Cook was sued by
Scientology, then agreed to being silenced. You
can easily find lots about her online. Debbie
Cook's email
December 31, 2011
Dear Friend,
I am emailing you as a friend and fellow
Scientologist. As we enter a new year, it is
hoped that 2012 can be a year of great
dissemination and a year of real progress up The
Bridge for all Scientologists.
Although I am not in the Sea Org right now, I
served in the Sea Org at Flag for 29 years. 17 of
those years were as Captain FSO. I am a trained
auditor and C/S as well as an OEC, FEBC and DSEC.
I am completely dedicated to the technology of
Dianetics and Scientology and the works of LRH. I
have seen some of the most stunning and
miraculous results in the application of LRH
technology and I absolutely know it is worth
fighting to keep it pure and unadulterated.
My husband and I are in good standing and we
are not connected with anyone who is not in good
standing. We have steadfastly refused to speak to
any media, even though many have contacted us.
But I do have some very serious concerns about
out-KSW that I see permeating the Scientology
religion.
I have the utmost respect for the thousands of
dedicated Scientologists and Sea Org members.
Together, we have come through everything this
world could throw at us and have some real
impingement on the world around us. I am proud of
our accomplishments and I know you are too.
However there is no question that this new age of
continuous fundraising is not our finest moment.
LRH says in HCO PL 9 Jan 51, An Essay on
Management, drop no curtains between
the organization and the public about
anything. -LRH
Based on this policy I am communicating to you
about some situations that we need to do
something about within our religion, within our
group.
Actions that are either not covered in policy
or directly violate LRH policy and tech include
the extreme over-regging and fund-raising
activities that have become so much a part of
nearly every Sea Org org and Class V org as well
as every OT Committee. This
fundraising is not covered anywhere in LRH
policy.
Hardworking Sea Org members and the dedicated
staff of orgs around the world arent
choosing to do these actions. Nor are the OTs. I
am sure they would be more than happy if they
could just get on with direct dissemination of
Scientology as they have done for so many years.
But the truth is that this is being driven
from the very highest echelons within the
Scientology structure and clearly there is a lot
of pressure to make targets that are being set.
The IAS: The IAS was created unbeknownst to
LRH in 1984 by Marc Yager and David Miscavige.
This was supposed to be based on LRH policies on
the subject of membership and the HASI, however
the IAS is nothing like the membership system
described by LRH which only has two memberships
and is covered in HCO PL 22 March 1965
Current Promotion and Org Program Summary,
Membership Rundown and states:
There are two memberships
-
LRH
LRH lists there the INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL
MEMBERSHIP and gives its cost at 10 pounds
sterling or $30 US. He also lists a LIFETIME
MEMBERSHIP which is priced at $75 US. There are
no other memberships or statuses approved or
known to LRH.
Furthermore, membership monies are supposed to
go directly to the org where the membership is
signed up, and the money used for dissemination
by that org, in that area. This is covered in
HCOPL 1 Sept 1965R Membership Policies.
It all goes into the HCO Book Account in
the area where the membership is brought and is
not part of the organizations weekly gross
income. Membership monies go to
dissemination.- LRH
Currently membership monies are held as Int
reserves and have grown to well in excess of a
billion dollars. Only a tiny fraction has ever
been spent, in violation of the policy above.
Only the interest earned from the holdings have
been used very sparingly to fund projects through
grants. In fact many of the activities you see at
IAS events are not actually funded by the IAS,
but rather by the Scientologists involved.
Think about it, how many ads disseminating
Scientology, Dianetics or any Scn affiliated
programs have you seen on TV? Heard on the radio?
Seen in newspapers? I havent seen one in
the 4 years I have lived in San Antonio, Texas,
the 7th largest city in the US. How many have you
seen?
Donating anything more than a lifetime
membership to the IAS is not based on LRH policy.
The article What Your Donations Buy
(The Auditor, The Monthly Journal of Scientology
No. 51, 1970) is clearly talking about how the
church uses your donations for Dianetics and
Scientology services. Next time you are asked to
donate outside of services, realize that you are
engaged in fundraising and ask to see something
in writing from L. Ron Hubbard that this is
something he expects from you as a Scientologist.
New Org Buildings: LRH also never directed the
purchase of opulent buildings or the posh
renovations or furnishings for every org.
In fact, if you read HCO PL 12 March 75 Issue
II, The Ideal Org, which is what this
program has been called, and nowhere in it will
you find 20 million dollar buildings or even any
reference to the poshness of org premises at all
as part of LRHs description of an
Ideal Org. Instead, an Ideal Org was
one that delivered and moved people up The Bridge
something that is not part of this
Ideal Org program.
