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Problem is that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, redefined "ethical" to mean "keep Scientology working and expanding"... Therefore, destroying evidences that have the potential to damage the public image or the bank accounts of the Church of Scientology is perceived as a highly ethical behavior by scientologists.
— Dennis Clarke, scientologist.[Dennis H. Clarke a Scientologist - find out what I have gained from Scientology]
Washington Post (1998): "The Life and Death of a Scientologist" by Richard Leiby The Scientologists injected McPherson with
magnesium chloride and gave her the sedative chloral
hydrate -- both substances apparently endorsed by
Hubbard. By Dec. 1, she was so dehydrated that she
needed two liters of fluid, according to Johnson's
notes. The medical examiner later said it appeared that
she'd gone without water for at least five days. The
watchers' records are spotty, and church logs of her final 53 hours were lost or destroyed,
according to the prosecution affidavit.
France 2 (1999): "Is Scientology above the law?"A French TV documentary which was dubbed into English by an Australian TV network, which covers a court case in which documents were stolen from the French courts. Affidavit of Michael Leonard Tilse (19 April 2003) When I was in the Church Sea Organization in 1978
I was
ordered to destroy documents which I now realize were material
evidence in Federal investigations as to the continued influence
and intimate control of the Church of Scientology by L. Ron
Hubbard when such control and influence was illegal due to the nonprofit status of the Church. I was not told that destroying
these documents was a crime and that such control and influence
were subjects of investigation even though there is testimony
and recorded tapes from that time that show that executives
within the Church at the time knew and discussed these exact
facts.
I feel that my personal reputation and integrity has been blackened by having been ordered to commit this crime and my having done it because I was told at the time it was not unethical or a crime. Had I known it was a crime I never would have done it. Affidavit of Jesse Prince (20 August 1999) 16. David Miscavige specifically ordered
destruction of any documents in ASI's possession which would
implicate Hubbard as managing agent of Scientology. He stated
that under his directive the LRH orders, or "advices" were being
collected and transferred by truck to a Riverside County
recycling plant where the documents were to be "pulped." This
method of destruction was considered to be better than
shredding. I was also put in charge of purging the remainder of
the LRH orders, i.e. "Advices". This was to include "advices"
that were located in Church of Scientology of California (CSC);
Church of Scientology International (CSI); and RTC. [...]
35. ... The Lisa McPherson "caretaker logs" are missing substantial day-to-day portions, in particular, the last three and one-half days of her Isolation. This is no accident. Records of this magnitude are not lost. Based on my experience, these missing records were intentionally destroyed to conceal material matters damaging to Scientology. Hubbard explicitly writes in CS SERIES 97 and CS SERIES 98 that "omissions from folders and complete loss of folders is a very serious matter...." Time (1991): "Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" by Richard Behar By late 1985, with high-level defectors accusing
Hubbard of having stolen as much as $200 million from
the church, the IRS was seeking an indictment of Hubbard
for tax fraud. Scientology members "worked day and night" shredding documents the IRS sought,
according to defector Aznaran, who took part in the
scheme. Hubbard, who had been in hiding for five years, died before the criminal
case could be prosecuted.
Affidavit of Jesse Prince (27 July 1998) 24. David Miscavige specifically
stated that ASI was "already dealing with the problem", ridding
ASI of any documents that would implicate L. Ron Hubbard as managing
agent of Scientology. He stated that under his directive the LRH
orders, or "advices", were being collected and transferred by truck
to a Riverside County recycling plant where the documents were to
be "pulped". This method of destruction was considered to be better
than shredding. I was also given instructions that I was in charge
of purging the remainder of the Scientology organization of LRH
orders. This was to include Church of Scientology of California
(CSC); Church of Scientology International (CSI); and RTC. ...
