Commodore's Messenger Organization

The Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) is a sub-division of the Scientology- related Sea Organization ( Sea Org ), which was directly subordinate to its founder L. Ron Hubbard and can be seen as its extended arm.

The first Commodore's Messengers ( English : "Messenger / Envoy of the Commodore [Hubbard]") were underage children of Scientologists who were active on the Scientology ship Apollo from 1968 onwards . They grew up close to Hubbard, looking after his welfare and delivering orders to other crew members on his behalf. In the mid-1970s, the Messengers got their own hierarchy and, as Commodore's Messenger Organization , subsequently became the highest executive body within Scientology.

History and Development

In 1968 L. Ron Hubbard established a unit he called Commodore's Messengers , whose job it was to be of service to him around the clock and to pass on his orders. The first messengers were four teenage girls between the ages of eleven and fourteen, who were soon joined by other Scientologist children. Hubbard traced the selection of young girls as messengers back to Nazi Germany. Hitler was crazy, but the idea of the Hitler Youth was one of his best ideas. Young people can still be shaped according to their own wishes, girls and women are in turn more loyal than men.

To be chosen as a messenger was an honor for the girls in question. Hubbard's favor was vied for among each other. The messengers wore uniforms : white hot pants, tank tops and platform shoes.

When delivering orders from Hubbard, the messengers were required to use the exact same words and tone of voice. In addition, they had to take care of Hubbard's personal well-being, for example by having one messenger carry his cigarettes and another an ashtray. The girls had to be there for Hubbard around the clock, working in six-hour shifts. Two messengers were to stay outside each bedroom when Hubbard slept; when he was awake, all messengers gathered waiting for his call. A log was kept of when Hubbard woke up, what he ate, when he worked, the details of every message he wanted delivered, and when he went to bed.

As Hubbard's envoy, the messengers enjoyed unrestricted authority and in 1973 Hubbard gave them their own form of organization with the Commodore's Messenger Organization . The youth became Hubbard's voice within the Sea Org and Scientology as a whole.

In the mid-1970s, the Messenger were Hubbard's close companions through the period leading up to the establishment of Flag Land Base in Clearwater , Florida. When Hubbard went into hiding for fear of an arrest warrant, they spent time together in Washington, DC , then in Sparks , Nevada, before the CMO set up a secret refuge for him in La Quinta , California.

In the second half of the 1970s, Hubbard created two further sub-organizations of the CMO: on the one hand the Film Org , because he wanted to make films, and on the other hand the Special Unit on Scientology Management. In the course of this, a first contact was established between Hubbard and David Miscavige , who had only recently joined the CMO. Also in 1979 furnished Watchdog Committee (WDC) ( Engl. : Committee of the guard dogs) was manned exclusively with executives of the CMO and took over management tasks.

In 1979 the CMO within the Scientology hierarchy was granted more extensive rights "both authority and ... responsibility ... to investigate and intervene in every area of international management and to rectify the situation by eliminating the respective hierarchy".

In 1980, both the Commodore's Messenger Organization and the Watchdog Committee were primarily concerned with keeping L. Ron Hubbard out of the investigation into the Operation Snow White trial , in which he was listed as a co-conspirator and against was determined. Hubbard had gone into hiding at this point and in a first step the Corporate Category Sort-Out (MCCS) mission was founded in February 1980 , the main task of which was to conceal Hubbard's control function over Scientology and to legalize the flow of money to him. In an intermediate step, a new organizational structure was created with Corporate Sort-Out (CSO), which was then transferred to the All Clear Unit under the direction of the CMO .

The organizations created as part of the Corporate Sort-Out (CSO) were the Church of Scientology International (CSI), the Religious Technology Center (RTC), Bridge Publications , New Era Publications , Scientology Missions International (SMI), Author Services Incorporated (ASI ), the Product Development Office Inc (previously Ron's Personal Office ) and the Office of Special Affairs . The aim was to create ostensibly "lawful structures that enable the CMO and Hubbard to secretly exercise control of the Scientology organization".

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Russell Miller [2014] Bare-Faced Messiah - The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard , Chapter 18, The Messengers of God , Silvertail Books, ISBN 978-1-909269-14-9 .
Jump up ↑ Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Part 6, Chapter 27, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4820-2303-9 .
^ Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard Jr. [1987] L. Ron Hubbard - Messiah or Madman , Lyle Stuart Inc. Secaucus, New Jersey, ISBN 0-8184-0444-2 .
↑ Russell Miller [2014] Bare-Faced Messiah - The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, Chapter 19, Silvertail Books, ISBN 978-1-909269-14-9 .
↑ Lawrence Wright [2013] In the Prison of Faith , p. 164, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3-421-04535-5 .
↑ Janet Reitman [2011] Inside Scientology - The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion , pp. 106f, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, ISBN 978-0-618-88302-8 .
↑ Janet Reitman [2011] Inside Scientology - The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion , p. 113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, ISBN 978-0-618-88302-8 .
^ Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Part 6, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4820-2303-9 .
Jump up ↑ Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Part 6, Chapter 27, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4820-2303-9 .
^ ^A ^b ^c Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Part 6, Chapter 28, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4820-2303-9 .
^ David S. Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University, Executive Directive 1735 Flag, Watchdog Committee , April 2, 1979.
↑ David S. Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University, Central Bureau Order 588, Flag Senior Management Command Lines , "The CMO has he authority and jurisdiction to investigate, to intervene and by-pass and handle any area of International Management." July 26, 1979.
^ Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Chapter 28, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4820-2303-9 .
^ ^A ^b Janet Reitman [2011] Inside Scientology - The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, pp. 129-30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, ISBN 978-0-618-88302-8 .

[Miller_Kap18-1] A ^b ^c Russell Miller [2014] Bare-Faced Messiah - The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard , Chapter 18, The Messengers of God , Silvertail Books, ISBN 978-1-909269-14-9 .

[2] Jump up ↑ Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Part 6, Chapter 27, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4820-2303-9 .

[3] Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard Jr. [1987] L. Ron Hubbard - Messiah or Madman , Lyle Stuart Inc. Secaucus, New Jersey, ISBN 0-8184-0444-2 .

[4] Russell Miller [2014] Bare-Faced Messiah - The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, Chapter 19, Silvertail Books, ISBN 978-1-909269-14-9 .

[Wright_Seite_164-5] Lawrence Wright [2013] In the Prison of Faith , p. 164, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3-421-04535-5 .

[Reitman_106-107-6] Janet Reitman [2011] Inside Scientology - The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion , pp. 106f, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, ISBN 978-0-618-88302-8 .

[7] Janet Reitman [2011] Inside Scientology - The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion , p. 113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, ISBN 978-0-618-88302-8 .

[8] Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Part 6, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4820-2303-9 .

[9] Jump up ↑ Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Part 6, Chapter 27, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4820-2303-9 .

[Atack_Kap28-10] A ^b ^c Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Part 6, Chapter 28, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4820-2303-9 .

[11] David S. Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University, Executive Directive 1735 Flag, Watchdog Committee , April 2, 1979.

[12] David S. Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University, Central Bureau Order 588, Flag Senior Management Command Lines , "The CMO has he authority and jurisdiction to investigate, to intervene and by-pass and handle any area of International Management." July 26, 1979.

[13] Jon Atack [2013] A Piece of Blue Sky - Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology , Chapter 28, Richard Woods, Trentvalley Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4820-2303-9 .

[Reitman_129-14] A ^b Janet Reitman [2011] Inside Scientology - The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, pp. 129-30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, ISBN 978-0-618-88302-8 .