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The Legends of Our Religion

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This new propaganda piece raises an important question.

Where ARE those “legends of scientology”?

It is true that many of the “leading lights” of scientology at the time signed this pledge. Though the real story of the IAS is a very different one than the revised history scientology tries to make it out to be. This “pledge signing” was merely a PR stunt — the IAS had been formed by a Danish lawyer as a means of keeping money outside the purview of the IRS. It was a “bright idea” to form an “association” which was a uniquely European thing and to divert all funds from orgs outside the US to this new entity operating in Cyprus. Monies that had been being sent to the mother church were sent there instead. The IRS had no way of getting those funds in Cyprus, and with a billion dollars of tax assessments looming in the US that would have wiped out scientology (Miscavige talks about this in the 1993 event) this was a desperate measure that had nothing to do with a “Pledge to Mankind” other than in the broadest sense because this was viewed as the last ditch backup to save scientology.

But back to the legends.

Some of the more prominent signatories of this Pledge were:

Heber Jentzsch President Church of Scientology International — locked up in the Hole for a decade. No longer has any role in scientology.

Guillaume Lesevre Executive Director International — same as Heber. No longer has any role in scientology.

Ray Mithoff Senior C/S Internation — same as above. No longer has any role in scientology.

Norman Starkey head of Author Services (Hubbard’s personal literary agency) — same as above.

Marc Yager Watchdog Committee Chairman and CO CMO International — same as above.

Lyman Spurlock former executive at Author Services — died of cancer.

Janet McLaughlin President of the IAS — no longer in the Sea Org. Was put in the Hole in 2006. Has never spoken out about the financial crimes and abuses she witnessed.

Vicki Azaran Inspector General RTC — left the Sea Org and sued scientology.

What other “legends” are you referring to Roberto? Oh, I get it, the ONLY ONE. True Leader David Miscavige. This was a win-win move for him. The IAS has spent a ton of your money over the years financing his scuba diving and scotch sipping vacations. That’s pretty legendary.

It’s amazing how events are re-cast and facts are altered to suit their purposes. The TRUE purpose of the IAS was to keep funds OUT of the hands of the IRS, so since 1993 there has been no need to “continue that successful motion” let alone “expand it beyond belief.” It served its purpose and became superfluous in 1993. But it had become a massive source of revenue for scientology, so the “legend” of the IAS continued to be reshaped and expanded. It even became associated with the “Portland Crusade”  when it had NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. And because the “Crusade” happened in the US there was NO WAY any money from the IAS would have been spent on this. It was a reservoir of funds kept OUTSIDE the US.

In fact, the IAS is the biggest money-making scam in the history of scientology. And it had nothing to do with Hubbard.

The only thing legendary about it is the magnitude of the scam.

 

Addition:

Martin Ottman kindly referenced a photo of the gathering of legends.

I have included the names of those I recognize — there were a number of people who were “fillers” representing various countries where there was nobody significant to do so. Some info on those not mentioned above:

Chris Cobb is deceased

Dan Feeley is deceased

Carl Heldt is still working in OSA as far as I know

Nigel Oakes was on the RPF for more than a decade, but don’t know where he is now.

Dan Pryzblski was a grounds person at Int

Hans Hasslberger was at Int last I knew

Cliff Woods became the head of in infamous Int Finance Police. Now a full time FSM.

Richard Haworth was the Flag spokesperson until he suffered a heart attack or some other heart condition. Now hangs around the Phoenix ideal org.

Christine Weightman was formerly the head of OSA UK. No idea where she is now, though no longer in the Sea Org.

Maureen Brigatti is deceased. She was one of the people who ran the IAS operations in Cyprus.

Kenny Lipton left the Sea Org and is deceased.

Phyll Stevens is deceased.

Anne Hogarth last I heard had been shipped out to South Africa from OSA Int to deal with “mutiny” there.

Comments

  1. All of the “Legends” are gone, leaving only the “Legend in his own mind”, Miscavige !

    Hopefully, COB will join the other “Legends” soon . . .

    Dave F.

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    • It shows for me ♦ failed logon at Word Press though have been studying what is available == I have seen all of it and was in and out before even Marty Rathburn ♦♦♦♦ Central Files is an internal joke ♦ PAC held off a federal raid for 2 or 3 hours with an innocent statement by someone whom happened to meet them that

      Central Files is in the Basement

      Feds did not find it funny but they had been had by sharper wiser minds

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  4. Marc Yeager couldn’t have been in the Hole all of that time as he and Int Exex Dave Bloomberg came out to co-host “The Jenny Linson Show”, filmed on location at LAX.

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  5. Dan Przybylski came to AOLA in late 2001 or 2002 and was eventually posted as the NOTs D of P, a post he held for several years. I left in late 2014, Dan had routed out a about a year or so earlier and I lost track of him a few months after I left. Nigel Oakes also came to AOLA after Dan P., was posted as a OT Folder Page. I believe he was still on that post when I left.

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    • THanks for info.

