WILLIAM
                                                BRINKS
    Melvin F Jager                              HOFER                                           
                                                GILSON
    (phone deleted)                             & LIONE   



    August 4, 1995                      A Professional Corporation
                                        Intellectual Property Attorneys
                                        
                                        NBC Tower - Suite 3600
                                        455 N Cityfront Plaza Drive
                                        Chicago, Illinois 60611-5599
                                        
                                        Fax 312 321 4299
                                        Telephone 312 321 4200

   Arnoldo Lerma
   (address deleted)


 Dear Mr Lerma:

 I represent Religious Technology center ("RTC"), the 
  owner of the confidential advanced
 Technology of the religion of Scientology, 
 and the holder of the exclusive rights under the
 copyrights and trade secrets rights applicable to 
 the Advanced Technology materials. Among
 these copyrighted and trade secret materials 
 are the Advanced Technology materials of
 various levels known as "Operating Thetan" 
 or "OT" Sections and designated with a number.

 I have been infomed tbat you have posted 8O 
 pages of these confidential copyrighted,
 unpublished works, from, the advanced Tecbnology 
 materials known as OT I-VII onto the
 Internet without the authorization of my client, 
 which, of course, would not have given such
 authorization had it been requested. Your 
 action violates my client's legal rights in that it
 is the unauthorized making of electronic 
 copics of the copyrighted material and the
 unauthorized disclosure of trade secrets material.

 The actions constitute violations of applicable 
 copyright and trade secret laws entitling my
 client to damages and an injunction. You 
 have signed agreements recognizing the
 confidentiality of the OT raaterials, You 
 are also on notice that they are regarded as trade
 secrets. We have diligently acted to protect 
 this information from unauthorized distribution.
 the only way these materials could ever have 
 left the church is through outright theft or
 misappropriation. As a former parishioner, 
 you are well aware of this fact.

 
 It is essental that you take immediate will 
 effective action to remove all unauthorized copies
 from the Internet, and refrain from any 
 repetition of this or simliar acts in the future. 
 This includes advising your network service 
 provider to delete postings containing the
 information. You are also to delete these 
 and any other OT materials from your hard drive
 and any floppy disks and to destroy 
 any hard copies you have made.


 Your downloading of the copyright and trade 
 secret material violates laws prohibiting
 copyright infringement and trade secret 
 misappropriation. Your use and disclosure of these
 materials is not fair use. United States courts 
 routinely find that the unpublished nature of
 a work is a factor which weights against a 
 finding of fair use. No court has ever found that
 use of stolen unpublished works is fair. 
 There is also no fair use defense to trade secret
 misappropraition. The OT materials have been 
 found to be trade secrets by the United States District
 Court of the Souther District of California 
 in Bridge Publications, Inc , vs Vien, 827
 F. Supp, 629, 633 (S.D. Cal 1993). No court 
 has ever ruled to the contrary.

 I expect an immediate response from you with  
 a statement of your willingness to comply
 with these demands. If you do not comply 
 immediately, we will have no other ercourse but
 to initiate legal acion to compel compliance.

  Very truly yours

  Melvin F. Jager