The Financial Fraud behind the
Golden Age of Tech NOTS
Revamp circa 1994-5
Repost from 2012
1. Flag public who bought the original Solo NOTS course when it was first released in the early eighties did not have to pay for the six month CSing fees. All CSing was included for life. Part of the $4500
* OT6/7 lifetime package deal and advertised as a benefit for early adopters in '81-82 [?].
[ *$18,000 in 2025 dollars ]
A talkative ex-SO friend (and then major Flag FSM in my region; my FSM) told me in private there was a confidential-ish SO program circulating at Flag around the time of the GAT implementation for Solo NOTS in the mid 90's. He had seen it and read it and been briefed on it. One of the program steps mentioned was that the Solo NOTS course was purposely renamed and re-positioned as a "new" course to get all the people on the original $4500 "free CSing" version onto a new course . . . and get them on a paying basis for the six-month fees. The old course cancelled and the new course mandatory. (There were so many on the "old" course at the time and not paying for CSing.)
So the main part of the new change WAS about the money . . . not the tech. I found this out and I was at home quietly fuming (since I had earlier been auditing away on that original $4500 course and not paying for 6-month CSing).
2. My FSM also told me the same confidential-ish SO program dealt with handling disaffected and non-auditing OT7's. It said something to the effect that the biggest threat to the future of Scientology going forward was disaffected OT7′s in the field and they must all be “handled” immediately and gotten back in (or quieted). So there was a lot of pressure and many missions at the time to herd everyone back in and get them going on GAT Solo NOTS. And on a new paying basis, of course. Repay for everything again? No big deal.
3. Like many other "stalled 7s" (I had refused to repay and stopped auditing), I met with my FSM (acting as a Flag MAA proxy) out in the field at his home and was told I had to sign a document that night or would face an investigation or "lowers" or court of ethics or comm ev or even a declare, etc. I asked if any people had been declared or was that just a big bluff. I was very cheeky. He said, oh yes, there had been some declares already. He had lied to try to pressure me. Pretty obvious.
The terms of the so-called document were that I would return to Flag (and Solo 7) within six months, gladly pay for all my new courses and not complain, be gung-ho about the GAT, etc. The document was put on the table and slide across to me.
I didn't read it or look at it. I slowly and deliberately stood, turned, gathered up my stuff, and walked out forever and never really looked back. Never spoke to him again.
Being defrauded for something I had already paid for and being threatened with mafia-like tactics did not sit that well with me. Fortunately, I wouldn't ever permit a strong-arming like that.
I got my final look behind the curtain that day and it wasn't pretty. Literally at that moment, that night, I attained total and unshakable certainty that Miscavige and any Int executives who participated in writing or promulgating that SO program, which brought me to the table to attempt to strong arm and extort me, were unquestionably financial criminals and stone cold liars.
It was and is all about the money, always and forever. I left for good.
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