Interior agency sect expert was sued by an
American company for 75,000 dollars in damages Hamburg, Germany
August 2, 2001
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Hamburger Abendblatt The proceedings were as rare as they were unusual: Ursula Caberta, director of the Task Force on Scientology in the Interior Agency, was interrogated on US American soil in the middle of Hamburg by American attorneys of a German citizen.

Several hours of deposition took place in the US Consulate on Alster at the wish of a judge from Tampa, Florida.

The story leading up to this: at the end of July 2000, a German employee of an American software business, Hubert H., had sued Mrs. Caberta in Florida for at least 75,000 dollars in damages. The reason was that H. had failed in getting business from a Germany company because he answered "yes" to the question of whether he was a Scientologist. In the lawsuit H. is asking not only for damages, but that this "sect filter" be prohibited.

Even though Caberta is of the opinion that H. would really have to sue the City of Hamburg or the Senate, for whom she has been working since 1992 and for whom she developed the "sect filter," among other things, she showed up at the deposition.

Although she was under no obligation, she wanted to show the judge in Tampa "that I'll cooperate in clearing up the matter."

In the hearing itself, she said the Scientology attorneys were obviously less concerned about H's lawsuit than they were about learning about the work in the Interior Agency, even wanting to know how files were dealt with. They were following a pattern, said Caberta, but her permission to testify only applied to H's case.

Actually the Scientologists are very interested in discrediting Caberta. They think they have the goods on her with the charge of soliciting favors that they have accused her of. The background is that in the same case, Caberta had commented that she had privately accepted money from US businessman Bob Minton. Since Bob Minton also combats Scientology and Caberta had dealt with him in an official capacity, the Scientology organization filed a charge with the state attorney's office on suspicion of soliciting for favors. Caberta was said to have had a relationship with Minton in which she was dependent upon him, according to Frank Busch, spokesman of the Hamburg Scientologists, who also said that she could no longer be neutral. The Scientologists are saying that Minton has not disputed that the amount was more than 100,000 marks.

Caberta would not say anything about it because the state attorney's office was still investigating. (scho) --- Unofficial translation/critical interpretation of German media, For non-commercial use only. Recent events - http://cisar.org/trnmenu.htm Informational publications http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News Thousands of articles sorted by date http://cisar.org/sortdate.htm

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