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In Clearwater I started in the "Estates Project Force" (EPF),
a Sea Org-unit, where I had to work 8 hours a day and study
courses for 5 hours a day, which were a prerequisite for
starting in the Sea Org. The courses were "Introduction To
Scientology Ethics", "Welcome To The Sea Org", "Basic Sea Org
Member Hat" and the "Personal Grooming Course". I was taught in
the courses, that my primary duty as a Sea Org member would be
to follow "Command Intention", the disciplines and orders of the
"Commodore", Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. These were laid out in
"Flag Orders", the general instructions for Sea Org personnel. I
learned that the purpose of the Sea Org is to get ethics in on
this planet.
I graduated in September 1990 from the EPF, after I
was security-checked and got a pass from the "Fitness Board" of
the "Qualifications-Division" of the "Flag Land Base" (FLB), a
kind of control unit over the different
Scientology-organizations in Clearwater.
First I was put on the
post as a "Communicator" of the "Flag Service Consultant
International" (FSC Int.) Bo Wennberg. The FSC was a network,
which consisted of different Flag Service Consultants, who were
located in every major Scientology-organization around the
world. Its purpose was to make a lot of money by "regging
publics" (=getting Scientologists pay for courses or auditing)
of other orgs. My duty was to supervise the income statistics of
the "FSC Int. Office" and to do whatever Bo Wennberg wanted me
to do for him. After two weeks I had a breakdown, as I was
totally confused and couldn’t understand what was going on in
that office. Around nine people were working there, mainly
calling other FSCs in the world and making them produce more
money and controlling their "reg-cycles". Senior executives of
the FSO were regularly visiting the office and putting pressure
on Bo Wennberg and his juniors. I neither didn’t understand what
they were doing exactly nor what I was supposed to do, and how.
As I didn’t want to work there anymore, I was assigned to
"MEST-Work" (any kind of ‘inferior’ like painting, cleaning,
etc.). After few days working in the Westcoast Building the
"Dissemination Secretary FSO" Mike Carlson took me to his office
in the Coachman Building and told me that I was originally
recruited for "Division 2" and therefore belonged to the
division, where he was head of. The Dissemination Division, or
Div. 2, consisted of four different departments, which had the
overall "Valuable Final Product" (VFP) of making a lot of money
(Gross Income = GI) by regging publics. I was put into the
"Department of Procurement", the Department 5.
The department 5
had four sections:
- the "Addresso-Section" was a set up of a
handful computers which stored all the addresses of the publics
and "prospects" of the FSO together with additional
informations, f. e. their standing with Scientology. There were
five to six people updating the data bank, which had
approximately 200,000 names in it.
- The "Central
Files-Section" consisted of 125,000 folders of FSO-publics and
prospects, who had bought courses or auditing or who had had at
least filled out a questionnaire one time in the past. The
personnel of that section had to administrate the filing of the
folders, which were used in other departments of the FSO too.
- The "Letter Reg.-Section" had to use the
CF-folders and
write to the persons, to get them interested in FSO-services, so
they would make an advanced payment to the FSO. I had to write
to the Scientologists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. When
I started in department 5 there were four of five other letter
reges.
- The "Advanced Scheduling Registrar-Section"
(ASR-Section) had to follow up the "hot prospects", which were
turned over by the Letter Registrars to the ASR. The ASR had to
make these people pay in full for the services, they were
interested in.
The product of department 5, its statistic, was
"Procurement GI". From October 1990 I wrote letters, day by day,
around 300/400 a week. Additional to that I had to study several
courses on my "Product 1".
Within the Sea Org-hierarchy I was an
"Expediter", someone, who still has to get familiar with the Sea
Org by studying Scientology-courses, 5 hours a day, and
fulfilling his duty on the assigned post. It took me until
December 1990 to finish Product 1 and to start on "Product 2".
The courses I had to study on Product 1 were the "Key To
Competence", the "Hubbard Qualified Scientologist", the
"339R-Checksheet-How To Expand Your Org", "Staff Status 0, 1,
and 2" (they consisted of various Policy Letters for
Scientology-organizations), the "How To Make Work Easier"-course
and the "Letter Registrar Mini Hat", which listed the general
guidelines for my post as letter Registrar. From the time I
finished Product 1 my study time was limited to 2 ½ hours per
day.
On my post I had to work from 8 o’clock in the morning
until 11 o’clock in the evening. Every second saturday I could
get "libs" (liberty time), which meant, that I could do whatever
I wanted in the afternoon of that day, if my statistics (stats)
from the previous week were up-trending and if my senior had
approved my written application for libs.
On Fridays and
Saturdays the staff of the FSO got their pay from the
"Department of Disbursement", Department 7. At the time I was in
the FSO the staff of the FSO got 30 $ per week.
I had to wear a
white uniform during Spring and Summer, and a blue and black one
during Fall and Winter. I ate together with the other FLB staff
in the Elks-Building near the Fort Harrison. My living room,
which I shared usually with three or four other staff was in an
apartment building at Hacienda Gardens, on Saturn Street in
Clearwater.
I stayed on the post of a letter reg until September
1991. At that time a "Recruitment Mission" from the "Flag
Bureaux" (FB), the lower level of the Scientology-management in
Los Angeles came to the FSO. The "Mission In-Charge" (I/C) was
Brian McCarthy who was holding the post of a "Deputy/Director of
Procurement International Flag Bureaux" at FB. His mission was
to recruit at least five more letter reges for Department 5.
Hubbard had written once, that the outflow of letters would
automatically regulate the income of the organization. Therefore
the FSO had to produce more letters in order to get more income.
That was the purpose of the Scientology-management behind that
"Man Up-Mission". Shortly after I had been promoted at "Sea Org
Day" in August to "Petty Officer 3rd rank" (PO3), an internal
Sea Org-"rank", Brian made me the "Letter Registrar I/C", which
meant that I had a higher "post". From now on I was the head of
all the letter reges.
In November 1991 Brian busted the Director of Procurement,
Flor Hellberg, from her post, after "she fell to comply with one
single order he gave her". In the "Captain’s Office" of the
Coachman Building he told me that he would like to promote me to
the post of the Director of Procurement and asked me if I would
take it. I said I would and from then on I was an executive of
the FSO.
I represented now the department, I had to control its
production and I also had to demand higher statistics from every
staff of the department in every week. I also was part of GI-
and executive-meetings.
I got five different seniors: The
Dissemination Secretary, Rosalynne Harris (later Matt Pesch),
the "Deputy/Flag Case and Course Intensive Product Officer for
Gross Income" Kim Hickock, the "Deputy Flag Representative"
Phillippe Renevez, the "Flag Promo-Tours Operations Officer"
(FPTOO) and the "Deputy/Director of Procurement International
FB". All of them could individually give me instructions and
orders, verbally or in written form.
Until Spring of ‘92 I
finished further courses, the "Letter Registrar Full Hat" of my
prior post, the "Organizational Executive Course Volume 0" and
"Volume 2", which covered all the policies regarding the
Division 2.
Soon I had to work more than the usual 14 or 16
hours a day on my new post. As I lost personnel in the
CF-Section (One staff didn’t return to Clearwater after handling
his visa-situation in Argentina, another one had to leave the
Sea Org, as his wife got pregnant) I had to administrate the
Central Files alone. I filed "invoices" and papers from the
"CF-backlog" during the night, often leaving me without getting
any sleep for 48 hours. There were periods, when I worked for
consecutive two months without having one "libs-day". I was
getting more and more numb, simultaneously I got more and more
doubts about the Scientology-management. We, the staff of the
FSO, worked the whole day and the whole week for 30 $ or less,
and we got treated for that like we were criminals: We were
shouted at by the "senior executives" of the FSO at staff
musters. When the GI of the FSO dropped, our food was sometimes
limited to rice and beans. Staff, who didn’t produce enough,
were sent to the "Rehabilitation Project Force" (RPF), the Sea
Org penal colony, or assigned to MEST-Work.
I couldn’t
understand, why we were treated like that, so I got suspicious.
I began to read the "Suppressive Person-Declare"-folders, which
were stored in the "Book Warehouse", where I had to collect old
CF-folders from time to time. The reading of the SP-Declare
folders was forbidden, but I did it anyway.
In spite of all the
circumstances the GI of my department was up trending, we even
made two "Highest Evers" in May of ‘92 with around 105,000 $ in
one week.
I even got auditing, almost two years after I started
in the Sea Org. During one repair session of the "Int. rundown"
I came to the conclusion that I had blasted a planet several
million years ago.
