The 1982 SP declares on Bill Franks, Dean Stokes and Alan Walter were possibly the greatest footbullets in Scientology's history. The day they were issued more than 4,000 staff members simultaneously walked out of Scientology Organizations worldwide. So began Scientology's steady decline. That they were gross travesties of justice goes without saying. Dean Stokes was incredibly popular Mission Holder, who ran one of the biggest Missions in the world. Bill Franks had helped cause the boom in the 70's who with his team that included Dennis Erlich had trained 1000's of auditors and was a person who had gained the respect of the Scientology public. I had over the years built 40 Missions and 12 Orgs. About August 1981 Bill Franks contacted me on my yacht in Fort Lauderdale (I was out of Scientology at this time, running a Billion$ Multi-National Corporation, head office in Zurich.) he requested my help to bring back a lot of the old timers that had left following the GO break-ins in 1977. I said I would help only if the RPF abuses were to stop, the prices lowered and the restoration of the stolen property was returned to those who they belonged to. Franks promised he would do this. I made 4 phone calls. From those 4 phone calls more than 250 people showed up at flag from all over the world. We did a group incident handling and cleaned up a lot of the injustices including the return of stolen property. Bent Corydon and Ray and Pam Kemp got back their buildings worth several $100.000's. Scio began to boom again, but the CMO reneged on their agreements. The result was Scio again became even more abusive. The declares were issued, not only did 4,000 people walk out of the Orgs, but over the next two years more than 33,000 people left Scientology. (There was a confidential mailing list that had all these "leavers" names on them put out at the end of 1983.) So began the schism. Alan

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