Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [113]
At this point, Dave told everybody to split up into groups of seven and that no couples can be in any one group. If both you and your spouse were in the room, you would have to go to different groups so that even once offloaded, you could not be together! The offloads were split into seven separate groups each with ten people. Dave asked the first group where they thought that they should go. Of course none of them could agree on one place as there were ten different people from ten completely different places in the world.
“Okay, I know how to solve this.” Dave had Marj Habshied brought into the room from her office. Marj was working in Exec Strata. People would write in to the Executive Director International from orgs all over the planet and she would answer them for him. Most of the time Guillaume would not even see the responses or care to read them. Anyway, Marj was fresh in Dave’s mind from a flap that had recently come up, so she would decide the fate of ten people today. Dave was careful to make sure that everyone in the room knew that no one could tip Marj off as to what was going on. Everybody needed to put on a happy face and say NOT ONE SINGLE WORD to Marj when she came in.
Marj walked into the room. Dave asked her if she knew much about the different Continental areas around the world and the state of the Scientology orgs in each. She said that she was very knowledgeable about this as she got letters from all areas and knew the particular complaints in each area. Dave asked her to tell him which one she felt was the worst of all. She hemmed and hawed a bit, but eventually came up with Canada. Dave sent someone to fetch the Org photo binders for Canada that exist in the landlord office. These photos were updated weekly – binders of all orgs and Sea Org units in Canada. Marj was asked to wait until the photos arrived. Little did Marj know that she was actually deciding where ten people would end up going after being offloaded tonight. The photos arrived and, sure enough, there were pictures of black toilets crusted in filth, fifteen beds in a single room at the staff berthing, showers with green mold on the tiles, etc. The photos were horrid. In the binder it said that the management organization had been broken into just a week prior, that they were behind on rent and the staff had not been paid in many weeks. They weren’t making enough money to purchase food for the crew and some staff had been working on missions in the organizations so that they could get food and berthing money to at least support themselves.
Dave asked Marj if she was sure that this was the Cont that she considered the worst of all. She agreed and was dismissed. As soon as she left the room and was out of earshot, Dave said that the first group would be going to Canada. Dave then asked the next group who they thought the most out ethics person on the base was. This person was then brought up to the room and then their Cont was picked out. This went on for at least an hour, with Dave reading out things about the Cont, showing the pictures around the room, making sure that everybody could see that any place they went was going to suck and that no matter what, the Int Base was a resort compared to any of these places.
Finally, all Conts were picked: 1. CANADA, 2. AFRICA, 3. ANZO (Australia, New Zealand and Oceania), 4. PAC (Pacific Area Command in Los Angeles), 5. EAST US, 6. WEST US and 7. CC INT (Celebrity Centre International). The CC Int team was given their Cont by Dave. He had asked that he be allowed to decide the destination for one of the groups. CC Int did not seem that bad an area compared to the rest. There had to be a catch. The team assigned to CC INT would be a cleaning team specifically and that is all that they could do. They were a cleaning team that was assigned to ONLY PUBLIC areas and Celeb areas. Dave said that if they were fortunate enough to be going to CC they should be able to see celebrities and that he would make sure that they did. “Ashtrays,