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Declaration of Martin Ottmann [14 Jun 1996]

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DECLARATION OF MARTIN OTTMANN

I) PREMISE

I, Martin Ottmann, am a witness in the case before the Superior Court

of the State of California, in and for the County Los Angeles, known

as „Uwe Geertz and Steven Fishman vs. Church of Scientology

International et. al.“, Case No. BC 122 467.

I am a German citizen, 30 years of age and I am living in the town of

Stuttgart of the German state Baden-Württemberg. From 1990 until 1992

I was a staff member of the Scientology- organization „Flag Service

Organization, Inc.“ in Clearwater, Florida.

Mr. Fishman and Mr. Geertz asked me to give an account about my

experiences with Scientology and the Sea Org for their case, which I

want to do hereby.

II) ACCOUNT OF MY EXPERIENCES WITH SCIENTOLOGY AND THE SEA

ORGANIZATION

List Of Contents:

A) Brief Description Of My Scientology Career

B) The Managing Of The Flag Service Org In Theory And Practice

C) How Scientology Ethics Was Applied

D) Nervous Breakdowns, Collapses, Etc.

E) The Politics Of Control Within The Sea Org

F) The Term „End Of Cycle“

G) The Campaign Against Time Magazine

H) „Fair Game“ Or The Designated „Handling“ Of „Squirrels“

I) The Fear Of A Raid

J) The Scientology Theory Of A World Conspiracy

K) My Personal Opinion About Scientology

L) List Of Attached Documents

A) Brief Description Of My Scientology Career

The Start

In 1989 I was living in Stuttgart, Germany. I had a job as a

Chemical-technical Assistant and worked in a little laboratory. My

hobby was playing saxophone, which I practiced a lot.

One day my Saxophon-teacher Albert Lee lent me the Dianetics-book,

which I read within a few days. In the back of the book some

„Dianetics Centers“ located in Germany were listed. I chosed one in

Munich and wrote them a letter, saying I was interested in getting

„Auditing“, the Scientology-Therapy. Few days later I got a call from

a man of this organization, who convinced me to come to Munich for

auditing as soon as possible. Two weeks later I drove to Munich to get

10 hours „Book-1-Auditing“, which cost me 200,-DM (=120 $). After the

Book-1-Auditing I was convinced by two registrars of the

Scientology-organization (Scientology Kirche Bayern e.V.), which was

located directly next to the Dianetics-Center, to buy 37.5 hours „Life

Repair-Auditing“, worth of 5,000 $. I didn’t have that much money on

my bankaccount, so they persuaded me to take a loan from a bank. The

next day I dorve back to Stuttgart to get a bank-credit of 6,000 $,

which I completely used for the Life Repair and the „Purification

Rundown“, another Scientology-process consisting of taking vitamins,

jogging and doing sauna.

At the end of the Life Repair I became accustomed to the idea of „past

lives“, as I was reading the Scientology-book „Have You Lived Before

This Life“ at that time, so one day, while I was getting auditing and

„going back in time“, I thought I was looking at an atomic blitz. The

auditor asked me in a repetitve way what it was, I was looking at.

Then I told him that I had the idea, that the light I saw was the

explosion of the atom bomb over Nagasaki in Japan and that I had been

a survivor of that incident „in my last lifetime“. The auditor told me

that „my needle was floating“ (of the E-meter), which was a kind of

acknowlegdement, that my „cognition“ was relevant. That was the end of

my „Life Repair“. I got later a certificate about the successfull

completion of that „rundown“.

Being A Scientology Public

Until December 1989 I received the further auditing steps:

Interiorisation-Rundown, Objectives Rundown, Scientology-Drug-Rundown

and the Clear Certainty Rundown (CCRD). After I had finished the CCRD

I was told that I was not clear. Until that time I had spent

approximately 20,000 $ for Scientology auditing and books. After the

Munich org had recognized that I couldn’t make up more money to buy my

next auditing steps, they lost their interest in my person. At that

time I believed that I had lived thousands of „lifetimes“ before and

that I actually came from outerspace to earth, 3,876 years ago.

In March 1990 I got contacted by a staff member of the Stuttgart org,

Alfred Löw, who wanted me to get back „on lines“. He persuaded me to

do the „Mini-money-Course“ (MMC) in order to solve my financial

problems. Besides the MMC I bought the „Basic Study Manual“ and the

„Student Hat“. Instead of solving it my financial situation started to

get really bad. In May 1990 I took another credit from another bank

and spent about money for the „L-Rundowns“ (another auditing step) at

the „Flag Service Organization“ (FSO) and for membership-donations to

the „International Association of Scientologists“ (IAS). Until July

1990 I had spent approximately 50,000 $ for Scientology and had 40,000

$ worth of debts. At that time a recruitment-mission from the Flag

Service Organization came to Stuttgart, who were supposed to hire

Scientologists for the „Sea Org“, the elite organization of

Scientology. Susanne Reich, „Dissemination Establishment Officer“ of

the FSO, and Daniela Petretto, „Flag Personnel Procurement Officer“ of

the „Continental Liason Office Europe“, pushed me to overcome „all

barriers“ in order to get to the FSO by the End of August. That meant

that I had to quit my job, to give my landlord a notice and last but

not least „handle“ my financial obligations. Susanne had the clever

idea to get my parents pay my debts. She trained me to make my mother

pay me the money. After several tries, the coaching of Susanne was

finally successful. My mother paid off all my bank-credits and even a

bounced cheque for the FSO, worth of 7,000 $. On 30 August I left

Germany for the Sea Org in Clearwater, Florida.

In The Sea Org

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:

1.)  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.

2.) 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.

3.) 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.

4.) 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 studytime 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

appartment 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.

The Promotion

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

uptrending, 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 Routingform“ and wouldn’t leave without

notifying him.

The Mousiol Company

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 bancrupt. 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 bankcruptcy 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 bancrupt 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.

B) The Managing of the Flag Service Org In Theory And Practice

The Organizational Structure Of The Flag Land Base In Clearwater

The Flag Land Base was composed of nine different

Scientology-organizations:

1.) 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“.

2.) 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.

3.) 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.

4.) The „Flag Crew“ was the organization, which managed the hotels and

the other Sea Org-buildings.

5.) 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.

6.) 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.

7.) 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“.

8.) 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“.

9.) 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.

10.) 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.

Who Was Supposed To Manage The FSO?

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 Liason Offices“ (FOLOs),

themselves a part of the „Continental Liason 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 productionlevel’).(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 Role Of RTC, WDC And The CMO

„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 ecclestical 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.“ 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 managment 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

mangement 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 paragraphes. 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?

How I Experienced David Miscavige’s Role In Scientology

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):

1.) 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.

2.) 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 informations by Sea Org members who had

to deal directly with David Miscavige:

1.) 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.

2.) 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.

Miscavige and the Scientology-organization in Hamburg, Germany

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 choosed the RPF.

Mark Rathburn’s Investigation At The FSO

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 Rathburn, „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.

Mark Yagers Interest In The ASR-Booklet

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.

Other Inspections

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.

The Role Of WDC FSO Sue Porter and the CMO CW

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:

1.) 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.

