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In 1975 I read a book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard. I wanted more information on the subject, so I wrote to the Church of Scientology whose address was in the back of the book. I was written back within a week and invited to the NYC church. One morning instead of going to school (I was a high school sophomore aged 15) I went there. I met a registrar named Debbie Kagan who signed people up for training and auditing (counseling). I took some written tests and was interviewed on an E-Meter. The results estimated I needed 300 hours of auditing to have more freedom and abilities. 25 Hours of auditing at that time was $3,000.00, and could be purchased only in minimum blocks of 12 1/2 hours. I took the estimate home to my parents. My parents took me back to the church, and other staff there explained Dianetics and Scientology further. The next week, Debbie Kagan came to our house unannounced saying, she would donate $10.00 of her own money to open an account for me at the church, for a course, called the Communications Course. I went back with $10.00 and repaid her the following week and started the course. I was taken off the course for not being an adult yet by an ethics officer named Sally Allerdice. She advised me not to come back until I was 18 or had an adult with me, and to keep in touch with her until I could come back properly. So, I exchanged letters with her regularly and went to church events by myself, with a family member, or with a friend, in addition to buying books to read through the mail from the church.

I finished high school in 1977 and turned 18. I went back to see Sally Allerdice with the good news, and got two other people instead, Cathy McMurray and Susan Davis, a registrar and a treasurer, respectively. Both women worked from 6 PM to 10:30 PM (M-F) and 9 AM to 6 PM (Sa-Su) in addition to studying Dianetics and Scientology full time M-F in the late afternoons, for a group called the Foundation. Sally worked from 9 AM to 6 PM (M-F) and studied evenings (M-F) for a group called the Day Church. These are two fiscally separate staffs that share the same building. Cathy and Susan informed me that Sally would not be available. Susan removed my Day account file and transferred it to the Foundation accounts files so that she and Cathy could both make false points or "stats" for this sale. I was escorted to the Academy course room and restarted on the course. I never got to see or speak to Sally again about my coming back this way. This is how I got in to Scientology.

I received a "Student of the Week" award, for excellent attendance and academic achievements and was offered a job with the Foundation. I finished the Communications Course as staff, did staff training and started a course about how to study called the Student Hat. I began working in the Hubbard Communications Office as an expediter and my boss's name was Bob Cucarullo.

The Hubbard Communications Office I worked at had a large window in it that was always draped with a worn U.S. Confederate flag. One evening I got a counseling session from Bob Cucarullo in the office. I got alarmed emotionally while recounting a frightening past experience I had. He was seated in front of me with a deranged look on his face when I happened to open my eyes for a moment and confront him. In August 2001, I saw Bob for the first time in over 20 years and he said he was no longer involved in Scientology.

Frank Tiernan, a Foundation staff member and self admitted former heroin addict, offered me a job outside the church at a place where he worked in NYC called Livingcraft which manufactured pillows. Raymond Baiardi, the Foundation Executive Director and also a self admitted former drug user, was partners in the company with a man named Marcel Femine, a Foundation student. Only Scientologists worked there. I was told my job did not include tax deductions, so I refused to work there. Margaret Isaiff, a Foundation staff member worked for another Scientologist owned company in NYC called Loftcraft that manufactured beds. She was leaving Loftcraft and asked me if I would like to be her replacement. I said yes and was hired.

This job did include tax deductions. Loftcraft was owned by Randolph Parsons, a Foundation student, and his "spouse" Isabelle Szuldiner Falcaro Parsons, a Foundation auditor. Loftcraft was co-owned by George Goodrich, who was a Scientologist with his wife Dina. I worked there during the day as an office clerk. My boss, Marcia Valente Cruz, oriented me as well on specific employees that I should not discuss Scientology with ever, because of what their reaction would be.

Loftcraft was cited by NYC for building code violations around the time I started working there. Loftcraft employees Jim Kott and his wife Tina Small Kott handled the violations matter. The city sent inspectors back to Loftcraft to review the progress made in correcting the violations.

