Gold Base, California (Church of Scientology headquarters)
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Los Angeles; Clearwater, Florida; London; Saint Hill Manor; Copenhagen; and on the Freewinds
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David Miscavige (Captain)
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High Winds
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Sea Project [1]: 90
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The Sea Organization or Sea Org is the senior-most status of staff within the Church of Scientology network of corporations, but is not itself incorporated. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Sea Org was started as L. Ron Hubbard's private navy, and adopted naval uniforms and ranks.[2]: 263 [3]: 124 Today, all Scientology management organizations are exclusively staffed with Sea Org members.[4] The Sea Org maintains strict codes for its members, beginning with a symbolic billion-year pledge of service to Scientology upon initiation.[3]: 125 David Miscavige, the leader of Scientology, is the highest-ranking Sea Org officer with the rank of captain. The rank of commodore is permanently reserved for the late L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology.[1]: 139 Some ex-members and scholars have described the Sea Org as a totalitarian organization marked by intensive surveillance and a lack of freedom.[3]: 125
In a 1992 memorandum by the Church of Scientology International, the following information was provided to the Internal Revenue Service with regards to nature of the Sea Org:[5]
[The Sea Org] does not have an ecclesiastical organizing board or command channels chart or secular existence such as an incorporated or unincorporated association.[...] Although there is no such "organization" as the Sea Organization, the term Sea Org has a colloquial usage which implies that there is. There are general recruitment posters and literature for "The Sea Org" which implies that people will be employed by the Sea Org when in reality they will join, making the billion year commitment, at some church that is staffed by Sea Org members and become employees of that church corporation.[...] The Sea Org exists as a spiritual commitment that is factually beyond the full understanding of the [Internal Revenue] Service or any other but a trained and audited Scientologist.
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^Church of Scientology, Nov. 23, 1992: Third Set of Responses to the IRS in support of Scientology's application for 501(c)(3) tax exemption.
The Sea Organization or SeaOrg is the senior-most status of staff within the Church of Scientology network of corporations, but is not itself incorporated...
management organizations are controlled exclusively by members of the SeaOrg, which is a legally nonexistent paramilitary organization for the "elite...
" or "Captain of the SeaOrg." Miscavige was a deputy to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as a teenager. He joined the SeaOrg, a management group for...
has two brothers, Sterling and Justin. Her parents joined Scientology's SeaOrg just before Jenna turned two years old.: 1 From then on she spent most...
The Cadet Org is a subdivision of the Church of Scientology for the children of members of the SeaOrg (SO), an internal Scientology grouping of the organization's...
finishing high school, at age 18 Rinder joined the SeaOrg on the ship Apollo, then headquarters for SeaOrg and for Scientology. Rinder became an early member...
Barnett; born January 18, 1961) is a member of the Church of Scientology's SeaOrg who married Scientology leader David Miscavige.: 303 She was last seen...
personnel, who are seen as their seniors. All members and staff defer to SeaOrg staff. Even though at-large members are not part of the organization proper...
Scientology school. At age 19, Feshbach joined the Church of Scientology's SeaOrg, a group described by the organization as occupying "the most essential...
the site. Senior church officials, and up to 1,000 of the church's elite SeaOrg live and work on the base; the church's leader, David Miscavige, also lived...
SeaOrg ordered the removal of all the fiberglass protecting the ship from the Caribbean sun. Once construction started, Woodcraft witnessed how Sea Org...
one-on-one with scientologists to help them with ethics issues. In the SeaOrg, this is called the Master-at-Arms. The ethics officer works in the Department...
demeanor, with none of his father's bombast.: 214 : 325 In 1975, the SeaOrg moved to shore in Clearwater, Florida. Quentin was assigned to operations...
called the Sea Organization or just SeaOrg. They work only for the Church of Scientology and have signed billion year contracts. SeaOrg members live...
The Mediterranean Sea (/ˌmɛdɪtəˈreɪniən/ MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost...
Billion Years. Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 8 May 2023. "The SeaOrg". The Sea Organization. Retrieved 8 May 2023. Media related to Religious orders...
From the river to the sea (Arabic: من النهر إلى البحر, romanized: min an-nahr ʾilā l-baḥr; Palestinian Arabic: من المية للمية, romanized: min il-ṃayye...
Archived from the original on June 20, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016. Copy of SeaOrg agreement form[dead link], LA Times. A Place in the Desert for New Mexico's...
she joined the core group of staff members within Scientology called the SeaOrg. After being a member of the Scientology organization for ten years, Christman...
The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippine Archipelago (hence the name) and the largest sea in the world,...
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