan. He was one with Satan. He had a direct pipeline of communication & power with him. My father wouldn't have worshiped anything. I mean, when you think you're the most powerful being in the universe, you have no respect for anything, let alone worship.

Penthouse: Let's get back to how you saw Scientology working on an individual basis. What if someone wrote to your father asking if he could cure their cancer?

Hubbard: He'd say, Oh, yes, he could handle that.

Penthouse: & what would be the charge for curing cancer?

Hubbard: Back in those days it was anywhere from $10 to $25 an hour. Now, it's up to $300 or more an hour.

Penthouse: What exactly did that pay for?

Hubbard: To be audited. In the old days, the patient would lie on a couch & the auditor would sit in a chair & counsel. The words auditing, counseling, & processing are really the same in Scientology.

Penthouse: What would be discussed?
Hubbard: They would say that the cancer & its cure are just incidental to the main problem of one's "spiritual development." & according to Dianetics & Scientology, the explanation for cancer is basically that you have a sex problem?

Penthouse: A sex problem?

Hubbard: Right.

Penthouse: How did he figure that?

Hubbard: Quite simply, according to my father. Cancer is basically cells that are dividing out of control, & so, according to my father, the problem is a sexual thing. Therefore the cancer is rooted in a sexual problem. If you have cancer, you are really screwed up on sex. So what would happen in this auditing --I don't know what it's like now, but it's probably just the same as in the old days --is that they would address a guy's entire sex life. There was certainly an incredible preoccupation. In Dianetics & Scientology, about sex was a great means of control. You have complete control of someone if you have every detail of his sex life & fantasy life on record.

Penthouse: What if someone who went thought the training just wanted to drop out?

Hubbard: There was no way. There were thousands of people, back in the fifties who would come in & receive various levels of training, such as a Hubbard Certified Auditor's Certificate or a Bachelor of Scientology or a Doctorate of Scientology, & if they didn't toe the mark as my father wanted them to, then we would cancel their certificates. & then he would notify the Scientologists in the area where the man lived not to have anything to do with him, to disconnect from him. & if information was available about him, we would spread that information around to his wife, his family, his children, where he worked, everywhere. It was straight blackmail. It was "Stay in the fold or else." Then, later on, they developed what they called an ethics review board. If you didn't toe the mark, you'd be put on trial in front of a kangaroo court & then be sentenced to maybe scrub floors. I heard that you had to walk around with a dirty rag tied around your arm like a badge. You could be made to do anything. You would be locked in a chain locker or handcuffed to a bed. This is in later years. We were simpler in the fifties, more direct. I just went out & beat them up.

(For my father, the courts were used to destroy people he thought were enemies ... I'm delighted to see that Penthouse has the balls to print this interview.)

Penthouse: Physical beatings?

Hubbard: Yeah. We'd strong-arm them. I did it myself. & you had to realize that I weighed around 240 pounds in those days. When I taught Scientology, no students ever blew my courses! I would go out & physically retrieve my students. You know, the Scientologists are now trying to make me out to be the worst person since Attila the Hun. They forget that when I was director of training for the organization, I trained literally thousands of people. I created a lot of the Scientology processes & procedures throughout the fifties. I really helped create & run the organization. I was very deeply involved, very directly, for seven years, during its formulation & building. So I find their attempts to discredit me amusing. I used to have a thing about saying that nobody ever ran out of my courses. If you think est is tough, you ought to have taken courses under me in the fifties!

Penthouse: What would happen if someone went to your class, decided it was bullshit, & never came back?

Hubbard: If you signed up for a course & you came to my class, I'd keep you there or go physically retrieve you if you left.

Penthouse: You'd already gotten the money, so why did you bother?

Hubbard: Because I thought I was all-knowing, all-powerful -- totally arrogant & egotistical -- for one thing. I was quite insufferable.

Penthouse: Your father knew this was going on?

Hubbard: Well, sure. Nobody did a thing in Scientology without his direct knowledge or consent or without his orders.

Penthouse: Did it ever go beyond these physical beatings?

Hubbard: I remember locking one girl up in a shack out in the desert for at least a couple or weeks.

Penthouse: Why were things like this never publicized?

Hubbard: Because the same reign of terror that occurred under Robespierre & Hitler occurred back then in the fifties, as it occurs now. You must realize that there is very little actual courage in this world. It's pretty easy to bend people around. It doesn't take much to shut people up, it really doesn't. In the fifties all I had to do was call a guy up on the telephone & say, "Well, I think your wife would like to know about your mistress." The response would be a shocked "Oh, my God!" I'd say, "Well, nobody really wants to divulge that kind of information. I think it would be absolutely terrible if your wife found out, so I'm going to make absolutely sure that she doesn't find out. Now, if you just drop in here for a little more auditing ... Now you know in your heart that the critical things you've been saying about Scientology are just vindictive. They're not really true in your heart. You know that, don't you?" & the guy says. "Yeah, sure, I sure do know that!" & then, if Scientologists couldn't blackmail you, they'd create some dirt on you through their "special operations." There were quite a few of those operations. This one, for example, happened recently. I wasn't involved in it, but Scientologists tried to get an assistant attorney general of the state of California embroiled in a fake operation where a Scientologist pretended to be a nun & pretended to get pregnant by him & filed papers against him. Then in another scheme they tried to set up the mayor of Clearwater, Florida, for a fake hit-&-run accident. I could give you operation after operation that they set up like this.

