Subject:      LRH comments re jailing
From:         julie.mayo@lightlink.com (Julie Mayo)
Date:         1996/05/17
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In the summer of 1982 I was working in the SENIOR C/S INT Office at Gilman
Hot Springs as Senior C/S INT Assistant.  L. Ron Hubbard was in hiding but
there was a great deal of "traffic" (correspondence) between SNR C/S INT
UNIT and LRH.

The correspondence from L. Ron Hubbard to SENIOR C/S INT, David Mayo,
covered many different subjects but one letter particularly disturbed me.
The subject was concerning getting Scientology (lower) organizations to
send two staff members away for training at a higher Scientology
organization.  This type of project was pretty usual -- when I had been CS
4 earlier we had often executed similar projects of this nature.

But in this letter Hubbard expressed a new idea.  He announced that soon,
executives would be able to put some "teeth" into their orders.  His
intent was to empower executives with the ability to send staff to jail
for non-compliance with their orders.  So, if an order was sent down to a
lower Scientology org for two people to be sent off for training and that
order was non-complied with, whoever non-complied with the order could be
sent to jail!

This was somehow being made possible by the formation of RTC.  It struck
us as a pretty heavy penalty and I mentally discarded it. We thought it
couldn't and shouldn't be possible for a person to go to jail for failing
to comply with an order!  We couldn't see it ever being implemented, and
would never dream of attempting to put a staff member in jail for such a
matter.

I had heard that Pat Broeker and David Miscavige were worried about how
they were going to get their orders complied with after LRH died, and
supposed that the solution of "jailing" people for non-compliance may have
resulted from some of their concerns.  I didn't see the correspondence
concerning how RTC could accomplish "jailing" but I knew that lawyers were
being consulted concerning the formation of RTC.

In fact, the story we were told was that we were renovating the pool area
so that Hubbard could meet with and entertain his lawyers.  LRH was in
hiding but we kept hearing that any time soon he would be coming to live
at Hemet.  For months the entire crew had foregone their day off to
renovate the property in preparation for his arrival.

At the end of August 1982, David Miscavige removed me from my post as
SENIOR C/S INT Assistant and put me in the RPF.  In October 1982, 16 top
Scientology executives were "comm eved", at Gilman Hot Springs. 
Apparently an investigation had been done unbeknownst to us.  The
Scientology "Committee of Evidence" was chaired by the new SENIOR C/S INT,
Ray Mithoff.

When I was brought in to hear the findings and recommendations, Ray
Mithoff had a sign which read "You could go to the pokey for two years". 
I asked why, and he said for "out tech" or "off policy".  I queried him as
to whether I could go to jail for that?  He said yes.  That earlier letter
from Hubbard came to mind where he had expressed the idea of jailing
people for non-compliance with orders.

I left Scientology in February 1983, but there have been several attempts
made by Scientology since then to get David or me jailed.  After we
started the AAC, there was a mission sent by RTC to try to get us jailed.
One incident that occurred was that we got a message on an answering
machine from Kurt Weiland, OSA, saying that David was going to have
trouble getting back into the country.  (David was giving a lecture in
Vancouver.) The next day David was detained at the Canadian Border and
searched for drugs. (None were found and he was allowed to come into the
country.)

Private Investigators, working under the license of Eugene Ingram, did a
noisy investigation in which they posed as a "Task Force on White Collar
Crime and Drug Smuggling".  The investigators called up parents of staff,
members of the AAC, the AAC's bank, travel agency, associates of the AAC's
lawyer and told them that they were investigating David Mayo and the AAC
for drug smuggling, smuggling fire arms, being a member of the Red Brigade
and other crimes.  (All of which was untrue.)  The private investigators
contacted Interpol, FBI, and so forth.  

The "investigation" had a chilling effect on staff and public and in the
summer of 1984 we filed for and obtained an restraining order against this
type of harassment.  But despite this, harassment of a similar nature by
Scientology has continued over the years, including further attempts to
get us jailed by them as recently as during 1994 and 1995.  (I will be
posting a separate account of this.)
 

Julie Mayo

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