In the recent FBI Docs release, there are copies of these documents from the “RPF Insider.” I had not seen them before, but they can be found on xenu.net.
There are a dozen of them, and they make for interesting reading. This enormously detailed (and accurate) information about the RPF Prison Camp in Los Angeles documents the abuse dished out to members of the Sea Org as a routine.
He (or she) asks that health and safety inspections be done, describes how all their ID and personal documents are confiscated, locks put on fire doors so they can’t escape, lack of health care and on and on. Back in 2009 the United States Department of Justice was very well aware of the ongoing abuses within scientology. They chose not to prosecute. And to this day, have not acted. Just this series of documents alone should have been enough.
These are the first six installments. I will follow up with the rest in another post.
I see “Uwe Stuckenbrock” listed as being in the RPF—anyone know of a relation between that person and Miscavige’s communicator Laurisse Stuckenbrock?
Laurisse was Uwe’s wife.
Here is a very detailed blog post by Uwe’s brother from 2008:
https://anonforgreatjustice.blogspot.com/2008/12/markus-stuckenbrock-just-exactly-how.html
Around 1983ish, in the elevator at Main Building of the complex, the ASI staff who then lived on the 4th or 5th floor for their berthing (years later I “moved up” to ASI myself and lived caty corner to Miscavige’s berthing room and right next to Starkey’s room on that floor), but I foolishly stepped into the elevator, when Starkey, Wilhere, Lyman, Marty, Tony D’Urso and Miscavige all were already into the elevator. Greg, who I’d been a junior to Greg when Greg was a boss over the OEC/FEBC course room (Int Training Org which Greg CSWed to LRH to make it’s own org, LRH approved and LRH sent over 20 advices to Greg when Greg was the first CO ITO in 1979), tried to hand wave me to not step into the elevator.
It was a tense moment, I thought these top of the totem pole people, Miscavige I remember from CMO CW and he’s now boss of ASI, but he is unusually short, and Greg, Marty, Lyman, Greg and Starkey were all a foot or more taller than Miscavige, who they gave room.
I had to uncomfortably step carefully to avoid towering over Miscavige in the elvator.
Anyways, don’t get into an elevator with him, I now understood why.
Those directly around him had to play subservient and worried sweaty foreheads, all the time, that he’d erupt on them.
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At ASI when I got there, ten years later (May 1992 I became ASI staff long after Miscavige had left to head fully RTC which I think he left in 1989 or 1988 to be full time boss of RTC, taking Lyman, Greg, Marty all the top ASI people with him to RTC, leaving only Starkey and Maria and the nuts and bolts lower ASI staffers at ASI) , Markus Wuetrich tried to give me an example of how Miscavige was intolerant about things not done to his liking.
Markus told about how Miscavige ripped out some computer gear from the then upper floor conference room, which he didn’t like. He just ripped it out of its socket and threw the monitor across the room.
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Years later my twin on the RPF told me about being throttled one on one by Miscavige, and my twin could have pulverized Miscavige had he wanted to fight back though. So people had to really reel in any counter revenge physically if Miscavige did come at you.
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The Jesse Prince episode to me, epitomizes why Miscavige was so wrong to be such a violent leader. What can happen is your underlings just might not reel in their counter revenge on you if you go violent on them, and it could have movement history changing consequences. Luckily Jesse thought better of shooting Miscavige and the others, when Jesse was holding the sub machine gun given to him as a present from Hubbard himself.
There’s really need to cover the violence chapter in Scientology, and all I learned about the details, it’s all on Hubbard, and really because Scientology is a joke and not a religion, but a “show” (as in “keep the show on the road” type of faux religion pseudo-therapy/exorcism con, worse than the Chiropractic businesses), and Hubbard is the one who bolsters this violent internal edge that exists and will always exist in the rules Hubbard left for staffs.
