When a person joins Sea Org, he/she is told that he is a part of the most ethical group of people. But this is a blatant lie -- theft is so widespread in Sea Org that at times it seems that you have entered the Thieves’ Paradise.

It was my first day in Sea Org after I graduated from EPF. I left my wallet with $15 in it on the desk. When I returned the wallet was still there, but it was empty. $15 is not a large sum of money, so I decided not to make a big deal out of it. I did not complain to my superiors; instead I developed a habit of not bringing money to the workplace. I could keep my money at home because I had a home, which is not the case of a vast majority of the Sea Org members.

My friend Edmund did not have a home, instead he was “camping” in Big Blue. The goddamn place looks like a prison camp with its bunk beds. Someone took all Edmund’s money, $450, from his briefcase which he kept in the dormitory. When Edmund complained to the Ethics Officer about the theft, he was ordered to keep the mouth shut. Apparently, the Officer did not want the other Sea Org members to know that things get stolen here. But we all already knew that (ha-ha!)

In some cases a Sea Org member knows who robbed him but there is nothing he can do about it -- the perpetuator had stolen the victim’s property right before the start of his overseas assignment. Even if the victim does not have money and jewelry in his possession, he will discover that his expensive clothing items are gone.

The Sea Org theft is so rampant that some staff members keep fancy locks with number combinations on their baggage. Guess what? -- those bags get stolen, too!

The Church itself is not immune to the theft -- many of its e-meters were stolen and sold to the new Scientologists.

I tried to steal an e-meter form a Hubbard office but failed because I did not have a plan. I just wanted to get into the office and swipe the electric beauty. But the Big Blue receptionists were watching my every move because they got suspicious when they saw me hanging in the lobby at 3: 00 AM.

My friend Patrick had a plan: He took a bucket and a mop and walked into a Hubbard office. While mopping the floor, he grabbed the e-meter and put it in the bucket (he was using a dry mop and his bucket was empty, of course, but no one was paying attention) Later he sold it for a half-price to a brand new Scientologist. His customer knew that this was a stolen device, but bought it anyway.

The Sales Org store got robbed when I was in Sea Org; I was told that this was not the first robbery. This was the insider job because the thieves knew exactly what they were looking for -- they ignored the e-meters , the Dianetics books and the Red Volumes because they knew that CoS investigators will be paying attention to the sales of these items. Instead, they took the golden OT pins because it is easy to sell this stuff to unscrupulous owners of jewelry stores.

Ricardo was working for Sales Org. He described to his friends, including myself, the scam that his superiors were running. They made an agreement with the e-meter factory personnel to underreport the number of e-meters produced each month. They were selling unreported devices to the Scientologists at 2/3 of the regular price.

Leslie was working for Supply Org. The Supply Org staff were delivering food to Big Blue; they also were stealing packaged goods (chocolate, soft drinks, etc) from the supply trucks and selling them to the local stores and even supermarkets.

I wonder what could be stolen for Gold Base. Hmmmm…

Good post, DLRH.

There's a story about Sea Org theft in my human trafficking video. A man asked his mother to send him money, she did, but the letter was opened and the money was taken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A4l-GIt ... ature=plcp

Story is at 6:10.

^^Outstanding video, Glibby!

The thing that really surprised me is that CoS goons go to a great length to hunt down people who left the cult. I think that this is a relatively new development because when I was in Sea Org they did not make a single attempt to recover a person. Nowadays they are desperate because the cult membership is in a sharp decline.

When I was on the EPF one day our EPF was hauled off project to the NY ORG. When we got there we were lined up and one by one led to a room with Pedro Bossio behind an E-meter. We were instructed to hold the cans and then stared at by Pedro with absolutely no communication from him for a minute or 2. End of session, we returned to our project. I had no idea what that was about until later when I was informed by a fellow EPFer that it was an HCO meter check. Apparently, someone from our EPF unit stole a few packets of cigarettes from Carlos Manrique's (CLO EUS Cook) cantina. UMMM, I don't smoke, why did they bother with anyone that didn't smoke.

Also, a new recruit from one of Cary Goulston's missions was accused of stealing from the CO CMO's purse.

Hubbard wrote somewhere that only a Sea Org member with low stats would do damage to the Church by stealing something from it and destroying its property. His explanation of this “phenomenon” is long and complicated, and makes no sense. The idiot knew nothing about the human psychology.

In reality people who rob the Church blind have adequate stats because they do not want to attract attention to themselves by having poor job performance. This is one of the reasons why the OSA jerks are so ineffective in finding the thieves.

I am sure that the OSA staff who monitor anti-Scientology websites also steal from their beloved Church. They have no other choice because their salaries are very low. I know what they steal from CoS -- that would be laptops and office supplies.

Which one of you, motherfuckers, is the most successful thief?

We had a thief in the org. I first became aware of it when the ethics officer took me aside and put me on the e-meter to see if I was the one. I had no idea what he was getting at when he asked me the questions while I held the cans (now called electrodes). He checked out several people but didn't find anyone.

Someone was going into places in the org and taking money. They took money from women's purses in the auditors administration room (auditors' admin). They took money left in drawers in offices. About three months after the ethics officer checked me I found out this was still going on and they still had no idea who was doing it.

