I see Neal Hamel, Mark Plummer & Roger Gonnet's wife were told so:
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=19970829172900.NAA06565%40ladder01.news.aol.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dnl%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D19970829172900.NAA06565%2540ladder01.news.aol.com
Mike Gormez
- Scientology and health http://www.whyaretheydead.net/
- 'Religious' child abuse and neglect http://www.taxexemptchildabuse.net/
- Visit Occupied Clearwater with Nessie http://nessie.psychassualt.org/
- The hearing transcripts http://whyaretheydead.net/lisa_mcpherson/bob/
Other good questions are, "How many of you were asked to abort your unborn child
by the group?" or "Were any of you asked to give up your child so that Tom
Cruise could be a father?"
Here's my post in which I talked about this:
From: Warrior (war...@electrotex.com)
Subject: Re: ARS blatant liars
Newsgroup: alt.religion.scientology
Date: 1997/08/29
In article <3407776f...@nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
Neal Hamel <smok...@ix.netcom.com> says...
>
>On 29 Aug 1997 17:29:23 GMT, rons...@aol.com (RonsAmigo) wrote:
>
>>Bev <dbj...@iag.net> wrote in article <33FD99...@iag.net>...
>>> RonsAmigo wrote:
>>>
>>> > The truth is that Scientology brings families closer together.
>>>
>>> You are a blatant liar.
>>
>>The tendency of ARS bigots to post atypical incidents and
>>claim that they reflect what is typical of Scientology is
>>disgusting.
>>
>>For every one claim that you can document where a person
>>has said their family was pushed apart "by Scientology", I'm
>>sure I would have no trouble coming up with several
>>hundred accounts in which none Scientologists report their
>>family was brought closer together as a result of a loved ones
>>involvement in Scientology.
>>
>
>OSA told my wife, point blank, that she had to divorce me. I was in
>good standing at the time.
>
>How's that for first hand experience?
>
>I know several other families, who have been broken up by scientology.
>I am not going to name them 'cause I respect their privacy.
>
>You statements are um disingenuous, to state it in the best possible
>light.
>
>-Neal Hamel
I also was told (by the MAA of my org) to divorce my wife. I was
also told I was "PTS Type A" and ordered to do the "PTS/SP Course"
and was placed on the "PTS Rundown" because my mother was antagonistic
towards Scientology. As is ALWAYS the case with "PTS Type A" persons,
I was told to "handle my mother or disconnect from her" because she
didn't believe in Scientology since she was a Christian.
Warrior
===
What I didn't include in the above post is that in 1978 my wife and
I were the subject of an ASHO Day Ethics Order which ordered us to
separate, and which placed both of us under a "non-enturbulation
order". Both of us were ASHO Day staff (Sea Org) members at the
time. My wife complied by moving into a women's dormitory in the
Cedars of Lebanon building known as Lebanon Hall ("LH"). During this
time period, and in connection with our enforced separation, I was told
by the MAA ASHO Day that my wife was an "R/Ser" and that she
"rock slammed on men". In cult-speak, he was saying that she was
suppressive since she had evil intentions towards all men.
Warrior - Sunshine disinfects
http://warrior.xenu.ca
From: Warrior
Subject: Re: How many marriages has Scientology broken up?
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology, alt.support.ex-cult
Date: 1998/08/27
In article <35e66193...@enews.newsguy.com>,
by...@NOSPAM.acm.org says...
>
>With all the hubbub lately about some ARSCC members, people are
>forgetting to look at the other side.
Good point. Scientology has been doing its best to divert attention
away from their crimes.
>I seem to remember lots of cases where people in Scn have been ordered
>to divorce spouses or to disconnect from family members. I don't have
>these cases immediately at hand, but I'm sure I could find lots with a
>little searching.
I know of quite a few.
>There is also the infamous policy that Sea Org women have to get
>abortions. And there is the atrocious treatment of small children.
Yes. Read Mary Tabayoyon's affidavit. It is only one of numerous
factual accounts of Scientology's crimes against families and
children.
>The obvious question is: who is really breaking up marriages and
>families?
Scientology routinely breaks up marriages. This is one of the cult's
"VFPs" (valuable final products).
