Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

We bought the Avon River in Hull and she was fitted out and ferried out to Las Palmas in '67.
Through '67, a number of staff at Saint Hill who had volunteered to join were taken away and no one
knew where. In the summer of '67 he sent down a long memo to Saint Hill requiring the Church to
buy Saint Hill Manor and his name. We had to send him £75,000 and out of that money he bought
the Royal Scotsman. That began the build-up of the Sea Org.
He mocked it up [envisaged it] as an org superior and separate from the rest of the org. I thought he
had created an undesirable schism. He always wanted one org to supervise another.
In '65 he started writing up his hat [job] and was very preoccupied with who should succeed him
and ensure that the org continued in the way he wanted it to continue. Out of that arose research for
power processing. The Sea Org was an effort to create a body that would take over from him. It had
to be at sea because Scientology was unpopular in England, it was getting very bad PR and his
permit to reside in the UK was revoked. When his permit was revoked he immediately considered it
possible that Scientology would be asked to leave also. He was very worried about the unit
administering the clearing course and he was working on how to save the clearing course unit. He
thought he could put them all at sea in safety.
The first time he introduced [ethics] conditions was in early '65 - danger, emergency and normal. I
got assigned emergency because I served him salmon that was not quite fresh. I was quite
shocked. I had to go through a formula, write it up and submit it with an application for an upgrade.
Rag-wearing was initiated in the Sea Org and was initiated at Saint Hill in late '67. After emergency
and danger, there were new ones under it: non-existence, liability, doubt, enemy, treason and
confusion.
In July '68 I was made HCO Exec Sec WW. Anyone assigned a condition of treason has the right to
ask for a committee of evidence. The penalty was to do 72 hours of labour without ceasing - he
thought there were tremendous benefits.
"Green on white" was mimeo policy letters - very important statements of policy which had to be
followed to the letter. "Red on white" were technical bulletins on how to run various processes;
"blue on white" were direct commands from LRH.
In the lower conditions you were not allowed to go home, you had to stay on the property.
I arrived at the ship [Royal Scotman/Apollo] in Corfu in November '68. She was not very clean, had a
black painted hull and a white superstructure, but was not in a bad condition. In March '68 I saw her
in Valencia when I went out to do the 0T3 levels. The regime was strange. Almost as soon as I got
on board I had to make up packs of documents that were sent to various authorities around the
world to prove that WFMH [World Federation of Mental Health] and the NAMH [National Association
of Mental Health] were a lot of crooks. I spent two days doing that. Then I did deck work, scrubbing
the decks and cleaning the ballast tanks at the bottom of the ship. They had to be cement washed
to hold fresh water.
The food was horrible. Then in filthy dungarees I was called into the office of Diana Hubbard and
told I had to do a special project for her - indexing policy letters. When I was working on this project I
was on deck immediately below his office and just by the stairs from Deck A up to the Promenade
deck. His office was directly facing the stairs and the glass door was usually open and at least
once a day he would be roaring - lose his temper so much he would be bellowing with rage. This
was unusual for me - I had never seen him like that before. I had seen him shake with anger at