2.) Sue Porter personally selected the personnel for the

„Sandcastle“-hotel in Spring of 1992. During the selection she ordered

Stefanie Kuba to the RPF.

3.) Sue Porter gave me the order to report her every attempt of a

„personnel-rip off“ in my department by other orgs or departments.

4.) Sue Porter ordered the Dissemination Secretary and the Flag

Representative to post Melanie Burness in department 5 of the FSO.

5.) 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.“

The FSO Under Hubbard

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.

A Personal Resume

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.

C) How Scientology Ethics Was Applied

The Pretension Of The Sea Organization

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:

1.) „The Sea Organization is composed of the „aristocrazy“ 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.

2.) „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.

3.) „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.

4.) „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:

Euthanasia

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 backpage

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

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 ot 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 wole

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 desribed 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:

1.) 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.

2.) 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.

3.) 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.

4.) Wanda Quinones, „Public Master At Arms“ (Public MAA=Ethics Officer

in the Sea Org), was removed from her post after an investigation by

Mark Rathburn. 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.

5.) 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.

6.) 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.

7.) Emma Schammehorn happened to be the „Medical Liason 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.

8.) 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.

9.) 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.

10.) 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) neglectence 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.

11.) 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.

12.) The SMI-Expansionoffice 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 Expansionoffice“ dared

to falsify her statistics, she was sent to the RPF in the „Pac“-area

(Los Angeles).

13.) 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“.

Expulsion From The Sea Org

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:

1.) 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 desperated 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.

2.) 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.

3.) 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.

4.) 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.

5.) 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.

6.) 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.

7.) 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.

8.) 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.

9.) 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.

10.) 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.

11.) 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.

Scientology Jurisdiction

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 staffmember 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.

1.) 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 personnelfiles 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“, „Neglectence 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 personnelfile, 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 personnel-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.

2.) 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 appartment or houath: szdc!zdc!zdc-

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 appartment, 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.

Comm Evs, Courts Of Ethics And Other Punishments

1.) 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.

2.) 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.

3.) Desiree Matlock, a fifteen year old girl was put on the post as

„Tours-Adminstrator“ 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.

4.) 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.

5.) 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.

6.) 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“.

7.) 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.

8.) 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“.

9.) 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“.

10.) 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.

11.) 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.

12.) 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“.

13.) 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 staffmember 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.

14.) 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 diparaging 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.

15.) 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 themself 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.

16.) 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.

17.) 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.

18.) 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.

19.) 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.

20.)  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.

21.) 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.

22.) 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 additonally 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.

Physical Attacks On Persons

1.) 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.

2.) 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.

3.) 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.

4.) 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.

5.) 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.

6.) 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.

7.) 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.

8.) 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.

Conclusion

Scientology- or Sea Org-Ethics has nothing to do with the concept

„ethics“ as it is used in the „normal“ world. The

Scientology-definition of „ethics“ means something totally different

and Hubbard even admitted it in one of his HCO Policy letters:

„The purpose of ethics is to remove counter intentions from the

environment. And having accomplished that the purpose becomes to

remove other intentionedness from the environment.“ (HCOPL of 18 June

1968).

In a speech Hubbard said in addition: „What we have then, in ethics,

is a system of removing the counter-effort to the forward push, and

that’s all an Ethics Officer is supposed to do.“ (6711C18SO).

The purpose of Scientology-ethics is therefore to impose one’s will on

others. The purpose of the Sea Org, which is to get ethics in on the

planet, is therefore to dominate the world. Scientology has exposed

itself as a fascist organization, who reaches for world domination and

nothing else.

D) Nervous Breakdowns, Collapses, Etc.

1.) In 1992 Phillippe Renevez, the „Deputy Flag Representative FSO“

(D/Flag Rep FSO) investigated the mailing of the ASR-packs ( a

promotional tool). He was not satisfied with the number of mailings

and threatened me with an ethics investigation. I stayed calm and told

him I would supervise more closely the mailings which were solely done

by Judy Gilbertson. I went to her and asked her about her way of

sending the ASR-packs to the publics. I told her that we would need to

send more ASR-packs in order get that particular statistic up. She got

angry and „backflashed“. Phillippe Renevez heard that and told her

that he would start an ethics investigation on her.

Judy flipped totally out. First she just screamed at Phillippe. Then

suddenly she took a big pot with a plant in it and threw it at

Phillippe. She missed him fortunately. Judy started to cry and left

the department.

Phillippe requested an investigation of Judy at HCO, but it never got

done, due to an overload of other things HCO had to do at that time.

In 1991 I organized a radio for the „letter registration“-section, so

that we could hear some music, while writing letters. Often we had to

turn the radio off, as Judy flipped out, when a rock song from the

sixties was played. She started to scream that the musicians would

have used hidden messages to turn the listeners into druggies and that

she couldn’t stand this kind of music. We regarded Judy’s reaction as

completely exaggerated, but we stopped the music, as we felt that Judy

could go totally mad.

2.) Peter Mousiol was posted in early 1991 as „Resign Product Officer

FSO“ under Kim Hickock, the „D/FCCI PO for GI“, his senior. Kim didn’t

like Peter too much, so she was giving him a hard time. After a few

months Peter got busted from his post and received an „ethics

handling“ at HCO. He told me later that he had had a nervous breakdown

while he had been at HCO because of the pressure Kim had forced on him

during the previous weeks.

3.) An Australian minor was transferred in 1991 to department 5 as an

exchange for a FSO-staff, who went to AOSH ANZO in Sidney. He was just

a few months in the Sea Org and started as a letter registrar in my

section (I was letter reg I/C at that time).

After few weeks he started to become homesick. One time he told me

that he would feel very desperate and that he couldn’t stand it

anymore living in the Sea Org. He started to cry and I had a lot to do

to calm him down.

4.) My roommate at the Hacienda, Len Thomas, told me in 1991, that he

had to watch a public at the Sandcastle, who had gone „PTS Type III“

after auditing (PTS Type III = someone, who has gone crazy). He said

that the woman was put into a room, which she couldn’t leave and that

he had to watch her, without saying anything to her until she would

get better.

Few days later, when I asked him about that woman, he told me, that

she was sent home, after she had calmed down.

5.) On my post as a letter registrar I stayed in correspondence with a

woman from Switzerland, who was „New OT IV“ and had done all the three

„Ls“ at Flag. After I had sent her a formal letter of interest, she

started to write me letters on a regular basis. I found her letters

had sometimes a strange tenor. When I looked more closely in her

previous C/F-folders, I found a letter written by her daughter, who

was staff at „CMO International“. She made complaints about the fact,

that her mother got very strange and behaved as if she were silly,

after she had done the „Ls-auditing“ at the FSO. She said her mother

would have odd ideas about her sex-life and would send sometimes her

under-wear to other people.

One day in 1991 the Swiss woman called me in my office. She told me,

that she wanted to go on staff in „AOSH UK“ (Saint Hill). Her voice on

the phone startled me, as it sounded as if she were crazy.

