A STUDY OF THE SCIENTOLOGY INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM The Nazis had a thorough system of internal intelligence, designed to detect dissenters and subversives. The Gauleiter system was a network of heirarchical intelligence officers, spying on their zones of operation.

Occupied territories would have their overall governor, whose subordinates were allocated their areas, and their underlings allotted theirs, etc., all within the ideological framework of National Socialism.

The SS and the Gestapo were not the only forces to play a part in this war against the enemies of State and Kultur; so ingrained was the ideology of National Socialism, that even the children of the Hitler Youth were expected to report the slightest dissatisfaction expressed by their parents.

Everyone in the Third Reich, at every level, had a duty to spy for the state, and to refuse to turn in those antipathetic to any aspect of National Socialism meant one was regarded as a party to the crime, and subject to punishment.

Fear of detection pervaded the lives of a great many; sexuality, race, religion, politics, even whimsy; all could be, and were grounds for deportation. And for millions this inevitably meant death.

Scientologists are 'protected' by its internal 'ethics and justice' system, all contraventions against the optimum 'greatest good for the greatest number' are to be settled ONLY with Hubbard's system.

Scientologists are not to 'go legal' against each other, indeed, since they believe Hubbard to have found the solutions for every aspect of the human condition, there is never a situation which cannot be handled internally. The non-scientology world is referred to as the 'wog world', (which is not a racial slur, to be fair to the cult), and 'wog' solutions are regarded as fundamentally flawed, just because Hubbard didn't 'discover' them. Thus we have a totalitarian organization, pure and simple.

(To illustrate this singular totality, every part of a scientologist's life should eventually be contained within a scientological milieu to achieve total dependence upon the group. There seems to be a tacit flow line whereby when a scientologist runs out of money, he joins the dedicated paramilitary elite, the 'Sea Organization').

KNOWLEDGE REPORTS The whole basis of scientology's justice machinery is the Orwellian- sounding 'knowledge report'. A network of 'ethics officers' (in the Sea Org, ethics officers are called 'Master-at-Arms', or the 'MAA').

Here's what a knowledge report is all about. Scientology must be kept pure, and so anything which is against the 'mores of the group' must be reported to the ethics officer, in the form of a knowledge report. A 'KR' must contain the 'time, place, form and event', since Hubbard insists that these four criteria constitute 'truth'. So, a KR may read something like this:

"On Tuesday 5th January, at 3.40pm, Frank Smith stole a book from the Academy at Saint Hill. I saw him put it under his coat and sneak past the course supervisor. She didn't see him at all, and he walked out.

Later on, at about 9pm, I asked him to put it back, but he refused. This is not okay."

The same Hitlerian rule applies, that one is as guilty as the perpetrator (and therefore subject to the same penalties) if one does not turn him in. This, again, is identical to the Nazi system in that children must perforce turn in their parents. There must be no secrets between the subjugated and the regime! The State must know all!

The trouble with this is that when applied from the perspective of an ideological extremist, what is regarded as a crime is far from what reason would dictate. I have seen a girl spend six months doing hard labour in scientology's gulag, (the 'rehabilitation project force', back-breaking work, inadequate food and sleep, and of course the obligatory 're-education'), for falling in love with a man who although estranged from his wife, had not yet received his decree absolute. The kangaroo court which deported her to the camp regarded this as 'adultery', and away she went. Of course, she was an extremist too, and so while she was in the gulag, she accepted her fate. Just like Bukharin did in Stalin's Russia; he went along with his accusers and confessed to crimes he could not have committed, even though he was well aware he would be executed for his 'crimes'.

In this totalitarian society, cause and effect lose their meaning; logic and reason are jettisoned for the absurdities of Hubbard's law. Here's an example of how upside-down things get: I was once accused of a crime serious to scientologists, but not even a problem in general society. My crime was to have a romantic relationship with a staff member from another org, (we were both single, and in our twenties so where is the crime?). I was supposed to have told her not to say anything to anyone, which I was in fact not guilty of. To withhold information from your case supervisor or the ethics officer is a cardinal sin in scientology, and to inculcate another to withhold information is heavily criminal, even if it is intimate information.

I received a copy of the KR sent to the ethics officer and to my senior as an interested party, accusing me of telling her to keep her mouth shut about us. I was summoned by my senior, questioned, and put under a 'non-enturbulation' order. (This is a very frightening thing to do to a scientologist- it means that I must not cause anyone even the slightest reason to complain since just one solitary report to ethics about me will result in my automatic expulsion from the cult. To a scientologist, expulsion is tantamount to condemning him to an eternity of agony, and death after death after death. In comparison, Stalin could only kill you once; his state was fiercely atheistic!).

I protested my innocence, naturally, and although my senior was sympathetic, and understood that I was probably telling the truth, he stuck by the judgement. His final word on the matter was that since someone had written a false report on me, someone had to take responsibility for the unethical act of false reporting. I had 'pulled in' the false report, so I couldn't be all that 'clean', and since someone must take responsibility for the communication of others, it was my job to do this! The way I had to take responsibility for this lie was to suffer the imposition of a non-enturbulation order! It felt like a conversation with Major Major from Catch-22!

So if an innocent man is languishing on death row, should he take responsibility for the unethical communication of his accusers, (i.e., the false accusation) by going to the chair?

There is a law in scientology which states that if you criticize someone, you must have done something TO HIM OR HER. If I tell a scientologist that 'Mike is a thief' the scientologist will suspect me.

Even when Mike happens to actually be a thief! This is all part of a system of logic designed to keep people suspected and isolated. Every step of the way Hubbard has designed the system to accuse YOU and the more you are accused and investigated, the more the ethics officer finds out about you. You're indeed on your own kid!

HAS A WITHHOLD BEEN MISSED?

