German Scientologist woman surreptitiously obtained asylum in
the USA with counterfeit documents

Hamburg, Germany June 29, 2000
stern, G+J

Hamburg (ots) The Scientology sect organization obtained
asylum in the USA for one of its German members three
years ago using a deceptive bluff. That is being reported
upon by the Hamburg Stern magazine in its Thursday
morning edition. In 1997, Scientologist Antje Victore, 42
years old at the time, made the assertion before an
immigration court in Florida that she was being persecuted
because of her religion, and she received - the only German
to ever have done so - asylum in the United States. At the
time, Hollywood greats like Oliver Stone, Dustin Hoffman
and Goldie Hawn backed Victore and had protested
alleged religious persecution of Scientologists to the
German Federal Chancellor of the time, Helmut Kohl.

The fact of the matter, according to research by Stern, is
that unpaid back taxes in Germany were the background of
Victore's application for asylum. She was assisted by the
chief (at the time) of the OSA, which is the sect's internal
intelligence agency. Victore submitted to the U.S. court
letters of rejection from German company executives which
gave her membership in Scientology as the reason for her
rejection. The U.S. court was not told, however, that the
authors of the letters were Scientologists.

Two former Scientologists have verified in sworn testimony
for Stern magazine that they had been asked by Antje
Victore to write such letters, and as a favor to a fellow
Scientologist, had actually done so in Fall 1996 and then
sent the letters to her. In fact, Victore had never put in an
application to work with them. Five of these letters which
are bogus, according to the authors, have been viewed by
Stern magazine.

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Complete article in english with pictures is HERE