1 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY 2 CIVIL DIVISION

3 ESTATE OF LISA McPHERSON, by and through the Personal Representative, 4 DELL LIEBREICH,

5 Plaintiff,

6 vs. Case No.: 97?01235

7 CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY FLAG SERVICE ORGANIZATION, INC.; JANIS 8 JOHNSON; ALAIN KARTUZINSKI; and DAVID HOUGHTON, D.D.S., 9 Defendants. 10 VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG 11 Volume VI

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1 APPEARANCES

2 Counsel for Plaintiff: MR. KENNAN G. DANDAR 3 Dandar & Dandar, P.A. Attorneys at Law 4 5340 West Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 201 Tampa, Florida 33609 5 Counsel for Defendant Church of Scientology Flag 6 Service Organization: MR. MORRIS WEINBERG, JR. 7 Zuckerman, Spaeder, Taylor & Evans, LLP Attorneys at Law 8 401 East Jackson Street, Suite 2525 Tampa, Florida 33602 9 MR. MICHAEL LEE HERTZBERG 10 Attorney at Law 740 Broadway, 5th Floor 11 New York, New York 10003

12 Counsel for Defendant Alain Kartuzinski: MR. DOUGLAS J. TITUS, JR. 13 Attorneys at Law George & Titus, P.A. 14 100 South Ashley Drive, Suite 1290 Tampa, Florida 33601 15 Counsel for Defendant Janis Johnson: 16 MR. RONALD P. HANES Trombley & Hanes 17 Attorneys at Law 707 North Franklin Street, 10th Floor 18 Tampa, Florida 33602

19 Counsel for Defendant David Houghton, D.D.S.: MR. ROBERT P. POLLI 20 Robert P. Polli, P.A. Attorney at Law

21 101 East Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 1265 Tampa, Florida 33602 22 Also Present: 23 Mr. Michael Garko Mr. Jesse Prince 24 Mr. Michael Rinder Ms. Lara Cartwright 25 Ms. Wendy Beccaccini (via the Internet)

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1 I N D E X

2 WITNESS PAGE

3 Called by the Defendant Church of Scientology Flag

4 Service Organization:

5 ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG

6 DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. WEINBERG......... 804

7 CROSS?EXAMINATION BY MR. TITUS............. 817

8 CROSS?EXAMINATION BY MR. HANES............. 855

9 CROSS?EXAMINATION BY MR. POLLI............. 867

10 SIGNATURE PAGE................................. 880

11 CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER OATH................... 881

12 REPORTER'S DEPOSITION CERTIFICATE.............. 882

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1 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY 2 CIVIL DIVISION

3 ESTATE OF LISA McPHERSON, by and through the Personal Representative, 4 DELL LIEBREICH,

5 Plaintiff,

6 vs. Case No.: 97?01235

7 CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY FLAG SERVICE ORGANIZATION, INC.; JANIS 8 JOHNSON; ALAIN KARTUZINSKI; and DAVID HOUGHTON, D.D.S., 9 Defendants. 10 VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG 11 Volume VI

12 C O N F I D E N T I A L

13 PURSUANT TO NOTICE for the taking of the

14 deposition of ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG, upon oral

15 examination in the above?styled cause, at the

16 instance of the Defendant Church of Scientology

17 Flag Service Organization, for the purposes of

18 discovery or use at trial or both, pursuant to

19 Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, proceedings

20 therefor were held before Susan D. Wasilewski,

21 Registered Professional Reporter, Certified

22 Realtime Reporter, and Notary Public in and for the

23 State of Florida at large, at 220 East Madison

24 Street, 12th Floor, Tampa, Florida, on January 21,

25 2000, at 3:50 p.m.

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1 VIDEOTAPING SERVICES were provided by Rick

2 Spector.

3 THEREUPON, the following proceedings were

4 had and taken:

5 ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG, called as a witness

6 by the Defendant Church of Scientology Flag Service

7 Organization, having been previously duly sworn,

8 continued to testify as follows:

9 MR. WEINBERG: We had two subpoenas, Ken,

10 one to Stacy and one to Vaughn, returnable

11 this morning. Are there any documents that

12 you have to give us?

13 MR. DANDAR: No. I checked with Stacy

14 Brooks. There are no documents at all in

15 response to your subpoena.

16 MR. WEINBERG: So she doesn't have access

17 to this ledger?

18 MR. DANDAR: No.

19 MR. WEINBERG: Do you know where the

20 ledger is?

21 MR. DANDAR: It's whoever is running that

22 foundation in Seattle.

23 MR. WEINBERG: Is there some name of

24 somebody that's running the foundation in

25 Seattle?

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1 MR. DANDAR: I don't know that.

2 MR. WEINBERG: Would you find that out

3 for us?

4 MR. DANDAR: I can find that out, sure.

5 DIRECT EXAMINATION

6 BY MR. WEINBERG:

7 Q. I have a few more questions and then

8 Mr. Titus and Mr. Hanes and Mr. Polli are going to

9 ask you some questions. What is an apostate?

10 A. An apostate is usually referred to a

11 person who has left a religion and may or may not

12 be critical but is in disagreement.

13 Q. Another one ?? it certainly would include

14 somebody that had renounced their religion, is that

15 right?

16 A. Yes.

17 Q. Now, you like scholarly works, I mean,

18 right, you read and write scholarly works?

19 A. I have in the past but I ??

20 Q. And you like to take a scholarly approach

21 to issues, correct?

22 A. Sometimes.

23 Q. Now, are you aware that scholars have

24 studied the phenomenon of people who leave

25 religion, i.e. apostates, and tell bad stories

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1 about them, about those religions, are you aware

2 that scholars have written about that?

3 A. I have read some of the ones that were

4 hired by Scientology.

5 Q. Oh, like who?

6 A. I don't remember their names but like

7 G. Gordon Melton.

8 Q. Anybody else?

9 A. That's the only name I immediately

10 remember.

11 Q. Well, you're aware that apostasy goes back

12 in history to the Christian religion, correct,

13 you're aware of that, aren't you?

14 A. I'm not aware of that part of it as far as

15 the history of it but I won't question it.

16 Q. And that Christians had to renounce their

17 religion or be killed, I mean we're talking

18 centuries ago?

19 A. Okay.

20 Q. Okay? And that in order to save their

21 lives, apostates would tell incredible tales about

22 the religion that they were renouncing, correct?

23 A. Maybe.

24 Q. Now, you are an apostate, are you not,

25 from Scientology?

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1 A. I don't know.

2 Q. Well, you renounce Scientology, correct?

3 A. There is ??

4 Q. Yes or no?

5 A. Well, there is parts that I would agree

6 with and there is parts that I would disagree with.

7 I would consider myself more a reformed

8 Scientologist.

9 Q. Well, you were a member of staff of

10 Scientology for 21 years, right?

11 A. Yes.

12 Q. And you left in 1989, right?

13 A. Yes.

14 Q. And since you left in 1989, you have gone

15 around the country testifying in cases in which you

16 have renounced the religion, correct?

17 A. No.

18 Q. Now, you have made a profit out of being

19 an apostate, haven't you?

20 A. No.

21 Q. It's been your ?? your only source of

22 income since 1993 has been to testify in cases

23 involving Scientology or write articles with regard

24 to Scientology, correct?

25 A. Yes. I would just say primary source.

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1 Q. Now, you did a declaration that was filed

2 in the Wollersheim case in California, right?

3 A. Okay.

4 Q. Is that right?

5 A. Yes.

6 Q. And we'll mark this as an exhibit, B.

7 (Defendant's Exhibit B was marked for

8 identification.)

9 Q. Can you identify this as a declaration

10 which ?? just look at the end of it.

11 MR. DANDAR: Are you representing that it

12 was filed?

13 MR. WEINBERG: I'm representing that ??

14 well, I'm asking him. Yeah, I'm representing

15 it was filed, that's why I got a copy of it.

16 It was filed two days ago in California.

17 MR. DANDAR: Okay.

18 BY MR. WEINBERG:

19 Q. Is that your declaration?

20 A. There is no date filed stamp on it.

21 Q. Is that your declaration?

22 A. Yes. I'd like to ask my counsel a

23 question.

24 (Discussion off the record.)

25 A. Okay.

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1 Q. And you signed this ?? executed this on

2 December 7th, 1999, right?

3 A. Yes.

4 Q. When I took your deposition it was

5 December 21st and 22nd of 1999, right?

6 A. Yes.

7 Q. Is this what you were working on at the

8 Red Roof Inn with Jesse Prince that you asserted an

9 objection to?

10 A. I was working on the material but the ??

11 it was actually compiled later because we were at

12 the Red Roof earlier than that.

13 Q. But ?? earlier than what?

14 A. Than the date of that signing.

15 Q. Well, I understand that, but this is what

16 ?? you were working toward this, this affidavit,

17 when you were at the Red Roof Inn with Jesse

18 Prince, right?

19 A. It was a possibility.

20 Q. Now, but you had already signed this

21 affidavit when I took your deposition on the 21st

22 and 22nd?

23 A. Yes.

24 Q. And had you already sent it to

25 Mr. Leipold?

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1 A. Yes.

2 Q. Had you given a copy to Mr. Dandar?

3 A. No.

4 Q. Had you told Mr. Dandar that you had

5 executed an affidavit?

6 MR. DANDAR: Whoa. I'm representing him

7 so that he's not going to talk about what he

8 told me, so I'm objecting, privilege. Don't

9 ask him what he talked to me about.

10 MR. WEINBERG: I can ask him what I want

11 to. If you want to object to it and instruct

12 him not to answer it, fine.

13 MR. DANDAR: Okay.

14 MR. WEINBERG: You're instructing him not

15 to answer?

16 MR. DANDAR: Right. That's privileged.

17 You know that.

18 MR. WEINBERG: No, I don't think you can

19 represent everybody in the world.

