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Declaration of Jesse Prince (December, 1999)

December 1, 1999 by Clerk1

Daniel A. Leipold, State Bar No. 77159
LEIPOLD, DONOHUE & SHIPE, LLP
960-A West Seventeenth Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706
Telephone: (714) 796-1555
Facsimile: (714) 796-1550

Craig J. Stein, State Bar No. 98041
GARTENBERG JAFFE GELFAND & STEIN LLP
11755 Wilshire Boulevard, Ste. 1230
Los Angeles, CA 90025-1518
Telephone: (310) 479-0044

Ford Greene, State Bar No. 107601
HUB LAW OFFICES
711 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
San Anselmo, CA 94960
Telephone: (415) 258-0360

Attorney for Plaintiff,
LAWRENCE DOMINICK WOLLERSHEIM

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

LAWRENCE DOMINICK WOLLERSHEIM

Plaintiff,
vs.
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA
Defendant
Case No.: C 332 027

Honorable Charles W. McCoy
Department 24

SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF JESSE PRINCE1

I, Jesse Prince declare as follows:

1. I am over 18 years of age and currently reside in the State of Illinois, County of Cook. This declaration is of my own personal knowledge and if called upon to testify to the facts herein I could and would be competently able to testify thereto.

MY PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTOLOGY
THE SEA ORGANIZATION

2. I joined the Sea Organization, commonly referred to as the Sea Org, in September of 1976. The Sea Org is a para-military organization that manages and controls all of the Scientology Organizations and related entities that exist in the world. I was also required to sign a billion year contract at the time I was recruited. Within a week, I entered the first Sea Org indoctrination program named the Estates Project Force. The Estates Project Force consists of several levels of indoctrination named “Product Levels.” On these “Product Levels,” I was indoctrinated in Scientology ethics and justice procedures and the history of the Sea Organization. I was invasively interrogated (called confessional in Scientology) and took a mission school-training course, among other indoctrination courses. Flag Order 3155RC, entitled “The Basic Sea Org Training Program,” details the training required for persons newly recruited to the Sea Org. A true and correct copy of this document is attached hereto as Exhibit “HHH-99.” From the very beginning, through indoctrination from these courses, I learned that the Sea Org managed all Scientology Organizations and related entities such as Scientology Missions International (SMI), World Institute of Scientology Enterprise (WISE) and Narconon, to name a few. The length and breadth of the doctrine of the Sea Org is detailed and codified in issues named “Flag Orders.” The primary business of the Sea Org is missions. One definition of “mission” in Sea Org terms describes an activity whereby two or more Sea Org members go to a remote Scientology organization or enterprise and take over the activity for the purpose of getting the activity to make more money which, in turn, benefits the Sea Org financially. The governing policy of the type of mission referred to above, is to cause the activity (Organization) to make money, then make more money, then make other people produce so as to make money. See HCO Policy Letter 9 March 1972 “Income Flows and Pools,” a true and correct copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit “QQ-99.” These same missions are authorized by the Sea Org to use Scientology ethics and justice procedures. This authority gives these types of missions total authority to remove and demote personnel, including corporate officers and executives in any Scientology Organization, corporation or Scientology-related entity as it sees fit. See Exhibits: “M-99,” “Y-99” and “FF-99,” which are true copies of the original documents. See also, Sea Organization Central Bureaux Order 621 29 November 1979 “By Pass of Management Sector Handling of,” a true copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit “RR-99.”

3. The success of the Sea Org is primarily measured by its income. Sea Org income is defined as “the amount of money received by the corporation (Sea Org) after the allocation to Sea Org and Scientology Organizations” [translated, this means each and every Sea Org organization as well as each and every Scientology organization world wide sends to the Sea Org all monies remaining after the basic necessities (bills and payroll for staff) of the individual organization are paid and before management expenses are taken out; this is the classic double bite which normally reduced the Sea Org and Scientology Organization staff payroll allocation]. This is according to Hubbard policy letter of 9 March 1972, called “Income Flows and Pools, Principles of money management,” a true copy of which is attached as Exhibit “QQ-99.” This “policy” was written by L Ron Hubbard. During my tenure in the Sea Org, I executed many of these missions within the United States and other countries of the world.

