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THE PARTIES
7. Plaintiff MICHAEL PHILIP PATTINSON ("Plaintiff") is an individual
currently residing in the State of California, County of Los Angeles. Plaintiff is a
citizen of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Plaintiff
is a professional artist and the holder of a Master of Arts Degree from Dundee University
in Scotland. Plaintiff has had a 25-year career internationally selling graphic art with
over 99% of the sale of his art work being to private and corporate collectors. Plaintiff
is the pioneer of the "musicalist" art style in that he paints visual renditions
of pieces of music. This style has met with good success whenever properly marketed and
not subjected to exploitation and destruction by the Defendants herein. Plaintiff has
appeared on U.S. television with his art and has had exhibitions in over twelve different
countries during his career as an artist. During almost the entirety of Plaintiff's
artistic career, he has been a member of the various churches and corporations of
Scientology which have, at various times, both exploited and destroyed his business of
selling works of art and his life generally. Prior to, and during, his association with
Defendants Plaintiff was and is a Christian.
8. The so-called religion of SCIENTOLOGY was founded by L. Ron Hubbard
(hereinafter "Commodore Hubbard" or "Hubbard"), who set forth certain
purported "scientific" theories in a number of writings published in the
early-1950s, including: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and Science
of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior. Subsequently, in or about the mid-1950s,
and publications such as "Professional Auditor's Bulletin No. 32 (7 Aug.,
1954)" Hubbard began representing that his published, and unpublished, theories were
both alternatively "scientific" and "religious." Such representations
were and are false and fraudulent and comprise some of the facts giving rise to
Plaintiff's various claims for relief set forth herein. "Scientology [claims to be]
the science of knowing how to know answers. It is an organized system of Axioms and
Processes which resolve the problems of existence." (A Manual of the Dissemination
of Material, 1955). However, the processes are fraudulent and dangerous and the
axioms, like other writings of Commodore Hubbard, are plagiarized.
9. The Scientology entities named as Defendants herein are part of the single
entity or juggernaut of Scientology. The corporate Defendants herein are components of the
larger conglomeration of approximately 150 shell corporations, "fronts" and
other organizations which, in the aggregate, are also referred to as Scientology and/or
the Scientology Enterprise.
10. Defendant Church of Scientology International ("CSI") is, and at all
relevant times was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. As recently as October 29, 1997,
CSI was found by the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County to be one of the
alter ego-control entities of Scientology. CSI is currently the official Mother Church of
Scientology. However, CSI is not a church within the traditional meaning of the word. It
is a mere corporate middle management entity masquerading as a Church for tax exempt
purposes. CSI houses the Scientology unit called the Office of Special Affairs
("OSA"). OSA is Department 20 on the Scientology Organization Board, or Org
Board, and was formerly known as the Guardian's Office ("GO"). It is responsible
for handling all external threats to the Scientology enterprise. OSA is the Scientology
Enterprise's CIA-style intelligence and dirty tricks bureau. Its staff and spies practice
"TR-L", a secret training routine, a claimed trade secret and copyrighted
practice, inter alia, that teaches Scientologists how to effectively LIE.
They also tell "acceptable truths." The overwhelming majority of the revenues of
CSI (in excess of $40 Million a year) are used to fund a litigation juggernaut of lawyers,
paralegals and private investigators conducting intelligence, intimidation, covert
operations (both legal and illegal) litigation blitzkriegs and wars of attrition that,
among other things, are intended to silence and punish critics of Defendants and to
conceal the criminal, fraudulent and other activities perpetrated upon the Plaintiff and
others, and to further the expansion of Scientology, and its worldwide totalitarian
political domination, by any means whether legal or illegal. In addition, CSI operates an
800 plus acre facility at Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California, located in the
California high desert. This facility masquerades as CSI's Golden Era Film Production
studio but in reality is also known to senior Scientology executives as "the
Base," or "Gold," and is the location of one of Scientology's
Rehabilitation Project Force "re-education" facilities which are described by
various former Scientology victims as a "gulag" or "concentration
camp" styled punishment camp where people have been held under armed guard for years
and at which others have simply disappeared. Although most Scientologists do not know
where Captain Miscavige lives, his primary office and residence are also located at
"the Base." The Base has been described in sealed testimony as a heavily
fortified and dangerous facility which houses large stocks of munitions, bombs, assault
weapons, a high mountain lookout and bunkers intended to repel a Waco-styled ATF or FBI
assault. The Scientology organization takes unusual measures to prevent or punish those
who would fly over the Base and take aerial photographs. The Base is also the location of
facilities and amenities that unlawfully inure to the benefit of certain Scientology
celebrities (Exhibit "A" hereto).
11. Defendant Church of Spiritual Technology ("CST") is, and at all
relevant times was, a California non-profit corporation with its principal place of
business in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. "CST
has the power . . . to [take] over the religious trademarks and use of the
Advanced Technology, thereby gaining direct control over all Scientology Organizations
. . ." Church of Spiritual Technology v. United States, 26b CL Ct.
713 aff.991 F.2d (sic) (1992) Accordingly CST, has ultimate power over the entire vast
domain of all Scientology-related entities and individuals and businesses owned by
Scientologists. CST does business as the L. Ron Hubbard library with its primary
business address at a rental mailbox located at Village Mail Corp., 419 Larchmont,
Box 162, Los Angeles, California. CST's founders and special directors are Lymon
Spurlock, Sherman Lenske, Meade Emory and Leon Misterek. Lyman Spurlock is the only
Scientologist and is a CPA. The other co-founders are non-Scientologist tax attorneys.
Indeed, Meade Emory is a former assistant to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue
Service. Through a complex series of assignments and agreements, commencing in 1982, CST,
doing business as the L. Ron Hubbard library, now owns all copyrights to all works
created by L. Ron Hubbard, plus all copyrights to "look-alike" works that
are "based on or derived from" the works of L. Ron Hubbard, but are
"by" the Church of Scientology and others. In addition to owning and licensing
all such copyrights, it possesses the right to seize all Scientology trademarks and to
seize all of Scientology's so-called advanced technology. CST is a "low profile"
Scientology entity the incorporation and activities of which were not disclosed to
Plaintiff.
12. Defendant Religious Technology Center ("RTC") is, and at all relevant
times was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City of Los Angeles,
County of Los Angeles, State of California. As recently as October 29, 1997, RTC was
found by the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County to be one of the alter-ego
control entities of Scientology. RTC is one of the corporations that controls the
copyrights and trademarks pertaining to the works of L. Ron Hubbard and various
others. Its function is to preserve the "purity" of Scientology by constantly
examining and critiquing all other Scientology entities, and businesses owned by
Scientologists, regarding their operations, including the delivery of supposedly religious
service "technology" as well as management operations. This gives it de facto
command control over every aspect of every Scientology corporation, entity, business owned
by a Scientologist, and individual Scientologist without regard to the alleged separate
management and structure of such entities.
13. Relief Defendants William J. Clinton, Samuel R. Berger,
Madeleine K. Albright, Robert E. Rubin, William K. Daley, Charlene
Barshefsky and Michael P. Dolan, elected or appointed members of the Executive Branch
of the United States Federal Government, are sued herein as Relief Defendants, and are
solely sued for the purpose of making them "Relief Defendants" in
connection with certain of the unlawful and unconstitutional activities alleged, including
but not limited to multiple violations of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment
to the United States Constitution alleged of the Scientology and Scientology affiliated
Defendants and for the sole purposes of the Declaratory and Injunctive Relief requested
herein in the Twenty-Ninth Cause of Action. Plaintiff seeks no damages or other
compensation from any of the Relief Defendants or from the U.S. Federal Government.
Plaintiff does not allege that the Relief Defendants necessarily know of the various
reprehensible and unconstitutional conduct set forth herein at the time they engaged in
the excessive entanglement of Church and State. However, now that the Relief Defendants
are on notice of these matters they should do no less than to convene Department of
Justice, IRS, Senate, and Congressional inquiries into the actions of Defendants who are
now "state actors' by virtue of express compliance and collection provisions of the
IRS Secret Closing Agreement.
