DECLARATION OF STACY YOUNG

I, STACY YOUNG, declare as follows:

1. I was a Scientologist for nearly 15 years, from January 1975 until July 1989. I was in the Guardian Office ("GO") and its successor (a name change only), the Office of Special Affairs ("OSA") , for most of that time. I also worked in another part of Scientology called Author Services, Inc. ("ASI").

2. All of the positions I held from 1978 until 1989 enabled me to observe firsthand the line of command and the organizational structure of Scientology. There is no question whatsoever that David Miscavige ("Mr. Miscavige") now holds the same position of absolute power over Scientology, cutting across all corporate boundaries, that L. Ron Hubbard ("Mr. Hubbard") had before he died. Just as Mr. Hubbard was the managing agent for the original mother church, Church of Scientology of California ("CSC"), Mr. Miscavige is the managing agent for the current mother church, Church of Scientology International ("CSI") , via his position as Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology ("CCB RTC").

3. I first became aware of Mr. Miscavige, known inside Scientology as DM, in 1981, when a coup took place within Scientology. Until then there had been two arms of Scientology. The Guardian Office was run by Mary Sue Hubbard and took care of everything external to the organization, such as public relations, government relations, litigation, and anything else that might affect the expansion of Scientology. The other branch, the Commodore's Messenger Organization ("CM,"), ran the organization itself under the direct command of Mr. Hubbard (known as the Commodore), contrary to Mr. Hubbard's claims that he had resigned in 1966. The CM0 directed all internal operations via an unincorporated group of highly dedicated Scientologists known as the Sea Organization ("Sea Org").

4. In 1981, I was a senior executive in the United States Guardian Office ("USGO"). One evening we were informed that the Guardian Office was being taken over by the CMO, and from that time on Mr. Miscavige has had complete control over all branches of Scientology.

5. He wields his power through a small circle of trusted Sea Org lieutenants who obey him unquestioningly. His most senior aides are in RTC and include Greg Wilhere, who is the Inspector General ("IG"); Marty Rathbun, who is the Inspector General for Ethics ("IG Ethics"); Ray Mithoff, who is the Inspector General for Technology ("IG Tech"); and Marc Yager, who is the Inspector General for Administration ("IG Admin"). Another top aide is Norman Starkey, who is corporately the trustee of Mr. Hubbard's estate.

6. Mr. Miscavige also has top aides in CSI whom he orders either directly or via the above-listed RTC aides. These CSI aides include the Watchdog Committee ("WDC"), which is a group of Sea Org members who manage all of the different branches of Scientology, both secular and non secular. Other top CSI aides include Kurt Weiland ("Mr. Weiland"), who is the commanding officer of the Office of Special Affairs International ("OSA Int") ; Guillame Lesevre ("Mr. Lesevre"), who is the Executive Director International ("ED Int"); and Heber Jentzsch ("Mr. Jentzsch"), who is a PR front man with the title of President of the Church of Scientology International ("President CSI"). In reality, Heber has no administrative power at all and his duties are solely to deal with media and other PR groups.

7. The power of the above-named individuals Messrs. Weiland, Lesevre and Jentzsch comes solely from Mr. Miscavige. Any one of them can disappear overnight and be sent to the prison camp known as the Rehabilitation Project Force ("RPF") if Mr. Miscavige so much as suspects any disloyalty. Mr. Miscavige's authority over RTC, CSI and (via these two corporations) the rest of Scientology, is absolute.

8. Since Mr. Miscavige took over the Guardian Office in 1981, he has had total control over the entire Scientology organization, including all branches of Scientology management and extending out to every single person in the world who is a Scientologist. No one can challenge his authority. Mr. Miscavige can expel anyone from Scientology literally with a snap of his finger.

9. Mr. Miscavige's power came directly from L. Ron Mr. Hubbard, which is why his power is so absolute. Mr. Hubbard went into hiding in 1976 to avoid the IRS, several courts around the world and in the U.S., and a number of former Scientologists who sued Mr. Hubbard after they left the organization. Mr. Miscavige gradually took over as Mr. Hubbard's eyes and ears until finally, by 1981, Mr. Hubbard gave him the authority to take over entirely.

