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Scientology Roots Chapter Nine – 1 Hubbard’s Lifelong Intelligence Career
Scientology Roots Chapter Nine – 1 Hubbard’s Lifelong Intelligence Career
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The British nobility has been working on a Grand Plan to make themselves the ruthless ruler of the entire world.
The rest of humanity does not agree to their idea that the British nobility should rule the world. They do not want to be obedient subjects, servants and slaves who live under the boot and say-so of the British aristocracy.
Most men want to live as free men who live under their own will and say-so.
Thus the British slavemasters conducted mental and spiritual research. Their real interest in studying the human mind and spirit was to learn how to control men, so they could modify his behavior into what they want all men to be – willing subjects under rule by the British nobility.
The Cecil family is one of the top British slavemaster families. Their family has been the head of British intelligence for over 400 years. Robert Cecil was the leader of an influential family called the Cecil Bloc.
He was the head of British intelligence and he was a British Prime Minister.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil (Lord Salisbury)
One of his sisters had a son named Arthur Balfour. He was in the Cecil family and he was also a head of British intelligence and a Prime Minister of Britain. 20
Arthur J. Balfour
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Development of Dianetics and Scientology
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Stephen Pearl Andrews was a leader in the religious movement called Spiritualism.
Here are some quotes from that book:
Scientology is therefore Universology developed in the spirit of the Exact Sciences, and is wholly new in kind. It is the Core or Centre and the most distinctive Department of Universology… (page 37)
Scientology will re-assert and vindicate… Spiritualistic Realities and Tendencies…
(page 146)
It will be the supreme triumph of Scientology, the Exact Branch of this new Universal Science, to exhibit in Diagram, and by illustrative object-teaching, all the Root-thoughts of which the Human Mind is capable… (page 165)
The same year that Andrews started the idea of Scientology, the Cecil family took up the idea.
In 1871, Arthur Balfour and his in-laws form a private group to study paranormal phenomena.
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Psychiatrist Josef Breuer was treating Bertha Pappenheim in the summer of 1880.
He found that when she recalled a series of memories back to a traumatic memory, one of her many symptoms would disappear. Breuer drew two important conclusions from his work with Bertha: that her symptoms were the result of thoughts that were buried in her unconscious and that when these thoughts were spoken and became conscious, the symptoms disappeared.
Breuer called this catharsis therapy. It was also called abreactive therapy and talking therapy.
Catharsis or abreactive therapy –
The process of bringing repressed ideas and feelings into consciousness.
It is the reliving of past traumatic incidents buried in the subconscious.
Sigmund Freud began using this cathartic treatment under Breuer’s guidance.
Sigmund Freud
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In 1882, Arthur Balfour created the Society for Psychical Research. They conducted scientific research into mental and spiritual phenomena. They developed the subjects of Dianetics and Scientology. All the basic mental, spiritual, and religious ideas in Dianetics and Scientology were developed by the SPR, before L. Ron Hubbard was even born. That includes the therapy used.
Sigmund Freud was a member of the Society for Psychical Research. The SPR also conducted extensive research into catharsis therapy. The subjects of Dianetics and Scientology were tied together from the beginning and both subjects were underneath the Cecil family, which means underneath British intelligence.
When Ron Hubbard was a teenager he was recruited by British intelligence. Thereafter he executed one intelligence assignment after the other for his entire life.
They groomed Hubbard to be the front man for their subjects of Dianetics and Scientology. You can read about that in Scientology Roots Chapter Seven – The First Scientologists and Their Masters.
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The common denominator that explains all of Hubbard’s actions in life ….
Ron Hubbard told Scientologists to support the British New World Order.
He advocates the worst sociopaths in the world having direct control over the life of every individual person.
Lovely…
L. Ron Hubbard was not “mankind’s greatest friend”.
As an intelligence agent for the British slavemasters – he was one of mankind’s greatest enemies.
Formation of MI 6
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In 1909, the British Home Office became MI 5 and the British Foreign Office became MI 6.
MI5 is Britain’s counter-espionage service. It operates inside Great Britain.
MI6 conducts intelligence activities on foreign soil, outside of Britain.
Admiral Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming headed the new Foreign Section of the British Secret Service.
The new Foreign Section is called the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and MI 6.
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Commander Thompson Mentor To Ron Hubbard
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Commander Joseph Thompson was a medical officer (neurosurgeon) in the US Navy.
Joseph Thompson of the US Navy and Consuelo Andrew Seoane of the US Army, served together as spies in Japan starting in 1909. They pretended they were studying coastal reptiles and amphibians, but they were actually charting possible invasion routes and counting all the Japanese fortifications and naval guns that were part of Japan’s coastal defenses. Their espionage work went on from there into places other than Japan. In a subsequent assignment, Thompson was sent into China because of the Boxer rebellion there.
Commander Thompson had a career doing intelligence work using the same archaeologist, exploring scientist cover. He studied bugs and dug up ancient graves, sometimes operating under his real name and sometimes using fake names such as Dr. Victor Kuhne and Joe Tom Sun. 24
Commander Thompson would become the mentor to Ron Hubbard.
On 13 March 1911 Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born. He is the son of United States naval commander Harry Ross Hubbard and Ledora May Hubbard. A friend of Ron’s father was US Navy Commander Joseph “Snake” Thompson.
All of the basic mental, spiritual, and religious ideas found in Dianetics and Scientology were already developed by the Society for Psychical Research, before L. Ron Hubbard was even born. That includes the therapy used.
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Vincent Astor Intelligence Network – Naval Reserves
Waldorf Astor was an early member of the Round Table. He and his wife Nancy lived in an estate called Cliveden.
Waldorf and Nancy Astor
The Astors held regular weekend parties and the group that attended them was known as ‘the Cliveden set’.
Some of them were –
Edward Wood, Lord Halifax (member of Round Table)
Philip Kerr, Lord Lothian (member of Round Table)
Lionel Curtis (member of Round Table)
Robert Brand (member of Round Table)
Geoffrey Dawson (member of Round Table, editor London Times)
Samuel Hoare (Foreign Secretary, MI 6)
Waldorf Astor had a wealthy relative in America – William Vincent Astor.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the US Navy from 1913 to 1920. Vincent Astor was good friends with Franklin Roosevelt, and they met during World War I to discuss using yachts to make a Naval Reserve Force. They selected their wealthy socialite friends to form a private intelligence network called the Naval Reserves. Their socialite pals were young men who shared the “right” schools, clubs, and connections, and all of them were pro-British. These reserve intelligence officers were under the Office of Naval Intelligence. 12, 15
Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the US Navy
Astor and Roosevelt had in common that their grandfathers became wealthy trafficking opium into China.
The grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Warren Delano Jr., was chief of operations for Russell & Co., a Boston trading firm which did big business in the China opium trade in Canton. He first went to China at age 24 and spent a decade dealing opium on the Pearl River before returning to New York wealthy. He admitted in letters home that opium had an “unhappy effect” on its users, but argued that its sale was “fair, honorable, and legitimate,” akin to importing wine and spirits to America.
Astor’s grandfather became wealthy from trading furs and trafficking opium.
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Woodrow Wilson became President of the United States in 1913.
Edward House helped Wilson get elected and was Wilson’s closest adviser.
World War I was from 1914 to 1919. That was an European conflict that had nothing to do with the United States. American citizens were against America getting into the war. But the British wanted to get America involved on the British side.
Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming sent Sir William Wiseman to run the British intelligence effort in America. Wiseman and Colonel House were good buddies. Wiseman was the handler of House, and House was invested in controlling American President Woodrow Wilson. Wiseman and House worked together on handling Wilson to get America into the war.
Aleister Crowley was an MI 6 agent who had the cover of being in the occult. Robert Cecil was his patron who had sent him to Cambridge University for training as a “diplomat”. So, Robert Cecil himself was who recruited Aleister Crowley for British intelligence.
Aleister Crowley worked for William Wiseman during World War I and helped with getting America into the war.
In the 1920’s and 1930’s Crowley spied on Germans with occult interests. 17, 25
Edward Alexander Crowley
Spencer Eddy, a wealthy New York socialite, was close friends with Franklin Roosevelt.
Spencer Fayette Eddy
In early 1916, William Wiseman recommends to Franklin Roosevelt to have Spencer Eddy start up a spy network to gather domestic intelligence. Eddy agreed to do it.
Commander Edward McCauley, Jr. was assistant director of Naval Intelligence and he acted as the handler for Eddy. Eddy recruited agents from the Naval Reserve Force. The agents in Eddy’s intelligence group were designated voluntary agents of Office of Naval Intelligence. 1
On 6 January 1917, Commander McCauley recruited all these voluntary agents into the United States Naval Reserve Force and gave them the rank of lieutenant junior grade. These men were made officers with temporary commissions and served as “volunteer agents” for the Office of Naval Intelligence. Vincent Astorwas made a Commander in the Naval Reserve. 13, 14
The Naval Reserve was basically a pro-British private intelligence network headed by Vincent Astor.
A little later in time Ron Hubbard was accepted into the Naval Reserves as an intelligence officer.
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Behavior Modification by Psychiatry
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During World War I, John Rawlings Rees and some other psychs were brought into the British Army to handle officer selection and to treat soldiers suffering from shell shock. They called it battle neurosis when the soldiers did not want to kill and be killed.
Their interest was in how to make men into killers and how to choose men to lead and influence others to kill.
They used abreactive therapy on the soldiers, followed up by drugs and electroshock “therapy”.
In 1920, these same psychs formed the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, also called the Tavistock Clinic. They used the same treatments on the civilian population then.
John Rawlings Rees made the following statements about Tavistock Clinic –
…the best results with the war neuroses are obtained when they have active treatment.
“Psychosurgery” in the shape of abreaction followed by simple re-education should as a rule precede a period of rest under narcosis.
There is, however, no question that the general method of abreaction followed by sedation is applicable to many cases in civilian life… 64
John Rawlings Rees was one of the psychiatrists who worked for British intelligence.
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Hubbard Imitated Commander Thompson
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1923 – Commander Joseph “Snake” Thompson had recently been to Vienna and was a personal student of Sigmund Freud on the subject of the mind and psychoanalysis.
Joseph Thompson
In the autumn of 1923, Snake was on his way back to Washington DC aboard the USS Ulysses S. Grant. Ron Hubbard and his parents boarded the same ship on 1 November 1923, also on their way to Washington, DC.
During this voyage, Ron meets Commander Joseph Thompson. 5
United States Ship Ulysses S. Grant
Commander Thompson was stationed at Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC – a mental health hospital.
Commander Thompson was very close friends with Clara Thompson. She worked at Chestnut Lodge Sanitarium which is only a few miles away from Saint Elizabeths Hospital. She was trained at Tavistock Clinic, the place where John Rawlings Rees was working.
Clara Thompson
Starting in 1923, Commander Thompson became the mentor of L. Ron Hubbard who is 12 years old at the time. Thompson spent many afternoons in the Library of Congress teaching Ron Hubbard about the human mind. 5
Further Introduction to Dianetics, an LRH lecture 23 September 1950 –
I was in the Orient when I was young. Of course, I was a harum-scarum kid; I wasn’t thinking about deep philosophic problems; but I had a lot of friends. One such friend was Commander “Snake” Thompson.
He had studied under Sigmund Freud, and he found me a very wide-eyed and wide-eared boy. He had just come from Vienna, and his mouth and mind were full of associative words, libido theories, conversion, and all the rest of it. He had served as an intelligence officer in Japan during the First World War.
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The Story of Dianetics and Scientology, an LRH lecture 18 October 1958 –
Anyway, at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, where they have all the books on everything, he [Thompson] started shoving my nose into an education in the field of the mind. Now, that’s a very unusual thing to do, to take a twelve-year-old boy and start doing something with the mind. But he really got me interested in the subject – up to the point where I was pretty sure that Freud didn’t know what he was talking about.
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Practicalities of a Practical Religion, an LRH lecture 3 June 1955 –
Now, another fellow who had been more or less my mentor when I was a little kid – as a matter of fact, I followed in the footsteps of this man – Commander Thompson…
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I followed in the footsteps of this man –
Commander Thompson
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Commander Thompson was an intelligence agent – not just in Japan during World War I, being an intelligence agent was his career. And that is exactly the career of Ron Hubbard, British intelligence agent, including him being the front man for Scientology. Scientology was always under the thumb of British intelligence.
Commander Joseph Thompson got Ron Hubbard started on his intelligence career.
Ron Hubbard followed Commander Thompson’s footsteps as an intelligence agent.
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Mechanics of the Mind, an LRH lecture 10 January 1953 –
…I have approximated to a very remarkable degree the career of Commander Thompson…
…in the field of expeditions, explorations, I always favored certain quarters of the world, always went there and, when there, did certain things. It fits Commander Thompson’s record.
This man had a tremendous influence upon me.
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Hubbard is revealing that his expeditions and explorations were cover for doing intelligence work.
Just like Commander Thompson did in his various explorations such as collecting bugs, digging up ancient graves, etc. Those activities were only a cover story to hide what he was really doing in each area – intelligence work.
The common denominator that explains all of Hubbard’s actions in life ….
L. Ron Hubbard
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Vincent Astor Intelligence Network – The ROOM
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Vincent Astor and his socialite friends required a retreat where they could gather in private to discuss political, financial and international topics. In 1927 Astor formed a secret society called The ROOM, which met monthly in an apartment at 34 East 62nd Street in New York City. All members had British ties and served as British agents. 4
The ROOM building
The ROOM was an outcropping of the previously formed Naval Reserves. The ROOM was the forerunner of the
Office of Strategic Services – which was the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The members conducted espionage in their travels around the world and they reported at the monthly meeting. Vincent Astor then forwarded the intelligence on to Franklin Roosevelt. It was a Roosevelt-Astor Espionage Ring.
Vincent Astor and Franklin Roosevelt
The most significant ROOM members were –
William Vincent Astor (family connection in Round Table)
William Wiseman (head of MI 6 in America)
William Donovan (Chief of OSS)
David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (Chief of OSS in London)
Robert Gordon McKay (member of OSS)
Charles Suydam Cutting (member of OSS)
Frederick Trubee Davison (member of CIA)
Somerset Maugham (MI 6 agent)
Clarence L. Hay (Naval Reserve intelligence agent)
William Rhinelander Stewart (U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence)
Other important Room members were –
Winthrop Williams Aldrich (son of Nelson Aldrich – who helped enact federal reserve system)
Nelson Doubleday (publisher, friend of MI 6 agent Ian Fleming)
Barklie McKee Henry (schooled at Oxford University)
Kenneth B. Schley (close friends with Duke and Duchess of Windsor)
H. Nugent (Kermit Roosevelt’s close English friend)
Reginald Fincke (his daughter married a British nobleman)
Oliver Dwight Filley (pilot with the Royal Flying Corps in World War I)
Kermit Roosevelt Sr. (son of American President Theodore Roosevelt, joined the British Army)
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (son of American President Theodore Roosevelt) 27, 28
- Vincent Astor
- William Donovan
- David K.E. Bruce
William Wiseman, the head of MI6 in the United States, was a ROOM member. 3
William Wiseman
William Donovan, future head of the Office of Strategic Services, was a member.
The entire atmosphere of The ROOM resembled an intelligence office. It’s code name was The Club.
All ROOM members were pro-British and The ROOM had a purpose to promote Anglo-American ties. 29
British author Somerset Maugham was a ROOM member. William Wiseman had recruited Maugham into MI6 in 1916. He used book writing as a cover for doing intelligence work.
Some ROOM members belonged to the Explorers Club in New York City. The ROOM often worked together with other members of the Explorer’s Club, inviting them to their secret meetings. 124
ROOM members often used sailing trips, or “scientific expeditions” and “world exploration” as a cover for intelligence work. The Explorers Club flag was used for cover.
Some ROOM members who belonged to the Explorers Club were –
Charles Suydam Cutting
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Kermit Roosevelt
Clarence L. Hay
Suydam Cutting, Kermit Roosevelt and Teddy Roosevelt Jr. went on two intelligence missions into China and Tibet. Their cover story on one mission was they were “in search of the legendary big-horn wild sheep called Ovis Poli”. Their cover story on the other mission was they were “searching for the Giant Panda”.
Their intelligence mission had to do with an alliance between Britain, America, and Japan to try and control Tibet and reincarnate something called the “Shambhala Project” – which was a previous British intelligence plan meant to bring the East under Britain. 2
- Charles Cutting
- Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Though never attached formally to The ROOM, Franklin Roosevelt knew every member well. Roosevelt met with ROOM members aboard Vincent Astor’s yacht, the Nourmahal, where they spent long hours drinking, gambling, fishing, “frumping” and pursuing amorous adventure. 30
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Hubbard Recruited by British Intelligence
In April 1928 Hubbard drops out of high school and goes to meet his parents in Guam.
On 30 May 1928 Hubbard traveled to China aboard the Mariana Maru, without his parents along.
Ron Hubbard aboard the Mariana Maru – he is 17 years old
Hubbard apparently spent more than six months in China, because a journal entry in his diary on November 11, 1928 shows that he has left Peking, and is now at sea again.
This is the time when Hubbard’s British intelligence career gets officially going.
Major Ian MacBean worked for MI 6 in China. His wife was Phyllis Bedell and since childhood she was lifelong friends with Admiral Mark Kerr. His cousin was Philip Henry Kerr, a member of the Round Table who held top positions in British intelligence and he worked directly with Lord Robert Cecil. The point is – Major Ian MacBean had family connection right to the top of the British slavemasters. 57
Starting in June 1928, Hubbard gets trained by British intelligence man Ian MacBean, for the next six months.
An autobiographical excerpt by Hubbard:
I was up and down the China coast several times in my ‘teens from Ching Wong Tow to Hong Kong and inland to Peking and Manchuria. I had a very good friend in the British Legation in Peking, Major Ian MacBean who was an intelligence officer. My friends were very kind to me, even indulgent, and I was extremely fortunate in having the friendship of a great many older men. They found me a good listener.
Ian MacBean took Hubbard on a tour of British intelligence efforts from Peking through northern China.
From the L. Ron Hubbard website –
…among those encountered through the course of his second Asian venture… was a Major Ian MacBean of the British Secret Service. Precisely why this MacBean would take a seventeen-year-old L. Ron Hubbard through a tour of British intelligence efforts from Peking through northern China is not known. Nonetheless, and as we shall see, MacBean’s lessons were to serve Ron well.
http://adventurer.lronhubbard.org/page06.htm
Hubbard, in his own words in Dime Adventure magazine, October 1935 –
I completely missed the atmosphere of the city, devoting most of my time to a British major who happened to be head of the Intelligence out there.
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Originally published in the February 1935 issue of Five Novels –
It was on Hubbards second journey to East Asia that he met British Secret Service agent, Major Ian MacBean, who introduced him to “The Great Game,” the geopolitical tug-of-war between China, Japan, and Britain. 32
Ian MacBean – MI 6 British intelligence agent
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Hubbard in Peking, under the tutelage of British MI6 agent Ian MacBean
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November 1928 – Hubbard is leaving China, going back to Guam.
January 1, 1929 – Ian MacBean writes to Hubbard, calls him a lieutenant and says he has been retained. 16
Dear Red,
You’ll probably hear this officially soon but I want to let you know first. You’re still a Lieutenant. You’ve been retained in spite of all the fuss the Ambassador made.
Please come back…
Mac
A copy of Ian MacBean’s 1929 letter to L. Ron Hubbard was an exhibit in the Gerald Armstrong 1 trial.
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We see from this that Ron Hubbard was hired by British intelligence and given the rank of Lieutenant.
It was to be his lifelong career…
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Starting in 1929, Ron Hubbard starts studying Scientology material. You can read about that in –
Scientology Roots Chapter Seven – The First Scientologists and Their Masters
1930 – Ron Hubbard enrolls in George Washington University where he studies civil engineering.
In 1931, Paul Linebarger was a student in the School of Engineering at George Washington University.
Paul Linebarger and Ron Hubbard met and became friends. The Hatchet was the college paper which had a supplement called the Literary Review, and Paul Linebarger was the editor. On 9 February 1932 Paul published Hubbard’s first story called “Tah”. 84, 85
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
After graduating from George Washington University, Paul Linebarger went to Oxford in England where he was groomed for his intelligence career. 84
In the future, Paul Linebarger would be one of several CIA agents who helped Hubbard start Dianetics and Scientology. In addition to that, Linebarger and Hubbard worked for a CIA unit called Political Action Staff.
The head of that CIA unit was under Kermit Roosevelt junior whose father was a ROOM member. 86
Intelligence Assignment in Puerto Rico
In 1932 Vincent Astor starts forwarding ROOM intelligence directly to Franklin Roosevelt.
Most early data concerned general conditions in the Caribbean and Panama Canal Zone. 30
Puerto Rico is one of the Caribbean Sea countries
Puerto Rico became a United States possession at the end of the Spanish-American war.
Pedro Albizu Campos was the leading advocate for Puerto Rican independence.
Campos was elected president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in 1930. 37
Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads was doing medical research for the Rockefeller Institute at San Juan Presbyterian Hospital. In November 1931, when Rhoads was about to complete his research for Rockefeller, he wrote a letter that said:
…the Porto Ricans — they are beyond doubt the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever inhabiting this sphere. It makes you sick to inhabit the same island with them. What the island needs is not public health work, but a tidal wave or something to totally exterminate the population. I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing off 8 and transplanting into several more. The matter of consideration for the patient’s welfare plays no role here — in fact, all physicians take delight in the abuse and torture of the unfortunate subjects.
When lab workers in the Presbyterian Hospital found the letter and photocopied it, all hell broke lose. The letter reached Campos, who displayed it for all Puerto Ricans to see, thus sparking a revolution amongst the Puerto Ricans. In January 1932, Campos published an article accusing Dr. Rhoads of killing Puerto Rican patients. Campos continued to make an international flap out of it.
Hubbard dropped out of college in 1932 and immediately went on an intelligence mission to Puerto Rico. He made two lengthy trips to Puerto Rico, which was a political nightmare at the time. The people in Puerto Rico were demanding independence.
The first cover story he used was he was going on a “Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition”. Hubbard rented the schooner Doris Hamlin and set sail on 24 June 1932. His final stopping point was Puerto Rico, where he got off the Doris Hamlin. Hubbard spent more than two weeks there in August 1932. 33, 34 Ship records show Hubbard departed San Juan on the SS Coamo on 25 August 1932. 35
Ron Hubbard’s second trip to Puerto Rico had the cover of him doing the “Puerto Rican Mineralogical Expedition”. Hubbard does this with a mining engineer named Joseph Buhrman Carper. Hubbard went to Puerto Rico on 26 October 1932, on board the USS Kittery. They spent a short time looking for gold in a river and the bulk of the time Hubbard was out gathering intelligence on the people in Puerto Rico who were rebelling.
Ron Hubbard on the left
Carper and Hubbard constructed a sluice. Hubbard said –
“After locating a likely spot, Carper built a test sluice from discarded boards, and we began the task of sluicing the Negro in hope of fabulous riches. The sluice itself was a simple affair—a twenty-foot box without a top, a foot deep and a foot wide…”
The sluice constructed by Carper and Hubbard
On 20 November 1932, Hubbard writes a letter in Corozal, Puerto Rico –
“Carper and Wilkerson went out yesterday to see some property and left me running the sluice.”
In another Church collection, Hubbard says:
“…as Carper had left me in charge of the sluice for some days, I closed down shop and paid off the native workers with my last money. After that I sat on my heels and wondered what Carper had found which detained him so long out in the island.
But I did not have to worry for long about Carper and sluicing, as he suddenly took himself and the remainder of the eight hundred dollars out of the picture without even telling me goodbye.
After that I had ample time to study the history of gold mining in Puerto Rico, for I was too broke to do any prospecting other than with a pan…”
So, this mining expedition was a joke. They had one little sluice which they closed down within a month.
Pedro Campos was having a lot of pull with the people, especially the inland farmers who were called the jibaros.
The Church of Scientology claims that Hubbard “made the first complete mineralogical survey of Puerto Rico” during which he “sluiced inland rivers and crisscrossed the island in search of elusive gold” as well as carrying out “much ethnological work amongst the interior villages and native hillsmen or jíbaros“.
After closing the sluice, Hubbard had 4 months free to run around the island doing what he is really there to do, a psychological survey of the rebelling jíbaros. That was the intelligence mission, Hubbard’s employer wanted to find out how they could manipulate the jíbaros.
In another letter Hubbard says –
“…my friends in the North sent support to me in the form of Thomas Finley McBride…”
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Thomas McBride was a mining engineer who worked for American Smelting and Refining Company. One of its owners is William Rockefeller and Grant Schley was on the board of directors, he is the father of ROOM member Kenneth B. Schley. Now we see who Hubbard’s employer was, who wanted to get control of the political situation in Puerto Rico.
West Indies Minerals sends a letter to Hubbard on 30 March 1933 –
Dear Mr. Hubbard,
Due to the recent developments in the investigations of the deposits and properties under consideration on the island it is imperative that you return to Washington for a conference.
You will leave Puerto Rico on the first available transportation for New York and thence to Washington, D.C.
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The “conference” would have been where Hubbard was debriefed on what he had learned about the jíbaros.
Ship records show Hubbard departing San Juan on 6 April 1933 on the SS Coamo bound for New York. 36
West Indies Minerals was also a joke. It was used to provide cover for Hubbard’s intelligence work in Puerto Rico.
Its small office had two guys with no experience in mining. It was closed down shortly for failure to pay taxes. 38
Pedro Campos was subsequently arrested on false charges and sentenced to prison in Atlanta, Georgia.
During his imprisonment Campos was subjected to human radiation experiments.
Campos with burns caused by intense radiation
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Between 1932 and 1941 Hubbard traveled extensively in Central America. 59
Roosevelt Meeting With Round Table
In 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the United States. Roosevelt immediately goes to meet with Round Table members at Cliveden. 45 Franklin Roosevelt then assumed office as American President from 1933 to 1945.
Starting in 1933, Vincent Astor served as the intermediary for intelligence gathered by ROOM members and their agents, forwarding intelligence directly to President Franklin Roosevelt.
Roosevelt went to the Nourmahal for rest, and to escape from the burdens of office during the early years of his presidency. “This is the only place I can get away from people, telephones and uniforms,” Roosevelt wrote a friend in 1934. 31
Vincent Astor aboard the Nourmahal
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More MI 6 Psychs Using Abreactive Therapy
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In 1935, psycho-psychiatrist William Sargant went to work at Maudsley Hospital, where he worked along with psychiatrist John Rawlings Rees. Sargant used abreactive therapy in conjunction with drugs and electroshock, just like John Rees was doing during World War I.
William Walters Sargant
Sargant experimented with numerous vicious drugs and drugs given in combination. He also performed leucotomies. Sargant spent 38 years butchering people with his horrific treatments.
It was later revealed that Sargant worked for MI 5 and MI 6.
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Intelligence Assignment in Propaganda
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Ron Hubbard’s next intelligence assignment was issuing British propaganda.
William Wiseman was the head of MI6 in the United States. In the mid 1930′s Wiseman was sent to Hollywood where he used his influence to “encourage a favorable portrayal of the British Empire in American films”.
In 1936 Hubbard gets “called to Hollywood” (likely by Wiseman) – a British intelligence assignment. 39
Memory And Automaticity, an LRH lecture 16 December 1952 –
I worked for Hollywood for about a year… This is clear back in 1936 and 37.
Ron Hubbard in 1936
In 1937, Aldous Huxley moved to Hollywood. He earned a substantial income as a Hollywood screenwriter. 52
Aldous Huxley says he was friends with Ron Hubbard. That friendship obviously began in Hollywood in 1937, when both writers were serving under William Wiseman in Hollywood. Huxley and Hubbard were MI 6 agents.
Huxley had written a book promoting World Government. Later in time, Huxley headed a covert operation to subvert America’s youth with hallucinogenic drugs. When Huxley wrote a book promoting hallucinogenic drugs, Hubbard recommended that Scientologists should read it.
Aldous Huxley
October 5, 1937 – John W. Campbell is hired at Astounding Science Fiction magazine.
March 1938 – Propaganda was so important to British Intelligence, that a special section was created for propaganda. It was funded by MI6 and headed by Sir Campbell Stuart.
Colin Campbell Stuart
The British slavemasters want to eliminate national boundaries and establish a World Government that is run by them. Thus British propaganda states that nationalism is the cause of wars. That is a lie. Individual nations are not the cause of wars, the wars have been caused by the British nobility.
May 1938 – John W. Campbell given full authority for Astounding Science Fiction magazine.
May 1938 – Ron Hubbard goes to New York, Street and Smith want him to write for their newly acquired magazine, Astounding Science Fiction. Out of ALL the writers there could be, they choose Ron Hubbard?
Naw, this is a plan going into effect. A propaganda plan.
Now Hubbard is on his new British intelligence assignment as a sci-fi writer. British propaganda is under and done by British intelligence, so when Hubbard starts pumping out New World Order propaganda in his sci-fi stories, he is working for British intelligence.
