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A letter to Mike Rinder: Your victim speaks up (Part 4)

At least by 1984, from what has been reported, you had made it into the Hubbard sect’s criminal conspiracy. Probably, because of the realities at that time, when you were appointed a director in the newly incorporated Church of Scientology International (“CSI”) in 1982, you were a coconspirator. As you know, your conspiracy is structured and operates as a techno-occult Mafia family. Many of your sect’s victims and critics called your operation a “crime cult” or “criminal cult,” and I don’t believe you ever challenged that label. I am sure I called your operation that myself, and explained why that designation is accurate, defensible and justified. Now, of course, with the solidification and persistence of other Scientologist sects, your operation is more properly called a “crime sect” or “criminal sect.”

For years, you were not only un direttore della società, you were your sect’s primo caporegime. According to reports, you were Commanding Officer OSA US in 1984 and CO OSA International by 1985, and you held that post for twenty or so years. As capo, OSA personnel internationally were your crew. You ran una rete di consiglieri for the boss.

Rathbun was twenty years the underboss, the sotto capo. Hubbard was the boss, the capo famiglia. In fact, once we Flag crew came ashore from the “Apollo” in 1975, we commonly referred to him as “the boss.” He knew we called him that, and he liked it. When Hubbard died in 1986, Don Miscavige succeeded him, and remains capo famiglia. Hubbard went off to Bersaglio Due and is a sort of capo galattico di tutti capi galattici. I had left the famiglia, la comunione at the end of 1981. By not telling the truth about your victimization of the SP class, you are still honoring or applying Scientology’s Omertà, its code of silence.

Zinberg, who is proudly appropriately Jewish, said in his interview, “My behavior as a Scientologist was the functional equivalent of a Nazi.” In that analogy, which, like the mob analogy, is also accurate, during Zinberg’s time doing covert GO ops, Hubbard was the Führer. His Scientology sect’s organization form, like the Nazi org form, was a police state dictatorship. Hubbard’s wife Mary Sue was the Stellvertreter des Führers, the Deputy Führer. Jane Kember, the Guardian Worldwide, would have been the Reichsführer–SS, the head of the Schutzstaffel. In 1980 and 1981, I was Führer Hubbard’s Personal Biography Researcher and Archivist, der persönliche Biographie Forscher und Archivar.

After Hubbard’s death, Miscavige became the Führer. He seized Hubbard’s dictatorship reins, and even boasts publicly of controlling Scientology and Scientologists by “policing” them. Rathbun, already a high-ranking Scientolonazi, became demi-stooge Deputy Führer, der halbstichwortgeberende Stellvertreter des Führer. You became Scientology’s Reichsführer-SS, responsible on paper, as Heinrich Himmler had been, for security, surveillance and terror. Himmler oversaw the silencing and destruction of Jews and other persons and groups the Nazi hierarchy wanted silenced or destroyed. You oversaw the silencing or destruction of SPs, who are the functional equivalent of the Jews and other human victims of the Nazis. Like many high ranking Nazi officers or officials, you have used “die Nürnberger Verteidigung” for your criminal and antisocial actions, “Befehl ist Befehl,” the defense that you were following policy and obeying your Führers’ orders.

You and your coconspirators embraced what Jesse Prince called a “required protocol to hate.” You had to hate me, and a few other SPs like me. George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four had the “Two Minutes Hate.” Prince was a budding insider in the conspiracy between 1983 and 1986. Hubbard and Miscavige, in 1984, demanded that their “Protocol to Hate” be twenty-four-seven. You have hated me, in willing compliance your conspiracy’s protocol, policy, and command intention, day in and day out, for thirty-six years.

Admittedly, there could be other rationales you have latched onto for continuing to hate me and your other victims, since you claim to have freed yourself from your conspiracy’s dominion, which had required you, while officially on the sect’s payroll, to embrace hate as protocol. Regardless of what you might believe compels or justifies your hatred, however, what I believe underlies and anchors it, and has always underlain and anchored it, is cowardice. As terrible and embarrassing as this condition can seem, it can also be viewed as a blessing because it is so easy and pleasant to heal.

Prince wrote in 2014:

There were years of board room meeting at ASI [Author Services, Inc.] to figure out how to get rid of Gerry Armstrong, L Ron junior, David Mayo and a few other people who had devoted their lives in servitude to L Ron and his grand ideas. All of these devoted people turned out to be Suppressive Persons all along according to the instructions from L Ron via his publishing organization ASI. It was new management’s job to hunt them down and get them put in jail.

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It was required protocol to hate and contribute to the destruction of men and women that I had never met or laid eyes on. We would be sitting in the board room at L Ron’s Author Services organization reading advices from L Ron calling for the heads of staff he felt offended him somehow. Listening to Miscavige and other staff figuring out ever clever ways to get rid of the people who were aggravating poor L Ron.

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There were banker boxes full of “advices” [orders] from L Ron spewing hate filled vitriol about Gerry. The information that Gerry provided to Russell Miller and Jon Atack about L Ron’s actual history did in fact expose his underbelly and pulled back the curtains on his imaginary life he expected others to believe.1

That you have “done a lot,” as Sharone Stainforth says, meaning you have done a lot of good in this period when you’ve been presenting as doing good, can be irrelevant to an underlying condition of cowardice. The claim, in fact, can be a pretext, and pretexts are commonly expressions or effects of cowardice. Zinberg could not but have done all sorts of human good during those thirty-five years after conspiring against Paulette Cooper. Yet he remained in his own eyes a coward. He must have been a coward in others’ estimation as well; no one who heard his story, that I have seen, has said, “No, Len you weren’t a coward.” People have agreed with him that for thirty-five years he was a coward, and also obviously agreed that by telling what he had done he ended his long duration cowardice.

Clearly the same condition could exist for you, and, if so, something should be done about it. You have put yourself on public display, and have put your character in issue for analysis, and you have done so for financial gain. You have produced a television series with Leah Remini that propagandizes yourself as courageous and truth-telling. This is what you and Remini ask of the people you approached or selected for your episodes: “be courageous, and tell everyone about your experiences and knowledge.” But you have not done so yourself. You have not been courageous, you have never talked about what is serious, real and ongoing — your experiences and knowledge of your conspiracy’s persecution of SPs like me. By not telling the truth about this to in some way reverse the harmful effects of the wrong you did to us, you not only remain unrepentant but continue the persecution.

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No, do it Mike Rinder. Tell the truth.

10th December 2016, 05:20 AM #41

CommunicatorIC

Re: Mike Rinder posted something important today

Originally Posted by programmer_guy

Mike made a general apology.
Gerry wants Mike (and others) to admit to specific details that can stand up in a court of law.

Which Mike cannot do without potentially exposing himself to civil and criminal liability — and thus threatening his family.

As I noted above, Mike cannot rely on any statute of limitations defense because of legal doctrines that suspend the running of the statute of limitations such as fraudulent concealment, equitable tolling, equitable estoppel, minority, incapacity, or simply being physically outside a particular jurisdiction.

My advice to Mike would be not to do it. If, hypothetically, I had a wife and child I would not endanger their futures and our family to do it.

If Gerry didn’t like that, I would completely understand. I would not, however, engage in an action that could threaten my family just because he is not satisfied with a “general” apology and wants “specific details that can stand up in a court of law.”

Honestly, I think that if Mike didn’t have a wife and child, then there *might* be some chance that Gerry would get what he wants. Given that Mike does have a wife and a small child, I think the probability of Gerry getting what he wants is precisely zero.

I understand that there are many people who, like Communicator IC, do not want Rinder to do what I have asked him to do, and even, like this poster, advise him not to do.

What I have consistently asked Rinder for is to tell the truth. What I have consistently, in many public communications, said I  wanted from Rinder is the truth.  I simply want him to tell the truth.

In psychopathic logic, I am supposed to stop wanting him to tell the truth because he won’t, or hasn’t, or refuses. That isn’t the way such wanting works. One doesn’t want peace in the world, and then stop wanting it because there isn’t peace. In the choice between war and peace, I choose peace. In the choice between Rinder telling the truth or not telling the truth, I want the truth.

Wanting him to tell the truth, as I do, can exist as a life choice and nothing is done about it. Like a million other choices perhaps we all have made over our lives. My wanting him to tell the truth only arose when he claimed to be doing so, and because I had real and legitimate reasons to want him to tell the truth. The Scientologists and their collaborators, clearly, do not want him to tell the truth.

I did act on what I wanted, of course, and he knew right after he started presenting as telling the truth that that was exactly how he could help me and so many other people. It was exactly what I was wanting from him. I did have a brief email exchange with him, which, because of recent events, I’ve assembled here: http://gerryarmstrong.ca/archives/1919 I have not bothered him at all with correspondence.

I have communicated things that have helped keep alive the issue of Rinder not telling the truth, which at this time is serious.This obviously has upset the people who want him to not tell the truth yet be seen as telling the truth. But it’s fake upset, and the efforts to keep Rinder from telling the truth, and bestow celebrity status on him for telling the truth are perverse and logically puerile.

Although I want Rinder to tell the truth, and have made this known to him, I have also accepted that he probably won’t. I have long ago accepted his decisions to hate me, make me his enemy, black PR me, and side with the people who want me dead. I’ve accepted that all the Scientologists and their collaborators in the world hate me, consider me an enemy, and would welcome my death.