20 MR. DANDAR: Well, I tell you what. I'm

21 going to withdraw that. You can ask him if he

22 talked to me about that.

23 Q. Did you talk to Mr. Dandar about this

24 before your deposition?

25 A. I told him afterwards. I don't remember

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1 if it was before or even when I saw him here, but I

2 told him I had been doing some work regarding the

3 Sea Organization.

4 Q. And this affidavit is all about the Sea

5 Organization, right?

6 A. Pretty much, yes.

7 Q. And that's one of the things that you're

8 being called to testify about in this case as an

9 expert, right?

10 A. Yes.

11 Q. Is there a particular reason why you

12 refused to discuss this and this project when I

13 asked you questions about it on December 21st and

14 December 22nd?

15 A. As I stated at that time, I had not been

16 named in that case and I wasn't required to cite

17 that I had been so retained. And also, as I

18 testified at that time, the material that I was

19 working with with the attorney was up to him

20 whether or not he wanted to use it. I didn't know

21 whether or not he would file it. I did not know at

22 the time. It was just recently filed. You can see

23 quite a bit of time between when I sent it and when

24 he decided to file it. So my refusal at the time

25 was I wasn't required to disclose an attorney that

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1 I had not been named in a case that I had not been

2 named.

3 Q. No, except that it had to do with the very

4 thing that apparently, although we weren't told

5 this until yesterday, that you were being called to

6 testify about in this case.

7 A. That was a later development.

8 Q. Were you trying to hide something?

9 A. No. I discussed Sea Organization with

10 Mr. Dandar quite a bit earlier, but later, when I

11 spoke with him here in Tampa and he found out what

12 could actually be compiled in this, then it became

13 a topic after the fact.

14 Q. When was quite a bit earlier?

15 A. I testified before, a few weeks ago on

16 this, that I had raised the subject of Sea

17 Organization years before.

18 Q. I know, but when with Mr. Dandar, 1997, is

19 that what you're talking about?

20 A. Possibly, yes, that far ago, yes.

21 Q. Not possibly. I mean there was no real

22 contact with Mr. Dandar after 1997 until this,

23 literally, this late summer, early fall of 1999,

24 correct?

25 A. Yes. I'm just saying that it was brought

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1 up as a subject early in our relationship on this

2 case in my position working with him, but it fell

3 out as a subject and wasn't raised again until

4 after I did this declaration and after I discussed

5 it with him, that there was a great deal of

6 material that could be used to show the role of the

7 Sea Organization.

8 Q. You're saying after I did this

9 declaration. You're talking about the declaration

10 of December 7th, 1999?

11 A. Yes. Until that point I never discussed

12 that declaration with Mr. Dandar, Mr. Dandar did

13 not know I was compiling it, he did not have the

14 information.

15 Q. Now, you testified yesterday that in your

16 mind Scientology isn't a valid religion.

17 A. Yes.

18 Q. And you also testified that you and

19 Mr. Prince and your ex?wife, Stacy, were one of a

20 small group of experts with regard to Scientology,

21 right?

22 A. Yes.

23 Q. Is Stacy a Scientologist?

24 A. I don't know what her ?? I wouldn't

25 consider an active Scientologist. You would have

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1 to ask her what her belief system is.

2 Q. I'm asking you.

3 A. I don't think so but you'd have to ask

4 her.

5 Q. Is she an apostate?

6 A. You'd have to ask her.

7 Q. Well, I'm asking you.

8 A. Well, as I responded, I consider myself a

9 reformed Scientologist.

10 Q. Well, Mr. Dandar is your attorney, is that

11 right?

12 A. Yes.

13 Q. Now, are you aware that Mr. Dandar has

14 said that Stacy, your ex?wife, is an authorized

15 minister of Scientology?

16 A. No.

17 Q. What do you have to say about that?

18 A. Nothing.

19 Q. Is she an authorized minister of

20 Scientology?

21 A. I don't know.

22 Q. I'll mark as Exhibit C, let me show you, a

23 December 7, 1999 letter, which happened to be the

24 day you executed your affidavit on the Sea Org,

25 from Mr. Dandar to me.

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1 (Defendant's Exhibit C was marked for

2 identification.)

3 MR. DANDAR: Let me see it, please.

4 MR. WEINBERG: Here, I'll give you a

5 copy.

6 BY MR. WEINBERG:

7 Q. Now, let me read this to you: Dear Sandy

8 ?? this is from Ken Dandar ?? in response to your

9 letter of November 29th, 1999, and the attaching

10 pictures of Stacy Brooks demonstrating the use of

11 e?meter to Bob Minton, as you should be aware,

12 Stacey Brooks is an authorized minister of the

13 Church of Scientology. If you have any information

14 to the contrary, I'd appreciate your faxing same to

15 me at your earlier convenience.

16 So I'm asking you, I mean you were with

17 her certainly far more than anyone else, with I

18 guess the possible exception recently of

19 Mr. Minton. Are you aware that Ms. Stacy Brooks is

20 an authorized minister of the Church of

21 Scientology?

22 A. She may have been. It was never a subject

23 that we discussed even when we were ??

24 Q. This doesn't say was. This says is.

25 A. Well, I'm just saying she would have been

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1 accredited while in the Church of Scientology and I

2 was referring to when we were both staff members.

3 It was never mentioned to me and I never had any

4 reason to ask.

5 Q. What do you still agree with in

6 Scientology?

7 A. There is certain points of the metaphysics

8 that I'm intrigued with, basically, some of the

9 ontology.

10 Q. Excuse me?

11 A. Some of the ontology.

12 Q. By that you mean?

13 A. Ontology is the study of existence.

14 Q. And that Scientologists believe in what?

15 A. Well, as I said yesterday, solipsism is

16 the idea that reality stems out from the individual

17 rather than there being an external reality, and

18 that creates a different ontological perspective as

19 to the nature of existence, and it's an intriguing

20 prospect, and that's actually what had first

21 intrigued me when I was first reading Hubbard,

22 because it resolved some problems. It's got its

23 own serious problems that you end up with but I'm

24 still intrigued with that, that notion. He's not

25 the first to do it but I ?? it was ?? he prompted

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1 me ??

2 Q. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

3 A. He prompted me in that direction through

4 the book 8?80?08.

5 Q. You mean the existence of man and who man

6 is?

7 A. No.

8 Q. As one relates to a higher being?

9 A. No. Ontology is just ?? you know, in a

10 way, Stephen Hawking is a physicist when he's

11 dealing with the origin of the universe. You're

12 basically dealing with ontology there as well as

13 cosmology, cosmology being the study of the origin

14 of the cosmos. But ontology has to do with the

15 study of what is existence, such as Jean?Paul

16 Sartre, being and nothingness, you know,

17 existentialism. That is pure ontology. That is

18 just a philosophy that is based purely on ontology

19 as opposed to some other system.

20 Q. You believe that Scientologists believe

21 that they are seeking to save the world, correct?

22 A. Most of them. It is a principle. I think

23 it's ?? it would be very hard ?? I'd be very hard

24 pressed to say what percentage. I wouldn't contest

25 there is a sizable percentage but a lot of them

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1 just live their ordinary lives like most of them.

2 They are not trying to save the world, they are

3 interested in their own day?to?day existence.

4 Q. But you've written that. In fact, in this

5 one article in Quill that you were talking about

6 that you had written, you said, let me read it to

7 you: Before talking with any Scientology PR or

8 executive, a journalist must know that he or she

9 will be talking to a fanatic, a person seeking to

10 save the world. This is exactly what

11 Scientologists believe they are doing.

12 A. Right.

13 Q. You wrote that?

14 A. Yes.

15 Q. You stand behind that?

16 A. Yes. I said a PR or an executive are the

17 Scientologists who are fanatics trying to save the

18 world, which is different than say a public person.

19 MR. WEINBERG: All right. Go.

20 THE WITNESS: A different voice and face.

21 MR. TITUS: That's right.

22 CROSS?EXAMINATION

23 BY MR. TITUS:

24 Q. Before I start, I just want to state for

25 the record that I object to this emergency nature

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1 of this deposition and I want to make it clear that

2 we're not waiving any rights and we reserve all

3 rights to continue with this discovery deposition

4 at some point in the future, hopefully in the very

5 near future, and that we object to the process of

6 going forward with the trial testimony before we've

7 had an opportunity to conclude the discovery

8 deposition and before we've had an opportunity to

9 review all the materials that have been provided to

10 us in connection with discovery, which, Mr. Young,

11 has nothing to do with what I'm going to do with

12 you now. I just have a few questions for you. We

13 don't have a lot of time and I want to kind of get

14 right to the point.

15 A. It's a little difficult to hear you but I

16 can hear you. If I repeat, you know ?? I may have

17 to, but go ahead. It's okay right now.

18 Q. That's fine. Thank you. I'll try and

19 speak up. I've got a low voice.

20 A. So do I.

21 Q. You never knew Lisa McPherson, did you?

22 A. No.

23 Q. You never met her, is that correct?

24 A. That's correct.

25 Q. And I represent Alain Kartuzinski. You

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1 don't know Alain Kartuzinski, do you?

2 A. No.

3 Q. You've never met him, have you, sir?

4 A. No.

5 Q. You've never had any conversation with

6 Alain Kartuzinski regarding the facts of this case,

7 have you, sir?

8 A. No.

9 Q. Do you know what Alain Kartuzinski does or

10 what his job or hat is at Flag today?

11 A. No.

12 Q. Do you know what his job was at Flag in

13 1995?

14 A. CS.

15 Q. Do you know what ?? particularly what his

16 job was during November and December of 1995?

17 A. Well, I know the best thing that I recall

18 from it at the time was his relationship with Lisa

19 McPherson and her connection to him.

20 Q. Okay. Now, how do you know he was a CS in

21 1995, someone told you?

