FIRST PART
This is a piece of my track in the Sea Org. I was in it for 9 years. I had
big wins from LRH’s tech and policy and I want to thank him for what he gave
us as well as I want to thank all the hard working and dedicated staff in the
Sea Org for what they are doing. I also want to thank those Scientologists who
are true Scientologists, and accept only 100% standard application of the tech
and policy of LRH and stand up for it, like the people in the FZ, as an example.
However, I have to admit that there are those in the Sea Org, as you are
going to see in this write up, that alter LRH’s tech and policy, apply force
and harsh ethics, harass staff members who dare speak about it, and make sure
that a covert operation of infiltration of Scientology and perversion of its
principles, as laid out by the Founder, is going on.
I hope this write up contributes to putting ethics in and shedding more light
in an area that some chose to not look at, saying nothing is wrong, and on the
other hand others are trying like mad to get YOU not to look. Well, my answer
is: keep looking; the process is continued. Here is some data and thoughts for
you to help you evaluate a situation, by providing some material for you to look
closer:
Well, back in 1995 the "Golden Age of Tech" came out. There was an
event by COB (Chairman of the Board - David Miscavige) who, examining an international situation, came up with the Why
being the fact that "the blind had been leading the blind". In other
words, that the tech of LRH was not full or complete for auditors to be
sufficiently trained.
I am giving here some personal opinions not to try to impress upon others my
opinions but to give them a way of thinking which is logical.
Question 1: If "the blind have been leading the blind" does this
mean that LRH has been training blind auditors and coaches?
The answer to this question couldn’t be other than "no". LRH has
been making real auditors and true coaches. I do not think that anybody else in
Management or anywhere else in Scientology could say or allege otherwise.
So, if this was the Why then "the blind" should get some
correction, let’s say, on their word clearing tech as obviously, we all know
that, they must have had overts on their Study Tech and overts come from
misunderstoods.
Question 2: Why then did the Scientologists and the Sea Org accept this Why?
First of all many haven’t, as I am finding out since I have left the Sea
Org or even when I was in it, since I have started talking with people more
openly. They never accepted it full heartedly. But it seems that Int Mgmt is
pushing this and this is still a question in my universe and from that day I
started being suspicious as to what is going on and why are we adding things to
LRH’s tech and more importantly why COB attempts to invalidate what LRH did by
speaking like that when a last resort is always word clearing and we know that
word clearing is very weak in many Academies as there are not enough word
clearers.
In any case the Golden Age of Tech was introduced and enforced full blast
ever since and I have seen many people getting very upset with having to
memorize things and having to tell them to the wall. By the way COB mentioned
that this is a piece of Tech from the Class VIII course but I never saw any such
bulletin and even if there was a reasonable question is raised which is the
following:
Question 3: How come a piece of Tech from a Class VIII course is being used
in lower grade courses without any explicit bulletin allowing that by LRH? And
when LRH in the Student Hat explains it very clearly that an auditor doesn’t
have to remember commands but all he has to do is to move his pencil each time
on the command to be asked etc. You can have a look in the Student Hat tapes.
There has been no answer to this question either.
From that point on as I said I started looking at the actions of COB with a
careful eye and trying to see if there were other areas where such things could
happen.
Shortly before the Golden Age of Tech the New Era of Management had come out
with a lot of LRH 3rd dynamic tech (policy) being re-written. LRH is
very explicit about re-writing the work of an author or of an inventor, again in
the Student Hat tapes. The FOLO and the CLOs, FB (Flag Bureaux) and FCB were
changed and Sea Org members changed posts overnight. "This was the most
massive musical chairs that I ever saw in my Sea Org career", my wife told
me who was at FB at that time. People were staying up for 2-3 nights in a row,
and they would be involved in various cycles to keep them busy. The New Era of
Management study packs were issued and enforced on the staff though they were
not written by LRH. Though people were not openly expressing their disagreements
against them and against the fact that they had not been written by LRH, they
would not really read them and soon the packs were being neglected and avoided,
just filling up the course admin spaces of ITO and when I came in Europe in 1997
the admin spaces of the CLO. Programs were being pushed by Int Mgmt for the Sea
Org members to study the New Era of Management but they would find a lot of
opposition, from the staff though, I believe, this was always covert on behalf
of staff members as they were afraid to openly decry these packs as not being
LRH.