Despite accepting that Rinder, unless he has a Damascus Road moment, is not going to tell the truth, there is still a need to get the fact known that he is not telling the truth. The same was true with Hubbard: he didn’t tell the truth but claimed to be telling the truth; he was not going to start telling the truth, but there was still a need to get the fact known that he is not telling the truth. Fraud should be exposed, and Rinder’s pretense of telling the truth should be exposed just as Hubbard’s should be.

The truth has to be told in a way that means or does something toward reconciliation and justice, so his telling the truth to his priest or psychiatrist or his pillow or his personal demon wouldn’t suffice. The truth to be told is his experiences with and knowledge of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology corporations, organizations, and affiliated entities, and their officers, agents, representatives, employees, volunteers, directors, successors, assigns and legal counsel. (This is the language of what Rinder, et al. sought to silence me about by their contract1

Rinder knows exactly who and what needs to have the truth told about them. It is very simple. Nobody wants Rinder to tell the truth about what he said in his auditing sessions, or about his dreams, or about his wins. The truth he must tell, if truth be told, is his experiences and knowledge of fair game, what was done to wogs in furtherance of the criminal conspiracy against persons and rights in which he was a key member for many years.

That criminal conspiracy still exists. Rinder still serves its criminal purposes. He can only stop serving its purposes by telling the truth about it. Otherwise, he will, until his death, serve that diabolical criminal conspiracy. Scientolomerta. And that will be his legacy. Except for his desire to keep serving this conspiracy and keep the conspiracy working, the choice, I would think would be obvious.

It is this conspiracy against persons and rights that needs to be taken down, not Scientology or the Church of Scientology or some named corporation.

Rinder admittedly has his reason or reasons for not telling the truth. He had ample reasons for more than twenty years, he says, as Miscavige’s Fair Game IC. As I said, he knows what the truth is that he has reasons to not tell. This could be described as criminal and depraved actions planned or taken against members of the SP class, black propaganda, which is also depraved, and ongoing injustices and fraud. That is a huge and understandable, but completely unacceptable, reason not to tell the truth about it.

That is also the reason Communicator IC gives for advising Rinder to not tell the truth. What he should tell the truth about is so criminal, so depraved, so unjust and involves so much criminal fraud, in Communicator IC’s reasoning, he shouldn’t tell the truth about it. The details of Rinder’s fair gaming good people for Scientology — for pay, for prestige, which still serves him, and for fun and for joy, because he had to have been uptone about it all those years — are so criminal, so depraved, and so unjust and the fraud he promoted and defended with fair game so noxious, that telling truth about them would threaten his family, so Communicator IC says.

Obviously, what it will take for Rinder to tell the truth — even if the contemplation of the shame of it all is crushing, even if it might open him up to liability for his actions to someone, even if he is honoring a contract to not tell the truth and his coconspirators might murder him, even if he’s still on Miscavige’s payroll, and even if he hates me beyond human endurance — is courage. He should be encouraged to tell the truth and advised to be courageous, rather than encouraged to be cowardly, and provided spurious justifications for his continued cowardice. I think he should opt for courage. He certainly learned cowardice in Scientology in spades. His bluster, I think, is rooted actually in the Scientology cowardice condition, which makes it misplaced bluster. But perhaps all bluster is.

Now is the time for Rinder to get courageous, to do the right thing, and tell the truth that can free people – the truth about his experiences and knowledge of actions by the Scientologists and their collaborators against members of the SP class.

Communicator IC’s assertion that Rinder cannot tell the truth without potentially exposing himself to civil and criminal liability, which is provided as a lead-pipe justifier for advising him not to do so, is clarifying on three issues. 1. It acknowledges, finally, that Rinder has not told the truth. 2. It acknowledges that the truth to be told is relevant and important, and concerns criminal and tortious actions against victims; in this case me personally. 3. It acknowledges that Rinder could not have told the truth to the FBI.

I have seen it claimed that, since apparently leaving the Sea Org and presenting himself as telling the truth about his Scientology-related experiences and knowledge, Rinder, along with Mark Rathbun, has been to the FBI, talked to the FBI, been interviewed by the FBI. I have no actual knowledge of their “going to the FBI,” but there are multiple reports of them doing so. If Rinder had told the truth to the FBI; if the FBI had been the Constitution-obeying federal law enforcement entity it publicly purports to be, operating by its motto Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity, and not cowardly collaborating with the Miscavige-Rathbun-Rinder, et al. conspiracy against persons and rights; and if the FBI has not prosecuted him, which they have not, then there is zero risk that Rinder would face criminal liability if he told that truth to me or my lawyer.

Rinder and Rathbun do not merit the defense or excuse that telling the truth will expose them to criminal liability, when they are claiming they’re telling the truth to the FBI — of all law enforcement entities — without the slightest hint of criminal liability.

When the FBI got the truth of the Scientologists’ fair game actions against Paulette Cooper during the GO period, the FBI contacted Cooper. Since Rathbun and Rinder, after supposedly leaving the Miscavigeite sect, went to the FBI, and supposedly told all, which had to include their years of fair game actions against me, the FBI has not contacted me. I have reason to believe, in fact, that Rathbun and Rinder continued their adherence to the conspiracy line in their communications with the FBI, which included the continued black PRing and criminal framing of me.

I wrote last year about Rathbun and Rinder’s visits to the FBI since claiming to have left the Miscavigeite sect, and explained that it is a virtual certainty they did not tell the truth:

This scenario of Rathbun and Rinder talking to the FBI or going to the Feds has been brought up several times over the past few years. It is used as evidence of them doing the right thing, or how effective they are as critics, as it has been assumed that whatever they told the Feds helped the Scientologists’ victims.

In view of the known facts, however, this assumption is illogical. It is illogical to think that Rathbun and Rinder would lie about me in Memoirs, continue the criminal framing of me and Mike Flynn, black PR me and other persons he victimized, and yet tell the truth about what they did to fair game us to the Feds.

Rathbun went to the Feds all sorts of times while working inside the cult and in charge of fair game under Miscavige. Rathbun went to the Feds, and had others go to the Feds, about Flynn and me. Rathbun lied to the Feds then, and there is no reason to believe he is not lying to them now. Until he tells the truth to his victims about his victimizing them, his talking to the FBI is just like Kendrick Moxon talking to the FBI.

All the “Indies” talking to all the FBI had the effect of ending any investigation into the cult. All Rathbun’s followers would have black PRed me and others similarly positioned SPs to the Feds.

It must be understood, of course, that the Feds conspired with the Scientologists against the Scientologists’ victims.2 When Scientologist conspirators like Rathbun and Rinder talk to the Feds, they are talking to their coconspirators. The cure is the public exposure of the conspirators and breaking of the conspiracy, not the conspirators talking in secret. That keeps the conspiracy working, which appears to be Rathbun and Rinder’s purpose.2

If civil or criminal liability would exist should Rinder tell the truth, then it must exist now, without his telling the truth. Arrangements are very often made that provide immunities of various kinds if witnesses, or even participants in crimes, tell the truth about their experiences and knowledge, or allocate. Consequently, his telling the truth could actually reduce his criminal and civil liability. Therefore criminal and civil liability for telling the truth is not really a good excuse for Rinder not doing so, certainly regarding the Scientology v. Armstrong evils. In my case, the principal crime or offense against me is continuing, rendering statutes of limitation inapplicable, so Rinder’s liability increases every day he keeps serving his conspiracy’s purposes.

From the very earliest efforts I made to get Rathbun and Rinder to communicate to me, I have provided them with the best opportunity to tell the truth, to have it be meaningful, to put it to tremendous and dramatic use. It is disgraceful that people, presenting themselves as opposing the Scientologists’ malign purposes, advise Rathbun and Rinder to not take this golden opportunity, and smear the very person with whom the opportunity exists. Advising Rinder to not tell the truth but keep serving the Scientologists’ malign purposes serves the same people’s same purposes.

Communicator IC forks up a strawman that it’s my satisfaction that weighs or argues against endangering Rinder’s wife and child and family. I had never used, relied on or referred to my satisfaction in any of my requests to Rinder or arguments to anyone that he tell the truth. My satisfaction is unrelated to Rinder telling the truth. Reconciliation, justice, peace, honor, in fact the elimination of an endangerment to his child, wife and family — those are on the other side of Rinder growing a spine and telling the simple truth, not my satisfaction.

Legal and social issues relating directly to the truth of Rinder’s experiences and knowledge also exceed and transcend my satisfaction, including, e.g., human rights; religious freedom; contracted religious silence; a light on black propaganda; the IRS crimes;  those who would act in concert with me. It is completely understandable that the Scientologists and their collaborators do not want Rinder to tell the truth, because it would affect, and could correct these issues. They do not want the Scientologists’ criminally obtained and legally undeserved IRS tax exemption to be lost or challenged.

If child, wife or family endangerment is a factor, then it should be observed that Rinder endangered, and continues to endanger his children, wives and family by being Hubbard or Miscavige’s Fair Game IC for twenty years, committing acts that even Communicator IC says subject him to criminal liability. Now Rinder keeps adding his refusal to help his victims, as does Rathbun, when he could have done so much with nothing more than the simple truth, all of which will be the legacy he leaves his children.

