Toronto
Sun
5/15/92
Scientologist
taught crime OK
by Bill Dunphy
One of Scientology’s
former top spymasters testified she’d been trained to believe criminal
actions which protected the church weren’t violations of Scientology’s
moral code.
Marion Evoy, a
former Canadian head of Scientology’s Guardian Office, made the
comment yesterday at the end of four days of testimony in the trial of
the Church of Scientology of Toronto Inc. and five members on charges of
criminal breach of trust.
The charges arise
out of a Scientology spy network that in the mid-1970s infiltrated the
RCMP, the OPP, Metro Police and Ontario’s Attorney General’s office.
Evoy, 43, who left
the church a decade ago, has been testifying about her involvement in
allegedly criminal Scientology intelligence-gathering activities as part
of an immunity agreement.
Yesterday Crown
Attorney James Stewart asked Evoy how she reconciled her criminal
activities with some of Scientology’s statements of principles
regarding honesty and freedom.
"It was the
way I was trained," Evoy explained, adding she and her co-workers
believed they should do "whatever was necessary to protect"
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology itself.
Criminal acts of
that kind were "not considered against any code or moral in
Scientology because you were protecting Scientology, Evoy testified.
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