I believe now that many S.O. members openly decried both the Golden Age of
Tech and the New Era of Management and were sent to the RPF, but this was not
being known of course, amongst the rest of the team.
In 1996 I moved from ASHO Day to FLO (Flag Liaison Office, renamed and
re-organized per New Era of Management).
I was put on the translations project, which had started a year ago with the
translations of the Golden Age of Tech drills in 14 languages. Many of these
languages didn’t even have the Academy available in their language but they
were translating the golden age of tech drills anyway. This was a huge project
and a lot of money was put into it and thus the success of the project. But the
translations of purely LRH materials, being LRH, did attract a lot of people who
started demanding that the Bridge be translated in more than 14 languages. I
became part of the Greek team of which my wife was a translator and there was
also a 3rd member in the Greek team. Together with a fourth Greek
translator who was up at Gold level (we were at FLO level in Los Angeles), we
would be the Greek team. But our materials would not be published due to delays
experienced at the level of approval of the translations, which was done by AVC
at that time (AVC is a section of RTC).
We were desperate as our translations were being returned to us by AVC in
many instances labeled "not a good translation, retranslate" and they
had to be reviewed. But this was just an excuse as the real reason was that AVC
had more than 16 languages to check and the translations were bottlenecking, of
course, at their level. So, in that way they would get away with their
responsibilities as to why the translations were not moving fast enough, since
"it was all our fault, the translations were not good".
And this is a false datum as I found out that is being pushed by Management
to delay the translations: "The LRH translations have to be perfect".
I advise you to ask for CBO 918 (Central Bureaux Orders refer mainly to a
specific Bureau in the Sea Org) and see for yourselves what LRH has to say about
the "perfectionism" of Int Management in regards to the translations.
No further comment, please ask for this CBO, it is not confidential and it
should be made available if needed.
After about one year of persistence on behalf of all four of us, some Greek
booklets from the Scientology Handbook started to be approved but then we had to
face another barrier: The typesetting and mostly the printing of the materials
so they could be published. New Era, the publications organization of the Church
in Europe was not printing Greek materials for reasons they know better and
which I believe were financial primarily.
One day, my wife and I, came across an HCOB while reading the red volumes.
This was HCOB 21 Nov 1971, Dianetics and Scientology in other languages. It was
talking about translations. Being desperate about the fact that the approval and
publication of our translations were moving too slow, we saw with great surprise
that the production line that LRH describes in the above HCOB was not at all the
production line we had been following. What we were doing was:
- We had to Method 9 the text before translating it
- Same for the side-checker who would side-check it after the translation
(Side-checking is a procedure where another translator checks the translation
together with the translator who reads his translation to the side checker and
they decide on how the translation should be).
- Then an editor, approved to do such a job, should edit the text
- Then a tech-checker should tech-check it (this is per an HCO PL so it is a
valid point)
- Then the whole thing should be back translated into English (meaning
translated from Greek, in our case, again into English by another person) so
that AVC could check it for approval (nowhere in any HCOB does LRH say such a
thing).
Published (if New Era would ever publish it, as in regards to the Greek
materials they hardly ever published anything. At least they were way behind
what we were producing as translations).
Now, in the above HCOB all that LRH says is that you find a high caliber
translator (a professional) and you retain them, retaining meaning that you pay
them in advance as you would pay a lawyer.
And then he, with the help of a Tech or Admin expert (depending on the kind
of text you are translating) records the translation onto tape, nothing
to do with any written form.
So, from step 1 above one moves to step 8 above. You skip 6 steps in between
and save yourself (and the planet) all this time. One can have tremendous amount
of gain of production time and this speeds up the process of getting the tech
out in other languages tremendously.
Seeing that, and seeing that this would open the door to a handling for the
bugs we had in the Greek translations and not only (we had Russian and Hungarian
and Czech and other small languages at that time that were not being approved
fast enough either) the 3 of us decided to write to RTC Reports Officer pointing
out this HCOB.
So we did. But the answer we got left us speechless. It is true that we had
written before to some other terminals in regards to the M9 being out-tech as a
method to learn how to translate as many translators knew how to study which is
the purpose of the M9 and we never got any answer why the M9 was being enforced
on translators who didn’t need it. But it was the answer from RTC Reports
Officer that made us almost spin.
Her first name was Serena (I don’t remember her last name) and she was
saying that LRH had issued other confidential materials which were in Gold which
we couldn’t see and that these were being followed for the production of the
translations.