22 A. No. I saw this in the documents that were

23 provided to me that were part of the discovery

24 documents.

25 Q. Okay. What documents were those?

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1 A. Documents that Mr. Dandar provided that

2 had been obtained under discovery which included a

3 lot of reports and the logs, which I guess we

4 understand what we're talking about with that, the

5 final logs, but just to let you know in

6 anticipation, no preclear folder information.

7 Q. Do you know what Alain Kartuzinski's rank

8 is in the Sea Org today?

9 A. No.

10 Q. Do you know what his rank was in the Sea

11 Org in 1995?

12 A. No.

13 Q. Do you have any percipient knowledge about

14 what Alain Kartuzinski was doing at the Sea Org, or

15 at Flag rather, in 1995, in November or December?

16 A. No.

17 Q. Do you have any other information about

18 what Alain Kartuzinski was doing at Flag in

19 November or December of 1995?

20 A. No.

21 Q. Can you ?? it is not possible, is it, sir,

22 for Alain Kartuzinski, in the military model which

23 you described yesterday, with a low rank in the Sea

24 Org, to report directly to the captain of the Sea

25 Org, isn't that true?

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1 A. No, it's very possible. Staff members

2 have the authority and responsibility to report

3 from their position ?? they can report to anywhere.

4 In fact, the material even says you can report all

5 the way to RTC something that pertains to your

6 area. In fact, you can report something that

7 doesn't even pertain to your area. You see

8 something somewhere else that you consider to be

9 serious, you can write your own report. It's

10 called the knowledge report, and you can provide it

11 to anyone. You can provide it to your ethics

12 files, you can provide it to CO, you can provide it

13 to COB, you can provide it to anyone. So that's

14 pretty much up to the individual and the situation.

15 Q. Are you ?? do you have any percipient

16 knowledge of any specific instance when Alain

17 Kartuzinski reported directly a flap to David

18 Miscavige?

19 A. No.

20 Q. You've been hired to give some opinions

21 which we talked about yesterday. I'm not clear

22 specifically on what those opinions are because we

23 had a lot of discussion, but tell me what first

24 opinion you are going to give this morning when you

25 are asked by Mr. Dandar to give your opinion, what

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1 is the issue and what's your opinion?

2 A. I guess that depends upon which question

3 he asks first, since there is several.

4 Q. Okay. Well, tell me the several that

5 you're going to opine on and we'll take them one at

6 a time?

7 A. Well, one of the areas is the command

8 lines, how they are used for the transmission of

9 orders and compliances and information, and that's

10 one subject. Do you want to take that up right

11 there or ??

12 Q. Yeah. What documents did you review and

13 what other materials did you review to give that

14 opinion?

15 A. Well, first of all, just historically, I'm

16 familiar with documents, and having used them,

17 policies, various policies and directives just in

18 my own personal history, and then there is other

19 documents, such as the command channels booklet,

20 which was put out, oh, 1988, 1989.

21 Q. When is the last time you've seen that

22 booklet?

23 A. This morning.

24 Q. What year was that published?

25 A. '88 or '89, I can't remember which.

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1 Q. Do you know if there have been any changes

2 to that booklet in the intervening 10 or 12 years?

3 A. No, I don't believe it has.

4 Q. I'm sorry?

5 A. I don't believe it has.

6 Q. You don't believe it has. Do you know if

7 any changes have been made in that booklet, if it

8 has been amended in any way since 1988 or '89?

9 A. No.

10 Q. What other sources of information did you

11 have in gathering information to formulate your

12 opinion with respect to command lines?

13 A. Oh, over what period of time, sir? I have

14 to clarify.

15 Q. Well, you're giving the opinion today.

16 What other sources of information are you relying

17 on to give that opinion? Where did you get the

18 information upon which you are basing your opinion

19 regarding command lines?

20 A. Okay. Policies, policies and orders on

21 how the lines were to be set up and operated.

22 Q. Policies. So you're talking about church

23 publications that you're looking at?

24 A. Hubbard policy letters.

25 Q. Hubbard policy letters. Okay. And what

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1 specific Hubbard policy letters are you thinking

2 about?

3 A. Well ??

4 Q. Which ones are you relying upon to

5 formulate your opinion and give your testimony on

6 this commend lines issue?

7 A. Well, given my history in the

8 organization, there is a Volume 1 of the Green

9 Volumes, which has historically been the HCO

10 volume. There is considerable material in there

11 and there is even sections of it with regard to

12 command channels, command lines, lines of

13 communications, report lines, that one could just

14 open and it's been all grouped together. There is

15 scores of such policies that all of us had to study

16 and learn how to apply.

17 Q. And you're relying specifically on those,

18 on that information today in giving your opinion

19 about command lines?

20 A. I'm relying upon my application and

21 knowledge of it and getting other people to do it

22 in that fashion.

23 Q. And when is the last time you looked at

24 that material, sir?

25 A. I was actually glancing at it yesterday to

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1 see if there was anything else that I wanted to

2 actually use and present.

3 Q. What is your understanding of the facts of

4 this case which is going to support the opinion

5 that you're going to give regarding command lines?

6 A. That the initial incident with regard to

7 Lisa McPherson, that the incident that occurred

8 with her downtown and going Type III, which I think

9 is now an accepted term for what occurred, that

10 such an incident in downtown Clearwater involving

11 the authorities would have been a very serious

12 incident and would have sparked the reaction of

13 certain sections of the organization, and when I

14 say that, I don't mean just FSO but certain

15 sections of the organization, which it's really not

16 difficult to recognize the presence of.

17 For example, although a security guard may

18 show up and it is his role to do that with regard

19 to personnel at Fort Harrison, that the OSA would

20 show up, have to show up immediately as soon as it

21 was known and would have to take command. That is

22 the OSA function. It has been the Department 20

23 function since 1966.

24 Q. OSA is part of what?

25 A. OSA is Department 20 that Mr. Rinder is in

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1 charge of.

2 Q. It's part of what organization within the

3 Church of Scientology?

4 A. Well, every organization has a Department

5 20.

6 Q. Okay. What ?? could you describe the

7 initial incident downtown? What happened as you

8 understand it, sir?

9 A. There was a small accident, she got out of

10 her car, she began to behave erratically, took off

11 her clothes. The EMT that showed up recognized it

12 as erratic behavior. She was mumbling various

13 things that was showing that there was something

14 wrong with her behavior. It was their professional

15 opinion that they were dealing with a person that

16 was having serious mental problems, and while there

17 was no sign of physical injury, in other words, she

18 was not ?? there was no broken bones or anything

19 since it was a minor accident, that she needed to

20 be detained for her own safety because of her

21 behavior of walking down the street naked, et

22 cetera, and so was taken off for that purpose.

23 Q. Taken off where, sir?

24 A. Taken, moved off for that purpose to the

25 hospital.

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1 Q. Okay. Did they have her consent to take

2 her to the hospital, do you know?

3 A. No, they did not.

4 Q. Okay. What is the source of your

5 information for this ?? these ?? this incident in

6 which you just described for us?

7 A. Various reports that were provided to me

8 that were everything from ?? that were obtained

9 under discovery, that, if I recall right, was

10 everything from reports from the medical people

11 that were on the scene, I think there was a police

12 report. I think there was even knowledge reports

13 that were filed by people that were involved or

14 showed up later.

15 Q. What did you rely on? Do you recall

16 reading a police report?

17 A. Somewhere I saw a police report, whether

18 or not it was about that particular incident, but I

19 know that I saw a number of reports that gave it

20 from different perspectives so I could understand

21 finally what happened.

22 Q. Yes sir, but I'm trying to find out what

23 you relied upon. You said you think there was a

24 police report, you think there was some other

25 report and you think you saw some other reports and

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1 other documents. I really want to know what you

2 know that you read and what you know you're relying

3 on for this information, not just what you're

4 speculating about. So could you try again, please?

5 A. Well, what I relied upon was a stack of

6 documents about 10 inches thick and buried within

7 that, as I said, were knowledge reports, there was

8 a report from the EMT about her behavior, and those

9 are the primary ones that I relied upon in piecing

10 together the incident, because prior to getting

11 this, I really had no information on what actually

12 occurred in the incident until I got the documents.

13 Mr. Dandar once sort of briefly mentioned it but I

14 didn't really fathom it at the time until I got the

15 actual reports.

16 MR. DANDAR: Can I interrupt you for a

17 minute?

18 MR. TITUS: Yeah.

19 (Discussion off the record.)

20 BY MR. TITUS:

21 Q. You said that this initial incident would

22 have sparked a reaction of certain sections of the

23 organization. What sections and what organization

24 are you talking about?

25 A. Well, it would FSO, and since it was an

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1 external, and what I mean by that is basically off

2 the property in this case, since it was an external

3 matter downtown involving the authorities, this is

4 the domain of the OSA.

5 Q. What authorities, sir, are you talking

6 about?

7 A. Anybody ?? well, in this case it'd just

8 even be an EMT, even a police officer shows up to

9 investigate the accident.

10 Q. No sir. But what authorities in this

11 particular incident are you talking about? I'm not

12 talking about generally but in this incident what

13 authorities are you referring to?

14 A. Scientology authorities?

15 Q. No sir. You said it involving the

16 authorities, it was an external incident and it was

17 involving the authorities. What authorities are

18 you talking about?

19 A. I just tried to describe. See, from the

20 perspective of OSA, anybody with any license to

21 act. That would be an EMT team, a police officer,

22 fire department.

23 Q. Okay. My question though is which

24 authorities showed up at this incident, which ones

25 are you talking about with respect specifically to

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1 this incident?

2 A. Well, to the degree that the EMT was there

3 and to the degree there were police officers

4 regarding the accident, that right there was

5 sufficient.