“Knowledge Reports” policy has the “black eye” justified violence to be issued to other staff who are so bad and “sticking pins” in their fellow staff. LRH says in “Knowledge Reports” that other staff who witness a bad staffer “sticking pins” in other staff are “in ethics” if they give that bad staff a “black eye.”
Scientology’s irreligious violence is baked into it by Hubbard.
Miscavige is the one extreme leader who prominently saw fit to execute that Hubbard orthodox irreligious option.
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The Hubbard advice to CO CMO Int/Spcl Pjt Ops (Yager/Miscavige) to “….spit on WDC SMI for me….” is the worst, it floored me when I learned Miscavige literally did spit on John Aczel who was then WDC SMI, and on Roger Barnes also, Roger was CO SMI.
The violence is LRH.
Miscavige is low enough humanly to execute it.
Miscavige in the 2000s got alot of others to play along and execute that “Knowledge Reports” violence edge too though.
It’s a disgraceful irreligious “orthodox” LRH option that is reason alone to never be in Scientology, period.
LRH has left that stain in the movement for future fanatics like Miscavige to employ it in “Keeping Scientology Working” style.
It’s the worst predicament of all future members.
Wow, I knew a number of those people. Funny how some of them eventually got out and became big shills for the cult, like Ken Hoden. I remember him from back when I was in Portland in the early 80’s. Then there’s David Howson, who went on to make his own “business consulting” service based on clam management “tech.”
I noticed a lot of French names in the list. I wonder what was up with that?
On the bright side, if not for the insanity of Miscavige, hundreds of “true believers” never would have found their way out of the cult. If everyone has a purpose in this world, maybe that is his. I have a lot of friends at Flag and knowing Miscavige is now living there gives me more hope that they will find their way out.
NOTHING TRUMPETS AND CELEBRATES AND GUARANTEES ETERNAL SPIRITUAL FREEDOM LIKE SCIENTOLOGY…
Thuggery, stalking, libel, harassment, forced abortions, murder, bank fraud, credit card fraud, human trafficking, child abuse and molestation, slave labor, torture…
Ah, The Glory! The Perfection! The Uninterrupted Ferocity and Tone 40 Venality of Decades of Organized, International Criminal Activity!
This makes me think Miscavige is some kind of devil.
I’m almost surprised that after all these years no one has “snapped” at his abuses, and thrown a pie in his face. I guess that’s why he pays for top-class security.
I would NEVER go on the RPF. Once some idiot in Dept. 3 s threatened with it and I said try it and I leave. That stopped it in its tracks as there was never enough S.O. members because recruitment of public was almost impossible.. Unbelievable that people put up with it
I’m not sure if RPF Insider ever was outed. I was in phone contact with him as he posted his series back when it posted.
Telling the details in his postings is excellent. The framework, him being not actually in the RPF, but was out, and was posting like he was in it, just to goad Miscavige, was his call. (Theoretically he could have been, example, before I was gone gone, routed out, I was going to the LA Public Library, and going onto the internet, I never thought of posting though, but I could have, had my mind been straight enough, so technically what he did, I could have done, I just didn’t have that mindset. But I was going to the LA Public Library when I was still technicaly RPF’s RPF in PAC.)
What he says is great news, he just wasn’t in the RPF when he was posting these, but he’d been there recently.
I’m listed as being on the RPF, I’d left a couple years prior, I left March 29, 2003, and the RPF Insider posts were a couple years later.
Anyways, the points and details are all raw good info.
Thanks Chuck
Updates, Uwe apparently passed on after this. His wife Laurisse, rumored to be Dave’s official doxie now that his wife is in exile, continues on in the inner circles of RTC.
I knew Uwe well, breaks my heart to hear of his last days in misery. Besides being in security, he worked for years in construction on the electrical team. Really worked his heart out for the dream. Turned out to be a nightmare, surprise surprise.
Mike Eves was a video tech on lots of international events through the 80s and 90s. The famous story about Mike is he was working near a tape machine and his headphone cord touched the jog/search wheel. Immediately stopping the video that was playing while Dave was on stage speaking. Wouldn’t have been too bad if he had noticed and immediately hit play, but no. Busted.