10. In 1981 Mr. Miscavige called himself Special Project Operations, or Special Project Ops. He set up offices in the CM0 building across the street from the big blue building in Hollywood, and from this position he ran the entire Scientology operation. He had several people working directly with him in a unit called Special Project, including Norman Starkey ("Mr. Starkey"), Terri Gamboa ("Ms. Gamboa"), Lyman Spurlock (Mr. Spurlock"), my husband Robert Vaughn Young ("Mr. Young"), and others. These people ran all the PR, Legal and Intelligence functions that had previously been run by the Guardian Office line of command. The primary focus was the Mission All Clear, or MAC Unit, in the Legal Division of the Guardian Office. The purpose of this unit was to clear Mr. Hubbard's name from all the lawsuits that had been filed naming him as head of the church. This was Mr. Miscavige's prime directive: to clear Mr. Hubbard's name so he could come out of hiding.

11. Because he had the direct line to Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Miscavige also had authority over all of the internal Scientology management personnel. All communications from Mr. Hubbard came through Mr. Miscavige, and all communications to Mr. Hubbard went through Mr. Miscavige. There were only two other people more senior than Mr. Miscavige, Pat and Annie Broeker, because they were actually with Mr. Hubbard. An order from Pat or Annie had as much authority as an order from Mr. Hubbard because they were so close to him.

12. But Pat and Annie were sequestered off at the Creston, California, ranch. Mr. Miscavige actually ran Scientology from the moment he became Special Project Ops.

13. In May 1982 the staff of Special Project, including Mr. Miscavige, moved to a suite of offices on Sunset Boulevard and became Author Services, Inc. (ASI). Mr. Miscavige changed his name to Chairman of the Board of ASI, Ms. Gamboa became Executive Director of ASI, Mr. Starkey became Legal Affairs Director, Mr. Spurlock became Corporate Affairs Director, Mr. Young became Public Affairs Director, and so on. Mr. Miscavige assigned me the job of Organizing Officer of ASI, which meant that I was responsible for making sure the staff were all doing their jobs properly. If they weren't, I was supposed to correct them.

14. During this time, from 1981 until Mr. Hubbard died in 1986, I observed firsthand that Mr. Miscavige was systematically replacing Mr. Hubbard as head of Scientology. Publicly, AS1 was promoted as a glitzy Hollywood literary agency dealing exclusively with the works of Mr. Hubbard. But behind the scenes, Mr. Miscavige was running all of Scientology from the AS1 offices.

15. I was instructed, and all those who worked in AS1 were also instructed, that making large amounts of money for Mr. Hubbard was an integral part of running Scientology. Mr. Hubbard made it very clear that Mr. Miscavige's success or failure would be based on how much money he could make for Mr. Hubbard, whether it came from church coffers or other sources.

16. Mr. Miscavige made sure that as much money as possible was taken from church accounts. Fran Harris thought up "significances" that could be attached to huge lump sums which Mr. Miscavige then ordered to be transferred from nonprofit church accounts into AS1 accounts every week. There was never any question that the church staff would transfer the money; if Mr. Miscavige ordered it done, it had to be done. If anyone refused to follow orders from Mr. Miscavige they were sent to the RPF immediately. I was told by my superiors (as well as by Mr. Miscavige) that Mr. Miscavige was acting as Mr. Hubbard's deputy, and that anything Mr. Miscavige ordered should be treated as an order directly from Mr. Hubbard himself.

17. The only thing that ever slowed these transactions down was making sure the significance attached to the transfer would appear legitimate to the IRS. Mr. Miscavige made Mr. Spurlock responsible for working out the legal details of these transfers. I often had to sit down with Mr. Spurlock and help him calm down after he had been ordered to legitimize some of Fran Harris's money-making ideas. Mr. Spurlock had many violent disagreements with Ms. Harris about the legality of her schemes, but Mr. Miscavige always sided with Ms. Harris and ordered Mr. Spurlock to "make it legal."

