Church of Scientology
Flag Service Organization
P.O. Box 31751
Tampa, Florida 33631-3751 ATTN: CO
TREAS. SEC.
DIR. SPECIAL AFFAIRS
REGISTRAR Dear Mr. Stilo, I am in receipt of your letter dated April 10, 2001, in which you make several very strong allegations. My attorney informs me that any and all "contracts"

involving your organizations became null and void because the fraudulent and deceptive practices of your organization in fact constitute a breach of contract.

The following are the instances of fraud and misrepresentation which I can clearly identify:

1. Flag Service Organization made the claim that the L’s were ONLY delivered at the FSO. This is a lie. The L’s are delivered by auditors in the field and at prices much less than that charged at FSO. This is clear deception and fraud.

(Fraud: deceit or trickery used to gain unfair or dishonest advantage).

2. Your organizations employee, Paul Hickock, made claims regarding the L rundowns with the use of testimonial advertising and other sales tactics. When I questioned him regarding the cost of the L rundowns, his statement was, "Ed, you won’t regret it for a second." This was a lie and a clear case of manipulation and deception.

3. The Religious Services Enrollment Application/Agreement and General Release, which you sent, was for the OT Preps-OT IV services. I received the L Rundowns and a "whacked" CCRD, which I had already completed successfully at the Miami org several years earlier. So, not only would your "agreement" form have been null and void anyway, it is not even for the services that I am taking issue with. Another attempt to deceive and misrepresent.

4. I was given a non-standard "squirrel" line-up for the L rundowns. The registrar recommended that I receive L11 and then L12. I see that the correct sequence for receiving the L’s is L11, L10 and THEN L12. Could THIS have been the reason I did not make the gains? That is what one local scientologist has suggested. Why would you sell a service for $50,000 and not deliver it properly?

5. There is no evidence of LRH’s claims about his wartime credentials, only the claims made by him and his so called church. There is evidence to the contrary in authentic government records. This is another example of deceit.

6. Your statement about my expression of "great satisfaction" were taken from "success stories" immediately after the services were received. You failed to mention the numerous letters and faxes sent to my L’s auditor, which portrayed my obvious disappointment with the service. You also failed to mention the 4 follow-up trips to Flag for repairs and reviews, all at my own expense. Are you attempting to mislead a public official, Mr. Stilo?

It would seem so. It would follow that an organization built on lies and deceit could only continue to hide behind a litany of further lies and deceit. You, Mr. Stilo, are caught up in the middle of these lies.

The video of my experiences after the L Rundowns is something that I feel should be seen by all WISE members. I feel that this should be done regardless of any refund that the Church owes me. I would not want anyone to go through the horrifying financial debacle that my family experienced as a result of your services and speaking out is the only way I know of to resolve this issue for myself.

Yes, Mr. Stilo, you can threaten me with your "legalese". I find it interesting that you seem to be well versed in these matters. Have many others with similar complaints? I wonder why? Maybe they are all suppressive people. I doubt it.

The Church is in trouble because it simply does not deliver what it promises.

Another in a long string of lies and deception. You promise and promise in the events and sales arena and then hope to cover it all up and "make no claims" in your agreement form. Do you think a jury would really buy your crap? I guess with the disdain that you hold the common garden-variety humanoid, you probably think they are pretty stupid. Don’t count on it.

The bottom line is this: I gave valuable money to your outfit for an anticipated, positive result. In exchange for the valuable money I tendered to your business, I received financial and personal disaster in my life.
See you on TV, sport.

Ed Hattaway P.S.: You guys stopped sending me all those free business reply envelopes.

Please put me back on your mailing list. Sending all these letters is getting expensive.

In article <9bhid90m9p@drn.newsguy.com>, Ed says...