6.) One morning in Spring 1992 I went into the closet of my room to

get dressed. I felt terrible that day as I hadn’t slept enough the

previous nights and hadn’t reached the quota of my production, I was

supposed to make. I thought about the up-coming registration-meeting

with the CO FSO, Debbie Cook, which took happen every morning before

production. The pressure on the GI-lines was very high in those days,

so I expected that Debbie would scream and threaten with „ethics

handlings“. Suddenly I felt very giddy. I got dizzier from moment to

moment until I finally completely passed out.

Minutes later I found myself lying on the floor. I was shocked and

made it to the department only after a few hours. The following days I

experienced a strange misty feeling.

When I saw the „Medical Liason Officer“ Weissenburger, she told me,

that I should take protein drinks and eat enough.

Later I had an interview at the „Staff Training Org FLB“. I mentioned

that I had „passed out“. As a result I received a

„Pain-Drug-Hypnosis-Security Check“ (PDH-Sec. Check), as the „passing

out“ was a indicator that I had gotten a brainwashing treatment in the

past by a psychologist or psychiatrist with the means of drugs,

inflicted pain and hypnosis, per LRH.

I received the PDH-Sec. Check by a trainee of the „Saint Hill Special

Briefing“-Course (the training necessary to be a Class VI-Auditor).

She was New OT VII.

She used the E-meter for the Sec. Check, a simple ohmmeter, which had

the function of a lie-detector. I had to answer questions like the

following: if I had reasons not to tell if I had been „PDH“ed, if the

PDH was hidden under hypnotic orders, etc.. While I was answering the

questions my auditor looked at the reading of the e-meter needle to

see if I was telling the truth. I felt really bad. I started to think

about the possibililty that my parents had brainwashed me and I was

therefore really nuts. I spoke with Markus Ginter, the „Executive

Establishment Officer Organizing Officer FLB“ (Exec Esto’s O/O), about

it, who calmed me down.

The PDH was never finished on me, as it was found out that the Auditor

had made mistakes. As I went to Germany in July, the PDH-sec check

happened to be the last auditing I received in Scientology.

My Psychic And Physical Condition In Spring 1992

After being half a year on the post as „Director of Procurement“ I

felt very exhausted and burned out. At the end I thought the whole

time about my statistics, which controlled the two feelings I had

left: Guilt, in case of a low statistic, and relief, if I got a „stat

up“.

In those days I even didn’t relax during sleep. I woke up in the

morning with the feeling of being as tired as in the moment when I had

gone to bed. During the day I couldn’t concentrate on my work like I

intended, because I was weared out by the different orders of

different seniors.

I worked through several nights to file hundreds of papers in the

folders of the Central Files. I found myself sleeping on the floor of

my department at 3 a.m., just to wake up in full terror five minutes

later, as I realized that I was not reaching my target, which I had

set for the night, if I would fall asleep.

Sometimes I felt shivers coming from my head. That felt very strange,

I had the feeling that something inside my head was getting

re-structured. At that time I thought that I really needed a short

break from the Sea Org to get physically in shape. I started to

organize a flight-ticket with money I got from my parents. That took a

while, which made me additionally completely nervous, as I feared that

something could happen, what my planned „leave of absence“ could

prevent.

With a lie to my senior I finally could escape (I still planned to

return after three weeks) and take a flight from Saint Petersburg to

Frankfurt. It was the first time in almost two years that I had left

Clearwater. During the flight I slept on my seats. It was the first

time I had a „real“ sleep for several months.

Today I still have a certain kind of nightmare, which pursues me from

time to time. It has always the same content and it is about the worst

situation one can get into in these days: Being a Sea Org member and

having no return ticket.

E) The Politics Of Control Within The Sea Org

During the time I had spent in the Sea Org in Clearwater I experienced

a continous control of my physical presence, of the extent of my

production and of my loyalty to Scientology, the Sea Org and my

seniors. The control was executed through various channels and

belonged to the everyday life of any Sea Org member.

The Means Of Control

1.) Daily musters

Three times a day the staff of the FSO had to attend a muster in the

auditorium of the Fort Harrison, where we received briefings about the

level of production in the FSO by the senior executives. We were

continually urged and ordered to rise our personal production. If the

Gross Income of the FSO was low, we were screamed at and threatened

with „ethics handlings“ by Debbie Cook.

Before any muster took place the staff of each division was counted

and cross-checked by the „MAAs“ of HCO. If anyone of the staff was

absent without a valid excuse he was liable to punishment by HCO.

One key part of those musters was „Chinese School“: We had to repeat

in chorus various quotations of Hubbard’s works that dealt, f. e.,

with the selling Scientology to the publics. One favorite quote was

the following:

HCO PL from 26 September 1979, Issue III, „Copywriting“: „Hard Sell

means insistence people buy. It means caring about the person and not

being reasonable about stops and barriers but caring enough to get him

through the stops and barriers to get the service that’s going to

rehabilitate him.“

2.) Weekly staff meetings

On Thursday nights at 11 p.m., we had to attend a staff meeting in the

auditorium, which lasted most of the time at least two hours. The

meeting was designed to get a reflection of the production of the

previous working week (from Thursday, 2 p.m. until the next Thursday,

2 p.m.). Debbie Cook presided over the meeting and briefed us about

the course of the FSO for the following week. She further called up

individual staff members, who had to show their statistics to the 550

FSO staff, explain what they did wrong on their posts („Flaps“), how

they would handle these flaps in the coming week and what „targets“

they had on their „battleplans“ (BPs) for the coming week.

3.) Daily registrar meetings

Every morning, except on Thursday and Saturday, all the registrars and

the executives of the money-making departments and divisions had to

attend a meeting where the production and the quotas of these areas

were discussed with the Commanding Officer FSO, Debbie Cook. Sometimes

we received briefings by senior executives of the management of

Scientology, who explained us various dissemination- and

defense-campaigns and how much money they needed for their execution.

The meeting took place in the „reg office“ of the Fort Harrison.

4.) Weekly executive meetings

On Sunday afternoon every executive of the FSO had to attend a meeting

in the conference room of the Coachman Building. Debbie Cook headed

the meeting. The idea of this meeting was to impinge on the lower

executives in the FSO-hierarchy, who had to impinge on their juniors

in order to reach a higher production-level and therefore higher

statistics. Debbie Cook regularly screamed at us to create a higher

impact.

Sometimes we drilled „Product Officering“ (getting juniors to make

their quotas). Some executives played juniors of single executives,

who had to overcome the excuses and problems of their juniors by

simply ordering them, screaming at them or handle them with physical

means to get the juniors produce again and reach their quotas. The

idea behind the drilling was to get familiar with channeling pressure

downwards on the lower levels of the FSO and create an „ethics

presence“ of the executives.

5.) The daily control of production

Every day I had to report my senior the level of my production and the

quota I had for the day. He would notify it on a board and see

immediately if I would be „on“ or behind my quota. If my production

would be low, he would either impinge on me or bypass me „to handle

the situation in my area“ and assign me the „danger“-condition.

6.) The weekly control of production

Every Thursday after 2 p.m. I had to report the weekly statistics of

my area to my senior and to HCO, which had to report it to

Scientology-management. If my production-level was above the level of

the week before I was in the „condition“ of „normal“ or above and was

able to receive „bonuses“ and „liberty-time“ on Saturdays.

