Ace of Clubs:

You may or may not have already heard that Kurt Weiland called my
house the other day *to talk to my wife* and try to convince *her*
to make me "come to my senses." He didn't even have the guts to talk
to me directly, and told her it was because he "didn't think I would
talk to him."

So I got on the phone.

No point in trying to recreate the conversation. It was mainly
nothing more than his demanding I come to L.A., and my telling him
that if there was anything, anything at all, that proved any of my
reports false, or that could correct any false impression I might
have regarding the matters I had written up, then all he had to do
was put those in writing, or refer me to the applicable LRH issues.
His solution: get me to L.A. My solution: send it to me in writing.
He wouldn't, of course.

Finally I told him to at least send me a written reply to my 9 May
letter to him, and to include in it his *proposal* of exactly what
would be done if I ever did consent to come to L.A.: where we would
meet, who would be there, and exactly what documents or Policy
Letters or what-have-you he would be showing me, because he kept
insisting that he just wanted to meet with me personally to show me
some things that I must not know about. (Yeah, right. So why the
HELL wouldn't he just FAX me copies of these mysterious "Things I
Don't Know About"?).

You will see in his letter that he seized on the fact of my having
mentioned, in passing, the financial impossibility of my coming to
L.A., quite as an aside to my moral objections to his coercive
tactics, and he has offered to "help me out" with the financial
aspects. Unfortunately, he didn't say--either on the phone or in
writing--how he was proposing to "help me out." A loan? No thanks.
I'm overextended as it is. Take it out IAS coffers? That would be a
laugh.

But you will also see that he completely avoids spelling out *any*
of the specifics that I asked him to include in his written answer
to my 9 May letter.

I am composing a response to him now. Since he didn't spell out a
specific agenda for an L.A. meeting, I'm doing it for him. It will
follow this document shortly.

I bet you have quite a little cache of files built up by now.

                                Randy McDonald

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                    Church of Scientology International
                        Office of Special Affairs

                                                        May 13, 1996

Randy McDonald
3423 McGavock Pike
Nashville, Tennessee 37217

                        Re: Yours of 9 May 1996

Dear Randy,

    In our 11 May telephone call, I told you I would answer your
fax.

    I understand you have problems getting the funds together
immediately to come to LA, but this seems to be a small problem that
can be overcome. In the interests of resolving your situation, I
offered to assist you with this matter if needed, so let me know
whether this is the case.

    As I also mentioned, I don't expect that you will respond to
this offer of assistance by nit-picking my communication and placing
all sorts of conditions and guarantees on your willingness to sit
down and resolve what you told me is something you have been trying
to handle for more than a year,

    I am offering you exactly that chance. It is also what I wish to
achieve as you obviously care about preserving your bridge and your
continued association and relationship with other Scientologists.

    I will provide you with exact references and information which
address the specific points you have raised in your reports. You
have expressed your desire to resolve things in accordance with LRH
policy, and I share your wish in this regard. By actually applying
the LRH tech this situation can be resolved. Don't bite the hand
that is extended to you to pull you back from over the side of the
cliff. As I told you, this is not a matter of "negotiation"--I am
inviting you to do exactly what you say you desire, to sort this out
with finality.

    I look forward to hearing from you when you will be able to make
it to Los Angeles. Let me know some alternative times when you can
be here so I can arrange my schedule accordingly and we can come to
a final agreement on getting together.

                                Sincerely,



                                Kurt Weiland

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