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The

Narconon


tory

Oklahoma

As Recorded In The Pages of the

Newkirk

Herald Journal

Newkirk, Oklahoma 74647
With Articles Reprinted From Some Other Publications Included


Narconon-Chilocco Drug Treatment
Plant May Be Part Of Notorious
Religious Cult

By Robert W. Lobsinger
Herald Journal Publisher
April 27, 1989

NEWKIRK, OK -- A proposed drug treat-
ment and rehabilitation center which could
be in operation on Indian land at the former
Chilocco Indian School north of Newkirk by
June 15th may be part of a notorious reli-
gious cult.
Narconon was approved for a 75-bed fa-
cility by the State Health Planning Commis-
sion in January of this year as part of The
Chilocco Development Authority. The pro-
jected cost is $400,000 for renovation and
the five Indian tribes involved are projected
to receive $16,000,000 in lease payments
over 25 years.
According to published reports, Narconon
is the drug rehabilitation program for the
Church of Scientology foanded by L. Ron
Hubbard. Last Friday Sociology Professor
Richard Ofshe of the University of Califor-
nia at Berkley cont'trmed that Narconon is an
organization of the Church of Scientology.
"I think it's common knowledge out here",
he said. In a 1981 Reader's Digest article,
the Church of Scientology was described as
a "frightening cult".
Tribal members contacted about the Chi-
locco project were not aware of a possible
connection to the Church of Scientology.
All they've been told is that it is a "private
corporation ."
Pawnee office of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs said they were not aware of the
connection, and were very "surprised" be-
cause the "state" and the "governor' s office"
were involved in getting Narconon to come
to Chilocco.
Narconon's literature says nothing about
any connection with the Church of Scientol-
ogy, but does say it adheres to the methods of
L. Ron Hubbard.
Narconon material presented to Newkirk
Mayor Garry Bilger at ceremonies held at
Chilocco on Saturday, April 8, says only that
"the Narconon program owes its success to
the 'unique technology' of L. Ron Hubbard.

Narconon uses the Hubbardr Method of
drug rehabilitation to handle the mot causes
of why the person took drugs in the first
place ."
The only connection between Scientol-
ogy and Narconon in its own material seems
to be a reference to "RTC" that appears in
literature from Narconon. In fine print, it
says that "Hubbard is a trademark and ser-
vice mark owned by "RTC" and is used with
its permission. In literature received by the
Newkirk Library from the Church of Scien-
tology advertising books by L. Ron Hubbard,
a footnote announces that Dianetics, Scien-
tologist, and Scientology are trademarks and
service marks owned by Religious Technol-
ogy Center (the same RTC?) and are used
with its permission.
Narconon is a drug treatment program
founded by William Benitez about 1965
while he was in the Arizona State Prison,
according to "The Truth About Drugs" by
Gene Chill and John Dug The book proudly
proclaims that Narconons programs are
based on the technology of L. Ron Hubbard,
but makes no mention of Scientology.
"The Truth About Dru_es ", a Narconon
publication, says that Narconon is a multi-
phase program that includes drug free with-
drawal after a full medical exam; a Purifica-
tion Program that cleanses the body of re-
maining accumulations of drugs; training
and counseling to bridge the individual over
to life as a drug free, contributing member of
socie .ty.
Narconon wasfirst establishedby Benitez
after other programs he tried had failed. It
took 9 months to get the program approved
for use in the Arizona State Penitentiary and
was expanded to other prisons in 1969, then
to the public in 1972. Narconon works in two
fields, Rehabilitation and Education. Edu-
cational efforts were begun in 1979 by former
drug user John Duff, one of the authors of
"The Trttth About Dru_~s. "Duff is currently
National Director ofNarconon's Drug Edu-
cation program..
Narconon - Chilocco has announced in-

tentions of being in operation by June 15. It
has received the approval of the State of
Oklahoma to begin with a 75 bed capacity,
but Narconon staff member Edna Fulton,
quoted in the April 9th issue of the Ponca
City News, said she expects approval for
reasonably rapid expansion. It could eventu-
ally house up to 1,400 "patients" and what-
ever "staff' would be necessary.
The Los Angeles based Association for
Better Living & Education (ABLE), sent
Rena Weinberg to Chilocco to present Nar-
conon and the Chilocco Development Au-
thority with a $200,000.00 check to be used
in establishing the local Narconon facility.
According to the Ponca City News,
Weinberg said ABLE operates internation-
ally and has been impressed with the success
of the Narconon recovery program, hence
the donation.
The address of ABLE is 3540 Wilshire
Btvd, Suite 300, Los Angeles, California.
The address of Narconon International As-
sociation is... 3540 Wilshire Blvd., Suite
300, Los Angeles, Ca. The address of Nar-
conon Drug Education, U.S. is 3540 Witshire
Blvd., Suite 303, Los Angeles, CA. Same
building, same floor, same offices.
Narconon's material says it is currently
operating 26 treatment facilities in 11 na-
tions: Nine facilities in the United States,
five in California, two in Colorado, one in
Massachusetts, and one in Louisiana. Ac-
cording to the Golden, Colorado, Transcript,
the Narconon unit in Golden just opened in
the fall of 1988.
Layffayette Ronald Hubbard was bom in
Tilden, Nebraska in 1911. His father was a
navy commander. According to Life Maga-
zine, Hubbard, while in the far east on tour
with his father, "studied with lama priests."
Although he artended college, and often
claimed a degree, he never finished his
schooling. During the 1930s, he traveled in
Central America and wrote Science Fiction,
Westerns, and Screenplays.
According to Time Magazine, Hubbard
made up his own history and travels, claim-
ing that he was a World War II hero and a


nuclear physicist.
His book, "Dianetics: The Modern Sci-
ence of Mental Health" first appeared as an
article in Astounding Science Fiction maga-
zine.
Hubbard later claimed his book was a
science, and eventually, a religion.
In order to have freedom from interrup-
tions so he could study and write more
books, his followers say he took to life on the
high seas, living and operating from a fleet
of ships cruising in international waters. His
detractors say he was avoiding legal prob-
lems in several countries.
According to Time Magazine, Hubbard' s
son, Ronald DeWolf, changed his name to
disassociate himself from his father, whom
he calls, "one of the biggest con men of the

In 1949, Hubbard told a ~oup of science
fiction writers, "Writing for a penny a word
is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make
a million dollars, the best way would be to
start his own religion."
Hubbard reportedly died as mysteriously
as he had lived. The Church of Scientology
announced in February 1986 that L. Ron
Hubbard died "last week." No actual date of
death was ever given, and some wonder if
the body was really his.
Science Fiction Encyclopedia says that
Scientology is a dramatic example of Sci-
ence Fiction pulp being put into practice in
the real world.
How L. Ron Hubbard came to believe his
own si-fi is a remarkable story. That he has
managed to establish and propagate it into a
growing "religion" is a tribute to his ability
as a believable writer.
Time magazine says Scientology origi-
nally surfaced as "Dianetics", a
pseudopsychological fad that flourished in
the early 1950s. Newsweek calls Dianetics a
"far-out book" that took Hubbard only 60
days to write but became a best seller within
months of publication in 1950.
Hubbard has been described as a "some-
time explorer, engineer, and science-fiction
writer" in Newsweek, and the magazine
notes that at the Church of Scientology's
First National Conference on Public Action
and Social Reform in Los Angeles in 1974,
"representatives of the California Legisla-
ture presented a special commendation to
Narconon, Scientology's program to fight
drug abuse." Over 1,500 Scientologists at-
tended the meeting.
In 1952, Hubbard announced the birth of

the Church of Scientology, an "applied reli-
gious philosophy" which retained most of
the basic features of Dianetics.
According to Time, Scientology has sev-
eral levels of liberation leading one to a state
of "clear", in which all "engrams" from this
or past lives have been erased. "Engrams", a
biological term, was borrowed by Hubbard
to mean the mental quirks he felt caused all
psychic problems.
Once "clear" a Scientologist takes on su-
per-human qualities and becomes an "Oper-
ating Thetan" with extraordinary powers.
Hubbard was an "Operating Thetan."
Hubbard called his Dianetics, "a mile-
stone for Man comparable to his discovery
of fire and superior to his invention of the
wheel and the arch."
This blend of Eastern philosophy, psy-
choanalytic technique and futuristic theory
"concocted" by Hubbard offered everyone
self help answers to an array of psychic and
bodily ills. One of the reasons Hubbard
incorporated his theories into a religion was
partly to avoid attacks from medical and
psychiatric critics. World Headquarters is in
Los Angeles. Hubbard's Dianetics became
Scientology's scripture. Through Dianetics,
Hubbard claimed he could raise IQs, cure
bad eyesight, the common cold. and radia-
tion bums, among other things.
The book, "All God' s Children" by Carroll
Stoner and Jo Anne Parke says that Scientol-
ogy is attractive to "those who are, or think
they are, in trouble." Stoner and Parke say
that Scientology is different from most reli-
gious cults because members rarely live in
communal systems and most live and work
in the outside world.
To the average person, Science Fiction
Encyclopedia says, Dianetics offered sev-
eral attractions: It took only hours of training
in order to be able to practice. No formal
education was necessary. It offered a model
of the mind that was at first simple and
coherent, and it offered diagnosis of why so
many feel they are unappreciated failures.
Further and most important, it offered a
cure.
From science fiction to science, then to
religion, Hubbard's Dianetics drew big fol-
lowings. The group expanded overseas and
established centers in Australia and South
Africa as early as 1953. Still, it was seen by
the skeptical as a crafty tax dodge, even
though it does have some of the trappings of
a genuine religion.
Hubbard's new religion combined parts

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of Hindu, Veda and Daharma, Taoism, Old
Testament wisdom, Buddhist principles,
Early Greek thinking and other tidbits.
But primarily, the religious status offered
the advantages of tax exemption and less
government scrutiny than one receives in the
fields of medicine or science. Religious regu-
lation is looser than scientific or medical
regulation.
Time says the church concerns itself little
with God, and mostly with the here and now.
One recruit who quit called it "A Church
with a cashier' s booth."
In order to reach the state of "clear", a
recruit must travel down a path of successive
courses with "auditors" processing him
through each level with an E-meter.
An          E-meter,          or
"electroencephaloneuromentimograph", is
essentially a crude lie detector, with which
the "auditor" questions the recruit about
intimate details of his life. When the needle
jttmps, an "engram" or sin has been uncov-
ered, and the "auditor" helps the recruit
confront and erase the "engram." E-meters
were developed by Hubbard to speed up the
Dianetics process of clearing engrams. Au-
diting is similar to confession in other reli-
gions. The E-meter and its use appear to be
the only "unique technology" every devel-
oped by Hubbard. An E-meter is a galva-
nometer attached to two cans. V-8 juice cans
seem popular for the purpose, according to
some reports.
The first level course releases a person
from his problems, according to Life. The
second covers "Overts" (harmful or
contrasurvival acts) and Witholds. Next
comes a Freedom Release, then an Ability
Release and Power Processing. Once these
first five levels have been attained, further
processing must be done at special Scientol-
ogy complexes, such as Saint Hill, Sussex,
England, which are only for advanced en-
lightenment. These higher levels will take a
person to "clear."
Scientologists, Newsweek says, believe
that man is a spiritual creature descended
from a race of omnipotent "Thetans" who
decided to experiment with life on earth, and
gave up some of their powers to do so.
(There are at least two different versions of
this story in print.)
But anyone can retrieve those lost powers
by overcoming the "engrams" that have clut-
tered their personality during the eons of
their existence.
Such an "engram~'4ree person is said to be


"clear." A "clear", according to Science
Fiction Encyclopedia, is a person who has
erased the aberrations from his "thetan" and
in return has powers of telepathy, radically
increased intelligence, the ability to move
outside his body, a photographic memory,
and the ability to control processes such as
growing new teeth.
Some reports say it takes about 60 hours of
auditing and a course in Dianetic training in
order to reach "clear." The first "clear" was
a South African medical student named John
McMaster, who made the trip in 1966.
Dianetics was a secular movement until
Hubbard discovered the existence of the
"Thetan". Thems are reincarnated over tril-
lions of years. Hubbard has been quoted as
saying that he felt as good as anyone who
was several trillion years old could expect to
feel.
Over the years, Scientology has taken on
trappings of more conventional religions,
including ministers who perform legal mar-
riages, baptisms, funeral services, liturgies,
clerical collars, and a vague sort of theology
that rarely mentions anything about eternal
salvation or God.
"All God's Children" states that in 1969
the US Court of Claims defined the beliefs of
the Church of Scientology as belief in a
"spirif' or 'Them" which is said to reside
within the physical body of every human
being. They believe that the spirit is immor-
tal and that it receives a new body upon the
death of the body in which it resides."
Life magazine reports that Hubbard's
teachings include belief in two minds, the
Analytic and the Reactlye. One, the Ana-
lytic, is a perfect computer while the other is
a mass of "engrams" that provides incorrect
data to the Analytic computer. The Reactive
mind works like an adding machine with old
totals still in its works. Unless itis "cleared",
it continues to feed the wrong answers to the
Analytic mind even though a new problem
has been punched in. The idea is to clear the
Reactive mind of false data so the Analytic
mind can work properly.
Another interesting theory espoused by
Scientology is that many illnesses are caused
by "engrams", including dermatitis, arthri-
tis, allergies, bursitis, ulcers, migraine head-
aches and even cancer. So getting rid of
"engrams" is pretty important.
According to The Scientology Catechism,
it costs between $2,500 and $5,000 to go
"clear". Paying for courses is a matter of
personal integrity, the Catechism states, but

charity cases are considered, and should see
the chaplain.
It also says training scholarships are avail-
able for some groups, including workers in
approved rehabilitation programs.
Life magazine reported that in order to
become an Operating Them, Class VIII -
the highest classification at the time, it would
cost as much as $15,000.
Introductory lessons cost $15, childrens
courses $10, or less. A sample audit might
cost $5 and last two hours. Some reports say
"auditing" through Grade IV costs $650.
Other reports show a twelve and a half hour
"Life Repair" session with E-meter at $625.
But printed case histories abound telling
of individuals who have paid well over
$100,000.00 before becoming disillusioned
with the program.
Costs vary from independent church to
church. Churches are authorized franchises,
with each setting it's own fees, and forward-
ing 10 percent to the Mother Church, in Saint
Hill, Sussex, England.
Critics charge that the church reduces
followers to the status of working slaves
with jobs in the church to pay the price of
tuition for further comes, a charge the church
Catechism denies.
In 1968, Life magazine estimated mem-
bership at between 2 and 3 million people.
Most recruits, it said, were young, intelli-
gent, and idealistic. Newsweek in 1974 said
the number of members claimed by the
church was 3.2 million around the world.
Time said that church recruits tended to be
young, drifting, fairly well educated and in
search of psychological answers more than
spiritual ones. One famous member of the
church was former pro-quarterback John
Brodie, who said Scientology healed his
throwing ann, Time reports.
The Church of Scientology has a record of
being litigious.
For instance, in August of 1978, the Los
Angeles Times was slapped with a million
dollar suit after it ran a series about the
Church of Scientology. According to a
Newsweek story, the Scientologists claimed
that the paper conspired with the FBI and
Justice Department to violate the church's
civil rights by poisoning the atmosphere
before a trial of church officials on charges
of scheming to steal government documents.
In 1977, Newsweek reported in the same
issue, a San Diego Union reporter took a
Scientology course, identifying herself only
at its end. Two days before publication of her