In case of a lower production, compared to the previous week, it

wasn’t allowed for me to get „libs“ or receive „bonuses“.

If the production would drop on a very low level or stay low for a few

weeks, it would lead to an ethics investigation by HCO.

7.) Briefings

Briefings on campaigns and actions of Scientology-management against

its enemies were used to show the staff of the FSO the necessity of a

high production, especially of a high GI. We were told that only a GI

of 3,000,000 $ per week could finance all the actions the

Scientology-management planned to do. The briefings were held by

senior executives of the Flag Land Base, such as Angela Quirino, Flag

Rep FSO, and Sonny Klinsiek, Finance Director FLB or by senior

executives of the management, like Bill Dendiu, „Chief Officer“ of

„Golden Era Productions“ or Heber Jentzsch, President of „Church of

Scientology International“.

In 1992 Heber Jentzsch gave the registrars of the FSO a special

briefing in the „Green Room“ of the Fort Harrison, where he spoke

about the crimes psychologists and psychiatrists were committing

against mankind and where he encouraged us to make a lot of money, so

that the fight against the enemies of Scientology could be continued.

We also received briefings by the Scientology-management, which were

recorded on film.

In one film we were shown a briefing by „Inspector General for Ethics“

Mark Rathburn held on board of the „Freewinds“, where he spoke about

the fight against the „psychs“. In another film David Miscavige, Mark

Yager and Ray Mithoff announced inspections throughout the orgs of the

world. This film was shown two months before the actual inspection of

the FSO by Miscavige took place. Miscavige and the others told the

viewers, Scientology staff members, that the management would only

tolerate the correct application of Scientology-technology.

Miscavige’s comments had a character of commands. He talked in

generalities, but is was clearly, that he was sending directions and

warnings to us via this film.

All the different briefings had one common message to us: We, the

FSO-staff, had to produce a lot more than we produced at present time.

The quota for the desired production-level was set in late 1991:

3,000,000 $ per week.

8.) Security Checks

I received about 20 Security Checks in various forms from August 1990

until July 1992:

a) Standard Security Check - I was questioned by an auditor or MAA

from a prepared list. That happened in a secluded room and I was

attached to the E-meter. The questions dealt either with my personal

background or with my situation on post.

b) Meter Check - I had to hold the cans from the E-meter, while at the

same time the MAA would watch the reaction of the needle-reading.

Nobody was allowed to say anything. If a certain needle-reaction

showed up, I would be further investigated.

c) Ethics interviews - It happened a few times that I was ordered to

HCO, because a staff member had written an unfavourable report about

me or because I had a problem with my post. I had to explain my point

of view of the situation in this interview and the MAA would tell me

his opinions. The MAA had always the last word and I had to follow his

orders.

MAAs are senior executives within the Sea Org and have the power to

remove executives and other staff from their posts (FO 1422, 30

September 1968, „The requirements for senior execs...“).

Normally the order to attend for an ethics interview at HCO ended up

in receiving an assignment of a lower condition, which was combined

with the order of making a write-up of a self-accusation, which had to

be accepted by the staff members who were asked by the sinner to sign

up his application for re-entry to the „ethical group“ and with

additional work as a punishment for the „overts“ one had committed.

d) Rudiment Checks - At the beginning of every auditing session,

„Wordclearing“ or any other practice, which involved the use of the

E-meter, the „ruds“ were checked by the auditor. I was asked a few

questions, f. e., if I suppressed anything which I didn’t want to get

known to others, etc.. Although the idea behind that practice was to

get rid of overts in order to be able to concentrate upon the

auditing, it was just another way to control and investigate the

thoughts of the staff.

9.) Missions

Missions from Flag Bureaux or from higher levels of the management

regularly visited the FSO. The Sea Org doctrine says the following

about missions:

„...to handle downstat orgs and areas the Sea Org simply gets in

ethics. This is done in such a way as to enable that org or area to

get in tech, which makes it possible then for them to get in admin. In

order to do this we send out missions. These have unlimited ethics

powers and enough force to accomplish their purpose of getting in

ethics.“ (FO 228, 9 October 1967, „Purpose of the Sea Org, Character

of Missions“).

The missions I had to deal with were recruitment- and GI-missions,

that had to get certain areas of the FSO to produce more money or had

to hire Scientologists for the Sea Org. During the time the mission

was at the FSO, the staff of the concerning areas were constantly

watched and had to report directly to the missionaires. As part of two

GI-missions I had to do a „O/W-write up“ (O/W=Overts and withholds),

in which I had to accuse myself and others of the area about making

violations or crimes against the Scientology-technology. I had to get

a clearance on these write-ups by getting a sec. check on the E-meter.

The missionaires had ultimate power to do anything in the area they

were assigned to.

I saw how several people were removed from one area to be placed

somewhere else in the FSO. The missionaires could also send staff to

the RPF.

10.) Weekly Inspections

The workplaces and dorms of the staff were inspected by senior

executives of the FSO or by CMO-staff on a weekly basis. The rooms in

the FSO and on the Hacienda had to be clean and dust-free.

At the Hacienda it occasionally happened that some staff were closed

out of their appartments, when they were considered as being dirty.

The final penalty for dirty living rooms was the assignment of „pigs

berthing“. The staff member had then to move into the most decayed

room of the whole Hacienda and stay there for several weeks.

11.) Programs

As an executive I had to follow three different programs which had

been designed for my area. These programs consisted of a number of

targets, which I had to accomplish within several weeks. The targets

were designed to create a higher level of production by accomplishing

them. The three programs were:

a) The 339R-program. I had to report on that one to the Flag

Representative FSO, Angie Quirino.

b) The Captain’s Mini-program. I had to report to the CO FSO, Debbie

Cook.

c) A program created the Flag bureaux. My senior on that one was the

D/Dir. of Procurement Int. FB.

It was expected that I got one or two targets done on each program

every week. If I had problems with one of these programs or I couldn’t

manage it to show at least some progress, I would receive an

investigation in my area.

12.) Studytime and auditing

Every staffmember, who had graduated from Product 1, was expected to

study the works of L. Ron Hubbard 2 ½ hours a day. He was programmed

by the „Staff Training Org“ of the FLB-org to do certain courses,

which should provide him with the necessary knowledge about his post.

Auditing should make the staff more able to handle their posts. Staff

on senior executive- or important sales-posts were more likely to

receive auditing than other staff. The FSO couldn’t make any money

through the auditing of staff, therefore it was only interested that

key personnel like registrars or C/S’es would receive auditing

sessions by the designed „Sea Org staff auditors“.

13.) The Security Personnel of the FLB

The FLB had its own security guards. They had their own uniforms and

were stationed in the Fort Harrison and in the Sandcastle. In all the

important places of the base, like the entrances, video cameras

documented the happenings, which were surveilled by Security in their

offices.

14.) Other means of control

If a staff member didn’t show up on his post, HCO was immediately to

be informed about it. A staff from HCO would then go to his appartment

and get the missing person to HCO. That was the procedure, which had

to be kept in, even when the guy was sick.

When some of my juniors didn’t show up, I used to get a bike, drive to

the Hacienda and get them back on post by myself.