Before the inspectors came back, Loftcraft management ordered all Dianetics, Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard materials and references of any kind removed from all the walls, desktops and visible areas in the building. The reason:

job applicants who were not hired, had training and experience that Loftcraft advertised it was looking for. These jobs were given instead to Scientologists who had no training and experience other than to be Scientologists.

One morning Isabelle sent me to the NYC Division of Motor Vehicles Office to register her car for her, something she normally did herself. The DMV office would not allow me to register her car for her because her signature along with proper ID was required in person to complete the process. The next week, after two months of spotless attendance and good reports, Isabelle fired me without warning for being PTS. That was the reason given. PTS means Potential Trouble Source in Scientology or that certain people were using me without my consent to harm Scientology. That evening while I was on course at the church, I was sent by Bob Cucarullo to Nancy Levin, a Foundation ethics officer and veteran Loftcraft employee.

Nancy told me that my PTS situation requires that I petition the church Guardians Office for permission to be in Scientology. The Guardians Office is a former church branch, now called the Office of Special Affairs that defends the church from criticisms of it. She gave me some materials to read as references on petitioning. I wrote a petition under her supervision and guidance, and submitted it to the Guardians Office chief executive in NYC at that time, a man named Antros Savas, who was the Guardian in NYC to be returned to me approved or disapproved and I would be advised by Nancy Levin of what to do next. Bob Cucarullo told me that Isabelle had hired him as my replacement at Loftcraft. Raymond Baiardi transferred me to a church mission on 6th Avenue in NYC to wait out my petition response. The mission was run by Mr. and Mrs. Howard and Mary Rower, former wealthy NYC Scientologists. I worked part time there under two Scientologists, David Simon and George Chelekis. I did clerical work aimed at boosting church book sales. I went to the church regularly to check on the status of my petition and after several weeks I still had not gotten a response. One afternoon while on my way to the Guardians Office, Raymond Baiardi was standing at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Guardians Office. As I walked past, he did a quick kick with his right foot at me and then turned to a person he was conversing with and made a comment about me. Normally, more documents got piled on top of my petition each day, but that day it was gone. I never heard back on this petition or saw it again.

From visiting the Guardians Office regularly, former Day registrar Debbie Kagan Ward and another woman Susan Becher, asked me to work part time in the Guardians Office, when I was not working at the mission or the church. I signed a hand written $10,000.00 bond Debbie Kagan Ward drew up on a ripped piece of paper that both women witnessed in writing stating that, to reveal the activities of the Guardians Office to anyone, would result in a $10,000.00 fine. I raised money for the Guardians Office from the public, but the main part of my job was typing into documents telephone conversations between people that the Guardians Office had secretly tape recorded. I wore headphones so that no one else could hear what I was typing. The recordings were made of community spokespeople and members of other religious groups regarding Narconon, a Scientology run drug rehabilitation center. The church had a problem getting licenses for Narconon, because MD's who normally monitor a recovering drug addict's health were not part of their itinerary. The addicts are alleged by the church to be cured with Dianetics and Scientology philosophy alone. The Guardians Office would inform people, like me, to call, write, and visit, the offices and residences of these critics with information aimed at getting them to change their attitudes towards Narconon. For example, the Guardians Office claimed in 1978 that the French based police organization Interpol was a drug smuggling ring. The Guardians Office asked that Raymond Baiardi inform Foundation staff of this discovery at a special meeting.

About the time I started working in the GO, the FBI raided several churches of Scientology around the country early one morning and confiscated books, records and other church materials including, several church staff were arrested and jailed. The Guardians Office in association with Howard and Mary Rower organized a protest to the FBI raids and special meetings at the Rowers NYC loft to update people on "The Church versus the FBI". Two busloads of 200+ Scientologists from NYC and NJ went to Washington DC and protested with picket signs in front of the FBI building for 6 hours on one occasion.

