Subject: Who is Garry Scarff?
May I remind you of a few articles from Garry Scarff, and at the same
time wonder if he really is a multi personality type of individual.
Now he's back on the same old shit track again.
Here is what Garry had fwd'ed to a.r.s, by exscio@aol.com
(ExScio), due to his multi killfiled standard. Ask yourself if Scarff
lives up to what he says here:
From: exscio@aol.com (ExScio)
Thanks for giving me your attention. Regardless of what you think
of the man, or whether you would rather see him barbequed on a
spit or treated like a person who really needs help, you should take
a moment to read the following. It may explain a lot.
Garry asked that I post this for him (I can't really blame him, though
I'm not acting as an apologist either).
It is important because it shows how Scientology victimizes people
for its own purposes without regard for the consequences it creates.
And most of us would agree that that is the whole point of why we
are here.
ExScio@aol.com
From: Garry Scarff
I want to thank the people whom have e-mailed me over the last few
days and expressed their love and concern, if not exasperation, over
the derisive posts on ARS that have been made about me and I have made
about others, in kind. It has, indeed, gotten out of hand and I share
the blame for it's occurrences. I regret it and I apologize and it
will not happen again. I know that I have made promises before and in
time, you will know that this time, I am serious.
I have not decided whether to leave ARS and post constructively or
leave ARS and try to put the whole Scientology ordeal behind me. I do
recognize many things about myself and others on ARS.
First, real recovery whether it be from AIDS, alcoholism, drug
addiction or cultic involvement, gives a person the chance to tell the
truth about who they are, the whole story, everything that brought
them to where they are today. For many of us, being honest about our
childhoods and adulthoods is a painful and new experience, and not one
that I have considered. But I'm gradually realizing that when we get
honest with ourselves, do we begin to see the patterns, the behaviors,
and situations that keep repeating themselves in our relationships,
jobs, illnesses, accidents, etc. Honesty, IMHO, helps us to break the
patterns, learn the lessons, bless and curse the past, and let it go.
I, regretfully, have not been able to let it go.
As a product of an abusive and neglected childhood, who was always
reminded as a small child by an alcoholic parent that I was a loser,
an unwanted child and would get nowhere in life, and another parent
who walked out on the family, I sought love, affection, affirmation
and compliment from whomever gave it to me as a child, as an adult, as
a member of CAN, as an operative for the Church of Scientology, and to
the present.
Dennis Erlich and Priscilla Coates have often referred to my using the
Jonestown Tragedy as a tool to draw attention to myself. They are
absolutely correct. That did happen, at a time I was experiencing
family problems and conflicted feelings about Scientology have visited
the Mission of Davis and meeting some very nice people, and those whom
opposed it, confusing to me because I had relatively no knowledge of
either. So troubled that my college grades dropped and I was suspended
for 6 months from college for receiving one credit out of the required
12 for the term. The Unification Church (Moonies) was hot news back
then, and it interested me somewhat, until one of it's front groups,
CARP appeared on campus to recruit and I was intrigued and attended
their meetings. Later, I read about the parents of two Moonies in a
book by a former Moonie, that they lived in Portland and I contacted
them. I invited them to my college to talk about their references to
the Moonies as a "destructive cult". They later invited me to their
counseling center, the Positive Action Center, and we eventually drew
close to one another. I came to see Anne Greek as a source of
encouragement, love and affection, things I never received from my own
mother. By coincidence, I later signed up for Kung Fu lessons at the
only school of it's kind in Portland at the time, ignoring the fact
that it was owned and operated by a devout Scientologist, and warnings
by the Greeks to stay away.
My sessions at the Academy were enjoyable until several days later,
Fred King called me at home and asked me to drop by the Academy to see
him. I did. Mr. King ordered me into his office and accused me of
spying for the Greeks and denounced them as enemies of Scientology.
Having come to enjoy the attention I received from Mr. King, to see
him like a big brother, I denied that I was a spy but would do
anything to stay in the academy as I had no other friends. That day I
signed my first declaration handed to me by a member of the Guardians
Office, that was in such a hurry for me to sign egged on by Fred
King's warnings that if I didn't sign, I couldn't come back to his
Academy, I signed the declaration. This started my long "flip-flop"
association with Scientologists and critics of Scientology.
Striving to gain the friendship of both Fred King and the Greeks, I
played to the whims of both parties. In Fred King, I saw a big
brother that I could enjoy time with and in Anne Greek and her husband
Adrian (a co-founder of the CFF which later became CAN) I saw as
parents-of-sorts. I became emotionally & mentally involved with both
individuals. I was aware that the Greeks had an ongoing support group
at the Center for ex-cult members and their families. My Scientology
friends encouraged me to go, but because I had not been a member of a
cult, I would not have been admitted. My Scientology friends said to
invent one and it was suggested to me that I use the Peoples Temple
because it was the news event of the decade during that period. I was
given a plethora of books, media articles and 2 videos if I recall on
the Peoples Temple tragedy to train me for my "role" as an ex-cult
member, visited Anne Greek one day at the Center, told her about my
cultic experience, sobbed about losing my father, and was so
convincing to her that not only did she invite me to the support
group, but I accompanied her on public presentations. I was told by my
Scientology friends that the Greeks would never learn the truth
because the congregation of the Peoples Temple killed themselves and
there were bodies that could not be identified. My public
"testimonies", later to become the subject of international media
articles, and TV and radio interviews, was a cycle of deceit out of
control. But, I was willing to do it if it meant have the love &
affection of both the Greeks and my Scientology friends.
