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TONY ORTEGA
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[Miscavige, in 1998; photo by Robin Donina Serne]
Marc Headley remembers where he was and what he was doing because David Miscavige, the leader of Scientology, was spitting obscenities about, of all things, the bad teeth belonging to Marc’s stepfather.
It was late summer 1995 in the 1,500-seat grand auditorium at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, Scientology’s most holy site in the world. The place was packed with the Scientologists at the “Flag Land Base” who worked as technical experts — people whose jobs involved the arcane rules of counseling invented by Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
For several months, Miscavige, who normally worked from Scientology’s international management base in Hemet, California, had been working instead at “Flag,” Scientology’s spiritual headquarters in Clearwater. In 1975, Scientology surreptitiously invaded the Florida Gulf Coast town, taking over property under the fake name “United Churches of Florida.” Twenty years later, the church owned numerous buildings in the city’s downtown, and Scientologists arrived from around the world to pay for expensive courses and counseling that is only available at the complex.
Headley, who was also usually at Int Base in California, was temporarily in Flag after working on a project in Denmark. Headley wasn’t a Scientology “technology” person. He was a specialist in actual technology, like computers and audiovisual equipment. And so while he was at Flag, he was corralled to make sure that Miscavige’s briefings in the auditorium were properly amplified and recorded.
“Sometimes he’d show a new video, and it was my job to make sure it played correctly. We’d run the mics, and record everything. After the show someone from his office would pick up the recordings,” Headley tells us. “One of those briefings is when he thought up the new E-meter. Another time there he figured out Golden Age of Tech, at one of those briefings.”
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Excerpt:
[Miscavige, in 1998; photo by Robin Donina Serne]
Marc Headley remembers where he was and what he was doing because David Miscavige, the leader of Scientology, was spitting obscenities about, of all things, the bad teeth belonging to Marc’s stepfather.
It was late summer 1995 in the 1,500-seat grand auditorium at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, Scientology’s most holy site in the world. The place was packed with the Scientologists at the “Flag Land Base” who worked as technical experts — people whose jobs involved the arcane rules of counseling invented by Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
For several months, Miscavige, who normally worked from Scientology’s international management base in Hemet, California, had been working instead at “Flag,” Scientology’s spiritual headquarters in Clearwater. In 1975, Scientology surreptitiously invaded the Florida Gulf Coast town, taking over property under the fake name “United Churches of Florida.” Twenty years later, the church owned numerous buildings in the city’s downtown, and Scientologists arrived from around the world to pay for expensive courses and counseling that is only available at the complex.
Headley, who was also usually at Int Base in California, was temporarily in Flag after working on a project in Denmark. Headley wasn’t a Scientology “technology” person. He was a specialist in actual technology, like computers and audiovisual equipment. And so while he was at Flag, he was corralled to make sure that Miscavige’s briefings in the auditorium were properly amplified and recorded.
“Sometimes he’d show a new video, and it was my job to make sure it played correctly. We’d run the mics, and record everything. After the show someone from his office would pick up the recordings,” Headley tells us. “One of those briefings is when he thought up the new E-meter. Another time there he figured out Golden Age of Tech, at one of those briefings.”
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Marc Headley remembers where he was and what he was doing because David Miscavige, the leader of Scientology, was spitting obscenities about, of all things, the bad teeth belonging to Marc’s stepfather.
