15 November, 1998

Earle Cooley
Cooley, Manion, Moore, & Jones
21 Custom House St, Fl 6
Boston, MA. 02110

Eric Leiberman
Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard
740 Broadway, #500
New York, N.Y. 10003

Gerald Pfieffer
Williams & Connolly
725 12th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005

Law Offices of Elliot J. Abelson
10940 Wilshire Boulevard Eighteenth Floor
Los Angeles, CA. 90024-3945

Small, Larkin, & Kidde
8491 West Sunset Boulevard Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA. 90069-1911

Moxon and Kobrin
6255 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA. 90028-6329

Re: Demand for Legally Past Due Salary and Return of Fixed-Fee Donations to Edward Berwick

Gentlemen:

This is to notify you that I am demanding full repayment within 30 days of all donations that I ever paid to any church of Scientology or Scientology related corporation, not already refunded, approximately $15,000. Money was paid byme to The Santa Clara Mission, The American St. Hill Organization, The Advanced Organization, The San Francisco Org, the Berkeley Org, and the Flag Landbase. The courses I took (but, not limited to) included: H.A.S., H.D.A.,the levels, S.H.S.B.C., solo, Clearing, O.T. 1-3, PublicRelations Officer, Staff Status l & 2. I received auditing for the grades, dianetics, review, power and power plus, and my folderers were FESed. I was given an unconditional money back guarantee at the time I made these fixed fee donations. I was guaranteed that if I ever wanted a refund all I had to do was ask for it and I would promptly receive it. I am demanding you fulfill the promise upon which the fixed donation services were sold to me.

My reason for requesting this refund is the services you sold me did not deliver the promised results, they were based on fraud and deception., and because that is my legal right.

For one year I worked as a course and auditing sales person in Scientology and was specifically trained to tell anyone and everyone that they could always get their fixed donations back if Scientology did not deliver the results it was promising to them and if they were reluctant to buy the fixed donation service. This agreement did not have a list of conditions for return that were ever presented or disclosed to the fixed donor. The understanding and claim made to the donor was simply, if your weren't happy with the result you could get all of your money/donation back. There was no time limitation disclosed when we made this sales claim to others when I was a staff member or when I received this claim from others when I "donated" for fixed fee services.

In your new policy directive of 13 March 1996 called Return of Donations, you attempt to change your refund policy for the future and rewrite your history for the past. This is not possible.

I doubt even now, at the time you make your money back guarantee donation return claims you fully disclose and let the person read this new policy. Your new policy change to try to limit your IRS liability still does not free you from the laws of the country relating to fraud in selling services for a fixed donation. Consequently, all public and staff who purchased any fixed donation services after 1996 still have the right guaranteed by the state against fraud. Furthermore another reason I believe you published this new policy is because you are suffering from a rapidly rising number of refund requests and this is but another new effort on your part to further obstruct the lawful return of fixed donations when donors discover they have been conned.

You have promised the IRS in your secret agreements that as a condition of maintaining your non profit status, that you would immediately return all fixed donations for which refunds were requested. You further promised the IRS that as an additional condition of maintaining your non profit status that you not violate any fair labor laws and would pay the proper minimum wages and would resolve any claims for past minimum wages not paid. It is now time to make good on those promises.

It has come to my attention, through the Internet, that your employer, the business enterprise "Church of Scientology" ("COS') and its Management (the "Sea Organization" and "Office of Special Affairs") have been conducting a campaign to keep the general public and, in particular, former Scientology and Sea Organization staff members from learning that those organizations illegally paid amounts below Federal Minimum Wage requirements for their employee services, and that under the "Secret" CSI/IRS settlement agreement, COS or whatever its controlling management structure was at the time of employment of ex-staff members, is obligated to remit legally due back pay to its former staff.

As of the date set forth hereinabove, I am informed and believe that the allegations set forth above are true, and that the Santa Clara Mission, the Menlo Park Mission, the Los Gatos Mission and affiliated COS entities knew and or should have known that the weekly pay allocated to me during my tenure with the Santa Clara, Menlo Park, and the Los Gatos Missions was not in compliance with Federal Minimum Wage requirements.

Therefore, as of the date set forth above, I believe that I am entitled to claim herewith, back pay representing the difference between the actual amount I was allocated as a Mission staff member and the amount I was legally entitled to have been paid under the Federal Minimum Wage Law as a mission staff member from the time period in or about January of 1969 through July of 1972.

[Note: The undersigned hereby stipulates to acceptance of adjustment of payments with regard to the sums claimed herein where such adjustments are factually illustrated and backed up by legally acceptable accounting records for the actual time period that claimant was employed as a mission staff member.]

ESTIMATED AMOUNTS DUE AND PAYABLE:

Normal 40 Hour Work Week -- January 1969 through July 1972 Minimum Wage @ $3.50 per hour

40 hrs. x $3.50 = $140.00 per week x 186 weeks = $ 26,040.00

Overtime [4 hours per day for 5 Days -- 1 day at 12 hours Time and a Half @ $5.25 per hour

20 hrs. at 4 hours per day. Saturdays and/or Sundays at 4 hours for a total of 24 hours Overtime per week.

24 x $5.25 = $126.00 per week x 186 weeks = $23,436.00

TOTAL DUE AND PAYABLE $49, 476.00

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[NOTE: In the interests of a mutually satisfactory and rapid settlement, no holiday or double-time calculations have been attempted although they were obviously neverpaid. So long as COS acts in good faith and fair dealing in this matter, none will be introduced.]

In the interests of your employers, please forward the claim to the proper terminal in the COS for payment to me in the amount(s) specified above, and in the time allocated by the terms of the CSI/IRS Agreement, which to my knowledge and belief is thirty (30) days. Such check should be a cashier's check in the amount set forth above or adjusted amount stipulated hereto and made payable to Edward Berwick, for Scientology mission staff back pay.

Upon receipt and successful cashing thereof, the undersigned will make no further demands upon your offices with regard to these matters. [The cashing of said check is hereby stipulated to be an acknowledgment from Edward Berwick, the undersigned, that any and all back payment wage claims have been paid in full and no further claims will be forthcoming.] If I do not receive all of the money I am demanding and justly due within 30 days I will:

1. Take this information to the Commissioner of the IRS asking the IRS to intervene to one get you to follow the law, your financial agreements to your customers and to the IRS for granting you tax exempt status.

2. I will go to the Workers Compensation board of the state of California and begin an action to enforce the collection of all my back wages plus full penalties for failure to comply with California minimum wage law.

3. I wIll further inform the California workers compensation department of your policies.

Furthermore, I will not be intimidated into signing any of your ridiculous releases that say I have no other claims of any type with your organization nor will I agree to any secrecy. The only release I will give you at the time of payment is just for the specific return of all donations and payment of all back wages.

Since it is organizational policy to refuse all registered or certified letters and to deny you received this notice by public mail, I have chosen to make it a public notice in a forum in which your agents are continuously present and copying posted materials.

Finally, I will not tolerate any "don't have the records" or other games and I will not delay one hour past this 30 day notice to act with the full force of the law and the awareness that massive public media attention can bring to this situation.

I am also sending this demand to your organizations and your other Legal agents.

Edward Berwick
an Individual
November 15, 1998

Mail the refund and payment of back wages to:

Edward Berwick
P.O. Box 1466
Los Altos, CA. 94023-1466