28. Later, I was informed that a second court order was issued to produce Mr. Wollersheim's entire file. Faced with the prospect of having to produce the entire file David Miscavige gave orders that the entire file simply be destroyed by being pulped. 29. Pursuant to Mr. Miscavige's orders I ordered Rick Aznaran to take Mr. Wollersheim's PC files to the recycling plant in Riverside to be pulped. Several hours after I gave the order to have Mr. Wollersheim's PC files destroyed, Mr. Aznaran returned and confirmed that the records had been pulped and even showed me a small bottle of pulped material, saying "Here's what's left." He said that at the time of the lawsuit he went to Health Ministry
archives to get material for his defence, only to discover many of the
committee documents missing.
According to other sources in Toronto, documents concerning the Scientologists have also disappeared from other files in the Health Ministry. And files involving the controversial cult have also disappeared mysteriously from the Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations. ITV England (1996): "The Big Story - The S Files" RT: If there was a receipt for a course, say about £4,000, part of that's your
tax which has to be deducted. But then the receipt would be changed, that receipt taken out and destroyed and
a new receipt made to make it into a donation.
RH: In the event that the Church is deliberately falsifying its accounting records, destroying receipts and the like so that its trading income or income from services is understated to the Customs and Excise then that is an extremely serious criminal offence. It could be theft, false accounting and could be subject to many years of imprisonment. Gerry Armstrong (Feb. 2004): "Complaint Report" 47. At the beginning of 1980, the threat of
an imminent raid by some law enforcement agency was
announced by the CMO at Gilman. Everyone was required to go
through all their documents and find and remove anything
that showed Hubbard’s control of Scientology, his control of
organization monies, his ordering of staff at Gilman or
staff anywhere to do anything, his having been at Gilman, or
his intention to live there. A commercial paper shredder was rented and operated day and night for weeks to
destroy hundreds of thousands, or millions, of pages of incriminating documents,
and the shredded paper was removed from the property by
truck.
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Affidavit of Vicki Aznaran (7 March 1994): Scientology destroys evidence and rewrites history 28. During litigation between Gerald Armstrong and
Scientology, which was before Judge Breckenridge of Superior
Court for Los Angeles County, the court ordered the production
of Armstrong's preclear ("PC") folders - These are files
maintained by Scientology on those who submit to interrogation
sessions in a process called auditing.
During the course of that litigation I was ordered to go through Armstrong's folders and destroy or conceal anything that might support Armstrong's claim against Scientology. This practice is known within Scientology as "culling PC folders" and is a common litigation tactic employed by Scientology. [...] 33. In later 1979 and early 1980, there was a massive document destruction program undertaken to destroy any evidence showing that L. Ron Hubbard ("LRH") controlled Scientology. I participated in this activity in Clearwater, Florida and am informed that there was also intensive document destruction at facilities in Gilman Hot Springs, California. From at least that point onward there was a continuous effort to hide or destroy any evidence of Hubbard's control. For example, during an IRS investigation in 1984 and 1985, while in bed with pneumonia, I was ordered out of bed by Norman Starkey, who told me that they had received a tip from a Los Angeles police officer advising them of a pending IRS raid in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times (1990): "The Mind Behind the Religion" by Joel Sappell and Robert Welkos In 1980, for example, a massive shredding operation
was undertaken at the church's desert compound outside
Palm Springs after Scientology officials received an
erroneous tip of an imminent FBI raid, according to a
former aide.
"Anything that indicated that L. Ron Hubbard controlled the church or was engaged in management was to be shredded," recalled Hubbard's former public relations officer, Laurel Sullivan. For more than two days, Sullivan said, roughly 200 Scientologists crammed thousands of documents into a huge shredder nicknamed "Jaws." Documents too valuable to destroy, she added, were buried in the ground or under floorboards. The Guardian (Feb. 1980): "Scientology's bizarre manual of dirty tricks" Further evidence of dirty tricks used by
Scientology is contained in a document dated March 9, 1975,
explaining how files belonging in the sect's private
intelligence service, B1, should be cleared of "legally
actionable evidence against the GO (Guardian's Office) and
its personnel."