Penthouse: This has been going on since the fifties?

Hubbard: Sure. It was pretty tame back then compared to very sophisticated operations like they have now. When we hid assets, for example -- I remember being in Philadelphia when the FBI anc the U.S. Marshall's Office were after my father on a contempt-of-court charge. There I was running across town with my father with our complete mailing list & a suitcase full of money! Heading for the hills!

Penthouse: Where did the money end up?

Hubbard: A lot of it went abroad. But my father always kept a great deal of it around his bedroom so that he could flee at a moment's notice. In shoe boxes. He distrusted banks.

Penthouse: What kind of money are we talking about?

Hubbard: Back then? Hundreds of thousands at least. The last time I saw my father, in 1959, he mentioned that he had at least $20 million salted away.

Penthouse: Did he invest the money?

Hubbard: No. He wanted to stay really liquid. Very fluid, so he could cut & run at any time.

Penthouse: Where did all this money come from? How much did it cost to be audited, in Scientology parlance?

Hubbard: It cost as much as a person had. He had to stay in the organization, getting audited higher & higher, until he paid us as much as he had. People would sell their house, their car, convert their stocks & securities into cash, & turn it all over to Scientology.

Penthouse: What did you promise them for this price?

Hubbard: We promised them the moon & then demonstrated a way to get there. They would sell their soul for that. We were telling someone that they could have the power of a god --that's what we were telling them.

Penthouse: What kind of people were tempted by this promise?

Hubbard: A whole range of people. People who wanted to raise their IQ, to feel better, to solve their problems. You also got people who wished to lord it over other people in the use of power. Remember, it's a power game, a matter of climbing a pyramidal hierarchy to the top, & it's who you can step on to get more power that counts. It appeals a great deal to neurotics. & to people who are greedy. It appeals a great deal to Americans, I think, because they tend to believe in instant everything, from instant coffee to instant nirvana. By just saying a few magic words or by doing a few assignments, one can become a god. People believe this. You see, Scientology doesn't really address the soul; it addresses the ego. What happens in Scientology is that a person's ego gets pumped up by this science-fiction fantasy helium into universe-sized proportions. & this is very appealing. It is especially appealing to the intelligentsia of this country, who are made to feel that they are the most highly intelligent people, when in actual fact, from an emotional standpoint, they are completely stupid. Fine professors, doctors, scientists, people involved in the arts & sciences, would fall into Scientology like you wouldn't believe. It appealed to their intellectual level & buttressed their emotional weaknesses. You show me a professor & I revert back to the fifties: I just kick him in the head, eat him for breakfast.

(My mother was lying on the bed & my father was sitting on her, facing her feet. He had a coat hanger in his hand. There was blood all over the place.)

Penthouse: Did it attract young people as much as cults today?

Hubbard: Yes. We attracted quite a few hippies but we tried to stay a way from them, because they didn't have any money.

Penthouse: A poor man can't be a Scientologist?

Hubbard: No, oh no.

Penthouse: What do you think of the great popularity of cults in this country?

Hubbard: I think they're very dangerous & destructive. I don't think that anyone should think for you. & that's exactly what cults do. All cults, including Scientology, say, "I am your mind, I am your brain. I've done all the work for you, I've laid the path open for you. All you have to do is turn your mind off & walk down the path I have created." Well, I have learned that there's great strength in diversity, that a clamorous discussion or debate is very healthy & should be encouraged. That's why I like our political setup in the United States: simply because you can fight & argue & jump up & down & shout & scream & have all kinds of viewpoints, regardless of how wrongheaded or ridiculous they might be. People here don't have to give up their right to perceive things the way they believe. Scientology & all the other cults are one-dimensional, & we live in a three-dimensional world. Cults are as dangerous as drugs. They commit the highest crime: the rape of the soul.

Penthouse: You mentioned that Scientology attracted a great many well-known or important people. Can you give us some examples?

Hubbard: Two of the people we were involved with in the late fifties in England were Errol Flynn & a man who was high up in the Labor Party at the time. My father & Errol Flynn were very similar. They were only interested in money, sex, booze, & drugs. At that time, in the late fifties, Flynn was pretty much of a burned-out hulk. But he was involved in smuggling deals with my father: gold from the Mediterranean, & some drugs --mostly cocaine. They were both just a little larger than life. I had to admire my father from one standpoint. As I've said, he was a down-&-out, broke science-fiction writer, & then he writes one book of science-fiction & convinces the world it's true. He sells it to millions of people & gets billions of dollars & everyone thinks he's some sort of deity. He was really bigger than life. Flynn was like that, too. You could say many negative things about the two of them, but they did as they pleased & lived as they pleased. It was always fun to sit there at dinner & listen to these two guys rap. Wild people. Errol Flynn was like my father also in that he would do anything for money. He would take anything to bed --boys, girls, Fifty-year-old women, ten-year-old boys, Flynn & my father had insatiable appetites. Tons of mistresses. They lived very high on the hog.