If a staff would leave the base unauthorized, he was at risk to get

expelled from Scientology and be „SP declared“. If someone wanted to

leave the Sea Org he had to go to HCO and receive an thorough „ethics

handling“ first.

The Result

The result of these control mechanisms is a new kind of fascism. I

didn’t have any opportunity to criticize the system, as Scientology

was viewed as the „only tech on the planet“. I couldn’t criticize my

seniors, as it was against „Command Intention“. I was constantly under

surveillance by a lot of people and was expected to supervise my own

juniors in the same way. I even couldn’t think of critisism, as I

feared that critical thoughts about Scientology and the Sea Org would

be revealed in security checks.

When the FSO-staff were placed under the „Rice and Beans“-Flag Order,

noone protested against it or mutinied. All the staff had given up

their previous lives or lived in the Sea Org for several years, so

they were left totally dependable on the Sea Org.

Retrospectively I must say that the FSO was a big concentration camp

where the most intimate thoughts and the privacy of people was entered

for the sake of a totalitarian belief-system. By abusing the good

intentions of most of the staff, the Sea Org turned its own members

into slaves. It held and controlled them against their free will, in

the true sense of the word.

F) The Term „End Of Cycle“

I heard the term „end of cycle“ the first time when I was a letter

registrar in department 5. I think Judy Gilbertson or Franco

Carbognin, another letter registrar, mentioned it to me and wanted to

refer to the death of a person, by using this term.

In Scientology the death of a person was described either by „dropping

the body“ or by „end of cycle“, whereby the last term wasn’t used that

much.

G) The Campaign Against Time-Magazine

In May 1991 at a staff meeting on Thursday evening the Commanding

Officer of the „Office of Special Affairs East US“ briefed us about a

negative article on Scientology which had been published by the „Time

Magazine“. She told us that the management of Scientology planned to

take steps against „Time“. Debbie Cook said that in that article the

blame for the suicide of a Scientologist had been put on Scientology

(She told the name, but I can’t remember now. From reading the article

today I suppose she meant Noah Lottick). Debbie told us that

psychiatrists were in fact responsible for the death of that person.

We were further told not to buy and read the article, as it contained

pure lies and „entheta“ (disencouraging news).

At the end of the briefing Richard Reiss, the Senior C/S FSO,

proclaimed that the best answer to that article was „to flourish and

prosper“. Every staff should give his best on post, that would finish

eventually all problems with the outside-world.

Weeks later we were introduced to the ad-campaign in „US Today“ by

during a staff-muster by Richard Haworth, the „PR-Secretary“ of OSA

East US. Richard visited us almost daily from then on to show us the

newest ads. He told us that the continuation of the campaign would

depend on the GI the FSO was making, as the ads in the newspaper were

partially financed by the FSO. Debbie Cook directed us additionally to

use this fact in the sales-talks with the publics as a „go-button“, to

get them paid for their services.

The campaign turned out to be not only as a attack against „Time

Magazine“, but also against the pharmaceutical combine „Eli Lilly“. We

were told that the negative article in „Time“ had been created by the

pharma industry, the „psychs“, to destroy Scientology’s credibility in

the public opinion.

H) „Fair Game“ Or The Designated „Handling“ Of „Squirrels“

A „squirrel“ is described by Scientology literature as someone, who is

doing off-beat technology (HCOPL from 6 February 1965). In general

understanding it is someone, who fell off of Scientology, but who is

still applying practices of Scientology like auditing for example.

„Squirreling“ was considered as „suppressive“. The „Squirrels“

received therefore the same treatment by Scientology as other „SPs“.

During the year 1991 I was in contact with a German public, who was

living in the US and happened to be New OT IV. She was unable to „move

further on the bridge“, as she had received some auditing by a

squirrel living in Scotland. She couldn’t come to the FSO, as she was

still looked upon as PTS (Potential Trouble Source), because the

squirrel was still practicing. Her duty was, in order to be able to

receive Scientology-services again, to get this squirrel to stop

practicing. Furthermore she had proove that he wasn’t doing

Scientology-related practices anymore. The woman was quite

disencouraged because of all these barriers and didn’t want to do

anything against this squirrel.

When I discussed that matter with Eileen Haworth, who also was a

letter registrar at that time, she told me, that she would give this

guy in Scotland hell and do whatever it was necessary, if she would be

in a similar situation.

I wrote more letters to the woman forcing her to do something about

that squirrel. I even called her, but she still didn’t want to do

anything.

During those days I read the „Fair Game HCOPL“ of Hubbard and its

follower the „Cancellation of Fair Game“. I interpreted it the way

that the term „Fair Game“ had been cancelled but not the „handling of

suppressive persons“, as it was stated in that policy.

I) The Fear Of A Raid

In November 1991 Debbie Cook told the staff of the FSO during a muster

that the organizations of the FLB could receive a raid during the

following weeks. She said that everyone of us had to be on „night

watch“ in one of the buildings once a week from 11 p.m. until 3 a.m..

Each staff received during the next days an individual schedule from

the Security of the FLB. I had to be on watch every Friday and my

first assignment was the West Coast Building, where OSA EUS and the

CMO was located.

The „Security Alert“ was strictly followed during the first weeks and

each staff who failed to show up on his watch got punished with a

„Court of Ethics“.

Last year I spoke with Steven Fishman about that incident. I found out

that at the same time the IRS actually planned to carry out a raid

upon the FLB.

J) The Scientology Theory Of A World Conspiracy

To understand the behaviour of Scientology against psychologists like

Dr. Geertz one has to get familiar with the conspiracy theory of

Hubbard and in which way this theory gets transported into the minds

of the staff of Scientology. I was indoctrinated for four years with

the idea that the world in which we lived was the product of a

conspiracy of psychologists and psychiatrists. During my stay in

Clearwater I had no chance to compare the Scientology theory with the

facts. In this chapter I want to described how I got obsessed with the

idea of a world conspiracy and what it took to get it off.

Quotes Of Hubbard

In 1954 Hubbard held a speech where he spoke about one of its early

organizations, the „Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation“. He told the

following:

„The one group, the oldest group headed by the Hubbard Dianetics

Research Foundation has two appendant groups. It has been in these two

businesses for a long time. It was interested in civil defense and was

doing things about civil defense. Those activities have been pooled

together in an allied affiliated corporation known as the American

Society of Civilian Defense. It knows Dianetics works and says so

loudly. That organization stands 100% behind Dianetics as the only

process it would even vaguely use on hysterical or distressed people.

The other is the Freudian Foundation of America organized to be a free

offer to any of the people in Russian-held Vienna who wish to take

advantage of it. It is the only authorized agency of any kind in the

United States authorized to use the name and works of Sigmund Freud.

All other Freudian Foundations have no charter or franchise from the

old Master. Nobody has. But we have one from the Freudian Foundation,

which makes us the only legal Freudian Foundation. This organization

knows that as a sequence to the great work of Sigmund Freud (!),

Dianetics is the solution to psychoanalysis and it freely says so.“

During the following years Hubbard changed completely his tune about

psychology and psychiatry, the „psychs“ became Enemy No. 1. Hubbard

not only wrote a countless number of policies and bulletins, in which

he condemned the psychs as murderers and torturers of human kind, but

even used articles about auditing or his self-created admin technology

to give the psychs a side-swipe. By being a Scientologist and reading

Hubbard’s works one inevitably internalizes the hatred against

psychiatry and psychology.

