Addendum:
I've posted my questions to Mike's blog. I stopped at 13, I think its a good luck number and the post was becoming a very long-ass one. It is awaiting moderation, but if I posted that stuff tehre I might as well quote it here:
"Hi Mike, Hi Leah,
Thank you for making the podcast and also for allowing us to post questions. I think these are both great decisions, I was certainly waiting for something like this and I think I am not the only one.
My questions will be mostly related to OSA and SO management issues/operations/people, so I think it would be Mike who has the knowledge to answer them, but if you Leah have anything to add then please be my guest
1. Let me start with the “heavy” issues. Could you please talk about abortions in the SO (I think that topic alone deserves at least one full podcast dedicated to it) and the women forced or pressured to have them?
– Can you tell us how OSA involved with “handling” those women and their husbands who did not want to comply?
– Was there any women who left the SO and then had to be silenced by OSA actions or fair gaming in order to prevent them from speaking out? If so, can you please tell us what OSA or legal actions were taken against them? Did Mike have to deal with any of these personally?
– Can you tell us about internal opposition to abortions? I know that there were auditors and even MAAs who who used Hubbard’s statements from “Dianetics” to oppose abortions and attacks on pregnant women in general. Was there any OSA operation aimed at these internal critics? Can you tell us something about the disciplinary actions taken to crush this movement?
– Were the abortions favored by and ordered directly by Miscavige, or was this an initiative honestly backed by other people down the chain of command? Can you tell us more about the role of CMO and RTC in this? Was there any internal discussions or dissent on these issues in the CMO, int management or OSA itself?
2. Can you tell us about the instances of pedophilia that became known to OSA?
– Roughly how many cases like that were being assigned and investigated by OSA?
– Did the offenders have to go through the regular justice steps, or was this handled in some more covert “special” way? Was there some sort of special team or group of OSA members directed to handle these?
– Can you tell us more about the later fates of the offenders? Did the CoS send them to some remote location, or were they generally “left alone” and remained in places where they would have further contact with children?
– Can you tell us if any of the victims wanted to speak out or contact the police? Was there any concerted OSA operation to silence them?
– Did any victims after leaving the CoS threaten to report these instances to the police? If yes, then what was the church reaction? Was there any fair game or OSA operations against them? Were any paid off or forced into silence with legal threats?
3. A followup question to the above, but about instances of rape instead of Pedophilia. Did you Mike know about any and if yes, what OSA actions were taken to silence the victims? What was done to the offenders?
4. I was familiar with Julian Swartz and his role as an MAA, but only after seeing Aaron Smith-Levin’s videos did I learn that he allegedly played some key role dealing with these heavy out-PR cases like rape and pedophilia. Can you tell us more about this? Was Julian in some way the preferred go-to-man for OSA when it came to PAC? What made him different from other MAA and ethics people in WUS? Was caused him of all people to get involved in these matters? Was it a case of him simply being on post in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or did OSA/Co$ have some dirt or compromats against Julian and thus knew they can task him with these heavy out-PR cases knowing that he will not be able to speak out or resist? Was Julian being in some way forced, threatened or blackmailed?
5. Can you tell us more about the role of Fritz Kevenaar in OSA operations? Was he involved with the threats/fair game/coverup operations and if yes then what was his role?
6. A more specific archives related question. Do you know who was tasked with making transcripts of those old 70s/80s taped confessionals? Whenever I asked about it, I got the sort of: “You don’ want to know” type of replies. Were these transcripts made by the RPF or by some special team at Gold or other closed bases? Or was it really nothing special at all?
7. Speaking about Gold and the Hole prisoners… can you tell us more about Julia Delderfield, Bettina Henderson, Marion Pouw, Abby Miller and Astra Croft? What exactly happened that got them locked in there? Were hey just part of some wider purge, or was this in some way connected to CMO and ethics in specific? How come Julia, who was in theory supposed to run ethics there, got locked in the hole herself? How were the CMO people treated by other prisoners in the hole? Did they get more punishment than others?
8. Can you tell us more about the way Bill Kilpatrick and Susan Devlin were handled? What had triggered that reaction, was it something that reached Dave himself? What was OSA’s role in this? Was Greg Maher in his role as director of I&R involved and if yes, then how? Was Greg, like Julian, in some way a regular “go-to-person” for OSA?
9. I’d like to hear more about Co$ (and OSA in specific) interactions with LAPD. Did this come up in any local cases of pedophilia and other abuses? How was LAPD infiltrated by OSA and what was Mike’s role in that? What exactly was “operation Humber” about? Did OSA or OSA legal ever had to take steps against individual LAPD officers? Were any of them threatened/smeared/silenced/paid off? Were the families or friends of LAPD officers threatened/pressured/lied to/influenced?
10. OSA archives. Can you tell us more about that? Did OSA keep files on individuals that were separate from the general ethics folders? If yes, how was the OSA archive different? Or did OSA just keep simple copies with no difference in content? Was there a separate archive for OSA legal documentation? Where were the OSA archives stored? Did OSA have special people to handle them, or did they use the services of the regular scanning team etc?
11. Mike, was there any real possibility of a plot to depose Miscavige in an internal coup? Did anyone in OSA contemplate this? Did you contemplate it? Was OSA ever tasked to investigate anyone else because they were accused of planning a coup? Was CMO, Inv, FinPo, Gold security or other enforcement “agencies” ever suspected of planning such a coup?
12. Can you tell us more about the untimely death of Stacy Moxon-Meyer? Was there any sort of OSA investigation into it? Was the exact cause and manner of death established? Was there suspicions of murder or suicide and if yes was there any evidence behind that? Was OSA forced into some sort of coverup/silencing action as a result? How did Kendrick take these news? Did he cause any trouble or threaten to cause trouble for the church because of this?
13. As a followup to the question above – can you tell us more about the way OSA was involved with investigating workplace accidents, suicides and other “unusual deaths” inside the Co$? Or was it always just left up to ethics etc?
Thank you again for allowing us to post questions. I apologize for the amount and scope of these, but some of these issues stuck with me for a long time and I think Mike might be the only person outside of Co$ that can answer some of these in an extensive manner."
... honestly, if I had not yet pissed people off with my ex-scn internet activities so far, this will probably change it.
