From:
Debbie Cook <debbie.cook.112@gmail.com>
Date:
Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:03 PM
To:
undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Message from Debbie Cook
-- Former Captain FSO
Dear Scientologist,
I am
emailing you as a friend and fellow Scientologist. As we enter a
new year, it is hoped that 2012 can be a year of great
dissemination and a year of real progress up The Bridge for all
Scientologists.
Although I am not in the Sea Org right now,
I served in the Sea Org at Flag for 29 years. 17 of those years
were as Captain FSO. I am a trained auditor and C/S as well as
an OEC, FEBC and DSEC.
I am completely dedicated to the technology
of Dianetics and Scientology and the works of LRH. I have seen
some of the most stunning and miraculous results in the
application of LRH technology and I absolutely know it is worth
fighting to keep it pure and unadulterated.
My husband and I are in good standing and we
are not connected with anyone who is not in good standing. We
have steadfastly refused to speak to any media, even though many
have contacted us.
But I do have some very serious concerns
about out-KSW that I see permeating the Scientology
religion.
I have the utmost respect for the thousands
of dedicated Scientologists and Sea Org members. Together, we
have come through everything this world could throw at us and
have some real impingement on the world around us. I am proud of
our accomplishments and I know you are too. However there is no
question that this new age of continuous fundraising is not our
finest moment.
LRH says in HCO PL 9 Jan 51, An Essay on
Management, "drop no curtains between the organization and the
public about anything.? -LRH
Based on this policy I am communicating to
you about some situations that we need to do something about
within our religion, within our group.
Actions that are either not covered in
policy or directly violate LRH policy and tech
include:
The extreme
over-regging and
fund-raising activities that have become so much a part
of nearly every Sea Org org and Class V org as well as every ?OT
Committee? is not covered anywhere in LRH
policy.
Hardworking Sea Org members and the
dedicated staff of orgs around the world aren?t choosing to do
these actions. Nor are the OTs. I am sure they would be more
than happy if they could just get on with direct dissemination
of Scientology as they have done for so many years.
But the truth is that this is being driven
from the very highest echelons within the Scientology structure
and clearly there is a lot of pressure to make targets that are
being set.
The IAS: The
IAS was created unbeknownst to LRH in 1984 by Marc Yager and
David Miscavige. This was supposed to be based on LRH policies
on the subject of membership and the HASI, however the IAS is
nothing like the membership system described by LRH which only
has two memberships and is covered in HCO PL 22 March 1965
"Current Promotion and Org Program Summary, Membership Rundown"
and states: "There are two memberships..."-
LRH
LRH lists there the INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL
MEMBERSHIP and gives its cost at 10 pounds sterling or $30 US.
He also lists a LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP which is priced at $75 US.
There are no other memberships or statuses approved or known to
LRH. Furthermore, membership monies are supposed to go directly
to the org where the membership is signed up, and the money used
for dissemination by that org, in that area. This is covered in
HCOPL 1 Sept 1965R Membership Policies.
"It all goes into the HCO Book Account in
the area where the membership is brought and is not part of the
organization's weekly gross income. Membership monies go to
dissemination".- LRH
Currently membership monies are held as Int
reserves and have grown to well in excess of a billion dollars.
Only a tiny fraction has ever been spent, in violation of the
policy above. Only the interest earned from the holdings have
been used very sparingly to fund projects through grants. In
fact many of the activities you see at IAS events are not
actually funded by the IAS, but rather by the Scientologists
involved.
Think about it, how many ads disseminating
Scientology, Dianetics or any Scn affiliated programs have you
seen on TV? Heard on the radio? Seen in newspapers? I haven?t
seen one in the 4 years I have lived in San Antonio, Texas, the
7th largest city in the US. How many have you seen?
Donating anything more than a lifetime
membership to the IAS is not based on LRH policy. The article
?What Your Donations Buy? (The Auditor, The Monthly Journal of
Scientology No. 51, 1970) is clearly talking about how the
church uses your donations for Dianetics and Scientology
services. Next time you are asked to donate outside of services,
realize that you are engaged in fundraising and ask to see
something in writing from L. Ron Hubbard that this is something
he expects from you as a Scientologist.
New Org
Buildings: LRH also never directed the purchase of
opulent buildings or the posh renovations or furnishings for
every org.In fact, if you read HCO PL 12 March 75 Issue II, ?The
Ideal Org?, which is what this program has been called, and
nowhere in it will you find 20 million dollar buildings or even
any reference to the poshness of org premises at all as part of
LRH?s description of an ?Ideal Org?. Instead, an Ideal Org was
one that delivered and moved people up The Bridge ? something
that is not part of this ?Ideal Org? program.
