GREG & DEBRA
BARNES
1st Person
Accounts
Stories of
abuse, deception and fraud in Scientology
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
In a nutshell, the Barnes discovered that
someone was re-writing Hubbard bulletins and they they
were excommunicated for making that discovery.
While they were doing Scientology's
confidential upper OT level VII the Barnes were shown a
technical bulletin (C/S series 73RB) that Scientology's new
management claimed was written by Hubbard. The bulletin stated
that the security checks (also called "refreshers") they
and all persons auditing on OTVII were being forced to undergo each
six months contradicted what Hubbard himself had directed about such
processes. They also realized that C/S series 73RA was 12 pages long
whereas the bulletin they were reading was only 5 pages
long.
So, why is that important and what are all the
numbers? C/S Series 73RA means that this was Hubbard's
73rd bulletin on Case Supervision of auditing processes;
the "R" stands for "revised" - in other words, Hubbard may have
changed some things in the bulletin after initially releasing
it. The next letter shows how many times it was revised so in this
case "A" indicates it was revised once; "73RB" means that
the same bulletin was revised twice. That is important because
the Barnes discovered that seven pages f Hubbard's instructions
had been removed from the bulletin by Scientology's current
management after Hubbard died in 1986. In Scientology, altering
Hubbard's writings is a criminal offense, so the Barnes took it
upon themselves to bring these alterations to the
organization's attention.
The
internal documents and reports listed on the Meet Greg and
Debra Barnes main page may be a little difficult for the "unitiated"
to read but nonetheless, they offer a fascinating glimpse into how
the organization conducts its internal affairs
and the format in which Scientologists are
instructed to resolve disputes and grievances, namely by
writing reports.
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