Steven Fishman Affidavit 17 Jun 1991

Affidavit of Steven Fishman

17 Jun 1991

I, STEVEN FISHMAN, am a former member of the Church of Scientology. I
was on staff as the Fields Financial Planner of Fort Lauderdale, and
later the Fields Financial Planner of Miami, between 1979 and 1988. I
left the Church after a successful exit counseling attempt in August
of 1990.

I am currently serving a five year sentence for mail fraud in
connection with my position at the Church of Scientology. I am
currently incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution of
Tallahassee, Florida.

I became acquainted with the civil lawsuit of Larry Wollersheim
during the fall of 1985. Herein are the circumstances within which I
became familiar with the case:

During the summer and fall of 1985, I was being audited on my New Era
Dianetics Grade V processing at the Mission of Fort Lauderdale and
the Miami Organization of the Church of Scientology. Auditing is a
form of spiritual counseling offered by the Church. My auditors were
Nancy Witkowski in Fort Lauderdale and Leah Abady in Miami.

In New Era Dianetics, the preclear, or person getting audited, is
directed to view mental image pictures of pain and unconsciousness
which the preclear or parishioner has been led to believe existed in
his "past track" or successive episodes of past life experiences. The
preclear is led to believe this through various mind control
techniques, utilizing various forms of trance induction and hypnotic
suggestion, namely the TRs or Training Routines, and in the latter
case, through either "reverie", "anaten" or "boil-off", which are
Scientology-defined phrases for specific conditions of hypnosis. This
is done with the aid of an electropsychometer, or E-meter.

During-my specific experience with this New Era Dianetics (or NED)
auditing, I was led to believe while under mind control that I had
been the biological father of Jesus Christ, who was represented to me
to be a very evil being, an enslaver of mankind who was given to
violent rages and temper tantrums, and who was also a homosexual and
molester of children. For five years (1985-1990) I believed that I
had "pulled the evil Christ into my own universe" by having been
sexually attracted to his mother (Mary) as a young man, and further
that she became impregnated by virtue of the fact that each morning I
would watch her bathe in a stream and having become aroused by
watching her behind reeds (bushes), the semen (ejaculate) penetrated
her via the movement of the current of the warm water in the stream.

I was directed toward other (suggested) memories which were indicated
by my auditors who measured the truth or falsity of these "events" on
the E-meter, including the crucifixion of Christ, where I had
believed myself to be present, having been directed to look at mental
image pictures in a reduced state of hypnotic awareness of my having
hammered his left foot to the cross, and other scenes.

My viewpoint of Christ was that of Hubbard's himself, as evidenced on
Saint Hill Special Briefing Course Tape #112, wherein Hubbard stated
that Christ died for his own sins.

During this period of my auditing, my hatred for Christ reached a
point where I felt an enormous level of guilt for having fathered
such a "degraded being" as he was called by my auditors Witkowski and
Abady.

Further on in my auditing, after having sessions at the Flag Service
Organization in Clearwater, Florida which validated or corroborated
the results of the auditing in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, I was given
further data by Ann Glushakow and Margaret Supak regarding who
"Christ really was on the whole track", or what the previous life
cycles or incarnations of Christ were. At that point, at the order of
Inspector General for Tech Ray Mithoff, I was given some OT
(Operating Thetan) data which was normally not extended to someone
who had not attested to the State of Clear. Under the supervision of
two Class XII auditors, Richard Reese and John Eastment, and where my
folder was personally Case Supervised by Ray Mithoff, I was allowed
to see some confidential materials which were photocopies of L. Ron
Hubbard's handwriting and preserved in cellophane sheets. This data
related to OT III, or the Wall of Fire, an advanced level in
Scientology.

I learned that there had been an Emperor Xenu who had brought us here
to earth in an attempt to solve overpopulation on another planet
called Marcab, or the Marcab Confederacy. I had asked Richard Reese
where this planet was, and he showed me a Technical Bulletin (typed,
not handwritten, but marked Confidential), that explained that Marcab
was the planet between Mars and Jupiter in our own solar system,
which had been destroyed in a war or holocaust which involved the use
of the hydrogen bomb, and that this planet was now a fragment of
rocks in space known as the "asteroid belt."