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story about the session, the paper was sued
for $10,000 for invasion of privacy. Scien-
tologists offered to drop the suit if the Union
dropped the story. When the article ran any-
way, the suit escalated to $900,000 and
charges of fraud and deceit were added.
Scientologists say the press has unfairly
characterized them as a bizarre fringe group,
Newsweek says.
After the Church of Scientology filed a
million dollar libel suit against the Clearwater
(Fla.) Sun in 1976, the paper countersued for
abuse of legal process and subpoenaed the
church' s financial records and officials. The
Scientologists decided to drop their case,
according to the Newsweek report.
One media lawyer said, "A full-scale law-
suit would open them up to full disclosure,
and most cults can hardly afford full disclo-
sure in the courtroom." The Newsweek ar-
ticle referred to was authored by Betsy Carter
with Michael Reese in San Francisco, and
Martin Kasindorf in Los Angeles as well as
from bureau reports.
In 1976, Time reported that England
banned foreign Scientologists from entering
the country because of the increasing nam-
her of complaints about the group.
Questionable practices reported in vari-
ous countries included the recording of "au-
diting" sessions that made members suscep-
tible to blackmail; "Disconnect" orders re-
quiring devout members to sever ties with
antagonistic family or friends (Supressive
Persons); "Fair Game" rules which said a
defector from the group could be "deprived
of property or injured by any means... sued,
lied to, or destroyed."
The same article tells the story of the
deceptive purchase of the Fort Harrison Hotel
in downtown Clearwater, Florida. A group
calling itself the Southern Land Develop-
ment and Leasing Corp. purchased the build-
ing for cash and said it was to be used as
headquarters for the "United Churches of
Florida," a new ecamenical group. The sale
won approval of local clergymen.
But strangers moved in, and an investiga-
tion soon traced the money paid for the
building to the Church of Scientology.
As mentioned above, Clearwater Sun was
sued over the investigation. So was the St.
Petersburg Times and Radio S tation WDCI.
In addition, Clearwater Mayor Cazares was
also sued... all unsuccessfully, but at great
defense expense, which ultimately the church
was ordered to pay.
"We are not a turn-the-other cheek reli-


gion" a church spokesman identified as
Arthur Maren is quoted as saying at that
time.
Clearwater is now home of the Flag Land
Base of the Church and offers the same
advanced training previously available only
in Saint Hill, Sussex, England, or on the
ocean fleet.
Despite the legal hassles upon moving to
town, the Scientologists seem to have had
few other problems with their Clearwater
neighbors once the truth about who they
were and where they came from was made
known.
Scientology has a long history of prob-
lems with the re st of the orthodox world. The
most recent came after a nine month Spanish
probe into the group' s Narconon unit in that
COuntry.
According to a December 1988 edition of
the Orange County (California) Register,
the president of the Los Angeles based
Church of Scientology and 10 other mem-
bers were arrested in an investigation of
alleged fraud and tax evasion charges.
Judge Jose Maria Vazquez Honrubia of
Madrid, Spare, said Narconon, a church-
linked drug-rehabilitation program, swindled
its clients and lured them into Scientology.
Church President Heber Jentzsch was re-
leased on $1.1 million bail, and 10 foreign-
ers were expelled from the country.
Earlier, the Register noted that Jentzsch
and 70 other people were detained as part of
an investigation into charges of fraud, crimi-
nal association and tax evasion. Judge
Vazquez Honrubia said authorities had fro-
zen $1.76 million in bank accounts belong-
ing to officials of the US based Church of
Scientology and the Church's Drug'Reha-
bilitation program, Narconon.
Spain has twice refused to grant the orga-
nization legal status as a religious entity in
that country.
The Spanish probe.. Spanish Inquisition,
according to church officials... was prompted
by complaints from Spaniards who said they
had been swindled out of money through
drag-rehabilitation programs and other ac-
tivities related to the Church of Scientology.
In 1983, Hubbard' s wife was sentenced to
four years in prison for conspiring with other
Scientologists to bug and burglarize govern-
ment agencies including the IRS, Time maga-
zine reported.
A Portland, Ore., jury awarded $2 million
toJulie C. Titchbourne on August 15, 1979,
according to the World Book 1980 Year-

book. She was a former member of the
Church of Scientology, and accused the cult
of defrauding her on its promise to give her
a better life.
Five Scientologists were sentenced to
prison terms of four or five years in Decem-
ber, 1979 after they were convicted of con-
spiring to obstruct justice and to obtain gov-
ernment documents pertaining to the cult.
During a telephone conversation last Fri-
day, while researching this story, the Cali-
fornia Attorney General's office in Sacra-
mento volunteered that they were very fa-
miliar with the operations of Narconon and
Scientology, and had in fact convicted and
jailed a "spy" whom they had discovered
working in their offices.
Hubbard was sentenced in his absence to
4 years imprisonment in Paris in 1978 after
being found guilty of obtaining money un-
der false pretences through Scientology,
according to the Science Fiction Encyclope-
dia.
The same book also reports that Hubbard
was deported from the United Kingdom as
an undesirable alien in 1968, after which he
took to his fleet of ships to direct his world-
wide operations. Life and Newsweek also
reported the incident. Life said the British
government felt Scientology to be "Socially
harmful," and barred foreign Scientologists
from entering the country to participate in
the World Scientology Congress scheduled
at the Saint Hill, Sussex, England church
complex. Newsweek said the British
government's ban on foreign Scientologists
was because of the groups "authoritarian
principles... a potential menace to the per-
sonality and well being of those so deluded
as to become its followers," and because of
the cult's "technology of the human spirit"
as well as its rejection of psychiatry and
other scientifically endorsed approaches to
mental health problems.
But even before that, the cult had its prob-
lems. A Board of Inquiry (released as the
Anderson Report of 1965) in the State of
Victoria, Australia in 1963 found that "Sci-
entology is evil; its techniques are evil; its
practice a serious threat to the community,
medically, morally, and socially; and its
adherents sadly deluded and often mentally
ill." The board reached its conclusions after
examining 15 1 witnesses. Scientology was
banned in Victoria.
The Australian government branded
Hubbard a "fraud" in 1965, and called Sci-
entology "evil, fantastic and impossible, its

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principles perverted and ill-rounded, its tech-
niques debased and harmful," according to
Tune.
Life magazine, in 1968 quotes the Victo-
rian government as calling Scientology "the
world' s largest organization of unqualified
persons engaged in the practice of danger-
ous techniques which masquerade as mental
therapy."
In 1971, Scientologists won a fight with
the Food and Drug Administration over their
E-meters. The agency had confiscated them
from the group's Washington D.C. head-
quarters in a raid in 1963. The Feds claimed
that Scientology falsely promised the cure of
"neuroses, psychoses, schizophrenia and all
psychosomatic illnesses."
After years of legal wrangling, Scientolo-
gists got their E-meters back, but only after
agreeing to put disclaimers of any therapeu-
tic power on the machines.
The IRS in 1959 got courts to deny Scien-
tology a tax exemption. But after the case
was over, the cult won limited recognition as
a religion according to a Newsweek report in
1974.
From the beginning, Hubbard's methods
and technology have drawn sharp profes-
sional criticism. Newsweek noted that the
medical and psychiatric community re-
sponded "with alann" to Hubbards book.
Professional psychologists condemned
Dianetics as amateurish and potentially dan-
gerous meddling with serious mental prob-
lems, according to Time. A joumalist who
took the courses said in Life magazine that
Scientology "is scary" and uses potentially
disastrous techniques. He reports that Dr.
William Menninger denounced Dianetic
Auditing as potentially dangerous.


Backwater Cowboys

Whoa, now! Maybe it's time for us back-
water Cowboys and Indians to slow down
our wagons and ponies a bit, before we git
stampeded into thunderation by a bunch of
slick talkin' riverboat shysters toutin' some
new fangled snake oil cure for the fire-water
frazzles.
Like olden days when Dr. Malingerer
visited the town with his wagon of "tonic"
guaranteed to cure everything from gout to
the vapors in man or beast, we' re about to be
hoodwinked by another bunch of
bamboozelers.
We need to wake up quick and smell the
horse apples. This Narconon outfit appears
to be a front for the Church of Scientology
and it's founder L. Ron Hubbard. It looks
right like a religious cult... a religious con
that makes TV preachers look like choir
boys.
Hubbard' s Wagon seems to be filled with
bottles of hocus-pocus, engrams, E-meters
and other imaginary whoo-ha designed to
dazzle the desperate and free from their
wretched bodies not only their "Thetans",
but also their bucks.
That this pseudo-theological mumbo-
jumbo not only exists, but is actually grow-
ing is a credit to Mr. Hubbard's ability as a
convincing science fiction writer.
Conanon .... I mean Narconon is settin' up
shop at Chilocco with some "generous" as-
sistance from a philanthropic outfit called
the Association for Better Living & Educa-
tion (ABLE) which says it has been im-
pressed with Narconon' s worldwide record.
Just like it was a separate outfit looking for
a good cause. And the Naronon guy pro-
fusely thanks the ABLE lady for the "dona-
tion" that will insure the success of the
Chilocco project! How wonderful it all is.
The melodrama is tearjerking.
ABLE and the Narconon International
Association share the same building in Los
Angeles. In fact. they share the same floor of
the same building. In fact, they share the
exact same office suite of the same floor of
the same building. Why did they bother to

come here to "donate" the money from their
left hand to their right? Unless it was a
hokum-pokum show for us dummies out
here in the gulch!
They aln't selling snake oil, tax free ciga-
rettes, or nickel bingo. What they're selling
is hope, vitamin pills and steam baths. Pack-
aged in blarney. Their own propaganda says
their treatments "cannot be construed as a
recommendation of medical treatment or
medication and it is undertaken or delivered
by anyone on his own responsibility." In
other words, if it don't work, tough cookies.
Narconon says it has an 86 percent cure
rate, but a West Berlin study showed the rate
to be about 10 percent. Of course, if the first
two weeks of the basic program don' t work
- and they probably won't - there are many
more courses available that might. Nineteen
volumes of them, in fact. All part of the
"unique technology" of Mr. Hubbard. How
much money can Narconon rake out of In-
dian Health Care funds that could otherwise
be used for legitimate medical expenses?
Information we have read suggests that
dependency upon drugs is simply replaced
with dependency upon Scientology. A soci-
ology professor in California has warned us
that similar establishments have been used
by this group in the past as warehouses for
dissident members. The isolation is ideal.
The lack of outside scrutiny is perfect. The
potential is frightening beyond anything we
have dealt with before.
These mental messiahs with forked
tongues are treading on our Indian neigh-
bors' hopes of economic and social develop-
ment. What they really want is the isolation
of Indian land, exempt from state and local
law enforcement jurisdiction. And in the
deal, they' 11 get a ready made crop of Indian
"patients." With Indian Health Care picking
up the tab for nearly all of them while they
get "processed" down the path of "enlight-
enment."
And beyond the swindle of Indian health
care funds, how many patients will actually
wind up believing they are "Super Thems"

capable of taking intergalactic voyages by
leaving their bodies behind? How many
people will forgo medical care while trying
to "erase" the "engrams" that are causing
their heart trouble? How many will die? It
only takes a few more courses to get there.
And money, of course.
How many of our sons and daughters will
wind up working as Scientology missionar-
ies or Narconon staffers in order to pay for
their unending array of enlightening courses?
In return, Narconon is offering a measly
$3.2 million per tribe for a 25 year lease on
misery. Our Indian neighbors have again
been let down by the "agencies" designed to
help and protect all of us from shysters and
swindlers. Especially the Oklahoma Health
Planning Commission, which must have had
it's head plugged into an E-meter not to
discover the true nature of this malignity.
Surely information so readily available in
the Newkirk Public Library is available in
Oklahoma City.
If you think this all sounds like I've been
smoking funnygrass, I suggest you trot on
over there and look it up yourself. If you
need a list of references, I' ve got lots of 'em.
But just reading today' s paper will give you
the general idea. And you won't need an E-
meter to get the mental picture.
We've already got too many drunks and
dopers. Do we want a bunch of space cadets,
too?
We may be the only voice crying in the
wildemess, but we suggest that Narconon is
no answer to our area' s drug problem, or it' s
economic problem. It would behoove us all
to encourage Hubbard's hucksters to hook
up their horses and get their asteroids on
down the road.

