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Besides from providing some general information about David Mayo it is my intent here to address various about him that is not found already elsewhere on the Internet. I persistently and scrutinously focus primarily on the data that is actually found in Scientology publications and writings themselves. It should be very well understood that it is not my initial intent here to either defend or blame David Mayo. The data as found is taken as it is and I forward herewith my findings.
About David Mayo
- A few facts concerning David Mayo
- A few notes about the person David Mayo
- The ‘Senior C/S International’ (incl. ‘Senior C/S Int Bulletin’)
‘SO ED 2344 Int’, 20 Aug 83 “The Story of a Squirrel: David Mayo”
‘Misdefinition of the State of Clear’ (The definition of Clear, A note about NOT's (NED for OT's) & Its relation with the NOT's materials); ‘Mixing Rundowns’ & ‘Torpedoing of a Qual Division’; ‘Sabotage of Ethics Technology’; ‘Attempt to wreck auditor training’ (Professional TR's removed as a prerequisite for Academy Levels, ‘Training Routines Remodernized’ & Additional TR references); ‘Destructive “KSW” Issues by Mayo’; ‘Assuming the Hat of Source’; ‘Deliberately mis-C/Sing his wife’; ‘Religious Technology Center’ (RTC); ‘Further data’ & ‘many other crimes’; The ‘scare’ factor; Final comments about this SO ED ...
This may very well be the most charged subject concerning Scientology of them all! The person David Mayo has been displayed since the early 80's as the evil of evils, truly as being the worst squirrel* of them all!
Today he is still regarded and considered like that, i.e. within the Church of Scientology. There, everything he has touched is supposed to be taken out of reach of everyone. For example on a copy of a checksheet of the “Hubbard Basic Career Auditor Course” issued March 1982 I found the entry: “TAPE: 8103C10 INTRODUCTION TO THE HAPPINESS RUNDOWN COURSE by Senior C/S International” crossed out and someone had added the handwritten notice: “Cancelled, tape to be destroyed.”. Another
instance of this I found in a copy of Vol. XII: 1978-1979 of the first in 1976-80 published series of the Technical Bulletins volumes. On page 264 we find HCOB 13 Dec 78R “PC Set-Ups and C/S 53”, a handwritten notice had been added saying: “Cancelled — Mayo issue”.
It even goes as far as physically destroying the whole of the 1976-80 release of the Technical Bulletins volumes. I have it positively confirmed from various sources that so around 1997 the order was given to physically destroy these old red volumes, meaning reducing them to shreds. An argument given was that they contained references deriving from David Mayo. All that we actually find are some issues in Vol. XII:
HCOB 13 Dec 78R “PC Set-Ups and C/S 53” (see page 264)
HCOB 24 Sept 79 “Flying Ruds in Cramming” (see page 421-23)
HCOB 21 Dec 79 “Auditor Assignment Policies, Cramming Assignment Policies” (see page 431-32)
They all say: ‘L. Ron Hubbard, Founder. As assisted by Senior C/S Int.’. Of course it makes much sense to shredd all of these volumes in this series because of these few pages!
In spite of the overwhelming efforts taken by the Church of Scientology to defame the person David Mayo, the story now also has to be told
on a dicey area where automatic group think only dictates he was a bad
dude. Hence various may even exert the very same automatic A=A in regards to the person that has the nerve to start looking a little bit closer at things and tells about his findings! Well, this is certainly a risk that ‘I’ am taking. This is what can happen, however not necessary
a totally will happen. What can I say? Pixilated parrots always will associate A=B=C etc.. I have been advised by a friend: “If you were to really tap into the area of Mayo
you have to be
like 10 times more delicate as you have been with your other pages.”.
Any inconsistencies and illogics that I encountered are noted and commented upon. This dissertation is not meant to be for a quick read through. It is rather offered as a sort of database that can be referred to, in where particular information can be found, where answers may be found of any wonderings or questions that any may have regarding the material offered. Most of the information offered is for the insider that is familiar with this material.
This little ‘necessary word of introduction’ is also my disclaimer. I basically claim nothing, I ask questions. I offer logical deductions as per the data at hand. The answers given however may very well not be in the liking of various at all! I can't help that and I am not worried about that either. I am certainly willing to accept the challenge if it is found that I am doing something that I am not supposed to do, although I have no interest to be approached about this with sole opinion or make-wrong with absence of any serious arguments!
A communication ... (How I fell into this)
I actually never intended to undertake this task until very recently (early July 2006), but somehow I fell into this and started digging little. I commented to a friend of mine that I had written and released a little section about David Mayo entitled “An introductory note about references written and issued by David Mayo” (at present this is found on this page, see later chapter with this title). I asked my friend's opinion about that and he responded: “Beautiful. Continue pounding away at this area and tell it like it is.”.
He continued with: “You can probably make the ‘DM’ contributions into a separate page in itself
by covering the 1981 Happiness Rundown issues. The exact issue on this
is HCOB 15 January 1984 Happiness Rundown Additives.
I bet that the 1981 HRD issues are not that much different than the 1984 ones
and now we have you to probe this area to check it out.”.
A last comment was: “Did you know that on my HRD course there were two issues that had the
Happiness Rundown Additives in the reference section yet it was not
included in the course?
Time to check this out for good.”.
I knew about these Happiness Rundown Series but hadn't really thought about it when I wrote my little David Mayo section. In fact I was so reluctant about the idea to create a page about David Mayo that I responded: “‘separate page’? I am not sure if it would be wise. I might draw too much attention to the person David Mayo. Mayo is a very sensitive ‘item’ in the orgs.”.
Anyway, things evolved and I also recalled these ‘NED for OTs Series’ of which many witness of the involvement of David Mayo. Previously I had already started a little project to make a list of HCO PL's issued during 1978-83 which in detail noted the composer and publication information simply for enabling me to determine at which time exactly what practice of how to deal with these physically changed. I extracted the ‘DM’ and ‘dm’ indicated isues from this list and then added the HCOB's to that.
I told my friend about these ‘NED for OTs Series’ and he responded: “Yes I do see that a Separate DM page can open a can of worms and how
we would have to stay away from the ‘1978’ issues but perhaps we could
get away with a longer DM paragraph to include 1981 HRD and what is
found when comparing to 1984 versions.
Just looking to take away the Automation Non-think instilled by C of S
regarding him of ‘Yep he was totally bad and evil’ into as you quote
‘Other people have authority too’.
Had the cog(nition) that your site really has been designed to De-PTS people
out of the group think - a mighty admirable cause that most go forward.”.