Further, I was given data where at the time the Earth was known as
"Teegeeack", and that we (all thetans or spiritual beings here or the
aggregate population of the planet) were transported in clusters
(packaged by the thousands together) and transported here in space
ships that closely resembled DC-9 airplanes, and thereafter we were
dropped in two volcanic areas, one of which was Las Palmas, and the
other Hawaii. From there we dispersed and through various means,
including going up through the evolutionary or genetic track (of
picking up bodies), we populated the planet.

I was finally told that Xenu, who had been the most evil being of
all, was toppled in a revolt in which L. Ron Hubbard participated as
a "loyal officer" of the people. I was further told by Reese and via
the handwritten document I was shown of Hubbard's that Xenu was
trapped in an electronic mountaintop, where "he was to this very day."

After a rigorous Security Check on the E-Meter by Hans Stahli, who
was the Qualifications Secretary of the Religious Technology Center,
I was routed back to Ray Mithoff, and was told by Mithoff that the
Emperor Xenu had many subsequent evil life cycles, and one of these
was that of Christ. I had raised the question of how this possibly
could have been true when the data in Hubbard's own hand indicated
that Xenu was trapped in or on an electronic mountaintop, where he
remained "to this very day." Mithoff explained that the body remained
there, but Xenu, the thetan, had dropped the body and has created
havoc as a chaos merchant on the planet ever since. The explanation
made perfect sense to me at the time, as I knew from previous
training and processing in Scientology that the body is nothing more
than a vehicle which the thetan or spirit operates, much like one can
drive a car, and then abandon it.

The above preface is relevant to this case, as I will now explain.

Mithoff revealed to me that having failed to take responsibility for
"fathering Xenu when he was Christ", I had pulled in much pain and
suffering into the physical universe. Further, that Christ was back,
but this time, presenting the most dangerous threat to the only hope
mankind had, namely, the Church of Scientology. Mithoff explained to
me that Xenu / Christ had returned as Larry Wollersheim, and I needed
to handle him and thus rectify my overt act or high crime that I had
caused by virtue of the fact that I had fathered Christ as an
illegitimate son in that lifetime.

My hatred for Xenu / Christ was now fixated and personalized against
Larry Wollersheim. I felt compelled to destroy him, for I believed
that he was the reason for all of humanity's ills and sorrow.

I had been very active in the Guardian's Office of Scientology,
working under Fred Hare, and in 1981, having destroyed the legal case
of an ex-member suing the Church by the name of Lavenda (Van Schaick)
Dukoff. After the Guardian's Office was renamed the Office of Special
Affairs in 1983, I continued to work as a OSA Missionaire, under
various Church officials, including Lyman Spurlock, who had
participated in various covert operations, one of which was the
recovery of some stolen documents (archival records of L. Ron Hubbard
dating back to 1947-1948), which during said recovery, Lavenda's
sister Lisa was raped.

It was Lyman Spurlock who gave me specific data on Larry Wollersheim.
I was told that he lived in Aspen, Colorado, and that this parents
owned a steak grill or coffee shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The
Office of Special Affairs, under the direction at that time of Edward
Parkin and Lynn Farny, had ordered the Permanent Off Loading of Larry
Wollersheim. Permanently Off-Loading someone means killing or
murdering them, although we referred to the practice as "an enforced
abandonment of the mock-up" and other Scientological euphemisms. It
was Lyman Spurlock who told me that the Office of Special Affairs had
ordered the Permanently Off-Loading of Wollersheim, and under the
mind control influence I was under at the time, I fully agreed with
the order, and further, I wanted to be an active participant in it.

Lyman told me that the Office of Special Affairs needed someone with
"great confront", (someone who could confront things more than other
people were capable of doing), who could "handle" Wollersheim. The
Office of Special Affairs had difficulty in locating Wollersheim at
his home in Aspen, but concluded that at certain times of the year,
such as on the birthday of his father and/or mother, or at Christmas,
it was likely that Larry Wollersheim would be visiting his parents in
Milwaukee. Further, Lyman Spurlock indicated that as soon as he knew
from Office of Special Affairs operatives in the Milwaukee area who
had the home and coffee shop of his parents under constant
surveillance that Larry Wollersheim was visiting his father, Larry
Sr., then that would be the best time for Larry Wollersheim to be
Permanently Off-Loaded. Lyman wanted me to relocate to the Milwaukee
area and apply as a waiter, cashier, or other food service worker in
Larry Sr.'s coffee shop, and if that were not possible to frequent
the location as a "regular" and gain a foothold into that scene as a
plant. Lyman told me that the best way to handle Larry Wollersheim
was to "Pixie-Dust him", or have him given doses of cyanide
poisoning. Lyman also had a very strong hatred for Larry's mother,
whose name was Elinor. I remember her name because it was the same
name as one of my supervisors, Ellie Bolger, the Fields Financial
Planner International. Lyman wanted Elinor to be Pixie-Dusted as
well, which was supposed to serve as a means to localize the incident
and deflect any responsibility away from the Office of Special
Affairs. There was another family member named Cindy who he disliked,
but I do not recall how she was related to Larry. It may have been
his sister, although I cannot recall more about her. I expressed an
eagerness and a willingness to do the Operation, although I never was
told what the name of the Operation was.

