Agency of the Interior Ursula Caberta:

"Hamburg information offensive continues"

Hamburg, Germany
October 23, 2000
Behoerde fuer Inneres Press and Information Center
unofficial translation
Brainwashing in Scientology - booklet informs the public about the organizations practices against critics "Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF)" is the title of a booklet which the Interior Agency's Work Group on Scientology released on Monday in conjunction with the State Center for Political Education. In the booklet, Canadian Professor of Sociology Stephen A. Kent describes programs and camps used for deprivation of liberty which allegedly serve to "rehabilitate" deviant elite members of the Scientology organization.

"Especially the personal reports from former members who suffered through the RPF in the USA, Great Britain and in Denmark has made it possible for the author, Prof.

Stephen A. Kent, to describe the demeaning practices of the RPF. Former inmates described the RPF as a prison camp. And if the term often used in connection with the Scientology organization, brainwashing, would be appropriate, then it is in the practices of the RPF," said the director of the Work Group on Scientology of Hamburg's Interior Agency, Ursula Caberta, when the 72-page booklet was released. Members critical of Scientology are said to be held against their will and put under physical and mental pressure to get them to "toe the official line."

In that regard, Stephen A. Kent, author of the study, spoke of "serious violations of human rights" which were being committed in the RPF. It was said that children and pregnant women were also in these establishments. "A height of arrogance" is what Kent called the American position critical of France's and Germany's determined course of information on Scientology, while at the same time permitting human rights violations to occur in their own country, such as in the RPF.

According to statements from former Scientologist Stacy Brooks, the RPFs in the Los Angeles and Clearwater, Florida areas alone have a total of 800 inmates. She was interned for nine months herself after she expressed herself in a manner critical of Scientology's leadership.

Brooks said internment camps also existed for apostates in England and Denmark - "that would put them right next door to Germany."

The director of the Work Group on Scientology in Hamburg's Interior Agency, Ursula Caberta, said in closing, that the Hamburg information offensive against Scientology would be continued - "despite or even because of various attempts at intimidation from the organization." The just released booklet is meant to help prevent the establishment of the RPF in Germany. At the same time, the internment of deviants was said to show the true character of the alleged church.

The booklet contains extensive source material and a detailed bibliography. It can be obtained at the Interior Agency's Work Group on Scientology.

The original English language version:

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