In July 1992 I left the FSO secretly to get a
new visa, as my old one had run out in September 1991. I
organized the money from Germany and took a flight from Saint
Petersburg to Frankfurt, Germany, while my senior, the Dissem
Sec. Matt Pesch, thought I would follow the steps of the
"Leaving Staff Routing form" and wouldn’t leave without notifying
him.
In Germany I stayed with my parents and planned to leave for
Clearwater three weeks later, after I had gotten a new visa. The
American embassies in Germany denied a new visa. So I stayed in
Germany and started to work in a printing-company of a
Scientologist, I had known from Clearwater. The company belonged
to
Peter Mousiol, who had paid around 1,500,000 $ into
Scientology and who had to leave the Sea Org in Clearwater due
to his debts. I planned to stay six months and then apply again
for a visa.
The situation in the company was very severe. The
company itself had 2,500,000 $ debts, per an estimation of
Peter. Several Scientologists,
Karlheinz Schneider, Roland Wolz,
Kay Barre and Peter had taken money for Scientology from the
company funds. They had upgraded their statuses in the
"International Association of Scientologists" (IAS).
Peter Mousiol and Karlheinz Schneider received in 1991 the status of a
"Patron Meritorius" for paying individually 250,000 $ into the
"war chest" of the IAS. Roland Wolz paid 40,000 $ to become a
"Patron". All three of them paid their IAS-donations from money
of the company.
In Summer of 1992 Karlheinz Schneider, Peter Mousiol and Roland Wolz received an ethics handling by the
Scientology-organization in Hamburg. They were threatened to get
"SP declared" if the company should get bankrupt.
Kay Barre, the
"Field Staff member" of the IAS who regged them and took a 10 %
commission of their donations, was omitted by the threat and not
placed under an "ethics handling". Peter wrote a long report
about the situation and sent it "up lines", to the Scientology
management. I wrote several reports to the
Scientology-management about that fact too and demanded a
repayment of the donations into the company, but received no
proper answer. In October I accompanied Roland and Peter on a
trip to Hamburg, where they received an ethics handling by the
"Executive Establishment Officer" of the Hamburg Org and a
financial counselling by another staff, Christian Zugmayer,
another "Patron".
Back in Frankfurt I spoke with a staff of the Mousiol company, Nora Medernach, another Scientologist, and
asked her about the happenings in the company when Karlheinz
Schneider had owned it and Peter was in the Sea Org. She told me
that Karlheinz had manipulated the balances, which had to be
submitted to the tax office, and that he was helped on this by a
tax consultant, who also was a Scientologist.
One evening I
listened in on the calls, which were stored on Peter’s answering
machine. Franz Riedl, today the spokesman of the "Church of
Scientology Germany", ordered Peter to a further "ethics
handling" in Hamburg. During those days in November and December
of 1992 Peter spoke about selling the company to a group, which
would fire all the staff and just keep the printing machines.
One evening Roland Wolz, who had left the company, called Peter
and told him about a proposal which was made by Hamburg Org.
They recommended the bankruptcy the company, but "in a silent
way". He also said that Achim Bendig, the registrar of the IAS,
had been "RPF’ed" (sent to the penal colony of the Sea Org) in
Saint Hill in England. Achim had regged Peter, Karlheinz and
Roland with the assistance of Kay, but was also responsible for
the "reg cycle" of
Detlev Foullois and
Karl-Erich Heilig. Both
had paid individually 1,000,000 $ to the IAS and were awarded
with the "Gold Meritorious"-status. In 1992 Karl-Erich and
Detlev were sent to jail, because they had violated the tax
laws: it was a major public flap, as Scientology had to pay back
the donations, they had already received.
In those days in
December of 1992 I secretly made a notice at the bureau of
investigation of tax offences and at the German CID. Soon after
I left the company and Frankfurt in December 1992. An unknown
source told me last year that the company went actually bankrupt
few months after I had left it and that Karlheinz Schneider was
sent to jail in 1994.
The FSO nevertheless tried to get in
contact with me several times until March 1993, but I stayed
disappeared, as I didn’t want to return anymore.
In December of
1993 I made a notice for visa fraud committed by the Flag
Service Organization at the American Consulate General in
Frankfurt, but I never heard anything back on it.
The Flag Land Base was composed of nine different
Scientology-organizations:
- The "Commodore’s
Messengers Organization Clearwater" (CMO CW). The CMO CW
had the function of an enforcement and execution arm of
the WDC and the RTC. In the hierarchy of all the
organizations it was the highest on the "base".
- The "Flag Land Base"-Org (FLB) was an
organization to administrate and refer the orders from
the middle and low management-levels in Los Angeles to
the "Flag Service Org" and "Flag Crew"(FC). The
"Commanding Officer" (CO) FLB Allen Hubbert, later Janet
Herring, was senior to the COs of the FSO and FC.
- The "Flag Service Org" is often referred to as
the "spiritual headquarters of Scientology". It is the
biggest service-organization of Scientology. Of the
1,000 staff at the base approximately 550 were members
of the FSO. The average "Gross Income" (GI) between 1990
and 1992 was about 1,500,000 $ per week. 30 -50 % of
that money was sent to WDC Reserves. The head of the FSO
was Debbie Cook, CO FSO.
- The "Flag Crew" was the organization, which
managed the hotels and the other Sea Org-buildings.
- The "Office of Special Affairs East US" (OSA
EUS) was supposed to do all legal work and all the
operations against "Scientology-enemies" on the East
Coast of the United States. The "Public Relations
Secretary" Richard Haworth was the official spokesman
for the FLB.
- The "International Association Of Scientologists
Administrations Membership Tour East US" (IASA EUS) was
the organization, which collected membership-funds on
the East Coast area of the United States for the "war
chest" of the IAS. The IAS provided the money for the
fight against the enemies of Scientology.
- The "Scientology Missions Expansion Office" (SMI
Expansion Office) was an arm of "SMI International" in
Los Angeles and was supposed to establish
Scientology-missions (beginner organizations) in
"pioneer countries".
- The "Flag Ship Service Org Relay Office" (FSSO
Relay Office) was part of the FSSO, which is located on
the ship "Freewinds". This organization was to get
publics signed up for services aboard the "Freewinds".
- The "Super Power Project", earlier "Religious
Trust", was designed in 1990 to create funds of
35,000,000 $ (Quota of 1991) for a new gigantic
"delivery-building" in front of the Fort Harrison.
- The "Flag Renovations Project" (Flag Renos) was
the organization, which did the planning, building and
renovating of the Scientology-buildings. It was composed
of Sea Org-members, Scientology-publics and
non-Scientologists.
The official guidelines to the "authority flows of
Scientology", the "Command Channels of Scientology", state the
following:
"The Flag Bureaux is that part of the Flag Command
Bureaux which manages individual orgs via "Flag Operations Liaison Offices" (FOLOs), themselves a part of the "Continental
Liaison Offices". The Flag Bureaux has the function of seeing
that International management’s strategies, evaluations and
programs are tactically and successfully executed in each org,
enabling the org to expand up to and beyond the size of old
Saint Hill (‘a certain production level’).
(page 18, "Command
Channels of Scientology", 1988, USA)
The Central Bureaux Order 5
USB, 6 September 1982, "FB-FSO COMMAND CHANNEL" written by L.
Ron Hubbard says:
"There is no FOLO between the FB and FSO and
no need for one."
According to that the FSO gets managed by the FB in Los Angeles through the execution of programs, which are
based on evaluations and strategies created by the
"International Management".
Who creates the programs and
strategies? The "Command Channels of Scientology", p. 13, say:
"The Executive Director International and his International
Executives do not manage orgs or sectors. They handle the
functions that orgs DO. Their job is to provide management units
and service orgs and units with the bright ideas, strategies,
evaluations and programs they need to get every org up to and
beyond the size of the old Saint Hill."
| "The Religious Technology Center" is not part of
International Management. It is a parallel policing body which
ensures that the Church of Scientology International, whom it
has licensed to use the trademarks and service marks, does put
the trademarks to good use and is "Keeping Scientology Working." |
The Command Channels Of Scientology, p.6. |
"The Watchdog Committee (WDC) is the highest
ecclesial authority in the Church. WDC does not
manage. It is an inspection and police
organization which inspects the actual
management units of the Church and sees that
they are established and functioning. It is
responsible for forming up management units
where they do not exist or re-forming them where
they may be ineffective...If these management
units fail to function at any point, WDC has its
parallel observation and enforcement arm — the
Commodore’s Messenger Org — which it activates
to investigate and handle the situation and get
management corrected and functioning."