6


Learn To Live With It...

State Boys Say Chilocco Is A Done Deal

NEWKIRK, May 11, 1989 - About 80
persons appeared at the Newkirk City Com-
mission meeting Monday evening for an
informational session on the Chilocco In-
dian School project. Present at the meeting
were Mr. Howard Miles, designee of the
Commissioner of Health, who presides over
the Oklahoma Health Planning Commis-
sion; Mr. Leroy Bridges, public affairs spe-
cialist with the Oklahoma Department of
Mental Health; and Mr. William Mehojah,
chairman of the Kaw Tribe, along with sev-
eral members of the Chilocco Development
Authority. Mr. Miles, Mr. Bridges, and Mr.
Mehojah were at the meeting at the invita-
tion of Mayor Garry Bilger.
Mr. Miles explained to the group the pur-
pose of the Health Planning Commission,
which is to oversee the growth of health
services in the state so that they occur in an
orderly fashion and along guidelines of an
existing 4 year plan. He said the operators of
the proposed Chilocco project have com-
plied with the existing rules and regulations
of the S hate of Oklahoma, and that they have
been issued a Certificate of Need, that the
statutory period of objection is over and that
the certificate is not subject to recall, even in
court.
The next step, Mr. Miles said, is for the
Oklahoma Health Department to issue a
license, which, in the case of alcohol and
drug abuse facilities, concerns only the physi-
cal facilities. The buildings. Plans are pre-
sented to the S tale Health DeparUnent, which
assigns an architect, who approves the plans.
Then the work proceeds, and when finished,
the State Health Department inspects the
facility for compliance with the approved
plans. If the facility is approved, it is li-
censed. The State Health Department li-
cense applies only to the physical facility,
and has nothing to do with the program or
staffing.
That falls under the Department of Mental
Health, which certifies the program and staff-
ing, and is Mr. Bridges' department.
Mr. Bridges said that plans for the Chi-
locco project were submitted and will go
through the regular process just like any
other project in the state. He said that once
the facility has been licensed by the State

Health Department... when the facility has
been approved... the State Mental health
Department will send an inspection team to
the site to approve the program, if it com-
plies with the normally accepted standards
for such facilities in the State of Oklahoma.
He said that according to documents sub-
mitted to his department by the operators,
the staff would consist of "certified alcohol
and drug counselors, certified drug counsel-
ors, medical doctors, and nurses... This is the
kind of program that all of the people com-
ply with before they are certified in the State
of Oklahoma.
Concerning the patients, Mr. Bridges said
"All of' em will be referred from other states
into here except the local Indian people who
will be given a chance to have first choice on
beds out there if they are not able to pay. The
local Indian people. All the rest of them will
be from other states. Nobody from Okla-
homa except the Indian people."
Mr. Bridges pointed out that if the pro-
gram and treatment proposed for the Chi-
locco center does not violate the laws of the
State of Oklahoma, the state can not refuse to
issue a Certification from the Mental Health
Department
He said he called Mr. John Wilson, of the
Alcohol and Drug Authority of the State of
California, who reported they "had no prob-
lems" with the organization. He presented
several other instances of reference check-
ing his department had made in regard to the
matter, and reported that no negative infor-
mation had been received.
Following the presentation by Mr. Bridges
and Mr. Miles, there was a question and
answer session.
In response to a question about prior no-
tice, Mr. Miles pointed out that notice was
published in the Newkirk Herald Journal in
January of this year that the operators had
applied for their Certificate of Need, well in
advance of the hearing.
To a question concerning the unanimity of
the decision to lease Chilocco, Miles said he
couldn't answer, but that the documents his
deparunent received were in order. He said
the Bureau of Indian Affairs had approved
the lease contract, but that he didn't know if
the decision by the Chilocco Development
7

Authority had been unanimous or just by
majority, and that he had no information
concerning any internal problems of the
CDA.
If the validity of the CDA's decision to
lease Chilocco comes under question, then
the matter would be in the jurisdiction of the
Federal Courts, he said. One person sug-
gested that the authority of a tribal chairman
was in question due to an election dispute.
Another questioner was assured that no
Indian Health funds would be used, that no
money from any govemmental agency would
be used in establishing the center.
"They're a leg itimate service, and they've
received a legitimate hearing, and a legiti-
mate authority to proceed." according to Mr.
Miles, "If they do what they said they were
gonna do, they'll be all right. And if they
don't do it, there is a process that works that
will usher them across the state line."
He added, "Let's just assume there is no
such thing as Narconon, and all we re talking
about is the Church of Scientology. What
difference does it make?" If they do what
they' ve applied for, and they do what they' ve
been approved for, he said, then they have
complied with state law.
"Now, if they start making it into some-
thing more than that, they start doing things
that exceed their authority, if they violate the
laws of the state in any manner than they
have to answer for that."
"All we can go on is the history of what
they' ve done, the record they' ve made in the
United States and their statements they've
made.g."

Miles said the terms of the agreement
between the operator and the CDA were
none of the state' s business. "The business
arrangements... are not a function of our
commission."
In response to the question of law enforce-
ment and state regulation, Miles said, "Well,
first of all let me say that there is control. The
Chilocco Development Authority and Nar-
conon both, have placed themselves under
the jurisdiction of the State of Oklahoma for
operation of a health care facility ."
"They are not functioning as Indian coun-
try he said, "The county sheriff will have
police jurisdiction there, State Highway Pa-


trol will have jurisdiction there, State Bu-
reau of Investigation will have jurisdiction
there, the investigative staff of the State
Department of Health... will have jurisdic-
tion there. So it will not he without govern-
ment controls."
They could have sought exclusion from
state laws, and in light of court decisions
recently, they could have gotten exclusion,
he said, but instead, they voluntarily placed
themselves under state jurisdiction.
Mx. Bridges responded to a question about
payment for services at Chilocco. He said
that all patients will be from out of state,
except local Indians who do not have the
ability to pay. "Nobody pays for it"
"They have provided 25% of the beds for
the local Indian people, and nobody pays for
it. They would be provided that opportu-
nity."
A prison was a possibility at one time at
Chilocco," one member of the audience said,
"but the problem was jurisdiction. They
couldn't waive jurisdiction then, so I don't
see how the state can change jurisdiction
now."
Dave Baldwin, a member of the CDA
answered that the State ofOldahoma couldn' t
afford the $17 million to construct the pri son,
jurisdiction was not the problem.
One lady said she would have preferred
the prison, "I know something about the
Church of Scientology, I know a lady and
her son is in it - and I know what happened
to them," she said. "That's why I am so
concerned." She received a round of ap-
plause.
Another in the audience asked if patients
would be restricted to the Chilocco facility.
Mr. Miles said State law prohibits restricting
movement of residents. Mr. Bridges said
there were already three treatment plants in
Kay County, and saw no reason to be con-
cerned about the freedom of movement that
Chilocco patients would have.
"Chilocco - they are somewhat isolated,
these are not prisoners." Bridges said they
are just people like us who have alcohol or
drug problems, who have insurance. He said
theyj ust want to come here for treatment and
go back home.
Mr. Bridges pointed out the CDA mem-
bers in the audience, Dave Baldwin, Cynthia
Stoner, and Mr. Mehojah. He noted that Bill
Grant, who was not at the meeting, had told
him just last week what a wonderful pro-
gram Chilocco was. Bridges asked Mr.
Mehoj ah to confn'm Grant' s attitude, which

he did.
"A lot of the workers out there will be
local Indian people, they're gonna be trained
and brought on." Bridges said. He suggested
there was nothing to fear from them.
Miles responded to a radio reporter' s ques-
tion about the alleged connection between
Narconon and the Church of Scientology:
"the answer we received was that there was
no direct relationship between the Church of
Scientology and Narconon. That there were
members of the Church of Scientology who
had been involved in the creation of Nar-
conon, but the two organizations are totally
separate. We questioned whether or not the
philosophy of L. Ron Hubbard would be
used, because they were mentioned in the
application. And it was pointed out that only
4 methods, not the philosophy, would be
utilized. Those methods with the exception
of sauna, are common to all alcohol and drug
treatment procedures. The sauna, well we
don't have any feel for it..."
He then referred to the lady who said she
knew someone in the Church of Scientol-
ogy, "I've shared the same experience and I
think my reaction probably was very similar
to hers." But that experience, he said, was
not grounds for refusing permission to oper-
ate in the state.
Bridges told the radio reporter that coun-
selors will be certified in Oklahoma "by a
local certifying group that certifies all the
alcohol and drug counselors."
Some of the members of the CDA told of
being in a Narconon facility last week in
downtown Los Angeles, and gave glowing
reports of what they saw there. They told of
people cured of addiction in only 10 weeks,
and of a five year follow-up program.
Miles said that most Narconon facilities
are out-patient clinics, and that the Los An-
geles program is the only in-patient program
in operation. He said the OHPC had checked
with state people in several states while
gathering information for the certificate of
need hearing.
As an example of how the investigation
works he told an anecdote about a nursing
home operator who wished to locate in the
state, but when investigation proved the
man' s previous operations had been closed
by health officials in six states, he was re-
fused a certificate. "He had no standing
because his history was all negative."
"We try to check deep enough to try to
determine something about the character of
the applicant Miles added.

8

How many doctors, someone asked, and
from where, and how often will the state
check the facility? Bridges answered that
most places like this contracted with local
doctors. "Quite often," he responded to the
query about inspection.
Miles added that the facility would be
inspected at least 6 times a year, unan-
nounced. He said the program meets the
legal requirements of the state, and "that's
the end of it"
Kaw Tribal Chairman Mehojah reviewed
the history of Chilocco for the group, and
said the CDA had been working to find a use
for the land. He said they had tried to do what
they felt best for the economic benefit of the
Indian people, and to provide jobs. He said
the contract they have entered into has a 5
year review clause, but that a corporation
needs a long term lease in order to recoup
their investment. He said the BIA had ap-
proved the contract as a sound document
that would protect the Indians. He also told
of his visit recently to the Los Angeles
facility where he observed people undergo-
ing treatment.
Following Mehojah's comments, Miles
informed the group that if they had any
reason to believe that the operators were not
complying with state law that they should
contact the State Attomey General, the Com-
missioner of Health, or the Commissioner of
Mental Health.
Miles and Heraid Journal Publisher Bob
Lobsinger sparred a bit over an editorial, for
which Lobsinger offered apology. Then they
sparred again over references in a recent
story. Miles suggested Lobsinger had mis-
read the material, but changed his mind
when Lobsinger produced the magazine and
showed him the passage in question.
This segment of the meeting ended, and
commissioners proceeded to other items on
the agenda.


If It Looks Like A Duck,
Don't Overlook the Obvious

Well, now. Haven' t I been put in my place.
I guess now I know better than to mess
with big, important foils from LA.
Narconon, it rams out, is a wonderful
program after all. They said so. And that, of
course, is what AP reported last weekend,
gutsy organization that they are.
Now, we already had enough of
Narconon's own material to tell you what
they would say about their program. Of
course it's wonderful. What else would you
expect them to say?
We thought you had a right to know what
they weren't saying. And we found plenty
they were staying quiet about.
There is no shame in not knowing the
difference between an ugly duck and the
goose that laid the golden egg. The shame is

in not changing ones thinking when one
finds out the difference.
Mr. Miles, from the Health Planning Com-
mission is a likable individual in a tough
spot. His head is not hooked to an E-meter
after all. He simply has to live by somebody
else's regulations. Mr. Bridges is a free
fellow, too, with a sincere, personal interest
in trying to help the Indian people. But he's
in the same situation. Which boils down to
the fact that the state can do nothing about
the situation because everything is quite
legal.
Narconon says it is not connected in any
way with the Church of Scientology. Fine. It
was just started by Scientologists, and Sci-
entologists run it. But that is a coincidence of
nature...

Suppose that next week, Doc S. announces
he is going to start a Birth Control Clinic that
adheres to the methods of John Paul II. What
are you to believe about his operation?
This deal is no different. A consistent
history and long term reputation, documented
in print doesn't change just because one
refuses to read it or check it out. No matter
how many times you "play it again, Sam,"
the record stays the same.
We'd all like the Chilocco project to be
the grand and glorious establishment it's
makers say it will be... helping humanity and
providing economic assistance to the Indian
people as well.
But I'm afraid if it looks like a duck, and
sounds like a duck, and walks like a duck,
it's probably a duck.