One Sea Org member, Craig Sargeant, when he was the Dir I&R ASHO
Day, eloped with a lady named Andrea Abbate. They married. When
Craig returned to ASHO, he was assigned a lower condition and *ordered*
to get an annullment of his marriage to Andrea. Sadly, he complied.
Later, when he married Marcy Henderson, the cult did not object
since she was also SO staff at ASHO. You see, Andrea was a "public"
member, and the SO heavily discourages, and in many cases forbids
outright, the marriage between SO members and non-SO members.
John and Diane Colletto were ordered to disconnect from each other
when John was declared SP by the Sea Org (specifically, Publications
Org US - now called Bridge Publications). Tragically, John shot his
wife, Diane, to death at the Cedars Complex in LA, before taking his
own life.
When I was staff at ASHO Day, my wife and I were put under a "Non-
Enturbulation Order" and ordered to separate. We were actually ordered,
under threat of expulsion, to move into separate berthing quarters.
At that time (late 1978) we had been trying to get ASHO Day's Qual
Division to give us some counselling for our marriage. Because we
raised hell about *not* getting the services we were entitled to, we
were accused of "enturbulating" other staff members (those whose
job it was to see to it that we received the services we were entitled
to as staff).
When Scientology finally did succeed in causing the breakup of my
9-year marriage in 1983, I found someone else to love and began
a relationship with her. A CMO Missionnaire threatened to declare
me SP for having a relationship with a lady who was not a Sea Org
staff member. I married her anyway and told Scientology to stick
their "ethics" threats where the sun don't shine! And then I left
the Sea Org.
Andrea Abbate's name appears in Cerridwen's December 1, 2002
post of completions announced in Celebrity Magazine Issue # 341.
Andrea was very briefly married to ASHO Day Sea Org member Craig
Sargeant. The executives at ASHO made Craig get his marriage to
Andrea annulled because she was not a Sea Org member, and because
after marrying Andrea, Craig wanted to leave the Sea Org to take a
job in Andrea's father's company. That was around 25 years ago (in
approximately 1979). Craig was assigned a "lower condition" ("doubt")
for wanting to leave the Sea Org. He did get an annullment of his
marriage to Andrea, and he stayed in the Sea Org. He later married
Marcy Henderson, an ASHO Day Sea Org member who held the post of
SHSBC Supervisor.
The next time I saw Andrea was in 1987 or '88. She had married an
OTV named Michael Walker. Andrea is the same lady as the one who
is Executive Producer of Rude Awakening.
There's a picture of Andrea Abbate with Claudia Lonow here:
http://www.wga.org/pr/0799/pressreception/pressreception1.html ,
except Andrea is on the right.
I know my 27-years marriage ended for one reason: OSA and the "Church"
<spit> of Scientology worked over my husband and as a result, he divoreced
me. How do I know it's them? Because he just (for 2 years, until he finally
disconnected from me) kept saying over and over: "You left me". He never,
ever asked, "Tory, what happened?" It was like he was on a program, and
they'd said, "Only say this". I've met others who are divorced and their
spouse say the same.
I didn't leave him: I LEFT A CULT! Also, I didn't leave him, I went to
Florida briefly. By the time I returned, he was
G O N E. Not physically, but someone had gotten to my husband as he was OUT
TO LUNCH and replaced with someone I did not, nor had I ever known.
I remember saying those same things to critics about how happy Scientology
families are. I don't doubt that..and my "Win" in WIS states Scientology
helped my relationship with my parents, and I still stand by that.
However, DO they break up families? Most definitely.
Do they not allow kids to see their parents? Yes, they do.
Did OSA call me up and ask me to "Handle a mother who wants to see her kid"?
Yes. Did I say ABSOLUTELY NO? Yes I did.
I told them EVERY parent has a right to see their kid, and if some mother is
going "Type 3" as she described, it is BECAUSE of what they were doing to
her, refusing to let her see her child, NOT what she was doing to them.
Shame on EVERY single person who supports Disconnection.
Tory/Magoo!
>>How many of you have been told to divorce your wife/husband by the cult?
>>
>>I see Neal Hamel, Mark Plummer & Roger Gonnet's wife were told so:
>>http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=19970829172900.NAA06565%40ladder01.news.aol.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dnl%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D19970829172900.NAA06565%2540ladder01.news.aol.com
>
>From: Warrior
>Subject: Re: How many marriages has Scientology broken up?
>Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology, alt.support.ex-cult
>Date: 1998/08/27
Thanks for these. Here's another one, Alain Stoffen was supposed to get a
divorce planned by scientology
http://groups.google.nl/groups?selm=3d167d5f%40news2.lightlink.com&output=gplain
Btw, Mark, it is not finished but a started on it tonite. So you know the
work wasn't for naught :-)
http://whyaretheydead.net/misc/scientology_hatered_of_psychiatry.html
The word "wife" should be replaced with "spouse" in the thread topic
though. FAMILY DISCONNECTION from declared SP members is not gender
specific :( in the $cn cult world..... as I know you know.
Tom
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/Scientology/
You're very welcome.
>Here's another one, Alain Stoffen was supposed to get a divorce planned
>by scientology
>http://groups.google.nl/groups?selm=3d167d5f%40news2.lightlink.com&output=gplain
>
>
>Btw, Mark, it is not finished but a started on it tonite. So you know the
>work wasn't for naught :-)
>http://whyaretheydead.net/misc/scientology_hatered_of_psychiatry.html
Cool! I suggest that you provide definitions for "R/Ses" and "R/Sers"
as used on this page. If you want my help let me know. :)
>How many of you have been told to divorce your wife/husband by the cult?
>
>I see Neal Hamel, Mark Plummer & Roger Gonnet's wife were told so:
>http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=19970829172900.NAA06565%40ladder01.news.aol.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dnl%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D19970829172900.NAA06565%2540ladder01.news.aol.com
Brian Haney was told to divorce his wife:
http://www.digl-watch.com/documents_brianhaney.shtml
Tilman
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Mike - it's spelled 'hatred' not 'hatered' as you have it in the url.
Good stuff, though:-)
tam
"Of the few innocent pleasures left....
the jamming of commonsense down the throats
of fools is perhaps the keenest."
Thomas Huxley
http://www.scientology-lies.com
http://www.xenu.net
http://www.newsfrombree.co.uk/
http://warrior.xenu.ca
>> >Btw, Mark, it is not finished but a started on it tonite. So you know the
>> >work wasn't for naught :-)
>> >http://whyaretheydead.net/misc/scientology_hatered_of_psychiatry.html
>>
>> Cool! I suggest that you provide definitions for "R/Ses" and "R/Sers"
>> as used on this page. If you want my help let me know. :)
>Mike - it's spelled 'hatred' not 'hatered' as you have it in the url.
>Good stuff, though:-)
Thanks :-) Someone else told me also it contains a type. I'll soon correct
the URL and put a redirect on the above typo URL.
Btw, does this count as a forced divorce? To me it is obvious one can't
have a meaningful marriage without any communication but perhaps they
could live in seperate parts of a house:
The Road to Total Freedom
A sociological analysis of scientology
by Roy Wallis
...
"Another interview respondent was asked to disconnect
from his wife, who was declared an S.P. and, although he did so at
first, he became disturbed by this demand and returned to her. This
led to his also being declared an S.P. Others were also expelled
for refusing to disconnect from a friend declared to be a
Suppressive Person."
====
Jesse Prince says that Diane Coletto was ordered to divorce John:
Now, it happened one day that a fellow named John Coletto was routed to
the RPF forcefully. By "forcefully," I mean he was surrounded by others
who forced him to go, just the way it happened to me. He came from the
Pubs Org, which later came to be known as Bridge Publications, Inc., or
BPI. His wife Diane Coletto was the Commanding Officer, or CO, of the Pubs
Org, and she had been instructed to divorce her husband John because he
was a "criminal."
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/jesse/coletto.html
The correct spelling of Diane's and John's last name is "Colletto".
To the best of my recollection, Diane never held the post of Commanding
Officer Pubs Org US. The Commanding Officer of Pubs Org US was Vicky
Lewis, except for a brief period of time when she was away at Flag for
training, during which time Mike Long temporarily held the position, and
a lady named Kenny Acs was Temporary Acting Deputy Commanding
Officer.
Here's one of my posts about the death of Diane Colletto.
