ASHO had listen-in devices installed at least as early as 1975. I can say this with 100% certainty because I was posted in ASHO Treasury at the time, and I witnessed them being used. The reg area was adjacent to ASHO Treasury.

In all likelihood, the listen-in devices were probably installed in the summer of 1974 since LRH ED 236 Int was issued in July of ’74. I can’t say they were in use in 1974 because I didn’t go on staff at ASHO until the following year. I could (and probably will) ask my old friend, Carl Carlson, since he was Commanding Officer ASHO Foundation in 1974.

That would have been in the 90’s at the earliest. AOLA had them in around ’86. Ivan O. used to listen from his office when he was C.O.. FLOG didn’t get them until later too.

Wow thanks for the info. Now I know why Hy Levy, my Flag reg, would always ask me to go outside with him to smoke. No recorders outside.

They were in use at ASHO.

Mark, staff don’t get pay. LOL!!!!!!! Not in any meaningful measure anyway.

But really the only orgs I’ve seen the hidden recorders in were AOLA & FLOG and they don’t pay there.

“If IRS picks it up, then the donor may take the plea it being a ”pledge” .”

Mark, the IRS doesn’t care if people donate money to anything. In fact for non-profits no donor would lie to the IRS and say it was only a pledge as then they couldn’t do a write down… 😉

To Anne – I echo your heartbreak here. Mike’s report strikes me as thoroughly true. I remember being on the Freewinds, possibly this was 2009. A new way to apply a ton of pressure to visiting public to donate large sums of money to the various Freewinds’ “mankind betterment” campaigns was to tell us that Sea Org members aboard the Freewinds had taken on and maxed out credit cards for donations to these “important campaigns” themselves.

“Anything to help,” one aging Sea Org member told me.

I just knew this was upside-down and wrong; implausible how someone who makes $50 a week could keep up with card payments on a $10,000 or more balance.

This is what I was afraid of. As if humans don’t do enough to the animals we share this planet with, then scientology has to pile on. I’ll be on the lookout for these type of loathsome scammers.