COMMAND STRUCTURE AND HIERARCHY OF THE COMMODORE’S MESSENGER ORGANIZATION AND THE SEA ORGANIZATION

4. Until his death in 1986, L. Ron Hubbard was the unchallenged dictator of the entire Scientology enterprise. L. Ron Hubbard designated himself “Commodore”. In the hierarchy of the Sea Org, “Commodore” is the highest rank. L. Ron Hubbard created a “statistic system” for every function and activity of Sea Org and Scientology organizations and micro-managed this created “statistic system.” According to his many written policies, the best thing a Sea Org member or Scientologist could do was to always have “statistics” going up. Hubbard authored, or had others author, many thousands of detailed instructions and directives intended to teach his flock how to keep the “statistics” going up. He wrote or had written Polices, Flag Orders, Bulletins and Executive Directives concerning every aspect of the operation of the Sea Org and Scientology organizations. Sea Org members and Scientologists are required to follow these instructions and orders of Hubbard to the letter. This is documented and made very clear in a policy letter written by Hubbard, entitled “Keeping Scientology Working.” This policy letter declares that it is a “criminal offense” not to follow any L. Ron Hubbard instruction to the letter. These crimes are punishable through Scientology ethics and justice procedures.

5. Next in authority in the Sea Org hierarchy are the “Commodore’s Messengers.” L. Ron Hubbard authored Flag Order 3729, also known as Executive Directive 106 Commodore’s Messenger Organization (CMO), entitled “Commodore’s Messengers.” This issue is one of many directives and instructions on how to be a “good” Commodore’s Messenger. In the above issue, Hubbard shares his total authority over his Sea Org and Scientology Empire with others who have been trained to think and act in the same way as Hubbard himself. He designated his “messengers” as emissaries of himself. This same issue was issued to all Sea Org members with the instruction that all were to recognize his messengers as an extension of himself. All were instructed to show his messengers the same respect and courtesy as his flock of Sea Org members and Scientologists were required to show Hubbard, the single highest authority of the Sea Org and Scientology empire he created. Messengers had complete authority to go within any Sea Org, Scientology, or Scientology-related entity. A true and correct copy of Flag Order 3729 is attached hereto as Exhibit “UU-99.” As a note, only Sea Org members are ever eligible to become Commodore’s Messengers.

6. There is a hierarchy within the Commodore’s Messengers Organization. The top messenger, also known as the “Commanding Officer,” commands and orders all other messengers within the organization of messengers. The top Commodore’s Messenger in Scientology is David Miscavige. There are also subordinate “In Charge” positions within the messenger organization. An In Charge would have the authority to command and order lesser messengers, Sea Org Members and any Scientologist if it meant complying with an order from a higher messenger or L. Ron Hubbard himself. Two issues written or ordered by L. Ron Hubbard, entitled CMO Command Channels, issued 15 June 1976 and issue CMO Regulations, issued 11 Jan 1976 are among the many directives that define the authority of the Commodore’s Messenger Organization. A true and correct copy of CMO Command Channels is attached hereto as Exhibit “TT-99;” a true and correct copy of CMO Regulations is attached hereto as Exhibit “SS-99.”

7. There is also a hierarchy among the different messenger organizations. The most senior messenger organization in all of the different messenger organizations is “The Religious Technology Center” (RTC). This is documented in the many different “Command Channels” booklets issued and authored, and/or authorized by RTC since the early 80s. See Exhibit “X-99.”

8. The next command level below RTC is called “The International Watchdog Committee.” The Watchdog Committee was created with the purpose of overseeing the activities of the Guardian’s Office and Scientology management bodies in order to “keep Scientology working.” It is a senior management committee that manages all sectors of Scientology, i.e., all Sea Organizations, all Scientology Organizations International, and related Scientology entities such as Scientology Missions International (SMI), and World Institute of Scientology Enterprise, International (WISE). See HCO PL 22 December 1981, “International Watchdog Committee,” a true and correct copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit “VV-99.”

9. The next level of hierarchical authority within the messenger organizations and Scientology Enterprise is the “Commodore’s Messengers Organization International” (COMINT). This body executes the orders and commands of the Watchdog Committee, and manages and supervises the many other Commodore’s Messenger Organizations within the United States and abroad. (See Exhibit “VV-99.”)

10. Next in the chain of hierarchy is the Office of the Executive Director International (EDINT). The Executive Director International orders and commands the senior-most Sea Org executives over all the different management sections of the Sea Org, Scientology Organizations International, and every other Scientology related entity. These executives in turn order and command all areas of the Scientology empire. This office is not a Commodore’s Messenger Organization, but it is a Sea Org organization.

11. There are descending levels of the hierarchical chain of command from this point, as described in Scientology’s Command Channel booklets. From early 1983 until January 1987, I was the second in command of the Religious Technology Center. I was identified by RTC attorney Samuel Rosen as such in Federal Court in Denver on August 20, 1998. See Exhibit “C-99,” attached hereto.