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The Command Channels Of
Scientology, p. 9-10. |
| "The CMO is the enforcement and execution
arm of the Watchdog Committee. When WDC issues
an order to a management unit, while it would
expect that unit to comply, the CMO would verify
the FACT of compliance...The CMO units form a
parallel network, autonomous to the management
lines, which reports to the Watchdog Committee
and enforces its orders, thus achieving its
purpose of putting management units there and
seeing that they manage." |
The Command Channels Of Scientology, p. 10. |
I studied the "Command Channels"-course in 1990 and I read
also the stated paragraphs. I learned that the FSO was managed
by the Flag Bureaux (through the "Flag Representative" and other relay-posts at the FLB of the "tactical management" of
Scientology). The CMO, WDC and RTC would not interfere or manage
the FSO. How did the reality look like?
During my time as a Sea Org member it happened two times that
I personally met David Miscavige in his function as Chairman of
the Board RTC (COB):
- In Fall of 1990 all the registrars of the FSO
were ordered to the registrar office of Division 2 in
the Fort Harrison. We were told that we would receive a
briefing by COB.
We gathered together in David Foster’s
office and waited. Finally David Miscavige came and
talked to us for about 10 or 15 minutes. The topic were
the services of the FSO and the new pricelist, which we
were awaiting and which had been announced by the senior
executives of the FSO. In a subordinate clause Miscavige
remarked, that he had fixed the prices for the
FSO-services in the previous week.
I found that
confusing, as I had learned from different issues of the
Scientology management that the "Gross Income Executive
International" (GIEI) Kathy Klemmer was responsible for
fixing the prices of the FSO.
I came to the conclusion
that Kathy was therefore nothing but a recipient of an
order by Miscavige in her function as manager for the
FSO-prices.
- During Spring of 1992 I was told by my senior,
the Dissemination Secretary Rosalynne Harris, that I had
to expect an inspection by David Miscavige. Nothing
happened though for several weeks.
In May or June the rumors of an inspection of the FSO by the COB took
shape. My seniors told me several times that the day of
the inspection would came nearer, but nobody knew the
exact date.
Finally the "Watchdog Committee FSO" Sue
Porter made a pre-inspection and took also a look at my
department, the department 5.
Then, I think it was June,
the day of the inspection was officially announced.
Everybody in the FSO was ordered to clean the different
rooms and getting the FSO in perfect shape, in order to
show COB what an "upstat" org the FSO was. My seniors
were so frantic in hiding every possible flaw, so David
Miscavige couldn’t see it, I had the impression that
they would have to face severe punishment, if Miscavige
would find too many "out-points" in one particular area.
On the day of the inspection I was filing some folders
at about 9 pm, when David Miscavige suddenly came into
my department via the backdoor. He was wearing civil
clothes and was followed by his wife, by CMO-staff, by
Debbie Cook and by other people, who I supposed, were
from Scientology management. He greeted me and I wished
him a good morning and he went directly into the letter
registrar section. He demanded a letter written by an
American letter registrar in order to check it. He got
furious after he learned that we had just two English
speaking letter reges. Finally he got a letter from Judy
Gilbertson. He looked through it and criticized that the
content of the letter would turn it actually into a
HCO-letter and therefore disqualified it as a Div.
2-letter.
After that Miscavige wanted to see a folder
from the CF. He asked for the file of a guy whose last
name was "Rounds" (I forgot the first name). I looked
through the CF and told Miscavige that there were
several folders and asked him if he wanted to have the
"pt-folder" (present time-folder). He said no and that I
should give him an earlier one. While I was looking
through the folders Miscavige noted my short-sightedness
and asked me if I had trouble with my vision. I answered
him that I was short-sighted. When he got the requested
folder, Miscavige took a seat at a desk of the Addresso-Section, opened the folder and read the letter
on top. After few seconds he turned to Debbie Cook, who
stood by in an afraid manner, and told her how
"off-policy" and disgusting that letter was, but that it
had been written "before her time". He told that the
letter registrar of that particular letter had written
to a tennis-club to get in contact with Rounds. He asked
Debbie what Rounds would do now and if he was still
"off-lines" (not doing Scientology-services). Debbie
answered that she didn’t know. Miscavige closed the
folder, stood up and went to the exit. The inspection of
my department obviously came to a fast end. Then
suddenly he turned around and told me: "And you, you
gonna get glasses!" I replied with "Yes, Sir!".
He
turned and walked to the exit-door, when he saw the
backlog of the CF-papers in the boxes which were stored
on tables at the other side of the department. He asked
Debbie, if there would be any unanswered letters from
the public in that boxes. Debbie answered with
"Definitely not!", whereupon Miscavige left the
department. His wife made a picture of the backlog and
then everybody of the inspection group went out.
Miscavige made a whole tour through the FSO and its several
divisions. He also visited the technical divisions, where the
auditing and the Scientology-courses were delivered. The day he
returned to Los Angeles, the technical divisions 4, 4a and 4b
received several telexed orders, "cramming-orders", by the RTC.
It led to an immense crash of the weekly statistics in the
technical area. There was no doubt that David Miscavige was the
source of these orders, which bypassed the whole "official"
management of Scientology.
A few days later I checked the folder of "Rounds", Miscavige
had requested. I found out that Rounds himself had actually
written that letter from the tennis-club to the FSO. I wondered
how Miscavige, the highest Scientologist on earth, could confuse
sender and addressee of a simple letter.
I also received the following information by Sea Org members
who had to deal directly with David Miscavige:
- During an executive meeting in the conference
room of the Coachman Building in Spring of 1992 the
Commanding Officer of the FSO Debbie Cook told us:
"Every time COB comes for a visit to the FSO, the first
thing he asks me, is: ‘How much is your GI?’".
Debbie
Cook used that little story to let us know, how much
pressure she received from her seniors and even from
David Miscavige himself to make the FSO produce at least
2,000,000 $ every week.
- In Spring 1992 all the registrars of the FSO
received a briefing by delegates of the "Central
Marketing Unit" (CMU) of the Scientology management in
the Coachman Building. A woman told us that a big graph
with the weekly GI-figure of the FSO had been made up at
the CMU. The graph showed also each piece of promo that
had been sent out by the FSO every week. One could
therefore compare the effectiveness of the different
promotional campaigns in relation to the Gross Income
that followed weeks later.
She meant further that this
poster stayed in COB’s office for a whole week. With
that remark she wanted to stress, how much devotion
Miscavige applied in an evaluation of the promotional
campaigns of the FSO.
In 1991 Miscavige made an inspection of the
Class-V-organization in Hamburg, which was the biggest non-Sea
Org service organization in Scientology at that time. He was
accompanied by several senior executives of the
Scientology-management. After the inspection he gave the
"Executive Director", Wiebke Hansen, of that organization a
so-called "RTC pass", which meant that her organization would
fully apply "standard tech" and "standard admin". This was
published in an interne Scientology magazine with a picture of
David Miscavige, his juniors and Wiebke Hansen at the front of
the entrance of the "org".
At the beginning of the year 1995 Wiebke Hansen disappeared.
She was replaced by Mark Lizer, a Sea Org staff, who had had the
post of "D/FCCI PO for Call In" at the FSO. In a TV-interview
Ursula Caberta, a known Scientology critic, told that Wiebke
Hansen had falsified her "Gross Income"-statistic by adding the
income of real estate-dealers to it and was therefore removed
from post. Franz Riedl, the spokesman of the "Church of
Scientology Germany" denied the allegation of Caberta in that
interview.
During the year Wiebke Hansen sent a letter to the
"Spiegel" magazine from Los Angeles saying that she had moved
for "spiritual enhancement to sunny California". Wiebke was "New
OT 8" in 1995.
Few weeks ago I met an Ex-Sea Org member from Flag Crew,
Anita Deininger, who worked in the room service of the Fort
Harrison and the Sandcastle for seven months in the last year.
She told me, that in Spring of 1995 Miscavige made an inspection
of the Flag Land Base and its orgs. Few days before the May 9th
event she saw David Miscavige together with Norman Starkey,
"Executive Director Author’s Services International", discussing
with a German staff, the "Senior Case Supervisor", from Hamburg
Org. Few days after a staff from HCO FSO told her that the man
from Hamburg, a "Class VIII Auditor" and a high OT, was at Flag
for correction because he had made serious mistakes on his post.
He further said that David Miscavige had given him the "choice"
of joining the Sea Org by being RPF’ed or getting SP declared.
The man chose the RPF.
In 1992 a scandal happened on the "Base". An already declared
SP (Suppressive Person = a person, expelled from Scientology)
came to the FSO and got "on the tech-lines", that meant he
started services in the FSO. It came finally out, that he was "a
declared one" and he was thrown out.
