This should have been the end of Gerry's
involvement with Scientology.
Enter The Loyalists
As part of the settlement with Scientology,
Gerry agreed not to speak about what he knew of Hubbard's background and the fraudulent
activities of the church. He did not realize that the church would continue to speak
about him.
After leaving Scientology, Gerry was declared a
Suppressive Person and marked Fair Game by the Church. In Scientology, this means
that person can be tricked, cheated, lied to, sued, or destroyed.
Gerry was followed, photographed, videotaped and harassed. Attempts
were made to run his car off the freeway. To top it all off, the Church set
him up in a sting operation involving a mysterious group of Scientologists called
"The Loyalists."
The Loyalists were supposedly a group of high ranking members of the
church who were dissatisfied with how David Miscavaige was running Scientology after
Hubbard had gone into hiding. Hubbard eluded the law after the govermnent raided the
church and sent ten top officials to prison. Hubbard remained in hiding the rest of
his life.
The Loyalists turned to Gerry for help in planning a coup from which
they would gain control of the church. Gerry met with two representatives of The
Loyalists to discuss possible scenarios.
The first person Gerry met was a man named David Kluge who met with
Gerry on November 7th and 9th of 1984.
Next, Gerry met another member of The Loyalists...Mike Rinder.
Rinder is the head of the Office of Special Affairs which is the "dirty tricks"
branch of the church. Rinder met with Gerry twice. First on November 11th and
then again on November 30, 1984.
Gerry didn't know that these meetings in the park were being
videotaped by a Scientology hired P.I. and that both Kluge and Rinder were wired.
The Tapes Surface
These tapes were used by Scientology in the
court trial involving Julie Titchbourne in Portland, Oregon in 1986. Julie sued the
church for fraud and Gerry was called as a witness. To defame Gerry, the church
played these tapes.
After the trial, the jury was poled and it was
very clear that the church's plan backfired. Most jurists agreed that the
tapes made the church look terrible. Furthermore, Gerry appeared to be a good man
trying to help clean up the corruption in the church.
This same jury found Scientology guilty of
defrauding Titchbourne and awarded her a massive $39,000,000 victory.
The Tapes are Circulated
Next the church took these tapes and had them edited into a 20 minute
video which they sent to media outlets to discredit Armstrong. This truncated
version was narrated by Heber Jentzsch and edited by a woman who would one day be another
thorn in Scientology's side, Stacy Brooks.
Watch the edited
Scientology version
Now View the Complete and
Unedited Tapes
Before viewing the full tapes, it might be best
to get a little more background to the tapes. To hear Gerry's account of the
incident, you can view part of an interview Gerry gave to Spanky Taylor at a CAN
Conference on November 6th, 1992.
View Gerry's Interview with
Spanky Taylor
The Loyalist Tapes
Here are the tapes in their original and
unexpurgated form. They were videotaped by Scientology's often used private
investigator, Eugene Ingram.
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