Evidence That L. Ron Hubbard Was Working For British Intelligence In 1940, 1941, and 1942
November 8th, 2017- McClaughry
It was on June 11, 1940 that William Stephenson arrived in New York to start the British Security Coordination to get America into the war – WWII. He arrived aboard the SS Britannic with John Arthur Reed Pepper (his SIS man) and family in tow.
The first order of business was getting a “control” point for Secret Intelligence work. Someone who was fully aboard the British agenda and more importantly, would do whatever the British told him to do. Vincent Astor, with numerous familial connections into British high society, was chosen to hold that function while a more permanent arrangement was being worked on. (the COI, then the OSS).
Every step of the way was controlled by the British.
Stephenson told President Roosevelt, Roosevelt told the Secretary of the Navy, who then told the Chief of Naval Operations that Astor would now be unofficially in charge of ALL intelligence work in the New York area, including the Office of Naval Intelligence in New York City. This is the Third Naval District (abbreviation – 3ND).
No questions asked – that’s the way it IS kind of thing.
This also means that Astor is in charge of any agent selection/recommendations etc. in the New York area both then and when the 1939 Foreign Espionage function was transferred to the Foreign Intelligence Branch (OP-16-F-9) in early 1941.
The New York area was basically the who’s who in intelligence. Anywhere from William Donovan to David K.E. Bruce to John Riheldaffer (head of OP-16-F-9) to people like L. Ron Hubbard.
L. Ron Hubbard had already connected up with the Astor “secret” intelligence/naval reserve organization called the ROOM, and because of those connections had gained entrance to the Explorer’s Club of New York – being officially made a member in February of 1940.
Astor is actually even referred to as the “British Intelligence” section at the 3rd naval district, as I am about to show you.
There are a number of other significant events in the British intelligence community occurring right in this time frame. You can peruse a timeline of some of the main ones in my post: Straightening Out The Timeline Around Hubbard’s Intelligence Background – Plus a few other things.
Right after Astor was ensconced in the Third Naval District, Hubbard was sent on a naval intelligence mission for Stephenson and the BSC (who is who was actually controlling Astor).
William Stephenson told President Roosevelt, and Roosevelt told his cabinet, that they needed to recognize the great potential (and threat in enemy hands) of radio-based detection and tracking, and began the development of ship- and land-based systems. The first of these were fielded by the U.S. Navy in early 1940, hence Hubbard’s involvement as a civilian intelligence agent (remember the ROOMs heavy ties to the U.S. navy).
Hubbard was being engaged to assist the British (through his connections to Astor’s ROOM and its corresponding Explorer’s Club members) in the Alaskan deployment of Range and Direction Finding.
Note: The fact that he was doing this for British Intelligence and he was knowledgeable of MI6 agent Alistair Crowley, appears to have had no small amount of bearing on naming his ship for the trip – The Magician. Crowley’s intelligence cover throughout his career was that of an “occult magician”.
Ron Hubbard on his way to Alaska
The basic technology of radio-based detection and tracking evolved independently and with great secrecy in a number of nations during the second half of the 1930s. At the start of the war in Europe in September 1939, both Great Britain and Germany had begun the actual military use of these systems. In Great Britain this technology was called RDF, standing for Range and Direction Finding, while in Germany the name Funkmessgerät (radio measuring device) was often used.
Little known factoid: The acronym RADAR (for RAdio Detection And Ranging) was coined by the U.S. Navy in 1940, and the subsequent name “radar” was soon widely used.
Hubbard’s mission was to explore not only what the problem areas were, and if the cause could be established beyond simple storm conditions, as well as testing ideas on how to improve range, clarity versus loss of signal, and tracking magnetic interference “zones” largely caused by polar magnetism and to some degree, in certain locations, from solar flares commonly known as “Northern Lights”. Russia’s alliance with Germany, combined with Japanese incursions in the North-east coastline of China made Alaska suddenly very key to the United States and Britain, militarily.
Ketchikan, where Hubbard ended up, was a particularly key industrial and manufacturing city, but back in the time when radio was still quite fledgling, (the 1930’s) it suffered from severe problems with radio communications, largely due to extreme weather conditions and other more confounding influences. This, of course, made radio-direction finding for ship and plane navigation (and submarines) a very urgent problem.
Using his “intimates” at the Explorer’s Club, he carried an Explorer’s Club Flag (#105) which provided the first layer of intelligence cover – with the commonly used British “I’m on expedition” cover.
He called it “Alaskan Radio-Experimental Expedition”, with the outer stated purpose being to update the U.S. Coast Pilot guide regarding the coastlines of Alaska and B.C. Although he did that, that’s not the real reason, as we already covered.
When he tied up his sloop, the Magician, at Thomas Basin in Ketchikn on Friday, August 31, 1940 what he told other people was that his purpose in coming to Alaska “was two-fold, one to win a bet and another to gather material for a novel of Alaskan salmon fishing”. (The Ketchikan Chronicle).
So, he also employed the well-used by British intelligence agents (like Somerset Maugham) “writer” intelligence cover and even the “just here for the fishing” one! (also known as a shore story).
When he was trying to explain his radio-direction finding work while in Ketchikan, he is recorded in a radio program giving the explanation that:
…doing radio experimental work on beacon signals for the Navy Department, Fisher Research Laboratories, and the Cape Cod Instrument Company, I chanced to have some radio direction finders of high sensitivity. (Church of Scientology site “Clearing the Airwaves”; history of KGBU )
He didn’t “chance” to have such equipment. He was given it specifically for his trip and his real purposes there. Astor had been provided one for a similar intelligence mission that he had done where he was locating Japanese radio stations in the Marshall Islands.
The British Navy Radio Direction Finder that Vincent Astor used
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US Navy radio direction finder
As to more details about this Alaskan trip, this is all well-covered in my husbands Scientology Roots chapter 9-1 Hubbard’s Lifelong Intelligence Career.
Now as to what most of you probably don’t know about…let’s get into that now.
Regarding this Alaskan trip, Hubbard is specifically mentioned as a “cooperating observer” in this document from his Service Records. This is from 01 Service Documents March 1941 p. 34. It’s dated September 5, 1941, and is from a period where Hubbard was doing some further explanation of photos and findings from his Alaskan trip for the Hydrographic office of the Navy after he had officially enlisted.
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Enlarged with added highlighting of “cooperating observer”.
As you can see, it’s quite specific as to what his status was at the time of his Alaskan trip.
Now, why is that important?
Because William Stephenson is who created that very thing right when Hubbard is being sent on his Alaska trip.
“WS and his Economic Section conceived the Ships Observers’Scheme.The essence of it was this. One or more observers would be appointed…”
– BRITISH SECURITY COORDINATION, The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940- 1945, first published in Great Britain by St. Ermin’s Press – 1998. p. 163-165; Ships Observers
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This initially began in 1940, and then became a much bigger deal by early 1941 when aggressive recruitment began.
How this worked was that one or more observers would be appointed among the crew of EVERY neutral ship sailing from the United States and Latin America. The observer on each ship would be met by a BSC agent in the principal ports at which the ship touched. He would report any suspicious events he had observed, Nazi or communist talk amongst the crew and so on.
In time Ships Observers (p 164) were entrusted with other duties. They kept track of and reported upon events in the neutral countries they visited, and they provided intelligence about enemy ports. They were used to spread rumours and disseminate propaganda literature. They provided information on suspect seamen, engaged in carrying letters or contraband or verbal messages from one port of call to another for Axis agents. Their reports provided material for a complete list of seamen which BSC compiled and which was responsible for securing the dismissal or preventing the re-engagement of may undesirables.
– BRITISH SECURITY COORDINATION, The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940- 1945, first published in Great Britain by St. Ermin’s Press – 1998. p. 163-165; Ships Observers
The Ships Observers Scheme was handed over to the ONI in the autumn of 1941. That didn’t mean BSC didn’t retain control, this simply corresponded with the moving of the entire Foreign intelligence section (Riheldaffer and OP-16-F-9) underneath the new COI’s Special Intelligence Section headed by David K.E. Bruce, who was directly working with Stephenson, the BSC and his boss the British Special Operations Executive or SOE.
A letter from the Office of the Chief of US Naval Operations is particularly important because of where it was from. Look WHERE this ships program was run by.
Astor (and later David K.E. Bruce) British intelligence unit in the 3ND!
In February 1942, the Chief stated:
In cooperation with the British Intelligence unit in the Third Naval District, New York, New York, a plan for placing ship observers on American merchant vessels has been in effect for several months with excellent results. The plan involved cooperation between the British Intelligence and Naval Intelligence whereby certain ship observers placed on American vessels by British Intelligence were put under control of Naval Intelligence and certain additional observers were placed on other American vessels by Naval Intelligence. Provision was made for the mutual exchange of information obtained from ship observers between British Intelligence and Naval Intelligence.
It has been decided to extend the ‘Ships Observers Scheme’ to all US Naval districts and a Directive dated February 14th, 1942, has been issued for this purpose. It will be appreciated if you will inform the British Intelligence units in the various US Naval Districts of this plan an request their cooperation with Naval Intelligence in placing it in effect.”
– BRITISH SECURITY COORDINATION, The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940- 1945, first published in Great Britain by St. Ermin’s Press – 1998. p. 163-165; Ships Observers
Side note: Another thing they used these observers for was harassment. They would have them openly shadow a “target” – even resorting to violence in some cases in South America. They had targets “beaten up” to make them change their mind about their activities – much like the minute-men.
That order from the Chief of Naval operations is important for another part of Hubbard’s intelligence career – his time in Australia.
Look at the header on this bill from where he was posted in Australia – from 01 Service Documents March 1941 p. 95
Now look at this –
1942 March – Code on USS New Orleans war diary that mentions L. Ron Hubbard, 16-F-3, means ONI Foreign Intelligence Western European Branch. The reason for that code is that Hubbard (a foreign espionage agent) was reporting on possible Nazi agents, and when the document was filed in July of 1942 that code was hand-written on it.
Section about Hubbard specifically notes him as an Naval Observer –
And there you have it.
Interesting, no?
By Virginia McClaughry
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RTÉ Prime Time - "Scientology - The Return to Ireland ”
Published on Dec 18, 2018 From the RTÉ Prime Time blog, by Rita O'Reilly: Scientology has tried to make it big in Ireland before,
but now it’s back with a multi-million euro investment in three new facilities – one around the corner from Government Buildings in Dublin’s Merrion Square, another in the suburb of Firhouse, and a third, through its affiliated Narconon group, in Ballivor, County Meath. It’s an expensive return, but it’s not been a popular one, and indeed, it’s been marked by controversy.
What is it about Scientology?
After all, it is tiny.
Though it claims a membership of millions worldwide, the available evidence suggests tens of thousands.
Here in Ireland, in the last census, just 87 people said they were Scientologists.
The comparator often used is, ‘Well, how many people claim to be Jedi knights?’, and in Ireland’s census, there were 2,000.
Yet, its tiny membership has not deterred Scientology. It has said its investment has been funded by donors abroad. Its return is a big effort – aside from the new facilities, its spend is on outreach, with free events, Google and mobile ads, Promoted tweets, mailshots, booklets, and leaflets through your door – all material printed at its own distribution works in Los Angeles.
Why Ireland?
Well, contrary to reports, we’re nothing special. Since the start of last year, Scientology has opened over a dozen new buildings worldwide.
They follow a formula it keeps repeating: its leader, David Miscavige and committed members fly in to the openings, which are staged events.
Videos of those launches are then shown at annual internal gala events, where donor members are dazzled with special Scientology statistics promoting its claim of rapid expansion.
Scientology calls additions like Firhouse, ‘Ideal Organisations’, and it says that Mr Miscavige “personally supervises the selection of each new Ideal Org”.
The weekend after its Firhouse centre opened in October 2017, Scientology launched another building in Birmingham, and the weekend after that, in Amsterdam: three weekends in a row – all staged openings, off-limits to the general public.
The organisation already has a Brussels office and its European headquarters is in Copenhagen. Journalist Tony Ortega, editor of the ‘The Underground Bunker’, has reported on Scientology for over two decades.
He points out: “The new Ideal Org in Dublin is not a new European centre or headquarters, it has nothing to do with Brexit and it has nothing to do with taxes.
The Church of Scientology is already tax exempt in the United States, it pays no taxes; it is not looking for new tax shelters.”
But its office in Merrion Square, opened in 2015, is one of only a few ‘National Affairs’ offices it has.
“These are moves that reflect what David Miscavige has done in the United States”, Mr Ortega says. “Several years ago, Miscavige refurbished a building in Washington DC for a new ‘national affairs office’.
It was a new sort of idea for Scientology – they then extended that to Ireland. And why Merrion Square? Well, because it means a lot to Scientologists, that location, because L Ron Hubbard himself had worked out of Merrion Square back in the 1950’s.”
It was at the end of 1955, and Scientology’s creator, L Ron Hubbard was already a controversial figure.
He had been refused a visa renewal to the UK, where he had a base, and he had temporarily moved to Ireland to what he called “the swankiest address in Dublin”, Merrion Square. On 17 April 1956, while he was still based there, the Director of the FBI, J Edgar Hoover, noted that in divorce proceedings, Hubbard’s second wife, Sara Northrup, had described him as “hopelessly insane”.
“His recent letters have been unanswered inasmuch as he is considered obviously a mental case”, Mr Hoover wrote.
At the time, (20 April 1956) L Ron Hubbard was writing to his followers that his Merrion Square office was a “British fallback point in the event of atomic attack”.
His stay was short lived: he left within months.
His organisation, Scientology, however, set up in Ireland from the 1980’s. Mike Garde of Dialogue Ireland has followed its arrival, decline and return since then.
He says that though it is small, its impact can be devastating. “I’ve been dealing with the families of people from Malin Head to Mizen Head in this country who have been affected by this Scientology organisation”, Mike Garde says, “breakup of marriages, breakup of families – of one guy, he became addicted completely to alcohol, they tore him apart”.
It is that concern and concerns like it that led to tonight’s Prime Time: ‘Scientology – The Return’
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I have been searching around for more information on what I heard in a YouTube video with Jon Atack and Steve Hassan. Jon talks about Hubbard raping children but I can find nothing on the net about this. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Here is the video below. Jon talks about Hubbards pedophilia at 20:39.
Truly disturbing.
Jon Atack and Steven Hassan discuss his 2013 edition of his book, A Piece of Blue Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_kWQAR0iY&feature=youtu.be&t=20m39s
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Published on 29 Dec 2014
Steve Hassan sits down with Jon Atack after not seeing each other for many years and has a very revealing conversation about L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, his important and tireless work exposing the cult, and the significance of his research. Jon has one of the best minds I have ever encountered. He remembers everything Hubbard has written and everything that was written (of significance) about Hubbard and the group and wrote the definitive book on the founder and teachings of the group. This book is a must read for everyone who has ever been involved with Scientology in any way! Note: It has been questioned whether climbed the Scientology Bridge twice, and said that he was actually Class IX, rather than Class XII. Jon Atack was told this by a Scientology official, but suggests caution, until this is checked. As ever, he would appreciate accurate information. Don't be shy, Jon is always happy to be put right on even the slightest detail.
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Spurned attorneys look for answers in Scientology case
GILBERT GARCIA
Gilbert Garcia Aug. 29, 2017
— Monique Rathbun (right) and her husband Mark "Marty" Rathbun (left) of Ingleside, Texas sit in their home Thursday July 7, 2011 while discussing Mark Rathbun's involvement with the Church of Scientology. Mark Rathbun has become a critic of the views held by the organization of the group and says a group claiming to be documentary
Why did Marty Rathbun flip?
That was the question that hovered over the legal proceedings in a Bexar County courtroom Tuesday morning.
It’s the question that has gripped Scientology watchers for more than a year, a question that compelled a team of three high-powered local attorneys to file a petition last month against Rathbun, the former second-in-command of the controversial Church of Scientology, and his wife, Monique.
Marty Rathbun spent 27 years in the church. During that time, he was known for being a hardball operator. For example, Joseph Yanny, a former Scientology lawyer, said in 1988 that Rathbun told him to steal the medical records of a Scientology critic from the Betty Ford Center for blackmail material.
By Rathbun’s own admission, he arranged to tap the phone of actor Tom Cruise’s then-wife, Nicole Kidman (a Scientology skeptic), as part of an effort by church leader David Miscavige to keep Cruise in the Scientology fold by breaking up the Cruise-Kidman marriage.
Rathbun left the church in 2004, and after hiding out for a few years, emerged as one of Scientology’s most prominent and caustic critics. In response, church loyalists camped out next to the Rathbuns’ home in the South Texas coastal town of Ingleside, videotaped their every move and made their lives’ miserable.
The pranks allegedly included the mailing of an adult toy to Monique’s place of employment and the sending of flowers to one of Monique’s female co-workers, with a romantic note made to appear as though it came from Monique.
After moving to Bulverde in 2012 to escape the alleged stalking, the Rathbuns hired attorneys Ray Jeffrey (the former mayor of Bulverde), Elliott Cappuccio and Marc Wiegand to file a harassment lawsuit against the church. The lawsuit offered not only the possibility of a payout from the church but also the hope that the elusive Miscavige could be forced to testify.
Then, without warning (and without cause), Monique and Marty fired their lawyers in January 2016. Four months later, the couple dropped its lawsuit against the church.
Jeffrey, Cappuccio and Wiegand smelled something foul.
They couldn’t help but notice that Marty — after years of harsh attacks against Miscavige and the church — started softening the tone of his blog in early 2016 and began to redirect his fire at what he called the ASC (Anti-Scientology Cult). They found it strange that in 2015 the Rathbuns, without informing their lawyers, moved back to Ingleside, where they somehow found the means to purchase a home appraised at $264,000.
They wondered what Monique meant when she said, in a motion to dismiss the case, “My husband and I have effectively achieved the primary purpose that the lawsuit was originally intended to serve, by our own independent efforts.”
The Rathbuns’ former attorneys had worked for 2½ years on a contingency basis, meaning they didn’t earn a penny from their efforts. They suspected that Marty and Monique dropped the lawsuit (and their criticisms of Scientology) in exchange for a secret payment from the church.
So Jeffrey and co. did something that lawyers hate to do: They initiated legal action against a former client. It’s something that Jeffrey says he has never done in 32 years of legal practice.
The attorneys’ petition is a request for an order that will allow them to take depositions from the Rathbuns and comb through the couple’s financial records. It would allow the attorneys to see what kind of case they have before they commit to a lawsuit against the couple.
Jeffrey stood Tuesday in front of District Court Judge Karen Pozza and told her, “Your honor, you didn’t know it when you woke up this morning, but you’re dipping your toe into the world of Scientology-related litigation.”
He added: “It sure looks likely that some sort of a settlement was done behind our backs.”
The Rathbuns’ new attorney, Richard Reynolds, tried to get Pozza to throw out Jeffrey’s 12 exhibits, but the judge admitted all of them. At the end of the hearing, she asked Jeffrey and his co-counsel to narrow the scope of their request and said she would come back with a ruling on Thursday.
It was a low-key hearing on a procedural matter in a near-empty courtroom. But the drama was unmistakable. For decades, the Church of Scientology has been an institution driven by paranoia and the intimidation of anyone who attempts to penetrate its wall of obfuscation.
Jeffrey and co. are trying to knock some bricks out of that wall.
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The Decline (and Probable Fall) of the Scientology Empire - Jim Lippard
Published on Mar 6, 2013
Jim Lippard spoke on the history of the Church of Scientology, how it has collided with the Internet and lost control of its secrets and its membership, and is now seeing an accelerating decline as its top members leave for new alternatives. Jim Lippard founded the Phoenix Skeptics in 1985, and co-founded the Phoenix Area Skeptics Society in 2011. He's written articles and book chapters on skeptical topics, including two articles in Skeptic magazine on Scientology, "Scientology vs. the Internet" in 1995 (co-authored with Jeff Jacobsen) and "The Decline (and Probable Fall) of the Scientology Empire" in 2012. He also contributed to Gordon Stein's Encyclopedia of the Paranormal and Joe Nickell's Psychic Sleuths. Video notes starting at 13:50: The Fraser Mansion, though referred to by Scientology as the "founding church" from the 1970s to 2010, wasn't the original building. The original building, at 1812 19th St. NW, is now a museum called the L. Ron Hubbard House (though his house was across the street), which the church acquired in 2004. The Fraser Mansion is now Scientology's National Affairs Office. The first use of the name "Church of Scientology" was by the Church of Scientology founded in Camden, N.J. in Dec. 1953; the first Church of Scientology corporation was in Los Angeles (Feb. 1954, which became the Church of Scientology of California in 1956), the Church of Scientology of Arizona was incorporated that same year. Hubbard's organization while he lived in Phoenix was the Hubbard Association of Scientologists, International (HASI), founded in Sep. 1952. All HASI assets were folded into the Church of Scientology of California in 1966. (Views expressed are those of the speaker and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Capital Area Skeptics.)
Joe Rogan Experience #947 - Ron Miscavige
Streamed live on Apr 18, 2017
Ron Miscavige is the father of the Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige and former member for over 40 years. His book Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me is available now.
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The British nobility has been working on a Grand Plan to make themselves the ruthless ruler of the entire world.
The rest of humanity does not agree to their idea that the British nobility should rule the world.
They do not want to be obedient subjects, servants and slaves who live under the boot and say-so of the British aristocracy.
Most men want to live as free men who live under their own will and say-so.
Thus the British slavemasters conducted mental and spiritual research.
Their real interest in studying the human mind and spirit was to learn how to control men, so they could modify his behavior into what they want all men to be – willing subjects under rule by the British nobility.
The Cecil family is one of the top British slavemaster families.
Their family has been the head of British intelligence for over 400 years. Robert Cecil was the leader of an influential family called the Cecil Bloc.
He was the head of British intelligence and he was a British Prime Minister.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil (Lord Salisbury)
One of his sisters had a son named Arthur Balfour.
He was in the Cecil family and he was also a head of British intelligence and a Prime Minister of Britain.
Arthur J. Balfou
When Ron Hubbard was a teenager he was recruited by British intelligence.
Thereafter he executed one intelligence assignment after the other for his entire life.
They groomed Hubbard to be the front man for their subjects of Dianetics and Scientology.
You can read about that in Scientology Roots Chapter Seven – The First Scientologists and Their Masters.
The common denominator that explains all of Hubbard’s actions in life ….
Ron Hubbard told Scientologists to support the British New World Order.
He advocates the worst sociopaths in the world having direct control over the life of every individual person.
The ROOM
The ROOM was an outcropping of the previously formed Naval Reserves.
The ROOM was the forerunner of the Office of Strategic Services – which was the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
"... Please free Julian Assange" .... Edward Snowden
Free and open press freedom is essential for a well balanced society to exist so that there are checks and balances on those in power....
"... How are you living your life? ... you wake up and make day to day choices .. and we should have the right and freedom to make such choices .... without every thought, spoken word and action being recorded, monitored, stored and judged by unknown faceless people and software programs ... All of us have an opportunity to fix problems in society .....we can not fix it by ourselves ... if you're waiting for a hero ... you will be waiting for ever .. because it is not a politician that you are looking for to solve the problems in society .. it is the average person in the world .. it is you and the person sitting or standing next to you ... all of us have a responsibility .. we can not fix it by ourselves ... but we don't need to ... what we have to do is make a small positive change .. that can be replicated ... that can be shared ... we need to think about our ideas .. we need to think about these problems .. we as individuals need to not only create a defence but also an offence for a free and open society ...we need to recognise that one of the essential problems right now is one of debate ... words no longer have the same meaning as they once meant ... such as the word terrorism ... which is a word with no single agreed upon definition .. there are governments that are now charging people with terrorism ... who are only acting in ways that traditionally were considered just to be political protests ... where an action that is just journalism and free speech is transformed by the government into an act of terrorism ... it also happens to positive parts of our language .... such a freedom ... openness .. democracy.. liberty ... human rights ... we've moved from a belief that as long as things are moral they are sustainable ... they are supportable ... they are things that we should back ... to a belief that legality is the same thing as morality .... as long as the government says that someone broke the law ... we infer .... we believe that instinctively they did the wrong thing ... but ladies and gentlemen .. sometimes the only moral choice is to break the law" ...... Edward Snowden ..
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Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and others dine with the President
Stuart Miles | 18 February 2018
One of these is the most powerful man on Earth, and the other is Obama
The above photo shows Steve Jobs, one of the founders of Apple, and Mark Zuckerberg the founder of FaceBook,
sitting either side of Barrack Obama. Also at the table were Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, Kleiner Perkins partner, John Doerr, Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz, and Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo. Interestingly, Microsoft seemed to have been shunned as neither CEO Steve Ballmer or founder Bill Gates were present. However, it was Zuckerberg and Jobs that got the best seats in the house, sitting both right and left of the President respectively.
https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/apple/108768-steve-jobs-zuckerberg-president-dinner
Just because you’re on medical leave doesn’t mean you can’t have dinner with the President of the United States.
That’s exactly what Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, has been doing this week, after Barack Obama invited a number of tech head honchos to dinner at the White House - presumably to talk about Android vs Apple, Facebook vs Google, or what TV to buy.
On the guest list were Google Chairman Eric Schimdt (no doubt getting over his jetlag from Mobile World Congress), Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, who looked a little starstruck for parts of the evening, and Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle.
Also at the table were Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, Kleiner Perkins partner, John Doerr, Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz, and Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo.
Interestingly, Microsoft seemed to have been shunned as neither CEO Steve Ballmer or founder Bill Gates were present.
However, it was Zuckerberg and Jobs that got the best seats in the house, sitting both right and left of the President respectively.
Unfortunately, we can only see the back of Steve Jobs’
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Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and others dine with the President
Stuart Miles | 18 February 2018
One of these is the most powerful man on Earth, and the other is Obama
The above photo shows Steve Jobs, one of the founders of Apple, and Mark Zuckerberg the founder of FaceBook,
sitting either side of Barrack Obama. Also at the table were Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, Kleiner Perkins partner, John Doerr, Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz, and Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo. Interestingly, Microsoft seemed to have been shunned as neither CEO Steve Ballmer or founder Bill Gates were present. However, it was Zuckerberg and Jobs that got the best seats in the house, sitting both right and left of the President respectively.
https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/apple/108768-steve-jobs-zuckerberg-president-dinner
Just because you’re on medical leave doesn’t mean you can’t have dinner with the President of the United States.
That’s exactly what Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, has been doing this week, after Barack Obama invited a number of tech head honchos to dinner at the White House - presumably to talk about Android vs Apple, Facebook vs Google, or what TV to buy.
On the guest list were Google Chairman Eric Schimdt (no doubt getting over his jetlag from Mobile World Congress), Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, who looked a little starstruck for parts of the evening, and Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle.
Also at the table were Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, Kleiner Perkins partner, John Doerr, Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz, and Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo.
Interestingly, Microsoft seemed to have been shunned as neither CEO Steve Ballmer or founder Bill Gates were present.
However, it was Zuckerberg and Jobs that got the best seats in the house, sitting both right and left of the President respectively.
Unfortunately, we can only see the back of Steve Jobs’
Free Julian Assange who has been falsely, unjustly and wrongly Arrested By Orders Of The Ruling Elite just for exposing The Truth .... a click on this website is vote of protest to show the Ruling Elite they have to immediately have Julian Assange released
http://www.wikipediaexposed.org/scientology_ronhubbard_mi6_cia.html
L.Ron Hubbard’s Lifelong Intelligence Career who fronted for MI6-CIA - the real owners and controllers of Scientology
L Ron Hubbard in his early days of working for MI5/MI6 and the CIA - "..MI-6 Are The Lords of The Global Drug Trade It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme......" .....James Casbolt.
Please take the time to read the full paper written by James Casbolt further down this wikipediaexposed.org web page and also read
http://www.wikipediaexposed.org/wikipediaexposed_featurenewsstories_p.1.html
A record from the office of the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations shows that Hubbard took an “Intelligence Course” from 21 October 1941 to 11 November 1941. . Here is the record from the SECNAV/CNO office files . It says – based on an order that happened on August 11, 1941 (410811), an order was issued on September 30, 1941 that nominated Hubbard to take an Intelligence Course. 15 October 1941 – Office of Naval Intelligence Foreign Intelligence Branch and its Special Intelligence Section (OP-16-F-9) was officially shifted to William Donovan’s Office of the Coordinator of Information, where they went under the COI Special Intelligence Section headed by David K.E. Bruce. - OP-16-F-9 was now under David K.E. Bruce. At the time of the transfer, thirteen agents had been recruited. Ron Hubbard was one of them. (See 67 in the References) 20 October 1941 – Hubbard moves to the Explorers Club in New York. 73 21 October 1941 to 11 November 1941 Hubbard took the Intelligence Course. He did this when all Naval Intelligence was now underneath William Donovan. This secret Intelligence Course was done outside of the United States. The proof is this letter that was sent to Hubbard while he was taking the Intelligence Course. A Century of Naval Intelligence documents that – “At the outbreak of World War II, the Special Intelligence Section (OP-16-F-9) comprised one retired officer, two Naval Reserve officers, two enlisted sailors, and one Naval Reserve officer undergoing training in London.”