What a burden on them also to discover that their father used them as his excuse not to help his victims, not to end injustices. Rathbun also has been using his wife and child as human shields for much the same purpose and his supporters too validate that use.

The Scientologists and their collaborators seek to present my relationship with Mike Rinder and Rathbun as one of equal opponents equally empowered, equally right, and equally deserving of public scrutiny and criticism. If this can be accepted, of course, my few requests of both of them to communicate to me and tell the truth can be made to sound unfair. After all, they are not requesting that I  speak up and tell the truth about their and their fellow Scientologists’ fair gaming of SP class members.

Even though I see the equality, and also the unity, of all Homo sapiens, however, the clear relationship this past thirty-five years is of victimizer and victim. It is our essential equality that makes this unholy relationship of victimizer and victim what it is.

As can be seen, I did not know that Rinder was targeting me until 1985 when the Scientologists proclaimed the shocking truth that he was conning me about being my friend, about understanding where I was coming from, and about coming to me for my assistance, because he and his “Loyalists” sought fairness, truth and justice.

Rinder knew that he was targeting me from the first minute he knew I had left, which was thirty-five years ago today. Through every minute of his OSA career he targeted me. I had no idea. I did nothing about him.

I naturally testified as necessary thereafter about what had been revealed in 1985 of what he had done, but that was only because he had done it and it was relevant in various legal proceedings

Rinder had the whole OSA apparatus and used it to sue me, black PR me around the world, frame me, bankrupt me, stalk me, op me, threaten me, betray me, destroy my relationships, get me enjoined and sentenced to jail, and drive me to the edge of death, all in execution of his conspiracy’s criminal purposes and programs. I had no such apparatus, and did none of those things to Rinder.

Rinder and his fellow Scientologists and their collaborators have sought for thirty-five years, and paid millions of dollars, and corrupted courts, to silence me. I never tried to silence him or them. In fact it is quite clear that I urge them to communicate.

Rinder, et al. seek to have me jailed and fined for truthfully expressing my sincere religious experiences and knowledge. I don’t seek to have them jailed, but seek to have them truthfully express their sincere religious experiences and knowledge.

In last week’s Scientology and the Aftermath program, Rinder said:

Part of my job was to discredit and destroy critics who spoke out against the Church. If the Church believed that someone was an enemy and needed to be silenced or destroyed, it was my job and I did it.

[…]

I was the guy.

I feel bad about the people who got hurt as a result of my actions. But I feel it’s important to tell the truth of what really goes on behind the scenes. What really is happening in Scientology.

I had no such job to destroy Rinder.

Rinder’s conjunction “but” is confusing here, but his implication is clear that because he says telling the truth of what really goes on behind the scenes in Scientology is important, he must be telling such truth. Obviously he is not telling such truth; or there would be no need to advise him to not tell the truth or supply him with justifications to keep him from telling the truth. What really goes on behind the scenes is the criminal conspiracy against persons and rights in which Rinder has been such a key conspirator.

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Your Purple Hearts will tell on you…

Mike Fitzgerald writes in the Belleville News-Democrat 1, the Belleville, Illinois daily paper, that an Iraq veteran, National Guardsman Lt. Darryl Lee Wright, lied his way to a Purple Heart.  What a piker! L. Ron Hubbard, also a lieutenant, but in the US Naval Reserve, lied his way to TWO.

Wright didn’t stop with a Purple Heart, but also lied his way to a Combat Action Badge. That’s nothing! Hubbard didn’t stop with two Purple Hearts. He lied his way to OVER TWENTY more medals he never earned.

In truth, Hubbard wasn’t even awarded his medals. At least Wright did enough and was honest enough to actually be awarded his unearned medals.

Wright got his medals for phony actions and wounds in a place he had really served in, Iraq. Hubbard obtained medals for wartime service in countries he had never even been to, France, the Netherlands, Britain, the Philippines, and a medal for whole continents he had never seen, the European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, plus a Bronze Star. Wright got his unearned medals in the mail from the proper issuing authority. Hubbard bought his from some poor veteran, or some pawn shop. Or he stole them from some vet.

To support his efforts to acquire his medals and money, Wright apparently submitted a photo of a damaged combat vehicle where he claimed to have been wounded. The bad black and white photo in the Washington Post looks like a HMMWV of one version or another. Fail! Hubbard claimed to have been on board the USS Edsall when the Japanese attacked and sunk it near Java in 1942. He claimed at different times that his legs were injured in the battle, he then swam ashore, lived alone in the jungle for some time evading the Japanese, took a machine gun round in the back, then sailed a life raft to Australia where a destroyer picked him up. He also claimed to have sunk two Japanese submarines off Oregon, and just before the war to have tracked down a German saboteur in Alaska who was going to cut off its communication lines from the forty-eight states.

It isn’t clear from the reports I’ve read, including Justice Department statements, what injuries Wright lied about sustaining to claim his Purple Heart. They couldn’t possibly, however, be as serious as Hubbard’s fake injuries. He claimed to have been “crippled and blinded.”  In fact he claimed his injuries were so severe that at war’s end he “was abandoned by family and friends as a supposedly hopeless cripple and a probable burden upon them for the rest of my days.”

The News-Democrat says, “The war story helped Wright bilk the federal government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.” How frigging niggard! Hubbard scammed billions. Wright cheated the US Government that has trillions to waste. With his tall war stories, Hubbard not only snowed the government for a disability pension, he hustled and ripped off unsuspecting private citizens around the world, most of whom could not afford it, and many of whom he ruined utterly.

The prosecuting US Attorneys, according to the News-Democrat, wrote in their sentencing memorandum that Wright “built an entire myth system on these two awards.” That’s so picayune! Hubbard started a religion. The IRS gave his religion tax exemption, and the State Department defends his fraud-based religion internationally and condemns any country that dares to call Hubbard and his religion on their fraud.

There is no evidence I’ve found that Wright ever vilified or assaulted anyone who challenged his injury, Purple Heart or Combat Action Badge claims. What a wimp! Hubbard preached that anyone who criticized his claims was an enemy and a criminal, and he had his fraud church followers target these critics as what he called “fair game.” He stated in his scripture that such critics may be “deprived of property or injured by any means by any [church member] without any discipline… May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed. ”

I knew Hubbard personally. I read and listened to many of his claims of wartime injuries, medals and heroism, and I joined his religion in 1969. I believed his lies and gave him and his religious organization money and years of my life. Then I found and read a bunch of his documents he had hidden from church members like me, researched his history a bit, and determined he had lied. He had lied about things in his life that were significant to me, had drawn me into his religion, and had kept me there for years. He lied about his military career, his injuries, medals and his heroism. He stole valor galore.

I left his religion in 1981, escaped from his control, spoke out and told the truth I knew about his lies and his real history. He ordered me fair gamed, had thugs hired who assaulted me and terrorized my wife and me, had me sued me for bogus reasons, had covert ops run on me, and had me smeared with more sick lies. He did much the same to my attorney. Hubbard and his religious followers call their smearing of the people who stand up to them “black propaganda,” or “black PR.” It’s the “technology” and practice Hubbard wrote into his religious scripture for his followers to destroy their targets’ reputations, credibility, relationships and lives.

After Hubbard died in 1986, David Miscavige, his successor as religion head, has had his followers continue telling the same lies Hubbard had told, including the lies about his military service, injuries, medals and heroism. Miscavige also continued the fair game attacks on me and on other people who spoke out about Hubbard’s lies. Miscavige had my car broken into and valuable materials of mine stolen. He had me sued five more times, bankrupted, physically assaulted more times, framed, falsely charged criminally, and black PRed to the top of the US Government and around the world. In 1997 I fled to Canada where I was born and had lived before joining Hubbard’s religion.

By astonishing legal chicanery, Miscavige then obtained a series of unconscionable court orders in the US jailing and fining me for doing nothing more than tell the truth about my religious experiences in the religion and my knowledge of the religion or Hubbard, including his military history. Hubbard and Miscavige have had their religious organization pay millions of dollars to unscrupulous lawyers to crush me judicially and financially, and pay more millions to sleazy PIs to strong-arm and frame me.

Also astonishingly, Miscavige was able to get the IRS to grant tax exemption to his religion in 1993. Since 1967, the IRS had refused tax exemption. Hubbard’s religious followers fair gamed the IRS and its agents, infiltrated the agency, burglarized its offices, stole documents, harassed and black PRed its agents, and sued them some two thousand times. The IRS and DOJ ended up conspiring with the Miscavige religionists and forming an alliance with them, and the fair game stopped, but only against the government agencies.

The IRS and DOJ conspired with the religionists knowing full well they comprised a criminal organization in constant violation of public policy and legally undeserving of tax exemption. The IRS and DOJ also knew  that their grant of tax exemption to the Miscavige religion and his religionists unlawfully prejudiced and put at risk the religion’s victims, who are generally ordinary truth-telling citizens like me. To give the IRS some plausible basis to grant this undeserved exemption, the IRS and the DOJ broke US law and required that the religionists make false statements in their submissions, which the IRS and DOJ knew, beyond any doubt, were false.

Darryl Lee Wright’s problem is he didn’t think big enough, or lie big enough. I’m not a lawyer, but his lawyer Christopher Black very well might have malpracticed him. He should have used the Hubbard defense.

