This next installment of the RPF Newsletter continues the sad story of the Didcoate family, this time focusing on Kathy (wife of Richard), and their son Jamie.

This is how Scientology treats its own people: disgracefully.

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Another sad story of the fate of a Sea Org family:

Didcoate, Kathy -- from the UK. She came to the US many years ago with her husband Richard and her young son Jamie. I think Jamie was born in the Sea Org in UK, later to grow up in the Sea Org, miserable with no family life and very little contact with his parents, who I am sure loved him, but thought they had to abide by Sea Org rules. He ended up being posted at GOLD and was sent to the Int RPF around 1997, eventually routing out. Kathy was also sent to the RPF around 1999 or maybe earlier at Int. She also worked at Int management and later at GOLD for many years. She arrived at the PAC RPF around 2002 from uplines, with a large group of other Int RPFers. One of the reasons she was RPFed was due to her son Jamie who she was having trouble with since he left the Sea Org. Jamie also had been routed to the RPF in PAC but flatly refused to do the program and insisted on leaving. He was fed up with how things were run and how people were treated at GOLD and didn't want to go back there. This created a conflict in his family life. Jamie refusing to do the RPF and leaving, then both of his parents being sent to the RPF caused even more major distractions in their family life.

Kathy was at the end of the program mid 2004 with her twin and on the graduation lines but didn't quite make it through the program. She had been on the RPF for about 5 years when she finally got on the list of the Int RPF I/C, Chris Guider of Int staff; he decided had to be gotten rid of. She was kicked out of the Sea Org with a "probational" SP declare, as she still had disagreements and issues despite all those years of "rehabilitation." She is in her late 50s or 60s and had served more than 20 years in the Sea Org, and then she got the shaft.

The plan at first was to send her back to England, but for some reason that was changed -- maybe because their son Jamie now lives in LA. They never had any time together when he was growing up; their entire family life had already been sabotaged. Maybe it was decided that she should stay in LA to avoid further flaps from Jamie? Maybe it was because a situation with the family's VISA? Immigration issues are often a problem in the Sea Org, see Emilio Bertinato's story for example. The concern came up as to how she would be able to support herself, having no work credentials in the US, and having spent most of her adult life in the Sea Org. So guess what the handling was? Her husband Richard was Fitness Boarded out too, so he could support them both! What kind of handling is that? I really would like to know who is calling the shots on these decisions, and I hope that this person one day will have some personal experience with the "benefits" of the RPF program! For some reason, I don't know why, but they were not sent back to the UK. They are supposedly staying locally in LA somewhere, and Richard is working at a place where a "friend" gave him a job. (How many friends can one have on the outside after a lifetime in the Sea Org?) Most likely it is a Scientology company, or maybe his son helped him to get a job where he's working as a security guard. This is another sad story of another Sea Org family blown to pieces and ruined.

Didcoate, Richard -- from UK. In his late 50ies. His story is already covered a bit under the section about Maria Fallager (all part of the comprehensive document of all 230 recent RPFers) and is as follows:

This is why you hear stories about Sea Org members "kept like prisoners," "never allowed to see their families" and "cannot leave," etc. While on the RPF, an LOA is completely out of question and NOBODY is allowed to leave for any family or other reasons whatsoever. I know of one RPFer who tried several times to take a short leave of absence to see his mother who was 83 years old. She was pleading and begging for him to come see her, even writing to the authorities, and he ended up lying to her about reasons why he could not promise and was not able to come and visit her. All she wanted to do was to "say goodbye" as she knew her days were numbered. Her worry was to make sure that her remains and estate of any value were in her only son's possession. Do you think that anybody had the empathy to grant him this last chance to see his mother? NO!! I hope he finally did see his mother after he was fitness boarded out in May 2004.

This was Richard Didcoate, whose mother is in the UK and has "caused trouble" by contacting the authorities demanding to know where her son is. Richard was on the RPF program for about 6 years and also was on the graduation line for a long time. He was fitness boarded out with his wife Kathy and they supposedly live in LA, where his son Jamie Didcoate also lives. Jamie was GOLD staff and got RPFed and routed out around 1997. Richard got a job with the assistance of some friend, before he was finally allowed to leave the RPF quarters and route out. When you are on staff, it's considered that you are "off purpose" if you want to go and see your family, so the peer pressure makes many feel bad and they are talked out of it.

