The Young Rulers of Scientology

4 Dec 83

The young rulers of Scientology, today, are attempting to defuse the explosive situation that they have created over the recent years. The Scientology field is disintegrating into independent factors as never before, and in response, the new management has decided to "handle this problem".

Oh boy, stand back.

The handling that they have activated consists of a curious concoction of artificial ARC, forcibly injected into the field, and elaborate promises of "correcting earlier injustices".

No one need be duped by these callous little monsters.

There is truth, which consists of time, place, form, event. And then there are those strange generalities that are alway being referred to by the new church management...

The following is some data of exceptional interest. There is more, much more. You will be receiving new ongoing installments of this data every week. Look for it. Truth will set you free.

To begin, here, in reality, is

What Your Fees Really Buy

1. In early '82, David Miscavige walked into the Yellow Mart store in downtown Hemet, California. The Yellow Mart is a nondescript small store in a nondescript small California valley town. It is located on Florida Avenue, the main commercial road. David purchased a submachine gun expressly for Pat Broeker. When later asked why the purchase of the gun was made, Miscavige replied that it was for "security reasons". No other explanation was given.

Anyone wishing to verify this can do so by going to Hemet and checking the registration of the weapon. It should be a public access matter. The store should provide the information.

2. In May of '82, a Clipper Ship, with three masts, full-sized, was constructed on the Church property, near Hemet, California. This property is actually known as Gilman Hot Springs and was formerly a golf and health resort which was purchased by the Church in November of '78. The cost of building this mock Clipper Ship was over half a million dollars in materials alone ($565,000). The labor was Sea Org personnel. It was built as a strange kind of movie prop, surrounding a swimming pool, which was to create the effect of an early Clipper Ship, docked in a polynesian lagoon.

Rather a strange expense, this construction in the Southern California desert. The expense of the project was authorized and ordered by Vickie Aznaran (head of the Inspector General Office of the Church of Scn), David Miscavige (who has no known Church position, yet runs the Church), Pat Broeker (also no known Church position, yet is the force behind the International Finance Police, and is direct senior to David Miscavige), Ann Broeker (again, no known Church position, yet issues random orders into the Church via Miscavige), Steve Marlowe (current Executive Director of the RTC) and Marc Yaeger (Current Commanding Officer of the CMO International).

The amazing Clipper Ship may be viewed by anyone wishing to do so, by simply driving to Hemet, California, and going to the Gilman Hot Springs property.

The Church will even offer a tour of the ship to visitors, upon request.

The purpose of this ship, as originally stated by Miscavige, is to "entertain VIPs". Yet, the Gilman Hot Springs property is designated as a Top Secret Church location, and is the home of RTC, CMO [Commodore's Messenger Organization] Int, the Watchdog Committee [WDC], and the Executive Director International, as well as a personal home of Miscavige, Broeker, Aznaran and Yaeger. Why, then, is there a VIP tourist attraction located at a top security location, and why was over a half million dollars of Church money spent for it?

3. On the same property at Gilman Hot Springs, an elaborate security system was installed. It includes barbed wire, angled barbed tops, spiked wrought-iron fences, underground sensors sealed in concrete, and many, many other devices. The cost of this system was well in excess of a quarter million dollars for materials, and required literally thousands of man-hours to complete. There were numerous sensors that had to be unearthed after it was found that gophers were eating through the sensors and setting off the alarms. The system went the entire perimeter of the North property, and half the perimeter of the South property. The Gilman Hot Springs property encompasses 550 acres. There entailed a mammoth task in digging up these sensors and replacing them. Several local fence companies were employed to build the outer perimeter and were paid double, triple and quadruple wages in order to meet the deadlines imposed by Miscavige and Broeker.

The question is, of course, why was this elaborate security system built?

To keep those who were out from coming in, or to keep those who were in from getting out? Or was it built to satisfy a growing paranoia in those young executives from their disillusioned congregation?

Regardless, you might wish to drive out there and see it. And also the multiple guard booths located along the perimeter of the property, each containing two guards, uniformed in black shirts, brown pants, weighted clubs, and walkie-talkies.

Illegal Activities

• During the years '80 through '82, David Miscavige was spending approximately one thousand dollars per week of Church funds, under the guise of "security", in carrying out strange and clandestine meetings with Pat Broeker. Miscavige, at that time, bragged that he had eaten at almost every restaurant on La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles, an exclusive "Restaurant Row" in Southern California.

