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Re: Tom Cruise v. Bauer Publishing, et al.

Now that Tom Cruise v. Bauer Publishing has been dismissed, I will publish my November 11 letter to the defendants and their attorneys, who I understood at the time were involved in the case. My letter is relevant regarding the Scientologists’ Suppressive Person doctrine far beyond Cruise’s narrow claim against Bauer for the way they portrayed his application of the doctrine to his daughter and wife after they fled.

I assume the Bauer people and attorneys shared my letter with Bert Fields, et al., but I don’t know for sure what they did with it.

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From: Gerry Armstrong
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 8:47 PM
To: ‘lizmcnamara; ‘deborahadler’; ‘gwelch’; ‘dwakeford’; ‘jshapiro; ‘rbiermann’
Subject: Cruise v. Bauer Publishing, et al.

Elizabeth A. McNamara
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
1633 Broadway, 27th Floor
New York, NY 10019-6708

Deborah Adler
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
1633 Broadway, 27th Floor
New York, NY 10019-6708

Gregory Welch
General Counsel
In Touch / Life & Style
Bauer Publishing Group
270 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

Dan Wakeford
Editor-in-Chief
In Touch / Life & Style
Bauer Publishing Group
270 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

Jared Shapiro
Editorial Director
In Touch / Life & Style
Bauer Publishing Group
270 Sylvan Ave.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

Rachel Biermann
Entertainment Director
In Touch / Life & Style
Bauer Publishing Group
270 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

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Re: Tom Cruise v. Bauer Publishing Company, et al.

Dear Ms. McNamara, Ms. Adler, Mr. Welch, Mr. Wakeford, Mr. Shapiro and Ms. Biermann:

I am writing about Scientology’s “Suppressive Person” doctrine, which is central in every Scientologist’s life, and which apparently is a factor in this case.

On November 8, the New York Daily News wrote about Mr. Cruise’s September 9 deposition:

Attorneys also asked him to define “a suppressive person” in Scientology, which Cruise said is someone who is antisocial and dishonest.

When asked if Holmes was an “SP,” he dodged the question by saying there were “many different aspects to it.”

The superstar actor had admitted Holmes dumped him to spare their daughter from Scientology, according to the deposition.

But he later backtracked off that and said “Katie has never told me that this was a reason for our divorce.”1

If he stated that about SPs, Mr. Cruise defamed the SP class and did not tell the truth under oath. Nevertheless, what he is reported as saying is consistent with how Scientologists view SPs. The few deposition transcript pages that the Daily News posted with its article did not contain any of mention of Suppressive Persons.

SPs are not people who are antisocial and dishonest at all, any more than Jews are people who are antisocial and dishonest. Stated in the simplest form, SPs are people who tell the truth about L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists. For a deeper understanding of who or what SPs are, please see this statement I made in July this year.2

SPs are a religious denomination and class created by Scientology religious scripture. They are as clearly a class as Jews are a religious class. Mr. Cruise is very cruelly adding his power and celebrity to the demonizing of a religious class as surely as Nazi celebrities used their power and status to add to the Jews’ demonization. It is ironic that, in prosecuting his claims, Mr. Cruise and his attorneys are doing their damnedest to link Bauer, et al. to the Nazis.

The Scientologists’ SP doctrine is so repugnant, destructive and indefensible, it is entirely reasonable for people to think the worst of a celebrity Scientologist like Mr. Cruise; just as it is reasonable for people to think the worst of Nazis because of their Jewish doctrine. Mr. Cruise lies about the SP class, in fact, to defend the indefensible SP doctrine. He defines us as “antisocial and dishonest” to justify his hatred and aggression toward us.

It is actually expected that a Scientologist will abandon family members, even a child, because of that Scientologist’s adherence to and compliance with Scientology’s Suppressive Person doctrine. This is called in Scientology scripture “disconnection,” I am sure you know, and is a very standard, if antisocial, Scientology practice. Therefore, the magazine had a legitimate reason to question if Mr. Cruise was applying the disconnection policy to Ms. Holmes and Suri, and even sound a warning. Although the Scientologists claim that disconnection is not policy, there is overwhelming evidence that it is policy, and the Scientologists have never refuted this evidence.

Because of his star status, his multimillions, and his personal relationship with Scientology cult head David Miscavige, Mr. Cruise is not treated in the same degrading way that other non-star, non-mogul Scientologists can treated. For the same reasons, he would not be directed to treat his fleeing wife and daughter as other Scientologist men might be ordered to treat their disaffected wives and children. There would, however, be no reasonable expectation by wogs, and wog publications such as In Touch, that he would not apply the disconnection policy as ordinary Scientologists are compelled to. In fact, Mr. Cruise would himself probably take the position that he is not treated differently from the way other Scientologists are treated.

