1) David Koresh ("Koresh") was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist ("SDA").

2) David Koresh was born Vernon Howell, and later changed his name to David Koresh.

3) David Koresh was educated in the private religious SDA grammar schools and high schools, each owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

4) During high school, David Koresh left the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and began to follow the teachings of another cult that had branched off from the Seventh-day Adventist Church decades earlier. It was called the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church ("Branch Davidian").

5) David Koresh became the leader of the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church. In that capacity Koresh began an aggressive campaign to convert more Seventh-day Adventist members to the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church.

This included sending missionaries from Waco to the large SDA churches and colleges, to teach and convert as many SDA members as possible to the Branch Davidian SDA Church.

David Koresh was someway getting a very secret mailing list from the SDA Church. With this list Koresh was aggressively mailing out Branch Davidian material to new converts of the SDA Church. This written material was making many of the new SDA converts question the very teachings they had just learned and accepted. (Most of the members of the Branch Davidian SDA Church are past members of the SDA Church.) This was causing Robert Folkenberg (President of the world SDA Church) a major headache. ( Exhibit # 1 )

New members are vital to the financial stability of the SDA Church, because so many members who were raised as SDA children leave the church and stop paying the very needed tithe dollars.

Over the past thirty years the SDA Church has been forced to mortgage itself, and is in a fragile financial position. If the SDA Church was to collapse, Folkenberg and McClure would probably find themselves being investigated for criminal wrongdoing, misappropriation and misuse of U.S. government gifts and SDA funds, and without the financial backing to protect and defend themselves.

1) David Steiner ("Steiner") was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist ("SDA").

2) David Steiner was born Vernon Leggett, and later changed his name to David Steiner. ( Exhibit # 2 )

3) David Steiner was educated in the private religious SDA grammar schools and high schools, each owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

4) Steiner left the Seventh-day Adventist Church and returned to the study of Judaism, the faith of his mother's ancestors.

5) Steiner has a broad enough background in the Oral Law, otherwise known as the Talmud or the Oral Torah (Torah she-be-al-peh), to be able to question and expose how untrue the SDA Church teachings on the Sabbath are.

In 1984 Joseph Battistone (minister of the SDA Church) told Steiner that not one scholar in the Seventh-day Adventist Church was prepared to answer the kind of questions Steiner was raising about the Sabbath, and how it relates or does not relate to non-Jews.

Battistone told Steiner that Steiner would make the leaders of the SDA Church look bad to new converts, if Steiner was to write in book form the kinds of questions that Steiner was raising. Battistone told Steiner that the SDA leaders were very sensitive about looking like they knew what they were talking about, and that they would stop Steiner from getting to the point where Steiner could make them look ignorant.

The very name and existence of the SDA Church is predicated on the survival of the SDA version of the Sabbath. The SDA Church teaches that the United States government is going to pass a "Sunday Law" that will not allow SDAs to continue to worship on Saturday as their Sabbath.

The SDA Church members teach their children that sometime after the "Sunday Law" is passed the U.S. government will persecute, imprison and even kill them if they try to worship on Saturday instead of Sunday. Their children are also taught that they need to be willing to hold their parents' hands, stay with their parents and die rather than be forced not to worship on Saturday. This is why it was very important to David Koresh that he keep the children with him and his followers during the siege of Mount Carmel. Koresh always knew that the children were going to die with him, as he had prophesied. (Exhibit # 3 )

6) David Koresh began to prepare the members of the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church for a war they planned to start. They were stockpiling weapons at Mount Carmel to be used to go to war against the SDA Church leaders, not the U.S. government.

Koresh prophesied that after the corrupt leaders of the SDA Church were killed, as well as the SDA Church members who would not follow Koresh, Koresh would be elevated to the position of President and final prophet of the world Seventh-day Adventist Church (The SDA prophetess, Ellen G. White, taught that before the world was destroyed by fire, there might be one last prophet. Koresh taught that he was that last prophet, and Koresh took it a step further and taught that Koresh was the "Mashiach", otherwise known as the Messiah.) Koresh prophesied that as President of the SDA Church and Messiah of the world, the United States government and world would fall into line under his leadership and control.

Folkenberg and Alfred McClure ("McClure") knew that David Koresh was threatening their lives, and the lives of many SDA Church members. They began devising a way to dupe the U.S. government into taking care of the Koresh situation so that the SDA Church would not have Koresh's blood on its hands.

