Aaron Smith-Levin

You can't misrepresent him because he spent thousands of hours representing himself genuinely.

The current leader of Scientology.

He was actually not selected by L. Ron Hubbard to take over, but ended up usurping power and taking over.

uh it's not the natural successor to power it's the one that takes power right i think the quote sometimes gets attributed to david miscavige is um power power is not given it is assumed yeah something like that the last six years of alron hubbard's life he was often a seclusion essentially hiding from lawsuits

Now, by the time Hubbard went off into seclusion, Miscavige had sort of already risen up through the ranks of the Sea Organization.

Now, Miscavige was like a teenager, either like 11, 12, 13, something like that.

Miscavige was not born into Scientology, but he was a young boy when his father got into Scientology.

So Miscavige did start working as a Sea Org member.

So there's one organization that existed to essentially serve Hubbard directly.

And to represent his interests.

And that was called the Commodore.

He was the Commodore of the Sea Organization.

The Commodore's Messenger's Organization.

We're going to call it the CMO.

Miscavige started working for the CMO pretty early on in his Sea Org career.

By the way, as did Mike Rinder.

Mini Mike.

Okay.

And so he just became known as a doer.

Like a guy who'll get it done.