Penthouse: & what about this Labor Party official?

Hubbard: He was a double agent for the KGB & for the British intelligence agency. He was also a raging homosexual. He wanted my father to use his black-magic, soul-cracking, brainwashing techniques on young boys. He wanted these boys as his own sexual slaves. He wanted to use my father's techniques to crack people's heads open because he was very influential in & around the British government --plus he was selling information to the Russians. & so was my father.

Penthouse: Your father was selling information to the Soviets?

Hubbard: Yes. That's where my father got the money to buy St. Hill Manor in East Grinstead, Sussex, which is the English headquarters of Scientology today.

Penthouse: What information did your father have to sell the Soviet government?

Hubbard: He didn't do any spying himself. What he normally did was allow these strange little people to go into the offices & into his home at odd hours of the night. He told me that he was allowing the KGB to go through our files, & that he was charging £40,000 for it. This was the money he used for the purchase of St. Hill Manor.

Penthouse: Do you know any specific information that the KGB got from your father that might have been harmful to security?

Hubbard: The plans for an infrared heat-seeking missile in the early fifties. They obtained the information by extensive auditing of the guy who was one of the head engineers. There were great infiltrations clear to this day. There has always been an inordinate interest on the part of Scientology in military & government personnel. There's no way for me to prove it sitting here, but I believe that the KGB trained East German agents who came via Denmark to London to the United States who were, supposedly, Scientologists. They made very good Scientologists. They were very well trained.

Penthouse: Did your father do this just for money?

Hubbard: Yes. The more he made, the more he wanted. He became greedy. He was really just interested in the use of money & power, wherever it was or whosoever's it was. Morality & politics made no difference to him at all.

Penthouse: Did the Labor Party official get any of his young men via Scientology?

Hubbard: Yes. The British were ripe for Scientology. The British school system fosters lesbianism & homosexuality, because from the time you're born until you're in your twenties, all you see is the same sex. The schools are so segretated. & you'll notice in Scientology the focus on sex. Sex, sex, sex. The first thing we wanted to know about someone we were auditing was his sexual deviations. You know, in actual fact, very few people exclusively practice missionary-style sex. So all you've got to do is find a person's kinks, whatever they might be. Their dreams & their fantasies. & if you find that central core, their sexual drives & desires & fantasies, then you can fit a ring through their noses & take them anywnere. You promise to fufill their fantasies or you threaten to expose them --very simple. & People do have outrageous sexual fantasies. Nothing wrong with that --I'm the last guy on earth who should make a value judgment about somebody's sexual practices. But once you find their sexual core, you've got them. & you find this by brainwashing, through auditing, through interrogation, investigations, following them, photographing them, tapping their phones, whatever.

Penthouse: You did all that?

Hubbard: Sure.

Penthouse: Were there any other high level British government people in Scientology?

Hubbard: There was a member of Winston Churchill's medical staff. We had him by the balls.

Penthouse: Did he give you any information about Churchill?

Hubbard: Yes, certainly. You see, these people didn't realize where their information was going. They always thought that in Scientology auditing they had the priest-confessor's confidentiality --but it was never that way. People just assumed it, & still do. But everybody knew what was in everybody's files.

Penthouse: What was the first example you can remember of your father's espionage activity?

Hubbard: I remember one day in 1944 when he came nome from the naval base where he was stationed in Oregon with a big, gray metal box under his arm. He put in our little attached garage & put a tarp over it. That weekend a couple of funny little guys came over to the house. I remember it was summer & they were wearing heavy woollen overcoats -- dark brown overcoats. It stuck in my mind: what are they doing wearing overcoats when it's hotter than hell? I was only about ten at the time. Anyway, these big, sweating guys take the box & put in in their car & drive off. But before they'd come, I'd snuck a look in the box. It had this strange-looking object in it. I didn't know what the hell it was. Later on, in the fifties, I was walking through a war surplus store & I suddenly saw an object that was just like the one I'd seen in the box. It was the heart of the radar. During the war --when those men took it from our garage -- it was super-secret, super-valuable, worth thousands of dollars. I remember that people were told to commit suicide if it ever got captured in order to blow it up.

Then, in 1955, I went to work in the Scientology office in London. I noticed a woman in the office doing strange things with strange people in the office, so I investigated her. I found out she was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. I got very angry at her & broke into her apartment, where I found dozens of little code pads. They looked like little milk pads with a whole mess of letters & numbers on them. I had people follow her to the Russian Embassy. I finally wrote a long report to my father about her. He was furious. He told me not to investigate anymore, not to write anymore, not to tell anyone what I had found out, to destroy all my evidence. I yelled at him, "The goddamn Russians are running around the office & doing God knows what." He yelled back. "I want'em there!" He told me that she was placed there by the KGB with his knowledge & consent. This really bothered me. My grandfather, who was a lieutenant commander in the navy, had impressed me with his red-white-&-blue honor & integrity. He was an officer of the old school. 180 degrees different from my father, in fact, I credit him a great deal with my ability to get rid of Scientology & get my head straightened out, because his patriotism had gotten through to me & made me sour on what my father was doing in dealing with the Russians.

