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PART II

1) Tonja Burden: affidavit, 1980

RPF at FLAG Clearwater, Florida in 1977

2) Hana Whithfield: affidavit, 1989

RPF at Flag, Clearwater, Florida in 1978

3) Dennis Erlich: testimony, 7-3-1996

RPF at Flag, Clearwater, Florida in 1978

4) Ann Rosenblum: testimony 19.?

RPF at Flag, Clearwater, Florida, in 1978

5) Monica Pignotti: testimony "My nine lives in Scientology" 1980

RPF on board Apollo, in 1974

6) Larry Wollersheim: affidavit 4-2-1980

RPF on board Excalibur 1974?

7) Stacy Young: affidavit,13-10-1994

RPF at PAC , Los Angeles, California, in 1982

8) David Mayo: affidavit, 14-10-1994

RPF at "Happy Valley" near Hemet, California, in 1980

9) André Tabayoyon: affidavit,4-4-1994

RPF at " Happy Valley" near Hemet, California, in 1987

10) Mental control techniques listing used in the RPF

André Tabayoyon: affidavit, 4-4-1994

Testimonies extracts from ex adepts victims from physical and mental abuses on them and/or on others when assigned in the Scientology's gulags called:

RPF and RPF's RPF

1) Tonja burden's Affidavit 25-1-1980, Las Vegas, Nevada

RPF at Flag, 1977

Extract:

"... In the RPF you were labeled 'treasonous' and forced to work 18 hours a day.7 days a week and oftentimes received only 'rice and beans' and water. During this time I personally observed a person chained to pipes in the boiler room in the Fort Harrison building for a period of weeks. In the RPF I saw people screaming and crying during the constant auditing on the E-meter. RPF prisoners were forced to undergo auditing in order to audit out their evil purposes against Hubbard and Scientology. I cried virtually the whole time I was in the RPF."

Tonja Burden had been working in the SO since she was 13 years old and did not attend regular school. She was there simply because her parents had been recruited by the SO. Tonja escaped Flag RPF in November 1977. She was 17 and illeterate. She was kidnapped by 2 Hubbard's agents from whom she managed to escape. Tonja filed a 16 millions $ suit in April 1980 alleging she was used as slave labour by Hubbard in the CMO and was kidnapped a second time after she escaped.* This was the case which forced Hubbard to go into hiding from Gilman in 1980. The requested damages rose in 1985 to 45 millions $*

*Ref: Who's who in Scientology. Lamont. Actualised in February 1997. (Newsgroup)

2) Hana whithfield's affidavit, 8-8-1989, Los Angeles, Cal

RPF at Flag, Clearwater, Florida 1978.

Extracts:

... RPF members at that time were completely segregated from "normal" staff and slept, lived and often ate in the Fort Harrison garage in the midst of continual fumes. They were not allowed to talk to, mix with or eat with "normal" staff. They wore old, tattered, ripped up navy jump suits or boiler suits and looked like derelicts from skid row. Women were not allowed to use any makeup or have any hairdos. No jewelry was alowed. Even in the incredible hot and humid Florida summers, women were not allowed to wear shot cut-offs but had to wear longer shorts or skirts or long trousers. No clothing lighter than the heavy material the jump suits were made from could be worn initially. RPF members had to run all the time.They were not allowed to walk. They had to run while doing their cleaning assignments in bathromms and toilets, while doing the garbage details or while going up and down the 12 flights of stairs in the Fort Harrison building carrying buckets, brooms and heavy cleaning equipment, and sometimes buckets full of heavy construction material. RPF members were not allowed to use the elevators, not even the service elevator. To prevent zoning, health and other city inspectors from seeing the RPF conditions as they really existed, all RPFers were practiced and skilled in transforming their normal RPF sleeping area into what looked like a regular furniture storage space, and doing so in a very short period of time. I often wished that someone from the city would spring a surprise visit on the Fort Harrison kitchen or garage or nursery but it never occured. This is how we really lived in the RPF. Some of us slept on mattresses on the bare cement floor. Some had crude bunk beds. There was no place for clothes, so we lived out of suitcases and bags which were kept on the bare floors. Some privacy was maintained by hanging sheets up between bunks beds and between floor mattresses. The women and men had separate bathrooms and toilets but they were very small. We were not allowed to shower longer than 30 seconds. We had time only to run through the shower and out the other end. There was no spare time for talk or relaxation. We awoke at 6.30 A.M. or earlier at times, did hard labor and heavy construction workand cleaning until late afternoon. After a quick shower and change of clothing, we had to audit each other and "rehabilitate" ourselves until 10.30 P.M. or later each evening.There wer no days off, no vacations. We worked seven days a week, four weeks a month. We ate our meals in the garage or at times in the dining rooms AFTER normal meals had ended. Our food consisted of leftovers from staff! On occasions which seemed like Christmas, we were able to prepare our selves fresh meals if leftovers were insufficient. The RPF maintained a very strict reform code which tolerated no insubordination or resistance of any kind whatsoever. Any resistance of such was dealt with by immediate push ups or running up and down the garage inumerable times. The slightest infraction earnedhard and harshed penalties. Every rule had to be followed regardless of its correctness or applicability at any given point in time.

