I, Maria Pia Gardini declare as follows:
1. I am over
the age of 18 years.
2. The statements herein are of
my own personal knowledge and if called
upon as a witness, I can testify competently thereto.
3. My name is
Maria Pia Gardini. I am an Italian citizen.
4. I became
involved in Scientology through the Narconon program. My
daughter went into the program and at this time she gave me
some books to read
about Scientology. After 8 months or so she finished her
program and told me
she wanted to continue studying Scientology. My mother
and I paid for her
auditing up to OT VII.
5. After she
was on the OT levels, she convinced me to meet some of the
people in the Rome org. They convinced me to do the
purification rundown and
to try auditing, so I bought one intensive of "book one"
auditing.
6. I started
the purification rundown: on the second day I blew (left
suddenly) the sauna. I was scared to death of being in
the heat for four to
five hours. I was 49 years old and felt I would
die. Members of the org came
to my home and convinced me to return and keep doing it.
They said I was just
going through something and if I continued, I would get out of
it. So, I
returned and finished the rundown. I quickly told them I
was done, and I was
done.
7. I then
started the auditing. My father was dead and I had always
been
sad about his death. When I started auditing, my auditor
was a very warm and
kind woman and we audited almost the whole 12 hours that I had
purchased on my
father's death. I went through a lot of emotions talking
about his death,
crying and laughing and at the end I did feel better.
8. I then
decided to continue. I wanted to buy another intensive, but
I
was regged to buy 10 intensives more of book one
auditing. Meanwhile, they
also sold me an academy package so I could study to myself
become an auditor.
Soon, I was getting auditing 3-4 hours a day and studying an
additional several
hours a day.
9. When I
attested the completion of book one, I was told I had to
continue to handle the many more areas of my life. I then
bought all the
Scientology Grades auditing plus NED (New Era
Dianetics.)
10. I started on
the objectives. This was the first failure for me.
Doing
a drill called "Op Pro by Dup" involving repetitive actions
with a book and
bottle, I became so upset I threw the bottle at my auditor and
tore up the book
used in the auditing. The auditor had to physically
restrain me to keep me in
the room.
11. Before I had
just done auditing where I had talked a lot, so of course
one will feel better talking about their problems. Now,
this was something
different.
12. I ended up
slapping the auditor and running from the room. I ran
home
and that evening four staff members came to get me. They
explained to me that
I had lost control and if I finished the auditing I would
regain control. I
returned with them and finished the auditing.
13. I then audited
the Grades 0-IV. I did not have any great achievements
during these. It was just sit there and listen and talk
to the auditor. I
told the C/S that I didn't have any "wins" on this (I in fact
told everyone
this), but they reminded me that I had had a lot of wins before
on my book one
and the grades were just to stabilize me for my OT
levels. They told me to
just continue.
14. Then, they
tried to audit me on NED, but after all the hours of book
one I was desperate…I had already talked about
everything! I became sick and
was interviewed by someone who said I had to do the CCRD.
I had paid for 12 ˝
hours of NED and audited for 25 minutes. When I tried to
get the money back
for these unused hours they said no, I paid for the intensive
and I had started
it. So that was the end of that money (about
$2000.)
15. I then went to
Rome and while I was there a "mission" arrived from CLO
Italy to recruit people into the Sea Organization (SO.)
They wanted me to join
and worked very hard on me. I agreed and they gave me a
contract for 1 billion
years.
16. In the mean
time I had done the class IV internship. They now wanted
me to start in the SO, but I wanted to go attest to clear
first. I bought CCRD
in Copenhagen AOSH and went to do it. I was told, because
I was a Sea Org
member the room and board would be free. When I arrived,
I was told "Free?
CLO Italy doesn't have any money on account here." I had
to pay for myself.
17. They put me in
a hotel that was owned by the church called "Nordland."
It was like a pigsty; so dirty. I found one room that was
less dirty than the
others and did not have other people in it.
18. At this point I
was now a class V auditor. It was terrible in
Copenhagen. I was given an auditor who was Swiss German
who did not speak
Italian, but something similar. I started eligibility
with him and the session
went on and on and on because I could not understand him.
I was supposed to
stay there two weeks but was there two months. Then, I
was told I had to buy
more intensives. I explained the language problem, so
they switched auditors.