A CLASSIC EXMAPLE OF THE APPLICATION OF “MISSION TECH” TO BYPASS CORPORATE LINES OF AUTHORTIY

12. In October of 1982, I was part of a Sea Org Mission that was sent to San Francisco to “handle” the Mission Holders of the Church of Scientology. The Mission Holders were Franchisees of Scientology who offered introductory
courses in Scientology to the public.

13. L. Ron Hubbard was upset with the Mission Holders because he felt that the Mission Holders in general were withholding tithes owed to Sea Org International Management. L. Ron Hubbard had also sent down orders stating that several Sea Org members in high leadership positions within the Commodor’s Messenger Organization International (“CMO Int.”) and the Office of the Executive Director International (“ED Int.”) were dissatisfied with Scientology management and were siding with the Mission Holders. L.Ron Hubbard’s orders went to David Miscavige and they were clear: Handle this insurrection and crush anyone who protested.

14. The missionaire in charge of the San Francisco Mission Holder’s Mission was David Miscavige. Mr. Miscavige is flat out attempting to deceive this court in his declaration when he characterizes his presence at this conference as that of an “invited” master of ceremonies. Mr. Miscavige was the Missionaire I/C (In Charge) and was running the entire operation. Further, his “invitation” certainly did not come from the Mission Holders, it came in the form of Mission orders from the Commodore himself, L. Ron Hubbard. Lest there be any doubt whatsoever about the truth of what I am saying, I invite the court to examine Exhibit “L-99,” a true and correct copy of which is attached hereto.

15. Exhibit “L-99,” paints a far different picture of the San Francisco Mission Holder’s Conference than the “Shore Story” Scientology is telling. Exhibit “L-99,” THE SEA ORG MOVES IN, is a newsletter that shows clearly how Miscavige and the Sea Org characterized the San Francisco Mission Holder’s conference for the purpose of letting the staff and paying public of Scientology know who had won the power struggle between the Sea Org and the Mission Holders. It gives a far truer picture of what was going on at this conference than even the published “transcript” of the conference, because the transcript was heavily edited before Miscavige approved it for publication.

16. I was part of the mission headed up by David Miscavige that was ordered to handle the San Francisco Mission Holder’s Conference. The first thing the mission did upon its arrival in San Francisco was to visit the local Scientology Organization. Missionaire I/C, David Miscavige immediately bypassed all corporate lines of authority and started an inspection of the organization. He decided that the Executive Director of the organization was incompetent and he viciously interrogated him with an e-meter, (a form of lie detector), physically abused him, and removed him from his position on the spot.

17. From the local Org, we proceeded to the Mission Holder’s Conference. By this time, David Miscavige had really worked himself into a lather, and he declared two Mission Holders “Suppressive Persons” and expelled them on the spot. This is brazenly bragged about in the issue “The Sea Org Moves In.” The doors to the conference room were locked and guarded. Miscavige then lined up approximately 20 other Mission Holders, most of whom were crying and terrified, and told them to get their checkbooks ready as they had been “ripping off” Scientology Organizations of their “rightful income” for too long. In reality, Miscavige and several others just took whatever amount of money they wanted out of the Mission Holder’s corporate accounts.

18. Miscavige introduced Larry Heller, attorney for Scientology who was personally hired by Miscavige, who informed the Mission Holders that the “New Tough Management” intended to prosecute and jail anyone who did not comply with the orders and directions of the new management.

19. Lyman Spurlock, a senior Sea Org executive who was one of Miscavige’s inner circle, threatened the Mission Holders with prosecution and explained that the Sea Org now had the power to do this to the Mission Holders because of all the new corporate changes that were designed to exert more control over the Mission Holders.

20. The “new management” is pictured in their Sea Org uniforms at the speaker’s table in Exhibit “L-99.” These are the same people who manage Scientology today, and they do it in the same manner, through their positions of power in the Sea Org.

21. When all of the speakers were done, each and every Mission Holder was viciously interrogated by multiple missionaires using the e-meter. Then each mission holder was required to have a mug shot taken, one from the front and one from the side, in the same way police commonly do. After the mug shots were taken, the Mission Holders were required to write checks from their corporate accounts for the maximum amount of money possible.

22. When all the Sea Org Missionaires returned to Gilman Hot Springs, which is the true home of Scientology’s International Management, the results of the mission were sent directly to L. Ron Hubbard. The Commodore was very pleased with the report he got from David Miscavige and decided to make it a policy to run this mission in European countries where Scientology existed. I was sent on this mission along with others to do the same activity to Mission Holders in Copenhagen, Denmark.