14. Defendant Church of Scientology of California ("CSC") is, and at all
relevant times was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. Until 1982, CSC was the Mother Church
of the Church of Scientology. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges
that in 1982, as part of a fraudulent and criminal conspiracy led by Defendant Captain
Miscavige, and known as Mission Corporate Category Sort-Out ("MCCS"), and in
order to avoid the claims of creditors, such as judgment creditor Lawrence D.
Wollersheim, and other litigants, and the payment of properly due taxes and government
supervision, CSC transferred its assets to other Scientology corporations and entities for
no consideration.
15. Defendant Sea Organization ("Sea Org"), is, and its alter-ego Sea Org
Reserves, Ltd., and at all relevant times was, an unincorporated California-based entity
or association housed in the various business offices of that state's corporate party
Defendants herein, and is one of the alter-ego entities which control the Scientology
enterprise throughout the world. The Sea Org is an elite fraternal para-military and
totalitarian organization comprised of various Sea Org units existing within the
formalized structures of Scientology. The Sea Org is, in reality, the heart of R.I.C.O.
enterprise alleged herein. Upon information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that the
formalized structures of Scientology are mere corporate shells and shams operating in
concert and under the directions of the Sea Org The various Sea Org units are the actual
Scientology organization. The Sea Org is governed by the Sea Org Board, maintains its own
bank accounts, and maintains the Sea Org reserves. The Sea Org is "the absolute power
center" of the whole "Scientology" enterprise said to be located worldwide,
including 150 satellite or affiliated entities claimed to exist in the United States and
listed in the Clinton Administration's 1993 IRS letter "conditionally approving
Defendants' tax exempt status." Defendant Sea Org Captain Miscavige sits alone as
"the absolute power center," controlling absolutely by whatever
traditional/Hubbard/ Miscavige means are required to further Scientology's worldwide
political and economic takeover, whether lawful or unlawful. The Sea Org Reserves were not
reported to the IRS, as part of the 1993 Scientology-IRS Settlement Agreement,
notwithstanding their source being the various Scientology Section 501(c)(3)
tax-exempt entities and the Plaintiff's monies, time and trust as set forth herein. The
Sea Org reserves or bank accounts are used to hold, hide, transfer and manipulate funds
properly belonging to the Scientology enterprise and beneficially owned by its members
and, in part, contributed to by the Plaintiff.
16. At all times mentioned herein, Defendant Captain David Miscavige ("Captain
Miscavige") was domiciled in the State of California and at various times, held
numerous `posts', and wore numerous `hats', within Scientology, including being a
Commodore's Messenger, Mission Ops/Mission Corporate Category Sort-out ("MCCS"),
an Executive of ASI, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of RTC, the Managing Agent of
CST, the Managing Agent of RTC, the Managing Agent of CSI, the head of the Sea Org, the
worldwide ecclesiastical head of Scientology, and the Supreme Commander of Scientology,
including the Pacific Area Command ("PAC") and holds the pseudo naval rank of
Captain within the Sea Org, into which is paid a large portion of Scientology's vast tax
free net income and profits contributed to partially by Plaintiff. In actuality, Captain
Miscavige, is the Church of Scientology's Captain Bligh. At various relevant times herein,
Captain Miscavige had direct oral and written communications with Plaintiff, including
communications relating to his completion of the New OT-VII and New OT-VIII course levels,
and thus, Captain Miscavige has unique and percipient knowledge as to certain of the
relevant matters herein. In 1993, in a 1933 Nuremberg-Nazi like rally, Captain Miscavige
proclaimed Scientology's "War against the IRS" (the United States Internal
Revenue Service) to be over, with a saving of taxes and penalties otherwise due the United
States Government, State Governments and local taxing authorities in the approximate
amount of one billion dollars minus the twelve million dollars paid to I.R.S. in
the secret settlement (Exhibits "B", "C", and "D" hereto).
As part of said conditional settlement and secret closing agreement, the Clinton
Administration agreed to permit Captain Miscavige and certain of the other Scientology
Defendants to monitor, supervise and compel their own "compliance", and that of
all Scientologists, with the tax laws of these United States thereby constituting the
Defendants "state actors" and agents of the I.R.S. At all material times Captain
Miscavige has used the Scientology Enterprise to implement and enforce both Commodore
Hubbard's irrevocable policies and his own daily orders.
17. Defendant Author Services, Inc. ("ASI") is, and at all relevant times
was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City of Los Angeles, County
of Los Angeles, State of California. ASI was the alter-ego of L. Ron Hubbard and
subsequently ASI was the alter-ego of Defendants Pat Broeker and Captain Miscavige. ASI is
the corporate successor to the Scientology division which, prior to Commodore Hubbard's
death, allegedly in 1996, handled all of Hubbard's personal accounts including his
Scientology income of $1 million per week in 1980 (a period of time in which
he claimed to be virtually uncompensated for his "contributions" to Scientology)
and which virtually controlled the financial policies of all Scientology organizations. As
such, ASI had control of the finances of non-profit corporations within Scientology and
continues to do so. ASI is an integral, if not key part of Scientology and, at all
pertinent times, was, and continues to be, an active participant in the conspiracy herein
alleged.
18. At all times mentioned herein, Plaintiff is informed and believes and thereon
alleges that Defendants Author Family Trust, and the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard, are
entities that are residents of the State of California and subject to the control of
Defendant Norman Starkey.
19. At all times herein, Defendant Norman Starkey was and is a "junior"
or subordinate of Miscavige and/or L. Ron Hubbard, and since January 24, 1986 has
functioned under a various array of titles, including: Executor of the Estate of
L. Ron Hubbard and Trustee of Authors Family Trust; Executor of the Estate of
L. Ron Hubbard; Executor of the Will of L. Ron Hubbard, d.b.a. L. Ron
Hubbard Library; Executor of the Will of L. Ron Hubbard; Trustee of Authors Family
Trust - B; Trustee of the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard and Trustee of Authors Family
Trust; Trustee of Authors Family Trust - B d.b.a. L. Ron Hubbard Library and
Trustee of Authors Family Trust. Among other things, Norman F. Starkey has been a
principal participant in the fraudulent and unlawful transfer of approximately 8,000
copyrighted titles, between the years 1982 through to the present, in violation of
applicable law and the rights of third parties including Commodore Hubbard's wife and
heirs.
20. Defendant Religious Research Foundation is incorporated in Liberia and has been
utilized by Defendants to channel monies contributed by Plaintiff into non-church accounts
controlled by Commodore Hubbard and his successors for their personal and unlawful
inurement.
21. Defendant the Commodore's Messengers Org ("CMO") is comprised of a
group of Sea Org members who operate, using monies partially provided by Plaintiff, to
ensure that the orders and whims of Commodore Hubbard and his successor Captain Miscavige
are complied with instantly.
22. Defendant World Institute of Scientology Enterprises ("WISE") is, and
at all relevant times was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City
of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
23. Defendant World Institute of Scientology Enterprises International ("WISE
Int.") is, and at all relevant times was, a California corporation with its principal
office in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. WISE is
represented as being a secular association for Scientology members who wish to be licensed
to use Scientology's technology in their businesses and to pay licensing fees of ten
percent (10%) of their gross income to the Church of Scientology for so doing. In reality,
through these licensing arrangements, and coerced membership of Scientologists, and the
employment of other Scientologists as employees who also must pay fixed donations to the
Church, WISE is a massive money making commercial enterprise that funnels large revenues
"up lines" to the now tax exempt Church in the form of the 10% licensing fees
from the businesses' profits and fixed donations from the businesses' owners and
employees. At any time, an RTC Mission can enter, search and make seizures at WISE
businesses. WISE has been engaged in major commercial frauds perpetrated, among other
places, in Germany and is currently, along with Applied Scholastics, the principal vehicle
for the expansion of Scientology through Eastern Europe. Through this vehicle, and its
recruiting fronts such as Sterling Management Services and Hollander, WISE recruits
Eastern European businessmen to become members of WISE and then Scientologists who,
through auditing, reveal sensitive commercial and governmental confidential information
that is then utilized by the Scientology enterprise to advance its anti-social,
undemocratic and unlawful goals. The 1993 secret IRS closing agreement between the Clinton
administration and Scientology required Scientology to dissolve WISE. However, the same
Clinton administration and Scientology agreement permits Scientology to be the actual
monitor of its own compliance with United States tax laws and thus WISE continues to
conduct its activities, both lawful and unlawful. Although the Scientology enterprise
described WISE as a secular fraternal business association it is, in reality, one of the
ten major Scientology activity sectors represented on Scientology's governing Watchdog
Committee and is so indicated on the internal Scientology enterprise command chart.