From: Warrior
Subject: Diane Colletto
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Date: 1997/11/03
Diane Colletto, a Sea Org member at Publications Organization US,
held the position of "Auditor Magazine" Editor. Her husband, John
Colletto, was at least a Class VI auditor and OT 3X. John had suffered
a psychotic break in 1978, after his wife had been ordered to disconnect
from him. John had been declared an SP because he had refused to
administer "sec checks" to fellow Sea Org staff members at Pubs US.
John shot his wife Diane to death at the corner of Fountain Avenue
and Catalina Street in Hollywood; this is right next to the Cedars
Complex building. After killing his wife, John fled the area. A short
while later he took his own life.
Diane was born on March 28, 1953. Her Social Security number is
323-48-6178. John was born on May 31, 1947, and his Social Security
number is 556-72-7901.
The murder/suicide occurred in August 1978 while I was on staff
in the Sea Organization. I was there at the Cedars Complex when Diane
was shot to death by her husband, John.
>>Jesse Prince says that Diane Coletto was ordered to divorce John:
...
>The correct spelling of Diane's and John's last name is "Colletto".
Right, stupide of me. I know that but haven't gotten around on adding a
correction to JPs page. I'll do so a bit later tonite.
>
>To the best of my recollection, Diane never held the post of Commanding
>Officer Pubs Org US. The Commanding Officer of Pubs Org US was Vicky
>Lewis, except for a brief period of time when she was away at Flag for
>training, during which time Mike Long temporarily held the position, and
>a lady named Kenny Acs was Temporary Acting Deputy Commanding
>Officer.
>
>Here's one of my posts about the death of Diane Colletto.
I have that one too, for a couple of years :-)
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/uwc/Colleto.txt
Perhaps it is best to put those postings on a single page, and the info
you provided above, aboutt VGicky and Kenny.
>On 24 Feb 2004, Warrior wrote in <c1g28...@drn.newsguy.com>:
>>
>>The correct spelling of Diane's and John's last name is "Colletto".
In article <7nan30t23u189flsf...@4ax.com>,
Mike Gormez says...
>
>Right, stupide of me. I know that but haven't gotten around on adding a
>correction to JPs page. I'll do so a bit later tonite.
Okay.
>>To the best of my recollection, Diane never held the post of Commanding
>>Officer Pubs Org US. The Commanding Officer of Pubs Org US was Vicky
>>Lewis, except for a brief period of time when she was away at Flag for
>>training, during which time Mike Long temporarily held the position, and
>>a lady named Kenny Acs was Temporary Acting Deputy Commanding
>>Officer.
>>
>>Here's one of my posts about the death of Diane Colletto.
>I have that one too, for a couple of years :-)
>http://www.whyaretheydead.net/uwc/Colleto.txt
Cool.
>Perhaps it is best to put those postings on a single page, and the info
>you provided above, aboutt VGicky and Kenny.
Agreed. :)
At one time, there were quite a number of people in the Sea Org who
were married to people who were non-Sea Org (or, as they are commonly
referred to in the Sea Org, "NSO").
Sea Org policy forbids Sea Org members to become romantically and
sexually involved with public. However, certain situations resulted in
these SO/NSO marriages.
Sometimes one person in a marriage decided to join the Sea Org, while
their spouse either wouldn't or couldn't. The "couldn't" could be
because the spouse was paying off debts the couple had, or there were
family/personal situations that existed that made it necessary for one
of the people to be out, or one person in the couple wasn't qualified
because of a drug or psych history or some other out-qual.
Sometimes (this was the most common situation) there was a married
couple in the Sea Org, and one person in the couple decided to route
out of the SO while the other person in the couple stayed in. Most of
the time when this occurred the couple got divorced, but sometimes the
couple would stay together in spite of one being out and one being in.
There were also situations (this was in the earlier days when the Sea
Org service orgs employed non-Sea Org staff) where an SO member became
involved with a non-SO person who was employed by an SO org. These
situations often skated by, especially in the more liberal, looser
days, because the non-SO person *was* technically "staff", so it could
be argued that it was not a violation of the 2D FO forbidding staff to
become involved with public, even though the person wasn't Sea Org.
There were quite a few Sea Org staff at one time, especially in PAC,
who, as a result of various situations, were married to NSO. This
especially occurred in the service orgs, though there were occasional
instances of it at other levels as well.
