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1979
- 1985
In the spring of 1979 I got a letter
in the mail from a New York ethics officer named Alma Jamieson asking me to come in and discuss with her why I was
not involved in Scientology any more.
Alma Jamieson has since left Scientology.
I went to see Alma and she wanted me write up all my O/W's on the church to her so we could work on getting me back in
Scientology. I didn't have any O/W's on Scientology to be truthful so instead I wrote up all my O/W's that I had
anywhere else in life. It took me 12 weekends to finish the write ups, not because there were a lot of things to
write up but because I did not have any prior experience writing up O/W's to anyone before. When I was done I attested at
the examiner and I did feel like a more ethical person. The problem is that I had a hard time truly sharing this
success with anyone in the church. While I was doing these write-ups my ethics officers changed about 4 times. First
I was turning them in to Alma, then a guy named Tom Ondrieka {Cathy McMurray Ondrieka's husband}, then a guy named
Mario Zea and then a woman named Anna Balash.
A major event took
place in Scientology on June 19, 1979 right when I was in the middle of doing my O/W write-ups. L. Ron Hubbard issued
a new church policy called Flag Order 3754 - "Recruitment of LSD Cases". Since
this policy went into effect it is now illegal in Scientology for anyone that has ever used LSD or Angel Dust to
join the Sea Org. A person that had used these drugs but was already in the Sea Org at the time the policy went
into effect could not be asked to resign but any new applicant was now screened for any prior usage of these 2 drugs.
Anyone who has taken LSD or Angel Dust may join staff at a church or mission and get auditing and training there
or at any Sea Org church, but may not join the Sea Org. I had used LSD about 4 times before I got involved in Scientology.
So, the policy was not written yet when I first got involved in Scientology, but went into effect in the middle of my O/W
write-up at the church in New York that spring. No one at the church even mentioned this policy to me. I was sent a copy of
it in the mail from a Sea Org recruiter at Flag. This policy permanently changed my qualifications and options
as a Scientologist. Whereas I could get auditing and training anywhere I liked or join staff at any org or mission, I could
no longer join the Sea Org. This policy is still in effect and will never be cancelled. L. Ron Hubbard claims that
when people use these two drugs in particular they affect a person's case in such a way that the damage caused
to the person from using them is not undone until the person finishes OT IV. So, at this point I was either
going to get somewhere with the church in New York or I wasn't.
But, after I finished
my O/W's my last ethics officer Anna Balash asked me into her office saying there was a special cycle we were going
to do together. She said certain things in my O/W's require me to petition the Guardian Office for approval
in writing to be in Scientology. I asked her what she meant and she said I had:
A. Attempted suicide with a gun and drugs
B.
A former Psychiatric case type history
C. Been a member of the Church of Satan
D. A history of promiscuity
E.
A mistakenly approved petition from L. Ron Hubbard
People that have done certain
things in life such as attempt suicide are not allowed to join staff or the Sea Org or get auditing
or training. In the middle of this interview Anna started to tell me about certain implants she thought she had and then announced
to me that she was Clear. She was a Flag trained Ethics Officer, so, it is not as if her actions
were unknown to her as she did them.
I never attempted suicide. There are no hospital,
police, psychiatric or court records that say so. I put in my O/W write-ups that one time before I was in Scientology I was
playing with my father's pistol in the park without his knowledge or permission while I was high on drugs. This
was a reckless act that could have hurt me or someone else by accident. Anna stated that it was in fact a suicide
attempt.
I was never a member of the Church of Satan. I received some information
in the mail from the Church of Satan once because I read a book of theirs and wrote to them to ask them a question about
some of the things in the book. Asking someone a question about their religious beliefs and getting an answer from that
person in response does not constitute membership in their religion. Anna claimed that communication to such groups
constitutes legal involvement in them according to church policy.
I never mentioned the
approved petition L. Ron Hubbard sent me to anyone. The only way she could know about it was if she saw the letter L.
Ron Hubbard sent to me at the church that I never received after my petition to the New York Guardian that
I never heard back on vanished from his IN basket. I told Bob Cucarullo only that, I never heard
back on my petition to the GO and never said I knew it was missing to anyone. Someone at the church though had stolen
my personal letters twice.
The church was now preparing to bill me thousands of dollars
for made up make believe services.
As soon as Anna Balash was sure I believed her she began telling me how the whole process was going
to go. The following things would be required from me:
A. A complete write up of all person's and groups I am
or have ever been
connected with in any way such as religious, political, civic,
ethnic etc.
B. Notarized affidavits verifying a previous history of
attempted suicides, involvement
in devil cults and promiscuity
C. A Security Check called a Green Form 40 WW Form 5 Expanded*
D.