This made us very suspicious for the following reasons:
We knew that LRH has written that there is no hidden data line in the tech
of Scientology.
We had asked a staff member of the Translations Unit in Gold if there were
really such materials from LRH and she had told us that she had never seen
such materials.
Even if such materials existed it wouldn’t make sense to not be able to
see them as such materials should be part of our translator’s hat.
Such an answer was adverse and contrary to HCOBs 20 Nov 1971 Course Tape
Translation and HCOB 21 Nov 1971 Dianetics and Scientology in other languages
which we had just read and which are very clear and can be found in the red
volumes.
After a couple of years we saw that the very production line which had
been, per the answer of RTC Reports Officer, "set up following ‘LRH
confidential materials which existed only in Gold’ and which we had been
following", under the auspices of RTC was labeled a squirrel line and
many arbitraries were taken off including the M9, the back translations and
the AVC approval of the translations. This is very interesting as it shows
that this line has been changing constantly.
However, me and my wife decided to not push further the issue at that time as
such an answer not only didn’t make sense but it was a very bad indicator as
an RTC terminal was answering with a hidden data line and, supposedly, KSW was
in her hands and bad hands they were to give such data to juniors. We didn’t
want to expose ourselves at that time any further as such an answer from… an
RTC terminal was at least alarming. I can tell you that at that moment we got
scared to death. This was not supposed to be like that. I could not have it.
After many years I wrote back to that terminal as you will see but I got no
answer from her but from the RTC representative in Europe who, as you will see
further on, just avoided the whole issue and condoned all the violations of the
HCOBs I am mentioning above.
After about a year, in 1997, the translation project at SAG (Screen Actors
Guild), which was the name of the building in Hollywood Boulevard where a
massive translations project was happening since the golden age of tech, was
dismantled and many Sea Org translators were sent to Europe. Nobody said
anything, though the SAG building had been one of the best, if not the best,
occasion for the translations to move at a somehow decent speed. Many books in
many languages had been published thanks to the efforts of a lot of loyal Sea
Org officers and missioners and many dedicated staff and public. A lot of
recruitment was happening and about 150 people kept going in many languages
despite the fact that there were a lot of logistics problems after the golden
age of tech translations were finished (this was the golden age of tech drills
translations project which was paid with enormous amounts of money to make the
dead line for the Release in 1995) because the money started being reduced after
the completion of the drills translations. But since the building belonged to
ABLE International the Translations Unit had to leave.
We arrived in Europe, in the CLO where we had been transferred, in the late
summer of 1997. There we started work and at a certain point of time, being far
from LA now and thinking this was safer, I decided to write to ED Int about the
HCOBs as the speed of publication of the translations was very slow, actually
non-existent. I also wrote to him that I knew why the "old"
translations on tape were "Overt Products" (This was the line that
many people were promoting within the Sea Org about those tapes. These were the
reel to reel tapes that used to be very much used in Academies throughout Europe
and a lot of auditors were made out of them.). So, I wrote to him and I
explained to him and kindly directed him to the above HCOB and the one previous
to that, in the red Volume IX (HCOB 20 Nov 1971, Course Translation to Tape).
The answer I got from ED Int was an acknowledgement to the fact that LRH had
already addressed the situation in the translations and now ED Int, having read
in a new unit of time the above HCOBs, could see what the out-tech was and how
the tapes were made into OPs because of the out-tech.
That satisfied me momentarily as finally there was agreement that the policy
and the tech that existed on the matter was the right one (it was LRH, so it
couldn’t be otherwise) and that it had been squirreled and thus the
"OPs". I felt quite more up-tone. Boy, someone up there would, at
least agree, that this is the only piece of tech on the translations and that’s
it. But I was wrong to be that happy. Listen to this now. Few days later I got a
letter from ED Int’s communicator, Ray Muller, where she stated that at that
time the Greek I/C TU Int at Gold had alerted her that I was planning to put in
the tape translations line. She was R-factoring me that ED Int’s answer was
not by any means to be interpreted as an order and things like that. She finally
was saying that she had forgotten, in typing up ED Int’s answer, to add a
paragraph from ED Int’s answer (!!) and that she was sending me the complete
answer from ED Int. In that second letter from ED Int a paragraph had been added
in which he was stating that since the time that LRH wrote the HCOBs he had
issued other orders and references on the translations and that was what was
followed by the Sea Org as a production line for the translations. Then he was
signing the new "corrected" letter. Let me point out here that since
that letter of ED Int’s the translation line has changed again last year,
which shows that what was being followed at that time was not LRH’s tech as it
couldn’t have been changed again in… 1999. So, this line was never standard
and the HCOBs have never been applied exactly as LRH has written them up. And ED
Int gave me the hidden data line and verbal data exactly like the RTC Reports
Officer. Except he didn’t do it "right" the first time. He had to be
"corrected" obviously and redo it correctly.