All of the basic mental, spiritual, and religious ideas found in Dianetics and Scientology were already developed by the Society for Psychical Research, before L. Ron Hubbard was even born. That includes the therapy used.
http://www.wikipediaexposed.org/scientology_ronhubbard_mi6_cia.html
60 Minutes BOMBSHELL interview Jenna Miscavige speaks out - YouTube
Published on Jul 23, 2013
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More MI 6 Psychs Using Abreactive Therapy
In 1935, psycho-psychiatrist William Sargant went to work at Maudsley Hospital, where he worked along with psychiatrist John Rawlings Rees.
Sargant used abreactive therapy in conjunction with drugs and electroshock, just like John Rees was doing during World War I.
Some of what Wikipedia has to say about the life and times of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (/ˈhʌbərd/ HUB-ərd in Los Angeles, 1950, Born: Lafayette Ronald Hubbard on the March 13, 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, United States
Died on the January 24, 1986 (aged 74) in Creston, California, United States. Education: George Washington University (dropped out in 1932)
Occupation: Author, religious leader , Known for bring the Founder of Scientology and its churchm, Notable work: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and Battlefield Earth, Criminal charge: Petty theft (in 1948), Fraud (in absentia, 1978), Criminal penalty: Fine of ₣35,000 and four years in prison (unserved)
Spouse(s): Margaret "Polly" Grubb (1933–1947),, Sara Northrup Hollister (1946–1951), Mary Sue Whipp (1952–1986), Children: 7: With Margaret Grubb: L. Ron Hubbard Jr.* (d.1991), Katherine May Hubbard*, With Sara Hollister: Alexis Hubbard*, With Mary Sue Whipp: Quentin Hubbard (d. 1976), Diana Hubbard, Suzette Hubbard
Arthur Hubbard* * Estranged from family, Relatives: Jamie DeWolf (great-grandson)
Scientology's Great Grandson Warns Against the Cult | Interview with Jamie DeWolf
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Published on Nov 1, 2013
Abby Martin interviews Jamie DeWolf, the great-grandson of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. DeWolf calls Scientology a brainwashing cult and fears for his own life for speaking out against the religious institution. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ //twitter.com/AbbyMartin
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (/ˈhʌbərd/ HUB-ərd; [1] March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy stories, and the founder of the Church of Scientology. In 1950, Hubbard authored Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established a series of organizations to promote Dianetics. In 1952, Hubbard lost the rights to Dianetics in bankruptcy proceedings, and he subsequently founded Scientology. Thereafter Hubbard oversaw the growth of the Church of Scientology into a worldwide organization. Hubbard was cited by Smithsonian magazine as one of the 100 most significant Americans of all time
Born in Tilden, Nebraska in 1911, Hubbard spent much of his childhood in Helena, Montana. After his father was posted to the U.S. naval base on Guam, Hubbard traveled to Asia and the South Pacific in the late 1920s. In 1930, Hubbard enrolled at George Washington University to study civil engineering, but dropped out in his second year. He began his career as a prolific writer of pulp fiction stories and married Margaret "Polly" Grubb, who shared his interest in aviation.
Hubbard served briefly in the Marine Corps Reserve and was an officer in the Navy during World War II. He briefly commanded two ships, but was removed from command both times. The last few months of his active service were spent in a hospital, being treated for a duodenal ulcer.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he spent much of his time at sea on his personal fleet of ships as "Commodore" of the Sea Organization, an elite, paramilitary group of Scientologists.[8][9] Some ex-members and scholars have described the Sea Org as a totalitarian organization marked by intensive surveillance and a lack of freedom. Hubbard returned to the United States in 1975 and went into seclusion in the California desert. In 1978, a trial court in France convicted Hubbard of fraud in absentia. In 1983 Hubbard was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an international information infiltration and theft project called "Operation Snow White".[11][12] He spent the remaining years of his life in a luxury motor home on his California property, attended to by a small group of Scientology officials including his physician. In 1986, L. Ron Hubbard died at age 74. The Church of Scientology describes Hubbard in hagiographic terms,[14] and he portrayed himself as a pioneering explorer, world traveler, and nuclear physicist with expertise in a wide range of disciplines, including photography, art, poetry, and philosophy. Though many of Hubbard's autobiographical statements have been found to be fictitious,[15] the Church rejects any suggestion that its account of Hubbard's life is not historical fact.
His critics have characterized Hubbard as a mentally-unstable chronic liar
The Death of L Ron Hubbard:
What was David Miscavige really thinking?
Published on Mar 10, 2009
Originat text: The infamous David Miscavige announcement of the joyous Death of L. Ron Hubbard in January of 1986. Whilst watching it to grab some footage, I wondered what might really have been going through Miscavige's mind whilst he was announcing the madman Hubbard's death. That gave me the idea for this quick little edit which will hopefully keep you amused until my proper video is ready (hopefully sometime next week). All I really did was add subtitles, but it amused me for a few minutes! Enjoy, and for clearer subtitles, please click on the "Watch in high quality" link to the bottom right of the video window.
The Unbreakable Miss Lovely
http://www.wikipediaexposed.org/scientology_ronhubbard_mi6_cia.html
- The story of Paulette’s terrifying ordeal is told in full for the first time in The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, published by Silvertail Books in London. It reveals the shocking details of the darkest chapter in Scientology’s checkered history, which ended with senior members in prison, and the organization’s reputation permanently damaged. “A brilliant exposition of how a child who escaped the Nazis grew up to be hunted by the Church of Scientology” – BBC journalist John Sweeney.“A page-turner packed with barely believable facts. The details are worthy of John le Carre” – Jon Atack, author of A Piece of Blue Sky
Nathan Rabin, The A.V. Club: “Before Tony Ortega’s The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, Cooper’s story had never been told in full. It is one of the most remarkable and unlikely narratives in the sprawling field of Scientology exposés. Ortega’s specialty is his ability to contextualize Cooper’s soap-opera life within the raging currents of history. Cooper embodied her times: She was a child of World War II and the Holocaust, an orphan of one of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies who grew up to be the epitome of the chic New York career woman…Scientology’s persecution of Cooper comes to feel like a strange echo of the Watergate controversy riveting the nation at the same time. People who profess to be the victims of sinister, far-reaching conspiracies are often seen as crazy, but Cooper genuinely was the victim of a sinister, far-reaching conspiracy…In the kind of twist that fills The Unbreakable Miss Lovely and makes it such a compulsively readable page-turner, Cooper discovers too late that, like far too many people in her life, [L. Ron] Hubbard Jr. (or “Nibs” as he was known) was not what he appeared to be, and was probably a double agent working against Cooper on Scientology’s behalf…Cooper should have been destroyed by Scientology. But she proved astonishingly brave and bold. The book’s title proves appropriate both because Cooper is model gorgeous but also unbreakable, with a spirit strong enough to stand up to an entire organization out to destroy her and everything she stands for. In that respect, the book is oddly inspiring.”Kirkus Reviews: “Ortega, in his nonfiction debut, describes a journalist’s decadeslong battle against the Church of Scientology. There have been assertions of horror stories involving the Church of Scientology in a plethora of books, articles, documentaries, and interviews with ex-members. This new account focuses on Paulette Cooper, one of the first journalists to investigate what many see as the questionable moral practices of L. Ron Hubbard’s religion—and one of the first people, he says, to become a target of its vengeance. In a 1969 article in Queen magazine and later in a 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology, Cooper offered a damning exploration of the church and its practices. “More than previous writers,” notes Ortega, “Paulette focused on the harassment of those who dared to speak up about Scientology, whether they’d been in the church or not.” In response to her words, Ortega says, the church set out to destroy her life with an unprecedented yearslong campaign of litigation, defamation, intimidation, and harassment that pushed the journalist nearly to the point of suicide.
The Scandal of Scientology (1971) By Paulette Cooper - A chilling examination of the nature, beliefs and practices of the “now religion”.
called the American Hero ... The Paulette Cooper Story - how one woman exposed Scientology and survived their attacks
The Scandal behind "The Scandal of Scientology"
Operation Clambake presents:
Looking over my shoulder,
The Inside Account of the Story That Almost Killed Me
Saturday, June 23, 2007
By Paulette Cooper
http://www.xenu.net/archive/personal_story/paulette_cooper/
Scientology showdown -- Marty Rathbun deposition 12/22/14
Definition of the Fair Game Policy of Scientology to handle Suppressive Persons that are negative to Scientology
Published on Jan 23, 2015
Story for this video is here... http://tonyortega.org/2015/01/23/vide...
oor of the old Del Sol Hotel at Gilman Hot Springs that afternoon in January 1980, had been a dedicated member of the Church of Scientology for more than a decade. He was logging in Canada when a friend introduced him to Scientology in 1969 and he was immediately swept away by its heady promise of superhuman powers and immortality. During his years as a Scientologist, he had twice been sentenced to long periods in the Rehabilitation Project Force, the cult's own Orwellian prison; he had been constantly humiliated and his marriage had been destroyed, yet he remained totally convinced that L. Ron Hubbard was the greatest man who ever lived. In November 1981 Armstrong presented a written report listing the false claims made by Hubbard and putting forward a powerful argument as to why they should be corrected. 'If we present inaccuracies, hyperbole or downright lies as fact or truth,' he wrote, 'it doesn't matter what slant we give them; if disproved, the man will look, to outsiders at least, like a charlatan . . .'The messengers' response was to order Armstrong to be 'security checked' - interrogated as a potential traitor. Armstrong refused. In the spring of 1982, Gerald Armstrong was accused of eighteen different 'crimes' and 'high crimes' against the Church of Scientology, including theft, false pretences and promulgating false information about the church and its founder.
Gerry Armstrong, was declared to be a 'suppressive person' and 'fair game', which meant he could be 'tricked, cheated, lied to, sued or destroyed' by his former friends in Scientology. 'By then the whole thing for me had crumbled,' Gerry Armstrong, said,
'I realized I had been drawn into Scientology by a web of lies, by Machiavellian mental control techniques and by fear.
The betrayal of trust began with Hubbard's lies about himself. His life was a continuing pattern of fraudulent business practices, tax evasion, flight from creditors and hiding from the law.
'Hubbard was a mixture of Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin and Baron Munchausen. In short, he was a con man.'
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Taken from: Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron H
ubbard is a posthumous biography of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard by British journalist Russell Miller. Originally published: 26 October 1987 Author: Russell Miller, Genre: Biography, Page count: 380, Publisher: Michael Joseph, Subject: L. Ron Hubbard
L33T GUY, Published on Jul 22, 2017
What is Scientology? I'm not a proponent of L. Ron Hubbard or the CoS, but there is no denying he was an interesting character and had studied the occult and esoteric ideas. This is one of the only interviews he gave and was distributed by the Church of Scientology in the late 60s. He ponders the nature of man and an introduction to his new religion, Scientology. SOURCE: - Video is copyright the Church of Scientology. #Scientology #Hubbard ----- - SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.
The British nobility has been working on a Grand Plan to make themselves the ruthless ruler of the entire world.
The rest of humanity does not agree to their idea that the British nobility should rule the world. They do not want to be obedient subjects, servants and slaves who live under the boot and say-so of the British aristocracy. Most men want to live as free men who live under their own will and say-so.
Thus the British slavemasters conducted mental and spiritual research. Their real interest in studying the human mind and spirit was to learn how to control men, so they could modify his behavior into what they want all men to be – willing subjects under rule by the British nobility.
The Cecil family is one of the top British slavemaster families. Their family has been the head of British intelligence for over 400 years. Robert Cecil was the leader of an influential family called the Cecil Bloc. He was the head of British intelligence and he was a British Prime Minister.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil (Lord Salisbury)
One of his sisters had a son named Arthur Balfour. He was in the Cecil family and he was also a head of British intelligence and a Prime Minister of Britain.
Arthur J. Balfou
Anderson Live Interview With Jenna Miscavige 2/06/2013
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Published on Feb 6, 2013
Anderson Live interview with Jenna Miscavige about her book, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.
Truth About David Miscavige and Wife Shelly's Separation
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Published on Jul 26, 2013
Anderson Live interview with Jenna Miscavige about her book, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.
Barbara Klowden Snader, aka Barbara Kaye - L Ron Hubbard's PR Assistant & Lover - Secret Lives
Keeping.Skepticism.WorkingPublished on Jan 24, 2015
Barbara Klowden Snader, aka Barbara Kaye - L Ron Hubbard's PR Assistant & Lover - Secret Lives - Scientology - Dianetics. Ron was still married to Sara Northrup, "the second wife he didn't have" This video is uploaded with the intent of educating the public regarding Scientology and its belief structure and to help preserve the tech for future generations. Uploaded in the spirit of Fair Use Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107. All credit for the video goes to its original creator.
Masters of Sleep, one of Hubbard's last works of pulp fiction, on the cover of the October 1950 issue of Fantastic Adventures
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Spencer Fayette Eddy
Scientology Roots Chapter Nine – L. Ron Hubbard’s Lifelong Intelligence Career
MI-6 Are The Lords of The Global Drug Trade
by James Casbolt
from JamesCasbolt Website
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_drugs
It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme.
As intelligence insiders know MI-5 and MI-6 control many of the other intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, MOSSAD etc) in a vast web of intrigue and corruption that has its global power base in the city of London, the square mile. My name is James Casbolt, and I worked for MI-6 in 'black ops' cocaine trafficking with the IRA and MOSSAD in London and Brighton between 1995 and 1999
My father Peter Casbolt was also MI-6 and worked with the CIA and mafia in Rome, trafficking cocaine into Britain. My experience was that the distinctions of all these groups became blurred until in the end we were all one international group working together for the same goals. We were puppets who had our strings pulled by global puppet masters based in the city of London. Most levels of the intelligence agencies are not loyal to the people of the country they are based in and see themselves as 'super national'.
It had been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CIA has been bringing in most of the drugs into America for the last fifty years (see ex LAPD officer Michael Rupert's 'From the wilderness' website for proof).
The CIA operates under orders from British intelligence and was created by British intelligence in 1947.
The CIA today is still loyal to the international bankers based in the city of London and the global elite aristocratic families like the Rothschild's and the Windsor's. Since it was first started, MI-6 has always brought drugs into Britain. They do not bring 'some' of the drugs into Britain but I would estimate MI-6 bring in around ninety percent of the drugs in.
They do this by pulling the strings of many organized crime and terrorist groups and these groups like the IRA are full of MI-6 agents.
MI-6 bring in heroin from the middle east, cocaine from south America and cannabis from morocco as well as other places. British intelligence also designed and created the drug LSD in the 1950's through places like the Tavistock Institute in London. By the 1960's MI-5, MI-6 and the CIA were using LSD as a weapon against the angry protestors of the sixties and turned them into 'flower children' who were too tripped out to organize a revolution.
Dr Timothy Leary the LSD guru of the sixties was a CIA puppet. Funds and drugs for Leary's research came from the CIA and Leary says that Cord Meyer, the CIA agent in charge of funding the sixties LSD counter culture has "helped me to understand my political cultural role more clearly".
In 1998, I was sent 3000 LSD doses on blotting paper by MI-5 with pictures of the European union flag on them. The MI-5 man who sent them told my father this was a government 'signature' and this LSD was called 'Europa'.
This global drugs trade controlled by British intelligence is worth at least 500 billion a year. This is more than the global oil trade and the economy in Britain and America is totally dependent on this drug money.
Mafia crime boss John Gotti exposed the situation when asked in court if he was involved in drug trafficking.
He replied "No we can't compete with the government".
I believe this was only a half truth because the mafia and the CIA are the same group at the upper levels. In Britain, the MI-6 drug money is laundered through the Bank of England, Barclays Bank and other household name companies. The drug money is passed from account to account until its origins are lost in a huge web of transactions.
The drug money comes out 'cleaner' but not totally clean. Diamonds are then bought with this money from the corrupt diamond business families like the Oppenheimers.
These diamonds are then sold and the drug money is clean. MI-6 and the CIA are also responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic in Britain and America. In 1978, MI-6 and the CIA were in south America researching the effects of the natives smoking 'basuco' cocaine paste. This has the same effect as crack cocaine. They saw that the strength and addiction potential was far greater than ordinary cocaine and created crack cocaine from the basuco formula.
MI-6 and the CIA then flooded Britain and America with crack.
Two years later, in 1980, Britain and America were starting to see the first signs of the crack cocaine epidemic on the streets. On august 23, 1987, in a rural community south of Little Rock in America, two teenage boys named Kevin Ives and Don Henry were murdered and dismembered after witnessing a CIA cocaine drop that was part of a CIA drug trafficking operation based at a small airport in Mena, Arkansas.
Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas at the time. Bill Clinton was involved with the CIA at this time and $100 million worth of cocaine was coming through the Mena, Arkansas airport each month.
For proof see the books 'Compromise' and 'Dope Inc'.
On my father's international MI-6 drug runs, whatever fell off the back of the lorry so to speak he would keep and we would sell it in Britain. As long as my father was meeting the speedboats from Morocco in the Costa del Sol and then moving the lorry loads of cannabis through their MI-6, IRA lorry business into Britain every month, British intelligence were happy.
As long as my father was moving shipments of cocaine out of Rome every month, MI5 and MI6 were happy. If my father kept a bit to sell himself no one cared because there was enough drugs and money to go round in this £500 billion a year global drugs trade. The ones who were really paying were the people addicted. Who were paying with suffering.
But karma always catches up and both myself and my father became addicted to heroin in later years and my father died addicted, and poor in prison under very strange circumstances. Today, I am clean and drug-free and wish to help stop the untold suffering this global drugs trade causes.
The intelligence agencies have always used addictive drugs as a weapon against the masses to bring in their long term plan for a one world government, a one world police force designed to be NATO and a micro chipped population known as the New World Order. As the population is in a drug or alcohol-induced trance watching 'Coronation Street', the new world order is being crept in behind them.
To properly expose this global intelligence run drugs trade we need to expose the key players in this area:
Tibor Rosenbaum, a MOSSAD agent and head of the Geneva based Banque du Credit international. This bank was the forerunner to the notorious Bank of Credit and Commerce international (BCCI) which is a major intelligence drug money laundering bank. 'Life' magazine exposed Rosenbaum's bank as a money launderer for the Meyer Lanksky American organized crime family and Tibor Rosenbaum funded and supported 'Permindex' the MI6 assassination unit which was at the heart of the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Robert Vesco, sponsored by the Swiss branch of the Rothchilds and part of the American connection to the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia.
Sir Francis de Guingand, former head of British intelligence, now living in south Africa (and every head of MI5 and MI6 has been involved in the drug world before and after him).
Henry Keswick, chairman of Jardine Matheson which is one of the biggest drug trafficking operations in the world. His brother John Keswick is chairman of the bank of England.
Sir Martin Wakefield Jacomb, Bank of England director from 1987 to 1995, Barclays Bank Deputy Chairman in 1985, Telegraph newspapers director in 1986 (This is the reason why this can of worms doesn't get out in the mainstream media. The people who are perpetrating these crimes control most of the mainstream media. In America former director of the CIA William Casey was, before his death in 1987, head of the council of the media network ABC. Many insiders refer to ABC as 'The CIA network.)
George Bush, Snr, former President and former head of the CIA and America's leading drug baron who has fronted more wars on drugs than any other president. Which in reality is just a method to eliminate competition. A whole book could be written on George Bush's involvement in the global drug trade but it is well-covered in the book 'Dark Alliance' by investigative journalist Gary Webb.
Gary Webb was found dead with two gunshot wounds to the back of his head with a revolver. The case was declared a 'suicide'. You figure that out. Gary Webb as well as myself and other investigators, found that much of this 'black ops' drug money is being used to fund projects classified above top secret.
These projects include the building and maintaining of deep level underground bases in,
Dulce in New exico
Pine Gap in Australia
Snowy mountains in Australia
The Nyala range in Africa
west of Kindu in Africa
next to the Libyan border in Egypt
Mount Blanc in Switzerland
Narvik in Scandinavia
Gottland island in Sweden,
...and many other places around the world (more about these underground bases in my next issue).
The information on this global drugs trade run by the intelligence agencies desperately needs to get out on a large scale.
Any information, comments or feedback to help me with my work would be greatly welcomed.
Scientology & Paul Haggis: 'It's a Cult' - NBC News, Part 1 of 2
ReportsOnScientologyPublished on Jan 18, 2013
Scientology is a cult, says Academy Award-winning director Paul Haggis, a Scientologist for 34 years. Also, one family tells its story of escaping Scientology. Rock Center with Brian Williams, NBC News, aired January 17, 2013
Scientology & Paul Haggis: 'It's a Cult' - NBC News, Part 2 of 2
Published on Jan 18, 2013
Scientology is a cult, says Academy Award-winning director Paul Haggis, a Scientologist for 34 years. Also, one family tells its story of escaping Scientology. Rock Center with Brian Williams, NBC News, aired January 17, 2013.
Scientology: Jason Beghe Interview
Published on Jun 4, 2008
Actor Jason Beghe speaks about his years in Scientology and why he left the group
Scientology: The Story of Kate
Published on Jul 15, 2014
1/20/2001 Astra Woodcraft joined Scientology's Sea Org as a young teen. In "The Story of Kate," Astra details the pressure that was brought to bear on her to abort her baby when it was discovered that she was pregnant. Astra went on to be one of the founders of Ex-Scientology Kids. http://www.exscientologykids.com
Robert Vaughn Young - L. Ron Hubbard’s PR & Press Assistant - Secret Lives - Scientology - Dianetics
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Published on Apr 2, 2015
Robert Vaughn Young - L. Ron Hubbard’s PR & Press Assistant & High Ranking Sea Org Member. "Secret Lives" Scientology - Dianetics. This video is uploaded with the intent of educating the public regarding Scientology and its belief structure and to help preserve the tech for future generations. Uploaded in the spirit of Fair Use Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107. All credit for the video goes to its original creator. All rights are reserved by the copyright holder.
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Died June 15, 2003, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
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Robert Vaughn Young 1-1 Deposition in the Lisa McPherson Case
https://youtu.be/jyWPJplegfI
Published on Jul 4, 2010
This video series is an unabridged deposition in the Lisa McPherson wrongful death lawsuit against Scientology in 2000. This deposition is described in the first and second sections as an "emergency" because Young is suffering from terminal prostate cancer. The result is a fascinating view inside the Scientology organization at all levels, from one of its most trusted officers. Robert Vaughn Young (or RVY as he was known online in circles critical of Scientology) was a high ranking church official and eventual whistleblower. He was married to Stacy Brooks Young (now known as Stacy Brooks), but the pair divorced in the years following their exit from Scientology. From Wikipedia: ------- IN SCIENTOLOGY: 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] He was a national spokesman for the church.[2] RVY edited L. Ron Hubbard's ten-volume Mission Earth series. Young said 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.[3][4] AFTER LEAVING After leaving the Church of Scientology in 1989, Young became prominent as an expert in court cases regarding Scientology such as CSI v. Fishman and Geertz,[1] BPI v. FACTNet,[5] the Lisa McPherson civil trial,[6], cited by the press,[7][8] and as an Internet-based critic of the organization. His ex-wife, Stacy Brooks, was a member of the Lisa McPherson Trust. This frequently resulted in tension with his former organization.[9] 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. ------- One day, I received a call from Stacy Brooks, and shortly afterward I began doing video work for Phoenix5, in addition to anti-cult video editing. This was my first contact with RVY. I was honored to have a chance to know him personally, even meeting him for a four hour lunch not long before he died. It was a long and intimate discussion, and at the risk of being indiscreet, I would like to address a point that - at the time - reputed Scientologists were gleefully parrotting about his marriage. Despite the black PR, RVY said that the breakup of his marriage to Stacy Brooks was not precipitated by Bob Minton; he loved Stacy, he said, wanted her to be happy, and considered Bob Minton a friend. Bob stole nothing from him, he told me; inside a cult, people have a commonality that can form the basis of a lasting relationship. Once that commonality is gone, one can find that the basis itself is in doubt. People are different outside of a cult than they are inside of it, and maybe something that worked in captivity doesn't work in the wild. That's my metaphor, not his. That's all the insight he gave me, but it's enough. I didn't know Robert Vaughn Young very well, but I was grateful for the time and talks we did have. When our lunch was over, I sat in my car and literally wept for half and hour, because I had barely gotten to know this dynamic, fascinating man, and he was likely to be dead in a few weeks. In fact, nearly a decade later, I'm weeping as I type this. I didn't know him well, and I didn't know him long, but he left his mark on me - the good ones always do - and I will always miss him. Rest in peace, RVY. We'll take it from here.
The last will and testament benefited David Miscavige, with everything left to the Religious Technology Center, which was controlled by David Miscavige at the time of the death of L Ron Hubbard.
David Miscavige then took over as head of Scientology after the death of L. Ron Hubbard, the family of L. Ron Hubbard to really been mentioned in his last will and testament Robert Vaughn Young questioned whether the last will and testament was fraudulently changed after the death of L. Ron Hubbard, who he says at the time of his death, L. Ron Hubbard was not living in any reality and had become lost in the stories he created during his life and in the opinion of Robert Vaughn Young, L Ron Hubbard did at the time of his death was not capable of knowing the difference between reality and fiction. Robert Vaughn Young goes on to say that a story had to be created for the Scientology followers that made L. Ron Hubbard, immortal ….by telling all the Scientology followers that L. Ron Hubbard, immortal had thrown his physical body away for his spirit to be fee to search and explore the higher levels of Scientology
Hana Eltringham Whitfield - L Ron Hubbard's Ship Captain - Secret Lives - Scientology - Dianetics
Keeping.Skepticism.Working
Published on Apr 23, 2015
Hana Eltringham Whitfield - L Ron Hubbard's Sea Organization Ship Captain & Loyal Officer Secret Lives Scientology Dianetics This video is uploaded with the intent of educating the public regarding Scientology and its belief structure and to help preserve the tech for future generations. Uploaded in the spirit of Fair Use Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107. All credit for the video goes to its original creator. All rights are reserved by the copyright holder.
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The Scandal behind "The Scandal of Scientology"
Operation Clambake presents:
Looking over my shoulder,
The Inside Account of the Story That Almost Killed Me
Saturday, June 23, 2007
By Paulette Cooper
http://www.xenu.net/archive/personal_story/paulette_cooper/
The paperback cost less than a dollar. But the price the author paid - both in torment and in legal fees - was immensely more.
The author in 1967. Little did she realize the turn her life was about to take.
"I was named a likely suspect and the next thing I knew I was called to appear before a federal grand jury in New York."
The ledge surrounding the rooftop pool of her apartment building: the perfect spot for an "accident."
By 1974, the author wears the stress of her ordeal in her pained visage.
Cooper says her life is back on track, and that she is enjoying some well-earned time away from the pandora's box she opened nearly forty years ago.
You may not believe this, but you can write something that some group doesn't approve of and then have a quarter of your life almost ruined. I know because it happened to me.
I haven't previously written about this from beginning to end because it's still painful, but here goes. In 1968 I was a struggling New York freelance writer, searching for an investigative story that would make a difference. I was already used to controversy - and publicity - when a year earlier I had successfully stowed away on an ocean liner and wrote an article (and sold movie rights) about it that had appeared all over the world.
But when I next decided to expose a then relatively unknown organization called Scientology (and the related Dianetics, ) I ended up falsely arrested and facing 15 years in jail, had 19 lawsuits filed against me all over the world by Scientology, was the almost victim of a near murder, was the subject of 5 disgusting anonymous smear letters sent to my family and neighbors about me, and endured constant and continual harassment for almost 15 years.
I had obtained a master's degree in psychology and had studied comparative religion at Harvard for a summer. So I became interested in researching a newly-popular quasi-religious mental-health cult founded by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard. I started by writing an article exposing Scientology for the British Harper/Queen, (now Harper's Bazaar) and expanded this into a book.
In it, among other things, I stated that the crux of Scientology - their e-meter which they say acts like a lie detector - produced questionable results; that Hubbard had lied about his credentials; that Charles Manson had called himself a Scientologist; that some auditors had behaved improperly toward their "parishioners"; that some who left may have feared being blackmailed; that some defectors claimed that they had been psychologically damaged by Scientology, financially ripped-off, and/or harassed when they tried to leave or speak out.
I soon got used to telephone death threats, harassing calls - and lawsuits.
I was occasionally followed - often conspicuously as if to upset me - and people seemed to be trying to gain access to my apartment. Then, in the basement of my small building, I discovered alligator clips on my phone wires - likely the remnants of a phone tap.
Next, my cousin - who was also short and slim like me - was in my apartment alone when a man arrived with a "flower delivery" for me. When she opened the door, the intruder pulled a gun out of the flowers and put it to her temple. Fortunately, the gun jammed, misfired or was empty. The man then began to choke her, and when she pulled away and screamed, he ran off. The police said afterward that they were mystified, because there appeared to be no motive for the attack.