Penthouse: Was this why you became disenchanted with Scientology?

Hubbard: It was the beginning. I began to see that my father was a sick, sadistic, vicious man. I saw more & more parallels between his behavior & what I read about the way Hitler thought & acted. I was realizing that my father really wanted to destroy his enemies & take over the world. Whoever was perceived as his enemy had to be destroyed, including me. This "fair game" policy since the beginning. The organization couldn't exist without it. It keeps people very quiet.

Penthouse: Do you mean killed?

Hubbard: Well, he didn't really want people killed, because how could you really destroy them if you just killed them? What he wanted to do was to destroy their lives, their families, their reputations, their jobs, their money, everything. My father was the type of person who, when it came to destruction, wanted to keep you alive for as long as possible, to torture you, punish you. If he chose to destroy you, he would love to see you lying in the gutter, strung out on booze & drugs, rolling in your own vomit, with your wife & children gone forever: no job, no money. He'd enjoy walking by & kicking you & saying to other people, "Look what I did to this man!" He's the kind of man who would pull the wings off flies & watch them stumble around. You see, this fits in with his Scientology beliefs, also. He felt that if you just died, your spirit would go out & get another body to live in. By destroying an enemy that way, you'd be doing him a favor. You were letting him out from under the thumb of L. Ron. Hubbard, you see?

Penthouse: It's been said that many Scientologists have similar philosophies.

Hubbard: Yes. Many are sadistic, just like he was. Very Teutonic, very Gestapo.

Penthouse: Do you think they would stop at murder?

Hubbard: Many wouldn't. The one super-secret sentence that Scientology is built on is: "Do as thou wilt." That is the whole of the law. It also comes from the black magic, from Alistair Crowley. It means that you are a law unto yourself, that you are above the law, that you create your own law. You are above any other human considerations. Since you came into being by an act of will, you can do anything you will. If you decide to go out & kill somebody -- bam! -- that's it. An act of will. Not connected, to any emotions or feelings, not governed by any ethics or morality or law. They are very vicious people. Totally into attack. Most people think these people are so insane & wild & berserk & unpredictable. Not to me. Insane people are very predictable, because they're trapped on the same mental & spiritual merry-go-round & all they can do is go round & round. For years I've been able to Counter them -- to stay alive -- simply because I was one of them. I had a helluva good teacher.

Penthouse: Was your father violent in his behavior with his family?

Hubbard: Not to me. But he beat up a lot of women very badly. Blood, black eyes, busted teeth, the whole thing. He beat the holy hell out of women. His rages were incredible. I've read reports of the kinds of rages Hitler used to have, & they sound just like my father's. He was especially touchy about food. He would always have somebody else at the table sample everything on the table before he'd eat it. I've seen him pick up an entire dinner table & throw it against the wall if he didn't like the food or thought it was suspicious. He got very strange in the fifties. He had to have his clothes washed & washed & washed. He would take showers half a dozen times a day. I have often wondered if all of this might have been caused by the massive amounts of drugs & medication he took.

Penthouse: Did your father take a lot of drugs?

Hubbard: Yes. Since he was sixteen. You see, drugs are very important in the application of heavy black magic. The personal use of drugs expands one's conscious ability to break open the doors to the realm of the deep.

Penthouse: What kind of drugs did he generally use?

Hubbard: At various times, just about everything, because he was quite a hypocondriac. Cocaine, peyote, amphetamines, barbiturates. It would be shorter to list what he didn't take.

Penthouse: Did he encourage you to do drugs?

Hubbard: Well, he used them with me. He was a real night person. We used to sit around all night, sit around his office or home, get loaded up, & talk. He had a pretty liquid tongue. He loved to talk. & of course, in the fifties, he decided that I was the heir apparent, so he wanted to teach me everything he knew. He started me out by mixing Phenobarbital into my bubble gum, when I was ten years old. This was to induce deeper trances in order to practice the black magic & to get an avenue to power.

Penthouse: How exactly would this work?

Hubbard: The explanation is sort of long & complicated. The basic rationale is that there are some powers in this universe that are pretty strong. As an example, Hitler was involved in the same black magic & the same occult practices that my father was. The identical ones. Which, as I have said, stem clear back to before Egyptian times. It's a very secret thing. Very powerful & very workable & very dangerous. Brainwashing is nothing compared to it. The proper term would be "soul cracking." It's like cracking open the soul, which then opens various doors to the power that exists, the satanic & demonic powers. Simply put, it's like a tunnel or an avenue or a doorway. Pulling that power into yourself through another person --& using women, especially -- is incredibly insidious. It makes Dr. Fu Manchu look like a kindergarten student. It is the ultimate vampirism, the ultimate mind-fuck, instead of going for blood, you're going for their soul. & you take drugs in order to reach that state where you can, quite literally, like a psychic hammer, break their soul, & pull the power through. He designed his Scientology Operating Thetan techniques to do the same thing. But, of course, it takes a couple of hundred hours of auditing & mega-thousands of dollars for the privilege of having your head turned into a glass Humpty Dumpty --shattered into a million pieces. It may sound like incredible gibberish, but it made my father a fortune.