A new petition to the Guardian Office
E. A signed waiver releasing the church from any liabilities
*The Security Check cost $2,800.00 per 12½ hours. The price she said would be going up at a rate of 10% each month thereafter
for quite some time so it would be best to start paying right away.
When everything was together the
whole thing would be sent up to the GO as a package to be approved or disapproved. If disapproved it would
have to be done a second time but the second time usually carries more weight. She took me to the registrar's office to
make the first payment. The registrar was Raymond Baiardi. A guy named Jerry Indursky had replaced him as Executive Director.
I gave Raymond $22.00, I gotten written invoices from him for the donations and told him that was all I had on me at
the moment and went home. I honestly considered reporting them to the police.
Raymond Baiardi stole the petition to the GO that was never answered and the first response
I never received from L. Ron Hubbard. Stealing a fellow Scientologist's personal property in the church obviously
means very little to Scientologists. Stealing the personal property of L. Ron Hubbard is written in church ethics
policies as a Suppressive Act that a person can be expelled from the church for. Plus, if it happens to
be a letter that has a U.S. postage stamp on it to facilitate its delivery then it is also a felony. Instead
of being expelled, Raymond was awarded OT V by the church in 1986 without this or his other activities like working
under the table with 18 other staff members getting in the way of anyone's spiritual progress in Scientology.
Later, after two people I got into Scientology started courses, one was taken off of the course by
Anna Balash because of his work schedule and not put back on. A few years later when a mission opened in New Jersey close
by to where he lived that posed no time or transportation obstacle to him, he was not referred there by the church even
though his course was delivered there as well. The other very nicely told them that due to her job she would not be able to
come back and finish her course and she was never asked to come back either. Raymond Baiardi and Anna Balash stopped
communicating with me but refused to say why.
The church moved to 227
West 46th Street in New York. Afterwards, every day of every week for years I got anywhere from 5 to 7 letters from people
at Scientology churches asking for money, to buy books and taped lectures, to write them, call or come in somewhere.
Greeting cards, invitations to events and vacation ideas at Flag on holidays, everything came in the mail; they even sent
me regular account statements noting all the business I had done with them everywhere. I opened an account at
Flag by responding to one of these letters 4 years after the Flag Service Consultant I met in New York is alleged
to have done so herself.
A staff member from New York named Pamela Bennett called
me and said to please come in and get my International Amnesty whereby I could be forgiven of all my crimes against
Scientology and allowed to start over fresh. On a separate instance the treasurer there Joan Woods called me
to say she was collecting an outstanding $1,100.00 Freeloader's Debt I owed the New York church from working
there. I never completed Staff Status II entitling me to free staff auditing and training so I told her that and she never
called back. I guess she thought I didn't know for sure whether I actually owed this money or not and apparently someone in
the church must have told her it was OK for her to call and try to collect it.
A Scientologist
from the church in New York recommended Psychiatric counseling to me as a prerequisite to auditing.
One day in Elizabeth, New Jersey {the next town over from where I live} I was sitting in
a diner called the Camelot having dinner. A guy came in and sat down next to me and started talking to
me about Scientology out of the blue. And I mean literally, out of the blue. He didn't order any food and it seemed as
if he knew who I was and how to find me. At the time I didn't recognize him as anybody I ever met and
I have a very good memory. I asked him his name and he said it wasn't important and wouldn't tell me. But he knew
mine. He asked me these questions in this order:
A. Ever considered going clear?
B. Ever considered joining
the Sea Org?
C. Ever gotten a letter from the International Ethics and Justice Chief?
D. Do you know who L. Ron Hubbard's
original student is?
And then he said:
E. Go into their computer and get your name out
so they don't bother you.
After he finished speaking I asked if we could please not talk about
Scientology again. He stood up and shook his head at me and then left. His name was Bruce Dobin, a very small
business owner from New Jersey that worked at the Church of Scientology of New York.
Bruce Dobin
I never
had any contact with Bruce Dobin of any kind before that day. He worked at the church in New York after I no
longer worked there and got my name from them. He knew I would be unable to ever recognize him at the diner
that day. 17 Years later in the summer of 2000 he opened a Scientology mission 1 block away
from that diner. I didn't know he had anything to do with the mission or even know that the mission was there until
one day someone told me about it. I then went there to buy a book and that was when he introduced himself. After
silent deliberation I realized he was the guy in the diner that day but he is 60 pounds heavier today and no
longer has long bushy hair and a moustache like he had back then. In addition, his brother Bart Dobin was my course
supervisor in New York and Bart's wife Emma is Nancy Levin {the Loftcraft ethics officer's}
sister. Kitti Kahn Georgius was also his Flag services registrar.
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