Few days after the scandal,
Mark Rathbun, "Inspector General Ethics" of the "Religious
Technology Center" came to the FSO to do an investigation. He
resided in the office of the "HCO Area Secretary" (HAS) Beverly
Mannasse and used minor-aged "messengers" as executors of his
orders. The investigation took him one day. The day after 5
people lost their posts: The Senior C/S’ MAA Emil Roest, the
Public MAA Wanda Quinones, the Captain’s MAA and the Director of
Personnel.
In 1992 a new booklet was created by the
Scientology-management. It was designed to be sent to interested
public in order to get them paid for FSO-services and arrived at
Clearwater. This "Advanced Scheduling Registration"-package was
sent out to many publics. Two or three months after its official
start of usage Marc Yager, at that time "Inspector General
Admin" of RTC, demanded a report about the success of that
booklet. My senior, the Dissem. Sec. FSO Rosalynne Harris
ordered me to compile all the responses of the public to that
booklet. She gave the compilation to CO FSO Debbie Cook, which
reported directly to IG Admin.
Mark Yager and Ray Mithoff, at that time IG Admin RTC and IG
Tech RTC, were at Clearwater from 1990 until 1992 at least two
times, to inspect certain areas of the FSO.
From what I experienced at the FSO I can say that Sue Porter
had ultimate power over the FSO and its personnel. Sue Porter
interfered constantly with the dealings of the FSO. She directed
and supervised this organization through the CMO on a daily
basis.
Here are some examples:
- Sue Porter ordered
that the whole FSO Crew was placed under the "Rice and
beans"-Flag Order of Hubbard. The staff of the FSO had
to eat for a certain amount of time nothing else than
rice and beans. Liberty time on Saturdays got cancelled
and the crew didn’t receive any pay. Sue Porter gave
later the order to lift it. That happened three times
from 1990 until 1992.
- Sue Porter personally selected the personnel for
the "Sandcastle"-hotel in Spring of 1992. During the
selection she ordered Stefanie Kuba to the RPF.
- Sue Porter gave me the order to report her every
attempt of a "personnel-rip off" in my department by
other orgs or departments.
- Sue Porter ordered the Dissemination Secretary
and the Flag Representative to post Melanie Burness in
department 5 of the FSO.
- I was part of a "Board Of Investigation", where
three staff of the FSO, including me, had to investigate
a personnel-transfer from two Australian FSO-staff, who
had left the FSO. We had to report directly to Sue
Porter.
The CMO CW was inspecting the FSO on a daily basis. My
department was subject of at least 5 utilization-investigations
by the CMO. When the CMO did their "utilization-surveys", I knew
that they were looking for personnel, whom they would shift from
one area to another. When I asked them, on what orders they were
acting, they answered me most of the time: "On orders by WDC FSO."
When I started on my post as "Director of Procurement" I got
from HCO a "Hat Pack", in which all the instructions and
policies were contained, which were necessary to know. The first
pages of the "Hat Pack" contained so-called "LRH Advices",
telexes Hubbard had sent to the FSO from 1976 until 1982. I was
surprised, when I read them, as I had been told that Hubbard
resigned from managing the FSO in 1975 when the "United States
Base" (USB) in Clearwater was founded, which was later renamed
into "Flag Land Base".
The LRH Advices were direct orders to the
"Commanding Officer" of the FSO or to other senior executives of
the base. Hubbard clearly violated his own policies and Flag
Orders by doing that.
The official representation of the Scientology-management
structure and the distribution of powers within the hierarchy is
a lie. The "tactical mangement level" of Scientology, the Flag
Bureaux, which was supposed to manage the FSO with the programs,
created by the "Senior Exec Strata" got constantly bypassed by
WDC, and especially by WDC FSO, which officially had the purpose
"to create and correct management units". In fact, WDC and RTC
could order anyone directly at the FSO, and they did. In a
personnel dispute, when one of my staff was ripped off by the
CMO due to an order by "Audio Visual Executive International" (AVEI)
I used an order by a "Reports Officer" of RTC directly to get
the guy back in my department.
I made the experience that the
structure of the management of Scientology didn’t play a role,
if someone from the top of the management wanted to get an order
across. RTC and WDC crossed the corporate lines at will and had
the power to do so.
The crossing of corporate lines was not even
an invention of the "new" management. When Hubbard was alive he
did it too.
I experienced Miscavige as the man who was at the
highest command point of Scientology and who determined the
course of management. There was no question for me that
Miscavige had the final say in Scientology.
The Scientology-organization claims to be a religion with a
high ethical awareness. Hubbard wrote many policy-letters about
the subject ethics and within Scientology exists even an own
judicial system. The Sea Organization, the fraternal
organization on top of Scientology, is composed of the most
dedicated Scientologists and should be therefore a treasure of
applied humanity and kindness. Here are some quotes from
different Flag-Orders (FOs) written by Hubbard, which reflect
the claim of the Sea Org best to be a community with the highest
ethical standard on earth:
- "The Sea Organization
is composed of the "aristocracy" of Scientology. These
people alone and on their own are all stars in the sky
of their areas. It is like one of the old regiments of
gentlemen where any private would be, in another but
common regiment, a colonel."
FO 137, 12 September 1967.
- "Our purpose is maintaining the exact degree of
ethics, Scientology technology and policy on the planet.
Our responsibility — the future of mankind. Our business — missions. The Sea Org is an organization of expansion.
And our prize is a sane planet."
FO 1686, 24 December
1968.
- "That organization which functions at a high
level of confront and standard. Its purpose is to get
ethics in on the planet and eventually the universe."
FO
508, 16 March 1968.
- "The basic purpose of the Sea Org is to get in
ethics. It also executes other projects, but all these
are to assist getting in ethics or to assist the Sea Org
itself."
FO 228, 9 October 1967.
These Flag Orders were part of the "Basic Sea Org Member Hat"
and the "Key To Competence"-course. A fresh Sea Org member was
expected to consider them as basic Sea Org guidelines.
If it is
true that the real character of an organization is revealed by
the treatment of its own members, then Scientology and
especially the Sea Org must be classified as highly
schizophrenic, if the above instructions mean anything to the
Sea Org and Scientology of today.
Here are some examples how I experienced Scientology ethics
in application:
On my post as letter registrar I found in several folders
of the Central Files the same obituary notice, which had
been published to the FSO-staff in 1987 and whose back page
was used as a carbon copy for the letters of the registrar,
due to scarcity of paper. The text of the notice read about
as follows:
Senior HCO FLB
Name of the FSO-staff
Key To Life-Supervisor FSO
(name) left his body on ... ... in 1987. He suffered for
several years from a brain tumor, which affected (name)’s
body in a substantial way. Eventually (name) got tired of
having the brain tumor, so he decided to leave the body to
get a new, healthy one. He got assists, which enabled him to
exteriorize and to leave his body completely. (name) was FSO-Staff
from 1979 (?) until 1987. He has helped to establish the Key
To Life-Course in 1986. (name) is soon to be expected on
post again.
Name of the Senior HAS FLB.
I guess it was Vivienne Baxter,
but I am not sure.
The Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) is the penal colony of
the Sea Org. Its members have to wear black uniforms, get a
reduced pay and it is forbidden to them to address other Sea
Org-members. In Clearwater they lived in their own quarters, the
worst of the whole base. Most of the time they worked and lived
totally secluded from the other Sea Org members, except
sometimes you could see one or two at work on the base.
RPFers
have to do hard physical labor the whole day. Any order a RPFer
has received by his senior he has to fulfill. In case he would "backflash",
the Flag Order 87 "Rocks and Shoals", 2 September 1967, would be
applied by his senior: The RPFer has to run around the next
building, until he had "boiled off".
In Clearwater the RPFers
were supposed to move in jogtrot, the whole day.
Additionally RPFers had to "twin up" and use five hours per day for working
on their cases by auditing themselves.
The theory says that
"redemption" is the basic purpose of the existence of the RPF
(FO 3434, 7 January 1974). People were assigned to the RPF
because they had failed on their posts. This failure was caused
solely by the "case" of the person.
RPF-assignments were
regularly published to all FSO-staff. They were printed on
yellow paper like any other publications by the HCO FSO or the
Senior HCO FLB.
Per my observation an assignment to the RPF
lasted at least several months, that meant that the person
assigned to it, had to live for a long time under the above
described conditions.
Sea Org staff from the "Freewinds", who got
RPF’ed, were sent to Clearwater, as the ship, where the highest
OT-level, "New OT 8", was delivered, wasn’t supposed to be
filled with "out-ethics particles" (Scientology-jargon).