7) The watchdog committees of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists had watched the Branch Davidians closely, from the year they were conceived by Victor Houteff in 1929 (then called "The Shepherd's Rod") until the present. ( Exhibit # 4 )

Folkenberg and McClure had many reports on the intentions of David Koresh for several years prior to the raid on Mount Carmel. McClure was very interested and involved with Folkenberg in determining how and when to use their resources to destroy Koresh because McClure is the president of the North American Division of the SDA Church, and most of the Davidians live in the United States. (Exhibit # 5)

The teachings of the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Seventh-day Adventist Church are approximately 99% the same. No one else on earth understands the teachings and history of the Branch Davidian SDA Church better than the Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders. ( Exhibit #6 )

6) David Steiner knew too much about how Folkenberg and McClure became the leaders of the SDA Church, and how they planned to secretly alter the direction and teachings of the world SDA Church.

By "knowing to much" Steiner was a threat to the political lives of Folkenberg and McClure, as Koresh was a threat to the physical lives of Folkenberg and McClure.

Folkenberg needed Steiner's reputation and integrity destroyed before some other political force within the SDA Church became aware of The Rebok Research Foundation (1983) information, and used that information to remove Folkenberg and McClure from their control of a multi-billion dollar church.
( Exhibit # 7 )

7) The physician who delivered Steiner at birth was Alfred McClure's uncle on his father's side, Dr. McClure.

Steiner's father, Elder Hugh Leggett, is a retired SDA minister. Hugh Leggett also worked as Alfred McClure's vice-president when McClure was President of the Kentucky/Tennessee Conference of SDAs.

Steiner's father never hid the fact that he wanted Steiner to follow him as a minister, and that he also wanted to prepare the way for Steiner to be involved in SDA Church administration when appropriate.

This meant that many of the close friends and associates of Steiner's father, whose families now run the SDA Church, watched Steiner's family as Steiner's brothers and Steiner grew up to see if any of them would fulfill the hopes and desires of Steiner's father to become SDA Church administrators.

8) Folkenberg and McClure were concerned for their lives but did not want to voice their concern because it would draw attention to the fact that the Seventh-day Adventist Church was very closely connected to the Branch Dividian Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Folkenberg and McClure also knew that if they began to discuss the views of the Branch Davidian SDA Church, concerning the threat on the lives of themselves and other SDA Church members, that the discussion itself might trigger a federal government investigation into ties between the two SDA Churches.

Folkenberg and McClure decided that it was important that their request to investigate Koresh, being taken to the state and federal agencies, hide and conceal the fact that their lives were being threatened.

By withholding certain information from the federal government, Folkenberg and McClure were involved in misrepresenting the facts to the government.

9) Folkenberg and McClure began sending a message to state and federal agencies that it was vital that David Koresh and his followers be investigated and then dealt with in court.

Folkenberg and McClure used a female, Mrs. Shirley Burton (Director of Communications for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists), as the lead messenger from the SDA Church to the U.S. federal government and the state of Texas. The pressure on the government by Shirley Burton was supported by a large and organized effort within the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ( Exhibit #8 )

8) Folkenberg and McClure were concerned about their political and theological lives, but did not want to make that concern an issue. They were afraid that it might put them in a position where they would be forced to speak out about the charges that were made in the written histories called The Rebok Revelation and The Seventh-day Adventist Connection, which expose their intentions as leaders of the SDA Church. ( Exhibit # 9 )

By conducting a character assassination of Steiner, and keeping their efforts a secret, Folkenberg and McClure put themselves in a position to were they didn't have to worry about being re-elected to their positions of power. Those who held the keys to voting Folkenberg and McClure into office were told that Steiner was not a credible person because of Steiner's indictment, and that anything that Steiner said about The Rebok Research Foundation of 1983 and its relationship to them was a lie.

Every 5 years the world SDA Church leaders from all over the world meet, and the SDA Church delegates vote in a new General Conference president and vice-president. On June 29, 1995 in Utrecht, Netherlands, Robert Folkenberg and Alfred McClure were voted back into office for five more years. It has been reported by those who were present that they were physically protected by a large and private group of security guards.

The general membership of the SDA Church is not aware, to this day, of the role that Folkenberg and McClure have played in their attempt to destroy Steiner and assassinate Steiner's character.