Well, and this is how I fell into this!
Provisional release of these pages
Prior to releasing these pages to the public (December 6, 2006) I had released them to various chosen (November 24, 2006). I accompanied this with the text:
“The information that they relay may force various to have a look in a new dimension of time at things. This in particular in regards to the role played by David Mayo, but also the changes implemented and introduced during his time of reign. Then the validity or possibly the invalidity of NOT's is given attention. These particular changes are folded out in detail on especially page #3 (Definition of Clear) and #5 (History of Grade Chart).
These are sensitive and serious matters, and I hope that I may receive some responses or arguments that can point out any errors in that I have found. That is prior to me distributing this information broadly.”
The intent was to get some responses about their content. May be I missed something? May be I was seriously wrong about some of the data presented? May be it was better to rewrite some parts of it as it may get misinterpreted?
Due to the nature of the various responses that I received I can conclude that this is a touchy subject indeed. The reactions are rather of a mixed nature. Most of them are appreciative, a few however have judged that my pages attempt to take down the icon David Mayo from his pedestal. This is actually funny, as no such thing was ever my intent! Well, that simply DOES NOT INTEREST ME! Research is about taking the information as it is found. It is not about disregarding some data or looking in the other direction because some person(s) may not be very appreciative towards some of the findings that surfaces. It is my sole intent to attempt to tell history as it happened, it is most definitely not my intent to actually rewrite history! If some do not take kindly of the things that I say, because it may actually shake their stable datum, (and it will clash with many a person's stable datum), then that is entirely their problem. After all it appears always to have been a habit of man to turn the eye the other direction when something surfaces that is somehow hard to face. One may then resort to either silence (denial) or one attacks it. Well, I can't make it into the liking of all, nor do I attempt to do so.
One respons said: “I doubt it was David Mayo who made all the fuss. I have not enough data what happened behind the curtain but I rather would point out John Eastment.”. John Eastment for a while was also the Senior C/S International (1989-92), although this is kinda late in time. Primarily the changes that I discuss took place much earlier in time. In addition there is no detectable evidence found in church publications what John Eastment may have done or not done, which may be questionable or sensitive, at any point in time. But we have an avalance of this kind of data concerning David Mayo. I requested more argumentation and data regarding John Eastment, which I received. While looking over various it could not be substantiated that John Eastment was in any way involved in the particular changes that I discuss in these David Mayo project pages.
Another respons was: “If Mayo would have been the why, all would have been changed backwards but that didn't happen”. How good an argument is this actually? It is disregarding that there may have been other reasons why some person was forced to leave some group. It could also have been the ultimate plot. May be some have intended that persons would reason like this. You would have wiped out a possible argument, before you were able to put it there, as in that it is not even considered. You may call these distraction tactics. This way you effectively could cover up some real sabotage!
David Icke relates to a mind manipulation technique that he calls: ‘Problem - Reaction - Solution’. It goes something like this:
“First of all you create the problem, but you get someone else to be blamed for it. You then report that problem through the media in the way you want it reported. You get the public to react to your problem by saying: ‘Something must be done! This can't go on! What are THEY gonna do about it?’ And at that point THEY who have covertly created the problem and blamed someone else, who glean that reaction to do something, then offer the solution to the problem they have created.”
As I said, I primarily work with those things that can be substantiated preferably in printed materials. I am not interested in ideas or reasoning without proper support why something may be or may not be so. The facts that can be verified and the data that is around will have to defend itself. Circular reasoning or anything resembling this will not be given much attention. If you have some verifiable data that actually shows me being in error about some things, then forward that data. I actually have already received a variety of suggestions and alternate interpretations, and I do intent to implement the plausible ones in due time on my pages. The majority of these have, at the time if me writing this, already been implemented.
An introductory note about references written and issued by David Mayo
David Mayo was the Senior C/S International in the period 1978/82. It can be said that some circumstances arose regarding David Mayo around 1982/83, and at this time he is so to say not in good standing with the Church of Scientology. As a result everything that he has written or issued is considered squirrel material.
I actually catched 2 HCOB/PL's (same issue releases on both the issue-types) and 1 HCOB that were supposedly written and issued by David Mayo (although it was indicated on them as ‘Assisted by Senior C/S International’). In the composer initials on the bottom of these references are found ‘DM’, which confirms that he was most definitely involved in its compiling. In this case it is really worthy of notice because these 2 HCO PL's are to this very day still in use in its original form although they are now fully attributed to L. Ron Hubbard! There is also a 3rd reference only released as an HCOB that appears also only to have been subjected to minor revisions. These references are:
HCOB/PL 6 Mar 82 “Confessional Tech Policies”
HCOB 8 Mar 82 “Confessionals and the Non Interference Zone”
HCOB/PL 10 Mar 82 “Confessionals - Ethics Reports Required”
The first issue is with very minor revisions found 4 times in the 1991 release of the ‘Organizational Executive Course’ volumes, see Vol. 1: pages 642-44; Vol. 4: pages 985-87; Vol. 5: page 448-450 & ‘Technical Bulletins’ volumes, see Vol. XII (1980-1984): pages 387-88 as HCOB/PL 6 Mar 82R (Revised 10 December 1988) “Confessional Tech Policies”.
The second issue is found only one time in the ‘Technical Bulletins’ volumes.
The third issue is found 3 times in the ‘Organizational Executive Course’ volumes, see Vol. 1: pages 645-47, Vol. 4: pages 1197-99 & ‘Technical Bulletins’ volumes, see Vol. XII (1980-1984): pages 391-93 and is identical.
Most of the references written by David Mayo have been taken out of roulation since. The above 2 mentioned HCOB/PL's appear an exception. To my knowledge there also exist today in use 3 other issues written by him that carry the same reference date and title although they had actually been rewritten. These are:
HCOB 24 Sept 79 “Flying Ruds in Cramming”
HCOB 21 Dec 79 “Auditor Assignment Policies, Cramming Assignment Policies”
HCO PL 9 Mar 82 “Eligibility for OT Levels”
The present rewritten versions of these are all found in the 1991 release of the HCOB and HCO PL compilation volumes.
We also find that various chapters and texts that had been written by David Mayo appear in later issued references that are now fully attributed as if deriving from L. Ron Hubbard. An interesting example for this is HCOB 7 Aug 83 “Robotic TRs” which is in use today that obviously has been imported from HCOB 16 Aug 71RA (Re-Revised 4 September 1980) II “Training Drills Remodernized”.
It appears identical as a chapter entitled: “ROBOTIC TRS (Anatomy Of A Robot)”.