LRH says in the PL that an Ideal Org: ?would
be clean and attractive enough not to repel its public? ? LRH.
This is all it says about the state of the building.
As a result of this off-policy alteration of
the Ideal Org PL, we have the majority of top OTs, now deemed
?OT Ambassadors?, heavily engaged in fund-raising activities
that include ?bingo?, ?pirate dinners?, ?knitting classes?, ?hay
rides?, and many other activities strictly revolving around
raising funds for the required multi-millions of dollars to fund
their ?Ideal Org?. As part of this, people around every org are
now asked to donate to their local ?Ideal Org? instead of their
own services or their own Bridge.
LRH says in HCO PL Org Ethics and Tech: ?GET
RID OF DISTRACTIONS FROM SCIENTOLOGY in your org. Baby-sitting
or raffle tickets and such nonsense.?
Yet these distractions are rampant as they
are being used as fund-raisers to get money for the huge quotas
being issued to fund the ?Ideal Org?.
"If the org slumps... don't engage in
'fund-raising' or 'selling postcards' or borrowing
money.
Just make more income with
Scientology.
It's a sign of very poor management to seek
extraordinary solutions for finance outside Scientology. It has
always failed."
?For orgs as for pcs, 'Solve It With
Scientology'.
"Every time I myself have sought to solve
financial or personnel in other ways than Scientology I have
lost out. So I can tell you from experience that org solvency
lies in more Scientology, not patented combs or fund-raising
barbeques."
HCO PL 24 February 1964, Issue II, Org
Programming, (OEC Vol. 7, p. 930)
The point is that Scientologists and OT's
need to be training, auditing and disseminating to raw public -
not regging each other or holding internal
fundraisers.
Out Tech:
Over the last few years we have seen literally hundreds and
hundreds of people who were validated as clear using the CCRD as
developed by LRH now being told they are not Clear. This
included hundreds of OTs who were then put onto NED as a
"handling". LRH clearly forbid any Dianetics to be run on OTs in
HCOB ?Dianetics Forbidden on OTs?. This is out tech. This entire
technical ?handling? was directed personally by COB RTC and was
done on thousands of OTs. But it was based not on an LRH HCO
Bulletin, but rather based on a single C/S instruction where LRH
C/Sed one pre-OT who had not achieved the state of clear but was
mid OT III and not making it. LRH directed a solo handling that
the pre-OT was to do to get himself to achieve the state of
Clear. This LRH C/S taken out of context was then used to
implement a technical handling that was in direct violation of
an LRH HCOB.
This and other ?technical handlings? done on
Solo NOTs auditors created great expense and hardship on Solo
NOTs auditors around the world as they were made to do these
handlings to continue on the level.
Then there are the ?fast grades at Flag?
that no other org has. How can it be that Flag has been
delivering grades differently to the rest of the world for the
last 3 years? Whatever the problem is, the fact is that having
?fast Grades? at Flag creates a hidden data line and is a HIGH
CRIME and the subject of an entire policy letter called "TECH
DEGRADES" which LRH has placed at the start of every Scientology
course.
More recently the fad seems to be that
nearly everyone needs to ?re-do their Purif and do a long
objectives program?, including many OTs mid Solo
NOTs.
There is nothing wrong with doing
objectives, but it is a clear violation of HCOB 'MIXING RUNDOWNS
AND REPAIRS" to have a person mid a rundown or OT level be taken
off it and placed on an objectives program.
Solo NOTs auditors are also being made to
get their objectives from a Class IX auditor at great expense as
they are not being allowed to co-audit.
Flag has made many millions of dollars on
the above listed out tech handlings because OTs mid Solo NOTs
are forced to get these out-tech actions to be able to get back
onto and stay on the level and complete it. Not to mention the
spiritual effects of the out tech that this has on each
OT.
I myself was subject to these out tech
?handlings?, including extensive FPRD mid Solo NOTs. It took its
toll in many ways, including physical situations I am still
dealing with today. So I have some reality of the hardship
caused.
LRH Command
Structure: LRH left us with a complex and balanced
command structure, with our orgs led by the Office of ED
International. This office was considered so important that LRH
created a special management group called the Watch Dog
Committee whose only purpose was to see that this office and the
other needed layers of management existed. LRH ED 339R speaks of
this extensively as the protection for our Church. But these
people are missing. And not just some. As of just a few years
ago there were no members of the office of ED Int on post, not
to mention top execs throughout the International Management
structure.
