Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [118]
Up to that point, many Int Base staff could not understand how both Guillaume and Marc had expensive sports cars while the rest of us struggled to be able to buy cigarettes each week. Well the answers started coming, and they were coming in spades.
We heard how the Key to Life and Life Orientation Courses were compiled completely wrong and how they were never supposed to be the way they were released. Ray Mithoff had misunderstood what LRH had laid out in the advices for the courses and he could not think with what LRH had intended the courses to be. This one was confirmed by Dave to be what actually happened. But now that they had been released and thousands of public had either done the courses or paid for them, they just let people keep doing them knowing that they were complete crap and an exercise in futility.
We got to hear about how the Scientology Lower Grades were revised and instead of a person having to do thirty commands for each Grade, the grades materials had been revised so that in order to complete each grade a person had to have a floating needle on 300 commands even if they were done after 30 commands. This alone increased the time it took people to complete the grades and slowed people down enormously on getting through their auditing. But people had to pay a lot more to get the auditing, so they left it that way and for years it has been a situation needing resolution. Of course this was all done under the direction of Dave Miscavige and he personally checked and approved all of this, but now that it was a problem, it was conveniently shunted off to someone else as their “overt.”
We got to hear about how Ray Mithoff was the highest technically trained person on the planet and how, while he was responsible for insuring the technical accuracy and standardness of the course and auditing materials being issued, he was rubber stamping these items and in most cases not even bothering to read them at all.
Ray even approved a Dianetics How To Video that contained detailed technical aspects showing how Dianetics Auditing was to be delivered, which was to be released to the public at an event and be distributed in the hundreds of thousands. It turned out that he didn’t even read the script or watch the video before he approved it.
This went on and on. Some staff in these meetings could not believe what they were hearing. The worst part was when COB came down and asked what they had coughed up and he was told. He was not surprised in the slightest. He had already known all this and was not impressed! He wanted to know what else these guys had been up to!
These were the top executives in all of Scientology and had been for decades and they were confessing crimes that would have gotten any other person in Scientology, well, declared an SP. Well they had been declared SPs and that was not changing them in the slightest.
The Int Base was rotten to the core. Dave Miscavige knew this. He had known about all of these crimes, yet these bogus courses were still being sold, the faulty auditing was still being charged for, the money was still being taken in by orgs all around the world. That was just his point. He was the only one trying to get these things fixed. Dave Miscavige was the only one trying to figure out how to convince the public who had already paid for these things that they should buy the new improved, revised version and go back and re-do the courses they had spent years doing and newly purchase the books they had bought and read many times before. And he was the only one convincing them to throw away the past several years of studies that had been done because those were the old “unverified by RTC” versions that he had released only five years prior. Dave Miscavige was the only person out of all of the people on the Int Base who was holding the line and enforcing what LRH had intended. Dave Miscavige was the only one curtailing the dangerous activities of International Management and forcing in a new era where people could go into an org that was posh and upscale and