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if we went down real early. We were not allowed to be seen while other base staff were around. We were allowed to go to different areas of the Base only if it had something to do with a specific order Dave had issued. If we were found to cross order COB in any way while we were in any area, it was an immediate RPF assignment. There was nothing we could do. Anyone who had an external facing post was not allowed to send any traffic out. All telex lines and orders from the base were cut by COB. Because all of the traffic coming from the base was cross ordering HIS strategies, he ordered no traffic be passed on to ANY orgs or management units. All of the internal facing posts were involved in the org boards and postings.

The org boards and postings for all of Scientology management had been added to the list of things Dave wanted done in July 1999.

Actually, the New Years 2000 event sealed the deal on these and was the flap of the century if you want to call it that. The entire event had to be re-done digitally after it was held live at the Sports Arena. This took two months to do over, at least.

Following that disaster, Dave’s continuing statement of why the event had been such a catastrophe was that NO ONE HAD A POST AND NO ONE AT THE INT BASE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING. That was in 2000. It was now 2004 and we were locked up in the conference room. This was but the latest in a series of “too gruesomes” meant to make people crack under the pressure, and finally do something that Dave has asked for. Typically, Dave Miscavige asked for a lot of things in any given day. If one someone were to keep track of everything thing he asked for and typed them up, it would take them — oh, wait, he had a staff of eight people that did this as their sole function! They were:

1. COB Asst

2. COB Secretary

3. COB Communicator

4. COB Sec for Correspondence

5. COB Sec for Compliance

6. COB Sec for Incoming Traffic

7. COB Sec for Outgoing Traffic

8. COB Typist

These people recorded everything he said throughout the day and then turned those tapes into streams and streams of orders that were sent out in triplicate to anybody and everybody that had anything to do with any of them. The recipients then had to word clear his orders before they were allowed to do anything on them. There were over 2000 pages of transcripts that dealt solely with the subject of doing the Int Base org boards and postings!

There were lists and lists of every single different possible personnel scenario that could be put into place at the Int Base. Does CMO Gold stay its own org? Does it get put in the Exec structure of Gold? Does it move into CMO Int? Does Annie Tidman stay the CO? If it goes to Gold then she can’t still be the head as she and Lisa Schroer, the CO Gold, don’t get along that well. Does CMO Gold move across the property, does it stay where it is? All of these issues and about a thousand more had to be taken into account for each org and all of the postings that were being done.

For at least the last seven years, the org boards and postings had gone like this: All of the postings get worked out by a committee of whoever thinks they are the current exec structure in charge. They then order the internal staff to draw up charts with pictures of everybody being proposed so it can be seen who will be posted where. Personnel files and experience are rarely used – this is a “who would I like to do what” drill that gets done by a few people. If the persons doing this drill don’t like you, it is likely you will end up on a post that sucks. This drill takes at least a few weeks and the list is nearly done. There are, however, a few Watchdog Committee and higher exec posts like Gold Div heads that are still vacant. Nobody wants to do those posts since they know that these have a very high turnover rate, at which point the whole thing stalls out and cannot be finished. Dave Miscavige calls a meeting and then all of these people who are doing the org boards and postings get hauled up to Building 50 or the WDC conference room for nine hours to hear what