9


Planned Newkirk Drug Clinic
May Be World's Biggest

By Michael McNutt
Enid Bureau
May 18, 1989
NEWKIRK-Backers of a drug rehabilita-
tion center scheduled to open later this year
on the Chilocco Indian School grounds north
of here say the facility has the potential to be
the biggest of its kind in the world.
However, residents in this northern Okla-
homa town eight miles from the Kansas
border are concerned Narconon International
is a front for the Church of Scientology, and,
instead of rehabilitating alcohol and drug
addicts, it will recruit new members and
raise money for the controversial group.
The person overseeing renovation work at
Chilocco for Narconon is identified as an
"experienced purification rundown in
charge" by the Church of Scientology's of-
ficial newsletter.
"Trained Scie ntolog ists to staff huge Okla-
homa facility," reads a headline in the Feb-
ruary 1989 issue of "The Auditor," a copy of
which was made available to "The Oklaho-
man." Narconon, the article states, gets Sci-
entology founder L. Ron Hubbard's "tech-
nology applied broadly in the society."
Meanwhile, state officials who approved
a certificate of need for the facility say it
should not matter who operates the facility
as long as they follow acceptedpractices and
standards in the field.
Representatives of five Indian tribes who
stand to earn $16 million over the next 25
years by leasing the Indian school campus to
Narconon say they have visited Narconon' s
drug rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles
and are satisfied the organization is legiti-
mate.
Harold Miles, with the State Department
of Health and a member of the Health Plan-
ning Commission which approved a certifi-
cate of need license for Narconon in Janu-
ary, said no one opposed the organization
then and now it is too late to appeal the state
decision.
Narconon still must get a license and be
certified by the state, Miles said.
Unrest over Narconon developed after the
Newkirk newspaper published two stories

quoting various publications that Narconon
was associated with the Church of Scientol-
ogy, which often is referred to as more of a
cult than a religion.
Betty Cook of Enid, with the Oklahoma
Cult Awareness Network, said Narconon is
a "front group" for Scientology.
And in the September 1981 issue of
"Reader's Digest," then-senior editor Eu-
gene H. Methvin called Narconon
"Scientology's biggest social reform gim-
mick."
Miles said state officials could fmd no link
between Narconon and the Church of Scien-
tology and that California officials were
satisfied with Narconon' s 25-bed drug reha-
bilitation center in Los Angeles.
According to published reports, the joint
Narconon-Chilocco Development Author-
ity received $200,000 from the Association
for Better Living & Education, an organiza-
tion identified in "The Auditor" as part of
Narconon.
Miles and Leroy Bridges, with the State
DeparUnent ofMe ntal Health, tried to assure
about 100 people who jammed into a public
hearing held here last week that the state
would inspect regularly the facility once it
opened.
Renovation of several buildings on 165
acres of land leased by Narconon is under-
way with the facility scheduled to open in
August or September.
Once opened, the program will be veiwed
by Mental Health Department workers for
certification, Bridges said, and will be re-
viewed continuously at least six times a
year.
Miles said Narconon is subject to punitive
action if workers operate outside the law or
its program outlined to the state.
"Narconon is a legitimate enterprise, pro-
posing to do a legitimate service," he said.
"If they do what they said they're going to
do, they will be all right, and if they don' t do
it, there is a process at work that will usher
them across the state line."
John Duff, president of Narconon, said the
23 year old agency is not directly connected
with the Church of Scientology.
10

"It's a non-issue question," he said.
But Duff said the church is a supporter of
Narconon and provides volunteers.
Hubbard, Duff said, once gave Narconon
$75,000 because Narconon uses five of his
methods-complete withdrawal, supplements,
balanced diet, exercise and using a sauna.
Hubbard, a science fiction writer who
started Scientology in 1953, died in 1986.
Advertisements for his 1950 book,
"Dianetics; The Modem Science of Mental
Health," still can be seen on television.
At f~rst, the Nat, con'on facility at Chilocco
will use five or six of the 80 buildings on the
campus in developing a 75-bed facility.
Renovation costs are expected to cost at
least $400,000, Duff said. About a dozen
Indians have been hired to do the work and
three Narconon staff members are at Chi-
IcEco.
Duff said 25 percent of those beds will be
set aside for indigent Indians who suffer
from chemical substance abuse.
Chilocco is being developed as a national
program and most of its clients will be re-
ferred to the facility from Narconon offices
throughout the country and will come from
other states and' Canada, Duff said.
Duff said he expects Narconon will em-
ploy a staff of about 35 and said he did not
know if Edna Fulton, now serving as project
director at Chilocco, will continue in that
capacity.
However, "The Auditor" article stated
that Tom Armstrong, identified by Cook as
a Scientologist leader, will be in charge of
the Chilocco project and that Fulton will be
a member of the core staff.
Duff would not discuss the specifics of the
contract with the five Indian tribes that make
up the Chilocco Development Authority-
Pawnee, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, Kaw and
Tonkawa-saying only the tribes would di-
vide $16 million over the next 25 years with
an option to renew the lease another 25
years.


Narconon Official speaks Out...

To The Editor:
Our society today is faced with a battle
against drugs that can literally destroy our
future generations.
There are 500,000 or more people dealing
drugs in the United States alone selling bil-
lions of dollars in drugs each year and oar
children are the customers.
Narconon International is in the forefront
of the battle against drugs and is saving lives
around the world through its' drug preven-
tion and rehabilitation programs.
Over the last 23 years Narconon has suc-
cessfully rehabilitated tens of thousands of
drug addicts and has spoken to over 1/2
million students in schools, parents, teach-
ers and professionals in the community
through the Narconon drug education pro-
gram.
In Spain an outside study was done that
showed 69.2% of those that completed the
Narconon program were successfully off
drugs after 2 years. In Sweden an outside
study found tha178.6% of those that finished
the program were successfully off drugs
after 2 years.
We have recently acquired a 25 year lease
of the former Chilocco Indian Agricultural
School from the Chilocco Development
Authority made up of representatives from
the Kaw, Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee, Ponca &

Tonkawa Northern Oklahoman Tribes.
A national drug rehabilitation program is
being set up at Chilocco with 75 beds and we
are currently in the process of complying
with the Oklahoma State Department of
Health - fire, safety & health codes.
This facility represents a powerful tool
against those that are pushing drugs and
there will be those that will not want Nar-
conon to succeed at Chilocco because they
are for drugs and are on the other side in the
battle against drugs.
A recent article in the Newkirk Herald
Journal critical of Narconon and our efforts
to stop drugs was simply a collection of old
articles and opinions. If the writer of this
article was to have done an article in 1933
about a Jewish project in Germany based on
research in newspaper articles back then,
what would have this article said? Put them
in the oven" If his "research" consisted of
paraphrasing articles about Native Ameri-
cans written 100 years ago what would his
article have said?
It is very simple. Narconon is a non-profit
public benefit corporation with the job of
saving lives and getting these former drug
addicts back into society as productive drug -
tree members. This is our job and has been
for the last 23 years. Our success is based on
hard work and a drug rehabilitation program

that was developed by L. Ron Hubbard, on
of the most acclaimed and widely read au-
thors of all time. The Board of Directors of
Narconon Intemational adopted this pro-
gram because it is highly successful and has
proven itself over the years. Only those that
are in favor of a drug ridden society or those
who are directly profiting from the drug
racket would oppose such a program.
We look forward to the Narconon Chi-
locco New Life Center becomes a bright
spot in society bringing new life to those
addicted to drugs and it has been an honor to
us to be able to work with the Kaw, Otoe-
Missouria, Pawnee, Ponca, Tonkawa, the
Oklahoma Indian Business Development
Center and the Oklahoma Health Planning
Commission.
We invite you to call or visit our facility
once we are underway and as employment is
available we will be notifying the local pa-
pers. If you have questions about Narconon
I would love to hear from you. Please write:
John S. Duff, President, Narconon Intema-
tional, 3540 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 300 Los
Angeles, CA. 90010.
Respectfully Yours,
/s/John S. Duff
President
Narconon International

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We're Pretty 'Clear' On That!

We have this terrible urge to refer to the
writer of the above letter as "Dully Duck",
but we won't, simply because we feel a
certain sympathy for individuals so taken in
by the rose of Scientology. Beyond that,
personality is not at issue, no more than is
qualified and appropriate drug rehabilita-
tion, or freedom of religion.
What is at issue is the long and spurious
reputation of Scientology. Documented in
print since the imagination of the first

"Old articles," he calls them, without re-
futing their accuracy. As old as Scientology
itself. And as new, too. Scientology's own
magazine, TheAuditor, in it's February 1989
edition further confirms our opinion.
"Trained Scientologists to staff huge Okla-
homa facility," brags the headline of one
article. And yet with straight face they tell us
there is no connection.
Americans will tolerate practically any-
thing one chooses to believe in the name of
religion, if they are convinced it is a religion
to begin with. Scientology is science fiction.
Unlike religion, it was science fiction at its
conception, albeit good enough science fic-
tion that the naive amongst us began to
believe it was real science.
Only when the scientific community in

mass began to debunk it did it decide to
become a "religion." And that, my friends, is
why it has been so poorly tolerated in spite of
the legal manipulations it has undertaken to
make it look like religion. It remains what it
has always been. Science fiction. Accepting
the occasional abuse of religious freedom is
still preferable to limiting religious freedom.
Scientology is a successful business en-
terprise. It accepts people who are, or think
they are, in trouble. Often it even relieves
them of their real or perceived problems as it
allows them to brainwash themselves down
the unending path ofL Ron's "unique meth-
ods and technology."
Narconon is simply one of many methods
Scientology uses to get their "technology
applied broadly in the society," as The Audi-
tor gently puts it. Hubbard said it more
bluntly in a 1960 Communications Order to
his followers: "It is a maxim that unless you
have bodies in the shop you get no income.
So on any pretext get the bodies in the
place..." If the "shop" can offer a service,
like drug detox, along the way that will be
paid for by insurance or some other third
party, then so much the better.
We have little doubt that the Narconon
drug detoxification methods work as well as
any other dry-out clinic. We find it interest-

ing that L. Ron Hubbard claims patent to
food, exercise, and vitamin therapy. We'll
concede sauna baths may be his own idea.
And we will give him full credit for the
"counseling and training" sessions that go
along with it.
What is unique about Hubbard' s methods
is not that he feeds his patients, or exercises
them, or gives them vitamins. The "unique"
part is that his counseling and training meth-
ods dissipate dependency on drugs while
creating dependency on Scientology. And
maybe that's not all bad, if only they were
straight forward enough to admit it.
It would be interesting to know how many
Spanish Narconon patients were Scientolo-
gists after their treatment. That would tell us
an awful lot more than cure rates. We sus-
pect the number is about 69.2%.
These are some of our concerns about
Narconon and Scientology. But in a fashion
true to their historical reputation and back-
ground, they have failed to address them,
and instead resort to calling our citizens drug
racketeers "in favor of a drug ridden soci-
ety..." for questioning their motives.
It's a duffy... I mean daffy world they want
us to live in, we're pretty "clear" on that.

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Renovation Underway At Chilocco Indian School

08 June 1989
NEWKIRK, - Renovations have begun on
buildings at nearby Chilocco Indian School,
according to Simon Hogarth, a representa-
tive of the Association for Better Living and
Education (ABLE) which owns Narconon,
the proposed drug rehabilitation center to be
located on the grounds.
A press release issued Monday by Hogarth
said that Narconon has obtained a Certifi-
cate of Need from the Oklahoma State Plan-
ning Commission to establish a 75-bed facil-
ity at Chilocco for drug and alcohol abusers.
The center is currently employing 25
people and now has one local volunteer.
Edna Fulton, the Executive Director, is from
Los Angeles, California. Mr, and Mrs. Jamie
Culleeney recently arrived with their two
children from Glendale, California. Mr. Jim
Davidson is from Bristol, Virginia. The vol-

unteer was not named.
Sixteen local residents are employed on
the renovation crew and five local residents
are working in the office and are beginning
on the job training, according to the release.
"We have been working closely with the
Native American Leaders at the Chilocco
Development Authority," Miss Fulton said,
"and look forward to bringing back life to
the Chilocco facility."
According to it's promoters, "The Nar-
conon program, which has proven success-
ful throughout the world, utilizes the drug
rehabilitation technology developed by L.
Ron Hubbard, philosopher, humanitarian and
one of the most acclaimed and widely read
authors of all time."
The release continues, "Narconon's pro-
gram is a completely drug-free method of
helping abusers to kick the habit. It com-

hines a regimen of vitamins with the use of
sauna and exercise, which enables an indi-
vidual to rid his body of toxic drug residues.
The program not only safely gets a person
off drugs, but eliminates the adverse effects
of drugs that continue long after such sub-
stances have been ingested."
Narconon's release continues, "The Chi-
lccco program will service people from all
over the United States who wish to free
themselves from the debilitating conse-
quences of drug and alcohol abuse."
Miss Fulton predicts the renovations will
cost in excess of $1 million and the program
plans to provide more jobs for local resi-
dents. Visitors are invited to tour the grounds
during daylight hours, seven days a week.
Opening of the facility is now scheduled for
September, according to Hogarth.

Changing Strategy - Scientology
Now Steps Right Up To Controversy

By Stephen Koff
St. Petersburg Times
Reprinted 13 July 1989

CLEARWATER, FLA. Dec. 23, 1988 -
After years of sparring with the townsfolk
and veiling itself in secrecy, the Church of
Scientology has succeeded in turning
Clearwater into its spiritual mecca. Scien-
tologists quietly run teen nightclubs, schools,
day-care centers, management consulting
fn-ms and other businesses, records and in-
terviews show.
Now the strategy of the organization, long-
time observers say, is to confront contro-
versy, gain converts and make money - lots
of it. Scientology's Clearwater operation
brings in $1.5-million to $2-million a week,
say church watchers who include Clearwater
police, former Scientology security chief
Richard Azneran and former Scientologist-
turned-author Bent Corydon.
Fee schedules show how the dollars add
up: 12 1/2 hours of basic Scientology coun-
seling in Clearwater costs $8,000, not count-
ing meals and accommodations.
Scientology brochures boast that

Clearwater has the "largest community of
Scientologists in the world." with more than
1,000 Scientologists servedby "several hun-
dred" staff members.
Authorities cannot confirm those num-
bers, but the claim itself is a dramatic change
from the secretive Scientology of 1975, when
the organization used an assumed name -
United Churches of Florida, Inc. - to buy the
Fort Hamson Hotel for $2.3-million in cash.
Armed guards ringed the downtown hotel,
and for weeks the church would not reveal
its true identity.
The stealthy move was followed by deep
suspicion between the Scientologists and
community leaders. Church documents
seized by the FBI later would show that
Scientologists tried to frame then-Mayor
Gabe Cazares with a hit-and-run accident,
and Bette Orsini, a St. Petersburg Times
investigative reporter, was targeted as a Sci-
entology "enemy" and harassed.
But some things have changed in 13 years
- among them the way Scientology presents
itself.
"It' s obvious that there' s some effort to be
less visible, in tenns of either making attacks
on people or in terms of making more of a
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splash around here," said Jim Sheeler,
Clearwater' s community developmentman-
ager.
"They want to be pan of the community,"
said C. David Carley, Jr.; chairman of the
Citizens Bank of Clearwater, "And you can-
not blame them for that."
S cientology officials, most notably spokes-
man Richard Haworth, are frequent guests
on local radio shows and a prime=-time
staple of Vision Cable' s community access
channel. "They have a public relations cam-
paign to present themselves as the person
you work with, your friend, or the person
next door," said Randy Kabrich, program-
ing director for Q 105 -FM, a station on which
Haworth has denounced Scientology's de-
tractors. "And I am not aware of any other
religious group, cult or non-cult, that has
gone to that extent."
Scientology officials and their lawyers
would not comment for this series of ar-
ticles. Asked again for comment (after last
week' s story first appeared) chief Scientol-
ogy counsel Earle C. Cooley of Boston said,
"The article that appeared... is the most vi-
cious and malicious perversion of the truth
that I have seen in 32 years."


