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[ Article crossposted from alt.religion.scientology,nl.scientology,de.soc.weltanschauung.scientology ]
[ Author was Rod Keller ]
[ Posted on 27 Jul 1997 12:32:15 GMT ]

Alt.religion.scientology
Week in Review Volume 2, Issue 16
7/27/97
by Rod Keller [rkeller@voicenet.com]
copyright 1997

Alt.religion.scientology Week in Review summarizes the most significant
postings from the Usenet group Alt.religion.scientology for the preceding
week for the benefit of those who can't follow the group as closely as
they'd like. Out of thousands of postings, I attempt to include news of
significant events, new affidavits, court rulings, new contributors,
whatever. I hope you find it useful. Like many readers of a.r.s, I have a
kill file. So please take into consideration that I may not have seen some
of the most significant postings. 

The articles in A.r.s Week in Review are brief summaries of articles 
posted to the newsgroup. They include message IDs for the original 
articles, and many have a URL to get more informtion. You may be able to 
find the original article, depending on how long your site stores 
articles in the newsgroup before expiring them.

Free A.r.s Week in Review subscriptions are available, just email me at 
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It is archived at:
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        http://www.thur.de/religio/publik/arsfaq.html
        http://home.sol.no/heldal/CoS/archive/WIR/
        http://www.i1.net/~mallen/scn/arswr/ars-summary.html

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> FACTNet

Lawrence Wollersheim reported that FACTNet has rejected a 12 million
dollar settlement offer from Scientology. 

"I went to L.A. for two days about ten weeks ago and met with Monique
Yingling (of the law firm of Yingling and Yingling of Washington D.C.),
Marty Rathbun, and Mike Rinder. We continued to negotiate for the next
four weeks. 

"The basics of what Scientology sees in their minds as restrictions
reciprocally and equally binding on both parties and a peace with dignity
are as follows:  That the non-profit free speech library and historic
preservational archive called FACTNet be taken off the Internet and closed
forever.  That all FACTNet library databases containing electronic books,
articles court decisions, government reports and former member debriefings
about Scientology (or any other cultic organizations)  contained in those
databases be completely destroyed.  That a total gag order be agreed to by
Bob, Arnie, and Lawrence so that they can never again speak out about
Scientology. 

"That Bob, Arnie, and Lawrence are never again permitted to assist anyone
in any manner trying to fight or expose Scientology.  That Bob, Arnie, and
Lawrence are never permitted to testify at any legal proceeding or
government investigation or serve as expert witnesses concerning
Scientology without service of a real adverse subpoena.  That no money
from the 12 million dollar package settlement could go to anyone
continuing to fight or educate in any way against Scientology.  That
FACTNet return Scientology's court-submitted financial records and all
copies of their 'advanced trade secret' materials and non-original
copyrighted materials.  That humiliating false and self-incriminating
public statements be made that imply that the FACTNet research on
Scientology's problem with members going psychotic or attempting or
committing suicide while involved with their bizarre initiation rituals is
not credible.  That we falsely state in a public statement that FACTNet
existed exclusively and solely for anti-Scientology activities. 

"They also wanted an 'agreement violation' damage clause that could
eventually amount to a flat penalty of $750,000 in damages against us
every time they proved we have violated ANY term of the agreement no
matter how inconsequentially and without showing any real damage to
themselves. 

"And finally, while Scientology corporations and fronts not bound by this
agreement could sue us back to the Stone Age for alleged violations or
anything else they could and would dream up, we of course, are still bound
by every single other term of the agreement as far as restricting us from
speaking out or working against Scientology. 

"Scientology wanted all the Hubbard family heirs' names included in our
deal so that all probate actions to examine the fraudulent asset transfers
away from the Hubbard family heirs to David Miscavige's and Starkey's
control would be stopped.  Early on in the discussion, Scientology wanted
a statement retracting all statements that Miscavige's mother-in-law's
suicide/murder might have had any connection to David Miscavige or
Scientology. 

"Scientology has once again conclusively shown me it has not changed one
iota from the entrapping Gerry Armstrong, Margie Wakefield, Flynn type
settlement strategies. In fact it has gotten worse in its settlement
demands." 

