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likely to be employed if I was captured alive. Because of the covert
nature of the operations to which I was assigned, I was also trained how
even the most innocent utensils could be used to end my own life and
thereby prevent any captors from extracting information that might
compromise my mission or my country. My missions required that I kill a
number of Vietnamese, including some at close range, some of whom died
in my arms. These events left a lasting and negative impression on me.
7. After returning from Vietnam, I was plagued by nightmares and
other disabling memories of my experiences as a front line combat
fighter. When I returned post traumatic stress syndrome was not well
understood. The military and veteran's hospitals provided almost no
assistance to me or a number of my companions who suffered from similar
problems. I was determined not to descend into the depths of
degradation that followed from the abuse of narcotics and other drugs,
whether legal or illegal.
8. While I was in this unsettled state, I was recruited into
Scientology. The attraction was, in part, the promise that Scientology
would provide me with the means to deal with these disturbing memories
and nightmares.
9. Various forms of coercive persuasion are used in all areas of
Scientology. A working term in Scientology is registration ("reg")
cycle. During a reg cycle, parishioners are coercively persuaded to do
something which a senior Scientologist believes will be good for
Scientology. In my 21 years of membership in Scientology, I personally
observed how auditors and others identify a person's "hot button." I
saw how auditors used many individual's hot buttons in the various types
of interviews (ethics, chaplin, registration, counseling, etc.) to
coerce the parishioner into donating money, doing the next service,
joining the Sea Org, going to the RPF and agreeing to forego spending
time with their children and families in order to devote greater time
and effort to the good of Scientology.
10. After joining Scientology, I became a member of the Sea
Organization ("Sea Org"). A Hubbard Communications Office policy letter
defines the Sea Org as: "The elite religious fellowship within the
Church of scientology. The Sea Org is not incorporated and is not part
of any corporation. Its membership is involved in Churn management and
the delivery of the higher level services of the Church." Finance
Series 11R. Exhibit A.
11. The indoctrination I received in the Sea Organization was
extensive. It fully acquainted me with the coercive methods that
Scientology uses on its staff and public. My training included the
following courses which had the content as indicated below:
(a) FLAG EXECUTIVE BRIEFING COURSE - All the policy ever written by
Hubbard about the running, debugging, and if needed, the creation of a
complete organization using thought reform ideas and practices in
conjunction with coercive persuasion on the staff and public.
(b) ORG EXECUTIVE COURSE - All the policy ever written by Hubbard
about the running, debugging, and if needed, the creation of a complete
organization using thought reform ideas and practices in conjunction
with coercive persuasion on the staff and public.
(c) SEA ORG OFFICER TRAINING - This course covered all of the Flag
Orders, Flag Ship Orders, Central Bureau Orders, mission school tech and
included all of the policy written by Hubbard about creating, running
and debugging a complete Scientology organization using thought reform
concepts and practices in conjunction with coercive persuasion on both
staff and public Scientologists.
(d) REHABILITATION PROJECT FORCE INDOCTRINATION TRAINING -
(e) REHABILITATION PROJECT FORCE SECTION OFFICER HAT -
(f) REHABILITATION PROJECT FORCE MASTER AT ARMS HAT - I learned in
the above course(s) how to use thought reform processes to make persons
amenable to persuasion.
(g) REHABILITATION PROTECT FORCE TECH IN CHARGE HAT - I learned how
to administer various thought, ideological and social reform procedures
to reorient now compliant subjects of thought reform- to accept
Scientology goals as articulated by Hubbard and/or Miscavige.
(h) REHABILITATION PROJECT FORCE QUAL IN CHARGE HAT - This training
taught me how to recognize misapplication of thought, ideological and
social reform procedures so as to maximize the effect that coercive
persuasion had on subjects under my supervision.
(i) REHABILITATION PROJECT FORCE CASE SUPERVISOR TRAINING - I was
taught how to use thought reform procedures to change the most
fundamental aspects of a subject's personality and exact a commitment
from the subject to further Scientology's goal of clearing planet Earth.
(j) REHABILITATION PROJECT FORCE AUDITOR TRAINING - I learned how
to use thought reform to coerce subjects into confessing their crimes