Though it was not looked upon very favorably, these situations were
more or less tolerated by the orgs. One reason was that most of the
people who were married to NSO were technical staff - auditors, C/Ses,
supervisors. These people were often highly trained and would be
extremely difficult to replace. As long as their situations weren't
creating problems, the orgs put up with them to be able to keep them
as staff.
There was actually some kind of an LRH issue (FO? Base Order? I
forget) that said basically that it was OK for SO to have NSO spouses
as long as it wasn't causing problems to the staff and the orgs.
This changed, however. There was a major effort to "purify" the Sea
Org orgs by the DM regime in the 90s. First, all of the NSO staff had
to go. At one time the PAC orgs employed quite a few non Sea Org
staff, especially in technical areas. Most of them left by the late
1980s. However, there were a few non Sea Org staff who had hung in in
the PAC Sea Org orgs through thick and thin (ethics purges, problems
getting paid, etc.), but they were finally kicked out for good.
Then, there was an order that came down from uplines. The order was
that all of the staff on the bases who were married to NSO had to
either leave the SO or move into Sea Org berthing. Though they were
probably not exactly told they had to get a *divorce* from their
husband or wife, they were told they could no longer live together.
Considering the Sea Org schedule, the fact there was no family time
and little or no time off, it basically came down to the same thing.
Most of them left. It was this mess that got Chris Montgomery, long
time Briefing Course supervisor at ASHO, declared. She refused to
divorce her husband, and left the SO instead. AOLA lost several
auditors and at least one C/S. Similar things occurred on other Sea
Org bases.
These staff were made to feel like they were out-ethics scum for
refusing to divorce their wives or husbands.
Like most of these kinds of things, the only real result was that the
orgs lost valuable staff and shrunk to become even smaller.
Mary Lang ordered to disconnect from her husband.
SECRETARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Office of L. Ron Hubbard, D.C.
August 9, 1965
SECED Number 461DC
Applies to: Washington, D.C.
COMMITTEE OF EVIDENCE FINDINGS
Findings of Committee of Evidence convened 16th April, 1965.
Committee Members: David Aldrich, Chairman; John Higginbotham, Jr.,
Secretary;
Members: Sheila Aldrich, Wayne Rohrer, Joe Breeden
Findings on Interested Parties:
1. Ernest Martin
Finding: Absolved
Recommendation: The Committee recommends that Ernest use better
judgement in his selection of associates.
Endorsed.
2. Melvin Bear
Finding: Absolved
Recommendation: The Committee recommends that Mel be required to get
an Ethics Clearing on anyone moving into 1833 and/or 1835 19th Street,
N.W.
Endorsed.
3. Marianne Giles and Kinsley Giles
Finding: Both absolved
Recommendation: The Committee recommends that Marianne and Kinsley not
be allowed to involve anyone other than Ethics personnel with their
marital problems and that they, with Ethics, get together to solve
their marital problems.
Endorsed.
4. Bob Waller
Finding: Guilty of failing to appear before a Comm. Ev.
Recommendation: That Bob be required to get an Ethics clearing before
any further participation in Scientology.
Endorsed.
5. Mary Lang
Finding: That Mary is connected to at least two Suppressive Persons.
Recommendation: The Committee recommends that Mary be declared a
Potential Trouble Source and ordered to disconnect from the
Suppressive Persons in her environment; namely, Peggy Tereschenko and
Mary's husband.
Endorsement amends above to: Mary Lang is to separate from Peggy
Tereschenko and Mary's husband until Ethics DC has investigated Peggy
Tedeschenko and Mary's husband and issued an SP order or other
appropriate action.
6. Betsy Weeks
Finding: That Betsy has at least one Suppressive Person in her
environment.
Recommendation: That Betsy be declared a Potential Trouble Source
until such time as she disconnects from J. Fred Walker.
Endorsed.
7. Joan Estrada
Finding: Joan Estrada is guilty of impeding her husband's progress in
Scientology.
Recommendation: (deleted by L. Ron Hubbard)
Endorsement amends above to: A non-enturbulation order is placed on
Joan Estrada.
Amended to a Non-enturbulation order. LRH
8. Ken Pilove and Diana Thomas Pilove
Finding: Ken and Diana are Potential Trouble Sources.
Recommendation: That they may not be trained or processed until they
have entirely ceased the use of marijuana.
Further recommendation: That marijuana be declared Suppressive on the
basis that, in the opinion of the Committee, it impedes those who use
it.