In the middle of all this verbal data and hidden data lines, while we and
other languages were literally struggling to get our products out in the Greek
unit as well as in the other units, I chose to forget the issue for a while as I
couldn’t have senior executives going against very clearly laid out LRH policy
so openly and with such boldness and overtness. I was going crazy as I couldn’t
believe that such gross out-tech would come from the highest strata of the Sea
Org: first the RTC Reports Officer and now ED Int. It was obvious that something
wrong was going on and to say the least, these executives didn’t want to put
in these HCOBs but would rather give verbal data to a Sea Org member taking
advantage of their high rank as obviously they were very high executives.
Under the circumstances I had to wait for a better chance to push these
HCOBs. And this chance was given to me when in the summer of 1999 I was promoted
by a CMO Int mission to the post of TU DIR EU and was posted after approval of
my transfer CSW by senior Personnel Control Officer Int as per LRH policy.
Few days after my posting order as TU DIR all the TU staff, we were briefed
by the CO CLO EU, Walter Kotric, that there will be a research in regards to the
TU production line, which will be done at Int level and that COB was directly
interested to sort out this line. A new computerized system would be introduced
but all details would be finalized after the research would be complete.
This was good news for me and my hopes for the HCOBs to be applied finally
rose again and while the CO CLO EU was at Int I decided to send a telex to MATEI
(Materials Executive International) and sending info to several Sea Org
executives on it, in regards to the existence of the HCOBs and that they should
be put in now that a research was happening. I left out COB deliberately as I
wanted to check what he was going to propose as the "On Source line".
(This I did in full conscience as the HCOBs on the translations are just one
area of alteration of the tech and I wanted to see how bold these guys were and
if they would attempt again to deceive the whole Sea Org and the
Scientologists).
I didn’t want to write to anybody else also as I knew of another situation,
which was non-optimum, which was that in AOSH Europe 3 years ago 10,000 of the
tape translations had been destroyed by a mission run by CMO Int on the pretext
that they were OPs. I did not trust after all this verbal data from the highest
strata of Scientology that the HCOBs would be put in but under my authority as
TU DIR EU I wanted and had to make it known that there was LRH policy on the
subject of the translations which is not being applied. It was a short of
knowledge report and also it would help me see how far these people could go.
But I still believed there was again a chance to put those HCOBs in despite what
had happened in the past. I still had hopes and still was checking to see things
and trying to correct things in a polite, "civilized" and peaceful
way. After all, a research is supposed to check primarily all LRH policy on the
matter and put it in if found to be out. Let’s see where this led to.
MATEI answered to me that the line would be "fully on Source".
However, when the CO CLO EU came back to Europe from the US he announced the new
strategy on the translations, which included nothing on the HCOBs. He even said
that COB didn’t know that many languages didn’t have the Academy yet and
that now we would focus on that. This was a big outpoint that COB wouldn’t
have such data. But at least now I knew who was stopping the HCOBs. Though it is
unbelievable, COB, David Miscavige didn’t want these HCOBs to be applied. The
whole area of the translations was in his hands and he conducted a research for
3 months …to leave out the main tech that LRH had left on translations, the
HCOBs I mentioned above. I verified this when later I asked Walter Kotric, the
CO CLO EU, about the HCOBs and he told me that when he was up-lines for the
research, he had asked COB about the HCOBs and that COB had told him that
"there is an advice from LRH that", in essence, "changes the line
of the HCOBs". Although Walter Kotric recently completed studying OEC
Volume 0 he could not think with policy. He could not duplicate a simple datum.