I found out because the bright boys in the Hubbard Communications Office (HCO, Division 1) did a sting operation. They left a marked $20 bill in a drawer in an office, which they, apparently, checked frequently. When the bill went missing they shut the org and didn't let anyone leave. They routed everyone down to an office in HCO and had them empty their pockets and purses.

They made the mistake of telling everyone what they had done and why they were doing that. If the thief were among us I'm sure the money they stole went into their underwear or somewhere on them that wasn't a pocket, or they may have stashed it somewhere else to be retrieved after the search. It wasn't me so I don't know what they did with whatever it was that HCO had put in the desk. HCO may have been pulling their own ruse by stating what was put out as bait may have been different from what they stated.

Long story short. They didn't catch the thief. I don't know if they ever did.

The thefts went on like that for at least three months. According to Hubbard's wonderful technology, such a person should have blown, but there they were stealing money and staying around stealing more. Maybe there was more than one person doing it. I guess I'll never know.

Apparently, the OSA staff know how unreliable the e-meter is, so they have developed other means of identifying the thieves. But the other shitty methods do not work, either.

When I was in Sea Org, I used to buy ice cream at the Big Blue canteen. There was a small corridor leading to the canteen, it had a turn. The salesman could not see what is going on behind the corner.

One day I saw a table with a box of cookies on it standing in the corridor; the canteen salesperson could not see the people who were passing by the cookie box. That looked strange to me. I bought an ice cream, returned to the corridor and begun watching the box. Before I finished eating the ice cream, five Sea Org members passed by the box, two of them stole cookies from it.

“There must be a recording device somewhere”, I though. I looked up. There was a camera on the wall right underneath the selling, it looked like a light bulb. Normally I would not be paying attention to the “light bulb”, which also applies to everyone else -- people do not expect to find a camera in a low-priority area.

No one was busted for stealing cookies that day, or any other day (the cookie box remained there for 10 days). The CoS needed to identify the thieves amongst its members in order to solve the Sea Org grand larceny misteries. Father Hubbard wrote that a person with a large amount of overts and withholds would steal ANYTHING from the Church.

But this is where Hubbard’s stupidity shines through -- a person who steals expensive items is highly unlikely to steal cheap cookies. I, for example, was willing to steal an e-meter. But stealing cookies was so below me that I did not contemplate it.

In the early days in $cientology I found myself alone in the bookstore area. There was no one around at all and no one watching. I felt very much tempted to take something without paying for it. I resisted that temptation and it went away.

There was another person who didn't resist it and they took some books. They were on staff with one of the two orgs. They got caught and returned the books. Their punishment was to join staff with the other org as well.

How easy would it be for a top CoS executive to steal money from the Church? That would be a very easy undertaking according to my friend, Alexander. Currently Alexander works as an FBI agent who investigates white collar crimes. In fact, CoS is more vulnerable to the theft than any other organization.

The CoS vulnerability stems from its twisted work schedule -- the CoS workweek ends on Thursday at 2:00 PM, while for the rest of the world the workweek ends on Friday at 12:00 PM.

I suspected that a thief could take advantage of the CoS workweek “marvel”, but did not know the full range of theft possibilities until I discussed this matter with Alexander. At least 20% of CoS weekly revenue could go unreported because of the extremely idiotic Hubbard idea of ending the workweek at an arbitrary time. I wonder what the idiot was thinking when he was developing the CoS economic structure. Probably, he was not thinking at all because of his mental retardation.

I am not going into a detailed discussion of the financial fraud because I do not want to tip off the OSA boneheads.

Once money is stolen from CoS, it cannot be recovered because it cannot be traced -- a money laundering scheme kicks in, which prevents OSA from finding the perpetrator (the money passes through the hundreds of banks before it reaches its final destination in a Swiss or Cayman Island banking account).

Would a top CoS official steal money from “mother Church”? I believe the answer is resounding YES. Hubbard is dead, there is no loyalty to Miscavige amongst the top CoS staff. Indeed, Miscavige had changed the Tech so many times that he is seen by his staff as the super-SP.

Some think that the top cult officials do not leave the Church because they want to restore the Tech. But only a complete idiot would not understand that the restoration is impossible under the DM rule. “Leave your hopes at the Hell’s entrance”, wrote Dante. At times it seems he was talking about CoS under the Miscavige rule.

So they stay and rob the cult, in their mind they are doing a noble thing because it results in diminished flow of money for Miscavige. They are greedy too; they know that in a real world they won’t be making that kind of money.

Some of them are getting physically assaulted by DM. But this is a small price to pay for fleecing the Church. One slap on a face costs $1 million, which is not all that bad.

The honest ones have either left the cult or are being kept in the proverbial hole and cannot leave. But the crooks prosper, and they are not planning to leave the cult.

Don’t get me wrong, I do not think that stealing money from CoS is a bad thing. The thieves are doing great thing by stealing money from the Devil.

Interesting theory, complete with Swiss or Cayman Island banking accounts. I suppose it is quite possible, but at this point, it is a theory, and not based on any known facts or proof.

^^Of course this is a hypothesis. It is left to the OSA personnel to determine whether it is true or false. Keep digging the pile of shit, boys!