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6 e A Secret Agenda Serrette was queried: “Why was it secret?” He answered: “Well, the reason that ] was given was that they didn’t feel that an above-ground organization would be able to carry out, you know, changing this couzitry in an effective way, meaning the changing of the social order. . .The New Alliance Party was a basically. . .above-ground for the IW’P” He went on to state: “It basically served as an electoral function to attract people there and to organize them into organizations and eventually take them in as members of, | imagine the WP.” Therapy As Manipulation Asked about the function that “therapy” played in the group, he said “Fred Newman was the chief therapist. It was my experience that he was, he and whoever he may have appointed for those who trained therapists and generally, it was those he placed in control and in power. Lenora Fulani is the chief therapist, that’s the way she was in there...” Serrette defined the therapy as “a way of controlling every aspect of their lives.” Asked about how the party financed itself, Serrette said that the bulk of finances came from the therapy centers. He was asked: “How much money are we talking about?” He answered: “A lot of money, a lot of money. As a matter of fact, it was stated in one meeting. . .that the organiza- tion. ...had made a million dollars that year.” Serrette was asked: “Do vou know or do vou have an opinion whether members of this organiza- tion would billif they were so instructed by Mr. Newman?” He responded: “I wouldn't be surprised of anything that this organization. might do upen instruction from Fred Newman. I certainly believe that given the therapy and the way that people have taken directly to him, that they would do anything. just about, that he would ask them to do.” . - Referring to the group as a “cult,” Serrette summed up his opinion of the NAP by characteriz- ing it as “an organization that portrays itself as a Marxist-Leninist organization when, in effect, they were nothing more than a power play by an individual to just exercise control over a large number of people.” He described the overall atmosphere of party meetings as follows: “I certainly felt that the folks that were in there were basically under some assumption or intimidation that they shouldn’t oppose anything that came from the front. I felt that way, | felt intimidated” 3 BEST COPY AYANA Bo IE bode