Scientology-cult is proud to host yet another new whistle blower coming forward for the first time despite personal risk. ALIVE AND WELL joins many other ex-RTC staff who are now speaking out.

I was at the Int base for 15 years and was an RTC staff member for 6 of those. I worked with BACK TO LIFE and I also worked with/under Marty for several of those years. I wish to state that everything both of them are stating in terms of the severity of the Int base scene is absolutely true. Possible Jonestown?  I certainly think so. In my view it is only a matter of time before things explode.  At the moment there are one hundred or more people who have been mentally and emotionally tortured to a point of apathy. They don’t think they can do anything but try and toe the line to DM. They cannot disagree with his orders without violent recrimination. I know what that is like. I tried to toe the line for several years and it is like walking across a mine-field.

The descriptions BACK TO LIFE gives of the way DM treats his staff are accurate and if anything, understated. I myself learned of the absolute devotion that was required of an RTC staff member when I was ordered to take an executive of RTC and veteran Sea Org member and photocopy his face (literally) on a photocopier and send a compliance report to DM. Another time, he ordered me to go to the Fitness Instructor and find out how much weight I could bench press so that I could physically force RTC staff to read his orders to the base (hundreds and hundreds of pages of DM’s transcribed meetings with base staff had to be read by all RTC staff weekly and they would not get paid unless they had signed that they had studied all).

I certainly experienced DM mocking me and taunting me in front of the RTC staff. He ridiculed me. He removed me from post 3 times for matters that were obscure or just plain bizarre.  I watched him verbally abuse RTC staff till they were in tears. I saw him hit staff – both in RTC and also execs and staff from lower organizations.  I also watched him egg on his executives to harass and abuse others, just as he does.  The personae of an RTC staff member, as issued in RTC policy, was for us to be “almost cold” to all non-RTC staff. We were to be hard, harsh, severe and impinging in our dealings with the rest of the base. For me, I could never do it. For me, I felt completely out of valence. I felt I was being forced into an entheta band that was both uncomfortable for me, and introverting for those I was dealing with. It was contrary to all the LRH training I had done on how to get things done and how to get compliance.

I saw him work for years to belittle and introvert staff and executives. I stood in staff meetings where all RTC staff were fearful to actually talk and brief other staff if DM was there -- anything could happen, from verbal abuse, to demotion or even removal from the org – often for seemingly irrelevant matters.  Worse though was watching as the group was egged on by DM to handle individuals and get confessions of crimes. I was a victim of such group verbal bashings several times, and watched many occur with others. They are ugly scenes – completely reverse-Scientology and Black Dianetics – with only one result – the victim mentally and emotionally flogged.

I am speaking out here as I wanted to express the factuality of BACK TO LIFE’s recent article, and also Marty’s blog. I must stay anonymous at this time, due to family connections, however I will be able to come out in time.

LANA MITCHELL

Click here to read Back to Life's second article "Road to Jonestown"
Click here to read Back to Life's first article "Why Church Members Keep Lying"