When the Guardians Office was without anyone to supervise me, informed church staff would send me downstairs to the public training academy to act as a word clearer. A word clearer is a Scientology person trained and interned to help students clear up misunderstood words on their courses which I was never trained or interned to do. The materials I word cleared people on were above my level of training. The church sold auditing and training to the public. The public who bought training were "word cleared" to get them through their courses and internships faster so they could buy or start their next training sooner. The public who bought auditing were audited by these "word cleared" students and interns, to get them through their auditing faster so they could buy or start their next auditing sooner. The staff got rewarded in exchange for their work, with credit good towards training and auditing by church management. Creating false statistics this way is how many Scientologists manage to get training and auditing, because auditing and training are very expensive. A staff member's salary alone will not pay for auditing and training. I was paid $6.00 a week the whole time I worked for the church. The dollar value of all auditing and training awarded to a staff member is presented to them in the form of a bill for which payment is due, when they leave the church without good cause or are "declared". This bill is called a Freeloader's Debt and must be paid in full first, before a person can return to being active in Scientology again. Freeloader's debts can easily exceed $100,000.00 in a short time of working for the church. I was never permanently contracted church staff, so this policy does not apply to me. The Church of Scientology continues to regularly increase the cost of its services placing these services out of the financial reach of 65% of Americans.

Socially, I was introduced to Foundation student Susan Cox who lived about 10 minutes from me. She offered me a ride home one Sunday with her fellow student friend, and on the way home in the car, she told me she studies Scientology at home while smoking marijuana.

I never heard back from the Guardians Office on my petition and was instructed by Bob Cucarullo to resubmit it to a higher Guardian or L.

Ron Hubbard the church Founder. I got a job with non Scientologists in NYC and stopped working for the church. I was removed from the Foundation payroll. I sent a new petition to L. Ron Hubbard and did not hear back after one month, so I wrote him asking why he had not responded yet and told him to write back to me at my house because I would no longer be able to be reached at the church. I heard back from him within two weeks. He said he had approved my petition and sent it back to me already, and that in case I still had not received it yet, he was enclosing a copy of it for me. I later surmised that the letter from L. Ron Hubbard I never got and my missing Guardians Office petition were stolen by Foundation staff for berserk reasons.

While working in NYC, I was contacted by other Scientologists from the Flag church in Clearwater, Florida, and The American Saint Hill Organization Foundation in Los Angeles. Both churches frequently phoned and wrote me to join staff, buy training buy books and buy auditing. I bought a Hubbard Personal Ethics and Integrity Course at The American Saint Hill Organization in LA. I made advance plans to temporarily live and work in LA while doing this course and then come home, but Scientologists from Flag persuaded me to join the Sea Organization instead, a fraternal group of Scientologists that runs Scientology internationally. Sea Organization members receive room, board, meals, auditing, training, pay, benefits and a job, in exchange for working almost around the clock, unlike Foundation staff that have to pay their own living expenses. Flag and The American Saint Hill Organization are two examples of many churches that are staffed by the Sea Organization. I was hired by a special unit called the Flag Readiness Unit located at the church's Flag Operations Liaison Office Western United States in LA, which is now called the Continental Liaison Office Western United States, and told to report directly there when I got to LA which I did. It is also staffed by the Sea Organization.

I was given an assigned room in a rundown hotel in Hollywood called the Hollywood Inn, with 6-8 other male Sea Organization members. I was carpooled each day to the main church complex on Fountain Ave. in Hollywood, where I worked, trained, got auditing and was fed. Work started at 9 AM and ended at 10:30 PM 7 days a week. I was allowed one day off every 13 days for good behavior. My job involved manual labor full time for which I was never paid. My boss there named Grace Brown was paid $1.50 a week. I was required to wear under penalty a uniform that had to be fitted and purchased at my own expense. Most of my meals were gotten outside the church because the food served in the church was rationed low quality, and insufficient to nourish anyone. I ate in a restaurant called George's New York located across the street from the church. It was owned by George and Dina Goodrich (formerly Loftcraft) and Randy and Isabelle Parsons (formerly Loftcraft) were regular customers at the restaurant and the churches in LA.

