In this clip, I break down what Scientology’s computer sub-unit is about, where it is located in the overall organizational hierarchy and what they do, including what famously happened in 1995 when a staffer there leaked highly confidential information to the internet. Enjoy!
This clip was excerpted from Critical Q&A #72, first published on August 27, 2016.
Hey Chris, Yes, crazy times. My good friend Foster Tompkins started Incomm in the early 1980s. I designed their logo as a favor to Foster. Hubbard’s vision of computers was right out of 1984. He saw it as a way to enforce compliance to senior orders. It was all about control. They implemented some of his ideas at the Int Base and it was a nightmare. The computer would chase up orders and demand compliance, and you could not talk with the computer or question it, it just kept increasing your penalties. We called it “Robocop.”
Thanks for that Jeff. I didn’t know you did their logo! Yeah, the TNT system was in place for us and it was just reams of wasted paper in “nudges” and “noncompliance chits” and all that crap.