Unless I am mistaken, it seems like Scientololgy in St. Louis is booming.
The Heyday of Saint Louis Org in the 1970's
The Alexander Euston Mansion from 1890, known as the
Queen’s Daughters
House, was the home of scientology during the 70's. It's one of the remaining
examples of Romanesque Revival architecture left in Saint Louis. It's right in the
middle of the Saint Louis University campus on a boulevard connecting downtown
with the outer suburbs. The org was paid for and owned outright, AFAIK.
I know and have spoken at length with some old timers, who were around during
that decade and they're my trusted sources here.
At its apex, the org had 130-140 staff (day and foundation) and was booming.
Hundreds of publics showed up at events
LA's infamous 80's-90's super-FSM Barry Klein was the ED and Class 8 CS during
this era. He was later removed from post during the List One R/S debacle and moved
to LA to join the massive RPF and worked on the Big Blue construction project.
Seems like during the mid-70's, there was "plant-mania" running rampant
with gang-bang sec checks, paranoia, unwarranted SP declares, and
obsessions to find the "whos" for any bad conditions. This is what I was told.
The auditors at the org -- under the Class 8 CSing of Barry Klein --
had discoverd a Marcab agent (plant) on lines at the org. I was told about
this event many years later by my friend.
He had gotten found during some org-wide sec checking for long-term
crashed stats and thrown out to the relief of all. He had actually been
"sent in" by the Marcabs to destroy the org. Don't underestimate the
power of the Marcabians to undermine a local orgs' stats!
A Few Famous Alums
Michael Meisner -- super spy and turncoat who squealed to the FBI inciting the '77 raid.
Duke Snider -- jailed GO staffer -- ran the Snow White debacle in Washington, DC.
Merrell Vannier -- secret agent injected into Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares' office;
author of expose Arrows in the Dark.
Elizabeth Weigand -- niece of Senator Thomas Eagleton -- arrested by FBI after she
tried to blackmail her uncle threatening to release damaging information (that he was
actually gay -- he was not), if the senator did not buy $220,000 of family stock from her.
She got years of probation and her scientology attorney got four years of prison, AFAIK.
Wayne Prewitt -- went to LA to do OT3 -- jumped to his death in 1970 from the 8th floor
of Elks Building in the McArthur Park area. Days before his suicide, he travelled to LA for
treatment because he had been very "up tight." (My oldtimer friend was sitting in the room,
spitballing OT stories with some guys who were on lines at AOLA, when freaked out Wayne
ran across the room and jumped through the open window to his death eight stories below.)
The madness never ends and spans generations . . . spans all space and time.
Doesn't it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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