Hamburg task chief presents booklet on the sect Caberta: Scientology has penitential camps Hamburg, Germany
October 24, 2000
Hamburger Abendblatt
The disagreements between the Scientologists and their most bothersome enemy, Ursula Caberta, have become more pungent. Caberta, the director of the Interior Agency's Work Group on Scientology yesterday presented a new booklet on the "brainwashing" of apostate members in the organization's "penitential camps." The Scientologists renewed their accusations of corruption against her and announced they would take legal steps for inaction on the part of Interior Senator Hartmuth Wrocklage.

In the booklet, Canadian sociology professor Stephen A.

Kent describes programs with which Scientology's elite members who deviate are again brought to "toe the line."

These establishments, which Scientology calls the "Rehabilitation Project Force" (RPF), are described by former inmates as penitential camps.

Former Scientologist and RPF inmate Stacy Brooks said that the largest camp, which contains about 350 person, was located in the middle of Los Angeles, and that others were in Clearwater, Florida, in England and in Copenhagen. It is possible there is another one in the desert east of Los Angeles and another on a ship in the Caribbean. According to Kent, human rights violations occur in the camps. He said that even children and expectant mothers were in custody. He said it was a "high point of diplomatic arrogance" for the USA to complain about the informational route taken by France and Germany against Scientology while human rights violations were permitted in the USA.

Brooks told about when she and 50 others - in the middle of Los Angeles - had to run for twelve hours around a pole. "People did things they never thought possible because they were faced with threats of never seeing spouse or family again," she said. The principal motive was fear, she said, on which account hardly anybody would speak with outsiders. Even today they are under guard 24 hours a day by Scientology.

The Hamburg Scientologists described Kent's study as "irrelevant" and "without any scientific value." They said Caberta had "recycled that years-old booklet at the cost of Hamburg taxpayers" in order to divert attention from herself for having "resolved private debts" with money she had received from Scientology opponent Bob Minton. Investigations are in process against Caberta for accepting a bribe. About 20 Scientologists also demonstrated yesterday in front of the Interior Agency.

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