The first recommendation is endorsed. The second recommendation is not
endorsed as the intent of policy on drugs covers this.
9. Lloyd Bell
Finding: Guilty of failing to appear before a Comm. Ev.
Recommendation: That Lloyd be required to obtain an Ethics clearing
before he is allowed further participation in Scientology.
10. Douglas Creer
Finding: Doug did lie to the Committee of Evidence and that he has
caused considerable enturbulence and entheta to those around him.
Recommendation: In view of the fact that Doug has achieved the State
of 1st Stage Release the Committee recommends no further action.
Endorsed.
11. Wilbur Kornish
Finding: Absolved
Recommendation: none.
Endorsed.
12. Ann Mauch
Finding: Guilty of failure to appear before a Committee of Evidence
and that Ann has caused considerable enturbulence and entheta to those
around her.
Recommendation: That a non-enturbulence order be placed on Ann.
Endorsed.
13. The following people have, in previous Ethics actions, been
declared Suppressive Persons:
Frank Williams, Fred Walker, Richard Stanchik, Reggie Grant; so the
Committee recommends no further action.
Endorsed.
L. RON HUBBARD
In article <c1e5u...@drn.newsguy.com>, Warrior says...
>
>I suggest that you provide definitions for "R/Ses" and "R/Sers"
>as used on this page.
"Rock slam" is defined as "The crazy, irregular left-right slashing
motion of the needle on the E-Meter dial. R/Ses repeat left and
right slashes unevenly and savagely, faster than the eye easily
follows. The needle is frantic. The width of an R/S depends largely
on sensitivity setting. It goes from one-fourth inch to whole dial.
But it slams back and forth. A rock slam (R/S) means a hidden
evil intention on the subject or question under auditing or discussion."
-- L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin of 3 September 1978 "Definition
of a Rock Slam"
===
"A rockslam means a hidden evil intention on the subject or question
under discussion or auditing."
-- L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin of 10 August 1976 "R/Ses, What
They Mean"
===
"ONE MUST ALWAYS REPORT A ROCKSLAM IN THE AUDITING REPORT,
NOTE IT WITH SESSION DATE AND PAGE INSIDE THE LEFT COVER OF
THE PC'S FOLDER AND REPORT IT TO ETHICS INCLUDING THE QUESTION
OR SUBJECT WHICH ROCKSLAMMED, PHRASED EXACTLY.
"Why? Because the Rockslam is the most important needle manifestation!
It gives a clue to the pc's case."
-- L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin of 10 August 1976 "R/Ses, What They
Mean"
===
"List One R/Ser
"There are, for our purposes, two kinds of R/Sers. (a) those who R/S
on subjects not connected with Scn and (b) those who R/S on subjects
connected to Scientology. The latter is a 'List One R/Ser' and it is of
great importance to us that they be located and moved off lines when
they are part of staffs as their intent is solely to destroy us whatever
else they say: their long run actions will prove it."
-- L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin of 1 November 1974RA "Rock Slams
and Rock Slammers"
===
"ROCK SLAMMERS
"In a group of 400, the actual percentage of R/Sers is low. It's about
8 in 400, or 2-2 1/2%. Those figures should seem familiar. They are
the same percentage for SPs. And that gives you a clue to the
identification of an R/Ser."
-- L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin of 1 November 1974 "Rock Slams and
Rock Slammers"
Very interesting. There were a few Sea Org members who were kept on
and who even lived 'off base' for a while in the '80s. One was a NOTS
auditor. Let me see if I can remember her name. She had a son at
that time whose name was Houston. Here husband was not in the SO.
She was so valuable to AOLA that they wanted very much to keep her.
She had made an arrangement with Susan Becher, a non-Sea Org AOLA
auditor. She audited Susan as a 'friend' under the concept that you
could audit friends and family for free and in exchange Susan
'covered' her post so she could go on vacation. Susan couldn't audit
NOTS but she could do OT 3 reviews, so this arrangement was made at
AO.
