Here's some background from "Piercing the Corporate Veil," at http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~cowen/essays/corporate.html. AUTHOR SERVICES INCORPORATED (ASI)
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Incorporated 13 October 1981 by Ron Pook; Officers Norman Starkey, Fran Harris and John Alcock. ASI had been "R Accounts" (Hubbard's personal finance department, staffed by Sea Org members) according to Schomer (in GA25 pp.4492-3), and was known at one time as "F & P Consultants" (Armstrong in GA14 p.2236). According to Sullivan's testimony in the Armstrong case, ASI "took over from MCCS" (in GA19A, p.3130). ASI was "activated" between March and May 1982 (Spurlock in GA20, p.3457). ASI was originally housed in the offices of CMO Pacific, in the Cedars building in Los Angeles. Miscavige's All Clear Unit was housed in the same offices (Schomer in Christofferson p.3597-8). Schomer joined "R Accounts" in April, 1982. At that time Terri Gamboa was Executive Director, Norman Starkey and Lyman Spurlock were in charge of legal affairs. Ron Pook was to find a building. Rebecca or "Becky" Pook (later Becky Hay) was with them, though still a member of the Special Unit of CMO Int (Special Unit had taken over the Guardian's Office during 1981). Pat Brice worked there as "R Pers Sec" (Hubbard's Personal Secretary). Fran Harris was "R Pers Accounts". Julia Watson, Fred Harris and Jim Isaacson were also there. Joyce Isaacson was Org Officer. Richard Tinklenburg was Treasury Secretary. David Miscavige ran the "whole show" as well as CMO Int (Schomer in GA25, p.4493). John Alcock was Estates (maintaining the buildings) (ibid pp.4530-1). Doug Hay was also there (ibid pp.4514). According to Schomer's testimony in the Armstrong case, "We didn't call it Author Services when I first got there ... we were calling ourselves R Accounts which was sort of the old name for the section of the LRH Pers PRO [Personal Public Relations Office] office, that part of the org or division that was set up to take care of LRH's accounts" (in GA25, pp.4492-3). Schomer replaced Tinklenburg as Treasury Secretary in April 1982 (ibid p.4496). While Schomer was there John Busby was with Jim Isaacson in Investments at ASI. Vaughn Young was the PR, and his wife, Stacy, was the Organizing Officer. Julia Watson headed another department. Norman Starkey's wife, Maria, was the receptionist (Schomer in Christofferson p.3605-7). Although ASI is ostensibly a secular, for-profit literary agency, no non-Scientologists have been employed by ASI (Schomer in Christofferson p.3791). In his testimony in the Christofferson case, Schomer said that ASI gave orders to WDC (p.3628), and to the churches of Scientology via WDC (p.3629) (also p.3773-4). A former WDC member has said that not only did ASI issue orders to WDC, but also an ASI "mission" visited WDC at Gilman Hot Springs in the spring of 1982 to give directions. Schomer testified about Hubbard's control of ASI in GA25 pp.4512-14. This is confirmed by Spurlock's testimony (GA20, p.3448). Schomer was involved with investing money on Hubbard's behalf (Schomer in Christofferson pp.3609ff, 3621f). By June 1984, Norman Starkey was Executive Director ASI (Spurlock in GA20 p.3430). He was also Chairman of the Board (Terri Gamboa in GA24, p.4264). According to Spurlock's testimony, Miscavige had "from time to time" been a "troubleshooter" in ASI: "we were having trouble getting Battlefield Earth distributed into the bookstores, and he acted as a troubleshooter to get that done" (in GA20, pp.3430-1). Terri Gamboa was asked whether Miscavige had ever been Chairman of the Board ASI, she replied "At one time he had that title but not as the corporate title ... he was actually just called COB, we didn't really call him chairman of the board ... that would have been last year and this year" (1983-4) (in GA24, p.4264). In his sworn Declaration, Miscavige says "From the beginning of 1982 until March of 1987, I was Chief Executive Officer and later Chairman of the Board of Author Services, Inc. ... a California corporation, which managed the personal, business, and literary affairs of L. Ron Hubbard." (Declaration of David Miscavige, in US District Court for the Central District of California, in Church of Scientology International v Fishman and Geertz, case no. CV 91-6426 HLH (Tx), 8 (?) February 1994, p.5, see also p.27, l.14). -- | Chris Owen - chriso@OISPAMNOlutefisk.demon.co.uk | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | THE TRUTH ABOUT L. RON HUBBARD AND THE UNITED STATES NAVY | | http://www.ronthewarhero.org |

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