Penthouse: When was the last time your father was seen in public?

Hubbard: Sometime in the sixties he granted an interview to British television. After that he didn't appear in public & just slowly became a recluse. One of the reasons he became a recluse was his own physical & mental condition was deteriorating so badly that he couldn't let the public or the Scientology membership know just what kind of shape he was in. He was a testament to the fact that Scientology didn't work.

Penthouse: Looking over the past twenty-odd years of your life, what would you have done differently?

Hubbard: That's a complex question, guess if I had it to do all over. I would do the same thing. With a father like mine. I don't think I could live it differently. It's been twenty-three years of hell, but sometimes you have to go through hell to get to heaven. It's been a very exciting life. I can say that. We come from a long line of rogues & scoundrels, going back 200 or 300 years, at least. & so I guess we're built for this kind of life. I've said that I am a preacher of adversity & controversy, & I thrive on it. Plus maybe by our example, people will quit trying for god-ship.

Penthouse: What if your father's alive? Would you be able to confront him?

Hubbard: Yes I would love to.

Penthouse: Do you have any fear of him?

Hubbard: No if he is sick, I would make sure he receives the best treatment I could find in the world for him. I consider him a victim of all this as much as I consider myself a victim of his own involvement with black magic, drugs & his own delusions. He became a victim of himself.

Penthouse: Many people would say that your father is guilty of a great many sins & crimes. Do you think he should be punished?

Hubbard: He hasn't escaped punishment. I think at this juncture, dead or alive, he fell into his own insanity, & that's quite sufficient punishment. That is the most terrible jail of all, to be trapped inside his own head. With him it must be like being locked inside an exploding fireworks factory with no way out.

Penthouse: Have you ever wished your father dead?

Hubbard: I don't believe so, no. Regardless of the things he's done to me --we had a helluva good time!

Penthouse: Ripping the world off?

Hubbard: We did! I enjoyed my life then, & I enjoy it now. & really, as far as crimes go. I think my father has received the ultimate punishment, which is being locked & trapped in his own insanity. There's no way out for him.

The following affidavit says enough:  Operation Clambake present: Affidavit of Jesse Prince

I, Jesse Prince declare as follows:

I am over 18 years of age & currently reside in the state of Minnesota, County of Hennepin. This declaration is of my own personal knowledge & if called upon to testify to the facts herein I could & would be competently able to testify thereto.

I am intimately familiar with the Scientology organization, movement & beliefs because I was in Scientology for 16 years (1976-92) & served in the highest ranks, including as the second in command of the Religious Technology Center (RTC). At that time, my position was "Deputy Inspector General, External" which meant being in charge of all activities outside the body of Scientology. This included being in charge of all litigation by or against any Scientology organization, intelligence (spying, covert operations) brought against perceived or imagined "enemies" (which ranged from critics to media to the courts), trademark registrations, & the licensing of trademarks to other Scientology organizations, which was how we tightly controlled all Scientology corporations while creating the false impression of "corporate integrity."

It is incumbent on this & every court, as well as the authorities, to realize the amount of deception, chicanery, lying, manipulation & outright criminality that Scientology will employ to hide the truth about their criminal activities. They will spend any amount of money to do this. I know because I was part of it for years. I received orders to break the law. I issued orders to break the law. I got others to break the law, & then I helped to hide these criminal activities just as they are hiding them now.

In fact, this tactic is one of the most coercive used by the Scientology hierarchy: to involve members in criminal acts for which they are then liable, which then prevents the person from speaking out. Even if the member manages to leave or flee, they will be reluctant to speak to the courts or the authorities because they were part of criminal activities. Plus the organization is ready to use Mafia-like tactics to threaten an ex-member if the hierarchy is afraid of their testimony. If the ex-member does speak, the organization will claim no knowledge & blames the individual, calling them a criminal when that person was doing nothing more than following orders under duress.

Members of Scientology are induced to confess to acts that, if not outright criminal, are embarrassing or possibly destructive to the person's job, marriage or profession, for example, shoplifting, adultery, masturbation, or drug abuse. The member is urged to write these down in their own handwriting, under the guise that it is a "religious confessional" for the member's good. The truth is that these "confessions" are kept to blackmail & extort the member should they dare to speak out. The member is also coerced to sign documents that are self-damaging while protecting the organization, solely in case the member dares to leave their control & speak the truth. I know because I watched this done to others, I did it to others & it was done to me.

That is why I respectfully urge this court to recognize Scientology's tactics & treat them for what they are: criminal deceit to defraud this court at any cost.

For the past five years since I fled Scientology, I have been silent because it was my intent to create a new life for myself, away from their obsessive control, & it required all the energy that I could muster to do that. About two weeks ago, I finally became curious as to what was happening within the Scientology world & I used the Internet to look up Scientology & was stunned to discover former friends who had also left & the conflicts being waged in the courts. I contacted one (Stacy Young) who had been a close friend for many years in the cult who told me what had been happening, with former members fighting to have the abuses & the criminality exposed.

