Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [95]
New E-Meter Books – new E-meter would require that all these books be re-done.
New Grades – with new E-meter we could then re-release the Grades that were incorrectly modified and made 10 times longer than they were supposed to be.
Key to Life and Life Orientation Course had to be redone as they were not done based on what LRH said to do and took too long to complete.
Would the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course be released on CD? All those 400 plus lectures had to be re-edited and checked, transcripts had to be re-done. Packaging had to be redone.
Would the Ls need to be fixed? The issues being used were Board Technical Bulletins written by David Mayo — a past Senior Case Supervisor International who used to be LRH’s auditor and was now a declared suppressive — among others. How would we fix these since they were the best money maker, but not written by LRH? How do we solve this?
Any auditor courses that had references to the E-meter had to be updated. All of these things affected each other. You could not change one without changing another. If you released one thing you might have to re-release four other things as well.
These were the things that had to be figured out. END OF MEETING.
Dave Miscavige then spent 2 more hours telling us how he was the only one who could do any of the above things and how he had to redo all of the new Basics books himself, he had to redo the PTS/SP Course himself, he had to do all of the Golden Age of Tech himself with a few people working directly for him. Then after all that, he had to redo the policies himself and would inevitably have to redo all the Tech Bulletins and new Tech Volumes himself. Everything that had not been redone in the last few years ALL had to be redone because there would be so many new things that the old things would not match up at all, wouldn’t make sense and would contradict each other.
The meeting went until about 1:00 a.m. and we all went back to our work areas. Of course, I left out all the name calling, people getting smacked by Dave, sentences laced with vulgar profanities and Dave Miscavige sending people out of the meeting because he no longer wanted to “look at their faces” while talking.
You may wonder how I could sit and recount this in such detail. Well, seeing as this exact same meeting happened at least 30 times in some form or another over several years, I remember it like it happened earlier today. More or less the same people were there and the same things were gone over since Dave had told us to do them on hundreds of occasions—he was the only one who could do these things and any work done by someone other than him was uniformly rejected, so why bother?
Every so often, one of the hundreds of things he had talked about would finally get done and it would be one, single thing that we would no longer have to hear about. Even sometimes that thing we would hear about again, since later on, Dave would decide that it was now flawed based on some new thing he had decided should be a certain way. For example, a book that went with a certain set of lectures and it had been mistakenly paired with the wrong set when re-released.
One would think that a Book Editor would have to have certain skills to edit a book. Well that being the case, can you imagine Mike Rinder (the head of Office of Special Affairs, the Scientology Intelligence operations branch) editing an LRH book while getting no sleep? How about Ray Mithoff (Senior Case Supervisor International and former Inspector General for Tech), the same guy that was declared a Suppressive Person by Dave Miscavige in the year 2000 for the out-tech on KTL and LOC? What about an Audio Mixer, Rick Cruzen, whose sole qualification that got him assigned to edit LRH’s books was that he had read all of them — while on the Rehabilitation Project Force for several years!