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CITY OF CLEARWATER COMMISSION HEARINGS RE: THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY |
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EXHIBIT IX: AFFIDAVIT OF EDWARD WALTERS I, Edward Walters, hereby depose and state under pains and penalties of perjury: 1. I have personal knowledge of the facts sworn to herein and if called as a witness to testify thereto could do so of my own personal knowledge. 2. I was a member of the Church of Scientology for approximately nine (9) years from 1970 through March of 1979. 3. My position in the Church of Scientology was that of Case Supervisor. My position as Case Supervisor involved the auditing of pre-clear cases and I was also directly responsible for the handling of pre-clear folders. 4. Prior to becoming the Case Supervisor I had frequent contact with Susan Reed, the Assistant Guardian, Matty Reese, the Assistant Guardian Public Relations Officer, and Chuck Reese, Assistant Guardian of Intelligence. Susan Reed often told me to be aware of "evil" and "suppressive" groups and organizations which were out to stop Scientology. She said "evil" groups were as I remember, the United States Government, the American Medical Association, the Better Business Bureau, doctors, lawyers, and police agencies of any kind. She stated that the Guardian's Office was responsible for stopping these attacks against Scientology by any means available including electronic surveillance, infiltration, burglary and theft. The above named Guardian's Office personnel would tell me of the "wins" that they would have in their covert operations to stop or destroy those groups or individuals whom they considered to be suppressive. At this time Susan Reed introduced me to a fellow in her office and who told me his name was Randy. Randy said he was an intelligence agent working directly under Mary Sue and L. Ron Hubbard, and that he worked on the most sensitive and most secret of all Scientology's covert operations. He also stated that there was a need to do away with "suppressives" and groups attacking Scientology in whatever way necessary, including burglary, larceny, and "framing". He informed me how the Guardian's Office technology worked. For instance, he said that the Guardian's Office would plant dope on some 'SP', then call the police and have the fellow arrested. The Guardian's Office would circulate word of the fellow's arrest and whatever the fellow said about Scientology would not be believed. It was in this way that they framed some of the SP's. He then told me that if Susan Reed wanted me to contact him that I should call the Los Angeles Guardian's Office and ask for either "Randy", "Bruce", "Raymond" or "Bruce Raymond". He then told me I was not to reveal what he had told me or who he was to anyone and that grave consequences could result to me if I divulged any of this. 5. On several occasions I overheard phone conversations between the above named individuals and people in the United States Guardian's Office in Los Angeles with respect to illegal acts and covert operations requested to be done by the United States Guardian's Office in Los Angeles. 6. I know from my own personal experience that the Guardian's Office of each local Org is controlled by and reports to the United States Guardian's Office in Los Angeles. The United States Guardian's Office in Los Angeles on certain occasions and with respect to important matters always consults with Mary Sue Hubbard and L. Ron Hubbard who in the last few years have been residing at the Scientology headquarters in Clearwater, Florida. I also know that there is a direct telex connection between the United States Guardian's Office and the Clearwater headquarters of the Church of Scientology and that this telex connection is used by the United States Guardian's Office to consult with Mary Sue and L. Ron Hubbard, of Clearwater, Florida. The United States Guardian's Office in Los Angeles consults on a periodic basis with officials in Clearwater, Florida but would always consult with them in matters of special importance to the Church of Scientology. 7. I know from my experience and observation that the Guardian's Office has systematically, through the years, used "pre-clear" data as a tool against a pre-clear who would threaten to go to authorities or see a lawyer to sue or get his money back. I observed Matty and Chuck Reese of the Las Vegas Guardian's Office do this for many years and at times, they had told me how "we stopped" or "we showed that lawyer what a client he really has and he backed off right away", etc. 8. While Case Supervisor in 1978 at the Celebrity Center Mission in Las Vegas, Bruce Hamilton of the Las Vegas Guardian's Office came to see and asked me to go through my PC files and to provide him with any information which had been disclosed in auditing sessions which I thought would be helpful to control the person and would be "helpful to his cause". When I disagreed with these "gestapo type tactics" he told me that these orders came "directly from Los Angeles" or "this comes directly from Clearwater", and that if I didn't comply, it would be "treason". 9. On a number of occasions I had been requested by individuals in Clearwater, Florida to forward pre-clear folders to them or people who were undertaking auditing. In accordance with these requests I have sent a number of pre-clear folders to the Clearwater headquarters and have received written receipts from them. I have a number of these receipts in my custody at this time. [Signed] Edward Walters Dated: 16 January 1980
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