18. Mr. Miscavige also assigned Mr. Spurlock the task of sorting out all of the corporations so they would be legally defensible in the eyes of the IRS. It was at this point that the huge conglomeration known as CSC was split up into many different corporations. Lyman worked out the whole shell, including all the relationships between the different echelons. He arranged for the Religious Technology Center (RTC) to have contracts with every single corporation that uses Mr. Hubbard and Scientology trademarks and copyrights in any way, Mr. Hubbard's books, and so on. The real purpose of all of these contracts was to have a legal means by which to put anyone out of business including the management organizations, the service organizations, the businesses that use who refused to tow the line as dictated by Mr. Hubbard. Since Mr. Hubbard's death, it is to put anyone out of business who refuses to tow the line as dictated by Mr. Miscavige. I worked directly with Mr. Miscavige while I was at ASI. I was horrified to discover that the senior-most person in Scientology was a ruthless, megalomaniacal tyrant. I had never worked with Mr. Hubbard personally, but I learned from others who had that Mr. Hubbard was the same way. Apparently Mr. Hubbard was prone to the same petulant temper tantrums that were daily occurrences with Mr. Miscavige. His style of management was screaming profanities and terrorizing the staff.

19. One day Mr. Miscavige gave me an insight into why he acted the way he did. He knew I did not approve of his cursing at the top of his lungs. We were having an executive meeting, and in the middle of a sentence he suddenly turned to me, very seriously, and said, "You think I yell loudly, but you've never heard anyone yell until you've heard LRH [Mr. Hubbard]. I'll never be able to scream the way he does. But Stacy, that's the only way to get compliance."

20. I realized then that Mr. Miscavige was trying to become as much like Mr. Hubbard as he could, and that he was preparing to take Mr. Hubbard's place when he died.

21. Anyone who disagreed with Mr. Miscavige or challenged his authority in any way was branded by Mr. Miscavige as a traitor who was out to destroy Scientology. This was why David Mayo was ousted, along with most of his staff. Many others were thrown out in 1981 and 1982 and replaced with people who would obey Mr. Miscavige's orders unquestioningly. Ray Mithoff, who replaced Mayo, is today one of Mr. Miscavige's top lieutenants. John Nelson, head of the CM0 and director of all the Scientology organizations, was also ousted by Mr. Miscavige and replaced by a loyal follower, Marc Yager. Today he is another one of Mr. Miscavige's top people.

22. Mr. Hubbard was still alive when I was at ASI, and every staff member in ASI was required tc report to Mr. Hubbard every week on the status of his or her sector of Scientology. No one slept from Tuesday to Friday because Mr. Miscavige repeatedly rejected the reports, insisting that they be rewritten until they were perfectly worded to appear that Mr. Miscavige had everything fully under control. No one was able to send any communication to Mr. Hubbard that wasn't edited by Mr. Miscavige (which meant that Mr. Hubbard effectively did not really know what was going This left the entire staff in terrible shape physically, and extremely vulnerable to on from 1981 until his death). Mr. Miscavige's brutal, coercive manipulation.

23. Horror stories could be told by any Scientology staff member who has worked in close proximity with Mr. Miscavige. The only people who will talk about him, however, are those who have left, because as long as they are inside he holds the power of life and death over them. He can separate them from the spouses, separate them from their children, keep them from sleeping, keep them from eating anything but rice and beans, imprison them for years in the prison camps known as the RPF. His power is absolute and it has nothing to do with corporate boundaries. He wields his power via the Sea Organization, which is an unincorporated, fiercely dedicated, group of Scientologists.

24. Mr. Miscavige simply uses the corporations, as Mr. Hubbard did, to manipulate the courts and the IRS. The corporations were only created to fool the outside world, the "wog world," as Sea Org members contemptuously call it. Inside Scientoiogy, the only boundaries are the ones Mr. Miscavige chooses to create, just as it was with Mr. Hubbard before him, and everyone knows it. In fact, now that Mr. Hubbard is dead, what Mr. Miscavige wants is senior even to what Mr. Hubbard policy says. Mr. Miscavige can violate policy and break the law whenever he wants to and no one can stop him.

25. Mr. Miscavige and his RTC and CSI lieutenants can walk into any Scientology organization and order anything they want or shut it down at whim.

26. Nowhere has there been a clearer illustration of the emptiness of Scientology's corporate shell than the infamous Mission Holders' meeting in 1982. A transcript of this meeting is attached. Although Mr. Miscavige's profanity and many of his less elegantly phrased comments have been edited out, several things are still clear.