The revision notes of HCOB 16 Aug 71R II (Reissued 6 August 1983) “Training Drills Remodernized” (that replaced HCOB 16 Aug 71RA) said: “This HCOB was revised by othersand published as HCOB 16 Aug 71RA, revised 4 Sept 80, same title. That revision ... also added sections of text to the issue. Those ... additives were not written by or approved by me and that revision of 4 Sept 80 is herewith CANCELLED.”.
‘SO ED 2344 Int’, 20 Aug 83 “The Story of a Squirrel: David Mayo” confirms that these “others” is referring to David Mayo: “‘I notice that Mr. ... Mayo, ..., rewrote HCOB TRAINING DRILLS REMODERNIZED.’ (LRH)”.
Somehow this gets ironic as by actual examination of the previous release of the Technical Bulletins volumes (issued 1976-80) it appears that only volume XII contain some issues that witness of his collaboration, and there are 3 of them. The argument has been forwarded by Scientology International Management to actually physically destroy all of these volumes (yes, i.e. including volumes I-XI) for reason of the David Mayo being contained in them (which is only vol. XII). Now, does that mean that we then also have to destroy all of the Organizational Executive Course & Technical Bulletins volumes (issued 1991) because of these 2 HCOB/PL's that appear a variety of times in these volumes and that also witness of his collaboration? If you do not then you would not be consequent about things.
Some may forward the argument that these 2 HCOB/PL were found to have been written by L. Ron Hubbard after all. Although at the time of their release (early 80's) the practice was in use that those who compiled it appeared on the issue indicated as assistants (see more about this on my page “L. Ron Hubbard vs A New Order (2)” chapter “Introduction to this page”, section “Solving a problem: compilers turn assistants”).
There is actually quite some attention on all this within the Church of Scientology and its parishoners. What actually bothers me is that if David Mayo was such a bad person, then how would it be possible that L. Ron Hubbard let him be Senior C/S International during the whole period 1978-82? Would L. Ron Hubbard himself not have realized some things at a much earlier date and subsequently removed him from his position? After all Senior C/S International was the highest positioned Technical terminal right under L .Ron Hubbard. One may also ponder about how he got to be elected as Senior C/S International in the first place? You need to be able to show a very convincing production prior to even be considered for such a position! This is simply how the system works within Scientology, per this it means that he must have done some good things too. It may be that I am overlooking something here, although I perceive that there are som illogics involved here.
This little chapter was the first that I wrote that relates directly to David Mayo. Previously this was found on my page “L. Ron Hubbard vs A New Order (2)”.
Statistics and some considerations ...
Much effort had been taken to destroy the reputation of David Mayo? However, if you are a bad dude, you leave tracks, these tracks can be recognized and evaluated right there. Now, how could such a really bad dude actually ending up as the top technical person within Scientology in the first place? David Mayo was also the first Senior C/S International worth of mention. Why was this position actually instigated in the first place and why was David Mayo chosen to fill this position?
It is a bother that David Mayo is claimed being wrong and being in error virtually about everything. In a sense this is actually strange as within the Scientology organization promotions are entirely based upon the products you deliver, results which are measured by socalled statistics.
“Individual staff members, secretaries and executive secretaries
are commended, promoted, demoted or Comm Eved on the basis of their
stats*. A person with high stats has Ethics protection. A person
with low stats not only has no Ethics protection but tends to be
hounded. ...
Run only by statistics.” LRH
(from HCO PL 5 Feb 70 “Statistics, Management by”)
The fact that David Mayo became Flag C/S in 1973 and was later in 1978 promoted to Senior C/S International and stayed on there till 1982 simply must have been because of the proven good results he must have gotten during this time. In addition this reflects a fairly long time span. It is rule within the Scientology organization that if it is shown that you are unable to continue to deliver the products expected from you that you will be demoted. What we see however is that David Mayo continued to stay on! We do not learn about his actual achievements, and they must have been there!
A text attributed to L. Ron Hubbard found in ‘SO ED 2344 Int’, 20 Aug 83 “The Story of a Squirrel: David Mayo”
says “he could lie to me consistently, convincingly report, this that or the other thing”. Then Mr. Ray Mithoff follows with “Despite his cleverness at lying and manufacturing convincing reports, there were indicators which gave him away.” And in the summary section of the SO ED we find again “Despite the cleverness with which Mayo could lie, he was still found out.”.
Of course, but there is this time factor involved. Actual results or no results during a longer period of time would have done the trick. To “lie consistently” and “convincingly report” does not replace actual statistics.
“The most direct observation in an org (or a country) is
statistics.
These tell of production. They measure what is done.
It cannot be said too often that management is best done by
statistics.
Each division in an org has a GROSS DIVISIONAL STATISTIC. This is
calculated to reflect the production of that division by all its
divisional members.
An EXECUTIVE COUNCIL has all these GDSs available to it every
week. This is done by the OIC system (Organization Information
Centre). The stats are collected by each division and compiled by
Dept 3 Div 1 Inspection and Reports into graphs. No matter how
small an org, it has to have an OIC.
The EC* as a Council runs the org by observation of the GDSs.
Conditions are assigned each Division by the EC each week
according to these GDS stats.” LRH
(from HCO PL 5 Feb 70 “Statistics, Management by”)
His contributions in form of the release in official references such as HCOB's and HCO PL's cover the period September 1978 - July 1982. This is close to 4 years.
Various of his achievements are recorded in the various Scientology magazines such as Ability, The Auditor, Source and various.
Auckland HASI Staff.
David Mayo (HCO Secretary), 4th person standing from the right.
Merrill Mayo (his wife) is 2nd person sitting from the right .
Sept/Oct '64.
Auckland staff on Clearing Course, standing on the outer right on the podium are David Mayo and Merrill Mayo.
Late '66/early '67.
Congress attendees in Sydney press to buy books from the congress book stand, ca March 1969. (David Mayo on the right in the back)
Students on the Class VIII Auditor's Course at the Advanced Org United Kingdom in Edinburgh, ca April 1969. (David Mayo left at the front)
There is a mention of a David Mayo in the Saint Hill (UK) periodical ‘Expand No. 1’, (1968), as him being posted as the Dissem Dir AK (AK stands for Auckland). It is further reported that he was the Flag CS since 1973 (per David Mayo himself this was in September of that year), which was then located at the Flag ship ‘Apollo’. In 1975 this location was moved to the Flag Land Base (FLB) which was in Clearwater Fl. His office was at the Fort Harrison Hotel. At least since that time he was also referred to as Class XII Senior C/S Flag. In late 1977 he was starring as the C/S in the film ‘Secret of Flag Results’.