Scientology also pulled RTC from the FACTNet litigation, leaving only
Bridge Publications to continue the copyright infringement case. From the
recommendation of Magistrate Judge Abram: 

"IT IS RECOMMENDED that plaintiff RTC'S Motion Under Fed.R.Civ.P 41 to
Withdraw Claims, filed May 14, 1997, be granted, and the defendants'
request for attorneys' fees be denied.  Plaintiff filed its motion after
the court in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
entered a judgment in a companion case. Until the court issued the order,
there was a viable issue in both courts. 

"RTC is satisfied that the copyright issue has been resolved by the
judgment in Virginia court. To ask this court to again address the same
issue would be a waste of judicial resources and time." 

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> Robert Friend

A deposition of Robert Friend, brother of Scientologist Roxanne Friend was
posted this week. He describer Roxanne's treatment by Scientology,
including imprisonment.

"A There was a period of about six or so days prior to leaving for Florida
where we made every effort to protect Roxanne from herself. That she had
gotten herself into such a state that she was, in my opinion and her
friend's opinion, was in serious jeopardy, both from her seeming uncanny
ability at that time to create confrontation with people she didn't even
know, and also because of her erratic behavior of getting picked up by the
police, or institutionalized or getting in a car accident. 

"Q During that - For what period of time was Roxanne not allowed to make
telephone calls? 

"A I would say about a six, seven day period prior to leaving for Florida. 

[snip]

"Q During that time, during the watch prior to the trip was Roxanne ever
physically restrained from leaving the apartment? 

"A I know for sure I restrained her on one occasion. 

"Q. Did anyone else restrain her from leaving the apartment? 

"A I remember Jim, I believe, Jim Sydejko blocking the door on one
occasion. 

"Q Did the other male staff member from Flag ever physically restrain her
from leaving the apartment? 

"A My recollection is that he was, Roxanne wasn't aware of his presence
until we actually made the trip. 

[snip]

"A After, I believe it was about after two weeks, I was led to understand
that Roxanne had been complaining that she didn't want to be there. And
there was a last sort of effort to get her to try and have auditing to
handle the psychosis. 

"Q Who told you that she didn't want to be there? 

"A A staff member whose responsibility deals with ethics." 

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> Germany

The Toronto Globe and Mail published an article this week on Scientology
efforts against Germany. 

"When you want to smear an opponent in contemporary Germany, there's no
more effective way to do so than to call him or her a Nazi.  That's
exactly what each side is doing in the nasty battle that pits the German
government against the Church of Scientology. 

"Germany's 30,000 Scientologists, backed by the resources of their
worldwide organization, see themselves as Jews in Nazi Germany, the
targets of discrimination because of their religious beliefs.  The
disagreement escalated this week with the publication by Chancellor Helmut
Kohl's Christian Democratic Union of a brochure attacking the U.S.-based
group as a criminal organization. 

"But Stephen Kent, a University of Alberta sociologist who has long
studied Scientology, believes it is a totalitarian organization that
should be feared by all democracies, including Germany, because of its
alleged use of forced labour and indoctrination programs. 'The overall
issue of Scientology's threat to the democratic state is certainly worthy
of investigation.'

"Angelika Koester-Losseck, a member of the Green Party and her party's
representative on a special parliamentary committee investigating cults,
agrees that Scientology is more a business than a religion. 'They are
interested in making money and controlling people.' 'I think they are a
threat ... but I don't think they are a bigger threat than international
organized crime and the drug scene.' And outlawing the group, as some
members of the government apparently are interested in doing, would only
force them underground, where they would continue to thrive, she said."

Scientologists demonstrated against Germany in Frankfurt this week. From
the Associated Press: 

"More than a thousand Scientologists on Monday chanted slogans and songs
borrowed from the U.S. civil rights movement, alleging they are victims of
religious persecution.  The protest attracted members of the Los
Angeles-based Church of Scientology from across Europe, Canada and the
United States, including such prominent Scientologists as Chick Corea,
Issac Hayes and Anne Archer -- who delivered a message from John Travolta.

"The protesters -- crowd estimates ranged from 1,500 to 2,000 -- marched
about a mile from Frankfurt's main train station to the Alte Oper opera
house just outside city center. They chanted 'Freedom,' and carried signs
that said 'Scientology Freedom of Religion' and 'Against Discrimination of
Religious Minorities.'