Suprised
by sponsors
Sometimes, it's hard to tell when the Sci-
entologists are involved in an event or pro-
motion. Some visitors say they were invited
to Clearwater by innocuous-sounding groups
that turned out to be promoting Scientology
principles or programs.
For instance, leaders of American Indian
tribes were brought to the Fort Harrison in
February (1988) by the Concerned
Businessmen ' sAssociation of America. Their
invitations mentioned programs for drug
and alcohol abuse prevention, but said noth-
ing about Scientology, according to Indians
who received them.
The Concerned Businessmen ' s Associa-
tion, based in Glendale, Calif., is a group of
Scientologists.
"I thought it was going to be a group of
concerned businessmen who had money to
help Indian tribes," said Raymond Reyes,
then executive directorof the Coeur d'Alene
tribe in Idaho and now director of Indian
educationat Gonzaga University. "I thought
it was going to be a group of fundees who
could meet funding sources, bzstead, it was
all this L. Ron Hubbard stuff."
The Concerned Businessmen's Associa-
tion did not respond to repeated calls and a
letter from the St. Petersburg Times.
U.S. Rep. Floyd Flake, D-NJ., accepted a
trip to attend a black history and arts seminar
at the Fort Hamson last year. He said he
thought the sponsoring group was called
Celebration of the Arts.
"We did not know it was Scientology,"
said Flake's press aide Edwin Reed, who
also attended. "We didn't really realize that,
but with L.Ron Hubbard's (pictures) all
around, (we thought), "What in the heck is
this? ....
Taxes and
public relations
That's a question many Clearwater resi-
dents are still trying to answer, despite Sci-
entologists' attempts to fade into the main-
stream. Former mayor Cazares said, "Just
the fact that they're quiet doesn't mean that
they're not active. The nature of the beast
has not changed."
Longtime residents "stir believe that some-
thing is going on," said current Mayor Rita
Garvey, 'The general public is still leery and
would like to see them out of town, which of
course is not a reality, but the public's stir
concerned."
So are Pinellas government officials. The

City of Clearwater and the church are in the
midst of a five-year legal fight over an ordi-
nance that, if enforced, would require Scien-
tology to disclose extensive information
about its finances. The church says the law is
unconstitutional.
Then there's Scientology's tax bill; with
more than $21-million in assessed property,
the Church of Scientology is the biggest
property owner in downtown Clearwater.
Since moving to Clearwater, the organiza-
tion has assembled 12 properties on nine
parcels of land. It hasn't paid property taxes
since 1981, and its tax bill to date stands at
$2.84-million, said O. Sanford Jasper,
Pinellas tax collector.
Pinellas Property Appraiser Ron Schultz
argues that Scientology should have to pay
the taxes. To that end, County Attorney
Susan Churuti said in court documents that
the church' s Clearwater operation is merely
an "alter ego: of California-run Scientology
operations - which, according to a federal
judge, helped enrich the group's founder,
L.Ron Hubbard. The Pinellas tax battle may
be settled in court in 1989, said Circuit Judge
Howard P. Rives.
Several years ago, the church offered to
pay its tax bill in a display of public spirit -
as long as the money was considered a "gift"
rather than a tax. But Schultz said he was in
office to assess taxes, not gifts. He declined
the offer, and insisted on calling taxes just
that: taxes.
Community
influence
While the church presses its tax case in the
courts, it continues to extend its influence in
the community and court public opinion.
The church' s own publications reinforce the
theme of a community-minded public rela-
tions strategy.
The scientology magazine Impact recently
recycled this message from group founder
Hubbard: Hit for the key sports by whatever
means, the head of the women's club, the
personnel director of a company, the leader
of a good orchestra, the president's secre-
tary, the advisor of the trade union - any key
spot. Make a good sound living at it, drive a
good car, but get your job done, handle and
better the people you meet and bring about a
better earth."
Scientologists hold key spots in a variety
of ventures around Pinellas, and several pri-
vate businesses in Clearwater - Snow Soft-
ware, Arlene' s Childcare and Making Magic,
Inc., a distributor of velvet art, among them

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- are mn by church members, according to a
Scientology directory. These businesses'
owners would not talk to a reporter, saying
their religion has no public relevance.
Three Clearwater enterprises, however,
have stronger ties to the church: True School,
Jefferson Academy and Singer Consultants.
True School, at 1831 Drew St., and
Jefferson Academy, 1740 N. Highland Ave.,
are private "Hubbard Method" schools that
use an approach developed by Scientology' s
founder.
Vivian Godfrey, one of two teachers at
Jefferson, said that "Hubbard educational
technology deals only with education... The
school has absolutely no connection with the
Church of Scientology."
Ms. Godfrey and the other teacher, Sandy
Mesmer, are listed as "participating mem-
bers of the Church of S cientology" in Who' s
Here?, a directory of church members around
Tampa Bay.
As for True School, an advertisement in
Who's Here? lists "child auditing" among
the school's programs. Auditing, a form of
counseling, is the basis of Scientology prac-
tice. True School officials did not respond to
a reporter' s requests for an interview.
Singer Consultants, 1001 S. Myrtle Ave.,
is a management consulting firm catering to
chiropractors. Like California-based Ster-
ling Management Consultants (dentists) and
Uptre nds of New Hampshire (computer pro-
fessionals), Singer is licensed by Scientol-
ogy to teach Hubbard "management tech-
nology." Marketing, billing and staff devel-
opment are emphasized and clients say Sci-
entology is touted as a selfqmprovement
option.
Singer managers did not return a reporter' s
calls, but last year said they don' t recruit for
the church. However, a recent Singer adver-
tisement in a directory of S cientologists said
that "more people have been moved onto
and up the Bridge" - a term referring to
fulfiRing Scientology' s goals - "by this group
than any other in history, and this is just the
beginning ."
Elsewhere
around Clearwater:
Muriel McKay, once a Scientology public
affairs official, serves on the executive corn~
mittee of the Pinellas County Republican
Party and represents a Clearwater voting
precinct.
"She conducts herself admirably," said
Edrie Kennedy, the GOP' s parliamentarian.
"She is officious, she is not pushy, she is a


really good member." Ms. McKay did not
respond to several telephone messages from
a reporter seeking her comment.
The teen nightclubs Off Limits, in
Clearwater and Brandon, are owned and
operated by a partnership of at least two
Scientologists. Off Limits serves no alcohol
and "provides a safe place for kids to have
fun," said part owner LaVonna Applebaum.
County licenses and state corporate records
show that the partnership that owns the clubs
is named Tone 40 Limited. 'Tone 40" is a

term distinctive to Scientology: it is the
ultimate level on Scientology's "tone scale"
of existence, which runs from 0.1, fordying,
to 40, for "serenity ofbeingness," according
to the Dianetics and Scientology Technical
Dictionary.
"The church has absolutely no connection
with the business, just as the Catholic Church
has no connection with businesses owned by
members of that church," said Ray Cassano,
listed on state records as the sole director of
Tone 40 Limited.

Richie Stone, 18, is a former bouncer at
the Clearwater club, 14100 U.S. 19 S. He
said Ms. Applebaum used to tell employees,
"Why don' t you all go to the classes with us?
It's good for your attitudes. It's good for
your tempers."
Ms. Applebaum said, "Quite frankly, if I
can find a way to help somebody, I try to help
- if they ask for it. If they did not ask for help,
I would not offer it."
Stone said he did not seek that advice.

Mayor Bilger...

"They Totally Misrepresented
What They Are Doing"

By Scott McCartney
Associated Press Writer
13 July 1989
NEWKIRK, OK., (AP) Crews chip away
old paint and hack at knee-high weeds at the
abandoned Chilocco Indian School, seem-
ingly unaffected by the tempest brewing in
this remote comer of Oklahoma~
When a California group received state
permission for a 75-bed drug and alcohol
treatment center, Newkirk thought the project
on the reservation six miles away would
solve local economic troubles brought on by
oil and fanning slumps.
But the initial euphoria, like the old paint,
has chipped away, replaced by distrust, frus-
tration, even fear.
Townspeople say Narconon International
hasn't been honest about its affiliation with
the Church of Scientology, its financing, its
medical credentials and its plans for the
project, which will draw mostly out-of-state
clients.
They say Narconon denied the project had
anything to do with Scientology until
Newkirk officials turned up a Scientology
magazine with a story headlined "Trained
Scientologists to Staff Huge Oklahoma Fa-
cility ."
And the mayor says Narconon tried to
dupe locals at a staged ceremony, where a
$200,000 check and a glowing study were
presented to Narconon by a group that turned
out to be part of Narconon itself.
Now the town fears it could earn a "cult
image" because of the project's ties to Scien-

tology, which follows the teachings of the
late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
Former members have accused Scientology
of fraud and mental abuse, and the Internal
Revenue Service has challenged its tax-ex-
empt status as a religion.
"People interested in coming to this town
will see the Church of Scientology thing -
the cult thing - and I think that that image will
hurt our possibilities for growth and devel-
opment," Mayor Garry Bilger said in an
interview last month.
Some townspeople say they worry about
the kind of people the project will attract and
that the stately 80-building campus, built of
native Oklahoma stone and tucked more
than a mile off the nearest road, will become
a Scientology recruiting station.
"I don't think any of us are against drug
abusers getting rehabilitation, ," said Mike
Clifton, pastor of the First Christian Church.
"(But) there' s a lot of concern in the commu-
nity because we really don't know what
these folks are exactly about. What really
worries us is what they're not saying."
In the basement of the First Baptist Church,
pastor Mark Jones is making copies of a
videotape of a British Broadcasting Corp.
documentary on Scientology, which he
showed to his congregation at a worship
service.
The tapes, along with Scientology litera-
ture, have been circulating in this town of
2,400. There have been town meetings and
public forums, including a sometimes heated
session with state officials who approved the

Narconon project before the town knew it
was supported by Scientology.
"The town got the shaft," said insurance
agent Charles Eisenhauer. "I don't think
anybody can undo anything that' s been done
so far." The center is scheduled to open in
September.
Narconon officials say Newkirk's con-
cern is inflated and unwarranted. Narconon
is a legitimate, worldwide drug and alcohol
rehabilitation program with 23 years' expe-
rience and an 86 percent success rate, they
assert.
Narconon spokesman Gary Smith said he
tried to reassure the town that Narconon's
"sole intention is to get people off drugs." He
said the town has been misled.
"There' s fear being put into the town by
false information being fed in there by some-
body who' s in favor of drug abuse. They' re
either connected to selling drugs or they're
using drugs," Smith said.
Smith declined to be more specific about
the identity or whereabouts of these "outside
sources with criminal motives."
"Trust me, I know," he said.
Another Narconon attempt at persuasion
provoked an angry response.
In a letter printed May 18 on the front page
of the weekly Newkirk Herald Journal, Nar-
conon president John Duff wrote: "There
will be those that will not want Narconon to
succeed at Chilocco because they are for
drugs and are on the other side in the battle
against drugs."
Jones, the Baptist minister, responded the