Here are some few quotes of Hubbard from articles he wrote against the

„psychs“:

„As a technical action, it is of interest to any auditor to know that

pain and ideas is a basic „therapy“ used down the years by

psychiatrists and such lot. The practice is very general and very

old...Any HAS („Hubbard Apprentice Scientologist“) knows more and can

do more about the mind than any psychiatrist. There is no real level

of comparison since psychiatry as used is a destructive

technology...The psychiatrist has masters. His principal organization,

World Federation of Mental Health, and its members, the National

Associations of Mental Health, the „American“ Psychiatric Association

and the „American“ Psychological Association, are directly connected

to Russia. Even the British Broadcasting Company has stated that

psychiatry and the KGB (Russian secret police) operate in direct

collusion.“

HCO Bulletin of 16 July 1970, „The Psychiatrist At Work“.

„Scientology has fought a consistent and winning battle for human

rights for two decades. During that entire time, not one crime has

been found in Scientology. But during that time psychiatry has seized

and killed tens of thousands of people they don’t like. It is said

Scientology breaks up families. They don’t. But psychiatrists call

their own rape and death of men’s wives „necessary treatment“. Any

type of crime this psychiatric group accuses the Scientologists of has

been traced back to be standard psychiatric practice...To enlarge

their sphere the psychiatrist (UN Tech Series 98) plans to knock out

all churches in the field of mental healing. Scientology is their

first target. If they win there they will take on other churches and

so build their empire...The psychiatrist handling almost none of the

„trade“ yet obtains hundreds of millions from governments annually

over the world. For this he gives no service, injures or kills his

patients, seeks to seize anyone and everyone at a whim, yet is

strangely immune from the correct murder charges. Not even a medical

doctor is allowed to kill people. How could the allied nations hang

Germans at Nuremburg for these crimes and yet award heavy

appropriation at home to run their own death camps.

Freedom Magazine, 27 February 1969, „A Reason Psychiatrists Front

Groups Attack Scientology“.

„It has often been noted (and reported routinely in the papers) that

criminals „treated“ by psychologists and psychiatrists go out and

commit crimes. It could be suspected that these „practicioners“ used

pain-drug-hypnosis and other means (under the guise of treatment) to

induce the criminal to go out and commit more crimes. And possibly

they do...So let us look at the psychs again - what they call

„treatment“ is a suppression (by shocks, drugs, etc.) of the ability

to think. They are not honest enough, these psychs, being just

dramatizing psychotics themselves for the most part, to publish the

fact that all their „treatments“ (mayhem, really, when it is not

murder) make people more stupid...Their „treatments“ make the

criminals more stupid. The stupid commit more crimes. It is pretty

simple, really, when you look at it. Why does the state support

psychiatrists and psychologists? Because the state is stupid? Or does

it want to more citizens robbed and killed? It’s one or the other.

Take your choice.“

HCO Bulletin of 26 April 1982, „The Criminal Mind And The Psychs“

„...Then Dianetics and Scientology appeared. Here was a real, an

actual working technology. They worried about it and considered it was

a direct threat to psychiatry. And they made a very ghastly mistake.

Secretly they spent time and money all over the world to discredit and

suppresss Dianetics and Scientology. Working through heads of press

chains they controlled, working through ministers of health they had

appointed with lies and false alarms, they continuosly secretly fought

Dianetics and Scientology. Enduring these attacks and alert, Dianetics

and Scientology people somehow kept going and kept watching...Because

Scientologists broke no laws committed no crimes and had a factual,

effective mental technology they could not be destroyed. The public

was on their side. But this was not the case with psychiatry. The most

basic laws of humanity had been broken by them. Mayhem, rape, torture,

murder were commonplace crimes amongst them. Decaying bodies, dead by

violent torture, were exhumed in the ground of psychiatric asylums.

Vicious political connections, misappropriated funds, incarceration of

patients for political reasons, these with a parade of social, sexual,

drug and unnatural offenses began to fall out of the skeleton-filled

closets of psychiatry.“

Freedom Magazine, 24 September 1969, „The Fight For Freedom“.

How I Came To Believe The Conspiracy Theory

In the Sea Org I was exposed to a continous flow of „informations“ and

„data“ about „man’s biggest enemy“: psychiatry and psychology. There

were different sources and means, which transported the ideas

Hubbard’s into my mind and helped to settle them there:

1.)  Daily study - I had to study Hubbard’s policies and bulletins 2 ½

hours a day. Hubbard used to fill his works with attacks against his

believed enemies and as I had no opportunity to compare the

allegations with informations from other sources, I got accustomed

with his theories.

2.) Events - On events, especially held by the „International

Association of Scientologists“ (IAS), the „war against the enemies“

was celebrated by the leaders of the Scientology-management. One key

element of the dramaturgy of these galas, which were held every few

months, were the actions against the „psychs“. The „Citizens Commision

for Human Rights“ (CCHR) was the declared tool to wipe out psychiatry

from earth.

Len Thomas, one of my room mates and, at that time, ex-staff from CCHR

in Australia, told me that one statistic of CCHR was „the number of

psychologists/psychiatrists who give up their practice“.

During those events one of the managing agents of Scientology, mostly

Heber Jentzsch, told the audience about the wins against psychiatry

and some „new facts“ about psychiatry which formed a contrast and

emphasized the urge of the necessity for further actions, which were

announced by Jentzsch or other staff from management.

All staff had to watch those events, which took place either at „Flag“

or in another big org. In the last case the events were televised to

Clearwater and we watched it together with the publics in the

auditorium.

3.) Briefings - Two people briefed the staff regularly about the fight

against psychiatry, Interpol or the IRS: Richard Haworth, the PR Sec.

OSA EUS and „Birk“, from IAS Administrations. They simply told us the

same stories we could read in the „Impact magazines“, the voice of the

IAS.

Sometimes we could watch a televised briefing, which was originally

held on board of the „Freewinds“, f. e., a briefing by Mark Rathburn,

the IG Ethics RTC.

One day Heber Jentzsch gave the registrars a briefing in the „green

room“ of the Fort Harrison. He talked most of the time about the

crimes psychiatry would commit (administering electric shocks to

children) and encouraged us to continue with our efforts to make a

good GI.

4.) Mouth to mouth propaganda - It was forbidden for us to speak to

others about „our case“ and to give someone „entheta“ (bad news), but

it was not forbidden to talk about what Hubbard and the management

thought about psychiatry. Like the great majority of the Sea Org

members, I believed in Hubbards words and in the informations the

management had given us, too. So my personal conspiracy theory got his

final touches through its confirmation by other staff members who gave

me „additional data“:

- Len Thomas told me that the „psychs“ had practiced their business

for „thousands of lifetimes“. He said they had done thousands of

„overts“ and would be really professionals in suppressing people.

- Christian Winter read Hubbard’s science fiction-books from time to

time. He told me that the character of the „psychlos“ in one of those

books wasn’t a pure make up, but that it was based on Hubbard’s past

life experiences. The „psychlos“ are the enemies of mankind in

Hubbard’s book „Battlefield Earth“.

