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Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

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The <strong>Bare</strong>-<strong>Faced</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong> Interviews<br />

Interview with David Mayo,<br />

Palo Alto, California, 28 August 1986<br />

David Mayo spent 25 years in the Church of Scientology, making him one of the most experienced<br />

people to have served in that organisation; most do not stay longer than 3 years. His long<br />

experience as auditor to the most senior Scientologists, including L. Ron Hubbard and his wife,<br />

gave him considerable status (as shown in the 1980 advertisement on the left). Following factional<br />

infighting in the early 1980s, he left (or more accurately was expelled) in 1983 and was<br />

subsequently denigrated as a "squirrel" par excellence. He nonetheless remained loyal to<br />

Hubbard's tenets and started an "Advanced Ability Center", using Hubbardian techniques and<br />

derivatives thereof. The AAC now appears to be defunct.<br />

Mayo was interviewed in 1986 by Russell Miller, the British writer and journalist, for his<br />

unauthorised biography of Hubbard, <strong>Bare</strong>-<strong>Faced</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong>. In the course of the interview, Mayo gave<br />

an intriguing account of his experiences in Scientology, the transcript of which follows below.

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