You may have also wondered? where is Heber,
the President of the Church? What about Ray Mitthoff, Senior C/S
International, the one that LRH personally turned over the upper
OT Levels to? How about Norman Starkey, LRH?s Trustee? What
happened to Guillaume ? Executive Director International? And
Marc Yeager, the WDC Chairman? What happened to the other
International Management executives that you have seen at events
over the years?
The truth is that I spent weeks working in
the empty International Management building at Int. Empty
because everyone had been removed from post. When I first went
up lines I was briefed extensively by David Miscavige about how
bad all of them were and how they had done many things that were
all very discreditable. This seemed to ?explain? the fact that
the entirety of the Watchdog Committee no longer existed. The
entirety of the Executive Strata, which consisted of ED
International and 11 other top International executives that
were the top executives in their particular fields, no longer
existed. That the Commodore?s Messenger Org International no
longer existed. All of these key command structures of
Scientology International, put there by LRH, had been
removed.
There were hundreds and hundreds of
unanswered letters and requests for help from org staff, written
based on LRH ED 339R where LRH says that staff can write to
these top executives in the Exec Strata for help. But this is
not possible if all these execs have been removed and no one is
there to help them or to get evaluations and programming done to
expand Scientology.
Well, after that I got to spend some quality
time with Heber, Ray Mithoff, Norman Starkey, Guillaume, as well
as the entirety of International Management at the time, who
were all off post and doing very long and harsh ethics programs.
These have gone on for years and to the only result of that they
are still off post. There is no denying that these top
executives have all gradually disappeared from the scene. You
don?t see them at the big events anymore or on the ship at
Maiden Voyage.
David Miscavige has now become the ?leader?
of the Scientology religion. Yet what LRH left behind was a huge
structure to properly manage all aspects of the Scientology
religion. He put a complete and brilliant organizational
structure there, not one individual. There never was supposed to
be a ?leader? other than LRH himself as the goal maker for our
group.
There is a situation here and even if you
have not been to the International Management Base you should be
able to see that over regging and frequent tech changes are not
OK and you have a responsibility to do something to Keep
Scientology Working. You should be able to find and read the
references on membership in OEC Volume 6. Find and read the HCO
PL entitled ?The Ideal Org? (Data Series 40). Find and read the
references on org buildings, including HCO PL 24 Aug 65 II,
"Cleanliness of Quarters and Staff, Improve our Image". Also,
HCO PL 17 June 69, "The Org Image".
If you don?t want to make waves or put
yourself in danger of being taken off the level or denied
eligibility, then there are some simple things you can do. First
and foremost, withdraw your support from off policy actions.
Stop donating to anything other than your own services and
actual Bridge progress. Simply demand to see an LRH reference
that says you are required to make other such donations. No one
will be able to produce any references because there aren?t
any.
Stop supporting any of the activities that
are being done to forward off-policy fund-raising in your
area.
LRH says what he expects of a Scientologist
? that is what he expects you to do. In fact he put it in HCOB
10 June 1960 Issue I, "Keeping Scientology Working Series 33,
WHAT WE EXPECT OF A SCIENTOLOGIST". Read it and follow
it.
The other thing you can do is to send this
email to as many others as you can, even if you do it
anonymously.
Please keep this email among us, the
Scientologists. The media have no place in this. You may wonder
why I have not written a KR and gone about my business. The
answer is, I have. But there is no longer anyone to send that KR
to.
But you can and should write reports and
bring off-policy to the attention of local org executives and
local Sea org members.
We are a strong and powerful group and we
can affect a change. We have weathered many storms. I am sorry
that I am the one telling you, but a new storm is upon us. Its
waves are already in the media and the world around
us.
The truth is that as a Scientologist you are
more able, more perceptive and have a higher integrity.
Scientology is supposed to make you ?think for yourself? and
never compromise your own integrity. And most certainly LRH held
every Scientologist responsible to KEEP SCIENTOLOGY
WORKING.
I am not trying to do anything other than
affect a change in serious off policy actions occurring. My
husband and I have most of our family and many many good friends
who are Scientologists. I have not been real interested in
sticking my neck out like this. However, I also know that I
dedicated my entire adult life to supporting LRH and the
application of LRH technology and if I ever had to look LRH in
the eye I wouldn?t be able to say I did everything I could to
Keep Scientology Working if I didn?t do something about it
now.
We all have a stake in this. It is simply
not possible to read the LRH references and not see the
alterations and violations that are currently occurring. You
have a very simple obligation to LRH. Don?t participate in
anything off policy, and let others know they should not either.
If every person who reads this email does nothing more than step
back from off-policy actions we would have changed direction. If
we took all that energy and directed it into auditing, training
and raw public dissemination, we would be winning.
And that is what I wish for you and all of
us as we ring in this new year.
ARC,
Debbie Cook