`  == Why The Hole  What Motivated This Behavior ==  One of the things that is missing is why David M. created The Hole in the first place. Maybe it's not covered because there would be too much speculation, the opinions covering the motivation for David M. creating The Hole would need to come from people who have left the corporation which have some serious bias  Rathbun and Rinder et al.  At the dates indicated in the article here, DM was seeing some very serious decline in revenues globally thanks in large part to the people in a.r.s assisting with the creation of web sites covering NarCONon, Criminon, and all the other fake fronts like CCHA which were able to still bring ing money.  The real world protests that were taking place before Anonymous got involved were also having a serious impact, so much so that David ordered the commission of the so-called Sporgery computer crimes to try to silemnce the people in a.r.s. (I was the one working with the FBI's Dallas HQ on the Sporgery crimes, I was the guy who got Tory ``Magoo`` Christianson identified as one of the individuals purchasing money orders for the commission of computer felonies.) One Anonymous got on board, revenues plummeted even more.  From DM's standpoint, disaster after disaster were piling up from 1994 when a.r.s got fully involved and all through 2000 when the Sporgery crimes were stopped by the FBI's investigations. The financial problems for Scientology and for DM himself increased tremendously after 2000 with Ava P., Helena Kobrin, Kendfrick Moxon, and Eliot Abelsom getting sanctioned by the courts from time to time for exceeding court rules, so much so that DM decided he needed actual lawyers, not ``captive`` lawyers.  From DM's perspective, everything is coming to an end, the empire is crumbling, revenues are less than the costs, and according to Hubbard policy, the reason is hidden SPs, PTSs, all that, thus the formation of The Hole to beat confessions out of the kingpins themselves, find out who is an enemy, find out why they're unable to ``make it go right.``  But the motivations for the formation of The Hole are too speculative, too non-neutral POV to include, would be my guess. It could be added as a section, but that's a whole lot of homework to get suitable, testable, falsifiable references.   `