24. Defendant Majestic Cruise Lines, was a division of the Foundation Church of
Scientology Flagship Service Organization, is and at all relevant times was, a foreign
corporation with a place of business at 118 North Fort Harrison Avenue, Clearwater,
Florida and which also transacted business within the City of Los Angeles, County of Los
Angeles, State of California.
25. Defendant M.V. Freewinds is, and at all relevant times was, a
foreign registered motor vessel owned and operated by Majestic Cruise Lines by and, on
behalf of Defendants. The M.V. Freewinds generally operates from various
Caribbean ports and in international waters. It is believed to be a vessel that does not
comply with many applicable regulations concerning seaworthiness and properly qualified
and experienced crews. Thus, activities on the ship are outside of the jurisdiction of the
United States government. Large quantities of semi-automatic and military assault weapons
are kept on board and are inspected from time to time by Mexican authorities and other
regional governments. The M.V. Freewinds also houses those certain
Scientologists of senior stature, and who have been engaged in activities, that require
them to be removed from law enforcement or civil jurisdiction, and are either on the RPF
or being held in armed protective custody in furtherance of various Scientology schemes to
obstruct justice. Recently, it appears that the Defendants have engaged in a number of
sham ownership and leasing transfers intended to obstruct justice and to safeguard the M.V.
Freewinds from attachment and arrest in this litigation.
26. Defendant International Association of Scientologists ("IAS") is, and
at all relevant times was, a corporation having its principal place of business in care of
St. Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England, but which also did business within
the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
27. Defendant Church of Scientology, Flag Service Organization ("FSO")
is, and at all relevant times was, a Florida corporation with its principal office in the
City of Clearwater, State of Florida, but which did business within the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. For example, FSO solicits heavily in
California and conducts substantial business in California. At one point, FSO was a
division of CSC; subsequently, as part of Captain Miscavige's MCCS, it was spun off as an
individual corporation and its assets transferred, without consideration, to avoid
credit-worthy litigants' claims such as those of judgment creditor Lawrence Wollersheim
and plaintiff herein. FSO also maintains facilities, such as "The Hacienda", the
Q.I. Hotel, and the Sand Castle Hotel, in Clearwater, Florida where other Scientology 'Rehabilitation
Project Force', or gulag/ concentration camp-style facilities are located, and other
facilities where armed, patrolling guards are clearly visible to Scientologists and others
including Scientology school children.
28. Defendant Flagship Service Organization, aka FSSO, Freewinds Relay Office, is,
and at all times was, a Florida corporation with its principal office in the City of
Clearwater, Florida, but which does business within the City of Los Angeles, County of Los
Angeles, State of California.
29. Defendant Building Management Services is a California non-profit religious
corporation, with its principal offices in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles,
State of California, which has used monies contributed by Plaintiff to purchase properties
in which some of the conduct complained of herein has occurred. Building Management
Services is a low profile corporation holding major Scientology-owned real estate, as part
of "Mission Corporate Category Sort-out" and the plan to ensure that any
judgment creditors of the Scientology enterprise are unable to effectively collect and
satisfy upon such civil judgments.
30. Defendant Church of Scientology of Paris is, and at all relevant times was, a
French corporation with its principal office in the City of Paris, France, but which does
business within the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
Church of Scientology of Paris is one of the French Scientology corporations. In 1996, the
former head of the French Scientology enterprise, Jean-Jacques Mazier, was convicted of
fraud and second degree murder, along with 13 other Scientologists, in connection with the
death of a French Scientologist who committed suicide after being unable to endure the
Scientology enterprise's pressure for more money, more money and yet more money any
longer.
31. Defendant Church of Scientology Celebrity Center International is, and at all
relevant times was, a California corporation with its principal office in the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
32. Defendant Church of Scientology Celebrity Center Paris is, and at all relevant
times was, a French corporation with its principal place of business in Paris, France, but
which does business within the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of
California.
33. Defendant Mary Sue Hubbard ("MSH") is a resident of the City of Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. Until his death, allegedly on
January 24, 1986, Commodore L. Ron Hubbard exercised dominion and control over
all Scientology corporations through, until 1981, the Guardian's Office ("GO")
which organization was headed by his wife MSH. Upon information and belief, MSH has
converted millions of dollars of Church of Scientology funds, partially contributed to by
Plaintiff, she has fraudulently taken or "culled" information from "PC
files" to be used for purposes of blackmail and extortion and made an agreement,
under fraud, duress and undue influence, with Norman Starkey as Executor, to waive her
rights to her community property share of the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard. Between the
latter part of 1979 and mid-1980, MSH was one of the 11 highest officials of the GO who
were convicted of a variety of serious crimes by the United States Government, some of
which are described in a 286 page "Stipulation of Evidence filed in United
States v. Mary Sue Hubbard, Crim. Case No. 78-401 (D.C.D.C. 1978) and
executed by MSH. Said "Stipulation of Evidence" is a detailed stipulation of the
operation of the G.O. (now O.S.A.) to destroy some of the enemies of Scientology, one of
which was the United States Government itself. These crimes were discovered in the course
of the largest-ever raids conducted by the F.B.I. and they constituted the most extensive
clandestine infiltration of the United States Government ever known. In mid-1980, in a
deceptive "putsch" or take-over, involving misrepresentations by Captain
Miscavige to Commodore L. Ron Hubbard, Captain Miscavige removed MSH as the
"Controller" of the Guardian's Office, and Captain Miscavige now has MSH under
virtual house arrest in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. Plaintiff is
informed and believes that had Defendants not entered into the 263 page "Stipulation
of Evidence" in United States v. Hubbard, 474 F.Supp. 64 (1979), with the
predecessors of the various Relief Defendants named herein, then certain of the Relief
Defendants, such as the Government of the United States of America, would have publicly
revealed certain additional evidence of the following: Defendants' extensive infiltration
of the United States Government, and through the United States' electronic monitoring of
encrypted and/or coded foreign diplomatic communications, the recruiting of senior
government officials into the Scientology "religion," the using the 'auditing'
and/or "confessional" or "sec check" processes to obtain classified
information regarding, inter alia; international currency and commodity
price movements from certain recruited government officials, and Defendant's conduct of
paid intelligence operations in the United States on behalf of foreign governments, and
then employing said knowledge to the financial benefit of the Defendants and at the
expense, cost and detriment of Plaintiff generally.
34. Defendant Pat Broeker is an individual whose current whereabouts are unknown to
Plaintiff, but understood to be known to Defendant Captain Miscavige and his hired
"investigator" , intimidator and enforcer, former LAPD officer Eugene Ingram,
who himself is the subject of numerous arrest warrants in various of these United States
and abroad, and many of the other individual Defendants herein. Until Commodore Hubbard's
death, allegedly on January 24, 1986, Defendant Pat Broeker was in hiding with
Commodore Hubbard and communicated Commodore Hubbard's orders to Captain Miscavige. At
that time, Plaintiff is informed and believes that Pat Broeker and Captain Miscavige
together improperly controlled approximately $150 million of Scientology Enterprise
monies which included monies which were contributed by Plaintiff, or which were the
product of his labor, without authority to do so. Defendant Pat Broeker was Commodore
Hubbard's designated successor until Captain Miscavige engineered a "putsch" or
take-over to remove him and to confine him at one of Defendants' RPFs' or concentration
camps, in Riverside County, California before allowing him to disappear into monitored
obscurity and non-contactability. Defendant Pat Broeker committed tortious and other
wrongful acts against Plaintiff while domiciled here.