His son Paul did lots of work on the sound lines before he got busted. If you ever go to the film lab at the Int Base you will hear his voice saying “CHANGE THE MAT” at the entrance. They have sticky mats to clean the dust off the soles of your shoes, and Dave noticed one day that nobody would change them for days. Easy solution, record a message of Paul Eves saying “CHANGE THE MAT” that plays over and over.
Lots of other famous names on that list, including the Hodens. Mariette Lindstein, now an author and critic. Stefan Castle. Practically a who’s who of the later critical community.
In my opinion Miscavige is a very sick and evil individual and could be compared with a serial killer. The serial killer starts off hurting small animals and then progresses to bigger crimes to satisfy their desire and drive to harm. The person may get more covert on how they carry out their insanity but they will progress until stopped. I hope the FBI eventually does more than just track and build up files on Miscavige.
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1975/1975.4
They just may be covered. If they are paid for any work this says they are covered.
Hmmmm.
I was in the Flag RPF in late 2004, early 2005 before I left. It was a parallel universe to what the RPF Insider is describing in the PAC RPF. I was also in the PAC RPF in 1984/85. The RPF slept on the floor of the parking garage or on the floor of the tunnels under Big Blue. Rats Alley has existed and been used to punish Sea Org members since the complex was purchased in the mid 70’s. The galley is right above Rats Alley and the food and water is always seeping down there so the horror is never ending. The ceiling is so low that one needs to lay down in most of it to bail out the slimy water and “white glove it”. There is no shortage of rats in Big Blue. I remember after being up for days working in the RPF I was allowed to go get a few hours sleep down in the tunnels. I ate a peanut butter sandwich and laid down on the floor to sleep. I guess the rats could smell the peanut butter as one latched onto my lip as I slept. I was so exhausted that I just killed the rat with my bare feet and immediately laid back down and fell asleep. My lip got infected but of course the idea of medical care in the RPF didn’t exist. One has to experience the RPF to fully understand it. The worst part (by far) is the mental aspect and the hopelessness these people feel to ever see their spouse, children and friends again. It is common for an RPFer to be on the program for 8, 10, 12 years due to squirrel arbitraries put in place by Miscavige. That is what causes the crying, breakdowns and even suicide attempts in the RPF. It is a complete mind f#@%.
Oh my goodness. Words escape me, but the overwhelming disgust for Scientology sits heavy.
The problem with ANY aspect of the CofS and its non-optimal handling of staff pay, welfare, working or domestic conditions is simply that if an inspection team were to come in and ask anyone they were permitted to encounter (take note of that) they would be told that everything is totally fine, that they are very happy where they are, have no complaints.
this is not confined to the CofS it is characteristic of all cults and controlling organizations.
As a hard example of how long and how far this control goes
how many people on here have filed complaints against the cofS for human rights violations, criminal violations, violations of employment law and all the other possible official organizations? Even after leaving? Even now, years after leaving?
I am ashamed to say – I did not.
I remember reading the RPF Insider letters some years ago. Does anyone know who they are? Assuming they’re out and safe now!
Did they ever write the book that was mentioned?
I just hope to god they’re not still in…………….
It’s shocking that didn’t at least result in an ICE/DHS raid over passport mishandling and other immigration violations. i can understand why the FBI determined it would be so hard to make a criminal case stick if victims and witnesses wouldn’t cooperate (the 2008 raid of the polygamist compound in Texas turned into a debacle over such issues), but the confiscation of passports is outright illegal and can’t be consented to, plus it’s a hallmark of human trafficking.
And if the government is concerned that it can’t pull off surprise raids due to its agencies being too compromised, and the CoS being too well drilled in evading government action, then that’s a problem itself that ought to be addressed.