Because I have intimate & personal knowledge of issues in this case, she put me in touch with attorney Dan Leipold & I traveled to his offices in Santa Ana, California. After speaking with him & others, I realized that this level of criminal fraud & deceit can no longer continue without opposition. I could no longer remain silent, regardless of their terrorism. I offered to tell the court how scientology really operates with trademarks, copyrights & the courts. In fact, I am doing this at the risk of enduring the hate campaign this pseudo-religion will wage against me, as they have against others, including judges.

Let me begin with some basic information about my own scientology history.

I first became involved with Scientology in September 1976, in San Francisco. In late 1976 I joined the elite Scientology paramilitary organization known as the Sea Organization, also known as the "Sea Org" or the acronym "SO." The Sea Organization is the actual nexus that controls the scientology empire. Sea Organization personnel are authorized to take over & control scientology organizations & to demote personnel, move bank accounts & run the corporation as if the SO personnel were employees or representatives of that corporation but they are not. This is true if the organization was part of the "Church of Scientology" or one of the secular areas such as Bridge Publications. This is possible because the only personnel allowed into executive positions in these organization are those who are in full agreement that the Sea Organization is the commanding organization. This weeding out process guarantees there will be no executives who will resist or protect their corporate integrity. This is how the Sea Organization can operate with impunity, & continue to claim that it is merely a "fraternal organization." The Sea Organization is a "fraternal organization" the way the Cosa Nostra is.

Before I was recruited into the Religious Technology Center (RTC) in 1982, most of my experience was with scientology technical material; the actual codified techniques used within the organization. This gave me considerable time to become familiar with the material, most of which was written by scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. It was that familiarity that prompted my promotion to a technical position at RTC.

Physically, I was transferred to & lived & worked at what is known as "Golden Era Studios," near Hemet, California. It is also known as "Gold" or simply "the base."

RTC's presence at Gold was fully known to all at the base, but was kept hidden from all others, to try to make it appear that Gold was merely a movie/tape production studio when really the movie/tape production is nothing but a front to mask, hide & protect the top of Scientology's actual power structure so they cannot be served with subpoenas. (The security system is more befitting a top secret military installation, with its motion detectors, buried sensors, high-speed cameras, night cameras, guards on motorcycles, & barbed wire fences wired to detect anyone touching it etc.)

RTC was at that time the most senior, most powerful & most influential organization in all of Scientology. All at RTC were Sea Org members, a- are all at the base. But because of RTC's position, we were the elite at the base.

In March 1983, I became the Deputy Inspector General, External, & a member of the Board of Directors for RTC, as Treasurer. (The only other board members were Warren McShane as Secretary & Vicki Aznaran as President, during this time.) At the time I was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of RTC I was forced to sign an undated letter of resignation. This is standard practice with all Scientology board members & is another means by which the Scientology corporations are controlled while giving the appearance of corporate integrity.

In that capacity for the next few years, I traveled about the US & outside of the US on behalf of RTC. I traveled to Germany, Italy, Australia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Mexico & Canada, with several trips to some of these countries. These trips were to put together an infrastructure that would then interface with RTC for the purpose of trademarks. I became familiar with the law with regard to each area, interviewed & approved law firms, & put the personnel in place that would report to RTC & be our on-the-ground representatives in dealing with the attorneys etc.

When Hubbard died in 1986, there was a power struggle in Scientology for the next 18 or so months that resulted in Hubbard's closest & most powerful aide (Pat Broeker) being removed. The power was taken over by David Miscavige who purged the organization of anyone who was friendly with Broeker. In mid-1987, I was removed from my position & put under armed guard at Happy Valley, a property the organization owns that is a few miles west of Gold & located deep in the Soboba Indian Reservation. I assume the undated resignation I provided on being appointed to the Board was then dated & used to make it appear that I had resigned, when I had not. After a few months, it was decided that I would not escape & I was given various jobs at Gold but kept under watch. My pay was standard Sea Org pay, $24 per week.

I should clarify why I (& others) tolerated such treatment for so long. The ability to tolerate such abusive conditions & treatment are one of the most basic requirements for promotion in the Sea Organization & RTC. We were selected & promoted because we vowed such loyalty & demonstrated it daily. Not unlike a military unit, it is the ability of the Sea Org member to take orders, carry out the assignment & to tolerate self-degrading conditions that ingratiates them to their seniors & to the system. That was why I was promoted so highly & why I then tolerated more. Looking back on it, I cannot believe that I actually tolerated such denigration & such abuse & actually deluded myself that it was for my good as well as the good of others.

In late 1991, my wife Monika became pregnant & although we were elated, she was ordered to abort the child. The reason for the abortion order is that Sea Org members were not allowed to have children. The order devastated both my wife & me. Our dedication as Sea Org members clashed violently with our intentions as parents & we went through a personal nightmare with me opposing it, to no avail. She got the abortion & afterwards she was not the same. She was devastated at the impact of what she did & that was when she told me she wanted to leave. We fled, with the organization close behind us, trying to find us. They finally did & convinced us to return so we could "leave properly."

Once they had us again behind the barbed wire & watched by security, my wife was threatened that if we did not sign certain papers, she would no longer be able to see her father & her sister, who were both in the Sea Organization.