35. Defendant Anne Broeker is, and at all relevant times was, a California resident
and admitted tortious and other acts against Plaintiff while domiciled here in California.
She is currently believed to be residing, under armed guard, at Scientology's base at
Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, County of Riverside, State of California. Upon information
and belief, Anne Broeker escaped from said Scientology base, described in the court sealed
declaration of Andre Tabayoyan (which is available on the Internet) as being "heavily
armed and dangerous" and was allegedly captured and kidnapped (by Lieutenant Rathbun
using a plane owned by Defendant John Travolta, and is now allegedly being held against
her will at said Scientology desert base which also accommodates the Rehabilitation
Project Force ("RPF"), described by many former Scientologists as a form of
"gulag" or "concentration camp." Until Commodore Hubbard's death,
allegedly on January 24, 1986, Ann Broeker was in hiding with Commodore Hubbard and
assisted Pat Broeker to communicate Commodore Hubbard's orders to Captain Miscavige.
36. Defendant Lyman Spurlock, is a subordinate of Captain Miscavige, who is
currently in charge of all of Church of Scientology finances and assets throughout the
world. Spurlock, together with Captain Miscavige and Starkey, wrongfully controls
Scientology assets, comprising monies contributed by Plaintiff, through various
Scientology corporate shells and corporate mazes. At various times since 1981, Spurlock
has been "Director of Legal Affairs" for ASI and RTC and he directed and
coordinated the creation of most of the Defendant corporations that took place within
Scientology in 1981 and 1982. " Prior to 1981, Spurlock held numerous other high
ranking positions within Scientology and he is a member of the Sea Org. Defendant Spurlock
is also one of the four co-founders of Church of Spiritual Technology doing business as L.
Ron Hubbard Library and which has ultimate power over the entire domain of all
Scientology-related entities, individual side projects and businesses owned by individual
Scientologists.
37. Defendant Terri Gamboa, is a resident of the State of Arizona but, at certain
relevant times, was a California resident and subordinate of Miscavige in which capacity,
she received orders and directions from DM and through ASI, exercised wrongful control and
dominion over assets of Scientology which included monies contributed by Plaintiff. She
committed tortious and other acts against Plaintiff while she was domiciled in California.
She is now subject to intimidation, by Defendants, intended to keep her forever silent
about the matters set forth herein.
38. Defendant Mark Fisher is a resident of the State of Arizona but, at relevant
times, was a California resident and a subordinate or "junior" of Captain
Miscavige in which capacity he received orders and directions from Captain Miscavige and
participated in the wrongful control and dominion over assets of the Scientology
enterprise comprised, in part, of monies contributed by Plaintiff. He committed tortious
and other wrongful acts against the Plaintiff while domiciled here in California. He is
now subject to intimidation, by Defendants, intended to keep him forever silent about the
matters set forth herein.
39. Defendant Vicki Aznaran is a resident of the City of Dallas in the State of
Texas but, at certain relevant times, was a corporate officer of RTC who exercised
wrongful control and dominion over assets of Scientology comprised, in part, of monies
contributed by Plaintiff. Subsequently, along with Jesse Prince, she was imprisoned under
armed guard at one of the Scientology `gulags' located in the California desert. She is
now subject to intimidation, and a "gag" agreement by Defendants, intended to
keep her forever silent about the matters set forth herein. She committed tortious and
wrongful acts against the Plaintiff while domiciled here in California.
40. Defendant Mark or "Marty" Rathbun is either a resident of the State
of California and/or does business within the State of California and at all relevant
times was a subordinate or "junior" of Captain Miscavige, exercising wrongful
control and dominion over assets of Scientology partially comprised of contributions by
Plaintiff and engaged in fraudulent conduct directed at Plaintiff. Currently, Defendant
Rathbun holds the rank of Lieutenant in the Sea Org and occupies the post of Inspector
General Religious Technology Center. In or about late 1993/early 1994, Defendant Rathbun
"blew his post", left Scientology and was later "returned" and held
captive at sea aboard the M.V. Freewinds while he was being re-educated and
"rehabilitated".
41. Defendant Michael Rinder was formerly an Australian citizen and resident, who
has at material times occupied the `Post' and worn the `Hat' of Commanding Officer, Office
of Special Affairs (C.O. O.S.A.) As such he commands the litigation harassment,
intimidation and intelligence gathering operations of the Scientology Enterprise.
Defendant Rinder is now a resident of the State of California and conducts business in the
City of Hollywood California. Defendant Rinder personally met with Plaintiff and had
participated, with Scientology attorneys Elliot Abelson and William Drescher, in the
perpetration of the various criminal and tortious conduct alleged herein. He has also
participated in the suborning of perjury, and attempted obstruction of justice, from
persons such as Vicki Azneran, Richard Azneran, R. Vaughn Young, Stacey Young, Andre
Tabayoyan, Robert F. Lewis, Esq. and Garry Scarff.
42. Defendant Ray Mithoff is, and at all relevant times was, a resident of the
State of California and a subordinate of LRH, MSH and Captain Miscavige and currently
holds the rank of Commander in the Sea Org and the post of Senior Case Supervisor (C/S)
International. At various times, notwithstanding his alleged former illicit hallucinogenic
drug activity, he was RTC Inspector General Tech and participated in various of the frauds
perpetrated upon Plaintiff. He is also believed to maintain a secret list of
"mysterious" Scientology related deaths believed in some way, inter alia,
to be connected to the unlawful practice of medicine using the E-meter.
43. Defendant Heber Jentzch is a resident of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los
Angeles, State of California, a former actor and comic, and since 1983 has been the
President of CSI. As President of CSI and as the principal public relations spokesperson
for Scientology, he has participated in the various fraudulent representations perpetrated
upon the Plaintiff. In November 1988, Rev. Jentzch was arrested in Spain and held in
jail for 30 days on charges of fraud, forgery, kidnapping, coercion, failure to meet
Social Security payments and illegal association. Rev. Jentzch fraudulently
engineered his release upon $1 million bail and he is still awaiting trial. If
convicted, he faces a possible sentence of sixty (60) years in a Spanish prison.
44. Defendant Danny Keogh is a resident of the State of Florida who has minimum
contact with the State of California. He has participated in the various fraudulent
representations and misconduct perpetrated upon the Plaintiff. Defendant Keogh is the
former husband and reported current lover of Scientologist Lisa Marie Presley. Upon
information and belief, Defendant Keogh and Lisa Marie Presley were divorced, "for
the greater good of scientology" and "the greatest number of dynamics", so
that she could try and recruit singer Michael Jackson into Scientology, and to that end
Scientology operatives assisted in the "handling" of the various pedophilia
investigations being conducted into Mr. Jackson at that time.
45. Defendant Jacqueline Van Der Linde (Govan) is a resident of the City of
Clearwater, Florida, a field staff member of Defendants, and was at one time was a member
of the Guardian's Office and at the orders of Commodore Hubbard and certain of the other
Defendants herein participated in the instructions to Plaintiff to lie about the
Scientology presence in, and intended takeover of, the City of Clearwater by masquerading
as members of the United Churches of Florida as more fully described herein. She has
"minimum contacts" with the State of California.
46. Defendant Mary Voegeding is the President of Flag Land Base at Clearwater,
Florida and is a person who personally participated in the fraudulent and unlawful conduct
perpetrated upon the Plaintiff. She has "minimum contact" with the State of
California.
47. Defendant Alain Franck Rosenberg is the Executive Director of Celebrity Center
Paris, one of the Defendants herein, who does business within the State of California and
who participated in the perpetration of the various fraudulent and wrongful conduct
Defendants perpetrated upon Plaintiff herein. He has both minimum contacts "with the
State of California" and "national contacts" with these United States.