I don’t want to go into the reasons why the CO CLO EU could not see that per
policy (HCO PL 12 August 1972, Seniority of Orders) an HCOB can only be
cancelled or revised by another HCOB. Simple datum. Very basic, too. This is
called Standard Admin and there can be many reasons why a person would go off of
it. Even a Staff Status II completion might understand this better than the CO
CLO EU. I am sorry to say this, but I have checked it and it is true. Staff
Status II completions know what is standard tech and what isn’t. This is
Scientology. It doesn’t involve any magic to it. It works! But still the issue
remained. The HCOBs should be applied. There were no other HCOBs canceling or
revising them.
After a confrontation between me and the CO CLO EU on the issue, where he was
trying to enforce on me the new program as the line that would go in
despite any… HCOBs saying differently, I ended up in Ethics, out of post,
without a Comm Ev (this is a common practice for Walter Kotric when he doesn’t
like some staff member and there are other similar incidents of people being
taken off post without a Comm Ev by him like any wog type of job where you do
something wrong and the next thing you know is that you are fired). I was put on
MEST work but since I didn’t accept this condition assignement I started
talking to people in the CLO about the HCOBs but most of the staff couldn’t
have it as they couldn’t understand why there would be such a conflict when
there is policy on the matter, much less why this policy was being not-ised by
Management and why I was in ethics when I was talking about policy. They couldn’t
have this much of an outpoint, though they could see it as one.
While on the decks I happened to find some translations tapes of the older
times (the ones which were "OPs", which had been stored in a basement
of the CLO) and I found out from an old dispatch of 1978 from the then CO TU
that he was sending to the Swedish orgs 8 tape courses that had been produced
within 5 months of TU production. This was a very decent production, I thought,
and with 8 courses delivered within 5 months an org not only could survive but
it would flourish and prosper exactly as LRH intended with this translations
line. And it is not a coincidence that Malmo Org in the beginning of the ’80s
was Number 1 in the Birthday Game. Today Malmo Org has maybe 8-10 staff members…,
which is pathetic. There are many orgs, which suffer because of the lack of this
line and lack of LRH materials in a form duplicatable by their publics.
Basically this line is being stopped constantly.
Walter Kotric started a black PR campaign against me to the Sea Org crew of
the CLO EU, saying that I said that COB was a squirrel. He said that in one of
the musters and with me being absent of course. I hadn’t said such a thing as
I knew that this would be my ticket to hell, given that the people around me
were being made not to think using their observations, but would listen to black
PR and witch-huntings. Walter Kotric, of course, didn’t say all the rest and
he was scared to death of me speaking about the HCOBs as he had committed many
High Crimes in the area of translations, which had been left unpunished. Once,
before removing me from my post I had told him about the HCOBs and his answer
was: "I am not a decision point on this". I don’t know which one is
his MU on KSW #1 but KSW is not to be decided upon, this is true, it is to be
acted upon and any HCOBs are to be followed exactly as LRH laid them out.
Anyway, I don’t think it was because of an MU that he didn’t want the HCOBs
to be put in. What I can see is that he was "just following orders"
and this is what he could do. I can understand this. It is hard to die in the
attempt. It is not easy to see things as they are and say what you see sometimes
even if your body or your post is not as important as the truth.
His wife, Zara Kotric, D/CO Internal (like an HES in Class V Org) before
sending me to ethics had told me that I was "fixated on the HCOBs". I
have never heard before of anyone being "fixated on HCOBs". This was
very funny, to see to what extremes two good otherwise executives would go to
explain an incorrectly introduced datum, which was coming down from COB and RTC.
Under such craziness and suppression people spin and Scientology goes down
the tubes. I knew I didn’t have the right to do so, as this is "case on
post". So, I wrote to the RTC representative in Europe, Antonella Tisi,
however, she was avoiding the matter and just giving me no-answers as to why the
HCOBs were not being applied. First, she asked me to read all the LRH issues on
translations in chronological sequence and see for myself. I did it and since
there was no HCOB after 1971 canceling or revising the ones I mentioned, I
insisted that this is the tech laid out by LRH. Then she referred me to the…
Student Hat tapes #1 and 2… "to solve my problem". I then understood
she was not on LRH’s side, either. No executive, loyal to LRH, no true
Scientologist, could be giving such false and irrelevant data, much less not
protect a staff member talking of policy. Soon I understood that she and the CO
CLO EU didn’t want me around and actually they pushed a Fitness Board on me,
which stated that I had "to prove my worth to the Sea Org". I was in
the Sea Org for 9 years and all these years never had any Fitness Boards and now
that I insisted on the HCOBs I "had to prove my worth to the Sea Org".
