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weeks after we came to Tehachapi, George and Desiree moved to Gardnerville, Nevada. I then became
the Business Manager for the Phoenix Liberator (later CONTACT & Phoenix Source Distributors, Inc.).
George soon afterward offered a job to me in Carson City, Nevada, but how or why would I trust
someone who had just proven to me to be a liar?
I have seen many people come and go around here, and really, it’s very interesting to see how they actually
behave after the honeymoon is over. Most of the people who came here to work, and are now professed
enemies, came with seemingly good intentions. I’ve also noticed looking back that many came with a boat
load of pain, guilt, low self-esteem and/or emotional baggage which they hoped could somehow be alleviated
merely by performing the work of our mission. What they discovered was that they were the same
people here that they were before they came here. No instant transformations were noted, no one received
a bop on the forehead and a magic cure for whatever ailed them Spiritually or physically. They
found the work to be hard and long and the accolades to be non-existent. What a bummer!
When it was discovered that George Green had run off with almost $400,000.00 worth of gold intended
for the Phoenix Institute, it became even more clear why George wanted to become involved. He saw
what he thought was a chance to set up a gold mine with the Phoenix Institute. When George discovered
that he wouldn’t be able to split town with all the Institute funds, he took what he could, and is still trying his
best to make E.J. and Doris responsible for his actions. God only knows what stories he told some lenders
to the Institute. It’s very interesting to note that the few who are trying to shut down the Phoenix Institute
now became involved financially because of George Green when he was an Officer and Director of the
Institute. Now, they are blindly following a course which could only benefit George’s lawyers and George.
Go figure.
These adversarial people are motivated in different ways. Some are moved by what they believe is their
work, some by money, others by over-inflated ego (which translates to feelings of very low self-worth) or
any combination thereof. George and Desireé’s main motivation, as far as I can tell, has been money and
ego. They are constantly moving and trying to cover their tracks. George recently told a bunch of people
that he moved to Las Vegas when, in fact, he moved to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
How many of you know that George loaned almost a million dollars to Lee and Brit Elders to finance the
publication of Billy Meier photos in book form? How many of you know that George turned right around
and sued them for his money back and obtained most of the books and, for all practical purposes, bankrupted
the Elders? Does anyone else see a pattern here?
I didn’t know Leon Fort very well, but I noticed that he changed rather abruptly in intention and attitude
toward the Institute when a certain person moved in with him. Oops.
I knew Betty Tuten fairly well when she was here, and I always liked her. There have often been the
hangers-on around here who don’t seem to like us a lot but just can’t seem to leave. A couple of those
types began working on Betty a few months before she left. I could see what was happening when Betty’s
usually cheery attitude began to diminish as the ones to whom I refer began to take her ego through the
wringer. They told her that she was unappreciated and being taken advantage of by those of us who work
at the CONTACT office. Nothing could have been further from the truth and I told Betty that when I saw
her feeling so down. Betty did volunteer work on the newspaper as well as cleaning up around the offices
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