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other Scientology organizations, I became very familiar with the overall
structure of Scientology and how the various organizations interact with
each other and with the outside world.
21. In early 1982 I was assigned
to a unit known as Special Project as a Public Relations Assistant under
my husband, Robert Vaughn Young. In this position I became familiar with
the L. Ron Hubbard archives material, which was the complete collection of
all of Hubbard's personal papers, including diaries, letters, and notes
that he had kept from a very early age.
22. Several months later Special
Project became what is now Author Services, Inc. ("ASI"), a for-profit
company whose ostensible purpose was to be L. Ron Hubbard's literary
agency. I was taken out of public relations and made the Organizing
Officer for ASI in April 1982. In this position I worked directly for
David Miscavige, who was Chairman of the Board of ASI ("COB ASI"), to
carry out his orders concerning the staff of ASI.
23. David Miscavige,
known as DM, has been the head of Scientology since 1981. His loyalty to
L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology is absolute, and he is utterly ruthless
about maintaining his power. He moved the seat of power from ASI to the
Religious Technology Center (RTC) in 1987, because it was more defensible
to run Scientology from a non-profit corporation than from a for-profit
corporation. At that point he appointed himself Chairman of the Board of
RTC ("COB RTC"), which is his current title.
24. Although ASI was
established as a for-profit, non-religious corporation, in reality while
DM was COB ASI the staff of ASI ran the entire Scientoloqy network. ASI
had complete
control over the management of all Scientology orgs and missions, all
Office of Special Affairs activities, all transfers of funds between
church accounts and LRH accounts, every aspect of the life of anyone who
was a Scientologist, whether staff or public. These powers were moved to
RTC in 1987, as explained above.
25. Because of my experience in ASI I am
familiar with the day-to-day activities and procedures of the highest
levels of management of Scientology.
26. I have firsthand knowledge of
the establishment of the corporate structure of Scientology as it now
exists, having worked with the staff who were responsible for creating it.
The purpose of this activity was to create an impenetrable, legally
defensible network of corporations such that neither the IRS nor any other
legitimate agency of government could "pierce the corporate veil" of
Scientology organizations, thereby freeing Scientology management to
transfer funds between organizations without concern for the law.
27. I
am also familiar with the absolute authority which the highest levels of
Scientology management exercise over every aspect of Scientology and
Scientology-related organizations, whether "church" or "secular," and the
ruthlessness with which any sign of disloyalty or disaffection is handled.
28. In September 1982 I was assigned to the Rehabilitation Project Force
("RPF"), the Scientology version of a prison camp. I was assigned to the
RPF because I was openly critical of DM's coercive and degrading treatment
of staff members. I was on the RPF in Los Angeles for eight months.
29. As a result of this experience I am familiar with the absolute control
which the highest levels of Scientology management have over the behavior
and thought processes of every Sea Org member. There is only one way for a
good Sea Org member to behave and think, and any deviation from this is
punished immediately and severely. In turn, it is the responsibility of
all members of Sea Org management to bring about the same pattern of
behavior and thought in all Scientologists under their authority,
regardless of whether those under their authority are part of the "church"
or the various "secular" arms of Scientology. This distinction means
nothing within Scientology; it was created purely to facilitate
dissemination of Scientology and to fend off Scientologys "enemies," such
as the IRS.
30. From May 1983, when I was allowed off the RPF, until July
1984 I was posted as Course Supervisor at the International Training
Organization (ITO) in Los Angeles. From this position I trained hundreds
of fledgling Scientology executives from all over the world on the
administrative and management policies of L. Ron Hubbard known as the
Organization Executive Course, or OEC. As a result of this experience I am
very familiar with the administrative policy of Scientology and know that
Hubbard formulated it to facilitate the establishing and organizing of his
worldwide network of Scientology organizations.
31. In August 1984 I was
transferred back to the PR Division of the Guardian's Office, which by
that time had been renamed the Office of Special Affairs. My primary
functions were as a writer and editor for FREEDOM Magazine, a Scientology