Up to that point, just a few months ago, I had been promoted to TU DIR, and
after being on the decks I was slated to be the Port Captain of CLO EU which is
an even higher post than TU DIR since it is a Division Head not just a
Department Head as is the TU DIR post. (Someone thought that I would forget the
translations and their pathetic speed by being tempted by a promotion.) And then
suddenly I… had "to prove my worth to the Sea Org. In the mean time I
happened to meet in the street a person who had been declared suppressive,
Robert Dale, but knowing that others had been declared SPs by the church, who
were not really, like a Dutch guy by the name of Ralph Peter Kwiers who was
rather standard but very persistent on standard tech, I was not trusting their
declare and wanted to find out the real reasons this guy was declared and if he
knew anything about Management as they were acting suppressively. I was found
out talking to him and I was given the works in sec checks to uncover "my
relations to Robert Dale". The CMO Int Mission In Charge (and high
executive in the CMO EU), Tomazo Mauri, who interviewed me, didn’t believe me
that I had no relation to Robert Dale and kept asking me things to see what I
had in mind. Well, I told him I had no relation to the guy and I told him that I
was upset about the HCOBs and all the black PR that went on against me because I
didn’t want to stop talking about them and mostly that the HCOBs were still
not being applied. I got no help from Mauri on the subject of the HCOBs, much
less any protection from him though he was on an ethics mission and he had quite
some power to do things on this. To the contrary I found myself betrayed once
more when in a very 1.1 way in front of his second ("second" is called
the subordinate missionaire of a mission) he uttered that magnanimous statement
to me: "I wish there would be more staff like you speaking about KSW."
And that was all he did about KSW. Of course it was a bunch of PR smoke to
impress his second because he didn’t care a damn about the HCOBs and wanted to
avoid the issue like hell, and the proof is that I never got any KR from him
reporting anything on this matter. He put me under watch by Security (I am not
going to give details here as it is not theta at all to walk all day and sleep
at night with a Security guard next to you and be locked in the Security room
with the rest of the Security guards "to not blow"! Dedication in the
Sea Org is dedication, but mental and corporal enslavement have no part in a
free world, especially when you speak about KSW). I didn’t tell him at that
interview of course that I talked to Robert Dale as I was enough upset with the
whole situation and I wanted to find more data from anyone about why Management
was acting like that. Anyway, there was a campaign of black PR against me once
more, now based on the fact that "I spoke to an SP" and the RTC Rep
and the CO CLO EU were behind this full blast. The CO CLO EU even said it to one
of the staff in the Greek Unit, the 3rd staff member of the Greek
Unit and at that time Greek In Charge in the CLO EU, that they were sending me
out because I was speaking about the HCOBs! Mauri knew of all this but did
nothing to put in KSW series #1.
This is the condition that suppressives have brought the Church into. I found
out after these adventures that we (me, my wife and the third member of the
Greek translations team who "dared" write about the HCOBs and KRs on
the CO CLO EU who was promoting to the TU staff that the tapes mentioned in the
HCOBs were "old technology" and they were OPs, and both of them had
problems later) were not alone.
To compound the suppression these two executives of the CLO EU have been
accepting false stats in the TU to show that the stats "are going up".
Whereas when I was the TU DIR EU in the summer of 1999, we produced about 2,500
of translated pages, the stats of TU as of last February- March show the
incredible figure of 6,000 or 7,000 "translated" pages with the same
amount of people producing. But all they do is count twice (or even three times)
things that have been translated in the past, only they release them as mimeo
issues or in a different form and so they count them as new translated pages
which is not true. But the point is that these materials have already been
translated and counted on the stats before. This is a false stat and when my
wife and the Greek I/C TU EU dared talk about it Walter Kotric started his
routine actions of black PR, harassment etc. against them.
Under this suppression the 3 of us decided to leave the Sea Org as this is
not the team LRH wants to be there and "protect" the Tech. Some
suppressives are controlling key posts within the Church. This is for me
undoubtedly true after all my adventures and tests that I did. They ignore LRH
policy as much as they can and, they alter it at will and secretly, that is in a
gradient so that it is not easy to see, they harass staff members who dare speak
against such atrocities and who say they disagree with out-KSW and out-ethics
and they black PR everyone who dares speak, calling them "disaffected"
with Int Management and they make them look like a pariah. The other staff
members cannot react, out of fear of punishment and harassment and some out of
blind trust to the senior executives who are pushing the off Source data and
lies.
