Blown for Good Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology (50 page)

External Facing 
– Any post in a Scientology organization that has to deal with people outside of the organization – generally considered to be a production area of the organization as opposed to internal.

FBO
 – Flag Banking Officer. This is the Chief Financial Officer in any Scientology Organization.

F&E
 
– This was where the
F
ilm & Equipment branch of CMO Gold was housed. F&E was the CMO personnel responsible for maintaining LRH’s wealth of personal photography equipment and all of his photos, including having them ready and in perfect order for use at any time. They also oversaw any CMO programs being run in the Cine Division of Gold. F&E later became a department in the Cine Division.

Fitness Board
 
– This is a procedure where Sea Org members are judged to be either fit or unfit for the Sea Org and given recommendations as to what they need to do to become fit, if deemed unqualified.

Flag
 
– Originally this was used to describe the ship that LRH used within the fleet of Sea Org vessels that were operating in the 1970’s, when the Sea Organization was first established. Later on when the Sea Org moved to land, Flag was relocated to Daytona Beach and then later to Clearwater, Florida, where it remains today.

Flag Orders
 
– These are the Sea Org policy written by LRH or the International Officer’s Board. They cover everything from how to wear and clean a Sea Org uniform to how to remove Suppressive Persons from Scientology Organizations.

FLB
 
– Flag Land Base. This refers to the plethora of properties owned by Scientology in Clearwater Florida.

FPRD
 
–
F
alse Purpose RunDown. This is a counseling procedure that takes place in Scientology where a person’s crimes are thought to be from evil or false purposes that were implanted by psychiatrists many lifetimes ago. At the Int Base, any staff member that questions Dave Miscavige or vocally speaks out against him is said to have Black PR, Overts and Evil Purposes on Dave and FPRD style auditing is a regular handling used for this.

Freewinds
 – The Sea Org cruise ship that is used to deliver the highest level of Scientology auditing currently released (OT VIII). The
Freewinds
holds approximately 360 passengers and crew. The
Freewinds
regularly frequents the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles.

Garage
 
– At the Int Base, the garage used to be a public gas station that was converted into the maintenance facility for the entire property. Motor Pool Gold is located here as well as the entire Estates Division - which includes Grounds, Electrical, Construction, Engineering & Building Maintenance Departments. Cine’s Set & Props Departments took up the west half of the building, until the Cine Castle was built in the late 90s. It also houses the International Landlord Office.

GAT
 – Golden Age of Tech. This is generally referred to as the new training technology that was developed and instituted in all organizations by COB RTC, Dave Miscavige in 1996. GAT requires that all students learn Scientology materials verbatim and pass a series of quizzes and does an extensive amount of pre-scripted drills for each training level that they train on. As of this writing, Scientology training statistics internationally have been continually down trending since the release of the Golden Age of Tech.

G.O.
 
– The Guardians Office. Established in 1966, this organization was the legal and public relations arm of Scientology. After several of its staff were convicted and sent to prison for carrying out what is said to have been the largest infiltration of the United State Government, the GO was renamed the Office of Special Affairs (OSA) and largely carries out the same functions today that the old GO did. Even some of the former GO staff are still employed by the new OSA.

Golden Era Productions
 – Also called Gold, this is the Audio Visual headquarters for Scientology located at the Int Base in Gilman Hot Springs, California. All of the sales and training films, videos and audio lectures for Scientology internationally are produced here.

Gold Musicians
 – The group of musicians that produce all of the music for the soundtracks for Scientology films, videos and materials. This same musical group often performs live at Scientology conventions held throughout each year.

Golf Course
– This was the public golf course that was located to the east of the main Golden Era property. It was closed to business in 2008.

Graduation
 – In some Scientology organizations, each week anyone who completed a training or counseling step in Scientology is announced and is expected to give a speech promoting the level to others at a local group gathering called Graduation.

Greens Keeper House or GK
:
This house was used for crew berthing. It used to belong to the Greens keeper that maintained the property in Gilman Hot Springs, California for Old Man Gilman and his family. (This building was later demolished).

G Units or G’s
– These are houses that were converted to luxury accommodations for VIP guests that stay at the Int Base. This is where Tom Cruise stayed while coming to the property in the 1990’s.

Cine Gym
– At the Int Base, this is the building where the Cine Division had their shooting stage, until the Cine Castle was built in the late 90s. Originally called the gym because the activities of the base were originally confidential to even the local residents, so the permit to build the studio was applied for under the guise of a “Basketball Gym”. Any and all references to the building were to be as the “Gym”. The Gym also housed the Make-Up, Costumes, Camera, Lighting, and Set Sound department of the Cine Main Unit Film Shoot Team.

Happy Valley
 – This is what the large ranch property located in Castile Canyon, California was called. It not only housed the RPF for the Int Base, but was also used as a schooling and housing facility for the young children of Int Base staff members. This property was sold to the Soboba Indian Tribe in 2003. Also called HV, the Ranch, Int Ranch or Int RPF.