However, I was not called upon to fly to Milwaukee, and two years
later, I had asked my Ethics Officer, Dori Hare (Fred Hare's wife, as
Fred Hare later became the Mission Holder of Fort Lauderdale), why I
was never asked to handle Wollersheim. Dori Hare told me that I could
not go anywhere when I was having ethics trouble of my own, plus, she
did not want my production (of securities class action lawsuit
claims) to be interfered with. I was also a telex/data entry operator
for the Flag Banking Office Network External, later incorporated as
part of the INCOMM Computer Network of Scientology, and I was one out
of three people authorized to send and receive on the INCOMM network
in connection with a global tax evasion and money laundering scheme
known as Operation Paper Chase, so it was not possible, according to
Dori Hare, for me to be away from the Miami Org and/or Mission of
Fort Lauderdale for any extended length of time. I also was having
difficulties with the Church because of a PTS situation (Potential
Trouble Source) occurring because my own parents had become
antagonistic to Scientology as a result of conversations with a
psychologist who was a friend of the family named Uwe Geertz, and who
later served as an expert witness in my criminal case, along with Dr.
Margaret Singer and Dr. Richard Ofshe, notable experts on thought
reform and specifically on the Church of Scientology's use of mind
control techniques.

I was very offended that despite the fact that Lyman Spurlock had
offered me the chance to kill Wollersheim, I was never invited to go
to Milwaukee and do it. I argued that I was the most suitable for the
job as I had been the father of Wollersheim when he was Christ. I
further reminded Dori Hare that quantities of cyanide (provided to us
by an employee of the American Cyanamid Corporation who was a
Scientologist) was readily available at the warehouse in Miami under
the custody of Warehouse Manager Charlie Fox, as well as the Flag
Service Organization Warehouse, under the custody of Flag Warehouse
Manager Bruce Ferguson. Nevertheless, Dori Hare told me that until my
production was up and my own ethics were handled (with regard to my
antagonistic parents), I was not going to be allowed to handle
Wollersheim at all. I suggested to Dori that I would be willing to
blow up an airplane that Wollersheim was on as a passenger, if she
would provide me with that data when the Office of Special Affairs
discovered when he was traveling on a plane in connection to his
legal case against the Church. Dori Hare told me that too many
innocent people would die along with Larry Wollersheim if I did that,
and then I would be committing an overt act against these innocent
people. She said that although Wollersheim deserved such a fate, that
the airplane method was not the way to go about it.

During the intervening year of 1986, on or around August 23, 1986, I
went to Los Angeles to participate in the "Battle of Los Angeles", or
the Anti-Wollersheim Crusade for Religious Freedom, as it was called.
During that time, I worked under Deborah Truax, who was attached to
Golden Era Productions, raising money for the Defense Fund by calling
Scientologists all over the country. Although I raised $16,800 in
contributions, my stat for that endeavor was "Emergency" because I
failed to meet my quota of $25,000, which in retrospect was an
impossible amount to raise during the time period allotted. Deborah
Truax admonished me and said that had my "confront" been sufficient
and my "postulates" positive enough, I could have raised that amount
from just one person alone.

To compensate for this failure, I was asked to help her in the covert
operations which occurred in the evening. On one occasion raided the
trash can of Charles O' Reilly, who was Wollersheim's attorney at the
time. I found nothing of value during that raid. During the night, I
also was ordered by Deborah to call the home of O'Reilly as well as
Psychiatrist Louis Jolyon (Jolly) West, who was assisting Wollersheim
in his civil case against the Church. I was told to scream and
threaten whoever answered the telephone. I was told by Bridge
Publications Sales Manager Jon Stachelrodt that a campaign to harass
Attorney O' Reilly, and another attorney named George Rosenberg,
until their lives were made so miserable that they would "just give
up in apathy."