  1. When you’re caught lying, keep lying. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, and even if declared a pathological liar, keep lying.
  2. Viciously attack anyone who challenges your lies. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.
  3. Start a religion based on your manifold lies.
  4. Make money, make more money, make others produce so as to make money.
  5. Make others – your followers, PIs, agents, attorneys – produce so as to viciously attack anyone who challenges your lies.
  6. By lying and vicious attacks, get IRS tax exemption for your religion.
  7. Call your lying and your vicious attacks, and your followers’ lying and vicious attacks, “constitutionally protected religious expression.”
  8. Get the US Federal Government to defend your religion and your religious expression against your victims and critics around the world.

There are many variations and additions to the Hubbard defense. One classic was his hiring of a former colonel, who had also been the Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to swear that Hubbard had been so extraordinarily valuable to the US war effort that the navy had created a whole separate record for him to just to hide how extraordinarily valuable he was. The Joint Chiefs’ colonel called this official alteration of all the inches of documents in Hubbard’s record to make him look like an inglorious, lying, narcissistic, injury-faking malingerer, “sheepdipping.” If the enemy ever got their hands on Hubbard’s files, they would never know he was this heroic Gargantua of an officer who was almost single-handedly winning the war for the Allies. There has to be another ex-colonel who for the right fee will sheepdip, Wright’s record for him too, or perhaps reverse sheepdip them.

Gerry Armstrong
gerry@gerryarmstrong.org

I can supply documentation to support all my fact statements here about Hubbard, Miscavige and their religion if requested.

Notes

  1. Belleville News-Democrate (August 26, 2016) Iraq War veteran lied his way to a Purple Heart and $750,000 ↩

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Memoirizing lines

Nancy Many (NM) posted on Ex-Scientologist Message Board:

NM: Hello ESMB and especially Gerry and Arnie,

Hello. I don’t do ESMB now.

NM: I am jumping in here after a three year absence from watching these boards and ‘keeping up’. I have been completing my Master’s degree and my clinical training as a multi-faith chaplain. Please forgive me if I speak of things that are well known or that I “should” have known if I had been keeping up.

I have written my memoir, as have many others. I encourage EVERYONE to do so, as I do believe that each person’s story is unique and gives a thread of what will then enable the “whole” to be better seen. I took many costly wrong turns in the process of getting my own book out, I have attempted to assist others in avoiding those pitfalls and am available to anyone who is endeavoring to publish their story. The publishing world is completely different now than it was 5-6 years ago, and we now have the numbers of ‘other memoirs’ out there to help get more out.

The individuals who write memoirs are digging deep and sharing personal feelings and issues that are sometimes extremely difficult to view in one’s own mind and heart, let alone to share these intimate thoughts and experiences with the outside world. I am humbled by those who have or are doing this work.

To write a memoir, the author has to ‘return’ to those times, to that pain, confusion and sometimes happiness and joy. With the subject of Scientology, this is never an easy or simple job. Sometimes for the writer, it is only through the process of writing that personal clarity is achieved.

Individuals who dig deep in writing a memoir dig deep. But memoir writers can also dig shallowly, or not dig at all. Some memoir writers share intimate experiences, and some dish up pabulumish generalities, or even packs of lies. Memoirs can be written for the most antisocial of purposes. Hitler’s Mein Kampf is an extremely well read memoir. There should be nothing automatically humbling about memoir writers.

Percipient witness statements must be memoirs too, of course, because of the requirement that the witness have personal knowledge of the facts in his statements. Witnesses can lie on their sworn statements, just as they can in their memoirs, as Marty Rathbun, for example, demonstrates. Despite the way, however, that the concept of sworn statements can be abused, or laughed at as the Scientologists do, such statements are indispensable for obtaining justice for the Scientologists’ victims. The memoirs that have been published have not served that function. I am seeking percipient witnesses’ statements for justice.

NM: For clarity, I am sharing a couple of good definitions of “Memoir”.

MEMOIR:

Definition:
A form of creative nonfiction in which an author recounts experiences from his or her life.
“A memoir,” says Gore Vidal, “is how one remembers one’s own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked. In a memoir it isn’t the end of the world if your memory tricks you and your dates are off by a week or a month as long as you honestly try to tell the truth” (Palimpsest: A Memoir, 1995).

Ann Casano
Ann has taught university level Film classes and has a Master’s Degree in Cinema Studies.
It takes a lot of courage to write a memoir, to reveal personal aspects about one’s private life. In this lesson, we will take a look at what makes a story a memoir and examine a few of the most popular memoirs of the 20th century.
Memoirs Versus Autobiographies
Memoirs are typically classified as a sub-genre of the autobiography. The main difference being that a memoir is more focused. An autobiography typically spans a person’s entire life and contains intricate details like the writer’s family history and childhood. A memoir, on the other hand, is much more centralized. It’s a story about a time in someone’s life or a major event that occurred or maybe it focuses on a special place that the writer liked to visit during the summer.
Lou Willet Stanek, describes the difference between writing a memoir and an autobiography in her book, ‘Writing Your Life.’
If you were to write an autobiography, you would have to spend a lot of time at the courthouse, looking up the date your great-grandfather was born, what year your father bought the house on Elm Street. The research for a memoir can be done in an easy chair. Close your eyes and try to recapture the moment you bought your first car, learned you were pregnant, met the President or wobble down the street on a two-wheeler.
Stories To Tell
Memoirs have been around for a long time. People were always interested in revealing snapshots of their life from their own perspective. We can even trace the memoir back to ancient times. Julius Caesar wrote his first known memoir, Commentaries on the Gallic Wars, around 50 BCE. It depicted his firsthand experiences of the epic battles he fought during the Gallic Wars.

So that is what a memoir is.

First to Gerry, I was fascinated with your note to Jesse (posted by Caroline here on ESMB) You have put forth a LOT of information that I (and I am sure others) had not known. It truly makes me want to read YOUR book, and to be able to see the “war” Scientology waged on you in it’s fullness and what happened, and I’m certain is still happening.

For the sake of the fullness of the war, or really the fullness of the cause of peace, I asked Jesse to debrief to me about his part in the war. He made some statements in his November 7 article that were quite general but indicated that he possessed additional related details that could be helpful if he was debriefed and his facts put in a form usable in legal contexts.

This is not the first time I have asked Jesse to help me with a declaration detailing facts he knew about fair game actions against me, but he had always refused, and never offered an explanation. In 2011, when he started his blog, I commented about an erroneous and harmful opinion he held, and I sought to clarify some points with him concerning certain facts he had stated, and he treated me quite contemptuously. Funny, he used the same response then that essentially you are using now: “Write your own book.”

In this newest article, Jesse both mentioned knowledge about me that I had not previously been aware of, and he implied that he had finally cast off his long time enmity toward me. But he also repeated the Scientologists’ black PR lines about me as if they were true. Again, so far he has refused to address the untruths that I have demonstrated to him, and again he is treating me inimically.

In light of his participation for years in the criminal conspiracy against me in an executive position inside Scientology, what he is doing is unfathomably cruel. I cannot believe that he would now treat all of the apparently large number of victims whose getting rid of he oversaw in a similar manner.

NM: You first bring up the following:

“Dear Jesse:
In my November 9 communication, I mentioned that I would deal later with fact errors about me in your article, and I’m doing so now. I excerpted the section of the article that concerns me, and commented where I thought correction or clarification was needed.

I began to recall being on the other side of the fence when Gerry Armstrong had to defend himself against Scientology style black ops for years.

What I had to defend against was war. It is understandable that the Scientologists waged Scientology style war; but because it is solely Scientologists, and their mercenaries, of course, who are waging it, and all in the cause of Scientology and in application of Scientology scriptural directives, it is proper to call what I had to defend against “war,” the Scientologists’ war on me.”

Jesse is writing a memoir. It is HIS memoir. Jesse was not subjected to a “War” as you were. He was subjected to “Black Ops” like you were (as you clarify were only a part of the overall, orchestrated War against you).

Yes, Jesse is writing a memoir, and it is his memoir. And yes he had his experiences and I had mine, and we have words to describe them. I was not communicating about the content of Jesse’s memoir that he is writing, however, but some of the content in his already-published blog article. Jesse announces in his article that he is writing a book about the last four years of L. Ron Hubbard’s life, so the article reasonably would not be understood to be that book.

In that Jesse’s book will be about the last four years of Hubbard’s life, it cannot really be an autobiography, which would be Jesse’s account of four years of Jesse’s life. This takes care of the memoirs v. autobiographies issue in what you quoted from Ann Casano.

A “memoir” can be memories of anything, not necessarily one’s own life. So, although it is a subcategory of autobiography, it could also be a subcategory of biography, which, presumably, a book about L. Ron Hubbard’s last four years would be.

These days, of course, writers of any genre look up courthouse dates and docs in a chair at their desk, whether it’s easy or not. The key is that a memoir is a memoir, as Vidal says above, “as long as you honestly try to tell the truth.” Memoirs do not provide memoirists with a justification to not try to tell the truth in the nonfiction they are writing. And I would think that legitimate memoirists, historians, researchers, biographers or English teachers would not go along with using the genre for such a purpose.

In any event, what is important is that in biography, autobiography or memoir, truth applies equally. They are not works of fiction. “The assertions made in the work are understood to be factual.” The same standard for defamation applies whether the author calls his work biography, autobiography or memoir.