He spoke good Italian, so I finished eligibility in two hours
then moved to the
CCRD. I then attested to clear.
19. Clear is
supposed to be an expanded person. I did not feel this.
I
really wanted badly to go back to Italy. When I did go
back, I simply changed
suitcases and went to Milano to train for the Sea
Org.
20. Now, I was put
in the kitchen to cook for 70 staff members. This was
terrible. Then, they wanted me to wash dishes. I
said no. I never have
washed dishes in my life. I had my car there so I left
again. I went back
home for 2 days before they came and got me. This whole
time my daughter was
progressing in Scientology. She was at Flag and I was
afraid that they would
tell her I was misbehaving and she would be upset with
me. So, I went back.
When I went back, they told me I was done with the first phase
of my training.
21. I then told
them I had to go back to Rome to close up the house. In
Rome, there was another mission to get people to do the OT
levels in
Copenhagen. I bought a package for OT I-III. I
wrote for permission to do
these levels instead of going to work. I received this
permission and went to
Copenhagen to do my OT levels.
22. While I was
doing my levels in Copenhagen, I was paying my own room and
board and then they asked me to start auditing their pcs.
23. I went onto OT
I. It was bullshit. You walked around by yourself
and
"spotted" things.
24. In the
middle of it I went into a coffee shop…I expanded myself on
good coffee. After a couple of hours I went back and they
asked me if I had
any wins. I said, "sure sure," so they sent me to attest
to being done.
25. The next day I
started doing OT II. On this you run dichotomies.
You
have a long list of whole track implants like electric implants
and talking
implants etc. You have to run down the track to run them
out. It is solo
auditing and it is done by talking aloud to yourself.
26. When I went in
session, I hade to spot a light and from there run the
implant. Then, I read my meter and ran back and forth the
dichotomies of the
implant. While doing this I was in a place where thin
dividers divided the
walls and you could hear other people running their
implants. Also, the wall
was painted black and I couldn't see the light. I wrote
the C/S and asked him
"Where is the light!"
27. The next day
trying to audit, there was a circus behind the building
and I could hear the elephant. The next day I wrote I
could not find the
light, but I did find the elephant.
28. In the end, I
ran off three implants, said I could find no more and
asked to move on. I then attested to OT II. I also
did the old clearing
course and OT II is this same thing manipulated around a
bit.
29. Now, I start OT
III. This is what I really wanted, what all of us
Scientologists wanted. It is the big mystery: the
Wall of Fire.
30. I opened the
course materials, read what was before me, and closed the
book. This was the wall of fire? I had already read
this.
31. At this time, I
was a huge science fiction fan. Now, I was racking my
brain about this story about Xenu and the battle with the loyal
officers. I
had heard this story before but could not remember where.
The story involves
an "evil galactic overlord" named Xenu who was captured 75
million years ago
and put into an electric trap, and you have these electric
strips, like in the
department stores, and LRH tells you that beings (called
thetans) were brought
to the planet earth back then and trapped with these electronic
strips and put
into a volcano then blown up and they are now stuck all over
people's bodies.
Now, I feel that I have a full population in my body!
There were people in the
room passing out when reading this. I am not so
impressionable.
32. That night when
I went to bed I was wondering where are all these
beings (now called body thetans) in my body?
33. The day after
studying about OT III, I started to audit it in my
bedroom in the Nordland hotel. You are supposed to talk
to your body thetans
and make them go away from you. Each night I took my
auditing folder to the
C/S, carrying it in a suitcase with a chain attached to my
wrist. We had to do
this to ensure the confidentiality of the very secret
materials.
34. When I did my
first session, my needle was stuck. I got so angry that
the needle started to move. Then I said, "I found a body
thetan," and started
to audit. I think I was auditing my rage.
35. I audited 100
hours on OT III. This was a lot; almost double what many
people audit, but I wanted to be certain that I had all of
these body thetans
gone. The "End Phenomenon" of OT III is that all of your
body thetans are now
gone. So, I was convinced all my body thetans were gone
and I attested to
being finished with OT III.
36. Now, I said, I
will go back to my post in Italy. No, I am told, I must
stay and do OT IV and V. I say I do not have the money in
Copenhagen to pay
for these levels. That night, from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
they regged me to
purchase these OT levels.