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following week, writing he "resented the
implication, or more accurately the accusa-
tion, that was made by Narconon' s Mr. Duff.
He accused me of supporting illegal drug
use in our area ff I did not swallow his
program hook, line and sinker."
B ilger said he had been so optimistic about
the promise of a revitalized Chilocco that
last December he wrote Oklahoma health
officials supporting Narconon.
But the mayor said his winter hope turned
to disillusionment by spring w hen he learned
of Narconon's history, and he came to be-
lieve he had been misled when Narconon
held an emotional ceremony April 8 in which
the Association for Better Living and Edu-
cation presented a glowing study of Nar-
conon and the $200,000 check.
Later Bilger learned that ABLE shared a
street address in Los Angeles with Nar-
conon, and is identified in a Scientology
magazine as part of Narconon.
"They totally misrepresented what was
going on," Bilger said.
"I came away with the impression that we
had an independent group here interested in
mankind and they had researched the Nar-
conon process. Then I find out ABLE and
Narconon are part of the same organiza-
tion," he said.
"I try to be straightforward, and when
somebody doesn't do that, I wonder why."
In late June, Narconon's Smith used a
copy of Bilger's December letter of support
to suggest to The Associated Press that the
mayor supported Narconon.
Bilger says the December letter no longer
reflects his feelings.
"I imagine if I was in his shoes I'd use it,
too," Bilger said. "I just think now it (Nar-
conon) is a problem and if all the facts were
out at the time, things might have been done
differently ."
The Chilocco Indian School closed in
1980 and was declared surplus property by
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which turned
control over to five Indian tribes - Ponca,
Kaw, Pawnee, Otoe -Missouria and Tonkawa.
Last year, Narconon invited representa-
tives of tribes throughout the country to a
meet'rag in Clearwater, Ha. Narconon touted
its program and said it was looking for a site
for a treatmen t center. Currently, Narconon' s
only U.S. inpatient center is a Los Angeles
clinic with 12 beds.
A Ponca representative told Narconon
about the Chilocco site. The 25-year lease
eventually drawn up offers the tribes a per-

centage of gross earnings, up to $16 million.
The tribal leadership remains enthusiastic
about the Narconon project.
In January, the Oklahoma Health Plan-
ning Commission gave Narconon approval
for an initial 75 beds. The group seeks 150
beds with growth projected to 400.
Robert Lobsinger, publisher of the weekly
Herald Journal, was by then becoming curi-
ous about Narconon. In Newkirk's tiny li-
brary he found articles about ties to Scientol-
ogy and past run-ins with officials. His first
story, published April 27 under the headline
"Chilocco Drug Treatment Center May Be
Part Of Notorious Religious Cult," set the
town abuzz.
Townspeople said they have repeatedly
asked Narconon what medical credentials
they have, and so far, have received no
answer.
"My first question is, do they think that
everyone down here is stupid? said Jones.
"People around here are not world travelers,
but they've got a lot of corrunon sense and
they ask a lot of questions."
"We've encountered deceit from the be-
ginning," he said. "There have been smoke
screens everywhere, and there have been
flat-out lies."
In May, state officials told residents they
believed Narconon was a legitimate enter-
prise and would be inspected by the state
once operating.
"A lot of people want to get their church
(Scientology) involved and the way state
law is written... church affiliation has noth-
ing to do with it. The state of Oklahoma
shouldn't get involved in discussions of
church affiliations," said Leroy Bridges,
Department of Mental Health spokesman.
Sheriff Glenn Guinn says he and others
are not reassured by the state, or by the
Narconon officials with whom he has met.
He said he was originally told the alcohol-
ism and drug abuse center would be for local
Indians but now has learned only 25 percent
of the beds have been promised to indigent
Indians.
Narconon, like Scientology, has had a
sometimes turbulent history. In Spain last
year, authorities charged Narconon with
swindling clients and luring them into Sci-
entology. Seventy-one people were arrested,
including Scientology president Heber
Jentzsch. Hundreds of document were seized,
and a Spanish judge froze bank accounts
holding $900,000 while an investigation
continues.

S cientology, founded by Hubbard in 1954,
has grown into an intemational religion that
at its mid-1970s peak claimed 6 million
members and $100 million in annual earn-
ings. The faith is based on Hubbard's con-
cepts of mental health through which mem-
bers can achieve a "clear state."
Critics have labeled Scientology a cult.
Scientologists have battled the IRS and
fought lawsuits filed by former members. In
June, the Supreme Court ruled that "fixed
donations" made by Scientology members
are not tax-exempt contributions.
Narconon is supported financially by Sci-
entology, spokesman Simon Hogarth ac-
knowledged, but the group maintains it has
no "direct ties" to Scientology.
Narconon says its rehabilitation program
is based on Hubbard' s methods, using with-
drawal, diet supplements, exercise and sauna
sessions to treat addicts.
William Mehoj ah, chairman of the Kaws,
said the tribes would not allow Scientology
activities, at Chilocco and would hold Nar-
conon to its contract.
"We are attempting to provide service to
people who need it." Mehojah said. "This is
our way of cornbating (society' s) drug prob-
lem. This is our stand."
Hogarth said Narconon has "had a very
good response" from Newkirk, which he
said had eagerly embraced the idea of a drug
and alcoholism treatment center.
But Bilger said he did not think Hogarth
changed any minds. "I am still concerned
and I think most people in town feel that
way," the mayor said.
"Nobody wanted that thing to be a success
more than me. Now I'm disappointed. I still
hope there' s a way it can work for everyone.
But right now, I'm disappointed."


Scientology Faces New Charges Of Harassment

By Stephen Koff
St. Petersburg Times
Reprinted 06 July 1989

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 22, 1988 --
The year was 1976, one year after the Church
of Scientology had secretly moved its spiri-
tual headquarters to Clearwater (Fla.), and
Mayor Gabe Cazares was complaining too
loudly for the church's comfort.
So, as documents seized by the FBI would
later show, the church's Clearwater office
devised a scheme to "ruin Mayor Gabriel
Cazares' political career by spreading scan-
dal about his sex life."
Church officials came up with ways to get
Cazares' school records, birth records, any-
thing - from checking with the Catholic
Church to looking in graveyards for head-
stones with Cazares' name - that might dis-
credit the mayor.
The next year, the FBI raided church of-
fices and seized hundreds of documents.
Eleven church members were subsequently
convicted of crimes. And the Church of
Scientology promised that it had cleaned
house. Such dirty tricks, said the church,
were things of the past.
Consider, then, the more recent case of
Charles O'Reilly, an aggressive California
lawyer who was another thorn in the side of
Scientology. O'Reilly represented some
former Scientologists who were suing the
church, and he refused to settle their cases.
One client, who said the church nearly drove
him insane, had won a $30-million verdict
against the sect. Church executives were
irate, one of their former lawyers recalled in
sworn testimony.
So in the spring of 1987, top-ranking
Scientologists and lawyers called a meeting
at their headquarters on Sunset Boulevard in
Los Angeles to talk over the O'Reilly mat-
ter. According to their former lawyer, Jo-
seph Yanny, the Scientologists planned to
steal confidential files on O'Reilly from the
Betty Ford Center and other alcohol - and
drug - treatment centers. Yanny said the
Scientologists figured that such records could
be used to blackmail O'Reilly.
Ultimately, the plan to steal the records
was scaled back, then dropped altogether.
But the idea was similar to other plans that
were carried out, say former top Scientology
officials and representatives. Although such

claims have been made before by alleged
victims of the church' s tricks, the new charges
are coming from people who were inside the
highest circles of Scientology.
These officials include a church executive
who recently left Scientology, a former
church security chief, a California lawyer
who until recently helped formulate
Scientology's legal strategy, the church's
former international president, and dozens
of former church members, including one
who has written a book critical of the church
and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Cumulatively, the new charges lead to a
stinging conclusion about Scientology: De-
spite its assurances of reform, a pattern of
abuses continues against church critics. In
some cases, those abuses cross the line of
criminal law, according to authorities.
A judge in Spain recently reached the
same conclusion. After a nine-month inves-
tigation, Judge Jose Maria Vazquez Honrubia
on Nov. 20 (1988) detained 71 Scientolo-
gists in Madrid and ordered 11 of them
jailed. Those held included Heber Jentzsch,
a 53-year-old American and president of the
Church of Scientology International. After
three weeks, Jentzsch and the church mem-
bers were released on S 1.1-million bail but
now must report to the court three times a
week. They could face charges of coercion,
fraud, flight of capital, illicit association and
labor law violations. They say they are the
victims of an international conspiracy.
Similarly, 15 Scientologists and the church
itself are awaiting trial in Canada on charges
stemming from a 1983 police raid in which
about 2 million stolen government docu-
ments were seized from church offices. Sci-
entology lawyers said the sect would donate
money to charity if charges against the church
were dismissed, but Ontario Attomey Gen-
eral Ian Scott declined the offer.
Scientologists and their lawyers would
not answer questions for this series of ar-
ticles.
The church and the St. Petersburg Times
are adversaries in a federal court case, and
chief Scientology counsel Earle C. Cooley
of Boston attributed the church's "no com-
ment" to that dispute. The Times seeks to
unseal files in four lawsuits against Scientol-
ogy settled in 1986. Although court files are
normally open, the judge granted the church' s
request to seal these cases over the objec-

tions of opposing lawyers. The Church of
Scientology now wants to keep them closed.
Times lawyers argued in a motion in Octo-
ber that closing the ffies violates the First
Amendment. The First Amendment to the
Constitution, among other things, gives a
guarantee of a free press, and Times lawyers
said that closing the files interferes with the
newspaper' s right to gather and publish news.
The Times won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980
for exposes of abuse by the church. In 1984,
California Superior Judge Paul G.
Breckenridge ruled that "the organization
clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid."
"It hasn't changed at all," said William
Franks, who until 1982 was chairman and
executive director of the Church of Scientol-
ogy International. Franks left the church
after a showdown between church leaders
and owners of.numerous Scientology "mis-
sions," or franchises.
Franks has said that despite public state-
ments, it became clear that church execu-
tives never intended to change Scientology' s
character. Franks is now a businessman in
Philadelphia; his replacement as
Scientology's international president was
Jentzsch, who is now out on bail in Spain.
Embarrassing the opposition
Although it has a large presence in Pinetlas
County (Ha), Scientology keeps its business
headquarters in Califomia, and it was there
that top S cientologists and lawyers gathered
to talk about O'Reilly, the lawyer who was
causing them trouble.
Joseph Yanny, 38, was one of those law-
yers. He has since fallen out with the church,
but at the time, he was one of Scientology's
top lawyers. Yanny began representing Sci-
entology in trademark matters in 1983. His
other clients include Corona Beer and the
rock group Grateful Dead. By 1985, Yanny
was "closely involved in the formulation of
legal strategy," according to court docu-
ments filed by Scientologists.
"I and others were told by (Scientology
executive) Many Rathburn that on orders of
David Miscavige, the successor of L. Ron
Hubbard as the head of the cult, that the
medical records of O'Reilly were to be sto-
len from the Betty Ford Center, and another
location in Santa Barbara, to show that he
was using cocaine, discredit him, and possi-
bly blackmail him into casing off on his $30-
million verdict now on appeal," Yanny said
last summer when questioned by Scientol-

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ogy lawyers.
Yanny balked. "I wanted no part of any
criminal conduct to obtain the stuff," he said
in an interview with the Times. "An alterna-
tive plan was quickly arrived at to settle my
nerves," he said when questioned by other
lawyers.
The new tack: Rather than steal the records,
lawyers would get them through the judicial
process. Subpoenas were prepared for
records from the Betty Ford Center, the
Eisenhower Medical Center and Cottage
Care Center, all in Califomia. Specifically
requested in the subpoenas, which are now
on file in federal court, were "records of
admittance for treatment of alcohol an/or
drug use or dependency, records of treat-
ment of Mr. O 'Reilly for alcohol and/or drug
usage, records concerning any known distri-
bution or receipt by Mr. O'Reilly of any
illegal drug."
Yanny said he protested again, saying the
Scientologists were abusing the legal sys-
tem. He said he refused to sign the subpoe-
nas, and although they were filed with the
court, they were ultimately never served.
Yanny resigned as church counsel.
Since then, Yanny has been sued by the
Church of Scientology, which says that after
quitting he supplied church adversaries with
privileged Scientology legal information.
An account
from inside
She was 22, a former Unitarian. He was a
former Marine air traffic controller with two
tours in Vietnam. They were taking courses
at Mountainview Junior College in Dallas
when Vickl McRae met Richard Azneran.
"He told me that there was a guy in Austin
named Whit Whitford who was a Scientolo-
gist... and that this fellow could do all sorts
of magical things, like make butterflies come
out of the sky and things like that," she
remembered when questioned by lawyers in
June.
"That conversation ended pretty quickly,
because I told him I thought it was bulls--."
Ms. McRae's skepticism yielded to
Azneran's curiosity, though, and before long
both were Scientologists, later they became
husband and wife.
Scientologists - their leader called the
group a religion, but said it didn't require
abandoning other religious beliefs. It was a
religion of man: a belief that through a form
of one-on-one counseling called "auditing,"
man could free himself of deep-rooted psy-
chological baggage and live a self-deter-

mined life. This auditing was accomplished
with the help of an "E-meter," a device
similar to a lie-detector.
The founder of this religion was L. Ron
Hubbard, a science fiction writer in the 1940s
whose 1950 book Dianetics: The Modern
Science of Mental Health planted the seed
for the Scientology movement. In its sim-
plest explanation, Dianetics was a science of
the mind, and Scientology was the theology
it embraced.
Hubbard wrote that the human mind is a
camera with thousands of tiny images. These
"engrams" were regularly picked up by the
mind - they could have been recorded by a
person almost as early as conception - and
profoundly affected human behavior, even
creating physical maladies. They had to be
excised before man could rid himself and the
planet of neurosis, war, crime and disease,
Hubbard said. The end result was a state
called "clear."
Vicki Azneran, like millions of other
people around the world, was intrigued. She
began taking Scientology courses at a Dallas
Dianetics center and soon joined the staff. In
time she advanced to the national staff, put-
ting in 18-hour days in exchange for $10 a
week plus room and board and auditing
privileges, she said. She was rewarded with
prestige, and in 1983 was promoted to presi-
dent of Religious Technology Center (RTC).
This was the Scientology branch. based in
Los Angeles, that made sure Hubbard's
teachings were delivered in a standard for-
mat. The position made her one of the high-
est-ranking Scientologists in the world.
Vicki Azneran had become part of
Scientology's elite. She knew the complex
myriad of organizations and sub-organiza-
tions and how they fit together. She now says
that Scientology's corporate web was cre-
ated as a way of beating taxes. S he also knew
other details, and recently testified about
them in federal court proceedings.
Among other things, she disclosed the
systematic destruction of church documents.
Scientologists feared those records might
show that Hubbard secreted millions of dol-
lars of church money into his own accounts,
she testified. (A federal Judge last year ruled
that Hubbard did just that.) Since the church
claimed to be not-for-profit - a contention
disputed by the Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) - any such records could be damaging.
Vicki Azneran said she and her husband
helped make sure the records were never
released. They shredded financial documents

in 1980 in Clearwater, she said, and again in
1981. Then in 1986, she said, she and Rich-
ard "participated in the coverup of expendi-
tures... in anticipation of an IRS audit" in
California.
Meantime, in 1984, she said, she destroyed
other documents - which a California judge
had ordered the church to yield. The church
had personal records on Gerry Armstrong, a
former Scientologist in litigation with the
sect. Now Judge Paul Breckenridge of Cali-
fornia Superior Court was ordering the
Church of Scientology to turn over these
records, called "PC" files, or pre-clear files.
The fLIeS, kept on all Scientologists, contain
personal information - from secret desires to
confessions of misconduct - extracted dur-
ing auditing sessions.
"I removed documents from Gerry
Armstrong's PC folders to keep them from
being turned over to the court," Vicki
Azneran said. "I went through them and
removed things from them. And some of
those things I destroyed, and some of them I
gave away or gave to someone in OSA
(Office of Special Affairs), I believe."
Richard Azneran, who also had risen
through the ranks - becoming Hubbard's
public relations representative and later su-
pervising church security - said culling pre-
clear files was standard church practice. He
said he also carried out similar tasks.
Among the duties he described in deposi-
tions: bugging staff members' rooms, dig-
ging through adversarial lawyers' garbage
and investigating so-called enemies of the
church.
In 1985, Scientology executive David
Miscavige told him to set up eavesdropping
equipment in all the offices of Author Ser-
vices Incorporated, Azneran said. Author
Services is Scientology' s for-profit division,
licensing the copyrights to the prolific
Hubbard's works. Miscavige feared a raid
by the IRS and wanted to photograph and
record "everything that any agent ever said
to each other" so it could be used in plotting
a defense, Azneran said.
Rick Azneran also devised and helped
implement a system to destroy church com-
puter tapes, he said.
The way it worked, records from the
church's Southern Califomia centers were
transferred from computer discs to tapes and
taken to rented storage facilities in Ventura,
Orange and Riverside counties outside Los
Angeles County to create possible jurisdic-
tional problems for the police.