NM: Jesse in his memoir is recounting that being on the receiving end of Scientology’s “Black Ops” gave him more understanding of what a person on the receiving end of “black Ops” feels like. He used you as an example. The black ops against you came to his mind. He could have used an example of any number of people that received Scientology Black ops.

He still can but he didn’t. His article is not his memoir. He could have used me as an example without telling untruths about me. Something cannot be from memory if it did not happen; it is a fiction.

But seriously, were there really any number of victims Jesse could choose from — on whom he was receiving daily fair game ops intel reports; whose legal troubles Jesse was present for and informed about as they happened; whose getting rid of was the subject of weekly ASI board room meetings that Jesse attended; and who had bankers boxes of hate filled vitriolic orders from Hubbard about him? And of all of that huge number of victims, who has an ongoing war with the Scientologists and is in a situation where Jesse’s testimony could make a difference in the direction of justice for so many people?

NM: As he is writing a memoir, this is HIS story, HIS experiences from HIS point of view.

[…]

Nancy Many

Actually, going with Jesse’s statement about his book’s subject, this is L. Ron Hubbard’s story, Hubbard’s experiences, from Jesse’s point of view. This is perfectly fine for a memoir. Jesse has stated what he says his standard is for this work, and I would imagine in other communications in his life.

JP on ESMB: I have nothing but a truth to share with people that want to know. There is no reason to us to be confused about the facts of what happened during the end of L Ron’s days. The truth is so much more palatable than conjecture or modern consensus. When I talk about Scientology and the Sea Org, unless I have personal experience I don’t pretend to know what the truth is, in the monkey business of Scientology.

If Jesse actually seeks to share nothing but truth, he cannot and should not rely on his memory. He does not have to travel to court houses, but can get what he needs to confirm or change his memories at home in the comfort of his easy chair. It would be a disservice to everyone but the Scientologists if Jesse didn’t check his remembered facts where they easily can be checked. I tried to help him with that, and there is no doubt that debriefing on his actions to a knowledgeable person who can frame decent questions would also help where he needs it.

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Case Clearing for Jesse Prince

Dear Jesse:

In my November 9 communication1, I mentioned that I would deal later with fact errors about me in your article,2 and I’m doing so now. I excerpted the section of the article that concerns me, and commented where I thought correction or clarification was needed.

JP: I began to recall being on the other side of the fence when Gerry Armstrong had to defend himself against Scientology style black ops for years.

What I had to defend against was war. It is understandable that the Scientologists waged Scientology style war; but because it is solely Scientologists, and their mercenaries, of course, who are waging it, and all in the cause of Scientology and in application of Scientology scriptural directives, it is proper to call what I had to defend against “war,” the Scientologists’ war on me.

Black ops are an essential option and channel in the Scientologists’ war machine. Again, because the Scientologists are the entities running the black ops, they’re properly Scientology black ops, rather than Scientology style black ops. If the Catholic Church has a war machine, and its black ops department got a writer’s finger prints on a sheet of paper and sent a threat letter to the Pope to get her falsely charged criminally, that would be a Scientology style black op. Or if the Catholic Church’s black ops department, with the Pope’s blessing and guidance, trained and drilled a priest to get close to some guy by pretending to be friendly, truthful and loving but really being an enemy, lying to the guy, covertly hostile to him and working for his destruction; then the priest and the Pope’s other agents covertly and unlawfully videotape their victim and pay a crooked cop for a license to do so; then the Pope and the whole Catholic Church hierarchy lie about their priest’s and their victim’s actions and words and even bear false witness against him in legal proceedings around the world; then the whole Catholic Church hierarchy conspires to frame the guy and have him criminally prosecuted; and then the whole Catholic Church hierarchy get their parishioners to join in the hate, the lies and the framing; that would be a Scientology style black op.

I am still the victim of the Scientologists’ black ops, which comprise an aspect of the war they wage on different fronts and channels. Certain aspects are very visible, so are not really black ops, even though the visible parts are targets on programs that contain black ops department targets as well. The Scientologists’ legal operations in their war on me are largely visible, even if their black and invisible ops might determine judicial outcomes; e.g., judge-, witness-, jury-, attorney-tampering. Much of what I had to defend against, and spent my time defending against during the years you were part of the Scientologists’ war effort, was their lawfare machine. Despite being in the throes of litigation, of course, someone doesn’t have to lose the awareness that Scientologists comprise an intelligence cult and always have black ops targeting people, certainly their adversaries in the legal arena.

In any case, you were in the Scientology hierarchy during some of the years when I defended against the actions of the Scientologists and their collaborators in their war on me. This would be the 1980’s into the early 1990’s.

JP: Scientology sued Jerry for absconding with 22 banker boxes of personal documents and artifacts of L Ron Hubbard.

No. I did not abscond as you describe it. I did abscond, in that I blew, I deserted –from post, from serving Hubbard, from the Sea Org, and from Scientology. To abscond is to depart in a sudden and secret manner, which I did. I absconded because, if I had not absconded but let my seniors know I was planning to leave, the Scientologists would have locked me up, and would have Lisa McPhersoned me. Although I absconded, I did not, however, abscond with 22 banker boxes of Hubbard materials. I did not abscond with any Hubbard materials, certainly not the materials that became central to the Scientologists’ initial lawsuit against me.

I absconded on December 12, 1981 with my wife Jocelyn. I obtained the documents that were the subject of the first Scientology v. Armstrong suit in late spring, early summer 1982. I obtained them from Omar Garrison, legally and with his permission, for the purpose of sending them to my attorneys for safety and for my defense in the war I knew the Scientologists were bringing to me. The Scientologists filed their suit on August 2, 1982.

The Scientologists did not sue me for absconding with 22 banker boxes of Hubbard materials. They sued me for the actions I took while on post in Hubbard’s Personal PR Bureau as his Archivist/Researcher and as the “research assistant” identified in the contract between AOSH Pubs DK and Omar Garrison for Garrison to write Hubbard’s biography. I provided materials from Hubbard’s personal archive and from other sources to Garrison in 1980 and 1981 pursuant to this contract, which had been negotiated and written by Hubbard’s personal attorney Alan Wertheimer. The Scientologists sued me for “conversion,” claiming that while working with Hubbard’s materials inside the cult, I converted them to my own use. The Scientologists even claimed that I converted to my own use the “xerographic and photographic paper and chemicals,” which I had purchased and consumed making copies of biographical materials for Garrison.

The Scientologists, using CSC as the plaintiff, also falsely claimed in their complaint that the documents in Hubbard’s archive were CSC’s personal property, not that they were Hubbard’s. On that false basis, the Scientologists could claim that CSC never gave me permission to provide anything to Garrison. I was able to show by Garrison’s contract, by my communications back and forth with Hubbard, and by other evidence, that I had the necessary permissions to provide Garrison Hubbard’s materials. And I was able to show that I had Garrison’s permission to provide some of these materials to my attorneys.

The Scientologists know all this, and know what the judge at my trial in LA Superior Court in 1984 specifically ruled about the chain of possession of the subject documents and my permissions to do with them what I did.

Judge Breckenridge: The court has found the facts essentially as set forth in defendant’s trial brief, which as modified, is attached as an appendix to this memorandum. In addition the court finds that while working for L.R. Hubbard (hereinafter referred to as LRH), the defendant also had an informal employer-employee relationship with plaintiff Church, but had permission and authority from plaintiffs and LRH to provide Omar Garrison with every document or object that was made available to Mr. Garrison, and further, had permission from Omar Garrison to take and deliver to his attorneys the documents and materials which were subsequently delivered to them and thenceforth into the custody of the County Clerk.3

That judgment was affirmed on appeal in 1991.4 The Scientologists and their collaborators continue to lie about my lawful possession of Hubbard’s materials, and get others to lie for them. Marty Rathbun, who, under cult head David Miscavige, ran the Scientology v. Armstrong litigation, and who knows the judgment in the case very well, continued this lie in his 2013 book Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior.

MR: Armstrong became increasingly paranoid under pressure and finally got spooked enough to go to Flynn for help. Armstrong also brought with him several boxes of biography archives he had lifted from the church; documents that demonstrated to him that Hubbard’s personal biography, promoted by the church, was full of holes. Memoirs (p. 193)

To “lift” as Rathbun is using the term here means to steal, or pilfer. If there had been 22 bankers boxes, or even one banker’s box, they all would have required lifting as in raising them to a higher position, even if I had lifted them from a shelf above my head. Lord knows, I have lifted many bankers boxes, including bankers boxes of what could be called “biography archives.” Rathbun knows, bemoaningly perhaps, but without a doubt, that I did not lift Hubbard’s documents as the Scientologists claimed. Rathbun also knows that the LA Superior Court adjudged that I did not lift, as in steal or pilfer, the subject documents. Rathbun knowingly serves Miscavige’s purposes by forwarding this lie he knows is a lie. You are serving Miscavige’s purposes by forwarding this lie; probably, I would hope, without knowing it is a lie.

