Former Sea Organization staffer Alan Walter recalls kidnapping in S/O

Alan Walter for those of you who do not know him, was one of the first members of the Apollo crew and a Scientology missionary. He is also the single most declared person in the history of the cult. In this thread Alan recalls a time on the Apollo where he was kidnapped and held against his will by L Ron Hubbard.

THE KIDNAPPING

I came on board the ship…….got myself a cabin…….SO Officers were allowed their own cabins in those days – took a few hours sleep to get over jet lag.

Made myself available for the Flag HGC as an auditor…….everything was on the surface looking good………except for the weird mood level of the ship.

During the day there was a rebroadcast of any staff meetings between LRH and the Commodore Staff. It was from this I got an inkling of what was going on…..Ron was constantly going on about SMERSH and the SP 10.

Put SMERSH, the SP 10, the R6ers, the Marcabians, the standard run of the mill SPs, the druggies, etc., – there were bogeymen out to get everybody, everywhere.

Anyway I go for my standard Missionaries’ Sec Check – the auditor is Belcacim Feraj. It appeared Belcacim liked to impress LRH so he would write up embroidered Sec Checks to prove how good he was at pulling O/W’s.

Nothing much comes up…….then I’m called in again for more Sec Checking……again nothing much comes up……..but the questions are strange: IE; Are you in the pay of Government or Business Agents? And many variations of the above.

I don’t take that much notice of it…….also during this time I’m debriefing on the US scene…….I was very critical of the quickie grades and the omitted basics that were rampant throughout the Scio Orgs.

I realized during this time LRH was not getting all the data……the Commodore Staffs and the Outer ORG SO Execs were only sending what they felt LRH wanted.

I was the messenger of bad news……LRH often shot the messenger!

Whilst this was going on I was auditing staff execs – plus members of LRH’s Household Unit. LRH was the C/S. Which made it dangerous for these people to get their charge and withholds off.

Also I began to have a relationship with a girl who worked in CIC……the top secret Central Information Center on board the ship. CIC was where all the secret missions, data, and programs were stored and where the world-wide stats were kept.

Naturally I was privy to all the inside scoop…..anyway one day my gf was freaked out – she showed me a document in LRHs handwriting to C/S 1, Brian Livingston – ordering him to get GO Legal John Parcelle to inform the IRS that I owed back taxes – (which I did not) .

This document devastated me – I could not confront the incredible betrayal.

I knew then I was in trouble………so I managed to slip off the ship, we were still in Casablanca…….I went to a Hotel and made a call to Dallas – to my top Exec Susan Ballantine – later to become Susan Watson President of CC.

She told me that every Org and every Mission had been informed that I had confessed to being a secret agent in the pay of business interests and that I was attempting to take over Scientology – it was this document that freaked John McMaster’s out.

It also collapsed and crashed the stats of all my missions – for at that time I had 10 Missions: Dallas, Saint Louis, Boston, Cambridge, New Orleans, Atlanta, Kansas City, 500 West End in New York, La Jolla, and Beverly Hills, we had at one stage over a 1,000 students advanced paid to do the SHSBC.

I also had several other businesses, one of which had over 7000 employees.

These Missions were very viable, we had double staff – that means all staff had replacements for when they needed to get upper level training or processing.

7 years of work by myself and the team destroyed.

Also at that time another SO Missionare came on board and was surprised to see me walking free……LRH, MSH or Brian Livingston had not told anyone on the ship what they were up to.

More to come!

Alan

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