Re: Bitty
I thought it might be a good idea to give a little more info on my issue with Bitty Miscavige. I know that it’s great that Jenna wrote that book and I know it seems mean spirited to dump on her mom.
Starting around the late 80s, there was a huge push to get all the orgs renovated. It started with the orgs at Int (like Gold) then the HGB (the management building in LA), then Flag, then the SO bases. Following that was the Class V Orgs (the “ideal” orgs).
I have to say I don’t have all of the information as to how it went with all the renos projects. I was staff in PAC; so that one I know about. I heard stuff about Flag, and Gold, CC and the HGB. I have pieces of what occurred, but not everything.
To get these renos done in the ridiculous time frames they were given to be done, you had to have a huge team of people to do them. And to keep the cost down, they needed to be a team of people who got paid essentially nothing. Long story short: the first stage of any Scientology renos evolution was to put a big RPF there.
So, how it would go is this. And, like I said, I’m most familiar with PAC, but from what I got, they all pretty much went this way.
It would start with a big “ethics mission”. A CMO/RTC mission would fire into the area. The staff would be ordered to a mandatory muster and told they were all out ethics scum. Staff would be meter checked, sec checked, put under a microscope. Usually there would be some kind of “if the stats aren’t rocketed one person a day would be assigned to the RPF” or some such thing. One way or another, the RPF would swell to a number in the hundreds.
Then the renos would kick in, now that you had all this slave labor to do it.
This wasn’t all that went on, but this was really the core. There were declares and marriages busted up and kids sent away. There were shortened meals and no sleep and white gloves and all kinds of other stuff. But, in the end, it all came down to redoing the buildings.
It happened at Gold. It happened at the HGB. It happened at Flag; more than once. It definitely happened in PAC.
I can’t say for sure that Bitty ran every one of these ethics-through-renos evolutions, but she ran a lot of them. She ran the one at Flag in the early 90s. She ran the Freewinds renos. I blew PAC in 1996, during the middle of the “heavy ethics” part, when long time staff and tech people were getting blown apart right and left. She was running that one.
A lot of staff got ripped apart and destroyed by this. And, yeah, she took her orders from DM. And, yeah, ultimately she may have just been a pawn.
But she was up there, and she was giving the orders, and my friends were getting nuked.
So, sorry I’m such a bitch about this.
But I’ll never forget what it was like. What she was ordering to be done.
And the effects it created.
Those memories will never leave me.
Another twist to Sea Org blame and waste cycles, is that all the while these fads of finding the "who" for every down turn, resulted in many times good staff incorrectly landed and cooling their jets in sidepocket positions.
So scooping them up, was a necessary job, of the CMO thinking types, those that had to go out from Hubbard, pushing the execs to do the appropriate staff checkerboarding, to man up the next big renovations, etc.
I'm sure Bitty witnessed it, for years, and was part of it, but she did not call the main decision to do it, without Miscavige's blessings, not that she isn't aware she was doing a pattern which she had seen Hubbard do on the Apollo and likely for years, during the 60s also, when LRH charmed and cajoled top staff to go to some farflung "org" to salvage it.
Hubbard's patterns of management were probably not dissimilar to other big groups, which checkerboarded people around.
And this checkerboarding is totally part and parcel of the Sea Org early history, firing people on missions.
The renos need for dedicated workers, pulled from the busted dedicated Sea Org overworked personnel pool. I myself thought that it would only come to a final end, when all the older timer dedicated Sea Org people were ripped off and the renos projects were all finally done.
The RPFing to provide personnel pools for renos, is for sure one of the whole big cycles of the Sea Org.
Neil Safarti summarized the cycle hilariously on EXSO chat site, many years ago.
That only DM rose to the position of the sole person who it was "Black PR" to criticize, shows at least for these first 60 years, that the Hubbard administrative model isn't working. It's a model where only the top guy of the pyramid isn't fair game for the RPF.
I asked Janis Grady once if she ever, in her years of being Messenger on Duty for LRH, if she ever saw Hubbard apply lower conditions formulas to himself, or did he do weekly condition writeups, etc. She said no.
I'm sure Bitty would apologize, someday, for her part in the Hubbard driven cycles of insane personnel pools for the renos and Freewinds manning, etc.
LadyBird, I wish you'd write a book! And you Lulu Belle. Or just compile your postings, or someone compile and index everyone's postings, alphabetically, and by subject and chapter of Scientology history.