Concurrently, Pat Broeker was drawing approximately $2500 per week in order to carry out his side of the clandestine meetings. This would involve secret messages left in sleazy truck stops, hotels and motels, cryptic phone calls with passwords, notes passed through skid-row hotels. This $2500 was in addition to one million dollars he had earlier drawn from Church funds.

This was taken from AOLA [Advanced Org, L.A.] accounts in increments of $250,000 and $300,000. In the first part of '81, Broeker asked for another $300,000, which was in addition to the first million dollars, and said that it was needed for "operating expenses". When queried as to what had happened to the first million dollars, Broeker replied that he still had that money, but was keeping it "for emergencies". The Treasury Secretary at Gilman Hot Springs, who disbursed the money to Miscavige (an older woman named Barry Lehman), queried Miscavige on the receipts that he was turning in.

Barry Lehman said the receipts were not OK and were not defensible with the IRS. Miscavige then proceeded to berate and threaten Barry Lehman for questioning his receipts. Barry never queried the receipts again.

• In '82, Steve Marlowe and Vicki Aznaran retained the services of a Private Investigator. The Private Investigator's fees were more than a quarter of a million dollars. The quarter of a million dollars was spent to attempt to entrap a Federal Judge that was presiding over a Florida case in which Marlowe and Aznaran anticipated an unfavorable ruling. The Private Investigator was hired and told to do whatever was necessary to get this judge into any compromising situation that could be used against him. Either blackmail or any expose whatsoever, wherein the judge would be subject to censure, was ordered.

One aspect of this plan included the hiring of a 75-foot yacht which was to be equipped with drugs, women and hidden cameras and microphones. The quarter of a million dollars was spent, and the private investigator failed to get a single piece of damaging evidence. This occurred long after the Church had given sworn testimony to the fact that the Guardians Office was no longer engaged in any illegal activities. Both Aznaran and Marlowe, at the time of the incident, simply wrote it off as a failed scheme, with no suggestion of remorse over the fact that the Church had spent an enormous sum of money illegally.

The D.M. Scam

• In early Spring, 1982, David Miscavige formally left the Sea Org and resigned from Church employment. He then became the head of Author Services International (ASI). ASI is L. Ron Hubbard's private, profit-making corporation. Shortly after assuming the directorship of ASI, he began to recruit active Sea Org members for ASI. The recruits were, in fact, ordered into ASI. These very key staff members were removed from whatever posts they held in the Church, and of course, there were no replacements. They were required to resign from the Church and were then placed on post in ASI. They were paid minimum wage and their job responsibilty immediately became: make money for ASI. Miscavige ordered that the VFP (Valuable Final Product) for ASI was to be GI (Gross Income).

Among the staff that Miscavige ordered out of the Sea Org and into ASI are Fran Freedman Harris, Fred Harris, Vaughan Young, Stacy Young, Jim Isaacson, Joyce Isaacson, Homer Schomer, Lyman Spurlock, John Busby, Norman Starkey, Maria Starkey, Julia Watson, Pat Brice, Terry Gillham, Ron Pook, John Allcock and Neville Potter. Again, David Miscavige used LRH to front for him. He told all of these people that they were needed to "help Ron".

Today, Miscavige's staff uses Sea Org reserves (as they have since the inception of ASI) for purposes that are hidden. It should be noted that they have unlimited access to the entire 90 million dollars, or more, that make up the Sea Org reserves.

There were many, many schemes created by Miscavige and Pat Broeker to drain the Sea Org and Church cash reserves, always for the purpose of fattening up ASI's assets. Among these schemes was one presented by Fran Freedman Harris. It involved the implementation of an obscure LRH Executive Directive (LRH ED 5) written around 1968. In this ED, L. Ron Hubbard states that every Org in the world should have 100 copies of all LRH works. In 1968, this was not an impossible order. There were vastly fewer books, there were few Orgs, and the cost of the books was nominal. In 1982, the implementing of such an order amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars for each Org. The order included the Technical Volumes, the OECs... all the materials. In some cases, the order included obligatory purchasing of Mark VI E-Meters. At this point, the order became entirely unreal, and it started to become viewed as an obvious and extreme tactic to rip off the Orgs. Indeed, it was then observed that there were very small Orgs throughout the world with less than 10 staff members each, who could not even afford to pay their own rent. Fran Freedman then proposed the extraordinary idea that the big Orgs should loan the small Orgs the funds necessary to purchase the materials. The CO CMO (at that time, John Nelson) protested the absurdity of these orders, but was threatened with removal from post and public censure, as being "Off- Source and having CI(counter-intention) to LRH books".

The entire plan was forced through, at a cost of millions of dollars to the Church of Scientology.

