9 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Memorandum To SAC, LOS ANGELES (47?12236) (6) (P) DATE: 7/21/80 b6-1 FROM 3M I b7C 1 SUBJECT: SITOL Attached file is correspondence received 7/8/80 from the Ch i iimgc Lentology, 5930 Frankl: .n Avenue WW Los Angekes, cone ning a dissident church member, I b6__2 b7C-?2 Mg 3 IW Min-93% 2" 5949/ 83 E3 JTV/klt \w 47- Mo; 3 3' $thm: I'stv-Ji MW 'EE?ientaiagy-ZBW I i MINISTRY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS 4; ?in UNITED STATES I CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA 1 5930 FranklinAve., LosAngeles, California 90028 July 2, 1980 Los Angeles District Attorney?s Office b6 2 I I b7C-2 210 W. Temple Los Angeles, Calif. b6- Dear A young man named formerly a member of our Church, has been distributing an "affidavit" which contains false and inflammatory statements about the religion of Scientology. we have reason to believe, through correspondence with his attorney, that you may have received a copy of this document. While it is understandable that be upset that the Church has refused to permit him to use the Church for personal profit, it is a misajudgement of the character of the church on his part to assume that he could influence the church to tolerate his actions by threatening an "expose". We've gone through internal reform. Previousl we would have tried to communicate with people likel but now we listed in the suit. (Enclosed) Actually, "affidavit" is so highly unusual in its degree of spite ulness and vindictiveness that this office drafted a play which, while amus:nc to point up the serious errors in logic that in his one-man crusade, hopes dearly .7. ?Immune Sincerel WI II Il-f/ cc LAPD Special Tnvestic 2 b7C-2 b6-2 b7C-2 b6-2 b7C-2 bring it to of Scientology has filed a complaint against for his crimes which re 1tions cc Special Agent FBI b6-2 b7C-2 b6-1 b7C-1 :ig When the Johnstown, flood of 1889 took 2,200 lives, reporter Richard Harding Davis grasped the frailty of man's power when compared to the magnitude of nature by noting a Sign on the side of a smashed and derailed freight car that read "Damaging or tampering with this car will be punished to the full extent of the law." A less perceptive reporter covering the same disaster telegraphed his paper how "God sat on a hill overlooking Johnstown last night? which prompted his editor to wire back, "Never mind the flood. Interview God." For those who would miss the point and would take the editor's sarcasm literally, there is an 88-page AI A A . A AA Bi?itb 8?9 hid/63?? Stientalngy? 2806 . I affidavit being circulated by a young man who claims to have the one, the only, the singular, most astounding revelation ever to be told to any journalist. It is, he unabashedly advertises in the opening paragraph, I'far,far beyond shock, beyond the Jonestown potential and into a new realm beyond anything" any journalist has ever discovered. Seeking to cash in on the popularity of the Church of Scientology, he (who we will call "Wally?) has brought such comic book flair to the subject that one can well imagine what would happen if he took his story to the greatest reporter of them Stientnlegy?ZBU? A "w SCENE: The busy news room of The Daily Planet. Hello, Have you had a chance to read my affidavit? Yes, HDU It was Well, don't you agree that it is far, far beyond shock, beyond Jonestown potential and into a new realm beyond anything that you've ever dis? covered or read before? Well, I would agree that it is a new realm, but you'll forgive me if I ask you a few questions. scars,as I mentioned. great story? Sure. I'll try my best. b6-2 b7C-2 b6-2 b7C?2 b6-2 b7C-2 b6-2 b7C-2 I do haye a few emotional b6 2 b7C-2 But don?t you think it's a Scientology?2808 Let's get down to the questions. You mention in your affidavit that the Scientologists are after After me?! Why, right here on page 84 I tell you how. Let me read it: They very well might put a ?contract" out on me. But, due to my being in the public eye, it would make things even worse. So, they chose a style that is secretive, slow in develop? ment and untraceable. They'd probably use poisons or chemicals, I imagine, that produce Tnatural? diseasezor illnesses. They will make any harm which will occur to me seem purely accidental or natural. Say, would you like some coffee? Sure." How do you take Cream.and two sugars. and sugar? I'll take mine black. Sure, Why do you think any Scientologist would want to hurt you? Just like I said on the first page, no one (besides Can you get a cup of coffee with cream b6-2 b7C-2 b6-2 b7C-2 b6-2 b7C?2 b6-2 b7C-2 b6-2 b7C-2 Stientolngy?EBBQ myself) has ever gone all the way through Scienh tology and dared to expose the truth. I'm a fugitive from them right now. I have to keep traveling and Operate under fictitious identities to avoid their heavy and extensive search for me. I say that right there on page 2. b6-2 I understand that the Scientologists have sued you b7C - 2 for $1 million and say that you ran out on debtors who are now badgering the Church for collections. That?s true but they made me do it! How did they do that! - b6 2 b7C-2 Well, I don't really know how they do it but it is probably the 4th level of Scientology which goes far, far beyond shock, far, far, far, Calm down. b6-2 b7C-2 I found myself involving mean ioners in elaborate multi-level sales schemes. I even told Scientologists that my activity was acceptable to the Church. I even falsified the amounts of my accounts receivable from church members to obtain a huge loanit. Scientology?2810 But then why is the Church suing you for these b6-2 business deals? b7C 2 It's just an attempt to discredit me, to keep me from telling you the tale that is far, far beyond shock, far, far, far, It's ok! Here comes Olsen with the coffee. b6-2 Here's my black and give :he one with b7C 2 the cream and sugar. You don't take anything with your coffee? No, I like mine black. b6 2 b7C ?2 You want to taste mine first? there's nothing to worry about. We all use the coffee machine in the staff canteen. Sure, Why, I just had some coffee there myself. b6 - 2 b7C-2 It isn't