And from the Rheinische Post: 

"The group 'Freedom for Religions in Germany (FRG)' draw participants from
over twenty countries for the demonstration. The groups was founded in the
United States in April with the goal of promoting freedom of religion in
Germany. The demonstrators demand 'a German nation without discrimination'
and sang songs from the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. 

"Chick Corea, the first speaker at the rally, expressed his pride at being
a part of the movement for religious freedom and tolerance. The loudest
applause, though, was for Issac Hayes. Alluding to the speech in Berlin by
John F. Kennedy ('I am a Berliner'), Hayes called out to the crowd in
German: 'I am a scientologist.'" 

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> Garry Scarff

A letter and declaration from Garry Scarff were posted this week. As part
of Garry's settlement with Scientology, he is demanding that the German TV
show he participated in not be rebroadcast. 

"I was a featured subject in your program 'Looking for..The Dark Side of
Scientology', which aired on station ARD/WDR. I have been told by Ms. Mona
Botros that it is going to be aired again. Having seen the show and the
ridiculous falsehoods contained in it, I demand that you not re-air the
show again. 

"I lied numerous times and Mona Botros & you knew that I was lying, that I
was not a credible witness and not worthy of your trust or being relied
on. The show creates a completely false and reckless impression of
Scientology and I can imagine that Scientologists world wide in fact find
it civilly libelous.  If you choose to air this program again, I will
pursue every legal claim that is available to me under the laws of every
country exposed to this trash." 

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> State Department

The US State Department issued a report this week on religious freedom,
including a mention on Scientology in Germany. 

"Recently, a federal administration court in Berlin denied Jehovah's
Witnesses the status of a 'public body' on the grounds that the church did
not offer the 'indispensable loyalty' towards the State, because, for
example, it refused to acknowledge public elections. Jehovah's Witnesses
are appealing this ruling in the Constitutional Court.  Scientologists,
including American citizens, have reported discrimination and harassment
in Germany. In June 1997, German authorities placed the Church of
Scientology under observation for one year, a decision Scientologists
indicated they would appeal. 

"In some German state governments and state/local-level church
organizations, sect observers work within some political, administrative,
and church structures to 'educate' the public and other officials about
how to recognize members of sects. 

"The U.S. Government has expressed concern to the German Government about
efforts to monitor religious organizations. The U.S. Government also has
told the German Government that it would be concerned if persons were
placed under observation or denied rights on the basis of mere membership
in a group, rather than suspicion of illegal acts by individuals." 

From the Associated Press: 

"A State Department report noted allegations of discrimination against
Scientologists in Germany but emphasized that the German government
respects religious freedoms.  'Scientologists, including American
citizens, have reported discrimination and harassment in Germany,' said
the department's first report on the state of religious freedom around the
world.  The report said the German constitution 'provides for religious
freedom, and the government broadly respects this right in practice.'" 

http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/970722_relig_rpt_christian.h
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> Lisa McPherson

Inside Edition aired a third segment on the death of Scientologist Lisa
McPherson this week. They highlighted the recently released logs
describing the treatment of Lisa at the Fort Harrison.

"LAURA VAUGHAN, SCIENTOLOGY ATTORNEY: What they were trying to do was to
feed her, to give her fluids, to get her to rest. 

"KEN DANDAR, LAWYER FOR LISA McPHERSON'S FAMILY: She was banging on the
walls trying to get out. She was screaming, yelling at them, kicking them,
punching them. 

"LAURA VAUGHAN: What the memos show is that Lisa McPherson was talking in
non sequitur language, she wasn't saying things that made sense. She was
taking off her clothes. She was, um, talking to people who weren't there. 
She was spitting food. She was jumping in the toilet. She was throwing
water out of the toilet. She was doing things that a person who is
psychotic does. 

"MATT (reading out of logs): 'She tried to get out of the door. I let her
sit outside for 5 minutes. She snuck away.' Repeatedly, security guards
had to be called into the room. 

"LAURA: That is so, that is so disingenuous and so--um, I can't even
describe how you're trying to pull those things out of context to make
this an exciting story. 

