Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: CHARLES MANSON, SCIENTOLO Message-ID: <9510230732.0AL8300@support.com> References: <46f7jv$p94@utopia.hacktic.nl> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35 Distribution: world Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 07:32:16 -0700 Lines: 76 nobody@flame.alias.net (Anonymous) >Lest anyone try to obscure the issue, I picked up a copy of Helter >Skelter today and checked out the index for references to >Scientology. Yep, there they were, and for your edification... > >page 635 > >"I knew too, both from his prison records and from my conversations >with him, that Manson's involvement with Scientology had been more >than a passing fad. Manson told me, as he had Paul Watkins, that he >had reached the highest state, "theta clear", and no longer had any >connection with or need for Scienology." > >and a series of connected, and still unsolved murders ... > >page 647 > >On November 21, 1969, the bodies of James Sharp, fiften, and Dorren >Gaul, nineteen, were found in an alley in downtown Los Angeles. The >two teen-agers had been killed elsewhere with a long-bladed kniife or >bayonet, then dumped there. Each had been stabbed over fifty times. > >Ramparts division Leiutenant Earl Deemer investigated the Sharp-Gaul >murders, as did Los Angeles Times reporter Cohen. Although the two men >felt there was a good possibility that a Familty member was involved >in the slayings, the murders remain unsolved. > >Both James Sharp and Doreen Gaul were Scientologists, the latter a >Scientology "clear" who had been residing in a Church of Scientology >house. According to unconfirmed reports, Doreen Gaul was a former girl >friend of Manson Family member Bruce Davis, himself an >ex-Scientologist. > >Davis' whereabouts at the times of the murders of Sharp, Gaul and Jane >Doe 59 are not known. He disappeared shortly after being questioned in >connection with the death of Zero. > >On December 1, 1969, Joel Dean Pugh, husband of Family member Sandy >Good, was found with his throat slit in a London hotel room. As noted, >local police ruled the death a suicide. On learning of Pugh's demise, >Inyo County DA Frank Fowles made official inquiries, specifically >asking Interpol to check visas to detrmine if one Bruce Davis was in >England at the time. > >Scotland Yard replied as follows: "It has been established that Davis >is recorded as embarking at London airport for the United States of >America on 25th April 1969 while holding United States passport 612 >2568. At this time he gave his address as Dormer Cottage, Felbridge, >Surrey. This address is owned by the Scientology Movement and houses >followers of this organization." > >END OF HELTER SKELTER QUOTES > >So now we have TWO Members of the Manson Family who had been >Scientologists, Charlie and Bruce. Was Bruce Davis an EX? Why was he >living at a Scientology house? Did these people die as a result of >Scientology trying to hide the Manson connection? Is there more to the >Manson-Scientology connection that has yet to be revealed? It would >not surprise me. > >This was all LONG before my involvement with Scientology but there are >probably people out there who were there at the time. Can anyone >contribute more information? It was in 69, shortly after the murders (which happened nearby the org in which I was working) that the whole org was searched and any reference to Charles Manson was vetted and destroyed. +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * dennis.l.erlich@support.com + inForm@primenet.com "tar baby"