This is another coercive power that the organization wields. Like a police state, it can order & enforce family members to alter their relations, & even get them to turn against each other. Monika & I knew that if the organization said she would be kept from her father & sister (by control over them), that she would not again be able to talk to them or see them, let alone visit. This is called "disconnection" in Scientology. We agreed to sign the papers & were able to leave.

On July 26, 1998, one of the cult's attorneys sent a long fax to Dan Leipold that is their first not-so-veiled threat to me, warning me to be silent. The attorney included the document they prepared for me & that I signed under the conditions I just described. I am attaching his letter & the documents I was forced to sign under duress as my first evidence of what this criminal cult does to silence anyone speaking out. (Exhibit 1). It does not surprise me, as it is a standard tactic, to force a person to create or sign a self-damaging document to use when ready.

I have also been privy to the destruction & alteration of documents to protect the group. On or about April of 1983 I was present at a meeting, which took place in Los Angeles, California at a Scientology office called Author Services, Inc. (ASI). ASI presented itself as the "literary agency" for Hubbard but it was actually the top of the Scientology empire at that time. All of Scientology was being directed from ASI in 1982. ASI was where various Scientology corporations went to receive orders.

Present at the meeting was David Miscavige, then the chairman of the board of ASI, Vicki Aznaran then the Deputy Inspector General of Religious Technology Center, (RTC) & Lymon Spurlock, who was "Director of Client Affairs" for ASI. Mr. Miscavige expressed concern at this meeting that there might possibly be a raid on Scientology by the IRS. At that time, none of the churches of Scientology had received tax exempt status.

One principle reason why tax exempt status had not been granted was the IRS's position that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (LRH) was actually the managing agent of Scientology in complete disregard of the corporate structure of Scientology. We knew this to be a fact but also knew that it violated IRS rules & thus had to be hidden.

There was concern that the IRS would obtain the hundreds of daily, weekly & monthly LRH orders written by Mr. Hubbard & distributed throughout Scientology. These orders were commonly referred to in Scientology as "advices" to avoid the appearance that LRH was actually running Scientology. In fact, LRH was running Scientology. The principle concern expressed at this meeting was that the LRH orders or "advices" would be used to name L. Ron Hubbard as the managing agent of Scientology.

Because of an already existing fear that an LRH "advice" might fall into the wrong hands, these orders from him were written in a way that we could deny it was from him. His name was not on them. He was never cited in the dispatch except in the third person. There was no signature & a salutation in reply was never more than "Dear Sir." The routing at the top referred to him merely as "*", an asterisk. However if a person (or an agency) got enough of these, there would be little doubt that we were in touch with Hubbard (via ASI) & he was telling us & each corporation what to do to make him more money.

David Miscavige specifically stated that ASI was "already dealing with the problem", ridding ASI of any documents that would implicate L. Ron Hubbard as managing agent of Scientology. He stated that under his directive the LRH orders, or "advices", were being collected & transferred by truck to a Riverside County recycling plant where the documents were to be "pulped". This method of destruction was considered to be better than shredding. I was also given instructions that I was in charge of purging the remainder of the Scientology organization of LRH orders. This was to include Church of scientology of California (CSC); Church of Scientology International (CSI); & RTC.

Several weeks after this first meeting I attended a second meeting at the ASI offices concerning the continuing destruction of scientology corporate documentation. In attendance at the second meeting were David Miscavige, Lymon Spurlock, Vicki Aznaran, Norman Starkey & Marty Rathburn. At this meeting, David Miscavige for the first time stated that scientology had been ordered by a court to produce various documents concerning a former Scientology member named Lawrence Wollersheim who had a lawsuit pending in Los Angeles against the Church of Scientology of California. The court had ordered Scientology to produce Mr. Wollersheim's entire "preclear" (PC) file.

A "PC " file is one of several files kept on members. The PC file is the file that includes all written records of all "confessionals" done by the member. This means that it includes not only the most self-damaging material but it also reflects every problem the person might have had with the organization, including complaints. This PC file grows with the person's tenure in Scientology.

Mr. Wollersheim's PC file was several thousand pages in length & stood as high as a six-foot tall man. Initially at this meeting it was decided that Mr. Wollersheim's PC file would be redacted & culled of any evidence or documentation which might assist Mr. Wollersheim in his lawsuit against CSC. There was also concern that the materials known as Clear, OT I, OT II, OT III & NED for OT's (NOTS) would be open to public inspection if Mr. Wollersheim's files were produced as ordered. Scientologists are taught that a person could catch pneumonia & die if that person is prematurely exposed to these "upper level" materials without first having taken many hours of preparatory auditing. Ultimately, approximately 50 pages were produced pursuant to the court order. Mr. Wollersheim's PC file was culled based on a direct order from David Miscavige.

Later, I was informed that a second court order was issued to produce Mr. Wollersheim's entire file. Faced with the prospect of having to produce the entire file David Miscavige gave orders that the entire file simply be destroyed by being pulped.

Pursuant to Mr. Miscavige's orders I ordered Rick Aznaran to take Mr. Wollersheim's PC files to the recycling plant in Riverside to be pulped. Several hours after I gave the order to have Mr. Wollersheim's PC files destroyed, Mr. Aznaran returned & confirmed that the records had been pulped & even showed me a small bottle of pulped material, saying "Here's what's left."