Electronic machines that erase magnetic
tapes "were set up in a row right next to the
storage racks where the daily backup tapes
were kept," Azneran said. "We drilled on a
regular basis being able to destroy the infor-
mation on those magnetic tapes in a given
amount of time, which is what we thought
we would have should there be a mid."
And what if the FBI or IRS tried to force
their way into the actual computer centers?
The Scientologists had thought of that,
too, Azneran said. "Earlier on in the com-
puter rooms, the glass... that had been in-
stalled was all two-inch, two-and-a-half-
inch bullet-proof glass so that they couldn't
break in with sledge hammers and so forth."
Punishment
and escape
Why are the Aznerans saying such terrible
things about their former colleagues?
It goes back to 1986 - specifically, Jan. 24,
the day the reclusive L. Ron Hubbard, 74,
died of a stroke at his ranch in Creston, Calif.
There was some struggle within
Scientology' s top ranks to succeed Hubbard,
and Vicki Azneran found herself in the wrong
faction, she says now.
As a result, she was sent to the Rehabilita-
tion Project Force (RPF), a military-like
work detail that former members say exists
at nearly all major Scientology centers. Her
assignment was to Happy Valley, a Scien-
tology camp in the California desert. Guards
ordered her to run wherever she went and
sleep with a dozen women in one room, and
a female guard stayed with her when she
showered, she said.
S he herself had dispatched dozens of oth-
ers to the RPF for misdeeds against the
church, she said. She had personally done
stints in the RPF on her way up the Scientol-
ogy ladder.
But this time was different, she said. This
time, she was sick. A uterine infection gave
her a fever, and the guards wouldn't let her
leave to see a doctor.
So in March of 1987, when two compan-
ions ran away and later came back in a rented
car, she joined them and left. She had de-
cided, as had Richard, it was time to leave
Scientology, she told lawyers.
Their separation from the church seemed
amicable. They even accepted a $20,000
loan, to be paid back at 5 percent interest
over 10 years. They took the money and
started aprivate investigation fu'rn in Dallas.
But Vicki and Richard Azneran held a
grudge.

On April 1 this year (1988) they filed a
$70-million lawsuit in U.S. District Court in
Los Angeles against the Church of Scientol-
ogy of California, RTC and other church
divisions, and several Scientology execu-
tives. The 11-count suit claimed false im-
prisonment, infliction of emotional distress,
loss ofconsortiam, conspiracy, fraud, breach
of contract, invasion of privacy and breach
of duty to pay minimum wage and overtime.
Scientology lawyers denied the charges.
Suing
their lawyer
On June 15, Scientology lawyers called
Yanny, the former lawyer, to a meeting.
"They told me they were going to sue me,"
Yanny said. "Howard Weitzman (a promi-
nent Los Angeles lawyer) said they wanted
to make this all go away. He said to me,
"This doesn't have to happen if you can
make the Azneran case go away."
"End of meeting."
"And so I got sued, And fur started fly-
ing ."
The Church of Scientology Interuationai,
the Church of Scientology of California and
RTC charged in the suit, filed eight days
after the meeting, that Yanny violated the
attorney-client privilege. According to the
Scientologists, Yanny presided over a series
of "clandestine meetings" in March at his
Hermosa Beach home with various Law-
yers, aides, the Aznerans and Bent Corydon.
Corydon, of Riverside. Calif., wrote the 1987
book L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Mad-
man?, and has faced a barrage of litigation
from the church.
The Scientologists said that Yanny, who
had inside information, now was aiding,
even encouraging, the Aznerans. As proof,
the Scientologists presented affidavits from
two former employees of Yanny who said
they were present during the meetings with
the Aznerans and Corydon. The Scientolo-
gists also submitted photographs, taken by a
private investigator, showing Corydon' s car
parked behind Yanny's house. On the basis
of this information, a California Judge ruled
that neither Yanny nor his lawyers could
represent the Aznerans because of an ap-
pearance of impropriety.
Although Yanny acknowledged a friend-
ship with the Aznerans and Corydon, he said
he has not helped them with their suits. But
the Scientologists had other charges as well.
Their suit said that of the $1.8-million
Yanny's firm billed the sect in four years, a
substantial portion was padded or fraudu-

lent. And they said that Yanny performed
incompetent work "while under the influ-
ence of drugs and alcohol."
Later they amended the suit. They dropped
the part about incompetence, chugs and al-
cohol.
The rearview
mirror
Joe Yanny took a plane from Los Angeles
to Dallas and then another to Pittsburgh last
June (1988). In Pittsburgh, he rented a car to
go to his sister' s home in Bellaire, Ohio.
He said he thought he was being followed.
The Grateful Dead, one of his clients, was
playing in Buckeye Lakes while he was in
Ohio, so Yanny and three friends got into the
car and drove to the concert. Coming back,
he though he was being followed.
He sped up and lost the tail. But when he
got into town, alongside his sister's house,
four police cruisers pulled up with lights
flashing.
The officers said they had a tip, phoned in
anonymously to the Ohio Highway Patrol.
Yanny, they said they were told, had fire-
arms and cocaine in the car.
"I was told at that point in time that I and
those in my company could be searched,
including the vehicle, or that I could be
arrested on the spot," Yanny said. "The
choice was mine."
He agreed to be searched, as did the oth-
ers. The police found nothing.
The next day, Bellaire police stopped a
different rented car in town. The men in the
car gave a story the police did not believe, so
the police persisted, and the men in the rental
car finally acknowledged that they were
watching Yanny.
"The police were informed that these
people had been hired by - the name Eco-
nomic Research Group from New York was
mentioned," Yanny said in a deposition.
"They were from the Washington, D.C.,
area and had been hired by a firm named
Williams & Connelly. At least this is the
information that was given to the Police.
(Williams & Connelly) had represented the
cult of Scientology on various matters, and
various of its chief executives such as David
Miscavige."
Will iams & Connelly lawyer Gerald Feffer
said he would likely know of any Scientol-
ogy matters involving the firm, but knew
nothing about the incident. He said he has
used the Economic Research Group - an
investigation firm that would not return a
reporter's calls - but said, "I don't, and


would never, under any circumstances, hire
anyone to harass anybody."
Capt. Robert Wallace of the Bellaire po-
lice said: "Mr. Yanny's account would be
correct. And yes, the Bellaire Police Depart-
mentcan confirm that." He said the only part
of the story he could not verify was whether
the private investigators phoned in the tip
about Yanny carrying drugs. But he said: "It
is extremely coincidental, to say the least."
(The above story is reprinted with permis-
sion from the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times,
December 22, 1988.)

Narconon One Of
Many Scientology
Organizations

By Stephen Koff
St. Petersburg Times
Reprinted 06 July 1989

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. Dec. 12, 1988
-- Operating under auspices of the Church
of Scientology are dozens of groups, many
of them separate legal entities. Untangling
Scientology's lines of organizations can be
difficult; even the sect's own charts that
have been used in court cases are complex.
Here are some of Scientology's organiza-
tions.
Flag Service Organization - The legal
name of Scientology's Clearwater (Fla.)
operation, which serves as the sect' s spiri-
tuai headquarters. Before 1981 the organiza-
tion was part of the Church of Scientology of
California, and Pinellas County (Fla.) offi-
ciais contend that Flag is still an "alter ego"
of the California church. The distinction
could be worth millions of dollars in tax
exemption, and Scientology lawyers deny
the Pinellas claim.
Sea Org - Short for Sea Organization, a
corp of dedicated Scientologists who wear
navy-style uniforms and sign billion-year
loyalty contracts. (Scientologist believe in
reincarnation.) Before Scientology's move
to Clearwater in 1975, members of the Sea
Org served with sectfounderL. Ron Hubbard
aboard ships roaming the globe.
International Association of Scientolo-
gists - A group formed by church leaders in
1984 to combat "external" threats to Scien-
tology such as lawsuits and critical media
coverage. Membership in the association
makes one an official member of the church,

according to association publications.
The Freewinds - A 500-passenger ship
bought in 1986 by the Intemationai Associa-
tion of Scientologists. Previously berthed in
St. Petersburg as the cruise ship Boheme, the
Freewinds was renovated and now is based
in the southern Caribbean, where upper-
level Scientology training is offered. Among
those who have cruised are Lisa Marie
Presley, the daughter of Elvis, who took a
honeymoon trip on the ship in October.
Bridge Publications - Publisher of L.
Ron Hubbard' s works, including his Battle-
field Earth science fiction series and the
seminal Scientology work Dianetics: The
Modern Science of Mental Health. Bridge is
a for-profit company.
Concerned Businessmen's Association
of America - A Glendale, Calif. - based
group of Scientologists that promotes drug-
free living through its "Way to Happiness"
book and like-named campaign, targeted to
school-age children. The association's In-
tertribal Council brought American Indian
leaders to Scientology's Clearwater head-
quarters in February (1988) to talk about
drug treatment programs. A related group,
called the Hubbard Foundation, did detoxi-
fication of the B lackfeet reservation in Mon-
tana "for a while," said Jim Ferres, B lackfeet
treatment services director. "They don't do
it anymore... I view alcoholism as a disease,
and don' t believe in this guru kind of stuff."
Narconon - A Scientologist-run drug edu-
cation and rehabilitation program based on a
regimen of megavitamins and saunas. Nar-
cohort boasts an 80 percent success rate, but

health officials and former Narconon em-
ployees dispute that claim. Narconon offices
were among those raided in the Spanish
investigation of Scientology in November.
(Ed note - in a March 29, 1989 story, the
St. Petersburg Tunes also reported that 75
Scientologists were to go before an Italian
court in Milan to face a list of charges
including fraud, extortion and tax evasion
related to the Italian Scientology, Dianetics,
and Narconon operations. The action fol-
lowed a massive investigation started in
1981)
WISE - An acronym for World Institute
of Scientology Enterprises, the sect's divi-
sion that teaches "Hubbard management
tech" to businesses and professionals. Among
the Scientologist-run consulting fn'ms li-
censed under WISE are Singer Consultants
(specializing in chiropractors), Sterling
Management. Consultants (dentists) and
Uptrends (computer professionals). Any-
where from 20 percent (a Singer estimate) to
50 percent (an Uptrends figure) of WISE
clients wind up taking Scientology courses
or buying Hubbard books.
Citizen 's Commission on Human Rights
- A Scientology division that crusades against
many applications of psychiatry, particu-
larly the use ofRitalin, a drug used to control
hyperactivity in children. Scientology has a
distinctly anti-psychiatric, anti-medical bent,
which psychiatrists say is a result of Dianetics
being shunned by organized medicine.
(The above article is reprinted from the St.
Petersburg Times, Dec. 22, 1988, with per-
mission)

2O


Scientology CosmologJ~...
Cruel Ruler Of Universe

Turns Earth Into Prison

By Stephen Koff
St. Petersburg Times
Reprinted 06 July 1989
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA., Dec. 23, 1988
- It was like something out of a science
fiction script - but L. Ron Hubbard, the
founder of Scientology, claimed it was fact.
"Xenu," he called the central character.
Xenu ruled the 90-planet Galactic Confed-
eration 75-million years ago, when over-
population was a problem.
So Xenu solved the problem: He trapped
selected beings and flew them to volcanoes
on Earth, then called Teegeeach. He then
dropped powerful H-bombs on the volca-
noes.
The beings were destroyed in a wall of
fLre. However, their spirits, or "thetans,"
weren't. Gathering them into clusters, Xenu
trapped the thetans in frozen alcohol and
glycol.
Then he finished his cruel plan: He elec-
tronically implanted the thetans so they would
reproduce in subsequent generations of man
and cause sexual perversion and other ab-

normal behavior.
The implants are in us - each of us - today.
Though such beliefs may seem far-fetched,
Scientology documents show they are part
of upper-level Scientology training known
as OT III, short for Operating Thetan HI. OT
III is the third of 15 steps on Scientology's
advanced ladder, climbed by believers after
reaching the state of "clear." OT III training,
which is supposed to remove the implants by
revisiting the Xenu incident and breaking
through the wall of fire, is offered in
Clearwater at a cost of $6,500, according to
a fall 1988 rate sheet.
Details of OT III are considered confiden-
tial. When church documents describing
Xenu surfaced during a 1985 trial in Los
Angeles, Scientology lawyers tried unsuc-
cessfully to immediately seal them. Gerald
Armstrong, a former Scientologist who dis-
covered that many of Hubbard' s credentials
and claims were false, described in a court
document why the group so closely guards
Xenu.
"In Scientology, people are told that if

they read even part of the story before they
have progressed through all the various lower
Scientology steps, at the cost of tens of
thousands of dollars, their subconscious
minds will be restimulated, and they will
"freewheel,..."" Armstrong said, "Theirmind
will go out of control, they will not be able to
eat or sleep and they will die."
A Hubbard memo obtained by Clearwater
police said pneumonia may also result, as
the implants are calculated to kill by pneu-
monia anyone who tries to "solve" them ~
son of like a pharaoh' s curse, Hubbard noted.
That's why only properly applied training
would succeed, Hubbard said.
Armstrong said the Xenu story was iden-
tical to the screenplay for Revolt in the S tars,
a film written by Hubbard. The film never
got commercial financing and was not re-
leased.
(Above story is reprinted from the St.
Petersburg, Fla., Times, Dec. 23, 1988 with
permission. It is one of several published
reports reflecting the same:incident - all
reports are essentially the same in content.)