> April 10, 2001
>
>Ed and Tera Hattaway
>Post Office Box 1171
>Douglasville, Georgia 30133
>
>
>
>
>Dear Mr. Hattaway,
>
>I am responding to your March 30 letter containing your carefully selected, but
>patently incomplete statement of Church policies applicable to refunds.
>
>As you know, there is a time limitation on any request for a refund of
>donations. This has been unchanged as official Church policy since it was first
>written and published – approximately twenty years before you ever entered any
>Church of Scientology. It remained in existence, never revised, never modified,
>and broadly published, throughout the time you participated in Scientology
>services. And it remains in force today.
>
>Furthermore, this policy appears prominently on the same page as one of the
>extracts you took out of context, so your failure to mention it was clearly
>intentional.
>
> As you know, the policy reads:
>
> "TIME LIMITATION
>
> "No refund may be applied for successfully after three
> months from the end of the last service rendered.
>
> "This means that a refund applied for three months after the
> end of an intensive’s last auditing session or last day of
> attendance on a course may NOT be granted."
>
> (HCO PL 1 August 1966, Refund Addition)
>
>As you also know, but omit to mention in your efforts to mislead, you are not
>applying for a refund within three months, but more than six years later.
>
>Since you and I both know these Church policies already, your efforts to mislead
>are obviously directed not at me, but at the various government agencies to whom
>you claim to have copied your letter. I am therefore noting that these are not
>your first attempts to mislead public officials. In my response to your
>complaint to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services I
>recommend that you be prosecuted for intentionally violating the "False Official
>Statements" warning on the Department’s complaint form. Since you attested to
>having read and understood the warning on the Department’s form, you know that
>it is a misdemeanor of the second degree to knowingly make a false statement in
>writing with the intent to mislead a public servant in the performance of his
>official duty. As noted in the Florida Statutes referenced on the Department’s
>complaint form, the penalty is "a definite term of imprisonment not exceeding 60
>days" plus a fine of up to $500.
>
>The enrollment application forms about which you made a false statement to the
>department of Agriculture and Consumer Services are further evidence that you do
>know Church policy on the return of donations and are therefore misrepresenting
>it intentionally. For example, one of several pertinent paragraphs clearly
>states:
>
>9. I further understand, acknowledge and agree that the Church is under
>no duty whatsoever to return any portion of any religious donation receivefrom
>me. However, I further understand and acknowledge that under certain
>circumstances provided for in the published policies and procedures of the
>Claims Verification Board, refunds may be obtained through my strict
>Compliance with those published policies and procedures."
>
>As each enrollment agreement was signed by you and witnessed by two others, and
>you acknowledged "intending to be legally bound hereby," your ongoing efforts to
>enforce unwarranted demands through threats, distribution of false statements
>including mischaracterization of your wife’s previous Church staff experience,
>your obscene and threatening letters to me and other Church representatives, and
>bogus complaints to government agencies, would appear to constitute extortion.
>Extortion is defined in 836.05 Florida Statutes as follows:
>
>
>836.05 Threats, extortion. – Whoever, either verbally or by a written or
>printed communication, maliciously threatens to accuse another of any crime or
>offense, or by such communication maliciously threatens an injury to the
>person, property or reputation of another, or maliciously threatens to expose
>another to disgrace, or to expose any secret affecting another, or to impute
>any deformity or lack of chastity to another, with intent thereby to extort
>money or any pecuniary advantage whatsoever, or with intent to compel the person
>so threatened, or any other person, to do any act or refrain from doing any act
>against her (sic) or her will, shall be guilty of a felony of the second degree,
>punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083 or s. 775.084." ["by a term of
>imprisonment not exceeding 15 years" and "in addition... a fine not exceeding
>$10,000]"
>
>My original letter to you of March 22 contains the amount of unused donations
>that are available to be returned to you, and is an honest attempt to honor
>those agreements you made with the Church previously, notwithstanding your
>current frame of mind. That offer still stands, and as per the above policy
>that is what is available to you according to the current information that I
>have.
>
>I will receive any reasonable discourse concerning additional information or
>data concerning this matter, and will consider that. If you have additional
>information that you want me to see on the amount you can validly claim, please
>send it to me.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Glen Stilo
"...the internet [is] the true universal solvent-it works so good it even cuts the veneer of horse refuse off of the "Church" of Scientology..."

- Ed Hattaway -

I was led in by other, more successful chiropractors and dentists who were in the cult. In my first years of practice, with very little management training, I went looking for mentors, if you will, who could show me the ropes. One of these guys was a David Singer client. He was very successful and I wanted the same for myself. In essence, they parade successful (or boastful?) professionals on the stage and you hear about their wins with the management tech. Then you begin to here about the "other" tech-meaning L's auditing, etc.

None of the staff cultists were very impressive at all. I mean, who wants to live like them, working 16-18 hours a day, driving broken-down pieces of junk and living on beans and rice? I saw the super-star professionals with their incredible statistics and incomes. Nevermind that most probably had very little in savings or investment, courteousy of our favorite cult of greed and power!

There it is.

Ed In article <3AE88811.FC52439F@concentric.net>, Steve says...

> Ed, I'm sure you've answered this before, but I would like to ask a question
> regarding your experience. I know a number of professionals, chiropractors,
> dentists, and others who have been solicited by scientology front organizations.
> What did they say or do that *first* lead you into the Cof$? I'm interested in
> how a well educated individual could be persuaded to take that initial step into
> scientology.
>
> Steve

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