Scientology Lies

September 15, 1994: Scientology begins running ads in the Washington Post and the New York Times comparing Germany's treatment of Scientologists to the Nazi treatment of Jews.

September 21, 1990: Several Scientologists and the Church of Scientology of Toronto are indicted on charges of theft and/or possession of stolen property and of Breach of Trust.

February 1, 1991: Scientologist Cheryl S leaves her husband and departs Scientology. During the past few years, her husband had had an affair with another Scientologist (both of them were execs at their org), and Cheryl's health was suffering, partly due to overwork while on staff herself. She later wrote, "I thought about it long and hard. I requested marriage counseling. I was mid-auditing action and unless I could come up with a lot of money to complete it and then pay for the marriage counseling, then I could not get the "marriage counseling." I saw the Chaplains at AOLA and ASHO. I was informed ... that since Steve was a staff member, it would be an uphill battle to pull him away from being full-time staff, and I would be viewed as the bad guy. He was compassionate, but that was the reality of the situation. Nothing changed. No help was forthcoming from Scientology. I reviewed my past history and determined that if I stayed with Steve and stayed in Scientology, there was a good chance that I would be dead at an early age, the way things were going. I decided I had to get away from both." In her epilogue, she writes, "It took a long time to emotionally recover from the abuses. The hardest thing to overcome was the initial feeling that the rug had literally been pulled out from under my feet. Everything I had believed in had turned out to be false, and all I had to show were the years I missed watching my children grow up, poor health and no money. But within a year I was in much better financial shape and things were going so much better without Scientology in my life."

February 2, 1991: Tom Voltz receives a visit from Marcelo Vine, one of the leading powers from WISE International in Los Angeles. Vine is accompanied by a staff member from WISE Europe in Copenhagen. They ask Voltz to hand over his translation of Hubbard materials into German. Voltz writes: "I knew the meaning of the apparently accidental appearance of the gentlemen: it would hardly be possible to realize a fair price for the translations and layouts of over a hundred pages. If WISE had wanted to make an honest deal, then WISE would have, as is customary in the business world, made previous written contact with me and imparted to me that WISE themselves now wished to undertake the sale of course documents and would have asked me to make a bid. In order to avoid the danger of coming out of this completely empty-handed, I looked over my books for expenses and income for this order and calculated the difference. I determined that I was about $10,000 short of breaking even. (Making a profit was out of the question.) I offered Marcello Vine, the management member of WISE International, the computer disks with the translations and the layouts, ready for publication, for $10,000. He had a short telephone conversation with another person from WISE and told me that he could agree to that. ... Besides that I was to receive a one-year membership, free. I did not need it, and WISE could give them out easily, since it cost them nothing to confer. I have never received or signed that sort of membership contract. We agreed as to the payment. ... I sat behind my computer for two days and two nights, practically without sleep, and worked up the documents in accordance with the wishes of WISE. Then I awaited my first check, as the publication of the order would surely be a huge success."

September 14, 1990: Scientologist Pius Keel commits suicide: "after less than two months at Narconon, Pius packed his bags and threw himself under a train."

May 15, 1991: Karen Simon commits suicide in London England, shortly after she refused to sign a Sea Organization contract. She was preparing a negative report on Scientology at the time of her death. [May 1991; exact date unknown]

May 11, 1990: Noah Lottick jumps to his death clutching his last few dollars tightly to his chest. He is 24 years old. Before he killed himself, he had paid more than $5,000 for church counseling. His behavior had also become strange. He once remarked to his parents that his Scientology mentors could actually read minds. When his father suffered a major heart attack, Noah insisted that it was purely psychosomatic.

February 1, 1990: Tom Voltz begins negotiating with Ken Salman about obtaining rights to the personality test Scientology uses, having learned that Salman, not Scientology, owned those rights. (The test had been developed by his wife, Julia Lewis-Salman, who had since died.) Voltz wishes to grant RTC a free license to continue to use the test for Scientology purposes; Voltz plans to make money from the use of the test in commercial contexts. Over the next year, Scientology's response to Voltz's generous offer was to insist that he give up the rights he bought from Salman and to try to ruin Voltz financially. Voltz was ultimately declared suppressive. [early Feb 1990; exact date unknown]

August 2, 1990: The Oklahoma State Health Department applies for an injunction to halt Narconon's operations at Chilocco.