23. This activity continued in other locations, executed by the International Finance Police under the direction of the International Finance Dictator located in the Commodore’s Messenger Organization International. All of this was under the dictatorship of Miscavige.

ATTACK THE ATTACKER

24. Attached hereto as Exhibit “A-99,” is a true and correct copy of a Scientology directive titled “Attacks on Scientology, Additional Policy Letter,” which states, in part: “This is the correct procedure:

“(1) Spot who is attacking us.

“(2) Start investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies.

“(3) Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them.

“(4) Start feeding lurid, blood, sex, crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press.

“Don’t ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way…

“Never talk about us – only them. Use their blood, sex, crime to get headlines. Don’t use us…

“Shift the spotlight to them. No matter how. Do it!”

25. Attached as Exhibit “AAA-99,” is A true and correct copy of the Committee of Evidence and “Declare” statement of Alex Sibersky, and attached as Exhibit “BBB-99,” is a true and correct copy of the Committee of Evidence and “Declare” statement of David Mayo.

26. I was a member of the committees of evidence documented in Exhibits “AAA-99” and “BBB-99.” There was no fairness involved in these supposed “justice” actions. Hubbard considered that these people were “disaffected with management,” and disloyalty (meaning questioning anything at all) is the worst crime a Sea Org member can commit. What was going to happen to these people was already pre-determined by Hubbard and executed by Miscavige. We were required to sign our names to a document that had already been prepared. I have personal knowledge that such actions are
based on long-standing policies.

27. Attached hereto, as Exhibit LL-99 is a true and correct copy of Flag conditions Order 7068, 27 December 1982, SURPPRESSIVE PERSONS DECLARE pertaining to eight separate individuals.

28. With regard to my former position as a high-ranking executive in the Sea Org, even Scientology attorney Samuel Rosen told the judge in the FACTNet hearing in Denver that I had been second in command of all of Scientology (See Exhibit “C-99”). I was an expert witness on the subject of Scientology on behalf of RTC in the Robin Scott/David Mayo litigation. In addition, on December 31, 1986, Miscavige himself introduced me as “Deputy Inspector General” at a New Year’s Eve event at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida. I gave a briefing at that event about how RTC was going about crushing people who tried to apply any part of Scientology technology without paying for it, an issue which was part of the Scott/Wollersheim II litigation. (A true and correct copy of a audio tape of the Scientology New Years Event of 86/87 is contained on Exhibit “XX-99,” attached to this motion.)

29. I did give two taped interviews, which contradict my statements in this declaration concerning Miscavige’s control of Scientology. The first interview occurred shortly before Halloween in 1992. With my wife, I was trying to get permission to leave the secret compound in Gilman Hot Springs, and they would not allow us to leave unless I agreed to state on audiotape that I was leaving on my own free will, that I was happy and pleased with being incarcerated against my will on the Rehabilitation Project Force, that I had committed many crimes in Scientology and Scientology had helped me overcome these criminal tendencies, that Miscavige was not the dictator of Scientology, and that I had never witnessed any illegal activities being committed within Scientology. I was also required to make self-denigrating statements on this tape which were not true. I was threatened by Marty Rathbun and Mike Sutter that if I did not agree to make this taped statement, I would become the target of Fair Game. The giving of “interviews” such as I went through are part of the policy of Scientology and anyone leaving the Sea Org is required to “route out” pursuant to policy or be declared.

30. The second interview happened in Boston in 1994. Mike Sutter called me and said that he wanted to see me to find out how I was doing. He made it sound like a friendly chat that we were going to have. At that time I was still afraid of the imagined power these people had over me. I agreed to meet with Mike Sutter and Scientology attorney Earl Cooley at Cooley’s office in Boston. Instead of a friendly chat, it turned into an interrogation in which they told me they were doing poorly in some of their legal cases and demanded to know if I was assisting “the enemy.” Before I was allowed to go, they drilled me on what to say and then put it all on tape. They took information from my auditing folders and kept “reminding” me of things I had said in sessions.

31. These taped statements are Scientology’s way of attempting to destroy the credibility of a former Scientologist who has knowledge that can harm the organization in case that individual later decides to come forward to expose the truth.

