Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [87]
Dave liked to give the entire Flag Technical delivery staff a briefing at least once a week. When I say briefing and Dave Miscavige in the same sentence that is Sea Organization slang for a lashing or toasting.
These briefings would take place in the Flag auditorium and usually it would just be Dave Miscavige on the stage and all the staff seated in the auditorium. Since these staff were dealing with public during service hours, the briefings would take place after hours when they would normally be sleeping.
The first briefing he did while we there was a real toasty one. He had been reviewing public Scientologists’ auditing folders and was looking for things that were messed up so he could give the staff some lashings. He was pissed about certain public not being forced onto certain actions. The Flag staff were not being persistent enough and making the public do the services that Dave wanted them doing.
For this particular briefing, all of the Flag technical staff were there.
He started going through individual public auditing folders and saying what the public should be on and was toasting the staff for not having them on these actions. The public that he brought up in this briefing were burned into my mind since they had special significance for me.
He mentioned one particular public named Dan Kingsbury, the very same Dan Kingsbury with whom my mother had a child. Dan was supposed to be moving up the Bridge, but had taken a break to get some dental work and so had not been progressing. Dave said this was an excuse not to get up the Bridge and that Dan should have been handled and never allowed to take a break to get dental work. Now I do not know if there was a picture of Dan’s teeth in his auditing folder, but anyone who knew Dan would agree that it might have been a good idea for him to get some dental work. But alas, the picture of his teeth wasn’t in there and regardless, Dave was now going to make sure that Dan was forced onto his next auditing and Dave himself would be overseeing it.
Before this time, I had no idea that Dave Miscavige had ever been involved with technical matters of this nature. I knew he knew that some of the upper levels delivered at Flag (called the L rundowns) were the biggest money making service that Scientology had ever had. I had heard those words come out of his mouth. But either way, he said he would be overseeing this select group of people that were doing services at Flag and HE would show the Flag staff how awesome he was by doing this. As far as I knew, Dave was a Class IV Auditor trained at Saint Hill in England in the 1970s when he was 12 years old. He was not a case supervisor.
Dave continued with the next public person. He prefaced it with the fact that this girl had paid for a large amount of services and should be treated well and made sure that she continued on the Bridge no matter what. Her name was Lisa McPherson. He read through her auditing folder and pointed up things that had been done wrong on her case and told the staff that he was going to review her folders and make sure that she was being handled correctly and not being let to chase butterflies while she could be gotten up the Bridge.
We were up on the balcony of the auditorium while this was taking place. The balcony is near the back of the auditorium, but there were staff within 20 feet of us sitting in the seats below. One guy lifted his arm and looked at his watch as Dave was talking and instantly Dave went into a tirade.
“YOU WANT TO GO HOME??” Dave’s voice boomed, “Really? I am here doing your jobs, and you are worried about getting home and getting some sleep. I will come back there and