27. Mr. Miscavige, who at the time was officially COB ASI, was head of Scientology and senior to everyone else there. The other speakers included Mr. Spurlock, Corporate Affairs Director at ASI; Mr. Starkey, Legal Affairs Director at ASI; Mr. Mithoff, Senior Case Supervisor International in CSI (today he is a top RTC executive); Mr. Yager, CO CM0 Int in CSI (today he is a top RTC executive); Mr. Lesevre, ED International in CSI; Steve Marlowe, Inspector General of the Religious Technology Center (he was later busted and replaced by Vicki Aznaran, who in turn was busted and replaced by Mr. Wilhere); and Wendell Reynolds, International Finance Dictator in CSI (he was later busted and spent severai years on the RPF).

28. Mr. Miscavige (corporately part of ASI) and his lieutenants (corporately spanning RTC, AS1 and CSI) were speaking directly to a group of people who held the franchise rights to various missions (missions being the lowest organizations on the Scientology totem pole). Yet there was no concern for corporate integrity that day in San Francisco. These Scientology leaders, on Mr. Miscavige's orders, expelled several mission holders on the spot that day for being unhappy about what they were hearing, destroying their business with a snap of the finger. On Mr. Miscavige's orders the mission holders were ordered to pay large sums of money for a promotional campaign for the original Dianetics book; under threat of being investigated for crimes if they refused. They were ordered to pay large sums of money for many other "crimes," real or imagined, under threat of losing their business if they refused. The result was hundreds of thousands of dollars paid into CSI and RTC accounts from these missions.

29. Hundreds of people, including many mission holders, were expelled from the church during that time, all people who criticized Mr. Miscavige or refused to comply with his orders. He quickly made it clear that he could order any Scientologist, anywhere in the world, to do anything he wanted.

30. I was in the Office of Special Affairs United States (OSA US) in LosAngeles on the day in 1985 when a jury awarded Julie Christofferson $39 million in damages for being harmed by Scientology. We had all expected to win the case. After all, Mr. Miscavige and his top aides had all been up in Portland running the whole thing directly. How could we lose? There was champagne and a huge, sumptuous buffet waiting for us, as soon as we received word on the win.

31. Instead, we got word that there was a $39 million decision against the church. It was devastating. Dead silence fell throughout the entire building. For an hour, no one knew what to do. It was the most humiliating defeat Scientology had ever had.

32. And then suddenly all the OSA staff were summoned into one of the legal offices. Messrs. Miscavige and Starkey (Norman was Mr. Miscavige's legal affairs director at that time) were on the speaker phone. The decision was an outrage, Mr. Miscavige told us, and he would not permit it to stand. Every Scientologist from around the world was ordered to Portland, immediately. We were to spread the word by whatever means possible, arrange transportation, raise the money, do whatever we had to do to get the Scientologists there.

33. The staff of OSA did nothing but run various aspects of the Portland Crusade until the judge finally declared a mistrial several months later. The entire operation was overseen by Mr. Miscavige and his top staff, down to the smallest detail. Planes were chartered to fly Scientologists from Europe to Portland; donations were raised to print a special edition of the church publication, FREEDOM, about the "Religious Freedom Crusade" and distribute it door to door to every home in Portland; Mr. Miscavige even ordered students to leave course (unheard of in Scientology) to go to Portland.

34. The best time to observe how the Scientology command lines really work is during a disaster. The Christofferson loss of 1985 was the biggest disaster Mr. Miscavige had ever had to deal with, and all semblance of corporate integrity fell by the wayside in an instant.

35. The corporate structure collapsed again when Mr. Hubbard died in January 1986. I was ordered to AS1 and briefed, along with a roomful of others from OSA US (Church of Scientology Western United States, or "CSWUS"), OSA Int (CSI), CM0 International (CSI), Gold (CSI) and elsewhere, by Mr. Miscavige on what had happened. Then he went around the room and gave each of us our marching orders. (At the time I was part of an organization called North Star, a non-church corporation I had formed to put FREEDOM Magazine at arm's length from the church for public relations purposes. I was supposed to be under the command of OSA US (CSWUS), but Mr. Miscavige had also assigned us to do a research project for the Mr. Hubbard biography, so we took orders from both OSA and ASI.)

36. Mr. Miscavige ordered me to write the copy for a eulogy of Mr. Hubbard. I worked directly with Norman Starkey and Mr. Miscavige to finalize the copy, and Mr. Miscavige gave the final approval. Then, under orders from Mr. Miscavige, I worked with Jonathan Epstein, a financial banking officer who was part of CSI, to arrange for several hundred thousand dollars to be pulled from various reserve accounts in a number of different corporations. These funds paid for the eulogy to be placed in major newspapers around the country as full-page ads.

