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[CT 7888]

Gerald Armstrong
715 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
San Anselmo, CA 94960
(415) 456-8450
In Pro pria Persona

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL,
a California not-for-profit
religious corporation,

         Plaintiff,

     vs.

GERALD ARMSTRONG; MICHAEL WALTON;
THE GERALD ARMSTRONG CORPORATION
a California for-profit
corporation; DOES 1 through 100,
inclusive,

        Defendants.


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CASE NO. 157 680

DECLARATION OF
DENNIS ERLICH
IN OPPOSITION TO
MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY
ADJUDICATION OF 20TH
CAUSE OF ACTION; AND
13TH, 16TH, 17TH &
19TH CAUSES OF ACTION
OF SECOND AMENDED
COMPLAINT

Date: 4/21/95
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Dept: One
Trial: 5/18/95

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[CT 7889]

 

DECLARATION OF DENNIS ERLICH

I, Dennis Erlich, declare:

1. I am over the age of 18 years. I am a resident of

the State of California. I have personal knowledge of the

matters set forth herein, and if called upon as a witness I

could testify competently thereto.

2. I was member of Scientology from 1968 to 1982. I

studied and was extensively trained in all of the bulletins,

policies, directives, other writings and taped lectures, of

Scientology's founder and leader, L. Ron Hubbard, concerning

his psychotherapy ("auditing") and the training of

Scientology's psychotherapists ("auditors"). In 1977 I was

posted personally by Hubbard as the Chief Cramming Officer,

Flag, responsible for the training and correction of the

highest level auditors, training supervisors and "case

supervisors," those people who directed Scientology's auditing

of its members, in the whole Scientology world.

3. During my time in Scientology I read and studied

Hubbard's bulletins and other writings concerning Christ,

Christianity and God. True and correct copies of two of his

bulletins, " Routine 3 Heaven," dated May 11, 1963, and

"Resistive Cases Former Therapy," dated September 23, 1968,

are appended hereto as Exhibits [A] and [B] respectively.

4. These bulletins are consistent with Hubbard's other

writings for indoctrinated Scientologists on the subjects of

Christianity and God. Hubbard taught that the ideas of

 

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[CT 7890]

 

Christ, Heaven and God are electronically installed "implants"

in humans' minds by "implanters" at "implant stations" for the

humans' enslavement. Hubbard also taught that only

Scientology could remove these implants and rescue humans from

this religious enslavement.

5. Inside Scientology at the organizational level in

which I worked, it was accepted that anyone who believed in

Jesus Christ or God, or who prayed to a Supreme Being was

dramatizing an implant. Such a person was considered a

"former therapy case" or "resistive case." He was not trusted

in the organization, and as long as he remained, the efforts

of his auditor and case supervisor were to destroy his belief

in his religion, Christ or God. Such a person, if he

continued his belief in Christ or God, was labelled "PTS Type

III," Hubbard's designation for a "psychotic."

6. Hubbard and Scientology claimed to Scientologists

and to people considering buying "services" that he had

discovered and developed his psychotherapy techniques through

scientific research and that the promises of Scientology

auditing; e.g., increased IQ, cure of diseases and increased

abilities, were scientifically proven and guaranteed.

Scientology also claimed and claims in the media. and in the

legal arena, in order to avoid liability for not delivering on

its promises, that the organization is a religion organized

solely for religious purposes. Scientology claims as well

that everything written by Hubbard about Scientology,

 

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[CT 7891]

 

including its financial and management policies, its

intelligence training policies, its "black propaganda"

policies directing and calling for character assassination,

its policies calling for the use of the law to harass, and its

policies calling for antisocial and criminal acts against

critics, including Hubbard's "fair game" policy, are religious

scriptures.

7. Scientology claims that the "fair game" policy was

canceled and its practices, which included theft, trickery,

cheating, lying, suing and destroying labelled "enemies" has

been discontinued. It hasn't. I have been "fair game" for

years. Scientology has carried out a black propaganda

campaign to destroy my reputation, it has stolen my property,

and it has sued me. Scientology, as presently directed by its

leaders, has no respect for civil rights and is utterly

ruthless in its efforts to crush, through financial, public

relations, legal and extra-legal means anyone its leaders

perceive as threats to their goal of world wide power.

8. I am familiar with the information about Hubbard's

misrepresentations about his past and his promises, and some

of the noxious practices of Scientology, which was made public

for the first time through the efforts of Gerry Armstrong,

particularly during his trial in 1984 before Los Angeles

Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge. This information was

important in my becoming free from Scientology's mind control,

and I know it has been important for many others as well. I

 

 

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[CT 7892]

 

am also familiar with Scientology's efforts to destroy

Armstrong's credibility so he and his information would not be

believed, and to silence him through the courts so that the

organization could say whatever it wants about him without his

being able to respond. This is what fair game is all about.

It would be a black day for people of good will and free minds

everywhere if Scientology is successful in these efforts.

I declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of

the California that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed in Glendale, California this 6TH

day of APRIL, 1995.

[signed]
DENNIS ERLICH

 

 

 

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This document in .pdf format

 

   

    

Exhibit [A]
HCOB May 11, AD 13 [1963] ROUTINE 3 HEAVEN © 1963 L. Ron Hubbard

Exhibit [B]
HCOB 23 September 1968 RESISTIVE CASES FORMER THERAPY © 1968 L. Ron Hubbard

 

   

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