6 Q. Is it your testimony that the police

7 officers were there to respond to the accident in

8 which Lisa McPherson ?? that Lisa McPherson had?

9 A. Yes.

10 Q. That's your understanding of the facts?

11 A. Yes.

12 Q. And it's upon those facts that you're

13 basing your opinion, correct?

14 A. Well, to the degree ?? I'm just saying to

15 the degree there was an incident downtown and

16 public officials were involved, then it becomes a

17 matter for OSA.

18 Q. I'm trying to find out what public

19 officials were involved to your knowledge, sir,

20 because you're basing your opinion upon these

21 facts, I understand. Is that correct?

22 A. Yes, but I ?? the thing you need to

23 understand is it doesn't matter at that point.

24 When it's off the base and it's downtown and

25 somebody is walking down the street naked, the

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1 police don't even have to show up. At that point

2 it becomes a matter of OSA even if there are no

3 authorities.

4 Q. Do you have any knowledge, personal

5 knowledge of any orders that Alain Kartuzinski

6 received from David Miscavige concerning Lisa

7 McPherson?

8 A. No.

9 Q. Did you meet with any people to discuss

10 and prepare for your testimony today?

11 A. Mr. Dandar.

12 Q. Did you meet with any people to discuss

13 this case and your opinions in preparing to provide

14 your opinions today?

15 A. Mr. Dandar.

16 Q. Did you meet with anyone other than

17 Mr. Dandar?

18 A. Not with regard to my opinions, no.

19 Q. What is your opinion with respect to the

20 command lines at Scientology, how they are used for

21 transmission of orders and the like?

22 A. That there are certain priorities for

23 these command lines that extend beyond the

24 immediate organization and they are there

25 specifically for that purpose. One of the primary

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1 purposes is for external threats, such as an

2 incident involving her, such as the filing of a

3 lawsuit, such as a bad press article. These are

4 things for which the report lines are established

5 for their own purpose. They go not through the

6 usual command line. It didn't go, say, from FSO up

7 to the management bureau that may be managing them

8 with regard to their usual activities. It will cut

9 over to the side because of the nature of the

10 subject, that it is an external threat, it's what

11 we call a PR flap, and it goes in a certain

12 direction.

13 At the same time, to the degree that she

14 was PTS, the first ?? you know, it's like an EMT

15 arriving. They sort of, you know, a broken bone,

16 they put the splint on and then they turn it over

17 to the people to handle. OSA will come in an do

18 the immediate external threat handling. As soon as

19 she was brought back in, at that point it becomes

20 what we call a technical matter. RTC would have

21 also been notified because it was a technical

22 matter as PTS III. OSA really does not get into

23 PTS III except if the person is acting crazy and

24 going to go to the police or the media. They are

25 interested in the police and the media, not the

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1 individual. So that would have gone secondarily to

2 RTC.

3 Once she moved into the Fort Harrison,

4 then it would have become an RTC technical issue.

5 OSA, the OSA would have stood back and then simply

6 monitored to see if police, government, media are

7 going to show up and they would just do a standby

8 and watch since their role would basically be over.

9 Q. Okay. First of all, what is a PR flap?

10 Could you define that for us?

11 A. Well, Lisa McPherson taking her clothes

12 off downtown is a PR flap.

13 Q. That's an example of a PR flap. I want to

14 know the definition of a PR flap as you understand

15 it, please.

16 A. Something that is ?? would prove

17 embarrassing, that's the lowest level, embarrassing

18 to the organization, that involves public relations

19 or public image.

20 Q. Is there anything ?? is there such a thing

21 as something that's not a PR flap, a regular flap?

22 A. You can have regular flaps inside the

23 organization, which are not PR flaps. You can just

24 have flaps.

25 Q. What's the difference between a flap and a

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1 PR flap?

2 A. A PR flap is something that involves the

3 image of the organization, you know, like a mailing

4 that you're supposed to get out this week didn't

5 make it, that's a flap. You didn't make it, it's

6 not going to get ready until next week, we're going

7 to lose income, that's a flap. But a PR flap,

8 generally, about 99 percent of the time, 99.9

9 percent of the time, will involve external areas,

10 will involve the image of the organization.

11 Q. Now, what's the factual basis for your ??

12 I understand what your opinion then is. You're

13 going to testify that in your opinion what happened

14 in this case, what is your opinion with respect to

15 the command line here in this flap involving Lisa

16 McPherson?

17 A. Well, the first thing ??

18 Q. The PR flap.

19 A. The first thing is being the PR flap that

20 it was, certain elements of the organization would

21 have been instantly called into action, followed by

22 the second wave that would come in and take over.

23 Certain reports, out of sheer necessity, have to go

24 to certain areas, certain actions have to be taken,

25 which are just basically what is now called in the

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1 general nonScientology world, just good ole PR

2 damage control, and that this is how the

3 organization works, and so you can just predict

4 that.

5 Q. Who in the RTC would have been notified

6 due to the fact that you characterized this flap as

7 being a technical matter, who would have been

8 notified in the RTC?

9 A. That is ?? first of all, that's pretty

10 much up to the individual. By the nature of

11 reports, as I said, you can send them to anybody,

12 and since they now have and have had for a number

13 of years, way back in the early '80s, e?mail

14 capabilities, you can just type it, you can cc

15 whoever you want. Senior CS INT is one that's

16 always required to be notified. There is always

17 what you might call a representative of the FSO on

18 the watch dog committee. That person would have

19 been notified because it directly involves the FSO.

20 There is various elements up there that ?? it

21 depends upon the person sending these up and, as I

22 said yesterday, Clearwater has been for so many

23 years such a powder keg, so much attention on it,

24 just by evidence of this case alone, with the

25 amount of the top executives that have vacated

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1 their jobs, you know. Mr. Rinder, who is supposed

2 to run an international network, you know, sits in

3 Clearwater.

4 Q. Excuse me, sir. Are you still responding

5 to the question?

6 A. Yeah.

7 Q. Okay.

8 A. I mean the point is you can measure it by

9 the amount of attention that comes down. That ??

10 Q. Who are those people who would be

11 notified?

12 MR. DANDAR: Wait a minute. Wait. You're

13 interrupting him. Let him finish his answer.

14 MR. TITUS: I'm not sure he's being

15 responsive and I'm not interrupting him. He

16 took a breath. I thought he was finished.

17 MR. DANDAR: Well, he ?? did you see the

18 gesture? He was making a gesture and you

19 interrupted him.

20 BY MR. TITUS:

21 Q. Have you finished, sir?

22 A. Not quite. So what I'm saying is usually

23 the procedure is that if, you know ?? certain

24 individuals have certain seniors, what we call

25 up?lines, that you will directly notify. If it is

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1 wide ranging, then you will expand that report

2 line. You will notify senior CSN, you will notify

3 watch dog committee, you will notify COB. You

4 might then cc, even though you're a technical

5 person, you might then cc your own report, be

6 required to cc it over to OSA even though that is

7 not your report line.

8 Q. You reviewed a lot of documents in this

9 case for your testimony, is that correct?

10 A. Some documents.

11 Q. Some documents. Did you see any of those

12 reports, sir, any documents reporting to these

13 various ??

14 A. No, I didn't bring anything like that. I

15 saw knowledge reports back in the original

16 discovery documents.

17 Q. Reporting this incident to whom?

18 A. Yes.

19 Q. And to whom?

20 A. I don't recall right now. There was

21 reports that were going up lines to RTC and to OSA.

22 Q. Do you have any personal knowledge of

23 these reports being made up line?

24 A. No, which I assume you mean at the time

25 her ??

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1 Q. At the time.

2 A. Thank you. No.

3 Q. Do you have any evidence now to show that

4 these reports were made up line?

5 A. No, other than the copies that I saw in

6 discovery.

7 Q. Copies of what?

8 A. Reports.

9 Q. What reports?

10 A. That I said that I saw that were being

11 made at various stages in this.

12 Q. What stages and to whom?

13 A. As I said, there was reports being made to

14 the OSA.

15 Q. When and to whom, from whom, to whom?

16 A. There were reports being made on the

17 initial flap and what was being ?? what had

18 happened. These went to OSA and RTC. I don't ??

19 I'm sorry, I would have to look at them to refresh

20 my memory as to exactly what person got them.

21 Q. You're basing your opinion on this

22 information that you don't recall?

23 A. Well, I recall that it went to OSA and

24 RTC. That's basically what I'm testifying to, is

25 that these are the echelons that are called in

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1 rather than ?? see, and this is important, that

2 the ?? what is presented is an organization like

3 the FSO is managed by a management section that is

4 senior to it and they are the ones that help them

5 move on a day?by?day or week?by?week basis, and I'm

6 just saying that there are certain incidents that

7 provoke reports into other echelons.

8 Q. Have you created any documents for this

9 litigation, any affidavits or notes, letters,

10 charts?

11 A. No, other than what I filed and what I

12 prepared for Mr. Dandar here today.

13 Q. Okay. Your second opinion, what is your

14 second opinion going to be about? What did you

15 prepare for Mr. Dandar today?

16 A. The documents that I have copied and

17 brought in that we're going to be using. There is

18 nothing written else.

19 Q. Those charts, those big billboard boards

20 behind you?

21 A. I did not prepare those. He had those.

22 Q. Did you participate in preparing those?

23 A. No.

24 Q. Do you know what's on them?

25 A. Yes.

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1 Q. Did you see them this morning?

2 A. Yes.

3 Q. What is your ??

4 MR. DANDAR: These are the ones that were

5 in the last hearing adding David Miscavige as

6 a party defendant. These are Sea Org

7 documents.

8 Q. What's the second opinion you're going to

9 give, sir?

10 A. Well, whether or not it's second, I don't

11 know, but for our purposes here ??

12 Q. Okay. For purposes for our discussion,

13 tell me the next opinion you're going to give.