In October 1978 he turned Senior C/S International. And was removed from this post late August 1982.
We also get early information from an interview with Merrill Mayo from July 4th, 1983 in Riverside, California:
“Interviewer: Well Merrill, When did you come in to Scientology?
Well, I came in in 1961. And shortly after that, in the early part of 1962, I went to the Briefing course at Saint Hill. And that's where I met David and was married to him there by Ron. And then after that I worked in the local org in New Zealand until 1968 when I went into the Sea Org. And then, then be around the ship for a while and for a time I did the Class VIII course. And then in the early part of 71 we went to the ship again and I was working in the HGC from early 71 until rather latish October, about mid-October 1978. And I learned to do L's there, that's Class XII Auditor, in 1974 at Flag, which was pretty great! And then I was brought out to Int, well just preceding that, David had suddenly gotten called away from flag to go help LRH, area. ...
Interviewer: This is CMO Int is it?
That's right, and where LRH was. And so he went out there to help LRH, and then I got called out there several weeks later to be with him. And so, that's how I moved permanently from Flag to where CMO Int was and where LRH was.
Interviewer: And where is CMO Int?
CMO Int is at Gilman Hot Springs ... about 60 miles from LA.”
(Note: David Mayo was posted as Senior C/S Int in October 1978, and Merrill Mayo was called from Flag to become part of the Snr C/S Int office.)
Sound snippet (1:55)
(Please note that above sound snippet is slightly longer than the printed text that you find here above.)
The status of David Mayo in regards to the Scientology organization as of early 1983 was first laid out in: (both links will open as pop-up windows)
Both of these releases as the routing on them tells us were BPI (Broad Public Issue), and for All Staff and All Public (Scientologists). By examining these 2 releases they appear to complement eachother. The FCO is the actual SP-Declare. The SO ED appears to get into more detail of various of the things David Mayo was accused of doing. The one that received the broadest distribution was the SO ED. This FCO is much harder to get a hold of. It is not really clear to me why we have 2 of such issues on David Mayo. It is probably so that it was found necessary to inform the Scientology public about David Mayo in more detail (the FCO counts 11 pages, the SO ED has 17 pages). David Mayo by then had started his own group delivering Scientology (or so it was called), fear must have been present that various Scientologists would join his group. This of course had to be counteracted.
In the summer of 1983 David Mayo published “An Open Letter to All Scientologists”. At that time he had created the Church of the New Civilization (CNC) which called into being the Advanced Ability Center (AAC). This Open Letter we find posted at various places out on the Internet, this letter is of interest as David Mayo himself relates about his own time line within the Scientology organization. Further he makes some claims. I made it available in below link: (will open as a pop-up window)
A last mention (that I know of) by Church of Scientology officials towards the Scientology parishioners about David Mayo was issued in August 1985 by the Office of Special Affairs International. Consult in full in link here under. (will open as a pop-up window)
That what it relates is to say the least, rather interesting. Mind that the person spoken about had been in control of the Tech and was respected for that for an about 10 years within the Church of Scientology.
Some mention in this letter is made about ‘stolen materials’. During the early 80's NOT's materials had been taken from AOSH EU by supposed Int Msnairies that had demanded to see the NOT's materials. Later these Msnairies were checked upon but could not be located, they were gone and with them the NOT's materials. It has been rumoured that David Mayo would have been behind that. No such accusations however could be proven or made to stick. In fact David Mayo used in his group his own set of NOT's materials (recompiled), which would not have been such a problem for him as after all he was quite involved in the coming about of the original NOT's materials, his initials are found on about every one of the references in the original series. What reason is there to assume that he would not already have all of this original material, mind that he did work with it during a period of 4 years (1978-82) while associated with the Church of Scientology. It is simply not very logical to put the blame of some ‘stolen materials’ on David Mayo, or that he would have been interested in acquiring these, for various obvious reasons.
Some report that the Advance Ability Center was shut down in April 1986. Nonetheless at least as late as 1993 it was still spoken about. Also CNC/AAC newsletters continued to be distributed till that time. Then we don't hear anything about this group anymore. During the 1st half of 1996 we have a David Mayo posting regularly on a few newsgroups on the Internet (298 messages), we also find a Julie Mayo there (11 messages). Since then David Mayo fell into oblivion and no one seems to really know what happened next or his present whereabouts.
A few notes about the person David Mayo
David Mayo, ca 1984
The responses that I find and get concerning the person David Mayo are very mixed. Those that are in the Church of Scientology don't want to know anything about him. Eyebrows are raised as soon as his name is mentioned. Those however that are found with Free Zone* are generally pretty much in favour of him, although not every one. After all he was send away by the Church of Scientology. Various at that time and also today that are with Free Zone figure that David Mayo must be one of their own and totally alright as he was send away by the Church. I just want to point out here that this is no rational deduction. It is not all black and white. This is the automatic A=A refered to earlier. Just because he was send away by the Church, does not mean that those that are not with the Church need to adopt all of him. As any person David Mayo will/may have had his flaws. Various that my digging in history brought into the open urges us to be careful. Other factors may also have been involved or be the reason why some person actually gets excommunicated. Either way the persons that knew him personally generally appear to appreciate him fairly highly, as a person and as a C/S. One other interesting respons that I received reads: “In my view he was a fair guy who was dedicated to the tech and who was fed up with CoS (Church of Scientology) bull shit, false PR and sales crap and just wanted to deliver the tech for what it was.”. But also considers that “he was not the person to make it on that post and not the person to be the spiritual leader, he was simply not the right type of character.”. Another Scientology old-timer told me that his impression was that David Mayo was very popular with the auditors. He tells me that one Charlie Rush there refered to him fondly as THE GREEN D, because he used green ink in signing his C/Ses, and the nickname caught on. The D stands for David. This was around 1978.
The ‘Senior C/S International’ (incl. ‘Senior C/S Int Bulletin’)
The following was relayed to me by a Scientology old-timer (high executive during the 70's, identity protected): “The first person to have the post of Snr CS Int was Paulette Cohen. Paulette was over the rainbow with us as the Qual Sec. She also audited LRH and C/Sed the crew. As such she worked very closely with LRH on all tech matters and any tech queries coming from Flag would go to Paulette who would then discuss them with LRH and respond. I believe it was after the L1 campaign, Paulette got busted and Mayo replaced her. It was not published world wide, it was a postition at Special Unit working directly with LRH on technical points and research such as NOTs - the post then expanded from there as Special Unit started growing and dividing up into various different functions, such as Messengers handling all LRH traffic directly and Mayo handling the tech queries or matters - this was the start of WDC and Snr CS Int Office getting onto management lines while LRH got more involved in Cine and tapes.”.