I received an ethics interview at my job to start, and was given auditing to prepare me to be transferred to the Clearwater, Florida church to work. I was ordered to mop a church floor one morning and there was no detergent because there was no money for supplies, so I used water and could not get the floor clean. I told Grace Brown and she suggested I use "hotter water"

and try cleaning it again. The church's Deputy Commanding Officer began complaining to her about my performance that the floor was still dirty.

Grace Brown eventually informs me that I am to be a full time Flag auditor trainee and sent me to the American Saint Hill Organization to buy an E Meter and a 10 volume set of Scientology references with my money on account there because I would need these things when I got to Flag. E Meter sales are restricted to Scientologists who are ordained ministers of the church or students enrolled on church courses that require an E Meter. I am to this day not yet entitled to own an E Meter. I did not need to show any ID to use the money in my account for this. The items were just sold to me point blank. I worked when asked to do so, in the office of the Flag Service Consultant Gretchen Schwarz and her husband Fred, to meet, greet and help Flag customers while learning a little bit about my future home.

One evening I went roller skating and sightseeing in Hollywood, instead of attending a meeting. The next day when I came back I was not allowed back into the building and fired. I was ordered to vacate the Hollywood Inn. The books I bought were too heavy and too big to carry in my luggage so I donated them to the church in LA. I brought the E Meter home with me however. My boss at my former job in NYC did not want to hire me back because she thought the Sea Organization was not a good reason to have left a job with her that I was being trained for that was worth over $100,000.00 a year. Two weeks after I left L.A., my auditing folder was mailed to me with instructions to give it to Cathy McMurray at the NY Foundation. I dropped the folder off with Cathy McMurray and then went to see the Flag Service Consultant NY. A registrar named Kitty Kahn was there to sign people up for Flag services and take advance donations. Her excuse for not accepting any advance donations from me, in lieu of describing to her the above circumstances, was that I did not have enough money. Two years later I asked Flag about opening an account through the mail, and was told that yes I may and that anyone may open an account at Flag at any time, in any amount and this is what Flag Service Consultants are paid to do out in the field. After speaking to Kitty Kahn and before opening the Flag account, there was a Flag sponsored event in NYC. Scientologists that received auditing at Flag discussed their wins. Howard Rower, a guest speaker at this event, was thrown out of Scientology in 1982 and lost the mission I was formerly employed at, for committing adultery for 7 years with a subordinate staff member at the mission named Cathy Boyle, in addition to other things the church accused him of. He opened a night club in NYC after being thrown out of the church and died in November of 2000. Kitty Kahn was the hostess of this event and it kicked off with a confession of her personal as of yet unrevealed crimes that she felt others should have known about. She then introduced guest speaker Howard Rower as "the funniest man on the planet".

Other guest speakers were Scientologists Amanda Ambrose, Helen Geltman and Jody Marshall. Amanda Ambrose, a singer, needed someone to help set up the stage for her performance at the event that night and I offered to help.

Backstage after her performance she thanked me personally for helping. As she and I were seated talking, Kitty Kahn came backstage, and burst out laughing at me while I was talking to Amanda and informed Amanda that I was a joke.

In the fall of 1979, when I was 19 years old, I received a letter from a NY Foundation ethics officer, asking me to come in, to discuss why I am no longer active in Scientology. I was interviewed by over 5 different staff, each one with their own understanding of me. I was asked to confess my crimes on Scientology and accept Amnesty from the church, and given metered interviews, personal consultations, church scriptures to read, and things of this nature to help me. It took me eight weekends to write up all of the personal bad things about me that I did in my life up to that point in time that I was afraid other people might find out about. I turned them in to the staff reviewing me and passed metered exams as proof they were complete. I accepted the Amnesty or forgiveness and was put back in good standing again. Afterwards Anna Balash, one of the ethics officers reviewing me, called me into her office for a "special cycle", in which she stated that I was guilty of