Richard was sent to the RPF around 1999. He was the Public Aide FB, a very high post, he was over all Public Division 6's, responsible for all the orgs on the planet. Several of his juniors (Ron Seagal was one of them, Ron is a close relative of actor Steven Seagal, who doesn't want to have anything to do with scientology!) got RPFed for having disagreements with and not successfully implementing the "Scientology On-Line" program. This is one you can find on the Internet, laying out the "personal websites" of "individual scientologists". This program was designed to "disguise entheta by creating a large volume of positive scientology data", so that when anybody looked up scientology on the Internet they would find many people telling the story of how "wonderful" Scn is. This is the FSM program that was implemented when there was a lot of true data coming out about Scn on the net. Every FSM was encouraged to "get your own personal CD filled out and sent in!" All these "cookie cutter" web sites that were set up are still around and many are out of date. Lots of these people have left Scn and are not active anymore, but these web sites are still around as a shadow of their presence. Check it out for yourself on: http://home.scientology.org. There you will find thousands of similar robotic messages, in an attempt to engulf the Internet with fake data. I believe the attempt to cover up what is really going on failed.

Richards' wife Kathy was working uplines at GOLD. His son Jamie was Fitness Boarded out of the SO from GOLD through the PAC RPF around 1997. Richard didn't want to go "uplines" and he almost never saw his wife as they hadn't been allowed to live together for many years. When Kathy got FBed out, he was gotten rid of too, in order to support her. He didn't like this but was not given a choice. A scientology friend of his supposedly gave him some work locally in LA.

DIDCOATE, JAMIE -- He's now in his mid 20ies and his story is mostly already covered under his parents Richard and Kathy. He was born in the Sea Org in the UK and the family came to the US about 15 years ago. Jamie never had the chance or the choice of another life, but grew up in the Sea Org. Many times children who were born in the sea org, if the parents weren't coerced to have an abortion (which is another story), were raised in the sea org and naturally didn't have many disqualifications such as drugs or other common teenage activities, since they were kept virtual prisoners at the Int camp and were totally indoctrinated into Scn. They don't know much about the real world, and they are often sent up the org board higher and higher. This is what happened to Jamie, who was staff at GOLD. (Another similar family tragedy like this is the Danilovich family, and their son Micho who also ended up on the RPF.) These kids then find themselves in a position of never having enjoyed having any family life or any other normal life like High School, College, etc. Often they drop the ball, get in trouble and end up in the RPF. Many times the factor of not having any decent education played a role, as many of the kids at the Int Ranch were neglected and did not even get close to getting even a GED, let alone a High School education. By the way did you know that David Miscaviage was born in Scientology and never went past the 8th grade? Also read about his dream to become a Sea Org officer when he for the first time saw a uniform when he was spying on his father and a registrar in the window! Here's the site: http://www.lermanet.com/exit/miscavige.htm

DM's ideas about the "2nd dynamic" are completely twisted and inhumane; it seems he would do anything to keep married couples and families apart. No wonder he never had any kids himself! He has so many overts on families in the form of getting them RPFed, SP declared, broken up, posted far away from each other and/or expelled. (Then there are the rumored suicides in his own immediate family). Maybe he can not have any kids even if he tried? Or maybe he had them all aborted? That would explain a lot! I wonder just exactly how many families he has broken up. I would estimate at least 3/4 of the recent RPF list has a similar story, not to mention the hundreds of stories on the net. That would be an interesting statistic.

Jamie was very happy to leave the Sea Org and was recently working as a security guard somewhere in LA. He doesn't want to have anything to do with Scientology anymore and had written off any ideas of ever paying ANYTHING of his freeloader debt. Maybe finally this family can get together now and have a real family experience for the remaining years of their lives.

<p><hr><p> From: chuckbeatty77@aol.com (Chuck Beatty)
Subject: Re: RPF Newsletter: Kathy Didcoate
Date: 25 Nov 2004 01:33:07 -0800
Message-ID: <230ba444.0411250133.592cb98f@posting.google.com>