Yet another Scientology old-timer (Cl IX auditor) in Europe tells me: “By my knowledge Paulette never was Snr C/S Int, she was LRH Tech Expeditor. The first Senior C/S Int was D. Mayo.”. It appears that it may not have been common knowledge that/if this Paulette Cohen would have been the Senior C/S Int. I personally had also always thought/assumed that the post of Senior C/S Int was established with the posting of David Mayo as such in October 1978. If Paulette Cohen was the first Senior C/S Int it must have been after May 78 as she till then still acted as the LRH Tech Expeditor (see HCOB 26 May 78 I “Dianetics: Urgent Command Change”). There is really not very much known about this Paulette Cohen. There is a little notice to be found from David Mayo that she had been auditing L. Ron Hubbard, dating back to 1978 (see his interview with Russell Miller in 1986). Some more information is related in the Writ of Expulsion issued on David Mayo. This relates the following:
“Subsequent investigation first brought to light that Mayo engineered the reinstatement of a highly dangerous auditor (declared SP Paulette Cohen). This person was directly responsible for the infamous ‘List 1 Project’ in the late 70's which labelled literally hundreds of well meaning staff and public falsely as ‘List 1 R/Sers’ and ‘Suppressives’.
For this Cohen had been forcibly removed from any and all technical lines forever. Her severe infractions of the standard technology of Scientology were blatant and documented many times over.
Despite her gross auditing errors, severe and disreputable code breaks, squirrel application of technical rundowns, and clearly false reports time and time again in worksheets, Mayo over a two year period worked steadily to position this person back onto technical lines where she once again committed serious squirrel technical procedures on key staff members at senior level.
Mayo himself personally acted as the Case Supervisor for these cases while SP Cohen squirrelled horribly under his direction and approval.” (from ‘FCO 7138’, 2 Mar 83 “Writ of Expulsion and Suppressive Person Declare David Mayo”)
This ‘List 1 Project’ and ‘List 1 R/Sers’ are further explained in a chapter on my page “The whereabouts of L. Ron Hubbard chronology”. Consult here (Link will open in a separate window).
It is rumoured that David Mayo was appointed by L. Ron Hubbard personally for the position of Senior C/S Int. These appointments then would likely have been announced through socalled Personnel Orders. As a rule these announcements would not appear in Scientology magazines as ‘The Auditor’, ‘Ability’ or ‘Advance!’. Although one may have expected this for particular important appointments, but we fail to find them. It would either have been announced verbally at events/meetings and/or by such a posting order which would go internally by the communication basket system as in use by the organization. Was it actually broadly and publicly announced to the Scientology community, and if so how was this done? I have forwarded this question to various old-timer Scientologists, none of these recall any official announcements. Various of these persons consulted were during these times either at Flag, or other major Scientology organizations.
After David Mayo a new Senior C/S Int did its entry at least since the reference HCOB 28 Sept 82 “Mixing Rundowns & Repairs” (attributed to: ‘LRH, Data collected by Cmdr R. Mithoff Snr C/S Int’; initials: ‘CSI:LRH:RM:dr/iw’). Prior to becoming Senior C/S Int and therewith replacing David Mayo he appears to have been active as Snr C/S FLB (=Flag Land Base) as per HCOB 23 Jul 81 “Pregnancy and Auditing” (attributed to: ‘LRH, Assisted by Snr C/S FLB’; initials: ‘BDCSC:LRH:RM:bk’). And he still acted as such one year later which we have confirmed with HCOB 11 Jul 82 I “Questionable Auditing Repair List” (attributed to: ‘LRH, as assisted by Senior C/S FLB’; initials: ‘LRH:RM:gal’). This is an interesting note as this actually matches the career of David Mayo who prior to becoming Senior C/S Int is said to have been active as Flag C/S during 1973-78 (this could be looked upon as Sr C/S Flagship Apollo, then since 1975 located on the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Fl. when they went ashore).
Posted as:
Senior C/S International
D/Senior C/S International
Paulette Cohen*
ca Jun 78?* / early Oct 78
David Mayo
early Oct 78
/ late Aug 82*
Ray Mithoff
28 Sept 82
/ 26 Feb 87
Jeff Walker
7 May 87
/ 26 Apr 89
8 Dec 86 / 26 Feb 87
John Eastment
17 Nov 89
/ 14 Oct 92
Ray Mithoff
26 Jul 93
/ present time
* There are still uncertainties concerning if she officially was posted as such or that she only may have acted in such a capacity as the LRH Tech Expeditor. Anything to add then please contact me! * Prior to June 1978 she still acted as LRH Tech Expeditor (see HCOB 26 May 78 I “Dianetics: Urgent Command Change”). * David Mayo himself depicts the morning of 29 Aug 82 as the time he was removed from his position as the Senior C/S International in a letter that he wrote on December 8, 1983.
The dates given in the above are those that I have been able to positively confirm that each acted as such during given time period. It is fairly obvious that they replaced eachother, but I don't have the exact dates (months) when that happened. It is reported that Paulette Cohen got ‘busted’ (exact reason unknown) and replaced by David Mayo. David Mayo in turn also got excommunicated and was replaced by Ray Mithoff. Then Ray Mithoff went on to function as the Inspector General for Technical in the newly established Inspector General Network (April 1987). This can be considered a promotion on his part. Jeff Walker who had been his deputy during a few months then followed him up as the Senior C/S International. I am unsure about why Jeff Walker and John Eastment left the position, although I recall rumours that went around at Flag. Anyway after John Eastment quitting the post Mr. Ray Mithoff resumed his position as the Senior C/S International, and he has been holding that position ever since.
In spite of the fact that there have been various post changes as per the above table, this position as time since has learned us appears to have been or was intended to be of a rather permanent or longterm nature. The only other permanent posting till that time was L. Ron Hubbard as being the Founder, then we ahve the posting of the Guardian and the Controller (since 1969). So, the establishment of this position of Senior C/S International may have introduced further permanent or longterm postings. It may have meant that the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the person holding that position may then have no consequences for the position or repute of that person. Later permanent postings introduced during the early 80's were for example Executive Director International (ED Int), RTC Chairman, IAS President and a variety of others. Regardless of being downstat or upstat he seems/appears to remain holding this position. It may mean that the person is not being made accountable for things that occur. If this is so, this would actually clash with the statistics system that Scientology uses.