1. Being a former member of the Church of Satan (prior to Scientology).

2. Attempting suicide with a gun (prior to Scientology).

3. Attempting suicide with drugs (prior to Scientology).

4. Sexually immoral conduct (prior to and during Scientology)

5. Having an invalid approved petition from L. Ron Hubbard.

Aside from the facts that I never attempted suicide or belonged to the Church of Satan, along with most all of the other things mentioned, no one may get auditing, training or work on staff at the church that has actually attempted suicide and there is no recourse to that rule or possibility that it will change, because of the Church fears being administered over by Psychiatrists. So, based on this, she recommends the following program to me if I intend on getting services at any church or working there:

1. A complete life history write up of all my relationships and activities with people (personal, sexual, business, political, financial etc.) from birth to present time.

2. A notarized affidavit stating I had done what she (the church) had said.

3. A Guardians Office World Wide Form 5 Green Form Security Check (12½ hour minimum purchase at the current donation rate) 4. A new petition to the Guardians Office.

5. An additional write up of any other hidden crimes I might have.

This information would then be sent to the Guardians Office as a package for approval or disapproval and Anna Balash would inform me of what their response was and what my next step was. She took me to the registrar to pay for the audited security check portion of the program which cost $2,800.00. The registrar was now Raymond Baiardi, former NY Foundation Executive Director from Livingcraft. I paid $10.00 and the following weekend $11.00 and got copies of my donation invoices. I never paid the remaining $2,779.00. I brought friends in to the church with me to buy books by L. Ron Hubbard, and two of them bought Communications Courses and went in on the weekends to do them. Anna Balash was their ethics officer too. They left the courses unfinished and never went back. I was not paid a 10% commission on their donations that anyone who brings anyone else in is supposed to get.

Scientologists called Field Staff Members can earn huge commissions from people this way and live well doing so.

In 1985 a NY Foundation treasurer named Joan Woods, phoned me wanting $1,100.00 for a Freeloaders Debt. I told her I never worked for the church on contract. She said I was confused, and that she would look into the matter and get back to me, which she never did. Calls and letters like this from the church, prompted me to sometimes go there to speak to someone.

On one occasion I was asked to locate a staff member named Richie I had never met. I was told he lived behind the church auditorium. So, I went behind the church auditorium and Richie, was living in a crawlspace 16" high located between a church ceiling and floor. On another occasion I was talked into buying over $1,000.00 in L. Ron Hubbard books with money I had intended to save in the bank. I later moved and had no room for the books and threw them in the garbage along with the illegal E Meter. I was never asked by anyone in the church after I bought these things, what use I ever got out of them.

From 1980 to 1986, I exchanged letters with the church regularly but abandoned the idea of becoming a trained auditor. The church sent me promotional and recruitment mailings on a daily basis. In June of 1986 based on my own self determinism, I moved to Clearwater, Florida, got a place and a job. I lived in Clearwater for three years and kept in touch with my family in New Jersey once a week by phone and regularly through the mail.

Flag was about four blocks from my house and I had never been there before so, I went there one morning. I was sent by the receptionist to a registrar named Christian. I bought and finished some training courses and signed up for free intern auditing that I started but decided not to finish.

At this time, Flag was offering temporary six week employment contracts to the public to help them remodel their main hotel the Fort Harrison. The pay was $2,200.00 credited to my Flag account in addition to room, board, meals and pocket money for six weeks. A Greek woman from Canada who offered me the job and then refused to hire me, told me after, that the U.S. Immigration Service was deporting her because she joined the Sea Organization while in the U.S. on a tourist visa. No one in the church was interested in discussing what to do about my previous Scientology activities with me so I stopped going there. I went back and asked for a refund of my money instead, but dropped the matter at my family's insistence. Kitty Kahn and Anna Balash were at Flag that summer. Kitty Kahn because she worked there and Anna Balash because she was receiving services the church in NY had paid for. I was sorting out parishioners certificates and awards into alphabetical order in the registrar's office one afternoon when a staff member asked me to run an errand. I left my notebook containing my personal documents, notes and my pen on the floor next to the box of awards and when I came back it was gone.