      Nigel Oakes was the Chief Accountant International and the Int Finance Director for quite a long time. He was very involved with the establishment of the IAS and its bank accounts. Folder page at AOLA…

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  6. I began my 25yr SO career at CMO EUS in NYC in Jan 1984. Kenny Lipton was the CO CMO EUS at that time, his wife Mickey was the D/COI CMO EUS. I enjoyed starting my SO career under them, sorry to hear that Kenny has passed.

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  7. Roberto and Rosa … You got too much money guys … Keep giving it up … You’re both patients in a looney bin and hallucinating that you’re the sane ones … You know what I think you need to do? …MOVE UP IN STATUS!!!! (We know you’ve got some more money tucked away … Stop withholding …)

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  9. The big list may be helpful when finding out if people are still in. E.g Christine Weightman is out (AFAIK).

    http://whyweprotest.wikia.com/wiki/Former_Church_of_Scientology_members_who_have_spoken_out

    Hey Mike, can’t you put this link somewhere on your blog so I don’t have to post it all the time? LOL… 😀

    Also

    http://whyweprotest.wikia.com/wiki/Accounts_of_Scientology%27s_Disconnection_Policy_by_Former_Members_and_Others
    http://whyweprotest.wikia.com/wiki/Chronology_of_publications_on_Scientology
    http://whyweprotest.wikia.com/wiki/Scientology_Suicides

    😉

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    • Christine Weightman is out of the SO but very much still a kool aid drinker who disconnected from son and grandchildren to this day.

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      • “Janet McLaughlin President of the IAS — no longer in the Sea Org. Was put in the Hole in 2006. Has never spoken out about the financial crimes and abuses she witnessed.” Is Janet out of Scn or just out of the SO? And as for not talking, anyone who sued the church or left was made to sign a Gag Order to not talk. I wish more would talk in spite of it now that we know they can’t come get you for that.

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  11. Mark Foster – another great post and I would like to contribute to the motion

    I Assisted Scumbags

    I Aided Shenanigans

    I Ain’t Support

    I Aborted Survival

    I Abetted Scientology

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    • Bamboozled, your commendation, silver flask of Macallan Reserve, Rindahhh Aussie Pimp Sunglasses, Louboutin Pumps autographed by Leah, and carton of Kools are being rushed to you via Marcab Courier Services as I type!
      Good job, sir/ ma’am !

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      • Thank you sir! I am VGI’s over all of my rewards for my upstat contribution.

        I am so looking forward to slamming the flask of Macallan Reserve whilst donning the Louboutin Pumps autographed by Leah…smoking those Kools ….all while framing and hanging my commendation on my wall of shame!

        Yes, I am so ashamed I was ever in the Cult of Scientology.

        I must say – the J&Ding is like a southing salve on a blistering burn.

        Please – continue MF. You make my day!

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    • Love it! Love it!
      Reminds me of my army days when we used to say that, forwards, US ARMY stood for: Uncle Sam Ain’t Released Me Yet. And backwards it meant: Yes My Retarded Ass Signed Up.
      Now you’re all in on the secret.

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  12. This guy was mentioned in the October 25 “Funnies” as hosting a seminar about the “Ups and Downs” of life. One thing that is interesting is that Scientology spells his name differently on different promotional pieces. Here he is Banke, but on the other seminar poster he is listed as Bank e (with a space between the k and the e). On his linked in page, he is Bank e. On a blog, Dr. Rosa has her name listed as Rosa Tran Bank e (with a space). Maybe it’s not a big deal, but it seems odd that their “church” can’t use the same spelling twice.

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  14. IAS was and is a scam. My wife paid $3,000 at Flag for membership around 1988. The $3,000 was stolen by the IAS agent who kept it for himself and never even reported her membership to the IAS. We never got a dime of it back. They reported that the agent had left the IAS.

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    • Oh My Holy Xenu George M White!

      I caught the Cult of Scientology down at Flag in various criminal acts of extortion at the Mecca of Technical Criminality in Cultwaters, Florida – during MAA Cycles whilst staying at the Fort Homicide.

      Flag Terminals even admitted it that it should never have happened but refused to have any comm cycles regarding refunds of extorted funds.

      I was “not ised” and spun into a state of confusion never achieved by man before. I tried really hard to use ARC and KRC to the cycle.

      They applied the “no refunds” and “refunds are a high crime” policies to my cycle and deemed ME the ethics particle.

      The people at my local Org were told I was in ethics trouble and needed to go to Flag and get it sorted out. I was not allowed on services until I handled my out ethics ness for pointing out the criminal acts to FLAG reps and asking for them to make it go right.

      I was discarded without sorrow….just like LRH wanted.

      Thank you sir, for the tech! 😛

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      • Flag also took her $6,000 on account and bought books in Montreal, Canada. We have been waiting thirty years for that money.

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  15. Clearly they’re not thinking about who the “legends” actually were, as strange as it may seem. They’re young and new enough that they might even have some fuzzy-headed notion that it includes people who simply passed into the mists of history, rather those still living stashed away somewhere who have been made Orwellian “unpersons.”

