Affidavit [This affidavit was used as part of a one lawsuit by the followers of the controversial group leader Robin Carlson in their attempt to gain reentry to MIU and for Civil Rights claims against MIU. ] Affidavit: Michael Grove, Mark Frost and Michael Herkel v . Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi International University, World Plan Executive Council United States, Capital of the Age of Enlightenment, Gregory Thatcher, Gregg Wilson and Bevan Morris.
I, T. Gemma Cowhig, being sworn upon my oath depose and state; 1. I have been practicing the Transcendental Meditation Program for 16 years. I have been an initiator of the Transcendental Meditation Program since 1971 and worked as a full time employee of the defendant World Plan Executive Council from 1971-1973. I am still an initiator and since 1977 have been a Governor of the TM Program, also a position within the defendant World Plan Executive Council centers in Toronto, Ontario and London, Ontario. 2 . My brother John Cowhig has been defendant Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's secretary since 1974. On many occasions, including visits with our parents, on my six month course, and recently when I was in Switzerland, he has stated to me that Maharishi is concerned about his security because he believes that the American CIA has infiltrated his organization and is constantly working to undermine his image. My brother has stated, and it is well know within the TM Movement, that Maharishi often states that the CIA is a threat to his security and that Maharishi hates the CIA and feels that it is out to get him. Last summer, in Switzerland, my brother said to me that Maharishi has stated that I was also involved with the CIA. 3. In late 1979 my brother John Cowhig said to me in a phone call from Thailand that Maharishi had a message for Robin. The message was for Robin to be careful that the CIA would begin to surround him and begin to puff him up for their own purposes. 4. After the Jim Jones Guyana Massacre my brother told me that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi claimed that the CIA was responsible for an article in the newspaper linking the TM Movement to that of Jim Jones. 5. It is well known within the TM Movement that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has accused many former teachers of the Transcendental Meditation Movement and employees of World Plan Executive Council such as Charley Donahue and Billie Clayton, of being agents of the CIA who were out to get him. Sworn and Notarized on, January 30, 1984, by T. Gemma Cowhig~