No one in the office said they saw it. I searched and asked security and looked in the lost and found and did not find it. When I returned again to the registrar's office Kitty Kahn was sitting behind her desk telling someone else I was a queer. Afterwards I saw Kitty more than once somewhere else in the church and she was talking about me to other people loud enough for me to overhear her saying I was a homosexual and a security risk. I saw her walking alone down a street behind the church, laughing out loud uncontrollably another day. A friend of hers, a Flag staff member I had never met would call me by my name and tell other people I was gay in front of me, in front of them, in front of others, in public. I lived near another hotel the church owned called the Sandcastle, and at night people walked around outside speaking to themselves out loud things like "I'm free, I'm free". A Scientologist passing me on a sidewalk punched me in the stomach hard and said, "You make me nervous, man!" and then walked to the next block with a guy that was with him, and into the church. While crossing an intersection one night, a Scientologist hit me with his forearm and walked away. I walked after him to ask why he did that, and he asked "Why did you make me do that to you for?" I was seated at a bus stop, and a Scientologist came out of the church, exposed himself while staring at me, and went back into the church. My neighbor and I were having lunch in a diner when a Sea Organization member in uniform walked up to our table. He interrupted us and asked "Did I just hear you say something bad about Scientology? I was in that booth and I overheard the two of you talking. I am from the church's public relations department!" It took us over 5 minutes to get rid of him so we could eat our lunch and he would leave only after we swore we did not say anything bad about his church. I went into local businesses that Scientologists owned and was told I was not welcome there. I asked why and was told "Because we don't want you in here!" I sent donations to Flag that never arrived according to my account statement. I spoke to the Clearwater Police Department, contacted the Religious Technology Center, the Office of Special Affairs, the church Justice Chief and L. Ron Hubbard when he was alive with these troubles. The Police Department told me there was nothing they could do about the Church of Scientology. Only the church Justice Chief and L. Ron Hubbard wrote back with advice like "is their really a problem"

or "go see an ethics officer about it". I moved back home to New Jersey 1989 when my father became ill.

Around this time, another guy my age, Noah Lottick got involved with Scientology and jumped off of the roof of the Milford Plaza Hotel two blocks away from the church in NYC killing himself holding $171.00 in his hand. Afterwards the church staff gave Noah Lottick's parents a free tour of the church to show the kind of people that their son was associated with.

After returning to New Jersey I phoned LA to close my Scientology accounts. The treasurer at the American Saint Hill Organization Larry Cox said I had no money on account because it had been transferred to Flag. I had a copy of my Flag account statement at hand and told him it did not show any transfers. He credited my account in the amount of what was missing from it but did not record the adjustment on my statement in writing. I later received an account statement from him as proof. I got statements from all the churches in LA where I had money and closed the accounts to $00.00 balance. The NY Day treasurer Donna invited me to the church to close my account, and my sister went with me. Donna told me I had to contact the NY Foundation treasury separately, as she had no control over that account. She sent a written message to the proper NY Foundation person informing him or her of my interest in reviewing my account. When I contacted NY Foundation and Flag, the last two churches where I had left money, it was a different story. I called the NY Foundation treasury and asked about my account and was told that there was no record of an account for me. I called Raymond Baiardi regarding the money left on my account, and he answered the phone and said "Yeah, hi crazy!" and hung up. I telephoned him the next day to ask about my account, and he interrupted me suddenly and said "Look, if this is about your PTS Type III declare or something, why don't you fuck off?" and hung up the phone. When I telephoned the Flag treasury about my account, they sent me a copy of my statement. But when I called Christian to ask him about money I had sent to Flag, Kitty Kahn answered the phone and yelled "Oh, she doesn't work here anymore!" and hung up. I closed my Flag account through the treasury office there with two donations unaccounted for.