I quickly moved to a safer doorman building. But soon afterwards, 300 of my new neighbors received an anonymous smear letter about me, outrageously describing me as a part-time prostitute with VD!
Then, a few weeks later, I received a visit from a pompous FBI agent named Bruce Brotman. He said the spokesman for the Church of Scientology in New York, James Meisler, claimed to have received 2 anonymous bomb threats and named me as a likely suspect.
I didn't take it seriously until I was called to appear before a federal grand jury - and was shocked to learn that I was the target (suspect). I had to hire a top law firm (I chose one headed by Charles Stillman) who required a $5,000 retainer on my meager freelance income. Little did I realize that they would ultimately cost me $28,000 (like $75,000 today) and they would unsuccessfully sue me after the case was over for even more money!
Even worse, during the grand jury, the prosecutor, John D. Gordon III, told me that if this Grand Jury decided that I had sent Scientology the 2 bomb threats, I faced 5 years in jail for each letter, 5 more for perjury for denying it, and $15,000 in fines.
He showed me the letters, and I truthfully testified that I had never touched or seen them before. Then Gordon dropped the real bomb. "Then how did your fingerprint get on one of them?" he asked.
I was so shocked I think I momentarily lost consciousness because the room turned upside down. I then rightly explained that Scientology could have obtained a blank piece of paper that I had touched, and typed threats on it afterwards.
But Gordon was unconvinced. On May 9th, 1973, I was indicted on all 3 three counts by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. And 10 days later I was arrested, released on my own recognizance, and forbidden to leave the state without the court's permission.
For months, my anxiety was so terrible I could taste it in my throat. I was in a total panic. I could barely write, and my bills, especially legal ones, kept mounting. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day, popped Valium like M&Ms, and drank too much vodka.
I worried obsessively about the possibility of going to jail. And also about my career. I had been doing extremely well. I had 4 books out and I wasn't yet 30. But once these accusations came out at trial, what editor would give an assignment to a writer believed to have sent bomb threats to the people she wrote about? I had wanted to be a writer since I was 8 years old, and my dream life was about to be over.
I was also very concerned about my parents. They had adopted me from an orphanage in Belgium when I was 6, and I had always tried to make them proud of me. However, I knew they would soon be humiliated when the trial started.
The sexual revolution was going on then, and young people were also experimenting with pot, considering horrifying by adults (and jurors no doubt!) in those days. As a single photogenic woman involved in a bizarre case, I knew I would become the scandal du jour for the tabloids during the anticipated 3-week trial.
I tried desperately to prevent a trial. I made a writing barter arrangement with a private investigator, Anthony Pellicano - the same one in jail and in the news now - who I wanted to look into L Ron Hubbard Jr., the son of the founder, who I had worked with against his father but whom I now began to suspect had turned. But Pellicano did nothing.
I also volunteered to take lie-detector tests to prove my innocence. But they returned contradictory and inconclusive results, although not surprisingly, they did show me to be highly stressed.
My state of mind got worse when the man I had been dating for a year and planned to marry, a lawyer named Bob Straus, left me. Most of my friends also stopped calling because I was so obsessed with the horrors that were happening that it was all I could talk (or think) about.
On July 26th on my 30th birthday, I decided to end it. Fortunately, an editor friend at the New York Times stuck by me and called me. She kept me on the phone for hours to stop me from continuing to take the entire bottle of Valium I admitted that I had started to take that evening.
Another loyal friend was a new one, a short smiling redhead named Jerry Levin. He was sympathetic to what was going on and moved in with me late that summer. Since I was too depressed to go out much, he did my errands and walked my dog Tiki while I compulsively watched the Watergate hearings.
Occasionally, he would persuade me to go up to the rooftop pool with him at night when no one was there. He was a gutsy guy, and he would leap up to the 33-story high ledge and try to get me to join him. "You have to be brave if you're going to take on those bastards," he'd say. But I huddled below, a shadow of my former adventurous self.
Toward the beginning of September, I was in such a bad state that I even became slightly suspicious of him. When I questioned him, he turned on me, berating me for not even being able to trust my closest friend any more. Then he too walked out of my life, leaving me alone to face the trial.
The court date, October 31, 1973, was approaching when, a Professor and researcher from Scotland, Dr. Roy Wallis, came to interview me. Earlier, he had interviewed L Ron Hubbard Jr.
Boastfully, Jr. gave Roy a letter he wrote to his father, saying he could "bring the enemy to their [sic] knees" - and he had suddenly purchased an expensive house right after I was indicted although he had been broke. Roy brought this and other information he had gathered on Scientology's dirty tricks to Gordon, who had a growing file I had also given him on Scientology's "fair game law": That stated that an "enemy" of Scientology - such as me - "May be injured by any means by any Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
But no prosecutor wants to give up a high publicity case. So I started searching for a doctor to give me a truth-serum test. After months of barely eating, I had gone down to only 83 pounds, and my health had deteriorated from the stress. Doctors refused me, saying I could die from the anesthesia. But I didn't care. I had decided to kill myself right before the trial rather than humiliate my parents (and myself) once the news stories came out.
Finally, a neurologist, Dr. David Coddon of Mount Sinai Hospital, agreed, and after several hours of questioning me while I was out, he was so convinced I was innocent, that he said not only would he testify for me, but he would chain himself to the courthouse steps if they proceeded with this case. (Just what I needed; more publicity!)
On Halloween day, 1973, the government postponed - and ultimately canceled - the trial, agreeing to file a nolle prosequi. I went into therapy for a year, and the depression lifted somewhat. But the threat of a trial and scandalous publicity remained over my head, because the government could still try me, and the press could still discover that I had been arrested for sending bomb threats and ruin me.
So for four long years, I was bitter - and broke - feeling that everything I had done was right and it had all come out so wrong. Strangers from all over the world continued to call me for help on Scientology, unaware of what I had just gone though. Since no one else was doing anything or speaking out against them, I continued to try to help Scientology's many victims (free), including those they were suing or who were suing them, and those who had lost their families and their money to them.
So the Scientologists therefore kept suing following and harassing me. As one example, when they found out I had seen a shrink, they broke into his offices and stole my records to find out what I had said during therapy - then sent excerpts of negative things I had said about my friends and parents to them. Nice, eh?
In July of 1977 I was flying home from Africa on a travel writing assignment when I picked up a copy of the Herald Tribune on the plane and couldn't believe the headline Washington Post story they had picked up: it was about me.
It seems the FBI had raided 3 Scientology offices and seized their internal memos after learning that they were engaged in a variety of criminal activities. And that included framing a writer who had exposed them and was working against them: me.
I was so happy; I thought that last I would be able to prove my innocence when I came home, which had become an obsession with me. But it took me four more frustrating years (during which time they harassed me more than ever, set me up with private investigators, and continued to sue me for nonsense, for example, for that Washington Post story, saying I had given it to them) before I at last saw those documents.
And then I spent 3 months in Washington D.C., reading all the nasty stuff they had done not only to me but to anyone who had ever said or done anything against Scientology. As I later told Mike Wallace when I was on 60 Minutes discussing the frame-up and their "dirty trick" papers: "Scientology turned out to be worse than anything I ever said or even imagined.
For example, one series of documents dated 1976 was a plot of theirs against me called "Operation Freakout." to get me "incarcerated in a mental institution or jail or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks" on Scientology. It seems that after the first frame-up - a plot they apparently called "Operation Dynamite" - had failed to imprison (or silence) me, they plotted again to make it look like I was making bomb threats against them and others with fake threats sounding eerily like the '72 ones.
Mysteriously, there was also an anonymous diary someone wrote of what I did each day during the "frame-up" period, and how close I was to suicide. "Wouldn't that be great for Scientology?" the person wrote
And then I realized the writer could only have been Jerry Levin. He must have been a Scientologist whom they sent to spy on me and help Scientology set me up. He and his friends, Paula Tyler and a woman calling herself Margie Shepherd (who may be Linda Kramer from Boston, who married and may be Linda Kobern), had been in and out of my old apartment back when the threats were sent. And they had access to paper on which Scientology could have obtained my fingerprint and then typed the threats.
Even now I still wonder: why did Jerry want me to go up on that ledge with him? If he had pushed me over, everyone would have simply assumed that in my depressed state of mind, and rather than face a trial, I had committed suicide. Operation Freakout indeed.
A new grand jury in New York spent 3 years investigating my frame-up. Alas, the case went nowhere because the Scientologists refused to talk about what they knew about the frame-up. One, a Charles Batdorf, was even jailed for months for refusal to speak but still wouldn't talk.
But a simultaneous Washington, D.C., grand jury (and trial) ultimately jailed 11 Scientologists who were involved in wiretapping, infiltration and theft of government documents. Some had also been involved in the frame-up and harassment of me so I finally had some justice. I also initiated my own legal actions against Scientology while they piled on more suits, spies and harassment against me. Finally, in 1985, we reached an "amicable" settlement of all lawsuits.
Indirectly, through the lawyer who handled this settlement, I became reacquainted with Paul Noble, a New York TV producer, whom I had dated in my 20's, long before this all happened and we have been very happily married for 19 years now. I went on to write 11 more books, win 6 writing awards (including two for "The Scandal of Scientology,") do some travel writing, and have a newspaper column on pets. True, it's not as "glamorous" as the investigative reporting I did with Scientology, but at least dogs don't harass and cats don't sue.
I also quit smoking, barely drink, and try to forget what happened. Try. But when I see the news, or my e-mail, I'm often reminded of the years of torment I endured. Whenever I hear about litigation,or depositions, I remember the years (and money) I spent fighting the 19 lawsuits they filed against me from all over the world that I had to defend - not to mention that I was subjected to 50 days of depositions.
Or I read about something like prosecutor Nifong's going after the innocent Duke soccer players and I am reminded of what it was like for an innocent person to be prosecuted. Me. Or someone will send me inside information from a higher-up who left, like the affidavit from Margie Wakefield swearing that: "The second murder that I heard planned was of Paulette Cooper, who had written a book critical of Scientology, and they were planning to shoot her"
Other names keep bringing me back as well. My useless private investigator, Anthony Pellicano, is all over the news. My former attorney Charles Stillman often defends high-publicity clients. like the Reverend Moon. Bob Straus, the boyfriend who left me, went on to head a large New York organization that investigates judges. John D. Gordon III is with the high profile law firm of Morgan Lewis.
Bruce Brotman retired from the FBI and I was pleased to read negative news stories that appeared about him. It seems he left the FBI and became head of security at a big-city Airport and the local papers reported that he was fired when he refused to go through the security system, reportedly saying, "I make the rules."
Dr. Roy Wallis committed suicide in 1990, blowing his brains out when his wife left him. Dr. David Coddon died in 2002. And while I've never heard further of James Meisler or Charles Batdorf, I heard that Jerry Levin - which I'm sure was not his real name - is still a Scientologist.
Yes, I often wish I had never ever heard the word "Scientology," But despite all that happened, I would still have done the same today, because no one else was speaking out or working to expose them then. I would not have been capable of remaining quiet because I learned too many scary things and talked to too many people who were being hurt to turn my back on them.
Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, others are speaking out. And fortunately Scientology is not as litigious or vicious toward their critics. But if you think there's nothing bad happening to (former) members and/or critics, go read www.clambake.org (especially the message boards), www.lermanet.com, xenu.net, xenutv,com &.holysmoke.org for starters.
Sometimes I get discouraged because Scientology gets so much publicity from people like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, etc. And I wonder whether it was worth wrecking so many years of my life when they're so powerful again. But then I remind myself that I did help a lot of people. My book sold 154,000 copies - not that I ever saw any money from it and it cost me a fortune - and what I called "The Book That Launched a Thousand Suits" is really "The Book they Couldn't Kill," since it's still read today (free) on the Internet - in several languages.
Finally, some of the people who read my book (or the story of what they did to me which is also on the Internet,) e-mail me from all over the world to thank me, and that gives me satisfaction. My favorite was the man in his 50's who e-mailed me to say that years ago, after learning the truth about Scientology from me, he left the cult, married, has 4 children (2 are twins) and now runs a computer company employing 40+ people. He wrote to tell me that he feels that I am responsible for his happiness.
That reminded me of why I did what I did, and why we journalists do what we do: we try to tell the truth so that we can help others.
Unfortunately, we sometimes pay a terrible price for it.
MISS LOVELY
Scientology’s First ‘Victim’
L. Ron Hubbard called her a bitch, the FBI found files on her in its raids: The story of Scientology’s most famous critic.
M.L. Nestel
07.12.17
https://www.thedailybeast.com/scientologys-first-victim
Those were the choice words belted out by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard back in 1974 as he pounded on his desk while playing Commodore aboard his yacht, the Apollo.
Cooper, one of the earliest writers to look into the Church of Scientology’s inner workings, has long maintained that Hubbard (or LRH, as he’s often referred to) had it out for her. Just tally up the 19 lawsuits slapped against Cooper by the Church, the 40 lawyers she retained, and the 50 days of depositions—including one reportedly involving a Scientology lawyer who pressed Cooper for a stool sample. (Cooper quipped back: “If you want one, you’ll get it—on your head.”)
This story of Hubbard’s maritime rage is an incredible nugget in the middle of Tony Ortega’s new book, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, which lands on bookstands this week. Ortega managed to unearth the anecdote after poring over a deposition of Tonja Burden, who was only 15 at the time. Burden was one of Hubbard’s "Messengers,” young females tasked with lighting his cigarettes, prepping his showers, and laundering his shirts “13 times to get any smell out of them.” LRH apparently had a nasty aversion to flowery scents, especially “rose perfume,” the book reveals.
The book’s title plays off Cooper’s supposed code name within Scientology, “Miss Lovely,” which she gained “because she was so beautiful,” Ortega told me. Other citizens have reported being harassed and bullied by Scientology, but nothing to the extent of Paulette Cooper’s story. She’s the first one many people think of when it comes to Scientology’s alleged victims.
The book is a wallop of a read and Cooper is presented as sympathetic, tragic, and, for a brief bit, unreliable, as she allegedly plots against the Church in her own way. But Ortega also makes some incredible claims that seem to rely upon deep reportage, tracking down people Ortega identifies as long-lost Scientologists and weaving their testimonials into a gripping narrative.
A Church of Scientology spokeswoman, in a statement, emphatically denounced the book and called Ortega “a parasite” for using “bigotry and false allegations about the Church of Scientology to create a cottage industry of hate.”
The statement went on to suggest that out of the many claims in the book, none of them dignify a thorough response.
“Despite Tony Ortega’s desperate need for publicity, we see no reason to revisit the subject or respond to debunked falsehoods concerning events three to four decades old involving individuals who have long since been expelled,” the statement read.
The Church added that it settled all claims with Cooper in 1985.
“It is a matter of public record that the current Church management disbanded the rogue unit with which she was having trouble long before then. The Church has neither heard from nor been involved in anything related to Ms. Cooper for 30 years,” according to a Church spokeswoman.
Out of all the writers who have gone head to head with Scientology, Cooper’s story is perhaps the most incredible. She was dashing and easily made hearts skip a few beats during her early years in Manhattan, where she lived and plied her craft as an independent journalist.
Cooper says she remembers how Scientology came knocking at her front door on June 6, 1968. It was the day after Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated and Cooper was a twenty-something advertising copywriter trying to cut her teeth as a magazine stringer in New York City.
The Brandeis psych grad, who spent some time at Harvard studying mental health patients, says she received a former boss at her Manhattan apartment.
Cooper recounts in her own book how the man began singing Scientology’s praises and how he’d been doling out wads of charity cash to random homeless people. Then, Cooper says, he told her he was God, the lord and savior, and that "God has decided to rape you.”
Cooper managed to fend him off.
But her journalist instincts kicked in and she enrolled in classes at the Scientology Org in Midtown Manhattan under a pseudonym. She says she only lasted a few days before higher-ups in the organization's Ethics department were onto her. But Cooper says she remembers engaging in staring contests where she hallucinated—and says she was subjected to “bullbaiting,” wherein Scientologists allegedly chastised her for no reason and made propositions like, “You know what I’m going to do to you," supposedly to see if she would break.
Cooper ultimately began cobbling together her intel on this new religion and turned it into a feature story for the magazine Queen.
Before long, Cooper was living every day in fear, as she claims she was fielding death threats. She was convinced she was being followed and that her phone line was tapped.
In 1977, when the FBI raided the Los Angeles and D.C. offices of the Church, they found scores of documents that they used to send several high-ranking Scientologists to the slammer.
These same documents, Ortega's book says, also indicated that the Church had been monitoring Cooper’s movements since 1971 and ordered some members to lift pages from her diary, according to Ortega’s book. The group seemed particularly interested in the pages that catalogued teenage angst aimed toward her parents, the book says, or the ones that included sexually-charged thoughts.
Ortega’s book says that, in an attempt to frame Cooper, Church members typed up two anonymous bomb threats and sent them to the Church of Scientology headquarters in New York with Cooper’s fingerprints on them. Cooper maintains the Church got her fingerprints by getting a stranger to goad her into signing a petition to help the activist Cesar Chavez.
Soon, Cooper was hauled in front of a grand jury in Manhattan to answer for the terroristic threats and almost faced a trial until her attorneys used Cooper’s passing of a Q&A test, while on sodium pentothal, to get the charges chucked.
In the course of his research, Ortega says he managed to track down FBI Special Agent Christine Hansen. She was one of the few women at the bureau in the 1970s. This is apparently the first time anybody has managed to interview the former special agent. Because of her tenacity and eagle eye, on June 11, 1976, Hansen says she caught a Scientology member named Gerald Bennett Wolfe in the act of cribbing files from the IRS, the Department of Justice, and a dozen other government offices. He ended up serving five years in prison. His colleague Michael Meisner ultimately flipped for the Feds.
The reported effort to steal the files from government agencies and law firms was known as the “Snow White Program,” Hansen told Ortega.
Ortega also dives into “Operation Freakout,” the Church’s apparent attempt to target Cooper and frame her as insane, to get her committed.
Ortega’s book claims that a Scientology spy approached Cooper at a popular NYC watering hole and asked her to read a bad joke off of a piece of paper. Her fingerprints on the joke stationary were used, Ortega says, in threatening letters sent to then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The Church allegedly enlisted a woman who sounded like Cooper and would be tasked with calling Kissinger’s office to make phone threats, as well as another woman cast to dress like Cooper and to play her doppleganger.
According to Ortega’s account of the documents seized in the FBI raid, Scientologists had instructed, “Several different outfits should have been obtained by [Paulette’s double] so that when the caper goes down, she can immediately change into the color or type of outfit that Paulette has on.” Then, the book says, calls would be made to Arab embassies with the Cooper lookalike claiming: “I’m going to bomb you bastards!”
After the raids, Ortega says, "Operation Freakout" was never fully completed.
Still, even after Cooper appeared on 60 Minutes to talk about Scientology, Ortega’s book suggests that several plots continued to target “Miss Lovely.” In one of them, a supposed friend called Jerry Levin, who had come into Cooper’s life suddenly and mysteriously, allegedly told Cooper to jump from a 33-story ledge above a rooftop swimming pool.
“Why on earth would Jerry want me to climb that ledge,” Cooper told The Daily Beast. “He was up there, it would have taken the slightest push and that would have been in it.”
According to Cooper, Levin was a secret Scientologist who had befriended her and lived with her during some of the lowest months of her life.
Not long after Levin moved out, and as Cooper was awaiting trial for making bomb threats (which she says were actually made by her Scientology impersonators), she says the only thing that saved her from a suicide-by-Valium attempt was a friend’s phone call wishing her a happy birthday.
By 1980, Cooper had decided to fight back against the Church. That was the year, the book says, that she met a private investigator named Richard Bast. (He passed away in 2001.) Cooper says Bast told her he was working for a rich Swissman who had lost his daughter to suicide. The girl had been a Scientologist and after her death, Bast said, the man had hired him to build a case against the Church.
The book says the two began to cook up ways to undermine the Church. Cooper would find every news clipping related to Scientology and bring them to Bast. But soon, the book says, Cooper started to hatch some of her own schemes to fool the Scientologists.
Ortega lays out how Bast suggested Cooper sleep with people in order to get intel and even allegedly suggested that a friend should plant drugs in the Church’s D.C. office, so that Cooper could then tip off the cops. “The point I want to make is, if we have any kind of police raid, this gay friend of mine.... probably [could] get us some. A couple of things you might want to consider—leaving them there that might make much bigger headlines. Like cocaine,” she told Bast, unaware that he was taping her statements, according to court transcripts that Ortega included in the book.
But Bast wasn’t working for a Swiss tycoon at all—he was doing the Church’s bidding, the book says. And he had caught Scientology’s Public Enemy No. 1 with dirty hands. Before they went through with some of the alleged schemes to attack Scientology, Cooper had discovered the damage she’d caused herself. Her reputation now seemed undone again.
Cooper’s lawyer Mike Flynn believed the tapes could actually benefit her case. “Whatever is on them, the fact that they hired someone to befriend you, given your vulnerabilities, will only backfire on them. Whatever you said would pale in comparison to what they put you through,” he said at the time, according to Ortega’s book.
Cooper’s lawyers expected that they’d have to spin Bast’s tapes in her favor in the many lawsuits she was facing. Yet not much was made of the taped chats with Bast until years later, when Cooper says she was confronted by researchers from a Scientology hub website, who asked her several questions about them.
The Daily Beast provided a Church spokeswoman with a list of some of the book’s claims, including Ortega’s contention that he found the man who called himself Jerry Levin (Ortega says he was known in Scientologist circles as Don Alverzo); that a Vanity Fair writer (who was friendly with Cooper) had been on Scientology’s payroll for years; and that Charles Manson was a Scientologist. Ortega says he worked off of many sources, including The New York Times and Cooper’s own book, in which she wrote that “one famous, in fact infamous person interested in Scientology that they do not boast about, talk about, or probably even want is Charles Manson, the convicted murderer of Sharon Tate and her friends.”
The Church stressed that it’s erroneous to say the convicted serial killer was a Scientologist. In the statement, a spokeswoman wrote that “the Church debunked the Manson myth four decades ago… Manson never had ties to Scientology.” While the Vanity Fair writer wasn’t named, Ortega says he did track down Alverzo, who allegedly played dumb on the phone. “I’m sorry, I don’t even understand what language you’re talking. I guess you have the wrong person,” Ortega says Alverzo told him.
Cooper says that she still has to look over her shoulder to make sure she is not being followed or watched by Scientology operatives. Since her run-in with Scientology, she’s gone on to pen almost two dozen books, though she’s steered clear of writing about the Church again.
Her newest book—Was Elvis Jewish? Plus Hundreds of Fascinating Facts: & Amazing Anecdotes no Rabbi Ever Told You—takes on the King of Rock & Roll and sets out to prove that his great-grandmother on his maternal side was Jewish. “He loved matzo-ball soup, his mother wanted him to be a doctor, and he had a nose job,” she told The Daily Beast. “Convinced?”
Meanwhile, “I’m hoping not to have too many problems when [Tony Ortega’s] book comes out,” she told The Daily Beast in a recent interview. “But the reality is that if you ever write a book against Scientology you have to be prepared to have them keep tabs on you for the rest of your life and I did a tremendous amount of damage to them over many many years so I have to accept the consequences.”
New Documents Show Scientologists Plotted To Have Writer Jailed
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NOV. 24, 1979
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (AP) — The Church of Scientology plotted to get a New York freelance writer who criticized the church sent either to jail or to a men- tal institution, according to court docu- ments made public today.
A church file dated April 1, 1976, described a plot called “Operation Freakout” that was directed at Paulette Cooper, whu in 1971 wrote a book entitled “The Scandal of Scientology.”
Church documents said the purpose of was to “get P.C. incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks.” Some documents mentioned specific plots in which the church planned to make bomb threats in Miss Cooper's name.
One bomb threat the church sent on her stationery resulted in her indictment on Federal charges. After two years of legal struggle, the charges were dropped.
The documents were among thousands the F.B.I. seized from the church's Los Angeles offices in 1977. Some were used to prepare a case against nine church officials who were convicted Oct. 26 of plotting to steal Government records on the church. Federal District Judge Charles R. Richey then ordered most of the church documents made public.
Miss Cooper said in an interview that the Scientologists had filed 14 libel suits against her book, made death threats and obscene phone calls and sent people phony letters about her sexual behavior. Miss Cooper is suing the church for $55 million, charging harassment.
Dennis McKenna, a church spokesman responding to the release of documents about Miss Cooper, said that the writer was “covertly working with the F.B.I. and other Federal agencies” to harm the church.
November 24, 1979, Page 12
Buy ReprintsThe New York Times ArchivesWikipedia as at 4th June, 2019 on the Early Life of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born in 1911, in Tilden, Nebraska.[18] He was the only child of Ledora May (née Waterbury), who had trained as a teacher, and Harry Ross Hubbard, a former United States Navy officer.[19][20]After moving to Kalispell, Montana, they settled in Helena in 1913.[20] Hubbard's father rejoined the Navy in April 1917, during World War I, while his mother worked as a clerk for the state government.[21]
During the 1920s the Hubbards repeatedly relocated around the United States and overseas. After Hubbard's father Harry rejoined the Navy, his posting aboard the USS Oklahoma in 1921 required the family to relocate to the ship's home ports, first San Diego, then Seattle.[22] Hubbard was active in the Boy Scouts in Washington, D.C. and earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 1924, two weeks after his 13th birthday.
The following year, Harry Ross Hubbard was posted to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington.[23] His son was enrolled at Union High School, Bremerton,[23] and later studied at Queen Anne High School in Seattle.[24] In 1927 Hubbard's father was sent to the U.S. Naval Station on Guam. Hubbard's mother accompanied her husband, while their child was placed in his grandparents' care in Helena, Montana to complete his schooling.[24]
In 1927, Hubbard and his mother traveled to Guam. The trip consisted of a brief stop-over in a couple of Chinese ports before traveling on to Guam, where he stayed for six weeks before returning home. He recorded his impressions of the places he visited and disdained the poverty of the inhabitants of Japan and China, whom he described as "gooks" and "lazy [and] ignorant".[25][26][27]
After his return to the United States in September 1927, Hubbard enrolled at Helena High School, where he contributed to the school paper,[28] but earned only poor grades.[29] He abandoned school the following May and went back west to stay with his aunt and uncle in Seattle. He joined his parents in Guam in June 1928. His mother took over his education in the hope of putting him forward for the entrance examination to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
Between October and December 1928 a number of naval families, including Hubbard's, traveled from Guam to China aboard the cargo ship USS Gold Star. The ship stopped at Manila in the Philippines before traveling on to Qingdao (Tsingtao) in China. Hubbard and his parents made a side trip to Beijing before sailing on to Shanghai and Hong Kong, from where they returned to Guam.[30] Back on Guam, Hubbard spent much of his time writing dozens of short stories and essays[31] and failed the Naval Academy entrance examination.[32]
In September 1929, Hubbard was enrolled at the Swavely Preparatory School in Manassas, Virginia, to prepare him for a second attempt at the examination.[33] However, he was ruled out of consideration due to his near-sightedness.[34] He was instead sent to Woodward School for Boys in Washington, D.C. to qualify for admission to George Washington University. He successfully graduated from the school in June 1930 and entered the university the following September.[35]
Jenna Miscavige on The View, 2/05/2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NFshbZoDrEmackiesyotub Published on 5 Feb 2013
Jenna Miscavige appears on "The View" to discuss her book, "Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape."