Either way when special or serious circumstances arose apparently one could be removed. David Mayo was removed from his position in late August 1982. Something like that also happened with the first ED Int (Bill Franks), who was removed somewhere late 1982. Anyhow the persons since then holding these positions are still holding them today, and that's since about 20-25 years as it seemed like untouchables. Prior to 1980 that the same persons would hold the same position in the organization for such very long time periods was not very common. Till then we only have had the Guardian and the Controller which were for life as per HCO PL 21 Jan 69 “Controller”.
‘Senior C/S Int Bulletin’
At such a time when David Mayo was removed and Mr. Ray Mithoff took his place as Senior C/S International we also see the establishment of the Senior C/S Int Bulletin. The first number of this periodical was issued on 19 December 1982. Various of these were not for broad public distribution, but only for circulation amongst Tech and Qual Staff (Technical and Qualification Division). Its purpose was “to provide a communication line to technical personnel over the world”, “to give tech people an opportunity to keep informed as to what is being found and corrected in various areas”. They were issued and written by the Senior C/S International which was Mr. Ray Mithoff.
Then only 2 weeks after the issuance of David Mayo's Condition Order we see the release of ‘Senior C/S Int Bulletin No. 3’, 17 Mar 83“David Mayo Verbal Tech”, and yes it was entirely dedicated to David Mayo. This particular one was not for public distribution and I judge it being improper to directly quote from this. The title of the Bulletin though explains already what it is about. And indeed it relays about various other communication lines that David Mayo had used such as despatches, conferences, cramming orders, notations in folders, telexes etc.. In a sense this Bulletin could be regarded as a sort of reinforcement or repetition to various that was later claimed in ‘SO ED 2344 Int’, 20 Aug 83“The Story of a Squirrel: David Mayo”. The claims made in the Bulletin though can only be verified if one has access to and can review these despatches and so on. We do not actually have that, so therefore I only note its existence. There is also ‘Senior C/S Int Bulletin No. 5’, 6 May 83“Off-Source ‘C/S Hat Write up’”. It relates about that David Mayo had circulated a hat write up some years back for the post of Case Supervisor, and the advise is given here to ignore it (shred it).
Some notes concerning the ‘Happiness Rundown’(HRD) (1980-81)
“In a review of the Happiness Rundown issues I have found that the tech of the HRD, as originally developed and written by me in late 1980, had been covertly sabotaged. Numerous instances of suppressive technical alter-is have been found in the issues of the 1981 HRD Series. These writings were not seen by myself and were falsely and illegally issued over my name.” (attributed to L. Ron Hubbard) (from HCOB 15 Jan 84 “Happiness Rundown Additives”)
The above supposed findings caused the Happiness Rundown Series issues to be reissued. This in spite of the initial raving reports about the original Series: “A new rundown from Ron is producing immediate, life-changing gains in OTs and non-OTs alike! Rave successes have been pouring in from the AO HGCs where highly trained OT auditors are now delivering this action.” (from ‘Advance! 74’, [ca Mar-Apr 82], page 2). But not for very much longer then, as this is said about the original series ...!
So it was this HCOB 15 Jan 84 “Happiness Rundown Additives” that “listed the major outpoints of false data, technical perversion and alter-is that have been been cancelled and deleted in restoring the HRD to standard tech.”. At least this is what it claims. A further study of the arguments forwarded and found in this reference will give the synopsis on that. I have not performed a detailed comparison, although I may look into this at some future day. It can be said however that in essence it is pretty much the very same rundown with only some minor changes and adjustments here and there. Either way you don't find this reference included in the 1991 release of the Technical Bulletin volumes, probably because by then it was considered a done and closed cycle. It will have been found and decided that there was no reason to keep alive the explanation of how faulthy and incorrect these previous Series of these references must have been. After all we had a new 1984 Series. Hence we don't find it in these 1991 volumes. It just became a record of history.
The references as found in the Happiness Rundown Series that make up this Happiness Rundown (HRD) witness of an obvious involvement of David Mayo. This is confirmed by the composer/typing initials in these references, but also because the bulk of them mentioning ‘as assisted by Senior C/S Int’ in the signatory area.
The publication information of these references in these Series are found in the below links. Here is also indicated how the 1980-81-series are related to the 1984-series publication wise.
A major inconsistency however can already be found in these composer/typing initials in the original Series. A total of 5 references (of the 9) that we find in the Happiness Rundown Series carry incorrect initials (HRD Series 3, 4, 6, 7, & 8). Because these list ‘as assisted by Senior C/S Int’ together with ‘dm’ (‘LRH:dm:ljb’). Just ‘dm’ would indicate a typist, as opposed to composer (assisted by) initials that would have been indicated as ‘DM’. HRD Series 1 & 2 however do indicate a ‘dm’, but fail to note ‘as assisted by Senior C/S Int’, which then is correct. HRD Series 6 & 9 also have it correctly indicated as they do note ‘DM’, in combination with ‘as assisted by Senior C/S Int’.
The only checksheet that I have been able to consult of the original Series also have it incorrectly indicated. The 3 remaining checksheets may(?) also have this wrongly indicated. So we have at least 6 (possibly 9) that carry incorrect initials.
Notes about authorship
Merril Mayo's Open Letter,
ca. 1983. Extract from a letter
which was received from Merrill Mayo that I found posted on the Internet. I don't know to whom it was send and can also not vouch for its authenticity, but it probably is authentic.
“In late 1980 and early 1981, given the data of the Happiness Rundown, David assisted LRH in getting this data put into an auditable rundown, testing it and piloting it until it was ready for public. He personally, for 6 weeks, trained auditors and C\Ses from all over the world. This produced a huge resurgence in the Orgs. These are a few of the specific products David has helped LRH with. The tech is LRH's. The exact implementation of that tech is what David has done.”
She was the wife of David Mayo at that time and also functioned as his assistant.
A communication from Julie Mayo, dated 28 April 1996, which is found on the Internet posted on a newsgroup amongst other relates:
“In late 1981, LRH began communicating with David Mayo, Senior C/S INT, and the CMO and his personal accountants. From 1981 until August of 1982, David Mayo and the Senior C/S INT Office received many messages and letters from LRH. Amongst other things, LRH suggested that David develop a Happiness Rundown, which David did. When the rundown and course were completed, auditors and C/Ses from around the world came to ASHO in LA. David personally taught the course and internship. It was a huge success.”
Note: At the time she was known as Julie Gillespie, it was not until later that she married David Mayo.
Please realize that I can not vouch for the reliability or the source of this data, but it is probably authentic due to the detailed nature of these messages.