I have been a declared SP for almost 32 years, and am an example of what can happen to someone who dares to tell the truth about Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists. With my wife Caroline Letkeman, who is also an SP and also knowledgeable about these subjects, I started the Suppressive Person Defense League. I have been the target and victim of the Scientologists’ litigation fair game, have written many declarations providing my experiences and knowledge, and have testified 70+ days in Scientology-related trials or depositions.3

I have written and spoken publicly about the SP doctrine for several years, and have written about Mr. Cruise in relationship to the doctrine.4
I wrote him an open letter in 2008 because he is a huge celebrity beneficiary in the Scientologists’ conspiracy against my and others’ rights.5

What Mr. Cruise wished for the SP class in his famous 2004 Scientology video is reminiscent of what the Nazis must have wished for the Jewish class. 6

They said, “So like have you met an SP?” And I looked at them and ah you know and I thought, how what a beautiful thing because maybe one day it’ll be like that. You know what I’m saying. Maybe one day it’ll be that – Wow SPs! Like they’ll just read about those in the history books, you know?

Any I just go through that tech and it’s it’s literally, it’s not how to run from an SP. It’s PTS SP how to shatter suppression; how to confront and shatter suppression. You apply it, it’s like, boom.

Because they don’t come up to me and do that. Uh they don’t do it to me, not to my face, you know, or anywhere in my vicinity where they feel they can be confronted yeah. They just don’t do it.

This also explains why Ms. Holmes might refrain from telling Mr. Cruise the truth that Scientology is a big reason, or the reason, she fled with Suri. Ms. Holmes knew, as Scientologists learn very early, that telling the truth about Scientology – merely that it doesn’t work, and is destructive to relationships — would mean that Ms. Holmes is an SP and can be given an SP’s treatment. If she comes up with some other, even bogus, excuse, and doesn’t threaten to tell the truth that involves Scientology, she won’t be targeted, at least overtly, for fair game. What people don’t come up to Mr. Cruise and do is tell the truth about Hubbard, Scientology or Scientologists. Mr. Cruise can probably feel confident about saying that Scientology was not her reason for leaving, even if it’s ridiculous, because he knows she has been shuddered into silence, by contract or otherwise, and won’t contradict him.

Please feel free to contact me about the SP doctrine, your case or anything else you wish. Caroline and I ask that you take the time to understand who or what SPs are so that you properly represent what our class is in this very high profile case, and not accept Mr. Cruise’s representations, which are black propaganda. To do so, I believe, would also not be helpful for your defense.

Finally, if you look into my life and my relationship with the Scientologists, please do not be dismayed by the mass of black PR they have generated about me.

Sincerely,

Gerry Armstrong

Notes

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HCOPL: Battle Tactics

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 FEBRUARY 19691; 2; 3

ISSUE II
REISSUED 24 SEPTEMBER 1987

(Reissued with updated distribution.)

Limited Distribution:
IMEC
OSA NW
LRH PRs

Confidential

BATTLE TACTICS

(This is a defense paper on material developed after 18 years of ceaseless attack by a foreign enemy. Nothing in this paper advocates physical violence or invites the physical destruction of persons.)

In these days of “cold war” when actual warfare is impossible due to atomic weapons, the warfare is waged in the press and public in the form of ideas.

If you uniformly apply the tactics and strategy of battle to the rows we get into, press or legal or public confrontation, you will win.

The enemy uses ” groups” and meetings of groups like one would use squads.

If we and they are considered as two hostile and opposing nations at war, then a huge array of tactics and strategy become visible.

One parallels in the field of thought what is used and done in the field of battle in other ages.

You don’t have to know too much about the tactics and strategy of warfare to apply this but it helps.

The end product of war, according to Clausewitz, the authority on it, is (condensed) “to bring about a more amenable frame of mind on the part of the enemy.”

But there are also wars of attrition. We are engaged in one where total destruction of us has been the enemy’s aim for, at this writing, 19 years. This is barbarian warfare, thus the enemy must have had very positive fears and terrors about us. Since he fought for total attrition. In this case it is not safe to hope for any half-way win. We must ourselves fight on the basis of total attrition of the enemy. So never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate him.

It is bad warfare to fight battles on your own terrain, in your own subject area. It is not good to fight in the territory of allies. Fight battles wherever possible only on enemy terrain, in and about his subject and his people, not ours. You can gauge your relative success by this. When all your battles are fought on his terrain, you are winning.

