No, that’s just my own opinion.

Sarge did write that Ron said, as he and Denk and Mithoff went to the back of the Bluebird, “Let’s get this over with” which makes me think it was planned.

Again, I don’t know and it’s just my gut feeling. If I get a chance, I’ll send you the email.

I’m sure that it’s *well* established that LRH is no longer with us and that his ashes — or some facsimile thereof — were dumped into the Pacific, except for the bits that blew back into the plane IIRC. There’s nothing to check the wellness of.

Zev, In those later days at least, Hubbard issued “policy” in two forms only. Verbally recorded or less frequently in his own hand. I used to see/hear what was issued to Gold back then and did work in AVC INT at RTC uplines. He didn’t type it.

Therefore, if Hubbard HAD produced that “memo”, Pat and Annie would have had the recording or hand written version to show or play. They didn’t. Ergo, didn’t happen.

Are you saying Sarge told you it was an “assisted suicide”?

That’s what Sarge wrote to me. We had several email exchanges. I guess we’ll never know what exactly happened that night.

I gather LRH stands for Large Rotund (and) Horrible?

Right, I understand that. My question was, what did you think in ’86 as a still-in. Were you like “uh-huh, this guys has clearly faked everything and took it over from the rightful successor, but I’m going to keep going and I’m sure things will right themselves”, or did you believe his promotions were real at the time and only started wondering if they were false after seeing his sociopathy and abuse?

No, I do not believe Hubbard selected Miscavige or promoted him to Captain. Miscavige seized the position and went on a concerted campaign to eradicate any threats to his power. I cover this at length in my book.

My apologies, maybe I misunderstood you or misstated what I meant. My impression was DM claimed Hubbard had promoted him to Captain, but that there’s no actual document stating such. That’s what I meant by a “secret succession orders”. Is that correct, or am I under a misunderstanding in regards to how DM claimed he earned his leadership position?

I wasn’t even alive in ’86, much less in at the time. But you were, so I’m just asking with humility here.

In ’86, did you believe DM had been hand picked by Hubbard as the successor? If yes, then what did you think was the reason there wasn’t a written record as such? Or did you think he wasn’t hand-picked, but derived legitimate authority from some other policy?

Be glad you are among such good company.