Co$ Public Relations says:
(h) In or about early October, 1997, in violation of the
Order, Armstrong voluntarily and willingly participated in a videotaped
interview during which he violated the terms of the above referenced
Judgment. Armstrong was informed prior to the interview that it was
being recorded for broadcast on British television. See Wilson
declaration, Exhibit C.
-=-
Gerry said:
It's actually Wilson's Exhibit L, a purported, and I think poor,
transcript of the "Secret Lives of L. Ron Hubbard" documentary.
Here's what Wilson says I said:
[Quote]
<snip
NARRATOR:
Excalibur became the secret text of Scientology. Hubbard said it was
too dangerous to publish.
But 40 years later, a treasure trove from Hubbard's early journals and
manuscripts, believed to have been long lost, was discovered by his
staff.
GERRY ARMSTRONG: There were two and a half versions of Excalibur. I
read them and I didn't go mad, and didn't die.
They also include the information within related writings that these
came out of a nitrous oxide incident. Hubbard had a couple of teeth
extracted and it was while under the effect of nitrous oxide that he
came up with Excalibur.
NARRATOR: Hubbard's death was in fact an hallucination under the
effects of anesthetic, so what was the intellectual dish he fed on?
GERRY ARMSTRONG: It's not particularly revolutionary. The key to
Excalibur was this great realization by Hubbard of survive as being
the one command that all existence and all life and all people have
that became the basis for a lot of dianetics, and a lot of
scientology.
<snip
NARRATOR:
His flagship was a 3,000 ton converted cattle ferry. On board, Hubbard
had a personal guard called the Commodores Messengers.
GERRY ARMSTRONG: They took care of everything for him. They dressed
him. They got him ready for bed. They lit his cigarettes. They held
his ashtray.
<snip
NARRATOR: On one occasion, Gerry Armstrong, who'd been sent on a shore
errand, was visited by one of Hubbard's messengers.
GERRY ARMSTRONG: This was Terri, who was later to be my wife, and she
came to me where I was working and she said the Commodore wants to
know, is it true that you went to the US Embassy and applied for 30
some odd visas, and I said yes, Sir, because that's how you respond to
the messenger. And her next message was, the Commodore says you're a
fucking asshole.
<snip
GERRY ARMSTRONG: People were in awe of him, and people were frightened
of him. He was the boss, he was the dictator. He could order anyone to
do anything on board. He was ruthless. He could at times be, at times,
charming, but he could also be very belligerent, and he could be very
uncaring and cruel.
<snip
GERRY ARMSTRONG: He had phobias about dust, he had phobias about
smells. He had phobias about sounds, as though he would hear sounds
that weren't there, and he would scream at the sound technician. And
he would see things that weren't there and he would scream at the
people who were framing the shot. And he would smell smells that
weren't there, and he'd have people rinse his clothing some 13 or 15
or however many times.
<snip
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