A good general expends the maximum of enemy troops and the minimum of his own. He makes the war costly to the enemy, not to himself.

Copyright (c) 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard.

All Rights Reserved.

HCO PL 16.2.69 II
Reiss. 24.9.87

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One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections. He deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections and power. He takes over enemy territory. He raids and harasses. All on a thought plane – press, public opinion, governments, etc.

Seeing it as a battle, one can apply battle tactics to thought actions.

Intelligence identifies targets and finds out enemy plans and purposes, enemy connections, dispositions, etc. It is fatal to attack a wrong enemy. But it is good tactics to make the enemy attack wrong targets or persons himself.

Good intelligence pinpoints who when where what.

Good PRO plans an action and operations fights the battle.

Legal is a slow if often final battle arena. It eventually comes down to legal in the end. If intelligence and PRO have done well, then legal gets an easy win.

You can win a battle even without legal and by PRO alone.

You intend to win it without legal wherever possible.

The prize is “public opinion” where press is concerned. The only safe public opinion to head for is they love us and are in a frenzy of hate against the enemy. This means standard wartime propaganda is what one is doing, complete with atrocity, war crimes trials, the lot. Know the mores of your public opinion, what they hate. That’s the enemy. What they love. That’s you.

You preserve the image or increase it of your own troops and degrade the image of the enemy to beast level.

Always be ready to parley but watch for tricks. Don’t give the enemy breathing space.

Capture and use his comm lines. A press magnate on your side is a big win.

You have in one of these publicity wars all the factors of modern wars complete with artillery, cavalry, infantry.

For example at this writing, all fighting has been on our terrain; they knew our generals we didn’t know theirs; they had all the press, funds, government control. We are reversing this. We are fighting now on their ground. But we have a long way to go.

We will make it all the way providing we look on this in terms of active battle and not as a “if we are saintly good we will win.” The people who win wars have a saintly image but they win the war by clever and forceful use of the rules of tactics, strategy and battle.

Wars are composed of many battles.

Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars.

HCO PL 16.2.69 II
Reiss. 24.9.87

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The cold war is a war. The West is losing it because it is fighting by other rules than the rules of war. We mustn’t lose it.

L. RON HUBBARD
Founder

Adopted as official Church policy by
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

LRH:CSI:jk.ja

Hubbard, L. R., (1969, 16 February). Battle Tactics. (Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter).

Notes

  1. Document studied on Confidential GO Intelligence Course. PDF format. ↩
  2. Document studied on DSA Investigations Officer Full Hat. ↩
  3. Important Note: We have webbed both Hubbard’s original Policy Letter “Battle Tactics” of February 16, 1969 and the reissued version of September 24, 1987 in their entirety for purposes of comparison by students and scholars, as proof of Scientology as a hate group at war with good people for over thirty-four years, and as a warning to everyone of the cult’s malevolent intent. The two documents show a categorical continuity between the nature and actions Hubbard postulated for Scientology and Scientologists during his Guardian Office period and the nature and actions Miscavige requires of the cultists in this, his RTC-OSA era.

    We believe that the organized beastification of good people is a crime against humanity. We believe that the obliteration of people, which “ Battle Tactics” clearly orders, is impossible without violence, indeed without murder. The order to get public opinion “in a frenzy of hate against the enemy” — by which Hubbard, Miscavige and Scientologists mean hate against the good people who oppose their criminality — demonstrates beyond any doubt that Scientology is a hate group. This document states emphatically that Scientologists are to consider themselves at war with the good people they make their “enemies,” and are to employ battle tactics in all dealings with these good people.

    We believe that the good people who are the Scientologists’ targets for hate, beastification, war and obliteration have an absolute right to know the information contained in this document, and that such knowledge cannot be denied them by Scientology’s application of commercial copyright law.

    We believe that the safety and security of the general public necessitate this document’s exposure and broad dissemination.

    We believe that anyone considering becoming involved with the Scientology cult as a customer, employee or agent has a right to know that he or she is becoming involved with a hate group at war with good people, and should think very seriously about the consequences of any involvement.

    We believe that all Scientologists have a right to know that they are being whipped into a frenzy of hatred by their cult’s leaders, that whether they have known it or not they are at war with good people, and that their labor supports, and their fees buy, the beastification and obliteration of those good people.

    Finally, we believe that this document must be made universally available so that government and law enforcement officials can no longer pretend that they do not know what evil Scientology intends toward the citizens that government and law enforcement are sworn to protect, and so these officials will be denied the defense of ignorance when this criminal cult executes its final obliteration solution. ↩