How did people get a RPF-assignment? Here are some examples:
- Stefanie Kuba, a
German registrar, who worked in the bookstore to sell
special editions of Hubbard’s books, was found
"unutilized" by the CMO CW one day. While an inspection
WDC FSO Sue Porter ordered her to Flag Crew to work in
the kitchen of the Sandcastle hotel. Stefanie refused
whereupon Sue Porter RPFed her. That happened in Spring
of 1992.
- Jean Nichols was the Director of Income FSO in
1991. She had to book all the money, that the FSO had
made and was supposed to make additional "GI" by "phone regging publics". She made an average-GI of 90,000 $
each week, which was not enough for her seniors. At a
GI-meeting Kim Hickock, "Deputy Flag Case Course
Intensive Product Officer for Gross Income" (D/FCCI PO
for GI), screamed at her, she should knock off her
counter-intentions, when Jeannie had replied, that a
quota of 100,000 $ per week would be unreal for her to
achieve. Jeannie finally gave in, after she was
threatened with an "ethics handling".
Several weeks
later it came out that Jeannie had falsified her
statistics to achieve the 100,000 $ quota. Jeannie blew
from the base, but returned later, as her children and
husband were still in Clearwater. When she came back to
Clearwater, she was immediately transferred to the RPF.
- In 1992 a Class-IX-Auditor was found to have an
affair with a "squirrel" (an ex-Scientologist, who would
do practices similar to Scientology) on her "libs-days".
She was sent immediately to the RPF. Debbie Cook, the CO
FSO, was furious about that scandal at a staff meeting
and screamed that the Auditor would receive a very harsh
ethics treatment.
- Wanda Quinones, "Public Master At Arms" (Public MAA=Ethics Officer in the Sea Org), was removed from her
post after an investigation by Mark Rathbun. In her
"Committee of Evidence" (a Scientology court) she
mentioned that she would prefer to be sent to the RPF,
due to her performance on post and the lack of training
she had.
Debbie Cook told the FSO-staff at a meeting,
that they should tell the publics, who would ask for
Wanda, that she was doing fulltime-training and was
therefore off-post. That happened in 1992.
- Mike Kehrli, was the Commanding Officer of the
Renovations Project FLB in 1991. His main duty was to
build the new "Sandcastle Delivery Building" for "New OT
VI and VII", which was to be opened on the May 9th
event. The building should be financed solely by funds
of the FSO, which wasn’t flowing in an amount big enough
to get the project done on time. Mike Kehrli was forced
to make debts of 2,000,000 $.
At the event in May the
building was finished as planned, but few days after
Mike Kehrli was sent to the RPF in Los Angeles. The CMO
had looked into the financial situation of "Renos" and
found Mike Kehrli guilty.
- The "Senior Case Supervisor Crew FLB" (Senior
C/S Crew FLB) Dusty Rhodes was sent to the RPF in 1990,
after it was found out, that he made a lot of technical
errors in his auditing-programs. He stayed for almost a
year in the RPF, before he returned on the post of a
Class-IX-Auditor of the FSO.
- Emma Schammehorn happened to be the "Medical
Liaison Officer" (MLO) of the FLB until 1992. During an
investigation of the whole base the CMO CW found Emma
and the head of the "Cadet school" ( the Sea Org school
in Clearwater) guilty of "not doing their posts". They
were sent to the RPF immediately. After few days, the
RPF-Assignment got cancelled by a higher CMO-staff.
- A Class-XII-Auditor made several mistakes in his
auditing in January (?) 1992. As he was classified once
by Hubbard himself as "Dangerous Auditor" he was sent
directly to the RPF. When I left the FSO in July 1992,
he was still in it.
- In 1991 the sprinkler-system in one room of the
Coachman Building went off. The man from Flag Crew,
whose task had been to supervise the system was sent to
the RPF.
- In 1988 or 1989 the "Qualifications Secretary
FSO" (Qual Sec FSO) was sent to the RPF after a
Committee of Evidence, mainly because of the following
reasons:
a) negligence of her post,
b) she had failed
to study the different guidelines of her post ("Full
hat") although she had been on that post for a while. In
1991 she "graduated" from the RPF and returned to the
FSO as Ls-Auditor.
- Frank McCall was a Sea Org member since its
beginnings in 1967. During the eighties he established a
"Sea Org museum", which was located in the Bank of
Clearwater in 1990, before it got transferred to the
"book warehouse". Evelyn Wartha told me, that Frank
McCall was sent to the RPF, because he had had arguments
with the CMO over certain points. Since that time the
CMO would try to sabotage his museum. He had to get a
written order by Diana Hubbard, which placed the Sea Org
museum directly under the "Int. management", to prevent,
that his project would get constantly ripped off of
personnel by the CMO CW.
When Frank McCall was RPF’ed,
he was nearly 60 years old.
- The SMI-Expansion office FLB had the purpose to
open pioneer-countries for Scientology by establishing
missions in those areas. These were financed through the
selling of "Mission Starter Packages" ( a set of
Scientology-books, -films and -tapes.
As the sales were
bad in 1991 and the "CO SMI Expansion office" dared to
falsify her statistics, she was sent to the RPF in the
"Pac"-area (Los Angeles).
- In 1991 a lot of propaganda was made for the new delivery
building, which was planned to be built in front of the Fort
Harrison-hotel. 35,000,000 $ should be sponsored by the public into
the "Religious Trust Project" to finance the construction.
Several experienced Sea Org member formed the project. They travelled
through the United States and "regged" the most wealthy
Scientologists.
In Fall 1991 the whole project was cancelled. The I/Cs of the
enterprise were RPF’ed and sent to Los Angeles. Eva Zacharias, who was
part of it, told me that the regges created a lot of "bounced cheques"
and falsified their statistics.
In 1992 a new project with new personnel was created. Its name changed
now to "Super Power Project".
I witnessed it almost every few weeks that a staff member of
the FSO or from another org on the base left the Sea Org because
either he was thrown out or he "blew", as he or she couldn’t
stand the living conditions in the Sea Org anymore. The change
of personnel was very high. In 1994 I got a copy of the FSO-magazine
"Source". On one page was a photo, on which all the FSO-staff
were shown. Just 50 % of the persons, who were pictured, I had
seen before.
Here are some examples of persons who were thrown out of the
Sea Org:
- Libero Pietracupa was
the CF-Officer in department 5 until 1992. He was
married to an Italian FLB-staff, who worked in the Cadet
Org. She became pregnant in 1991. Libero and his wife
didn’t tell that fact to the HCO, because they feared
that they would be sent immediately to a Class-V-Org
somewhere in the world. In late 1991 it came out and the
HCO forced Libero to think about a solution. He was
told, that he and his wife had created a serious problem
for the FSO. Libero got more and more desperate about
the situation.
At the beginning of the year ‘92 his wife
gave birth to the baby. Soon after Libero, his wife and
his child were thrown out of the Sea Org. Although
Libero had worked several years day and night in the CF,
the FSO didn’t bother to help him in some way.
Eventually he found a job in a store in Clearwater.
- A Class-IX-Auditor, who "graduated" from the
RPF, was thrown out of the Sea Org in 1991, because "he
had made jokes about the NOTs-material while being in
session with a Pre-OT". This was heard through the
"listening-in-system" by one "Case Supervisor" (C/S). A
lot of auditing rooms in the FSO were bugged to allow
the CSes to monitor the auditing sessions.
- Crystal C., the daughter of Linda M., was a
teenager in 1992. She got "beached" (thrown out of the
Sea Org without a Committee of Evidence), because it was
found out, that she had done petting with a staff from
the CMO.
- Lisa B. joined the Sea Org in 1990 and got
promoted for the post as "D/FCCI PO for Call In". Few
weeks after her appointment she disappeared. Several
months later Lisa B. was officially thrown out of the
Sea Org. In an "Ethics Order", which was published to
all the staff of the FSO (!), it was written, that Lisa
had blown from her post and gone "Out 2 D" (she had sex)
with several men. She confessed that in an ethics
interrogation, when she came back to the FSO.
- Victor D’Andrea, a former professor of a
university in Venezuela, joined the Sea Org together
with his wife in 1990. He worked in the "Department of
Promotion and Marketing" (Dept. 4a) of the FSO. When his
wife got pregnant, they were thrown out.
- Ed Smith was a Scientologist for 20 years. He
joined the Sea Org in 1991 and got transferred in my
department as an exchange for the "Letter Registrar I/C"
Aaron Tweddell, who got promoted to the CMO. Ed was 60
years old and couldn’t keep up with the daily demands
for a high production. So he got fired from the HCO FSO.