LRH says in the PL that an Ideal Org:
would be clean and attractive enough not
to repel its public LRH.
This is all it says about the state of the
building.
As a result of this off-policy alteration of
the Ideal Org PL, we have the majority of top
OTs, now deemed OT Ambassadors,
heavily engaged in fund-raising activities that
include bingo, pirate
dinners, knitting classes,
hay rides, and many other activities
strictly revolving around raising funds for the
required multi-millions of dollars to fund their
Ideal Org. As part of this, people
around every org are now asked to donate to their
local Ideal Org instead of their own
services or their own Bridge.
LRH says in HCO PL Org Ethics and Tech:
GET RID OF DISTRACTIONS FROM SCIENTOLOGY
in your org. Baby-sitting or raffle tickets and
such nonsense.-LRH
Yet these distractions are rampant as they are
being used as fund-raisers to get money for the
huge quotas being issued to fund the Ideal
Org.
If the org slumps
dont
engage in fund-raising or
selling postcards or borrowing money.
Just make more income with Scientology. Its
a sign of very poor management to seek
extraordinary solutions for finance outside
Scientology. It has always failed.
For orgs as for pcs, Solve It With
Scientology.
Every time I myself have sought to solve
financial or personnel in other ways than
Scientology I have lost out. So I can tell you
from experience that org solvency lies in more
Scientology, not patented combs or fund-raising
barbeques.
HCO PL 24 February 1964, Issue II, Org
Programming, (OEC Vol. 7, p. 930)
The point is that Scientologists and OTs
need to be training, auditing and disseminating
to raw public- not regging each other or holding
internal fundraisers.
Out Tech: Over the last few years we have seen
literally hundreds and hundreds of people who
were validated as clear using the CCRD as
developed by LRH now being told they are not
Clear. This included hundreds of OTs who were
then put onto NED as a handling. LRH
clearly forbid any Dianetics to be run on OTs in
HCOB Dianetics Forbidden on OTs. This
is out tech. This entire technical
handling was directed personally by
COB RTC and was done on thousands of OTs. But it
was based not on an LRH HCO Bulletin, but rather
based on a single C/S instruction where LRH C/Sed
one pre-OT who had not achieved the state of
clear but was mid OT III and not making it. LRH
directed a solo handling that the pre-OT was to
do to get himself to achieve the state of Clear.
This LRH C/S taken out of context was then used
to implement a technical handling that was in
direct violation of an LRH HCOB.
This and other technical handlings
done on Solo NOTs auditors created great expense
and hardship on Solo NOTs auditors around the
world as they were made to do these handlings to
continue on the level.
Then there are the fast grades at
Flag that no other org has. How can it be
that Flag has been delivering grades differently
to the rest of the world for the last 3 years?
Whatever the problem is, the fact is that having
fast Grades at Flag creates a hidden
data line and is a HIGH CRIME and the subject of
an entire policy letter called HCOPL TECH
DEGRADES which LRH has placed at the start
of every Scientology course.
More recently the fad seems to be that nearly
everyone needs to re-do their Purif and do
a long objectives program, including many
OTs mid Solo NOTs.
There is nothing wrong with doing objectives,
but it is a clear violation of HCOB MIXING
RUNDOWNS AND REPAIRS to have a person mid a
rundown or OT level be taken off it and placed on
an objectives program.
Solo NOTs auditors are also being made to get
their objectives from a Class IX auditor at great
expense as they are not being allowed to
co-audit.
Flag has made many millions of dollars on the
above listed out tech handlings because OTs mid
Solo NOTs are forced to get these out-tech
actions to be able to get back onto and stay on
the level and complete it. Not to mention the
spiritual effects of the out tech that this has
on each OT.
I myself was subject to these out tech
handlings, including extensive FPRD
mid Solo NOTs. It took its toll in many ways,
including physical situations I am still dealing
with today. So I have some reality of the
hardship caused.
LRH Command Structure: LRH left us with a
complex and balanced command structure, with our
orgs led by the Office of ED International. This
office was considered so important that LRH
created a special management group called the
Watch Dog Committee whose only purpose was to see
that this office and the other needed layers of
management existed. LRH ED 339R speaks of this
extensively as the protection for our Church. But
these people are missing. And not just some. As
of just a few years ago there were no members of
the office of ED Int on post, not to mention top
execs throughout the International Management
structure.
You may have also wondered
where is
Heber, the President of the Church? What about
Ray Mitthoff, Senior C/S International, the one
that LRH personally turned over the upper OT
Levels to? How about Norman Starkey, LRHs
Trustee? What happened to Guillaume
Executive Director International? And Marc
Yeager, the WDC Chairman? What happened to the
other International Management executives that
you have seen at events over the years?