- A staff from FLB told me that in the seventies a crazy psychologist

from Los Angeles („Jolly“ West) killed an elephant by administering it

LSD.

When I left the Mousiol company in December ‘92 I knew the

Scientology-organization was wrong, but still my head was filled with

the ideas about a world conspiracy. I thought, especially after

hearing „Ron’s Journal ‘67“, that the events and occurrences on earth

were the product of the actions by a few people who had the power to

control the world, like Hubbard described it in RJ ‘67. Furthermore I

believed that Scientology was basically right, that Hubbard had

created a workable system for man, which enabled him to free himself

from the bonds of the psychs.

How I Came Off Again

In December ‘92/January ‘93 I wasn’t willing to talk to anybody about

my experiences with Scientology. I lived at my parents’ house in a

little village in Germany, where I spent the next months mostly with

reading books and walking about with our dog.

I felt physically exhausted but at the same time I wanted to gather as

many informations about certain things as possible.

I became interested in the history of the „Third Reich“ and of Adolf

Hitler. In Eugen Kogon’s book „The SS-State“ and in Hans Buchheim’s

expert opinion for the Auschwitz-trial „The SS - The Instrument Of

Power“ I could detect similarities between the disciplines and

structures of the Sea Org and the SS.

I’ve read Solschenizyn’s book „The Archipel Gulag“. I had the feeling

that the author was talking directly to me, when he wrote about his

experiences in the Russian concentration camps. The first time after a

long period of time I felt understood.

But I still believed in a theory of Scientology, that Hitler was just

a product of an experiment by the psychs. As I got more and more

familiar with real reading again I got confident that I was able

enough to find out who the real conspirators were and are. I became a

member of two libraries, one was the largest of the state

Baden-Württemberg, and went to work. During the time from Mid-December

‘92 until May ‘93 I did the following:

1.) I read approximately 100 books about Nazi-Germany, the SS, the

concentration camps and the annihilation of jews. The most

comprehensive book about Adolf Hitler by Joachim C. Fest with its over

1,000 pages I read twice.

I’ve studied the structure of the SS and made an own organization

board, which should help me to find a secret hierarchy, by which I

could detect „the men behind Hitler“.

I read the books of Ernst Klee, who was an expert writer of the

euthanisa-project of Hitler, the project which led to the death of

thousands of disabled children and adults in the gas chambers of

psychiatric institutions. The killing of the victims was actually

supervised by a psychiatrist Werner Heyde. That actually fit in my

world picture, but when I read more about the structures of that

project I discovered that Heyde had to report to two SS-men, Viktor

Brack and Christian Wirth, who had to report themselves to Philipp

Bouhler, the head of the „Führerkanzlei“, directly under Hitler

himself. I finally found out that there hadn’t been any psychiatric

conspiracy during the Third Reich and Hitler hadn’t been definitely a

puppet of somebody else.

2.) As I still believed in a conspiracy I read about 20 books about

various secret services: The CIA, the KGB, the NSA, the BND (the

German secret service). I couldn’t discovered that they were actually

directing the course of the world, although they had the tendency and

the claim to do so.

3.) I read 20 books about secret societies and tried to make links

between them to find the common denominator. Although the wildest

speculations were mentioned in those books about world conspiracy of

Free Masons or the Illuminati, they couldn’t come up with an actual

proof that such a conspiracy really existed.

Frank McCall, a founding Sea Org member wrote me in one letter about

the „New World Order“, another variant of the Illuminati-theory, which

was made popular in the US by Gary Allen’s book during the seventies.

When I found that book in the library and read some chapters of

Allen’s stupid allegations I finally realized that the believe in a

world conspiracy was rather a sign of a mental shortcoming than of a

sound mind. My interest in finding the „conspirator of earth“ dropped

down to zero.

4.) I began to read the critical books about Scientology I was

forbidden to read while I was in Scientology. First I studied the more

harmless books, then I dared to read the „dangerous ones“, f. e., the

books of Friedrich Wilhelm Haack, a cult expert from the Protestant

Church in Germany, who had been one of most hated people by

Scientology in this area.

I learned:

- that Hubbard had been a member of an occult order with the name

O.T.O during the midforties.

- that during the seventies the „Guardian’s Office“ of Scientology had

committed burglaries into the Finance and Justice Office of the US and

that Mary Sue Hubbard had been sentenced to a four year prison term.

- that on OT 3 one would have to audit „body thetans“, invisible

beings, which are stucked to the body.

- that 75,000,000 years ago the head of a galactic confederation,

Xenu, implanted the population of 76 planets with atomic bombs,

exploding on volcanoes, and with a 3-D motion picture which was shown

to the victims for 36 days.

I read several critical books about Scientology, but I still believed

that Hubbard was basically good and that his ideology had to have

something essential. Then finally the affidavits of Anne Rosenblum and

Tonya use and sign up for

a billion years contract.

In his searc

read these declarations several times and I got a real conflict in my

mind.

Then on one evening in May I asked myself what I would loose if the

whole ideology of Hubbard revealed itself as nothing more than crap. I

thought I would loose nothing and that was the moment I was finally

relieved from Scientology and its ideas.

During the time I spoke with noone about my views, except with one

friend of a human rights group, who told me that he didn’t believe in

a world conspiracy, but that I should check it out by myself. I didn’t

receive neither any de-programming nor counseling by cult-experts. The

subject Scientology wasn’t discussed in my parents’ house.

Before I started to look independently into the above mentioned

matters I had been completely obsessed with the ideas of Scientology.

I was determined to spend my whole life in the Sea Org, working 14

hours a day and more. While in the Sea Org I believed every written or

spoken word of Hubbard. During that time I disqualified every

non-Scientologist as a wog and every Scientology-critic as a

„suppressive person“. I was the standard example of a dedicated Sea

Org member: Physically and mentally exhausted, but 100 % fanatic.

When I was finally forced to proove the ideas of Hubbard against the

actual facts I came into trouble, as his ideology wasn’t based at all

on actual research or on his „urge to help mankind“ but was created by

the Hubbard’s deep fear of himself.

K) My Personal Opinion About Scientology

The Scientology Ideology

I think one reason why Hubbard created Dianetics and Scientology was

sub-consciously to find a way of a solution for his severe psychic

problems. The letter Hubbard wrote to the Medical Veterans

Administrations in October 1947 shows a deeply desperated man unable

to deal with life in general and himself. He couldn’t find appropriate

help then and invented therefore a system which should proove that the

world was wrong and he was right.

On the OT-levels the Scientologist has to get rid of „spiritual

beings“ who are attached to his body, the „body thetans“. That can be

viewed as a kind of modern exorcism. One advocate of the Social

Psychiatry, Gaetano Benedetti, gave two characteristic features of

schizophrenia among others in his great book „Death Landscapes Of The

Soul“: Hallucination and mania. The OT-levels of Scientology are very

good examples of both of these characteristics:

On „OT III“ one reads in the classified documents that Hubbard claimed

to have found out the big secret of this universe, that 75 million

years ago, a galactical head with the name „Xenu“ had enslaved the

population of „this sector“ by the means of hydrogen bombs and mass

implanting (=mania).