Lawrence Wright did the same thing in his 2011 article in The New Yorker, stating as fact that while in the cult working on the Hubbard biography I had copied the subject documents “without permission” and that the Miller, Atack and Corydon books “all rely on stolen materials,” referring to the materials that had come out through my litigation. In The New Yorker, Wright repeated the Scientologists’ relentless black PR line despite my providing him and the fact checking crew the facts well before publication. I requested that the magazine correct these false statements, which are defamation per se, and I showed by showers of facts and docs that Wright was wrong. I had an enormously wondrous exchange with The New Yorker’s general counsel, and came away with one heck of a story, but the magazine, despite knowing they were wrong, and with no evidence, just kept on proclaiming they were right. It had to be I’d run into an agenda item.

You don’t have to go the way of The New Yorker, however. It is weird when you consider that this is such an important point in people’s psyches that some with no clue write about it, and so do writers who do have a clue. I correct the record when it’s possible, but the Scientologists and their knowing and unknowing collaborators just keep the black PR coming.

JP: I’m not trying to retell the story of Jerry Armstrong here but ultimately, Scientology paid Jerry a settlement of $800.000 in exchange for his promise not to copy or discloses the content of the banker boxes he’d taken.

But you are retelling my story here, and again, I had not taken banker boxes. As far as I am concerned, the Scientologists paid me to dismiss my legal claims, my causes of action, against them before trial of these claims, then set in March 1987. My causes of action were for fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, libel, breach of contract, and tortious interference with contract. These arose from my 12 ½ years as a Scientologist victim of Hubbard and his cultists inside his Scientology cult, and from my 5 years as their wog victim of their fair game policy and actions after I left their cult. My dismissal of my claims was lawful for the Scientologists to settle with me.

The Scientologists and their collaborators claim in their attacks that what they paid me for was my agreement, on penalty of $50,000 per utterance, to maintain total silence about my experiences or knowledge relating to Scientology, Hubbard, orgs, groups, related entities, directors, officers, employees, volunteers, attorneys, etc., etc. Because Scientology is both a religion and a criminal conspiracy against rights, this is, clearly, to anyone with a clue, unlawful. It lawfully impermissibly violates the US Constitution, US laws, and international human rights charters. Therefore, these conditions cannot be what the Scientologists paid for.

The Scientologists could, probably lawfully, pay me whatever they wanted for any reason. The reason, however, could be unlawful, or unlawful in part. A litigation party could lawfully pay an opposing party to dismiss his legal claims; but that party could not, for example, pay another party, lawfully, to assassinate someone, a third party, as a condition of settlement. If such a contractual arrangement is lawful, the party who failed to execute the assassination contract could be punished for breach of contract. A very similar fact and legal situation exists in the Scientology v. Armstrong case.

JP: What the hell was in those boxes? It’s a fascinating, well documented cock up of what happened when author Omar Garrison and his research assistant  Gerry Armstrong verified L Ron’s actual education and military record history among other  subjects. In a nutshell, too much of the information they were able to factually verify of L Ron’s past was contemptuously contrary to the yarn L Ron spun for his devout adherents and any other ear that could hear. Gerry Armstrong went on to violate his agreement with Scientology hundreds of times and is still perused by Scientology’s attach dog legal machine.

Yes, I have violated the Scientologists’ condition that compels that I be completely silent about my now 45+ years of Scientology-related experiences and knowledge. I have violated that condition hundreds of thousands of times. I have even disclosed the content of the documents that were the subject of the Scientology v. Armstrong case, and I have copied documents that had once been in the case. But the key terms in the condition that I constantly violate are my experiences and knowledge, which cannot be but religious. And yes, I am still pursued and attacked by the Scientologists and their collaborators.

JP: I know something about this because I was present and informed about Jerry’s legal troubles with Scientology as they was happening.  I recall being present when the conditions of the settlement agreement between Gerry Armstrong and Scientology (Which in effect included whatever was best for Author Services Inc, ASI) was negotiated.

As I wrote earlier, I was not present when the conditions of the Scientologists’ contract were negotiated. The existence and nature of negotiation is a factor in establishing a contract’s unconscionability. Mike Flynn presented the contract to me as a done deal. There was then no further negotiation regarding the conditions that I objected to and knew were impossible to comply with because Flynn stated that those conditions were “unenforceable,” “not worth the paper they’re printed on.” This was reasonable, and I am only more certain after all these years and throughout the Scientologists’ efforts to enforce their conditions that it is true.

JP: From 1983 until the settlement in 1986, I would receive on a daily basis, usually sometime between 6-8 pm, intelligence reports  generated by staff of Special Project Operations (ASI), OSA and RTC concerning secret and illegal operations by Scientology against Jerry, his lawyer Michael Flynn, and other plaintiffs represented by Michael Flynn’s firm.

This is what I would like to interview you about.

In whatever communications I’ve had with you since you left the cult, this is the first time you’ve mentioned your involvement to that degree in the war on me. I’m surprised by that.

JP: The operations against Jerry’s lawyer included having knowledge of someone putting water in the gas tank of an airplane piloted by Michael Flynn with his son on board.

This became the subject of a case the Scientologists brought against Flynn in US District Court in LA. I believe it was dismissed as part of the December 1986 “global settlement.” I don’t recall Rathbun mentioning the airplane case in his Memoirs. Your knowledge could be helpful.

JP: There was instant access into the lives of people who were deemed enemy’s Scientology through well paid and placed private investigators.  These professionals sold their services to their Scientology paymasters because they had the latest modern bugging technology that was confirmed US CIA grade technology. Scientology was able to buy the services of ex-police, ex-FBI and other agency. Phone records were a fruitful source of information. Through illegally obtaining phone records Scientology always seemed to be a step ahead of their perceived enemies.  ASI lead attorney was Earle Cooley. A big part of his job as legal council was to made sure we rode a fine line to separate church principles from the illegal activities sanctioned by the same principles.

There were years of board room meeting at ASI to figure out how to get rid of Jerry Armstrong, L Ron junior, David Mayo and a few other people who had devoted their lives in servitude to L Ron and his grand ideas.

These ASI board room meetings are important, because the universal crime in Scientology is the conspiracy against rights. ASI, Hubbard’s personal for-profit company, was directing Scientology Church employees to get rid of people.

ASI board room meetings were, of course, after the “disbanding” of the Guardian’s Office. The Scientologists blamed all of their myriad public policy violations on the GO, in all sorts of legal filings, but most importantly in the submission to the IRS on which their 1993 tax exemption is based. You were doing at ASI exactly what the GO did in their war room meetings – figure out how to get rid of knowledgeable people who told the truth about Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists.

JP: All of these devoted people turned out to be Suppressive Persons all along according to the instructions from L Ron via his publishing organization ASI. It was new management’s job to hunt them down and get them put in jail. Some may recall during the early to mid 1980’s L Ron got a bug up his ass and thought he had the power to have people criminally prosecuted for disobeying or being out of step with what he wanted. This is way past just having a stick up your ass, he really wanted this done and some people did get set up and went to jail.  It was required protocol to hate and contribute to the destruction of men and women that I had never met or laid eyes on. We would be sitting in the board room at L Ron’s Author Services organization reading advice’s from L Ron calling for the heads of staff he felt offended him somehow. Listening to Miscavige and other staff figuring out ever clever ways to get rid of the people who were aggravating poor L Ron. As we sat there making up plans to attach the very same people who were at L Ron’s side doing everything in their power to do his will. L Ron never wavered when it came to annihilating the oldest and closest devote adherents he had. There is no retirement in the business of Scientology. Ron taught his prodigy to quickly and quietly get rid of the most loyal staff members without remorse.

There were banker boxes full of “advises” from L Ron spewing hate filled vitriol about Jerry. The information that Jerry provided to Russell Miller and Jon Attack about L Ron’s actual history did in fact exposed his underbelly and pulled back the curtains on his imaginary life he expected others to believe.

Now is a great time to make those bankers boxes known about, in as much detail as you can recall. There’s another volume: Ron the Vitriologist.

JP: During the negotiations to settle with Jerry Armstrong the settlement was intentionally construed to make it too easy for anyone to claim Jerry had violated his agreement with Scientology. Those who were present knew this settlement, that still plagues Jerry today was not done in good faith. The actual intent of the settlement was to cause Jerry to be incarcerated for violation of his settlement agreement and that is exactly what has happened. The other factor is this; Jerry didn’t want to take any of Scientology’s money and he didn’t want to settle. He was in effect forced to settle by his own lawyer Michael Flynn. Michael Flynn and his whole family had been hounded by Scientology hired thugs and they were tired of it. Flynn was also the attorney of record for other ex-Scientologist in a civil class action lawsuit….you get the idea.

That’s not really true. I was willing to settle with the Scientologists. I have no problem with taking their money. The Scientologists did not know what I would be receiving to dismiss my claims. They paid a lump sum to Flynn and he distributed it to his clients as agreed between him and us. I had no compulsion to not settle and instead to force a trial of my claims. I had already exposed Hubbard and the Scientologists. The amount that the Scientologists paid me to avoid a trial was reasonable, and I have never complained about that sum. I was not, however, willing to never discuss my experiences or knowledge, nor to be the Scientologists’ punching bag with no right to defend myself. I knew the Scientologists’ contract was unconscionably one-sided, and I considered it another act of fair game, not a sincere effort to end the conflict between us. I would urge you to listen to my discussion of the settlement in Berlin in 2011:

JP: We had them right where we wanted. Each person received a settlement but Jerry was the only hold out. We even knew about the deteriorating relationship between Jerry Armstrong and lawyer Michael Flynn because we were the ones causing the confusion. In the end Jerry was forced to settle or be attached by his own attorney who wanted out and had been working on contingency anyway. There are standard legal agreements a plaintiff makes with a lawyer who takes on a case on contingency. The rule and agreement that comes into play is the plaintiff will agree to settle the case if there a reasonable offer on the table. Jerry was obligated to accept the settlement.

