Scientology Cult Claims Another Victim

The Scientology cult’s former international chief of security, a man with multiple sclerosis, has died in Scientology’s "Rehabilitation Project Force" (RPF). The RPF is Scientology’s internal prison network. Uwe Stuckenbrock, a native of Germany, was just 46 years old.

Stuckenbrock’s brother Markus posted this week on the "Ex-Scientologist Message Board" a message requesting more information about the circumstances of his brother’s death, and notes that Scientologists had been telling him lies for the past few years.

Hi everybody. I’m really shocked! On Thuesday my father called and told me that my brother Uwe Stuckenbrock (46years old) died last night. The least 5 (?) years he suffered at Multiple Sclerosis and was living in the RPF PAC since 2001 and before in the RPF in Happy Valley. What the RPF is and what living conditions he had I found out today on www.lermanet.com/rpf-insider/index.htm while looking for more information about his death on the internet. I also learned, that his former wife Lurisse Stuckenbrock is still in a higher Position in the Scientology Organisation. Does anybody have more information for me? If it should come to light, that his bad life cicumstances in the RPF lead to his early death I consider legal steps against every possible responsible person. For example because of failure to give assistance.
I live in Germany and we had only telephonic contact with Uwe and the last Years he was not able to speak because of his serious Multiple Sclerosis. And the other people on the phone obviously were mostly telling us lies about his situation.
Does anybody know more about this terrible affair or if he had at least a few friends arround at his ceremony.
I planted a wooden cross for him and laid it down on our family grave here in Neu-Ulm and we all spoke a few prayers for Uwe.

Thanks for your help

Markus

In his October 12 message, Markus describes what he found on the lermanet.com web site, a series of missives from 2004, describing conditions inside the RPF, sent to the outside world by someone who was there ("The RPF Insider"). Markus would have been referring in particular to the RPF Insider message #6, in which Uwe’s condition is described:

What I wanted to say with this letter is something that I have had a lot of attention on for quite some time. Specifically there are two RPFers that are REALLY SICK AND NEED OF PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL CARE. I will take one at the time. The first RPFer is named Uwe Stuckenbrock. He arrived in the RPF here in PAC around 2001, but I believe he was on the RPF in Happy Valley before he came here. He is diagnosed with MS, Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that from what I understand (from having looked it up in the encyclopedia) there is no known cure for.

Over the last 3 years, I have watched him getting worse and worse, though it seems that he is getting some of attention and care. When he arrived he had a hard time walking by himself, and this has deteriorated to the point of needing full time around the clock assistance. He always has one or two other RPFers caring for him, as at this point he cannot even make it to the bathroom by himself. He cannot walk at all now and he has to be taken around in a wheel chair. What I don’t understand is that although he is being treated with a lot of natural foods and juices and vitamins and assists he’s getting worse and worse. He does go to the local hospital sometimes with two people escorting him. He’s getting checkups at LA County Hospital or somewhere, where the church is getting free service on Medicare, because we RPFers simply don’t have any money for any medical bills.

Not long ago, we had to prepare a separate room for him on the 2nd floor in the West wing, next to the stairwell towards Catalina Street. He had been in the hospital and in critical condition. When he came back he needed a cleaner, more private environment to recover.

We spent several days gutting out a little closed off room (where the other guy was living that I’m going to tell you about, Mike Eves). The space was filthy and outrageously dusty, like it hadn’t been cleaned for months. We repainted the entire room, put up new curtains, put in a new carpet, new cabinets, etc. Uwe was living in a little curtained off space in a room with about 50 other guys.(the room I told you about earlier, with the bunks crammed in and up to the ceiling.) It was decided that Uwe’s condition was more critical than Mike’s, so we were ordered to switch their places!! Mike was recovering from a very critical operation for cancer, and HAD ONE LUNG REMOVED! Having watched this scene going on for years, it is obvious to me that THESE TWO GUYS WILL NEVER MAKE IT OUT OF THE RPF ALIVE! It’s technically impossible, as you have to "make someone else better" i.e. your twin, in order to graduate. These guys don’t even have twins and are just fighting to stay alive. Come on! Uwe cannot even get up to go to the bathroom. What in hell is he doing in the RPF?? He cannot be getting enough professional care and attention and it’s INHUMAN to watch what is going on. All the other RPFers are probably also outraged, but are suppressing their own feelings, in the hope of not missing their own chance to get out of here. I’m actually wondering how long these guys will survive and why they are not granted some forgiveness for whatever they were assigned to the RPF for. Human decency would be to sign them in to a proper nursing home to recover or at least die in peace.

The one theory that I have is this: Uwe Stuckenbrock was the International Security Chief at Hemet. O’boy! What would happen if he had the opportunity to let the world know what is going on up there or the security issues that exist all over the planet. I’m sure that he’s kept in the RPF so won’t be able to leak any data out. When he arrived on the RPF he was at the caselevel of OT III and from what I heard, don’t know if this is true, but his MS turned on while he was auditing on this level. So what has been done over the last 3 years to "handle" this? He completed OT III, was audited through OT IV and has been getting sessions on OT V for at least one year - I guess in the hope that he’d be getting better, but he’s NOT IMPROVING! He is getting worse!

Further information about Uwe Stuckenbrock’s recent death is scarce, but official investigations are undoubtedly under way.

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by Louanne (xxx.xxx.xxx.62) 31 October 2008 19:34

the truth reads: some troll who claimed to be stuckenbrock’s brother posted really bad assumptions, none of them turned out to be true within 24hrs, except for the fact that Uwe S. was a member suffering from a terminal illness and died after 10 years of intensive medical care. Anonymous writers are now trying to break up his family and exploit the death for propaganda purposes. It’s just disgusting.

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