Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [27]
Everyone else seemed to sit at their computers all day and type and that was it. The Executive Director of ABLE was a white South African lady who claimed to have been in the Sea Org since she was 16 years old. She must have been in her late 30s so she had been in awhile. Her name was Rena Weinberg. She had just been brought over from South Africa where she had been the head of an Applied Scholastics group over there. Her husband was over The Way to Happiness fundraising area.
Veronika kept checking in on me and giving me extra things to do. It did not take me long to figure out that everything I was now doing were functions she had done herself before I had shown up. I was answering the phones, writing letters, filing, taking out the trash, cleaning the reception, you name it, it was my job and it all had to be done each day.
Veronika also let me in on the fact that at ABLE they never used full words, EVERYTHING was abbreviated:
Applied Scholastics = APS
The Way to Happiness = TWTH
Narconon was said “Narconon” but spelled “NN”
Criminon was said “Criminon” but spelled “CN”
Social Betterment Corporations = SBCs
Hollywood Guaranty Building = HGB
Western United States = WUS
Promotional materials = promo
Eastern United States = EUS
Trained and Processed (lists of all types of Scientologists) = T&P
Statistics = Stats
Gross Income = GI
Letters Out = LO
Letters In = LI
Bulk Mail = BMO
Veronika was the Supercargo or S/C
The Executive Director was the ED
Flag Banking Officer = FBO
The Treasury Secretary was the Treas Sec
The Dissemination Secretary was the Dissem Sec
Cycle of Action or Start - Change – Stop = “a cycle”
The list went on forever.
I could not believe how abbreviated everything was. Later that day, Veronika told me something that would illustrate this to the core.
She said, “The ED ordered that I go over to PAC and see the Dissem Secs from ASHO and AO and get the WUS and EUS T&P BMO lists that we use each week for our SBC promo. I should be back here at the HGB by dinner. If the FBO or Treas Sec ask where I went, can you tell them that I am on a GI cycle for the stats.”
That translates into, “The Executive Director ordered that I go to the complex to pick up some mailing lists for our promotion, I will be back by dinner. If anyone asks for me, that’s where I will be.”
Days went by and finally I got my Fitness Board approved. It was a piece of paper that said I was fit for the Sea Org. It was actually a letdown when I saw it. I was expecting a big meeting where I’d be questioned in front of a board of people. It was nothing like that at all. In fact, after I read it, I got the impression that it was just rubber stamped and printed. I never met any of the people who approved it or even heard of them for that matter.
Veronika told me that based on my test scores; I would be posted in HCO at ABLE Int. I would be doing the same things I was already doing. There were no people posted in the entire division of HCO at ABLE. HCO was the Hubbard Communications Office. This was the area responsible for personnel, communications and ethics. Veronika’s post was the Supercargo ABLE Int. She was over the first four divisions of ABLE, the Executive Division, Hubbard Communications Office Division, the Dissemination Division and the Treasury Division. There were three or four people in the Executive Division, two people in Dissem, nobody in Treasury and no one in HCO. Veronika was the HAS HFA, or Held From Above. Anytime someone on the org board had to do jobs underneath them, this was called HFA. Veronika was wearing all of the posts in HCO HFA.
So now that I was temporarily posted in the Hubbard Communications Office, I was the