48. Defendant Guillaume Lesevre is the Executive Director of CSI (ED Int.) and in
that capacity is the Executive Director of the Scientology Enterprise worldwide. The
"post" or "hat" of ED Int was once held by Hubbard. As one of the most
senior staff members of the Scientology Enterprise he has participated in the fraudulent,
tortious and other wrongful conduct that Defendants have perpetrated upon the Plaintiff
herein. Defendant Lesevre also holds the rank of Captain in the Sea Org. In addition,
Defendant Lesevre and Plaintiff had personal and direct communication on the issue of
resolving the injustice perpetrated upon him, as more fully described herein, and the
restoration of the OT levels wrongfully stripped from Plaintiff after he had paid over
$500,000 dollars to obtain those same OT levels. Thus, Defendant Lesevre has unique
percipient knowledge of the matters complained of herein.
49. Defendant Sarit Rosenberg is the President of Celebrity Center Paris which does
business among other places, in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of
California and who personally participated in some of the most egregious of the tortious
and wrongful conduct perpetrated by Defendants upon Plaintiff. She has "minimum
contacts" with the State of California and "national contacts" within these
United States.
50. Defendant John Travolta ("Travolta"), at various relevant times
herein, was a resident of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of
California. Furthermore, he has committed tortious acts against Plaintiff while domiciled
in California. Defendant Travolta is a "celebrity member" of the Church of
Scientology. He has also been a member of Scientology for a period of time similar to that
of Plaintiff. Defendant Travolta has been a prolific, principal public spokesperson and
recruiter for the Church of Scientology, owing fiduciary duties to his fellow
Scientologists, making statements, now known to be material misrepresentations, which
Plaintiff reasonably relied upon to his detriment. Said misrepresentations continued until
the time Plaintiff ceased Scientology training and auditing. Defendant Travolta has also
helped to lure young actors and actors through the Celebrity Center and into Scientology
using the heavily Scientology staffed Beverly Hills Playhouse as a recruitment vehicle.
Because Plaintiff had been lured into Scientology upon, among other things, the
representation that Scientology counseling and courses would "handle" or cure
his homosexuality or "ruin", Plaintiff relied, to his detriment, upon Defendant
Travolta's public statements as a spokesperson for Defendants, endorsing Scientology and
the practices of Defendants. More recently, as part of what has been called
"Cult-Gate", Defendant Travolta has reportedly been responsible for subverting
the President of the United States into intervening, through the United States' Secretary
of State and the National Security Advisor, in the internal affairs of the Government of
Germany and, through the United States' Department of Commerce and the United States'
Trade Negotiator, in the internal affairs of the Government of Sweden by placing it on a
301 Watch List with associated threats of United States' Government's Trade Sanctions
against the Government of Sweden for refusing to comply with Defendants' demands, and the
Clinton Administration's Demands, concerning public availability of scriptures allegedly
relating to their so-called religion. Indeed, Defendant Travolta has stated "I found
Washington fascinating, like a puzzle. If you know it well enough, you can infiltrate
and get things done. We got tons done."(emphasis added) Thus, Defendant Travolta has
knowingly participated in the intentional violation of the Establishment Clause of the
First Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus instigating the "excessive
entanglement of church and state." Defendant Travolta has known of Scientology's
"gulags" and "concentration camps, otherwise known as RPF's, through both
personal observation and information received from a certain former Scientologist, but has
deliberately chosen to turn a blind eye to their existence and to refrain from disclosing
his knowledge to people such as Plaintiff who trusted and relied upon him as a principal
spokesperson on behalf of the Defendants. Indeed, when the movie "Saturday Night
Fever" was first released, he knowingly arranged for a hard to obtain copy of the
movie to be shown to members of the Sea Org sentenced to armed confinement in the RPF, or
"gulag" in Scientology's buildings in Hollywood, California. Defendant
Travolta's public statements, "handling" and subsequent marriage were material
statements Plaintiff reasonably relied upon, as Commodore Hubbard intended when he taught
Defendants how to "use" celebrities such as Defendant Travolta, for the
recruitment, brainwashing and retention of the Plaintiff and others.
51. Defendant Jane Kember was at material times a resident of the State of
California, has conducted business in the State of California, and whose last known place
of residence was 24 Tennyson Rise, East Grinstead Sussex, U.K. Defendant Kember was one of
the senior Scientologists convicted of the largest ever criminal infiltration of the
United States Government. She has requisite "minimum" and "national
contacts".
52. Defendant Captain Mark Yaeger is a resident of the City of Los Angeles, County
of Los Angeles, State of California and C.O. "CMO Int." (Commanding Officer,
Commodore's Messenger Organization International) and has participated in the conspiracy
and other wrongful conduct herein alleged, including but not limited to the June through
October, 1993 telex traffic concerning Plaintiff.
53. Defendant Wendell Reynolds is a resident of the City of Los Angeles, County of
Los Angeles, State of California. In 1982 Defendant Captain Miscavige appointed him Head
of the International Finance Police of the Scientology Enterprise.
54. Defendant Kendrick L. Moxon ("Moxon") is a resident of the City
of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California and was a Deputy Guardian
engaged (as an unindicted co-conspirator) in the vast Scientology criminal activities
leading to the arrest and imprisonment of certain senior Scientologists in Washington,
D.C. and elsewhere, for the largest ever known criminal infiltration of the United States
Government, in which capacity he has been responsible for, or participated in, various of
the criminal, fraudulent and unethical activities alleged herein and either directed at,
or damaging to the Defendant. Moxon is employed within the Office of Special Affairs as an
attorney although he has variously held himself out as an attorney with the law firms of
Bowles & Moxon, Moxon & Bartilson and Moxon & Kobrin. The
Office of Special Affairs, in addition to handling legal matters in accordance with
Scientology policies of abusing the legal system, has, since the closing of the Guardians
Office, controlled and directed many of Scientology's covert intelligence gathering and
harassment operations. Defendant Moxon conceived the Bowles & Moxon Plan 100 to
destroy IRS ? 501(c)(3) organization the "Cult Awareness Network", filed over 50
meritless lawsuites intended to and which did, bankrupt it completely, and directed and
participated in various of the human rights violations, civil rights violations abuses and
abuses of the legal and judicial system alleged herein.
55. Plaintiff is ignorant of the true names and capacities of Defendants,
Does 1 through 10, and therefore sues said Defendants by fictitious names. Plaintiff
will seek leave to amend this complaint when the true names of said Defendants have been
ascertained. Plaintiff is informed and believes and on that basis alleges that each of the
fictitious Defendants was in some way responsible for, participated in or contributed to
the matters and things of which Plaintiff complains herein and, in some fashion, has legal
responsibility therefore.
56. The designation of any Scientology entity, including Defendants herein, as a
church and/or non-profit entity is a fraudulent sham. It is designed to exploit the
protection of the First Amendment, to obtain tax exemptions and to prevent the regulation
of Scientology "counselors" or "counseling techniques" by state
regulatory agencies. The religious claims also serve Defendants' commercial public
relations ("PR") purposes. Commodore Hubbard and his successors, including the
Defendants herein, have profited and benefited from the income, perks and power of
Scientology, and the labor and financial contributions of Plaintiff herein. The
Scientology enterprise sells written materials and purported psychological counseling,
Scientology services and Scientology auditing at a huge profit, and to its unjust enrichment,
at the expense of Plaintiff. Accordingly, whenever the reference to Scientology as a
religion and its entities as "churches" is made herein, it should not be
construed as Plaintiff's acquiescence in those designations, but is rather used, on
occasion, to aid in the clarification of the different entities involved in the fraud
perpetrated by the Defendants herein, on behalf of the Scientology enterprise, upon the
Plaintiff.