In 1993 my mother and I went to a Halloween parade in the center of town and then to a restaurant. A NY Foundation staff member named Jennifer Cox came in the restaurant and saw me as she was leaving. She came over to our table to say that she was still working at the church in NYC and her husband and sons were on course there, and that she also worked at an art store close by. The next week I went to see her store and we spoke about what she had for sale. Larry Broncato (staff at the former Rower NYC mission) and Susan Cox (Jennifer's sister in-law and the same person who told me she smoked marijuana when studying Scientology) also worked there and both of them told me they remembered me. I left a $30.00 deposit with Larry Broncato to custom frame a print for me. I decided not to have the framing done and called him to cancel. He said he could not give me my deposit back because of a tax problem. He offered me a used picture instead in exchange for my deposit that he said was normally sold for $37.00. The Scientologist's landlord is a city councilman named Charles Crane, who lives right next door to the Scientologists art business on another piece of property he owns. I requested an appointment with him and he agreed to see me. I told him that his tenant's church was harassing me criminally. He asked me to write all this down for him so he could read it better as his time was short. I did, and Susan Cox later told me he had told her what I wrote to him. I later received a summons to appear in court, and was fined $250.00 for trespassing and prohibited from setting foot on the Crane property ever again by a judge even though I never caused a disturbance.

In 1994 Raymond Baiardi phoned me about my account after I left messages for him at the church. He told me to come in to the church on a Sunday March 13 (L. Ron Hubbard's birthday) to see him. I went to see him, but I first signed in at the reception desk, was announced, and then given permission to go to his office upstairs in the building. I asked about my donations. He said he did not "remember this cycle" because his "recall is not that good" and he did not "have any such records" I was seeking anyway.

Two men came into the room and stood in front of me between myself and the door. One man asked me to leave. I got scared and decided to leave. He was blocking the door and I touched up against him when exiting. The second man had retreated to standing just outside the door. The first man became violent about my touching up against him as I was leaving and lunged at me so that both his hands landed around my neck, knocking me to the floor, banging my head into a desk behind me as I fell, cutting my scalp. He put his knee on my throat to choke me and pinned my arms, while the second man jumped on my legs and sat on them. Raymond Baiardi told someone to call the police and report an assault. The two men then released me. I got up and went to the front door just as the police arrived. I told the police what happened and the two officers went inside the church and asked me to wait by their patrol car. 6 Or 7 staff members surrounded the cops talking to them all at the same time. The officers came out about 10 minutes later and took me to an emergency room to be treated for bleeding bruises and anything else just in case. I went to a police precinct after leaving the emergency room and filed a complaint against the two men. I did not know their names, so I gave Raymond Baiardi as the contact person. Two days later Detective McKay of the NYCPD called me wanting to go with me to the church to find Raymond Baiardi and make an arrest. I was working and could not go. Detective McKay called me again two days later and volunteered his services on a Sunday as well to go there and make an arrest. I was concerned about losing time from work and a 35 mile round trip to NYC each time to carry out the legal process, so I declined. I later received a $420.00 bill from the NYC hospital emergency room I was taken to by the police. The bill took 5 months for my insurance to pay. It is my suspicion now that Raymond Baiardi destroyed any or all of my records in the church that he could get his hands on himself, to avoid legal troubles, in addition to L. Ron Hubbard's missing letter and my missing petition to the Guardians Office.

In August 2000, I saw a book on TV called "Clear Body Clear Mind" by L. Ron Hubbard. I read in the paper the Church of Scientology had opened a Dianetics Center in Elizabeth, N.J. the next town over from where I live so I went there to buy the book. A man named Bruce Dobin was the mission holder. He said he didn't have this book but could order one for me for $35.00. I ordered the book from him and he said he would ship it to me when it came in. I later learned Barnes and Nobles had the book for $17.10.

