Kevin Dean was one of HWA's highly favored confidants as was his brother Aaron Dean (UCG hierarchy). When these two spoke the people in Pasadena jumped. They first got their start with HWA as stewards on the church jet planes. The female stewardess had been dumped because of GTA's sexually offenses against them. They figured men serving as stewards would solve the problem.
Controversy has always swirled around Pasadena about Kevin. When he was part of Imperial schools rumors were rampant about his dalliance's with students. He ungraciously dumped his first wife for a girl from Imperial Schools.
Then we had heard he moved to Santa Barbara to get away from the rumors and accusations.
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Otagosh blog also has a link about this story with some details on the arrests.
Myra McQueen has info on her blog about the Dean Brother's shenanigans during the receivership.
One of Kevin's smear campaigns also led to the famous Kessler letter.
Myra McQueen has info on her blog about the Dean Brother's shenanigans during the receivership.
It was very obvious now that Rader was calling the shots and that he had put the fear in HWA. He would continue to do so until the Dean bros (according to the AR) managed to tape a conversation between Rader and Ramona in which they were discussing placing HWA in a nursing home and taking over the church. Statements in the AR (Jan '83) read-"Those close to Ted, however, feel his distrust of Ramona was quite justified. Many observers are convinced she was more loyal to Stan Rader than to HWA. And as we reported in a previous issue, it was a secret tape recording of a Stan Rader-Ramona conversation taped by the Dean brothers [former stewards on the GII] that was responsible for the sacking of Stan Rader. Insiders claim that it was also that tape recording that was responsible for the Herbert-Ramona marriage going sour." This tape recording of the conversation between Rader & Ramona was first mentioned in AR #15 http://hwarmstrong.com/ar/AR15.html & later in AR #16 http://hwarmstrong.com/ar/AR16.html
You may locate the AR archives at- http://web.archive.org/web/20050204002918/herbertwarmstrong.com/ar/index.htm
Aaron Dean went on to become HWA's assistant, replacing Bob Fahey.
Actually, the recording would not have worked if the blackmail had still been in Rader's possession at the time the tape was played. To interject here-Rader had carefully placed college maintenance men in the highest ministerial positions after Ted's disfellowshippment AR 10-'79 http://hwarmstrong.com/ar/AR10.html) which included Tkach and Ellis LaRavia. Were they the only control over the ministry he could get? Most were not very well educated. Tkach did not even have a high school diploma and had been unable to pass any of his college academics at AC.
The Armstrong leadership was no longer in control of the Armstrongite ministry that had been trained by HWA. The regular evangelists, such as Rod Meredith, Herman Hoeh, etc. lost their high position in authority when Tkach was put in charge of the ministry in '79. Many were disfellowshipped (ie, Dave Antion, C. Wayne Cole, etc.).
This would not have happened if Ted had been under Rader's influence, because Rader did not seek the top religious position. He just wanted to be in control of the money. But with Ted gone, he knew that he had to place his myrmidons in positions of control, in order to maintain control of the money when HWA died. He obviously knew where every dime was in all those corporate soles that were scattered out to other states, as well as in the thirteen bank accounts listed under HWA's name.
According to Ted's booklet, HWA had been afraid of being "placed in a mental institution" ("Origin" pg. 67)"He was becoming paranoid about plots against him" (same pg). This accusation is also repeated in DLA's tape "'79 Disfellowshippments and Firings." along with the fact that C. Wayne Cole (the then head of the ministerial dept.) was consulted by HWA about how to go about firing Rader. Of course the loyal Cole tried to help HWA and was stabbed in the back as a result. This information is available on David Antion's taped message, "79 Firings and Disfellowshippments"
After the Dean bros. tape, HWA was able to fire Rader himself (with pay of course, because he knew too much to just get rid of him). But by this time Tkach (whom Ted refers to in his booklet as "one of our former gardeners, who had risen, for some unknown reason, to be in my father's circle of trusted confidants." Origin pg 56) apparently took charge of HWA's ministry and his empire. Did he steal the blackmail? Did the Dean bros?
One of Kevin's smear campaigns also led to the famous Kessler letter.