"MATT, INTERVIEWING (reading out of logs): On November 22, 'she was like
an ice cube. She talked incoherently hour after hour. She refused to eat.
She spit out everything she took. She looked ill, like measles or chicken
pox; had a fever to my touch.'-- (to Laura) Shouldn't somebody have called
a doctor then? 

"LAURA: What you're trying to do, Matt--first of all, you pull one thing
out of the entirety of the report, and now you want to substitute your
judgment for the judgment of the women who were with her for two weeks who
were caring for her. 

"KEN DANDAR: You can see that all of their efforts are to keep her asleep,
just keep her doped up and asleep. 

"VOICEOVER: The notes indicate that Lisa was being given, sometimes
force-fed, a variety of medicines, herbal potions, and vitamins. We asked
veteran forensic pathologist Dr. Klaus Spaeth to review the notes and
Lisa's autopsy. 

"DR. SPAETH: For example, the high doses of vitamin B1 can produce
insomnia, severe irritability and headaches. Magnesium is a sedative, but
it also produces severe dehydration. Chloral hydrate can produce
hallucinations; it can produce severe damage to the kidneys. 

"MATT--INTERVIEWING: You're telling me that the combination of herbs and
potions and prescription medicines that they gave her may have interacted
to kill her. 

"DR. KLAUS SPAETH: I would go beyond that. I wouldn't say 'may have'; in
fact, we have no other explanation for her condition." 

Inside Edition had a follow-up mention on the following day's program.

"DEBORAH NORVILLE: And finally today, yesterday we told you about some new
developments in the case of 36-year-old Lisa McPherson, who died while in
the care of the Church of Scientology in Clearwater, FL. In that story,
Dr. Klaus Spaeth, a veteran forensic pathologist, stated his opinion that
McPherson dehydrated and suffered a blood clot as a result of the overall
treatment she received. It has come to our attention that Dr. Spaeth
himself has been involved in controversy. In 1992 he was barred for one
year from holding a medical examiner's position in New Jersey; and in 1995
he was charged in Essex County, NJ with tampering with evidence and a
witness and false swearing. Wednesday night, lawyers for the Church of
Scientology sent us a letter saying that Dr. Spaeth's record demonstrates
that his opinion is unreliable." 

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> Laundry Balls

A The Salt Lake Tribune article described consumer protection efforts
against a Scientologist-owned distributor of plastic laundry balls,
promoted as a high-tech way to clean clothes. 

"The Utah Division of Consumer Protection says a company selling a plastic
ball with a liquid touted as a new way to clean clothes is misrepresenting
the benefits of its product and is violating the Utah Consumer Sales
Practice Act. 

"According to Consumer Protection, The Laundry Solution, a plastic ball
approximately 3 inches in diameter filled with a colored liquid, is being
marketed and promoted with claims that through a 'confidential' process,
the ball changes the molecular structure of water.  Promoters of these
laundry balls claim this change forces dirt from clothes through
'electronic release,' making the use of laundry detergent unnecessary. The
balls are being sold for $75 to $90. 

"Responding to consumer complaints, Consumer Protection asked the
University of Utah physics department and an independent chemistry lab,
San Rafael Chemical Services of Salt Lake City, to conduct separate
evaluations of the claims made by TradeNet.  The physics department's
tests found there was no evidence of an electrical charge in the ball
during use, nor any infrared emissions. The tests from San Rafael
determined the liquid inside the ball was blue-colored water and was not
'structured' in any way different from ordinary water."

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> Odhran Fortune

Odhran Fortune, the Irish Scientologist whose family is trying to obtain
his release, issued a statement against anti-cult activists this week. 

"I have no regrets about leaving Gorey but I regret my family was so
viciously manipulated by Deprogrammers and continues to be manipulated by
them. These deprogrammers were Paul O'Kelly, Mary Johnston, Bonnie Woods,
Richard Woods and Mike Guarde.  For months, I was deprived of the ability
to run my own life and made to do things against my will, at times
deprived of sleep (up to 25 hrs) and physically assaulted. My passport was
taken away from me so that I could not leave, I was constantly escorted,
and I was prevented from using even a telephone. I was put under intense
emotional and mental pressure, shouted at, harassed, and harangued about
my beliefs and convictions, and even threatened with commitment to a
mental institution if I did not renounce my religion at once. 