May I ask a simple question? Would the people in the SO be considered employees of the church? I ask for this reason:
If they are, the best bet for action may be with CAL OSHA. The conditions described here are very dangerous and could be a violation of OSHA Standards. Not to mention the Life Safety Code. They could be a much better avenue of action that Law Enforcement. Specially in today’s times. CAL OSHA is the most strict OSHA in this country and can bring havoc to the church if they are out of compliance with Standards. By the way, that is OSHA Standards not church standards. They could care less about church standards.
Could be worth a try.
No, all scientology “staff” are religious “volunteers” — it circumvents all sorts of regulations. Though not health and safety codes.
Thanks for your reply. I do wonder if that is the church definition or has it been tried in court. OSHA may see it differently. I work where I work voluntarily as in I can leave if I want to or go somewhere else if I want to but am paid for what I do so am an employee.
Sounds like these folks can not go somewhere else if they want to so…
Life Safety Code (doors locked so no one can escape in an emergency) don’t depend on that though. That is a serious safety violation. Think chicken plant fore in North Carolina.
Mike, thanks for sharing this.. it is so damning, I don’t even know where to begin. So full of human rights abuses, much less human trafficking, not to mention abuse to minors. When you can, could you speak to when the change from employee to religious volunteer took place and how it was rolled out? After the 5013C status I’ve heard varying stories about being made to sign new contracts, and religious volunteer election/designation release forms, some have said they resisted or were never asked, but their signatures were forged. As far as pay, are their stipends reported as earnings, so they pay into programs like social security etc? Do they achieve any future benefits to retire on when the time comes? Are there any provisions made for elderly retiring SO members? Do they provide medical insurance for health care or injuries?
Mike, I just now googled ‘Scientology Sea Org Contract’ and saw two examples. One was signed in 1975 and referred to employment. The other was much more recent and referred to religious commitment. Is this sneaky maneuvering by Miscavige to get around OSHA laws that safetyguy just alluded to?
In Australia, volunteers are considered “workers” and as such are still covered under the work health and safety Acts and Regulations so if anything similar occurred in Australia they would be covered. Just not familiar with US OH&S.
Something else to consider, if an Australian was working in a CoS in Australia and was sent overseas to “work” they could potentially fall under Australian laws. I have seen official tax payment forms of persons paid by CoS whilst working in US but still notes their address as back in Australia.
Multiple crimes are being committed. A real law enforcement agency would do something.
I mean – REALLY! This is beyond frustrating. Is it because they effed up so badly with the Branch Dividians, Ruby Ridge and the optics of taking away screaming and crying children of Warren Jeffs FLDS community? Or maybe because there just isn’t enough outrage.
Who gives a damn about a few suffering humans who stupidly got mixed up in a dying “religion.”
One area which has been neglected so far is the Capital Hill , those legislators should be approached for misused of 2nd amendment.
Fot that it has to be raised at public forums.
Leah and Mike did huge efforts and bring it to mainstream media.
FBI can’t do any thing unless majority of victims come forward with complaint and there is demand from Capital Hill as well.
So raised the issue at public forums; human rights advocate ; your Congress and Senate representatives ; and keep FBI informed.
https://www.fbi.gov/tips
Remember your rights as citizen of a free nation are Supreme to any internal regulations of a group or organization.
This is very sad and I’m very sorry you had to go through the RPF and the hole. I got out of the SO shortly after I cognited there would never be a pension and my only assured spot would be the RPF eventually. Even the highest producing SO members end there so no way I was going to go down that hole.
Yes, but don’t you know? The RPF is no more (according to david miscavige)
Hope nobody believes him.
Probably got rid of it when they got rid of the Fair Game policy. 😉
Yes, just like Fair Game doesn’t exist anymore either.
The current language is, “The RPF does not exist”.
Oh, GAWD, the RPF got WORSE! after I was tossed out as incapable of even being a “good” RPF inmate. I wouldn’t have believed it if someone just stated it had. Ron’s original incarnation would have made the communist Chinese proud.