37. I finally
called my mother to borrow money and she was very angry with
me, but she did send me the money. So, now I start OT
IV.
38. What do I read
in the OT IV materials? That I now have to handle "Body
Thetan Clusters. I said what? More BTs? I was
told yes, now I am handling
drugs on the "whole track": all drugs I ever did and the
drugs the body
thetans did. These body thetans, you see, were not gone
after OT III because
they were "druggies." Ok, I said. Let's get
rid of the druggie body thetans.
39. I did this
level and attested that I was now free from druggie body
thetans.
40. Now, I go to do
OT V. An auditor audits this. I get an HCOB to
read
and what is in this HCOB? BT's and clusters! I say,
"I don't have any more!"
and he says, "Yes you have. These BT's are sleeping and
you have to wake them
up. Then you give them an identity and they will go
away."
41. I now figured
what the hell. I had done OT IV; let's do V. At
this
time you have to make up things to keep yourself
going.
42. So, the auditor
command is "Look at your body (not with your eyes) and
locate a cluster." When the auditor gets a read he says,
"Where is this?" I
say, "On the knee!" I then had to telepathically
communicate with the BT and
ask it "What are you?" The BT says, "a banana." You
tell the auditor "a
banana." Or it says, "a piece of paper" or whatever comes into
your head and
the auditor says "Ok…tell him that is the item;" for example
"The banana is the
item." I tell him the item is the banana and at that
point the BT can blow or
he can stay there. If he doesn't blow on the "What"
question you ask him "Who
are you?" You get all sorts of names here: Napoleon,
Julius Caesar, John
Travolta, whoever! You tell all these to the
auditor. He gets a read and
tells you which name is the right one. Then the BT will
blow. These are the
only two commands.
43. I did this for
40 hours. Then, I attested to OT V.
44. While I had
been auditing, there was a raid in Italy and all of the
organizations were closed. When I returned to Italy after
OT V, the entire org
of Roma had moved into my apartment (they had called me in
Copenhagen and asked
to move into my apartment.) I had instructed my building
superintendent to let
them in but to not give them a key. They somehow got a
key and made a copy
anyway. They were there all the time…the whole building
was protesting.
45. So, when I
returned, I made them leave. I found them another
apartment
and paid for the first two months of rent. It took five
days for a cleaning
company to clean my apartment, it was such a mess.
46. Now, I went to
CLO in Milano to work. They were working in a hotel
because they had lost their building to the government. I
wondered what the
hell I was doing there. I had no job to do. We had
Int (International
Management) missions in to handle the problems while I was
paying the hotel for
everyone in CLO. I figured I would go on to do OT VI and
OT VII. One of my
seniors thought this would be good for me to do. At this
moment, I was running
out of money. So, to do these levels I sold my apartment
in Rome. My mother
was very, very angry with this. She told me I was crazy
and they will ruin me.
She was right.
47. Now, I come to
Flag. Again, I was supposed to get room and board
because I was a staff member. Bah. No room and
board! I have again to pay
for myself.
48. I now go onto
the OT VI course and what is there? BODY THETANS AND
CLUSTERS! The questions were the same two as on OT
V. "What" and "Who." I
almost went nuts. When I protested I was told it was the
same procedure but
the fact that I was doing it solo made it different and
better. They told me
that body thetans were everywhere. The materials also
explained that my body
was not a body at all, but a mass of BT clusters. If they
were not there, my
body would be translucent.
49. I went into
session on OT VI. At the end, I attested that I had
completed OT VI, not that I had no more BTs.
50. Now, I moved to
OT VII. Now, the end phenomenon of this level is: NO
BT'S LEFT OF ANY KIND. NO SLEEPING BTS' NO DRUGGIE BT'S
NOTHING. One thing I
audited on OT VII was suppressive BTs.
51. Sometimes, you
have a BT that will blow only from your body to the
door, so you have to mock up a scissors to cut the string that
is keeping them
attached to your body. Also, you have BTs in
layers, so you have to mock up a
hand to brush them off.
52. I never went to
my home to audit; I stayed at the Sand Castle and
audited for 8 months. When I wasn't auditing I studied to
be a class IX
auditor and was auditing public pcs.