37. After the ads were placed, Mr. Miscavige then ordered me to create a booklet about Mr. Hubbard to be used for promotional purposes. Again he ordered Jono Epstein (CSI) to pull funds from various church corporations to pay for a massive distribution of the booklet, including inserting it in several major newspapers in major cities as well as thousands of copies mailed out. The cost for this project came to approximately $2 million and was funded by reserve accounts from several church corporations, as ordered by Mr. Miscavige.

38. With Mr. Mr. Hubbard dead Mr. Miscavige moved quickly to consolidate his power. In early 1987 he removed the only remaining challengers, Pat and Annie Broeker, and switched his base of operations from AS1 to RTC. It was a bloody coup, and Mr. Miscavige applied the scorched-earth policy to all who had ever had a kind word for the Broekers. My husband, who had worked with Broeker, was sent to the RPF along with many others. Only those who had remained steadfastly loyal to Mr. Miscavige were allowed to keep their jobs.

39. Today, the only people who survive are those who kowtow to Mr. Miscavige unreservedly and completely. He has truly become Mr. Hubbard's successor. He curses like him, screams like him, thinks like him, and rules with a ruthless, iron hand and a contempt for the outside world just the way Mr. Hubbard did when he was alive.

40. Just as Mr. Hubbard did, Mr. Miscavige has created many corporate layers between him and the courts, and he deals them like so many cards when it is convenient. But it is Mr. Miscavige who really holds he power, and because he is COB RTC, RTC is the only corporation with any real power.

41. CSI is only a lackey corporation. The function of the staff members of CSI is to carry out Mr. Miscavige's orders. If a CSI staff member refuses to comply with Mr. Miscavige's orders he or she is removed from post and sent to the RPF. CSI has no more independent authority than any other church or non-church corporation in the Scientology network. Its authority (indeed, its existence) is solely in the hands of Mr. Miscavige. If he decided to rearrange the corporate structure again he could do away with CSI altogether and create an entirely new corporation in its place. This is the extent of his power over the Scientology network, including CSI and RTC.

42. There is no one else who can represent Scientology. Everyone else is only speaking in Mr. Miscavige's place. He is telling them what to say and what not to say, and if they make a mistake, they feel his wrath. If they make a big mistake, they go to the RPF. If they ever told the courts what they really know, Mr. Miscavige would have them expelled from Scientology and labelled Fair Game, like many others before them.

43. As COB RTC David Miscavige controls Scientology via several key lieutenants, who have absolute authority to carry out DM's orders. These lieutenants include Greg Wilhere, whc is the Inspector General ("I,") of RTC; Marty Rathbun, who is the Inspector General for Ethics ("IG Ethics") of RTC; Ray Mithoff, who is the Inspector General for Technology ("IGTech") of RTC; and Marc Yager, who is the Inspector General for Administration("IG Admin") of RTC. Another top aide is Norman Starkey, who is corporately the trustee of Hubbard's estate but is also a troubleshooter for DM and who must be obeyed when he is operating under DM's orders.

Scientology Command Structure.

44. The structure looks like this:

45. The attached chart shows that RTC runs CSI and CSI runs the rest of the Scientology network. CSI has no power without RTC's authorization.

Ray Mithoff, I/G Tech, Is A Managing Agent Of CSI.

46. I/G Tech Ray Mithoff has command lines via CSI to all churches, missions and any other organizations that deal with the auditing and study technology of Scientology. His primary contact points are the Senior Case Supervisors in the various organizations. In CSI these are in CM0 Int and OSA Int. All directives concerning the technology must be authorized by I/G Tech, who in turn must get approval from the I/G, who in turn must be authorized by DM.

Marc Yauer, I/G Admin, Is A Managing Agent Of CSI.

47. I/G Admin Marc Yager is responsible for managing all of Scientology administratively and has command lines via CSI to all churches, missions and other Scientology organizations. His primary contact points are the executive directors of each organization, called commanding officers in the upper management Sea Org units. In CSI he orders via CO CM0 Int and ED Int. He also orders the members of the Watchdog Committee, who manage the various branches of Scientolgy. All directives concerning the administration of Scientology must be authorized by I/G Admin, who in turn must get approval from the I/G.