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Mail From Everywhere...
Mayor Launches Narconon Inquiry
After Receiving Adverse Reports
From At Least Five Other States

27 July 1989
Newkirk Mayor Garry Bilger says in the
past two weeks he has been receiving mail
from all over the country since an Associ-
ated Press article concerning Narconon Chi-
locco was released.
The article, which appeared in newspa-
pers from Corpus Christi, Tx. to the New
York Times, seems to have prompted the
letters to Bilger. "I haven't received a letter
favorable to the Narconon program yet...
they are all negative. !
For example, a writer from Illinois says, "I
can empathize with your town' s plight and
have the utmost admiration for those who
are fighting to close down Narconon's new-
est operation before it actually is in opera-
tion.
"... it is strictly a method of recruitment,
and their recovery claims are unfounded,"
the letter continues. The writer goes on...
"The Oklahoma Health Plan (sic) Com-
mission had better do some fast and thor-
ough homework - the information is avail-
able. They probably have never before been
confronted with such a slick and deceptive
organization."
Enclosed with the letter were clippings
about Narconon' s troubles in Italy and Spain.
A hand written letter from Pennsylvania
says, "Without becoming too emotional, I
want to tell you (my sister) gave thousands
of dollars to Scientology, left all her Chris-
tian upbringing behind, and let Ron Hubbard
rule her life with his values and teachings.
Scientology is very sneaky, with their pseud-
onyms such as "Big Apple Schools" and
"Narconon" - and practically took over a
town in Florida."
She concludes, "Please, be very careful in
letting them come into your town on their
false pretenses."
Another example: "I have just read the
New York Times article on your situation
with Narconon and Scientology," this former

Scientologist writes.
"...I will tell you straight out that Nar-
conon is a sham. It is a front and a device
used by the Church of Scientology to lure
people into Scientology.
You must realize that you are dealing with
a very determined and ruthless bunch of
fanatics. They resort to any deceit, any trick-
ery to get their way... which is to promote
and lure people into Scientology. Narconon
fits very nicely into this as most people are
concerned about Drug abuse and addiction
and will give time and money to anything
that looks like it might help.
Narconon is an elaborate scheme to entice
people into Scientology, to promote Scien-
tology and the name of L. Ron Hubbard. It
looks like a noble work for the good of
society. They will trot out a handful of people
who will claim that they were helped with
Narconon. They might even bring out a
celebrity or two. Scientology will use very
little of their own money in this con. They
will go after Grants, donations, etc. and they
are very skilled in getting other peoples
money."
"...Sadly enough, most of the lower level
Scientologists are not aware of the con and
deception that they are involved with. They
don't realize that they have been brajn-
washed. I didn't and went busily around
promoting Scientology and Narconon all the
while believing that I was working in a noble
cause ...."
"You can use what I have said here in any
way you find useful. I would ask that you
don't give my name or address to anyone
connected to Narconon or Scientology.
Gary Smith, the Narconon spokesman
quoted in the Times article, is lying through
his teeth. You can quote me - I was there,"
concludes the writer.
Included with the letters are newspaper
clippings from across the country alleging
that Narconon units in at least five states

have been shut down or severely curtailed
over the years after questions were raised
about their effectiveness and ties with Scien-
tology.
In Michigan, for instance, a prison psy-
chologist is reported to have charged that
Narconon is a "con" to gain money and
recruits for the Church of Scien~ology. A
California report done for that state's De-
partment of Health said Narconon's use of
megavitamins to detoxify addicts is a "haz-
ardous" and "in some cases lethal" practice.
Prison programs in Delaware, Connecti-
cut and Minnesota were reported terminated
after questions were raised about the
program' s effectiveness.
In Clearwater, Florida, the program ap-
parently never got off the ground, Scientol-
ogy spokesmen complained in one clipping,
due to the "climate" created by negative
media reports about the Church of Scientol-
ogy.
Michigan prison psychologist John Hand
has been quoted as saying, "They are phony,
a front for the Church of Scientology, We
found out in Michigan that most of the
money that we were paying Narconon was
laundered back into the Church of Scientol-
ogy." Gary Smith, Narconon's spokesman,
was quoted in the same article, and branded
Hand's assertion that money in Michigan
was "laundered" as "ridiculous."
"It's just a basic technology whereby a
person can get off drugs, back into life and be
happy. We don't push it (Scientology) on
anybody. We never have," Smith was quoted
as saying.
But in view of the mounting material from
across the country, as well as reports from
abroack Mayor Bilger has instructed an at-
toruey to contact Corrections Department
and Health Department officials in Michi-
gan, California, Delaware, Connecticut, and
Minnesota to find out the math about the
allegations.

22


Commission, Chamber, School Board
City Leaders Call For State Review
Of Narconon Program At Chilocco
Indian School North Of Town

17 August 1989
Newkirk's School Board, City Commis-
sion, andChamber of Commerce have jointly
sent a 67 page document to 16 State and
National leaders asking them to support a
special review of the Narconon-Chilocco
drug rehabilitation program and it' s connec-
tion with Scientology.
The cover letter of the package of exhibits
says in part, "Based on this information, it
appears that Narconon's primary objective
is S cientology recruitment and not drug abuse
treatment. Our community is very concerned
and we are requesting your help in obtaining
a complete review of their operation and the
licensing procedure which allows Narconon
to operate in Oklahoma. It is signed by the
Mayor, the President of the Newkirk Board
of Education, and the President of the
Newkirk Chamber of Commerce.
The first exhibit alleges that there have
been several instances of misrepresentation
made by Narconon to the community, and
the balance of the package contains indi-
vidual documents, media reports, and sources
of further information that the signers hope
will cause officials to take a second look at
Narconon.
Mayor Garry Bilger feels that it is pretty
well documented that Narconon is a Scien-
tology controlled organization. He points to
a ceremony held at Chilocco on April 8,
1989. At the ceremony Bilger observed a
representative of the Association For Better
Living and Education (ABLE) "donate" at
$200,000.00 check to Narconon for seed
money to get the project started.
Bilger contends that at the ceremony an
obvious effort was made to have everyone
believe that ABLE and Narconon were two
entirely separate organizations that had noth-
ing to do with each other until then.
But Narconon's own promotional mate-
rial says it is owned by ABLE. And ABLE
turns out to be one of the many organizations
on the Scientology organization chart.

At a public meeting in Newkirk on May 8,
1989, Mr. Leroy Bridges of the State Mental
health Department told a group of about 80
people that there would be "no Oklahoma
patients" treated at the facility, except for a
few indigent Indians. Mr. Bridges also Said
that no state money would be involved.
But a document in the package, written
sometime before July 1988, allegedly by
Mr. John Duff, president of Narconon Inter-
national, lists local and Oklahoma people as
the top priorities in the Narconon marketing
plan. It also lists "State Contracts that pay for
beds," as a priority.
At the same meeting, Mr. Bridges told the
citizens of Newkirk that Narconon had vol-
untarily placed itself under jurisdiction of
the state for matters of law enforcement and
inspection of their program and facilities.
However, a letter from Sheriff Glenn
Guinn included in the package says, "As I
understand it. I have no authority on Chilocco
land. Everything at Chilocco comes under
the F.B.I., and we have one F.B.I. agent in
this area stationed at Enid."
The document allegeally authored by Mr.
Duff also says that it is "essential" to procure
state certification and licensing "because we
will be providing services to both Indian and
Non-Indian people paid through a fee for
service, insurance coverage and possible
state contracts. State licensing is mandatory
for us to be able to accept Non-Indian clien-
tele."
The package sent to the state says, "We
find it curious that Narconon wants to be
licensed in order to collect on state contracts
and insurance policies from people Mr.
Bridges has flatly said would not be served
at the facility."
Narconon has consistently said it is not
connected with the Church of Scientology,
but the material in the package sent to the
state seems to indicate that except for a "cold
turkey" detoxification period, nearly all of
the rest of the treatment consists of courses

and programs also found on the Church of
Scientology's religious progress chart known
as "The Bridge To Total Freedom."
City leaders are also questioning the cure
rates claimed by Narconon. They consider it
an exaggerated figure and say they have seen
no data to support it. Several individuals
involved in drug and alcohol rehabilitation
in this area have said the cure rate for any
program is between 15% and 30% at best.
Narconon spokesmen have said that the
con version rate of Narconon patients to S ci-
entology is, variously, between 1% and 3%,
and "under 10%." But an evaluation Team
Report made to the California State Depart-
ment of Health said "it was clear that nearly
all the patients hoped to become Scientolo-
gists." Other reports from former Scientol-
ogy members and Narconon patients puts
the figure at between 50% and 75%.
Other exhibits contained in the package
mailed to state officials consists of charts,
news reports from around the country and
several foreign countries, a radio transcript,
and 13 pages of references for further read-
ing or information which city leaders hope
will be enough to convince the state that it
needs to take a much closer look at this
project before it is licensed for operation in
the State of Oklahoma.

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Scientific And Medical Accuracy
Of Narconon Program Questioned

17 August 1989
A Professor of Chemistry and Biochemis-
try at the University of Oklahoma calls it
"pure unadulterated 'cow pies"'.
A Doctor of Internal Medicine in Ponca
City says it is 'Tfiled with ...many false
generalizations, internal inconsistencies,
outright lies, and potentially dangerous treat-
ments."
They are talking about the Purification
part of the Narconon drug rehabilitation
program that will be offered at Chilocco.
According to a document called the Nar-
conon Technical Line-Up copyrighted 1984
by Narconon, their rehabilitation program
consists of several steps:
First, there is a Detoxification and With-
drawal program, followed by a Drug Educa-
tion/Orientation lecture, Hard TR's (Train-
ing Routines), the Purification program,
Objectives, the Drug Rundown, and the Way
To Happiness Rundown.
Several area individuals have ask for and
have been promised a copy of the Narconon
"protocols" that will be used when Nar-
conon is in operation, but after several weeks,
nothing has been forthcoming from Nar-
conon.
However, Narconon and Scientology
documents have been provided by former
Scientologists, Narconon volunteers, and
Narconon patients which give a pretty clear
idea of program contents.
One of those documents, a Hubbard Com-
munications Bulletin called "The Purifica-
tion Rundown Replaces The Sweat Pro-
gram" is said to contain the core of L. Ron
Hubbard's "technology" regarding the re-
moral of toxic substances such as drugs
from the body.
It is a regimen which includes exercise,
sauna sweat out, nutrition including vita-
mins, minerals, etc, as well as oil intake, and
a properly ordered schedule of activity.
This and several related documents were
offered for evaluation by a University of
Oklahoma Professor of Chemistry and Bio-
chemistry, and by a Ponca City Doctor who
specializes in internal medicine. Their re-
ports are being forwarded by city leaders to

the State Health Department.
The OU Professor in his August 4, 1989
report, writes, "My overall comment on Mr.
Hubbard' s literature is that there is an abso-
lute lack of data to support his assertion that
the Purification Program succeeds in doing
what the presently adopted programs fall to
do. The documents reviewed also contain
many truths and half-truths."
"However," he continues, "there is no
evidence that Mr. Hubbard's approach will
cure these ills.
"(Hubbard' s statement that) "Them is no
such thing as a fat cell" is a meaningless
statement," the professor says. "'Fat tissue'
should be adipose tissue which consists of
many cell types and the major lipid storage
cell is termed a 'brown cell"'
Where Hubbard suggests that in 1973
someone got a Nobel Prize for curing insan-
ity with niacin, the OU report says it is "too
absurd to comment on." As far as can be
determined, the professor said by telephone,
no such prize was ever given.
The OU report complains of a lack of
scientific data within the documents to sup-
port the statements made, and concludes
that, "Overall the program proposed by Mr.
Hubbard is pure unadulterated 'cow pies'. It
is filled with some scientific truth but mainly
is illogical and the conclusions drawn by Mr.
Hubbard are without any basis in scientific
fact."
A report received August 14 from a Ponca
City doctor specializing in Internal Medi-
cine says...
"As a previous Medical Director of two
alcohol and drug rehabilitation units, I feel I
am qualified by training, interest and expe-
rience to comment specifically on the pro-
posed treatment center's so called Purifica-
tion rundown.
The Purification Rundown is apparently
either all or part ofNarconon' s initial detoxi-
fication program. The ... document is in
general a poorly written program. There is
extremely poor organization. The material is
full of generalizations that have no substan-
tiation in fact. There are internal inconsis-
tent statements. Ther