32. Until the reorganization of 1982, in which RTC was formed, it had been CSC that registered the trademarks for Scientology. RTC was specifically created to take over that function from CSC. As far as I know, ASI took over the function of overseeing the copyrights.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct under the laws of the State of California executed this __ day of December 1999, at Tampa, Florida

_____________________________
JESSE PRINCE

Notes

  1. Retrieved on 17 November 2014 from http://www.lermanet.com/reference/Jesse2inWoller.htm; document also webbed at: http://www.xenutv.com/blog/2009/06/24/declaration-of-jesse-prince-wollersheim-3/ ↩

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: David Mayo, David Miscavige, Earle C. Cooley, fair game, Jesse Prince, Lawrence Wollersheim, Mark C. Rathbun, Mike Sutter, Robin Scott, Samuel Rosen, SP doctrine

Declaration of Jesse Prince (June, 1999)

June 1, 1999 by Clerk1

Daniel A. Leipold, State Bar No. 77159
LEIPOLD, DONOHUE & SHIPE, LLP
960-A West Seventeenth Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706
Telephone: (714) 796-1555
Facsimile: (714) 796-1550

Attorney for Plaintiff, LAWRENCE DOMINICK WOLLERSHEIM

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

LAWRENCE DOMINICK WOLLERSHEIM
Plaintiff,

vs.

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA
Defendant

Case No.: C 332 027

DECLARATION OF JESSE PRINCE1

I, Jesse Prince declare as follows:

1. I am over 18 years of age and currently reside in the State of Colorado, County of Boulder. This declaration is of my own personal knowledge and if called upon to testify to the facts herein I could and would be competently able to testify thereto.

MY PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTOLOGY

2. I am intimately familiar with the Scientology organization, movement and beliefs because I was in Scientology for 16 years (1976-92) and served in the highest ranks, including as the second in command of the Religious Technology Center (RTC). At that time, my position was “Deputy Inspector General, External” which meant being in charge of all activities outside the body of Scientology. This included being in charge of all litigation by or against any Scientology organization, intelligence (spying, covert operations) brought against perceived or imagined “enemies” (which ranged from critics to media to the courts), trademark registrations, and the licensing of trademarks to other Scientology organizations, which was how we tightly controlled all Scientology corporations while creating the false impression of “corporate integrity.”

3. From the time RTC was created in the early 80’s until the time I left RTC, RTC was the most senior, most powerful and most influential organization in all of Scientology. All RTC employees were Sea Org members.

4. In March 1983, I became the Deputy Inspector General, External, and a member of the Board of Directors RTC, as its Treasurer. (The only other board members were Warren McShane as Secretary and Vicki Aznaran as President, during this time.) At the time I was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of RTC I was forced to sign an undated letter of resignation. This is standard practice with all Scientology board members and is another means by which the Scientology corporations are controlled while giving the appearance of corporate integrity.

ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED UNDER THE GUISE OF RTC MANAGEMENT

5 . During my tenure with RTC, I have been privy to the destruction and alteration of documents to protect the group. For example, on or about April of 1983 I was present at a meeting, which took place in Los Angeles, California at a Scientology office called Author Services, Inc. (ASI). ASI presented itself as the “literary agency” for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. In reality it was actually where the Scientology empire was being run from at that time. All of Scientology was being directed from ASI in 1983. ASI was where various Scientology corporations went to receive orders.

6 . Present at this particular meeting was David Miscavige, then acting under the title of chairman of the board of ASI, Vicki Aznaran then the Deputy Inspector General of Religious Technology Center, (RTC) and Lymon Spurlock, who was “Director of Client Affairs” for ASI. Mr. Miscavige expressed concern at this meeting that there might possibly be a raid on Scientology by the IRS. At that time, none of the churches of Scientology had received tax exempt status.

7 . One principle reason why tax exempt status had not been granted was the IRS’s position that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (LRH) was actually the managing agent of Scientology in complete disregard of the corporate structure of Scientology. We knew this to be a fact but also knew that it violated IRS rules and thus had to be hidden.

8 . There was concern that the IRS would obtain the hundreds of daily, weekly and monthly LRH orders written by Mr. Hubbard and distributed throughout Scientology. These orders were commonly referred to in Scientology as “advices” to avoid the appearance that LRH was actually running Scientology. In fact, LRH was running Scientology. The principle concern expressed at this meeting was that the LRH orders or “advices” would be used to name L. Ron Hubbard as the managing agent of Scientology.

9 . Because of an already existing fear that an LRH “advice” might fall into the wrong hands, these orders from him were written in a way that we could deny it was from him. His name was not on them. He was never cited in the dispatch except in the third person. There was no signature and a salutation in reply was never more than “Dear Sir.” The routing at the top referred to him merely as “*,” an asterisk. However if a person (or an agency) got enough of these, there would be little doubt that we were in touch with Hubbard (via ASI) and he was telling us and each corporation what to do to make him more money.

10. 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.