53. When I attested
to OT VII, Captain Ron Norton called me. I was
validated as being a class IX auditor and OT VII
completion. What the hell was
I going to do with it? They asked me to sign on to work
at Flag and they would
send another auditor to Italy to replace me. I told them
to call my senior.
54. In Italy they
were still trying to open up the orgs. My senior did
agree, though I said I had to go back to Italy to finish up and
prepare. I did
this.
55. When I arrived
to start working at Flag, I was told that they would put
me in the Sand Castle hotel because there is no room at the
Hacienda. The Sand
Castle was dirty and had unbelievable cockroaches.
56. They told me I
had to pay 10% of what a public would pay, since it was
a public room. When they took me to the room there was no
furniture, no bed
nothing. I complained but was told it was too late at
night to do anything. I
was told to sleep in a chair. I said no, I just arrive
after 10 hours of
travel. It was February 8 and cold. I ended up
sleeping on the carpet.
57. The next day I
refused to go to work unless I received a bed. They
then showed me a bed that had been outside in the garden; they
were going to
throw it away. It was so dirty I would not put my dog on
that mattress. It
had holes where rats had eaten it. I absolutely
refused. I told them I would
start work on Monday. I went to the store and bought
myself a bed, blankets,
chair and sheets. I had it all brought to the Sand
Castle.
58. After one
month, I was told they had a place in the Hacienda Gardens
for me. So, I put my stuff together and they took me to
the Hacienda. When
they opened the door, I plugged my nose it stunk so
badly. There were eight
beds one atop of the other. At this point I said take me
to the captain.
59. I went to the
Captain and told him I will not live like this. I want
to go back to Italy. He said no, we have a small
apartment in the Hacienda
that we rent. We will give it to you for half
price. I agreed to this and
paid $400 per month (this turned out to be full
price.)
60. Now, I moved
into this apartment. At the end of the first month, five
other people were sleeping in this apartment. They were
putting staff members
in my paid for apartment. These people would eat my food
and drink my water.
I returned to the captain.
61. I said enough
is enough. You broke all your promises and I want to go
home. The captain told me to return to the Hacienda, wait
three days and he
will come visit me and we will take care of this.
62. In the mean
time, I called an area realtor and arranged to purchase a
condominium. By the time I met with the captain, I had my
new home. At first,
he told me no, I couldn't stay off the base. I said it
was this or nothing.
He told me to write a CSW, which I did, and he approved
it. Thus, I had
special permission to live outside of sea org
quarters.
63. So, I started
to audit again. Then, there was a change of captains.
Ron Norton went to Gold and Debbie Cook became the
captain. This was in 1988.
When Debbie Cook became captain, my real problems
started.
64. First, she
wanted me to move back to the Hacienda, or she insisted that
I share my condo with other staff members. I told her no
to both. At this
time, I was almost every week the auditor with the most hours
in the chair and
that year I won the worldwide highest auditing hours cup at the
Auditors Day
celebration. At this point, I was a money making machine
for them.
65. I was always on
the chair auditing. In September of 1990 I received a
phone call from Italy saying my daughter was in the hospital in
Pavia in Italy
and I had to go to her at once. I CSW'd to go see her and
it was approved.
66. I returned to
Italy and two months later, my daughter died: November
18, 1990. She was 29 years old and an OT VII.
67. A bit before I
left, however, I asked the senior C/S, Kathy Webb, to
give me a program to audit my daughter because she was OT
VII. This was to
help her physically. The answer was, with AIDS, she will
die. What program do
you want? Give her a program to drop the body. Of
course, I never did such a
process on her. You don't go to a sick person and say, "I
give you a program
to drop your body."
68. Also in 1989 or
1990 they started releasing OT VIII. I was told to buy
a package on the Freewinds because this is the only place OT
VIII was delivered
due to its extreme confidentiality. I bought a package,
but then I went to
Italy because of my daughter.
69. Two days after
my daughter's death, I took her to the cemetery to bury
her in our family mausoleum. On this day, I was recalled
to Flag. My daughter
was not yet buried. Flag phoned me and spoke to my
mother, who told them to
fuck off and leave me alone and forget my phone number.
She was heavily
against Scientology.