David Miscavige and Fran Harris subsequently awarded themselves very large bonuses for their work.

There were other similar cycles. The Orgs were charged back-royalties, retroactive to 1950, on all LRH works. Again, all funds went to ASI and the above-mentioned staff took very large bonuses (as commissions) for these activities. In those instances where no records could be found, Fran Harris simply estimated the total figure and then presented the bill to that Church and ordered immediate payment. Miscavige always ensured that the Church paid all of the sums that were demanded by Fran Harris. After all, he held the purse strings to both ASI and Church/Sea Org monies. Thus, collecting from the Church and paying ASI was as simple as transferring funds from one account to another.

Who Runs the Church?

• All of these dealings enormously depleted Sea Org and Church Reserves. And, of course, Church prices had to be raised in order to cover the losses. The public and staff were the real target and effect-point of it all.

During this period, David Miscavige, as well as others on ASI staff, were all cynically living rather well. And they were continuing to receive auditing and other services from Church staff, of course, at no cost. In fact, Miscavige maintained residences at both Cedars and at Gilman Hot Springs. Extensive, costly renovations were done on Miscavige's and other ASI staff members' accomodations at the expense of the Church, and costing more than $25,000.

In August and September of 1982, Suzette Hubbard, LRH's youngest daughter, was ordered to be David Miscavige's personal maid. She was assigned the cleaning of Miscavige's quarters at the Cedars complex. This assignment came after Suzzette and Arthur Hubbard were thrown out of Gilman Hot Springs by David Miscavige's wife Shelley, for being "out-security". This "out-security" was based on the assertion that both Suzette and Arthur's spouses were not, according to Miscavige, eligible for the security clearance necessary to live at Gilman Hot Springs.

This top-security clearance requirement did not apply to Miscavige, even though it was used against LRH's children with a strange severity. For in October of 1982, Miscavige had his entire family flown out from Philadelphia and had them accommodated at Gilman Hot Springs. There they received auditing and the best available services. All of it was done at Church expense. All of it was ordered by David Miscavige. And, again, never during this entire period was Miscavige a member of the Church of Scientology.

• Twenty-year-old David Miscavige assumed control of the Church of Scientology in June of 1981. His methods were supremely simple and classic in design. He approached the then CO CMO, Diane Voegeding, and handed her a despatch, purportedly written by LRH. It ordered her to step down and vacate her post. She complied. In fact, the "LRH despatch" was written by David Miscavige.

Miscavige then placed Gale Irwin on post as the new CO CMO. Then, he removed her from post 6 months later. Then, John Nelson was posted as CO CMO. He was removed and Marc Yaeger was posted as the CO CMO. Finally, David Miscavige had achieved control of the Church. There was no one left, at this point, who would actively oppose him. Marc Yaeger was, and is, an unquestioning supporter of Miscavige.

Today, at the age of twenty-two, David Miscavige, in conjunction with Ann and Pat Broeker, is an unrestrained head of the Church. He has never held a job, or had to earn a living in the real world, outside the artificial universe of the Church of Scientology management.

Under Miscavige, Church resources became a somewhat limitless plaything. He answers to no one. He is not held accountable to anyone.

Yet, Church legal expenses have soared to a million dollars a month, with over 76 attorneys across the United States on the Church's payroll. This is all carefully justified by Miscavige with briefings he gives to Church staff and public. He talks of many, many legal victories. Yet, they do not seem to exist. And there is no end to the legal arena.

Some members of this army of attorneys have had office spaces in the Cedars complex in Los Angeles, and have been given Church staff as their go-fers, as well as extravagant retainer fees. Some earn approximately $30,000 a month, as a retainer. Under Miscavige, these attorneys have effectively assumed a form of control over certain Church activities. All senior echelon decisions are first routed through these attorneys before they are sent out, or executed, and all Broad Public Issues are sent via the attorneys for their approval, prior to issue. Church Issue Authority is now handled by the legal offices of Peterson and Trabish, of Los Angeles. These offices have become an integral part of Miscavige's forces.

As an aside, when Broeker was once queried on the fact that Miscavige had essentially been guilty of mutiny, Broeker's response was that it is only mutiny when you fail. When you succeed, it should be considered a coup d'etat.

Miscavige explained the mutinous takeover under the guise of "doing it for Ron".

In fact, with Diane Voegeding, Gale Irwin and John Nelson gone, there was no one left who would even consider opposing Miscavige in any way. Thus, in June of '82, an enfant terrible was born.

-and yet, much, much more to come.