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did not want anyone to think that he was running the organizations or any of its management. The government were trying to show that he was profiting from the organizations and that he was making all this money from Scientology. So even though he was still directly involved with telling people what to do and how to run things, “officially” he was not. So anything that he wrote was called an ‘Advice.’ It was not actually a directive or an order; it was just ‘advice.’ None of these advices were even signed or had any of his writing on them anywhere. They just had ‘###’ at the bottom and they were from LRH. There are hundreds and hundreds of these advices on everything from the IRS, to new organizations, to how to deal with people that blow from the base.”

“He wrote an advice on what to do with people that blow from the Int Base?” I ask.

“Oh yeah,” Tom said without missing a beat. “You know how LRH talks about how you always leave the door a crack open for people that leave Scientology, in case they ever want to come back?”

“Yeah, that is in some ethics policies, right?” I said.

“Well in this one advice, he talks about the people that leave and says, ’If they leave from the Int Base, we close the door completely and bolt it shut!’ Anyone who leaves almost automatically gets declared a suppressive person based on that one LRH advice alone.”

“That is why there was all this cloak and dagger stuff going on around here. No one could know that anyone from the Int Base was in touch with LRH or they could possibly find out where he was based on this,” Tom explained. “So it was decided that the best way to make sure that the people from the Int Base did not talk about anything to anyone, was to keep them all locked up here on a full time basis. That solved the problem altogether. But then there were a few cases where people went crazy and then ended up blowing or breaking out or whatever.”

“What happened to those people?” I asked, preparing for what might be my future fate someday.

“Those guys get sent out to the Happy Valley,” Tom said happily with almost a chuckle in his voice. “It was nicknamed that because the people that get sent out there are crazy. People who want to leave and think that Scientology is bad or doesn’t work.”

“There used to be a Rehabilitation Project Force here at the base too. But it was recently disbanded and most of the people were transferred to the Estates Division. A few people had to go out to Happy Valley and some even went to the Rehabilitation Project Force in Los Angeles.”

“Are there a lot of people out there at Happy Valley?” I asked.

“Well, not really. There is this one gal that was out there forever, Annie Broeker. She used to live with Hubbard and in 1986 she was moved from the ranch in Creston to Happy Valley. She lived there for three years and never left for any reason. Finally she got okay to come back to the Int Base and now she has a house that she lives in here. She never leaves the base, though. She has been here for at least a year and I don’t think she has ever left!” Tom explained.

“Why?” I asked, wondering if I will be stuck here for years on end.

“I think it has something to do with her ex-husband, Pat. He used to work for LRH and there was supposedly an issue about Pat and Annie from LRH. Dave Miscavige had the issue cancelled, Pat disappeared and Annie showed up at Happy Valley. That’s all I know. Either way, she does not ever leave the base – EVER.”

How could I have gotten myself into this? Was this going to be a nightmare? I told myself if for any reason I was not fully comfortable with anything that happens that I would get the hell out of here any way I can. I was not going to end up like Annie, locked up here like a prisoner for the rest of my life.

“Don’t worry about that,” Tom said. “You would have to lose all your Team Share cards before you start worrying about that stuff.”

Team Share cards was a system of privileges that existed throughout the base. It operated on advices from LRH and each staff member was given five cards. You had a Social Card, Bonus Card,