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Miscavige was a deputy to church founder L. Ron Hubbard (a "Commodore's messenger") while he was a teenager.[3] He rose to a leadership position by the early 1980s and was named Chairman of the Board of RTC in 1987.[4] Official church biographies describe Miscavige as "the ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion"[3][5][6] and celebrate his accomplishments, including obtaining recognition as a tax-favored charity by the US Internal Revenue Service, issuing restored and corrected editions of the works of L. Ron Hubbard and undertaking a program of new or remodeled churches and related facilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Miscavige
In Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me (St. Martin's Press, $26.99), he paints his son the leader of the Church of Scientology and the successor to founder L. Ron Hubbard as an abusive tyrant who has transformed a once-useful religion into a cult devoted to worshipping him, squeezing every possible cent out of church members and treating those who devote their lives to the church like sharecroppers whose measly wages will never get them out of debt at the company store or off the churchs palatial plantation.
http://www.laweekly.com/arts/david-miscaviges-father-exposes-scientologys-cruelest-policy-6957079
Ron Miscavige introduced his son, David, to the Church of Scientology in 1969 hoping it would help the young boy's asthma. David quickly became a devotee and climbed the ranks, growing close with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. When Hubbard died, David became the de facto leader. What has happened within the Church under his tenure has been the source of rumors and speculation for decades. Ron, who left the Church in 2012 and was later allegedly followed by private investigators sent by his own son, is telling his side of the story in a new memoir. What follows is an exclusive excerpt from the book.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a44458/ruthless-scientology-excerpt/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Miscavige
In Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me (St. Martin's Press, $26.99), he paints his son the leader of the Church of Scientology and the successor to founder L. Ron Hubbard as an abusive tyrant who has transformed a once-useful religion into a cult devoted to worshipping him, squeezing every possible cent out of church members and treating those who devote their lives to the church like sharecroppers whose measly wages will never get them out of debt at the company store or off the churchs palatial plantation.
http://www.laweekly.com/arts/david-miscaviges-father-exposes-scientologys-cruelest-policy-6957079
Ron Miscavige introduced his son, David, to the Church of Scientology in 1969 hoping it would help the young boy's asthma. David quickly became a devotee and climbed the ranks, growing close with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. When Hubbard died, David became the de facto leader. What has happened within the Church under his tenure has been the source of rumors and speculation for decades. Ron, who left the Church in 2012 and was later allegedly followed by private investigators sent by his own son, is telling his side of the story in a new memoir. What follows is an exclusive excerpt from the book.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a44458/ruthless-scientology-excerpt/