57. Defendants are part of an ongoing criminal enterprise, and criminal association
in fact, referred to herein as the SCIENTOLOGY enterprise. The persons in control of this
criminal enterprise are members of controlling groups such as the "Sea Org," the
"Office for Special Affairs" ("OSA"), "Approval Lines" and
"The Commodore's Messenger Org" ("CMO"). At all relevant times, the
corporate Defendants, the unincorporated Defendants, the individual Defendants and the Sea
Org have conducted and been engaged in the promulgation and sale of the writings and
practices of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology as a unified business enterprise.
58. The various corporate Defendants herein are co-conspirators subject to a unity
of control. The separate alleged corporate structures were created as part of a scheme to
avoid liability for the acts of the enterprise, including the avoidance of taxes, civil
judgments and criminal penalties. Because of the unity of control, unity of personnel,
overlapping boards of directors, overlapping executives, overlapping attorneys, including
some from the nation's most prestigious law firms, commingling of assets, and commonality
of business objectives, the attempt at separation of these corporations, and other
entities, and all of Scientology's other corporations and entities, should be disregarded
by the court. In particular, there exists, and at all times relevant hereto, has existed,
such a unity of control and interest among the corporate Defendants, and the Sea Org, such
that any individuality and separateness between each of them has ceased and each is the
alter-ego or agent of the others in that, among other things:
(a) Each corporation is controlled, dominated, managed and operated by certain
Managing Agents of Scientology (as hereinafter defined) with corporate individuality
considered only for the sake of appearances;
(b) Each corporation or trust is a shell instrumentality and sham conduit
through which said Managing Agents carry on their domination of Scientology and the
related entities, including the named Defendants herein, and the business of developing,
marketing and selling the ideas of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology;
(c) The corporate formalities maintained by the corporations are mere fraudulent
facades;
(d) There is a concealment and misrepresentation of the responsible management
of each such entity;
(e) There is use of a corporate entity to procure staff or employees of other
affiliated Org. corporations and Sea Org;
(f) Although the corporations nominally use separate counsel, all counsel are
controlled and directed by the Managing Agents, and the retention of ostensibly separate
counsel is merely one aspect of the fraud designed to create the appearance of independent
corporate entities.
59. Adherence to the fiction of the separate existence of the Defendant
corporations and of the Sea Org would permit an abuse of corporate privilege and would
promote injustice in that, via the unified control, the assets of the corporate Defendants
and Sea Org can be transferred at will and, thus, concealed from corporate debts,
liabilities, government obligations and taxes and other obligations. Adherence to the
fiction of the separate existence of the Defendant corporations and the Sea Org would also
be inequitable because the Managing Agents and/or subdivisions of the Scientology
enterprise can transfer personnel and control of documents from one entity to another,
thus allowing the Defendants to avoid legitimate discovery and thereby to effect the
continuing abuse of process, obstruction of justice, manipulation of the judicial system,
improper and unlawful manipulation of the political system and of the government, and
caused the unconstitutional and excessive entanglement of Church and State, including but
not limited to numerous officials within the Clinton Administration, the President of the
United States and his National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. Defendants have also
subverted various and sundry other government officials, including but not limited to
officials of the United States Internal Revenue Service, (`Scientology's Puzzling Journey
From Tax Rebel to Tax Exempt'. Douglas Frantz, New York Times, Sunday, March
9, 1997), Exhibit "D", to the furtherance of their unlawful, criminal,
fraudulent activities, and subversive totalitarian objectives.
60. In addition, Defendants have engaged in the furtherance of their criminal and
fraudulent conspiracy to establish their totalitarian anti-democratic beliefs upon all
persons within the world by recruiting and subverting the new Prime Minister of Russia,
attempting to take over other governments such as those of former Rhodesia and certain
Mediterranean Islands, and otherwise suborning every potential "terminal"
capable of being used to further the anti-democratic, anti-social, criminal and fraudulent
beliefs and activities of Defendants and all those associated with, or assisting them,
such as "celebrity members" Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
61. At all relevant times mentioned herein, each of the Defendants was the
co-conspirator, "senior," "junior," partner, agent or employee of the
other acting within the course and scope of that agency, employment or conspiracy and did
the acts herein, or participated in some way in the acts alleged herein, pursuant to said
relationship. Specifically, all named Defendants are the agents, partners, joint venturers
and/or conspirators of each other Defendant and they should all be liable for the acts of
the others.
62. Alternatively, at all times herein mentioned, each of the Defendants and/or
their predecessors, affiliates, subsidiaries and related entities, and each of the Doe
Defendants, was the agent, servant, employee, fellow member, associate and/or joint
venturer or conspirator of each of the other remaining Defendants and was at all times
acting within the purpose and scope of said agency, employment or joint venture, and
acting with the express and/or implied knowledge or consent of the remaining Defendants,
and each of them. The acts of each Defendant were approved and/or ratified by each other
Defendant and, together, constitute a single course of conduct.
63. At all times mentioned herein, each and every Defendant was the authorized
agent, servant and/or employee of each and every other Defendant and was acting within the
scope of his/her authority as agents, servants and employees with the permission and
consent of their co-Defendants. Reference to "Defendants" shall mean Defendants
and each of them.
64. The Managing Agents of Scientology currently include Captain David Miscavige,
Lieutenant Marty Rathbun and Norman Starkey, who operate through divisions known as the
Sea Org, the "Watchdog Committee," and an elite organization of aides known as
the "Commodore's Messengers" ("CMO"). Before his death in 1986,
Commodore L. Ron Hubbard was also one of the Managing Agents and, at various times,
so also have Defendants Pat Broeker, Mary Sue Hubbard, Terri Gamboa, Mark Fisher and Vicki
Aznaran been Managing Agents of the Scientology enterprise.
65. Each of the individual, corporate and other entity Defendants, and Does 1
through 10, are or have been principal officers or controllers, or both, of all of
Defendant corporations listed herein. There exists a unity of interest in ownership
between the individual Defendants listed above and the corporate Defendants listed above.
Any individuality and separateness between the individual Defendants and the corporate
Defendants has ceased. The individual Defendants are alter-egos of the corporate
Defendants and vice-versa, and the corporate Defendants are mere shells, instrumentalities
and conduits through which the individual Defendants have transacted business with the
Plaintiff to such an extent that the corporate entities do not exist. Adherence to the
fiction of the existence of the corporate Defendants as entities distinct from the
individual Defendants would work a fraud, promote injustice, or both.
66. The acts and conduct of Defendants, and each of them, as hereinafter set forth,
are continuing and are part of a massive international conspiracy originated, agreed to,
orchestrated and accomplished by Defendants, and each of them, to carry out the events and
circumstances as herein alleged with a total disregard for the constitutional, civil,
human and contractual rights of Plaintiff, to damage Plaintiff, and to cheat Plaintiff out
of his money, property, services and information.
67. The acts complained of herein were variously authorized by Commodore
L. Ron Hubbard, Pat Broeker, Captain Miscavige, and the other Defendants, prior to
their occurrence or ratified after the fact by their representatives and/or the
Defendants, and each of them, named herein.
68. The individual Defendants named herein have been variously subordinates or
"juniors" of Commodore L. Ron Hubbard, Pat Broeker and Captain Miscavige
and have assisted each of them, and others, in wrongfully controlling Church of
Scientology assets, consisting at least in part of moneys contributed by Plaintiff,
through various corporations such the corporate and associational Defendants herein.
69. The corporations named herein were formed, among other things, for the purpose
of creating a corporate maze through which those in control of Scientology could and did
channel church monies, and Plaintiff's monies, through individuals and entities such as
Defendant Religious Research Foundation, into Commodore L. Ron Hubbard's personal
accounts, and the accounts of others, and for the purpose of divesting the Church of
Scientology of California, and other entities, of their assets as part of a criminal and
fraudulent conspiracy directed at the Plaintiff, other members of the Church of
Scientology, judgment creditors of various of the Churches of Scientology, (such as
judgment creditor Lawrence D. Wollersheim, LASC Case No. C132027), the United
States Government, other national governments, and their citizens generally.