Gerry Armstrong, the man kneeling in the dust on the top floor of the old Del Sol Hotel at Gilman Hot Springs that afternoon in January 1980, had been a dedicated member of the Church of Scientology for more than a decade. He was logging in Canada when a friend introduced him to Scientology in 1969 and he was immediately swept away by its heady promise of superhuman powers and immortality. During his years as a Scientologist, he had twice been sentenced to long periods in the Rehabilitation Project Force, the cult's own Orwellian prison; he had been constantly humiliated and his marriage had been destroyed, yet he remained totally convinced that L. Ron Hubbard was the greatest man who ever lived. In November 1981 Armstrong presented a written report listing the false claims made by Hubbard and putting forward a powerful argument as to why they should be corrected. 'If we present inaccuracies, hyperbole or downright lies as fact or truth,' he wrote, 'it doesn't matter what slant we give them; if disproved, the man will look, to outsiders at least, like a charlatan . . .'The messengers' response was to order Armstrong to be 'security checked' - interrogated as a potential traitor. Armstrong refused. In the spring of 1982, Gerald Armstrong was accused of eighteen different 'crimes' and 'high crimes' against the Church of Scientology, including theft, false pretences and promulgating false information about the church and its founder. He was declared to be a 'suppressive person' and 'fair game', which meant he could be 'tricked, cheated, lied to, sued or destroyed' by his former friends in Scientology. 'By then the whole thing for me had crumbled,' he said. 'I realized I had been drawn into Scientology by a web of lies, by Machiavellian mental control techniques and by fear. The betrayal of trust began with Hubbard's lies about himself. His life was a continuing pattern of fraudulent business practices, tax evasion, flight from creditors and hiding from the law. 'Hubbard was a mixture of Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin and Baron Munchausen. In short, he was a con man.' Taken from: Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard is a posthumous biography of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard by British journalist Russell Miller. Originally published: 26 October 1987 Author: Russell Miller, Genre: Biography, Page count: 380, Publisher: Michael Joseph, Subject: L. Ron Hubbard
Tanja Castle (David Miscavige's secretary) leaves Gold Base
SoUpstat Published on Jul 10, 2012
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Denise Miscavige; Scientology, Lies & Alibis (Part I)
Hibernia Eugenesis
Published on Dec 24, 2018
Kyle T. Brennan--who was not a Scientologist--died from a gunshot wound to the head in Clearwater, Florida, whilst visiting his Scientology-indoctrinated father, Tom Brennan. Clearwater, of course, is the site of the Church of Scientology's worldwide headquarters. During Kyle's brief stay there, Tom Brennan was under the watchful eye of his Scientology auditor, or advisor, Denise Miscavige Gentile, twin sister of the Church's leader, David Miscavige. Only twenty years old, Kyle was a bright and creative college student who suffered from mild depression and anxiety. He'd been seeing a psychiatrist and was taking a prescribed anti-depressant. As you may be aware, Scientology is vehemently opposed to psychiatry and psychotropic medications. According to Scientology, therefore, Kyle's medical treatment made him a "suppressive person," an enemy of the Church. Kyle's visit threatened his father's standing in Scientology. Because of Scientology's convoluted anti-psychiatry beliefs, the Church issued an order to Kyle's father to "handle" Kyle. ("Handling," in Scientology, means removing a trouble source.) Kyle was dead within thirty-six hours. His medication was found locked in the trunk of his father's vehicle. Watch Denise and Brennan commit perjury to protect their cult. For more information regarding the highly questionable circumstances surrounding the death of Kyle please refer to "The Truth for Kyle Brennan" blog at; https://vbreton2062.wordpress.com/201...
Leah Remini Explains Scientology's Scam (Full Interview) | Chelsea | Netflix
Published on May 21, 2017
Former Scientologist and "Aftermath" author, Leah Remini, describes the internal workings of the controversial religion. Watch the full episode: http://netflix.com/watch/80154006 SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ7h... About Chelsea: Chelsea Handler's back with her unfiltered mix of politics, celebrities, travel, and not giving a #$!%. A new episode streams every Friday, only on Netflix. Connect with Chelsea: Like CHELSEA on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ChelseaShow Follow CHELSEA on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Chelseashow/ Follow CHELSEA on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chelseashow/ Add CHELSEA on SNAPCHAT: @ChelseaHandler About Netflix: Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 93.8 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. Connect with Netflix: Visit Netflix WEBSITE: http://nflx.it/29BcWb5 Like Netflix on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/29kkAtN Follow Netflix on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/29gswqd Follow Netflix on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/29oO4UP Follow Netflix on TUMBLR: http://bit.ly/29kkemT Leah Remini Explains Scientology's Scam (Full Interview) | Chelsea | Netflix https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ7h...
Joe Rogan Was Contacted by Scientology, Reads Their Statement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWISIF0k8Mc
JRE Clips
Published on Apr 21, 2017
Joe Rogan reads off the statement that was sent to him by Scientology, and Ron Miscavige describes his relationship with his son David Miscagive, the leader of Scientology.
Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #947.
Scientology 103: Paradoxes of 'tech' (Tony Ortega)
Published on Nov 20, 2018
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0:10 The rabbit hole of Scientology goes deep 0:57 Scientology is paradoxically liberating and enslaving at the same time 2:30 Scientology as Hubbard's round-about way to make his sci-fi writing compelling 10:09 Hubbard as a writer 12:26 In One Was Stubborn , Hubbard predicts a future where USA is taken over by evil cults 13:19 LRH: "I don't know if I'll destroy the Catholic church, or start my own" 15:50 The early days: Hubbard invents himself a biography 20:07 Hubbard’s mystical experience during a dental surgery 22:15 Excalibur is the manuscript that later became Dianetics 23:46 Hubbard's misfortunes in WW2 27:11 Trance-inducing techniques at the core of Scientology 29:15 The power of gamification 30:42 Most Scientologists were Jesus Christ or Julius Caesar in past lives 31:41 Focus on direct experience makes Scientology more convincing 33:19 The power of the E-meter 34:20 How complicit are the cult members in their own indoctrination? 37:27 Parallels between LRH and PKD 40:37 Scientology's 'Tech': you've been studying wrong 41:27: "You misbehaved, go look up the definitions of the word 'the'" 43:29: How ideologies use language to shape one's reality 48:31 Independent Scientologists, or "squirrels" 51:27 Scientology starts as a staring context 52:06 Bullbaiting , or pushing one's buttons 54:18 Does Scientology (and the army) make you stonger, or just compliant? 58:30 Why do Scientologists repeat phrases from Alice in Wonderland 1:01:34 Starting life over after leaving the church 1:05:54 Learning to identify enemies 1:07:34 If you get a cold, you should think: "Who is making me sick?" 1:09:22 "Scientology is a snitching culture" 1:14:23 KSW, or Keeping Scientology Working 1:16:43 The Bank Agreement 1:20:45 The nuclear bomb's effect on the New Age 1:22:48 The Matrix 1:25:31 Partisan politics in US: everybody's in a cult 1:29:45 Why learn about Scientology at all? Originally published at http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/41049
Michelle Leclair Shares Her Story Of Leaving Scientology | Megyn Kelly TODAY
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Published on Sep 10, 2018
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Michelle LeClair, former scientologist and author of “Perfectly Clear,” shares her story of leaving the church after having been a member since 1989. In her book, LeClair claims that government investigations into her and her business partner were instigated by the Church of Scientology, a claim the church, as well as an official for the California Dept. of Business Oversight denies. » Subscribe to TODAY: http://on.today.com/SubscribeToTODAY » Watch the latest from TODAY: http://bit.ly/LatestTODAY About: TODAY brings you the latest headlines and expert tips on money, health and parenting. We wake up every morning to give you and your family all you need to start your day. If it matters to you, it matters to us. We are in the people business. Subscribe to our channel for exclusive TODAY archival footage & our original web series. Connect with TODAY Online! Visit TODAY's Website: http://on.today.com/ReadTODAY Find TODAY on Facebook: http://on.today.com/LikeTODAY Follow TODAY on Twitter: http://on.today.com/FollowTODAY Follow TODAY on Google+: http://on.today.com/PlusTODAY Follow TODAY on Instagram: http://on.today.com/InstaTODAY Follow TODAY on Pinterest: http://on.today.com/PinTODAY Michelle LeClair Shares Her Story Of Leaving Scientology | Megyn Kelly TODAY
Scientology Leader David Miscavige's Father on Their Relationship: Part 1
Published on Apr 30, 2016
Ron Miscavige said he introduced David to Scientology, but as the years went on something in his son changed.
Scientology Leader David Miscavige BUSTED
Published on Sep 5, 2013
David Miscavige has been lying and doing creepy things like breaking up families, stopping free speech, roping in young kids to a billion year contract, changing the tech, not stopping medical abuses, and practicing fraud just to name a few, for many years. He's also a liar, as was his teacher, L Ron Hubbard. So now Monique Rathbun is suing the "church" of $cientology. Her Attorneys want to depose David Miscavige. He lies and says he's never had anything to do with Texas. Here's Marty's Affidavit busting him! Please take time to read it: http://tonyortega.org/2013/09/05/mart... Please Read and Pass around, Twitter, etc. Thank you ALL :) Tory/Magoo #
Monique Rathbun vs David Miscavige and Scientology
Published on Sep 12, 2013
On 12 September 2013 a temporary injunction hearing of Monique Rathbun's harassment lawsuit against David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology was held in Comal County's 433rd District Court with the honorable Judge Dib Waldrip presiding. Miscavige is the Sea Organization's Supreme Leader for life and therefore the Supreme Leader of Scientology. RELATED CONTENT: http://tonyortega.org/2013/09/12/live... http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientol... http://tonyortega.org/2013/09/12/moni... http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/p... http://txcitizen.com/Article/176/head... http://txcitizen.com/Article/179/ex-s...
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Monique Rathbun v David Miscavige and Scientology hearing 22 Jan 2014
Published on Jan 22, 2014
Monique Rathbun is back in court today in New Braunfels, Texas for her harassment lawsuit against the Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige. Several different issues may come up for discussion today. Monique filed a notice to depose David Miscavige on January 29, and Scientology responded with a motion to quash the deposition. Scientology also asked Judge Dib Waldrip to reconsider his order allowing Monique to depose Miscavige. But the main action today may be Monique's motion for sanctions. She's asking Judge Waldrip to punish Scientology because its employees, she says, have been dishonest in depositions and because Scientology has not turned over evidence. For complete coverage check out Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker: http://tonyortega.org/2014/01/22/moni... Radio Podcasts http://www.survivingscientologyradio....
Monique Rathbun vs David Miscavige and Church of Scientology 4/6 Part 4
SurvivingScientology
Published on Sep 14, 2013
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This is not just some hearing about a a Temporary Restraining Order. This is high stakes. This could unravel all the phoney "corporate shell" hall of mirrors hocus pocus dummy corporations. High Stakes. Absolute hogwash on separation of CSI and RTC. They swap personnel (Sea Org members) all the time Their money is intrerchangeable. Listen to the lawyer spout out these LIES David Miscavige does not know Marty Rathbun David Discavige does not care about Marty Rathbun. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the lying and lies in a courr of Law is a wonder to behold. This law suit could even cost them the loss of their Tax exemption. Every single law suit in future will name Miscavige. This is a blue print of all suits to follow. All law follows previous case law. No wonder they sent 14 lawyers. Anything to protect Miscavige and his unclean hands. How ridiculous to pretend Miscavige does not run the show. Everyone in the world of Scientology knows he runs it all with an iron hand. Pretending he does not think or have Marty Rathbun in mind is the ultimate joke. "he is busy opening new Churches". Yes, money gouged from predatory regging opens new buildings. These court hearings were a tissue of lies presented by Church Lawyers. Criminal Church has a lot to hide ! Radio Podcasts http://www.survivingscientologyradio....
Scientology showdown -- Marty Rathbun deposition 12/22/14
Published on Jan 23, 2015
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Better Believe It: Steve Cannane on Scientology in Australia
The book called Fair Game The Incredable Untold Story of Scientology In Australia
By Steve Cannane
Published on Oct 23, 2016
Secretive, star-studded and litigious – the Church of Scientology holds a risky, irresistible allure for a certain kind of investigative journalist. There’s been some excellent reporting on Scientology in recent years, including documentaries from Alex Gibney (Going Clear) and Louis Theroux (My Scientology Story). Now, Walkley Award-winning journalist Steve Cannane digs deeper into the local activities of the religion with his new book, Fair Game. Scientology and Australia have had a strange, troublesome history. In 1963, the world’s first official government inquiry into Scientology was held here, and the state of Victoria subsequently (and briefly) became the first place in the world where the religion was banned. At the Wheeler Centre, Cannane’s focus is the church’s more recent history in Australia. He discusses the writing and research of Fair Game and his fascinating findings on the church’s recruitment of James Packer, its dispute with Julian Assange and its role in exposing abuses in Australian psychiatric facilities. He also addresses some broader questions about Scientology. Is the myth of Xenu any wackier than that of the virgin birth? How much does prejudice play into media discussions of the religion? And why are non-believers so fascinated by Scientology?
Former Scientologist Speaks
Mark Bunker
Published on Mar 1, 2016
7-24-99 I joined Barb and Zinjifar as they passed out fliers at the San Diego Gay Pride Parade with info on Scientology's view of homosexuality. We met a man who had joined the Sea Org for a year at L.A.'s Celebrity Center and he shared his experiences. www.xenutv.com
The Outside: Suburban Scientology | Scientology Documentary | 2018
Published on Aug 31, 2018
Scientology is one of those things that everyone has heard of, but doesn't really know the full story. You've heard of Space Ships, Los Angeles, and Tom Cruise but what about real stories of the people who have escaped in the U.K? This film has been shortlisted for the Lift Off Network Documentary Filmmaker showcase 2019. Please support it in the link below. Vimeo.com/ondemand/documentaryshowcase2019 Director and Producer: Joseph Kennedy Cinematographer: Mitchell Stanyer https://www.youtube.com/user/MitchSta... Sound Technician: Mounir Lagraa Music Composer: Bryn Barton https://www.youtube.com/user/JazzyAni... Editor: Joseph Kennedy Interview Contributors Billy Drummond Martin Padfield Stephen Jones Pete Griffiths With thanks to Karl Foster Michael Atkinson Mathew Pritchard Andrea Garner Eleni Savva Crawley County Mall and Scientology
The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper (w/ Q&A)
Carl WongPublished on May 20, 2015
Introduction by Jim Underdown: 0:00 Tony Ortega and Paulette Cooper: 5:43 Q&A from audience: 40:04 In 1971, a magazine freelancer in New York named Paulette Cooper came out with her first book, “The Scandal of Scientology”, and it was the first popular book that gave the public a view into this secretive organization. She nearly paid for it with her life. What even Paulette didn't know at the time was the extent that Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, would go to destroy someone it perceived as an enemy. By 1973, Paulette had been framed in an elaborate plot involving fake bomb-threat letters, and she faced 15 years in federal prison if convicted. Newly unearthed documents show that by that time, Scientology had kept her under tight surveillance for several years and proposed many ways to destroy her reputation and life. She was finally exonerated after the FBI raided Scientology in 1977 and found those documents, which referred to her by the code name "Miss Lovely." Eleven top Scientology officials went to prison after that raid, but more than 30 years later, Scientology is still around -- and so is Paulette. In his new, and first, book, “The Unbreakable Miss Lovely”, journalist Tony Ortega tells Paulette's story in full for the first time, with eyewitness accounts and new documents which describe the full extent of her ordeal -- and her continued fight against a group now seriously in decline. For the launch of the book, Paulette will be appearing with the author at a limited number of events as they talk about various parts of her life depicted in the book, from her childhood survival of the Holocaust to her much calmer life in Florida with her husband Paul, as well as the latest developments in the controversies facing Scientology today. Ortega is the executive editor of The Raw Story, a progressive political news site. From 2007 to 2012, he was editor in chief of The Village Voice, and he's been investigating and writing about Scientology since 1995, when he was a reporter for the Phoenix New Times. He also wrote for or edited weekly newspapers in Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Fort Lauderdale. Originally from Los Angeles, he lives in New York and maintains a breaking news website about Scientology news, "The Underground Bunker." He is also featured in “Going Clear”, Alex Gibney's documentary about Scientology, which first aired on HBO in March. Recorded on May 17, 2015 at the Center for Inquiry in Los Angeles, California. Find out how to become a Contributing Member of CFI here: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/la/ge... Cameras, sound and editing by Carl Wong. https://www.youtube.com/c/carlwong5 Buy me a cup of coffee for $1 at http://bit.ly/1Htl0BS
Mike Rinder Speaks Out - Scientology (part 1 of 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOv0LtzXlx4
StopTheAbuse2010
Published on Jul 22, 2010
Part 1 of 2 Broadcast July 22 2010 on Channel Seven's Today Tonight programme
Reporter: Bryan Seymour http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com
Scientology's Great Grandson Warns Against the Cult | Interview with Jamie DeWolf
breakingthesetPublished on Nov 1, 2013
Abby Martin interviews Jamie DeWolf, the great-grandson of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. DeWolf calls Scientology a brainwashing cult and fears for his own life for speaking out against the religious institution. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ //twitter.com/AbbyMartin
Mike Rinder Speaks Out - Scientology (part 2 of 2)
StopTheAbuse2010
Published on Jul 22, 2010
Part 2 of 2 Broadcast July 22 2010 on Channel Seven's Today Tonight programme Reporter: Bryan Seymour http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com
Hana Eltringham Whitfield - L Ron Hubbard's Ship Captain - Secret Lives - Scientology - Dianetics
Keeping.Skepticism.WorkingPublished on Apr 23, 2015
Hana Eltringham Whitfield - L Ron Hubbard's Sea Organization Ship Captain & Loyal Officer Secret Lives Scientology Dianetics This video is uploaded with the intent of educating the public regarding Scientology and its belief structure and to help preserve the tech for future generations. Uploaded in the spirit of Fair Use Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107. All credit for the video goes to its original creator.
Anderson Live Interview With Jenna Miscavige 2/06/2013
mackiesyotubPublished on Feb 6, 2013
Anderson Live interview with Jenna Miscavige about her book, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.
Truth About David Miscavige and Wife Shelly's Separation
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Published on Jul 26, 2013
Anderson Live interview with Jenna Miscavige about her book, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.
Jon Atack and Steven Hassan discuss his 2013 edition of his book, A Piece of Blue Sky
Freedom of Mind Resource Center
Published on Dec 29, 2014
Steve Hassan sits down with Jon Atack after not seeing each other for many years and has a very revealing conversation about L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, his important and tireless work exposing the cult, and the significance of his research. Jon has one of the best minds I have ever encountered. He remembers everything Hubbard has written and everything that was written (of significance) about Hubbard and the group and wrote the definitive book on the founder and teachings of the group. This book is a must read for everyone who has ever been involved with Scientology in any way! Note: It has been questioned whether climbed the Scientology Bridge twice, and said that he was actually Class IX, rather than Class XII. Jon Atack was told this by a Scientology official, but suggests caution, until this is checked. As ever, he would appreciate accurate information. Don't be shy, Jon is always happy to be put right on even the slightest detail.
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John A.4
Fascinating man Jon Atack. I have a feeling these guys could sit up and talk all night--kindred spirits--each an intellectual.
Steve Aldrich
Piece of Blue Sky is the best scientology book. Buy 2 copies. One for yourself and one for your local public library.
blueshirttail
Still the best overall book about Scientology
Round To It
I just ordered A Piece of Blue Sky online from a used book dealer, can't wait to read it. Thank you for posting this interview. Very interesting.
Barny Fraggles
Thanks for posting this. Nice to hear from Jon 'in person'. As expected, a fascinating, compassionate and eloquent man with an encyclopaedic knowledge and balls of steel. Absolutely disgusting to hear about the Janet Reitman's lazy plagiarism but not all that surprising, she seemed notably ignorant of basic details during interviews.
Exiles800
Whether intentional or not Atack made a fantasy book about Jimi Hendrix while his murder goes unaddressed in England. The affect is to relegate Jimi to the unreal and therefore impede the terribly denied justice he needs.
Top Tier Teal Tipped Spears
I used to be a heavy smoker (or so I thought) but 100 cigarettes a day sounds unreal. I don’t know how you can manage to smoke 5 packs a day, that’s half a carton. Must’ve been chain smoking every moment of the day.
Carolyn Bateman
Contradiction in a hypnotic technique that uses confusion and cognitive dissonance to bypass the conscious mind. So much of this technique is being used on main stream tv today. I.e. Building 7 has fallen when it is still up in the background. Or nonsense slogans like "we are for free speech- silence the fascists". It is fascinating in that it can actually cause nausea
Theresa Akins
i dont understand why The U.S. would censor your book. It is against the Constitution. And why would American courts side with Hubbard, a known enemy of the US!? Operation Snowflake should have taught the government not to trust Hubbard. Did he hold any sway with the Justice system or have powerful friends in politics to help him? I have read the contrary.
Anonimo Fiorentino
Hollywood writer Skip Press, while detailing his long-term and high-achieving membership in Scientology, recommends John Atack’s new book, Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky. Press says the book is better than Lawrence Wright’s recent fine book on the church because ”Atack was actually involved with the cult and lived it.” (Morton Report, 11/7/13) [IT 5.2]
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics, and L. Ron Hubbard ExposedHardcover – 29 Jun 1999 by Jon Atack (Author)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Piece-Blue-Sky-Scientology-Dianetics/dp/081840499X
Atack exposes Hubbard's bizarre imagination and behavior, tracing the creation of Scientology in the years following World War II to perhaps its final schism following Hubbard's death in 1986. A shocking book that reveals all: the abuses, falsehoods, paranoia, and greed of Hubbard and his pseudo-military Scientologist henchmen.
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed is a 1990 book about L. Ron Hubbard and the development of Dianetics and the Church of Scientology by British former Scientologist Jon Atack. The title originates from a quote of Hubbard's from 1950, when he was reported as saying that he wanted to sell potential church members a "piece of blue sky."[1]
The church's publishing arm, New Era Publications International, tried to prevent the book's publication, arguing that it infringed on its copyright of Hubbard's works. A court in Manhattan ruled against publication, but the decision was overturned on appeal.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Piece_of_Blue_Sky
John Atack the Author of A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
Atack joined Scientology at the age of nineteen in 1974, and was based largely in the church's British headquarters at Saint Hill Manor, near East Grinstead. During his training, he said he progressed to Scientology's Operating Thetan level 5, completing 24 of the 27 levels of therapy or education.[3] He left the church in 1983 in disillusionment with the new leadership of David Miscavige, who took over in the early 1980s.[4] He writes that he saw the new management as tough and ruthless, and objected particularly to the 15-fold increase in training fees. He also objected to being told not to have relationships with so-called "Suppressive Persons," people the church had declared enemies and who should not be communicated with; one such person was one of Atack's friends.[5]
Atack left the sect as a result, and is now at the centre of what J. Gordon Melton calls an anti-Scientology network in the UK.[6] He is also the author of a booklet, "The Total Freedom Trap: Scientology, Dianetics And L. Ron Hubbard" (1992).
Synopsis
John Atack describes his personal experience in the church, provides a chronological history of L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology, researched from paper sources and interviews, and draws conclusions about the belief system of Scientology and its founder. The book also contains a preface by Russell Miller, author of Bare-faced Messiah.
Reception to the publication of John Atack’s book the Author of A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
Legal action
Scientology's publishing arm, New Era Publications, attempted to prevent publication by arguing that the manuscript's inclusion of material by Hubbard infringed on their copyright of Hubbard's work, and would harm sales of the original texts.[7] The court ruled that the manuscript might discourage people from buying Hubbard's books by convincing them he was a swindler, and that copyright law protects rather than forbids this kind of criticism.[8] Before the outcome of the case was known, the publisher prepared two versions of the book: one with and one without Hubbard's quoted material.[2] After publication, Scientologists picketed Atack's East Grinstead home for six days and spread defamatory leaflets around his neighbourhood.[9]
In April 1995, a court in England found Atack guilty of libel against Margaret Hodkin, the headmistress of Scientology's Greenfields School in England, and issued an injunction forbidding publication of an offending paragraph.[10] The decision was upheld by the High Court in London in May 1995.[11] The case led Amazon.com to remove the book from its listings in February 1999, but it reversed its decision a few months later after customers complained.[12]
Reviews
Marco Frenschkowski, writing in the Marburg Journal of Religion in 1999, describes A Piece of Blue Sky as "the most thorough general history of Hubbard and Scientology, very bitter, but always well-researched."[13] It has been used as a source by several academic papers.[14] The Tampa Tribune-Times said that Atack's provision of extensive detail and source notes for each claim sometimes gets in the way of the story, but prevents the book from being just another bitter diatribe against Scientology.[4]
References
A Piece of Blue Sky, p. iii: "It was 1950, in the early, heady days of Dianetics, soon after L. Ron Hubbard opened the doors of his first organization to the clamoring crowd. Up until then, Hubbard was known only to readers of pulp fiction, but now he had an instant best-seller with a book that promised to solve every problem of the human mind, and the cash was pouring in. Hubbard found it easy to create schemes to part his new following from their money. One of the first tasks was to arrange "grades" of membership, offering supposedly greater rewards, at increasingly higher prices. Over thirty years later, an associate wryly remembered Hubbard turning to him and confiding, no doubt with a smile, "Let's sell these people a piece of blue sky."
^ Jump up to:a b "Publisher Victorious on Hubbard Biography", The New York Times, May 27, 1990.
^ A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 34.
^ Jump up to:a b Shinkle, Kevin. "The religion that sells the sky," The Tampa Tribune-Times, October 20, 1991.
^ A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 35ff.
^ Melton, J. Gordon. "Birth of a Religion," in James R. Lewis (ed). Scientology. Oxford University Press, 2009, footnote 32, p. 33. Also see Mikael Rothstein. "His name was Xenu ... he used renegades. Aspects of Scientology's founding myth", in Lewis, 2009, p. 369, which refers to Atack as a "decades-long zealous campaigner against Scientology."
^ Harris, Daniel (July 2, 1989). "Scientology's best seller". New York Post. p. 39.
^ Hurowitz, Richard (1997). "Surviving Copyright Infringement: Fair Use of Protected Works in "Biopics"". Columbia-VLA Journal of Law & the Arts. Columbia University School of Law. 22 (2): 247–268. ISSN 1544-4848.
^ Palmer, Richard (April 3, 1994). "Cult Accused of Intimidation". The Sunday Times.; "Victims who are 'fair game'". Evening Argus. Brighton (UK). April 12, 1994. pp. 2–3.
^ Bracchi, Paul (June 10, 1994). "The Missing Word". Evening Argus. Brighton, UK. pp. 1, 4–5..
^ Court Injunction, Hodkin v. Atack, May 18, 1995, 1993 H. No.2412.
^ "Amazon.com Backs Off Book Ban", Associated Press, May 21, 1999.
^ Frenschkowski, Marco. "L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology", Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 4, issue 1, July 1999, p. 7.
^ For examples, see Kent, Stephen A. "Scientology: Is this a Religion?", Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 4, issue 1, July 1999; Kent, Stephen A. "The Globalization of Scientology: Influence, Control and Opposition in Transnational Markets", Religion, Volume 29, issue 2, pp. 147–169; West, Louis Jolyon. "Psychiatry and Scientology," American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., May 6, 1992.
ABC Nightline Jenna Miscavige Part 1
AnonymousImpactPublished on May 14, 2009
ABC Nightline Jenna Miscavige part 2
AnonymousImpact
Published on May 14, 2009
FreeThePeople44 said:
I have been searching around for more information on what I heard in a YouTube video with Jon Atack and Steve Hassan. Jon talks about Hubbard raping children but I can find nothing on the net about this. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Here is the video below. Jon talks about Hubbards pedophilia at 20:39. Truly disturbing.
Jon makes a profound observation at 49:00 to the effect that society contributes to making people vulnerable to Scientology indoctrination because of the authoritarian educational system and other manipulations like workplace team building and language usage
TheOriginalBigBlue, Jun 15, 2015
Jon Atack and Steven Hassan discuss his 2013 edition of his book, A Piece of Blue Sky
Freedom of Mind Resource Center
Published on 29 Dec 2014
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Steve Hassan sits down with Jon Atack after not seeing each other for many years and has a very revealing conversation about L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, his important and tireless work exposing the cult, and the significance of his research. Jon has one of the best minds I have ever encountered. He remembers everything Hubbard has written and everything that was written (of significance) about Hubbard and the group and wrote the definitive book on the founder and teachings of the group. This book is a must read for everyone who has ever been involved with Scientology in any way! Note: It has been questioned whether climbed the Scientology Bridge twice, and said that he was actually Class IX, rather than Class XII. Jon Atack was told this by a Scientology official, but suggests caution, until this is checked. As ever, he would appreciate accurate information. Don't be shy, Jon is always happy to be put right on even the slightest detail.
Carroll Quigley on Western Civilization 6/7
Carroll Quigley on Western Civilization 7/7
Public Authority and the State in the Western Tradition: A Thousand Years of Growth, 976-1976 Carroll Quigley (November 9, 1910 -- January 3, 1977) was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. He is noted for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University, for his academic publications, and for his research on secret societies.
Category: Education
Rare Carroll Quigley interview - 1974 (Full Interview)
Published on Jun 21, 2011
Professor Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton's mentor at Georgetown University, authored a massive volume entitled "Tragedy and Hope" in which he states: "There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims, and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies, but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known." "The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences..." "The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations..." "The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups." Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time (Macmillan Company, 1966,) Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University "The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England (RIIA) ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established." Dr. Carroll Quigley "As a teenager, I heard John Kennedy's summons to citizenship. And then, as a student, I heard that call clarified by a professor I had named Carroll Quigley."President Clinton, in his acceptance speech for the Democratic Party's nomination for president, 16 July 1992 Read the full book "Tragedy and Hope" here: http://www.archive.org/stream/Tragedy... You can download his books from his site carrollquigley net
Category: Education
Western Civilization
The Evolution of Civilizations
By Carroll Quigley
Published on Jan 27, 2013
The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis by Carroll Quigley
L.Ron Hubbard’s Lifelong Intelligence Career who fronted for MI6-CIA - the real owners and controllers of Scientology
L Ron Hubbard in his early days of working for MI5/MI6 and the CIA - "..MI-6 Are The Lords of The Global Drug Trade It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme......" .....James Casbolt.
