Jane Layton, Flag Banking Officer (FBO) at DC Org, instigated Ty's deke based on the "Ridge on the Bridge" eval. Certain missions were accused of holding back their Clears from moving on to higher classed orgs that were supposed to service them. Missions were not to audit people after they went clear. Finance missions were sent to these missions at a fee (of course) and, in the case of DC Org, fined $20,000 for violations; either auditing clears or not sending them up the line. This bankrupted the DC Mission.
The G.O. (Jane's hubby worked for them) had their eye on Mass Ave Mission too. When I took over, it mostly had a "clinic" atmosphere with numerous well-heeled business professionals on lines. The E.D. before Ty (Mark Jones) had cobbled together a course for these professionals that was part PR series, part management course and some Data Series policy letters thrown in. Around the time Ty was deked, this course was declared off policy for using individual Data Series PLs, and denied Issue Authority by Authority and Verifications (AVC).
Ty seemed like a decent person to me, but heavily brainwashed. I once saw him totally deny the OT III story in a local TV interview and he was very convincing. As I recall, he was a Class 8/OT 7 at the time.
As a footnote -- I was recruited by a G.O. person to run the mission and he showed me a Dead Agent pack on Ty with all of his crimes described. Real nice people.