As mentioned in nemerous judgements on the subject, Scientology collects data during "Auditing" (confessional) sessions. Scientology says that the data is kept highly secure, for use only by a member's own auditor - when it is well known that they use these deeply held secrets against persons wishing to leave the group, in the form of blackmail.

While it was known for some time that members of Scientology's Sea Organisation were subjected to intense scutiny, with computerised records - the message below indicates that the same techniques have been used in the control of Public (fee paying) Scientologists.

The message below has been validated.

From: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (SpawnOfXenu)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: MESSAGE TO SEA ORG, SCN STAFF AND PUBLIC
Date: 5 Dec 2003 12:59:00 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 101 Message-ID:
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.243.222.188
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1070657940 21414 127.0.0.1 (5 Dec 2003 20:59:00 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 20:59:00 +0000 (UTC)

This is a message to all Sea Org and $cientology staff members - most of whom will not know this information about the corporation they're working for.

I am a former high-level Sea Org member. I was at the "Int Base" or "Gold" for 10 years and a Scientologist for over 20 years. The info I'm about to pass on to you is legit and something that I'm sure OSA and RTC would NOT want you to know about.

All staff members know that their Ethics Dept. keeps an "ethics file" for each staff member.
This file contains and accumulates reports written by other staff members for things such as policy violations, "out-ethics" activities - really anything that another would consider to be "out ethics" to the group. It also contains O/W write ups and session reports auditors are required to write up and send to a person's ethics file in certain cases.

Ethics files are used as a "tool" by an Ethics Officer or executive to help spot the "SPs" or "PTSes" within the organization who are stopping the lines and blocking the "flows". A "fat" file means you've either got an SP or PTS on the line and there are various ways an EO or exec goes about sorting this person out.

Most staff members know the above info as it is contained in basic ethics policies written by Hubbard. Public Scientologists also know that an ethics file is kept on themselves by their local Ethics Dept. which is used in the same way as above. Another file kept for every Scientologist is a PC folder or Pre-Clear folder. This folder is labled as "Priest Penitent" and is only to be accessed by Scientology Ministers or authorized personnel such as a Case Supervisor or your auditor. Which is a complete falsehood and you'll see why later in this message.

This folder contains the reports and worksheets from every auditing session or confessional a person has ever had. This information is supposed to be confidential and held in confidence. The ONLY instance where an auditor is supposed to report to Ethics something from an auditing session, is if the staff member or public was intentionally withholding something from Ethics and "getting it off" in session to avoid ethics handling or discipline.

Last but not least is the "Personel File". This file contains basic personnel info such as tests and other write ups used to qualify staff members for certain positions in the organization. It also contains a person's "Life History" write-up. This write up is done by the staff member when being hired and contains every drug you've ever taken and how many times, every close friend and relative you have with contact info, every sexual experience you've ever had (in full detail) including masturbation, etc... When you're done with this write-up, anyone who reads it will know pretty much everything about your life and some.

Now, I'll move on to the main reason for this message. A few years ago, I was on an RTC mission to input staff member information into a computer data base. With this data base you can type in any staff member's name and pull up their information instantly. First we went through every person's Personnel file and typed in their entire Life History write up, their recent test scores, and any other pertinent info required in the data base.

We then had to go through every ethics file and for each report enter in what the report was about, who it was from and a summary of what the report was about i.e. "Knowledge Report from Staff Member A: Reports that Joe Blow was not doing his job and instead was smoking a cigarette during post time, being idle." We also had to type in every O/W write up - at least the "important" things from each write up. Things like "I should have taken a shower today but didn't" were left out of course. So, you can imagine how much information from the ethics files were entered.

Now here's the killer, all the PC folders were gone through in the same manner!

It was mainly the confessionals and sec checks that were inspected, but it was done and you can only imagine how "off policy" and "out tech" that is. The said purpose of this data base was to be a tool for executives and HCO personnel to see if staff members were qualified for certain "posts" or jobs in the organization. That's just not true because nobody needs to know your PC folder info for post qualifications!

When we were given the order from RTC to go through the PC folders, I remember thinking that something wasn't right about it, but as a staff member, you know you're not to question ANYTHING that RTC orders. RTC are the GODS of Scientology and if its from RTC you just better do it, no questions asked. "They must have a really good reason for this."

This data base was only available at Int and middle Management, but was supposed to be exported to every HCO around the world. I don't know if that ever happened as I left before I ever knew. After the mission completed, I went back to my post in HCO. I still had access to the data base and would log in on occasion being curious about any changes being made or any other added functions. And lo and behold, public information was now being added in the same way. You could also look up who had been declared PTS or SP and read any information entered on the individual.

Imagine if Hitler had had this tool at his disposal... Possibly Dan Garvin from his experience in INCOMM can shed more light on this as well.

Sincerely,

S.O.X


http://www.lermanet.com/dangarvin/index.htm#mayo-ingram