Once Again The St. Petersburg Times Rips Scientology A New One In A Scathing Three Part Series - Page 4
The story of how the church commands and controls its staff is told by the pursuers and the pursued, by those who sent spies and those spied upon, by those who interrogated and those who rode the hot seat. In addition to Rathbun, they include:
• Mike Rinder, who for 25 years oversaw the church's Office of Special Affairs, which handled intelligence, legal and public affairs matters. Rinder and Rathbun said they had private investigators spy on perceived or potential enemies.
They say they had an operative infiltrate a group of five former Scientology staffers that included the Gillham sisters, Terri and Janis, two of the original four "messengers" who delivered Hubbard's communications. They and other disaffected Scientologists said they were spied on for almost a decade.
• Gary Morehead, the security chief for seven years at the church's international base in the desert east of Los Angeles. He said he helped develop the procedure the church followed to chase and return those who ran, and he brought back at least 75 of them. "I lost count there for awhile.''
Staffers signed a waiver when they came to work at the base that allowed their mail to be opened, Morehead said. His department opened all of it, including credit card statements and other information that was used to help track runaways.
• Don Jason, for seven years the second-ranking officer at Scientology's spiritual mecca in Clearwater, supervised a staff of 350. He said that after he ran, he turned himself in and ended up locked in his cabin on the church cruise ship, the Freewinds. He said he was held against his will.
And then there's the story of the cook, his wife and the movie stars.
Rather than try to cover this immense story, it's best for you go to the SP Times yourself and read the entire coverage of the alarming stories from ex members, Betsy Perkins, Mark Fisher, Don Jason, Gary Morhead, Jackie Wolfe, and Mike Rinder. There is more from Marty Rathbun and also the story from ex member Sinar Parman .
Sinar was not only the personal chef to cult founder L. Ron Hubbard, but he also was the personal chef of current cult leader and high school drop out, David Miscavige and several Scientology celebrities including Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
The SP Times also have a very helpful who's who in part one which gives you a small bio of former members.
Kudos to all the brave former members who are speaking out to help others. And a big thank you to Joe Childs and Thomas Tobin for once again helping to exposing this insidious cult. Hopefully this continuing exposure of the cult's activities will get law officials to pay attention and finally get off their butts and do something about it.
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