The memo says all references in the cult's files "that would indicate something illegal was happening, already did happen or was being planned" should be cut out with a razor blade and shredded. Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyon (5 March 1994) 107. In 1988 I case supervised Tom Ashworth who had gone PTS
type III, slashed his wrists and later tried to escape with some
upper level materials he had somehow obtained. I ordered a C/S
53 FIN and a LCRE. Tom Ashworth's pre clear folder was sent up
to Ray Mithoff who was then RTC Inspector General for Tech. I
was CSI. The folder came back with everything regarding the psychotic break removed from
the folder.
Wikipedia (as of Apr. 2007): "Operation Snow White" Operation Snow White was the
Church of Scientology's name for a project during the
1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder
L.
Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations of and
thefts from government agencies, carried out by Church
members, including the single largest infiltration of the
United States government in history.[1]
Stacy Brooks Young (1998): "A classic example of the fair game policy at work"
So [David Miscavige] called me in and
ordered me to edit the transcripts of the videotapes to make it look like
Gerry was admitting to being a paid
informant, even though he never had admitted any such thing. I was to
edit out Rinder’s and Kluge’s leading questions so it looked
like Gerry was volunteering information, when in fact all he
was really doing was answering a hypothetical question that
had been posed to him. [...]
Affidavit of Vicki Aznaran (29 June 1993) 8. I understand that Lynn Farny has submitted a declaration
stating that Scientology complied with Judge Swearinger's order
in the Wollersheim case to produce Wollersheim's pre-clear
files. This is false. As I stated in my Fishman declaration,
I
personally culled and destroyed (shredded) from these files
evidence which would help Wollersheim and hurt Scientology in
the case. I was personally ordered to do so by David Miscavige,
the head of Scientology, and Marty Rathbun. The culling and
destruction took place at the Fountain Avenue building in Los
Angeles. I was assisted in the document destruction by then
Scientologist Jessie Prince. Lynn Farny was a low level
Scientology official, and was not at the meetings where this was
discussed. However, Lynn Farny is not telling the truth, because
as a Scientology staff member he knows it is Scientology policy never to turn
over information in litigation without first culling out (deleting and
destroying) material that will harm Scientology. It is also, however,
Scientology policy to lie to cover up such misdeeds.
Clearwater Sun (1982): "Witnesses Tell of Break-ins, Conspiracy" by Steven Girardi She said she was taught to
shred documents in the event of an FBI raid.
Mayer testified that the sect's most sensitive "red box" files were always ready
to be loaded onto one of Hubbard's two ships. Those files escaped discovery when
the FBI raided the sect's Washington D.C. and Los Angeles offices in 1977, Flynn
said.
Robert Vaughn Young (1997): "Scientology's system 'hacker proof' (by RVY)" Knowing of the 1977 raid and to prevent it from
happening again, there was one person in charge of the
entire system who sat at the back of this huge room,
behind locked doors and secured glass. Knowing that in
the event of a raid the power might be turned off, INCOMM had backup battery systems and generators whose
sole purpose was to keep the system on line long enough
for the systems operator to crash and trash it. The only
entrance was not only secured but had TV cameras so
that, Foster figured, that even with the highest speed of a raid, the systems operator had more than enough
time to crash/trash the system to prevent it from being confiscated.
Declaration of Joseph A. Yanny (13 July 1988) 18. Mr Cooley (who in his last two outings for the church
lost a $39 million dollar verdict in Oregon and another $30
million verdict in L.A.) has personally ordered the destruction of evidence relating to Cult litigation
in my presence. These
orders were given to Warren McShane and
Mark "Marty" Rathburn
AP (1984): "Ex-publicist says she was 'target' of Scientologists" On Thursday, Sullivan said Hubbard had ordered shredding of some
documents that indicated Hubbard maintained some control of church
operations. The shredding was ordered at a time when church officials feared a
raid by federal agents, she said.
[...]
The statement says that the Scientologists had conducted
drills and had written instructions and a warning system to
alert officials about what to do in the event of a police
search and how to stall it.
It also says that the centre had written instructions on how to dispose of sensitive or "Z" materials by shredding or vetting the documents. Police believe the "Z" materials are the equivalent of sensitive "Red Box" materials in the United States, which were in portable files which could be quickly removed. [...] |