 A private investigator quoted in the "Los Angeles Times" stated that by October 1989, Scientology had collected five filing cabinets' worth of materials about Erhard, many from ex-members of est who had joined Scientology, and that Scientology was clearly in the process of organizing a "media blitz" aimed at discrediting him.According to Erhard's brother Harry Rosenberg, "Werner made some very, very powerful enemies.They really got him."