No, this isn’t the way it was. You Scientologists didn’t really have me where you wanted me. You didn’t know which way I’d go. I was not bound by any rule of contingency fee agreements that obligated me to settle, and nothing relating to this concept came up in my discussions with Mike Flynn or anyone else at the time of the settlement. As I said, the reasonable monetary offer to settle the case I had known and accepted. The impossible, unconscionable, unconstitutional and unlawful, but severable, conditions that the Scientologists have been judicially enforcing against me I had not known about. There was no deteriorating relationship between Flynn and me that I was even slightly aware of. What you were doing, and knew others were doing, to cause what you believe was a deteriorating relationship between Flynn and me is very relevant in a number of contexts. The remaining Scientologists and their collaborators still do not have me right where they want. They all need to stop wanting to have me where I won’t be.

JP: Someone can say that better than me but you get the idea, Jerry was forced to settle, then he was set up to violate the settlement whereby Scientology would recover its money times three and if possible get him arrested and put in jail.

I was under mind-altering duress to sign the Scientologists’ settlement agreement, but not from the contingency nature of Flynn’s and my attorney-client relationship. Again, the video I think best explains the situation and the pressures at the time of the settlement.

JP: After years of acting like I hated people I’d never met or seen with my eyes like Jerry Armstrong took some getting use to. Getting Jerry had been en grained in my mind. Even after being out of the cult for some years. I remember the first time I talked with Jerry years after I had left the cult. On a physical level I felt uncomfortable being around him or even engaging in personal or meaningful conversation. On a certain level I was afraid of Jerry and this made no sense. None of that changed the facts of how all of this made me feel emotionally. In L Ron’s alternative reality, it was considered a flaw to openly show or express emotion or empathy. We were all just ever replaceable characters in L Ron’s movie. Suffice to say I didn’t foster or encourage a speaking relationship with Jerry because I didn’t want to. The problem is this is how Scientology technology is designed to protect itself in the minds of its own.

Long before I testified in a court of law as an expert witness, Jerry had already been there doing that, the same as I would do later. The real truth is when I met Jerry I had not entirely overcome the misconceptions and false information I’d learned about him through the years. I was dismissive of Jerry and didn’t fully appreciate, let alone realize the personal sacrifice and contribution he made when he exposed L Ron for being the lying ass clown he was.

That was the 1980’s. Now I’m dealing with what the Scientologists have done and are doing in retaliation for what I did then. This is where you can help.

JP: It was only after reading the Russell Miller book with fresh eyes that I finally better understanding and more fully appreciated the work Jerry did.

The work I’m doing now is what is important. The war did not end when Hubbard was exposed as a liar, and it is in the war, in which you participated, that your testimony of times, places, forms and events is wanted.

JP: Since I’ve read the books again with fresh eyes so much has changed. I know I was Jerry when I woke up from the spell and stopped lying for and protecting Scientology. That meant it was my turn to be persecuted by juvenile intelligence tactics, endlessly financed on behalf of dead L Ron. These days both Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder are Jerry too! No one owes or is obligated to me for anything and ultimately it may not matter what I think but I will say this. I don’t monitor Scientology activities anymore like I use to. That being said, It sure does make me smile when someone sends me something about Mike Rinder speaking out. He’s even been known to refer to Scientology as a cult. This is the guy who was the public face of Scientology for years!  My heart goes out to him and his new family. These days Mike doesn’t mince words when tells people about Scientology, what a turnaround bless him. Marty Rathbun is probably the most knowledgeable person in existence when it comes to how Scientology plays ball in a law suit. From what I can tell he and his wife are progressing excellently with their lawsuit against Scientology, you have my blessing for that.

Rathbun and Rinder still support the Miscavige Scientologists in their war on me, and people connected to me. Rathbun and Rinder need to shift their misplaced allegiance from that most unjust cause to their victims.

Please correct the fact errors about me I’ve pointed out in your article. And I look forward to debriefing you about your Scientology v. Armstrong war stories, experiences and knowledge.

Thank you.

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Dear President Putin

Read at the Yuzhno-Sakalinsk Conference October 22, 2014.

October 13, 2014

Dear President Putin:

When growing up in Chilliwack, British Columbia, I absorbed a deep fear of Russians. In certain contexts we learned to call you “Soviets,” “Commies,” or “Reds,” but generally the word “Russians” was used. You were the enemy of the period, we were in a war with you, and you had exploded your first atomic bomb when I was two years old. Our leaders say we are not in our cold war with Russia and Russians anymore, which means that by writing you and expressing any gratitude to you I am not aiding the old cold enemy.

The frightening truth is that during these last few years, US propaganda has been inciting enmity toward Russia with the sort of war level rhetoric and claims that were used to ratchet up support and pave the way for US military action in Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. US media has worked assiduously to turn the term “pro-Russian” into something automatically negative, like “pro-fascism.” I fear that for our leaders’ belligerent purposes these media have had some success. To be “pro-west” meaning “pro-US,” has come to imply “anti-Russian” or “anti-some-other-bad-guys.”

Many years after my anti-Russian upbringing, and I had grown a brain, a heart, and a bit of backbone, I visited your country, at the invitation of people in the Russian Orthodox Church. Some Russians became my friends. I became pro-Russian, you might say. I did not become anti-west or anti-US, although I am dead set against the west and the US’s superpower hypocrisy. I have traveled to Russia five times, to talk to Church and secular groups and individuals. As I write this, I am preparing for a sixth visit, to Moscow, and then on to a conference on dangerous cults in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The Islamic State cult’s militarization and ruthlessness are its well-publicized dangers. My subject is the American cult Scientology, more sophisticated, but also dangerous, and operating within our societies.

At the time of my last visit, two matters involving the US and Russia were in the world’s headlines: Edward Snowden and bombing Syria. I spoke at a youth conference on cults in Podolsk, and at other venues, and commented on these matters. I read your “Plea for Caution from Russia” published in the New York Times while I was with friends in Moscow. It was highly intelligent, reasonable and presidential.1 Your letter and your other actions, which without a doubt helped lead to Syria’s relinquishment of its chemical weapons and the US’s abandonment of its bombing plan, averted a catastrophe in the region, and brought relief and hope to many other people like me around the world. Thank you.

Thank you too for granting Mr. Snowden temporary asylum in 2013 and a three year residency this past August. For a while, I was looking forward to looking him up in the Sheremetyevo transit section, and sharing some airport pirozhki with him, but, happily for him, he had safely moved into Russia proper. He and I are kind of kindred whistleblowers, and I think we would have good things to talk about for a few minutes. If he gets this message and would like to meet while I’m in Russia it would be great and I am sure it could be easily and securely arranged.

Mr. Snowden blew the whistle on the US’s global surveillance and data collection monstrosity, and the concealment of these programs.  I merely blew one of a number of whistles a generation earlier on the lies and antisocial intentions and activities of L. Ron Hubbard, the source of Scientology. For Mr. Snowden’s revelations, the US charged him with espionage, sought in various ways to apprehend him, and pressured Russia to hand him over. US officials and media smeared him, and death threats were made, apparently even by US officials.

For my telling the truth about my knowledge and experiences of Mr. Hubbard and Scientology, the Scientologists declared me an “enemy,” making me what they call in their “scripture” “fair game.” This meant that I “May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”2  In execution of this scriptural policy, Scientologists and their agents have indeed stolen my property; physically assaulted me on multiple occasions; threatened to assassinate me; run covert operations on me; sued me six times; bankrupted me; framed me criminally right to the top of the US Federal Government; framed and compromised my attorney; obtained court orders silencing, fining and jailing me that are unlawful even in the US; and subjected me to a global defamation campaign, which the Scientologists call “black propaganda.”3

These actions against me, and much more, are documented on my web sites.4The Scientologists call their relationship with persons like me who tell the truth about this religion, its founder and practitioners, war, a “war of attrition.”5 They have waged their war on me for almost thirty-three years. Russians should be aware of what has been done to me because it could happen to any of your citizens who are lured into Scientology, have experiences or acquire knowledge similar to mine about this religion, and then speak out and tell the truth about it.

Scientologists in your country, whose directions come from the US, have already recruited Russian citizens into their war on me. They have, that I know of, disseminated lies about me to government officials, media and religious leaders; hosted and posted Russian language black propaganda online; and even attempted repeatedly to have me prosecuted criminally.6

In a letter that the Scientologists apparently mass mailed in Russia in 2001, just before my first visit, a Russian Scientologist leader wrote about trying to get persons from the US Embassy in Moscow to detain me. This provides a clue about Russian Scientologists’ relationship with the US Federal Government, and is obviously and spookily what the Americans would want to do with Mr. Snowden.