Hat write up
 – This is a write up that one is required to do on a post that one is assigned to. In case the staff member leaves and is not there to tell another how to do the post, a hat write up would be used to train a new person on the post.

HCOB
 – Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin. This is a technical issue written by L. Ron Hubbard that details out technical procedures and is printed in red ink on white paper.

HCO Cope Officer
 – This is the person that works in the Hubbard Communications Office division in a Scientology organization. This person mostly deals with the flaps that occur daily and is there to do exactly what the post title implies – cope with it.

HCO PL
 – Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter. This is an administrative issue written by L. Ron Hubbard that details out administrative procedures and is printed in green ink on white paper.

HES
 – HCO Executive Secretary. In a Scientology organization, this is the executive position that is over the first four divisions of the organization: Exec, HCO, Dissemination and the Treasury divisions. In Sea Organizations this same post is called the Supercargo.

HFA
 – Held From Above. This is how any empty posts in a Scientology organization are referred to. If there is a post that is empty and it is below you on the organizing board, you hold it HFA.

HGB
 – Hollywood Guaranty Building. Located in Hollywood, California. This is the building that houses most of Scientology upper and middle management organization as well as OSA Int.

Horwich House
– This is where Jon Horwich and his daughter Roanne live on the Int Base in Gilman Hot Springs, California. Roanne is LRH’s granddaughter.

HV
 – Happy Valley.

IAS
 –
I
nternational
A
ssociation of
S
cientologists. In order to participate in any major Scientology training or auditing services, one must purchase a yearly or lifetime membership with the IAS. This is separate to any fees paid directly to the organization delivering the services.

IAS
1993
 – This signifies the large convention that was held in Los Angeles, California on the 8th of October 1993. At this convention COB RTC, Dave Miscavige, announced that the 50 year war waged with the IRS (United States Internal Revenue Service) had ended with Scientology organizations being granted tax exempt status within the US.

I/C
- In Charge.

IG Admin
 –
I
nspector
G
eneral for
Admin
istration. In the 1990’s, this was a post located in RTC directly under COB RTC. This post was held by Marc Yager until the post was abolished and he was demoted back to his old post of CO CMO Int. The “Inspector General” post titles come from the same used to describe investigators of government and military organizations whose job is to ensure the respective organizations are operating in compliance with general established policies and to discover misconduct, waste, fraud, theft or certain types of criminal activity by staff within these agencies.

IG Ethics
-
I
nspector
G
eneral for
Ethics
. In the 1990’s, this was a post located in RTC directly under COB RTC.

IG Tech
-
I
nspector
G
eneral for
Tech
nical. In the 1990’s, this was a post located in RTC directly under COB RTC. This post was held by Ray Mithoff until the post was abolished and Ray was demoted back to his old post of SNR C/S Int.

IG MAA RTC
 –
I
nspector
G
eneral
M
aster
A
t
A
rms. This is a post that is located in RTC and its sole purpose is to locate and eliminate distractions to production at the Int Base and make sure that Int Base staff are on post working when they should be.

IHQ
 – Int Head Quarters. Also called Int or Int Base.

IMPR
 –
I
nternational
M
anagement
P
ublic
R
elations. This is the unit that is responsible for putting on large conventions for Scientologists to increase the public relations value of International Management and their actions. This unit, along with Golden Era Productions, produces these conventions under the direction and heavy scrutiny of COB RTC, Dave Miscavige.

INCOMM
 –
I
nternational
N
etwork of
C
omputerized
O
rg
M
anage
m
ent, The network of Scientology computer based programs and computer systems used by management to send messages to each other and catalog, create and maintain a database of all critics and former members of Scientology.

Int Base
 – This refers to the large property located in Gilman Hot Springs, California that houses all of the international management organizations of Scientology. RTC, CMO INT, AVC, RTRC, CMO GOLD, WDC, R/COMPS, Translations Unit International, Int Landlord, Exec Strata, SNR C/S INT Office, IMPR, CMU, and Golden Era Productions are all located at this facility. All of the staff that work here are also housed on the property and seldom leave for any reason.

Int
 – Int Base.

Internal Facing
 – Any posts with a Scientology organization that deal with activities local to the organization and do not have to do with anything outside of the org.

Int Landlord
 – The international unit located at the Int Base that buys buildings for Scientology organizations internationally and then renovates them and charges the local organization rents for these properties.

Introspection Rundown
– A series of counseling procedures done within scientology that address the subject of introspection. This rundown is regularly used to handle someone who has had a psychotic break or some sort of mental breakdown. As part of this rundown, a person is often isolated and not allowed to talk to others and those who do come in contact with the person are instructed to not answer the person under any circumstance but to only note down what the person has said and send this information to the person’s Case supervisor. This rundown was heavily publicized in 1995 after it was administered to Lisa McPherson before her untimely death.

ISO
–
Isolation. At the Int Base, this building was right next to OGH. This is where you went if you were sick. Isolation. There was a men’s section and a women’s section. If you had a cold or got sick, you would have to stay here until you recovered. You could not go back home or be with the general crew as then you might get more people sick. The smell that came from this place alone was enough to keep most people from ever getting sick.