I want to express my deepest gratitude to everybody at a.r.s. for the support they have shown all these years and the overwhelming amount of congratulatory messages they have posted here and sent to the FACTNet e-mail address.

It always was a team effort and a.r.s. and the other Scientology education websites have done a lot to help --- particularly when FACTNet was shut down and when I needed info and witnesses for my case.

If there is anything FACTNet can do to better co-operate with the Scientology education community please let us know.

Now for some breaking news:

5/11/02 Scientology's predictable and slanderous response to the Wollersheim defeat and payment publicity

After the Wollersheim story hit the media, in an effort to divert media investigation and attention away for the real reasons Scientology paid the 8.6 million dollars into the court, Scientology released a written statement implying Scientology lost the case because of dubious expert testimony and that they are paying the Wollersheim because it is difficult to deal with someone with a bi-polar disorder. They also said that they want to put this chapter behind them.

They have been telling news media that Lawrence Wollersheim had this history of bi-polar disorder before entering Scientology.

What they are doing is a highly transparent tactic they teach their intelligence operatives in cult manuals that were seized in the FBI raid on their headquarters (when many of their executives went to jail.)

The tactic is called "dead agenting". The oldest and most tired form of "dead agenting" is saying, or implying, that the target of "dead agenting"

is mentally unbalanced.

The Wollersheim trial record, and all expert testimony given at trial, conclusively states that there was no bi-polar disorder in Wollersheim before Scientology used it outrageous counseling tactics on Wollersheim.

The court record further states that the bi-polar disorder, which Wollersheim suffered, was a direct result of the dangerous nature of Scientology's counseling practices applied to Wollersheim.

If you want to know the real reasons Scientology paid the 8.7 million just minutes before the new trial was to start (and new evidence presentednthat would have eventually removed their tax exempt status and sent the top Scientology executives to jail for fraudulent conveyance and other corporate misdeeds) see the description of the actual litigation issues of the Wollersheim collection action at the time they paid at http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/court.htm .

If you want to keep up with the almost hourly updates and the, now worldwide, story links go to http://www.factnet.org/letters/FACTNewsMay2002Wollersheim.html

IMHO Sincerely, Lawrence Wollersheim as an individual and as a director of FACTNet

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