Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

Saint Hill but he contained it; on the ship he did not bother to contain it. He was becoming an
autocrat.
Then I was made LRH Comm Apollo. One of my responsibilities was the engine room - if ever
there was a strange noise, the old man always wanted to know what it was. Then I was
Commodores Staff 7 (CS7). In February '69 he and Mary Sue and the personal staff spent a month
ashore at Agadir in a hotel and during that time he envisaged another org, his personal office and
made me his personal communicator in charge of the personal office. From March '69 he went
back on the ship and from then until August '78 I was his personal communicator.
When I arrived I had to live in a dorm, smelly and badly ventilated. The crew ate in the aft lounge and
collected food from the galley. Sometimes they ate in the sun on the aft poop deck.
Relations with the people of Corfu? The ordinary people, chandlers, suppliers and visitors were all
very cordial. With officials in the city and the harbour officials, it was not so. We were kicked out. We
were given 24 hours to get out by the harbour master.
When I arrived they were throwing people overboard. It was a regular routine. It was a ceremony.
The crew would be mustered on the after well deck in morning to begin the day's work. Anyone to
be thrown overboard would be called to the front and chaplain would be called to make some
incantation about water washing away sins, and you would be picked up and tossed over. Two
elderly people were thrown over and an old lady who could not swim had to put on a life jacket. It
started with auditors being sent to ship for the class 8 course - two from every org - and if they
goofed they were thrown over. We all had a tremendous belief that what he was doing would
benefit the world. He was the leader, knew best and was mostly right. It was important he should
do work well. He was also very good at scare tactics - he would say because the world is so insane
it's more than likely to blow itself up with nuclear bombs. It's almost certain to do so unless we act
first. He pushed that very, very hard. Another tactic was unless we do somethng about it the world is
going to go into some kind of economic disaster - we have to make sure it doesn't. In '79 or '80 he
issued a bulletin to do with the purification rundown and it started off saying that World War III is just
around the corner.
From Corfu, we went to Cagliari in Sicily. We needed fuel and LRH decided that someone should
go ashore to get fuel. When you arrived in the port you had to get health and customs clearance.
We sat in the bay anchored and on LRH's orders a number of us, including me, got into a boat and
went to a refinery to order oil. We got no oil and someone from the agent's office found we were on
shore and raced out to where we were and sent us back to the ship. Next day we were cleared into
port and got our oil. In those days there was a tremendous desire to meet the challenge and make
it go right. If you were told to do something you had to make it go right. He wanted to go to Melila [a
Spanish enclave in Morocco] but they wouldn't let us go in. We saw two Russian submarines
making straight for Melila and he decided Melila didn't want us to know they had Russian subs and,
and that's why they wouldn't let us in. So we went to Tangiers, then Sufi and Agadir and Dakar and
Cape Verde.
First we went ashore in Agadir in February '69 for a month. The ship had to go to Lisbon for a refit in
a dry dock. We stayed in a Moroccan hotel with an open courtyard and rooms off. There was one lav
in the corner, just a hole in the ground. He had a villa somewhere else, so he wasn't in the hotel.
We were at sea and moving around so we would not be caught up with by journalists or
governments or the WFMH or MAMH. He felt all these people were after him. Felt that if they found
him they would cause him such trouble he would be unable to continue his work and Scientology