Well, since I'm the guiltiest party in derailing the Thread, let me help get things back on track with a little anecdote re: Julia and "The 'Good' Old Days"...This is stuff I gleaned from the Data Files and firsthand accounts from others during my tenure on the Apollo.
Beginning in the mid part of '67, the LAO began booming for nearly a year and by mid ’68 the Academy was full to the brim, the Basic Courses routinely overflowing and there was well over 100 Staff with a very active 18-20 Personnel compliment in Div 6.
Not very long after Julia's return to LA from the original Class VIII Course she—as the ED LAO or ED US (I don’t recall which, one or the other)—Convened a Board of Investigation (by the Exec Council LAO) into why the Staff Pay Units were so low at the then "Continental Org".
The results of the BofI were that the Staff Pay Units were low because of all the new Staff Members over the last year or so that had smoked Marijuana and/or had a “Drug History” and had brought in Public and filled the Academy with others “of the same cloth”. Post Stats were of
far less importance and relevance to the BofI than “Drug History” and the fact that some of the males had long hair, many had facial hair and many of the females were “Hippie Like” in “appearance” and “manner”.
The majority of these new Staff Members and Public were College Educated, very intelligent and “Gung Ho”. Some had joined Staff but most went to the Academy, trained and Co-Audited to Class IV, Grade IV and do the “Training Route” to “Clear”.
What was ignored by the BofI (the EC was composed of “Old Timers” from the early 50’s and in their 40’s) was the fact that the flood of Academy Students from the LAO over the last year, trying to get through Customs/Immigration in the face of a UK "Ban" on Foreign Scns coming into England--to do the SHSBC, Power and Clearing Course at St Hill--had led to the recent creation of AOLA and ASHO, and those Orgs were Reging the S**t out of the LOA’s Public, Academy and even Basic Course Students to “Make a Flow” towards their BC/Power/Clearing Course and OT Sections…Even if they hadn’t paid in full for or their next LAO Services.
The BofI concluded with the issuance of an “Urgent Directive” that immediately removed from Post and kicked off Staff around 40% of the LAO’s personnel…Including all but 4 or 5 of the Div 6 Staff. The result was disaster that took over 3 years for LAO to recover from.
Now, I don’t have any personal or secondhand knowledge to support this but, IMHO, something from Julia’s Class VIII Course experience and/or perhaps the intense SO pressure that recently arrived virtually next door (there was also an Otto Roos "Ethics and Se Check Mission" into LAO during this time) drove her and the EC to, overnight, decimate LAO.
What I do have some knowledge about (and have Linked to previously on this Thread) is that some while after all this, El Ron referred to her as "Julia 'SMERSH' Salmon" and a "Bad Hat". What’s fascinating about that to me is that El Ron shortly afterwards made Hisself’s “Tech Breakthrough” re: “The Biochemical Personality” which resulted in numerous SO Crew and Service Org Staff being demonized and/or Fitness Boarded out of the SO or kicked off Staff and numerous of Public being "labeled" and deemed "Unfit" for the SO. :confused2:
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