dst@cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky) wrote in message news:<co14gf$75o$1@sheepberry.srv.cs.cmu.edu>... > This next installment of the RPF Newsletter continues the sad story of
> the Didcoate family, this time focusing on Kathy (wife of Richard),
> and their son Jamie.
>
> This is how Scientology treats its own people: disgracefully.
>
> ================================================================
>
> Another sad story of the fate of a Sea Org family:
>
> Didcoate, Kathy -- from the UK. She came to the US many years ago
> with her husband Richard and her young son Jamie. I think Jamie was
> born in the Sea Org in UK, later to grow up in the Sea Org, miserable
> with no family life and very little contact with his parents, who I am
> sure loved him, but thought they had to abide by Sea Org rules. He
> ended up being posted at GOLD and was sent to the Int RPF around 1997,
> eventually routing out. Kathy was also sent to the RPF around 1999 or
> maybe earlier at Int. She also worked at Int management and later at
> GOLD for many years. She arrived at the PAC RPF around 2002 from
> uplines, with a large group of other Int RPFers.

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Thankyou Dave for this.

I knew Kathy on the Int RPF, for several years we worked together on various RPF duties, set production for the church movies and videos, and on farmwork.

In the late 90's before the Int Base had completed construction of the "Castle" building, the Int RPF did the sets construction for the church movies and videos, out at Happy Valley ranch.

We built a huge outdoor arched building, open walled, but it was great facility for movie scenery production (nicknamed sets). Peter Blecha and Ron Sommervilled were over the Gold Cine Sets production, and came and gave the projects to the RPF and we built the movie and video sets, and also we built the LA event elements, during the late 90's.

When the Castle was completed at the base, then the RPFers from the Int RPFers at Happy Valley were bused daily to the Castle and worked there from about 6:30am till 2:30 pm daily, then they were bused back to Happy Valley. This goes on about 6 days a week. But one day each week, usually Saturday, the Int RPFers all stay at the Happy Valley (now called officially Castille Canyon Ranch), and on Saturdays the whole Int RPF does farmwork or work handling various things at the Happy Valley ranch. All the Int RPFers stay and work at the Happy Valley ranch on Saturdays because on Saturdays at the Base, the whole Int Base at the Base do Saturday renos, and the RPF isn't supposed to cross paths with the staff. And normally when the RPF works at the Castle, due to where the Castle is located, the RPFers are pretty separate from the rest of the Int Base crew.

Kathy worked for years in the Int RPF, I think at least 2-3 years, before going down to do another 2-3 years in the PAC RPF.

Nancy I recall was from Cheppy Island, which is downstream from London on the River Thames. I used to nickname her "Nancy from Cheppy". She's a nice person, and so's Richard Didcoate, who I helped supervise his training, in some prior years I think all the way back at the Flag Land Base, when Richard was a Flap Representative from the UK, and he'd come to Flag (Clearwater) for training.

I sold Nancy my emeter for $200 when I was leaving the PAC RPF.

It is generally not the way lifetime religious workers are treated, to phase them out of their lifetime commitment, in the fashion that the Scn movement does. But they are at least helping people find a job and a place to stay, and they will continue to help you, should you need it, but I don't think once most get out the door, and get a job, that they have that much trouble getting on with things.

On the corner across the street from the Complex, is a place today called the Mailbox Cafe. It's where I picked up a copy of this monthly little 8 page magazine called Needs and Wants. Needs and Wants lists all sorts of places for people who are obvisouly Scientologists to find places to work and live, in the LA area. That's how I chose the place I then first moved to, and the job I first took, upon my leaving the PAC RPF.

Also PAC Security, I forget the guy's name, but there is one Security Guard who is the one who helps the RPFers by giving them a ride to wherever they are moving to locally in the LA area, and even this Security Guard wears civies when he takes you to the place you want to get a job at. He's a friendly Security Guard, sorry I can't remember his name.

Despite all the weirdnesses and insanity imbedded in the movement, the individuals doing their everyday jobs (omitting the craziness of the rules which everyone on the inside takes for granted) act pretty pleasantly with RPFers on their way out. That is what I experienced from Pac Security and the two OSA Int ladies, Kirsten Caetano and Joan Diskin, that dealt with me. Kirsten offered me help anytime I ever needed it in the future. She was sincere in this offer. Said she'd help me as a reference in the future whenever I needed one.

Although my views are skewed since I tended to get along well with most anyone I ever met in the Sea Org. But I didn't see any PAC Security acting confrontational with RPFers or persons leaving the Sea Org.