Well, you may ask, why don't you just keep your private life private, and not tell them? How are they going to find out?

This is where it gets really sinister. Hubbard 'discovered' the phenomena of the 'withhold', which is basically not telling someone about something you did which was bad. You know the drill, you take someone's candy and don't tell them. He refined this concept, and came up with another 'discovery', the 'missed withhold'. This is a bit tricky to get, but here it is:

You steal my candy. You don't tell me you stole it. (That's the withhold). Later on, I am looking for my candy, and I ask you if you have seen it anywhere. Because I asked you, you now think 'does he know?

does he not know?', but you still say 'no I haven't seen it'. The act of you wondering whether or not I knew, is the bit which makes it a 'missed' withhold. The withhold was for that moment firmly in your mind, and I missed it, by saying or doing something to make you wonder whether or not I knew. Hubbard insists that this phenomena can seriously screw with your mind, and hang you up right there at the moment your withhold was missed, thus barring the way to spiritual progress. It also is very key in causing people to leave the cult, so he says, and so it is vital to get off all your missed withholds, or you may run away and never go spiritually free!

To help you locate your missed withholds, your scientology counsellor uses his 'e-meter' which is fundamentally a crude lie detector, and is actually quite ineffective. There is a lot of faith placed in pseudo- scientific gadgetry, particularly when used in conjunction with hypnotism (and especially when it is very expensive!). Partly because he is hypnotized, and therefore in an intellectually attenuated state, and partly because of Hubbard's technical explanations and the 'proof' of scientology's efficacy, the subject will think that the counsellor is going to dig out everything he is hiding in his mind because the guy has a machine and a technique which is laser accurate, and so he tells him what he wants to know anyway.

Of course it has been 'proven' to him that 'it works', since Hubbard says he will get big 'wins' from therapy, and hypnosis produces states of profound euphoria. The subject of course attributes these euphoric states solely to Hubbard's methods, (the hypnotic aspect of which Hubbard frequently denied) since scientologists generally don't know about hypnosis and its effects. And because it's euphoria and not, say, nausea, the subject believes he is getting permanent 'case gain'. (And of course because Hubbard has told him he is). So he is willing to go through the interrogation in order to get closer to 'total freedom'.

Interestingly, only last week I spoke to a scientologist, who categorically denied that scientology uses hypnosis. I asked her whether she had studied hypnosis, to which she replied "no, I don't need to, I have scientology" (now there's a thing!). I then asked her how she could be so certain that scientology doesn't employ hypnosis if she didn't know what hypnosis is, surely one should know exactly what it isn't before stating that it definitely isn't it. Of course, her answer was 'dianetics and scientology are not for you!', not surprisingly, at this point she terminated our discussion!

The bottom line is that the counsellor needs to get everything the counsellee has done. Cloaking the question in pseudo-scientific 'phenomena' and fantastic psychological 'discoveries' seeks to obfuscate the important question, which is 'what aren't you telling us'. Hubbard tells us in a Professional Auditors Bulletin that he could 'reform the entire field of psychoanalysis' by simply repeating one question: 'what are you not prepared to tell me'! Masking this with 'missed withhold', 'integrity processing', 'false purpose', does a great deal to throw us off the scent, but the result is the same, you tell him every perceived wrongful act you have committed. Every single one.

In every scientology counselling session, there are three questions one is asked by the 'auditor' at the start of the session. The first is basically 'do you have an upset with something or someone?', (it is actually couched in technical scientologese and would take a little time to translate so you will forgive me for sparing you the tangent!).

Obviously, if an upset is on your mind, you won't be as easily hypnotized!

The next question is 'do you have a present time problem'. Your attention will certainly not be in the session if your car is on double yellow lines! Once again, no hypnosis can take place if you have something pressing upon your mind.

The important question is next; 'Has a withhold been missed?' This is followed by 'what was it?', 'where was it?', 'when was it?', 'who missed it?', 'what did they do to make you wonder whether or not they knew?', 'who else missed it?', 'what did they do to make you wonder whether or not they knew?', (get everyone who missed it!). If it doesn't clean up (i.e. the guy doesn't get obvious relief from his crime), then you must ask this next unbelievable question:

'Is there an earlier similar missed-withhold?' In this way, the auditor gets everything the person has ever done which has been even slightly naughty. And as an erstwhile auditor myself, the depth of intimacy one goes into is absolutely astonishing. Imagine everything you have ever done (even in the bedroom and the bathroom!) laid bare in a session! (There, I just missed withholds on you all!) The question of motive is all-important in the light of what I have illustrated above. Even a strictly benign organization has no business soliciting information containing this depth of intimacy; but this criminal cult with its aspirations demonstrably in the fields of enrichment and empowerment for its hierarchy, collecting the most intimate secrets of all of its adherents is terrifying indeed.

The cult has 'something on' all of its adherents, and 'everything on' a great many of them. (Yes, including me, as an ex-member). Subversion is impossible, detection is automatic and truly inevitable. Every scientologist knows the old cliche "it'll come out in session". Reform will therefore remain a dream the scientologist daren't dream.

Imagine if you will, the same Nazi-style network, the same Gauleiter system, level upon level of spies, sending reports about one another to those holding the means of punishment, only this time, they can't just get you for what you do. Sure, the same network exists, but Hubbard's goes one step deeper than Himmler's. Himmler had your actions all sewn up, his spies reached every strata of society, and reported every observed subversion. Scientology does that within its Reich, but it gets everything in your mind too!

While the cult's pet PR goons continue to draw insulting parallels between the persecution of the Jewish people and the so-called 'persecution' of scientologists, the true similarities actually exist between scientology and the perpetrators of the holocaust, but with one masterful refinement: Hubbard found a way to prosecute thoughtcrime.

Funky Donny

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