14 A. That the religious image of the

15 organization is one that is prepared for a

16 particular purpose and not for the fact that it is

17 a religion but for the purpose of making it appear

18 to be a religion, and this is done for the sheer

19 purpose of defense, and such as protecting itself

20 from lawsuit, investigation, and inquiry, as well

21 as for advancement, such as getting a tax exemption

22 or a recognition or some other advantage, and that

23 this is not sincerely held within the organization

24 but is done for a separate motive.

25 Q. Okay. What documents and information did

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1 you review to support your opinion that ?? that

2 opinion you just gave?

3 A. Well, first of all it's based upon the 21

4 years of having done that, of being one of the key

5 people who did it, and who I would just blatantly

6 admit fraudulently obtained religious recognition

7 from the State Department and the Labor Department,

8 from their sections.

9 Q. But it's not part of your opinion that

10 publics and staff members of the Church of

11 Scientology do not believe that the Church of

12 Scientology is their religion or is a religion,

13 isn't that true?

14 A. I lost the negative but I think I can

15 still respond.

16 Q. Thank you.

17 A. There are individuals who do believe it,

18 but I'm also of a firm, firm belief and knowledge

19 that there is a vast majority who consider it more

20 of a self?help therapy and have always considered

21 it and treated it as a self?help therapy.

22 Q. And what's the basis for that statement?

23 A. Years of experience of trying in many

24 cases to convince people that we have to look like

25 a church and having to deal with a lot of staff and

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1 a lot of public who objected to it, who objected to

2 us going around in ministerial collar because they

3 did not want to be part of a church and we had to

4 handle them.

5 Q. What's the factual basis, your

6 understanding of the facts of this case, that

7 support your opinion that the religious image is

8 prepared for the purpose of making it appear to be

9 a religion?

10 A. Can you sort of retranslate that for me,

11 sir, as far as you saying a factual basis, please?

12 Q. What facts do you rely upon to support

13 that opinion?

14 A. Well, one thing I'm going to be using is

15 the policy letter that I referred to yesterday that

16 has been altered to create a religious image, that

17 this is one of the ways that the ?? a key way, it's

18 a key document that is often used by the

19 organization to show that Mr. Hubbard intended this

20 to be a religion, when really the original document

21 tells a slightly different story that he says this

22 ?? the purpose of this, don't worry, it's just a

23 matter for the accountants and the attorneys, we'll

24 just keep doing what we're doing, and meanwhile, in

25 another paragraph, he's selling shares in the

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1 organization. So this was a ?? this is a good

2 document that, in my opinion, encapsulates what it

3 is, because the organization is presenting a

4 completely altered version for the purpose, clearly

5 for the purpose of presenting this to the courts

6 and the media while hiding what Mr. Hubbard really

7 said, which shows his intention.

8 Q. Other than that policy letter, what else?

9 A. I'll be able to speak as far as my own

10 experiences, et cetera.

11 Q. Like what, what are your experiences?

12 A. Some of them that I mentioned before, such

13 as fraudulently obtaining ?? I tried to find and I

14 could not locate the letter from the State

15 Department, I believe it was 1975, that the State

16 Department sent to me when they granted the Church

17 of Scientology religious recognition for the

18 purpose of visas. The Labor Department also sent

19 me a letter saying we are granting the Church of

20 Scientology religious recognition for the purpose

21 of labor laws.

22 This is ?? these are ?? in fact, the labor

23 recognition is often cited and has been continually

24 cited as part of the history of their religious

25 recognition and, of course, they are not going to

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1 produce the letter because it's now to me.

2 Q. Can you tell me, sir, with specific

3 references, if you can, since 1988, what steps the

4 church has taken to ?? for the purpose of making it

5 appear that the Church of Scientology is a

6 religion?

7 A. Well, the biggest thing that they were ??

8 have been doing all through the '80s and carried on

9 through was the entire thing with the IRS.

10 Q. No sir. I'm not talking about the '80s.

11 My question is since 1988, tell me everything that

12 you have personal knowledge of that the Church of

13 Scientology has done for the purpose of making it

14 appear that the Church of Scientology is a

15 religion?

16 A. If you are referring, sir, to what I would

17 have percipiently inside the organization ?? and I

18 would have to correct you. I left in '89.

19 Q. Okay. '89.

20 A. I have no percipient inside knowledge.

21 What I have is knowing and seeing the

22 representations that they make into the media and

23 knowing how the organization works.

24 Q. Okay. So, in other words, you have no

25 knowledge about what, if anything, the church has

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1 done since 1989 to make it appear that it's a

2 religion?

3 A. I have records that they filed with the

4 IRS and I would say that's pretty convincing

5 evidence.

6 Q. What records are those, sir?

7 A. What they filed with the IRS to get their

8 tax exemption.

9 Q. Which the IRS granted them as a religion,

10 is that correct?

11 A. No. It granted them as a 501C3. The IRS

12 does not recognize religion.

13 Q. Okay.

14 A. It's something they always keep promoting,

15 and even Mr. Weinberg tried to promote it

16 yesterday, as we've been recognized as a religion

17 and a church. No, the IRS never does that. They

18 just say you're nonprofit and that's it.

19 Q. Okay.

20 THE WITNESS: Excuse me, did I miss

21 something?

22 MR. WEINBERG: Yes. They say a little

23 more than that and you know it. Maybe you

24 don't know it.

25 Q. Give me your next opinion, sir. Do you

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1 have another opinion that you're going to give this

2 morning?

3 A. That the role of the Sea Organization has

4 basically been overlooked. It is the actual ??

5 it's the actual structure or influence. It's very

6 difficult to describe because it takes its own

7 shape according to its needs. It's like water

8 seeking its own level. Actually, that's a good

9 analogy. It takes the shape of wherever it flows

10 into.

11 The Sea Organization is the actual moving

12 force of the bulk of the organization so that even

13 if you look at the command channels and you

14 understand that, and then if you look at the

15 corporate structure and you understand that, you're

16 still missing what is actually going on and how the

17 organization, the entire organization is controlled

18 from the very top echelons down to the lower

19 echelons.

20 Q. What is the basis for that opinion, sir?

21 A. Well, starting with familiarity, with my

22 own, as well as I'll be able to provide

23 documentation.

24 Q. When you talk about your familiarity,

25 you're talking about your familiarity as of 1989,

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1 when you left the church, is that correct?

2 A. No. I'm talking about 21 years of having

3 seen the role of the Sea Organization, both being

4 outside of it and watching its operations, seeing

5 its development and growth.

6 Q. But the 21 years you're talking about is

7 the 21 years that you were a member of the Church

8 of Scientology, isn't that true?

9 A. Yes.

10 Q. And that stopped in 1988?

11 A. '89.

12 Q. I'm sorry. I keep doing that. 1989, is

13 that right?

14 A. Yes.

15 Q. So since 1989 do you have any percipient

16 knowledge of how the Sea Org works?

17 A. I have only their publications.

18 Q. Which are?

19 A. Sea Org magazines is a primary source of

20 information. I think there is probably no better

21 source of information of how they operate than

22 their own documents.

23 Q. Well, what's ?? how many Sea Org magazines

24 have you ?? do you subscribe?

25 A. No.

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1 Q. How often do you receive these Sea Org

2 magazines?

3 A. Oh, they float around through various

4 people and you can always find one here and there.

5 Q. How often are they published?

6 A. Now and then. They are very sporadic.

7 All publications within the organization are

8 sporadic. They try to keep them quarterly but

9 sometimes they are not.

10 Q. So your ?? is it fair to say then that

11 your opinion as to the role of the Sea Organization

12 is based entirely upon what you have, since 1989,

13 is based entirely upon what you have read in Sea

14 Org magazines?

15 A. As understood and brought by 21 years

16 experience.

17 Q. Okay. And can you tell us about how many

18 magazines you have read since 1989, Sea Org

19 magazines? Alternatively, can you identify which

20 publications, particularly which magazines, you've

21 read?

22 A. The number of magazines that I've read in

23 the last 10 years is, I don't know, I've just ??

24 there has been 20 or 25. I remember in particular

25 the one on the 29th anniversary, which was a very

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1 big issue, one on the 27th anniversary. There are

2 certain ones that are key because of their size and

3 their photographs.

4 Q. And how is it that you say that the Sea

5 Org is the moving force of the organization, what

6 is the basis for that statement and how does that

7 work?

8 A. Well, it's like a dominant political party

9 in a one?party country, that it's really the

10 political party that moves it.

11 Q. Who is the head of the Sea Org?

12 A. David Miscavige.

13 Q. Who is the head of the RTC?

14 A. David Miscavige.

15 Q. Who is the head of ASI?

16 A. Well, the last I knew it was Norman

17 Starkey.

18 Q. How does your opinion regarding the role

19 of the Sea Organization have anything to do with

20 the facts of this case as you understand it?

21 A. Well, it basically complements the ?? and

22 fills out this point of reports and responsiveness

23 of the organization through command lines, because

24 in the end, command lines really don't explain it

25 all, that it ?? command lines do establish certain

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1 channels but Sea Org lines establish their own, and

2 so that becomes the wild card in the deck. So that

3 anything that becomes slightly unusual, at that

4 point then you can pretty much be assured that it

5 was a Sea Org influence. It's like trying ?? like

6 a physicist trying to measure something that they

7 can't see, like a black hole, so that somebody

8 could say, well, how come this organization just

9 decided to close its doors and move. Well, you can

10 pretty much guess that was a Sea Org mission that

11 was sent in to do it and nobody else really has the

12 authority to do it.

13 Q. What's your next opinion?

14 A. Those are the three.

15 Q. Those are the three and you have no other

16 opinion that you're going to render in this case,

17 is that what your testimony is?

18 A. Well, I'm sure there will be adjuncts to

19 that as they come up, but those are the three

20 categories.

