Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [31]
We ended up going across the street from the Hollywood Guaranty Building. He told me about how he and Ali Mintz had been dating off and on but how she had left Clearwater and was already posted at Int. He was going to become staff in the Watchdog Committee, which was responsible for overseeing progress in several different areas of Scientology internationally.
He told me that he was in the process of getting security checked full time and once he was done, he would be posted at the International Base. Sec checking was when someone asked you a predetermined list of questions about things that were considered unethical, such as promiscuity, drug use, etc. and the person administering the check watched the E-Meter to see if it reacted to the questions. If you were “clean” and had nothing to hide, the needle on the E-Meter would “float” across the dial and the questioning was continued until the person had a floating needle on all the questions. Anyone going to the international headquarters was asked pages and pages of questions during the security check to make sure that only the best people went up to the base. I had never had a security check before, but Jesse assured me he had received several security checks while in Clearwater. We wrapped up and went back over to the Hollywood Guaranty Building.
As we walked up Ivar Street to go through the staff entrance, a few people were walking from the parking lot across the street. One of the guys seemed to know Jesse and I hung back a bit while Jesse talked to this guy I had never seen before. He was rather short and had bars on his shirt, like military stripes, and all sorts of campaign badges signifying he was highly ranked. They talked about how Jesse had just arrived to LA and was expecting to be up at Int within the next few weeks. The high-ranking muckety-muck told Jesse that he would be expecting him and walked off with a few people in tow.
As we walked away, I asked Jesse who that guy was. He looked at me as if I was insane. He asked, “You don’t know who that is? That was David Miscavige — COB RTC!”
Perplexed, I asked, knowing the reaction would probably be similar to the first question, “So, who is David Miscavige — COB RTC?”
“He is only the highest ranking Sea Org member in the whole world!” Jesse exclaimed while putting his hands above his head motioning how high this guy was. “Religious Technology Center is the highest org in all of Scientology, and he is Chairman of the Board!”
“And you know him how?” I asked, now that he told me he knew the guy to know in the Sea Org.
“He was in Clearwater a lot while I was there. I was in the Commodore’s Messenger Organization in Clearwater, and they take care of anything and everything for COB while he is there,” Jesse told me as we rode the elevator to my floor. “Commodore Messenger Org Clearwater. That is where I was posted before I came here to get my clearances for the International Base. That is how I got recommended for Int. I think COB put in a good word for me.”
“Well, I got to go man,” I told him as I got out at my floor.
“I will see you around,” Jesse said as the elevator doors closed.
I hadn’t seen Jesse in at least a year, but he seemed like the same guy, just a little tamer than I remembered. And this Dave Miscavige, COB RTC character seems to be some sort of big shot, too. I wonder if the ABLE guys know about him.
At the dinner roll call, the crew was frantically running around. The Executive Director said to skip roll call and that she needed to get everybody into production right away!
“Chairman of the Board is in the building!” she said frantically as the staff showed up for the evening round up. “Get on post and get busy! Make sure your areas are clean and make sure that if COB walks in, you stand at attention!”
The staff members scattered in every direction. Wow. They did know who this COB guy was. For the next hour people were frantically stashing things in drawers and clearing off their desks, marking their stat graphs, clearing out the communication baskets and doing all of the things that were