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Project Camelot interviews Dane Tops
Los Angeles, September 2009
Some of you may have read the statement on our Questions page that I (Bill) have experience in an offshoot of the original Church of Scientology (called Ron's Org: I was never in the 'Church', and am proud to be included on the famous Church of Scientology Enemies list).
But I was utterly surprised when a legendary whistleblower in the Church of Scientology introduced himself to me and told me that what he had to share had something to do with Black Operations. Kerry, who has never studied Scientology, agreed that this whistleblower was very much in the ranks of regular Camelot whistleblowers. We decided to do an interview.
So: we bring you Dane Tops - an almost mythical figure in Scientology history who has never before come forward to tell his story - which is extraordinary even by Camelot standards: all about how the Church of Scientology was taken over in the early 1980s, and the courageous and astonishing way in which Dane blew the whistle, which resulted in tens of thousands of members realizing what was going on - and leaving. Put the coffee on (a lot of it!), read carefully, and Enjoy.
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The unusual name ‘Dane Tops’ is a pseudonym, but it is not of Project Camelot’s making. This fascinating story dates back to 1982, when a senior member in the Church of Scientology blew the whistle on its activities… which over the previous several years had become more and more totalitarian and repressive: a far cry from how its founder, L Ron Hubbard, had intended things to be - the techniques as they were once applied being described to us by Dane as a vast, readily accessible array of powerful techniques for liberating and empowering the human spirit so that all mankind could benefit.
The now-famous “Dane Tops letter” or “Dane Tops debrief” describes how the Church of Scientology, over a number of years, was being taken over by a mysterious force, and how Hubbard was deliberately marginalized maligned and removed from direct control of his organization – while instructions apparently originating by him were fabricated with false signatures: never written by Hubbard at all.
Aware there was a hidden party taking Scientology down, Dane Tops blew the whistle: he typed out an inspired, detailed, 9500 word presentation – and, long before the days of e-mail, copied it and posted it to 20 people. To his surprise, a chain reaction ensued and the ‘letter’ was copied, recopied, and recopied again. In today’s terminology, it ‘went viral’.
During the next year it reached and changed the lives of tens of thousands of loyal Scientologists who - until they read Dane Tops’ analysis - could not understand what was happening to Hubbard and to the organization to which they had dedicated their lives.
The ‘letter’ catalyzed a mass exodus of thousands of highly trained, talented and loyal Scientologists: in Dane Tops' own words, these people were the very finest: the best of the best. They left ‘the Church’, many of them starting their own groups to continue to deliver the original techniques which Hubbard had spent 30 years developing.
http://projectcamelot.org/dane_tops.html
Los Angeles, September 2009
Some of you may have read the statement on our Questions page that I (Bill) have experience in an offshoot of the original Church of Scientology (called Ron's Org: I was never in the 'Church', and am proud to be included on the famous Church of Scientology Enemies list).
But I was utterly surprised when a legendary whistleblower in the Church of Scientology introduced himself to me and told me that what he had to share had something to do with Black Operations. Kerry, who has never studied Scientology, agreed that this whistleblower was very much in the ranks of regular Camelot whistleblowers. We decided to do an interview.
So: we bring you Dane Tops - an almost mythical figure in Scientology history who has never before come forward to tell his story - which is extraordinary even by Camelot standards: all about how the Church of Scientology was taken over in the early 1980s, and the courageous and astonishing way in which Dane blew the whistle, which resulted in tens of thousands of members realizing what was going on - and leaving. Put the coffee on (a lot of it!), read carefully, and Enjoy.
_____________
The unusual name ‘Dane Tops’ is a pseudonym, but it is not of Project Camelot’s making. This fascinating story dates back to 1982, when a senior member in the Church of Scientology blew the whistle on its activities… which over the previous several years had become more and more totalitarian and repressive: a far cry from how its founder, L Ron Hubbard, had intended things to be - the techniques as they were once applied being described to us by Dane as a vast, readily accessible array of powerful techniques for liberating and empowering the human spirit so that all mankind could benefit.
The now-famous “Dane Tops letter” or “Dane Tops debrief” describes how the Church of Scientology, over a number of years, was being taken over by a mysterious force, and how Hubbard was deliberately marginalized maligned and removed from direct control of his organization – while instructions apparently originating by him were fabricated with false signatures: never written by Hubbard at all.
Aware there was a hidden party taking Scientology down, Dane Tops blew the whistle: he typed out an inspired, detailed, 9500 word presentation – and, long before the days of e-mail, copied it and posted it to 20 people. To his surprise, a chain reaction ensued and the ‘letter’ was copied, recopied, and recopied again. In today’s terminology, it ‘went viral’.
During the next year it reached and changed the lives of tens of thousands of loyal Scientologists who - until they read Dane Tops’ analysis - could not understand what was happening to Hubbard and to the organization to which they had dedicated their lives.
The ‘letter’ catalyzed a mass exodus of thousands of highly trained, talented and loyal Scientologists: in Dane Tops' own words, these people were the very finest: the best of the best. They left ‘the Church’, many of them starting their own groups to continue to deliver the original techniques which Hubbard had spent 30 years developing.
http://projectcamelot.org/dane_tops.html