DESTRUCTION OF WOLLERSHEIM DOCUMENTS

11. Several weeks after this first meeting, I attended second meeting at the ASI offices concerning the continuing destruction of Scientology corporate documentation. In attendance at the second meeting were David Miscavige, Lymon Spurlock, Vicki Aznaran, Norman Starkey of ASI and Marty Rathburn of ASI. At this meeting, David Miscavige for the first time, stated that Scientology had been ordered by a court to produce various documents concerning a former Scientology member named Lawrence Wollersheim who had a lawsuit pending in Los Angeles against the Church of Scientology of California. The court had ordered Scientology to produce Mr. Wollersheim’s entire ‘preclear” (PC) file.

12. A “PC” file is one of several files kept on members. The PC file is the file that includes all written records of all “confessionals” done by the member. This means that it includes not only the most self-damaging material, but it also reflects every problem the person might have had with the organization, including complaints. This PC file grows with the person’s tenure in Scientology.

13. Mr. Wollersheim’s PC file was several thousand pages in length and stood as high as a six-foot tall man. Initially at this meeting, it was decided that Mr. Wollersheim’s PC file would be redacted and culled of any evidence or documentation which might assist Mr. Wollersheim in his lawsuit against CSC. There was also concern that the materials known as Clear, OT I, OT II, OT III and NED for OTS (NOTS) would be open to public inspection if Mr.Wollersheim’s files were produced as ordered. Scientologists are taught that a person could catch pneumonia and die if that person is prematurely exposed to these ‘upper level” materials without first having taken many hours of preparatory auditing.

14. Ultimately, approximately 50 pages were produced pursuant to the court order. Mr. Wollersheim’s PC file was culled based on a direct order from David Miscavige.

15. 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.

16. 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.”

17. The material that David Miscavige ordered destroyed and which Rick Aznaran had pulped was the same material that the court had ordered produced in Mr. Wollersheim’s Los Angeles court case against CSC.

COMMON SCIENTOLOGY PRACTICE OF DECEPTION AND LIES IN THE WOLLERSHEIM CASE AND IN GENERAL

18. During the time I was on the Board of Directors of RTC, (1983 to 1987) I attended numerous legal strategy sessions that dealt with the Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology case. Most of these legal strategy sessions took place in the boardroom at Author’s Services, Inc. The general legal strategy of Scientology both before and after the Wollersheim judgment was rendered against the Church of Scientology of California was to make the case so complex and expensive that it would go on forever and Mr. Wollersheim would never be able to collect “One Thin Dime”.

19. This general legal strategy as pursued in the Wollersheim case is consistent with Scientology’s overall legal strategy as set forth by L. Ron Hubbard, the “source” of all of Scientology’s policies as follows:

The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win… the law can be used very easily to harass, and… will generally be sufficient to cause [the enemy’s] professional decease. If possible, of course ruin him utterly.

The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in… NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING and you will WIN.

L. Ron Hubbard, Magazine articles on Level 0 Checksheet

20. During the same period of time, I was also present at legal strategy sessions that dealt with the Christofferson case in Oregon and the David Mayo case in the USDC for the Central District of California also known as RTC, et al. v. Robin Scott 85-711-JMI (Bx). The identical legal strategy was employed in those actions.

21. The various legal strategy sessions involving the Wollersheim case were attended by the following Scientology representatives:
Lyman Spurlock of Author’s Services, Inc. (ASI);
Norman Starkey of ASI;
Marty Rathburn of ASI;
David Miscavige of AS1
Vicki Aznaran of RTC;
Warren McShane of RTC;
Marc Yeager of CSI; and,
Myself of RTC.

CORPORATE NAMES AND BOUNDARIES WERE MEANINGLESS

22. It is incumbent on this and every court, as well as the authorities, to realize the amount of deception, chicanery, lying, manipulation and outright criminality that Scientology will employ to hide the truth about their criminal activities. They will spend any amount of money to do this. I know because I was part of it for years. I received orders to break the law, and then I helped to hide these criminal activities just as they are hiding them now.

23. Scientology developed a daunting corporate structure. This structure was designed to confuse those outside of the organization. In reality, corporate names and boundaries were meaningless. Control was centralized in one person. During his lifetime until his death in 1986 that person was L. Ron Hubbard. After his death, all control of Scientology vested and remains in David Miscavige.

24. The one thing that all of us had in common is that we were all members of the Sea Organization. The Sea Organization, or ‘Sea Org” is a paramilitary type organization that virtually governs all of Scientology under guidance of David Miscavige.

25. Our corporate positions were so much window dressing. It was our Scientology positions and our membership in the Sea Organization that gave us the power to control things within Scientology, including setting legal strategy for a corporation that we were not officers or directors of, such as defendant Church of Scientology of California.

