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in Scientology. Miscavige, COB RTC, insists upon treating all the
celebrities with kid gloves and personally oversees their progress in
Scientology, sending RTC, Cmo Int or Gold specialists to take care of
their needs regardless of any supposed corporate structure.
55. What is astonishing to me is the incredible arrogance of CSI in
accusing Dr.
Geertz and his counsel of exactly those actions in which CSI regularly
engages. It is not the defendants Dr. Geertz and Mr. Fish man who have
been conducting an all-out campaign of harassment, assault and
vilification; it is CSI that has been doing so. Indeed, the leadership of
CSI has no choice but to do so. CSI's leadership is bound to do so by
Scientology doctrine. CSI's leadership would be acting heretically or
unorthodoxly if it did otherwise. Founder L. Ron Hubbard, whose edicts on
these subjects are "sacred scripture" which must be implemented without
question or reservation, gave specific instructions to harass and destroy
anyone perceived as an enemy of Scientology. There are many, many policy
statements by Hubbard, which bind all Scientologists, that go into this.
What follows are only a few examples.
CSI Is Bound by Its Own scripture to Harass Its Critics
56. Hubbard wrote "The Scientologist: A Manual of
Dissemination of Material" (attached as Exhibit 3, see p. 157) in 1955. He
gave the following instructions for dealing with anyone who sought to
compete with orthodox Scientology:
"The purpose of the suit is to harass
and discourage rather than to win. The
law can be used very easily to
harass, and enough harassment on somebody
who is simply on the thin edge
anyway, well knowing that he is not
authorized, will generally be
sufficient to cause his professional
decease. If possible, of course,
ruin him utterly."
57. Hubbard also urged Scientologists to employ private
detectives to investigate anyone who criticized Scientology. He added, in
language particularly apropos to this lawsuit: "... we should be very
alert to sue for slander at the slightest chance so as to discourage the
public press from mentioning Scientology."
58. In 1959 Hubbard published
the "Manual of Justice" for Scientology (attached as Exhibit 4). This
document instructs Scientologists as follows:
"People attack Scientoloqy;
I never forget it, always even the score....
"When we need somebody
haunted we investigate....
When we investigate we do so noisily always.
And usually investigation damps out the trouble
even when we discover no really pertinent facts.
Remember that by investigation alone we can curb
pushes and crush wildcat people and unethical
'Dianetics and Scientology' organizations....
"Of twenty-one persons found attacking Dianetics and
eighteen of them under investigation Scientology
were found to be members of the Communist Party or criminals,
usually both. The smell of
police or private detectives caused them to fly,
to close down, to confess. Hire [private detectives] and damn the
cost when you need to."
59. As author Jon Atack wrote in his well-researched book, A Piece of Blue
Sky: Dianetics, Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed: "A mood was being
created in which staff members would become 'deployable agents,' as
sociologist Roy Wallis called Hubbard's henchman in his excellent study of
Scientology. After all, Hubbard never gave any indication of the
possibility that a complaint against him or against Scientology could be
justifiable. The tactic of 'noisy investigation' originated in the Manual,
and came to mean harassment by defamation. Hubbard certainly did not mind
if the defamation was grossly exaggerated, or even a total fabrication. If
you throw enough mud, some will stick. The Manual of Justice suggests
outright blackmail." (The section of the book which contains this passage
is attached as Exhibit 5.) 60. In 1960 Hubbard wrote another policy called
"The Department of Government Affairs" (attached as Exhibit 6), which
stated, in part:
".... Only attacks resolve threats.
". . . Only attacks resolve threats. "In the face of danger from Govts or
courts there are only two errors one can make: (a) do nothing and (b)
defend. The right things to do with any threat are to (1) Find out if we
want to play the offered game or not, (2) If not, derail the offered game
with a feint or attack upon the most vulnerable point which can be
disclosed in the enemy ranks, (3) Make enough threat or clamor to cause
the enemy to quail, (4) Don't try to get any money out of it, (5) Make
every attack by us also sell Scientology and (6) Win. . "The goal of the
department is to bring the government and hostile philosophies or
societies into a state of complete compliance with the goals of
Scientology. This is done by high level ability to control, and in its