Jamie Mustard

We didn't even know what they were as kids.

We'd walk into a room and there would be a room full of documents.

And we would spend days at a time shredding these things we couldn't even read.

When I look back on it years later, Jordan, just it kind of broke my heart that they weren't concerned about us.

No, they weren't concerned about how these children were living.

But the Scientology was very clever.

The living conditions were animalistic and horrible.

So they were very smart.

to remove us from the dormitories.

So when the FBI went into the fountain building, as it's called where we live, which was a tenement, they didn't see anybody there.

They just saw these like dilapidated rooms with beds in them and they didn't have a context for it.

Yeah.

Even in the last month, my point of view has changed.

When I got a little older, I started thinking, you know, the FBI really failed me.

I almost died, and a lot of my friends... I've lost a lot of people.

What they did is every time the FBI would spread into a room, they would move us to another room.

And I guess what they were telling the FBI is we don't want the kids to see this while they were animalizing us.

Yeah, but they were raiding them for the infiltration.

Literally in the last month, as people have reached out to me and write me notes, one of the realizations I've had, and I love your take on this because I know you lived in L.A., is I feel like the city of Los Angeles failed me.

One thing that I think you'll find really interesting, and this is not in the book, even though I was imprisoned, I was also free to go between the buildings.