Marty Rathbun. I/G Ethics Is A Managing Agent Of CSI.

48. The same is true for I/G Ethics Marty Rathbun. He oversees all ethics matters in Scientology. Within each Scientology organization he authorizes allactions taken by the Ethics Officers. He also runs the Office of Special Affairs, which deals with all matters external to Scientology such as public relations, litigation, intelligence actions, and so on. OSA also has an internal security function within the Scientology organizations, and I/G Ethics commands all of those actions as well. He runs all OSA activities via OSA Int, which is in CSI. All directives concerning ethics matters within Scientology organizations, and all directives concerning OSA activities of any kind, must be approved by I/G Ethics, who in turn must have approval of the I/G.

49. This is the power of the I/G over CSI. Nothing is done in CSI that hasnot been approved by the I/G, either directly or via his direct juniors, I/G Tech, I/G Admin and I/G Ethics.

Norman Starkey, Trustee of Hubbard's Estate, is a Manaainq Agent of CSI.

50. Norman Starkey is the most senior lieutenant of COB RTC David Miscavige and has often been given authority by DM to order into CSI.

51. In 1981 DM put Starkey in charge of the Guardian Office, including running all the Scientology litigation in the world. As Special Project In-charge, Norman was the person most senior to what became OSA Int, which is part of CSI.

52. In 1982 Norman Starkey became Legal Affairs Director at Author Services, Inc. (ASI) directly under DM. DM was COB ASI at that time and ran all of Scientology from this for-profit corporation, a corporation which supposedly had no ties whatsoever to the Church of Scientology. It had no corporate ties, but in reality AS1 ran the entire church from 1982 until 1987,when DM decided to move over to RTC and become COB RTC. This was done because it was more defensible to run the church from a non-profit corporation than from ASI.

53. When DM moved over to RTC Starkey continued in his position as executive director of ASI and continued to send orders into the church, but via a unit called Corporate Liaison to dilute the connection.

54. In March 1985 Starkey filed a declaration in The Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, D.C., Inc. v. Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. in which he attempted to cover up L. Ron Hubbard's role as managing agent of Scientology. As part of his declaration he provided a white-washed version of how Author Services, Inc. was established, describing it as if he and Terri Gamboa just thought of the idea one day out of the blue,as opposed to Hubbard ordering every last detail of the company and how it would operate.

55. He also attempted to distance AS1 from the network of Scientology organizations, falsely stating that AS1 was not in he business of managing the Church of Scientology, although all aspects of Scientology management wereat that time run out of DM's office at ASI.

56. But in paragraph 7 of his declaration Mr. Starkey made a startling admission, namely that the Sea Organization called upon him "from time to time" to render his services "to the propagation of this religion."

57. What he meant by this, and what is still the case, is that as the senior officer of the Sea Org, Mr. Miscavige can order S,tarkey to carry out whatever orders he deems appropriate, including but not limited to directing the affairs of CSI and, via CSI, other Scientology organizations.

58. As ED ASI, Starkey ran programs and projects that were initiated by his juniors at ASI who were ordering church personnel in writing in person andon the phone on how to conduct business within the church to produce income for AS1 (and, therefore, Hubbard). All of this was done with the knowledge and consent, if not under the direct orders of DM. Regular reports were made by ASI staff to Starkey regarding the programs, projects and orders he issued that involved CSI staff and operations.

59. CSI President Heber Jentzsch received orders regularly from DM and Mr. Starkey on how to conduct his office and how to conduct public relations actions as if they were his own ideas (so as to hide the command lines from DMand Starkey)

60. Church staff also know that disclosure of the relationship between Starkey and CSI or any admission that ASI was in direct command would have been reason to remove them from their position and have them transported to the Rehabilitation Project Force about one hundred miles away. (People on the RPF are kept under 24-hour guard to keep them from escaping.)

61. In a number of photographs of David Miscavige at public events, Norman Starkey can be seen standing next to DM, surrounded by his other loyal lieutenants. Several of these photos are included.

62. In short, the only person who is in a position to talk about all of the inner workings of the Church of Scientology is David Miscavige, because he is the only person who won't be punished for doing so. There is no one above him to punish him. He alone can tell the whole truth.