To my being a Scientologist, Dennis Erlich and others are correct if
that I have not been a Scientologist in comparison to him, the Youngs
or Gerry Armstrong. I was persuaded to sell personal items to take a
few courses, was given free assists regularly at the org following a
bad car accident and in return agreed to hand out personality tests
and direct people to the testing center on Salmon Street, and became
involved in the life of the Mission of Davis and the org and enjoying
their friendships despite the directives given to me to spy on the
Greeks. Later, I was induced to sign a mission staff contract by John
Carmicheal, but because I was so involved in college, and did not look
forward to another suspension, I faltered on the contract. But, I
remained steadfast in my alliance with Scientology, which looking back
puzzled me because (1) I was "friends" with Scientology, yet going to
cult education forums with the Greeks and trashing Scientology, and
(2) I was "friends" with the Greeks warming up to them, spending the
holidays at their home and even being invited as "a special friend" by
Anne Greek to accompany them to Canada for the purposes of kidnapping
their daughter from the Moonies and bringing her back home to the US,
and relaying the information back to my Scientology friends. I
accompanied the Greeks and another deprogrammer, Diane Benscoter, to
Canada, but the effort was unsuccessful. The Greeks found out much
later that I had a hand in this failure. After passing on information
to the CofS, I was the one responsible for having Diane (then a
fugitive with a Colorado warrant out for her) arrested providing the
Denver and Portland Police with her home address (Anne Greek paid her
bail out of jail). The sexual incident involving deprogrammer Bob
Brandybury did occur though Anne Greek begged me not to report it as a
crime because they entrusted Brandyberry as the one that would
eventually get their daughter out of the Moonies.
As more and more of the public became interested in my "former Peoples
Temple" story, I was compelled to melodramatize the extent of my
trauma in the Temple. My story was headline news in the Milwaukee
Journal (which the CofS now uses as one of it's DA pack items
conveniently excusing themselves from any involvement because they are
a church) during a CAN Conference there, I was paid to address a
college forum in Milwaukee, and was paid by CAN to speak at the
Milwaukee Conference (my picture appearing in the following month's
CAN newsletter), my story was published in the Congressional Record
after deceiving former CAN President Patricia Ryan into believing my
story, spoke on National Radio, was the subject of magazine articles
and even wrote a chapter in a book published by the sister of cult
leader Jim Jones' nurse. Following the conference, the Greeks, whom
grew suspicious of me asked me to document for them statements I had
made about my Peoples Temple experience. I was becoming unraveled and
my Scientology allies weren't much help in alleviating my tensions.
But, the Greeks permitted me to remain a member of the Positive Action
Center (not knowing at the time that they and the CAN Board had hired
a private investigator to initiate an investigation on me). I offered
to help Anne Greek do the illustrations for a book she was publishing
on "Cults". My Scientology contact gave me a cute picture of a bear
sitting under a tree with a book in it's hands, to suggest to Anne to
illustrate her book. Anne loved it and paid for the printing of
several hundred books with "my" illustration. A week or so later, I
received a very angry telephone call from Anne demanding to know where
I got the illustration of the bear from, as towards the completion of
the final printing of the books, someone in Scientology informed the
actual artist that the Greeks were violating copyright laws by
publishing the picture without the author's consent, and the author
threatened to sue Anne Greek. This Scientology-Scarff conspiracy cost
the Greeks thousands of dollars in books that had to be discarded.
Shortly thereafter, I received a letter from Anne Greek that I was no
longer welcome at the Center or in CAN. Cynthia Kisser advised me
that the CAN Board decided to end my association with CAN when their
private investigator learned I was never in the Peoples Temple. I was
not allowed to attend the CAN Conference that was held months later in
Portland (and was strongly advised by my Scientology friends to go
anyway and make a big scene) which I did not do saying that I had the
flu.
Later, with the direct assistance of the Portland/OSA Director and
Director of OSA Int., I participated in a number of operations against
the Greeks and CAN.
I later joined forces with OSA in Los Angeles after meeting Eugene
Ingram and a host of other higher-ups in Scientology, leaving in 1991
when ordered to kill two people. My participation in Scientology
ended; however the influence they had over me didn't.