‘No-Interference Area’ interferred with by David Mayo? ( Mar 82)
The No-Interference Area being interferred with provide for some rather strong indications that David Mayo actually was directly involved in this occurring. Simply because documentation shows that he authored the very first reference that stretched the rules that originally were established with HCOB 23 Dec 71 “The No-Interference Area” 10 years earlier. This reference that bears his signature is HCOB 8 Mar 82 “Confessionals and the Non-Interference Zone”. Oddly enough only one year later it was only slightly revised reissued as HCOB 8 Mar 82R (Revised 24 April 1983) “Confessionals and the Non-Interference Zone”. This time around however it was stripped from any reference to David Mayo and seemingly appeared to have been written by L. Ron Hubbard. And this very version of this HCOB remains in use till this day!
A detailed study of this can be consulted at below link: (will open in separate window)
Course checksheets and some peculiarities concerning the ‘Hubbard Solo Auditor Course’
In his capacity of Senior C/S Int naturally David Mayo was involved in various compilations of socalled checksheets. Some notes can be made about these. All the ones that I know about are listed in the below overview:
In use as HCO PL 25 Sept 79R III (Rev 5 Apr 89) “same title”
Both HCO PL 25 Sept 79 I “Successful Training Lineup” & HCO PL 25 Sept 79 II “Method One Word Clearing” indicate David Mayo (‘DM’) involvement and do also both address Method One Word Clearing. Therefore it is likely that he was also involved in this Co-Audit Checksheet. Unverified as yet though.
HCO PL 25 Sept 79 I “Successful Training Lineup” said in the revision notes: “BPL 18 Oct 7 6RD, Rev. 10.9.78 URGENT IMPORTANT, SUCCESSFUL TRAINING LINEUP is canceled because it dropped Method One Word Clearing out of training. It sought to solve students on Academy courses being held up due to incomplete Method One, by no longer requiring Method One. As a result Method One Word Clearing dropped out of use and Academy students and interns are now being delayed in training because they haven’t had Method One. The ‘problem’ of incomplete Method One isn’t even a problem, all one would have to do is complete the Method One!
Method One Word Clearing is now being reinstated by HCO PL 25 Sep 79 II METHOD ONE WORD CLEARING.”
Hubbard Solo Auditor Course (Non-Confidential) Part One & Two
The periodical ‘Advance! 74’, [ca Mar-Apr 82] tells that “Ron's new Grade Chart(released March 1982)has brought the Solo Auditor Course closer to home. You can begin you Solo Training right at your Class IV Organization. Solo Traing is now in two parts. Part One is done at the Class IV Orgs and Part Two is done at the Saint Hill or Advanced Orgs.”.
Part One
HCO PL 6 Dec 79RB I
(Rev 25 Nov 81)
“Hubbard Solo Auditor Course (Non-Confidential) Part One”
LRH
Assisted by Senior C/S International
BDCSC:LRH:DM:drm
(see next)
This checksheet was previously in use as BPL 12 Dec 71RD (Rev 24 Jan 78) “The Solo Auditor Course (Non-Confidential)”. It appears that this HCO PL was simply replacing the BPL and that it was split into 2 parts at that time.
HCO PL 28 Jan 82R I
(Rev 27 Mar 82)
“The New Hubbard Solo Auditor Course (Non-Confidential) Part One”
(Cancels & Replaces HCO PL 6 Dec 79RB)
LRH
Assisted by Senior C/S International
CSI:LRH:DM:bk
Cancelled and Replaced by HCO PL 23 Feb 84 I “same title” (although above issue was never cancelled the one presently in use is HCO PL 13 Jun 96R (Rev 23 Sept 96) “same title”)
Revision notes of HCO PL 28 Jan 82R I said: “(This checksheet was redesigned by LRH to include basic books, theory, L & N and more thorough meter trilling. It is now possible to make a far superior solo auditor than ever before.)”.
Revision notes of the replacing checksheet (HCO PL 23 Feb 84 I) said: “CANCELS HCO PL 28 JAN 82R Same title, which was written by another. Arbitraries and complexities entered into the structure of the checksheet resulted in an overlong course, and extended the length of time on Solo training and the road to OT. It is replaced with this new streamlined Solo Auditor course.”.
Some peculiar notes concerning the Part One checksheet
An interesting note can be made with HCO PL 2 Oct 83 “Solo Course Part One, Prerequisites”. It noted: “(Modifies the prerequisites as given on page one of HCO PL 28 Jan 82R, Issue I, THE NEW HUBBARD SOLO AUDITOR COURSE -- PART ONE)”.
It basically means that it positively confirms that in October '83 (i.e. 6 weeks after the issuance of the SO ED 2344, 20 Aug 83 “The Story of a Squirrel: David Mayo”), a checksheet is being upheld that was compiled by David Mayo as was clearly indicated on that very checksheet. A checksheet which less than 4 months later was cancelled and replaced because of “Arbitraries and complexities entered into the structure of the checksheet resulted in an overlong course, and extended the length of time on Solo training and the road to OT.”.
David Mayo was already removed from post late August '82. A Condition Order declaring him a Suppressive Person was issued on March 2, '83. Still one had somehow missed this Hubbard Solo Auditor Course, it was only found necessary to update its prerequisites.
It seems quite odd to me that if it was found that David Mayo was such a bad dude as has been proclaimed, then one would have expected that anything in which he was involved would have been withdrawn immediately or at least be subject to thorough review and investigation. A vital course such as this Hubbard Solo Auditor Course was allowed to be in actual continued use upto at least one whole year later. Why had one missed this?
About that “the checksheet resulted in an overlong course, and extended the length of time on Solo training and the road to OT.” it can be confirmed that the indication of “LENGTH OF COURSE” changed from “4 weeks full time” in HCO PL 28 Jan 82R I to “2 weeks full time, 4 weeks part time” in HCO PL 23 Feb 84 I.
Odd is also that this HCO PL 2 Oct 83 “Solo Course Part One, Prerequisites” is actually found in the 1991 release of the Organization Executive Course volume 4, page 663. It is odd because it is referring to this 1982 Solo Auditor Course, that was already replaced as early as 1984 with HCO PL 23 Feb 84 I “The New Hubbard Solo Auditor Course (Non-Confidential) Part One”. In fact I found that the data as given in HCO PL 2 Oct 83 “Solo Course Part One, Prerequisites” was fully incorporated in this replacement HCO PL! This simply had turned this HCO PL 2 Oct 83 superfluous, although even as late as today (August 2006) I have found no record of it being cancelled, which is what should have happened already in 1984.
