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And our timing is good, because Chris Owen just published a lengthy and detailed Wikipedia entry about The Hole, Scientologys concentration camp for top executives, and thats the subject of many of these video segments. Davey Suicide Youtube' title='Davey Suicide Youtube' />Were glad to get this interview with Rinder back on the net Originally published April 4, 2. For years, Mike Rinder was the Church of Scientologys chief spokesman and executive director of the Office of Special Affairs, its intelligence wing. In 2. 00. 7, his defection was among the most surprising in an exodus of high ranking officials from the church. Since then, hes given several interviews, but none as complete as the videotaped discussions we had with him last month in his Florida home. In this first segment, he describes the conditions in The Hole, Scientologys notorious concentration camp for fallen executives at its California headquarters. In other segments, Rinder also talks about the confessions forced out of prisoners, the constant indoctrination of church members, and much, much, moreFirst, some background that we picked up while getting a tour of Scientologys spiritual home. Rinder was born in 1. Ian and Barbara Rinder in Adelaide. He has two younger siblings, Andrew and Judy. Ian was an entrepreneur and owned a series of businesses, including a wholesale grocery distributor, an aerosol canning company, a travel agency, a restaurant he even raised goats at one time. Barbara kept the books. Mike went to private schools growing up. They were Christian but non denominational. There were a lot of private schools in Adelaide, he says, calling it Australias version of Omaha or Des Moines. In 1. 95. 9 or 1. Rinders parents became interested in Scientology L. Ron Hubbard had given lectures in Melbourne around that time, and left behind some active groups there and in Adelaide. After moving to Sydney for about a year, the Rinders then made a pilgrimage to Saint Hill Manor in England in 1. Hubbard had just left the manor, which remains to this day Scientologys UK headquarters. After a second trip to Saint Hill a few years later, Rinder had twice been around the world by ship by the time he was 1. It was about then that Rinder remembers being audited for the first time. It wasnt something the family was public about, that they were Scientologists. The Hubbard books were hidden at home, and his parents werent pushy about his involvement. After finishing high school, Rinder joined the Sea Org at 1. University of Adelaide. DaveySuicide-2013_633_461_70_s_c1.jpg' alt='Davey Suicide Youtube' title='Davey Suicide Youtube' />Sea Patrol was an Australian television drama that ran from 2007 to 2011, set on board HMAS Hammersley, a fictional patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy RAN. The Hollywood Reporter is your source for breaking news about Hollywood and entertainment, including movies, TV, reviews and industry blogs. Watch the latest Featured Videos on CBSNews. View more videos on CBS News, featuring the latest indepth coverage from our news team. Download link http Zumbi Blocks Ultimate is a Zombie Survival game. Kill waves of zombies, upgrade your. Catch up on all the latest TV news, photos, videos, and opinion. Davey Suicide Youtube' title='Davey Suicide Youtube' />Last March, we visited former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder at his home in Florida. The result of our visit was a series of videos that we posted at the Village. Scientologists lawsuit against Jim Carrey over Cat Whites suicide survives dismissal. His first assignment the Tours Org, which traveled the continent, arriving at individual churches to convince parishioners to sign up for more services called regging. After crisscrossing Australia for several months in the Tours Org, Rinder was then sent for executive training at the center of Scientologys universe the yacht Apollo, with Hubbard himself. Mike Rinder, church spokesman. But first, he needed to do his formal Sea Org indoctrination, known as Estates Project Force, at Saint Hill. Then, in September 1. Lisbon to meet the ship. After swabbing decks for a while, he then landed a plum assignment back on land working PR for the ship in Funchal, Madeira, an island owned by Portugal. By 1. 97. 4, the Apollo had been kicked out of several other countries, and Portugal was just about its last safe home in Europe. But having just gone through a coup, the country was becoming suspicious of the Americans and Brits on the odd ship. Rinder and a handful of others were stationed in Funchal to hand out surveys to locals in a bid to convince them that the Apollo was harmless. Then the rock concert happened, Rinder says. In October, 1. 97. Funchal that the Apollo, which was docked there, was working on behalf of the CIA. An uprising of locals dumped a couple of cars and motorcycles owned by the Scientologists into the water as rocks were thrown at the ship itself. While Hubbard shouted instructions from the deck, the Apollos crew scrambled to get the yacht out of port. Red Alert 2 Rip Portable Generators. Rinder himself all of 1. It was that incident that convinced Hubbard to leave for the US but Rinder says the boats agent spotted federal agents waiting for the ship in South Carolina, so instead Hubbard sailed the Caribbean for a while. After another year, he would move operations to land, taking over the downtown area of Clearwater, Florida. Clearwater is, to this day, the spiritual headquarters of Scientology, and we traveled there in March to spend a couple of days with Rinder, who still lives nearby even though he left the church five years ago. Today, Rinder and another former high ranking executive, Marty Rathbun, are leading an exodus of church members who have left official Scientology because of the way its being led by their former boss, David Miscavige. Both Rinder and Rathbun, as well as others who call themselves independent Scientologists still adhere to Hubbards ideas even as they reject Miscaviges church. We asked him to help explain the difference between the two movements Rinder is just one of numerous former executives to go public in the last few years with stories of abuse at the hands of church leader David Miscavige. Like Debbie Cook, who testified to her experience of being held in the Hole Scientologys notorious office prison, Rinder explains in the first video, above, some of the conditions there. But we also asked him about the mentality that keeps some executives in Scientology for years even after theyve gone through that kind of experience. He says its a matter of gradual indoctrinationRinder says he was held as a virtual prisoner in various places tents on a golf course, for example, as well as in the Hole itself for almost two years between 2. BBCs John Sweeney. But we asked him, not for the first time, if he could remember what first caused him to fall from grace in the eyes of Miscavige, and sent him from the highest of executive positions to a prisoner Debbie Cook testified that besides the degrading conditions of the Hole sleeping on the floor of an ant infested, sweltering office, eating disgusting slop that the days consisted of mass confessions that could last hours. Rinder was held in the place far longer than Cook, and we asked him what those confessions were like Rinder mentions in that last segment that he and Marty Rathbun, another top former official, had been assigned by Miscavige for four years to handle the fallout of the 1. Lisa Mc. Pherson, who perished after being held for 1. Scientologys headquarters in Clearwater, the Fort Harrison Hotel. Rinder and Rathbun directed the churchs legal strategy as Scientology was indicted criminally for the death charges were later dropped. Mc. Phersons death and the years of bad publicity it garnered for the church is one of Scientologys biggest headaches in its 6. Even when he was let out of confinement from the Hole, Rinder says Miscavige could make work assignments feel almost as unpleasant as imprisonment itself. TV Latest Recaps, Best Shows To Watch.