As one compulsively reaching out for affection, attention and
acknowledgement that I am a worthwhile person, I strived to do what
was right and just after leaving Scientology, but missed and regretted
in some ways, my back on my friends in Scientology. I grew to love
Sue Taylor, David Butterworth and others, not realizing at the time
that I was simply being used as an instrument of their jobs. That
habit has carried on to this day. In my heart, I want to believe Mike
Rinder and my other "friends" in Scientology are human, have a good
heart, and can be reformed, and it has been this misguided belief that
has kept me under Scientology's influence. This was made very clear
in role in the German documentary. I was not crying out of fear of
Scientology; I cried because I offended Mike Rinder, was very confused
with his request to help him to know the plans of the German film
crew, I cooperated with him, and then he turned on me reporting me to
Egmont. I was hurt, confused and as Egmont could attest if he was
here, I was wanting to leave the area with Joe Neal where I was
prepared to surrender myself to him. In my heart, I have, I guess,
fantasized Mike Rinder as the father I never had. As misguided as I
may be, I loved and looked up to Mike Rinder. It was however, Joe
Neal, that I called at OSA regarding the German crew's plans, not Mike
Rinder whom I was told had gone home. Three hours later, Mike Rinder
called Egmont & informed him of my call.
My notariety as an "ex-Scientologist" and "expert witness" in court
cases gradually faded as did my contacts with Lawrence Wollersheim,
Vaughn Young and Graham Berry. No longer having them in my corner, I
reached out again to Scientology.
Two years ago, Jeff Jacobsen invited me to be a part of his picket
group in Clearwater. I also met Rod Keller there who informed me that
there was some concerns that I was a Scientology spy and he was not
going to share any information with me. I blew him off saying I
didn't need his information. We picketed, later Jeff made an
accusation against me that the Tampa Tribune reporter covering the
picket, Pam Waldrip, observed me leaving the area and talking to OSA
member Joe Neal. Later, Rod Keller posted that he had called Cheryl
in Tampa & that she was angry that Jeff posted this observation, as it
never happened. THE FACTS: Jeff was correct in his suspicions. I
was in comm with Joe Neal and others at FLAG about the activities at
the motel. Pam Waldrip was present when I left the picket with Joe
Neal and spoke to him in private behind a building, accompanied by Sea
Org guards, providing them information, doing all I could to win Mike
Rinder's approval and respect. OSA photographers, in fact, had filmed
the altercation I had with the lady Scientologist who hit my face with
her sign. Mike Rinder decided to make it a non-issue. I later
approached Mike and begged him to talk to me. He was angry that I had
turned on Scientology and testified in the Fishman-Geertz and CAN
cases causing CofS alot of heartache. After some small talk, Mike told
me to write him a letter and he would help me with anything that I
asked.
Following the picket, when I left the Howard Johnson's motel, I met
Joe Neal and a private investigator down the road who showed me films
of the picket and I identified the picketers for him.
I later had conversations with Elliot Abelson telling him that I would
do anything to gain back Mike Rinder's respect & friendship. This led
to my secret meeting with Elliot, Mike, Ken Long and another
Scientologist assigned to "handle" me during a meeting in Los Angeles,
which even my own attorney Graham Berry was not informed about. I
signed 5-6 declarations (the 5 smaller ones developed from 1 extensive
one) for Mike Rinder. I informed him of my contacts, meetings and
conversations between the Clearwater Police and the German film crew.
Later, after Graham Berry denounced me on ARS as a traitor, I called
him, we spoke and I agreed to provide him with a sworn declaration as
long as I was able to write it myself versus signing one written by
him. He agreed.
During the December 1997 picket, I had some contact with Scientology
which has already been addressed on the net. I found Brian Anderson to
be a real dweeb and wanted nothing to do with him though we talked
briefly several times and he was happy that I intending to carry a
picket signing denouncing Dennis Erlich at the McPherson Vigil. After
a meeting with Birgitta Dagnell, I dropped the idea. Before the
Saturday picket, I was walking down Cleveland to a store to get a Coke
when I saw Mike Rinder standing outside the Cleveland Building talking
to Sue Taylor. I approached Mike, informed him that I was going to
crash the Press Conference and denounce Dennis Erlich. Mike and I
shared small talk about my HIV, my wanting to move to LA and he ended
our conversation with a long bear hug. He was aware that I was
intending to picket but was not bothered by it. He said "If life is so
boring for you in Orlando that you have to come to picket in
Clearwater, that is OK. You'll come back to us someday, Garry". I
attended the Press Conference and the rest has been documented on ARS.
I've had no further communication with Mike Rinder or Joe Neal since
then. I met a very nice gentleman in Clearwater who stuck up for me at
the Press Conference and offered to help me. He fulfilled that
promise without any strings attached.
With this letter, I have no desire or intention of rehashing or
worrying about a past that has caused me great torment. Our worries
carry alot of power. If I believe there's nothing to be done except
wait and worry, I'll spend all my time thinking about the future and
miss the present. By living in the present, we see choices to make
that can make life better for us right now. The more energy we put
into living in the present, into life-affirming and for me,
immune-enhancing behaviors, the more healthy we become.
If some people on ARS want to hold a grudge against me or disparage
me, I will ignore them and look to those that support me in positive
action whom are also determined to live in the present. I am working
on stepping out of a victim role and walking into an active state of
taking personal responsibility, free of anyone's malevolent influence.
Here's hoping that I can do that....
Garry Scarff
ExScio (with the emphasis on EX) - St. Louis area SP
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