21 Q. Okay. Give me all the adjuncts that

22 you're aware of with respect to your command line

23 opinions. I want to know all of your opinions,

24 adjuncts, whatever you want to call them, I want to

25 know all of your opinions, whether they are the

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1 primary opinion or subsidiary opinions.

2 MR. DANDAR: Object to the form.

3 Q. Okay. Give me ??

4 A. That is ? I can't ?? you know, you're

5 asking me sit down and tell me your life, and I

6 don't even know where to start at that point.

7 You'd have to ask me specific questions.

8 Q. Okay. Do you have any other opinions?

9 You've identified you have an opinion regarding

10 command lines, you have an opinion regarding the

11 religious image of the church, and you have an

12 opinion regarding the role of the Sea Organization.

13 Do you have any other opinions that you're going to

14 render today?

15 A. That would be based upon the questions.

16 Q. You've been hired as an expert and I

17 assume you've been hired to give expert opinion. I

18 want to know what expert opinions you're going to

19 give. Are you going to give any other expert

20 opinions other than pertaining to those three that

21 you have identified so far?

22 A. Well, they are large subjects, sir. I

23 mean they ?? if you want me to try to break down

24 into certain areas, I can do my best on it.

25 Whether or not I would be asked the question, I

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1 don't really know, but I would be happy to break it

2 down and do that.

3 Q. Okay.

4 A. Pick one.

5 Q. Command lines.

6 A. Command lines. Okay. What part do you

7 want to know? Did I say something ?? pick an area.

8 Q. No sir. Do you have any other opinions

9 about command lines other than what you've already

10 expressed today?

11 A. Yes.

12 Q. Have you been ?? are you prepared to give

13 that opinion in your trial testimony?

14 A. If asked, yes.

15 Q. Okay. And do you expect to be asked?

16 A. I really don't know, sir. It depends upon

17 what Mr. Dandar formulates as his questions. As we

18 all know, attorneys change their mind in the middle

19 of everything.

20 Q. Okay. Well, what's this opinion then?

21 A. The command channels booklet, which gives

22 the form of the organization, while it was designed

23 to educate Scientologists, it was also intended for

24 two other key purposes at the time. One was a PR

25 purpose, to create the image that there were these

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1 standard channels. Also, this is something that

2 had been in the works for quite a while and that I

3 also have percipient knowledge of, that it was

4 actually being worked on for quite a while.

5 Q. I'm listening, sir. Go ahead.

6 A. Okay. And that what it was intended to do

7 also is to create ?? try to reinforce the corporate

8 shield so they could ?? so that it was a carefully

9 worded document, very carefully worded so that if

10 anybody says, well, how does this really work, you

11 can bring this document forward and say, see, this

12 is how it really works.

13 Q. Did you prepare that document?

14 A. No.

15 Q. Who prepared that document?

16 A. That was prepared out of RTC.

17 Q. Did you participate in any of the

18 discussions with the people who prepared that

19 document?

20 A. No.

21 Q. In connection with its preparation?

22 A. No.

23 Q. Okay.

24 A. So it has a function, because everything

25 that you prepare in that way for that type of

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1 distribution with the organization has more than an

2 informational nature. You know, when Mr. Hubbard

3 would issue a bulletin or a policy letter, nine

4 times out of 10 he did it for plain instructional

5 purposes, he wrote a few things for PR purposes,

6 but for plain instructional purposes. But when ??

7 Q. How do you know that?

8 A. You can just read it and see it.

9 Q. So that's your opinion?

10 A. Yes.

11 Q. Personal opinion?

12 A. Yes, and it's there for that. As opposed

13 to, let's say, a piece of advertising, gloss

14 advertising, it's not for consumption, it's meant

15 for promotion, and you can start to recognize ??

16 you know, it's not hard to recognize the

17 difference.

18 Well, when you have been in that

19 enterprise for 20 years and you have been there and

20 you've been responsible for creating publications

21 and stories and articles and TV shows that are

22 designed to create an image that really doesn't

23 have that much to do with internal, it's not hard

24 to recognize the traits and the nature of this

25 thing, that the purpose of this thing was to be

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1 used in court cases and to the media, et cetera.

2 It was built as much for external consumption as it

3 was for internal consumption.

4 Q. That's your opinion?

5 A. Yes.

6 MR. TITUS: I will stop with my questions

7 because I have other counsel and I'm sure they

8 have a few.

9 THE WITNESS: Okay.

10 MR. WEINBERG: Do you want a cup of

11 water?

12 THE WITNESS: Thank you, Sandy. I'd love

13 a cup of water.

14 (Discussion off the record.)

15 CROSS?EXAMINATION

16 BY MR. HANES:

17 Q. Mr. Young, my name is Ron Hanes. I

18 represent Janis Johnson. I probably speak lower

19 than Mr. Titus, so if you have trouble hearing me,

20 let me know.

21 Do you intend ?? and I don't want to go

22 into all these subsets of your opinions. Quite

23 frankly, they should have been in the interrogatory

24 that we received. That having been said, and I do

25 object again to proceeding along this expedited

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1 basis without your full opinions being provided to

2 us, and they have not been, it appears to me. Are

3 you going to offer any expert opinions regarding

4 Janis Johnson individually?

5 A. No sir.

6 Q. When I ask that question, I mean either

7 directly passing upon anything Ms. Johnson did or

8 did not do?

9 A. No.

10 Q. Would it be fair to say that any knowledge

11 that you have regarding Ms. Johnson in this case is

12 based upon what Mr. Dandar has either provided to

13 you through documentation or any documents I assume

14 you may have researched on your own?

15 A. That's correct.

16 Q. Other than documents that Mr. Dandar

17 provided to you, have you conducted any research on

18 your own regarding Ms. Johnson?

19 A. I did an Internet search once. I ??

20 Q. I think you've testified to that at the

21 beginning of the deposition?

22 A. Yes.

23 Q. Regarding her medical license, things of

24 that nature?

25 A. Right. There's nothing else.

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1 Q. Did someone direct you to do that?

2 A. No.

3 Q. Were you retained as an expert at the time

4 that you did that by Mr. Dandar?

5 A. Yes.

6 Q. For what purpose did you do that?

7 A. Well, as I said in my deposition, I

8 actually had two reasons. One, I wanted to take an

9 actual instance that I ?? a solid instance by which

10 I could learn Internet research, since I knew

11 nothing, and that if you look at the thing

12 Mr. Weinberg provided, said if someone will

13 instruct me on how to use a search engine. So it

14 was pretty much as much trying to learn it and, at

15 the same time, if I learn anything, then I will

16 come up with something that's relevant as opposed

17 to looking up dogs or something. So it was as much

18 to do that as it was to learn something.

19 Q. Any opinion that you're going to offer in

20 your trial deposition you are not offering against

21 Janis Johnson?

22 A. No sir.

23 Q. Some of these go without saying but I need

24 to cover my bases on this. You have no personal or

25 percipient knowledge of Janis Johnson's duties and

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1 responsibilities at Flag Service Organization in

2 1995?

3 A. No.

4 Q. Do you have any knowledge regarding

5 Ms. Johnson's personal religious beliefs?

6 A. No.

7 Q. Would you agree that it would be

8 inappropriate for you to pass judgment on

9 Ms. Johnson's personal religious beliefs?

10 A. I have difficulty with the question. My

11 first response is ?? has always been sort of like

12 it's a free country, I guess I'm always as an

13 individual free to respond about anybody's belief.

14 Q. But you don't intend on offering any

15 opinion at trial on Ms. Johnson's personal

16 religious beliefs?

17 A. No.

18 Q. Regardless of whether you choose to do

19 that in casual conversation or not?

20 A. That is correct.

21 Q. Likewise, you don't intend on passing any

22 or offering any personal opinion on Ms. McPherson's

23 personal religious beliefs?

24 A. I haven't been asked to do that, no.

25 Q. You have no personal knowledge of

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1 Ms. Johnson's rank in the Sea Organization?

2 A. No.

3 Q. You have no personal knowledge as to

4 whether or not Ms. Johnson has signed a billion

5 year contract?

6 A. No.

7 Q. You have no personal knowledge really as

8 to whether or not Ms. Johnson has a rank in the Sea

9 Org other than your own speculation?

10 A. That's correct.

11 MR. DANDAR: It's over an hour now.

12 MR. HANES: I would assume you're not

13 going to cut me off here.

14 MR. DANDAR: I'm going to cut you off in

15 a few minutes, but go ahead.

16 MR. HANES: And I assume you're going to

17 let Mr. Polli have a chance to ask some

18 questions.

19 MR. DANDAR: I wouldn't think so but it

20 all depends on how nice you are.

21 BY MR. HANES:

22 Q. Are you comfortable in answering a few

23 more questions?

24 A. Yes sir, I am.

25 Q. Thank you.

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1 A. Thanks to Mr. Weinberg's courtesy.

2 MR. WEINBERG: There you go.

3 THE WITNESS: There you go.

4 MR. DANDAR: It's a nice professional

5 day.

6 MR. WEINBERG: A good deed got me ?? got

7 you 15 minutes.

8 MR. DANDAR: And you know what, I was ??

9 it was really nice yesterday too. I mean it

10 was like a normal deposition.

11 MR. WEINBERG: Well, good. I'm glad to

12 hear it.

13 THE WITNESS: Did we just stipulate to 15

14 minutes?

15 MR. DANDAR: Yeah. Go ahead.

16 BY MR. HANES:

17 Q. Mr. Young, are you familiar with

18 Ms. Johnson's routine or her daily routine when she

19 was a staff member during 1995 at Flag Service

20 Organization?

21 A. No sir.

22 Q. And you don't intend on offering any

23 opinion as to that, correct?

