DECLARATION OF VICKI J. AZNARAN 

 

I, Vicki J. Aznaran declare as follows:

1. I am one of the plaintiffs in the within action.

2. I was a member of the Scientology Cult from

November of 1973 until April, 1987.

3. From 1975 until April 1987, I was a staff member of

various organizations controlled by the Scientology Cult. 

33. In 1982, I witnessed David Miscavige (with a large

male security guard staff member there to back him up) physically attack
three

people who were incarcerated at Gilman Hot Springs. Mr. Miscavige

made them stand there while he hit them in the face.

Mr. Miscavige told me on more than one occasion how he had

physically attacked a female who was a fellow "Commodore's

Messenger" in 1981. He said he beat her up and threw her off

post. On another occasion, Mr. Miscavige called me out of his

office. He had a revolver in his hand, and stated he was very

angry with the "Golden Era Musicians," as they had not handled

some of the music on an album properly. He had a copy of the

album cover in his hand. He spread open the album cover to show
        

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the pictures of the musicians. He said he would like to be able

to shoot the musicians, but could not. So instead he was going to

put a bullet in their heads in the picture. He then proceeded to

shoot the picture, of each of them in the head. On another

occasion, Mr. Miscavige expressed fantasies about shooting Michael

Flynn, an attorney who had claims against Scientology, with his

rifle. 

34. The first time Mr. Miscavige told me he was going

to "blow my head off," I had walked into his office by mistake. 

This was at Gilman Hot Springs, where I had just arrived to become

part of the staff of Religious Technology Center. I was very

shocked and did not know how to take it. The second time he told

me he was going to blow my head off was when he thought I had sent

up an unfavorable report on his wife and upset her. The last time

he made such a statement was when he sent me to the rehabilitation

Project Force. Even though he was not aiming the gun at my head

when he said it, from the prior incidents that I had witnessed and

the prior statements that he had made, I felt he was capable of,

and indeed obsessed with, committing acts of physical violence

against others.