The Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) was started by L. Ron Hubbard in 1969 while he was living aboard the Sea Organization ship called the Apollo. These messengers were his personal administrative assistants and operated solely under his direction. When Hubbard passed away in January of 1986, the CMO was taken over by David Miscavige who used it for his own ends. The CMO is now the organization that connects the Religious Technology Center to the Church of Scientology as the enforcers of orders and programs from the RTC. An official Church of Scientology portrait of L. Ron Hubbard, circa 1970 Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was a prolific American author and the controversial founder of Dianetics and Scientology. ... The Sea Org logo. ... David Miscavige (born April 30, 1960) is Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center, a corporation that owns the trademarked names and symbols of Dianetics and Scientology. ... The Religious Technology Center (RTC) is a non-profit organization established in 1982 by the Church of Scientology to control and oversee the uses of all of the trademarks, symbols and sacred texts of Scientology and Dianetics, including the copyrighted works of the religions founder, L. Ron Hubbard. ... Official Scientology Cross Symbol The Church of Scientology is a new religious movement founded by late science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard as an organization dedicated to the practice of Scientology, an applied religious philosophy formulated by Hubbard. ...