The only time I experienced some confrontational screaming (the worst screaming I ever experienced in my 7 years of RPF) was in 1997, 12 August, Sea Org day, which was the day two Int RPFers and I had a 2-3 hour shouting screaming match, they were challenging me against leaving the RPF, which I fully intended to do, but I lost. I buckled. Worst mistake I made, I added 5 years to my RPF experience (but in those 5 years I at least became an expert at cleaning, manual farmwork, carpentry skills, concrete skills, construction skills, plumbing, underground lawn irrigation systems and running large industrial dish washers).

Best, Chuck Beatty

<p><hr><p> From: chuckbeatty77@aol.com (Chuck Beatty)
Subject: Re: RPF Newsletter: Kathy Didcoate
Date: 25 Nov 2004 18:05:22 -0800
Message-ID: <230ba444.0411251805.28fa347d@posting.google.com>

dst@cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky) wrote in message news:<41a5c43f$1@news2.lightlink.com>... > To Chuck or anyone else who worked on the movie sets: did you
> ever work on the set of the CoS film "TR 13"? I think it was
> supposed to be play on "Apollo 13", which came out a year or two
> before.
>
> I'm very curious about TR 13. Would love to see a plot summary.
>
> -- Dave Touretzky: "Two thumbs up, VGIs, and a broad F/N from Roger!"
> http://ScientologyWatch.org

Dave,

Sorry I don't know the films by number.

But there are two space-opera setting movies. TRs in Life is one film, and the other I only remember by how we RPFers nicknamed it, calling it the Chaplain film. (The Int RPF did all the sets for both these films, and they are damn good sets, in my opinion.)

I'm pretty sure TR 13 is this one, that's nicknamed the Chaplain film.

The film is set in the future on a patrol craft space vessel, sort of like a space opera Coast Guard craft. They pick up a stranded and amnesiac officer, Jason Begay (actor and Scientologist). The Captain of the patrol craft is Geoff Lewis, the Chaplain is Jack Armstorng, both pro actors. Geoff is a notable Hollywood mainly character actor and appears in several Scn movies (Confessional TRs movie, and this Chaplain movie, and the old Freedom Film of the early 1970s). Jack is also in a number of the Scn tech films.

The crew of the patrol craft are bummed out having to take on this stranded amnesiac officer, Jason B, because they are concerned Jason is contaminated with one of the common space diseases, which would cause them all to be quarantined when they return to earth. Jason's acting weird, almost threatening violence, and space diseases cause craziness, thus the crew are rightly concerned.

The wise Captain, Geoff Lewis, suggests that the Chaplain (Jack Armstrong) give Jason B an auditing session, to get to the bottom of what's making Jason act so tense and threatening.

The bulk of the movie then is the Auditing Session, between Jack Armstrong (the Chaplain) and Jason B.

Jason gets his rudiments flown (Upset, Problem, Withhold and Overt/Harm someone). That's all the auditing Jason gets, just auditing on the 4 rudiments.

Each rudiment peels away mental anguish and the final rudiment reveals the mystery of Jason's behaviour.

I won't ruin the film, not unless you want me to tell you the actual incident that unravels it all.

Jason comes out of his behaviour, he has a moment of remorse, grief then exultant burst of energy. He's so thankful he wants to use his automatically saved up back pay, which is considerable, to pay for some auditng for his longtime friend that he discovered through his auditing that he severely wronged. So he wants to get his friend some auditing in the end.

Jason's beaming and revived as a person. He's officially not infected with any disease, and the crew is jubilant.

The final shot is in the messhall, Jason and crew singing a raucous joyful space crew song, about going home to earth, called Homeward Bound.

The movie has a great impact, good story, great sets, and Jack Armstrong delivers impecable auditing to Jason, and Jack's TRs are model TRs, or are supposed to be.

A more balanced appraisal of this movie will have to be done by others, when they see it. Mine is obviously biased, as will be on all the tech films that I helped make the sets for. The Int RPFers are rightly proud of directly helping get these final LRH tech films actually done and produced, which from that viewpoint is understandable.

I think all the LRH films give a great look into LRH's character, and his priorities for auditors, and they give a glimpse at LRH's idea of what people will face way up the track (future lives, etc.), and people's opportunities for applying Scn tech in the long future (space opera future).

Anyways, if this Chaplain movie is not TR 13, then I may not either have recalled which is TR 13, or I may not have seen TR 13, and it came out after I left the Int RPF. But I think all the main films, called the Tech Films, are done, and this Chaplain film is probably TR 13.

Best, Chuck Beatty

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