Please take the time to read the full paper written by James Casbolt further down this wikipediaexposed.org web page and also read
http://www.wikipediaexposed.org/wikipediaexposed_featurenewsstories_p.1.html
A record from the office of the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations shows that Hubbard took an “Intelligence Course” from 21 October 1941 to 11 November 1941. . Here is the record from the SECNAV/CNO office files . It says – based on an order that happened on August 11, 1941 (410811), an order was issued on September 30, 1941 that nominated Hubbard to take an Intelligence Course. 15 October 1941 – Office of Naval Intelligence Foreign Intelligence Branch and its Special Intelligence Section (OP-16-F-9) was officially shifted to William Donovan’s Office of the Coordinator of Information, where they went under the COI Special Intelligence Section headed by David K.E. Bruce. - OP-16-F-9 was now under David K.E. Bruce. At the time of the transfer, thirteen agents had been recruited. Ron Hubbard was one of them. (See 67 in the References) 20 October 1941 – Hubbard moves to the Explorers Club in New York. 73 21 October 1941 to 11 November 1941 Hubbard took the Intelligence Course. He did this when all Naval Intelligence was now underneath William Donovan.This secret Intelligence Course was done outside of the United States. The proof is this letter that was sent to Hubbard while he was taking the Intelligence Course. A Century of Naval Intelligence documents that – “At the outbreak of World War II, the Special Intelligence Section (OP-16-F-9) comprised one retired officer, two Naval Reserve officers, two enlisted sailors, and one Naval Reserve officer undergoing training in London.”
All of the basic mental, spiritual, and religious ideas found in Dianetics and Scientology were already developed by the Society for Psychical Research, before L. Ron Hubbard was even born. That includes the therapy used.
http://www.wikipediaexposed.org/scientology_ronhubbard_mi6_cia.html
60 Minutes BOMBSHELL interview Jenna Miscavige speaks out - YouTube
Published on Jul 23, 2013
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Jenna Miscavige is the niece of David Miscavige. Having lost her childhood to the "Church" who do not believe in the family unit, Jenna wrote a book "Beyond Belief" and did a series of media interviews. Parental time is minimal when a child is raised in the Church. See my other video "Anti -kids, Anti Family, Anti-Psychiatry." http://youtu.be/0HZ5QNI8qQ8 Radio Podcasts http://www.survivingscientologyradio.... Follow me on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/karendelac Follow me on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/KarendlaCariere
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More MI 6 Psychs Using Abreactive Therapy
In 1935, psycho-psychiatrist William Sargant went to work at Maudsley Hospital, where he worked along with psychiatrist John Rawlings Rees.
Sargant used abreactive therapy in conjunction with drugs and electroshock, just like John Rees was doing during World War I.
Some of what Wikipedia has to say about the life and times of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (/ˈhʌbərd/ HUB-ərd in Los Angeles, 1950, Born: Lafayette Ronald Hubbard on the March 13, 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, United States
Died on the January 24, 1986 (aged 74) in Creston, California, United States. Education: George Washington University (dropped out in 1932)
Occupation: Author, religious leader , Known for bring the Founder of Scientology and its churchm, Notable work: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and Battlefield Earth, Criminal charge: Petty theft (in 1948), Fraud (in absentia, 1978), Criminal penalty: Fine of ₣35,000 and four years in prison (unserved)
Spouse(s): Margaret "Polly" Grubb (1933–1947),, Sara Northrup Hollister (1946–1951), Mary Sue Whipp (1952–1986), Children: 7: With Margaret Grubb: L. Ron Hubbard Jr.* (d.1991), Katherine May Hubbard*, With Sara Hollister: Alexis Hubbard*, With Mary Sue Whipp: Quentin Hubbard (d. 1976), Diana Hubbard, Suzette Hubbard
Arthur Hubbard* * Estranged from family, Relatives: Jamie DeWolf (great-grandson)
Scientology's Great Grandson Warns Against the Cult | Interview with Jamie DeWolf
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breakingtheset
Published on Nov 1, 2013
Abby Martin interviews Jamie DeWolf, the great-grandson of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. DeWolf calls Scientology a brainwashing cult and fears for his own life for speaking out against the religious institution. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ //twitter.com/AbbyMartin
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (/ˈhʌbərd/ HUB-ərd; [1] March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy stories, and the founder of the Church of Scientology. In 1950, Hubbard authored Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established a series of organizations to promote Dianetics. In 1952, Hubbard lost the rights to Dianetics in bankruptcy proceedings, and he subsequently founded Scientology. Thereafter Hubbard oversaw the growth of the Church of Scientology into a worldwide organization. Hubbard was cited by Smithsonian magazine as one of the 100 most significant Americans of all time
Born in Tilden, Nebraska in 1911, Hubbard spent much of his childhood in Helena, Montana. After his father was posted to the U.S. naval base on Guam, Hubbard traveled to Asia and the South Pacific in the late 1920s. In 1930, Hubbard enrolled at George Washington University to study civil engineering, but dropped out in his second year. He began his career as a prolific writer of pulp fiction stories and married Margaret "Polly" Grubb, who shared his interest in aviation.
Hubbard served briefly in the Marine Corps Reserve and was an officer in the Navy during World War II. He briefly commanded two ships, but was removed from command both times. The last few months of his active service were spent in a hospital, being treated for a duodenal ulcer.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he spent much of his time at sea on his personal fleet of ships as "Commodore" of the Sea Organization, an elite, paramilitary group of Scientologists.[8][9] Some ex-members and scholars have described the Sea Org as a totalitarian organization marked by intensive surveillance and a lack of freedom. Hubbard returned to the United States in 1975 and went into seclusion in the California desert. In 1978, a trial court in France convicted Hubbard of fraud in absentia. In 1983 Hubbard was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an international information infiltration and theft project called "Operation Snow White".[11][12] He spent the remaining years of his life in a luxury motor home on his California property, attended to by a small group of Scientology officials including his physician. In 1986, L. Ron Hubbard died at age 74. The Church of Scientology describes Hubbard in hagiographic terms,[14] and he portrayed himself as a pioneering explorer, world traveler, and nuclear physicist with expertise in a wide range of disciplines, including photography, art, poetry, and philosophy. Though many of Hubbard's autobiographical statements have been found to be fictitious,[15] the Church rejects any suggestion that its account of Hubbard's life is not historical fact.
His critics have characterized Hubbard as a mentally-unstable chronic liar
The Death of L Ron Hubbard:
What was David Miscavige really thinking?
Published on Mar 10, 2009
Originat text: The infamous David Miscavige announcement of the joyous Death of L. Ron Hubbard in January of 1986. Whilst watching it to grab some footage, I wondered what might really have been going through Miscavige's mind whilst he was announcing the madman Hubbard's death. That gave me the idea for this quick little edit which will hopefully keep you amused until my proper video is ready (hopefully sometime next week). All I really did was add subtitles, but it amused me for a few minutes! Enjoy, and for clearer subtitles, please click on the "Watch in high quality" link to the bottom right of the video window.
The Unbreakable Miss Lovely
http://www.wikipediaexposed.org/scientology_ronhubbard_mi6_cia.html
- The story of Paulette’s terrifying ordeal is told in full for the first time in The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, published by Silvertail Books in London. It reveals the shocking details of the darkest chapter in Scientology’s checkered history, which ended with senior members in prison, and the organization’s reputation permanently damaged. “A brilliant exposition of how a child who escaped the Nazis grew up to be hunted by the Church of Scientology” – BBC journalist John Sweeney.“A page-turner packed with barely believable facts. The details are worthy of John le Carre” – Jon Atack, author of A Piece of Blue Sky
Nathan Rabin, The A.V. Club: “Before Tony Ortega’s The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, Cooper’s story had never been told in full. It is one of the most remarkable and unlikely narratives in the sprawling field of Scientology exposés. Ortega’s specialty is his ability to contextualize Cooper’s soap-opera life within the raging currents of history. Cooper embodied her times: She was a child of World War II and the Holocaust, an orphan of one of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies who grew up to be the epitome of the chic New York career woman…Scientology’s persecution of Cooper comes to feel like a strange echo of the Watergate controversy riveting the nation at the same time. People who profess to be the victims of sinister, far-reaching conspiracies are often seen as crazy, but Cooper genuinely was the victim of a sinister, far-reaching conspiracy…In the kind of twist that fills The Unbreakable Miss Lovely and makes it such a compulsively readable page-turner, Cooper discovers too late that, like far too many people in her life, [L. Ron] Hubbard Jr. (or “Nibs” as he was known) was not what he appeared to be, and was probably a double agent working against Cooper on Scientology’s behalf…Cooper should have been destroyed by Scientology. But she proved astonishingly brave and bold. The book’s title proves appropriate both because Cooper is model gorgeous but also unbreakable, with a spirit strong enough to stand up to an entire organization out to destroy her and everything she stands for. In that respect, the book is oddly inspiring.”Kirkus Reviews: “Ortega, in his nonfiction debut, describes a journalist’s decadeslong battle against the Church of Scientology. There have been assertions of horror stories involving the Church of Scientology in a plethora of books, articles, documentaries, and interviews with ex-members. This new account focuses on Paulette Cooper, one of the first journalists to investigate what many see as the questionable moral practices of L. Ron Hubbard’s religion—and one of the first people, he says, to become a target of its vengeance. In a 1969 article in Queen magazine and later in a 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology, Cooper offered a damning exploration of the church and its practices. “More than previous writers,” notes Ortega, “Paulette focused on the harassment of those who dared to speak up about Scientology, whether they’d been in the church or not.” In response to her words, Ortega says, the church set out to destroy her life with an unprecedented yearslong campaign of litigation, defamation, intimidation, and harassment that pushed the journalist nearly to the point of suicide.
The Scandal of Scientology (1971) By Paulette Cooper - A chilling examination of the nature, beliefs and practices of the “now religion”.
called the American Hero ... The Paulette Cooper Story - how one woman exposed Scientology and survived their attacks
The Scandal behind "The Scandal of Scientology"
Operation Clambake presents:
Looking over my shoulder,
The Inside Account of the Story That Almost Killed Me
Saturday, June 23, 2007
By Paulette Cooper
http://www.xenu.net/archive/personal_story/paulette_cooper/
Scientology showdown -- Marty Rathbun deposition 12/22/14
Definition of the Fair Game Policy of Scientology to handle Suppressive Persons that are negative to Scientology
Published on Jan 23, 2015
Story for this video is here... http://tonyortega.org/2015/01/23/vide...
Gerry Armstrong, the man kneeling in the dust on the top floor of the old Del Sol Hotel at Gilman Hot Springs that afternoon in January 1980, had been a dedicated member of the Church of Scientology for more than a decade. He was logging in Canada when a friend introduced him to Scientology in 1969 and he was immediately swept away by its heady promise of superhuman powers and immortality. During his years as a Scientologist, he had twice been sentenced to long periods in the Rehabilitation Project Force, the cult's own Orwellian prison; he had been constantly humiliated and his marriage had been destroyed, yet he remained totally convinced that L. Ron Hubbard was the greatest man who ever lived. In November 1981 Armstrong presented a written report listing the false claims made by Hubbard and putting forward a powerful argument as to why they should be corrected. 'If we present inaccuracies, hyperbole or downright lies as fact or truth,' he wrote, 'it doesn't matter what slant we give them; if disproved, the man will look, to outsiders at least, like a charlatan . . .'The messengers' response was to order Armstrong to be 'security checked' - interrogated as a potential traitor. Armstrong refused. In the spring of 1982, Gerald Armstrong was accused of eighteen different 'crimes' and 'high crimes' against the Church of Scientology, including theft, false pretences and promulgating false information about the church and its founder.
Gerry Armstrong, was declared to be a 'suppressive person' and 'fair game', which meant he could be 'tricked, cheated, lied to, sued or destroyed' by his former friends in Scientology. 'By then the whole thing for me had crumbled,' Gerry Armstrong, said,
'I realized I had been drawn into Scientology by a web of lies, by Machiavellian mental control techniques and by fear.
The betrayal of trust began with Hubbard's lies about himself. His life was a continuing pattern of fraudulent business practices, tax evasion, flight from creditors and hiding from the law.
'Hubbard was a mixture of Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin and Baron Munchausen. In short, he was a con man.'
http://www.wikipediaexposed.org/scientology_ronhubbard_mi6_cia.html
Taken from: Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron H
ubbard is a posthumous biography of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard by British journalist Russell Miller. Originally published: 26 October 1987 Author: Russell Miller, Genre: Biography, Page count: 380, Publisher: Michael Joseph, Subject: L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard Interview: Introduction To Scientology [1966]
L33T GUY, Published on Jul 22, 2017
What is Scientology? I'm not a proponent of L. Ron Hubbard or the CoS, but there is no denying he was an interesting character and had studied the occult and esoteric ideas. This is one of the only interviews he gave and was distributed by the Church of Scientology in the late 60s. He ponders the nature of man and an introduction to his new religion, Scientology. SOURCE: - Video is copyright the Church of Scientology. #Scientology #Hubbard ----- - SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.
The British nobility has been working on a Grand Plan to make themselves the ruthless ruler of the entire world.
The rest of humanity does not agree to their idea that the British nobility should rule the world. They do not want to be obedient subjects, servants and slaves who live under the boot and say-so of the British aristocracy. Most men want to live as free men who live under their own will and say-so.
Thus the British slavemasters conducted mental and spiritual research. Their real interest in studying the human mind and spirit was to learn how to control men, so they could modify his behavior into what they want all men to be – willing subjects under rule by the British nobility.
The Cecil family is one of the top British slavemaster families. Their family has been the head of British intelligence for over 400 years. Robert Cecil was the leader of an influential family called the Cecil Bloc. He was the head of British intelligence and he was a British Prime Minister.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil (Lord Salisbury)
One of his sisters had a son named Arthur Balfour. He was in the Cecil family and he was also a head of British intelligence and a Prime Minister of Britain.
Arthur J. Balfou
Anderson Live Interview With Jenna Miscavige 2/06/2013
mackiesyotub
Published on Feb 6, 2013
Anderson Live interview with Jenna Miscavige about her book, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.
Truth About David Miscavige and Wife Shelly's Separation
TheLipTV
Published on Jul 26, 2013
Anderson Live interview with Jenna Miscavige about her book, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.
Barbara Klowden Snader, aka Barbara Kaye - L Ron Hubbard's PR Assistant & Lover - Secret Lives
Keeping.Skepticism.WorkingPublished on Jan 24, 2015
Barbara Klowden Snader, aka Barbara Kaye - L Ron Hubbard's PR Assistant & Lover - Secret Lives - Scientology - Dianetics. Ron was still married to Sara Northrup, "the second wife he didn't have" This video is uploaded with the intent of educating the public regarding Scientology and its belief structure and to help preserve the tech for future generations. Uploaded in the spirit of Fair Use Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107. All credit for the video goes to its original creator.
Masters of Sleep, one of Hubbard's last works of pulp fiction, on the cover of the October 1950 issue of Fantastic Adventures
L. Ron_Hubbard_was_An_MI6_Agent
Spencer Fayette Eddy
Scientology Roots Chapter Nine – L. Ron Hubbard’s Lifelong Intelligence Career
MI-6 Are The Lords of The Global Drug Trade
by James Casbolt
from JamesCasbolt Website
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_drugs
It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme.
As intelligence insiders know MI-5 and MI-6 control many of the other intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, MOSSAD etc) in a vast web of intrigue and corruption that has its global power base in the city of London, the square mile. My name is James Casbolt, and I worked for MI-6 in 'black ops' cocaine trafficking with the IRA and MOSSAD in London and Brighton between 1995 and 1999
My father Peter Casbolt was also MI-6 and worked with the CIA and mafia in Rome, trafficking cocaine into Britain. My experience was that the distinctions of all these groups became blurred until in the end we were all one international group working together for the same goals. We were puppets who had our strings pulled by global puppet masters based in the city of London. Most levels of the intelligence agencies are not loyal to the people of the country they are based in and see themselves as 'super national'.
It had been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CIA has been bringing in most of the drugs into America for the last fifty years (see ex LAPD officer Michael Rupert's 'From the wilderness' website for proof).
The CIA operates under orders from British intelligence and was created by British intelligence in 1947.
The CIA today is still loyal to the international bankers based in the city of London and the global elite aristocratic families like the Rothschild's and the Windsor's. Since it was first started, MI-6 has always brought drugs into Britain. They do not bring 'some' of the drugs into Britain but I would estimate MI-6 bring in around ninety percent of the drugs in.
They do this by pulling the strings of many organized crime and terrorist groups and these groups like the IRA are full of MI-6 agents.
MI-6 bring in heroin from the middle east, cocaine from south America and cannabis from morocco as well as other places. British intelligence also designed and created the drug LSD in the 1950's through places like the Tavistock Institute in London. By the 1960's MI-5, MI-6 and the CIA were using LSD as a weapon against the angry protestors of the sixties and turned them into 'flower children' who were too tripped out to organize a revolution.
Dr Timothy Leary the LSD guru of the sixties was a CIA puppet. Funds and drugs for Leary's research came from the CIA and Leary says that Cord Meyer, the CIA agent in charge of funding the sixties LSD counter culture has "helped me to understand my political cultural role more clearly".
In 1998, I was sent 3000 LSD doses on blotting paper by MI-5 with pictures of the European union flag on them. The MI-5 man who sent them told my father this was a government 'signature' and this LSD was called 'Europa'.
This global drugs trade controlled by British intelligence is worth at least 500 billion a year. This is more than the global oil trade and the economy in Britain and America is totally dependent on this drug money.
Mafia crime boss John Gotti exposed the situation when asked in court if he was involved in drug trafficking.
He replied "No we can't compete with the government".
I believe this was only a half truth because the mafia and the CIA are the same group at the upper levels. In Britain, the MI-6 drug money is laundered through the Bank of England, Barclays Bank and other household name companies. The drug money is passed from account to account until its origins are lost in a huge web of transactions.
The drug money comes out 'cleaner' but not totally clean. Diamonds are then bought with this money from the corrupt diamond business families like the Oppenheimers.
These diamonds are then sold and the drug money is clean. MI-6 and the CIA are also responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic in Britain and America. In 1978, MI-6 and the CIA were in south America researching the effects of the natives smoking 'basuco' cocaine paste. This has the same effect as crack cocaine. They saw that the strength and addiction potential was far greater than ordinary cocaine and created crack cocaine from the basuco formula.
MI-6 and the CIA then flooded Britain and America with crack.
Two years later, in 1980, Britain and America were starting to see the first signs of the crack cocaine epidemic on the streets. On august 23, 1987, in a rural community south of Little Rock in America, two teenage boys named Kevin Ives and Don Henry were murdered and dismembered after witnessing a CIA cocaine drop that was part of a CIA drug trafficking operation based at a small airport in Mena, Arkansas.
Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas at the time. Bill Clinton was involved with the CIA at this time and $100 million worth of cocaine was coming through the Mena, Arkansas airport each month.
For proof see the books 'Compromise' and 'Dope Inc'.
On my father's international MI-6 drug runs, whatever fell off the back of the lorry so to speak he would keep and we would sell it in Britain. As long as my father was meeting the speedboats from Morocco in the Costa del Sol and then moving the lorry loads of cannabis through their MI-6, IRA lorry business into Britain every month, British intelligence were happy.
As long as my father was moving shipments of cocaine out of Rome every month, MI5 and MI6 were happy. If my father kept a bit to sell himself no one cared because there was enough drugs and money to go round in this £500 billion a year global drugs trade. The ones who were really paying were the people addicted. Who were paying with suffering.
But karma always catches up and both myself and my father became addicted to heroin in later years and my father died addicted, and poor in prison under very strange circumstances. Today, I am clean and drug-free and wish to help stop the untold suffering this global drugs trade causes.
The intelligence agencies have always used addictive drugs as a weapon against the masses to bring in their long term plan for a one world government, a one world police force designed to be NATO and a micro chipped population known as the New World Order. As the population is in a drug or alcohol-induced trance watching 'Coronation Street', the new world order is being crept in behind them.
To properly expose this global intelligence run drugs trade we need to expose the key players in this area:
Tibor Rosenbaum, a MOSSAD agent and head of the Geneva based Banque du Credit international. This bank was the forerunner to the notorious Bank of Credit and Commerce international (BCCI) which is a major intelligence drug money laundering bank. 'Life' magazine exposed Rosenbaum's bank as a money launderer for the Meyer Lanksky American organized crime family and Tibor Rosenbaum funded and supported 'Permindex' the MI6 assassination unit which was at the heart of the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Robert Vesco, sponsored by the Swiss branch of the Rothchilds and part of the American connection to the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia.
Sir Francis de Guingand, former head of British intelligence, now living in south Africa (and every head of MI5 and MI6 has been involved in the drug world before and after him).
Henry Keswick, chairman of Jardine Matheson which is one of the biggest drug trafficking operations in the world. His brother John Keswick is chairman of the bank of England.
Sir Martin Wakefield Jacomb, Bank of England director from 1987 to 1995, Barclays Bank Deputy Chairman in 1985, Telegraph newspapers director in 1986 (This is the reason why this can of worms doesn't get out in the mainstream media. The people who are perpetrating these crimes control most of the mainstream media. In America former director of the CIA William Casey was, before his death in 1987, head of the council of the media network ABC. Many insiders refer to ABC as 'The CIA network.)
George Bush, Snr, former President and former head of the CIA and America's leading drug baron who has fronted more wars on drugs than any other president. Which in reality is just a method to eliminate competition. A whole book could be written on George Bush's involvement in the global drug trade but it is well-covered in the book 'Dark Alliance' by investigative journalist Gary Webb.
Gary Webb was found dead with two gunshot wounds to the back of his head with a revolver. The case was declared a 'suicide'. You figure that out. Gary Webb as well as myself and other investigators, found that much of this 'black ops' drug money is being used to fund projects classified above top secret.
These projects include the building and maintaining of deep level underground bases in,
Dulce in New exico
Pine Gap in Australia
Snowy mountains in Australia
The Nyala range in Africa
west of Kindu in Africa
next to the Libyan border in Egypt
Mount Blanc in Switzerland
Narvik in Scandinavia
Gottland island in Sweden,
...and many other places around the world (more about these underground bases in my next issue).
The information on this global drugs trade run by the intelligence agencies desperately needs to get out on a large scale.
Any information, comments or feedback to help me with my work would be greatly welcomed.
Scientology & Paul Haggis: 'It's a Cult' - NBC News, Part 1 of 2
ReportsOnScientologyPublished on Jan 18, 2013
Scientology is a cult, says Academy Award-winning director Paul Haggis, a Scientologist for 34 years. Also, one family tells its story of escaping Scientology. Rock Center with Brian Williams, NBC News, aired January 17, 2013
Scientology & Paul Haggis: 'It's a Cult' - NBC News, Part 2 of 2
ReportsOnScientology
Published on Jan 18, 2013
Scientology is a cult, says Academy Award-winning director Paul Haggis, a Scientologist for 34 years. Also, one family tells its story of escaping Scientology. Rock Center with Brian Williams, NBC News, aired January 17, 2013
Scientology: Jason Beghe Interview
Published on Jun 4, 2008
Actor Jason Beghe speaks about his years in Scientology and why he left the group
Scientology: The Story of Kate
Published on Jul 15, 2014
1/20/2001 Astra Woodcraft joined Scientology's Sea Org as a young teen. In "The Story of Kate," Astra details the pressure that was brought to bear on her to abort her baby when it was discovered that she was pregnant. Astra went on to be one of the founders of Ex-Scientology Kids. http://www.exscientologykids.com
Robert Vaughn Young - L. Ron Hubbard’s PR & Press Assistant - Secret Lives - Scientology - Dianetics
Keeping.Skepticism.Working
Published on Apr 2, 2015
Robert Vaughn Young - L. Ron Hubbard’s PR & Press Assistant & High Ranking Sea Org Member. "Secret Lives" Scientology - Dianetics. This video is uploaded with the intent of educating the public regarding Scientology and its belief structure and to help preserve the tech for future generations. Uploaded in the spirit of Fair Use Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107. All credit for the video goes to its original creator. All rights are reserved by the copyright holder.
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Died June 15, 2003, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
Similar People Stacy Brooks, Bob Minton, Arnie Lerma, Mark Bunker, Ronald DeWolf
Robert Vaughn Young 1-1 Deposition in the Lisa McPherson Case#
https://youtu.be/jyWPJplegfI
Published on Jul 4, 2010
This video series is an unabridged deposition in the Lisa McPherson wrongful death lawsuit against Scientology in 2000. This deposition is described in the first and second sections as an "emergency" because Young is suffering from terminal prostate cancer. The result is a fascinating view inside the Scientology organization at all levels, from one of its most trusted officers. Robert Vaughn Young (or RVY as he was known online in circles critical of Scientology) was a high ranking church official and eventual whistleblower. He was married to Stacy Brooks Young (now known as Stacy Brooks), but the pair divorced in the years following their exit from Scientology. From Wikipedia: ------- IN SCIENTOLOGY: 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] He was a national spokesman for the church.[2] RVY edited L. Ron Hubbard's ten-volume Mission Earth series. Young said 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.[3][4] AFTER LEAVING After leaving the Church of Scientology in 1989, Young became prominent as an expert in court cases regarding Scientology such as CSI v. Fishman and Geertz,[1] BPI v. FACTNet,[5] the Lisa McPherson civil trial,[6], cited by the press,[7][8] and as an Internet-based critic of the organization. His ex-wife, Stacy Brooks, was a member of the Lisa McPherson Trust. This frequently resulted in tension with his former organization.[9] 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. ------- One day, I received a call from Stacy Brooks, and shortly afterward I began doing video work for Phoenix5, in addition to anti-cult video editing. This was my first contact with RVY. I was honored to have a chance to know him personally, even meeting him for a four hour lunch not long before he died. It was a long and intimate discussion, and at the risk of being indiscreet, I would like to address a point that - at the time - reputed Scientologists were gleefully parrotting about his marriage. Despite the black PR, RVY said that the breakup of his marriage to Stacy Brooks was not precipitated by Bob Minton; he loved Stacy, he said, wanted her to be happy, and considered Bob Minton a friend. Bob stole nothing from him, he told me; inside a cult, people have a commonality that can form the basis of a lasting relationship. Once that commonality is gone, one can find that the basis itself is in doubt. People are different outside of a cult than they are inside of it, and maybe something that worked in captivity doesn't work in the wild. That's my metaphor, not his. That's all the insight he gave me, but it's enough. I didn't know Robert Vaughn Young very well, but I was grateful for the time and talks we did have. When our lunch was over, I sat in my car and literally wept for half and hour, because I had barely gotten to know this dynamic, fascinating man, and he was likely to be dead in a few weeks. In fact, nearly a decade later, I'm weeping as I type this. I didn't know him well, and I didn't know him long, but he left his mark on me - the good ones always do - and I will always miss him. Rest in peace, RVY. We'll take it from here.
The last will and testament benefited David Miscavige, with everything left to the Religious Technology Center, which was controlled by David Miscavige at the time of the death of L Ron Hubbard.
David Miscavige then took over as head of Scientology after the death of L. Ron Hubbard, the family of L. Ron Hubbard to really been mentioned in his last will and testament Robert Vaughn Young questioned whether the last will and testament was fraudulently changed after the death of L. Ron Hubbard, who he says at the time of his death, L. Ron Hubbard was not living in any reality and had become lost in the stories he created during his life and in the opinion of Robert Vaughn Young, L Ron Hubbard did at the time of his death was not capable of knowing the difference between reality and fiction. Robert Vaughn Young goes on to say that a story had to be created for the Scientology followers that made L. Ron Hubbard, immortal ….by telling all the Scientology followers that L. Ron Hubbard, immortal had thrown his physical body away for his spirit to be fee to search and explore the higher levels of Scientology
Hana Eltringham Whitfield - L Ron Hubbard's Ship Captain - Secret Lives - Scientology - Dianetics
Keeping.Skepticism.WorkingPublished on Apr 23, 2015
Hana Eltringham Whitfield - L Ron Hubbard's Sea Organization Ship Captain & Loyal Officer Secret Lives Scientology Dianetics This video is uploaded with the intent of educating the public regarding Scientology and its belief structure and to help preserve the tech for future generations. Uploaded in the spirit of Fair Use Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107. All credit for the video goes to its original creator. All rights are reserved by the copyright holder.
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The Scandal behind "The Scandal of Scientology"
Operation Clambake presents:
Looking over my shoulder,
The Inside Account of the Story That Almost Killed Me
Saturday, June 23, 2007
By Paulette Cooper
http://www.xenu.net/archive/personal_story/paulette_cooper/
The paperback cost less than a dollar. But the price the author paid - both in torment and in legal fees - was immensely more.
The author in 1967. Little did she realize the turn her life was about to take.
"I was named a likely suspect and the next thing I knew I was called to appear before a federal grand jury in New York."
The ledge surrounding the rooftop pool of her apartment building: the perfect spot for an "accident."
By 1974, the author wears the stress of her ordeal in her pained visage.