- Ken Kramer, an American, joined the Sea Org in
1990. He had been recruited by Dee Ann Prince, later Dee
Ann Roest, the "Sea Org Recruiter" of the FSO. He told
me, while being on the EPF, that he had taken Angeldust
several years ago and that he was worried, if he
actually was able to join the Sea Org. He had admitted
his drug use right from the beginning to his recruiter
and he had written it on his application form for the
Sea Org. Dee Ann Prince told him, that he still would be
able to join the Sea Org.
Ken spent two months on the EPF, working eight hours a day. In late September he got
thrown out by the "Fitness Board FLB" because of his use
of Angeldust.
- Arlene Rich and her sister were living in
Clearwater and had been publics of the FSO for several
years. Arlene was new "New OT V", her sister even "New
OT VIII". In 1990 they joined the Sea Org. Arlene found
her way in the Sea Org and even climbed on the post of
"Technical Secretary for Division 4 a" for a while. Her
sister however experienced several difficulties. I saw
her one time having a nervous breakdown before a staff
meeting. She finally was "routed off" the Sea Org in
1991.
- Lorenzo Delzanno, a Swiss FSO-staff, was married
to the sister of Desiree Matlock. She worked until 1991
as receptionist of Flag Crew in the Fort Harrison.
During that year she got severe physical problems,
mainly at the region of her heart, which made it
necessary for her to take certain medications and to
spend more time off post. Lorenzo had to finance the
medications, as Flag Crew didn’t pay it. In 1992 she had
to leave the Sea Org, as she couldn’t work anymore.
- Zamira Gebhardt-Seele was a Clear and 60 years
old, when she joined the Sea Org in 1990. She hardly was
able to make it through the EPF, but finally she
graduated and started in department 5 as "Addresso
Clerk". When her best friend was transferred to Hamburg
Org as "Flag Service Consultant", she had a breakdown,
as she felt now very isolated within the Sea Org.
She
got very ill and couldn’t work anymore. She was laying
the whole day in bed at her room at the Hacienda, as she
couldn’t move without help. She got visited twice a day
by the MLO Emma Schammehorn, who brought her food and
the medication she needed and which Zamira had to buy
from her own money.
In Spring of 1992 her son, Stephan Gebhard-Seele, who had taken approximately 800,000 $
from her in order to finance his OT-levels, complained
in a letter to the CO FSO Debbie Cook, that the Sea Org
would not care about his mother.
The letter created some
disturbance. Soon after a flight to Germany was booked
and Zamira was flown to Germany in company with Eileen
Haworth, a FSO-staff and wife of Richard Haworth, the
"PR-Secretary" of OSA EUS.
The flight-tickets were both
paid by Zamira.
- A Mexican woman who had joined the Sea Org in
1990 went pregnant in 1991. Few weeks after it had been
known to the HCO, she was thrown out of the Sea Org.
I want to emphasize here that all these people had given up
their prior existence completely, when they joined the Sea Org.
They had given up their jobs, their houses, etc. A lot of staff,
like me, came from foreign countries. As long as they were able
to function and produce for a minimal wage, they were welcome in
the Sea Org. When they "became a problem", they got fired almost
immediately.
L. Ron Hubbard developed its own method of jurisdiction
during the sixties. Like the auditing technology he accomplished
a detailed work of various ethics-actions, penalties and even
Scientology-courts. The ethics actions alone, which are to be
applied "in degree of severity", contain 36 steps (HCO Policy
Letter of 29 April 1965, Issue III, "Ethics Review").
The idea
behind this internal jurisdiction procedures reads it, as if
Hubbard had actually looked for a human way to settle disputes:
"The jurisprudence employed must be competent, acceptable to the
members of the group and effective in accomplishing good order
for the group and personal rights and security for its
individual members. Justice used for revenge, securing
advantages for a clique increases disorder.
Justice should serve
as a means of establishing guilt or innocence and awarding
damages to the injured. The fact of its use should not
pre-establish guilt or award. Justice which by its employment
alone establishes an atmosphere of guilt or greed is harmful and
creates disorder. ... I have been working for some time on a
system of justice acceptable to Scientologists and have evolved
one in Committees of Evidence. These work excellently by actual
test and satisfy the requirements of justice..."
(HCO Policy
Letter of 7 September 1963, "Committees of Evidence -
Scientology Jurisprudence, Administration of").
As a staff member of the FSO I participated in two Committees
of Evidence (Comm Evs). I also have further knowledge about
other Comm Evs, as the appointments and "findings" of most of
them got published and distributed to all the staff of the FSO.
- Kaspar Hunziker — His
post was "Overseas I/C" of the FSC Int. Office. He had
to control the production of several FSC-offices in
Europe and Australia. As the production of these offices
lacked for several weeks (they made not enough GI),
Kaspar received a Comm Ev in Fall of 1990.
I got
appointed as a member to that Comm Ev. The Comm Ev
itself was composed of four persons: The Chairman Karen
Paradiso, the secretary (a staff from the "Staff
Training Org" FLB), me and another member. The Comm Ev.
convened and exchanged the ethics- and personal files of
Kaspar. Every participant had to read them first, before
we could interrogate him. We further discussed the
charges against Kaspar, which were listed on the
appointment-sheet for this Comm Ev by HCO.
The charges
were relatively common, but also very vague in such a
case: "Committing a problem", "Negligence of post",
"Violation of KSW No. 5: Applying the technology", etc..
Karen, the Chairman, was very determining at our first
meeting. I had the impression, that the verdict for
Kaspar was already clear: Guilty. I was told that he was
already removed from the post, so there was no choice
that we could find him not guilty.
I got his ethics- and personal file, which I had to read until the next
meeting. When I opened the ethics-file at home I got
quite a shock. It contained several pages in which
Kaspar had described sexual experiences in detail, which
were looked at as "Out 2-D" (Overts on the second
dynamic). He must have written them up, while being in
an assigned "lower condition". The purpose of such
self-incriminations was to get rid of the negative
consequences these overts had in the long run
("overt-motivator sequence").
Nevertheless once these
self-accusations were written up, they stayed in the
ethics-folder forever and here I had a result of it in
my own hands: Kaspar’s "write-up" was about two years
old.
But that wasn’t the only thing in his ethics-file.
There were several ethics-chits or "Knowledge Reports",
written mainly by his senior Bo Wennberg, the FSC Int.,
in which he listed several "out-points" of Kaspar’s
performance on post.
From his personal file I could see Kaspar’s career in the Sea Org. He had held several
posts in the Sea Org and even in the
Scientology-management before. He was Commanding Officer
of the "International Training Org" and later even
"Establishment Officer RTC". But he stayed on these
posts regularly just for a year or for a few months.
There was quite an inconsistence there. I found it
strange at that time, that the ethics-record of his time
in Los Angeles, wasn’t in the folder.
When Kaspar came
for the first hearing, he made it very easy for us. He
pleaded guilty on all points. Nevertheless Karen
obviously wanted a higher punishment than just a removal
from post which already had been happened. She told that
she wanted him to do MEST-Work (inferior labour) so he
would change his attitude, which she didn’t like.
At the
next meeting, which was held at 11 pm on another day,
Karen attacked Kaspar for his bad performance on post
and demanded a more far-reaching self-accusation from
him in front of the Comm Ev. But Kaspar began to defend
himself the first time. As we saw that the discussion
would complicate the whole procedure and we wanted to go
to bed, we sent Kaspar out of the room and discussed it.
The secretary objected that Kaspar had already pleaded
guilty on all points and that the interrogation should
be terminated. We agreed finally and made a commendation
for the "Convening Authority", the "Continental Justice
Chief East US" (CJC EUS). We found Kaspar guilty and
commended a removal from his post. We submitted it the
next day, but we never heard anything back on it.
- Linda M. — Brian McCarthy came in Summer of 1991
to the FSO. He was the head of a mission from Los
Angeles, which had the purpose of "manning up"
department 5, in which I was working. He had to recruit
at least five letter registrars, which wasn’t that easy.
He had to recruit people, who were willing and able to
join the Sea Org. They had to leave their job, sell
their apartment or house and sign up for a billion
years contract.
In his search for prospects he found
Linda’s file in the HCO. Linda had been SP-declared
(SP=Suppressive Person) and expelled from Scientology.
He looked into the procedures that had led to the
declare and found several outpoints, so he spoke with CJC EUS Elyssa Alexander, a fifteen- or sixteen year old
girl at that time, and let her convene a Committee of
Evidence. The members of the Comm Ev were all staff of
department 5.