    And Banke is the “whale” who has taken over the South Coast and Ocala missions from the previous mission holder who had himself taken them over a few years earlier, and then apparently gotten in some sort of trouble – perhaps originating in just not having deep enough pockets to “make it go right” and shoulder the costs of struggling locations.

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  16. So true. Sad to see these poor dupes turning over their hard earned money or that of their parents. Such a very funded and organized con.

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  18. I’m just astounded that they think a juggernaut is a good thing. Seriously, I thought Scientologists were into dictionaries. How can they be so clueless about the English language?

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  19. If our government ever decided to do anything about scientology it would probably be like the Paris Peace Talks were for Vietnam war. It took them over a year just to decide on what shape and size the negoiating table would be. Never mind the important stuff. It will be a total waste of time. I hope it starts in my lifetime but just not sure. Stopping the money is the fastest way. Leah, Mike, glad you are following the money this year.

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    • And Roberto and Rosa Banke (no space in the last name) are listed as a producers on that film (“The Sleep”) on IMDB. That film is the creation of Devin Rice. It appears Devin Rice was listed as the administrator/moderator of the “Black Scientologists Facebook Group.”

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  23. So, you are making the Banke’s look like shallow, servile, stupid marks. I have to agree.

    Next, the IAS will tout their moral and ethical foundations.

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  25. Thank you for all of this, Mike.

    Creating a treasure trove of “The Real Story Behind…. ” is SO valuable. When I read this type of article or comment, it …. sort of helps to straighten out the “Fun House Mirrors” of my life in Scientology.

    The truth and back stories point up long buried inconsistencies and areas of doubt parked with the expectation of clarification on higher levels.

    It’s a bit magical, you know how a roof leak will send water hither and yon, making its way into cracks and travelling its own path……? …. Well, that’s kind of what your information does – yours and all the books and informative comments…

    The truth trickles back into 40 years of fun house warped lies and shore stories…. It settles my mind in soft and subtle ways.

    I’m so grateful.

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  27. The insidiousness of Scientology knows no bounds. Its members are systematically stripped of their former personalities which have been found lacking, and have put in place a Hubbard-like thought model to wear night and day. After a while it begins to stink. Thus the real meaning of the IAS: I ATE SHIT.

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  28. I wonder whether LRH’s (and now the Tiny Terror’s) bedtime reading included close study of Orwell’s 1984. Sure sounds like it. Alter that history, serfs!!

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  29. I was present when this signature took place. At that time I was a member of RTC under Vicki Aznaran and witnessed the whole ‘event’.

    A question came up to my mind while reading this Mike; once Miscabaga goes – either to jail, or drops the body or whatever – who will take ownership of these funds? He has practically wiped out the original Int Management and I wonder who can have signatures on those off shore accounts.

    They can be used to pay damages to the 1,000s that have been harmed one way or another by his criminal leadership.

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    • Thanks Xenu’s Son – I loved the names you posted for Scientology and Dianetics.

      Here are more names for Scientology, Dianetics, acronyms, various cult speak phrases, Flag, ASHO, AOLA and some of the rip off rundowns the cult peddles:

      Hoaxology

      Extortenetics

      Deceptology

      Scamontology

      Neurontology – Saturday Night Live did a great skit poking fun at Scientology. Google it on You Tube. Hilarious.

      Ripoffology

      LIEentology

      Fraudenetics

      Exotortionology

      Blackmailology

      Deceptenetics

      Bamboozology

      Cultenetics

      Stupid Powerz

      Delusionology – the Modern Science of Mental Illness

      L 11 – The New Shattered Life Rundown

      GAT – Golden Age of Trickery

      KSW – Keeping Scientology Withholding

      Extortorization – the being has been tricked out of all assets and experiences a disconnect with ever needing mest again – until the rent is due…then the being experiences the KEY IN.

      Key In – the being is super enturbulated which triggers the implant – “reach for more Scientology” – where the being will get worse because the being is not addressing the truth. The being will reach for more Scientology and eventually audit out and train any normal human reactions and emotions.

      Oat Tea – the being is at cause over his ego. He / She is 10 feet tall and bullet proof. He / She is also broke, ridden with cancer, homeless, alone with no family but has an insouciant certainty about who she or he is and that Scientology works.

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        • VWD Scribe. LOLOLOL

          Here is a few more…

          Missmanagetics – the Maniacal Mastery of Manipulation and other sordid crimes. Learn how to drive your cult into the ground…By $cientology Leader, David Miscavige.

          Misscabbageology – an Ecclesiastical collection of schemes, tricks and techniques for the Modern Church Leader on how to amass Billions using other people’s money while maintaining immunity from the laws of the land by hiding behind a religious cloak. By the Ecclesiastical Leader – the Reverend David Miscavige

          Blackheartology – “if he dies, he dies” and other famous quotes from $cientology Leader, David Miscavige

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