Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
Cuitolahuac certainly seems to believe that CoS was taken over at some point by the US government. I know that when Ingo Swan and Hal Puthoff were looking into the subject of remote viewing, seeing from a distance without the use of the body's eyes, the US Federal Government got very interested. The military perceived remote viewing as a national security risk and well they should have. It made sense that they hired agents such as Swan and Puthoff to infiltrate CoS and check out what was going on.
For her part, Yvonne Jentzsch was talking often about Swan and Puthoff to CCLA staff, treating them as celebrities. I don't believe that the thought that the idea that they might be government spies, sent in by the US government to check out remote viewing, ever occurred to her. In some ways she was brilliant but in others she didn't have a particularly sharp mind. I believe that she knew this and so she attempted to place people more knowledgeable than her in various subjects, which she hated and was not good at.
You take Treasury Division. Yvonne had no interest whatsoever in Treasury, the division which handled accounting and the flow of money through the Org. She know only the very basics of Treasury and found the subject as a whole boring beyond belief. She would find someone such as Robert Brown, my predecessor, who knew and understood treasury, and keep him oround to run that area of the Org. She knew someone knowledgeable had to run Treasury but it had to be someone who was loyal to her.
Brown needed to take a leave, or perhaps he was just going to quit staff. Yvonne needed someone to take over for him and I volunteered. At the time, I was 31 years old and fresh from the WOG world, working in aerospace and with B.S. degree from a University. Yvonne jumped at my offer to replace Brownie. At the time, I had no tact nor any cunning or street smarts. . I just went walking around, always telling the truth as I saw it and being totally open with people. I'm still basically the same now except, I have been forced to withhold many things simply in order to survive. My propensity to always tell the truth and blab it to anyone who will listen has always harmed me in any area which I entered.
Compulsive truth telling. That might be an okay thing in a spiritual paradise but in this world, it is a path to self destruction. As a result, the compulsive urge to spurt out the truth, as I know it, which is not always right or accurate, seems to be a compulsion, in the psychiatric sense of the word, which I have.
I think that Yvonne might have picked up on this trait, which I still have but had back then with much more force and less restraint. Also, she found me a bit dull and too conservative for her. When the big mouthed happy go lucky 18 year old Kitty showed up at CCLA in 1972 fresh out of high school and expressed to Yvonne the desire to be Treasury Secretary, Yvonne jumped at it. In staid of a dull conservative type of guy who blabbed too much, she could have an exuberant and loud mouthed female running Treasury. I already had been promised the post so she had to figure out some way to replace me with Kitty. Thus, I now believe that she set up the "toilet paper incident" on purpose. The whole thing was a ruse designed by her to put me in a bad enough light to justify getting rid of me in favor of Kitty. Yvonne still was going to keep me in Treasury because I somebody there had to know the subject but I was going to be Kitty's junior. I would see to it that the work got done while Kitty would attend theExec meetings. The whole "toilet paper incident" was a set up enable Yvonne to be able to appoint the 18 year old completely unhatted Kitty as my senior. To Kitty's credit, she was smart and quickly got hatted, partially under my tutelage.
Finally, in ending this post, I want to get back to the manner in which I left the Apollo. Today, it is hard for anyone to escape a S.O. base and before they go, they are given a huge battery of sec checking. With me, once I created a PR flap by going to the US Embassy in Madeira and telling the agent there that I had lost my passport, the powers that be on the Apollo wanted me gone ASAP. Two days after I returned to the ship, I got my Committee of Evidence and the very next day at noon, my plane was leaving Lisbon for Los Angeles. I got no sec checking whatsoever. I was told that I was either insane or incompetent by a 19 year old Sea Org Member and was sent on my way. I'm lucky I got out so easily but was extremely unfortunate to get our without getting any kind of debrief. All of the early data on this thread was seething inside of my mind and the S.O. just forced me out instantly with no handling at all. That is truly amazing!! I spent 36 years walking around with all this data inside of me. Only when I got to ESMB was I FINALLY able to debrief and get some peace.
The S.O., presents the claim that they are and were always some sort of super conpetent group set up as the elite controlling body of CoS. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's true that some very fine and competent people had been recruited for the S.O. and were working there but the S.O. was led by one man and was a dictatorship as was the entire CoS. . He was no saint, and not even really all that smart as later events have proved. He had smarts,main street smarts, and a touch of academic smarts but his main claim to fame was his personal charisma and a lot of personal desire to stamp his name permanently into the history books as the greatest of men. He was nobody's fool and had some brilliance to be sure.
However, it was misguided brilliance and charisma, put to use only further his own wealth and fame. He worked hard to achieve those goals and got part of the way there, just based on his shear determination. In the end, he failed and fell very short of his goals. He knew he had failed so he got ill and quietly bowed out, not even choosing a successor. That shows what he really thought about Scientologists. He was not a Scientologist himself and was mainly using the subject to further his desire for wealth and fame. When it became obvious to him that he was not going to achieve his goals despite all the work he had put in, he quietly ended his life, not even appointing a successor or providing for his wife and children. The bottom line is that he did not care about us, he was only interested in perpetuating his name in history.
Lakey