Cooper says her life is back on track, and that she is enjoying some well-earned time away from the pandora's box she opened nearly forty years ago.
You may not believe this, but you can write something that some group doesn't approve of and then have a quarter of your life almost ruined. I know because it happened to me.
I haven't previously written about this from beginning to end because it's still painful, but here goes. In 1968 I was a struggling New York freelance writer, searching for an investigative story that would make a difference. I was already used to controversy - and publicity - when a year earlier I had successfully stowed away on an ocean liner and wrote an article (and sold movie rights) about it that had appeared all over the world.
But when I next decided to expose a then relatively unknown organization called Scientology (and the related Dianetics, ) I ended up falsely arrested and facing 15 years in jail, had 19 lawsuits filed against me all over the world by Scientology, was the almost victim of a near murder, was the subject of 5 disgusting anonymous smear letters sent to my family and neighbors about me, and endured constant and continual harassment for almost 15 years.
I had obtained a master's degree in psychology and had studied comparative religion at Harvard for a summer. So I became interested in researching a newly-popular quasi-religious mental-health cult founded by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard. I started by writing an article exposing Scientology for the British Harper/Queen, (now Harper's Bazaar) and expanded this into a book.
In it, among other things, I stated that the crux of Scientology - their e-meter which they say acts like a lie detector - produced questionable results; that Hubbard had lied about his credentials; that Charles Manson had called himself a Scientologist; that some auditors had behaved improperly toward their "parishioners"; that some who left may have feared being blackmailed; that some defectors claimed that they had been psychologically damaged by Scientology, financially ripped-off, and/or harassed when they tried to leave or speak out.
I soon got used to telephone death threats, harassing calls - and lawsuits.
I was occasionally followed - often conspicuously as if to upset me - and people seemed to be trying to gain access to my apartment. Then, in the basement of my small building, I discovered alligator clips on my phone wires - likely the remnants of a phone tap.
Next, my cousin - who was also short and slim like me - was in my apartment alone when a man arrived with a "flower delivery" for me. When she opened the door, the intruder pulled a gun out of the flowers and put it to her temple. Fortunately, the gun jammed, misfired or was empty. The man then began to choke her, and when she pulled away and screamed, he ran off. The police said afterward that they were mystified, because there appeared to be no motive for the attack.
I quickly moved to a safer doorman building. But soon afterwards, 300 of my new neighbors received an anonymous smear letter about me, outrageously describing me as a part-time prostitute with VD!
Then, a few weeks later, I received a visit from a pompous FBI agent named Bruce Brotman. He said the spokesman for the Church of Scientology in New York, James Meisler, claimed to have received 2 anonymous bomb threats and named me as a likely suspect.
I didn't take it seriously until I was called to appear before a federal grand jury - and was shocked to learn that I was the target (suspect). I had to hire a top law firm (I chose one headed by Charles Stillman) who required a $5,000 retainer on my meager freelance income. Little did I realize that they would ultimately cost me $28,000 (like $75,000 today) and they would unsuccessfully sue me after the case was over for even more money!
Even worse, during the grand jury, the prosecutor, John D. Gordon III, told me that if this Grand Jury decided that I had sent Scientology the 2 bomb threats, I faced 5 years in jail for each letter, 5 more for perjury for denying it, and $15,000 in fines.
He showed me the letters, and I truthfully testified that I had never touched or seen them before. Then Gordon dropped the real bomb. "Then how did your fingerprint get on one of them?" he asked.
I was so shocked I think I momentarily lost consciousness because the room turned upside down. I then rightly explained that Scientology could have obtained a blank piece of paper that I had touched, and typed threats on it afterwards.
But Gordon was unconvinced. On May 9th, 1973, I was indicted on all 3 three counts by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. And 10 days later I was arrested, released on my own recognizance, and forbidden to leave the state without the court's permission.
For months, my anxiety was so terrible I could taste it in my throat. I was in a total panic. I could barely write, and my bills, especially legal ones, kept mounting. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day, popped Valium like M&Ms, and drank too much vodka.
I worried obsessively about the possibility of going to jail. And also about my career. I had been doing extremely well. I had 4 books out and I wasn't yet 30. But once these accusations came out at trial, what editor would give an assignment to a writer believed to have sent bomb threats to the people she wrote about? I had wanted to be a writer since I was 8 years old, and my dream life was about to be over.
I was also very concerned about my parents. They had adopted me from an orphanage in Belgium when I was 6, and I had always tried to make them proud of me. However, I knew they would soon be humiliated when the trial started.
The sexual revolution was going on then, and young people were also experimenting with pot, considering horrifying by adults (and jurors no doubt!) in those days. As a single photogenic woman involved in a bizarre case, I knew I would become the scandal du jour for the tabloids during the anticipated 3-week trial.
I tried desperately to prevent a trial. I made a writing barter arrangement with a private investigator, Anthony Pellicano - the same one in jail and in the news now - who I wanted to look into L Ron Hubbard Jr., the son of the founder, who I had worked with against his father but whom I now began to suspect had turned. But Pellicano did nothing.
I also volunteered to take lie-detector tests to prove my innocence. But they returned contradictory and inconclusive results, although not surprisingly, they did show me to be highly stressed.
My state of mind got worse when the man I had been dating for a year and planned to marry, a lawyer named Bob Straus, left me. Most of my friends also stopped calling because I was so obsessed with the horrors that were happening that it was all I could talk (or think) about.
On July 26th on my 30th birthday, I decided to end it. Fortunately, an editor friend at the New York Times stuck by me and called me. She kept me on the phone for hours to stop me from continuing to take the entire bottle of Valium I admitted that I had started to take that evening.
Another loyal friend was a new one, a short smiling redhead named Jerry Levin. He was sympathetic to what was going on and moved in with me late that summer. Since I was too depressed to go out much, he did my errands and walked my dog Tiki while I compulsively watched the Watergate hearings.
Occasionally, he would persuade me to go up to the rooftop pool with him at night when no one was there. He was a gutsy guy, and he would leap up to the 33-story high ledge and try to get me to join him. "You have to be brave if you're going to take on those bastards," he'd say. But I huddled below, a shadow of my former adventurous self.
Toward the beginning of September, I was in such a bad state that I even became slightly suspicious of him. When I questioned him, he turned on me, berating me for not even being able to trust my closest friend any more. Then he too walked out of my life, leaving me alone to face the trial.
The court date, October 31, 1973, was approaching when, a Professor and researcher from Scotland, Dr. Roy Wallis, came to interview me. Earlier, he had interviewed L Ron Hubbard Jr.
Boastfully, Jr. gave Roy a letter he wrote to his father, saying he could "bring the enemy to their [sic] knees" - and he had suddenly purchased an expensive house right after I was indicted although he had been broke. Roy brought this and other information he had gathered on Scientology's dirty tricks to Gordon, who had a growing file I had also given him on Scientology's "fair game law": That stated that an "enemy" of Scientology - such as me - "May be injured by any means by any Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
But no prosecutor wants to give up a high publicity case. So I started searching for a doctor to give me a truth-serum test. After months of barely eating, I had gone down to only 83 pounds, and my health had deteriorated from the stress. Doctors refused me, saying I could die from the anesthesia. But I didn't care. I had decided to kill myself right before the trial rather than humiliate my parents (and myself) once the news stories came out.
Finally, a neurologist, Dr. David Coddon of Mount Sinai Hospital, agreed, and after several hours of questioning me while I was out, he was so convinced I was innocent, that he said not only would he testify for me, but he would chain himself to the courthouse steps if they proceeded with this case. (Just what I needed; more publicity!)
On Halloween day, 1973, the government postponed - and ultimately canceled - the trial, agreeing to file a nolle prosequi. I went into therapy for a year, and the depression lifted somewhat. But the threat of a trial and scandalous publicity remained over my head, because the government could still try me, and the press could still discover that I had been arrested for sending bomb threats and ruin me.
So for four long years, I was bitter - and broke - feeling that everything I had done was right and it had all come out so wrong. Strangers from all over the world continued to call me for help on Scientology, unaware of what I had just gone though. Since no one else was doing anything or speaking out against them, I continued to try to help Scientology's many victims (free), including those they were suing or who were suing them, and those who had lost their families and their money to them.
So the Scientologists therefore kept suing following and harassing me. As one example, when they found out I had seen a shrink, they broke into his offices and stole my records to find out what I had said during therapy - then sent excerpts of negative things I had said about my friends and parents to them. Nice, eh?
In July of 1977 I was flying home from Africa on a travel writing assignment when I picked up a copy of the Herald Tribune on the plane and couldn't believe the headline Washington Post story they had picked up: it was about me.
It seems the FBI had raided 3 Scientology offices and seized their internal memos after learning that they were engaged in a variety of criminal activities. And that included framing a writer who had exposed them and was working against them: me.
I was so happy; I thought that last I would be able to prove my innocence when I came home, which had become an obsession with me. But it took me four more frustrating years (during which time they harassed me more than ever, set me up with private investigators, and continued to sue me for nonsense, for example, for that Washington Post story, saying I had given it to them) before I at last saw those documents.
And then I spent 3 months in Washington D.C., reading all the nasty stuff they had done not only to me but to anyone who had ever said or done anything against Scientology. As I later told Mike Wallace when I was on 60 Minutes discussing the frame-up and their "dirty trick" papers: "Scientology turned out to be worse than anything I ever said or even imagined.
For example, one series of documents dated 1976 was a plot of theirs against me called "Operation Freakout." to get me "incarcerated in a mental institution or jail or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks" on Scientology. It seems that after the first frame-up - a plot they apparently called "Operation Dynamite" - had failed to imprison (or silence) me, they plotted again to make it look like I was making bomb threats against them and others with fake threats sounding eerily like the '72 ones.
Mysteriously, there was also an anonymous diary someone wrote of what I did each day during the "frame-up" period, and how close I was to suicide. "Wouldn't that be great for Scientology?" the person wrote
And then I realized the writer could only have been Jerry Levin. He must have been a Scientologist whom they sent to spy on me and help Scientology set me up. He and his friends, Paula Tyler and a woman calling herself Margie Shepherd (who may be Linda Kramer from Boston, who married and may be Linda Kobern), had been in and out of my old apartment back when the threats were sent. And they had access to paper on which Scientology could have obtained my fingerprint and then typed the threats.
Even now I still wonder: why did Jerry want me to go up on that ledge with him? If he had pushed me over, everyone would have simply assumed that in my depressed state of mind, and rather than face a trial, I had committed suicide. Operation Freakout indeed.
A new grand jury in New York spent 3 years investigating my frame-up. Alas, the case went nowhere because the Scientologists refused to talk about what they knew about the frame-up. One, a Charles Batdorf, was even jailed for months for refusal to speak but still wouldn't talk.
But a simultaneous Washington, D.C., grand jury (and trial) ultimately jailed 11 Scientologists who were involved in wiretapping, infiltration and theft of government documents. Some had also been involved in the frame-up and harassment of me so I finally had some justice. I also initiated my own legal actions against Scientology while they piled on more suits, spies and harassment against me. Finally, in 1985, we reached an "amicable" settlement of all lawsuits.
Indirectly, through the lawyer who handled this settlement, I became reacquainted with Paul Noble, a New York TV producer, whom I had dated in my 20's, long before this all happened and we have been very happily married for 19 years now. I went on to write 11 more books, win 6 writing awards (including two for "The Scandal of Scientology,") do some travel writing, and have a newspaper column on pets. True, it's not as "glamorous" as the investigative reporting I did with Scientology, but at least dogs don't harass and cats don't sue.
I also quit smoking, barely drink, and try to forget what happened. Try. But when I see the news, or my e-mail, I'm often reminded of the years of torment I endured. Whenever I hear about litigation,or depositions, I remember the years (and money) I spent fighting the 19 lawsuits they filed against me from all over the world that I had to defend - not to mention that I was subjected to 50 days of depositions.
Or I read about something like prosecutor Nifong's going after the innocent Duke soccer players and I am reminded of what it was like for an innocent person to be prosecuted. Me. Or someone will send me inside information from a higher-up who left, like the affidavit from Margie Wakefield swearing that: "The second murder that I heard planned was of Paulette Cooper, who had written a book critical of Scientology, and they were planning to shoot her"
Other names keep bringing me back as well. My useless private investigator, Anthony Pellicano, is all over the news. My former attorney Charles Stillman often defends high-publicity clients. like the Reverend Moon. Bob Straus, the boyfriend who left me, went on to head a large New York organization that investigates judges. John D. Gordon III is with the high profile law firm of Morgan Lewis.
Bruce Brotman retired from the FBI and I was pleased to read negative news stories that appeared about him. It seems he left the FBI and became head of security at a big-city Airport and the local papers reported that he was fired when he refused to go through the security system, reportedly saying, "I make the rules."
Dr. Roy Wallis committed suicide in 1990, blowing his brains out when his wife left him. Dr. David Coddon died in 2002. And while I've never heard further of James Meisler or Charles Batdorf, I heard that Jerry Levin - which I'm sure was not his real name - is still a Scientologist.
Yes, I often wish I had never ever heard the word "Scientology," But despite all that happened, I would still have done the same today, because no one else was speaking out or working to expose them then. I would not have been capable of remaining quiet because I learned too many scary things and talked to too many people who were being hurt to turn my back on them.
Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, others are speaking out. And fortunately Scientology is not as litigious or vicious toward their critics. But if you think there's nothing bad happening to (former) members and/or critics, go read www.clambake.org (especially the message boards), www.lermanet.com, xenu.net, xenutv,com &.holysmoke.org for starters.
Sometimes I get discouraged because Scientology gets so much publicity from people like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, etc. And I wonder whether it was worth wrecking so many years of my life when they're so powerful again. But then I remind myself that I did help a lot of people. My book sold 154,000 copies - not that I ever saw any money from it and it cost me a fortune - and what I called "The Book That Launched a Thousand Suits" is really "The Book they Couldn't Kill," since it's still read today (free) on the Internet - in several languages.
Finally, some of the people who read my book (or the story of what they did to me which is also on the Internet,) e-mail me from all over the world to thank me, and that gives me satisfaction. My favorite was the man in his 50's who e-mailed me to say that years ago, after learning the truth about Scientology from me, he left the cult, married, has 4 children (2 are twins) and now runs a computer company employing 40+ people. He wrote to tell me that he feels that I am responsible for his happiness.
That reminded me of why I did what I did, and why we journalists do what we do: we try to tell the truth so that we can help others.
Unfortunately, we sometimes pay a terrible price for it.
MISS LOVELY
Scientology’s First ‘Victim’
L. Ron Hubbard called her a bitch, the FBI found files on her in its raids: The story of Scientology’s most famous critic.
M.L. Nestel
07.12.17
https://www.thedailybeast.com/scientologys-first-victim
Those were the choice words belted out by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard back in 1974 as he pounded on his desk while playing Commodore aboard his yacht, the Apollo.
Cooper, one of the earliest writers to look into the Church of Scientology’s inner workings, has long maintained that Hubbard (or LRH, as he’s often referred to) had it out for her. Just tally up the 19 lawsuits slapped against Cooper by the Church, the 40 lawyers she retained, and the 50 days of depositions—including one reportedly involving a Scientology lawyer who pressed Cooper for a stool sample. (Cooper quipped back: “If you want one, you’ll get it—on your head.”)
This story of Hubbard’s maritime rage is an incredible nugget in the middle of Tony Ortega’s new book, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, which lands on bookstands this week. Ortega managed to unearth the anecdote after poring over a deposition of Tonja Burden, who was only 15 at the time. Burden was one of Hubbard’s "Messengers,” young females tasked with lighting his cigarettes, prepping his showers, and laundering his shirts “13 times to get any smell out of them.” LRH apparently had a nasty aversion to flowery scents, especially “rose perfume,” the book reveals.
The book’s title plays off Cooper’s supposed code name within Scientology, “Miss Lovely,” which she gained “because she was so beautiful,” Ortega told me. Other citizens have reported being harassed and bullied by Scientology, but nothing to the extent of Paulette Cooper’s story. She’s the first one many people think of when it comes to Scientology’s alleged victims.
The book is a wallop of a read and Cooper is presented as sympathetic, tragic, and, for a brief bit, unreliable, as she allegedly plots against the Church in her own way. But Ortega also makes some incredible claims that seem to rely upon deep reportage, tracking down people Ortega identifies as long-lost Scientologists and weaving their testimonials into a gripping narrative.
A Church of Scientology spokeswoman, in a statement, emphatically denounced the book and called Ortega “a parasite” for using “bigotry and false allegations about the Church of Scientology to create a cottage industry of hate.”
The statement went on to suggest that out of the many claims in the book, none of them dignify a thorough response.
“Despite Tony Ortega’s desperate need for publicity, we see no reason to revisit the subject or respond to debunked falsehoods concerning events three to four decades old involving individuals who have long since been expelled,” the statement read.
The Church added that it settled all claims with Cooper in 1985.
“It is a matter of public record that the current Church management disbanded the rogue unit with which she was having trouble long before then. The Church has neither heard from nor been involved in anything related to Ms. Cooper for 30 years,” according to a Church spokeswoman.
Out of all the writers who have gone head to head with Scientology, Cooper’s story is perhaps the most incredible. She was dashing and easily made hearts skip a few beats during her early years in Manhattan, where she lived and plied her craft as an independent journalist.
Cooper says she remembers how Scientology came knocking at her front door on June 6, 1968. It was the day after Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated and Cooper was a twenty-something advertising copywriter trying to cut her teeth as a magazine stringer in New York City.
The Brandeis psych grad, who spent some time at Harvard studying mental health patients, says she received a former boss at her Manhattan apartment.
Cooper recounts in her own book how the man began singing Scientology’s praises and how he’d been doling out wads of charity cash to random homeless people. Then, Cooper says, he told her he was God, the lord and savior, and that "God has decided to rape you.”
Cooper managed to fend him off.
But her journalist instincts kicked in and she enrolled in classes at the Scientology Org in Midtown Manhattan under a pseudonym. She says she only lasted a few days before higher-ups in the organization's Ethics department were onto her. But Cooper says she remembers engaging in staring contests where she hallucinated—and says she was subjected to “bullbaiting,” wherein Scientologists allegedly chastised her for no reason and made propositions like, “You know what I’m going to do to you," supposedly to see if she would break.
Cooper ultimately began cobbling together her intel on this new religion and turned it into a feature story for the magazine Queen.
Before long, Cooper was living every day in fear, as she claims she was fielding death threats. She was convinced she was being followed and that her phone line was tapped.
In 1977, when the FBI raided the Los Angeles and D.C. offices of the Church, they found scores of documents that they used to send several high-ranking Scientologists to the slammer.
These same documents, Ortega's book says, also indicated that the Church had been monitoring Cooper’s movements since 1971 and ordered some members to lift pages from her diary, according to Ortega’s book. The group seemed particularly interested in the pages that catalogued teenage angst aimed toward her parents, the book says, or the ones that included sexually-charged thoughts.
Ortega’s book says that, in an attempt to frame Cooper, Church members typed up two anonymous bomb threats and sent them to the Church of Scientology headquarters in New York with Cooper’s fingerprints on them. Cooper maintains the Church got her fingerprints by getting a stranger to goad her into signing a petition to help the activist Cesar Chavez.
Soon, Cooper was hauled in front of a grand jury in Manhattan to answer for the terroristic threats and almost faced a trial until her attorneys used Cooper’s passing of a Q&A test, while on sodium pentothal, to get the charges chucked.
In the course of his research, Ortega says he managed to track down FBI Special Agent Christine Hansen. She was one of the few women at the bureau in the 1970s. This is apparently the first time anybody has managed to interview the former special agent. Because of her tenacity and eagle eye, on June 11, 1976, Hansen says she caught a Scientology member named Gerald Bennett Wolfe in the act of cribbing files from the IRS, the Department of Justice, and a dozen other government offices. He ended up serving five years in prison. His colleague Michael Meisner ultimately flipped for the Feds.
The reported effort to steal the files from government agencies and law firms was known as the “Snow White Program,” Hansen told Ortega.
Ortega also dives into “Operation Freakout,” the Church’s apparent attempt to target Cooper and frame her as insane, to get her committed.
Ortega’s book claims that a Scientology spy approached Cooper at a popular NYC watering hole and asked her to read a bad joke off of a piece of paper. Her fingerprints on the joke stationary were used, Ortega says, in threatening letters sent to then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The Church allegedly enlisted a woman who sounded like Cooper and would be tasked with calling Kissinger’s office to make phone threats, as well as another woman cast to dress like Cooper and to play her doppleganger.
According to Ortega’s account of the documents seized in the FBI raid, Scientologists had instructed, “Several different outfits should have been obtained by [Paulette’s double] so that when the caper goes down, she can immediately change into the color or type of outfit that Paulette has on.” Then, the book says, calls would be made to Arab embassies with the Cooper lookalike claiming: “I’m going to bomb you bastards!”
After the raids, Ortega says, "Operation Freakout" was never fully completed.
Still, even after Cooper appeared on 60 Minutes to talk about Scientology, Ortega’s book suggests that several plots continued to target “Miss Lovely.” In one of them, a supposed friend called Jerry Levin, who had come into Cooper’s life suddenly and mysteriously, allegedly told Cooper to jump from a 33-story ledge above a rooftop swimming pool.
“Why on earth would Jerry want me to climb that ledge,” Cooper told The Daily Beast. “He was up there, it would have taken the slightest push and that would have been in it.”
According to Cooper, Levin was a secret Scientologist who had befriended her and lived with her during some of the lowest months of her life.
Not long after Levin moved out, and as Cooper was awaiting trial for making bomb threats (which she says were actually made by her Scientology impersonators), she says the only thing that saved her from a suicide-by-Valium attempt was a friend’s phone call wishing her a happy birthday.
By 1980, Cooper had decided to fight back against the Church. That was the year, the book says, that she met a private investigator named Richard Bast. (He passed away in 2001.) Cooper says Bast told her he was working for a rich Swissman who had lost his daughter to suicide. The girl had been a Scientologist and after her death, Bast said, the man had hired him to build a case against the Church.
The book says the two began to cook up ways to undermine the Church. Cooper would find every news clipping related to Scientology and bring them to Bast. But soon, the book says, Cooper started to hatch some of her own schemes to fool the Scientologists.
Ortega lays out how Bast suggested Cooper sleep with people in order to get intel and even allegedly suggested that a friend should plant drugs in the Church’s D.C. office, so that Cooper could then tip off the cops. “The point I want to make is, if we have any kind of police raid, this gay friend of mine.... probably [could] get us some. A couple of things you might want to consider—leaving them there that might make much bigger headlines. Like cocaine,” she told Bast, unaware that he was taping her statements, according to court transcripts that Ortega included in the book.
But Bast wasn’t working for a Swiss tycoon at all—he was doing the Church’s bidding, the book says. And he had caught Scientology’s Public Enemy No. 1 with dirty hands. Before they went through with some of the alleged schemes to attack Scientology, Cooper had discovered the damage she’d caused herself. Her reputation now seemed undone again.
Cooper’s lawyer Mike Flynn believed the tapes could actually benefit her case. “Whatever is on them, the fact that they hired someone to befriend you, given your vulnerabilities, will only backfire on them. Whatever you said would pale in comparison to what they put you through,” he said at the time, according to Ortega’s book.
Cooper’s lawyers expected that they’d have to spin Bast’s tapes in her favor in the many lawsuits she was facing. Yet not much was made of the taped chats with Bast until years later, when Cooper says she was confronted by researchers from a Scientology hub website, who asked her several questions about them.
The Daily Beast provided a Church spokeswoman with a list of some of the book’s claims, including Ortega’s contention that he found the man who called himself Jerry Levin (Ortega says he was known in Scientologist circles as Don Alverzo); that a Vanity Fair writer (who was friendly with Cooper) had been on Scientology’s payroll for years; and that Charles Manson was a Scientologist. Ortega says he worked off of many sources, including The New York Times and Cooper’s own book, in which she wrote that “one famous, in fact infamous person interested in Scientology that they do not boast about, talk about, or probably even want is Charles Manson, the convicted murderer of Sharon Tate and her friends.”
The Church stressed that it’s erroneous to say the convicted serial killer was a Scientologist. In the statement, a spokeswoman wrote that “the Church debunked the Manson myth four decades ago… Manson never had ties to Scientology.” While the Vanity Fair writer wasn’t named, Ortega says he did track down Alverzo, who allegedly played dumb on the phone. “I’m sorry, I don’t even understand what language you’re talking. I guess you have the wrong person,” Ortega says Alverzo told him.
Cooper says that she still has to look over her shoulder to make sure she is not being followed or watched by Scientology operatives. Since her run-in with Scientology, she’s gone on to pen almost two dozen books, though she’s steered clear of writing about the Church again.
Her newest book—Was Elvis Jewish? Plus Hundreds of Fascinating Facts: & Amazing Anecdotes no Rabbi Ever Told You—takes on the King of Rock & Roll and sets out to prove that his great-grandmother on his maternal side was Jewish. “He loved matzo-ball soup, his mother wanted him to be a doctor, and he had a nose job,” she told The Daily Beast. “Convinced?”
Meanwhile, “I’m hoping not to have too many problems when [Tony Ortega’s] book comes out,” she told The Daily Beast in a recent interview. “But the reality is that if you ever write a book against Scientology you have to be prepared to have them keep tabs on you for the rest of your life and I did a tremendous amount of damage to them over many many years so I have to accept the consequences.”
New Documents Show Scientologists Plotted To Have Writer Jailed
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/24/archives/new-documents-show-scientologists-plotted-to-have-writer-jailed.html
NOV. 24, 1979
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (AP) — The Church of Scientology plotted to get a New York freelance writer who criticized the church sent either to jail or to a men- tal institution, according to court docu- ments made public today.
A church file dated April 1, 1976, described a plot called “Operation Freakout” that was directed at Paulette Cooper, whu in 1971 wrote a book entitled “The Scandal of Scientology.”
Church documents said the purpose of was to “get P.C. incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks.” Some documents mentioned specific plots in which the church planned to make bomb threats in Miss Cooper's name.
One bomb threat the church sent on her stationery resulted in her indictment on Federal charges. After two years of legal struggle, the charges were dropped.
The documents were among thousands the F.B.I. seized from the church's Los Angeles offices in 1977. Some were used to prepare a case against nine church officials who were convicted Oct. 26 of plotting to steal Government records on the church. Federal District Judge Charles R. Richey then ordered most of the church documents made public.
Miss Cooper said in an interview that the Scientologists had filed 14 libel suits against her book, made death threats and obscene phone calls and sent people phony letters about her sexual behavior. Miss Cooper is suing the church for $55 million, charging harassment.
Dennis McKenna, a church spokesman responding to the release of documents about Miss Cooper, said that the writer was “covertly working with the F.B.I. and other Federal agencies” to harm the church.
November 24, 1979, Page 12
Buy ReprintsThe New York Times ArchivesWikipedia as at 4th June, 2019 on the Early Life of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born in 1911, in Tilden, Nebraska.[18] He was the only child of Ledora May (née Waterbury), who had trained as a teacher, and Harry Ross Hubbard, a former United States Navy officer.[19][20]After moving to Kalispell, Montana, they settled in Helena in 1913.[20] Hubbard's father rejoined the Navy in April 1917, during World War I, while his mother worked as a clerk for the state government.[21]
During the 1920s the Hubbards repeatedly relocated around the United States and overseas. After Hubbard's father Harry rejoined the Navy, his posting aboard the USS Oklahoma in 1921 required the family to relocate to the ship's home ports, first San Diego, then Seattle.[22] Hubbard was active in the Boy Scouts in Washington, D.C. and earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 1924, two weeks after his 13th birthday.
The following year, Harry Ross Hubbard was posted to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington.[23] His son was enrolled at Union High School, Bremerton,[23] and later studied at Queen Anne High School in Seattle.[24] In 1927 Hubbard's father was sent to the U.S. Naval Station on Guam. Hubbard's mother accompanied her husband, while their child was placed in his grandparents' care in Helena, Montana to complete his schooling.[24]
In 1927, Hubbard and his mother traveled to Guam. The trip consisted of a brief stop-over in a couple of Chinese ports before traveling on to Guam, where he stayed for six weeks before returning home. He recorded his impressions of the places he visited and disdained the poverty of the inhabitants of Japan and China, whom he described as "gooks" and "lazy [and] ignorant".[25][26][27]
After his return to the United States in September 1927, Hubbard enrolled at Helena High School, where he contributed to the school paper,[28] but earned only poor grades.[29] He abandoned school the following May and went back west to stay with his aunt and uncle in Seattle. He joined his parents in Guam in June 1928. His mother took over his education in the hope of putting him forward for the entrance examination to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
Between October and December 1928 a number of naval families, including Hubbard's, traveled from Guam to China aboard the cargo ship USS Gold Star. The ship stopped at Manila in the Philippines before traveling on to Qingdao (Tsingtao) in China. Hubbard and his parents made a side trip to Beijing before sailing on to Shanghai and Hong Kong, from where they returned to Guam.[30] Back on Guam, Hubbard spent much of his time writing dozens of short stories and essays[31] and failed the Naval Academy entrance examination.[32]
In September 1929, Hubbard was enrolled at the Swavely Preparatory School in Manassas, Virginia, to prepare him for a second attempt at the examination.[33] However, he was ruled out of consideration due to his near-sightedness.[34] He was instead sent to Woodward School for Boys in Washington, D.C. to qualify for admission to George Washington University. He successfully graduated from the school in June 1930 and entered the university the following September.[35]=
Jenna Miscavige on The View, 2/05/2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NFshbZoDrE
mackiesyotub Published on 5 Feb 2013
Jenna Miscavige appears on "The View" to discuss her book, "Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape."