SCIENTOLOGY HAD A CORE OF LAWYERS USED FOR ALL PURPOSES

26. The attorneys present when the legal strategy for the Wollersheim case was discussed included:
Sherman Lenske;
Earl Cooley;
Chris Cobb;
John Peterson;
Lawrence Heller; and,
Joe Yanny

27. Not everyone listed above was present for every meeting. However, I am positive that at sessions at which the legal strategy to be employed in the Wollersheim case was discussed, the lawyers involved in the Wollersheim case freely discussed that case and took directions from persons who were not officers, directors or employees of the defendant Church of Scientology of California, including me.

DAVID MISCAVIGE CONTROLLED THE WOLLERSHEIM LAWYERS

28. David Miscavige routinely gave orders to attorneys representing Scientology corporations, regardless of which Scientology Corporation the attorneys ostensibly represented. This was true in every legal strategy session and in every legal case including Wollersheim.

29. I recall one legal strategy session after the judgment was rendered specifically. The attorneys representing CSC in the Wollersheim case were present. Marty Rathburn gave a general briefing on the case mentioning that the judge hated Scientology and that Scientology was not going to pay. David Miscavige said that Scientology was not going to pay even if it cost Scientology more than the thirty nillion-dollar judgment because we don’t want to open the doors to others doing this.

WARREN McSHANE DECLARATION

30. I have read the Declaration of Warren McShane dated June 11, 1999. Mr. McShane’s Declaration is false.

31. For example, Mr. McShane states that: RTC never purchased, acquired, assumed, or otherwise obtained any assets of defendant Church of Scientology of California (‘CSP) as part of any corporate reorganization of the Church of Scientology or otherwise.

In fact, RTC obtained trademarks that were registered in the name of CSC.

32. Mr. McShane’s statement that: “RTC played no role of any kind in the trial of this action” is also a fiction. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Warren McShane, Vickie Aznaran and I constituted all of the officers and members of the board of directors of RTC from 1983 through the end of 1986. Further, Lyman D. Spurlock and David Miscavige were trustees of RTC from 1983 to 1986. All of us were present during legal strategy sessions with the attorneys representing CSC during and after the trial and at those meetings we formulated the strategy that the lawyers were to employ at trial and to frustrate collection of the judgment after it was rendered.

MANAGEMENT OF WOLLERSHEIM CASE BY CSI

33. For example, at these legal strategy sessions it was determined to organize a unit within CSI known as the Wolly Unit. The Wolly Unit was to supervise and coordinate various aspects of the Wollersheim case such as intelligence gathering; public relations, including the “Not One Thin Dime For Wollersheim” Campaign; explaining to Church members Scientology’s version of the case and day to day supervision of the outside attorneys handling the CSC case.

34. Another unit was also organized within CSI. This unit was called MFTC for Mission Find The Crimes. The MFTC’s unit was literally what the title implies. MFTC members worked full time investigating any judge sitting on the Wollersheim case, the judges’ family and friends; the lawyers for Wollersheim; their family and friends; any witnesses that the Wollersheim attorneys might call at trial; and their families and friends. The job of MFTC unit was to find any crimes, unethical behavior or embarrassing information that might be used to Scientology’s advantage. Mr. Wollersheim’s attorneys, Charlie O’Rielly and Lita Schlosser were followed on an almost constant basis.

35. It was irrelevant to us if a legal strategy was pointless or had no ultimate chance for success. As long as we could argue that the legal strategy had a scintilla of colorable basis, we would demand that it be pursued with the utmost vigor. We ordered the attorneys to tie up Mr. Wollersheim’s attorneys; tie up the court; delay the case; make the pursuit of Mr. Wollersheim’s claim as difficult as conceivably possible; force the plaintiff to spend as much money as possible and make an example of Mr. Wollersheim to show that no one can ever prevail against Scientology.

MISSION CORPORATE CATEGORY SORT OUT SHAM

36. In 1981, in response to the Wollersheim case, and the IRS, Scientology created “Mission Corporate Category Sort Out” (“MCCS”). On its face, to the outside world, MCCS was designed to appear to separate corporate business functions from ecclesiastic functions. Prior to this, all of Scientology was under a hierarchy where defendant CSC was designated as the “Mother Church” and all functions of Scientology came under the umbrella of the “Mother Church.”

37. The Mission Corporate Category Sort Out was a sham. It was a smoke screen designed to put a phony corporate front on the Scientology management structure to fool the IRS and to frustrate litigants so that they would never be able to collect a judgment.