DEFENDANT'S CRIMINAL AND FRAUDULENT EIGHTIES
85. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows: In
approximately March 1980, upon the disappearance of Commodore L. Ron Hubbard, the
assets and property of the Church of Scientology were not under the control of any
Scientology corporation or its officers or directors. Although each Scientology
corporation had a charter, a Board of Directors and officers, said charter, Board of
Directors, and officers had no actual authority or control of any nature or description.
In 1966, when Commodore Hubbard "purportedly" resigned his position as
"Executive Director International" of all Churches of Scientology throughout the
world, which was then the highest Scientology executive management post, he simultaneously
created the "Guardian's Office," now OSA, as Department 20 on the
Scientology Org. Board, and designated his wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, as
"Controller" of all Scientology organizations throughout the world and over the
Guardian's Office. Between 1966 and early 1981, Commodore L. Ron Hubbard, Mary Sue
Hubbard, and the Guardian's Office exercised total control over all Church assets, bank
accounts, property and trademarks including monies contributed by Plaintiff and the
product of his trust and labor.
86. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows: Prior
to 1973, and continuing to the present, both before and after the indictment and
conviction of Mary Sue Hubbard and other high-level Scientology officials (such as Jane
Kember), Captain Miscavige, Pat Broeker, Anne Broeker, Norman Starkey, Vicki Aznaran,
Terri Gamboa, Mark Fisher, Lyman Spurlock, gradually began to assume complete dominion and
control over all Scientology assets and property throughout the world, although they
received no corporate authority to do so. In early 1981, Commodore Hubbard, even though he
held no official position in any Scientology corporation, allegedly authorized Captain
Miscavige to take control of Church assets to the detriment of his designated successor
Pat Broeker and with the assistance of monies and labor contributed by Plaintiff. At the
same time, Commodore Hubbard appointed William Franks as "Executive Director
International" and ordered Franks to become a signatory on certain bank accounts in
Luxembourg containing approximately $150 million dollars. Although Franks held the
highest official management position in the Church of Scientology, he received his daily
orders from Captain Miscavige upon the representation that Commodore Hubbard was issuing
daily dispatches containing orders which must be followed in the distribution of assets of
the Church of Scientology. Franks himself was required to sign an undated letter of
resignation as "Executive Director International."
87. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows:
Between June 1981 and December 1981, conflict developed between Captain Miscavige and
Franks over control of Church bank accounts. In November 1981, Captain Miscavige had
Franks physically locked up in a room for several weeks while Captain Miscavige assumed
control of all Scientology corporate bank accounts, and other assets. Throughout this
period, Captain Miscavige was represented by attorneys Sherman Lenske and John Peterson
(now deceased) and Captain Miscavige paid them millions of dollars in attorneys' fees in
connection with their assistance in achieving this unauthorized and illegal takeover, all
without the knowledge and consent of Plaintiff but, at least in part, with monies that
were the product of Plaintiff's financial contributions, trust and labor.
88. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows: In
early 1982, Sherman D. Lenske, Esq., on behalf of Defendants Captain Miscavige,
Spurlock, Starkey and several others, incorporated ASI which became the corporate entity
controlling Church of Scientology bank accounts and assets in violation of applicable law,
rules, and regulations, and the representations of certain Defendants. In fact, the
officers and directors of ASI, which included Captain Miscavige, Starkey and Spurlock,
possessed no authority from any Church of Scientology corporation to control its bank
accounts and property.
89. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows: At the
same time as the incorporation of ASI, Sherman D. Lenske, Esq. on behalf of Captain
Miscavige, incorporated Religious Technology Center ("RTC") and Church of
Spiritual Technology ("CST"). Between January 1982 and June 1982, Lenske
represented ASI, RTC, CST, Commodore L. Ron Hubbard and various Scientology
corporations in the fraudulent transfer of monies, property and assets from various
Scientology corporations to Commodore L. Ron Hubbard personally. Lenske also prepared
wills and inter vivos trusts on behalf of Commodore Hubbard, which
were witnessed, among others, by Defendants Pat Broeker and Anne Broeker. Starkey (and
therefore RTC became the trustee of said Trust(s). The assets of various Scientology
corporations, which were taken over by ASI in 1982, included bank accounts, personal
property, real property and current income of the various corporations and property which
lawfully belonged to MSH and the children of LRH, but which Captain Miscavige procured
with use of monies and labor fraudulently obtained from Plaintiff. The Charters of these
corporations were violated in the take-over by ASI. The Charters of each corporation
provided that the corporate affairs were to be regulated and managed by the Board of
Directors of said corporations when, in fact, the various Boards of Directors of each
Scientology corporation were illegally controlled by ASI, Captain Miscavige, Broeker and
Commodore Hubbard. Prior to his death, allegedly in 1986, Commodore Hubbard personally
managed, directed or through the other managing agents (such as Captain David Miscavige)
and their subordinates, the entire Scientology enterprise, including the Defendants
herein. His management design was to ignore the formal structure of the many entities and
to operate them as his personal domain and he did so, and Defendant Captain Miscavige
continues to do so today. The goal of this management technique was, first and foremost,
to optimize Commodore Hubbard's personal income in violation of the prohibition against
personal inurement imposed on institutions seeking charitable, religious, tax-exempt
status under IRC Section 501(c)(3). This facade of independent corporations was
created to make the structure of the Church more defensible to criminal investigation and
civil liability while still being managed by the same unity of control under the direct
command of Commodore Hubbard and his several top aides including Captain Miscavige,
Starkey, Epstein and Spurlock.
90. This management maze also permits money to be shifted among entities to hide
their profit-making reality and to avoid taxes and judgments. Furthermore, insofar as
actual control of the entities was/is in the hands of individuals who are not within the
formal corporate structure, the conduct of affairs of each of the several entities could
be kept secretive.
91. In or about October of 1982, certain of the Defendants, including Captain
Miscavige conspired to steal millions of dollars from lower level Scientology missions or
franchises and persons including the Plaintiff. This was done by requiring the franchise
("Mission") holders to attend a meeting ("the Mission Holders
Meeting") in Clearwater, Florida, and San Francisco, California where they were
intimidated, "overwhelmed" and defrauded, and utilizing the monies, forced
donations, trust and labor of Plaintiff in the process but without the knowledge and
consent of the Plaintiff. Among other things, 600 persons were declared "Suppressive
Persons" and their assets and livelihoods confiscated by Defendants to the direct
detriment and damage of Plaintiff's own art clientele.
92. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows: On or
about October 17, 1982, after establishing ASI, CST and RTC, and obtaining control
over all Scientology corporate bank accounts throughout the world, and using monies, trust
and labor contributed by Plaintiff, and procured through the fraud of Defendants upon
Plaintiff, Captain Miscavige held a meeting of approximately 400 franchise holders
operating Scientology corporations in San Francisco, California at which he appeared
dressed in a naval full-dress uniform, as did other of the Defendants. At said meeting,
Captain Miscavige informed the various franchise holders of the fact that he and the RTC
had taken over all Scientology organizations. Captain Miscavige stated as follows:
All the Scientology/Dianetics trademarks were previously owned by L. Ron Hubbard.
L. Ron Hubbard has donated the vast majority of those to a corporation which some of
you have probably never heard of, by the name of Religious Technology Center.
93. Captain Miscavige further stated that every franchise holder would be required
to sign a new agreement with RTC and that if they did not do so, they would be "fined
or thrown into [a Scientology] jail." Individuals who objected to the RTC and ASI
take-over of the assets were literally locked into rooms and interrogated with a crude lie
detector called an E-Meter and were either forced to sign the new agreements or removed
from their positions and deprived of their business, property and possessions. For
example, certain persons expressed disapproval and an unwillingness to take part in the
conspiracy and they were summarily ordered to the RPF "Running Program" in,
among other places, the State of California's high desert, for 120 days - all with
the benefit and use of Plaintiff's monies and labor. This was a forced program which
involved the victim running around an orange telephone pole in the middle of the desert.