24 A. No sir.

25 Q. As a matter of fact, you don't intend on

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1 offering any opinion as to anyone's routine at Flag

2 Service Organization in 1995?

3 A. No sir. I would be capable of responding

4 if somebody were to ask me what is an MLO, but that

5 would be as a generic subject, like saying what is

6 an auditor.

7 Q. As opposed to a specific expertise?

8 A. That is true.

9 Q. Just help me. If you've answered these as

10 part of the prior two days of deposition, please

11 forgive me but, just quickly, what's the longest

12 period of time you ever spent at Flag in

13 Clearwater, consecutively I'm talking?

14 A. Perhaps a week.

15 Q. And you were not a staff member there at

16 any time?

17 A. No.

18 Q. You didn't have percipient knowledge or

19 personal, day?to?day knowledge of the ongoing

20 activities at Flag Service Organization during your

21 time as a Scientologist?

22 A. Sections of it because I ?? my connection

23 to it was through Department 20 activities, so I

24 was ?? my purpose of being there was for that

25 section. As to the rest of the organization, what

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1 was going on, would be something I might hear but I

2 was not directly interested in knowing about it.

3 Q. And I'm speaking to being on site to

4 observe day?to?day activities taking place at Flag.

5 You were never there in that capacity?

6 A. Yes, I was, during that time when I would

7 be there. See, this is the point. You come in

8 from another echelon, you come in and say there

9 would be a PR problem or dealing with something,

10 gathering information, but I'm trying to contain

11 it, that it would be Department 20 activities that

12 I would do that.

13 Q. And the longest period of time that you

14 did that was one week?

15 A. Yes.

16 Q. Or is that a separate occasion that you're

17 speaking of?

18 A. No, that was ?? the longest single time

19 would be one week.

20 Q. And what year was that?

21 A. I don't remember the year exactly but just

22 for your purposes, about 20 years ago.

23 Q. Closer to 1980 than 1990?

24 A. Yes, definitely.

25 Q. Is there anyone that could confirm that

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1 activity having taken place whereupon you would

2 have been present there?

3 A. Well, Mr. Rinder is sitting here. When he

4 and I were good friends, I remember seeing him

5 there. He can certainly be called to know that I

6 was there, although I don't know how he would want

7 to characterize it given our positions.

8 Q. And the last time that you were on site at

9 Flag Service Organization to observe any activities

10 would have been when?

11 A. Probably about maybe 1978. I think I went

12 there on a fund raising tour.

13 Q. Has ?? now I'm asking you more for general

14 knowledge. Has Flag expanded, to your knowledge,

15 since 1978?

16 A. Yes.

17 Q. Either physically through structures or

18 through staff?

19 A. Yes.

20 Q. Regarding ?? I just want to follow up on

21 one of Mr. Titus's questions. You indicated that

22 there were some knowledge reports that you had seen

23 in this case. Am I using the correct term?

24 A. Yes.

25 Q. And you had a question as to where those

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1 knowledge reports went, you didn't have any

2 specific knowledge as to where they necessarily

3 went.

4 A. I don't recall specifically without

5 looking at them. I know to what echelon they went.

6 Q. How many knowledge reports do you recall

7 looking at?

8 A. There might have been about a half dozen.

9 Q. Do you recall any of the specific content

10 in any of those knowledge reports or could you

11 produce them to us?

12 A. I don't have them. I ?? they were

13 documents Mr. Dandar provided to me under

14 discovery, so I'm sure I could ask Mr. Dandar and

15 we could find them again and I could recognize

16 them.

17 Q. Can you distinguish for me what would be a

18 knowledge report as to any other type of report if

19 I observed the document?

20 A. Oh, it will say in the subject line re,

21 you know, colon, or subject, colon. It will either

22 say knowledge report or it will say KR in caps,

23 maybe or maybe not followed with the subject, or it

24 may be handwritten, if somebody will write it up

25 there off to the side, re: KR in big letters. 99

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1 times out of a 100 the knowledge report has

2 knowledge report or KR written on it because that

3 is a distinct classification of report written.

4 Now, that is distinct from, say, a weekly

5 report in which you report the activities; a daily

6 report, a stat report, a technical report, et

7 cetera. A KR is probably one of the most general

8 categories. Anybody can write one on any subject

9 to anybody, as opposed to a weekly report follows a

10 very exact sequence and going up through a chain of

11 command, but KRs, as we call them, anybody could

12 write one to anybody.

13 Q. Okay. And you would speculate as to who

14 necessarily wrote it without looking at the

15 document or where it necessarily ended up?

16 A. That is true.

17 Q. But you believe you had seen about a half

18 a dozen of those?

19 A. To the best of my recollection, sir, yes.

20 Q. Okay. Just summarize for me what

21 information you have reviewed regarding

22 Ms. Johnson?

23 A. Well, at the time, and again, this was a

24 couple of years ago, and it just came in the

25 package of materials, so I wasn't reviewing her as

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1 much as she was inside of the material and I was

2 just having to understand the various people and

3 what they were doing. So I did not sit down with a

4 pack of material or review her in particular. She

5 was just one of the names that came along the way

6 that I had to understand. And that's the best way

7 I can describe it. It wasn't a separate one except

8 when I used her name for, you know, can I use the

9 Internet for information.

10 MR. DANDAR: Okay. Are we going to have

11 Mr. Polli now?

12 MR. HANES: Let me just ask him a couple

13 more questions.

14 Q. What model ??

15 MR. DANDAR: Sorry, Mr. Polli.

16 Q. ?? are you relying upon in providing us

17 your definition of religion?

18 A. It's I would just say pretty much my own

19 understanding of my model from my own educational

20 background.

21 Q. One that you've created yourself?

22 A. Well, for this particular occasion and the

23 best way that I can create it. If I were to sit

24 down and write an article for a popular magazine as

25 opposed to a, quote, a scholarly magazine, I would

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1 change the model.

2 MR. HANES: I'm going to pass you to

3 Mr. Polli. I may have a question or two if

4 Mr. Dandar allows me to follow up.

5 THE WITNESS: Okay. Thank you.

6 CROSS?EXAMINATION

7 BY MR. POLLI:

8 Q. Mr. Young, my name is Bob Polli and I

9 represent David Houghton. I would take this

10 opportunity to lodge the same objections as ??

11 MR. DANDAR: Noted.

12 Q. I have to get right to the meat of the

13 coconut because, obviously, we're on some kind of a

14 time situation. Do you know David Houghton?

15 A. No sir.

16 Q. Have you ever met David Houghton?

17 A. No sir.

18 Q. Do you know what he does now at the

19 church?

20 A. No sir.

21 Q. Do you know what he did back in November

22 or December 1995?

23 A. I don't recall, sir.

24 Q. Did you review documents regarding or

25 information regarding David Houghton for your

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1 testimony today?

2 A. No sir.

3 Q. Have you ever reviewed any documents that

4 contained the name of David Houghton?

5 A. I remember it coming up in the pack of

6 material a couple of years ago but it was one of

7 those things that it didn't become relevant to what

8 Mr. Dandar finally decided he needed me to focus

9 on.

10 Q. Can you recall specifically how his name

11 came up in that packet?

12 A. No sir.

13 Q. Is it your recollection that his name came

14 up in the reports written by the people that

15 watched Lisa McPherson during the 17? or 18?day

16 stay at the Church of Scientology?

17 A. I don't remember his name in the ?? what

18 we call the logs, you know. To ask me where do I

19 remember seeing it would be going back into the

20 reports of what different people had been doing.

21 Q. Okay. My understanding is that the three

22 areas of expertise that you responded to in

23 Mr. Weinberg's question was familiarity with

24 command lines, how Sea Org works and religious

25 presentation of Scientology, and with regards to

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1 the religious presentation of Scientology, I

2 believe you said that the public relations aspect

3 of it, how you present a subject to create an image

4 as in advertising, and no one ever asked you

5 whether you had a special expertise in advertising,

6 special training, education, experience in

7 advertising. You mentioned earlier that

8 Scientology involved and your job specifically

9 involved a great deal in advertising.

10 A. Well, advertising was one category. There

11 was also other ways that you do public relations.

12 Q. Right. And you pretty well covered the

13 other ways yesterday. I guess what I'm asking you

14 is to fill in a gap in my notes from yesterday,

15 because no one really asked you about whether you

16 had special expertise in advertising, or training,

17 education or skills?

18 A. Other than my own ?? the particular

19 experiences that I had in my jobs, no.

20 Q. Were you trained on the job, is that what

21 you're saying then?

22 A. Yes sir.

23 Q. So you have no certificates, no particular

24 degrees or expertise in advertising other than what

25 you learned on the job?

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1 A. That's true.

2 Q. Okay. On the job at the Church of

3 Scientology during that 21 years?

4 A. Well, not exactly. I was involved in

5 public relations in political campaigns, and so we

6 were involved in some advertising material and

7 doing things there when I was working for the

8 Democratic State Central Committee.

9 Q. This is before the Church of Scientology?

10 A. Yes. This was 1964.

11 Q. When you were asked how this public

12 relations and creating an image was relevant to

13 this wrongful death case, you replied that it was

14 your position Scientology wasn't a valid religion.

15 Is that position going to trickle down to David

16 Houghton, are you going to give an opinion on

17 whether or not David Houghton has a bona fide

18 belief that Scientology is a religion?

19 A. No sir.

20 Q. And I guess you couldn't do that because

21 you don't know David Houghton, you haven't talked

22 to him?

23 A. That's correct.

24 THE WITNESS: I need to ask my counsel one

25 question real fast.

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1 (Discussion off the record.)

2 A. Go ahead.

3 Q. One of the opinions that you just talked

4 about is that in your opinion, your expert opinion,

5 Scientology is run by the Sea Org and the Sea Org

6 structure and that it's a nexus in Scientology,

7 that it runs from the very top and trickles all the

8 way down to as low as it wants to go.