The material that David Miscavige ordered destroyed & which Rick Aznaran had pulped was the same material that the court had ordered produced in Mr. Wollersheim's Los Angeles court case against CSC.

In early 1983 I attended a meeting at Scientology's ASI office in Los Angeles. In attendance at this meeting were David Miscavige, Lymon spurlock, Vicki Aznaran, Patricia Brice & Edith Buchele. The meeting concerned scientology copyrights. In particular, David Miscavige stated that Scientology was "in trouble" concerning the copyright status of the many published materials of founder L Ron Hubbard. Concern was expressed that many of Mr. Hubbard's published materials had become 'public domain" because the materials had not been registered with the United States Copyright office for many years. David Miscavige stated that Scientology had failed to register copyrights for thousands of pages of Scientology material written by Mr. Hubbard. These records included the numerous policy letters & bulletins published by Mr. Hubbard. In particular, Mr. Hubbard published "Policy Letters" (always published in green ink on white paper & intended as administrative directives) LRH ED's (Executive Directives) which are used for various topics, (always issued as blue ink on white paper) & "Technical Bulletins" published with red ink on white paper covering technical aspect of Scientology such as Auditing techniques, Policy & Ethics.

At the same meeting in early 1983 David Miscavige specifically ordered Patricia Brice (who at the time was L. Ron Hubbard's personal secretary & an employee of ASI) to begin the process of mass copyright registration filings for all of L. Ron Hubbard's materials. This order was given despite the fact that Mr. Miscavige was already aware that many of the materials in question were already in the public domain. Thus, I know from personal knowledge that in mid 1983 Scientology began a massive program to register Mr. Hubbard's material with the United State's Copyright office.

Based on my many years of reading & studying Scientology directives including my time as a "Co-Audit Supervisor" & "Inspector General Cramming Officer" I became intimately familiar with the content, form, manner of distribution & publication of scientology works & directives including the works of L. Ron Hubbard. As a Cramming Officer it was my job to insure that those who employ Scientology "tech" properly adhere to the official guidelines adopted by Scientology.

I was requested by counsel for Mr. Wollersheim to review the exhibits to BPI's renewed motion for summary judgement. These were contained in more than 20 banker's boxes.

In reviewing these boxes of exhibits I selected out documents at random to inspect. The chart below explains the result of my examination of certain of the exhibits. In examining the plaintiff's exhibits I compared the alleged LRH originals submitted by the plaintiff's as exhibits to some early editions of Scientology compilations which contains the policy issues in question. I employed a "1st edition" of the Organization Executive Course, & a "First printing of the Scientology Technical Bulletins for comparison to what BPI has claimed are the LRH originals.

I have attached hereto copies of various LRH materials that were published by Scientology in the early 1970's that prove conclusively that the copy right notices on BPI's purported "LRH originals" were not present then, but placed on the "originals" at a later date.

The above chart documents my observations in reviewing the documents that I selected at random to review. The important points that I believe the Court should note with reference to these documents are as follows:

1. Exhibits B-1289; 1290; 1291; 1292 & 1293 contain a 1953 copyright notice. However, the copyright registrations submitted by BPI are for a compilation published in 1955.

2. Exhibits B4; B-94 & B-215 all contain copyright notices from the 50's, 60's & 70's that contain notations to CSI. CSI is the Church of Scientology International, which did not come into existence until 1981. Therefore, either BPI's "originals" are not originals as claimed, or the copyright notices were placed on these documents long after they were published. (Exhibits 2, 3 & 4 attached hereto).

3. Exhibits B-59; B-369; & B-371 contain copyright notices from 1958. However, when these originals are compared to first printings or first editions of compilations put out by Scientology in the 1970's, these copyright notices are not present, indicating that they were placed in the "originals" subsequent to the compilations being published. (Exhibits 5, 6 & 7 attached hereto).

4. Exhibit B-2 is substantially different from that published as an original in OEC Vol. II, 1st Ed. 1970. (Exhibit 8 attached hereto).

5. Exhibit B-1287. The FACTNet copy bears virtually no resemblance to the BPI original.

6. Exhibits B-1288; B-214; & C-3. The BPI originals contain no copyright notice.

7. Exhibit B-1 shows on its face it is not an original but "Issue II."

8. Exhibits B-248; B-249; & B-157 show on their face they were published elsewhere prior to the claimed original publication.

Based on my knowledge gained as a staff member of Scientology, including my assignment as "Chief Cramming Officer" & based on my examination of the exhibits submitted by BPI in support of their renewed motion for summary judgment, it appears that numerous "originals" submitted by BPI are not .~originals at all & that copyright notices were placed on documents long after publication back-dating them to the date of publication.

Further declarant sayeth naught.

I declare, under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America & the State of California that the foregoing is true & correct. Executed this 27th day of July, 1998, at Santa Ana, California.

JESSE PRINCE
 

interesting site http://www.rickross.com/groups/scientology.html

interesting supposedly FBI correspondence/memos found on the net somewhere: