USAir Flight 1493 crash (LAX)
Rodney King
Union Square subway crash
City College stampede
USAir Flight 405 crash (La Guardia)
Los Angeles riots
TWA Flight 843 fire
Ruby Ridge
CIA agents
World Trade Center bombing
Branch Davidian raid
Dr. David Gunn
Branch Davidian fire
Brandon Lee
NYC Landmarks bomb plot
Long Island Rail Road massacre
Damian Williams
Nancy Kerrigan
Ricardo Punsalan 


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Background

In August 1983, I moved across the street from the large, blue-colored Scientology headquarters in Los Angeles, California. The first five or six years were relatively uneventful, but in the summer of 1989, after I stopped communicating with the people in my building and neighborhood, the Scientologists, I believe began an aggressive, relentless campaign of covert harassment against me.

They would follow me wherever I went, swerve their cars close by me as I crossed intersections or in front of buses I was riding, poison my food, put blood and some sort of itching powder in my clothing, harass people in the media who I regularly listened to, harass my teachers at a local community college, set up phony car crashes, make excessive and timely noise with buzz saws, lawn mowers and chantings at their headquarters, fire trucks would blast me with their sirens, cops cars would pull up beside me, my name would be called over intercoms at stores, they would infiltrate stores that I frequented, would wear dark glasses and look in my direction as I approached, and other similar occurrences.

Later, I began to connect similar past incidents with the Scientologists. I had previously attributed these incidents to bad luck, neighbors or employers. Though neighbors or employers or other non-Scientologists may have also been involved. I linked the activities mostly to Scientology because they would have the resources to do such things, there were activities that could be directly tied to Scientology such as the noise coming from their buildings, plus their existing reputation as a cult-like group.

The police would also have had the resources, but we didn't have any history together as far as I was aware of, outside of a jaywalking ticket.  

Also, while living in Los Angeles, some Latin Christians at a parking attendant job I had, had seemed to take an interest in me around 1997 and the Jehovah's Witnesses had seemed to take an interest a year or two later. But I don't know what their role was, if any.

After about a year of almost constant harassment, I was listening to an article in the July 2, 1990 issue of US News and World Report from Recordings for the Blind. (I am not blind, but have an eye problem.) The article had many seemingly coded messages to or about me. For example, one of the people in the article was named "Eric Luk," an accountant who arranged a T-shirt shipment and moved to Paraguay to manage a watch factory. My name is Eric, I had considered becoming an accounting clerk, always wore T-shirts, had taken my watch off because people kept asking me what time it was, and I was trying to learn Spanish.

There was another person in the article named "Ronnie Vacas." My brother's name is Ron, "vaca" in Spanish means "cow," (my last name is sort of pronounced "na-cow.) Another person is named "Ricky Wong." My nickname is "Rick." "Ronnie" and "Ricky" had a chicken dinner. My brother and I had done the same thing on his last visit to LA.

The article was about Cathy Palmer, a New York prosecutor of Asian drug gangs. My ex-landlady's last name was Palmer and there was a physical resemblance between her, who was seemingly involved in the harassment, and the prosecutor.

And the last paragraph of the article mentioned an FBI investigation involving "a hapless man...who's a nothing, but we think he knows some people we're interested in." With all the problems I'd had with, I assumed, Scientology harassing the media people I watched and listened to, and with a series of recent Los Angeles Times articles that I felt indirectly connected to, plus all the other out of the ordinary things that I'd experienced, I came to believe that the FBI might be using this magazine article to try and contact me.


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The next day I called the FBI, but they said they couldn't do anything unless it was a national problem. Soon after, I began noticing a sickly-sweet aroma coming into my apartment and on buses that I rode in. This aroma seemed to physically agitate my nervous system. Fearing for my safety and at the point now where even the air that I breathed was dangerous, I threw some things in some bags and fled Los Angeles for New York in the summer of 1990, probably July.

Unfortunately, the Scientologists, and whoever else may have been involved, would not let go. I almost ended up living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa after veiled threats from people on my bus about not going passed a certain state. But the harassment continued in Cedar Rapids, including from the police. And if the police in a small Midwestern city is involved in this, things must be pretty bad. So I moved on to Boston, Albany, New York, Syracuse and other cities, briefly considering whether I should live in those places, but the harassment continued.

I returned to Albany where I almost ended up living, but my situation remained the same. People of all types seemed to give me coded messages, a man who resembled the actor, Dennis Hopper, said things about being an "organization man now" as we passed each other on the street and about someone being lucky because they had insurance that they would have to pay little or nothing for.

At the shelter I was staying at in Albany, there would be allusions to blood and AIDS and a possible extortion attempt on my family in California. They would watch horror movies where people who involved themselves in things they shouldn't were turned into zombies. Stories would also come on the news about blood, bus crashes and the Moonies.

I decided to return to Los Angeles after about three weeks on the road.

Back in LA it was strange though. There were Scientology ads on many buses that read "Scientology For Life." There was also a story in a weekly newspaper about some guys who were chased across the country by a cult. A female in a Scientology uniform who I thought I recognized said "sorry" into a nearby pay phone. A guy in line at the Hollywood Social Security office said that something was a good example of what can happen, that someone wasn't at the top of some list anymore and that they would see what could be done.

I was referred by the welfare office to a Christian shelter in Canyon Country while waiting for a new welfare check to be issued. For two weeks I experienced coded messages from the staff, clients and the radio. When I left, someone said that someone wouldn't take something unless they really needed it. On my way to the welfare office someone picked my wallet out of my pocket. At the welfare office, a worker said to someone that she was sorry that they were making it so hard on someone.
 
I got my check and stayed at a cheap downtown hotel. The usual harassment techniques continued. I listened to a radio station that they listened to at the shelter that played old-time radio dramas that seemed to reflect my situation. One program was about a guy who had a secret way to make it rain. This stood out because I had seemed to have been rained on at inconvenient times during my three week journey. And when I first returned, a local weatherperson on TV said that some college was experimenting with rainmaking.

I also started listening to Public Radio programs, many originating from the East


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Coast. Some of the people on the programs seemed to be getting harassed, others appeared to have a kind of immunity.

There were also unusual experiences with a job hunting program called Chrysalis, a supposed Social Security worker at the program and a job training school where I saw that Dennis Hopper look-alike from Albany again.

My stay in Los Angeles ended in January 1991 when I was robbed by a person with some sort of small knife in the hotel bathroom that was located on each floor. I had recently begun to venture back into my old neighborhood near Scientology. There was also something going on with an upcoming appointment with a Social Security appeals judge. After the robbery, someone on the radio said that some things were worth dying for. But I didn't feel like dying, so I left the next morning intending to leave America for Montreal. As I was walking to the bus station, a guy on the street was yelling something about Jesus.

The bus was relatively quiet during this second trip until I got to Chicago where there was a delay. I began having second thoughts about Montreal and spoke with someone claiming to be an intern or something at Traveler's Aid. He said Montreal might not be such a good idea because I didn't have a passport and that it would be difficult to send money from there to America. My owing somebody money seemed to be a recurring theme.

I was referred for the week-end to Pacific Gardens, a Christian shelter. While I was there, I raised my hand during a church service when the minister asked who might want to learn more about Jesus. I was yanked up by a management person at the shelter and taken to a back room where someone gave me religious pamphlets. When I came out, the management person walked near me and said "Now you can't dictate to us anymore."

I left Chicago by bus on Monday and arrived in New York City on, I believe, January 30, 1991. I stayed about a week at the Neighborhood Center for Homeless People in the Upper East Side of Manhattan where I stayed at least a couple of nights at nearby Christian churches. At one church, one of the people there said to someone that they're weren't like Scientology or a comment to that effect.  But later, there was veiled talk by other clients about having to pay $500/month to stay at the Center and since apartments appeared to be expensive in New York, I left for Philadelphia.

In Philadelphia, I told a Traveler's Aid worker who already seemed to know who I was, about my problems with Scientology. She kept suggesting I go back to Los Angeles to get psychological counseling and take medication. The supposed Social Security worker back in LA also kept pushing for me to do the same thing even though I never mentioned the cults to him. The Traveler's Aid worker also asked obliquely if my problems had begun before Scientology. I've heard this question once or twice before and wonder how long these people have been concerning themselves with me. And if this were true, it could also possibly help exonerate Scientology to some degree.

I returned to NYC around February 11, 1991 and stayed at a city shelter on Wards Island run by Volunteers of America, a Christian-affiliated organization, for two years. After that I moved into the Wise Towers public housing complex in Manhattan. For a more detailed background document see the Joseph Yanny letter in the appendix.


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Crime List

Entries are listed in chronological order. The crime and accident entries have both the date and a subject heading. Entries from my life and entries that tell who I've informed about my situation have dates only.

Feb 1, 1991 - USAir Flight 1493 Crash (LAX)

USAir Flight 1493 crashes on top of a commuter plane while landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). This was a day or two after I had originally arrived in New York City.

Speaking symbolically, the crash occurred at 6:06:57. The number 57 is something I associate with because of my birth date of August 26, 1957. Among the numerically listed survivors was #26, Chicheng Kao (Los Angeles Times, Feb 4, 1991), whose Asian-sounding last name is the last three letters of my last own name, Nakao.

Weather and visibility at LAX were good. The last major accident in Southern California happened on December 7, 1987 in Paso Robles. The last at LAX was on March 1, 1978.

Flight 1493 had originated in Syracuse, NY and flew to Los Angeles via Washington, DC and Columbus, Ohio.  

Mar 6, 1991 - Rodney King

There was heightened activity around me by people in the shelter whenever a Rodney King story came on the news. One story included a media person who was being harassed when I was back in Los Angeles.  Mr. King was beaten severely by the police. "Police" and "security" are code words I've heard referring to people who'd been monitoring me. The beating happened in Los Angeles. When I went to the Hollywood welfare office after returning to LA after my first cross-country journey, a worker called for an "Eric King" on several occasions.

Aug 28, 1991 - Union Square Subway Crash
 
After I had agreed to attend a job training program at the Federated Employment and Guidance Service (FEGS), I believe around May 31, 1991, the harassment I had been experiencing in New York seemed to quiet down somewhat. But I began having second thoughts and on August 27, 1991, I called another school in Brooklyn about another program. They told me to come in the next day. That night, a white evangelical Christian group came to the shelter. Although these types of groups had come before, that night was unusual because they pushed especially hard for people to attend.

The next day I was on a subway train to Brooklyn when we were told to get off and transfer to buses. I had not heard of the crash yet, but I was thinking to myself that upsetting my schedule was the type of thing these cults like to do. On the bus, two white males started talking about doing business with the Soviet Union. This made me suspicious because these cults periodically gave me messages like this about "deals" and "joining" and at that time, things relating to the Soviet Union seemed to be a code word.

Back at the shelter that night, I was struck by a shot on the news of a Bible on the floor of one of the wrecked subway cars from the Union Square station subway crash in New York. I immediately thought of the evangelical Christians who had been at the shelter the night before. Also, I learned later that the person responsible for driving the train, Robert Ray, was a born-again Christian (New York Times, Sep 1, 1991).

The crash had occurred on the same Brooklyn-bound line that I had taken earlier in the day.

Later in my sleeping area, I heard someone say to no one in particular, "they don't like to lose."


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Oct 1, 1991

I begin a building maintenance job training program at FEGS in Long Island City, Queens, NY.

Oct 17, 1991 - Grand Central Station Flood
 
The Lexington Avenue subway line and the #7 subway line were the two major thoroughfares put out of service by the water main break. They were also the two lines I took from the shelter to my job training school in Long Island City. 

Grand Central Station is where you transfer from the Lexington to the #7 line.  The previous night, I realized that I had forgotten to buy bus tokens, so I backtracked to Grand Central Station to buy some. While doing this, I heard someone say "Want to play, eh?" These cult people seemed to get annoyed sometimes when I would cause them to go out of their way when they were apparently tailing me.

Dec 17 1991
 
Write letter to Ms. Beckett of the NYC Human Resources Administration about unusual occurrences with my BEGIN job training stipend. I hint about cults being the possible cause, but not explicitly. This was the first time I broached the subject of cults with anyone in New York.

Dec 27, 1991

I went to the NYC Human Rights Commission (HRC) and told them about the cults. I also included the Union Square subway crash and the Grand Central Station flood in a list. I believe the person I spoke with stopped reading it around the second page, then returned it to me.
 
When I arrived at the HRC building, paramedics and a woman on a gurney were on the elevator. There was also an old memo taped to the HRC men's room door announcing someone's sister's funeral. Injuries and funerals are periodic cult symbols. A media person (Cunningham?) dropped by and said that City Hall had put a "muzzle" on some story, but they were going to do it anyway.

Dec 28, 1991 - Keith Levine/City College Stampede

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Sgt. Levine, an off-duty NYC police officer, was shot and killed while stopping a supposed robbery at a Manufacturers Hanover Bank ATM at 57th and 8th in Manhattan. I thought at the time that since he worked in the Communications Department at Police Headquarters, that maybe there was some connection with the media person who came to the Human Rights Commission.

Sgt. Levine's father, Mike Levine, a former undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration, had published a 1990 book called "Deep Cover" that criticized the DEA. He had retired in 1989 after being injured in a New York drug raid. (Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1990)

The Manufacturers Hanover Bank would later become Chemical Bank and several of the events that subsequently attracted my attention also occurred at Chemical Banks.

The number 57, again, associated with my birth date of August 26, 1957, is also interesting.

The stampede at New York's City College killed nine people on December 28 as well. Seeing all the police, fire fighters and Emergency Medical Technicians at City College on the news after complaining about them at the Human Rights Commission the day before, made me think there might be a connection.

That same day, nine people were killed in a stampede at a celebrity basketball game featuring rap music stars at New York's City College. Seeing the police, fire fighters and Emergency Medical Service at City College on the news after complaining about them at the Human Rights Commission the day before, made me think there might be a connection.

And also, the way the crowd bum rushed the auditorium entrance at the overcrowded event, crushing the people at the bottom of the stairwell, seemed similar to the way that the guys at the shelter would bum rush the shelter bus. Though rushing the entrance is apparently not uncommon at certain types of concerts.

There were also guards from X-Men, a Muslim security company hired by the 22-year-old promoter, Sean Combs. They were responsible for guarding the stairwell where the deaths occurred and the lobby area that led to the stairwell. (New York Times, January 3, 13, 16, 1992) Pinkerton guards hired by the college for the event were assigned to entrances that were to remain closed. There were no guards on the stairwell at the time of the stampede. (Newsday, January 16, 1992) The police did not have a presence at the stairwell or lobby, though they were at the event before the stampede occurred. They said they were "not authorized to provide security inside City College buildings." (New York Times, January 3, 1992)

An investigation commissioned by Mayor David Dinkins criticized the Emergency Medical Service and especially the police for an inadequate response to the situation. College officials, Combs and others were also criticized. (Newsday, January 16, 1992)

Combs had co-sponsored a November 2, 1991 rap concert for a Howard University homecoming in Washington D.C. where a similar rushing of the doors occurred. The police were able to disperse the crowd at that event, but were criticized for "overreacting." (Washington Post, January 3, 1992) Combs was a student at Howard from 1988 to 1990. (Hamilton Spectator, August 26, 2000)

Doug E. Fresh, one of the rap stars at the event (Newsday (New York), December 30, 1991) and a performer for Combs and event co-promoter Heavy D's record label, Uptown Records, (Newsday (New York), January 1, 1992) was later, at least since 1999, reported as being a Scientologist. (The Independent (London), July 11, 1999)

Yolanda Moses was named the new President of City College in May 1993. She was formerly a Vice-President at Cal State Dominguez Hills, the college I had been accepted to attend before I fled Los Angeles.

Jan 12, 1992

Poisoned at the shelter. The day before I had gotten a $544 retroactive job training stipend that I had complained about.

Jan 21, 1992
 
Tell my new shelter case worker, Evelyn Castillo, about the poisoning and the cults at our first meeting.

Jan 24-25, 1992 - Lisa Steinberg/ Sean Noonan/
                             Arthur Young/ Old Man Stabbing

On January 24, I speak with, I believe, a Detective Davis, an African American detective with a moustache from, I believe,  the Community Affairs office, in the lobby of Police Headquarters at One Police Plaza. He had come to the lobby after the receptionist had given me a number to call after I had told her why I was there. I told Detective Davis that I was here about cults. He said, "Asian cults?" I said, no, Scientology and some Christian cults and at least one possibly white church with many black members. Someone passed by at some point and Detective Davis told him that it was just a "hangnail."

I told Detective Davis my story, including being poisoned with, I believe, peanut butter at my shelter, being harassed with Gap bags (Gap rhyming with "Jap" being my interpretation. I am of Japanese descent.) and at least the Sgt. Keith Levine murder. He acted as if he had a little trouble recalling Sgt. Levine's name when I mentioned it, though I believe Sgt. Levine worked at One Police Plaza.

He said to try not to let the cults bother me, though it was hard and that they could do a lot worse, and that if people carried bags that said "KKK" around him, he wouldn't let that bother him.

He asked why I thought the cults were doing this. I said that one reason might be that they were using me to train their members. When I said "train" or "training," Detective Davis said "train?" I thought at the time or a little later about the August 28, 1991 Union Square subway train crash, but I don't recall if I mentioned this to Detective Davis. I did mention it in my NYC Human Rights Commission statement though.

Detective Davis seemed generally sympathetic and said that the big crimes weren't my problem. He also mentioned something about a cult division that handled kidnapping, but that it was no longer in operation.

An attractive, Latina-looking female passed by and said hello to Detective Davis who I believe soon exited after that.

The next day, on January 25, Lisa Steinberg was murdered at a Gap clothing store. It was located on 57th Street, a half block from the bank where Sgt. Levine had foiled the ATM robbery on December 28, 1991. I had mentioned the Gap bag harassment to both Detective Davis and to the NYC Human Rights Commission. Ms. Steinberg had multiple stab wounds from a Phillips screwdriver inflicted by Anwar Abdul, a maintenance worker at the Gap store. Ms. Steinberg was an assistant manager at Gap Kids.

Many tools, especially Phillips screwdrivers, were being stolen from the building maintenance program that I was taking at FEGS. I had begun the program in October 1991, one month before Mr. Abdul began his job at the Gap. A number of the students at my school seemed to have criminal backgrounds. They also seemed to know that the murder had taken place. One student said that there had been a death in the family. Another told someone that this was all his fault.

FEGS is also a Jewish organization. Lisa Steinberg had a Jewish last name as did Sgt. Levine.  Though Ms. Steinberg was apparently Christian, having been confirmed at Ss. John and Mary's Church in Chappaqua, NY.  She had also just recently graduated from Hobart and William Smith College in Geneva, NY which is about 40 miles from Syracuse, the city where USAir Flight 1493 had originated.
 
People seemed to know about the murder outside of the school also. On a bus one night soon after the murder, a black male said something like "We'd do anything for you, even


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kill." When I turned to a newspaper story on Ms. Steinberg' s funeral, two white males who had sat down next to me suddenly left. And about twenty young, white people passed me on the Queensboro Bridge pedestrian path one day, even though I usually passed only one or two people there, probably because of the cold winter weather.

Ms. Steinberg lived on East 95th St. in Manhattan, an area that I walked through frequently and which usually had a lot of Gap bag activity, though after the murder, I didn't see any Gap bags in that area for awhile. I believe that my shelter case worker, Evelyn Castillo, also lived in that area. I had seen her in that area on a later date and she had told me that she lived around there.

After I read the funeral story, police cars would park aggressively in front of me and police officers would aggressively pass by me at my usual 103rd St. subway station. I thought that they might be trying to contact me about the Steinberg murder, so on Feb 1, 1992, I went into the 23rd Precinct, the precinct nearest to my shelter and briefly told them about the murder, the cults, and other things. But I was eventually thrown out. An undercover cop might have come to the shelter later, but he didn't identify himself.

I could be that some of the people doing the harassing, not just of me, but of others as well, are referred to as the "kids." If this is true, perhaps Ms. Steinberg working at Gap Kids has some significance.

Sean Noonan, an off-duty Amtrak cop was assaulted and robbed of a chain and crucifix at the Ritz nightclub a few blocks from where Ms. Steinberg had been killed. He was accused of being a white supremacist.

The previous day, January 24, Arthur Young, a Chinese-American Transit Authority bus dispatcher, was killed on a subway train going through Long Island City. Asian Americans seem to be used sometimes as symbolic crime victims. Long Island City was where my school at FEGS was located at the time and here was another crime involving subways.
 
Also on the 24th, an old man was stabbed on another subway train with a pair of scissors. I used to carry scissors with me during my return trip to LA.

Jan 26, 1992 - Daniel Michels

Police officer Daniel Michels of the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx, NY, dies after falling out of a bus window in Vermont. He was returning from a ski trip with fellow officers (New York Newsday, Jan 28, 1992).

Jan 31, 1992 - Hilario Serrano/ Corrections Officer

Police officer Hilario Serrano was shot and killed in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx in the elevator of his mother's apartment building. He was assigned to the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx like Officer Michels in the above entry. Officer Serrano was returning from Michels' funeral.  

A New York State corrections officer was shot in the face in Queens, NY.

Feb 5, 1992

I am told of a job opportunity at the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council by 2 students at FEGS. It's about a mile from where Officer Serrano was killed in the Bronx.

Feb 9, 1992


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Mail letter to New York City Mayor David Dinkins telling briefly of cults and crimes.
 
I also begin keeping a journal and saving newspaper clippings of seemingly relevant events.

Feb 15, 1992

In Mid-Manhattan, a white couple says, "I don't believe you're using live bait."

Feb 16, 1992 - Robert Solimine
 
Mr. Solimine is strangled and killed by his supposed friends in New Jersey while saying the "Hail Mary" prayer because he told on them. They apparently belonged to a cult-like group that patterned itself after the Mafia.

Feb 19, 1992 - Daniel Rakowitz/ Larry Hogue
 
Stories about Daniel Rakowitz, a murderer serving time in Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center began to appear. It was said that he was part of a Satanic cult and fed the corpse of his victims to the homeless. Kirby Forensic was located next to my shelter on Wards Island. I also had a connection with cults and the homeless. Mental illness also seemed to be another code word.

A week or two later, stories about Larry Hogue, a mentally ill person who was terrorizing the people on West 96th St. in Manhattan, began to appear. He also had stayed briefly at Kirby Forensic.

Feb 23, 1992

Write letter to the Village Voice. Include copy of Dinkins letter.

Feb 27, 1992 - Tiffany Graham/ Stuart Abramowitz/
                         Union Square Subway Crash Press Conference

Subway conductor Stuart Abramowitz and passenger Tiffany Graham were shot and killed on a subway train on the same day that Robert Ray, the motorman from the Union Square crash, gave a press conference after being released on bail.

What struck me beyond a possible connection between two violent events involving the subway, was that the suspect, Thaddeus Davis and Ms. Graham reportedly got on the train at 125th St. and Central Park West. Whenever I took a bus back to the shelter, I would wait at a bus stop on 125th Street, though at the cross street Lexington, not Central Park West.

And the shooting took place at the 103rd Street station, the cross street station I always take when exiting the shelter, though again, on Lexington, not Central Park West.

Mr. Davis worked at Off-Track Betting, an ethically troubled city agency. Ms. Graham worked for the IRS, the type of agency that a cult might like to infiltrate.

On August 3, 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms arrested a black Muslim gang, among them, a woman who worked for the IRS and provided IRS information to the gang. The gang said their spiritual leader was Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman who was connected to the World Trade Center bombing and indicted for the NYC landmarks bomb plot.

Mr. Abramowitz is another recent victim with a Jewish last name like Keith Levine and Lisa Steinberg and a possible connection to my school, the Jewish organization FEGS.

Other events that might have influenced the crash were the Metropolitan Transportation Authority trying to get more funding, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the John Gotti trial and the Crown Heights riots.

Feb 28, 1992 - James Rou

Mr. Rou is shot and killed at the Le Q pool hall in East 12th St. in Manhattan, one half block east of Kinko's Copy Center, the place I had been typing all the letters about these events up to this date.

One of the suspects, David Ng, looked similar to a younger version of myself. I had noticed an increase of look-alikes of myself in the past few weeks, look-alikes being another cult harassment technique. Also, people at my shelter had recently asked me if I was part of an Asian gang. On Mar 1, 1992, while walking passed Le Q, there was a Police Athletic League (PAL) van parked out front. Whose pal?

A report by the US Commission on Human Rights on discrimination against Asian Americans was also published on this date. An incident of violence by Asian Americans on the same day could sway the reception of such a report.

 
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On Dec 9, 1993, it was reported that Cathy Palmer, the NY prosecutor from the US News and World Report article, would be prosecuting two Chinese-American businessmen connected with the Le Q murder.

Mar 2, 1992
 
Tell Barbara Edwards, my new job counselor at FEGS, about the cults, but not the crimes.

Mar 8, 1992 - David Dinkins

Mayor Dinkins is hospitalized with an intestinal bacteria.

Mar 9, 1992

Mail letter to the US Commission on Human Rights about Le Q and the cults and crimes.

Mail second, more detailed letter to the Village Voice about the cults and crimes.

Mar 19, 1992

My notebook containing notes from my cult research and on Freedom of Information Act procedure is stolen at my school.

Mar 20-23, 1992 - USAir Crash Flight 405 (La Guardia)/
                               Steinway Tunnel Fire
 
On Mar 20, there was a fire at an apartment building on 82nd Street and Third Avenue in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. I had often rested at a bench across the street from that building and did so this night when the fire trucks came in. The Scientology Celebrity Center is a few blocks away. I hung around that night and asked the firemen a few questions. When I returned to the shelter, someone had put a copy of the shelter rules on my bed.
 
The next day, I called the 19th Precinct police station, which has jurisdiction over the 82nd and Third area, and I said that Scientology or some other cult might have been involved in last night's small fire. The person I spoke with said he would look at the report and see if there was anything suspicious. He didn't look into it while I was on the phone with him though.

A little later in midtown Manhattan as I believe I was continuing my walk to the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, a white female said, "I could slice someone's head off so fast."

Then later, as I continued my walk, someone else said "not very professional" and "so angry."

At the library, I found the address of Joseph Yanny, a Los Angeles lawyer who had handled litigation against Scientology in the past.

Later, on the 101 bus, two black girls sat behind me and talked about how some people think they’re God, about seeing how angry someone would get, about looking into things before doing anything and about how someone may be proud of himself now, but wait until he gets his butt kicked.

Later, at the shelter, someone in my section said, "He fucked up...no, he's doing a good job."

The following day, Mar 22, near the Donnell Library in Mid-Manhattan where I was headed, around eight police officers were standing around, two of them shook hands as I approached, then they all disperse. Three police cars were parked nearby (I believe, numbers 4982, 4142 and 1956 or 1958.)

That night, USAir Flight 405 crashed while taking off at La Guardia Airport in New York on Runway 13 under snowy conditions.  It had originated in Tennessee with stops in Charlotte, NC and Jacksonville, FL before coming to La Guardia. Its next stop was Cleveland, Ohio. USAir Flight 1493 also had an Ohio city in its flight plan, but it was Columbus, not Cleveland. Plus, the number 405 in Flight 405 is like the 405 Freeway which is a major thoroughfare to LAX where Flight 1493 crashed.

Among the survivors was Richard Lawson, an actor who had recently joined the cast of ABC's All My Children in New York. He was a long-time student of prominent LA acting teacher and Scientologist, Milton Katselas. In a March 1998 Buzz magazine article, Mr. Lawson credited Katselas's teachings as being one of the things that helped save his life during the crash.

As I was exiting the shelter the next day, a female worker said she could strangle someone. At my usual 103rd St. subway station, a cop was yelling at a guy "What's your problem? I'm going to call the precinct and have them take you away! Are you an addict?"

Other possible influencing events that occurred during this time was the murder trial of Brian Watkins, the Utah tourist who was killed in 1989 in a Manhattan subway station and also, the defense rested in the John Gotti trial.

There was also a fire in the Steinway Tunnel on March 23, the same Manhattan-to-Queens tunnel that I rode through on my way to school and also, the tunnel that was flooded during the Grand Central Station flood on Oct 17, 1991. It occurred about 2 hours after I rode through.


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Mar 25, 1992 - Armando Rosario
 
Mr. Rosario, an auxiliary cop, is shot and killed trying to stop an apparent robber outside a Bronx Chemical Bank.

Mar 26, 1992 Joseph Alcamo/James Rodriguez/Homeless Deaths
 
Joseph Alcamo, an NYPD cop, dies when the car driven by his partner in response to an emergency call, crashes into a pole in Rockaway Park, Queens.

James Rodriguez, an off-duty Health and Hospitals Corporations cop, is shot and killed in Jackson Heights, Queens. 

A homeless man is set on fire aboard a subway train going from Simpson to Freeman Av.  He is the seventh homeless person set on fire since Jan 26, 1992, the day after the Lisa Steinberg murder.

Apr 5, 1992

Mail LA lawyer, Joseph Yanny, a letter describing my experiences in LA.

Apr 6, 1992

Mandatory tuberculosis shots at my shelter.

Also, an offer of possible Single Room Occupancy housing from my shelter case worker, but a physical and a possible psychiatric exam are required.

Apr 7, 1992 - Blind Pencil Seller
 
A blind pencil seller and his dog are hit by a car on 5th and 57th in midtown Manhattan. Blindness and dogs are two more cult symbols.

Apr 9, 1992
 
Write letter to the NYC Transit Authority about cults and crimes involving the subways.

Apr 16, 1992 - James Hegerty

James Hegerty, a Park Slope pastor, was hit in the head and robbed at a Chemical Bank in Brooklyn.

Earlier in the day I had gone to a midtown Manhattan social services-type hotel that was being renovated and asked if I could exchange some voluntary work for housing. The person I was told to contact had a last name that was very similar to "Hegerty."

Apr 22, 1992

FEGS moves to Brooklyn near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Stella Maychick kills four people by crashing her Olds Delta 88 through Washington Square Park in Manhattan.

That night, a meeting with the city agency that oversees the VOA shelter was planned at the shelter.

Also, the defendants in the trial of Utah tourist Brian Watkins were convicted of murder.

Apr 29, 1992 Los Angeles Riots

My feeling was that maybe some action had been taken against the cults in response to my April 5 letter to LA lawyer Joseph Yanny.

May 1, 1992

My last day at FEGS.

May 4, 1992 - Larry Hogue
 
Receive letter from the NYC Housing Authority telling me to choose three possible housing developments from a list that I might be interested in. I had originally applied for housing around April 1991.

Around this time, Larry Hogue was released from a mental hospital and began terrorizing a neighborhood on West 96th St in Manhattan again. Wise Towers, the top housing project that I had chosen, was in the same area.

May 31, 1992

I tell a social worker at New York Hospital about the cults and crimes.

Jun 2, 1992

Write letter to the Bureau of Traf Ops (Traffic Operations?) about possible collusion between the people who open the Wards Island footbridge each morning and the operators of the Wards Island shelter.

Jun 14, 1992

Write letter to NYC Councilmember Ronnie Eldridge about cults and an incident that I had had with a member of the Central Park Conservancy, but not about any of the murders.

Jun 17, 1992

Went to the St Agnes Legal Clinic for the homeless in midtown Manhattan. Told about the cults and problems at the shelter, but not about any of the murders. Decided not to have them do anything at that time.

The next day at the shelter, there is a flyer announcing an Alcoholics Anonymous open house in the South Bronx.

A Muslim study group had also begun meeting at the shelter recently.
 
A few days later, I begin to write a paper of the crimes I feel might be connected with the VOA shelter.

Jun 22, 1992 - Rick Sklar

Mr. Sklar, who worked in radio, dies at St Luke's Hospital in Manhattan from an anesthesiologist's error.

Jun 29, 1992

People start whistling the theme song from "The Godfather".


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Over the next two weeks, I see a Latin male who had attached himself to me while I was in Philadelphia. He tells me about an affordable welfare hotel. When I turn to leave, an old white couple is pointing a camera at me.

A black male in a job line that I stood in at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan has a Dianetics book.

There is also a Dianetics commercial during a Today Show broadcast. The people at the shelter usually watched Good Morning America.

Jul 15,1992

I return to the St Agnes Legal Clinic with my list of crimes and unusual shelter behavior. The person I spoke with seemed unenthusiastic at first, though kind of upset when she got to the crime section.

A white male was sitting next to her and said when I entered, "This is going to go like silk." Sometimes when I go to agencies for help, there are these people sitting next to the person I speak with who claim to be "interns" or something.

Jul 18, 1992 - Paul Heidelberger

Paul Heidelberger, an off-duty Housing Authority cop, was shot and killed in Bayside, Queens. I began seeing many Housing Authority police cars soon after. When the suspect, Patrick Bannon, turned himself in on Aug 26, 1992 (my birthday), I once again began seeing many Housing Authority police cars.

Jul 20, 1992

A black female receptionist at the 34th St. Office of Economic Services calls me "Ricky," my old nickname that I had not mentioned to her.

Jul 27, 1992

A black male at the shelter says that I should read "Message to the Black Man" by Louis Farrakhan. Also, a copy of "Revelations" from the Bible is on my bed.

The next day, people at the shelter, including a guard, begin whistling the theme from "The Godfather."

Jul 29, 1992 - Manhattan Bridge Hole

There is an unusual hole in the Manhattan Bridge that suspends traffic for awhile.

Jul 30, 1992 - TWA Flight 843 Fire
 
A TWA jet to San Francisco catches fire at Kennedy Airport on Runway 13R. I am originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and the USAir Flight 405 crash on March 22, 1992 also occurred on a Runway 13, but at La Guardia instead.


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On the bus the next night, a white couple said something like "I'm telling someone something little by little till they're sold...know that we think about the same things...told you secrets and you used the information against us...not going to tell you anymore...but shouldn't complain. I'm a bad girl to keep him guessing for months."

Aug 2, 1992

People talk of an old man dying at the shelter last night.

Listening to "Weekend Edition" on the radio, a caller says she is from West Covina, California and listens to the program on "KPCC." She enunciates the call letters. I had mentioned this radio station in my letter to the LA lawyer, but could not remember the call letters.

Aug 9, 1992

I'm poisoned in Central Park after eating a Swiss cheese sandwich that I bought at D'Agostino's on 1st and 86th in Manhattan. There is a "Great News" religious pamphlet on the floor of a stall in a Central Park bathroom. A white female with a black male says that she hated to do something. I start feeling very sick and throw up later. There is some blood in the vomit. I told some cops about the poisoning and ask if they can analyze the vomit for poison, but they say no.

Channel 2 News is at the event I planned to attend.

A white guy sits next to me and offers to buy me a beer. I decline. He says he used to be a Navy Seal. Another white male with a guitar sits nearby. The Seal asks him about a symbol on his guitar . The guitarist says it's Japanese. The Seal says no, it's Greek. He's sounds slightly annoyed, like the guitarist got the pre-planned answer wrong. He asks him to play something by Cat Stevens, even though Cat was a "Communist." The guitarist starts playing a song about it's being time to make a change.

Aug 22, 1992 - Ruby Ridge

FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi accidentally shoots and kills Randy Weaver's wife in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. He's subsequently investigated, but no action is taken. Mr. Horiuchi is Japanese-American and a conservative Catholic (US News and World Report, Nov 8, 1999).

Aug 28, 1992

Send Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the CIA, FBI and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for information they may have about me. Mention cults, but nothing specific. Don't mention crimes. The CIA and FBI say they can't find anything. The NYPD says that FOIA only "allows access to documents reasonably described."

Aug 30, 1992

The shelter tells me that my brother had called from California. I had not told anyone in California about my location.
 
Aug 31, 1992

I get a temporary job through Temp Connection from an ad I saw in the previous day's paper. A Latin male at the desk says he's from California. A clerk is talking to someone named "Rick" on the phone. Some of the other temp workers at the assignment seem to have been


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planted there.

Sep 1, 1992 Financial District Flood

My first day traveling to the temp job in Brooklyn, there is a water main break that closes down the Financial District in downtown Manhattan. My train went under that area.

Oct 7, 1992 - James Cooley/ Rose DiSanto

James Cooley was charged with falsely accusing guys of robbing him in the subway after they spurned his sexual advances.

Rose DiSanto was dragged to her death when she wouldn't let go of a purse that was caught in a subway train in downtown Manhattan.

Oct 7, 1992 - Union Square Subway Crash Trial

I went to the trial, but it was closed for the holiday. The trial had begun on Sep 17 while I was still working at the temp job.
 
I returned to the trial on Oct 8 and then again on Oct 13 when I gave statements of my theory to the clerk to give to the judge and attorneys. I also gave copies to two journalists. One, I believe, was from Channel 7.

Oct 14, 1992 - Rick Dansby

Mr. Dansby, homeless, is shot and killed by Transit Authority cops in a Brooklyn subway station. He had a bag containing "Spy" and "Glamour" magazines.

Oct 15, 1992
 
My shelter case worker said she was leaving for another job. She gave me a letter from my sister, another concerning jury duty (even though my last jury duty letter was sent to my PO Box) and one from the Transit Adjudication Board which said I owed money for a subway fare evasion violation on July 8, 1992.

Later, at the hearing, I was told that the fare evasion was supposedly done by someone who had one of my old stolen driver's licenses.

Call and send a letter to the New York office of the American Civil Liberties Union asking for help in possibly writing a more effective FOIA request letter. I also include a Union Square subway crash trial statement. They say they can't do anything.

Oct 17, 1992 - Yoshihiro Hattori

Mr. Hattori, a Japanese exchange student, is shot and killed in Louisiana by Rodney Peairs.  He was dressed like John Travolta from the film "Saturday Night Fever" while on his way to a Halloween party. John Travolta is a Scientologist. It also seemed strange that there would be a Halloween party two weeks before Halloween.


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Oct 26, 1992 - Nicol Sowell
 
The skeleton of Mr. Sowell, a mildly retarded youth, was found by a homeless man in an East Harlem elevator shaft. He was apparently killed by friends for telling on them.

Oct 27, 1992 - Ricky Lamont Coffin

Mr. Coffin escapes from prison and is shot at Duke University while holding two hostages.

My welfare benefits are cut off . They claim I did not tell them about my temp job. The charges are later dropped at my hearing.

Dec 10, 1992 - St Agnes Church Fire
 
The church adjacent to the St. Agnes Legal Clinic that I had gone to before catches fire. The Coalition for the Homeless might also have had a presence at St Agnes. I had recently met with them about my problems with welfare.
 
On the bus that night, an older white male says to a black female "Don't call us, we'll call you." And "If you buy something for $150, be sure and buy it from a place you can take it back if it needs to be fixed."

Dec 13, 1992 - Larry Hogue/ Ricky Ray

"60 Minutes" does a story on Larry Hogue, the mentally-ill person who had been terrorizing a neighborhood on West 96th St.

Ricky Ray, the boy with AIDS, dies.

Dec 14, 1992 - Wayne Lo

Mr. Lo kills two people at a Massachusetts college. He is wearing a sweatshirt that reads "Sick of it all."

Dec 15, 1992

I go to John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan and pick up literature on registration and majors. When exiting, a white male precedes me wearing a "Bravo Volunteer Ambulance" jacket.

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Mr. Johnson is shot and killed on a train leaving the Union Square station for Grand Central Station. He worked at a supermarket on Lexington Av with a cross street in the 70's which possibly was a store that I shopped at frequently.

Dec 17, 1992

Hearing for discontinuation of welfare. Charges dropped.

Dec 20, 1992

Complain about racist remarks and cults to David Jacobs, my new case at my shelter. He fills out a report.

Dec 21, 1992

Mail a "letter to the editor" to The Nation magazine about Scientology and Christian cults, in general. I also hint that people from the Cold War might be involved.

Dec 22, 1992
 
Speak with Paul Aponte, a paralegal at MFY Legal Services in East Harlem about problems I'd had with welfare and my shelter. I let him make a copy of the list that I had made for the St. Agnes Legal Clinic which included several of the crimes. I also told him the name of the person I spoke with at the clinic and said that the two of them might be able to work together. He seemed excited at first, but wouldn't take my calls for the next three weeks. I felt like he was working with my shelter and possibly others behind my back.

Dec 25, 1992 - Pamela Mascaro

Ms. Mascaro is shot and killed on a Queens highway. She had the same first name as the St. Agnes lawyer whose name I had just given to the MFY Legal Services paralegal.

Dec 28, 1992
 
Meeting at my shelter with my case worker and Catherine McKinney, a psychologically oriented social worker. I ask them point blank if they know what's going on. They give a long, convoluted answer about perspectives, etc. and don't really answer my question.

Jan 6, 1993
 
Meeting with shelter case worker. Show him a list of recent complaints I have about the shelter along with a list of possible solutions such as background checks for employees and fingerprinting of clients. He did not seem happy when he read the solutions.


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Jan 16, 1993 - Eric Mercer
 
Officer Mercer, an off-duty NYPD cop, is shot and killed in a Crown Heights, Brooklyn robbery.

Jan 17, 1993 - Christopher Battiste
 
Mr. Battiste, a mentally-ill homeless person kills Doll Johnson outside a Bronx church. He lived at the nearby Franklin Shelter. I wondered at the time whether my shelter might be trying to transfer me to this Bronx shelter because of the changes I suggested making at the Volunteers of America shelter.

Walking back to the shelter that night near Downing Stadium on Randall's Island, a smallish, dark-haired man in a silver, sporty coupe asked me how to get to Astoria, Queens.

Approaching the shelter, a big, purple bus from the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Queens barreled passed me. Many cars had been speeding close by me lately.

Jan 19, 1993

Scuffle at the Donnell Library in Manhattan. While the police are there, I complain to one of the officers about a person who seemed to be following me. He said to go to the nearby Manhattan North Precinct which I did. I speak with a white officer (Monahan) and when I mention Scientology, another officer begins quoting from Dianetics. I felt that the library scuffle was perhaps set up to make me report the cults. Officer Monahan said there was nothing they could do. I agreed and left.

See a van in midtown Manhattan that says Stephen King killed John Lennon.

Jan 20, 1993
 
Have a meeting with my shelter case worker and someone named Mr. Morano who claims to be my case worker's supervisor. Tell him about the cults, but not the crimes. Feel like he's a psychologist or something. Very professional manner. Keeps pushing for me to get a psychiatric evaluation before they would investigate my complaints.

Jan 21, 1993

Mail letter to Steven Pafichow, Inspector General for the NYC Human Resources Administration, which oversees the VOA shelter, about my problems with the shelter and include a copy of the St. Agnes Legal Clinic letter that describes crimes possibly associated with the shelter.

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Two CIA agents are shot and killed in front of CIA Headquarters.

Anniversary of the murder of Gap Kids store assistant manager Lisa Steinberg.

Jan 26, 1993

Meeting with shelter case worker. Feel he knows about the Inspector General letter. A client who had been harassing me had been transferred out two days previously.

Jan 29, 1993 - Bonnie Vargas
 
Mujahid Muhammed (aka Sidney Fisher) and two or three others rob a Chemical Bank on Broadway and 91st St. in Manhattan. This is two blocks away from the office of the Wise Towers public housing project that I am about to get an offer to move into and about three blocks away from the building I would later move into on West 93rd Street. While the robbers are in the bank they say that the robbery is "political."

Bonnie Vargas (aka Aurea Bonnie Vargas) is later taken hostage by Muhammed while exiting her apartment building on West 93rd Street and Riverside Drive, about three blocks to the west of my future apartment building. She is accidentally shot and killed by police near Vargas's building in a gun battle with Muhammed who was using Vargas as a human shield.

Vargas lived with her father who was superintendent of her building. She would help him out with his duties. This was the kind of employment I had trained for at FEGS, but was not able to get a job doing that.

Michael Moss is one of the police officers who confronted the robbers as they exited the bank after being told of the robbery by a passerby. (New York Times, January 31, 1993; Newsday (New York), January 31, 1993)

A letter I receive a few days later from Wise Towers, dated Jan 27, is from a Mr. Moss.

A jury later awards Bonnie Vargas's family $5.7 million dollars, ruling that the police had acted negligently. (Daily News (New York), New York Post, and New York Times, July 21, 1999)  The number 5.7 is again like my birth year of 1957. Though in 2003, the jury award was reported as $5.5 million (New York Law Journal, March 31, 2003) or $5.2 million (New York Post, November 4, 2003) and had nonetheless been reduced by the judge to $4 million after the trial. (ibid.)

I walk through the crime scene area on Feb 3 and there are many cops around.
 
The lawyer for one of the defendants at some point is possibly named Eric Schlosser, (though I'm having problems finding the source document at the moment.)

Feb 1, 1993

Letter from Human Resources Administration Inspector General Pafichow saying that my case is being transferred to James Capoziello of Adult Services.

Feb 2, 1993

My shelter case worker gives me the Wise Towers letter from Mr. Moss asking if I'm still interested in an apartment.

I had received a previous letter from the NYC Housing Authority on May 4, 1992. It contained a list of possible public housing developments in which I might want to live. I was to choose three developments from the list. Wise Towers had been my top choice. I had originally applied for public housing around April 1991.

I had also mentioned in my January 21, 1993 letter to the Inspector General that I wondered if I was being kept from getting an apartment.
 
All my past letters from the Housing Authority (?) had been sent to my PO Box.

Feb 3, 1993 - Larry Hogue

Mr. Hogue, the mentally-ill person who terrorizes the neighborhood near Wise Towers, is released from a mental hospital.

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Ms. Bear, a graphic artist, is shot in an apparent robbery near her apartment on Lispenard Street in the TriBeCa area in lower Manhattan. She was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and an American father, but raised in the United States. (New York Times, February 25, 1993) I am of Japanese descent, as stated before.

Ms. Bear died on March 3, 1993. Her killers were an Eric (Eric Rogers aka Walter Diaz) and Tyrone Walker. (New York Times, August 13, 1993)

On February 18, 1993, five days before the TriBeCa shooting, Rogers (or Diaz) and Walker had also killed drug dealer Michael Monsour, in Cragsmoor, New York, about 60 miles from New York City. (New York Law Journal, February 16, 1996)

Ms. Bear shared the same first name as Bonnie Vargas, the bank robbery hostage who was killed on January 29, 1993, near my future public housing building on West 93rd Street.

And I, in fact, move into that public housing building today, the same day that Ms. Bear is shot.

I had had a difficult time getting the rent money from the welfare office though, with many delays, harassments and coded messages.

Feb 24, 1993 - John Rodriguez
 
Mr. Rodriguez stabs and kills Angel Jimenez. Mr. Jimenez had been bullying Mr. Rodriguez since the beginning of the school year. Mr. Rodriguez's mother, Rosa Vargas, has the same last name as Bonnie Vargas, the bank robbery hostage. They lived at Wald Houses in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I had previously considered Wald Houses as a possible housing project to move into.

Feb 26, 1993 - World Trade Center Bombing
 
A terrorist act involving a cult-like group.

Mayor Dinkins was in Japan on a trade mission at the time.

One of the suspects, Mohammed Salameh, 26, was connected to 57 Prospect Park South in Brooklyn where another suspect, Ibrahim Elgabrowny, lived. Salameh had previously lived at 26 Weldon St. (New York Times, Mar 5-7, 1993). As with USAir Flight 1493, I associated these numbers to my birth date of August 26, 1957.

Salameh and Elgabrowny also had connections to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian preacher with mosques in Brooklyn and New Jersey (New York Times, Mar 9 & 11, 1993). Rahman is blind which I associated with my past use of Recordings for the Blind materials and other things.

In my December 21, 1992 letter to the Nation, I had hinted that certain cults  might have links to the Cold War. Sheik Rahman had Cold War or post-Cold-War connections through his helping of the Afghan rebels in Pakistan in 1990 (New York Times, Mar 20, 1993) and in Brooklyn beginning in May 1990 where he channeled money, guns and men to Afghanistan and Pakistan in order to help the CIA topple the Afghan government (Village Voice, Mar 30, 1993).

Feb 28, 1993 - Branch Davidian Raid
 
Another violent event involving a cult-like group, but this one Christian, not Muslim. One of the FBI agents was named Bob Ricks. An agent who identifies a cult member at the trial is Eric Evers. An ex-member who had tried to expose the cult before is partially blind. The Waco, Texas cult also had members in the LA metropolitan area.

There's also another Bonnie, cult leader David Koresh's mother, Bonnie Haldeman.

The compound would later be burned down on April 19 after a 51-day stand-off.

Mar 10, 1993 - Dr. David Gunn
 
Florida abortion doctor killed by a fundamentalist Christian anti-abortionist. The third violent event involving cult-like groups in the past two weeks.

Mar 12, 1993 - Danielle Almonor
 
Ms. Almonor, a probation officer, is shot and killed in a Brooklyn courthouse by her estranged husband, Max, a parole officer. They both had attended John Jay College, the college I had decided to attend. Mr. Almonor had written many letters complaining to officials about his situation which is not unlike what I had been doing. Jim Fox, deputy chief probation officer, wrote a letter about the problems with Mr. Almonor to Rick Levy, regional director of the State Division of Parole.  Jim Fox was also the name of the head of the FBI's New York office.


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Mar 31, 1993 - Brandon Lee
 
Mr. Lee is shot and killed while filming a scene from the movie, The Crow. He played "Eric Draven," who comes back from the dead to avenge his murder. Many strange occurrences happened on the set.
 
A close friend of Mr. Lee was Lou Diamond Phillips, who might have some sort of connection with Scientology. His name had appeared in a gossip column with other known Scientologists for a movie premiere he attended. He was also in a movie about the math teacher, Jaime Escalante, who has a connection with Scientology.

Apr 2, 1993 - Atsuko Mori
 
Ms. Mori is drowned in the Hudson River in the West Village in Manhattan. She is Japanese.  Her dog, who had fallen in the river, survived.

Mail letter to James Capoziello of Adult Services to find out how the investigation of the VOA shelter is going.

Apr 3,1993
 
"Universal News," a Christian newspaper, is slipped under my apartment door. There is also a "Movement for a People's Assembly" rally a few blocks from my apartment.

Apr 5, 1993 - Kultos Sayaves
 
Mr. Sayaves is stabbed and killed by Cathy Majaraj. He was attending John Jay College. His family was from Thailand and his brother might have been the intended victim.

Apr 7, 1993 - Christian Abakpa

Christian Abapka is stabbed and killed in Ft Greene, Brooklyn, while protecting his brother.  "Christian" seems to be another coded name. His mother worked for the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center. The suspect, Kenneth Park, belonged to loosely-knit gang called the "Deceptions."  They were playing a basketball game called "Utah." "Utah" as in the murdered Utah tourist Brian Watkins? His lawyer is Eric Poulos.

Apr 9, 1993 - George, Vincent and Winston Chin

George, Vincent and Winston Chin, teenage brothers from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, are drowned in a Massachusetts hotel pool. Their father, Walter, used to work at the Windows on the World restaurant at the World Trade Center.

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Mr. Rose, a mentally-ill homeless man, stabs a baby with a pen in front of Lee's Grocery Store in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He stopped by periodically at the "Neighborhood Center for Homeless People" on East 77th St. in Manhattan.

Could the pen have referred to my April 2 letter to Mr. Capoziello about the shelter investigation? "Lee's Grocery Store" as in Brandon Lee? And the Neighborhood Center for Homeless People was the first place I stayed during my initial stop in NYC.

Apr 12, 1993 - Prince Chitresh Khedker

Prince Khedker of India and his South American born wife are found strangled to death in their Park Avenue apartment.

Apr 14-15, 1993 - Tiffany Graham/Stuart Abramowitz Trial

Go to the final days of the trial on April 14, but the guard says the trial is tomorrow. While exiting on the elevator, a heavy black or Latin male wearing a priest's collar says to his companion that he is involved with "Promesa" and that someone was about to join till they got involved in a "mess." I had inquired at "La Promesa" about a cook training program before.

When I left my apartment building in the morning, a Latin guy brushed passed me saying "crazy, crazy." When I returned that evening, three cops were standing in front of my building.

On Apr 15, I give the old Union Square subway crash statements to the clerk to give to the lawyers and judge at the trial.

The defendant, Thaddeus Davis, is convicted of murder on Apr 17.

Apr 16, 1993 - Robert Singleton/ Mordecai Levy

Mr. Singleton, a NYC Transit Authority worker, is shot and killed in Flatbush, Brooklyn. A wreath was placed where he was shot with a card that read "Though we don't know you, God bless you and keep you safe."

Mordecai Levy, stuck behind a bus in his Jeep, swings around the bus, crosses a yellow line, runs a red light and hits Jonathon Medina who was on his way to Bible school. I got a phone call on April 19 asking for a "Mordecai Gordon. I was watching a TV program about cults at the time.

Apr 19, 1993 Branch Davidian Fire

FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi is investigated for firing his weapon into the Branch Davidian compound during the fire. He was investigated for another incident involving the firing of his weapon at Ruby Ridge. (US News and World Report, Nov 8, 1999).

Apr 21, 1993
 
Receive a 14-day notice in the mail from Narain Wadhwani, manager of Wise Towers, saying


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I owe $200 in back rent. My rent is sent directly to Wise Towers from the welfare office. I straighten it out for the time being.

Apr 23, 1993 - Gary Wilensky

Mr. Wilensky attempts to kidnap an ex-tennis student at an upstate NY tennis tournament. He lived at 1623 Third Ave in what is known as the Yorkville section of Manhattan. This is an area I used to walk through frequently when I was living at the VOA shelter on my way to midtown Manhattan. It is also the area where Lisa Steinberg, the murdered Gap Kids store assistant manager used to live, where, I believe, my previous VOA case worker, Evelyn Castillo, lived, and is an area where a couple of more incidents will occur over the next few weeks.

Apr 28, 1993

Receive letter from Mr. Capoziello of Adult Services saying that the investigation of the shelter found nothing. I mail a letter to Mr. Capoziello the next day requesting a copy of the report of the investigation.

Apr 30, 1993

File complaint at the Cathedral Post Office in Manhattan about packages I had been receiving that were addressed to the people next door.

May 1, 1993 - Chung Kwang/ Lee Kim Kwang/ Edward Hong

Chung Kwang and Lee Kim Kwang, South Korean fugitives, are arrested in Queens after a woman they were forcing into prostitution flees. 

Edward Hong, South Korean, is shot and killed on his way to his textile store in Mid-Manhattan.

May 3, 1993 • Lisa Steinberg Trial/ Maria Rodriguez

I go to the final days of the Steinberg trial. I had first heard of the trial from a newspaper article on April 30.

The judge, Judge Rothwax, was the same judge who was at the Tiffany Graham/Stuart Abramowitz trial a few weeks earlier.

I could not find defendant Anwar Abdul's name on the trial listings. I went to the Court Clerk's office, but they could not find his name on their computer. Then I noticed that his first and last names had been transposed. I had written up a statement of my theory and gave it to the trial clerk to give to the lawyers and judge. But only one of the defense lawyers looks at it and is not receptive.

At the trial it was said that Mr. Abdul disappeared around 11 am on the day before the murder. If this was done in response to my having gone to the police, it's possible that I did not speak with Detective Davis on January 24, 1992 until after 11 am. Though I had looked up their address in the phone book previously, so it's also possible they could have guessed from that.

Maria Rodriguez and five family members were found slashed and beaten to death in their burning apartment at the Thomas Jefferson Housing Project on East 115th St in Manhattan. Four months previously, they had lived at the Metro North Housing Project on East 100th St. in Manhattan, a place I used to walk by daily. The footbridge connecting the Wards Island shelter to Manhattan had its Manhattan exit near the Metro North Houses.

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used to be a member of a social club called "Los Angeles." Los Angeles is the city where my problems began. She used to go dancing at a dance club called Studio 84 on Broadway and 95th St, a few blocks from my apartment building at Wise Towers.

The suspect, Ramon Concepcion, apparently went to Ms. Rodriguez's apartment on May 1 and killed her and her family. He stayed with the bodies over the weekend and then set fire to the apartment on May 3. This time frame is similar to the time between my reading about the Lisa Steinberg trial and actually going there.

He had a stormy two year relationship with Ms. Rodriguez that ended about two months previously. My stay at the VOA shelter was around two years and I left the shelter about two months ago. He also worked at Yankee Sleep Products at 228 East 122nd Street in Manhattan, a street I often walked down on my way back to the shelter.

May 4, 1993 • Lisa Steinberg Trial

Hand out statements to the friends and family of Ms. Steinberg and the defendant, Anwar Abdul. A guard later tells me that I am not to talk or write to anyone about the trial.

When I exited the building, some metal detector guards said someone had broken out of his "chains."

May 5, 1993 • Dr. Dennis Kleinman/ Alfredo Rias

Dr. Kleinman. anesthesiologist, pleads not guilty to sexually molesting a sedated patient on February 26 at a Manhattan podiatrist's office. From a picture on the news, the office looked similar to one that I often used to walk by in the Yorkville section, the same area where Lisa Steinberg and tennis coach, Gary Wilensky and possibly my previous case worker, Evelyn Castillo, used to live.

Alfredo Rias climbs into the lion's den at the Bronx Zoo. His mother says he's schizophrenic. "Alfredo" was the first name of two prominent people who used to sleep in my section at the shelter.

May 7, 1993 - Karen Cole/ Abraham Ferencz

Ms. Cole, climbs to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge and threatens to jump.

Earlier, minutes before dawn, a naked man ran across the Brooklyn Bridge, shouting that it was a beautiful day. He was apparently hit and killed by a car driven by Abraham Ferencz.

May 8, 1993 • Stephanie Pagan/ Keron Thomas

Ms. Pagan and her two daughters were stabbed to death in their Queensbridge Housing Project apartment in Long Island City, Queens, which was where my job training school at FEGS was originally located.

The suspect, Ronald Woodson, had supposedly met Ms. Pagan three weeks before. This was around the time of the Tiffany Graham/Stuart Abramowitz trial.

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Yorkville Total Fitness, the same area where Lisa Steinberg and Gary Wilensky lived, where my previous case worker possibly lived and where Dr. Kleinman, the anesthesiologist, possibly worked. Ms. Pagan was killed with a knife, but one report said that scissors were also used. I had mentioned my carrying scissors with me back in Los Angeles in the statements I handed out at the Steinberg trial.

Keron Thomas, 16, poses as a subway motorman and takes the "A" train from Brooklyn to Upper Manhattan. He did fine until the train suddenly stopped, then he just sat there. Was this possibly an allusion to my handing out the statements at the Steinberg trial and then doing nothing afterwards?

May 10, 1993 - Lisa Steinberg Trial/ Manuel de Dios/
                          Eric Napoletano/ Eric Knight

There is an extremely long line into the courthouse. Two white females are in front of me and talk of coming back from New Orleans and Canada two weeks ago. They precede me into the Steinberg trial courtroom. One has a plastic "Gap" triangle hanging out of her bag. A big guard sits near me in the courtroom. Lisa Steinberg's father might have been waiting for me in the doorway with a guard and a young boy during one break, but I didn't recognize him at the time, so I kept walking.

At a pizza place later, two white males said that someone had a chance to win, but people came and outvoted him.

At his sentencing on a later date that I did not attend, Mr. Abdul claimed he was framed.

Seven people are charged in the Mar 11, 1992 slaying of journalist, Manuel de Dios.

Eric Napoletano, New Jersey, is found guilty of the June 1990 killing of his wife.

At Eric Knight's trial, a witness recants her previous statements concerning a November 30, 1991 murder of a homeless woman.

There is a Tenant Patrol meeting at my building. The only Tenant Patrol meeting, that I'm aware of, in the year since I've lived there.

May 11, 1993

"Petition for Non-Payment of Rent" notice slipped under my door. Signed by manager Narain Wadhwani who might have been at the meeting last night. Must make a Housing Court appearance or face eviction.

May 12, 1993 - Christian Fettorelf

Christian Fettorelf ("Christian") is injured while helping Dawn Queally fight off a robber at the 59th and Lexington subway station at Hunter College in Manhattan. A public housing


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meeting (People For Better Public Housing) will occur at Hunter College in a few days. They happen to live near one another in Long Island City, Queens (FEGS). He is a psychology student (mental illness) who works as a paralegal. I was planning on or considering being a Legal Studies major at John Jay College.

May 13, 1993 - Eric Bache

Eric Bache hits and kills five Amish children in Ohio with his car.

I call MFY Legal Services at 759 Tenth Av in the Upper West Side of Manhattan and make appointment to discuss a harassment suit against Wise Towers for eviction proceedings.

May 15, 1993 - Eric Schmitt/Koji Shitoto

Mr. Schmitt, a gunman who had taken hostages at a nursery school in France, is arrested.

Koji Shitoto, a mental patient, leaps to his death at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.

"People for Better Public Housing" meeting at Hunter College. A person from my housing project contacts me at the meeting. At all subsequent meetings, one person from Wise Towers is always there.

May 18, 1993 • Sunya Margulies

Ms. Margulies, 6, is hit by a car driven by Sermy Onelien that was cut off by a van at 8:30 a.m. in front of La Ciudad, a Cuban/Chinese restaurant on Broadway and 78th St in Manhattan. I would have walked by there on my way to my 11 am meeting at MFY Legal Services' Upper West Side branch, but I took the subway instead. When I walked by "La Ciudad" two days later, two white females hug.

At MFY Legal Services, the receptionist said she lived at Wise Towers also. The lawyer I spoke with said they didn't handle lawsuits. He asked me who I thought might be doing the harassing. I said religious groups or law enforcement agencies. When I said "law enforcement agencies," he awkwardly changed the subject.

May 26-29, 1993 - Shaleen Wadhwani/ Hema Sakhrani

Mr. Wadhwani was shot and killed in his family's home in Manhasset, Long Island on May 26. He was the son of Narain Wadhwani, the manager of my public housing project who apparently became the manager about a month before I moved in, according to a tenant or worker of my public housing project that I had asked.

The suspect, Chandran Nathan, had a dispute with the Human Resources Administration (HRA) after being fired for poor job performance in 1985. Nathan said the firing was "bias-related." He had also sent his wife, Paamati, to visit her parents in the Philippines at the time of the shooting. (Newsday, (New York), June 20, 1993)

The HRA is the agency that oversees welfare which apparently was not sending my rent to my public housing management which was the reasoning for the "Petition for Non-Payment of Rent" notices signed by Narain Wadhwani that were being slipped under my door.
 
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family's apartment in Rego Park, Queens.

At the funeral, Narain Wadhwani said of Shaleen and Hema, "They were so great. They both are so great. Because they are alive I am telling everybody that they are going on their honeymoon tomorrow." (New York Times, May 29, 1993)

Was he speaking religiously or factually? Were these deaths fabricated for some reason? Or were they real and did they represent a kind of retribution for the eviction proceeding?  Besides telling MFY Legal Services about my interest in a lawsuit against Wise Towers, I had also mentioned it during jury duty interviews I had this week in downtown Manhattan.

On June 1, someone slips a Housing Authority poster under my door that says that Wise Towers management, the Housing Police and tenants have to work together. Around this time, I also begin seeing many Indian-looking people for a few days.

May 25, 1993 - Johnnie Cromartie

Mr. Cromartie dies while under police supervision at Downtown New York Hospital which is near where I was doing jury duty. I hadn't really heard many stories coming from that hospital before.

Jun 1, 1993 - Allyn Winslow

Mr. Winslow was shot and killed in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. He taught drama and gave inspirational seminars at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in the Ansonia Building in Manhattan. A few days after the murder, someone pointed out the Ansonia Building as I walked by. Did they know something or was it a set-up?

He had gone to Disney World like the suspect in the Shaleen Wadhwani murder had planned to.

A pot of flowers was placed where he was shot with a note that read "To the biker, Mr. Winslow, may you be in a better place with angels on a cloud."

Jun 7, 1993 - Golden Venture

A ship carrying illegal Chinese immigrants runs aground at Rockaway Peninsula, Queens. The next day, my brother came to visit me. I had not told anyone in California my location.

Jun 9, 1993 - Volunteers of America mentally-ill resident

A person from a VOA residence for the mentally ill a few blocks from my apartment tries to castrate himself and throw himself into the river.

Jun 18, 1993

Letter from Wise Towers saying I owe $142 in back rent.

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Receive letter telling of a "People for Better Public Housing" meeting.

Jun 24, 1993 - NYC Landmarks Bomb Plot

An apparent Muslim plan to bomb NYC landmarks is thwarted. One of the defendants, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, is said to belong to a radical Muslim sect "Al-Fuqra." There was a trial going on in Canada in October 1993 where Al-Fuqra targeted Indian theatres and airplanes to be bombed. This might possibly tie in with the deaths of Prince Khedker who was from India and Shaleen Wadhwani whose Hindu family was from Pakistan via India or his fiancée, Hema Sakhrani.

Also, three of the defendants in the Al-Fuqra trial were from Texas. I believe that the parents of Anwar Abdul from the Lisa Steinberg trial were also from Texas.

Also, Emad Salem, an informer who helped solve the NYC landmarks case, used to live about ten blocks from me in Bretton Hall. There seems to be increased harassment activity whenever I walk pass Bretton Hall sometimes.

Jun 26, 1993

At the "People for Better Public Housing " meeting I briefly tell Congressman Major Owens, the head of the group, about my problems with my housing project and welfare and cult-like groups bothering me.

Jun 29, 1993 - Eric Price/Milton Setzer

Mr. Price and Mr. Setzer are found dead with their throats cut. They lived on West End Ave near 104th St, about a dozen blocks from my apartment. Mr. Setzer was apparently a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, a group which seemed to play a role at the VOA shelter. "Milton" was the name of one of a series of annoying people who had a bed next to mine at the shelter.

Jul 7, 1993 - Pamela Schneider

Ms. Schneider, blind, is killed by a #3 subway train at Penn Station in Manhattan. Her guide dog, Pepper, survived.

Jul 9, 1993
 
Take admissions test at John Jay College. Am told that I would be eligible for a student loan, even though I would be working towards a second BA.

The next day, the elevators are broken for the entire weekend at my building.

Jul 12, 1993 - Ny-Aya Hill
 
Ms. Hill is stabbed and killed at the Red Hook Housing Project in Brooklyn. She attended Martin Luther King High School which is a few blocks away from John Jay College in Manhattan. She planned on becoming a lawyer. A prominent person at the "People for Better Public Housing" meetings was a school teacher who lived at the Red Hook Housing Project. The first name of suspect "Nakia" Watson


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looks similar to my last name "Nakao."

I receive another letter from "People for Better Public Housing" on July 14 about a future meeting.

Jul 20, 1993 - Prince Khedker/ Eric Price/ Milton Setzer

George Cobo and Tony Lee Simpson are arrested for the murder of Prince Khedker (Apr 12, 1993) and also of Eric Price and Milton Setzer (Jun 29, 1993).

I am assigned to do a workfare assignment beginning August 9.

Jul 21, 1993 - Hui Cheng

Ms. Cheng is pushed onto the tracks at the 96th and Broadway subway station. This is the nearest station to my apartment. The suspect, a black female, told her that she was pushed because she was "white." There seems to be some sort of system where I'm supposed to join either a white or black group.

Earlier in the day a clerk at John Jay College had said that my references for my student loan were no good. But I called the bank and they said that my references were acceptable. Could my path being clear to attend John Jay mean that I was choosing the white group?

Jul 26, 1993

First successful Call Trace of one of the nuisance calls I'd been receiving.

Turn in student loan application.

Jul 27, 1993 - Larry Hogue

Mr. Hogue, the so-called "Wild Man of 96th St," is to be released from a mental hospital to a son in Bridgeport, Conn. The Unification Church owns a university in Bridgeport.

John Jay College orientation

"People for Better Public Housing" letter concerning a meeting with then NYC Housing Authority Commissioner, Sally Hernandez-Pinero.

Jul 30, 1993

File Nuisance Call Complaint with the 24th police precinct.

Jul 31, 1993 - Santa Marquez/Michael Sakara


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Ms. Marquez and her two children are shot and killed in their South Windsor, Connecticut home. Their bodies are found at the Brooklyn Piers near John and Jay Streets (John Jay College). The suspect, John Camacho, was a cousin of the Marquez family who had tried to help him, but things did not go smoothly and they threw him out. He graduated from John Jay High in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Michael Sakara's dismembered body is found in Haverstraw, NY. He lived on West End Ave near 98th St, not far from my apartment on 93rd St. He was a typesetter at the New York Law Journal.

"People for Better Public Housing" meeting, but Housing Commissioner Sally Hernandez-Pinero is not there as promised. Other Housing Authority executives are there. Milagros Stanley, apparently the President of the Tenant Association in my building, says that she and I should work together.

Aug 2, 1993 - Eric Smith

Eric Smith, 13, beats and kills Derrick Robie, 4, in Savona, NY.

Mail letter to Sally Hernandez-Pinero about housing problems and related crimes.

Aug 9, 1993

Mail Barbara Sabol, then Human Resources Administration Commissioner, a letter similar to the one I sent to Ms. Hernandez-Pinero.

First day of workfare. Assigned as a messenger in the mailroom at the NYC Department of Real Property at 2 Lafayette St in downtown Manhattan. A City worker named "Rene" claims to live near me on West 97th St. People keep throwing the name "Bonnie" around. I had mentioned the Bonnie Vargas and Bonnie Bear deaths in my Sally Hernandez-Pinero and Barbara Sabol letters. Some workfare people and city employees might have been cops or cult members. I had kept my private papers locked in my bag. They may have picked my lock and made copies of or taken some of my papers while they sent me out to make deliveries.

Aug 12, 1993 - Bonnie Bear Pre-Trial
 
Ms. Bear's suspected killers are indicted. The former "Walter Diaz" is now "Eric Rogers."

Aug 21, 1993
 
Final "People for Better Public Housing" meeting.

Aug 23, 1993 - Masakazu Kuriyama


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Mr. Kuriyama, a Japanese exchange student, is shot and killed in Concord, California. Concord is near where I was born. He also has the same last name as Lester Kuriyama, one of the prosecutors of Erik Menendez, whose trial began in Los Angeles on July 20.

Aug 26, 1993 - NYC Landmarks Bomb Plot Pre-Trial

Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman is indicted for being part of a conspiracy to bomb NYC landmarks. He makes an appearance at the Federal courthouse which is across the street from my workfare assignment. There are many media representatives there. The manager at my workfare assignment points to me during a radio commercial that says "Act now!" and he says "Act now!" to me. I don't go to the media. Riding the elevator, a white couple says that some baby threw up its milk. This is my last day at the workfare assignment. Today is also my birthday.

Sep 1, 1993

First day of classes at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Their courses of study include programs in police science, fire science and emergency medical services, so people in some of the professions that had been harassing or surveilling me are attending this college. My major is Legal Studies. Much cult-like activity occurs throughout the semester as it does almost everyplace else.

Sep 12, 1993 - Terence Campbell

Mr. Campbell is shot and killed on the footbridge connecting my old shelter on Wards Island and Manhattan. He lived on West 95th St, a few blocks from my apartment. He was an ex-English major who was about to work as a tax lawyer at a Manhattan Law firm. I have a BA in English and am taking legal classes at John Jay.  He also looked a little like Allyn Winslow, the drama teacher shot on June 1, 1993.

Sep 13, 1993 - Central Park Rape/ Grand Central Station Cable Cut

A woman is raped in Central Park, about 15 blocks from my apartment.

Copper cable is cut at Grand Central Station.

Sep 18, 1993 - Paul Heidelberger Trial

Letter from local Housing Police about a police/tenant meeting scheduled for September 28.

The trial of murdered Housing Cop, Paul Heidelberger, is to begin in a few weeks also.

Sep 24, 1993 - Larry Hogue

Mr. Hogue is arrested after he illegally returned to his old West 96th St. neighborhood. I saw someone resembling Mr. Hogue today near St. Luke's Hospital in midtown Manhattan. He was lying on his stomach on the sidewalk and looking straight at me when I walked passed.

Oct 13, 1993

Scientology is granted a tax exemption by the IRS as a charitable and religious organization.


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Oct 27, 1993 - Andres Huang

Mr. Huang, a transient, is charged with accidentally starting the Altadena fire.

Nov 3, 1993 - Stephen Feinman

Mr. Feinman is found shot and dead in the Bronx. He was reported missing three days ago. He had started driving a cab for a Long Island City company two months ago. He finished paralegal training and volunteered at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), but was not offered a job. I started taking legal classes at John Jay College about two months ago and had unsuccessfully contacted the ACLU about FOIA on October 15, 1992.

Nov 20, 1993

Photo negatives, a memo from the John Jay Student Council saying that it won't tolerate mistreatment of students and a Village Voice with Star Trek Klingons on the cover are in a little booth I had been working for the past few days at the John Jay College library.

Nov 23, 1993 - Sonya Kim

Ms. Kim, a philosophy student, is hit by a car in the West Village in Manhattan. There had been a mild controversy in my philosophy class at John Jay.

Nov 24, 1993 - Siew Kin Yeo

Ms. Yeo is shot and killed in a robbery of Lee's Chinese Kitchen in the Bronx. If Siew is pronounced like "sue," could it be an allusion to a lawsuit? "Lee" like Brandon Lee?

Nov 26, 1993

Drop off negatives to be developed. Am told to pick them up on December 8.

Nov 30, 1993 - Eric Hendricks

Officer Hendricks, an NYPD cop, is shot at for driving too slow. Am I too slow? He worked at the Randall's Island Station. I used to rest next to that station when I would walk back to the shelter.

Dec 2, 1993 - Ellen Liu/ Mili Subudhi

Ms. Liu and Ms. Subudhi commit suicide by lying down in front of a Long Island Rail Road train in Setauket, Long Island. If Ms. Subudhi was Indian or Pakistani, could this be an allusion to Shaleen Wadhwani, the murdered son of my apartment manager or his fiancée?

Ms. Liu and Ms. Subudhi also went to Ward Melville High School (Wards Island?).


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Dec 7, 1993 - Long Island Rail Road Massacre/
                       Damian Williams/ Operation Big Shot

Six people die from gunshot wounds on a Long Island Rail Road train in Merillon, Long Island. Among the dead are Mi Kyung Kim (Korean. Worked in math library at Columbia University which is about a mile from my apartment), Marita Magtoto (Philippina who just got a legal job in Manhattan), Richard Nettleton (aspiring writer. I had written some things in the past), Amy Federici (her mother, Arlene, was an English teacher), James Gorycki (Go Ricky?), and Dennis McCarthy (McCarthyism?)

The suspect, Colin Ferguson, carried papers with complaints about various social service agencies, the police, and the Transit Authority. They were written in tight, tiny letters. I, also, had written letters of complaint against these groups. The printing in my journals is also very small. His complaint had been rejected by several lawyers as were my complaints. One of the lawyers he went to, Lauren Abramson, has a name similar to Erik Menendez's lawyer, Leslie Abramson.

He requested all documents, photos, etc of himself from the police. This sounds similar to my FOIA requests to the NYPD, FBI and CIA. He also had a complaint against a "Chinese racist," Mr. Sue (lawsuit?). He had lived in Long Beach, California before coming to New York. I, too, had lived in the Los Angeles area before coming to New York. One of the security guards at an old job of his was named "Ron Rickey," a combination of my brother's name and my old nickname (though the founder of Scientology is named L. Ron Hubbard). He also apparently liked reading loudly from the Bible. Christian fundamentalists seem to be a group that has concerned itself with me.

On December 13, 1993, after the information about Mr. Ferguson had come out in the papers, my philosophy class at John Jay had a pre-planned discussion on the insanity defense. Mr. Ferguson's situation was discussed. One student spoke of Mr. Sue being a Chinese store owner on some corner. I was sitting near the corner.

I got a phone call saying that the pictures that were being developed from the negatives that had been left for me at the John Jay College library were ready. They were pictures of various African-Americans.

Damian Williams from the Los Angeles riots is sentenced.

Operation Big Shot, a drug bust involving an international heroin ring including Asia, Russia, France and the New York Mafia. An apartment is raided at 57th and 8th in Manhattan which is across the street from the bank where Sgt Keith Levine broke up the ATM robbery on December 28, 1991 and half a block from where Gap store assistant manager Lisa Steinberg was killed on January 25, 1992.

One suspect, Officer Edward Castro, is with the 25th Precinct in East Harlem. He worked the 4 pm to midnight shift. I was in that area often when I used to return to the VOA shelter at night.


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Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

Jan 5, 1994 - Renee Roca and Gorsha Sur

Ice dancer Renee Roca breaks a wrist after a collision with another skater during warm-ups at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. She and Gorsha Sur were the U.S. ice dancing champions from last year. (The New York Times, January 6, 1994) Sur, a Soviet defector, had been unable to qualify to represent the U.S. in the Olympics next month after his application for expedited U.S. citizenship was not granted before the start of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 5, 1994)

Jan 6, 1994 - Nancy Kerrigan

Ms. Kerrigan was hit on the knee before an ice skating competition in Detroit, Michigan. One suspect is Shawn Eric Eckhardt. He confessed to Eugene Saunders, a born-again Christian minister who went to a private investigator, Gary Crowe. Both Mr. Eckhardt and Mr. Saunders were taking paralegal classes from Mr. Crowe. My name is Eric. Christians seem to be involved in my situation. Brandon Lee's last film was The Crow (Mar 31, 1993). I am taking legal classes at John Jay College.

Suspect Tonya Harding's choreographer is Erika Bakacas. The spokesperson for CBS Sports has been Rick Gentile.  (CBS is broadcasting the Olympics). Ms. Kerrigan's mother is blind. A woman, in a copycat attack in Germany of soccer player Oliver Moller, could speak only in sign language. "Erika" is another form of "Eric." "Rick" is an old nickname of mine. I am signed up with Recording for the Blind, though I am not blind. Blindness could also refer to my trying to deal with my situation without any direct knowledge of what's going on. Sign language is another recurring symbol, perhaps referring to my non-talkative personality or perhaps indicating that the incident itself is a sign.

Jan 7, 1994 - Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow

Elizabeth Punsalan and Jerod Swallow win the ice dancing competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Roca and Sur had withdrawn from the competition (Los Angeles Times, January 8, 1994) Punsalan and Swallow had been accused of lobbying against expedited citizenship for Sur. Punsalan has said that the lobbying was started by others and that she and Swallow were singled out because they were competing with Roca and Sur (Filipinas Magazine, February 1998)

Feb 4, 1994 - Ricardo Punsalan

Ricardo "Ricky" Punsalan, brother of American Olympic ice dancer Elizabeth Punsalan, apparently stabs and kills their 57-year-old father, Dr. Ernesto Punsalan. Ricardo was said to have had a history of mental illness, his family claimed the attack may have been caused by a change in Ricardo's anti-depressant medication to Prozac. Mental illness is another recurring symbol, perhaps referring to seeming insanity of my claims or perhaps the insanity of my attempting to do anything about it. Or maybe they think I'm clinically insane. And Prozac is manufactured by Eli Lilly, a company that the Scientologists have targeted in the past.

Ricardo and Elizabeth are of mixed race. Their father, Ernesto, was Filipino and their mother, Theresa, is Irish-American. They were raised in Sheffield Lake, Ohio. At 14, Elizabeth trained with Detroit coach Sandra Hess and lived in Detroit for awhile with a skating family, then moved with Hess's other students to train at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado for four years. She began skating with Jerod Swallow in 1989 when she was 18. They had known each other for four years and later got married on September 4, 1993. A 1998 article in Filipinas Magazine said that Elizabeth "plans to complete an engineering degree in industrial design." (Filipinas Magazine, February 1998; Plain Dealer, Cleveland, October 28, 1994)

I begin typing this letter in the John Jay College Computer Room. I'd been working on it, off and on, for at least a couple of months. People are hovering around me, so they might know the contents of this paper. They may have even tapped into my computer.

Feb 6, 1994 - Natalia Rivera

A bowling ball is apparently dropped onto the Depressed Highway in New Jersey, bounces off a truck and hits and kills 8-month old Natalia Rivera. Her parents are psychotherapists. Scientology is opposed to psychology and psychiatry. The suspect, Calvin Settle (settle a score? a bet?), was enrolled at "Synergy," a program for emotionally troubled teens that is run by the organization that managed my old shelter, Volunteers of America. Mr. Settle's caseworker at the program was Hawaiian Thompson. He worked as a food service worker at Christ Hospital. Getting hit in the head with a bowling


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ball also reminded me of an Olympics parody I once wrote, though Morality in Media says it's Beavis and Butthead.

Conclusion

The following are six possible explanations for what's been happening.

1) Alliance of Cults

I will loosely define a cult as a group of people who use intelligence agency techniques for illegal or unethical purposes. Groups such as these, despite differences in religious or political beliefs, share the common experience of operating outside the law. Cooperation between the groups could be mutually advantageous. They can share information and expertise when in need and also band together to advance common goals such as freedom of religion. Unfortunately, freedom of religion in the case of these cults, sometimes seems to involve the trampling of other people's civil liberties.

2) Cults and Mainstream Groups

Cults are not the only groups who are interested in issues such as freedom of religion. In the past, Scientology had organized a convention that included mainstream religious groups, calling on them to band together for religious freedom. A similar occurrence took place in the early 1980's after Jonestown when mainstream religious organizations and civil liberty groups opposed anti-cult legislation that they felt could hurt everyone's First Amendment rights.

Scientology is also involved in environmental issues and education. The Unification Church owns a mainstream newspaper in Washington, DC. Many fundamentalist Christian groups are involved in drug rehabilitation and other social service programs. These types of activities provide access into the mainstream.

"To sacrifice the one for the many," a line I heard while at the Christian shelter in Canyon Country, might be a tempting philosophy for mainstream groups and cults alike, if they have to choose between the rights of one or a relative few people as opposed to the possible improvement of society at large.

Also, many of these cult members have mainstream jobs. If they could obtain employment in management or the personnel department of a desired mainstream company, a type of subversive alliance could be formed with cult members in key positions or in positions of access and influence. An old ad that Scientology once sent me targeted management and people working in personnel as good candidates for their program.

3) Cults and Organized Crime

Since these cults often find themselves on the wrong side of the law with battles over taxes, harassment of targeted persons, and aggressive recruitment and fundraising techniques, it might only be a matter of time before they moved from this outlaw mentality to ties with professional crime groups.


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Some of these cults also have non-cult businesses or access to government contracts for social service programs. The traditional crime groups might see a financial opportunity with these types of cults.

4) Cults and Intelligence Agencies

A 1992 article in The Nation magazine talked about "secret armies" established by the CIA in Europe at the beginning of the Cold War to guard against the Communist threat. Though apparently military in nature originally, these groups began doing other things like persuading allies to covertly harass Communist Party members and "deprive them of ordinary jobs and...social welfare benefits." Many in the CIA seemed to want to disband the armies because they were "obsolete or out of control," but "higher military and intelligence officials" kept the program alive. Ex-CIA officer Victor Marchetti said that the armies became "a built-in network for any kind of covert acts we wanted to run." (The Nation, April 6, 1992)

Scientology and its forerunner, Dianetics, also began in the early years of the Cold War. And though they began in America, they soon spread to many other countries around the world. So if Scientology is a CIA-connected organization, these secret armies could have served as a kind of model of how to go about it.
 
Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard was assigned to U.S. Navy intelligence for at least part of his World War II duties, though apparently it was not uncommon for writers like Hubbard to work in intelligence during that war.  In his book, The Game Player, former CIA officer, Miles Copeland, said that Scientology and the CIA had some sort of "arrangement" in the 1950s.  Though in another  book, Theirs Was the Kingdom, John Heidenry said that there was a "falling-out" between the two and the "plan came to naught."

The CIA was also apparently interested in Scientology's ability or purported ability in remote viewing.

In the meantime, parts of the Scientology organization has acted like an intelligence agency, especially their Guardian's Office. This office was later disbanded by Scientology after a number of high-level Scientologists were implicated in a plan in which mostly Scientology-related documents were illegally copied from various Federal agencies in the 1970s. Evidence was also found at that time of attempts to frame Scientology critics Paulette Cooper and Clearwater, Florida mayor, Gabriel Cazares, for bomb threats and associations with a hit-and-run accident, respectively. Though I believe Scientology was never prosecuted for those acts.

And there are those today who say that Scientology or those connected to Scientology continue to engage in intelligence-related activities to some degree.

Foreign intelligence services could also be involved. The Unification Church apparently has ties with Korean intelligence. During the period when I was living in the downtown Los Angeles hotel, someone had left a newspaper with a headline about German intelligence. Hubbard has written that the Soviet government was interested in Scientology techniques.  And double-agent-type activity is also a possibility.

Cults would be a good organization for an intelligence front group. They're secretive. Their members are loyal and malleable. They have a reputation for unusual behavior, so that intelligence activities performed by them could be attributed to cult zealousness. They're protected by the First Amendment. They can freely travel around the country and the world to their various outposts as well as transfer, or be a source of, funds and supplies. And by delving deeply into their members' psyches and characters as part of the cult's program, superior candidates for possible direct intelligence recruitment can be found.

Mind or behavior control experimentation is also a possible motivation for cult-intelligence agency entanglement.

5) Secret War

Could different cults with conflicting beliefs be engaged in a secret war? When I've looked up articles on Scientology in the past, several anti-Scientology articles from the 1980's had been published by the same Christian periodical. I've also heard of an anti-cult network consisting of former members and others with negative feelings towards cults.

Sometimes I feel I'm surrounded by two warring factions. It's possible that one side is harassing me so that I will complain about the actions of the other side. I also see many CONWAY bags (as in being conned) and hear the song "Everybody Plays the Fool" every once in awhile.

And I believe that after sending a letter to Mayor Dinkins on February 9, 1992 in which I described my concerns about the Lisa Steinberg murder that had recently occurred, among other things, a white-sounding female in Manhattan said that something was good for their side or something similar. Fairly soon, I began seeing Gap bags again which had been used as a harassment technique against. me and had seemed to stop after the murder.


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Occasionally, I hear things like "This is stupid. We want to be your friend" or "Just tell us what you want us to do." Other times it's "This is boring" or "There aren't many people left who are doing what he's doing."

But sometimes I feel that they are two sides of the same coin. There was a period where people kept talking about black and white groups and that I had to choose one of them. But even if they are truly on opposite sides, their tactics seem so similar that it's difficult to tell them apart.

Law enforcement agencies could also be involved, working against the cults or maybe taking sides. Sometimes I get the feeling that they're on my side. But if so, why wouldn't they tell me? And when I combine this with the unpleasant experiences I had in some police stations, plus the many police cars and officers I see as if I'm being surveilled or harassed through surveillance, I'm not sure how to regard them. Plus, there was that comment about using "live bait" on February 15, 1992.

6) Cults and the Supernatural

I mentioned in the background section my experiences with the possible rainmaking abilities of these cults, but I've also had other experiences that seemed to involve ESP. For example, I would leave my apartment in Los Angeles across the street from Scientology and people outside would be talking about the place I'd planned on going to. I would think that I might want to talk with a particular person about my situation and soon I would run into that person. On my first bus trip across the country, I was going over Spanish vocabulary in my head so that the cult people couldn't read my mind, and suddenly, they started talking about foreign languages. When I was at the VOA shelter, I was thinking, at that time, that if anything happened to me, I wanted to be buried here in New York and people suddenly started talking about speaking with a religious woman who periodically came to the shelter as if she could handle my burial arrangements. And soon I received an ad in the mail about a New York cemetery.

Sometimes I also feel I hear things inside my head (at the time of this letter). Mostly it's laughter or grumbling. But once, in Los Angeles, after I decided to try and call the FBI, a voice in my head that sounded like a female Scientologist who lived down the hall said "Don't do it!"

I'd read that the Russians had experimented with ESP by using electricity. I also read about the CIA experimenting with mind reading and thought implantation by using electromagnetism.

This made me think of a time back in Los Angeles when I experienced an extreme amount of static electricity in my apartment. Visible sparks would come off my blanket at night and I also heard some crackling in my electrical wires during this period. The sparks from my blanket later stopped after I used fabric softener in my wash, though I had never had sparks, especially like that and for such a long period of time, when fabric softener was not used. 

And once, during a lightning storm in LA, my apartment was filled with a kind of blue light.

Also, back in LA, someone would come into my room and sprinkle blood or blood-red paint on my T-shirts and sheets. There was also talk of blood during my first cross-country journey.

Someone I had known had said to me in the past that she lived near a place called the "House of Hermetic." I didn't think much about it at the time, but after these other things


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started happening I looked up "hermetic" and found that hermetic is a type of witchcraft. It also has associations with magic, the occult sciences and alchemy.

So there could be some sort of otherworldly motivations for what's been happening. 

It's been said that parts of Scientology are battling forces that are seeking to enslave humanity.  And I suppose that certain Christian groups are battling Satanic forces. Scientology apparently has connections with these dark forces through the late L. Ron Hubbard's past associations with the Satanic Aleister Crowley and through the practicing of occult magic. Though Scientology has said that one episode from Hubbard's life involving him and the Los Angeles branch of Crowley's organization in the 1940s had to do with Hubbard doing undercover work to destroy the LA branch.

7) Games

In his book, Scientology Ethics, Hubbard says that leaders have to give their people a game to play, otherwise they might try to get rid of the leaders out of boredom and start fighting among themselves in order to have a game to play.  So it's possible that the situation that I've been trying to describe is an example of this organizational philosophy. Or at least a part of it is.

Eric Nakao







Appendix - 38-page letter (Scientology, Christians and crime: a conspiracy theory) 


December 17, 1991

(Typed from a handwritten version)

Dear Ms. Beckett:

I wish to complain about the payment of my Training Related Expenses and also the abusive and irrational treatment I received at the BEGIN office at 109 E. 16th St, 3rd floor.

I received my first payment for $137 on Nov 27. Then, on my next pick-up date on Dec 11 no TRE money was included in my benefits.

I went to the BEGIN office that day. As I entered the building, a shabby-looking person proceeded to walk closely beside me and say in a hostile voice to give him his money. I asked him if he was talking to me and he said no. Upstairs, I told the receptionist my problem with the TRE and she checked a computer print-out dated Dec 4 that stated that I should have received $323 on Nov 27.

Next I spoke to Roger Hamilton. I showed him my EPFT receipts and asked him why I didn't receive any TRE on Dec 11 and why the discrepancy between the $137 I received on Nov 27 and the $323 that their computer print-out showed. He left for awhile and came back and said in general terms that letters are sent out stating that benefits are discontinued because of an inability to verify attendance at training programs. (my program is the building maint prog (sic) at the Federation (sic) Employment and Guidance Service, 3302 Skillman Av in Long Island City.) I asked him more specifically if a letter had been sent to me. Mr. Hamilton did not answer but left the room again. When he returned he said that he found out that I had already been paid my money and would I come with him to another room. I did and after he took care of another client who had come with us, Mr. H's tone got decidedly sarcastic and taunting. (although he was exactly calm and helpful before) (?) He mentioned nothing about what he had said before about my already having been paid, but instead asked me again about where I got the $323 figure. I told him that as I had said before that the receptionist out front had read it to me from the computer print-out and that I had seen the figure myself. He did not seem pleased and said I probably didn't know how to read the print-out. He left again and came back with the print-out. He pointed to a lower figure that was not next to my name and asked me if this was it. I said no and pointed to the correct figure. He then asked to see my EPFT receipts again. I showed them to him. He pointed to a figure for $22.50 and asked what this was for. I said it was just a general type of welfare money that people usually get. I couldn't think of the official name. But he kept badgering me for what it was called. i told him that i felt he was harrassing (sic) me. He said that I could turn around and walk out if I wanted to. I, needing to straighten this thing out, declined. I asked him why it was so important to have the exact name if it was just a general fund and that whatever the case, the $137 and the $22.50 were still far below the $323 that I should have received. He left again and came back with a computer print-out which stated my past welfare and TRE benefits which he gave to me. He made no further mention of the type of benefit the $22.50 was, but pointed to the other Dec 4 print-out date of the print-out with the $323 figure. He said that this date meant that the money was sent out on Dec 4 and that I would get it on my next pick-up date. Now this doesn't make sense because if this was the case then what was the $137 I received on Nov 27? But I didn't think of this at the time being relieved to hear that I would (hopefully) be receiving my money. He then left and as I was preparing to leave I heard him say from another room, "You just can't please some people." I'm not sure what this was supposed to mean. Why would I be pleased to be shortchanged on my first TRE, have my 2nd TRE (illegible) and to be harrassed (sic) and lied to repeatedly?

And that is why I am writing to you, Ms. Beckett. I feel quite overwhelmed by all these recent events and need your help, not just in being assured of receiving my TRE, but in discovering what exactly happened that my TRE would get cut off like that and why Mr. Hamilton would feel it necessary to harrass (sic) and lie to me so unremitedely (sic) when if it were just the case of some simple mix-up, he could have made up some innocuous excuse (or even told me the truth) that would have caused no hardships on my part and would have sufficed to turn me away disappointed in the delay, but satisfied with the answer I had received? Could the cryptic remarks by that street person demanding his money have had anything to do with it? Am I being shaken down and is the BEGIN center a party to all this? I realize that this is a big question that I am leaving you with, but I hope you with your mandate to get at the truth and clear up any and all improprieties, both great and small, will be able to solve th(illegible) problem.

Yours truly,

EN
One Keen (sic) Bldg
Wards Island
Case #HR0825077-1

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December 27, 1991

(Typed from a handwritten version)

NYC Human Rights Commission

1) Police, fire and ambulance sirens

2)     "        "                "         appearances

3) People with "GAP" bags (rhymes with Jap)

4)     "      with "CONWAY" bags (con artists)

5)     "       taking pictures with still and video cameras when I pass

6) Pairs of people coming up close to me and talking about people dying, getting stabbed, etc. Also speaking about rats, churches, owing money, people named Eric or Rick (my nickname)

7) People asking me for the time and for money.

8) Parents having their small children fight each other (like me and them fighting, I suppose) and having their babies crying (me, I suppose, for not cooperating with them). Teenagers fighting, too.

9) "FINK" bread truck parked out front when I leave the shelter. Passes me on street, too.

10) Newspapers and magazines on street with headlines speaking of death, killing, last chance, etc.

11) Car crashes and wrecked cars. (A car is supposedly the symbol for the job or lifestyle that they have set up for me to fit into their world)

12) People at places I frequent like the library, free concerts, museums, lectures and having their babies cry or talking loudly in the libraries and brushing up against my chair or at the Summer Stage concerts, getting them to hold the raffle in GAP bags and having one winner named Eric.

13)  Having people who resemble me pass me by.

14) Crowding the subway trains and buses (possibly involved in the Union Station crash - the day that happed I was planning to go to see about an electronics course at SUNY in Brooklyn, which certain people did not seem to want me to do. And when I took an alternate bus, people near me were talking about trading with the Soviet Union (another frequent topic) and on the news that night there was a Bible found on the train (Churches being another frequent subject and an evangelistic church group had been at my shelter the night before and were making a big push)

Also possibly involved in the Grand Central Station flood. The night before I had backtracked on my way to the bus at Grand Central to buy a token and as I was exiting someone said something like "You want to play, eh?" I guess they thought I was trying to make them work extra by following me around. I take the #7 every morning from Grand Central to Queens where the water came rushing through.

15) Interrupting my Training Related Expenses at my job training program. I complained to HRA and they sent my letter to OED. Still waiting for a response and for my TRE to continue. Maybe you can work with them.

16) Interferring (sic) with a Driver's License I applied for. I never received it at my shelter even though the DMV said it was mailed out and never returned. So I had them mail another one to Gen'l Delivery and it hasn't arrived yet after over 50 days. Though maybe it will still come. Although the last Saturday I checked, people walked near me and one guy kept speaking about loosing (sic) his ID. And the previous Saturday, there was a car crash at around 33rd and 8th near the post office and I believe a person who is at my shelter came up to me and said "Good afternoon" and 2 people passed me by saying "...he was scared to death..." This is either due to them just wanting me not to get my license or because I complained about the delay in my Training Related Expenses recently.

17) And since yesterday morning, there has been a flurry of activity, possibly because I did not receive my Training Expenses on my scheduled pick-up date. That morning a fire truck greeted me at the exit of the 33rd and Rawston station where I get off to go to school. As I was approaching Manhattan, walking across the 59th St bridge, the traffic was backed up with many pollution-causing trucks idling (blowing exhaust fumes at me is another favorite tactic). I (illegible) my exit a bit and as I was walking down 1st Av near 59th, about 2 or 3 police cars, a golf cart sized police vehicle and perhaps a police van came roaring passed me, sirens blaring. This morning at the 103rd and Lex(ington) station, 2 Transit cops were stationed by the turnstile, one of the(m) flipping his baton around in an intimidating fashion (sticks, baseball bats, etc is another symbol of theirs. I was struck on the arm with a large branch (by someone) while crossing the footbridge on Wards Island). At Grand Central Station another Transit Cop was yelling at a vendor who I've seen in one of the tunnels for the past 3 months that if he was there tomorrow he would be thrown in jail. When I got off at 33rd and Rawston there was a crashed car with an ambulance (I believe #374) and a Patrol Supervisor car (I believe #686). After class let out early, some Moishe delivery trucks were spewing large amounts of exhaust in the street leading to the station.

18) The preceeding (sic) has been the general account with most of the highlights of my persistently being harrassed. (sic) I can't say exactly who is involved or behind all this, but it began with a run-in I had with the Church of Scientology back in Los Angeles, for which I had to flee LA after I believed they were making attempts on my life. I ended up initially in Albany, went back to LA where I had a number of harrowing experiences and left again, planning to go to Montreal, but after several twists and turns ending up in NYC. Some Christian churches seem to be deeply involved in this too and what other churches or organizations I cannot say.

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February 9, 1992

Dear Mayor Dinkins:

I'm not sure where to begin, so I'll just jump right in. I have been harrassed (sic) by various cults in New York for the past year by such things as carrying GAP bags (GAP rhymes with Jap. I am of Japanese descent), poisoning my food recently, resulting in headaches and extreme nausea, possibly putting small doses of a more chronic type poison or AIDS infected material in my food, sirens and intimidating escapades by the NYPD, transit police, fire department and EMS, taking my picture, stealing my driver's license, general surveillence (sic) and the list goes on. There have also been several major news stories whose circumstances lead me to believe that I am somehow connected, namely, the 2 catastrophes along the Lexington Avenue subway, was well as the death of Officer Levine and possibly the City College Stampede, both which happened the day after I reported my cult problems to the NY(C) Human Rights Commission and both of which involved many of the City Departments that I had implicated.

I believe all this to have started back in Los Angeles about 8 years ago when I lived at 1343 N. Catalina St. and had signed a petition against the big Scientology headquarters across the street for making too much noise. I left LA about a year and a half ago after making an unsuccessful call to the FBI and began to repeatedly smell something like pesticide wafting up to my apartment and felt that my life was in some sort of danger. Unfortunately, the Scientologists would not let me go. I fled LA for New York, but they surrounded me with their people on the Greyhound bus and intimidated me intotrying (sic) to make Cedar Rapids, Iowa my new home. But the harrassment (sic) continued there also. I left for Boston, Syracuse and Albany where the harrassment (sic) continued. I went back to LA to regain my bearings and the harrassment, (sic) of course, continued. I left LA after several failed attempts to rectify my situation and a knife attack. My original destination was Canada, but I got sidetracked into Chicago, NY and Philadelphia where the harrassment (sic) continued before I ended up back in NY. Along the was (sic) other cults besides the Scientologist (sic) seemed to have become involved, most specifically some Christian-based cults and possibly others. There seems to be a loosely knit coalition of cults strung across the country, if not the world. Someone back in LA referred to them as the "United Nations". (sic)

On January 24, 1992, I went down to One Police Plaza and spoke to, I believe, a Detective Davis, from Community Affairs and told him most of the above. He seemed fairly sympathetic and said to try not to let them upset me though it was hard and that the headline making incidents weren't my problem. I went away not feeling really any better or worse, but at least I felt better about the police in general. Well, the morning after, another one of those headline events took place, the murder of Lisa Steinberg, the assistant manager at the GAP store on W. 57th St. I didn't hear about it until Tuesday morning and I read a story about it in Newsday on Wednesday. When I sat down to read the paper, as usual, some of these cult members or whoever they are, sat near me and as soon as I turned to the Steinberg story, they left. The next morning as I went into a store next to the 103rd and Lexington train station a police car pulled up fast and a police officer jumped out of the car and entered just in front of me. Previously, I would have thought that this was a cult member harrassing (sic) me about the Steinberg murder, but after my meeting with Detective Davis I thought that the police might be trying to contact me to see if I could help them out. That afternoon as I was walking across the 59th Street Bridge I passed about 20 cult members where I usually see only a few people in the winter. The next morning 2 more officers were in the 103 and Lex(ington) station arresting someone. I decided to go to the 23rd precinct the next morning, February 1 and see if they wanted to speak with me. I went in around 8 am and the receptionist said that if they wanted to contact me they would do it directly. I said fine and then asked her for some information on 4 or 5 GAP AUTO REPAIR trucks I had seen on 103 and Lex(ington) at 7 am on I believe, January 14. She said the Transit Authority handled that. She asked me why I wanted to know and I told her about the cults. I was telling her about how their members would come up beside me and give me little messages by talking to each other while they passed me by, when these 2 officers came up beside me and began doing exactly what I was explaining to the receptionist about. They said something about "shoving his foot up someone's ass" and similar threatening phrases. I told the receptionist that what these 2 officers were doing was what the cult members do. Then a red-haired woman behind the desk asked me what was going on. I told her. She asked if I thought about seeing a psychiatrist. I said that the idea of seeing a psychiatrist was another thing the cult members said, the psychiatrist would not be a real psychiatrist but was a code word for one of the the (sic) cult members who I was supposed to speak to. After this she became kind of angry and said that she would call the hospital about my food poisoning. I told her I wasn't poisoned now. She told me to sit down, that she would send someone out to speak with me and that she herself didn't want to talk with me anymore. So I sat down and waited for about 30 minutes. No one came out to see me even though I was the only person waiting. A man in a sweater asked me what the problem was. I told him about the cults and going to One Police Plaza and the GAP store murder. He said "oh" and went away. I asked him what his position was there and he gave me a non-committal response. A little later a female officer asked me if I was being helped. I told her my story and she asked if I wanted to file a complaint about the food poisoning. I said yes and followed her to the desk. Then a tall, red-haired officer with a moustache asked me what the problem was. I told him I was poisoned by a cult and he ordered me out of the precinct. I asked him why I was being thrown out. He said "cults", laughed and I left.

Why am I telling you this, Mayor Dinkins, instead of the Citizens Complaint Review Board? Well, from my past experience with other city agencies I felt that this thing would get swept under the rug and that I wouldn't get any real satisfaction regarding my and everybody's problem with these cults. The cult members had previously tampered with the BEGIN stipend I get for a job training program in Long Island City. And while I am getting my stipend now and did not specifically mention the cults to them, they brushed aside a key point in my letter about the cause of the $323 listed on the computer print-out and the original $137 stipend I recieved. (sic) And also, later, I got a letter saying that my school had not sent in a verification of my attendance which I saw was sent in around the date of my original complaint, seeming retribution. And when I had gone to the NY(C) Human Rights Commission, first, they wouldn't take my case, taking a narrow view as to what legally constituted human rights and more pointedly, when I used the rest room there was a memo taped to the door about a funeral for someone's sister that was to take place I believe on December 19 at Trinity Church. Now I was there on December 27. Why would someone want to leave a reminder of a death in the family for one week after the funeral? And furthermore, people talking on the phone twice mentioned my own sister's name when I would pass by. So if people who supposedly are there to defend people's rights use their station to threaten murder on someone else, you can see what these cult members are really about and where their true allegiances lie.

But what can be done about all this? I wish I knew. But I do know that the longer it takes for anything to be substantially done about this the worse it's going to get as they infiltrate further into both our public and private sectors and their people climb up the ladder, gaining positions of further influence. And also that fighting a secret war against them is probably not the best way to go about it because when you fight in secret you are playing into their strengths. They thrive on secret infiltrations, insidious poisonings and diabolical schemes of shooting cops and crashing trains. And also, you deprive yourself of your best ally, the people of New York, who will work for free and provide you with invaluable information andhelp (sic) you keep the cult members at bay.

And finally, the following are some of my possible solutions to this problem. I hope that you will seriously consider them. They won't cost much and will be effective measures to remedy this intolerable and fearfully worsening situation.

1) Detective Davis had mentioned something about a division of the police that used to handle problems with cults. Why not reinstate division? The police budget seems to be healthy and the existence of a department filled with knowledgeable, powerful and committed people that could directly address this problem would be a good and essential first step.

2) It surprised me that the Human Rights Commission would not take a closer look at my case. If you could specifically put in their charter the harrassment (sic) by cults I'm sure this would not happen in the future.. This way, the legally based Human Rights Commission could work with the law enforcement based Police Division on Cults similar to the way you have your anti-bias divisions set up now.

3) I'm not very familiar with NY's laws regarding cults and I'm not
suggesting that we trample on their rights to religious freedom, but I feel that given the present realities, some sort of specific laws regarding cults and their involvement in activities which have traditionally been designated as organized crime should be put into effect. I couldn't tell you exactly what these laws should be, but I must stress that these laws should specifically be about cults
 involved in activities of a criminal nature. This would include the continued harrassment (sic) of individuals who are not involved in their particular cult. And, of course, not only must the cult as a whole and the leadership of these cults be held accountable for their actions, but their individual members must also be held responsible for any crimes they commit on behalf of their respective cults. To have these laws included in a few lines in the Human Rights laws would be a step in the right direction, but I feel that given the seriousness of the problem, special laws directly confronting the issue in all its complexities are necessary.

Yours Truly,
Eric Nakao
Rockefeller Center Station
PO Box
NY, NY 10185

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February 23, 1992

Dear Village Voice:

Please find enclosed a SASE and a letter I wrote to Mayor Dinkins on February 9 that will explain my situation. In light of the information contained in the letter, I have 3 requests.

1) Would you be interested in doing a story on my dilemma?

2) You did a story on Scientology and Hollywood a few months ago and mentioned an organization called the Cult Awareness Network based in Chicago. Do you know of an address or PO Box where I could write to them? I'd rather not contact them over the phone for reasons of cost and complexity.

3) Could you send me the addresses and phone numbers of any local groups who are engaged in battling this cultproblem? (sic)

Thank you for your time and your paper which I read every week.

Yours Truly,

Eric Nakao

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March 9, 1992

Dear Village Voice:

If Mayor Dinkins wants to retain the goodwill and respect of the voters of New York, he must not only tend to the symptoms of what is wrong with this city, but must attack its root causes as well. Back in the old days, whether through reasons of intimidation or complicity, people used to say that the Mafia did not exist. Today, while we can speak of the Mafia and other ethnic organized crime groups, what we cannot speak about is the existence of a vast, sophisticated and powerful network of religious cults and possibly political groups who are engaged in such socially destructive activities as the harassment and surveillence (sic) of private citizens, the murdering of police officers and crashing of trains, and the infiltration of all areas of both the public and private sectors.

For me, it seems to have begun back in 1983 when I moved across the street from the big, blue Scientology Headquarters in Hollywood. For the first 6 or 7 years I thought we had gotten along relatively OK, but in retrospect, a petition that I signed against them for making too much noise may have been the reason behind some strange things that occurred before the Scientologists began to attack me more openly and relentlessly. Anyway, after a year of daily harassment, I made an unsuccessful call to the FBI, after which I began to notice a sickly sweet smell wafting up to my apartment which caused some adverse reactions in my nervous system. Fearing for my physical well-being I fled Los Angeles intending to come to New York. But on the bus, surrounded by Scientologists, things got nasty and I was intimidated into trying to settle down inout-of-the-way (sic) Cedar Rapids, Iowa instead. But the harassment continued there also, so I left and tried Boston, Syracuse and Albany, but the harassment continued, so I returned to LA to regain my bearings. But after a bizarre 6 months and a knife attack, I left LA again. I fled across the country again, where other cults besides Scientology seemed to have joined in somewhere along the line. After several cities, I finally settled down in New York last February where the harassment continued as usual until last August with the Union Square Park train wreck when things seemed to take on a more public, headline-making dimension. I had been planning to attend a building maintenance program at one school and things seemed to calm down a bit as a result, but lately, I had been having second thoughts about being a building maintenance person, so I called SUNY in Brooklyn the day before the crash about their electronics program and the woman I spoke with told me to come in the next day. That night at the shelter I'm staying at, an evangelical Christian group came and were making an especially hard sell for converts,coming (sic) back into the sleeping areas to hand outpamphlets, (sic) etc. The next day I got on at the 103rd St and Lexington Av subway station to get on the #6 going to Brooklyn. A stop or 2 later, everybody was told to get off the train and were transferred to buses. On the bus, people next to me started talking about doing business with the Soviet Union. This made me suspicious because these cult people are always giving me messages like this and the "Soviet Union" and "Russia" seemed to be a recurring code word of their's. (sic) When I finally got down to SUNY the woman down there said there was a 1 or 2 year waiting list for the electronics class. That night on the news I watched the story about the crash and was particularly struck by a shot of a Bible on the floor of the wrecked
train. I immediately thought of the evangelical Christians who had been
at the shelter the night before and wondered if there might be some sort
of connection. That night in the sleeping area I heard someone say
cryptically, "They don't like to lose". (sic) And then just recently, the
Union Square Park motorman was arraigned on 5 counts of murder and the
very next day there was that shooting on the southbound Central Park West
train. Now it was said that the couple had gotten on the train at the 125th
Street station, a street that I am always on to take the bus back to the
shelter,and (sic) the shooting was said to have occurred on 103rd Street, again the cross street station I always take, although on nearby Lexington Av
instead of Central Park West. So again, I had to ask myself, is this
just a series of extremely interesting coincidences or is there some sort
of real connection?

And this is just one event. I count the Grand Central Station flood, the shooting of Officer Keith Levine, the City College Stampede, the W. 57th  Street murder and most recently, the E. Village Pool Hall Shootings as similar coincidental events that make me wonder.

I went to the City Human Rights Commission about this, but was given short shrift along with what appeared to be a veiled death threat to my sister. I went to the 23rd Precinct, but was thrown out. I recently wrote Mayor Dinkins a letter with 3 suggestions as to how he might begin to address this problem and I strongly urge him to take action as well as for people who have suffered fates similar to mine to write their elected officials so we can begin to rectify this terrible and largely unspoken about problem.

Eric Nakao
Rockefeller Ctr Station
PO Box
NY, NY 10185

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March 9, 1992

Dear US Commission on Human Rights:

You probably saw the story about the 3 Asians who shot up some other Asians at the "Le Q" billiard parlour (sic) in the East Village on the day that your report on discrimination against Asian Americans came out. The timing and motivation behind this very negative event, seemingly perpetrated to justify discrimination against Asians, would seem to need further looking into.

But this is not the only reason I  am writing to you. I feel that I, myself, am somehow indirectly involved in at least the location of the shooting. You see, I have been having serious problems with this network of cults, beginning with Scientology in Los Angeles, continuing across the country where other cults seemed to have joined in, and ending up here in New York where I have been continually harassed and surveilled by them for the past year. And as incredible as it may seem, I appear to be some sort of impetus to several violent, headline events that I feel were caused by these cults such as the subway crash and flood of last year. The reason I say that the location of the shooting is suspect is that "Le Q" is just 1/2 block east of "Kinko's" which is where I have typed all the letters I have written to Mayor Dinkins, the Village Voice and now you, concerning this problem and also, from a picture in Newsday of David Ng, on the the (sic) (illegible) I was struck by the resemblance of him to a young version of myself. Please see the enclosed photocopy of the picture of Ng as well as an old driver's license photo of myself and my current driver's license photo. One of these cults' harassment techniques has been to hire look-alikes to pass by and thus unnerve their targeted victim. I have noticed an increase in look-alikes during the past few weeks. Also, a few weeks ago, one of the people at the shelter I am staying at asked me if I was a member of the Vietnamese gang "Born to Kill" and the other day I was asked again if I was a gang member. And also, as I was passing by "Le Q" the day after the shooting a Police Athletic League(PAL) van was parked nearby. Do the police consider me their "pal" for some reason as a result of the shooting? I don't know. But I do know that cult members on the police, fire department and EMS have frequently blasted me with their sirens and I'm sure some sort of message was intended.

I have reported my cult problem, although not this "Le Q" thing, to various local agencies, but they seem unwilling or unable to cope with the situation. Perhaps the Federal government, through your Commission's instigations, could provide an umbrella of moral, financial, legislative and legal, support, so that people on all levels of government could band together to begin to remedy this nationwide problem.

Yours Truly,

Eric Nakao
Rockefeller Ctr Station
PO Box
NY, NY 10185

PS: Could you please send me a copy of your report on discrimination against Asian American?

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Transit Authority (NYC) letter

4-9-92

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Dear NYCTA Customer Services

On Wednesday evening, Apr 8 around 8:35 pm, I was waiting for a northbound 101 bus around 56th and 3rd in Manhattan. I waited around 15 minutes, a couple of 102s passed by, but no 101s. Since it would be too late for me to catch a 101 and make my #35 transfer to the Ward's Island Shelter at 125th and Lexington, I decided to get something to drink. After this, I waited for another 101 at 62nd and 3rd at 9:00 pm, a couple of 102s passed by and no 101 came by until 9:25pm. This made me late for my transfer again, so I got off at 122nd St at 9:50 pm and walked across the Triboro Bridge to my shelter which has a curfew of 10:45 pm, by which time if you don't return you lose your bed.

This has happened to me periodically in the past. I have been having these problems with these cults, harassing me in various ways, predominantly Scientology and Christian fundamentalists as far as I can tell, and I have a strong feeling that either they have worked their way into the evening 101 bus lines so that they may control the flow of the buses thus making me late for my transfer or they were already there, or non-cult members on this line are either being bribed or intimidated into playing along with them. Could you please look into this. I usually ride the 101 northbound, catching it in the midtown area usually between 7 and 9 pm. You might also check your records to see if there has been any unusual activity to get transfered (sic) to this line within the past year.

And also, the fire you had on the #7 line the day after the USAir crash was also I feel, due to retaliation by these cults since I always ride that line on my way to school in the morning and the Saturday morning before I had called the 19th Police Precinct to report what I believe was a suspiciously started fire and named Scientology as the possible culprit.

There was also a suspicious fire at the 125th and Lexington subway station a few months ago that was probably due to these cults.

Yours Truly,

Eric Nakao

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April 5, 1992

Dear Mr. Yanny:

Recently, when doing research on Scientology, I noticed your name in the June 1990 LA Times series and in last May's Time Magazine and I was hoping that you might possibly be able to represent me in a case against Scientology. In fact, you may have already have had hints that I might be writing to you since I'm being watched quite closely here in New York and nobody has ever accused Scientology of being reticent of passing along information. Please forgive the length of my letter, but since I am contacting you by mail, I wanted to get as much of what I thought might be relevant information in my letter so that you could better decide whether I had a case or not.

In August of 1983 I moved into 1343 N. Catalina St. #209, across the street from the big Scientology headquarters. There were, what I thought of at the time, some minor run-ins with Scientology before I began getting seriously harassed. I signed a petition against Scientology for making too much noise which was instigated by Jean Shepherd. I threw away a check that was mailed to my PO Box that I believed was mailed to me by some unknown antagonists. I declined to be interviewed by Scientology salespeople. I pretty much stopped communicating with all people in my neighborhood, both Scientologists and non-Scientologists, after a prolonged pattern of antagonism and reconciliation.

When I first suspected that the Scientologists might be playing a role in my harassment was in the summer of 1989, when I heard a female voice outside my window say in a playful voice "they're going to get you". But after that cryptic message I began to get the feeling of people following me around constantly. Cars would also turn quickly before and after I would cross at intersections, especially around the Scientology headquarters. I reacted to this by rearranging my schedule so that I only went out in the early morning hours when I could walk around in relative peace. This worked for awhile, but then cars would turn near me again and people would walk closely to me on the street and in grocery stores, even at those early hours. So I kept pushing the time I would venture out later and later.

In the fall, it was time for me to go back to school at LACC, (Los Angeles City College) so I forced myself out into the daylight hours, but the same things kept occurring. Since I was pretty sure it was Scientology, I went down to the library on d(illegible - "one day?") to do some research. I sat down at a table with some periodicals. There was a small, thin guy sitting opposide (sic) me that I suspected was a Scientologist. I propped my book up so he couldn't see what I was reading. But later, either through being tired of reading in that position or deciding to let him see what I was reading if he really wanted to, I set the book flat on the table, revealing a picture of the blue Scientology headquarters. The guy made a non-verbal sound of disgust, got up abruptly and left. That affirmed (sic) my suspicions.

After this, the harassment seemed to intensify. The people following me around began wearing dark glasses, the little white groundskeeping (sic) carts at LACC would pull up when I got off the bus and cross my path fairly often around the campus, people would cough nearby me with unnatural frequency,


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the cars at the intersections seemed to turn more aggressively, people would run passed me all the time, groups of Scientologists in dark shorts and T-shirts would run passed, the noise from the Scientology machine shop across the street along with a lawnmower and their recitations and cheerings became more frequent, seemingly geared to my coming and going, not only outside my building, but within as well when I would go down the hall to my bathroom. When I would go into stores I would hear my name over the intercom and songs like the Police's "I'll Be Watching You" were also heard frequently, and security guards and managers would seem to be around more often than usual. They also seemed to be harassing the teachers at the classes I was taking at LACC. In the office across the hall from my accounting class, I would often hear loud music and laughter. Once a guy came into the class and just stood there staring at the class when the teacher was in the middle of a lecture. In my business class, a big group of people were talking loudly outside and the teacher went out to tell them to be quiet and when she returned seemed a little shaken and (a) girl sitting in front of me, who I believe was a Scientologist, looked around at me meaningfully. In my English class, I wrote an essay in response to what the Scientologists were doing to me, weaving my message into an essay on a Shakespeare play. The teacher read parts of it to the class and later, a guy who I believe was a Scientologist said there had been an experiment in one of his classes where 4 out of 5 people wanted some guy killed. My linguistics teacher seemed to be another unwilling participant. (Also, the teacher in a class for blind students that I took at LACC may have been a Scientologist. She once told me that someone had hit her car and she took off after them in her car and, I believe, had caught them. I gave some sort of non-committal response. A little later, I believe I saw someone resembling her in the streets wearing one of those white, naval-influenced, Scientology uniforms. She was nice to me in class, though, and to everyone else. And I don't recall if I took her class before or after the overt harassment began. And I am not blind, but have an eye problem.)

Fire trucks would blare their sirens whenever I passed. Police cars would pull up or pass by me with alrming (sic) frequency. There were these suspicious car crashes. I believe they were harassing a checker at Pioneer Market who had previously been nice to me. At Andre's, an Italian restaurant on 3rd Ave. (that I ate at often), the employees seemed to change from all Latino to some Scientology-looking Anglo's and once, a black customer said if they tried to poison her she'd sue. One of the old, Latina employees who I knew by sight, once grabbed a plate out of a Scientologist-looking employee and served me herself, giving me a hard look and leading me to believe they were putting something in my food. When I went to visit my family at Christmas up in the San Francisco Bay Area, the fire truck sirens continued, people still coughed. At a play we went to, an usher said "God bless you for coming" with a slightly sadistic look on his face. A guy kept yelling out obnoxious things during the play and during the intermission a girl walked up the aisle and said "Shut up, Rick" as she walked pass me. "Rick" is my nickname.

They even went so far as to harass people in the media that I regularly listened to. Principally Carole Hemingway on KGIL, Maria Laria on Channel 34 and the play-by-play announcers for the Dodgers and Angels. One series of events that particularly stand out happened I believe in June when the stadiums where both the Dodgers and Angels were playing at had electrical problems within a few days of each other and soon after, there was a power failure at Magic Mountain where I believe Maria Laria was appearing. At the library at Cal State Dominguez Hills where I planned to attend in the fall, the employees there were talking about having had a power failure the same day that I read about the Magic Mountain incident. On the way home on the bus I saw one of those patented Scientology car crashes on the side of the road. On the news that night, Maria Laria seemed to be kind of angry. I had heard angry remarks from Carole Hemingway before also, along the lines of people were bothering someone at someone's home and knowing people at the ACLU and hearing my name mentioned sharply once when I tuned in. So I stopped watching and listening to my favorite media people, tho I probably should have stopped before.


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Around the same time, I decided to try and speak to the Scientologists and see if we could straighten things out. Someone let me inside their building and I spoke to a thin, blond young man in a white uniform. I told him I felt Scientologists were harassing me. He wrote down a list of my complaints. (When I told him about the people looking at me with dark glasses, he said that he had never heard of that one before, as if the other harassments I mentioned he had heard of. Also, I told him of a homeless-looking, Asian male that I kept seeing around the neighborhood as part of the harassments. He said that the Asian male didn't sound like a Scientologist.) He spoke a little about my going to the police , about their beliefs being important to them, about Scientology being departmentalized and some other things. I got his name and phone number, which I unfortunately no longer have and he also gave me the number of Security which he said I should call if I had any more problems. He also said that the next time a Scientologist approached me I should listen to what they had to say.

Things seemed to get better for about a day, but after, the old harassments began to crop up again. I decided to go to the library to see if I could find anything on mind reading. This part sounds strange and I know that the young man in that Time Magazine article said the same things, but it was bothering me and I wanted to see if I could do anything to block my thoughts from being read. The Scientologists must have known what I was doing because during this time I saw a white pick-up truck with the letters "ESP" printed on its back parked in front of the Scientology headquarters.

Later, I thought about what the Scientologist had said about listening to what a a (sic) Scientologist who would come up to me had to say, so I went and sat down on a fire hydrant in front of the Scientology headquarters waiting for someone to communicate with me. A guy jogged by and asked me what the problem was. I told him and he lead me into a room (in) the the (sic) Scientology headquarts (sic) with many Scientology books and dispays. (sic) I told a young woman there what was going on. She asked me how long I had been living there and I said 7 years. Her response led me to believe that my living across from their headquarters might have something to do with my being harrassed. (sic) I told her about people in the media being harrassed (sic) also. (and then) She said that Dianetics couldn't help me and I left.

One Sunday, I was sitting on the fire hydrant and many Scientologists came out and began cleaning up the front parking lot. That evening the Scientologists had a big rally out there. At first I thought it might be in response to my sitting out in front of their building, but then the speaker said something about an article in the LA Times. He said that many things in it were originally printed 5 years ago and that the writer had since died of AIDS, to which the audience laughed. He said Scientologists never do any­thing half-heartedly. He said he'd like to end his speech with a quote, which I thought was funny because in (the) public speaking class (that I was taking or had taken at LACC) that was one of the standard endings of a speech. The Scientologists must have though it was funny too, possibly because they were aware of my takning (sic) that class, because they laughed too for some reason (after the speaker said he'd like to end his speech with a quote). Another speaker took over and I couldn't hear him very well, so I turned on my microwave oven and as soon as the motor turned on I thought I heard someone walk or run away from beneath my window.

I didn't read that LA Times series at that time because I was still a little intimidated from the severe reaction from the last time I read something on Scientology. I had also photocopied an article on Scientology from Forbes. A little later I told my landlady, Ann Palmer and the owner of the building, Leo Nerenberg about the problem I was having with the Scientologists. They said something about the Scientologists before (had) wanted to hold their meetings out in the side parking lot next to our building. They didn't really commit to doing anything, so I followed Leo out as he left and he said not to talk too loudly or the Scientologists might hear us. I said I thought that the Scientologists thought that I was trying to destroy them. Ann and Leo might have also been anticipating that I might be coming to speak with them also because when I spoke to that Scientologist before I believe I might have
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not significantly. Leo mentioned something later about using less water in return for a favor.  I had previously cut down my water usage, but I cut down dramtically new, (sic) showering with the use of a bucket in return for in (sic - "if") not a success on his part, then an attempt.

In the July 2, 1990 issue of US News and World Report (see enclosed photocopies), I heard a story on the Recording for the Blind record that I received that led me to call the FBI.. (sic) In the previous weeks also, it seemed to me that one of the narrators on these recordings sounded a little hostile whenever he read anything abut (sic) Japan or the Japanese. But as I had said before, I had recently stopped listening to my usual media people, so I guess by infiltrating my other sources of information, this was Scientology's way of further getting their message across and of letting me know that there was no place that I could be free of them. Around this time also I had been (sic - "begun") receiving much Scientology literature through the mail, though I suspect that people were just dropping (it) off in front of my door. I believe that sometimes, if not at all times, there was no postage or anything on the leterature. (sic) This might have been Scientology' s way of further getting me to know there was no escape since they had their numerous world-wide addresses printed on these missives or they might have wanted me to buy their books as a kind of blackmailing scheme since their books and price lists were included or they wanted to give people the impression that I was a Scientologist. I put a wooden slat at the bottom of my door so mail could not be slid under there anymore and the mail seemed to stop. Anyway, back to US News, when I either put on or took off the record, I heard my landlady and someone else downstairs make sounds like excited approval. The article itself was about Cathy Palmer, a NY Prosecutor who went after Asian drug merchants, and it contained some strikingly associative words that made me sit up and listen. For example, one of the people in the article was named Eric Luk, an accountant, who arranged a T-shirt shipment and moved to Paraguay to manage a watch factory. My name is Eric, I had previously considered becoming an accounting clerk, all I wore was T-shirts and people seemed to make a thing about that, from people before alsways (sic) asking me for the time, I had taken off my watch and kept it in my pocket, and my interest in the Spanish language was well known. Later in the article, there is someone named Antonio "Ronnie" Vacas. Now Ron is my brother's name and "vaca" in Spanish means "cow". My last name is kind of pronounced "na-cow". A Johnny Kon used the alias of "Ricky Wong" on a passport. "Rick," as I said before, is my nickname. The date March 13 appears which is my brother's birthday. Ronnie and Ricky have a chicken dinner which my brother and I had when he came down on his last visit. But what promted (sic) me to call the FBI was the last paragraph which mentioned an FBI investigation and someone who I identified with, Kwong Li, "a hapless man...who's a nothing, but we think he knows some people we're interested in."

So I called the FBI the next day after an interpersonal communications class. There was this kind of spaced out looking guy hanging around my phone booth who I'm sure was a Scientologist, but I made the call anyway. After I told the FBI I wanted to complain about cults, they put me on hold. When they came back, I gave them a brief outline of what had been happening, and the woman said that the FBI didn't handle cults unless it was on the federal level.

Later, I went back to my apartment and listened to the rest of US News. I should have done this before I made the call and I would have realized that the Scientologists had planted the stories. For example, there's a reference to "fair game" in a story on AIDS, the term used by Scientology to designate people it's OK to attack. There's also a story about a


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"mad cow" disease that eats small holes in a cow's brain before it dies. I had often wondered if someone was putting something in my food. I had had previously a kind of numb feeling in the area of my kidneys and lower rib a smoky smell to my feces as well as blood in my stool and a taste sometimes like chlorophyll or blood or feces rise up in my throat. I also had sharp pains in the back of my head. It might be linked to something in my food or, I don't why I think this, but possibly it had something to do with electricity because I once heard some electric crackling in my apartment wiring and I also went through a period where I had an extreme amount of static electricity in my clothing and blankets, so much so that I could see many sparks fly off them at night. I had also heard a high pitched whistling sound in my ears, but only at my apartment. And also I had seen many spots that looked like dried blood that kept appearing (on) my my (sic) sheets and T-shirts which did not come from me and which was another reason why I believed that something akin to Occult Magic might be trying to be performed on me.

Anyway, after the call to the FBI, I began to smell a sickly s(w)eet aroma like pesticide coming up to my apartment that made me feel a little spasmodic in my nervous system. I also smelled this on buses sometimes, too. I also, had recently applied for housing at Cal State Dominguez Hills, so that I would have moved away from the Scientology headquarters area and the woman at the Cal State housing department gave me every indication that I would get a place, though I would have to share a room.And (sic) when I came back to my apartment that day my landlord was talking to someone about renting either my apartment or #210, which there is none, but (it was) something that made me understand that they knew that I would be moving away. Though the harrassment (sic) was still happening at Dominguez Hills also, so even if I moved away it was unclear to me if that would help or not. I had heard also that I played my recordings for the blind too late, though I never played them loudly, hardly being able to hear them myself when I stood at the opposite end of the room, yet apparently, people through two sets of walls, even all the way down the hall and acroos (sic) the street at Scientology could hear my recordings. (My apartment was a converted hallway leading to the roof at the end of the building, so there were no apartments above or below me and only a small part of one other apartment that shared a wall with one end of my narrow apartment.) But, I stopped playing them at 10 pm, but this didn't seem to help much either. The harrassment (sic) might have decreased a little, but it seemed to me that for them, it was more of an indication that they were controlling me, rather than an act of reconciliation between 2 parties. When I had applied for a student loan at Dominguez Hills, I heard someone say something about a "life-time policy", making me think that if I went to school they would harass me forever. Even though before, I heard Someone (sic) at LACC say that they were "letting" me go to college. Another indication at their attempts to convince me that my every move was due either to their wrath or their benevolence. So all this, coupled with the continued harassment and with the pesticide making me fear for my physical safety, I threw some things into a suitcase and a couple of bags and fled LA intending to go to New York.

On the Greyhound bus, I felt that the Scientologists were there too, but they were pretty much leaving me alone in the beginning. A large, impressive-looking military-type aircraft also flew low over us at one point somewhere east of Los Angeles. Somewhere around Nebraska a scenario began developing where a dark-haired girl sitting behind me who said she was going to visit friends in Washington DC and was some sort of military mental health worker said in general that people shouldn't use foul language on the bus because children were on board. Another, tough talking girl on the bus took up the challenge and this later led to threats against the dark-haired girl who banged on the back of my seat once to signal me to help her, but I felt this might be a set-up, so I kept quiet. Later, a young guy in a cowboy hat said that someone (me, I assumed) already had too many things to worry about to get involved in other controversies or something like, that and the foul-mouthed girl apologized to some unnamed person, but who I assumed was me because she and the dark-


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haired girl were in no ways (sic) reconciled. At the next stop the guy in the cowboy hat the (sic) (and) this black guy sort of said hi to me, but I didn't reply, feeling that my breathe was a little stale from the long trip. When we got back on the bus, the black guy started saying things like he was wanted for murder and if anyone wanted to turn him in his name was so-and-so. This made me feel a little nervous, so at the next stop I asked the black guy if he was a Scientologist, hoping to get some sort of dialogue going. He said he wasn't, but when he and the guy in the cowboy hat came back on the bus, they began to bang the overhead baggage doors with their fists and perhaps uttered angry remarks. The next day, many people began to loudly tell jokes with violent themes and the word "cow" in them and they began strongly suggesting that someone settle down somewhere in Iowa or before Michigan. Feeling very threatened, I began checking the local papers at every stop along the way to check out the job situations and rent prices. In the stop outside the main Chicago stop, the black guy said near my chair "Well, what's it going to be?" In Chicago, our bus pulled in late and all the other transfer buses were there, for quick getaways, I assume. Everybody scattered. A middle-eastern type guy who was kind of friendly to me before told me to hurry and get on the New York bus. I told him I had to think what I was going to do. I decided to try settling down in Chicago. I wandered around a bit, lost a bag of mine while buying a paper,and (sic) went to a transit center to buy a map. But at the coffee shop, 2 young guys came up near me and said that they could "get" someone at any time they wanted and pantomimed an action of sticking someone with a knife. Chicago seemed out of the question now, so I went back to the Greyhound station and traded my NY ticket for a ticket back to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In Cedar Rapids, I met some people who I believed were Scientologists and (they) said things like I would be spending the rest of my life here and they doubted I'd ever see them again. I tried calling around for rooms in my price range, but no one answered. The local police later picked me up on a missing person's report for someone else and drove me to a shelter. When I hinted that I might be moving on, one of the officers said something to the other officer in a hostile tone about a "raccoon", which I believe is a cult code word for some sort of negative person and he also said to me a little later in a kind of plaintive voice that it wasn't such a bad place.

I stayed in a shelter overnight. The next morning I was told to wait in a room while they tried to get me into another shelter. A list on the wall had the name "Arlene" on it. Maybe Arlene, a Scientologist back in my LA apartment who I sort of knew, was looking out for me. Anyway, I was continually harassed during my Cedar Rapids stay, especially after I looked at an Iowa City paper to see if things might be a little more accomodating. (sic)

I left Cedar Rapids for Boston, then Syracuse, NY, where the harassment continued, ending up in Albany, NY. I believe I was in Albany twice, the first time this parade of people with a video camera passed me by and a bunch of kids passed me by on skateboards and held a sign that might have said "Syracuse" or some other city. In Albany, I stayed in a shelter and they kind of showed me around, but it was made clear that if I caused any trouble it would not be good for me, even though other harassments continued nonetheless. I passed this one guy who I think I later saw back in LA, a kind of combonation (sic) of roundshoulderedness and sharp features, who said that someone was an "organization man" now. Getting the feeling that my family back in California was somehow getting shaken down if I stayed here, as well as felling (sic) that they were putting something in my food and feeling bad in general, being harassed on the streets and coming back to the shelter and seeingstories (sic) on the news about bus crashes, blood, Moonies, movies about zombies, etc., I got the Albany welfare office to buy me a bus ticket


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back to LA, telling them in a letter that I would try to become a teacher and maybe live away from my old Hollywood area, possibly the South Bay. (I believe that someone had mentioned Long Beach or San Pedro in my presence during this time that led me to believe that those areas might be OK for me to live in back in the Los Angeles area.) Back at the shelter there was talk about someone preventing someone from picking up several thousand dollars. On the day I left a shelter resident was playing Pink Floyd music. At the bus station someone said something about someone having to work hard to pay back their mama.

Back in LA, on August 5, after about 3 weeks on the road, I checked into the Beverly hotel at 1330 S. Olive St and went to my old apartment the next day to see if my welfare check was there so I could begin my plan to pursue a teaching career. When I got off the bus from NY there was an arrest made of someone. Ifelt (sic) this was a set-up, so I didn't say anything. When I got off the bus at the old apartment, a black guy said menacingly that they'd give me a week to play around. At the apartment, the landlady said my check wasn't there. I asked her if I could come back later and see if it would be in. She agreed with no protestations. I'm not sure of the landlady's (Ann Palmer) and her husband Howard's role in all this, but I'm sure it's important because she's the one who had access to my apartment and who could most easily account for the things like blood on my clothes, etc, unless she was letting other people in my room. Though people seemed to be harassing them too, honking their horns whenever they worked in the yard out front and Howard always making references that they were supposed to be a "church". I heard her say to Leo the owner when it seemed like I was going to do something about the Scientologists that they had made her do all these things or that they were harassing her too. And another time, someone was talking to her about the plight of the Palestinians (referring to me, I assumed) and he asked her if she was Jewish. Since then, Jews, Israel, Russian, etc, seem to be code words that I hear from time to time. Another key person at my old apartment building would be Arlene, whose name I thought I saw in Cedar Rapids and who was a Scientologist and asked me to join once, though she seemed like a nice person. There were some other people who lived at my building who probably could supply some important information, but whose names I don't know. There was also Jean Sheperd, who had started that petition that I mentioned in the beginning of my letter and who seemed to like to organize neighborhood activities and was always saying hi to me, though we had a falling out later and who may or may not have been a Scientologist, and who I believe moved back to Seattle. And there was also a Pamela Franklin, who seemed to fight Scientology in the beginning and who replaced Jean Sheperd in her apartment after she moved, with this seemingly gay person who stayed there a few weeks in between the two, and she later seemed to join the Scientologists or was a Scientologist all along. I heard her once say below my apartment that "he would feel our wrath".. (sic) But she seemed like a nice person, though a little young. (She and the seemingly gay male were also physically attractive. Jean Sheperd had one of two apartments on my floor that were closest to my apartment.)

While walking down to the Hollywood Social Security office to re-open my case for SSI as required by welfare,' I heard a guy say "a perfect example of what can happen", an (sic) reference that my example served as some sort of warning to others who might try to cross Scientology and think they can escape. At Ron's supermarket, I heard a woman in a Scientology uniform who I believe I saw sitting at a desk in the Scientology building before when I was telling the Scientologist about being harassed and who looked a little bit like Karen Whitehead, said feelingly into a pay phone "Sorry" when I was standing in the check-out line. At the Social Security office, a guy behind me said that someone wasn't at or near the top of our list anymore and we'd see if we could do something for him. I guess they felt I had suffered enough. When I went back to my old apartment building, though, the landlady's tone was quite


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hostile. She said I didn't live there anymore and couldn't check for my
mail. I got the feeling that someone had gotten to her and didn't want
me to get my check, but I didn't argue and left.

Walking back to downtown, 2 homeless black guys in Macarthur Park were wrestling and said "You lied to us". I'm not sure exactly who they were or what they meant, but I moved on. Walking around the downtown area I was struck by all the Scientology ads on the sides of the RTD buses with the phone number "for life" or something like that included in the ads. I(t) seemed like they were meant for me, but they also could have been in response to the LA Times series, though whether I was indirectly responsible for that series, I don't know. But what I'm almost sure was meant in response to me was a story in one of the free weekly papers about some guy being pursued cross-country by some crazy cult, though I never read the article. They had time to write that story because the Albany welfare office stalled for about a week before giving me my bus ticket. Also I was struck by all the pesticide ads on the buses, though they might have been there before I left.

My money ran out in about a week and my welfare worker at Beverly Blvd said it would take a week or so to issue a new welfare check and he referred me to a Christian mission in Venice. He said they usually sent people from Venice to Canyon Country, but he called them to ask if I could stay in Venice and they said OK. But when I got to Venice, where I got a free bus ride and where there was a billboard that said "Fight of the Century", they said that I would have to go to Canyon Country. I heard the expression "Sacrifice the one for the many' a couple of times, referring to me, I assumed. They made a push for me to stay up in Canyon Country and some of the other clients said people stayed up there because they were hiding out from people who would gun them down on the outside.

After I left the mission, someone picked my wallet out of my pocket. Before I had left the mission some clients were saying something that people wouldn't steal something unless they really needed it, so I felt they had foreknowledge of the theft.

Living in the downtown skidrow (sic) area, I had been consistently harassed by things such as people wearing Raider's and DARE t-shirts and clacking these toy plastic balls together whenever I walked by, and by fire truck and ambulance sirens and police marching by. Also, I began reading one of those weekly Spanish language entertainment guides and I felt that the advice columnist, "Esperanza" was being harassed because they knew I read her column. I also felt they were messing around with the horoscopes to fit whatever manipulative plans they had for me. Also, I felt that the Raider's broadcasts, the people at "All Things Considered", especially Cokie Roberts, who I feel was especially being harassed, knew what was going on with me. I also began to tune in to this public radio station, I believe that came out of Glendale College, that I felt was somehow connected to these cults and had some sort of immunity from harassment. I felt the same way about Teri Gross of "Fresh Air".

Staying at the Frontier Hotel, I made a call to KNX radio, feeling they were signaling to me. Previously,, during a one week stay at another hotel, I felt that Al Dwoning, (sic) Maureen Reagen (sic) and Dennis Prager on KABC (radio) had been signaling me to call their shows, but I couldn't get up the nerve to call them. At Canyon Country, they had listened to KCBS, (sic - "KNX," the CBS radio affiliate in LA) especially the Drama Hour and there seemed to be some stories pertinent to my situation. There was one about someone turning criminals in so what happened to this person


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wouldn't happen to anybody else and a horse race report with a horse named "Reluctant Guest". After I left the mission the KCBS (sic - "KNX") stories continued. The ones (sic) I remember are about a rainmaker. I had gotten the idea during my cross countrytrip (sic) that the Scientologists could somehow make it rain, my slways (sic) having been rained on at inopportune moments and seeing a story on Channel 4 on my return to LA about people at some college doing experiments on rainmaking. I also remember a KCBS (sic - "KNX") news story with a line that said something like "come forward with your story and we'll give you a safe place to stay and protect your family from harm. " I especially connected a reporter named Bob Scott with this. So I gave KCBS (sic - "KNX") a call. I had to kind stall at the phone booth until this blond guy at the next booth who did not appear to be talking on the phone and who I felt was a Scientologist, left. He finally did leave, but said ruefully after he hung up the phone, "I thought we could trust you."

A young woman answered the phone at KNX and I said that I felt they were signalling (sic) to me in relation to a cult harassing me and following me all around the country. She said to hold for a second. When she returned, she said that whe (sic) thought she might have heard something about this and asked what cult it was. I said Scientology. I said I hadn't done anything about this before because I thought some powerful people had tried before and couldn't do anything so what chance did I have. She suggested I go to see some LAPD detectives, but I said that the police were harassing me, too, pulling their cars up to me and that fire trucks were always blasting me with their sirens. I asked to spead (sic) with Bob Scott. She became a little agitated and asked what Bob Scott had to do with this. I said I felt he was connected because he always broadcast around the Drama Hour and I felt that he might be sending messages, too. I don't remember her reply, but I didn't get to speak with Mr. Scott and left the phone booth feeling betrayed. While walking down the street I passed by 2 young blond girls who said "Why don' t you try talking with us?" That night on KCBS (sic - "KNX") there was this commercial about trying to contact space people and I thought that Bob Scott sounded very serious like he wasn't trying to give me the impression that he was sending me any messages.

After this I called my SSI worker at the Hollywood office to get my case transferred downtown. When I spoke with him after I first returned to LA, he seemed generally sympathetic, but now, after the KCBS (sic - "KNX") thing, he seemed a little distracted and uneasy. I asked how my case was doing and he said I had been denied, though this denial seemed a little quick. He also said something like "I'm not sure what you're going to do", which I feel stemmed from the KCBS (sic - "KNX") phone call.

Around this time also I signed up with this job placement center for homeless people called "Chrysalis" that was sponsored by Channel 7 (the Los Angeles ABC affiliate), and some law firm. On the day I was interviewed by a counselor, (sic) His name might have been George. Channel 7 was there with its cameras, doing a story on the center. I was telling my general story, though not mentioning cults or Scientology, and he kept going out and coming back. I got the feeling they were recording my conversation and editing out parts they didn't like or going out to ask someone further instructions on things I said that threw them. I remember this one time, either at this interview or a later one, where I said that the LA School District had previously offered me a substitute teaching position and George left. Maybe it would have lent credence to my coming back to LA to try and become a teacher. Anyway, after the interview, they very much wanted me to bevideod (sic) for the news story, but I declined. I wasn't sure who they were. When I left Chrysalis that day there was an Asian male


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sitting on a bus bench and crying dramatically. Some sort of message for me, probably.

Later, I got involved with this job training program with a school near LAX which dealt with hotel jobs. After about a week of training it appeared that I was serious about having them find me a hotel job. I went to an old Employer, (sic) Wolfe, Sesnon and Buttery in N. Hollywood to get their phone number for a possible job reference, though when I called them later at a new location, my old boss wasn't in. One of my other jobs at Pacific Blind Products, (I) wasn't too sure about using them as a job reference because I had a feeling that the Scientologists were harassing them previously (at) to (sic) the time when I knew that they were concerning themselves with me, and my instructor at the hotel training program had mentioned something about some old employers might not wanting to give good references for you. I had a feeling at the time that he had called some of my old jobs to see what kind of references I would get and had been given some negative responses, possibly because they were aware of my plight and were afraid to get involved. At Pacific Blind Products I especially remember one of the owners, Mike Husman, getting held up and his car being stolen and also his making a phone call to a news radio station, possibly KCBS, (sic - "KNX") about a story he had heard. A common theme. And also his going through a period where he was taking some sort of medication. Another common theme.

When I returned to the Frontier Hotel, this chubby, red-haired girl named Sheila asked if she could borrow some money. I had never seen her before, but she kept saying things about trust and I thought she might be linked to the Scientologists, so I agreed thinking that this might lead to a possible resolution. When we were walking to the elevator, an elevator packed with people opened up and this mean-looking guy said "Are you going to help her?" I lent her the money after taking her ID card as a sort of bond, but when she came back, she asked for more money. I gave it to her. At one point she wanted to exchange the money she owed me for sex, but I wanted the moeny. (sic) Finally, I told her to keep the money. She kept saying that her mother was downstairs and that she wanted to bring her up because her mother wanted to thank me personally, but I said no, that she could keep the money and had to order her out of me room. (sic) She called me a name and left. She came back a little later and a little later a black guywith (sic) a stick and dark glasses came in and took my money and my cheap watch. I feel this whole episode had something to do with the hotel training school, possibly some sort of kickback in exchange for a job or perhaps they knew I would get a job soon and wanted to get something out of me before I left, but the only way they could have known I was going to get a job soon was if they followed me allaround (sic) LA.

The next time I went to Chrysalis I got the feelingthey (sic) knew about the theft. Also, at the welfare office, I might have told them I was robbed. Later, this black girl who might have heard that I was robbed stopped me outside my hoteland (sic) kind of hinted that she had room at her house and I assumed that she might be offering me a safe place to stay, but I didn't bring it up.

Later, at Chrysalis, after the robbery tension had died down, they were having this job interview workshop at the sponsoring law office. I agreed to go. They also kept trying to get me to go to a training center or something at the LA Times, but I didn't go to that, fearing that it would give Scientology an excuse to do something. I don't know if the Times had knowledge of my situation at that time. At the workshop, the Channel 7 news cameras were there again. A female lawyer stood behind me in the lunch line and said to another person that she specialized in class action suits. There was a


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talk about people being shut out of hotel jobs in response to a question and how you had to have a connection to get those jobs and you should either fight this situation or move on, which I felt was addressed to me. A Phillipine person also spoke of overthrowing some dictatorship and a woman said something about being brave, but I didn't come forward, still feeling intimidated and not being sure who these people were, especially after the KCBS (sic - "KNX") thing. When I was walking back to the hotel, there was this guy in a suit and this very attractive woman who looked like an international fashion model, who was just standing on this downtown streetcorner (sic) next to a construction site in the business district in a kind of model's pose. I felt that this was some sort of positive sign from the Scientologists for my not saying anything about them at the workshop.
But still, this seemed like a missed opportunity and a chance that was worth pursuing. I kept going over in my mind, debating whether to take another chance and step forward, even though there were definite signs that this was a set-up, for example, on the flyer announcing the workshop there was a drawing of a piece of cheese which had been a recurring metaphor of my new-found status as a "rat", and something else on the flyer that I don't recall. One night while I was debating this issue, I heard these people howling outside my window, maybe they were shooting a movie, but it was like after midnight and they were howling and there were all these lights and I felt like this was something the Scientologists might do as an intimidation tactic. Also, there was these two guys who checked into a room near mine, they had backpacks.  They didn't look like the usual skidrow (sic) hotel guest and one guy especially looked like a Scientologist. When I passed by their room one guy said "Can we trust you?" and they were also listening to this oldies station that I listened to sometimes and that I felt had a Scientology connection.

But soon after I decided to take a chance and tell my Chrysalis counselor about my cult problem. I asked if he had heard anything about me being harassed by anyone from any of these street people at Chrysalis and that I felt they were here also. He said something about my not meaning that the harassing people worked at Chrysalis. I'm not sure what I answered, but I  (sic) I was kind of suspicious of Chrysalis, especially this one brown-haired girl who kept talking about somebody moving away. My counselor said that no one had approached him and encouraged me to continue my story. I said these cults had been following me around the country and I wasn't sure if they were trying to help me or hurt me. He seemed a little disgusted after this and asked if I ever considered seeing a psychiatrist.

Later at Chrysalis, I began seeing an older Hispanic representative from the State Disability Dept. or some similar agency about possible job placement, tuition assistance, etc. We had several long interviews in what culminated in my going to some sort of psychologist for what I thought were standard vocational type tests. (His office was in a downtown hotel.) One thing that stands out in the interviews with the Disability rep was he kept asking me if I was "anti-social" because in recently reading a Scientology Ethics book it seems that people designated as anti-social can beharassed (sic) or isolated or attempted to be cured or something like that. Anyway, when I briefly saw the results of the psychological tests I saw something about being schizophrenic and I felt a little betrayed and prematurely labeled since he mostly gave me basic intelligence tests and some of the other things felt like set-ups such ashaving (sic) a fire alarm ring. In my hotel for the past week or so, phony fire alarms and smoke in the halls kept occurring to the point where I just ignored them. So when I heard the fire alarm in the psychologists (sic) office, I ignored it also, suspecting a set-up.


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When I next saw my Disability worker, along with an Asian person who claimed to be some sort of intern, he strongly wanted me to see a psychiatrist and possibly take medication.I'm (sic) not certain if he said medication, but I do recall another client in the waiting room either this time or just recently talking about going to a psychiatrist, taking medication like it was no big deal and collecting SDI benefits. I'm sure this was a set-up, planting a seed of acquiesence (sic) in my mind. I refused to see a psychiatrist. The next time I saw my Chrysalis worker along with my Disability worker and the intern, they all wanted me to see a psychiatrist, but again, I refused, and we parted amiably. (I was suspicious of these Disability people and at one point called the official Disability office from a phone number I believe I got from a phone book or from Information and asked if they had any offices in the downtown area or psychologist's offices in downtown hotels or something like that, and the person I spoke with said no.)

Meanwhile, I had received an appointment to see an SSI judge at some later date. I also received a ltter (sic) from a private attorney, I believe in Glendale, offering to represent me in the case. (I had not solicited this attorney or any others.) I was still feeling intimidated and decided that by my refusing to see this lawyer it would show Scientology that I was not interested in taking legal action and they would leave me alsone. (sic) And also, I wasn't sure who this lawyer was. He might be connected with Scientology and wanted to pump me for information or something. I refused his services in a letter and the Scientologists didn't seem to take too kindly to this. The harassment intensified. Helicopters began to come down very close to the ground when I left my hotel. I waved to one once and someone called me crazy. I believe I also saw that roundshouldered (sic) guy from Albany arguing loudly with someone to leave him alone. When I called this lawyer after having received a 2nd letter that I must answer him or my case would be dropped, a hotel tenant on the phone next to me said "This is the big one". I refused the lawyer's services.

Meanwhile, in exchange for my welfare benefits, I was scheduled to start doing janitorial work at a job training school around 3rd or Beverly Blvd and near some sort of tall, judicial building. The first day on the job, this other worker, a Hispanic worker who claimed to be from Arizona and whose name began with "G" (it might have been Gil), was pushing a janitorial training program at Cedar Sinai where you worked at the job training school for 8 hours during the day, then went down to the hospital at night to train and after awhile they gave you a job. This sounded OK, but after the first day of cleaning grafitti (sic) off the men's room ceiling, my back muscles hurt quite a bit and I felt that janitorial work might be too physically strenuous for me. But I saw all these flyers advertising another job training program for food preparation, after completion you also got a job. I told my contact person at the school that I was interested in this program and she seemed pleased, almost relieved, saying that they had been having trouble getting people to take that class.

Later, "G" gave a little talk out front about how you couldn't buy prepared food with food stamps. You had to pay. Referring, I'm sure, to if I took the food preparation class I would have to pay some sort of kickback. I also seem to remeber (sic) him saying something about even if you stole a candy bar you would get the book thrown at you, referring to how closely I would be scrutinized and punished if I took the food preparation class. Later, that guy from Albany passed us by and said to a companion something like "that's OK if you do that, I just want to understand why.", though he said it kind of angrily. Later, I told "G" that the janitorial class was OK, but that cleaning jurt (sic) my back and that I thought the cooking class would be better. He kept saying "OK, OK, OK" but after I was finished, a security guard passed us and said he had just gone to a funeral, an allusion to death which did not make me feel altogether comfortable. When I saw my contact person again, she tried to get me to take the janitorial class saying


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that maybe my back jurt (sic) because of using old muscles, even though before she was so relieved that I had taken the cooking class. Later, I kept hearing references to $3(,000) or $5,000 and it seemed to have some sort of relation to the cooking class. Also, a magazine article that was taped to the window about the cooking class seemed to be changed. Someone pointed out to me that the guy in the picture was tossing up an apple, whereas before it looked like he was holding out his hands to display the salads or something he had just prepared.

But I decided to take the cooking class and to pay off the kick-back, however they would collect it. "G" and this smallish black guy who was always wanting to walk with me and said things like "Out-of-the ordinary things happe(ne)d sometimes and "we'd take good care of you" and (was) always trying to hook me up with women, they seemed to have disappeared after this decision of mine. These other guys that had been working there seemed to be making overtures of friendliness to me. I had the feeling that one side was Scientology and the other side was maybe that Canyon Country mission. Maybe they were 2 sides of the same coin. Anyway, I felt they were working together.

When I went down to my welfare office to see if I could take the cooking class, I found out that I had a new case worker, Miss McBride, an Asian woman whith (sic) a marriage-significant name, like I was joining up with or "Marrying" some sort of group. I (was) sent into the backroom and I told her I wanted to take the cooking class. There was another person sitting nearby. Some sort of witness maybe. Then she had me go to another room and repeat my story in front of this other person. I did. She said it was OK for me to take the class. I went outside (and) sat down and they started playing some sappy love song over the intercom with some sort of message like we would be together forever now. But I felt so bad at having sold out that I decided not to go through with it. When the date for the class to begin rolled around, I came late, did not go to the cooking classand (sic) didn't mention anything about it and neither did anyone else.

After this, "G" came back and started pushing the janitorial class again, but this time I wouldn't have to work at the school during the day, but could just train at the hospital at night and would get a stipend also. But I had soured completely on that class, which, by the way, I never (saw) advertised in any of the school's schedule of classes and I began thinking instead of computer repair, even though before, the computer repair teacher had told me to come into his classroom to clean begind (sic) a door and when I opened the door there was some sort of death threat on it like "Be safe working with electricity or you're dead" and when I saw the sign I heard some snickers in the room. I asked "G" if computer repair would be OK. The next day he said it would be OK, but I began thinking that LACC had a computer repair program also and that maybe that one would be better. So I went down there one day, which was kind of a breakthrough, since it was so close to my old apartment and Scientology and since there were people there who knew me before and probably had heard what had happened to me. When I neared the school, this guy with a kind of skull or other death sign on the back of his T-shirt walked in front of me. A warning. At LACC, the computer repair program seemed excellent, but I wasn't 100% sure because of a problem with my eyes, so I also went to see about a cooking program they had. When I was waiting to speak with a white haired woman from that program, she was talking on the phone about someone having been taken care of long enough and it was time to start collecting something


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in return, possibly money. Whatever the exact words, it definitely sounded
like a kickback scheme.

After I had gone to LACC I began to go to grocery stores closer to my old environment. I periodically tried new stores because someone had been  following me around and arranging to have bottled water jugs with funny tasting water at the stores I would habitually go to. Also they would put suspicious-looking single cans of the food which I usually bought so that I would be forced to take those possibly contaminated cans. I was forced to carry bread, peanut butter and the occassionally (sic) good bottle of water in my bag in order that someone would not come into my room and contaminate them in some way. When I entered the Ralph's on 3rd and Ver­mont, one of the stores I always used to go to, someone came up behind me and said "you'd better get out of here."

In speaking to "G" once about the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein seeming to be some sort of code word for myself, he had mentioned something about someone going to war with someone in conjunction with when the U.S. might declare war on Iraq. He also said the U.S. was trying to play policeman to the world. I said that President Bush was just throwing his weight around to help him get elected. Walking home that evening, a guy said something menacing about some other guy. I assumed it was in reaction to what I had said about Bush's motivations for war.

Around this time also I was put into a bad room at my hotel, very run down in a bad section of the building where these guys would congregate around (the) hallway. I also had seen the guy from Albany one early morning walking to the school. He whizzed close by me in a little car as I crossed the intersection on the other side of (the) freeway overpass. He looked back at me with kind of a worried look on his face. Now, whether they were angry at me for not taking the janitorial class or from pulling out of the cooking class with its attendant pay-off or from showing them up by turning up in my old neighborhood or from that remark about them throwing their weight around ar (sic - "or") from my refusing to see that Social Security lawyer and the impending SSI appointment with the judge or whether public support was swinging in my favor or some government authorities were beginning to catch on to them, one night, while I was in the bathroom, a guy came in with a knife and demanded my money. I gave it to him and he left,, but I was very shaken to say the least. I went back to my room and later turned on the radio and heard a story about some things being worth fighting or dying for and leter, (sic) instead of the usual talk or news shows there (was) just music playing. I felt that the people at this station would periodically send me messages and they didn't want to have to comment on the knife attack. Anyway I decided to leave LA again, going this time to Montreal, hoping to leave America and hopefully all or most of my troubles behind and start a new life somehow. My plans were far from developed, I just knew I couldn't stay there anymore.
I guess I'll end my story now. I never made it to Montreal. The harassment, surveillence (sic) and attempts at control continued across the U.S. I stayed a little while in a mission called Pacific Gardens in Chicago where a video might exist of me raising my hand during a church service where a preacher asked something like who might try to listen to Jesus' word and my being grabbed by the hand and pulled up the aisle to a back room, but I never joined their church. In Philadelphia, an audio tape might exist of a Traveller's (sic) Aid counselor interviewing me, who Iovertly (sic) assumed was a Scientologist. I said, during an interview where I recounted all my past dealings with Scientology, that everything the Scientologists did to me previous to leaving LA the first time was an even battle since I made (line missing)


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some noise, but I said that mostly to try to be agreeable to someone who might have been able to help stop the harassment and I believe I also said that after they decided to continue to harass me after I left LA, the perspective changed, though I didn't elaborate. She asked me if I considered th(e) whole thing my fault and I said no.

I've been spending the past 14 months at the Wards Island Shelter for Men in NYC. The harassment continues and many strange things have happened during my stay, but it's difficult to tell which cult is which out here. The Scientologists aren't as open out here as they are in LA. Though I'm sure they're part of this and certainly I wouldn't have had to suffer through everthing (sic) I've suffered through if it had not had been for the(m).

I have no money to pay you if you feel that you could represent me in a lawsuit against Scientology, but I am hopeful that from the sense of right that moved you to sever your ties with Scientology in the past and from the personal sense of injustice that you must feel from what you suffered when the Scientologists branded you their enemy, you might represent me on a percentage of award basis. But for me, as I hope for you, financial gain is not the motivation for this lawsuit. Even should we not win, I feel that the negative publicity to Scientology and the heightened public awareness that Scientology not only seeks to disrupt and control the lives of ex-members and of influential people that they feel want to harm the, (sic) which is bad enough, but that they would do the same to even an insignificant powerless person like myself and also to people with whom that person had the slightest of personal contact, and that they would hound and harass that person from city to city, year to year on a daily basis. ... .nobody at not (sic) time and at no place is safe from the misguided and fanatical whims or possibly worse, the religious convictions, of the Scientologists and I feel that that is something well worth pursuing and I hope you feel so, too.

Yours Truly,

Eric Nakao
Rockefeller Center Station
PO Box
New York, NY 10185

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6-2-92

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Dear Bur of Traf Ops: (Traffic Operations?)

I am staying at the Men's Shelter on Wards Island. On Fri, May 29 at 8:30 am I arrived at the Wards Island side on the footbridge that connects the island to Manhattan. There was a big crowd of people there because the gate was locked and the middle portion of the bridge had been raised. I sat down on a bench and noticed that on the Manhattan side of the bridge a person rode his bicycle up passed the gate, meaning the gate was unlocked on that side, and across the bridge to the point where the middle portion had been raised, then he rode back. A group of pedestrians did the same. About 8:50 a green Parks Dept van drove in front of me. I thought they might open the bridge, so I walked up to a gate and asked someone if the Parks Dept opened up the gate. he said no, that the Dept of Transportation did. I waited around until 9 and decided to walk across the Triboro instead. As I was crossing the Triboro about 9:30, I noticed the middle portion of the bridge had been lowered.

Lately, I've been having a disagreement with the operators of the Wards Island shelter. Some disagreeable events have been happening to me at the shelter since the disagreement which I won't go into, but which led me to believe that some sort of collusion existed between the shelter and the person who opened the bridge in the morning. The bridge was also closed on Apr 23 at 6:45 am, the same day that a big meeting was to be held at the shelter at which members of the Human Resources Administration were supposed to attend to hear complaints of the shelter residents. The timing of this earlier event adds further to the suspicion that some sort of collusion and intimidation tactics are being employed.

I spoke with a man at 355-2250 about this problem on Jun 2 around 10 am. I didn't get his name, but he spoke with a kind of New York accent and kept calling me "buddy." He initially said that the person who opened the bridge had to wait for a police escort. when I said the bridge was not yet open at 9, 3 hours past the 6:00 opening time, he said they were doing repairs. When I said I saw no repair people, he said would I accept an apology. I said I would rather someone investigate into this to which he said they were too busy and hung up.

Could you please look into this and find out exactly what prompts these curiously timed delays to occur? I will be awaiting your reply.

Eric Nakao
Rockefeller Center Station
PO Box
New York, NY  10185


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6/13/92

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Dear Councilmember Eldridge:

I read in the Spirit that you were planning to hold an oversight hearing on the lack of accountability that groups like the Central Park Conservancy have. I applaud your efforts and would like to share with you some of the negative experiences I've had with the Conservancy that might help show you the type of people you're dealing with.

Last year, during the 1991 "You've Gotta Have Park" event, I bought a button. Later, I sat down in the park to eat lunch. A person asked me if I'd like to buy a button and I said I'd already bought one. A little later, a person walked in front of me and was asked if he'd like to buy a button. He said he'd already bought 3 buttons, but that he'd buy another one. Shortly thereafter, another person asked me if I'd like to buy a button. I said no, that I'd already bought one. I felt that this was a set-up to get me to buy another button. After finishing my lunch, I put on my button so I wouldn't be bothered anymore. As I left the park, a young, athletic-looking young man with a sinister grin on his face, firmly planted himself in my path and said "I see you have a button. Thanks for supporting the Park," but in a tone that suggested more a mad scientist temporarily thwarted, than a grateful Central Park Conservancy volunteer.

But why would they do this for just a few extra dollars? Well, I've been having extreme problems with Scientology and other connected cult-like entities and I feel that they're involved with the Central Park Conservancy and that they were using the "You've Gotta Have Park" as a further opportunity to harass me.

Another example of this happened during the '91 Summer Stage. Before every performance they would hold a raffle by collecting dollar bills that people had written their names on. In the beginning, they put the money in a non-descript bag, but after awhile, began putting them in a GAP bag. One of the harassment techniques these cult people have used against me since I arrived in NY is by having people carry GAP bags in my presence, GAP rhyming with JAP. I am of Japanese descent. One of the winners was named "Eric" (my name), which I feel was a total fraud. I felt that the MC of Summer Stage was struggling with this. Once the raffle was suspended for a couple of turns and after they resumed, GAP bags in evidence, he made mention of the Central Park Conservancy playing an important role in the managing of Summer Stage and Central Park. I felt that this was his way of saying that his hands were tied because the people behind it (namely, the Central Park Conservancy) was too rich and powerful to be denied.

And these are the type of people that the City of NY and the Parks Dept have to deal with. Rich? Yes. Powerful? Yes. Unscrupulous, mean spirited and overbearing? Yes, yes, yes! These people don't care about Central Park outside of the enjoyment that their own people can get out of it. Their main purpose is power. The getting of power and the utilization of power to accomplish their own hidden agenda. I would advise you to work on cutting all ties with groups such as these. But if you find you must endure them through these financially-troubling times, you must make the people involved lay their souls bare, subject them to public scrutiny as if they were public officials. Are there Scientologists involved? The public has a right to know and voice its opinion. Do they have a private agenda outside of the upkeep and improvement of the City's parks? Again, the public has a right to know.

Again, I applaud your initiative and foresight in dealing with this important issue and hope for a successful outcome.

EN
PO Box
(Rockefeller Center Station)

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St Agnes legal clinic statement

Eric Nakao
7/15/92 (?)

I had problems with the religious cult Scientology, with whom I was never a member, back in Los Angeles. I left LA twice to try to rid myself of them, but they followed me from city to city. Other cults seem to have joined in along the way. I have been living at the Wards Island Men's Shelter since Feb '91 where the problems continue, both inside and outside the Shelter. I'm not exactly sure who's behind it, but there are several religious organizations that frequent the shelter, Volunteers of America is, I believe, a religious group since they have a crucifix on their envelopes and of course, almost anybody has access to the Shelter. I have divided my complaints into 11 sections, with entries mostly dated from Feb '92, when I started keeping a journal. The last section is on my former job training school, FEGS, which I had originally not planned on covering, but since its name kept popping up, I have included a brief outline of my experiences there. (I had finished most of this paper on July 8)

1) Conspiracy - Pg 1
2) Spying - Pg 3
3) Drugs and Poison - Pg 5
4) Strange Talk by the Dept of Social Services (DSS) - Pg 7
5) Clients Exhibiting Knowledge of DSS Meetings Held Just Minutes Before - Pg 9
6) Abuse by Staff and Use of Clients as Agents of Manipulation and Harassment - Pg 10
7) Dubious Characters - Pg 14
8) Black or White - Pg 17
9) Religious Activity in the Shelter - Pg 18
10) Possible Links To or Knowledge Of Criminal Activity - Pg 20
11) FEGS - Pg 21


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1) Conspiracy

- Usually the NYPD or EMS. Sometimes, these people refer to those not cooperating with them as being "in jail" or "in the hospital" which would be an added psychological impact of seeing law enforcement or medical personnel. The various NY police departments, fire trucks, EMS and other ambulances have also frequently blasted me with their sirens ever since I arrived in NY.

2/27/92 - grey/blue police car chases an insane-looking man as I am walking to a meeting with my case worker, Evelyn Castillo, where she and my previous case worker, Dexter Fauntleroy, try to talk me into seeing a psychiatrist about the cults.

3/2 - Pass many EMS and NYPD cars on Triboro and Drake Stadium bridges while walking to meeting with case worker to give my decision on seeing a psychiatrist.

3/20 - Pass NYPD cars 4428 and 4162 on dirt path to footbridge at 6:45 am on the day after my notebook which contained research on Scientology had been stolen. I had also looked into FOIA, GAP Auto Repair and an L.A. lawyer.

3/23 - Gates locked on footbridge at 6:45 am on day after I start letter to LA lawyer about Scientology. Guy holding GAP bag at gate. People on the outside often harass me with GAP bags, GAP rhyming with Jap.
        - At the 103 and Lexington subway station, a cop yells at a guy, "What's your problem? I'm going to call the Precinct and have them take you away. Are you an addict?" (Also tell about reporting fire to police. Plane crash and Utah trial)

4/23 - Footbridge gate locked at 6:45 am on day of general meeting at Shelter with an HRA representative. The DOT (Dept of Transportation) said the person who unlocks the gate has to wait for a police escort and is sometimes delayed.
        - The #6 train is delayed. The conductor says there is a "sick person" on the train up ahead and suggests we transfer to another line.


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5/24 - At 2:30 am, James Rogers, a client near me, is having a seizure. Someone keeps knocking my bed. The EMT's take him away. During this time I had been having problems with the staff.
        - At night, the bus lets off an old Hispanic man near Drake Stadium who says he's been living in the bushes for 14 years. As we start to go again, 2 EMS's with lights flashing, pass us. A black guy says he likes helping people like the old man because it gives him joy, then he quickly mumbles something about not being able to function without Gotti. At the Shelter, EMS #161 and another EMS are parked out front. In Intake, 2 EMT's say "This is going to take a long time". Other EMT's are inside my dorm.

5/28 - Intake guard says the NYPD wants somebody when he comes in.

5/29 - Footbridge locked at 9 am. When I'm walking across Triboro I notice the bridge has been lowered. While watching TV that morning a black client asked me if "5-star", a client who bothers me sometimes, had hit me. 2 female Client Cares came to wake us in the dorm at 8:15 when it's always been a male Client Care. When I got a drink, a client kept calling me "Erica". When I exited at 8:30 am, there was no line, when there's usually a long line. The DOT said the bridge had malfunctioned.

5/30 - EMS #161 is in front of Shelter when I return at night. 2 NYPD's are in Intake area talking to a client who said he was living on the West Side, which was my #1 choice for a prospective Public Housing Project.

6/2 - I call and write a letter of complaint to the DOT about the recent bridge lockings. That night at the 125 and Lex(ington) bus stop, the guy selling transfers says "Hey, Ching Ching", where they're usually very discreet. "Ching Ching" was also what a Client Care had recently called me. A "Raven" food for the homeless van passed by. EMS #505 passes by with siren blaring. The bus arrives 10 minutes late at 8:55 pm.


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whereupon fire trucks #35 and #36 with lights flashing passes and stops on other side of intersection. When the bus leaves a few minutes alter, the 2 fire trucks also leave and go back to their station on 3rd and 124th which we pass by on our way to Wards Island.

6/5 - On day after look into conspiracy laws at Jay College Library, at 7:45 am fire truck #43 is pouring water on a smoldering taxi near the footbridge on FDR Drive. Cars in disrepair is a recurring symbol used by the cults to signify some sort of displeasure.

6/6 - At night, an AA Ambulette exits the Shelter.

6/18 - On the day after I had seen (crossed out) at the (St Agnes) Legal Clinic and said for her not to do anything yet, a client is wheeled out in a wheelchair by an EMT at 8 am to EMS #462 outside. A black client at the window says that the Client Care doing the time cards tries to do too many things at once. Ms. Castillo, a Client Care Supervisor, not my case worker, smirks passed me as I go to the window.

6/30 - On the day before I think everybody expected me to come see you, at 9 pm, EMS #115 and #398 are parked out front. The guards, who are usually in the outer room, are standing by the window where they could have observed me looking at the EMS numbers.


2) Spying

- I used to notice a disproportionate number of black people walking or sitting near me in largely white Mid-town (sic) Manhattan which I associated with the large black population of the Shelter. There have also been a large number of white people, as well as some Hispanics and Asians, but I'm not sure if they have any connection with the Shelter.


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2/21 - Show "The Exorcist" video at the Shelter. I had recently been tearing out articles on the Satanic cult connection to the Monica Berle murder.

2/23 - Wrote a letter to Village Voice about the cults. Things quiet down at the Shelter for the next few days.

3/15 - At the Donnell Library, I had asked for a stapler which they didn't have. When I came back to the Shelter, the Client Care checking us in is stapling time cards together.

3/18 - At Intake, after having looked into FOIA and an LA lawyer, a young, light-skinned Client Care says to a guard who is eating popcorn that they can smell the popcorn out in Intake and he won't give them any.

3/20 - After hanging around the scene of a suspicious fire, hoping to talk with police, there is a copy of VOA rules on my bed, a client stands next to my locker and blows his nose and there's general talk about something smelling bad. Nose blowing and things smelling bad are recurring devices used to signify displeasure.

3/31 - Client asks if I have larger coins for 20 pennies. I had been leaving my extra pennies around town.

4/5 - After mail letter to LA lawyer, things quiet down at Shelter for awhile.

4/14 - Went to NY Hospital to make appointment for SRO physical. Later, at Intake, white, brown-haired Client Care asks the client behind me if he'd been at the hospital today. The client says yes and shakes a bag of pills.

4/16 - Get number of (person in charge of) Times Square Hotel to ask about working in exchange for SRO. Later, at bed sign-in, there is no Client Care. Clients are saying that someone had a heart attack.

4/30 - Tell Barbara Edwards, my job counselor at my job training school, FEGS, that tomorrow was my last day. I had been getting an extension beyond my official graduation date while they tried to find me a job. Later, in my dorm, a client is telling Victor (bed 330) a joke about a guy who only has to do a simple thing to rob a bank and he messes up.


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5/9 - Had to get off bus to use bathroom. Later, at bed sign-in, there is no toilet paper. when there's usually a big bag of toilet paper.

5/11 - Get TB and blood test at NY Hospital. Later, at Intake, a Client Care and client speak of taking "Vitamin D".

5/17 - A few days after I had copied some articles out of "Covert Action", a magazine critical of the CIA, the Intake guard says the CIA is after someone because he's built so many churches around the world.

5/25 - I throw away 1/2 a box of donuts at Union Square Park. Later, the Intake guard tells a client that he can't bring donuts in the Shelter.

6/7 - Six days after I had gotten an AIDS test at NY Hospital, David Grant (bed 332) says that someone thought he had AIDS, but didn't.

6/8 - Stand at PA Terminal on 8th and 42nd waiting for rain to stop. Next morning, there is a Missing Person's flyer in the Intake Window that says a person was last seen on 8th and 42nd.

6/10 - Saw play on Josephine Baker where there was much nudity. Later, in dorm, David Grant speaks sexually about some woman. He usually talks about jobs.
        - Fill out job application at Macys saying that I didn't drink, smoke or take drugs. The next morning while waiting for meeting with case worker, a fat, "retarded" client said he doesn't "smoke, drink or take drugs."

6/21 - Black guy holding big picture frame before footbridge. 5 days later, Ms. Edwards from FEGS says there's a possible job for me making picture frames.


3) Drugs and Poison

- I stopped eating at the Shelter in February, so I only have one dated entry.

- Milk cartons appear to be tampered with sometimes. Once, Client Care "Julio" asked me if I wanted to attend a church service. I said no. He seemed to accept this, but then a nearby client started giggling something about Krazy Glue, which might have been used to re-seal the cartons.


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- Told supervisor that I would not be able to continue at my job training assignment at the Shelter. Soon after, I had a very bad headache. The day after I got the headache, a worker in the serving line that I knew asked me how I felt and I told him I had a headache.

- Around the same time, another worker, Jason Castleberry, tipped over my carton of milk, maybe knowing it had been tampered with.

- Throat had a tendency to feel funny after eating breakfast. Stopped drinking the juice and my throat felt fine.

- Food line would often stop right when I got to the door. Felt that they might have done this to bring out the tampered food item.

- Clients always sat at tables around me with chairs facing towards me so they could se what I ate.

1/12 - Felt very weak with a bad headache after eating breakfast. Before, in the dorm, somebody mentioned something about the peanut butter. When standing in line, a Client Care said that somebody was a snitch. 2 days before, they had shown a video on Camp LaGuardia, attended by 2 Clients who used to harass me. The day after feeling sick, I got a big job training stipend about which I had written a letter to HRA about hinting that the delay might have been caused by cults.
        - Since February, aside from a few times where they got to my food outside the Shelter, the main reference to drugs has been in connection with my case worker trying to get me to see a psychiatrist and medication was often mentioned.


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4) Strange Talk by DSS (Dept. of Social Services office inside the VOA shelter)

3/16/92 - My case worker, Evelyn Castillo, brings in Gregory Portal from OCM which I believe has something to with psychology. After I tell him about some talks I had with the Scientologists, my former case worker, Dexter Fauntleroy, says "sucker" from the other side of the wall. Mr. Portal says he'd like to speak with me further. He says something about my job search will be sabotaged. I say by who. He says by me, but I'm sure he meant the cults unless I spoke with him further as a psychologist. Later, when I'm about to leave, Mr. Fauntleroy blocks the exit and says that he bets I wish I could get out of here.

4/2 - I had been working on a letter to an L.A. lawyer about Scientology. When I'm waiting outside the DSS office, Mr. Fauntleroy says to another client, "You, threatening me? You, out of work and threatening me?" Later, he wheels a black Eric-look-alike in a wheelchair into the office, slapping my shoulder as he passes and says "hi".
      - Ms. Castillo pushes me about contacting my family back in California. She wonders if they're being threatened. I tell her that the Scientologists started harassing me in Los Angeles and she wonders if the harassment couldn't have started in San Francisco where my family is. She also asks me if I want to get involved in a recently begun art workshop at the Shelter. Part of the notebook that was stolen from me, I believe at FEGS, contained sketches I made froms (sic) ads put out by Scientology, which I wondered if that might have prompted the art workshop.

4/6 - Ms. Castillo said she was sending me for a physical for SRO's. (Single Room Occupancy) She also offered me bag lunches since I hadn't been eating there. Mr. Skinner, the head of the Phase 1 portion of the PBT Job Training Program that I was in before dropped by and said I could restart the program if I wanted. I felt they were being nice to me because I had mailed my letter to the LA lawyer the day before.

4/28 - Ms. Castillo tells another worker that she drove a client to the bank, but he couldn't get off. The worker is very angry and says that the


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client wanted Brooklyn, but to forget it. I felt that this exchange was either about the general Shelter meeting with HRA (Human Resources Administration) representatives that I didn't attend or my inquiring about work in exchange for an SRO at the Times Square Hotel after the Shelter people had begun the process of getting me an SRO.
        - Mr. Fauntleroy came in and said that my first case worker, Mr. Freedman, came back to the Shelter and was looking for me. This was strange since he was my worker for only a couple of months and I hadn't seen him in about a year, except once, when he appeared to be waiting for me outside the Shelter down the road when I was walking back one day. His name is also strange, like it's giving me a message (Freed Man). It is similar to message names 2 of my job counselors at FEGS had, Frieda Nash and Walter Bindman. Also, I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly, but it seems to me that the first time Mr. Fauntleroy introduced me to my then future worker, Ms. Castillo, she looked a little differently, that her features were a little finer and her voice had no trace of a Spanish accent like the present Ms. Castillo.

6/26 - While meeting with Ms. Castillo, an older black worker who seemed like he might be a manager of some sort popped in holding a coffee mug that said "Dad". There seems to be a set of code words utilizing familial imagery to indicate ones relationship to a particular group or that group's relationship to you. Perhaps this "Dad" was utilizing that imagery. He also said "Hello (or good-bye), sir" to me when I left.


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5) Clients exhibiting knowledge of DSS meetings held just minutes before

2/18/92 - After telling Ms. Castillo that I still felt sick sometimes after eating at the shelter, I went immediately to my dorm where Sabin Baltac (bed 338) was asking Jorge Perez (339) how to say "I am sick" and "I feel bad" in Spanish. He also wondered how to say it in Chinese and he hit my bed as he exited.

2/27 - After a meeting where I said I would think about seeing a psychiatrist, I went to my dorm where a black client said he was going to shove his dick up somebody's ass. Bed 335 was having a violent argument with another client, almost coming to blows, where he keeps saying to "please get out of my apartment." Bed 339 is pushed up against mine, also.

3/16 - After rough interview with Mr. Portal, and Mr. Fauntleroy says "bet you wish you could get out", I went to dorm where Victor (330) is talking about religion, "Mitch" speaks about how complicated the Washington DC roads are and "5-star" (341) speaks of Philadelphia, as if religion, DC or Philadelphia could be possible ways for me to "get out".

4/10 - After telling Ms. Castillo that didn't want to talk with SRO psychiatrist about cults, I went to dorm where this supposedly crazy client who looks like George Carlin says "Imbecile".

5/12 - After telling Ms. Castillo about clients singing rap songs in the bathroom and the TV being turned off early, I went to Intake to exit and 2 Hispanic clients were play boxing. After crossing the footbridge, a group of guys were talking about getting knifed and shot.


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6) Abuse by Staff and Use of Clients as Agents of Manipulation and Harassment

- I will confine the entries in this section to a recent 4 week period.

5/12/92 - Complain to case worker, Evelyn Castillo, about rap singing in bathroom and early turning off of TV.

5/13 - While standing in line to exit, client in front of me says to be nice to Client Care Supervisor, Ms. Castillo, (not my case worker) because you might need a bed some mornings then he turns and looks at me significantly.

5/14 - 12:20 am. Am awakened by Client Care who says I didn't sign for my bed. I say I did. He says to go to Intake to sign for it. I do and when I exit dorm I hear either the Client Care of guard whistling which is a tactic used by people on the outside trying to annoy me. When I pass 2 clients sitting on a bench, they shake hands like their plan has worked. When I get to Intake, a black male Client Care with a full beard and a Jamaican accent, which may or may not have been real, say "What do you want, Ching Chong?" I sign for my bed.
        - The next morning I complain to an Assistant Director, but he says I have to speak with the graveyard AD tomorrow. I tell him about the early TV turn offs and he says to speak with the AD in the other building. I speak with a Mr. Dix who tells me to go back to the first building. On my way back, a black client with a crudely written message on his T-Shirt that reads "Get off of drugs" walks in front of me. When I re-enter the office, Client Care Julio is carrying a GAP bag, which is a device that people on the outside often use, GAP rhyming with Jap.

5/15 - At 4:45am. new clients come noisily into my dorm and when one passes my bed he yells "Don't want to wake anybody p!"
        - As I walk to Keener Bldg the next morning, a black, female Client Care spits in my path. I talk to Mr. Owens who tries to brush it off as a prank at first, but I am insistent and he says he thinks he knows who might have done it and said


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he would look into it.

5/18 - A Hispanic client brings a tray of food out in front of the TV and sits down next to me who doesn't eat at the Shelter anymore. He offers to sell his peanut butter which is the food I was poisoned with before. I move and he leaves without having time to have had finished his meal. I don't believe I've ever seen a client bring a tray of food out of the well-guarded cafeteria before and into the TV area. Then the fire alarm goes off. Then a story comes on the TV about a guy who is sentenced to die. They turn off the TV just after he says that they know he's innocent at 7:49 am. They had been turning the TV off at around 7:30, no later than 7:40.
        - Exiting shelter, black client ahead of me tells another black client that he had a chance to join the "army" and blew it. Then he says that the only reason he harasses him is to let him know that he still cares about him
        - When I return that night, "5-star) (formerly bed 341) keeps calling an Asian client "Chink" and "Jap". I feel that this Asian client was deliberately put there so that "5-star", who periodically harasses me, could use this racist language.

5/19 -As I exit building, black client makes racist Asian sounds, but without feeling or malice, like someone told him to do it.
        - At 125 and Lexington bus top, a Hispanic guy asks me what time it is, which is a phrase used often to annoy me. Then I feel a slap on my hair and head. I turn around and see a black guy glaring at me as he walks away.

5/20 - In the dorm someone plays "Neither One of Us Wants To Be The First To Say Good-Bye". I read about a client meeting that is supposed to be attended by an HRA representative and decide


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to stay for it. A black, loud client who had been harassing me since I first came to the Shelter and seems to be brought back periodically when they need him says "Hi David Chang". When walking through a doorway a client almost hits me with a ladder and Client Care Julio is walking behind saying "Be careful where you're going".

5/22 - When return to shelter, "5-star" jumps in front of me and says "I heard you were going to whip my ass". Later in the dorm, he keeps talking about wanting to leave America and keeps calling the Asian client "Jap".

5/24 - At 2:30 am, James Rogers, who is in a bed near mine, has a seizure. Someone keeps knocking my bed while waiting for EMT's.
        - That night, my bus lets off an old man who says he's been living in the bushes for 14 years. When we begin to move again, 2 EMS's pass us with lights flashing. They are parked in front of the Shelter. 2 EMT's are in Intake and say "This is going to take a long time" when I pass through and 2 more EMT's are inside my dorm.

5/26 - A black client walks behind me into the shower stall and said he was going to use that one. Another black client gets in the stall on the other side of mine and says to the first client "What shower are you in, Rick?" Rick is an old nickname of mine which I had never told anyone in NY about.
        - I go to see Mr. Owens for the first time since the original complaint to see if he's found out anything, but he's not in. When I go to Intake to exit, 2 clients limp in front of me and another client with one leg passes me. These are recurring


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images used to harass me. I had injured my foot back in LA.

5/27 - I go see Mr. Owens again. He is in, but he says that since I complained on May 15, the person who he thought did it was on vacation and he, himself, went on vacation after that, and to come back in a few days.
        - When I go to Intake to exit, Client Care Julio passes toilet paper to another Client Care on the other side of the Client Care who is checking clients out and the two of them blow their noses as I stand at the window. Nose blowing is a recurring harassment device.

5/28 - At a DSS meeting, my case worker asks if I want to go work at a hotel in Monticello. I decline.
        - When returning to the Shelter on the bus, a car pulls up alongside of us and plays "Jump Jump" loudly which is a song that was often played in my dorm.
        - When checking in at Intake, the guard says that the NYPD wants somebody when he comes in.

5/29 - A client keeps playing "Black or White" over and over while I'm in the shower.
        - While watching TV, a black client asks if "5-star" hit me. When I get a drink of water a client keeps calling me "Erica" and when I get to the bridge at 8:30am, it is locked.

5/30 - Play "Jump Jump" and "You've Got To Live and Learn (before your bridges burn)" in the dorm.
        - When I return to shelter, an EMS is parked out front and 2 NYPD are in Intake.

6/1 - I tell (crossed out), an (sic) pre-aids (sic) test social worker that I'm getting the test to make sure that these cults didn't give me the virus.
      - At 125 and Lexington bus stop, the person selling transfers calls me "Ching Lee" and a guy who smells very bad gets on the bus.


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6/2 - I go see Mr. Owens, but he's not in. They leave the TV on till 7:48 so I can watch a story about living with difficult people and they turn it off right after a woman says she has to learn to keep her mouth shut.
      - When I exit building, a black client says he wouldn't risk going to jail for bullshit.

6/3 - I see Mr. Owens. He said the person who he thought did it said he couldn't remember the incident. I ask him for the name and a physical description of the suspect, but he refuses to give it.

6/10 - Client breaks the volume on the TV I usually watch. The day after the Client Cares in Intake get a new TV.


7) Dubious Characters -

- I'm not sure if these people work for the Shelter, are members of outside religious groups that visit the shelter or come from the outside altogether, but they seem to divide into people who try to befriend me, annoy me or pass information to me. They also seem to come in recurring physical and vocal types such as rotund people with moustaches who resemble my brother, gravely-voiced people who like to grab my arm, people with foreign accents, very tall people, seemingly insane people who talk to themselves and people who resemble people I used to know. I will stick mostly to people who I believe are currently still at the Shelter.

- David Grant (bed 332) - One of those people who resemble my brother. 2 others used to sleep in bed 333. When he first appeared, he said to me "iglesia, iglesia, do you speak English?" "Iglesia" means "church" in Spanish and mentioned "AA" once, but he doesn't strike me as a religious person or a needy person


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who would who would (sic) need to rely on a religious organization. Once, on a bus, someone called him "Murphy". Just yesterday, on the day before I planned to see you, that same person was on the bus and made a point of calling him "Murph" 3 times, so I have to assume that David somehow knows the contents of these pages. He speaks of jobs, SRO's and makes references to things I've done outside the Shelter like the AIDS test. He was telling another client once about jobs and SRO's. This client sat on the footboard of my bed which I kicked and he got off and the conversation soon ended. Later, David said, "If you're going to reject me, I'm not going to beg you." He's been fairly quiet since I wrote this paper.

- Alfredo Alpondo (335) - Claims to be from S. Africa, but outside of once saying how wonderful it was over there, he hasn't spoken about his "homeland", even with all the problems they've had there recently. He has a good accent, but has a tendency to hit his consonants a little deliberately and he has this slight Donald Duck quality to his voice that several previous clients in my section have had. He said that a woman is helping him get an apartment in Baltimore and once said that God helps those who make an effort, though that's the only time I've heard him speak of religion. He's started talking about Africa a little since I finished (this) letter last week.

- Joel Edwards (336) - Claims to be from the Virgin Islands, but keeps falling out of his accent. He spoke once about the Salvation Army being part of the CIA and that fraternal organizations like the Elks were cults. He also said that you either have to choose black or white (people). His accent has been improved this past week. I think he, Alfredo and Daivd might be working together.

- Jon O'Brien, Jr. (formerly 339) - Good talker. Claims to be former coke seller with a wife in Puerto Rico. He used to yell things out in the middle of the 


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night like "Get off me, you dog!" Not sure if he's here anymore.

- Victor (330) - Has been in my dorm for quite awhile. I don't know if he's religious, but once after I finished a rough interview with DSS, he was speaking about religion. After I left FEGS, a guy told him a joke about a guy who was supposed to do a simple thing to rob a bank and he messed up. After I wrote a letter to the Village Voice telling why I thought the Union Square Train Crash happened because of me he said that he could understand why someone might think that way about something, but that it wasn't true. After my blanket was stolen once, a Client Care came back and said angrily to Victor to not leave something on his desk. Victor said he didn't do it. After I started FEGS, someone asked him why he didn't leave now. He also speaks about Science Fiction sometimes.

- "George Carlin" (340's or 50's) - I don't know his name but he resembles George Carlin. He periodically shows up where I am. He acts crazy and talks to himself, like a previous client in my dorm. When I came back from a DSS meeting after saying I didn't want to talk with the SRO psychiatrist about the cults, he said "Imbecile". He also said something about having read somebody's notebook. Maybe he was referring to my stolen notebook. He also keeps saying, "And I still can't figure it out".

- "5-star" - (formerly 341) - Not sure of his real name. Comes up to me periodically, touches me and says things like "I heard you were going to whip my ass". Calls me and recently, this other client, "Jap" sometimes. He said "hi" to me once at the General Delivery Post Office on 34th St. He has this gravelly voice and pretends to be drunk sometimes as a cover for some of his more outrageous behavior, not unlike a client who used to sleep in bed 339 called "Milton" who had once said to someone that he got paid to act stupid.


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- There are some others, too, who I'm not sure are here anymore and whose names and bed numbers I don't know. New people are always passing through, though.


8) Black or White

- I get the feeling that there are many groups out there who would get some kind of reward if they could get me to join them and thus keep me under some kind of control. Once, when I went to this group called "Faith Healing", the person in charge said something about something being like "9 or 10 armies" attacking one person. 2 groups I keep hearing about is a black group and a white group. I connect this black group with the Shelter, possibly one of the religious groups that are associated with the Shelter. Black people back in Los Angeles used to concern themselves with me in a similarly oblique fashion. I identified them with Watchtower in the beginning and later, with a Christian mission I stayed at for awhile. The white group could be a white Christian group, FEGS (which is a Jewish connected group). Scientology is also white and I don't know if they want me to join them still, but they're always in the picture.

- Gilbert Noriega, a student at FEGS who started the same day as me, once held a black and white electrical receptacle in front of me and said "What's it going to be, black or white?"

4/16/92 - On day that I got (name withheld) number at the Times Square Hotel to ask about work in exchange for an SRO, 2 clients standing in line at beg sign-in, at which no Client Care was present, talked about a movie that had a black cop and a white cop. (Police and security are also recurring code words.)


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5/28 - At the Jay College Library, a white and Hispanic guy talk about "being disciplined" and "scouting". I look up at them. They go away, come back and start speaking derisively about Malcolm X and about someone being aligned with a black group.

5/29 - Client keeps playing "Black or White" over and over on same day footbridge "malfunctions".

6/8 - Joel Edwards (336) says you either have to go with black or white (people). That you need both black and white keys to play the piano.


9) Religious Activity in the Shelter

- Client Care Julio asks if I want to attend a church service. I decline and he seems to accept this, but a nearby client says something about Krazy Glue which might have been used to re-seal my milk cartons that looked like they had been tampered with.

- After my locker had been broken into after I had cleaned things out from underneath some client's (sic) beds as part of my job training assignment and which were later confiscated by staff, the woman who runs a group called "Faith Sharing" told a client to "try Jesus" in an area I was cleaning.

- Big push to attend a religious meeting, putting pamphlets on client's beds, on night before I was going to see about an electronics training program in Brooklyn after I had agreed to attend FEGS. The next day the Union Square Train Crash occured. (sic)

2/22/92 - Client says that a church on 103rd and 3rd will pay $25 if you convert to their religion.

3/16 - After rough meeting in DSS, Victor (330) speaks of religion.

5/6 - 2 Bibles on my bed after looking at Public Housing on West Side.


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5/7 - After telling case worker about Public Housing, I exit building and client says "Praise God".

6/4 - Black client with shaved head eats in front of me in line and stands behind another shaved headed black client. I feel that these shaved clients belong to some sort of religious group. Client Care Julio used to have a shaved head, but he's been letting his hair grow out in the past week or two, which I feel is in response to this paper.
      - Alfredo says that a woman is helping him get an apartment in Baltimore and that God helps those who help themselves.

6/17 - On night that I told you not to do anything for now, a black person on the bus to the Shelter says you have to be patient and mumbles something about AA.
        - In the dorm, David Grant also mention AA. There was a previous spate of AA references a while back when a client named "Chako" (formerly 333), another client resembling my brother, was here. But I'm not sure if Chako was truly AA or just using it as a cover.

6/18 - Flyer on door in Shelter announcing an AA Open House in the S. Bronx.

6/24 - Client Care Julio carries a "Rasta" bag. A red herring or is he really a rasta? (sic) A few weeks previously, there had been a flyer about Muslim classes starting up.6/25 - After having walked by St. Agnes and experiencing some rough talk on the bus, a client in my dorm plays "I don't love you anymore"-type songs on the radio followed by a Dianetics (Scientology) commercial.

6/26 - Waiting outside DSS office, a black client says that it doesn't matter if you're not religious, that some people are agnostic and that he, himself, has solved some problems by using non-religious methods.

8/13 - The TV is turned on to the "Today" show. Lately, it's been "Good Morning, America". There is a Dianetics commercial.


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10) Possible Links To or Knowledge of Criminal Activity

- Religious group makes big push for us to attend their service, putting pamphlets on our beds, etc on the night before I'm going to Brooklyn about a possible job training program after having agreed to go to FEGS. The Union Square Subway Crash occurs late that night on the line I would have taken into Brooklyn. When I return that night, a client in my dorm says "They hate to lose". On the news that night they show a picture of a Bible at the crash site. I had communicated my suspicions about this as well as about the cults and other events to the City Human Rights Commission, One Police Plaza, Mayor Dinkins and the Village Voice in late December of '91 and early '92. Before this, this religious group had only come periodically. Since then, they have been coming regularly on Wednesday nights, if they're the same Church.

- Hit on arm with stick while crossing footbridge. A Client Care in Intake patched me up, but the Client Care at bed sign-in told someone to keep his mouth shut.

- When I was about to enter the PBT Phase II job training program at the Shelter, another client who was either about to do the same or was about to go from Phase II to a Shelter job, announces near me about planning to give part of his pay to a religious group. Could this be some sort of job kickback scheme?

- Car crash near Madison Square Garden where I had been checking for my mail at the nearby General Delivery Post Office, waiting for a second Driver's License, the first one having been stolen from the Shelter mail pick-up. While I passed by the scene of the accident (crashed cars is another symbol), a black client who used to previously pass along job-type information to me and had invited me to a religious group called "Faith Sharing" once, came up to me and said "hi". A little before this, 2 white girls had passed me and said someone was "scared to death".

2/20/92 - Fire at 125th and Lexington station. On the bus to the Shelter, a crippled black guy said "Guess you didn't know it was us."


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At bed sign-in, one Client Care showed another an address in Georgia, a place mentioned at that time as a place I should presumably move to.

4/16 - Monsignoir (sic) James Heggerty is pistol whipped in Park Slope. The previous day I had gotten the phone number of (name withheld, similar to the Monsignor) of the times Square Hotel about a possible exchange of work for an SRO. The shelter had recently begun the process of trying to get me an SRO. When I returned to the Shelter after getting the phone number, there was no Client Care at bed sign-in, people said someone had a heart attack and while I was waiting fro the Client Care to return, some other clients were talking about a movie with a black and white cop.

5/19 At the 125th and Lexington bus stop, a Hispanic guys (sic) asks me what time it is (another harassment device). I tell him and I feel a slap on my hair and head. I turn around and see a black guy glaring at me as he walks away with his laughing friends. During this time I was having a small feud with the Shelter staff.

5/29 - The DOT claims that the bridge was delayed in lowering because of a malfunction. If this is true, then sabotage is a possibility.


11) FEGS (phone number withheld)

- When I first mentioned to my then case worker Dexter Fauntleroy, that I was planning to attend FEGS, he asked if I was sure I could get along with them, like he know there was something more to them than just a training school

- The Union Square Train Crash discussed previously. Though when I had to take a bus that day, 2 guys stood near me and spoke of doing business with the Russians (another code word). There were many Russian students at FEGS.

- Many of the students seemed to take a special interest in me. Gilbert Noriega, Douglas Dorman and Alex stand out, but many others came and went.


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- The teachers also seemed to be aware of my situation, especially Alan and Rudy. They might even have been harassed by the people bothering me, or the whole thing could have been a set-up.

- Jim Leggio, the director, also seemed to be a key person.

- After I'd been at FEGS for about a month, they repeatedly tried to get me to accept a $30 check from JTPA which I declined since I was going to get a stipend from BEGIN. This led to a delay in my BEGIN stipend, my letter of complaint alluding to the cults and the poisoned peanut butter at the Shelter.

- The day after I complained to Detective Davis at One Police Plaza about the cults, Lisa Steinberg, the assistant manager of a GAP store was shot and stabbed with a screwdriver. (GAP bags was another harassment device) The next morning at FEGS, a black guy said there had been a death in the family. Gilbert seemed a little shaken, Douglas seemed angry, Alex seemed excited and this black, Jamaican guy named Harold seemed a little puffed up.

- My notebook is stolen. I believe it was stolen at FEGS. That day there was free pizza and soda for no apparent reason. James Leggio playfully punched my shoulder. I suspected something might be in the soda and didn't drink it.

- I am referred by my job developer at that time, Frieda Nash, to a job at the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizen's Council (phone number withheld). I speak with a James Crocker who kept pushing me to contact my family, like I would get the job in exchange for contacting them. There was also a memo on his desk that said "Guyana", he mentioned finding cow bones in the drain (the last syllable of my name sounds like "cow), etc. I later declined the possible job offer. that day at FEGS there was a newspaper left on one of the tables that said "Vows Revenge".

- My next job developer, Barbara Edwards, said she used to be an English teacher. I was an English major and almost became a teacher. I told her about the cults. She sounds disdainful when I tell her that the people at my shelter want me to see a psychiatrist, but she also tells me a story about Lawrence of Arabia who went to Arabia and decided to take up the cause of the Arabs, which I felt was a veiled recruitment pitch.

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Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request letter

August 28, 1992

Dear CIA:

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act.

I am requesting a copy of any documents or other information that you might have on me, especially in regards to, but not exclusive of, organizations, groups or individuals (religious organizations or cults, political groups, organized crime, private detective agencies, governmental agencies, non-profit groups, etc.).

Please research and send me your results in the following order:

1) New York City since Jan, 1991.

2) Los Angeles, Calif. from Jan, 1977 to Fall, 1981 and Jan 1983 to Jan 1991.

3) Summer of 1990, I took a Greyhound bus trip from LA to Albany, NY. I made grief (sic) stops in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Syracuse, NY; and Albany, NY. In Jan 1991, I made a bus trip from LA to NYC with a brief stop in Chicago. After staying briefly in NYC, I went briefly to Philadelphia before returning to NYC.

4) Anything else in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, Calif., or elsewhere.

Could you please also tell me if anyone claiming to be me has ever requested information on me in the past.

Thank you.

Eric David Nakao
DOB: 8-26-57
Place of Birth: Walnut Creek, Calif.
Social Security Number: (number withheld)
Mailing Address: PO Box
Rockefeller Ctr Station
NY, NY 10185


HENRY B. TRATTNER NOTARY PUBLIC, State of New York
No. TR-OH689385
Qualified in Nassau County
Commission Expires October 31. 1993

(I believe that on the same date, the same FOIA request letter below was also sent to the FBI and NYPD.)

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The City of New York

POLICE DEPARTMENT
LEGAL BUREAU
F.O.I.L. UNIT ROOM 110C
ONE POLICE PLAZA
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10038

September 2, 1992

Eric David Nakao
P. O. Box
Rockefeller Center Station
New York, New York 10185

Dear Mr. Nakao:

I am writing in response to your Freedom of Information Law request dated August 28, 1992 and received by this office on September 2, 1992 requesting "documents or other information. . .but not exclusive of organizations, groups or individuals" .

The Freedom of Information Law allows access to documents reasonably described. As your request does not describe a document, I am unable to provide access to any records.

The material you seek may be under the control of the Handschu Authority. Please complete the enclosed request form and return it to the Handschu Authority, Legal Bureau, One Police Plaza, Room 1406, New York, New York 10038.

Very truly yours,

LOUIS J. CAPASSO
Sergeant
Records Access Officer

LJC:grf
Enclosure

LBF #9-1158-92

Misc. 3793 (6-90)-h2


(enclosed Handschu request form)

I request that you search all files in your possession covered by the settlement for the requested documents and notify me in writing of their existence or non-existence.

If such materials exist, and are not exempt from disclosure pursuant to the settlement, please set forth when they will be available for inspection and copying or how, if I reside more than 150 miles from New York City, I may order them by mail. I agree to pay the reasonable cost of copying if I desire copies of the materials I inspect.

If such materials exist but you assert that some or all of them are exempt from disclosure, I request that with respect to any non-exempt materials you provide me with an opportunity to inspect and copy as set forth above. With respect to the materials you assert are exempt, I request that you provide me with written notification of the basis of each claimed exemption, together with a statement of the appeal procedure and the forms for filing an appeal.

If you claim that no materials exist responsive to this request, please send me written notification, together with a statement of the appeal procedure and the forms for filing an appeal.

I UNDERSTAND THAT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SETTLEMENT, NO LIST OF PERSONS WHO REQUEST SEARCH OR INSPECTION OF THESE FILES PURSUANT TO THIS PROCEDURE MAY BE RETAINED AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE SEARCH, INSPECTION AND APPEAL PROCESS, IF ANY. THE INFORMATION I HAVE SUPPLIED ON THIS FORM IS PROVIDED IN RELIANCE UPON THIS PORTION OF THE STIPULATION OF SETTLEMENT WHICH I UNDERSTAND CARRIES THE LEGAL EFFECT OF A COURT ORDER.

Very truly yours,

_________________________
(signature)

Dated:

BIRTHDATE ____________  PLACE OF BIRTH _______________

NAME ________________   TELEPHONE _____________________

ADDRESS ____________     SOC. SEC. NO. __________________


__________________________________________________________

FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT USE ONLY:

IDENTIFICATION PRESENTED: ________________________

DATE REQUEST FORM SUBMITTED/RECEIVED ____________
                                                
__________________________________________________________

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U.S. Department of Justice

Federal Bureau of Investigation

26 Federal Plaza
New York, NY 10278
September 3, 1992

In Reply, Please Refer to
File No.

Eric David Nakao
P. O. Box
Rockefeller Ctr Station
New York, NY 10185

Dear Mr. Nakao:

A search of the indices to the Central Records System as maintained by the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed no records responsive to your Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts request on yourself dated Aug. 28,1992 and received in this office on Sept. 1, 1992.

Although no record responsive to this request was located, we are required to inform you that you are entitled to file an administrative appeal if you so desire. Appeals should be directed in writing to the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy Attention: Office of Information and Privacy, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, within thirty days of receipt of this letter. The envelope and the letter should be clearly marked "Freedom of Information Appeal" or "Information Appeal". Please cite the name of the office to which your original request was directed.

Sincerely yours,
JAMES M. FOX
Assistant Director in Charge

By:
James J. Roth
Principal Legal Advisor

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Central Intelligence Agency

09 SEP 1992 (date stamp)

Washington. D.C. 20505

Mr. Eric D. Nakao
P.O. Box
Rockefeller Center Station
New York, New York 10185

Reference: P92-1609

Dear Mr. Nakao:

This acknowledges receipt of your letter dated 28 August 1992 wherein you requested information about yourself. For identification purposes we have assigned your request the number referenced above.

We have accepted your request; it will be processed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552, as amended, and the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a. Our search will be for documents in existence as of and through the date of this acceptance letter. No fees will be charged.

The heavy volume of FOIA requests received by the Agency has created delays in processing. Since we cannot respond within the 10 working days stipulated by the FOIA, you have the right to consider this a denial and may appeal to the CIA Information Review Committee. It would seem more reasonable, however, to have us continue processing your request and respond as soon as we can. You can appeal any denial of records at that time. Unless we hear from you otherwise, we will assume that you agree, and we will proceed on this basis.

Sincerely,

John H. Wright
Information and Privacy Coordinator

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9/22/92

New York City Police Dept - Handschu request

(This is a request form with the required information filled in in the spaces at the bottom)

I request that you search all files in your possession covered by the settlement for the requested documents and notify me in writing of their existence or non-existence.

If such materials exist, and are not exempt from disclosure pursuant to the settlement, please set forth when they will be available for inspection and copying or how, if I reside more than 150 miles from New York City, I may order them by mail. I agree to pay the reasonable cost of copying if I desire copies of the materials I inspect.

If such materials exist but you assert that some or all of them are exempt from disclosure, I request that with respect to any non-exempt materials you provide me with an opportunity to inspect and copy as set forth above. With respect to the materials you assert are exempt, I request that you provide me with written notification of the basis of each claimed exemption, together with a statement of the appeal procedure and the forms for filing an appeal.

If you claim that no materials exist responsive to this request, please send me written notification, together with a statement of the appeal procedure and the forms for filing an appeal.

I UNDERSTAND THAT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SETTLEMENT, NO LIST OF PERSONS WHO REQUEST SEARCH OR INSPECTION OF THESE FILES PURSUANT TO THIS PROCEDURE MAY BE RETAINED AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE SEARCH, INSPECTION AND APPEAL PROCESS, IF ANY. THE INFORMATION I HAVE SUPPLIED ON THIS FORM IS PROVIDED IN RELIANCE UPON THIS PORTION OF THE STIPULATION OF SETTLEMENT WHICH I UNDERSTAND CARRIES THE LEGAL EFFECT OF A COURT ORDER.

Very truly yours,

Eric Nakao_________________________
(signature)

Dated: 9/22/92

BIRTHDATE ____8-26-57_  PLACE OF BIRTH    Walnut Creek, Calif

NAME         Eric Nakao_     TELEPHONE ___(blank)____

ADDRESS     PO Box            SOC. SEC. NO.          (number withheld
                      Rockefeller Ctr Station
                      NY, NY 10185

__________________________________________________________

FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT USE ONLY:

IDENTIFICATION PRESENTED: ________________________

DATE REQUEST FORM SUBMITTED/RECEIVED ____________
                                                
__________________________________________________________

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New York City Police Dept - Handschu response

The City of New York
POLICE DEPARTMENT
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10038

October 5, 1992

Eric Nakao
P.O. Box
Rockerfella (sic) Center Station
New York, N.Y. 10185

Dear Mr. Nakao:

Your recent Handschu request was incomplete. I am therefore, returning it to you along with a complete blank request. Also, please note that in accordance with the Handschu stipulation, persons residing within 150 miles of New York City must present this form in person at Police Headquarters. Please also note that the deadline for entries made on or after January 1, 1960 was December 1, 1987. Accordingly, your request may not be timely.

Unless, the purpose of your recent request is to appeal a denial by the Handschu Authority you may have to contact our Freedom of Information Office to request documents.

Once your completed request is filed in accordance with the Handschu stipulation, the Handschu Authority will advise you of the results in writing.

Very truly yours,

CHARLANE O. BROWN
Detective
Legal Bureau

COB:lb
LB1022L

(See New York City Police Dept - Handschu request for "returned form."
The single Handschu request form page was the only page I could find in my files, so I don't know if that was the only page I sent or if that was the only page that Sergeant Capasso of the NYPD's F.O.I.L. Unit had sent me in response to my original FOIA request.)

(Enclosed blank Handschu request form below. Underlined words are not links.)


REQUEST FOR DISCLOSURE OF NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT FILES PURSUANT TO THE STIPULATION AND ORDER IN HANDSCHU. et al v. SPECIAL SERVICES DIVISION., et al.. (71 Civ. 2203, SONY; 605 F. Supp. 1384; 787 F. 2d 828)__________________________________

NOTE: Persons residing within 150 miles of
New York City must present this form in person at Police Headquarters together with two forms of identification. Persons residing more than 150 miles from New York City may mail this form provided that they complete the affidavit on page 3 (certified mail return receipt suggested but optional).

New York City Police Department
One Police Plaza
New York, New York 10007
Att: PSS Files Disclosure

SIRS/MADAMS:

I hereby request inspection of all documents, including but not limited to index cards, paper records, photographs, tape recordings, films and videos captioned in or bearing either (a) my name; or (b) the name of the organization specified below contained in the files of the New York City Police Department, Public Security Section (and its predecessors and successors) for the period January 1, 1955 through December 1, 1986, pursuant to the settlement of a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entitled Handschu, et al. v. Special Services Division, et al.

NOTE: If you are requesting files containing entries made between January 1, 1955 to January 1, 1960, you have until June 1, 1987 to make your request. For files containing entries made on or after January 1, 1960, you have until December 1, 1987 to make your request.

(For requests by individuals, list full name and common variations in spelling, nicknames, aliases, names before or after marriage. For requests by organizations, list formal name and any variations or sub-groups of organization):
_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________


To assist you in searching for the records, I list here any relevant dates, locations, events or organizational affiliations relevant to my request (attach additional sheets if necessary):

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________


I request that you search all files in your possession covered by the settlement for the requested documents and notify me in writing of their existence or non-existence.

If such materials exist, and are not exempt from disclosure pursuant to the settlement, please set forth when they will be available for inspection and copying or how, if I reside more than 150 miles from New York City, I may order them by mail. I agree to pay the reasonable cost of copying if I desire copies of the materials I inspect.

If such materials exist but you assert that some or all of them are exempt from disclosure, I request that with respect to any non-exempt materials you provide me with an opportunity to inspect and copy as set forth above. With respect to the materials you assert are exempt, I request that you provide me with written notification of the basis of each claimed exemption, together with a statement of the appeal procedure and the forms for filing an appeal.

If you claim that no materials exist responsive to this request, please send me written notification, together with a statement of the appeal procedure and the forms for filing an appeal.

I UNDERSTAND THAT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SETTLEMENT, NO LIST OF PERSONS WHO REQUEST SEARCH OR INSPECTION OF THESE FILES PURSUANT TO THIS PROCEDURE MAY BE RETAINED AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE SEARCH, INSPECTION AND APPEAL PROCESS, IF ANY. THE INFORMATION I HAVE SUPPLIED ON THIS FORM IS PROVIDED IN RELIANCE UPON THIS PORTION OF THE STIPULATION OF SETTLEMENT WHICH I UNDERSTAND CARRIES THE LEGAL EFFECT OF A COURT ORDER.

Very truly yours,

_________________________
(signature)

Dated:

BIRTHDATE ____________   PLACE OF BIRTH________________

NAME ________________    TELEPHONE ____________________

ADDRESS _____________    SOC. SEC. NO. ____________________

__________________________________________________________

FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT USE ONLY:

IDENTIFICATION PRESENTED: ________________________

DATE REQUEST FORM SUBMITTED/RECEIVED ____________
                                                
__________________________________________________________

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OPTIONAL: (Fill in this portion if you wish to appoint an attorney to act in your behalf or on behalf of the requesting organization after you submit this request): I hereby appoint the following attorney whose name, office address and telephone number are set forth below, to act with respect to this request and direct that further communications be directed to her/him:

Name of Representative ____________ Telephone ( )_________
Address ______________________ City __ State __ Zip

_________________________________________________________


TO BE COMPLETED WHEN REQUESTING DOCUMENTS BY MAIL, EITHER ON OWN BEHALF OR ON BEHALF OF ORGANIZATION

STATE OF _________________________ SS.:

COUNTY OF_______________________


              _____________________swears ( or affirms) and says:

I am the person making a request for disclosure of documents herein. I reside at ____________________ and am the holder of the following identification: (refer to valid license number, birth certificate or passport by naming same, giving its number and name of issuing authority)__________

________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________

Sworn to before me this
day of , 198_ (signature)_____________________

_________________________________________________________

TO BE COMPLETED WHEN REQUESTING DOCUMENTS ON BEHALF OF EXISTING ORGANIZATION WITH GOVERNING BODY".

STATE OF ___________________ ss.: COUNTY OF
, swears (or affirms) and says:
I am the ________________ of the following organization: (title)
, located at .In
accordance with the by-laws or other rules governing said organization, it has designated _________________ to request the disclosure of documents captioned in or bearing the name of said organization. I understand that for presently existing organizations, only one request will be honored, and I represent that this is the only request authorized by the organization.

(signature)_________________________

Sworn to before me this
day of                       , 198_

______________________________
            NOTARY PUBLIC

________________________________________________________


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TO BE COMPLETED WHEN REQUESTING DOCUMENTS ON BEHALF OF EXISTING ORGANIZATION WITHOUT GOVERNING BODY

STATE OF ___________________ ss.: COUNTY OF
, swears (or affirms) and says:
I am currently an authorized representative of the following, organization: ______________, located at _______________. I hereby request the disclosure of all documents captioned in or bearing the name of said organization. I understand that for presently existing organizations, only one request will be honored, and I represent that this is only request authorized by the organization.

                                     ______________________________
                                             (signature)

Sworn to before me this
day of , 198_

_________________________________
NOTARY PUBLIC

_______________________________________________________

TO BE COMPLETED WHEN REQUESTING DOCUMENTS ON BEHALF OF INACTIVE ORGANIZATIONS

STATE OF _____________________ss:

COUNTY OF ____________________

__________________________, swears (or affirms) and says:

I was a member of the following inactive organization: ___________________. I hereby request disclosure of all documents captioned in or bearing the name of said organization.

                                         _____________________________
                                                  (signature)

Sworn to before me this
day of , 198_

_______________________________
                    NOTARY PUBLIC


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Union Square subway crash trial statement

October 13, 1992

Re: Robert Ray Trial

For the past 3 years I have been the target of an unrelenting campaign of surveillance and harassment by various cult-like organizations. For the first couple of years the harassment was on a more personal level with, to name some of the more extreme examples, poisoning of my food, knife attacks, thefts, the harassment of local media, following me across the country as I tried to get away from them, etc.

The reason I'm writing to you is that certain things happened to me in connection with the Union Square Park train crash, that while circumstantial  in nature, are intriguing enough that I would feel remiss if I did not give the people involved in this case the opportunity to consider them.

When I first came to New York the harassment continued on the personal level, but seemed to lessen after I told my case worker at the Wards Island Shelter that I would be attending a building maintenance program run by FEGS in a few months. But I began to have second thoughts and on August 27, 1991 I called SUNY in Brooklyn to ask about an electronics program and the(y) told me to come in the next day. That night at the shelter, an evangelical Christian group came to the shelter. Although these types of groups had come before from time to time, that night was unusual in that they made an especially hard push for people to attend, coming back into the sleeping area to hand out little pamphlets, etc. The next day, I went to the 103rd and Lexington station to go to Brooklyn. A stop or two later, everyone was told to get off the train and transfer to buses. I had not heard of the crash yet at this point, but I'm thinking to myself that upsetting my schedule is the type of thing these cults love to do. On the bus, 2 well-dressed people start talking about doing business with the Soviet Union. This made me suspicious because these cults frequently give me messages like this about "deals" and "joining", etc. and at that time, the "Soviet Union" and "Russia" seemed to be a recurring code word of their's. (sic) A woman nearby said something like "Why do these things always seem to happen to me?" When I finally got down to SUNY, the woman I spoke with said there was a 1 or 2 year waiting list. That night at the shelter, I was struck by a shot on the news of a Bible on the floor of 1 of the wrecked cars. I immediately thought of the evangelical Christians who had been at the shelter the night before. That night in the sleeping area, I heard someone say cryptically, "They don't like to lose."

On February 28, 1992, I read about that woman being killed and the conductor, Stuart Abramowitz, being injured on the B train on the same day that Robert Ray gave a news conference saying that he felt he would be acquitted. But what struck me beyond a violent subway incident happening as a possible message in connection with the Robert Ray statement, was that the couple reportedly get on at 125th Street, a street that I'm always on to take a bus back to the shelter, though on Lexington instead of Central Park West. And the shooting was said to have occurred at the 103rd Street station, the cross street station I always take, though again, on Lexington.

My evidence is admittedly circumstantial and perhaps sounds highly unusual, but for the defense to claim that Mr. Ray was not drunk before the accident occurred seems unusual also without giving a highly probable alternative reason for the incident.

Over the week-end, I looked over newspaper accounts of the accident and several things stood out. On August 26, 1991, it was reported that the MTA was trying to get more money to continue their rebuilding project. The State seemed reluctant. A major accident might grease the wheels for future funding, benefitting (sic) both the MTA and the contractors. I also noticed that the Crown Heights controversy was also playing itself out. There would appear to be some parallel between the culpability of an Hasidic driver's automobile causing death and a motorman's train doing likewise. And is Stuart Abramowitz Jewish? And finally, I read that Robert Ray was a born-again Christian and that his fiancee (sic) had said that they had been reading the Bible the night before the incident. I don't want to say that merely because of his religion Mr. Ray should be suspected of being part of a plot (wittingly or unwittingly), but from my perspective, with the problems I've been having with these cults, the evangelical Christian group visting (sic) the shelter and the shot of the Bible on that newscast, looking into exactly what kind of religious organization Mr. Ray might have connections with would not be a bad idea.

You are not the first people I have told my suspicions to either. In late December of 1991 I went to the NYC Commission for Human Rights and the following night Officer Keith Levine was shot. I reported my concerns to a detective at One Police Plaza and again, soon after, the Lisa Steinberg murder occurred at a GAP Store on W. 57th St. One of my complaints had been that these cults constantly harrass (sic) me by carrying GAP bags, GAP rhyming with Jap. I am of Japanese ancestry. There are other incidents that I won't go into, but what I'm trying to say is that there seems to be these criminally inclined cult groups causing great pain to people and either the government doesn't want to directly and openly address the issue or they're involved with it in some way. By openly pursuing this cult line of inquiry in this or in one of the other cases I've mentioned, the problem can be, if not solved, then addressed in the manner befitting a free and democratic society.

Eric Nakao
PO Box
Rockefeller Center Station
NY, NY 10185

(same as Tiffany Graham and Stuart Abramowitz trial statement, except for headings)

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FBI - appeal request - Dept of Justice

October 15, 1992

Dear Assistant Attorney General:

Please find enclosed a copy of a draft of an FOIA letter I sent to the FBI office in New York and the response I received.

Could you please check through your files to see if you have any information on me as per my original request?

Thank you.

Eric Nakao
DOB: 8-26-57
Place of Birth: Walnut Creek, Calif.
SS#: (number withheld)
Mailing Address: PO Box
Rockefeller Center Station
NY, NY 10185

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ACLU (NY) letter

October 15, 1992

Dear NYCLU:

Please find enclosed copies of the FOIA letter I wrote to the NYPD, FBI and CIA and their responses. Does anything seem unusual in their responses? Could I have written my letter differently to have achieved a better response?
Also find enclosed copies of 2 notices I was given on Oct. 15 at the shelter I'm staying at. They werereceived (sic) at the shelter supposedly on Sep 28, though I didn't pick them up because I get most of my mail at a PO Box. The jury duty notice is unusual in that they sent me the orignal (sic) form to fill out to my PO Box. The notice from the Transit Adjudication Bureau is unusual in that I have never been arrested. Possibly, this could be the result of a stolen driver's license of mine, but could it also be a form of harassment for my FOIA inquiries?

Also find a copy of a letter I gave to some journalists and to the Court Clerk at the Union Square Train Crash trial on Oct 13 to give to the lawyers and judge. It briefly explains why I wanted the FOIA information. And do you think it is possible that in order to distract me from the trial I was given the 2 notices?

Eric Nakao
PO Box
Rockefeller Center Station
NY, NY 10185

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Central Intelligence Agency

Washington D.C. 20505

03 NOV 1992 (date stamp)

Mr. Eric D. Nakao
P.O. Box
Rockefeller Center Station
New York, New York 10185

Reference: P92-1609

Dear Mr. Nakao:

This is the final response to your request for information on yourself. Your request was processed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act. Our processing included a search for records in existence as of and through the date of our acceptance letter dated 9 September 1992.

We were unable to identify any information or record filed under your name. In response to your second question, our records do not reflect that we received any previous request from any individual claiming to be you.

Although our searches were thorough and diligent, and it is highly unlikely that repeating those searches would change the result, you nevertheless have the legal right to appeal the finding of no records responsive to your request. Should you choose to do so, you may address your appeal to the CIA Information Review Committee, in my care, and you should explain the basis of your appeal.

We appreciate your patience and understanding during the period required to process your request.

Sincerely,

John H. Wright
Information and Privacy Coordinator

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U.S. Department of Justice

Office of Policy and Communications
Office of Information and Privacy

Washington, D.C. 20530

NOV 12 1992 (date stamp)

Mr. Eric D. Nakao
Post Office Box
Rockefeller Center Station
New York, New York 10185

Re: Appeal No. 92-2741
      RLH:DAH:RQH

Dear Mr. Nakao:

You appealed from the action of the New York City Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on your request for access to records pertaining to yourself.

You were advised by the FBI on September 3, 1992, that no records responsive to your request could be located in the indices of the central records system. It has been determined by my staff that its response was correct. Inasmuch as appeals can only be taken from denials of access to records which exist and can be located in Department of Justice files, I am closing your appeal file in this Office.

If you consider my response to be a denial of your appeal, you may seek judicial review in the United States District Court for the judicial district in which you reside or have your principal place of business, or in the District of Columbia, or in the Southern District of New York, which is where the search for records was conducted.

Sincerely,

Richard L. Huff, Co-Director
Office of Information and Privacy

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12/21/92

(Typed from a handwritten version)

The Nation
72 Fifth Av
NY, NY 10011

In the December 7 Nation, Alexander Cockburn claims in one of his paragraphs that journalists are "uniformly deferential" to adherents of the "Christ cult." But this is not true. The attacks and exposés on the Christian Coalition, the Lambs of God, etc. are numerous. He says that many Christians "have been convicted of sexual crimes and have killed in the name of their god," but since the thrust of this paragraph was to provide analogies between Christianity and Scientology, is Mr. Cockburn saying that since many Christians have committed these heinous crimes (which few would deny), is he also saying that by analogy, Scientologists are also guilty of these same heinous crimes? To this charge, Scientologists would probably say, in effect, can you prove it? In answer, I would say to Mr. Cockburn, "no, I can't prove it, but is it true?"

Mr. Cockburn devotes much space to denigrating the many awards Richard Behar has received for his Time cover story on Scientology, but anyone who puts himself on the line against Scientology deserves not only awards, but a lifetime supply of bodyguards, food tasters, and some sort of magical device that would repel suspicious characters who suddenly find it necessary to insinuate themselves into your daily routine.

And it's not just the Scientologists. Mr. Cockburn was quite right in pointing out the existence of a "Christ cult." From stealth candidates to the bombing of abortion clinics and beyond, these people, who may do some good things as may the Scientologists, are truly the enemies of personal freedom and democracy. The Cold War may be over abroad, but it's red hot right here at home. The cold warriors are coming home to roost. My question is, where is the government? And whose side are they on?

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Volunteers of America shelter statement

January 6, 1993

Religious, therapeutic, criminal or other groups who originate either from groups inside or outside the Shelter or from the Shelter itself are engaged in a campaign of primarily psychological influence and persecution against me both inside and outside the Shelter for the possible purposes of recruitment, revenge, manipulation, control, extortion, cover-up, as a cautionary example to others, for reasons of general perversity or other reasons.

Though there are possible non-conspiratorial explanations such as the usual frictions from living in a Shelter, race and class differences and my not talking to them much (though I would still hold the Shelter responsible for my security in any event), I feel that what has happened to me goes beyond this because this has been happening to me before I came to live in Shelters, because it happens outside the Shelter and because of the nature of the occurences (sic) within the Shelter itself. I have provided examples of these occurences (sic) from roughly the past month, but have many more that stretch back to my arrival at the Shelter back in Feb 1991 and which I may or may not bring forth depending on the outcome of this initial investigation.

Eric Nakao
HA #8392008
Bed #340
1/6/93
 
11/27 - Cross footbridge in evening for first time since was stacked over a year ago. In Dorm 4, a Client Care brings a tray of food to bed 333. Victor Robinson (bed 330), tells the Client Care that it's all right for him to eat in here. I had not eaten at the Shelter since I was poisoned here in Feb '92 and I feel that the Shelter was trying to get me to eat there again in order for it to look like everything was normal (or perhaps to have the opportunity to put things in my food again.)

11/28 - Another attempt to get me to eat at the Shelter. A client asks if I'm going to eat. I say no. Shortly, someone comes to bed 331 and plays his radio very, very loudly. Retaliation.

11/29 - Clients in 320's talk of blacks being tribes of Israel.
          - Black, female Client Care comes into the dorm and someone gets into an argument with her and begins taunting her with sexist remarks "sweetie, honey, etc". (sic) She says she's going to report it to her supervisor. Perhaps this was a set-up to show me that I was not the only victim of insulting language like I had suffered from some of the Metal Detector guards and a client Care in mid-November, since I would be going to the Coalition for the Homeless the next day.

11/30 - Go to Coalition about my problems about welfare benefits.
          - Coming back to the Shelter, an EMS flashes passed me on Ward's (sic) Island. This had not happened to me for awhile, but I feel that in the past a conspiracy has existed between the Shelter and the EMS to intimidate me with the sight of an emergency medical situation.

12/1 - Waiting for a meeting with my case worker, I see a person carrying a GAP bag and a blind person, 2 symbols I frequently see on the outside of the Shelter from the groups persecuting me, but rarely inside. I wait 2 hours, until 10 am for my meeting. I've never had to wait nearly that long. The woman from Faith Sharing announces a meeting in the meantime and since I'm supposed to call back the Coalition at 10:30, the later time gives my case worker the opportunity to request that I call the Coalition in his presence.
      - I see a CSS client who resembles "George Carlin" who used to say strange yet pointed things and who I hadn't seen for awhile.
      - Flashing EMS passes me again around 7:45 pm.
      - A gay sounding client says that they never had any trouble here until someone arrived.
      - Victor Robinson says someone's doing the right thing.

12/2 - In Linen Room, a male, Latin supervisor says that someone was kept in the Shelter for 3 1/2 years to make an example of him. A black, female supervisor says that someone can complain, but she'll tell her side and win. That someone thinks he can get out of here just by saying so, but we can stop him.

12/4 - Ask Linen Room if the Shelter received any of the DDT laced blankets that the Pentagon distributed to the homeless.

12/5 - Client Care Supervisor Ms. Castillo (not my ex-case worker Evelyn Castillo) and Mr. Wittenberg bring in a ragged, old guy as I enter and Ms. Castillo says "get him out of here". There is a nervous looking black male Client Care doing the time cards. The line is very long, which is unusual for a Saturday. He keeps yelling at clients. A client behind me says the Client Care has a point because people should follow rules. Another client says that it's not the Client Care's job to do that. I feel this particular Client Care, who wears glasses similar to mine, was put there as a kind of message telling me I'm getting involved in areas I shouldn't.
        - When I return in the evening, one of the metal detector guards tells a "drunk" client to leave his cans outside.

12/8 - Ask Mr. Maher at IM32 (welfare center) if I can see my file for my upcoming welfare case. He is very argumentative. Have a feeling they don't want me to see it.
        - EMS with flashing lights passes me on Wards Island.
        - O'Kelly Christmas walks with crutches.
        - Victor Robinson says someone's going to be here for 15 years.

12/9 - 8:30 am, as I stand in line to exit, a Fire Truck pulls up. Client Care supervisor Ms. Castillo says it's a false alarm to the fireman.
        - CAB meeting.

12/10 - At around 6 am, as I'm getting dressed, O'Kelly Christmas is complaining loudly about someone coughing in the 320's and nobody complaining since he might have TB or something. I feel this was a reference to my not complaining about anything at the CAB meeting last night.
          - While waiting for van, black client makes kung fu noises and moves. Says his grandfather started "Born To Kill" gang.
          - Inside the van, a black client yells that somebody stole his jacket. He orders me to open my bag and perfunctorily asks others to do same.
          - At IM32, they are 5 minutes late opening the doors. They keep people from going upstairs for a few moments because of no security. When I sit down, 2 black females say threateningly that if someone wants to be nasty, she'll show them nasty. Mr. Maher comes out with file. Cooperative.
          - Pass St. Agnes Church on the 101 bus as the church is burning around 7:15 pm.
          - O'Kelly Christmas yells at me to push my bed against the wall so he could bring his locker over. I say that if 336 could turn his locker sideways he might have enough room and if not, I would be willing to push my bed over. I don't know what brought this on. CAB meeting, Mr. Maher, St. Agnes?
          - Lexington and 125 bus stop - White, older man says to black woman as I approach, "Don't call us, we'll call you." (Reference to fire?). On the 35 bus they talk about buying something for $150 and to be sure and buy it at a place where you can take it back if you need to get it fixed. then he repeats the "Don't call us" line again as they get off.

12/11 - Waiting for case worker, there's false fire alarm. Legless guy in wheelchair comes out.
          - Case worker makes big push for me to see psychologist again. Is this in reference to St. Agnes or the 180 day penalty I wanted him to mention in his letter for my welfare Fair Hearing?
          - He and my former case worker talk outside about not pressuring some client who had already spent 3 weeks in the PBT program (like me).

12/14 - Legless Latin guy in wheelchair exits shelter as I enter. He talks of pizza. I had eaten pizza earlier.

12/15 - Visit John Jay College planning to enroll in their Legal Studies program.
          - At bed sign-in, a bald Latin Client Care is reading a book on Basic Chess Moves. Chess seems to be a recurring theme of one of the possible groups. When I was staying at the shelter on E 77th St back in Feb '91, a group of people who took an interest in me avidly played chess. A person at the TAP center I recently went to also asked if I played chess.
          - Something smells bad near my bed.
          - Victor Robinson tells someone to get out of here. He also talks about chess and losing a queen.

12/16 - Magazine on my wall with Malcolm X on the cover.
          - At IM32 a black guy talks about Malcolm X.

12/17 - When I drop by to pick up my tokens to go to my Fair Hearing, my (previous shelter case worker) Dexter Fauntleroy says in a gruff voice as I pass that he hopes someone doesn't lose his 9 1/2 weeks.
          - At 125 and Lex(ington) bus stop, a Latin guy who says his name is "Luke", but everyone calls him Louie is staying in the shelter annex, just arrived a few days ago. Says that he's in a 12-step program at Gracie Hospital and that they told him that he should try and talk to non-drink and drug people like me. He stays with me throughout the bus trip and tells me about losing his apartment because of drinking and drugging. This seems to be code for when I do things that are controversial. I had insisted at my Fair Hearing that I'd like to complain about the way my case was handled even though they dropped the charges and had phoned a legal service to speak with them about it. He also said his landlady was mad at him at first, but said he could pay back what he owed her in installments when he got back on his feet. This owing money theme seems to pop up every once in awhile. Going back to the E. 77th Shelter, some of the people there had said threateningly and under their breath that it cost $500/ mo to stay there. Even though I read since that they were HRA funded. It could also be from a Christian mission that I stayed at in California where when I left there I believe they stole my wallet or (the reason could be) some other shelter or perhaps this is just a general extortion scheme.
          - At the E. 16th welfare office, 2 black guys stand behind me an one says to the other that he owes him money because he did him a favor.

12/19 - Bed 332, Horace Jordan (?) does an imitation of a Chinese person. Talks about Asian women in a crude, sexual manner. When O'Kelly Christmas comes in, he asks him about his SSI and Christmas gets very mad. Christmas starts making crude sexual remarks about Asian women, calls me Bruce Lee and says he wants to have sex with Mickey (a client in the 340's).

12/20 - When I get up, Jordan refers to me as "kung fu"
          - I report this to Client Care Norman Blackshear, but say I don't feel it's a random racist remark, but from groups who have been harassing me. He tells me to report it to his supervisor, Frederick Wittenberg, which I do and Mr. Wittenberg fills out a report and says that I'll probably hear something on Monday.

12/21 - Exiting dorm, I pass a black guy with a cane (Montgomery?) who had said racist things to me in past, but who I hadn't seen for awhile. It's like he knows I am reporting these things and wants to be reported also. He says hello to me.

12/22 - On the day I am going to the Legal Services, there is a long line. Client Care Julio (who I've had problems with in the past) pulls my elbow as he is positioning the line and says "This way." That client who looks like George Carlin passes by, supposedly wanting to be reported also or maybe he wants me to speak with him.
          - When return, have appointment slip to see Katherine McKinney in OCM. The therapy theme again.
          - Jordan asks me to watch his radio. When he returns he gives me a candy with the word "BINGO" on it. Did he say those racist remarks because he knew I was going to the Legal Services and wanted me to bring up the Shelter?
          - The Intake guards talk of how peaceful and helpful Atlanta, Georgia is.

12/23 - exiting shelter, a Latin guy makes cartoonish Asian sounds as I exit.
          - Christmas says that some "slant-eyed" person should have stayed in his country, etc.
          - Sign-In - One client or Client Care tells a Client Care that owes somebody $550.

12/24 - When return to shelter at 5 pm, EMS 151 is out front. Inside, 2 white EMT's are wheeling out a small black client. One of the EMT's says "shut up" as I pass. I feel like this is another occasion of people going out of their way for me to report them since I have an appointment with my case worker in 1 hour.
          - Walking back to dorm after meeting, there are several mentions of death. Christmas says he hopes something doesn't fall down. Is he setting this whole thing up?

12/30 - Tell case worker, David Jacobs, to delay formal complaint of goings on until I can organize my thoughts better. The way the complaint had read so far was mainly against O'Kelly Christmas. (Is that his real name?)
          - When come back to shelter at night, black guys playing chess on top of Christmas' locker. Christmas comes over to my bed and says some racist remarks, then goes away. Feel this is in response to my impending complaint against him since he'd been pretty docile passed (sic) couple of days. I complain to a Client Care who comes back to quiet him down, but Christmas not there. Says he'll be back. Christmas comes back makes more racist remarks. I go out and complain. Another Client Care comes back and asks him to stop. Christmas sort of agrees. Client Care leaves. Christmas makes more remarks and a threat. The first Client Care comes by and I report it again. Victor or someone says later that someone won 2 chess games. Feel like this whole thing (is) a set-up or something.

12/31 - Move my bed against wall so Christmas will have enough room for his locker and will take away his main excuse.

1/1 - Christmas comes into bathroom and yells at me for "snitching" on him 2 days ago. I say that I moved locker for him. He says that he'll "bust my ass" and doesn't care if I report him. I'm not sure if I take him seriously. Everything seems phony. I report him to Mr. Lewis.

1/2 - When exit shelter in morning, guard says he verbally abused someone. A "drunk" Latin guy i(s) brought in. Client Care doing time cards gives client in front of me message to call his mother.
      - When return at night, Christmas and a longhaired blond guy who I've seen lately are playing chess on top of Christmas ' locker.

1/3 - Fire Truck 35 pulls up and is told that it's false alarm as I exit.

1/1 (?) - EMS 116 and a Lenox Hills ambulance are parked in front of shelter. When I arrive around 7:20 pm.

1/12/92 - Felt very weak with a bad headache after eating breakfast. Before, in the dorm, somebody mentioned something about the peanut butter. When standing in line, a Client Care said that somebody was a "snitch." 2 days before, they had shown a video on Camp LaGuardia. It was attended by 2 clients who used to harass me and who I hadn't seen for awhile. The day after I got sick, I was scheduled to receive a job training stipend from BEGIN which I received after complaining in a letter to HRA that hinted that cults might be involved in the delay of my stipend.

Suggestions

1) Religious or other cult-like groups out of the shelter - Separation of church and state.

2) Study of the number of workers in Shelter with strong religious affiliations. Do they get preferential treatment? Is there any job-networking apparatus involved? Do they have undue influence in the Shelter?

3) Similar study of workers with criminal or drug records.

4) Investigation into the use of clients as agents of harassment and manipulation and the sorts of pay-offs they might receive.

5) Clients should be seen by a case worker on day of arrival to insure proper ID. Perhaps a special worker could be assigned this task.

6) Check clients Social Security numbers against those of deceased persons.

7) Fingerprint clients to discourage use of stolen ID or entering under assumed names.

8) Client Cares in Schwartz dorms during open hours to control noise and other problems in a vigilant, yet professional manner.

9) Encourage clients to report any malfeasance and respond to such reports in an open and effective manner that does not make the client feel the fear of retaliation or that a cover-up is being engineered.

10) Have a similar reporting mechanism for staff so they won't feel overworked or that they are being made the scapegoats for ineffective Shelter policy or lack of leadership.

11) On-site City Representative whose main function would be as an advocate for client grievances.

12) Make clear that this is a public shelter.

13) Stronger enforcement of rules.

14) Continued support and development of CAB.

15) Investigation into the existence and influence of these groups within the shelter.

16) Separation of Shelter and Social Work.

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Jan 21, 93

(Typed from a handwritten version)

Inspector General for the HRA
250 Church St., 3rd Floor
NY 10013
Steven Pafichow

I am writing after speaking with Ms. Loy on the phone, to complain about the management at the Ward's Island shelter refusing to investigate my complaints unless I submit to a psy(chological/chiatric) evaluation because my complaints are complicated, wide ranging and unusual, involving cults, poisoning, EMS, etc.

On Dec 20 I reported (to) Frederick Wittenberg, a Client Care supervisor, about racist remarks made by 2 clients that I felt were not random remarks but a planned attack to possibly goad me into complaining to the shelter or to complain to Legal Aid who I was planning to see on Dec 22 about problems with my welfare benefits. Mr. Wittenberg said I would probably hear something from Social Services on Monday (Dec 21), but I didn't receive a reply until Tuesday evening (Dec 22), after I had the meeting with Legal Aid, leading me to believe that they were waiting to hear what I said to Legal Aid before they responded. (When I returned to the shelter that evening after the Legal Aid meeting, the a shelter worker gave me an appointment slip a  meeting.) And the meeting wasn't with my case worker, David Jacobs, but with Katherine McKinney of OCM (a pseudo
psy(chological/chiatric) dept which I had never heard) for Monday (Dec 28) at 11:30. H. Paul Aponte of Legal Aid had asked me to call him for his results on Monday (Dec 28) at 2 pm. Another coincidence? At the OCM meeting, I told her my story (about cults, Scientology, etc.) and her response was basically that my interpretation of the incidents was wrong. She urged that I attend a Tuesday meeting of other (OCM) clients with emotional problems (or who were loners like me). I declined. But she also asked a strange question if I believed in ESP and if I felt that a stay I had in a Christian mission in LA was a "good experience" like she might have had some contact with them. She was listening to a religious program on the radio when I entered. When I ask her and Mr. Jacobs point blank if they knew who these groups were, they give (a) long, convoluted answer about perceptions, etc. I felt like they knew, but didn't want to tell me. They pressed me to see a therapist, but I decline.

At the latest meeting on Jan 20, Mr. Jacob's supervisor, Mr. Carroll, and Ms. McKinney were supposed to be there, but a Mr. Morano is there instead, who is now supposedly Mr. Jacob's supervisor. I ask where Mr. Carroll is and I'm told that he's on vacation and that Ms. McKinney is sick. Mr. Morano reads over my list of recent incidents and says that before he will give this to Mr. Carroll, I must have a psy(chological/chiatric) evaluation. He either says that I should either let OCM conduct the evaluation or have OCM set up an appointment for me with a psy(chologist/chiatrist) at Metropolitan Hospital. But considering my recent meeting with OCM and a previous visit I received from one of their people, and since Mr. Jacobs and others keep insisting that my perceptions are wrong because of some emotional problems, I am leary (sic) of their motives. I doubt that OCM would have sent me to an unbiased psy(chologist/chiatrist) and that the reason for the evaluation is to discredit me through a negative evaluation and thus give them a reason to ignore my complaints. After I voice concern about going to a psy(chologist/chiatrist) because I connect them cults, there's a ruckus outside our cubicle with a client in a wheelchair and talk about something being "dangerous" and a black male in shirt and tie pops in and shakes Mr. Morano's hand. I eventually say I'll think about their offer.

Even if I did take a psy(chological/chiatric) and passed, this would be no guarantee of a serious investigation. I feel the incidents stand on their own and while if looked at individually, innocent explanations can be found, when looked at in their entirety, patterns of criminal and unethical intent begin to emerge. I have included a list of incidents and suggestion of possible remedies that I turned in to Mr. Jacobs. A longer list that I had compiled earlier but did not pursue, but that I did show to an attorney, is also included. The incidents are culled from a journal that I keep.

I don't know if I'll have any luck with this letter. From the response and non-response I've gotten from other agencies and organizations in the past, there seems to be either an official or unofficial  unwillingness or inability to offer any serious assistance, but please do what you can.

EN
PO Box
R Ctr
NY 10185
HRA #0825077-1 IM32
Bed #340, Schwartz Bldg.

PS: The initial reason I went  to see Mr. Aponte at Legal Aid was to discuss problems with welfare benefits. I worked at a 4-week temp job and told a Mr. Minkins at IM 32 about it and brought in a letter from my employer stating this.He (sic) said that my benefits would not be cut off, but in late Oct, I found there were no benefits. I called Mr. Minkins about this and he kept saying he'd take care of it, but for 2 weeks he kept stringing me along. My case worker Mr. Jacobs called and claims that my case had been closed for 180 days. I went down to IM 32 the next day to confirm this and was told to go down to the E. 16th (St) welfare office and they told me to apply for a Fair Hearing. I received a notice on Nov 30 at my Rockefeller Center PO Box that my welfare benefits had been discontinued. That was) the (same) day (I) went to the Coalition (for the Homeless. The notice was) dated Oct 5, (and the) envelope (was postmarked) Oct 3, (2 days earlier than the notice. I had picked up mail at my PO Box many times between Oct 3 and Nov 30 and hadn't received the notice. The) envelope (was) missing (later. I had left the notice and envelope with the Coalition for the Homeless at the request of William Broberg, the person who interviewed me there and who wore a baseball cap with a picture of a bomb with a lit fuse. When I returned on Dec 2 to pick them up, Mr. Broberg couldn't find the envelope with the suspicious postmark. I had pointed out the discrepancy to him when I had left it with him on Nov 30. One of those supposed "intern" types was also at my Dec 2 meeting with Mr. Broberg for some reason.)  I was told my case was closed on Oct 16. This is a suspicious date because on Oct 15 I had written a letter to the ACLU to help me with FOIA requests I had made to the CIA, FBI and NYPD. Also, I had received a flurry of mail at the shelter, supposedly received on 9/28 telling me that I was guilty of fare evasion on 7/8, about a Jury Duty appearance I was supposed to have made a few days before and another. Also shortly before, I had gone to the Robert Ray trial (Union Square Train Crash) and distributed some statements about my theory of possible cult involvement. Retaliation? Mr. Aponte also ended up dodging my phone calls for 2 weeks after initial enthusiasm, especially after I let him copy my first list of shelter incidents. When I finally get him he said he was able to do nothing.

PSS: Also, I get the feeling that my shelter or someone might be having some influence in keeping me from getting my public housing apartment at Wise towers. I was told 2 or 3 months ago by a person at another agency that knew someone at Wise Towers that I was to get the next available apartment, but nothing yet.

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Tiffany Graham and Stuart Abramowitz trial statement

April 15, 1993

Re: Thaddeus Davis Trial

For the past 3 years I have been the target of an unrelenting campaign of surveillance and harassment by various cult-like organizations. For the first couple of years the harassment was on a more personal level with, to name some of the more extreme examples, poisoning of my food, knife attacks, thefts, the harassment of local media, following me across the country as I tried to get away from them, etc.

The reason I'm writing to you is that certain things happened to me in connection with the Union Square Park train crash, that while circumstantial  in nature, are intriguing enough that I would feel remiss if I did not give the people involved in this case the opportunity to consider them.

When I first came to New York the harassment continued on the personal level, but seemed to lessen after I told my case worker at the Wards Island Shelter that I would be attending a building maintenance program run by FEGS in a few months. But I began to have second thoughts and on August 27, 1991 I called SUNY in Brooklyn to ask about an electronics program and the(y) told me to come in the next day. That night at the shelter, an evangelical Christian group came to the shelter. Although these types of groups had come before from time to time, that night was unusual in that they made an especially hard push for people to attend, coming back into the sleeping area to hand out little pamphlets, etc. The next day, I went to the 103rd and Lexington station to go to Brooklyn. A stop or two later, everyone was told to get off the train and transfer to buses. I had not heard of the crash yet at this point, but I'm thinking to myself that upsetting my schedule is the type of thing these cults love to do. On the bus, 2 well-dressed people start talking about doing business with the Soviet Union. This made me suspicious because these cults frequently give me messages like this about "deals" and "joining", etc. and at that time, the "Soviet Union" and "Russia" seemed to be a recurring code word of their's. (sic) A woman nearby said something like "Why do these things always seem to happen to me?" When I finally got down to SUNY, the woman I spoke with said there was a 1 or 2 year waiting list. That night at the shelter, I was struck by a shot on the news of a Bible on the floor of 1 of the wrecked cars. I immediately thought of the evangelical Christians who had been at the shelter the night before. That night in the sleeping area, I heard someone say cryptically, "They don't like to lose."

On February 28, 1992, I read about that woman being killed and the conductor, Stuart Abramowitz, being injured on the B train on the same day that Robert Ray gave a news conference saying that he felt he would be acquitted. But what struck me beyond a violent subway incident happening as a possible message in connection with the Robert Ray statement, was that the couple reportedly get on at 125th Street, a street that I'm always on to take a bus back to the shelter, though on Lexington instead of Central Park West. And the shooting was said to have occurred at the 103rd Street station, the cross street station I always take, though again, on Lexington.

My evidence is admittedly circumstantial and perhaps sounds highly unusual, but for the defense to claim that Mr. Ray was not drunk before the accident occurred seems unusual also without giving a highly probable alternative reason for the incident.

Over the week-end, I looked over newspaper accounts of the accident and several things stood out. On August 26, 1991, it was reported that the MTA was trying to get more money to continue their rebuilding project. The State seemed reluctant. A major accident might grease the wheels for future funding, benefitting (sic) both the MTA and the contractors. I also noticed that the Crown Heights controversy was also playing itself out. There would appear to be some parallel between the culpability of an Hasidic driver's automobile causing death and a motorman's train doing likewise. And is Stuart Abramowitz Jewish? And finally, I read that Robert Ray was a born-again Christian and that his fiancee (sic) had said that they had been reading the Bible the night before the incident. I don't want to say that merely because of his religion Mr. Ray should be suspected of being part of a plot (wittingly or unwittingly), but from my perspective, with the problems I've been having with these cults, the evangelical Christian group visting (sic) the shelter and the shot of the Bible on that newscast, looking into exactly what kind of religious organization Mr. Ray might have connections with would not be a bad idea.

You are not the first people I have told my suspicions to either. In late December of 1991 I went to the NYC Commission for Human Rights and the following night Officer Keith Levine was shot. I reported my concerns to a detective at One Police Plaza and again, soon after, the Lisa Steinberg murder occurred at a GAP Store on W. 57th St. One of my complaints had been that these cults constantly harrass (sic) me by carrying GAP bags, GAP rhyming with Jap. I am of Japanese ancestry. There are other incidents that I won't go into, but what I'm trying to say is that there seems to be these criminally inclined cult groups causing great pain to people and either the government doesn't want to directly and openly address the issue or they're involved with it in some way. By openly pursuing this cult line of inquiry in this or in one of the other cases I've mentioned, the problem can be, if not solved, then addressed in the manner befitting a free and democratic society.

Eric Nakao
PO Box
Rockefeller Center Station
NY, NY 10185

(same as Union Square subway crash trial statement, except for headings)

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Lisa Steinberg trial statement

May 3, 1993

Re: Anwar Abdul Trial

I don't feel that Lisa Steinberg was murdered because of a mere robbery, but rather, that she was targetted (sic) because of her employment at the GAP, perhaps even at that particular GAP store.

On Jan 24, 1992, the day before the murder, I spoke with, I believe, a Detective Davis of Community Affairs at One Police Plaza about cults (Scientologist, Christian or other cult-like groups) who had begun harassing me in Los Angeles and who chased me across the country and continued to harass me here in New York. Their harassment techniques ranged from constant monitoring to the poisoning of my food. One of their favorite techniques was carrying GAP bags in my presence, "GAP" rhymes with "Jap". I an (sic) of Japanese ancestry. I felt that Detective Davis knew specifically what I was talkingabout.(sic) When he asked me why this might be happening, I said that among the possible reasons might be that they were using me to train some of their newer agents in harassment techniques. When I said "train", he repeated the word with heightened expectation. On Dec 27, 1991, I had gone to the NYC Commission on Human "Rights and also complained about the cults, intimating that the cults might be involved in the Aug 28, 1991 Union Square Train Crash. I felt that Detective Davis was expecting me to mention that. I didn't though, but I did bring up the Dec 28, 1991 murder of Officer Keith Levine who I felt was murdered in response to my going to the Commission on Human Rights the day before, not unlike the Lisa Steinberg murder. And Keith Levine was murdered at the Manufacturers Hanover Bank on W. 57th and 8th, not far from the GAP store where Lisa Steinberg worked.

The next morning, Lisa Steinberg was murdered by a gunshot in the head, but she also had multiple stab wounds from a Phillips screwdriver. At the time, I was taking a building maintenance class at FEGS in Long Island City where several of the students seemed to have criminal pasts, not unlike the population at the Wards Island men's shelter where I was then staying at. At the school there was chronic problem of stolen tools and at that particular time, a shortage of Phillips screwdrivers. I'm not saying that the screwdriver used in the murder was necessarily one stolen from FEGS, but the symbolism is there. In the same vein, Anwar Abdul was a maintenance worker, one of the types of job skills that FEGS teaches and coincidentally, I believe Anwar Abdul began working at the GAP in October, the same month I began
classes at FEGS.

When I went to class on Mon, Jan 27, several students seemed to be in varying emotional states. Alex asked me a question in serious tones, Douglas seemed angry at me, Harold seemed slightly triumphant and Gilbert seemed a little shaken. A black student who sat with other black students in the back row said that he was out of school for a week because of a cold and that there had been a death in the family. I was not aware of the murder at that time.

The first time I heard about the murder was on the Channel 7 morning news on Jan 28, though on the night of Jan 26 or 27, a white female sat in front of me on the 101 bus reading a newspaper article with the word "GAP" in the headline. On the 35 bus back to the shelter that night, a black male said something like "We'd do anything for you, even kill someone".

On. Jan 29, I bought a copy of Newsday that had a mention of the Steinberg funeral on the cover. As I was reading the paper on a bench at 3rd and 82nd, 2 white males sat down next to me and as soon as I turned to the Steinberg story, they left.

Passing through the Upper East Side was a daily occurence (sic) for me, either walking or taking the bus or train between Harlem and Mid Town (sic) and other areas. Lisa Steinberg lived at 215 E. 95 which may or may not be relevant, though the people carrying GAP bags in that area sure stopped for a little while after the murder.

The next morning on June 30, a cop car parked aggressibely (sic) at the corner of 103 and Lexington, which is where the subway station I took each morning to FEGS was. A black cop jumps out of the car and rushes ahead of me into the corner store where I usually bought something.

At FEGS, Alex talks to Douglas like they're old friends, even though before, Douglas wouldn't even shake Alex's hand. Douglas says "This is all your fault".

While walking across the 59th Street Bridge to Manhattan on the same day, I passed about 20 scattered young white people when I would usually only pass a few people walking on the bridge in the middle of winter.

On Jan 31, the cops were arresting someone at the 103 and Lexington subway station when I entered that morning. A tall white cop exited the token booth as I passed by. I thought that they might be trying to contact me about the GAP store murder, so I went to the 23rd Precinct the next morning, Feb 1, and told them about my thinking they wanted to talk to me, but they weren't interested. I also told them about the cults, food poisoning and 4 or 5 GAP Auto tow trucks that were parked around 103 and Lexington on I believe Jan 14, but after being told to wait, I was eventually thrown out.
I also wrote a Itter (sic) to Mayor Dinkins on Feb 9 mentioning parts of my theory and I also briefly alluded to the Steinberg murder in a statement I gave a clerk to give to the attourneys (sic) and judges at the Robert Ray/Union Square Train Crash and the Thaddeus Davis/B Train Shooting trials, but I have had no response.

There are perhaps other murders and assaults that happened around the same time, but that I'm not as certain about. On Jan 24, Arthur Young, a Chinese American TA dispatcher, was killed on the N train as it went through Long Island City, a 70-year-old man was stabbed on the F train with a pair of scissors (I used to carry a pair of scissors with me while I was being harassed in downtown LA and they seemed to make a big deal about it at that time), on the evening of Jan 25, an off-duty Amtrak cop was assaulted and robbed of a chain and crucifix at the Ritz club at 254 W. 54th by a black male who accused him of being a white supremacist, and on Jan 31, an off-duty cop, Hilario Serrano, was killed at 1705 Andrews Ave in the Bronx. On Feb 5 at FEGS, I was told about a building maintenance job opening at 1125 Grand Concourse, about a mile from the Serrano murder.

On Nov 11, 1992, I passed by 359 W. 52nd and a large window had many old news clippings including the Steinberg murder and some other acts of violence, so maybe I'm not the only private citizen who's thinking along these lines.

Eric Nakao
PO Box
Rockefeller Ctr Station
NY, NY 10185

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Sally Hernandez-Pinero
New York City Housing Authority Commissioner

(my address has been deleted)

July 31, 1993

Dear Ms Hernandez-Pinero:

I am a resident of Wise Towers and have several matters that I need you to investigate.

1) Why was I given this apartment?

Prior to receiving this apartment I was engaged in a series of meetings with the staff at (the) Ward's Island men's shelter for mistreatment. At a Feb 2 meeting with my caseworker, David Jacobs, I was given a letter from a Mr. Moss from Wise Towers "dated" Jan 27, postmarked Jan 29. He claimed that they had been trying to contact me for months and a form was enclosed for me to indicate my continued interest. My caseworker had called Wise Towers several times before and no mention was made of this. In a Jan 21 letter to the HRA Inspector General about duplicitous dealings by my caseworker and others, along with other complaints, I had mentioned that I suspected that someone might be blocking my getting an apartment since I was told by Shirley Jones at WIN several months before, who knew someone at Wise Towers, that I was next on the list for available apartments, but nothing had occurred yet. Could my letter have removed this possible barrier or was my getting an apartment an attempt to remove me from a possible legal battle with the shelter? When shown the apartment on Feb 9 by Mr. Sachs, a Housing Asst, he briefly alluded to not wanting to go to court.

Another interesting occurence (sic) happened on Jan 29 with the death of Bonnie Vargas, the hostage who was killed at 93rd and Riverside during a gun battle between police and Mujahid Muhammad (aka Sidney Fisher) after robbing the Chemical Bank on 91st and Broadway. I have had a theory that many criminal acts have occurred in response to certain of my actions. The Vargas killing seems to fit the same pattern. The Wise Towers office is located on 91st like Chemical Bank and my building is located on 93rd like the building where Ms. Vargas was killed. Also, one of the police officers who originally responded to the bank robbery was named Michael Moss which is the same last name as the letter writer from Wise Towers.

On Jan 26, between the time I mailed the letter to the HRA and the time of the Vargas killing, I had a meeting with my shelter caseworker and no mention was made of an apartment, though certain things happened, such as the transfer to another shelter of an irritating client, that seemed to point to the knowledge by the shelter of the HRA letter. It was not until a Feb 2 meeting, after the Bonnie Vargas killing, that I received the Wise Tower letter. The envelope was postmarked Jan 29, the day of the killing, though the letter itself was dated, I believe, Jan 27, but any date could have been written. Also, previous HA correspondence to me had been sent to my PO Box, but this letter had been handed to me by my caseworker at the shelter.

Or rather, could the killing have been a response to my being given an apartment? After I was actually given the apartment on Feb 9, I had an extremely difficult time getting the initial rent money from my IM 32 welfare office. I was not able to actually get the money till Feb 23 after many irritating and unusual events and delays. Someone apparently did not want me to move. And on Feb 24, the day after I moved in, Bonnie Bear (another Bonnie), who was 1/2 Japanese. (I am of Japanese descent) was shot and killed in Tribeca by Tyrone Walker and Walter Diaz. Another response of (sic - "or") just coincidence?

2.

2) Why was I brought into Housing Court?

On May 21,.1 was faced with the unpleasant choice of either making an appearance in Housing Court or having my apartment tkaen (sic - "taken") away from me. I feel this was unnecessay (sic) since my rent is paid my welfare through direct vendor. (i.e. paid directly from welfare to Wise Towers) The purpose of direct vendor is to remove the presumably irresponsible tenant from the rent paying process. Since this is the case, if rent has not been received and the tenant has done nothing wrong (my record is clean), then why should the tenant be subjected to the degrading, stressful, time consuming and costly prospect of eviction? The tenant has been effectively removed from the process by a system endorsed and perpetuated by the very agency which subjects the tenant to the above mentioned threats and indignities that are a result of the agency's own system.

It seems to me that in any situation where the HA has a resonable (sic) expectation of receiving its rent money, both eviction and the threat of eviction, should not be tolerated. If the rent money is coming from welfare or another large agency, it would seem that the HA does, in fact, have that reasonalbe (sic) expectation. If a person is receiving welfare and is shown to be unreliable in the payment of rent (not my case), then the recourse of direct vendor is the simple and humane solution, not the threat of eviction. If the HA has a problem with the speed in which Welfare delivers the rent money, they should take Welfare to Court, not the powerless tenant.

In my own case, I picked up a 14-day notice from Wise Towers,  postmarked Apr 14, on Apr 21 that said I owed $200 in rent. On the same day, I also received a similar note from Mr. Sachs under my door. On Apr 22, I called my welfare worker, Mr. D'andres, who said he would start working on it and mail it in. I called Mr. Sachs, who was not in, so I left a message telling what Mr. D'andres had said along with his phone number. On Apr 23, I called Mr. Sachs, again and he said he hadn't had a chance to call Mr. D'andres yet. Next Monday, Apr 26, I called Mr. Sachs again, who said he couldn't reach Mr. D'andres yet. I called Mr. Sachs again that afternoon and he now claimed to have written a letter to my welfare office on Apr 20 and they either wrote back or he called them and they said there was no Mr. D'andres working there. He asked my caseworkers name. I told him. He said an unusual phone number for Mr. D'andres. I gave him the correct number. He then asks for my number. I'm getting a little upset now and said that I didn't understand what was going on, that I had left Mr. D'andres' name and number in my message to him last week and now he was acting like he had no idea what was going on. Mr. Sachs called me back in about 5 minutes and said I had to pick up a letter and hand deliver it tomorrow to IM 32. I became quite upset and told him that my having to walk 3 miles to deliver a letter for something that was not my fault felt like harassment. His response was a threat of eviction.

I did eventually pick up the letter and delvered (sic) it to Mr. D'andres the next day. On May 5, I received a Notice of Special Grant from IM 32 saying they would pay the back rent. On May 11, a Petition for Non-Payment of Rent was slipped under my door. On. May 13, I went to Housing Court to answer the petition. On May 21, I went to Housing Court. An HA attorney said the check had been received and the case would be dropped.

It is unacceptable to me to have been put through all this for something over which I had no control or influence. I went out of my way to be cooperative in resolving the situation. Why was I treated so poorly, especially after having lived at Wise Towers for so short a time? For a possible explanation I have to return to the murder and intrigue that I touched on before.

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On Apr 14, I went to the trial of Thaddeus Davis to deliver statements on a
theory connecting that case to the Union Square Subway Crash case and myself. I had gone to the Union Square trial in October and strange things also began happening to my welfare payments at that time, though there are other possible explanations. The 14-day notice I received was postmarked for the same date as the Davis trial, Apr 14. Though this was the date that the letter would legitimately have been mailed if Welfare had not mailed the rent on my Apr 12 disbursment (sic) date, I have to wonder if my check would have somehow been sent had I not gone to the Davis trial or it some other things had not happened that I will bring up in Section 3.

And if Welfare did not send the check regardless of the Davis trial, then why was it not sent in the first place? I received the 1st month's check on Feb 23, filled out a form for direct vendor, received furniture money, etc. On Mar 26, my PA grant was raised from $22.50 twice a month, which I received while living at the shelter, to $68.50 twice a month, so supposedly, tangible notice had been made in Welfare's files of my change of address before the Apr 12 disbursement date on which rent was supposedly not sent and gave Wise Towers the opportunity to give me the 14-day notice.

On May 5, I delivered more statements at the Anwar Abdul murder trial. On May,11, a Petition for Non-Payment of Rent was slipped under my door. Again, would the petition have been given to me had I not gone to the Abdul trial? Or, to take another track, perhaps the petition would not have been given if I had agreed to join the Tenant Patrol at a heavily advertised Tenant Patrol meeting the night before.

And lastly, at my Housing Court appearance on May 11, a case involving a black male was heard dirctly (sic - "directly") before mine. He had the unusual name of Mr. Cheese and needed a sign language interpreter. The symbolic uses of "cheese" (rat? snitch? bait?) and of deaf/mutes (non-verbal signals? my non-talkative personality?) have been obliquely presented to me in the past. If you could look into this facet of my case it might yield an interesting clue.

3) Who is Narain Wadhwani?

I believe Mr. Wadhwani became manager of Wise Towers around the time I moved in. One of the other tenants said he started in Jan "93, (sic - "'93") a month before I moved in, but certainly during the time of my conflicts with the Wards Island shelter when my eventual move to Wise Towers could have been a possibility.

On May 26, Mr. Wadhwani's son, Shaleen, was shot and killed and (sic - "by")  Chandran Nathan in Manhasset, Long Island. Could this murder have some connection with the threat of evicting me from an apartment that so much trouble had been gone through for me to receive in the first place? I was also considering a lawsuit in response to my unfair treatment. Though I had mentioned the possibility of a lawsuit to several others since my answering the Petition for Non-Payment on May 13,my (sic) strongest and most public declaration came on May 26, when I was being interviewed for possible jury duty in a case involving the City of New York. Did someone hold Mr. Wadhwani responsible for any of these events?

Recently, I read about the discovery of the murderers of an Indian prince, Chitresh Khedker and his wife. At the time of the murder, I didn't make any specific connections, but since then I have learned that Mr. Wadhwani is also Indian. And it was also said that the 2 men were also suspected of the murders of Eric Price

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and Milton Setzer at 900 West End near 104th. Not only did the fact that one victim had my first name and that the murder site was so close to my building provide interesting connections, but apparently, Mr. Setzer was a member of Al Anon, a group which played a role in my problems with the Wards Island shelter (though I I (sic) was not a member).

Prince Khedker was killed on Apr 12. This was 2 days before the postmark on the 14-day notice that was mentioned previously. Could the Prince's death have been some sort of message to Mr. Wadhwani to send me the 14-day notice? Or not to send the notice?

On Apr 10, 2 days before the Prince's murder, Jeffrey Rose, a mentally ill homeless man stabbed a baby with a pen near 1st and 78th. He apparently dropped by the homeless center on 237 E. 77th, the first place I stayed at when I came to New York. Could the pen have been a symbol for the follow-up letter I wrote to Mr. Capoziello of Adult Services on Apr 2 concerning the lack of response to my original letter of complaint against the shelter on Jan 21?

4) Miscellaneous.

Other things have happened. I got another 14-day notice postmarked Jun 2 saying that I owed $142, even though on Jun 8, I picked up a letter from Mr. Reinstein of Wise Towers for my Welfare re-certification and there was no mention of my owing any money. There was no hot water in my building the day after my Housing Court appearance. Also, someone yelled out in my hallway, "you're doing this to me after I gave you this apartment?" I assumed it was a reference to the possible lawsuit. The hot water also went out the week-end before your HA Comp Grant conference at Pace University on July 17, on which week-end, the elevators also went out. I've had periodic wrong number phone calls that seem to coincide with things like the elevator going out. People sometimes knock on my 19th floor apartment door who I don't know. Small packages and magazines addressed to #19K are sometimes delivered to my #19L box. Strange people are in the elevators and lobby sometimes. And

just last Wednesday on Jul 28 at 9:50 am, Mr Sachs gave me another note saying I owed $117. I knew that $83.50 was still owed, but welfare said they would send another special grant. I asked Mr. Sachs if he could tell me what the charges were for, what time period, if welfare did not send the latest rent payment and he refused to tell me. I went down to the office later that day and my rent book showed that Welfare had indeed sent my latest rent payment that day on Jul 28. When I brought this to Mr. Sach's Attention, (sic) he said it came in the mail. My disbursement date was Jul 27, so they should have received the check in the Jul 28 mail at the earliest. Why would he give me that note before checking the mail? Why would he not tell me what period the charges were for?If (sic) these people are so inept or unprofessional, why are they working here? If they're not inept, but playing some sort of game with me, why are they doing it and by whose decree?

Eric Nakao
Wise Towers

Mailing address: PO Box
                         Rockefeller Ctr Station
                         NY, NY 10185

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38-page letter recipients (Feb-Mar 1994)

(A few more 38-page letters have been given out to private individuals and others, but which have not been included in the list below.)

MEDIA

Print

Alternative Media Information Center
Amsterdam News
Asahi Shimbun
Associated Press
China Press
Daily News (NY)
El Diario
Forbes
India Abroad
Japanese American News
Jet
London Daily Express
Los Angeles Times
Manhattan Spirit
Nation
National Review
New York Law Journal
New York Magazine
New York Observer
New York Post
New York Times
Newsday (NY)
Newsweek
Time
Times of London
Toronto Star
Village Voice
Washington Post

Radio

All Things Considered
WCBS
WINS
WNYC

Television

A Current Affair
Fox News (NYC)
MacNeil/Lehrer (WNET)
The Maury Povitch Show
The Montel Williams Show
New York 1 News
WABC
WCBS
WNBC News
WPIX


GOVERNMENT

California

Wilson, Pete (Governor)

Los Angeles

Riodan, Richard (Mayor)

New York City

Bratton, William (Police Chief)
Department of Investigation Commissioner
Department of Transportation Commissioner
Eldridge, Ronnie (Councilwoman)
Giuliani, Rudolph (Mayor)
Green, Mark (Public Advocate)
Hynes, Charles (District Attorney, Brooklyn)
Lynch, Gerald (John Jay College of Criminal Justice President)
Messinger, Ruth (Manhattan Borough President)
Morgenthau, Robert (District Attorney, Manhattan)
Organized Crime Control Chief (NYPD)

New York State

Civil Rights (Dept of Law)
Crime Prosecution (Dept of Law)
Crime Victims
Cuomo, Mario (Governor)
Housing Authority Police
Judiciary Committee (Assembly)
Koppell, Oliver (Attorney General)
Paterson, David (Senator)
Stringer, Scott (Assemblyman)

Federal

Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division (Dept of Justice)
Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division (Dept of Justice)
Boxer, Barbara (Senator)
CIA (NYC office)
Civil and Constitutional Rights Subcommittee (House - Judiciary)
Clinton, Bill (President)
Constitution Subcommittee (Senate - Judiciary)
D'Amato, Alphonse (Senator)
Dole, Robert (Senator)
FBI (NYC office)
Feinstein, Dianne (Senator)
Freeh, Louis (FBI Director)
Gore, Al (Vice President)
Human Rights Caucus (Congress)
Moynihan, Patrick (Senator)
Nadler, Jerrold (Congressman)
Owens, Major (Congressman)
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (House)
Reno, Janet (Attorney General)
Schumer, Charles (Senator)
Select Committee on Intelligence (Senate)
U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress
Waxman, Henry (Congressman)
White, Mary Jo (U.S. Attorney)
Woolsey, James (CIA Director)

International

Albright, Madeline (US Ambassador to the United Nations)
Lasso, Jose (Human Rights Commissioner - United Nations)


NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS

AALDEF (Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund)
Center for Constitutional Rights
Cult Hotline
Gays and Lesbians Against Defamation
Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
Human Rights Watch
International League for Human Rights
Jewish Community Relations Council
Le Bar, James (Reverend - Archdiocese of NY - cult consultant)
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
NYPIRG (New York Public Interest Research Group)
People for the American Way
Planned Parenthood
Socialist Party

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38-page letter responses

U. S. Department of Justice
Criminal Division
Washington, D.C. 20530
March 18, 1994

Mr. Eric Nakao
P.O. Box
New York, NY 10185

Dear Mr. Nakao:

This is to thank you for your letter to the Attorney General. She appreciates the time you took to share your views with her.

Although Attorney General Reno would like to respond personally to each letter she receives, her extensive, official duties prevent her from doing so.

Those of us who are involved in criminal justice and law enforcement benefit greatly from the active involvement of citizens such as yourself who express their thoughts on important issues in these fields.

Again, thank you for writing.

Sincerely,

Karen L. Tinkham, Chief
Correspondence Staff
Executive Office

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U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C. 20535
March 22, 1994

Mr. Eric Nakao
Post Office Box
Rockefeller Center Station
New York, New York 10185

Dear Mr. Nakao:

Thank you for your recent communication. Your courtesy and interest in bringing this information to the attention of the FBI are appreciated.

Sincerely yours,

Michael F. Knapp
Inspector-Deputy
Chief Office of Public and Congressional Affairs

Bicentennial of the United States Constitution (1787-1987)

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(I also got responses from The Nation and Rev. James Le Bar, but I can't locate those letters. I did find a letter I wrote in response to Rev. Le Bar's letter which is reproduced below.)


April 8, 1994 (mailed)

(Typed from a handwritten version)

Dear Rev. Le Bar:

Thank you for your letter in response to the letter I sent you concerning possible criminal activities cults might be involved in. You say that you're not sure what I wanted you to do, but since you have contacts with former cult members, I was wondering if you could ask some of them if they had heard anything about my situation, particularly about (my) being harassed and monitored by the Scientologists beginning back in Los Angeles and continuing possibly to the present. And to a lesser extent, Moonies here in New York and other groups whose identities I don't know. There are also some Christian-based groups that I mentioned in my letter associated with the Canyon Country homeless shelter in LA, the Pacific Gardens shelter in Chicago and the Volunteers of America shelter on Wards Island in New York, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and others. I don't know if these latter groups would fall into your definitions of a cult, but if you could find out anything I would appreciate it.

Also in my concluding section, I listed different situations that might be responsible for what's happening to me. (Alliance of cults, alliance of cults with mainstream group, organized crime and intelligence agencies, a secret war and the supernatural). If you would have any information on the possibility of the existence of these situations, especially as they pertain to me, that would also be appreciated.

On the other hand, I would not want to put you or your church in any danger. I sent out over 100 copies of the letter I sent to you. I've gotten back one form letter from a magazine, and 2 form letters from the Department of Justice. Your response was the only personal acknowledgement that I've received. I don't know if it's just my imagination, but it seemed that in the few weeks after I received you letter, I began noticing stories in the media where clerical people were injured like the two Greek Orthodox priests who were killed in a Queens highway crash, an anti-Mafia Catholic priest being assassinated in Italy and a Protestant minister dying of a heart attack in Chicago after the police broke into his apartment on a drug raid on a misreading of information given by an informant. The Greek Orthodox incident could be explained by financial problems that the Orthodox Church was having with a real estate deal and the Italian priest could have been killed because of the upcoming national elections, but I'll leave that to you to decide.

Again, thank you for you reply and if you feel that you could find any of the information that I requested that could be very helpful to me.

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Notes

38-page letter

1) Page numbers are from the 1994 version.

2) Corrections, clarifications and additions have been made to
    the 1994 version.

3) This letter should be regarded as mostly a document from 1994,
    despite the corrections, clarifications and additions made in 2004 
    and even though much or most of it still holds true in 2004.


appendix

1) This appendix contains many of the documents referred to in the
    38-page letter. Documents not included have been lost or possibly stolen.

2) Words in red type in documents were added to the original versions.

3) The documents written by me in this appendix should be regarded
    as reflecting the time in which they were written, even though much
    or most of it still holds true in 2004.

4) A number of documents were typed from handwritten versions with
    many cross-outs and abbreviations. It's possible that a slightly
    different version was sent to the intended person or organization.

5) The number of my PO Box, which I no longer have, has been deleted
    from many documents.



38-page letter posted: november 11, 2004
appendix posted: december 12, 2004
sally hernandez-pinero letter posted: january 1, 2005

38-page letter update: October 28, 2005
appendix update: August 14, 2005

links, notes, etc update: September 25, 2005