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DECLARATION OF STEVEN FISHMAN

I, Steven Fishman, declare as follows:

        1.      I have personal knowledge of the facts stated herein,
unless stated on information and belief, and if called upon
to testify to these facts I could and would competently do
so.

        2.      I am a Defendant in the case of Church of Scientology
v. Steven Fishman and Uwe W. Geertz, United States District
Court, Central District of California, Case Number 91-6426-
HLH(Tx). I am currently serving a five year sentence for mail
fraud and I am on Parole under the supervision of the United
States Probation Office, Southern District of Florida.

        3.      I am readily familiar with the practices of the Church
of Scientology International regarding their taking of depositions,
and of discovery. My deposition was taken by Timothy Bowles
and James L. Jackson on March 24-26, 1993.  Further, my psychologist,
Uwe W. Geertz, provided the Church of Scientology with discovery
including tape recordings of my psychological sessions with
Dr. Geertz, who is my co-Defendant in the above-captioned case.

        4.      Subsequent to obtaining copies of these tape recorded
sessions, I was visited and phoned by various agents of the
Office of Special Affairs of the Church of Scientology International
without their permission or consent. These tape reeordings
included copies of hypnosis sessions performed by Dr. Geertz.
These OSA Agents, including Brad Van Dyck and Virginia Smedberg
Redmon, used these taped sessions to induce hypnosis in an
attempt to manipulate me and to influence the outcome of the
civil case in their favor. They attempted to secure my unwilling
participation to sign a confessional and a request for an amnesty,
both of which would have been perjurious and prejudicial to
my case.

        5.      It is standard and typical procedure for the Office
of Special Affairs of the Church of Scientology to use information
garnered from depositions and other forms of discovery to intimidate,
harass, and occasionally to cause physical and emotional harm
to their perceived enemies and to the families, psychologists,
psychiatrists and attorneys of their perceived enemies, under
the doctrine of Fair Game.

        6.      When I was attached to the Guardian's Office and later
to the Office of Special Affairs, part of my hat or job assignments
were to flood enemies of the Church with junk mail in an operation
known as Bingoing. This involved sending a group of staff members
to the public library, in order to raid the periodicals section
and pick out technical journals and magazines, circling numbers
on the business reply cards wildly and randomly, and filling
in the name and address of the perceived enemy, so that he
or she would be flooded with junk mail. Many such requests
originated from information secured during discovery including
depositions conducted in legal cases where litigation and disputes
were ongoing between the Church and its enemies. I was oftentimes
asked to phone the perceived enemies or "SPs" (Suppressive
Persons) in the middle of the night, and either make a specific
telephonic threat or simply hang up, at the direction of the
Ethics Officer of the Org or the Director of Special Affairs
(OSA liaison). Prior to my arrest in 1988, I had been put on
a detail known as Ringbacks, where I was instructed (by my
Ethics Officer Frank Thompson) to dial a series of five hundred
or more beeper numbers in succession from one dialing prefix,
and then leave the telephone number of our enemy so that he
or she would be flooded with unwanted telephone calls by parties
who genuinely believed that someone had phoned them on their
beeper. Such harassment was typical of what the Church of Scientology
International does with names and addresses obtained through
legal discovery.

        7.      Furthermore, active staff members, including family
members if any, were required by the Director of Special Affairs
to write up Knowledge Reports concerning intimate details of
the personal life of the Suppressive Person to be used in discovery
and in the taking of depositions.  Once further information
was secured, whenever possible, the Director of Special kffairs,
following the Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letters
referring to Black PR would amass a file of damaging information
on the Suppressive Person or enemy of the Church in order to
further sue, attack, or whenever possible, to ruin him utterly.
The Church of Scientology would encourage Scientologists to
disconnect from former members who fell out of favor with the
Church, and it is not uncommon for discovery to be used to
alienate family members from one another and to split them
up.  In September of 1984, I was ordered to get a divorce,
and I was actively assisted by Yvonne Shirley "Bonny" Mott,
the Authorization and Verification Unit Officer of the Commodore's
Messenger Organization, to bring the divorce to its End Phenomenon
or conclusion, as part of her "stat" or statistic, in order
to increase and encourage my production of my own "stats",
which were criminal activities involving the filing of fraudulent
class action lawsuits, for which I was eventually arrested
and convicted.

        8.      It is my viewpoint that all depositions involving the
Church of Scientology should be videotaped, or be taken before
a Special Master as ordered by the Court, in order to prevent
abuses of discovery.

        I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the
State of Florida that the above is true and correct to the
best of my recollection and understanding.

Executed August 4, 1993 at Sunrise, Florida.

                                (signature - Steven Fishman)





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