38. Scientology has no respect for the “Wog” or non-Scientology legal system. It is merely a tool we could manipulate to destroy our enemies. During the time I was an officer and director of RTC, we often destroyed evidence. I have personal knowledge that this occurred in the Wollersheim case because I participated in it. As far as Scientology was concerned, we were above the law and we were perfectly free to use any means legal or illegal, to manipulate and frustrate the legal system to our purposes.

39. Scientology always enjoyed a number of great advantages in any litigation we were involved in including the Wollersheim case. These advantages included:

a . Scientology’s opponents generally took their legal duties seriously, Scientology did not. For example, Scientology never felt obligated to produce documents it had in its possession even if a court ordered it to do so. The only way Scientology would produce documents was if the documents were worthless or damaging to Scientology’s opponent.

b. Scientology set up a maze of phony corporate structures that Scientology opponents had to negotiate. Scientology did not take these corporate structures seriously, but demanded that it’s opponents do so.

c. Scientology had virtually unlimited funds to spend on litigation and was willing to spend the money to drive any opponent into bankruptcy.

d . Scientology would “play the religious card” as often as possible screaming at the top of its lungs that any lawsuit represented a threat to all religions and was based on religious discrimination against Scientology as a misunderstood and maligned new religion.

e . If Scientology did not like what was going on in a particular court, we would just order the lawyer to file a lawsuit in another court to tie up the plaintiff and his lawyers on trumped up charges. This policy carried out L. Ron Hubbard’s admonition: “NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING and you will WIN.” Further, these new lawsuits could be used as intelligence gathering operations to conduct discovery that the court that we did not like, would never let us conduct.

40. Both before and after the Wollersheim judgment, Scientology’s Mission Corporate Sort Out was designed to drain all the assets out of CSC and place them in other corporations where they could not be touched by anyone who had a judgment against CSC.

41. When the judgment was rendered in the Wollersheim case, I remember that a shock wave went through the Scientology organization. Although many of the assets had been drained off from CSC, there were still some attachable assets that remained within CSC and were thus reachable by Wollersheim’s lawyers. CSC was quickly reduced to one room. Even furniture was removed to other Scientology organizations. FREEDOM MAGAZINE, which had always been housed in CSC, was transferred to CSI.

42. The Essential Strategy to make it impossible for the Wollersheim judgment to be collected was formulated by CSC’s attorney Earl Cooley and CSI attorney Chris Cobb. David Miscavige and Lyman Spurlock then implanted a specific plan to carry out the lawyers’ scheme to make it impossible for Wollersheim to collect his judgment.

43. CSC was stripped of all revenue streams, which were given to other Scientology corporations and entities, including CSI. Any cash that was left in CSC was used to pay bills, debts and settlements for all the other Scientology corporations and entities. I specifically remember one meeting at which we discussed the fact that despite our efforts to strip CSC of attachable assets there was still 2.5 million dollars in cash left that might be seized. It was determined that we had to find bills or debts in other corporations that needed to be paid in order to relieve CSC of this cash. This was done. Mark Ingber of WDC (Watch Dog Committee) reserves in CSI was in charge of stripping CSC of its assets.

THE CSI AND RTC MOTION TO DISMISS

44. I have been informed that RTC and CSI have recently moved to dismiss the Wollersheim case against them on the basis of lathes. My understanding is that lathes is the legal doctrine that is applied to bar someone’s claim when they waited too long to pursue the claim. A huge part of Scientology’s legal strategy in the Wollersheim case was to hide the fact that RTC and CSI were intimately involved in the day-by-day direction of CSC’s defense and to make the case so complex, obtuse and expensive that no one would conceivably be able to get past all the phony legal issues that Scientology was raising to peal away the corporate layers and actually collect on the judgment.

45. If this case is dismissed on the basis of lathes, this cynical strategy will indeed have defeated both Mr. Wollersheim and the entire non-Scientology legal system.

46. I have not received any compensation in any form for giving this declaration. I recognize that by giving this declaration, I make myself a target for further attack by Scientology, however, I am giving this declaration because it is the truth and the right thing to do.

47. Attached hereto as Exhibit “A,” is a true and correct copy of a “Release” I entered into in 1992. The “Release” gags me from ever speaking out regarding my knowledge of the activities of Scientology. I signed Exhibit “A” under duress. I knew that neither I nor my wife would ever be allowed to leave Scientology if I did not sign this “Release.” The contents of the “Release” are simply false.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Colorado that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed this day of June, 1999, at Boulder, Colorado

______________
JESSE PRINCE

Notes

  1. This document in PDF format. Document source: http://lisatrust.freewinds.be/legal/jesse-dec/jesse-dec-wollersheim-06-99.htm ↩

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