Gerry Armstrong, the man kneeling in the dust on the top floor of the old Del Sol Hotel at Gilman Hot Springs that afternoon in January 1980, had been a dedicated member of the Church of Scientology for more than a decade. He was logging in Canada when a friend introduced him to Scientology in 1969 and he was immediately swept away by its heady promise of superhuman powers and immortality. During his years as a Scientologist, he had twice been sentenced to long periods in the Rehabilitation Project Force, the cult's own Orwellian prison; he had been constantly humiliated and his marriage had been destroyed, yet he remained totally convinced that L. Ron Hubbard was the greatest man who ever lived. In November 1981 Armstrong presented a written report listing the false claims made by Hubbard and putting forward a powerful argument as to why they should be corrected. 'If we present inaccuracies, hyperbole or downright lies as fact or truth,' he wrote, 'it doesn't matter what slant we give them; if disproved, the man will look, to outsiders at least, like a charlatan . . .'The messengers' response was to order Armstrong to be 'security checked' - interrogated as a potential traitor. Armstrong refused. In the spring of 1982, Gerald Armstrong was accused of eighteen different 'crimes' and 'high crimes' against the Church of Scientology, including theft, false pretences and promulgating false information about the church and its founder. He was declared to be a 'suppressive person' and 'fair game', which meant he could be 'tricked, cheated, lied to, sued or destroyed' by his former friends in Scientology. 'By then the whole thing for me had crumbled,' he said. 'I realized I had been drawn into Scientology by a web of lies, by Machiavellian mental control techniques and by fear. The betrayal of trust began with Hubbard's lies about himself. His life was a continuing pattern of fraudulent business practices, tax evasion, flight from creditors and hiding from the law. 'Hubbard was a mixture of Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin and Baron Munchausen. In short, he was a con man.' Taken from: Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard is a posthumous biography of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard by British journalist Russell Miller. Originally published: 26 October 1987 Author: Russell Miller, Genre: Biography, Page count: 380, Publisher: Michael Joseph, Subject: L. Ron Hubbard
Tanja Castle (David Miscavige's secretary) leaves Gold Base
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Denise Miscavige; Scientology, Lies & Alibis (Part I)
Hibernia Eugenesis
Published on Dec 24, 2018
Kyle T. Brennan--who was not a Scientologist--died from a gunshot wound to the head in Clearwater, Florida, whilst visiting his Scientology-indoctrinated father, Tom Brennan. Clearwater, of course, is the site of the Church of Scientology's worldwide headquarters. During Kyle's brief stay there, Tom Brennan was under the watchful eye of his Scientology auditor, or advisor, Denise Miscavige Gentile, twin sister of the Church's leader, David Miscavige. Only twenty years old, Kyle was a bright and creative college student who suffered from mild depression and anxiety. He'd been seeing a psychiatrist and was taking a prescribed anti-depressant. As you may be aware, Scientology is vehemently opposed to psychiatry and psychotropic medications. According to Scientology, therefore, Kyle's medical treatment made him a "suppressive person," an enemy of the Church. Kyle's visit threatened his father's standing in Scientology. Because of Scientology's convoluted anti-psychiatry beliefs, the Church issued an order to Kyle's father to "handle" Kyle. ("Handling," in Scientology, means removing a trouble source.) Kyle was dead within thirty-six hours. His medication was found locked in the trunk of his father's vehicle. Watch Denise and Brennan commit perjury to protect their cult. For more information regarding the highly questionable circumstances surrounding the death of Kyle please refer to "The Truth for Kyle Brennan" blog at; https://vbreton2062.wordpress.com/201...
Published on May 21, 2017
Former Scientologist and "Aftermath" author, Leah Remini, describes the internal workings of the controversial religion. Watch the full episode: http://netflix.com/watch/80154006 SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ7h... About Chelsea: Chelsea Handler's back with her unfiltered mix of politics, celebrities, travel, and not giving a #$!%. A new episode streams every Friday, only on Netflix. Connect with Chelsea: Like CHELSEA on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ChelseaShow Follow CHELSEA on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Chelseashow/ Follow CHELSEA on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chelseashow/ Add CHELSEA on SNAPCHAT: @ChelseaHandler About Netflix: Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 93.8 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. Connect with Netflix: Visit Netflix WEBSITE: http://nflx.it/29BcWb5 Like Netflix on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/29kkAtN Follow Netflix on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/29gswqd Follow Netflix on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/29oO4UP Follow Netflix on TUMBLR: http://bit.ly/29kkemT Leah Remini Explains Scientology's Scam (Full Interview) | Chelsea | Netflix https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ7h...
Joe Rogan Was Contacted by Scientology, Reads Their Statement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWISIF0k8Mc
JRE Clips
Published on Apr 21, 2017
Joe Rogan reads off the statement that was sent to him by Scientology, and Ron Miscavige describes his relationship with his son David Miscagive, the leader of Scientology.
Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #947.
Scientology 103: Paradoxes of 'tech' (Tony Ortega)
Published on Nov 20, 2018
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0:10 The rabbit hole of Scientology goes deep 0:57 Scientology is paradoxically liberating and enslaving at the same time 2:30 Scientology as Hubbard's round-about way to make his sci-fi writing compelling 10:09 Hubbard as a writer 12:26 In One Was Stubborn , Hubbard predicts a future where USA is taken over by evil cults 13:19 LRH: "I don't know if I'll destroy the Catholic church, or start my own" 15:50 The early days: Hubbard invents himself a biography 20:07 Hubbard’s mystical experience during a dental surgery 22:15 Excalibur is the manuscript that later became Dianetics 23:46 Hubbard's misfortunes in WW2 27:11 Trance-inducing techniques at the core of Scientology 29:15 The power of gamification 30:42 Most Scientologists were Jesus Christ or Julius Caesar in past lives 31:41 Focus on direct experience makes Scientology more convincing 33:19 The power of the E-meter 34:20 How complicit are the cult members in their own indoctrination? 37:27 Parallels between LRH and PKD 40:37 Scientology's 'Tech': you've been studying wrong 41:27: "You misbehaved, go look up the definitions of the word 'the'" 43:29: How ideologies use language to shape one's reality 48:31 Independent Scientologists, or "squirrels" 51:27 Scientology starts as a staring context 52:06 Bullbaiting , or pushing one's buttons 54:18 Does Scientology (and the army) make you stonger, or just compliant? 58:30 Why do Scientologists repeat phrases from Alice in Wonderland 1:01:34 Starting life over after leaving the church 1:05:54 Learning to identify enemies 1:07:34 If you get a cold, you should think: "Who is making me sick?" 1:09:22 "Scientology is a snitching culture" 1:14:23 KSW, or Keeping Scientology Working 1:16:43 The Bank Agreement 1:20:45 The nuclear bomb's effect on the New Age 1:22:48 The Matrix 1:25:31 Partisan politics in US: everybody's in a cult 1:29:45 Why learn about Scientology at all? Originally published at http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/41049
Michelle Leclair Shares Her Story Of Leaving Scientology | Megyn Kelly TODAY
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Published on Sep 10, 2018
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Michelle LeClair, former scientologist and author of “Perfectly Clear,” shares her story of leaving the church after having been a member since 1989. In her book, LeClair claims that government investigations into her and her business partner were instigated by the Church of Scientology, a claim the church, as well as an official for the California Dept. of Business Oversight denies. » Subscribe to TODAY: http://on.today.com/SubscribeToTODAY » Watch the latest from TODAY: http://bit.ly/LatestTODAY About: TODAY brings you the latest headlines and expert tips on money, health and parenting. We wake up every morning to give you and your family all you need to start your day. If it matters to you, it matters to us. We are in the people business. Subscribe to our channel for exclusive TODAY archival footage & our original web series. Connect with TODAY Online! Visit TODAY's Website: http://on.today.com/ReadTODAY Find TODAY on Facebook: http://on.today.com/LikeTODAY Follow TODAY on Twitter: http://on.today.com/FollowTODAY Follow TODAY on Google+: http://on.today.com/PlusTODAY Follow TODAY on Instagram: http://on.today.com/InstaTODAY Follow TODAY on Pinterest: http://on.today.com/PinTODAY Michelle LeClair Shares Her Story Of Leaving Scientology | Megyn Kelly TODAY
Scientology Leader David Miscavige's Father on Their Relationship: Part 1
ABC News
Published on Apr 30, 2016
Ron Miscavige said he introduced David to Scientology, but as the years went on something in his son changed.
Scientology Leader David Miscavige BUSTED
Published on Sep 5, 2013
David Miscavige has been lying and doing creepy things like breaking up families, stopping free speech, roping in young kids to a billion year contract, changing the tech, not stopping medical abuses, and practicing fraud just to name a few, for many years. He's also a liar, as was his teacher, L Ron Hubbard. So now Monique Rathbun is suing the "church" of $cientology. Her Attorneys want to depose David Miscavige. He lies and says he's never had anything to do with Texas. Here's Marty's Affidavit busting him! Please take time to read it: http://tonyortega.org/2013/09/05/mart... Please Read and Pass around, Twitter, etc. Thank you ALL :) Tory/Magoo
Monique Rathbun vs David Miscavige and Scientology
Published on Sep 12, 2013
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Monique Rathbun v David Miscavige and Scientology hearing 22 Jan 2014
Published on Jan 22, 2014
Monique Rathbun is back in court today in New Braunfels, Texas for her harassment lawsuit against the Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige. Several different issues may come up for discussion today. Monique filed a notice to depose David Miscavige on January 29, and Scientology responded with a motion to quash the deposition. Scientology also asked Judge Dib Waldrip to reconsider his order allowing Monique to depose Miscavige. But the main action today may be Monique's motion for sanctions. She's asking Judge Waldrip to punish Scientology because its employees, she says, have been dishonest in depositions and because Scientology has not turned over evidence. For complete coverage check out Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker: http://tonyortega.org/2014/01/22/moni... Radio Podcasts http://www.survivingscientologyradio....
Monique Rathbun vs David Miscavige and Church of Scientology 4/6 Part 4
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Published on Sep 14, 2013
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This is not just some hearing about a a Temporary Restraining Order. This is high stakes. This could unravel all the phoney "corporate shell" hall of mirrors hocus pocus dummy corporations. High Stakes. Absolute hogwash on separation of CSI and RTC. They swap personnel (Sea Org members) all the time Their money is intrerchangeable. Listen to the lawyer spout out these LIES David Miscavige does not know Marty Rathbun David Discavige does not care about Marty Rathbun. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the lying and lies in a courr of Law is a wonder to behold. This law suit could even cost them the loss of their Tax exemption. Every single law suit in future will name Miscavige. This is a blue print of all suits to follow. All law follows previous case law. No wonder they sent 14 lawyers. Anything to protect Miscavige and his unclean hands. How ridiculous to pretend Miscavige does not run the show. Everyone in the world of Scientology knows he runs it all with an iron hand. Pretending he does not think or have Marty Rathbun in mind is the ultimate joke. "he is busy opening new Churches". Yes, money gouged from predatory regging opens new buildings. These court hearings were a tissue of lies presented by Church Lawyers. Criminal Church has a lot to hide ! Radio Podcasts http://www.survivingscientologyradio....
Scientology showdown -- Marty Rathbun deposition 12/22/14
Published on Jan 23, 2015
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Better Believe It: Steve Cannane on Scientology in Australia
The book called Fair Game The Incredable Untold Story of Scientology In Australia
By Steve Cannane
WheelerCentre
Published on Oct 23, 2016
Secretive, star-studded and litigious – the Church of Scientology holds a risky, irresistible allure for a certain kind of investigative journalist. There’s been some excellent reporting on Scientology in recent years, including documentaries from Alex Gibney (Going Clear) and Louis Theroux (My Scientology Story). Now, Walkley Award-winning journalist Steve Cannane digs deeper into the local activities of the religion with his new book, Fair Game. Scientology and Australia have had a strange, troublesome history. In 1963, the world’s first official government inquiry into Scientology was held here, and the state of Victoria subsequently (and briefly) became the first place in the world where the religion was banned. At the Wheeler Centre, Cannane’s focus is the church’s more recent history in Australia. He discusses the writing and research of Fair Game and his fascinating findings on the church’s recruitment of James Packer, its dispute with Julian Assange and its role in exposing abuses in Australian psychiatric facilities. He also addresses some broader questions about Scientology. Is the myth of Xenu any wackier than that of the virgin birth? How much does prejudice play into media discussions of the religion? And why are non-believers so fascinated by Scientology?
Former Scientologist Speaks
Mark Bunker
Published on Mar 1, 2016
7-24-99 I joined Barb and Zinjifar as they passed out fliers at the San Diego Gay Pride Parade with info on Scientology's view of homosexuality. We met a man who had joined the Sea Org for a year at L.A.'s Celebrity Center and he shared his experiences. www.xenutv.com
The Outside: Suburban Scientology | Scientology Documentary | 2018
Published on Aug 31, 2018
Scientology is one of those things that everyone has heard of, but doesn't really know the full story. You've heard of Space Ships, Los Angeles, and Tom Cruise but what about real stories of the people who have escaped in the U.K? This film has been shortlisted for the Lift Off Network Documentary Filmmaker showcase 2019. Please support it in the link below. Vimeo.com/ondemand/documentaryshowcase2019 Director and Producer: Joseph Kennedy Cinematographer: Mitchell Stanyer https://www.youtube.com/user/MitchSta... Sound Technician: Mounir Lagraa Music Composer: Bryn Barton https://www.youtube.com/user/JazzyAni... Editor: Joseph Kennedy Interview Contributors Billy Drummond Martin Padfield Stephen Jones Pete Griffiths With thanks to Karl Foster Michael Atkinson Mathew Pritchard Andrea Garner Eleni Savva Crawley County Mall and Scientology
The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper (w/ Q&A)
Carl Wong
Published on May 20, 2015
Introduction by Jim Underdown: 0:00 Tony Ortega and Paulette Cooper: 5:43 Q&A from audience: 40:04 In 1971, a magazine freelancer in New York named Paulette Cooper came out with her first book, “The Scandal of Scientology”, and it was the first popular book that gave the public a view into this secretive organization. She nearly paid for it with her life. What even Paulette didn't know at the time was the extent that Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, would go to destroy someone it perceived as an enemy. By 1973, Paulette had been framed in an elaborate plot involving fake bomb-threat letters, and she faced 15 years in federal prison if convicted. Newly unearthed documents show that by that time, Scientology had kept her under tight surveillance for several years and proposed many ways to destroy her reputation and life. She was finally exonerated after the FBI raided Scientology in 1977 and found those documents, which referred to her by the code name "Miss Lovely." Eleven top Scientology officials went to prison after that raid, but more than 30 years later, Scientology is still around -- and so is Paulette. In his new, and first, book, “The Unbreakable Miss Lovely”, journalist Tony Ortega tells Paulette's story in full for the first time, with eyewitness accounts and new documents which describe the full extent of her ordeal -- and her continued fight against a group now seriously in decline. For the launch of the book, Paulette will be appearing with the author at a limited number of events as they talk about various parts of her life depicted in the book, from her childhood survival of the Holocaust to her much calmer life in Florida with her husband Paul, as well as the latest developments in the controversies facing Scientology today. Ortega is the executive editor of The Raw Story, a progressive political news site. From 2007 to 2012, he was editor in chief of The Village Voice, and he's been investigating and writing about Scientology since 1995, when he was a reporter for the Phoenix New Times. He also wrote for or edited weekly newspapers in Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Fort Lauderdale. Originally from Los Angeles, he lives in New York and maintains a breaking news website about Scientology news, "The Underground Bunker." He is also featured in “Going Clear”, Alex Gibney's documentary about Scientology, which first aired on HBO in March. Recorded on May 17, 2015 at the Center for Inquiry in Los Angeles, California. Find out how to become a Contributing Member of CFI here: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/la/ge... Cameras, sound and editing by Carl Wong. https://www.youtube.com/c/carlwong5 Buy me a cup of coffee for $1 at http://bit.ly/1Htl0BS
Mike Rinder Speaks Out - Scientology (part 1 of 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOv0LtzXlx4
StopTheAbuse2010
Published on Jul 22, 2010
Part 1 of 2 Broadcast July 22 2010 on Channel Seven's Today Tonight programme
Reporter: Bryan Seymour http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com
Scientology's Great Grandson Warns Against the Cult | Interview with Jamie DeWolf
Published on Nov 1, 2013
Abby Martin interviews Jamie DeWolf, the great-grandson of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. DeWolf calls Scientology a brainwashing cult and fears for his own life for speaking out against the religious institution. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ //twitter.com/AbbyMartin
Mike Rinder Speaks Out - Scientology (part 2 of 2)
StopTheAbuse2010
Published on Jul 22, 2010
Part 2 of 2 Broadcast July 22 2010 on Channel Seven's Today Tonight programme Reporter: Bryan Seymour http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com
Hana Eltringham Whitfield - L Ron Hubbard's Ship Captain - Secret Lives - Scientology - Dianetics
Keeping.Skepticism.Working
Published on Apr 23, 2015
Hana Eltringham Whitfield - L Ron Hubbard's Sea Organization Ship Captain & Loyal Officer Secret Lives Scientology Dianetics This video is uploaded with the intent of educating the public regarding Scientology and its belief structure and to help preserve the tech for future generations. Uploaded in the spirit of Fair Use Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107. All credit for the video goes to its original creator.
Anderson Live Interview With Jenna Miscavige 2/06/2013
mackiesyotubPublished on Feb 6, 2013
Anderson Live interview with Jenna Miscavige about her book, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.
Truth About David Miscavige and Wife Shelly's Separation
TheLipTV
Published on Jul 26, 2013
Anderson Live interview with Jenna Miscavige about her book, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.
Jon Atack and Steven Hassan discuss his 2013 edition of his book, A Piece of Blue Sky
Freedom of Mind Resource Center
Published on Dec 29, 2014
Steve Hassan sits down with Jon Atack after not seeing each other for many years and has a very revealing conversation about L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, his important and tireless work exposing the cult, and the significance of his research. Jon has one of the best minds I have ever encountered. He remembers everything Hubbard has written and everything that was written (of significance) about Hubbard and the group and wrote the definitive book on the founder and teachings of the group. This book is a must read for everyone who has ever been involved with Scientology in any way! Note: It has been questioned whether climbed the Scientology Bridge twice, and said that he was actually Class IX, rather than Class XII. Jon Atack was told this by a Scientology official, but suggests caution, until this is checked. As ever, he would appreciate accurate information. Don't be shy, Jon is always happy to be put right on even the slightest detail.
Comments
John A.4
Fascinating man Jon Atack. I have a feeling these guys could sit up and talk all night--kindred spirits--each an intellectual.
Steve Aldrich
Piece of Blue Sky is the best scientology book. Buy 2 copies. One for yourself and one for your local public library.
blueshirttail
Still the best overall book about Scientology
Round To It
I just ordered A Piece of Blue Sky online from a used book dealer, can't wait to read it. Thank you for posting this interview. Very interesting.
Barny Fraggles
Thanks for posting this. Nice to hear from Jon 'in person'. As expected, a fascinating, compassionate and eloquent man with an encyclopaedic knowledge and balls of steel. Absolutely disgusting to hear about the Janet Reitman's lazy plagiarism but not all that surprising, she seemed notably ignorant of basic details during interviews.
Exiles800
Whether intentional or not Atack made a fantasy book about Jimi Hendrix while his murder goes unaddressed in England. The affect is to relegate Jimi to the unreal and therefore impede the terribly denied justice he needs.
Top Tier Teal Tipped Spears
I used to be a heavy smoker (or so I thought) but 100 cigarettes a day sounds unreal. I don’t know how you can manage to smoke 5 packs a day, that’s half a carton. Must’ve been chain smoking every moment of the day.
Carolyn Bateman
Contradiction in a hypnotic technique that uses confusion and cognitive dissonance to bypass the conscious mind. So much of this technique is being used on main stream tv today. I.e. Building 7 has fallen when it is still up in the background. Or nonsense slogans like "we are for free speech- silence the fascists". It is fascinating in that it can actually cause nausea
Theresa Akins
i dont understand why The U.S. would censor your book. It is against the Constitution. And why would American courts side with Hubbard, a known enemy of the US!? Operation Snowflake should have taught the government not to trust Hubbard. Did he hold any sway with the Justice system or have powerful friends in politics to help him? I have read the contrary.
Anonimo Fiorentino
Hollywood writer Skip Press, while detailing his long-term and high-achieving membership in Scientology, recommends John Atack’s new book, Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky. Press says the book is better than Lawrence Wright’s recent fine book on the church because ”Atack was actually involved with the cult and lived it.” (Morton Report, 11/7/13) [IT 5.2]
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics, and L. Ron Hubbard ExposedHardcover – 29 Jun 1999 by Jon Atack (Author)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Piece-Blue-Sky-Scientology-Dianetics/dp/081840499X
Atack exposes Hubbard's bizarre imagination and behavior, tracing the creation of Scientology in the years following World War II to perhaps its final schism following Hubbard's death in 1986. A shocking book that reveals all: the abuses, falsehoods, paranoia, and greed of Hubbard and his pseudo-military Scientologist henchmen.
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed is a 1990 book about L. Ron Hubbard and the development of Dianetics and the Church of Scientology by British former Scientologist Jon Atack. The title originates from a quote of Hubbard's from 1950, when he was reported as saying that he wanted to sell potential church members a "piece of blue sky."[1]
The church's publishing arm, New Era Publications International, tried to prevent the book's publication, arguing that it infringed on its copyright of Hubbard's works. A court in Manhattan ruled against publication, but the decision was overturned on appeal.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Piece_of_Blue_Sky
John Atack the Author of A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
Atack joined Scientology at the age of nineteen in 1974, and was based largely in the church's British headquarters at Saint Hill Manor, near East Grinstead. During his training, he said he progressed to Scientology's Operating Thetan level 5, completing 24 of the 27 levels of therapy or education.[3] He left the church in 1983 in disillusionment with the new leadership of David Miscavige, who took over in the early 1980s.[4] He writes that he saw the new management as tough and ruthless, and objected particularly to the 15-fold increase in training fees. He also objected to being told not to have relationships with so-called "Suppressive Persons," people the church had declared enemies and who should not be communicated with; one such person was one of Atack's friends.[5]
Atack left the sect as a result, and is now at the centre of what J. Gordon Melton calls an anti-Scientology network in the UK.[6] He is also the author of a booklet, "The Total Freedom Trap: Scientology, Dianetics And L. Ron Hubbard" (1992).
Synopsis
John Atack describes his personal experience in the church, provides a chronological history of L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology, researched from paper sources and interviews, and draws conclusions about the belief system of Scientology and its founder. The book also contains a preface by Russell Miller, author of Bare-faced Messiah.
Reception to the publication of John Atack’s book the Author of A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
Legal action
Scientology's publishing arm, New Era Publications, attempted to prevent publication by arguing that the manuscript's inclusion of material by Hubbard infringed on their copyright of Hubbard's work, and would harm sales of the original texts.[7] The court ruled that the manuscript might discourage people from buying Hubbard's books by convincing them he was a swindler, and that copyright law protects rather than forbids this kind of criticism.[8] Before the outcome of the case was known, the publisher prepared two versions of the book: one with and one without Hubbard's quoted material.[2] After publication, Scientologists picketed Atack's East Grinstead home for six days and spread defamatory leaflets around his neighbourhood.[9]
In April 1995, a court in England found Atack guilty of libel against Margaret Hodkin, the headmistress of Scientology's Greenfields School in England, and issued an injunction forbidding publication of an offending paragraph.[10] The decision was upheld by the High Court in London in May 1995.[11] The case led Amazon.com to remove the book from its listings in February 1999, but it reversed its decision a few months later after customers complained.[12]
Reviews
Marco Frenschkowski, writing in the Marburg Journal of Religion in 1999, describes A Piece of Blue Sky as "the most thorough general history of Hubbard and Scientology, very bitter, but always well-researched."[13] It has been used as a source by several academic papers.[14] The Tampa Tribune-Times said that Atack's provision of extensive detail and source notes for each claim sometimes gets in the way of the story, but prevents the book from being just another bitter diatribe against Scientology.[4]
References
A Piece of Blue Sky, p. iii: "It was 1950, in the early, heady days of Dianetics, soon after L. Ron Hubbard opened the doors of his first organization to the clamoring crowd. Up until then, Hubbard was known only to readers of pulp fiction, but now he had an instant best-seller with a book that promised to solve every problem of the human mind, and the cash was pouring in. Hubbard found it easy to create schemes to part his new following from their money. One of the first tasks was to arrange "grades" of membership, offering supposedly greater rewards, at increasingly higher prices. Over thirty years later, an associate wryly remembered Hubbard turning to him and confiding, no doubt with a smile, "Let's sell these people a piece of blue sky."
^ Jump up to:a b "Publisher Victorious on Hubbard Biography", The New York Times, May 27, 1990.
^ A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 34.
^ Jump up to:a b Shinkle, Kevin. "The religion that sells the sky," The Tampa Tribune-Times, October 20, 1991.
^ A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 35ff.
^ Melton, J. Gordon. "Birth of a Religion," in James R. Lewis (ed). Scientology. Oxford University Press, 2009, footnote 32, p. 33. Also see Mikael Rothstein. "His name was Xenu ... he used renegades. Aspects of Scientology's founding myth", in Lewis, 2009, p. 369, which refers to Atack as a "decades-long zealous campaigner against Scientology."
^ Harris, Daniel (July 2, 1989). "Scientology's best seller". New York Post. p. 39.
^ Hurowitz, Richard (1997). "Surviving Copyright Infringement: Fair Use of Protected Works in "Biopics"". Columbia-VLA Journal of Law & the Arts. Columbia University School of Law. 22 (2): 247–268. ISSN 1544-4848.
^ Palmer, Richard (April 3, 1994). "Cult Accused of Intimidation". The Sunday Times.; "Victims who are 'fair game'". Evening Argus. Brighton (UK). April 12, 1994. pp. 2–3.
^ Bracchi, Paul (June 10, 1994). "The Missing Word". Evening Argus. Brighton, UK. pp. 1, 4–5..
^ Court Injunction, Hodkin v. Atack, May 18, 1995, 1993 H. No.2412.
^ "Amazon.com Backs Off Book Ban", Associated Press, May 21, 1999.
^ Frenschkowski, Marco. "L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology", Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 4, issue 1, July 1999, p. 7.
^ For examples, see Kent, Stephen A. "Scientology: Is this a Religion?", Marburg Journal of Religion, Volume 4, issue 1, July 1999; Kent, Stephen A. "The Globalization of Scientology: Influence, Control and Opposition in Transnational Markets", Religion, Volume 29, issue 2, pp. 147–169; West, Louis Jolyon. "Psychiatry and Scientology," American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., May 6, 1992.
ABC Nightline Jenna Miscavige Part 1
AnonymousImpactPublished on May 14, 2009
ABC Nightline Jenna Miscavige part
AnonymousImpact
Published on May 14, 2009
FreeThePeople44 said:
I have been searching around for more information on what I heard in a YouTube video with Jon Atack and Steve Hassan. Jon talks about Hubbard raping children but I can find nothing on the net about this. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Here is the video below. Jon talks about Hubbards pedophilia at 20:39. Truly disturbing.
Jon makes a profound observation at 49:00 to the effect that society contributes to making people vulnerable to Scientology indoctrination because of the authoritarian educational system and other manipulations like workplace team building and language usage
TheOriginalBigBlue, Jun 15, 2015
Jon Atack and Steven Hassan discuss his 2013 edition of his book, A Piece of Blue Sky
Freedom of Mind Resource Center
Published on 29 Dec 2014
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Steve Hassan sits down with Jon Atack after not seeing each other for many years and has a very revealing conversation about L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, his important and tireless work exposing the cult, and the significance of his research. Jon has one of the best minds I have ever encountered. He remembers everything Hubbard has written and everything that was written (of significance) about Hubbard and the group and wrote the definitive book on the founder and teachings of the group. This book is a must read for everyone who has ever been involved with Scientology in any way! Note: It has been questioned whether climbed the Scientology Bridge twice, and said that he was actually Class IX, rather than Class XII. Jon Atack was told this by a Scientology official, but suggests caution, until this is checked. As ever, he would appreciate accurate information. Don't be shy, Jon is always happy to be put right on even the slightest detail.