The Armstrong Op

Scientology's fair game on Gerry Armstrong

Heber C. Jentzsch

Impact: Heber Jentzsch on Portland (1985)

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Rev. Heber Jentzsch, President of the Church of Scientology International and Lifetime Member of the International Association of Scientologists.1

This was also the year the Religious Freedom Crusade was born in the town of Portland, Oregon in the United States. You came, Scientologists from around the world. You were there every day with your voices raised.

And back home Scientologists continued to work to expand the Church and its activities. There was a unification, a coming together, a growing together. And religious leaders came from around the world because tyhey were concerned that religious freedom continued to exist. Because if religious freedom is lost for one group then it is lost for all groups.

And therefore in Portland, Oregon a new postulate was made, a group postulate, a theta postulate that has grown and grown. In Portland the impossible happened and that group postulate blew apart a whole picture of suppression and we can see that we have freedom because L. Ron Hubbard gave us a technology that made us different, that gave us a chance.

And men of good will of other religions joined the issue as well and that brought more power and more energy as well. And so in Portland, Oregon a Crusade for Religious Freedom has begun and it has already stepped out across the world and all of us are a part of this crusade and we will go forward until we have won it for everyone.

IASA (1985) A Year of Great Victories Impact 4, 25. 

Notes

  1. This document in PDF format. ↩︎

Scientology’s edited version of the illegal videos (narrated by Heber Jentzsch) (ca. mid 1985)

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Notes

1. Heber Jentzsch: “In July 1985, the video transcript was presented to several congressmen and queries were forwarded to the IRS.”

Freedom: Religious Freedom Crusade supplement (June 1985)

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Freedom: Religious Freedom Crusade supplement (June 1985)

Another one of Christofferson’s key witnesses, Gerry Armstrong, a government informant, was indisputably shown to have engaged in an operation to infiltrate the Church of Scientology. Based on evidence submitted in court, Armstrong’s plot, which appears to have been conceived with the advice and consent of Flynn and members of the IRS intelligence branch, was to plant forged documents in the Church which could then be “discovered” by government agents in planned raids on Church premises. The forged documents would incriminate” the Church in nonexistent illegal activities and would serve as a basis for the indictment of members of current Church management.

An Attack on Religion. (1985). Freedom, 17(11), 11-18.

OSA Press Release (December 21, 1984)

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Source  “PR Newswire”
Author  Heber C. Jentzsch
Date  December 21st, 19841

LOS  ANGELES,  Dec.  21/PRN  –  Los  Angeles  Superior  Court  Judge  Lawrence
Waddington has granted a temporary restraining order against the release of thousands of pages  of  the  personal  and  private  papers  of  best-selling  author  and  founder  of
Scientology,  L.  Ron  Hubbard,  a  spokesman  for  the  Church  of  Scientology  announced today.

The restraining order was granted as a result of a suit filed yesterday by individuals –
whose  names  were  withheld  due  to  reasons  of  confidentiality  –  who  are  named  in  the documents  and  are  asserting  their  own  right  to  privacy  and  protesting  the  fact  that personal information about them had been released in violation of their First Amendment rights.

According  to  Howard  Stechel,  attorney  of  record  for  the  action  filed  yesterday,  “The granting of this restraining order by the court is a major victory for all American citizens who  expect  the  court  system  to  protect  them  from  the  dangers  of  being  viciously maligned by those with malicious or even criminal intentions.”

The  private  papers  of  Hubbard  have  been  the  subject  of  a  lawsuit  for  more  than  two years,  after  former  church  archivist  clerk  Gerald  Armstrong  allegedly  stole  several thousand pages of private archival material belonging to Hubbard, the church claims. The Church of Scientology and Hubbard’s wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, sued Armstrong for the return of the stolen documents.

At a press conference today at the newly completed L. Ron Hubbard Gallery, Rev. Heber Jentzsch,  president  of  the  Church  of  Scientology  International,  dealt  directly  with Armstrong’s “theft” of the Hubbard documents and his failure to research and document the  actual  facts  of  Hubbard’s  life,  which  Jentzsch  emphasized  that  church  researchers were easily able to document.

“What Armstrong’s interest is in these stolen materials has yet to become totally clear,”
Jentzsch said. “We are confident, however, that in the final analysis, when discovery has
been completed, the facts will show that Armstrong has affiliated himself with the IRS. It is hard to tell at this point who is using whom, but clearly they deserve each other.”

Jentzsch provided a package of completed biographical research about Hubbard’s life to
those attending the press conference, comparing Armstrong’s “specious” interpretation of isolated documents with what he claimed was the true story, as revealed in the completed research materials.

“Armstrong  was  incapable  of  even  the  simplest  biographical  research,”  Jentzsch  said.
“Yet he presented his twisted, malicious interpretation in a court of law as though it were the truth.

“Even in court, when Armstrong’s claims about Mr. Hubbard’s life were documented as
false,” Jentzsch continued, “he admitted that he merely ‘went through some books … but that was it … I stand corrected.’”

The  biographical  documents  released  to  public  view  are  only  part  of  the  thousands  of pages of records that comprise the personal archives of Hubbard, according to Jentzsch.
“Mr. Hubbard’s extensive personal records are the raw materials from which a biography of monumental scope will one day be written,” Jentzsch said.

“Here at the L. Ron Hubbard Gallery,” he added, “one sees only a small portion of the
results  of  the  humanitarian  works  of  Mr.  Hubbard  and  a  mere  fraction  of  the  many recognitions which continue to pour in from around the world.

Contact – Rev. Heber C. Jentzsch of the Church of Scientology at 213-662-9431.

Notes

  1. Retrieved on September 22, 2014 from www.xenufrance.net/osa-so-called-press-releases-year-1984.pdf ↩︎