At that time they had just about gotten rid of most of the non-Sea Org
auditors. However, the execs at AOLA, (some of them were still
somewhat sane and wanted to keep some semblance of production going)
somehow held on to Steve Miller, the Cramming Officer. He signed a 2
1/2 year contract, I think. Also, they didn't get rid of the auditors
working in the FES unit. I guess they were so hidden it was assumed
that they wouldn't be found out. Let's see, the people in there were
Michele Torque, Class 6, Diane McDonald, Class 6, John Crittendon, not
sure of his class and sometimes Darryl something, who was a Class 8
but she was somewhat afraid to audit. Must have been 1984 or 1985.
Something like that.
The early '80s were a weird time. Most people who were loyal public
really knew very little about the whole Mission debacle. They didn't
know about the Mission Holders Conference, etc. Probably many still
don't. They couldn't help but notice the incredible shrinking orgs,
though. That was the time after the Finance Police. Another really
strange era in the bizarre history of Scientology.
Another thing -- Sea Org members who left the Sea Org were not allowed
to work in Missions or Orgs. Some covertly did. Others got 'Field
Groups' going. Missions but without the name.
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> > Like most of these kinds of things, the only real result was that the
> > orgs lost valuable staff and shrunk to become even smaller.
>
> Very interesting. There were a few Sea Org members who were kept on
> and who even lived 'off base' for a while in the '80s. One was a NOTS
> auditor. Let me see if I can remember her name. She had a son at
> that time whose name was Houston. Her husband was not in the SO.
I think you might be talking about Jill Burkhardt, married name Jill
Graham. Her son was named Houston, I believe.
Her cycle was on the flappy side. Matt Graham was a public person when
she married him. Somehow she got away with not going to the RPF. Her
cycle would still flare up regularly. Eventually she got pulled out of
AOLA and the last I knew she was Universe Corps for Orange County Org.
That was quite a while ago.
> She was so valuable to AOLA that they wanted very much to keep her.
> She had made an arrangement with Susan Becher, a non-Sea Org AOLA
> auditor. She audited Susan as a 'friend' under the concept that you
> could audit friends and family for free and in exchange Susan
> 'covered' her post so she could go on vacation. Susan couldn't audit
> NOTS but she could do OT 3 reviews, so this arrangement was made at
> AO.
>
> At that time they had just about gotten rid of most of the non-Sea Org
> auditors. However, the execs at AOLA, (some of them were still
> somewhat sane and wanted to keep some semblance of production going)
> somehow held on to Steve Miller, the Cramming Officer. He signed a 2
> 1/2 year contract, I think.
Steve Miller and Susan Soloman were the last to go, It's amazing how
long they hung in there. I think Steve wound up at a mission/field
group. Susan, I believe, tried to be a field auditor. i don't know how
that worked out for her.
It wasn't the execs at the service orgs that were the major problem,
BTW. The orders to get rid of the NSO came from uplines. The org execs
were very much aware of how much they needed them. The orders had come
down for years to eliminate them, and the orgs for years resisted
getting rid of them.
Also, they didn't get rid of the auditors
> working in the FES unit. I guess they were so hidden it was assumed
> that they wouldn't be found out. Let's see, the people in there were
> Michele Torque, Class 6, Diane McDonald, Class 6, John Crittendon, not
> sure of his class and sometimes Darryl something, who was a Class 8
> but she was somewhat afraid to audit. Must have been 1984 or 1985.
> Something like that.
>
Michele (I beleve her name was actually Michela, pronounced
Mich-ay-la) was one of the people I was referring to regarding NSO/SO
marriages. She was married to Vic Ueckermann, Sea Org auditor, for a
time.
> The early '80s were a weird time. Most people who were loyal public
> really knew very little about the whole Mission debacle. They didn't
> know about the Mission Holders Conference, etc. Probably many still
> don't. They couldn't help but notice the incredible shrinking orgs,
> though. That was the time after the Finance Police. Another really
> strange era in the bizarre history of Scientology.
>
> Another thing -- Sea Org members who left the Sea Org were not allowed
> to work in Missions or Orgs. Some covertly did. Others got 'Field
> Groups' going. Missions but without the name.
What was that LA field group that got all those ex-SO like Sue Taylor?
I think it was called "The Ability Center."
As I have written in previous posts, one of the major reasons people
don't want to train to be auditors is that it's extremely difficult to
make it an occupation outside of the orgs. That's one of the reasons
that the NSO stuck around orgs like AOLA so long. When they were
finally kicked out for good, a lot of them had a tough time making
auditing a living on the outside.