On „New OT VII“ the Scientologist has to free himself of millions of

body thetans and, as a final drill, communicate with plants and

receive communication by them (=hallucination).

These „sacred scriptures“ are treated as highly confidential material

and are stored behind high security areas, like the ones at the FSO.

Hubbard invented Scientology to force his reality about life, his

paranoia and schizophrenia, upon mankind. Maybe he really wanted to

free himself and others from the „beings“, he believed he and other

men were surrounded with. Who knows. However that may be, Scientology

is a secure, artificial way into schizophrenia. If one gets forced to

believe that he is surrounded by millions of ghosts, if he isn’t

actually, and if he has to believe, that he is a victim of a

galactical conspiracy, which hadn’t happened, then one has to get

schizophrenic.

Hubbard was schizophrenic and paranoid and his ideology is a direct

product of the state of his sick mind.

The Scientology Organization And David Miscavige

As the Scientology ideology reflects Hubbard, the organization

reflects his personality too. The Scientology organization wants to

draw a picture for the „ouside world“ of a religious group which is

beneficial for all mankind. But if one looks behind the curtains one

will find a cynic, totalitarian slave system that doesn’t accept

anything except  Hubbard, Scientology and its demagogues of today.

If one, like Steven Fishman, leaves a paranoid system like

Scientology, he was part of, and holds a mirror to it, then the system

must do anything possible to destroy him. The system cannot endure the

fact that someone shows the world how it really is. One characteristic

of paranoia is the inability of reflecting oneself. The behaviour of

Scientology against Steven Fishman and Dr. Uwe Geertz shows to what

extent the organization is paranoid and dangerous.

Judge Breckenridge wrote in his memorandum of the Armstrong-case in

1984: „The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and the

bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH.“ That

judgement is still valid today.

If one is a Scientologist he is both a victim and a perpetrator. The

higher one climbs in the hierarchy of Scientology the more he solely

gets more and more a perpetrator. Miscavige is truly the successor of

Hubbard. He isn’t indeed the „great inventor“ like Hubbard. It is also

not clear if he actually believes in the „technology“. But being the

leader of a totalitarian, criminal and paranoid system like

Scientology, he must be at least a criminal and paranoid perpetrator

of the same quality as Hubbard was.

People like Miscavige, who are treating other people dependable on him

like slaves and are responsible for severe crimes, are a threat for

every society. If one acts like Miscavige but wouldn’t bother to cover

it as „religious matter“, he would immediately be sent to prison or

placed behind psychiatric bars through the legislation of every modern

state. Miscavige should be treated the same way. Noone has the right

to enslave human beings and destroy men of a different opinion just

because of „religious reasons“.

L) List Of Attached Documents

A) Brief Description Of My Scientology Career

- In The Sea Org

Document 1: Certificate about the successful completion of the course

„Staff Status I“ on „Product 1“.

Document 2: The „Posting Order“, which made my promotion to the

„Director of Procurement“ official.

Document 3: The application letter for a new visa at the US consulate

in Germany. The most interesting sentence in it: „He will not be

involved in the selling of articles or the solicitation or acceptance

of donations.“

Document 4: The flight ticket from Saint Petersburg to

Frankfurt/Germany

- The Mousiol Company

Document 5: Impact No. 34, May 1991, the magazine of the

„International Association of Scientologists“.

Page 16 above, from right to left: The „President“ of the FSO, Peter

Mousiol, Achim Bendig, Kay Barre and two other Scientologists.

Page 18: Karlheinz Schneider receives the „Patron Meritorious“-plaque

by Guillaume Lesevre, „Executive Director International“.

Page 19: Peter Mousiol receives the „Patron Meritorious“-plaque by

Guillaume Lesevre.

Page 20 and 21: Detlev Foullois and Karl-Erich Heilig are awarded with

the „Gold Meritorious“-status by Guillaume Lesevre and Janet Light,

„President IAS Administrations“.

Document 6: The report of Peter Mousiol, written in October ‘92.

B) The Managing Of The Flag Service Org In Theory And Practice

- How I Experienced David Miscavige’s Role In Scientology

Document 7: Source No. 90, November 1993, German edition, „The

Magazine of the Flag Land Base“.

Page 18: The announcement of the „Office of the RTC-Representatives“.

Quote from the text: „Mr. Miscavige said: ‘I have established an

Office of RTC-Representatives here at Flag. I cannot always be here,

and it is the wish of RTC, that nothing is in the way of those, who

want to go OT as fast as possible.’“

With the installation of a RTC-office at the FSO he bypasses the whole

management of Scientology.

- The FSO Under Hubbard

Document 8: Some examples of „LRH Advices“ which were contained in my

„Full Hat Pack“.

C) How Scientology Ethics Was Applied

Document 9: Source No. 95, Spring 1995, German edition, „The Magazine

of the Flag Land Base“.

Page 16: Picture and interview with Richard Reiss, „Senior Case

Supervisor FSO“.

Document 10: Source No. 95, Spring 1995, German edition, „The Magazine

of the Flag Land Base“.

Page 2: Picture of the „Executive Council of the FSO“: Debbie Cook,

Commanding Officer FSO is standing in front. Mark Lizer, the

replacement of the „Executive Director“ Wiebke Hansen of the

Scientology-organization in Hamburg, is the fifth from left. Tristan

Buchanan, former „Supercargo FSO“ is standing far left.

E) The Politics Of Control Within the Sea Org

- The Means Of Control

Document 11: HCO Bulletin of 7 May 1968, „UPPER INDOC TRs“. During one

of the executive meetings we had to drill „Upper Indoc TRs“ to get

more able in controlling juniors.

Document 12: HCO Policy Letter of 15 February 1979, „VERBAL TECH:

PENALTIES“. It shows that it isn’t allowed in Scientology to discuss

or interprete the „technology“ of Hubbard.

H) „Fair Game“ Or The Designated „Handling“ Of „Squirrels“

Document 13: HCO Policy Letter of 29 June 1968, „ENROLLMENT IN

SUPPRESSIVE GROUPS“. That policy was the guideline for the treatment

of the public, mentioned in this chapter.

J) The Scientology Theory Of A World Conspiracy

- Quotes Of Hubbard

Document 14: Impact No. 55, Fall 1994, the magazine of the

„International Association of Scientologists“.

Page 6 and 7: The article „The criminal mind and the psychs“ by L. Ron

Hubbard.

- How I Came Off

Document 15: My self-made command-structure of the SS. At the far

right one can see that the top-psychiatrist of the euthanasia-project

had to report to two men of the SS.

Document 16: The reply of a letter I wrote to the „Central Board of

the Jews in Germany“, in which I asked them if they knew anything

about a big conspiracy of psychiatrists and psychologists against them

during World War II. I was referred in that letter to the Institute of

Contemporary History“ in Munich.

Document 17: The letter of Frank McCall, in which he stated his theory

about the „New World Order“.

III) APPENDIX

I declare under penalty of perjury that the aforementioned facts set

forth are true and correct.

Respectfully Submitted,

Dated: April 19, 1996

________________________

Martin Ottmann

c/o EZW

Hölderlinplatz 2 A

70193 Stuttgart

Germany