I came home later that day to find him on the phone with my mother asking if the address and phone number I gave him was correct or not. He called again two days later and invited me to an open house the following Monday night at the mission, which 7 other people attended. A Scientologist spoke, then Bruce Dobin spoke, served coffee and donuts and asked the guests to buy something. Bruce Dobin told me before I left that he was going to Flag for two weeks the coming Friday and I should call him about my book when he comes back just in case I still didn't get it yet. I called him two weeks later, and he said the book had not come in yet. A week later he called again, just before 10 PM to say my book still had not come in and that he needed to get into communication with me about something. He said I was not welcome to call, write, or show up at the mission for any reason any more, and I was not to try to engage in communication with any of the the staff there. He said his church had briefed him about me and that the Police would be called if I did not comply with his wish and hung up. I telephoned the mission a week later to ask about my book and left a message on the answering machine because no one ever answered the phone when I called or returned my message. I finally called Bridge Publications in LA (the company that prints all of the church's books and materials) and said it was taking over 5 weeks to get a copy of one L. Ron Hubbard book from a local church.

Bridge Publications apologized and sent me a copy of the book free to keep.

Five days later, a package arrived from the mission with a letter taped to it. The letter was from Bruce Dobin and it stated that he knew about my call to Bridge Publications, and was not pleased and wanted to "reiterate" that I was an unwelcome person at his mission and for me to continue to not try to communicate with him or the staff there or show up there for any reason. He said that when my extra book arrived from Bridge Publications, I was to mail it to him at my expense in exchange for the inconvenience I had caused him.

I showed the letter to my family. I then left a message on his mission answering machine in front of my mother as a witness after calling the Elizabeth, NJ Police Department for advice. I told him in the message that I would go to the Police, if he made one more hostile call or sent one more hostile letter to my house or came here to make any kind of trouble. I donated both copies of this book to the local public library when I finished reading it.

In November 2002, I posted a copy of this document you are reading to an internet newsgroup that is fluent in the activities of the Church of Scientology. I sent a copy to the Director of the Office of Special Affairs for the church in NYC, a woman named Pam Vilinsky (whose husband Peter Vilinsky was a fellow staff member with me at NY Foundation, and whose ex-wife Carmen Pino is a former employee of Raymond Baiardi's former illegal business Livingcraft). I received concerned positive responses and questions from people who were not Scientologists about this story, including a deputy for the U.S. Marshals Service in Virginia. At the same time, I received a host of E-Mails from Scientologists protesting my story and telling me that it is my tough luck that this happened and too bad for me.

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On February 9, 2003, I was home alone when the doorbell rang. I looked out the window and did not recognize either of two men standing on the porch. I looked through the peek hole in the front door and suddenly recognized the two men as Bruce Dobin and NY Foundation staff member Dominic Sarlo. I did not engage the men in any way. I called the Police instead.

Before, during and after both of my phone calls to the Police, both men took turns pounding on the front door and windows with their fists, feet and keys, rattling the doorknob, opening, closing and holding open the storm door, ringing my doorbell and the doorbell of the upstairs tenant who was not home over and over again, going through the mailboxes and shouting my name and saying "Come on out here, we want to talk to you". It was almost 15 minutes before the Police arrived and the Scientologists tried to drive off seconds before the Police got there. The Police stopped both men in the street, because I told the Police over the phone what they had on and held the phone into the living room air so the doorbell ringing and door pounding could be heard and recorded by the police officer. An officer rang my bell and told me that Bruce Dobin said he was from the Dianetics Center in Elizabeth, NJ and wanted to speak to me about some information I had written about his church. I did not know he was coming here, and if either man had asked me for permission to come here it would not have been given. So, I said I did not have any business with them and was unaware of what they were doing here. I explained to the officer how I felt it was unsafe to open the front door when the two men were on the porch and explained what they were doing before the Police came. The officer informed both men that they were not welcome guests here and should leave and not return.

On March 27, 2003 I filed a criminal harassment complaint against Bruce Dobin that was heard in court on April 17, 2003 and settled in a just manner, but I wonder if this man or his church will look for ways to come back one day and make more trouble.

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