We looked into her folders and found that
she had went two times on staff at the FSO and every
time she had gotten into trouble with men. She had
engaged in relationships while being in the Sea Org and
had ended up being thrown out of the Sea Org. On her
first post as recruiter she had signed up "degenerated
beings" (dbs) which also led to her dismissal. It didn’t
look very good for her. I interviewed some security
personnel about Linda and they confirmed our first
impression. They said that Linda had created a mess
within the FSO and within the Clearwater
Scientology-community when she had been a public, after
being in the Sea Org. One security-guy told me that he
had met her daughter in the middle of the night and that
she had looked like a prostitute, although she had been
just nine years old at that time.
At our first
interrogation I decided to confront Linda with all these
facts the hard way. Linda cried and told us that she
would know, that she had been "out-ethics" and that she
had changed now. Nevertheless we found her still
"suppressive" and submitted it as a commendation to CJC.
It got refused. We changed the text, but we still got it
back.
I spoke with Fransyl Buchanan, the "Director of
Inspections and Reports FSO" (Dir. I’n’R FSO) of the HCO
about it, because we didn’t know what we had done wrong.
Fransyl had a much simplier approach for that whole
matter: "Just declare this bitch!" But that didn’t help
us at all. Finally after the fourth or fifth meeting
about the findings, we finally recognized that we had to
find Linda innocent, because Brian McCarthy needed her
as a recruit for department 5.
At that time things went
easy without us. Brian discovered that the
"International Justice Chief" (IJC) never signed the
SP-Declare of Linda. So it was unvalid. Brian dissolved
our Comm. Ev. and lifted the "Non-Enturbulation Order",
which was the ethics action prior to the SP-Declare by
getting Linda’s acceptance of the "General Amnesty" of
1991. Linda became a FSO-staff member.
She stayed in the
Sea Org until the beginning of 1992. As she was still
working in a flower shop and living in her apartment,
when she joined the Sea Org, she got quite a pressure
from HCO to join the Sea Org completely. In January 1992
she finally moved into the Sea Org-dorms at the
Hacienda. She also found a replacement for her job at
the flower shop.
In the meantime I had some problems
with her, as she didn’t keep her schedules and was still
fighting a strange battle with one of the security men,
Hughes. When I asked her about it, she told me, that
Hughes had killed her father in an earlier life. I
reported this to my senior, Rosalynne Harris and she
told me, that I should write it up and send it to HCO.
The D/FCCI PO for GI Kim Hickock told me later, that HCO
had found out, that Linda had received a
Lithium-preparation years ago and this would be the
proof that she was "nuts", as Lithium would destroy the
brain.
Linda got finally off-loaded. At the end I met
Arthur Baxter, the Chief of the Security. He told me,
that Linda’s SP-Declare was signed by "Deputy
International Justice Chief" and was therefore valid
from the beginning.
- At one evening in
Fall of 1990 I left my department at the Coachman
Building after a working day, when two persons were
entering the building. One was a FSO-staff from a
technical division, the other was John Travolta.
Travolta staggered and looked as he had been beaten up.
The tech-guy tried to soothe him: "It’s going to be all
right, o.k.?"
Two days later we received a
condition-order about Richard Reiss, "Senior Case
Supervisor FSO". He was assigned "Treason" and got
removed from post, because he had messed up a celebrity.
He had neglected his actual post, because "he was too
busy auditing". He allowed the celebrity to end the
auditing-session, which was a basic Auditing-failure.
Reiss was sentenced to MEST-Work and a re-train of the
"Class-VIII-Course", "star-rate". Richard Reiss left for
Los Angeles, after he had done some hard work on the
estates, which had the purpose "of getting him back into
present time" (pt).
Few months later he climbed back on
the post as Senior C/S FSO and stayed there until John Eastment, "Senior C/S International", busted him from
post again, while doing a thorough inspection of the FSO
in Spring of 1992. He found the course-rooms in the FSO
empty, and after he fired the "Director of Correction"
from her post, he removed Richard Reiss and promoted his
wife Carla Reiss for the highest tech-post in the FSO.
Today the post of Senior C/S FSO is again held by
Richard Reiss.
- The "LRH Communicator
FSO" Andrea Lettieri was dissatisfied with his post in
1992. He got comm. eved and ordered to Flag Crew, where
he worked as a waiter at the Sandcastle Restaurant.
- Desiree Matlock, a
fifteen year old girl was put on the post as "Tours-Administrator"
of Dept. 17 b. She had to administrate the expenses of
the FSO-Tours, an enterprise, that promoted the FSO
through events around the world. The costs for the
Tours-department were about 100,000 $ a week and Desiree
was supposed to "handle" the spending of the money. She
failed, was removed and placed in a lower condition. She
had to do amends and was put on the post of a
receptionist in the Public-MAA-area. Again her seniors
weren’t satisfied with her performance, she got removed
and placed in a lower condition again.
Finally she ended
up as a letter registrar in department 5. When I left in
July 1992, she was again in lower conditions, which had
been assigned and followed up by the HCO.
- At the end of 1991
Christian Winter, the "Bookstore-officer FSO", had one
time a bad week regarding his book-sales. On Friday
night after his working day he was thrown into the pool
of the Hacienda in full uniform by his senior, the
"Director of Publications", because of his low
statistics.
- Christina Martinez
was the Tech Sec. 4 b. She was responsible for the
delivery of "New OT VI and VII" at the Sandcastle.
During 1991 only few OT VIIs graduated, so she falsified
the statistics, not to get into more trouble. It came
out, Christina got comm eved and demoted. Debbie Cook
told the executives in a meeting, that she was happy to
have Christina off her post, as she had found her always
strange.
- In early 1992, when
the GI of the FSO repeatedly under the 1,500,000 $-mark,
Kim Hickock, the D/FCCI PO for GI was fired from her
post. Together with Rosalynne Harris, the Dissem. Sec
FSO, Paul Hickock, the Director of Registration and
Ginger Aguilar, the 16 year old Director of
Publications, she was assigned a lower condition, had to
do amends and landed at the end on a lower post in the
hierarchy of the FSO.
Kim’s new post was "Deputy FSC
Int. West US". She had to run the different FSCs in
California and make them produce a lot of money. After
few weeks she was assigned to the "EPF Part 2". In the
Condition Order that followed it was stated that Kim had
told "entheta" about the FSO (she was critical about the
FSO) to her juniors in L.A. over the phone, which caused
a collapse of the FSC WUS-GI-statistic. She got assigned
Treason and had to do the EPF again.
After she had
graduated from the EPF Part 2 she got posted in the
technical area as "Director of Processing".
- In 1992 the GI of the
FSO reached in one week only 1,100,000 $. When it looked
in the next week, that the FSO "wouldn’t pull it off",
all the staff were placed under the "Rice and
beans"-order. We didn’t get any pay for three weeks and
could only eat rice and beans twice a day.
In the last
week I was so hungry I couldn’t think about anything
else but food. I was tired the whole day and wasn’t able
to think straight. I still had to work sometimes through
the whole night to keep my Central Files in shape, but I
used this opportunity to go to the kitchen in the
Elks-Building and get a piece of bread.
The "Rice and
beans"-Order got finally lifted, as WDC FSO Sue Porter
obviously recognized, that the GI wouldn’t rise with a
starving FSO-Crew.
- A teenager, who was
staff of the FSO, made a harmless joke about David
Miscavige in 1992. My senior, Dissem. Sec. Matt Pesch,
wanted to assign him the condition "Treason" for that. I
interfered and could prevent that the boy was punished.
I told him later that he shouldn’t make any jokes about
the "Chairman of the Board".
- My roommate Timmo
Graeber, had the post of "Flag Banking Officer FSO".
This was a very difficult post as he had to deal with
millions of dollars. His senior, the "Finance Director
FLB" Sonny Klinsiek didn’t support, supervised or
briefed him properly , but screamed and terrorized the
hell out of him. Timmo failed on that post, got removed
and received a Comm Ev. In the Comm Ev under the
supervision of Chairman "Flag Representative FSO" Angela
Quirino Timmo defended himself by arguing, that his
senior hadn’t told him properly what to do. In the
recommendation Angie Quirino stated that Timmo had
blamed his senior for his own failure on post.
Timmo was
ordered to do "MEST-Work" and was put on a post of the
room service of Flag Crew after he made his
"conditions".
- I witnessed it two
times that couples were placed under a "Separation
order", which didn’t allowed it to them to see or speak
each other. Both times the reason for the separation
order was the fact, that one of the two wanted to leave
the Sea Org. In the order it was always stated, that the
separation should help both parts not to get enturbulated by each other.
- During the year 1992
I was part of several executive meetings, which were
being held at the fifth floor of the Coachman Building.
As the GI in those days was not high enough, the CO FSO
screamed at us. She roared that we wouldn’t deserve it
to be in the Sea Org, that we should make "our fucking
quotas", etc. She wasn’t very shy in using profanities.