great but the guys around here drink it all the time. Here's your coffee. My God! You Spilled it on my leg! You're one of them. b6 - 2 b7C?2 You are using a secretive, slow-acting poison just like I predicted on page 84! You're a member of the secret 1 third level which I so eloquently described on page 111 In my last breath I will quOte it: The main purpose of Level 3 is to recruit and train the most fanatically loyal, zealous and programmed cult mem- bers as covert intelligence agents and operatives in their reSpective areas in life for the cult's purposes of expansion, attacking enemies and preserving itself. Golly, Mr. I didn't mean to Spill the coffee. That's all right, Accidents can happen. b6-2 But perhaps you'd better leave, I'll attend to b7C 2 Ok I'm sorry Here, Use my handkerchief and we'll clean up this spill. Now, ah, this ?mind control?, how does it work? Laser beams. I'm not sure I understand. b6-2 b7C-2 Neither do I. That?s just the point. You?ll forgive me for asking, but have you ever been, ah, in an institution? Why? Is that important? Now, abOut this Scientology?2812 ,rqgn Boulevardg (page ?Other planets? I'dOnit know, I mean Pickwick b7c 2 It's a routine question- Nothing personal. b6-2 Just a harmless visit. Now, the way b7c 2 Tell me about it, Milwaukee County institution, in 19693 but itwwas only for a little whilerr I told them I Was.getting orders from outer speceAto,get out of?the But it wasn?t until ten.years later that I really got iaser beamed\ from above the earth: I tried to tell same of my friends about it and that is Why the Church is trying to Stop-heg? They don't want me to reveal 4 these*secrets. A b6?2 .Speaking of secrets; you'mentioh a book called The- b7c 2 Art oqu Whieh you say iS?a sort?of sedret.BibEew., Exectiya tookrthis up on pages 11.8nd 34 of my dariog expose which has put my life at risk. It is the secret handBook?of?the'ChurCh's Guardian affioe, ?It is how, they plan td-take over'thegworld (page 11) and then) eXtend their ihftuehce?to.other planets (page 12). bought mine secretIy'at the Pickwi?K'BOORstor? on b6-2 1' Scientsisgy?ZBIE is the largeSt bookstore in Los Angeles and if I remember my history, Sun Tzu, who wlpte The Art of War, was from the time of Confucius. That doesn't sound so secret to me. That's how they do it! Don't you see? I b6-2 Not exactly, but let 8 move on. b7C 2. You know, a lot of the material you cover in your writing isn't new. I've seen some of it in the morgue files, in articles from The Los Angeles Times and St. Petersberg Times and in a book written by Robert Kaufman called Inside Scientology. But you don't realize how important I am! I'm the b6 2 first one to escape their evil plots. I'm the first b7c 2 one to rise through the ranks and escape with his life to tell a tale that is far, far beyond shock, far, far, far beyond Jonestown, far, far, far, b6-2 But The Church expelled you for using false b7c 2 status for your own personal and financial gain. How could they say the most important person ever to b6 2 . . b7C-2 walk into a newspaper office is u51ng status? the most important person. I alone know the truth. And my motives are pure. It is for my friends, my family and my country, for which I have done little, and now am grateful to help in a matter that effects national Stientulogy?EBH . i .1 security. It's right here on page 2. Well, those are certainly good motives, but didn't you try to sell your affidavit to the Church for a price of $10 million. Oh, that. You gotta look out for Number One! I wrote this affidavit and told them I wouldn't let anyone see it if they'd pay me $10 million and they turned me down so now I'm going to sue them for millions for driving me crazy. But, if you really arefcrazy as a result of your . . b6-2 eXperiences how can I rely on your affidaVit? b7c 2 I'm not really crazy. That's for the suit. I get it, like the mental institution in 1969? That's right. Can you tell me about the Church's claim that you sought to extort money fron1the Church in 1976? b6-2 that. I took some keys and went illegally into some- b7c 2 one else's office and went through their files and threatened to expose them unless they put some money into my checking account. I tried to sell the story to a couple of national magazines but failed so gave up and went back into the Church. Now they are using that story to discredit me and make it look like Stientology-2815 A . I . 1" -9- I am just doing it again for bigger stakes. Are you? Sure, but that's not the point. This time I?m saving b6 2 b7C-2 the world from a plot that goes far, far beyond shock, far, far beyond the Jonestown Then why did you try to sell this information back to the Scientologists? To put it another way, if you really want to.save the world why were you first going after $10 million for yourself? Let's talk about something else. b6 - 2 b7C 2 Well, I don't know. You make a big point about highly secret materials" but I've seen claims like this before. An article in Canada came out on it and there have been books like Kaufman's published and on sale about Scientology and its ideas of past lives. I don't see anything new. If what's in your affidavit is 3 such a secret why did the Scientologists file it in court? I thought you said they would do anything to i keep this from being exposed. 2 b6 - 233 That's why they filed it. To keep it a secret! They b7c 2 can't risk the world knowing what I know. Scientology?2816 -10- But now it's public! b6 2 b7C-2 That's how clever they are. They have now exposed their .most secret materials as a plot against me. They apparently are willing to sacrifice their entire plan to take over the world in order to stop me from exposing their plan to take over the world. b6-2 0k, ..I think I have enough material here. b7c 2 And don't forget, it is far, far beyond shock, far, far, far, beyond the Jonestown potential and only I have lived to tell the tale. And you can quote me on that. Alright, thanks for st?pping by. b6-2 Goodbye. b7C 2 Gee, my mom packed an extra sandwich. Would you like it? what kind Baloney! No thanks, I've had enough for one day. -30- l7