This is what she says about RPF's RPF.

Cerrtain effractions caused the person responsible to be assigned to the RPF's RPF, a place in the lower boiler room under the Fort Harrison Hotel, among the boilers and hot waters pipes which rambled and hissed 24 hours a day. The place was only dimly lit. It consisted of interconnecting-spaces through which one had to crawl on hands and knees at times past or underneath huge pipes and massive 10 foot high boilers. It had a dark, forbidding, somewhat scary place. One of my buddies was assigned to the RPF's RPF for two months for refusing to divulge confidential information for which she had been bonded in the Guardian's Office. She was kept in that space excommunicado for the entire time, with limited bathing and toilet privileges, all the time being threatened and verbally harassed by RPF speriors. She finally emerged a broken, silent, sullen person who soon after managed to escape from the RPF and the Fort Harrison Hotel. Her name was Lynn Froyland.

..." Towards the end of 1978, I finally escaped. I left the RPF without approval and flew to New-York to friends. But within a week, the senior Ethics person at Flag, Tom Provenzano, located me and by phone threatened me with a Suppressive Person declare and with being sued, followed and never being left in peace again for the rest of my life if I did not immediately return to Clearwater. I broke down completely. I flew back to the RPF, but only after Provenzano had promised me I could speak with him about my assignment to the RPF when I returned. Of course, no such thing occured. I had no idea that his"promise" was made solely to get me back to Clearwater. Once back to the RPF I succumbed. I returned to working and running and sweating and pain. After a year, I finally "graduated". I was a subdued quiet, obedient robot, a far more subservient and compliant one than at any time previously.

... I desperatly hunted for a way out of my situation. I desperatly wanted time to sleep, rest, think and above all, escape from the madness of the world I was in. I had no one to go to if I left, no money to go anywhere with and nowhere to go to anyway. My family lived overseas. I had no means to get to them and they had no means to assist me."

Hana Whithfield lived 15 years in the SO from 1967 to 1982. She originally was a nurse from South Africa. She was the Ethics Officer on board the "Avon River" and then promoted Captain directly under Hubbard's orders. Her first affidavit is very instructive about her experience in the cult. She was assigned to the RPF at Flag because she was critical of Hubbard and the SO.

Hana Whithfield left the SO three years later in 1982. It was'nt until 1984 that she discovered the menacing side of the cult. She had to follow a medical treatment for her headaches and dental treatment as well for years. She wrote a second affidavit where she reveals the harassments of Fair Game she's been subjected to for years...

3) Dennis Erlich's testimony, 7-3-1977 on WMNF - Radio Activity

RPF at Flag, Clearwater, Florida,1978

Extract from the transcript:

Rob Lorey:..." You were locked up by the church?

Dennis Erlich: Yeah, in the sub-basement of the Fort Harrison Hotel. I was placed in a cage, under guard, for about 10 days. I wasn't allowed to talk to anyone; I wasn't allowed to phone anyone; I was a prisoner there.

RL: Why were you locked up?

DE: I made a joke about the RPF_ the Rehabilitation Project Force_ which is their- their "re-education" work camp program, where it's sort of like- like in Russia, where they used to send people to work camps, to re-educate them, and they have this thing called the RPF where you get up - tou're segregated. When I was in it, we slept in the garage, in the parking structure of the Fort Harrison Hotel, on the third floor. And you know, we had to breathe the exhaust of fumes from whatever cars and get woken up in the middle of the night, and we were up at the crack of dawn, you know, scrubbingtoilets and dumping trash, and we worked until late at night and it was, you know, basically a prisoner program.

RL: ..." Are you the only one that's been held against your will at the "church of Scientology"in Clearwater?

DE: Oh, no by any means. No, no, it's sort of a standard practice for them to incarcerate people who object to things- object to activities that are going on- so when I was in the basement, there was a woman- I can give her name; she was Lynn Froyland- and she was chained in the basement when I was there. And I have witnesses. There are other witnesses to that. There are people who have been kidnapped and taken, you know, all the way across the country and locked in rooms and- no it's sort of a standard practice.

... Scientology basically is an occult practice that deals mostly with exorcism; that's a fraud; that people are locked up and tortured. I have posted a bunch of this documentation to the internet newsgroup alt. religion .scientology, and I think I poked a hole in the- in their balloon, as far as their scam working."

Dennis Erlich had been the Chief Cramming Officer at the Clearwater headquarters of Scientology for about 15 years. When he refused to redo an "RPF program" he left in 1982.

Note: Hana Whithfield confirms this testimony; she had seen Lynn Froyland at Flag in the same year,1978.

...Continued.

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