The truth is that I spent weeks working in the
empty International Management building at Int.
Empty because everyone had been removed from
post. When I first went up lines I was briefed
extensively by David Miscavige about how bad all
of them were and how they had done many things
that were all very discreditable. This seemed to
explain the fact that the entirety of
the Watchdog Committee no longer existed. The
entirety of the Executive Strata, which consisted
of ED International and 11 other top
International executives that were the top
executives in their particular fields, no longer
existed. That the Commodores Messenger Org
International no longer existed. All of these key
command structures of Scientology International,
put there by LRH, had been removed.
There were hundreds and hundreds of unanswered
letters and requests for help from org staff,
written based on LRH ED 339R where LRH says that
staff can write to these top executives in the
Exec Strata for help. But this is not possible if
all these execs have been removed and no one is
there to help them or to get evaluations and
programming done to expand Scientology.
Well, after that I got to spend some quality
time with Heber, Ray Mithoff, Norman Starkey,
Guillaume, as well as the entirety of
International Management at the time, who were
all off post and doing very long and harsh ethics
programs. These have gone on for years and to the
only result of that they are still off post.
There is no denying that these top executives
have all gradually disappeared from the scene.
You dont see them at the big events anymore
or on the ship at Maiden Voyage.
David Miscavige has now become the
leader of the Scientology religion.
Yet what LRH left behind was a huge structure to
properly manage all aspects of the Scientology
religion. He put a complete and brilliant
organizational structure there, not one
individual. There never was supposed to be a
leader other than LRH himself as the
goal maker for our group.
There is a situation here and even if you have
not been to the International Management Base you
should be able to see that over regging and
frequent tech changes are not OK and you have a
responsibility to do something to Keep
Scientology Working. You should be able to find
and read the references on membership in OEC
Volume 6. Find and read the HCO PL entitled
The Ideal Org (Data Series 40). Find
and read the references on org buildings,
including HCO PL 24 Aug 65 II, Cleanliness of
Quarters and Staff, Improve our Image. Also, HCO
PL 17 June 69, The Org Image.
If you dont want to make waves or put
yourself in danger of being taken off the level
or denied eligibility, then there are some simple
things you can do. First and foremost, withdraw
your support from off policy actions. Stop
donating to anything other than your own services
and actual Bridge progress. Simply demand to see
an LRH reference that says you are required to
make other such donations. No one will be able to
produce any references because there arent
any.
Stop supporting any of the activities that are
being done to forward off-policy fund-raising in
your area.
LRH says what he expects of a Scientologist
that is what he expects you to do. In fact
he put it in HCOB 10 June 1960 Issue I, Keeping
Scientology Working Series 33, WHAT WE EXPECT OF
A SCIENTOLOGIST. Read it and follow it.
The other thing you can do is to send this
email to as many others as you can, even if you
do it anonymously.
Please keep this email among us, the
Scientologists. The media have no place in this.
You may wonder why I have not written a KR and
gone about my business. The answer is, I have.
But there is no longer anyone to send that KR to.
But you can and should write reports and bring
off-policy to the attention of local org
executives and local Sea org members.
We are a strong and powerful group and we can
affect a change. We have weathered many storms. I
am sorry that I am the one telling you, but a new
storm is upon us. Its waves are already in
the media and the world around us.
The truth is that as a Scientologist you are
more able, more perceptive and have a higher
integrity. Scientology is supposed to allow you
to think for yourself and never
compromise your own integrity. And most certainly
LRH held every Scientologist responsible to KEEP
SCIENTOLOGY WORKING.
I am not trying to do anything other than
affect a change in serious off policy actions
occurring. My husband and I have most of our
family and many many good friends who are
Scientologists. I have not been real interested
in sticking my neck out like this.
However, I also know that I dedicated my
entire adult life to supporting LRH and the
application of LRH technology and if I ever had
to look LRH in the eye I wouldnt be able to
say I did everything I could to Keep Scientology
Working if I didnt do something about it
now.
We all have a stake in this. It is simply not
possible to read the LRH references and not see
the alterations and violations that are currently
occurring.
You have a very simple obligation to LRH.
Dont participate in anything off policy,
and let others know they should not either. If
every person who reads this email does nothing
more than step back from off-policy actions we
would have changed direction. If we took all that
energy and directed it into auditing, training
and raw public dissemination, we would be
winning.
And that is what I wish for you and all of us
as we ring in this new year.
ARC,
Debbie Cook
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