9) For approximately ten years Folkenberg and McClure have used a female, Helen Rogers (an attorney who worked for the SDA Church), to spread false allegations from federal civil court filings that Rogers hasn't even been able to prove about Steiner's life and work. Folkenberg and McClure have also used Rogers to misrepresent facts and accuse Steiner of being a fraud and a criminal and conduct others to do the same to try, to create a pattern to the FBI. ( Exhibit # 10 )

Folkenberg and McClure used their power and influence in communities where there were SDA churches and SDA hospitals to get their ministers and hospital administrators to suggest to the community that Steiner was involved in Satan worship.

This caused Steiner's associates in business to want to disassociate themselves from him to make sure their own reputations would not suffer.

Shirley Burton was brought to the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from Pacific Union College in Angwin, California, the town where Steiner helped put together Megatrend Communications, Inc. and where Steiner was personally blackballed by Robert Folkenberg. ( Exhibit # 11 )

10) The power and influence of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was used by Folkenberg and McClure to ensure that everything that could be done was done to keep David Koresh from receiving a complete and fair trial in a court of law.

The leaders of the SDA Church were concerned about the image and reputation of the SDA Church, and knew that if they could keep Koresh and his followers out of years of court battles, the SDA Church would have a better chance at keeping the media from associating the SDA Church with the Branch Davidian SDA Church.

Folkenberg and McClure knew that if David Koresh could be trapped, the U.S. government would never get Koresh out of the Mount Carmel compound alive because Koresh had to burn himself and his followers to death in order to fulfill Koresh's own prophecies. They knew that Koresh had created a small loyal force of men called the "Royal Guard" or the "Mighty Men" ( Exhibit #12 ), who would follow any and all directions given by Koresh, including torching themselves and those present in Mount Carmel (AKA "Ranch Apocalypse").

Folkenberg and McClure chose to withhold this information from the federal government and its agents because they did not want to impede or even alter the kind of movement that they needed from the U.S. government in order to rid themselves of Koresh.

By withholding this information from the U.S. government, Folkenberg and McClure have, to this day, allowed many citizens of the United States to believe that the U.S. government started the fire at Waco. Folkenberg and McClure know that if they admit the level of manipulation they created in the Mount Carmel raid, the blame for the raid and the fire might be deflected from the White House, the Attorney General, the Treasury Department, the BATF and the FBI directly onto them, Folkenberg and McClure.

10) Over the past ten years Folkenberg and McClure have used the power and influence of the Seventh-day Adventist Church to destroy David Steiner's reputation, get Steiner indicted by the federal court and locked up in jail and then prison.

On behalf of Folkenberg and McClure, Helen Rogers worked hard to get a federal investigator to take action against David Steiner. Rogers finally got Stanley Walker of the FBI to work with her and have a federal grand jury indict Steiner based on the lies of plaintiffs Rogers conducted and put together for Walker. (Rogers is from Nashville, Tennessee and is held in very low esteem by the legal community.)

Lowell Plubell, D.D.S., whose brother (Gilbert Plubell) is in charge of all of the SDA school systems and works closely with Folkenberg, worked with Stanley Walker to become a plaintiff in the case United States vs. Steiner. (Exhibit #13)

Stanley Walker did not represent the truth to the grand jury, and, Walker has not allowed the accounting and financial records to be seen or studied by Steiner's and/or Thiele's defense teams (even in light of a federal judge's order), and has done just about everything possible to make sure that Steiner and Thiele go to prison without a complete and fair trial.

Steiner and Thiele are innocent and deserve a chance to prove it without constant interference from Walker.
( Exhibit # 14 )

11) The order from the U. S. Attorney General, the U. S. Treasury Department and the BATF was not to raid the compound at Mount Carmel if the element of surprise had been lost.

During 1993 Steiner met many times with Stephen Studdert ("Studdert") for advice and direction.

Studdert told Steiner that he had been a White House Aide to President Ford, President Reagan and President Bush, and was now an employee of President Clinton.
( Exhibit # 15 )

Studdert told Steiner that the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists had been sending in SDA Church representatives and/or lobbyists to different government agencies, for over six months before the raid on Mount Carmel, to influence the government to do something about David Koresh.

Studdert told Steiner that Studdert believed that someone on the scene in Waco pushed the envelope beyond the orders of Janet Reno and the Washington, D.C. BATF, and went ahead with the raid even though the element of surprise had been lost.

Studdert said that Studdert believed that even though Janet Reno had openly accepted responsibility for the fire at Mount Carmel, the person truly responsible for the fire was the person who went against the orders and had been influenced directly or indirectly by a contact representing the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, i.e., Robert Folkenberg and Alfred McClure.

