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tologists as victims. Kind of Vendetta r, who hat “at was merely a sugges worked on the Tate case, noted these circumstances that later gave rise to speculation their deaths might be related to the Tate and La Bianca kill- ings: — Like all but one victim of the two-day murder orgy in August, the young man and young woman had been stabbed repea- tedly. Each bore between 50 and 60 wounds. —The November victims lived in a neighborhood with a large hippie popu- lation, much of it mystical- ly inclined. Miss Gaul herself resided in a Scien- tology commune whose residents dressed hippie style. —Many of the neighbor- hood's inhabitants use "soft" drugs — marijuana and LSD—and are promis- cuous and nomadic, like the Manson clan. ~The young Scientolo- gists lived in the general area of the La Bianca residence in Los Feliz, about two miles distant. Officials of the Church of Scientology here called his attention to the perver- sion-prone offshoot, "The PROtuEE.” Deemer Sata ~ tion that some kind of vendetta against Sciento- logy might have claimed the lives of young Sharp and Miss Gaul. The Final Church of Judgment is headquar- tered in an elegant man- sion in London's Mayfair district, It is run by Shanghai-born, bearded, long-haired Robert de- Grimston, 34, who attend- ed Cambridge and later took up Scientology. After completing a course in the mystical philosophy, he decided to start his own cult, which took a sharp turn away from Scientology. The "church" pro- claimed its "dedication to the elimination of the Gray Forces" the affluent establishment. Issues of its journal, "The Process," advocated black masks, described marriage as “an abomina- tion" and offered ideas to stimulate sexual perver- ; sion, even rape, De Grimston is known as "the Christ of Carnaby Street." Manson's follow- ers call him "Jesus," "God" and "Satan." Members of "The Pro- cess" wear black apparel. The slayers who stole onto Sharon Tate's Benedict Canyon estate and killed the actress and four oth- erg_Aus—S.wore black ace _ cording to Susan Atking-2- sity - icipant in the raid. Lt. Deemer declines to go beyond describing a connection between the Scientology murders and the Tate and La Bianca killings as anything more than a possibility at this stage. But he wants to question _ at least two young male members of the Manson cull. Not in Custody Neither was in custody at the time of the Gaul- Sharp slayings, as were Manson and many of this tribe, then being held in the Inyo County Jail on auto theft charges. At least one of them was present at the time of the -strange death of another Manson cultist in Venice Nov. 5. Christopher Jesus, 20, | also known as “Zero," was ifound dead on a bed at 28 Club House Drive, a gun beside him and a_ bullet wound in his head, ‘had been playing "Russian beg = and the death was formally listed as a istticide. =e CE EEE | the A young woman said he | Not Satisfied "But I've satisfied with that whole thing," said Venice Det, Sgt. Art Hanshrough, The death still is under investi. ay ‘i ogle fi rprint ot a single nm was found on the Fue and other cultists who had been living at the res. idence scattered shortly afterward. : One who did, a Ney young man who held e lay dying, pe Pg the death wa not a suicide, He said when he heard the gunshot, he entered room and found a young women, a Manson follower, holding the gun eety. by the trigger guard, e told me: ‘Jesus shot himself,'", the young man said. "But she had this strange faraway smile on her face, as if she were saying to me: 'His time had come, time for me to shoot Native to Unterseathd