I also would like to inform you that this document, with an explanatory letter similar to this one, has already been submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Moreover, the information about the arrival of Armstrong in Russia has been handed to the U.S. Embassy in Russia so that the necessary measures may be taken for his detention.7

The document the Scientologist referred to is a warrant for my arrest in California. It is not, however, as she claims, for “anti-religious propaganda.” I was to be arrested for violating a court injunction8 that prohibits me from saying even one word about my Scientology-related experiences or knowledge. Since the US declares that Scientology is a religion, the injunction is as unlawful and as violative of human rights charters and the US’s own Constitution as a court order would be that prohibited a citizen from discussing his Christian experiences or his knowledge of Christianity. Such an injunction is unthinkable. People who oppose Scientology are no more anti-religious than people who oppose the religious cult ISIS are anti-religious.

The Scientologists also obtained a court judgment9 against me that created a condition in which I am penalized $50,000 per utterance for anything I say about my Scientology-related experiences or knowledge. These now have accumulated over forty-six years since I first heard of Scientology, and have necessarily proliferated because of the Scientologists’ continuing war on me, and others like me. The US Court’s ruling is that the Scientologists can say whatever they want to vilify or destroy me in any context and any country, and I cannot respond. The idea that I am to be financially ruined and jailed if I mention this religion, or participate in my own defense, or, in essence, even mention my life, is ridiculous, but also very cruel. The Scientologists and US Officials have known these orders are cruel, ridiculous and unlawful for many years, but maintain the pretense that they are rational and just, in order to fit into their black propaganda campaign, and keep my persecution working. I am mentioning these things in my letter to you, and that will be $50,000.

How the Scientologists obtained their court orders against me, and why they would even seek such unconscionable conditions, is a very long, complex story of legal and extralegal malfeasance. It is too much to relate in this letter, but can be understood through the court documents on my sites.10. The injunction does not prohibit slanderous, libelous, untrue, anti-religious or blasphemous statements as the Scientologists claim. It prohibits only the truth about my experiences and knowledge of the religion. The injunction applies anywhere in the world, and the Scientologists have sued me in the US for discussing Scientology in other countries, including Russia. The injunction also applies to anyone “acting in concert” with me; that is anyone who might in some way facilitate my discussion of my religious experiences and knowledge.

It is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, and among so much I am thankful for, I thank the Russian Orthodox Church for the courage of many of its clergy and members in acting in concert with me in reasoned defiance of this US court order. Thank you for whatever officials in your government have done to facilitate my being in Russia and being able to communicate to your citizens. I am aware that without some governmental facilitation the Scientologists and their collaborators’ smear of me as persona non grata could be accepted, and I would not even be granted a visa. Thank you for the visa.

I am aware that your Government has records on me, and it should. I discussed my experiences and knowledge with Justice Department Officials in Moscow in 2011, and I have had meetings with a number of officials during my other visits to Russia. I am also aware that the Scientologists and their collaborators would make sure that these Russian records contained their lies and black propaganda about me, in as much volume and from as many sources as possible.

The blackness of the Scientologists or their collaborators’ black propaganda machine can be experienced by all Russian readers online in the current attacks on Alexander Dvorkin. It is unconscionable. What makes Dr. Dvorkin an enemy, and a “legitimate” target for attack and pursuit, is the same as with me. He has acquired a great deal of knowledge about Scientology and more than twenty years of experiences with its members and their activities. He has told the truth about these things, where the truth should be told. He has done this despite the campaign, operated from the US, to denigrate, vilify and marginalize him and shudder him into silence. The Scientologists do not deal with their critics’ facts or reason, but attack our persons and characters. I can only guess at the hurt or threat it all causes Dr. Dvorkin, but I know the hurt the Scientologists intend: the utter destruction of a human being who, on behalf of his Church and his fellow citizens, stands up to their lies and aggression. Thanks to the Church and to your government for standing by him.

You obviously know propaganda and black propaganda when you hear or see it, and you are the target of a massive western campaign.   It is in part what I recognize as black or untrue in our North American propaganda about you that made me think of writing you directly. Oddly, you and I share a top tier propagandist to the elite David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker. He is obviously a Russia and Putin expert and has written major quasi-psychological profiles on you. With me, his magazine published an article by Lawrence Wright that parroted a few of the Scientologists’ false and defamatory statements about me.11 Making it worse, I had provided Mr. Wright and The New Yorker fact checkers the facts prior to publication. When I asked Mr. Remnick, as Editor, to correct the false statements, he passed me off to the legal department for the royal New Yorker runaround and a distressing refusal.

During this past year, I pieced together evidence that at least since the 1990’s the US Federal Government has conspired with the Scientologists for various covert purposes. Much of such a conspiracy is carried on through attorneys, of course, and only pieces of it are visible. To grant the Scientologists tax exemption, the US Government people overseeing that decision required that the Scientologists fair game the people the Scientologists had already victimized. Prior to negotiating this requirement with the Scientologists, the US had denied tax exemption in key part because of the Scientologists’ fair gaming of US citizens. This is almost too perverse to be understandable, let alone believed. The Scientologists’ war on me is central to this conspiracy, and I have assembled considerable documentation.12 The US entered into a conspiracy with the Scientologists against my rights in violation of its own laws.13

From the time the Scientologists met the US’s requirement and received their tax exemption, the US has protected the Scientologists against their victims in courts, and promoted Scientology as a religion internationally. US State Department’s Annual Report on International Religious Freedom criticizes countries that sought to curtail or even investigate Scientology, which truly is victimizing people, as again my situation shows. Their religious status, with US Government backing and US Courts’ helpful interpretations, has immunized the Scientologists to victimize people, and given the Scientologists all the tax-exempt money imaginable to do so.

The universal problem with what Scientologists are doing to each other is their intention and system to eliminate or suppress people’s consciences, and their relative success in doing so. This generates a condition of functional psychopathy in which lying is easy and hurting others can be a point of honor. Scientology leaders govern what lies are to be told and who is to be hurt in what manner. The Scientologists are limited in their actions toward their victims by fear of prosecution or reprisals, but not by their consciences. At times they have been prosecuted for criminal behavior against governments and individuals, and there have been and still can be reprisals. The Scientology v. Armstrong case shows, by the Scientologists’ own documents, the religion-wide absence of conscience.

The Scientologists advertise and sell states of “increased abilities” beyond what man has ever before attained. They have labels for these promised superhuman states like “Clear,” “Operating Thetan,” and “Cleared Operating Thetan.” What is actually attained, if anything is attained at all, is a state of functional psychopathy. In this condition, the Scientologists easily lie about their condition, and do their utmost to con others into joining them in their condition, and to keep each other in that condition. As could be said about every born psychopath as well, Scientologists become total hypocrites. If a person retains enough conscience to speak up and say he did not attain some elevated state, or, in some other way, that Scientology does not work as promised, the organized Scientologists will turn on him as an enemy.

The European Court of Human Rights’ ruling this month that the Scientologists be permitted to register as a legal entity in St. Petersburg is ironic because it is based on a right to freedom of conscience from Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights.14. The Scientologists actually seek the right to destroy the conscience. By not granting the Scientologists the legal ability to operate, the Russian authorities were actually defending citizens’ right to their own consciences and the freedom to be guided by them. The Scientologists war on me in and outside the legal arena is the best-documented demonstration of their human rights hypocrisy and their actual group intention to crush basic human rights, and most ironically freedom of religion. The Scientologists also hire non-Scientology professionals who are conscienceless enough to assist them in their hypocrisies and human rights abuses.

Earlier this year, President Obama said publicly, “Freedom of religion across the world is important to national security and is a central tenet of US diplomacy.” This has actually been the US’s position for many years, and it passed its “International Religious Freedom Act” in 1998, pursuant to which the State Department makes its annual reports on other nations’ religious freedoms.15 Since religious freedom is a national security issue in the US, it must also be a national security issue in other countries. Russia’s national security is therefore implicated in the ECHR decision, and certainly in the religious freedom to compromise consciences that is practiced and enjoyed by the US-directed Scientologists in your country.

Scientology was spawned and allowed to grow during the Cold War with the knowledge of US Intelligence. At the same time, more visible parts of government, notably the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Justice, opposed the organization in accordance with US Law. In 1977 the FBI raided the Scientologists’ own intelligence bureaus in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, resulting in the conviction and imprisonment of eleven Scientologists for crimes against the government. With no moral reason or legal necessity, and despite its knowledge of criminal and antisocial behavior toward government and citizens, the US ceased its opposition to the Scientologists. The US made them allies, and defends and uses them for hegemonic purposes.

Russia is now being pressured, by the Scientologists and by their governmental and NGO allies, to likewise accept them rather than oppose them. The US found itself morally incapable of maintaining its stand against the Scientologists. The US accepted the Scientologists to the knowing prejudice of their victims, the ones the US knew about then, and the future victims the US knew they would make. As far as I know, your government has been able to maintain a moral position relative to the Scientologists that is not to the detriment of their citizen victims.

Russia is poised at this time in its history with the Scientologists to make some effective observations and decisions concerning their philosophy, religion, system, societal value and danger. Your decisions can help US citizens as well as Russian citizens; indeed you can help everyone, including the Scientologists. Many good people from every country recognize that there are cultic groups that are dangers to their countries and fellow citizens. The most important defense and corrective action is education. Confrontation must also take place, and is already taking place, in the legal arena. I offer my experiences and knowledge to you and your country’s educators and lawmakers, and anyone else they might help. And I ask for the Lord’s blessings on whatever we might do together, His equal creations.

With sincere respect,

Gerry Armstrong

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