Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [88]
The briefing ended probably an hour later. Before everyone was dismissed, Religious Technology Center staff scooped up “watch guy” and led him backstage. Just the plain theatrics of this one guy being lead off would serve as an example to all of the other staff there that they were on notice. The rest of the staff then quietly filed out.
Someone from the Religious Technology Center came up to the balcony.
“Do you have the tape?” she demanded.
“Yes, Sir, we are just rewinding it now,” I said to her.
All of Dave Miscavige’s briefings were recorded on camera with the mics on stage being fed into the recording deck. He would probably have this tape sent back to the base and make all of the staff there watch it as well. Why not? He could play this video to them and show them how he was doing all of their jobs as well. After all, he was literally bypassing several echelons of Scientology’s command structure all the way from Religious Technology Center, the base and Flag executives by even talking to these people. At a minimum, he was doing the job of the Technical Secretary for Flag. COB was doing a job fifty levels below himself. But this was how Hubbard did it back in the day, so this is how Dave Miscavige would do it.
The briefings were a regular occurrence for the next several weeks. We would play videos of bad sessions, you name it. Dave was going to rub their faces in any little fault he could find anywhere in Clearwater. He was going to keep rubbing their faces in these things until they started doing things his way.
One day, Dave Miscavige asked us to cue up a tape that he was going to play for the Flag crew at that night’s briefing.
The tape was a semi-confidential tape called “A Talk on A Basic Qual” I say semi-confidential because it was not broadly released to public and was only available on certain courses. Students could only listen to it in the course room and they were not allowed to take it out of the org.
The briefing took place and afterwards COB called a few of us into the Green Room behind the Auditorium. One of his staff had called up to the balcony and asked us to bring the cassette he had played to the Green Room.
Dave Miscavige was all excited. He had an idea. In the tape, LRH talked about two things that set something off in Dave. LRH talked about drilling auditors and he talked about an E-Meter that had specific qualities that the current E-Meters did not have. This night would “change Scientology forever” Dave Miscavige said. No kidding. He was right.
Over the next few months Dave would live in Florida and tinker with every single area of Flag until it ran like a well-oiled machine. Everything from the way the Sandcastle auditing rooms were set up to how people went in session.
Dave had concluded that if Flag could make perfect auditors — lots of them and rapidly, they could drive the nearly one million dollar a week income at Flag up to two or even three million by streamlining every single aspect of Flag. And if they could do that in every area of Flag, then why wouldn’t they be able to do that in every organization in the world? The Golden Age of Tech was born. Dave Miscavige would codify and perfect every single aspect of every single thing in Scientology so that there was no longer any thought process involved whatsoever. The auditors would just be programmed to do the right thing and people would get perfect auditing. Dave would essentially build a huge machine that would crank out Scientology services.
Within weeks the Flag