70. When I spoke
with them I told them my daughter had left a daughter of
11 years old, Camilla, and I could not leave immediately.
The called me every
day, several times a day to get me to come back
immediately. They called with
no regard to the 6-hour time difference between the USA and
Italy. They would
call at 4:00 a.m. and wake up the whole house of grieving
people to demand my
return.
71. On the 29th of
November, 11 days after my daughter's death, I returned
to Flag. I left my granddaughter with her stepfather and
my mother. When I
returned to Flag I was very angry and the staff at Flag were
astonished at
this. They could not understand why I would be mad.
I then went right back to
work, but I was not able to produce as well as I had
before. Because of this,
they decided to send me to the ship to do my OT VIII.
72. The ship was in
the Bahamas. I had to buy my own ticket to get there.
When I arrived, I also had to pay for my own room and
board. I didn't want to
sleep in the staff berthing below decks, as it was extremely
hot down there,
like 100 degrees. I could not do this. As soon as I
arrived, instead of
starting my own program I was put to work auditing others on
their sec check
for OT VII and OT VIII eligibility. I was very valuable
to them as I could
audit in three languages: English, Italian, and
French.
73. Soon after I
arrived, Milt Wolf, one of the ship captains, and David
Light, a registrar, sat with me and regged me to buy books and
materials. They
also sold me a gold OT bracelet that cost thousands of
dollars. They sat with
me and would not let me go until I had bought and bought.
I ended up buying an
extra suitcase to carry all the materials I had bought.
Eventually, I arrived
in the course room to start OT VIII.
74. The OT VIII
material was titled "Truth Revealed." When I opened the
materials and read the data, I went nuts. I couldn't
believe what I was
reading. BODY THETANS!
75. Basically on OT
VIII you run processes from the "History of Man" book,
right down to clams. You have to go down the track to
clam, figure out an
overt, then locate a BT (not cluster; you communicate
telepathically and figure
out the overt, write it down and ask the BT with the
meter: "Is it yours?"
"Is it mine?" When you get a read, you indicate who's it
is and get an FN and
move on. This is the truth revealed.
76. On all levels
above OT III when you audit you always ask if the read is
the person's or the BT's read.
77. I was so upset
with OT VIII that I talked to the supervisor. She told
me to just do it and I will be amazed at the wins I will have
getting rid of
overts off all the BTs from the whole track. I wanted to
get out of there but
there I was in the middle of the ocean. I was
furious! I was just ordering
BTs on a sec check (Scientology Security Check.)
78. The night I
attested to OT VIII, I went ashore with some friends to see
the casino in Nassau. Guess who was gambling there?
David Miscavige, Guillame
Leserve and Ray Mithoff. Isn't gambling an overt in
Scientology? When I saw
this, I was ready to leave Scientology. Between the
gambling and the OT VIII,
it was like garbage. I wanted to leave, but this was very
difficult.
79. When I was
finished, (this was December 1990) I returned to Flag.
Now,
I was trying to figure out how to leave Scientology. The
occasion came in
October 1991 when I received a call that my mother was in
hospital and very,
very sick. Now, I could return to Italy.
80. I CSW'd to
leave. My CSW was NOT approved. I went to the Captain
to
talk to her and she told me no, it was not important that my
mother was dying.
It was only a body. I must stay at Flag and produce for
Scientology.
81. I again CSW'd
to leave. Instead of giving it to the Captain, I gave it
to my DofP (Director of Processing) for OT
eligibility. Then, I went to my
condo, packed my suitcase, went to the airport, bought a ticket
and went to
Italy.
82. I thought I
would be declared a blow, but after four days in Italy I
received, by fax, the CSW I had written. It was
approved. My mother died
December 11, 1991.
83. On the 21st of
December, Flag started regging me for the money I was
inheriting from my mother's death. Please see my other
affidavit for the
completion of this story.
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United
States of
America and the state of Florida that the foregoing is true and
correct.
Executed in Grosetto, Italy this 14th day of February
2001
Maria Pia Gardini
You can also read:
Declaration #2
Declaration # 3
Letter from Scientology attorney, Kendrick Moxon
Letter in response from LMT attorney, John
Merrett
Watch the LMT's video taped interview with Maria Pia Gardini.
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