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FredricRice asked this question on 5/9/2000:

Item number 22 of the Auditor's Code reads "I promise never to use the secrets of a preclear divulged in session for punishment or personal gain."

In light of the audio tape recordings of scientologists doing just that, and the many court transcripts available on the Internet that cover the violation of this item, does anyone know whether this item has been repealed? And if not, would the violation of this item usually result in a Condition of Ethics? And if so, do you happen to know which Condition?

There's no date on the court document that I've read this Item from, by the way.

honorarykid gave this response on 5/9/2000:

The claim that a Scientologist's pre-Clear folder (PC folder) will be kept inviolate by Scientology, is flatly untrue.

I have personally seen several examples of PC folder information being used to intimidate and smear people, most of them ex-Scientologists.

A wealthy ex-Scientologist named Peter Alexander, who spent and donated over $1 million to the CoS in his lifetime, became an outspoken critic of Scientology, after coming to believe that he had been swindled and brainwashed.

Recently he decided to join a peaceful public protest event in Clearwater Florida. One of his former fellow "parishioners" began to taunt him on a public street with items that Mr. Alexander claimed could have only come from his PC folder.

This sort of behavior SHOULD result in some action taken against the taunting Scientologist.

But it didn't. The highest value in Scientology is to help Scientology expand and grow. Attacking critics is a requirement of that effort. So, to the leaders of Scientology, the PC folder is not inviolate when it serves a higher, Scientology-serving purpose. If it helps Scientology, the CoS feels free to expose and share the inner-most confessions of Scientogists.

When Ken Dandar, the lawyer representing the Lisa McPherson estate, which is bringing a wrongful death suit against Scientology, demanded Lisa McPherson's files during discovery, not only did the CoS claim her PC folder was sacrosanct, they also claimed ALL of Lisa's files were sacrosanct, and should not be turned over.

Scientology has never even pretended that Security folders and personnel folders were treated as inviolate religious information. But when it serves them to lie about things like this, clearly they do.

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I've seen Peter's video and some transcripts, and I've seen enough to know that it's done, yeah. When I ran into this Auditor's Code, I thought that it _must_ be an old version and that they removed the Item since they're not following it.

And I didn't know for sure that Mr. Dandar had requested Lisa's PC folder. I would suppose that if the court compells Scientology to turn it over, Scientology would have no option but to destroy much of it before turning the remaining, unactionable pieces over.

Interesting.

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