Later in 1988, Commander Kurt Weiland of the Office of Special
Affairs had ordered "Wollersheim completely individuated from his
attorney(s)", and this was communicated to me through the Director of
Special Affairs of Miami, Humberto Fontana, who had been given this
data at a confidential OSA briefing at Flag.

Humberto Fontana had a group of us write letters to Charles O'Reilly
at that time, telling him he was a fool for staying on the case
because Larry Wollersheim was never going to settle no matter what,
and he (O'Reilly) was never going to get paid. The letters were sent
to O'Reilly somewhere in Santa Monica, California, and this was a
different address from the location on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles
where I had searched the garbage during the Crusade. These letters
were sent to O'Reilly via remailing services which we used throughout
the country. We did not identify ourselves as Scientologists, but
rather as relatives of Wollersheim who were angry that "Larry didn't
use his common sense and settle the thing." Some of the staff members
who were mustered to write the letters were Linda Mac Phee, the
Citizens Commission on Human Rights Representative; Fran Hardy, the
Public Executive Secretary of Fort Lauderdale, and Toni Levy, the
Personnel Procurement Officer of the Hubbard Communications Office in
Miami. We sent the letters to O'Reilly via remailing services at the
Mail Center of Chicago at 323 South Franklin Boulevard, as well as
other locations we had access to in Gretna, Louisiana; St. Louis
Missouri; and Fullerton, California. We were never told that the
campaign was successful, as I only recently learned that O'Reilly was
no longer representing Larry Wollersheim, although I do not know
whether our "Individuation Campaign" was the precipitating factor in
it.

After we lost the "Battle of Los Angeles" and Wollersheim had
received a $30,000,000 verdict from the jury, the effort to overturn
the decision through covert operations was stepped up as the case was
being prepared to go before the appeals court. One method that I am
aware of was to move money out of the country using such corporate
shells such as Theta Management, ASSISCO, the Author Family Trust,
the Church of Spiritual Technology (which manages the gold storage
facilities and the RPF Estates Section used to accumulate profits
(gold bullion) from Operation Paper Chase; as well as other lesser
known entities such as the Church of Scientology Religious Trust,
which recently became the successor in interest to the Author Family
Trust, as control is now completely under the control of Religious
Technology Center Chairman David Miscavige. Please evidence a
document (attached hereto) which describes the actual holdings of the
Church of Scientology, as directly quoted from International
Scientology News, Issue 24, which was printed by the Church of
Scientology at the end of 1989:

     "In this decade (1979-1989) the VSD (Value of Services
     Delivered) has been running routinely at new highest ever
     levels and has expanded by over 800% with 1.1 billion
     dollars (emphasis added) of Value of Services Delivered."
Nevertheless, the Church conducted a deliberate campaign to
understate its assets to the Court in the Wollersheim case, in very
much the same way as it understates income to the Internal Revenue
Service on a routine basis.

In March of 1988, as a matter of course in the performance of my
post, I worked with Flag Banking Officer Leona Grimm in transferring
funds to accounts maintained by the Church under the name of Theta
Management at the Bank Leu in Lausanne, Switzerland; Bank Leumi in
Tel-Aviv, Israel; the Ziraat Bank of Ankara, Turkey; the Indosuez
Bank and the Banque du Commerce et Credite Internacionale both of
Luxembourg, and the Foreign Commerce Bank of Vienna, Austria. I did
the journals and reported the stats to the Flag Banking Officer
International, David Gaiman, while the actual journals and transfers
of funds were done electronically by wire at Flag. Leona Grimm signed
off on all of my entries on the INCOMM computer. She had mentioned on
two occasions that there was an urgency to get the records completed
because of "mocked-up" (false) reports required to be sent in to the
Appeals Court in the Wollersheim Case. Our entries on INCOMM were
forwarded to Carol Martiano at the Office of Special Affairs in Los
Angeles, and then she in turn forwarded the completed and authorized
documents to Larry Heller, who was the Church attorney arguing the
case in California on our behalf.

The above Affidavit is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

STEVEN FISHMAN
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF LEON

Before me personally appeared STEVEN FISHMAN, known to me to be the
person described in and who executed the aforementioned affidavit,
and signed the document in my presence.

Witness my hand and official seal this 17th of June, 1991, at
Tallahassee, Florida.

Cynthia G. Rona
NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF FLORIDA

My Commission Expires: December 12, 1994