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TONY ORTEGA
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Inside the room there was hardly anything other than a bed and the person being given the silent treatment. Outside the room, there was someone watching to make sure that the door stayed closed and the person inside didn’t get out.
It was Scientology’s first “Introspection Rundown,” and it happened more than 50 years ago on a ship sailing the Atlantic that was called the Apollo. The person inside the cabin was a member of the crew named Bruce Welch, who had temporarily lost his mind.
The person sitting outside, providing security, was a young Australian Scientologist named Mike Rinder.
“It was my first job on the Apollo. To sit outside the cabin with Bruce Welch. And I can tell you, no one interacted with him at all,” Rinder (1955-2025) told us ten years ago for this series the first time it ran.
The former Scientology spokesman, who left the church in 2007, remembered that Welch had not only had a psychotic break, but that he was a large man and an intimidating one.
“I was terrified of that guy. He was huge, and violent,” Rinder said.
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tonyortega.substack.com
Excerpt:
Inside the room there was hardly anything other than a bed and the person being given the silent treatment. Outside the room, there was someone watching to make sure that the door stayed closed and the person inside didn’t get out.
It was Scientology’s first “Introspection Rundown,” and it happened more than 50 years ago on a ship sailing the Atlantic that was called the Apollo. The person inside the cabin was a member of the crew named Bruce Welch, who had temporarily lost his mind.
The person sitting outside, providing security, was a young Australian Scientologist named Mike Rinder.
“It was my first job on the Apollo. To sit outside the cabin with Bruce Welch. And I can tell you, no one interacted with him at all,” Rinder (1955-2025) told us ten years ago for this series the first time it ran.
The former Scientology spokesman, who left the church in 2007, remembered that Welch had not only had a psychotic break, but that he was a large man and an intimidating one.
“I was terrified of that guy. He was huge, and violent,” Rinder said.
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Inside the room there was hardly anything other than a bed and the person being given the silent treatment.
