Robert Vaughn Young
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Robert Vaughn Young (April 23, 1938 - June 15, 2003) commonly known by his initials RVY, was a whistleblower against the Church of Scientology after working deep inside their organization for over twenty years.
Of his years with the Church, RVY said:
I have held nearly every type of position at every echelon. I have worked at the local, the regional, the national and the international levels. I have been a Scientology representative and spokesman before governmental bodies, the media and the courts. I have trained others on how to handle the media and governmental agencies. I have been the most senior public relations executive for Scientology world wide. I worked for years at the echelon that handles critics, "enemies," the media, judges, the courts and the government. I have been privy to documents and tactics of the most secret nature, including illegalities committed by Scientology executives and the means of cover-up.[1]
RVY edited L. Ron Hubbard's ten-volume Mission Earth series. Young claimed that Hubbard had written the main text of the series, but that he had ghostwritten the introduction of each volume, as well as other writings in Hubbard's name.
After leaving the Church of Scientology in 1989, Young became prominent as an expert in court cases regarding Scientology and as an Internet-based critic of the organization. His ex-wife, Stacy Brooks, was a member of the Lisa McPherson Trust.
Young was diagnosed with prostate cancer on November 23, 1999 and turned his energies to Phoenix5, a non-profit organization that runs a website on the disease. He died on June 15, 2003.
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[edit] Books
- Interpol Connection: An Inquiry into the International Criminal Police Organization, with Trevor Meldal-Johnsen, Dial Press, 1979.
[edit] External links
- RVY's affidavit of March 9, 1994
- Phoenix5 home page
- Robert Vaughn Young writings (Factnet)
- Scientology® Versus Robert Vaughn Young (RVY's writings on alt.religion.scientology)
- Scientology from inside out, Quill magazine, Volume 81, Number 9, Nov/Dec 1993.
