OK, I have been watching this thread and I just want to share my experience with this.

In 1987 I was in the SO at Flag. During that time there was an Int program to get Dianetics back on the best seller list. It was a demonstration of OT powers and the greatness of book one etc., etc.

So, there was a book store warehouse on Fort Harrison Ave. at that time, across from the WB building, next to mimeo which I believe is still there.

Anyway, one day I was in the warehouse for some reason or the other (checking on something someone had messed up) and all over the place there were Dianetics books -- they were stacked on wooden pallets about twice my height (I am 5'8) shrink wrapped. They were in the isles and more were coming in and the guy in charge was freaking out.....where were they going to keep all these books?!

Being a posted executive and working in the office of the Commanding Officer FLB at the time, I knew about this Int program. I asked the guy if these books were going to be reshipped. No. They were to be stored and there was no place to put them.

I asked the CO about this. She very briefly explained to me where these books came from.

These were the books that had been bought and counted to get Dianetics back on the best seller list. These were the Dianetics books that had been "sold." Dianetics did make it back onto the best seller list at that time.

Very few Scientologists knew that the church was buying the books and warehousing them in vast numbers.

That is a real demonstration of how Scientology OT powers work. Do whatever it takes. The goal was to get Dianetics on the best sellers list.

They did it. OT.

Teresa Summers

When I was posted in the computer room at AOLA in 1983, I submitted a "CSW"

(request for consideration of my solution to a problem) asking that Patricia be allowed to work on the backlog of central files names to be entered into the computer.

My request was approved, and Patricia worked alongside of me in the computer room. During the days she worked there we had conversations pertaining to all kinds of things. One of the interesting things I learned was that she had been doing work for the Guardian Office as a "GAS member". "GAS" means Guardian Activities Scientologist", and "GAS members" did special projects for the Guardian Office. Patricia told me how she would be disbursed funds by the Guardian Office so she could help get _Dianetics: The Modern Science [sic] of Mental Health_ [sic] onto the best seller lists.

She explained that since best seller lists are determined by sampling sales of books at key book outlets, she helped to get _Dianetics_ on the best seller list by purchasing multiple copies at select stores including B.

Dalton and Waldenbooks.

I attest this is true.

Warrior - Sunshine disinfects
See http://warrior.offlines.org/

A series of attack articles had been appearing in the LA Times, accusing Scientologists of this buy back scheme to get Dianetics on to the best sellers list. The LA Times said that Scientologists would gather cash from staff members, and money from accounts specifically set up for this, and go out to selected book stores in LA and elsewhere and buy up arm loads of Dianetics books, and also Mission Earth series books in order to show the stats necessary to get Hubbard on to the NY Times, Waldenbooks, and other bestseller's lists.

At the time, the huge successes we gained from taking over the best seller's lists were promoted heavily in all Int Management events. For months and months, Scientologists all over the world were getting the message that we were expanding and that there was an explosion of popularity for Dianetics and for Hubbard - even bigger than the original explosion in the 1950's! NY Times Best seller lists were shown at these events with Dianetics and other Mission Earth releases consistently in the #1 or #2 spots.

I had been arguing with people about this for years by then, defending my Church against the SPs who were just trying to drag us down, and who couldn't confront the huge popularity of Dianetics and of Hubbard's Mission Earth Series. I knew that it terrified them to think that Scientology was expanding and that man would go free as we progessed on our goal to Clear The Planet. They would do anything to try to stop us. The accusations of this buy-back scheme were just another ploy by the SPs to discredit us.

I asked this 17 year old if he had witnessed anything like the buy-back operation described in the LA Times. He looked rather sad. He admitted that he had participated in this scheme. He described it in detail to me, and it was identical to the accusations in the LA Times. He told me that he had actually quit Bridge because he began to feel disgusted by what he was ordered to do.

I couldn't believe it. Obviously squirrels had infiltrated Bridge! I asked him if he had taken responsibility for this and written it up to the correct terminals.

He just kind of looked at me, half-smiled and half-sneered. He took another drag of his cigarette, shook his head, and walked away.

After this conversation, the wind had been taken out of my sails a bit as a warrior who was out defending the good name of the Church against the SPs. I had begun to suspect that there were people at Int Management who had gone out-ethics, and that I needed to take more responsibility and help correct things. Other great religious movements had gone off the rails and Hubbard warned that we might be no exception. It was the responsibility of each Scientologist to ensure that this would not happen to us. The future of all mankind was at stake! I would use the justice system to report all outnesses so that corrective actions could be taken.

I would not admit any of this publicly, of course, because we could handle it all internally. The SPs would have a field day if they knew what I had found out!

I remained a Scientologist for another ten years, doing what I could to keep us on the straight road.

It is the hardest thing in the world to confront that the most important thing in your life is actually a con, that your whole life is built upon broken straws. Most of the Scientologists in this newsgroup continue to defend Scientology against the SPs, because they truly believe that Scientology is the most important thing in the world to them, and to all mankind.

The Scientologists in this NG are good, decent people who would never do something like this buy-back scheme. They believe that, because *they* would never do it, then certainly no one else would - especially other Scientologists.

So they defend their group against the lies of the SPs.

I found out that the buy-back scheme was the truth. All of Int Management was involved in it. Looking back, it's clear that this was orchestrated in the years after Hubbard's death to apply the Emergency Formula, and promote like never before.

To quote the famous 5 Conditions tape: "...Brown eggs? No extra charge!..."

I'm sorry. I'm very, very sorry.

Poopsy

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