Yes Pepper, I would think so too. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you. But this is so much the op basis of the church’s Kool Aid members… they let you know in so many subtle and not so subtle ways that you are looked down upon because you don’t lift your arm quite high enough in salute, or don’t lock-step quite in precise time as the others, and you are wrong for it.

Well said Dirk Niblick! With Superpower opening, the cash cow has been killed for the meat. So now the new “project” will be the Auditorium in LA, the next cash cow. But as someone said, they can’t get city approval unless they have parking for it, which they won’t. And if they can’t get Valley Ideal Org paid for, how will they get the auditorium paid for? Why not just the tent to save money? Maybe a few clowns and trapeze artists would liven things up too.

Spot on John P. The ‘Whales’ will soon be quietly slipping away which will lead to inevitable cash starvation for the cult. everyone else will be tapped out if not already. When they realize that their ‘OT’ powers means nothing if you don’t make your next mortgage payment.

>>But is DEFINITELY not what is made out to be by the Miscavige hagiographer.

Aside from that he also have Diamond Star award that imply that he talk on behalf of LRH.
Do you know background how he got it and if it was legitimate?

very likely

I meant to write I concluded the “latter” instead of the “former”. Probably a Freudian slip 😉

Thanks Mike,

As I wrote “it was my understanding” from my own personal research.

Regarding OTR this was given to me by a former SO who was part of the original Photo Shoot.

I’m not saying it is the Gospel truth. Like I said “it was understanding”.

Regarding Broeker again it was “my understanding” that he was the Ron’s personal “aide de camp” at the time. He is certainly presented as such at Ron’s Requiem with no objections by the terminals involved.

Personally I can think of two people I know who received more direct communication by Ron:

1) Ken Urquhart

2) Don Breeding

and let’s not forget Reg Sharpe.

“No, he was VERY much in communication about ASI and then after its formation. Chuck Beatty has talked about this a lot. The staff meetings at ASI every week were recorded and sent to LRH and he re viewed them and sent back orders. The same thing was done at RTC and CMOI for a long time.”

Are you sure it was the Ol’man himself who reviewed them or someone else?

Mike, Ron or whoever wrote it, doesn’t exactly say:

“Trust and friendship are things forged in fire and pounded out on the anvil of life. We have been through a lot together. I trust you as you trust me.”

In the above declaration. It says:

10. Since there apparently have been specific allegations of wrongdoing by David Miscavige, I wish to take this opportunity to communicate my unequivocal confidence in David Miscavige, who is a long time devoted Scientologist, a trusted associate, and a good friend to me. Any activities which he may have engaged in at any time concerning my personal or business affairs have been done with my knowledge and authorization and for my benefit. The charge that he is organizing the theft of my assets are completely false and not worthy of further comment than that.

http://rundbrief.org/kd0044/archiv/sc-i-r-s-ology/documents/1983-05-15lrhdeclaration.html

So what is the exact source of the penultimate statement?

“No, the “takeover” he is referring to is Bill Franks and the Mission Holders and the people who were the subject of RTC Conditions Order 1”

I’m not disputing this and seems more likely as later in the same RJ he talks about throwing the rascals out or something to that effect which could mean either an internal power push or collusion from within with the DeWolfe’s civil case.

I personally concluded it was the former as it was the only “hostile” take over I was directly familiar with and the one mostly in the Press which Ron mentions as being accurate.

That’s all.

I look forward to what you have to say regarding all this.

Lv

Robin

Thanks.

Also in the interests of historical accuracy, I will provide some additional information here:

(My understanding was the Ol’man wasn’t particularly fussy about who worked with him in the photo shoot org

Not sure where you get that idea from. The people who originally went “over the rainbow” were only those who were extremely qualified. The requirements were VERY strict.

No Church executive in history ever received more direct communication from L. Ron Hubbard than Mr. Miscavige.

(A total lie!

Not sure why you think this is a lie? Annie got more direct communication, and so did Mary Sue, but I doubt there is anyone else that exceeds Miscavige.

Miscavige never received a direct order from the Ol’man that wasn’t filtered through Pat Broeker first.

Huh? Where do you get this idea? He worked for many years in Cine and Action long before Pat Broeker was anything…. And frankly, for a large part of the time, Broeker was off with his horses doing who knows what.

Also as far as I understand he was placed on a special project known as MAC (Mission All Clear) a mission that was supposed to handle Ron’s personal legal matters.

He RAN MAC as Special Project Ops.

The task of sorting out the Church of Scientology’s Corporate structure was actually given to the GO’s Legal Bureau.)

Sort of. It was Laurel Sullivan and Mission Corporate Category Sort Out. Larry/Denise Brennan has written a lot about this and so has Marty.

Of course the”hostile hands” is alluded to be the GO but the fact is that after the raids the GO had been pretty much decimated by the indictment of its key execs and CMOI missions looking for “plants” ironically originally led by a man who years later admitted he was FBI informant at the time. Probably the”hostile” takeover Ron is referring to that was in play at the time was by Ronald DeWolf FKA L Ron Hubbard Jr. AKA NIBs who was attempting through Flynn and Assoc to get the Ol’man declared incompetent so they could assume control of his estate.)

No, the “takeover” he is referring to is Bill Franks and the Mission Holders and the people who were the subject of RTC Conditions Order 1.

From what I understand and what my own personal research indicates is that Ron was incommunicado at the time while researching OT VIII. So how could he personally appoint anyone to ASI?

No, he was VERY much in communication about ASI and then after its formation. Chuck Beatty has talked about this a lot. The staff meetings at ASI every week were recorded and sent to LRH and he re viewed them and sent back orders. The same thing was done at RTC and CMOI for a long time.

“Trust and friendship are things forged in fire and pounded out on the anvil of life. We have been through a lot together. I trust you as you trust me.” —L. Ron Hubbard to David Miscavige (Yeah I have a very similar personal letter of my own from the Ol’man I hope you don’t mind if I don’t share because I still consider it personal and there are limits to my exhibitionism.

This is taken from a declaration signed and filed by LRH in the Riverside Probate Case. Read Marty’s latest book and it explains how this came about. It was actually formulated by attorneys at Miscavige’s direction and sent to LRH in order to handle the claim made by Flynn/Nibs that he was dead or incompetent and being held against his will. This is not an SO #1 letter written by Alethiea Taylor or Rae Chase. But is DEFINITELY not what is made out to be by the Miscavige hagiographer.