She also used to pick one of us to make him utterly
wrong in front of the whole group. Her favorite was Bo
Wennberg, the FSC Int.
Peter Mousiol, who had to
represent several times the "CO SMI Expansion Office" at
the Flag Coordination Council at the Westcoast Building,
told me that Janet Herring, the CO FLB and Debbie’s
direct senior would scream at her during these meetings.
When I was accidentally one time at the WB Building and
this meeting took place, I listened at the door.
Actually I could hear Janet screaming at Debbie.
When
senior execs from L.A. came to the FSO, they treated
Debbie sometimes like a little child. While the
inspection of David Miscavige I could see that Debbie,
who was standing right next to him, was full of fear.
Screaming at juniors was common at the FSO. I got
screamed by Debbie Cook, Rosalynne Harris, Matt Pesh,
GIEI Kathy Lemmer, a senior executive from CMU, a senior
executive from Flag Bureaux, etc.
I screamed myself at
my juniors, at Franco Carbognin, at Guillermo Colin, at
Judy Gilbertson, at Lorenzo Delzanno, etc.
One day in
1992 a young letter registrar, Crystal C. didn’t follow
my orders. She was just 15 years old. I tried to break
her will by punishing her: She had to sort out files in
the filthy book warehouse, who had been dumped there in
1987.
- At the book
warehouse I found dozens and dozens of SP-Declare
folders. I studied them at the beginning of 1992, when I
had to do other things at the warehouse. I read them and
didn’t have the impression that these people, all of
them Ex-Sea Org-staff, happened to be bad or vicious
people. I could see, that they just tried to do their
posts as good as possible. When it didn’t they got
desperate, then they got resigned and in the end they
blew from their posts, which was punished from the Sea
Org by declaring them "Suppressive".
- Three times a day a
muster for all the FSO-staff of took happen at the
auditorium in the Fort Harrison. We had to stand in line
by divisions, so that the MAAs could check if all the
staff were present. They would call our names from a
list. We had to answer, whereupon the MAAs marked off
the names of the persons who were present.
In 1992 an
announcement was published by the HCO. It said that if a
staff was found three times not present at a muster, he
would automatically receive a "Court of Ethics" and it
would lead to the assignment of the condition "Treason".
The staff member had then to do amends, make up a
self-accusation and wouldn’t receive any pay for the
time he was in a lower condition.
- Kitty Georgius was a
registrar of the department 6 in Division 2 of the FSO.
She made an average GI of about 100,000 -150,000 $ per
week. During some weeks in early 1992 the GI of the FSO
was around the 1,1 and 1,3 Million dollar-mark. The
pressure to make more money was therefore very high.
When Kitty made in one week just about 90,000 $ an
investigation by HCO found out, that she was reading
novels and drinking coffee at night.
Debbie Cook, CO FSO,
was screaming in front of the registrars and later in
front of the whole crew about Kitty and disparaging her
in front of the group. She said, she could place a
bottle on the desk instead of Kitty sitting there and
the public would still pay the same amount of money.
Kitty received a Court of Ethics and a lower condition.
- In the beginning of
1992 Debbie Cook told the FSO-staff during a meeting,
that the FSO must find its real condition as an org, if
it wants to pull the statistics off. It led to a
discussion, in which the FSO-staff assigned themselves as
a group the condition of "Confusion". The first step of
this condition was "to find out where you are".
At the
next weekend noone from the FSO was allowed to have
liberty-time.
- To "man up" the
Sandcastle Hotel the CMO CW found Evelyn Wartha, who was
working with Frank McCall in the Sea Org museum,
"unutilized". They gave her the order to work in the
kitchen of the Sandcastle and threatened her with a
RPF-assignment, if she wouldn’t follow it.
Evelyn could
leave finally the Sandcastle and return to the museum,
after she had written a complaint to Diana Hubbard, who
safeguarded the museum-project.
- Martina W. was only
15, when she got promoted for the post of a
"Establishment Officer" for the "Public Contact
Division" in Fall of 1991. Few weeks after her post-assigment,
she was pulled off and put on MEST-Work.
In the
Condition-Order, which was published to all the FLB-staff
it was told, that Martina had went "out-2 D" (she had
sex with another staff) with several minors and was
therefore removed.
- In the Fall of 1991
a "General Amnesty" was announced to all Scientologists.
Everybody, even the ones with a bad ethics-record could
come up clean and revealed from all overts against
Scientology. Everybody in the FSO was forced to do a
write-up of all overts they had done against
Scientology. These declarations of self-accusations were
submitted then to the HCO.
- James Raisis worked
in Division 3, the "Treasury-Division" of Flag Crew. He
had to do all the purchasing for the FSO and Flag Crew.
As the FSO and FC had an immense budget, James was
completely overloaded with work. In the year 1991 he
made some mistakes and didn’t purchase enough food for
the staff, which led to a Comm Ev for James.
James got a
lower condition-assignment and had to do amends.
- Fred Siewert was put
on the post as "Director of Records, Assets and Materiel
FSO" (Dir. RAM FSO) in 1991. He stayed there until it
came out, that he had falsified his statistics. He got
comm ev’ed and placed on a sales-post in the book store,
after he finished the usual condition-assignments.
He
stayed there few weeks until it was found out that he
had "false stats" again. He got comm ev’ed and landed
finally on the post of a "tech page" in Division 4.
- John Danilovich
happened to be the "Chief Officer FSO" in 1990. This was
a very high post within the FSO, his direct senior was
Debbie Cook.
He also got orders from the management in
Los Angeles. Besides his job of supervising his area,
John had the task of getting certain programs done from
the management in Los Angeles (f. e. 339R-programs).
Those programs and also most of the orders contained
various points John had to fulfill by a certain time. If
he didn’t report on time, he would be in trouble.
John
missed it a few times to report back on time, so he got
"automatically" removed from his post. It was a running
joke in the FSO, that John D. was the first staff of the
FSO, who got removed by a computer, as the removal of
John was recommended by a computer-program of the
management.
- Simon Fuchs, a
waiter of the Hibiscus-restaurant in the Fort Harrison
told me in 1992, that the Commanding Officer Flag Crew
got removed from her post. She was additionally punished
by an assignment to the post of a "Deputy Garbage In
Charge". She had to care about the garbage, which was
the most inferior work at the FLB.
- In 1990 I was in the
HCO of the FSO at Coachman Building in the second floor.
I saw Adam Dunn, MAA, pushing Bernardo Atriano, HCO
Receptionist, in a very aggressive way against a wall.
Bernardo wasn’t following Adam’s orders.
- Tristan Buchanan,
"Supercargo FSO", told the Captain’s MAA in 1991, that
he had had a physical fight with Victor D’Andrea, staff
of the department 4 a.
- In 1991 in a dispute Libero Pietracupa and Lorenzo Delzanno, both staff of
department 5, screamed at each other and finally
clashed, before they could be separated by other staff
of the department.
- In late 1990 as a
"Director of Department 5" I physically attacked Flor
Hellberg and one week later Lorenzo Delzanno. They were
"backflashing" and weren’t following my orders, so I
tried to discipline them by physical means.
- The "Director of
Publications FSO" told me several times in 1991 and 1992
that he had physical fights with Harvey Jacques, the
"Planetary Dissemination I/C". His senior, the Dissem.
Sec. Matt Pesch agreed to use physical force in the
attempt to break Harvey’s will. Harvey was seen by the
seniors as eccentric and hard to supervise.
- When Brian McCarthy
was on his mission in department 5 he had difficulties
with the "Director of Procurement", Flor Hellberg.
Mainly she didn’t comply with his orders, he wanted her
to follow. One day I saw her sitting at her desk and
Brian standing directly in front of her. He was
screaming at the top of his lungs directly in her face.
I had never heard anyone scream like that. It sounded as
if he wanted to blast her against the wall behind her.
Flor got later removed from Brian and I became her
successor.
- Paul Miller, a
registrar from department 6, had a sleep problem. He
often fell asleep during "reg-cycles" and created by
doing that "a flap on public lines". Although the "Dir.
of Registration" Paul Hickock was often sympathetic with
Paul, he beat him from time to time to punish him for
such mistakes.
- In a "Board of
Investigation" (B of I), which I had to do for WDC FSO
together with Paul Ferguson, the Shipping Officer FSO,
and another staff from the FSO in 1991, we had to
investigate the recruitment of two FSO-staff members,
who "joined" the FSO in Australia.
It came out that
these staff, who were earlier Scientology-staff in
Sydney, had been physically attacked and dragged out of
their offices, after they had refused to join the FSO.
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