To: COSinvestigations@egroups.com <COSinvestigations@egroups.com> Date: 31 August, 2000 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [COSinvestigations] For Joe Harrington
>Bill Robertson was holding a meeting of FZ in Germany. "Anonymous"
>phone call to the cops sed someone (I won't give the name without
>knowing if the person wants it given) was coming into the country with
>drugs to attend the meeting or whatever. The person was hauled off by
>the cops. Drug traffic is a big no-no in EU. So CBR took up a
>collection for the bail, and also a large number of docs on GO tactics
>in the US were taken to the judge. The person was set free, and an
>investigation was done of the Munich Org, foreigners with no work
>permits were sent home and other work permits were not renewed.
Hi LR, I have not heard about this particular incident but it looks like this occured in 1984 and I believe that Jon Atack, in his book, mentions the person who was falsely . The following is an excerpt from the Zegal tapes, #3: "Coming up a little closer to present time, I thought we would talk about the recent Church caper in Germany. The OT Committee which is an association of Free Scientologists from around the world was holding a convention in Munich West Germany and the Church fired two missions and 10 detectives to try to disrupt that meeting. These missions came from COST, the Church Of Spiritual Technology, which is the new alter ego of the Church of Scientology and the RTC, the Religious Technology Center. They discovered that attending this meeting was one Silvie Herman, a former staff member from Munich, and what the missions attempted to do was to collect an affidavit from some of her former staff memeber associates, indicating that perhaps she had mis appropriated funds or embezzled money or some such things while on staff, so that they could present criminal charges against her. In fact they did collect such an affidavit, they went to the German Police and the German Police came and arrested Silvie Herman and put her in jail. The Free Scientologists that were there, got real real busy when this occurred, gathered up a huge amount of documentation indicating that this was a typical kind of Church activity, that they had submitted false affidavits and so forth in the past, and had this material delivered to the judge prior to the hearing. When the hearing for Silvie took place, the judge looked through the materials and said that there was considerable question in their minds regarding this particular affidavit. As a result of that he released Silvie on her own recognizance, but unknown to the Church Officials at that time, the State Attorney, which is the next higher level Attorney in the German legal system, had had a meeting with the judge scheduled for just 15 minutes after this trial was to be over. In fact that meeting took place and a decision was made that there should be a raid against the Orgs in Munich. The following morning at 8 am, 100 police officers arrived in front of the Munich Org and another 15 or 20 arrived at the local mission. 4500 kilograms of files were taken at the Org. Approximately 300 kilograms of files were taken at the nearby Mission, a total of nearly 5 metric tons of documents. Of those materials, no pc folders were taken. After reviewing that information, and looking through the financial records of the Church, a hearing on the status was held and it was found that the Church of Scientology in fact was not a Church at all, but in fact a trade or commercial activity, a for profit corporation in Germany. Scientology has lost its Church status, they now, all the staff members, have to apply for trade licenses to be Scientologists. There was another Church caper recently in Spain. Jon Caban, who is one of the principles in the OT committee, lives in Madrid, and had arranged with Peers Gartstrom (sp?) a former CO of the Madrid Org, to come to Spain to speak to Spanish Officials regarding alleged illegal activities of the Church in Spain in previous years. Melissa Caban, John's wife, went to the airport to pick Peers Gartstrom up, and as he was walking up the ramp toward her, three plain clothes "officers" took Peers away. Later, Church detectives approached Melissa and said to her, "Your husband is next." Melissa was obviously very shaken by what she had seen. She went home, she got on the phone, she called all the Spanish legal officials that she could think of, the local police, the state police, the other individuals of that nature, simply trying to find out what had happened to Peers, and in fact none of them knew anything about it at all. Ultimately what it turned out, was that the Church had sent private detectives to pick him up. They had identified themselves, pretending to be law enforcement individuals, had taken Peers away, apparently scared him to death saying that Interpol was after him and he was going to have to run for his life and so forth. Peers was put back on a plane and went back to Denmark or another one of the Scandinavian countries, and has not been seen or heard from since. But what Melissa did was go the Spanish authorities, was able to identify the three Church detectives that had impersonated police officers, they were arrested by Spanish Authorities and charged with impersonating police officers, criminal charges." ------------------------ I became aware of this incident in 1993 and verified the accuracy of it with several Germans and one American member of the German Free Assn and have no reason to doubt the accuracy of the account and the German govt's response to it. I also spoke with Jon Caban, several times, about his experiences. Jon, an American citizen and a resident of Spain, was an associate of Capt Bill. It was the oppressive and criminal activities of Scn in Spain which eventually lead to the arrest and indictment of Heber in Madrid in Nov 1988, after a 9 month investigation. That case is still pending. While some may feel that the Scn response to the Free Zone movement in Germany and Spain was some arbitrary or "off-policy" action taken at the behest of David Miscavige and company, I find these actions totally consistent with LRH's past ruthless actions against disaffected Scnists and "squirrel groups". Similar if not more ruthless actions were taken in the late 1960s and early 1970s when LRH was very much in command of the GO and Miscavige and company are simply emulating LRH's responses of the past. Some oldtimers might recall the savage treatment of Jack Horner and Chuck Berner, two of the earliest "squirrels". >I also recall some shady real estate somethings going on in
Germany by >scits - and there were also some articles in German newspapers
about >scits borrowing money and not paying it back, so on.
Yes, these were WISE operations in Germany. The German questionnare about "LRH tech" refer to WISE "technology" in businesses. Scn's attempt to link this to some form of "religious discrimination" is a pure smoke screen. > Guess you'd have to go read the German Scn News website or whatever.
> But as I see it, the CoX is the only one yelling RELIGIOUS
> discrimination because they claim to be a religion. Many govts
> have stuff they've seized in raids of GO/OSA goins ons which
> doesn't make scn look much like a "church." I've heard that
> the Russian raids yielded OSA files on getting rid of
> the FZ. Most churches don't go around running ops on ex-members.
Yes, I am aware of the contents of the seized OSA documents that targeted former Scientologists and govt officials in Russia. Unfortunately at this time I'm not able to elaborate on them because it might jeopardize some ongoing international inquiries about the subject. Joe

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