11) Stephen Studdert told Steiner that in Steiner's case Helen Rogers had been used by Folkenberg and McClure to attack him unmercifully in federal civil court, which had created a familiarity between the federal government and Steiner over a ten year period.

Studdert said that one of Studdert's contacts had told him that Helen Rogers, on behalf of Folkenberg and McClure, had found someone in a lower position of the FBI who was retirement age (Stanley Walker) and was willing to work with her.

Stanley Walker's superiors in the FBI have placed trust in Walker that Walker will do his investigations in a professional and honest manner. Walker has instead run a very incompetent, dishonest and incomplete investigation.

12) It is very important to Robert Folkenberg and Alfred McClure that the U. S. Senate or the U. S. Congress not conduct an exhaustive and open investigation of the Mount Carmel events.

Steiner believes that a complete review of those events will show that the events would not have happened if someone on the Mount Carmel site had not been compromised by a contact representing the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Robert Folkenberg and Alfred McClure.

Steiner believes that innocent adults and children were killed and hurt, both in the BATF and the Branch Davidian compound, because Folkenberg and McClure chose to misrepresent the truth to the U.S. government.

Steiner believes that with a complete investigation it will become clear that the U.S. Attorney General, the U.S. Treasury Department, the FBI and the BATF did their jobs as best they could, considering that they were kept in the dark about the doomsday teachings and the hidden relationship between the Branch Davidian SDA Church and the SDA Church.

12) Before Stephen Studdert had worked out an estoppel for Steiner with then President Bush, Studdert shared some insights with Steiner.

Studdert told Steiner that Steiner needed to be aware that if the money and influence of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Robert Folkenberg and Alfred McClure were directly or indirectly involved in an attempt to indict Steiner, that Steiner would find out that one of the central agents investigating Steiner would be someone with a questionable reputation, someone with family or friends in the SDA Church and/or someone on their way out.

Studdert told Steiner to be very aware that in cases where strong influence are involved, one might see the prosecution try to smother the facts the following ways:

a) simply telling the defense investigating agent and/or attorney not to do much work on the case.

b) making sure that the defense investigating agent and/or attorney doesn't get paid for their work and/or expenses until it is too late to gather information for the trial.

c) helping to create events to scare away a strong and aggressive defense by using direct and indirect threats on investigators and/or attorneys.

d) tampering with the evidence.

Studdert later told Steiner not to worry about being harassed anymore because Studdert had gotten an estoppel for Steiner from the President of the United States, George Walker Bush.

For some strange reason the estoppel didn't stop Steiner and John Thiele from being indicted. David Steiner and John Thiele's families have been hurt and are being hurt beyond belief because Folkenberg and McClure have chosen to misrepresent the truth to the U.S. government in order to make themselves and the SDA Church look good.

13) Stephen Studdert told Steiner that Folkenberg and McClure directed the Seventh-day Adventist Church to give money to the families of the BATF agents who were wounded or died in the raid. Studdert told Steiner that they did this because someone on the lower end of the BATF had done them the favor of taking care of Koresh, and they felt that politically, they needed to show empathy and support to the BATF.

After the Mount Carmel raid, Robert Folkenberg and Alfred McClure had the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists hire several major public relation and promotional firms to do damage control to the image that the raid on Mount Carmel might make on the SDA Church. (Exhibit # 16)

Steiner believes that you will also find that the SDA Church will go to almost any length to cover-up its involvement in the raid.

13) Before Studdert got an estoppel for Steiner, Studdert told Steiner that only a very well developed cover-up could and would keep a complete investigation into Steiner's possible indictment from uncovering a direct or indirect link to Robert Folkenberg and Alfred McClure.

14) When the Waco crisis suddenly broke on February 28, the phones began buzzing at the General Conference of SDA headquarter. Shirley Burton (who ten months earlier had been responsible for prompting the BATF to begin their investigation of Koresh) and her staff at the General Conference of SDA Communication Department were on the phones from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for days thereafter.

Mrs. Burton and her office sent correspondence by fax to all local unions and conferences and encouraged them to hold interviews with the media. Later, her office reversed itself and sent out another fax to all Adventist entities not to be interviewed but to refer all inquiries to Gary Patterson (administrative assistant to the president of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Alfred McClure) who had gone to Texas so he could be close to the action.