Part Two
HCO PL 28 Jan 82 II
“The New Hubbard Solo Auditor Course (Non-Confidential) Part Two”
?
?
Cancelled and Replaced by HCO PL 23 Feb 84 II “same title”
I have not been able to consult any actual copy of any version of this checksheet. although the 1982 version is assumed compiled with the involvement of David Mayo.
OT III Class VIII Course Checksheet
HCO PL 2 Feb 80
C o n f i d e n t i a l
“The Confidential - OT III Class VIII Course Checksheet”
LRH
As assisted by Kathy Stewart CS-4 and
Snr C/S Int
BDCS:LRH:DM:KS:kjm
This is likely revised or at least reissued since, no data however has been found.
CS-4: ‘Commodore Staff Division 4’. Also referred to as Training and Services Aide, they are mainly concerned with Sea Org matters relating.
Survival Rundown Checksheets
HCO PL 13 May 80 II
“Survival Rundown TRs Checksheet”
?
?
Both of them Cancelled by HCOB/PL 3 Apr 90 “Cancellation of the Survival Rundown Series”
It is not very likely that David Mayo was involved in these 2 checksheets, although it is likely that Merrill Mayo was involved. Unverified as yet though.
Hubbard Happiness Rundown Courses
HCO PL 2 Mar 81
“Hubbard Happiness Rundown Auditor Course”
LRH
as assisted by Senior C/S Int
LRH:dm:ljb
Cancelled and Replaced by HCO PL 22 Jan 84 I “same title”
HCO PL 3 Mar 81
“Hubbard Happiness Rundown Auditor Internship”
?
?
Cancelled and Replaced by HCO PL 22 Jan 84 II “same title”
HCO PL 4 Mar 81
“Hubbard Happiness Rundown Case Supervisor Course”
?
?
Cancelled and Replaced by HCO PL 22 Jan 84 III “same title”
HCO PL 5 Mar 81
“Hubbard Happiness Rundown Case Supervisor Interneship”
?
?
Cancelled and Replaced by HCO PL 22 Jan 84 IV “same title”
All of these are also cancelled by HCOB 15 Jan 84 “Happiness Rundown Additives”
The whole of the Happiness Rundown indicates David Mayo involvement as does the only checksheet I have been able to access. It is assumed that David Mayo was responsible for these other 3 as well.
Hubbard Professional TR's Course Checksheet
HCO PL 17 Jun 81
“Hubbard Professional TR's Course Checksheet”
LRH
Assisted by Research and Technical Compilations Unit
BDCSC:LRH:RTC:pc
Cancelled by HCOB 8 Aug 83 “Cancellation of Issues on TRs”
Replaced by HCO PL 7 Aug 83 “The New Hubbard Professional TR Course”
Presently in use is HCO PL 7 Aug 83RB (Rev 10 Sept 98) “The New Hubbard Professional TR Course”
There is no indication of David Mayo involvement in compiling this issue, although a quick glance reveals that 3 David Mayo issues are listed on the checksheet. For which reason it must have been replaced since by HCO PL 7 Aug 83.
Hubbard Basic Career Auditor Course
HCO PL 3 Dec 81R I
(Rev 3 Mar 82)
“Hubbard Basic Career Auditor Course (Prov)”
LRH
Assisted by senior C/S International
CSI:LRH:DM:pc:bk
Cancelled and Replaced by HCO PL 3 Oct 83 “Hubbard Basic Career Auditor Course Phase-Out Per New Streamlined Grade Chart”
HCO PL 3 Dec 81R I said: “The purpose of this course is to train a Scientologist to be able to deliver Expanded Arc Straightwire and the Happiness Rundown so that he can start auditing as a career.”.
A final note about Condition Orders ...
There is a peculiarity about these socalled Condition Orders or Ethics Orders. These still have to answer to certain rules. They can not be put together just in some haphazard way. If it would it will result in some kind of witchhunt in where there would be no place for defense. I relate various about these things and its dangers on my page “History of a Policy Letter (2) - Ethics Orders, Declares and defense”, see Scientology index page.
And with this I end my David Mayo dissertation ...
Vocabulary: BPL: ‘Board Policy Letter’, these are the issues of the Boards of Directors of the Churches of Scientology. Issue-type for policy letters not written by L. Ron Hubbard. In Jan 1974 projects were started to cancel HCO PL's not written by L. Ron Hubbard and if still found being valid reissued as BPL's. C/S:
‘Case Supervisor’. 1. That person in a Scientology Church who gives instructions regarding, and supervises the auditing of preclears. The abbreviation C/S can refer to the Case Supervisor or to the written instructions of a case supervisor depending on context. (BTB 12 Apr 72R) 2. The C/S is the case supervisor. He has to be an accomplished and properly certified auditor and a person trained additionally to supervise cases. The C/S is the auditor's “handler.” He tells the auditor what to do, corrects his tech, keeps the lines straight and keeps the auditor calm and willing and winning. The C/S is the pc's case director. His actions are done for the pc. (Dianetics Today, Bk. 3, p. 545) Clear:
What we mean by Clear is an erasure of the mental mass which inhibits their thinking, postulating, and so on. (SH Spec 75, 6608C16) Free Zone: Free Zone generally is regarded being those groups (as in plural) that practice Scientology outside of the control of the official Church of Scientology. Various of these groups may have their personal approach about how to use the Scientology technology. See also my note here (link will open in separate window). HCOB:
‘Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin’: issue-type since Jan 74 reserved for L. Ron Hubbard only, these address technical issues, having to do with auditing procedures and courses. HCO PL (Pol Ltr, P/L or PL):
‘Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letter’: since Jan 74 reserved for L. Ron Hubbard only, these address administrative issues. LRH:
An usual abbreviation for ‘L. Ron Hubbard’. original mimeo print-off: Individually printed issues and distributed from the Mimeo Section of the Scientology organization as opposed to those collected in volumes. These are the issues that you may regard as the real first prints. As a rule these are typed out, mimeographed and distributed as soon as possible after having been compiled or written. They are always legal-sized, 8½ by 14 inches (approx. 21,6 x 35,6 cm). If the issue had 3 or more sides, the pages were collated and stapled together in the upper left corner. More detailed information about this is found here (link will open in a separate window). SH (organization):
‘Saint Hill (organization)’. A Saint Hill organization applies to any organization authorized to deliver the upper level Scientology services. squirrel: Going off into weird practices or altering Scientology. (as per KSW #1: HCO PL 7 Feb 65 “Keeping Scientology Working”). stat, stats:
Short for statistic or statistics.