9 My question to you is if you know where

10 David Houghton is in the scheme of things, are you

11 going to render an opinion in your trial deposition

12 that will come up in a couple of minutes as to

13 whether or not David Houghton has a role or a part

14 in this nexus and how it applies ?? and if he does,

15 how that applies to the Lisa McPherson situation?

16 A. Specifically to Mr. Houghton, no sir.

17 Q. You also talked about different approaches

18 to Scientology and opining about Scientology

19 yesterday. One of the gentlemen you mentioned was

20 a Dr. Kent. You say he took a scholarly approach

21 to his explanations of Scientology. What kind of

22 approach do you take in your expert opinions?

23 A. In what capacity? I'm here in a different

24 capacity than I ?? I'm not quite sure I can answer

25 your question.

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1 Q. Well, you don't understand my question?

2 Because I will try to articulate it so it's more

3 understandable.

4 A. If you could, please.

5 Q. Okay. And this goes from questions you

6 answered yesterday about approaches to being an

7 expert about Scientology, and one of the persons ??

8 people you talked highly about was a Dr. Kent from

9 Canada. And while I really didn't follow the ??

10 Dr. Kent's opinion, I did hear you say that you

11 appreciated the way he presented his opinion

12 because he took a scholarly approach to

13 Scientology, the discussion of Scientology.

14 I'm asking you what kind ?? as an expert,

15 an alleged expert or expert in Scientology, what

16 kind of approach do you take in rendering your

17 opinion?

18 A. On this case it would just be simply a

19 factual analytical approach as opposed to

20 scholastic, philosophical, narrative, biographical,

21 et cetera. Mine would just be a recitation of

22 facts and pretty much as dryly as one might imagine

23 them.

24 Q. Okay. Did you review the fifth amended

25 complaint to provide a basis for any opinions you

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1 may give as soon as we do our trial deposition?

2 A. No sir.

3 Q. Did you review David Houghton's interviews

4 with the State Attorney's Office in preparation for

5 the opinions that you're going to render or

6 opinions that you're going to render at the trial

7 deposition?

8 A. No sir.

9 Q. In response to a question that Mr. Hanes

10 asked you a couple of minutes ago, you, I believe,

11 stated that you came to Clearwater in 1978 from a

12 different or another echelon.

13 A. Yes sir.

14 Q. What echelon did you come from?

15 A. From Department 20 at the US level.

16 Q. Is that a Sea Org department?

17 A. Not in 1978 it wasn't, no.

18 Q. So that's changed from 1978?

19 A. Yes.

20 Q. You also said yesterday that you were

21 going to render an opinion on David Miscavige's

22 role in the PR flap concerning Lisa McPherson. I

23 believe that's a discussion you had with

24 Mr. Weinberg. I'm not sure whether you're going to

25 render an opinion on it but you had that discussion

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1 yesterday.

2 A. I wouldn't characterize it as that.

3 Q. Okay. Well, that was my sloppy notes.

4 I'm trying to read my writing. My focus or concern

5 with that is how or if it impacts David Houghton.

6 Are you going to, in your trial testimony, funnel

7 that on down to wherever David Houghton is in the

8 pecking order?

9 A. No sir.

10 MR. POLLI: I have no other questions.

11 MR. WEINBERG: Ken, because of the

12 kindness that I rendered this morning, I've

13 got a couple of questions that I want to ask.

14 Is that all right?

15 MR. DANDAR: Just a couple.

16 MR. WEINBERG: Okay.

17 REDIRECT EXAMINATION

18 BY MR. DANDAR:

19 Q. Did ?? Mr. Young, hello again. Did Lisa

20 McPherson believe Scientology was a religion?

21 A. That is a difficult topic because there

22 was ?? there were fragments that ?? Mr. Dandar

23 asked me that at one point way back when when I was

24 going through this, and I said I did not have

25 enough information, that there might be more

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1 information that one could glean out from PC

2 folders but I wasn't able to render an opinion on

3 that.

4 Q. Well, you did see a variety of information

5 indicating that she was, as a public, deeply

6 involved in many church activities, correct?

7 A. Yes.

8 Q. That she had been a Scientologist for the

9 better part of her adult life, correct?

10 A. Yes.

11 Q. That she had been on staff at one point,

12 correct?

13 A. Yes.

14 Q. That she had moved to Clearwater to be

15 closer to the church, you understood that, correct?

16 A. Yes.

17 Q. And, you know, so based on all of that,

18 you know, is it your opinion that she, as a member

19 of the public with that history, had a bona fide

20 belief that Scientology was her religion?

21 A. No, definitely not. That would not be

22 sufficient criteria, just that, because there was

23 many people who would fit that criteria who would

24 not consider it a religion, would consider it a

25 self?help therapy. There would be some that fit

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1 that criteria who would, Mr. Weinberg.

2 Q. So what you're telling me is you don't

3 know as to Lisa McPherson, you don't have enough

4 information?

5 A. That is true, sir.

6 MR. DANDAR: We're way over the time now.

7 That's an hour and a half.

8 MR. WEINBERG: Okay. This is really for

9 you on the subpoena. Can you just tell us,

10 both of you, what efforts were made to locate

11 the documents that we asked for on the

12 subpoena?

13 MR. DANDAR: Are you talking about

14 Stacy's subpoena?

15 MR. WEINBERG: And Vaughn's subpoena. I

16 mean what efforts were made to locate the

17 documents the representations have been made

18 today aren't available?

19 MR. DANDAR: The documents I produced

20 yesterday in response to Vaughn's subpoena to

21 produce documents or ??

22 MR. WEINBERG: No, no, no. The documents

23 you produced yesterday was in response to our

24 agreement, I think, that we were entitled to

25 stuff before and the other defendants.

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1 MR. DANDAR: And you've received all the

2 documents I have in reference to Mr. Young or

3 Stacy Brooks.

4 MR. WEINBERG: Right. And so what I'm

5 asking is what effort ?? can we just have on

6 the record what effort was made by Mr. Young

7 and by Ms. Brooks to comply with these

8 subpoenas?

9 MR. DANDAR: I asked each one of them

10 individually, I went through each paragraph

11 and said do you have this, do you have this,

12 do you have this, and they answered those ??

13 my requests.

14 MR. WEINBERG: Right.

15 MR. DANDAR: And it says reference to

16 Stacy, she has none.

17 MR. WEINBERG: And doesn't have access to

18 them either, is what you're saying?

19 MR. DANDAR: Well, anything to do with

20 that animal foundation, she has no access to

21 that.

22 MR. WEINBERG: Okay.

23 MR. HERTZBERG: Are you representing that

24 neither Stacy Young Brooks or Vaughn Young

25 have a single piece of paper that reflect

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1 anything to do with payments received from

2 Robert Minton or others or from your firm,

3 that there isn't one document that addresses

4 that, or reimbursement for expenses, for

5 example? I'm, in particular, focusing on

6 paragraphs numbered 3 and 4 of these

7 subpoenas. Is that what you're stating on the

8 record?

9 MR. DANDAR: I'm stating on the record

10 that I asked each one of them that question

11 and they said none, and I can tell you ?? I

12 mean I can see you're in disbelief but that's

13 just the way it is.

14 MR. HERTZBERG: Yes, I am.

15 MR. WEINBERG: Okay. We'll just mark as

16 exhibits a copy of two subpoenas.

17 MR. DANDAR: That's fine. Go ahead.

18 (Defendant's Composite Exhibit D was

19 marked for identification.)

20 MR. DANDAR: Okay. Let's take a break so

21 we can regroup for the trial ??

22 MR. WEINBERG: Just for the record, it's

23 going to be Composite Exhibit D, okay, which

24 is the Stacy subpoena and the Vaughn subpoena.

25 MR. DANDAR: That's fine.

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1 THE WITNESS: I prefer the name Robert,

2 Sandy, actually.

3 MR. WEINBERG: Oh, I'm sorry, Robert.

4 Okay.

5 THE WITNESS: Just as an aside, if we get

6 on a first?name basis.

7 MR. WEINBERG: Well, don't push it.

8 THEREUPON, the deposition of ROBERT VAUGHN

9 YOUNG was concluded at 10:54 a.m.

10 NOTE: The original and one copy of the

11 foregoing deposition will be held by Mr. Shaw; copy

12 to Mr. Dandar.

13 ARRANGEMENTS for the reading and signing

14 of the deposition transcript will be handled by the

15 office of Mr. Kennan Dandar of the firm Dandar &

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3 I, ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG, have read the

4 foregoing deposition given by me on January 21,

5 2000, in Tampa, Florida, and the following

6 corrections, if any, should be made in the

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21 SIGNED at _________________, Florida, this

22 __________ day of ____________________ , 2000.

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4 COUNTY OF POLK

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7 certify that the witness named herein personally

8 appeared before me and was duly sworn.

9 WITNESS my hand and official seal this

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2 STATE OF FLORIDA

3 COUNTY OF POLK

4 I, Susan D. Wasilewski, Registered

5 Professional Reporter, Certified Realtime Reporter

6 and Notary Public in and for the State of Florida

7 at large, hereby certify that the witness appeared

8 before me for the taking of the foregoing

9 deposition, and that I was authorized to and did

10 stenographically and electronically report the

11 deposition; and that a review of the transcript was

12 requested; and that the transcript is a true and

13 complete record of my stenographic notes and

14 recordings thereof.

15 I FURTHER CERTIFY that I am neither an

16 attorney nor counsel for the parties to this cause,

17 nor a relative or employee of any attorney or party

18 connected with this litigation, nor am I

19 financially interested in the outcome of this

20 action.

21 DATED THIS 22nd day of January, 2000, at

22 Lakeland, Polk County, Florida.

23 _______________________________ 24 Susan D. Wasilewski, RPR, CRR My Commission Expires: 10?23?03 25 Transcript ordered: 1?21?00

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