Another thing that shows how viciously LRH policy is misinterpreted, on
purpose, by the suppressives is the following:
When Walter Kotric (the CO CLO EU) came back from up-lines with the new
strategy on the translations (which by the way has not been workable at all and
has not speeded up the translations as expected but was a gimmick to regain
control by the suppressives of RTC of the line of translations (which had gone
out of their control after AVC went off the lines as approval terminal) and thus
monitor again the speed and publication of the translations), he announced to us
that COB had said that the volunteer translators would not be paid anymore. By
the way it should be noted that these were mainly Scientologists who were paid
for their work in translations as quite some of them could do a professional job
and there were the only people who could deliver a product in the field of
translations together with the few Sea Org staff of the Translations Unit. He
showed us an LRH reference where LRH says that "the work was free, keep
it so". This was the reference of "Scientology Clear
Procedure" and one can read it in the Red Volumes and see for himself if
the following is true or not.
Now anyone who can study applying study tech or even without that if he is
somewhat bright and has some idea of what he is reading, when he would read this
reference he would understand that the word "free" does not have the
definition of "free of charge" but the definition of "free from
any control or monitoring or suppression". LRH in essence refers to the
suppressives in that reference and how he managed at all times to keep his work
free from any special interests. It is sheer profanity to the Founder of
Scientology to interpret this very reference for financial gain or economy.
However, this reference and especially this quote was interpreted erroneously,
on purpose, by COB to give him the grounds to cut any and all payments to any
translators of LRH materials and contain the translations again stopping the
expansion by stopping dissemination of the tech.
LRH is very clear in regards to paying translators: If you read HCOB 20 Nov
1971, Course Translation to Tape, you will see that there LRH has put a program
which in its 1st Primary Target says the following:
"A person fully competent in both languages and their cultures is found
and retained."
The word "retained", as I explained also before, means "hired
and paid in advance, as a lawyer, for example, would be". So there is
actually policy by LRH covering this point and LRH wanted professionals to be
paid in order to have expansion with tape translations. These translations are
10 times faster as a professional, called a "sight translator" just
records them on tape and then they are ready to be sent to the orgs’ Academies
as tape courses. Fast expansion.
I was astonished by the boldness of COB to pass so overtly his own
interpretations of LRH quotes. As a TU DIR EU I made it clear to my juniors that
the word "free" had nothing to do with money. I was more disappointed
to see that only the three of us from the Greek unit would stand up against that
gross interpretation of LRH’s tech and did not accept it. (Possibly other
staff members could see that but they wouldn’t be talking easily to one
another about such things as they were afraid they would be labeled as
"disaffected".) Actually I was very relieved to go up against this
suppression and to have said what I said to my juniors as TU DIR because I never
gave them any interpretations of the tech, much less tried to enforce them on
them. It is therapeutic to apply KSW 100%.
But this isn’t all of the inside data. Concurrently with the enforcement of
this line of non-payment of any translators, the line which operated very
successfully at Flag, collecting donations from Scientologists for specific
books to be translated was stopped. When I came to Athens where I live, I saw a
promo from Planetary Dissemination Organization where now they are collecting
again money and the promo says:
"The Planetary Dissemination Unit at Flag was formed as the major
funding source for the GOING GLOBAL Campaign (my note: this is the campaign,
Miscavige launched a year ago) in order to make LRH tech available to every
being. Key to this campaign is translations of LRH materials…"
There are now even honorary titles according to the amounts donated by
benevolent Scientologists. I do not know what they collecting the money for. All
I know is that no professionals are paid for the fast dissemination of the tech
through translations as LRH says, no tapes are made which is a very fast method
to disseminate the tech and it has been laid out as policy on the translations
by LRH, no new books are coming out in Greek at least as promised by COB almost
half a year after the 3 of us left the church and the Greek translations. Of
course, it takes time to train specialists such as translators and editors.