In 1984 Gary Patterson was removed from his office as president of the Cumberland, Georgia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists by the constituency because he so strongly favored "The New SDA Theology."
( Exhibit # 17 )

The vote to remove Patterson happened just months after Robert Pierson (past president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists) had revealed to Steiner that he and others were hearing rumors that Joseph J. Battistone, Alfred McClure and others were preparing to use The Rebok Research Foundation as a political force to bring about "The New Theology." (Exhibit # 18)

14) Gary Patterson and Joseph J. Battistone have been and remain best friends.

In 1984 Joseph J. Battistone told Steiner that if Steiner were to reveal any of the secret intentions of The Rebok Research Foundation, Battistone's friends would at some point destroy Steiner and restore Battistone's position in the SDA Church.

Steiner has been told that after ten years of Battistone not being allowed to work for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Joseph J. Battistone was given a large SDA Church to pastor in Seattle, Washington around the same time period that Steiner was indicted.

Gary Patterson has been working on behalf of Alfred McClure for the past five years to monitor and communicate information concerning David Steiner, Joseph J. Battistone and The Rebok Research Foundation.

15) I understand that Kenneth J. Mittleider (one of several general vice-presidents of the Seventh-day Adventist Church) wished to go to Waco and talk to a personal contact who was one of the leaders in the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church. Kenneth J. Mittleider felt that he knew this contact well enough have talk him out of the compound along with perhaps others and their children. ( Exhibit # 19 )

Robert Folkenberg and Alfred McClure told Mittleider that he could not go to Waco and that he was not to talk about his relationships with any of the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist members.

Folkenberg and McClure were worried that if the government or the national news media got their hands on that information, they would begin putting together the relationship between the two Seventh-day Adventist Churches.

I also believe that Folkenberg and McClure didn't want to be connected to their roles in the usurping of the orders from Washington, D.C. not to raid the Mount Carmel compound if the element of surprise had been lost.

15) In 1984, The Rebok Research Foundation collapsed because Joseph J. Battistone got concerned that Robert Pierson and other good men were becoming suspicious of what the true intentions of the Foundation was.

In 1985, Robert Folkenberg was transferred from his position as an officer in the Inter-America Division where he had been an administrator, to a lower position as President of the Carolina Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Robert Folkenberg was moved to North Carolina so that he could do damage control for Alfred McClure and Joseph J. Battistone concerning the collapse of The Rebok Research Foundation. It was very important to keep the information secret concerning the method by which Folkenberg, McClure and others were planning to be catapulted into controlling the world SDA Church.

It was the responsibility of Kenneth J. Mittleider to work with Robert Folkenberg to keep the information about the true and secret intentions of The Rebok Research Foundation from getting out to the general SDA membership.

By working indirectly with Helen Rogers, an attorney representing the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Kenneth J. Mittleider, Robert Folkenberg and Alfred McClure have tried to assassinate Steiner's reputation, Steiner's character and Steiner's credibility, thus making Steiner's information about The Rebok Research Foundation possibly not credible.

16) There is a common theme that is connected to each of the following three events which happened on the same day of different years: the Randy Weaver incident that took place in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, the David Koresh incident that took place in Waco, Texas, and the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The common theme is not the fact that they are connected to the militia but that they are Sabbatarians who happen to be connected to a militia. Each of these events expose the mindsets of people who are raised in or attracted to Sabbatarian cults.

Andy Weaver observed the Sabbath on Saturday. In the past, Weaver's family members had a lot of contact with S.D.A. members and teachers.

The Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church members, and David Koresh, are Sabbatarians.

The Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church and many other small Sabbatarian cults beleive in the observance of the Jewish Sabbath which causes members to feel special and superior to non believers. Because of the way the Sabbath is incorporated into the interpretation of prophecies, members of these groups tend to get suspicious and learn to hate the U.S. government and all Christians who observe Sunday as their day to worship and rest.

The SDA Church is the Waco of Wacos waiting to happen. David Koresh ("Baby Koresh") was nothing, when compared to what Robert Folkenberg ("Papa Koresh") and McClure are capable of.

16) Folkenberg and McClure were convinced by Joseph Battistone that if the Sabbath issue were ever put up for debate, between the Seventh-day Adventist Church members and someone with a strong background in the Oral Law of the Old Testament (the Talmud), the Seventh-day Adventists would come out of the debate looking very strange and stupid.

Battistone told Steiner that this debate could not be allowed to happen because it would pull the primary foundational doctrine out from under the SDA Church. Battistone said that there were too many people with big money in the SDA Church to even allow such a public debate.