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                         Jon Atack
 
             Jon Atack, who is listed on Factnet's letterhead as
       president, claims to make a living by acting as a hostile,
       self-appointed "consultant" on Scientology to the family
       members of Scientologists.
 
             However, in May 1993, he admitted in papers he
       submitted to the prestigious High Court in England that if
       his potential clients knew about his history, they would not
       hire him.
 
             Atack's papers concerned a suit he brought against the
       Church of Scientology in an attempt to suppress details of
       his criminal record and psychiatric history, claiming that
       his livelihood was threatened if these facts were made known.
       This information, however, is a matter of public record.  It
       had been voiced by Atack to acquaintances many times over the
       years.  Also, a local newspaper had reported his convictions
       for illegal drug possession and cultivation.  
 
             Atack lost his case.  He refused to comply with three
       separate Court orders to supply details of his income to
       substantiate his claims.  High Court Judge Mr.  Justice Bell
       threw his case out of court and awarded the Church costs,
       assessed at more than 30,000 pounds.  
 
             The history that Atack wants to keep secret includes
       convictions for illegal drug possession and cultivation and
       his purchase of LSD in lots of 50 to 100 doses for re-sale as
       well as his own use.  LSD causes hallucinations and can bring
       about temporary or permanent insanity. 
 
             These convictions occurred prior to Atack's first entry
       into a Church of Scientology in 1974.  When Atack entered the
       Church, he lied to Church executives that the fines imposed
       for his drug convictions had all been paid.  This was
       discovered when he was arrested in January 1976 for not
       paying them.
 
             Another fact that Atack doesn't want known, according
       to his dismissed and discredited suit, is that in 1974, he
       was admitted to a psychiatric hospital where he was given
       sedatives and antidepressants.  Atack later stated that "I
       was no longer capable of handling my mind" and that "a cell
       would help me to shut out the outside world." At one point,
       he was knocked out by drugs for 20 hours straight.  A month
       after his release he apparently tried to overdose on the
       drug, sodium amytal.  
 
             As an example of the absurdity of Atack's claim to have
       any understanding of actual events involving the Church of
       Scientology, he announced in 1983, the year he was expelled
       from the Church, that the Church was under investigation by
       the Internal Revenue Service in the United States and as a
       result of what the IRS would find, the Church had "only about
       seven weeks left."
 
             Eleven years later, the Church has expanded greatly,
       with more than 1,300 churches, missions and groups in
       countries all over the world.
 
             And the IRS investigation?  In October 1993 the IRS
       concluded that all churches of Scientology exist exclusively
       for charitable and religious purposes and confirmed that they
       should be granted the same tax-exempt status and rights of
       every other bona fide religion. 
 
             Atack pretends that he has "information" about the
       Church of Scientology that the Church does not tell its own
       members.  But after reviewing Atack's "confidential"
       documents, one man said, "someone in the Church had already
       given me most of them, including a copy of the booklet
       written by one local antagonist [Atack himself], and
       suggested I read the whole lot and make up my own mind.  I
       did not have to read many pages before I found several things
       [Atack claimed] that I knew from my own experience [in
       Scientology] were completely misleading."
 
             This Scientologist also found out that Atack had
       charged his parents 6,000 pounds to get the Church member to
       renounce his beliefs.  Atack's interference resulted in
       serious turmoil within the family and was a complete waste of
       the parents' money.  The man remained in the Church and is
       considering legal action to get his parents' money back from
       Atack.
 
             The Scientologist made a formal complaint to the
       police regarding Atack's representation of himself as a
       counselor when he has no qualifications as such. 
 
             Atack's claims to expertise are only believed in by
       individuals unfortunate enough to be taken in because they
       know nothing about him.

Mark Pope
Member, Church of Scientology



 
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