However, just because LRH is such an OT, the truth prevails and the
suppressives ARE exposed. Those of you who still trust Miscavige as the
entrusted leader of Scientology I can tell you to watch the Going Global event
video (1999). There you will see Miscavige quoting the very HCOB that he didn’t
put in on the translations after his "research". He is quoting HCOB 21
Nov 1971, Dianetics and Scientology in other languages, an HCOB which he has
secretly and covertly tried to not apply but he is using it for PR purposes for
many years now. This is the very revelation of truth. How come he is quoting a
paragraph out of it and then not applying the rest of it? How come his
representative in Europe didn’t do anything to protect a staff member who was
screaming about this very HCOB not being applied? How come he said to the CO CLO
EU that there is an advice from LRH that says that we should not apply the
HCOBs? And how come an advice can cancel or revise an HCOB? This is not Standard
Admin.
The answer is given by LRH in that very HCOB 21 Nov 1971, Dianetics and
Scientology in other languages, when at the end of it there are few paragraphs
titled "ON SOURCE", and he says something like that: all the successes
of Scientology have been made when standard tech was used. The public distrusts
those who would not apply it, or try to apply a part of it, and the public run
away when they see that. You can find it in the Red Volumes and read it for
yourself.
I had case gain just by reading LRH, since the main auditing I received in
the Sea Org was sec checks and only sec checks. I acknowledge LRH as the Founder
of Scientology. I refuse to acknowledge anyone else as a "Co-Founder"
of it.
I wanted to give you hard facts exposing the "unbelievable" and
that is what I have seen. No one in the Sea Org or outside of it could ever show
me any HCOB canceling or revising the ones I am mentioning. As this planet
struggles along for survival I consider it the biggest overt not to attack those
who are trying to stop the dissemination of Scientology in any case and for
whatever reasons. This does not mean that the whole Sea Org is suppressive but
they are PTS now to suppressives because they are not handling them or
disconnecting from them. And they need to see it the matter as-is if there is
going to be any worth for them to be there. Because if they are there to follow
and enforce illegal orders and neglect specific HCOBs then they are not serving
the purpose LRH has put the Sea Org there for.
If you wish to go on having as management of the church people who alter and
condone alterations of LRH tech, not-ising LRH technology and who throw away
good staff who try to keep things on the right path of standard tech on all
fronts, no matter how high the suppression comes from, then it is your decision
but remember:
The work was free. Keep it so.
It is your track. It is you who would be the reasonable one that will be
trying to explain away the falsehoods of the suppression. Not only you want to
live with the truth but you want to stand up against the lies as you are a
Scientologist, right?
This is a scandal and there are many others, too, which are being reported by
many Scientologists as I see. Even in the wog world, governments fall when they
rule in such a vicious and arrogant way. Well, in Scientology they don’t have
to be vicious to fall. They just have to go off the narrow path that is called
standard tech. And the instances are many for us to still believe that all this
is some mistake or a big misunderstanding. The suppressives ARE always exposed
as the criminal leaves behind him the marks of his crime as he wants to be
caught. And with such crimes, boy, they want to be caught. They are trying to
usurp Scientology. Sorry to say this but we have allowed the church to be taken
by criminals. It’s time we did something. If you don’t think that not-ising
and altering LRH’s tech is criminal, have a look around you and see how many
orgs are moving. How many people are getting out of the gut they are in. How
many decent staff have been lost in the name of… "suppression" and
"criminal" attitude of those in authority within the church.
We are not here to be good boys and good girls. You know that. So, don’t
muff it now just because it seems unpleasant or unsocial to do 7, 8, 9 and 10 of
KSW # 1.
When the criminal gang falls, you are going to be part of this if you knew
about it and have condoned it. Don’t think of your "neck". LRH didn’t.
Many others didn’t. Why should you then? You are an immortal being. He
says: "win or die in the attempt". Better die than live as a loser
because Scientology is a winning team. It always has been. Do not accept any
bias on your perceptions, regardless of where it comes from. Reasonableness is
suppressive and not seeing outpoints for what they are is reasonableness. (check
the definition of "Reasonableness" in the Admin Dictionary.) Had each
Scientologist stood up against gross or little violations of policy, things
would have been different. The Code of Honor and many others apply. I have a
right to know who and why in the case of the HCOBs and any other case of
alteration of the tech. This is many years now that we are struggling to get out
some little pieces of the tech. I am not reasonable anymore with them.
The suppressives cannot have this much dedication, this is why they ARE
always losing and they WILL BE losing forever in this game. We have the tech. We
are ethical. We are not afraid. We have our Commodore. He is around. Do your
part.
The work was free. Keep it so.
Theo Sismanides