"I hate these people who ruined my family. They are a despicable lot. 
They pretend to be interested in family but it is a big sham. The only
break up families. They profit from keeping my family in conflict.  I have
already made a complaint to the Police and am consulting lawyers so that I
can also take civil action." 

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> Vancouver Radio

Martin Hunt posted a transcription of a Vancouver radio show on
Scientology. Rev. Al Buttnor represented Scientology, and several a.r.s
regulars called in. Some excerpts: 

"Howie Siegel: What is it about Scientology per se, not so much what laws
Scientologist have broken, but about the philosophy/religion itself that
odious? 

"Dr. Stephen Kent: Scientology as an organization runs forced labour and
re-indoctrination programs for its high-level, most committed members.
These programs are called the Rehabilitation Project Force, and if people
do an internet search, they can find out a lot of information, because
many legal documents and former, statements of people who have been
through these programs exist. These camps are run for the high-level
Scientologists who deviate, who's production is supposedly not high
enough, who've questioned leadership and leadership's decisions, and so
on. These Sea Organizations or Sea Org members go through an internal
trial called a committee of evidence, and then if convicted, they may get
sent into these programs. Moreover, what's of greater concern is that
there is a program inside of the program for people who get sent into
these forced labour and rehabilitation projects, and then don't respond:
it's called the Rehabilitation Project's Force's Rehabilitation Project
Force, or the RPF's RPF, and this is an extreme program, where they work
hard labour, well actually in both programs they work hard labour, in the
RPF's RPF they don't get paid anything. 

"Al Buttnor: Anyone can leave the Church of Scientology. Nobody has to
participate in anything. All right? 

"Dr. Stephen Kent: The accounts that I've read and the accounts that I've
heard from people speak against the voluntary nature of certainly the RPF
program. People all are always under guard. Indeed, one of the
descriptions of an RPF camp in Hemet, California talks about being behind
a wired fence with ground sensors, guards who allegedly have guns, and so
on. 

"Howie Siegel: I see. Well listen, we're talking to Martin Hunt who was a
Scientologist. What are your feelings about Scientology now?  You've
left...it's been 7-8 years, do you have any positive feelings about
Scientology? 

"Martin Hunt: It's perhaps not an entirely negative experience; I'm not
really concerned about the religious angles of it and whether...  and you
know a lot of people are there in Scientology for good motives; they want
spiritual freedom. My concern is that they are being exploited and being
used to make money. 

"Howie Siegel: Do you consider it a cult? 

"Martin Hunt: Yes I do. 

"Howie Siegel: Let's go to Al Buttnor in Toronto. Al, are you there? 

"Al Buttnor: Well, I think you need to start a paranoid club out in
Western Canada. 

"Howie Siegel: Let me ask you Martin; are you paranoid? 

"Martin Hunt: Not particularly, no. Possibly I'm a little concerned about
how Scientology has targeted and gone after critics in the past; and I'm
not speaking, I'm not really making it up. You're not really paranoid if
they're actually out to get you. 

"Al Buttnor: Well, I think it's the other way around, Martin. I think we
had to phone the police back in 95 about your threats. 

"Howie Siegel: Did you make any threats? 

"Martin Hunt: Absolutely not. Be interested to know what he's talking
about. 

"Howie Siegel: OK. I want to tell you about Xenu, or at least my listening
audience - obviously don't have to tell you about Xenu. Xenu, according to
L. Ron Hubbard, was in charge of all the planets 75,000,000 years ago,
including Earth, and all these planets had an overload and overpopulation
of a 178 billion people, and so they were brought to Earth, where, in
fact, they were blown up, their bodies were disintegrated, but their souls
survived, and those souls aliens are now residing in all humans. Now is
that basically the philosophy of Scientology? 

"Gregg Hagglund: Yeah, they're basically stuck to us, the clusters, body
thetans, and you have to pay many many thousands and thousands of dollars
in the higher levels once this is revealed to you." 

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> Los Angeles School

The Los Angeles Times carried an article this week on a local school's
ties to Scientology. 

"A proposed charter school in the east San Fernando Valley is receiving
close scrutiny from Los Angeles Unified School District officials who are
concerned about the organizer's ties to the Church of Scientology and are
questioning whether church teachings would appear in the new public
school. 

