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Diane Richardson  
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 More options Jun 6 1996, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology, alt.religion.scientology.xenu
From: refe...@neont.com (Diane Richardson)
Date: 1996/06/06
Subject: Re: The whole Fishman thing

Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <d...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <LOHWPbAsygtxE...@sidaway.demon.co.uk>, Sherilyn
><Sheri...@sidaway.demon.co.uk> writes

>>Unfortunately, no.  Someone dcc'd it to me once on irc, but I cannot
>>locate it now.  From memory, it was a carbon copy D/A attack against her
>>counsel, blaming him for all manner of crimes and saying he put her up
>>to it.

>>It looked _very_ like Kim's affidavit against Wollersheim.
>And very like the standard pattern for any "flip-flop" i.e.
>not that any person has blown OSA and become a critic then
>gone bactk to their old hat working in a sustained and loyal
>way on projects, but rather that someone has been subjected
>to immense pressure until they cave in long enough to sign
>a statement prewritten for them by OSA implicating whover OSA
>wants implicated [Ziegel -> Mayo, Baker -> Erlich];  that this
>is about all you can get out of a short-term cave-in; and,
>nine times out of ten, the person concerned will repudiate
>the lies they have signed. Even if there has been a financial
>settlement and gagging agreenment which will bankrupt them,
>they still often rebel and reoudiate what they have been coerced
>into signing.

I should point out that the declaration Paulette Cooper swore out for
the "Church" of Scientology[tm] was done *years* (perhaps as much as a
decade) after the harassment ceased.

We may choose to excuse Kim Baker's activity on insufferable pressure,
but that certainly can't be Paulette Cooper's excuse.  She settled out
of court with the cult, signed over (for a second time) the rights to
"The Scandal of Scientology," and most likely shafted a number of
other litigants involved in the lawsuit at the time.

I doubt if we'll ever hear the facts behind *that* story, however.

Let me know if you'd like to see Paulette Cooper's declaration
reposted here.  I'll be glad to oblige.

Diane Richardson
refe...@neont.com


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