For example, former RTC "boss", Defendant Vicki Aznaran, has testified that she
was forced to literally run from 7:00 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. daily and was
confined under armed guard. Vicki Aznaran and other victims were allowed only 30 minutes
for lunch and for dinner. She finally escaped down a riverbed. Similarly, former
"senior management" Scientologist, Jesse Prince, escaped with the help of local
Indians, after years of being imprisoned at this high security, "re-education"
gulag, from which countless persons have literally disappeared (Exhibit "E").
94. In or about 1982, at a public event attended by Plaintiff at the Flag Land Base
in Clearwater, Florida, Captain Miscavige proudly proclaimed that he was working with
Scientology's attorneys, as "Mission Ops" (meaning he was in charge or
"i/c"), on a program known as "Mission Corporate Category Sort-Out"
(or "MCCS") to reorganize the entire corporate structure of the Scientology
enterprise with the specific intention that any further litigation against Defendants by
enemies of Scientology, would be certain to either fail, be overwhelmingly and
prohibitively expensive and, even if successful, would thwart satisfaction of any judgment
entered against the Scientology enterprise.
95. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows:
Between March 1982 and November 1982, Commodore Hubbard, Pat Broeker, Captain Miscavige,
Spurlock and others through ASI illegally transferred over 30 million dollars of
funds belonging to the Church of Scientology, and in part contributed by Plaintiff's
monies, trust and labor, to bank accounts of ASI and Commodore Hubbard in Liechtenstein
and Luxembourg. These funds were transferred based on overly false or exaggerated billings
by ASI to the Church of Scientology and contrary to representations made to Plaintiff in
publications such as "What do your donations buy?"
96. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows:
Between November 1982 and the present, the Church of Scientology has paid millions of
dollars, in part comprised of Plaintiff's monies, trust and labor, in attorneys' fees to
various lawyers, who were instructed to engage in criminal, fraudulent and unethical
conduct (e.g. , Church of Scientology v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
86 U.S. Tax Ct. Rptr. 381 (1984); U.S. v. Katter, 840 F.2d 118 (1st Cir.
1988); Church of Scientology v. Wollersheim, 42 Cal.App.4th 628 (1996)), at
the expense of Plaintiff's monetary, trust and labor contributions to Defendants, without
the requisite authority of the officers and directors of the Church of Scientology
corporations. These attorneys' fees, and investigator's fees have been used as a
money-laundering scheme to pay covert operatives, private investigators, and other costs
in connection with a scheme to harass, intimidate, coerce and destroy all opposition to
the Defendants as set forth below.
97. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows:
Between January 1982 and the present, Captain Miscavige and ASI, and certain others of the
allegedly conspiring
Defendants herein, have illegally expended the following sums for unlawful purposes.
(a) In April 1982, Captain Miscavige ordered the payment of $250,000. 00, from
funds unknowingly and/or unwittingly contributed to by Plaintiff's monies and labor, to
"set up": and frame United States District Judge Ben Krentzman in a scheme to
compromise him with drugs and prostitutes.
(b) In April-June 1982, Captain Miscavige and ASI ordered the payment of
thousands of dollars from funds unknowingly and/or unwittingly contributed to by
Plaintiff's monies and labor, to Attorney Dan Warren in Daytona, Florida to "pay
off" State Circuit Judge James Durden who was then sitting as Justice on a
Scientology case.
(c) In March 1983, Captain Miscavige, Lenske, Peterson and ASI ordered the
payment of in excess of one million dollars to "set up" and frame Attorney
Michael Flynn of Boston, Massachusetts, in an alleged attempt to forge a two-million
dollar check of L. Ron Commodore Hubbard. Millions of dollars, from funds unknowingly
and/or unwittingly contributed to by Plaintiff's monies and labor, were paid to John
Peterson (deceased) and Eugene Ingram, a private investigator, to perpetrate the above
described illegal scheme (U.S. v. Kattar, 840 F.2d 118 (1st Cir. 1988)).
(d) In 1986, Captain Miscavige instituted the fraudulent sale of so-called
"Special Properties", some quite erotic, to mask approx. $50,000,000. 00 of
alleged charitable Church money that had been lost on bad business oil well investments.
The "Special Properties", program enabled Captain Miscavige to sell the many
hundreds of pages of blank paper with L. Ron Commodore Hubbard's signature on a
similar place on each page. Upon information and belief, Captain Miscavige had used this
large supply of signed blank pages to create fraudulent transfers, trust and testamentary
instruments purportedly executed by the fugitive Commodore Hubbard, which Captain
Miscavige then notarized despite the obvious conflict of interest. Contrary to applicable
law, Captain Miscavige has never deposited those notary logs with the State of California
and has refused to produce them in discovery in cases such as RTC v. Erlich, RTC v.
Lerma, RTC v. FactNet, RTC v. Ward and RTC v. Henson.
(e) In the late 1980's continuing through to today, Defendants have engaged in
numerous fraudulent credit card, bank loan, family loan and student loan schemes, and
financial frauds, including one called "the Amex Cycle". The proceeds of this
massive continuing financial fraud are used to finance the activities of the Scientology
enterprise by means of purchaser through "fixed donations" for publications
produced by persons being paid approximately $50. 00 per week. This scheme is enhanced by
the use of outside `F.S.M.'s", or "Registrars", who are paid huge
commissions to "reg" people into making such "fixed [tax free]
donations" to the criminal Scientology enterprise.
98. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges as follows:
Between 1972 and 1982, from funds unknowingly and/or unwittingly contributed to by
Plaintiff's monies, trust and labor, Defendants conspired together to defraud the Church
of Scientology of in excess of 100 million dollars. This conspiracy was accomplished
by the following overt acts:
(a) Commodore L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard created a Liberian
Corporation called Religious Research Foundation (RRF) with numbered bank accounts in
Liechtenstein and to which, and for which, Defendants' extorted monies from Plaintiff.
These bank accounts and RRF were dominated and controlled by Commodore L. Ron
Hubbard.
(b) Between 1972 and 1982 in excess of 100 million dollars belonging to the
Church of Scientology was illegally and secretly diverted into the RRF bank accounts,
including monies contributed by Plaintiff, by Commodore L. Ron Hubbard for his
personal use and under his control.
(c) RRF provided no goods or services to Plaintiff, and had no legitimate
corporate existence other than being a depository of funds illegally obtained, partially
from Plaintiff, and fraudulently controlled by Commodore Hubbard.
(d) Between 1980 and 1984 false and fraudulent back-dated invoices were created
to transfer RRF funds directly into L. Ron Commodore Hubbard's bank accounts and to
the financial detriment of Plaintiff. Plaintiff does not know the amount of money diverted
totally to Hubbard's bank accounts but believes it to be in excess of 30 million
dollars.
(e) The aforesaid funds illegally diverted were then within the estate of
L. Ron Hubbard, where they were in the possession, custody and control of Norman
Starkey. These funds were illegally seized and stolen by Captain Miscavige and other of
the Defendants in a fraud perpetrated upon, inter alia, the Plaintiff, the
Hubbard family heirs and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The current whereabouts of the
aforesaid funds is unknown to Plaintiff but believed to be known to Captain Miscavige,
Starkey, Spurlock, Rathbun, Moxon and the other Defendants herein.
99. For many years, Scientology has been embroiled in litigation. One of its
written policies is to use litigation to "overwhelm," "harass" and
wear down perceived enemies and would-be commercial competitors . According to Scientology
dogma and religious scripture, "the purpose of a lawsuit is to harass, not win on the
merits." Another Scientology directive is to "always attack, never defend."
Such litigation is intended to eliminate, harass and intimidate witnesses, and to obstruct
justice, and is funded by illegally and fraudulently obtained funds from Plaintiff among
others. Defendants' engage in this massive over-litigation and abuse of the legal system
in violation of their express contrary representations to the IRS, and in breach of their
fraudulent settlement with the IRS which has deprived the United States taxpayers of over
one billion dollars in tax revenues otherwise due and payable by Defendants to the IRS in
the year 1993(http:\www.lermanet2.com/cos/taxanalysts/secretagreement.txt).