"Advocates of the Northwest Charter School acknowledge that they want to
employ teaching methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard,
but say his system emphasizes common-sense strategies appropriate for a
public school setting and children of any religion. 

"After hearing of a possible Scientology link, however, school board
President Julie Korenstein placed the charter school proposal on the
agenda of the board's closed-door session for discussion Monday. She and
other board members expressed concern that the Hubbard materials could
violate the separation of church and state.  'We cannot turn our public
school students and monies into a religious institution,' said board
member David Tokofsky. 'It's a problem on a fundamental constitutional
level.'

"The author of the Northwest Charter School petition, Los Angeles school
district special education teacher Linda Smith, insisted that the teaching
approach she wants to employ--known as Applied Scholastics--is
nonsectarian.  The curriculum would include standard texts, as well as
Hubbard's Applied Scholastics, which Smith said helps bolster student
achievement by addressing three 'barriers' to learning: Students use
dictionaries to look up words they do not understand, they apply their
lessons to real life, and they master each rung of material to obtain a
thorough understanding of a subject. 

"'I think that the [district] ought to do everything within its power to
ensure that this is not a subterfuge for teaching about the Scientology
religion,' said Doug Mirell, a 1st Amendment specialist and American Civil
Liberties Union board member." 

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> Tilden

News this week from L. Ron Hubbard's birthplace, Tilden, Nebraska, where
local organizers have decided against creating a park in his honor. 
Donald Harvill posted a report. 

"Tilden has decided to not construct the L. Ron Hubbard Memorial Park, the
money has returned from whence it came, and the local foundation that was
going to oversee the project has disbanded. There was just too large of an
uproar from too many of the citizens that were opposed to associating
their town with the CoS." 

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> Flag Orders

Following their removal from Lars Baehren's web site, a collection of Flag
Orders is again available on the web. 

"A couple of days ago HK (Helena Kobrin, main Attorney of Law Scientology
/ Dianetics) performed her CT (Cheap Trick) again.  She sent the UoB
(University of Bonn) and LB (Lars Baehren) a threat concerning a
collection of FO's (Flag Orders) at the website of Lars. She lied of
course: 'copyrights, unpublished, stolen', etc. Standard RTC (Religious
Technology Center)  procedure. 

"Anyway. The FO's are back on-line again, with additions." 

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> Ginger Breggin

A declaration describing conditions in Scientology by Ginger Breggin was
posted for the first time this week. Ginger was active in Scientology in
its efforts against Psychiatrists, but has now left the cult. 

"Terry [McCaan] was a public pc on ASHO lines, in his early forties, and
seriously diabetic. Terry was also blind when I met him. His blindness
developed when his retinas separated while he was doing the required
purification rundown prior to our meeting.  When I knew him Terry was very
depressed about being blind and wanted to die. He resented deeply having
been ordered to do the purification rundown. He was struggling with
various disorders that were resulting from his diabetes, including the
loss of toes due to poor circulation. He was not receiving regular medical
care and on one occasion I and two other friends had to convince him to
see a doctor when I discovered festering sores on the bottoms of his feet. 

"When I was training as AG Detroit at the USGO in 1974, I visited the Sea
Org housing where the small children were cared for by nannies. These
children lived in filthy, subnormal conditions. Many of them had multiple
open sores and skin conditions. I remember Emily Rubineck at PR US was
preparing a report on the poor conditions to get them corrected at that
time." 

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> Burbank Org

Dennis Erlich reported that the Burbank Org location has been vacated by
Scientology. 

"The scieno org that used to be on the corner of Magnolia and Hollywood
Way in beautiful downtown Burbank is gone.  There is not even a sign on
the door of the now vacant building. 

"When the old phone number is dialed, one is directed to 15643 Sherman
Way, Suite 120, Van Nuys, CA 91406.  A whole 7-division org, academy
levels and all, squished into one suite. Near Sherman Way and Sepulveda.
The opposite end of the San Fernando Valley. Where the hookers roam after
dark." 

Scientologist Mike Smith replied that the org has been relocated. 

"The Church of Scientology of the Valley moved from Burbank into the San
Fernando Valley proper. It now occupies most of the first and part of the
second floors of a four story office building that housed a large law
firm.  The academy is even bigger than at its previous location as well as
are other delivery areas of the org." 

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