The Mind Control Myth

I was almost 7 years in the "Rehabilitation Project Force" (Scientology staff elite's "prison/mind reform program", nicknamed the "RPF"), and I will gladly be interviewed.
My total time on Scientology staff, 1975-2003, and my last 7 years was spent on the RPF, 1996-2003, I can thus answer questions for any researchers wishing a firsthand participant, willing and at times unwilling, to the Scientology lifetime staff "RPF" program. Most notable target of the "RPF" program for brainwashing, is the infamous "Truth Rundwon" fraud spiritual counseling procedure that is the main "spiritual" (it's fraud mental therapy in my opinion today) where we RPF members recanted our critical views of the "good" Scientology leaders and groups, and we were led to realign our thoughts in a totally positive fashion supportive of the Scientology lifetime staff organization which is named the Sea Organization, and also rejazzing up our support for the good leaders of the same. I'll talk. Who's doing any type of research?! There are plenty of us ex RPF members who've done 5-10 years on the damn RPF program. We'll goddamn talk! Who is goddman researching for real out there with guts to do the research!! Chuck Beatty, ex Sea Org member 1975-2003, Pittsburgh, USA, 412-260-1170. I realize research is a long haul hard job. I have been trying to encourage MORE academic research of the Scientology RPF, and there's pitiful interest! Only Professor Stephen Kent of Univ of Alberta is doing anything.
Where are the damn researching academics willing to dig into the lives of the dozens and dozens of ex RPF members willing to talk! The "Truth Rundown" of the Scientology RPF program hasn't even been touched yet in print, except me, on anti Scientology chat sites!

As the author of a book on cult leader Sun Myung Moon, let me say that I am totally agnostic as to whether there is an important distinction between the storied art of "brainwashing" and your garden-variety manipulation and swindling that goes on in less-messianic settings, whether it's prison camps or Ponzi schemes.

But your article overlooks the most explosive charge in Zablocki's research: that academics have allowed themselves to be corrupted by big money from Scientologists and other dictatorial churches with a vested interest in shutting down the discussion.

I can't tell you how many people have told me how frustrated they've been to discover that their universities won't let them step on the toes of the "New Religions" patrolling the campus for lonely freshmen to recruit...whether it's putting the kibosh on a Cult Awareness program at U-Minn. or doing doctoral research into this stuff.

The most astounding thing I learned via Zablocki's research was that the leading proponent of the P.C. theory of cults had actually taken cash from the Aum Supreme Truth guys to profess their innocence in Tokyo, after the group had gassed commuters in the mid-'90s.