the question, "But did the material really qualify as 'trade secrets'? Among the material the church has been trying to suppress is what might be called a 'genesis myth of Scientology': a story about a galactic despot named Xenu who decided 75 million years ago to kill a bunch of people by chaining them to volcanoes and dropping nuclear bombs on them." Godwin asks, "Does a 'church' normally have 'competitors' in the trade secret sense? If the Catholics got hold of the full facts about Xenu, does this mean they'll get more market share?" He comments on the ability of the Scientology organization to utilize such laws in order to contain its secret texts, "It seems likely, given what we know about the case now, that even a combination of copyright and trade secret law wouldn't accomplish what the church would like to accomplish: the total suppression of any dissemination of church documents or doctrines." The author concludes, "But the fact that the church was unlikely to gain any complete legal victories in its cases didn't mean that they wouldn't litigate. It's indisputable that the mere threat of litigation, or the costs of actual litigation, may accomplish what the legal theories alone do not: the effective silencing of many critics of the church." See also Incident (Scientology) Notes References External links "OT III Released" in online edition of What is Scientology OT III Scholarship Page (David S. Touretzky; includes page scans, commentary, audio files) Revolt In The Stars summary (Grady Ward) Xenu Leaflet (Roland Rashleigh-Berry) The Fishman Affidavit: OT III (extracts and synopsis by Karin Spaink) A Scientific scrutiny of OT III (Peter Forde, June 1996) Claims about Xenu evaluated against scientific geology Research essay describing OT 3 as a drug induced hallucination posted to alt.religion.scientology on March 29, 1996, by Prignillius "The History Of Xenu, As Explained By L. Ron Hubbard In 8 Minutes" (Gawker.com) Extract from the "Assists" lecture of October 3, 1968 Scientology and Christianity Examined Testimony under oath (pp274–275) from Robert Vaughn Young in RTC v. FactNet, Civil Action No. 95B2143, United States Courthouse, Denver, Colorado, September 11, 1995 Creation myths Extraterrestrial life in popular culture Mythological peoples Scientology beliefs and practices Scientology-related controversies Trade secrets da:Scientology#Myten om "Xenu"