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BY the late 60s, the Government's secret war against
Scientology had expanded to international dimensions, involving the CIA; the
overseas arm of the Drug Enforcement Administration (then BNDD); U. S. embassies
and diplomatic outposts; and "friendly" foreign intelligence agencies.
Attention was focused principally upon the 3,280-ton motor
vessel, the Apollo, operated by the church as a training ship for management
personnel. It also provided L. Ron Hubbard, the church founder, with a place to
conduct various kinds of research free of constant raids and intrusions by
minions of the federal Government.
During the entire ten years that the Apollo sailed the high
seas, no proof was ever obtained by the legion of international spies monitoring
her that the ship or its crew or passengers ever did anything illegal.
A CIA memorandum reports that there was no indication that
the ship's activities posed any intelligence or security risk.
The Defense Investigative Service, whose spooks were also
keeping a close watch on the Apollo and its complement, likewise found nothing,
on close inspection, to complain of. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 75)
Rodney Austin, the legal expert on civil liberties and
constitutional law, voiced the opinion that there were four reasons for
surveillance of the ship and infiltration of its crew, namely:
- it was part
of an IRS-U. S. Customs joint intelligence scheme;
- the privacy insisted upon
by the ship;
- the absence of a recognisable commercial purpose; and
- the
entrenched animus of the Government, bent on "getting" the church.
The world press weighed in with their customary lurid and
inaccurate reporting, dubbing the Apollo a mystery ship" and implying that
strange things were happening aboard the vessel.
The truth was that in every port where she docked, both
passengers and crew of the Apollo enjoyed open and cordial relations with the
people of their host country. The substantial amount of money they spent with
local merchants was a welcome boost to the economy of the small Mediterranean
ports. Scientology artists and musicians from the ship gave free concerts and
entertainment.
But if the people of the host countries enjoyed the fun and
fellowship with the young Scientologists, the U. S. Navy took a different view.
In an interview with a Swedish journalist, one Captain Lemon, Naval attache at the American Embassy in
Athens, told the reporter that the Apollo was operated by a "vague, silent
and sinister organization," the activities of which were unknown. He
suspected that dangerous drugs, especially marijuana were in circulation aboard
ship, and stated that he had counselled U.S. naval personnel on liberty not to
"get mixed up with trouble."
Captain Lemon vouchsafed the opinion that it was highly
likely that U.S. Army deserters may have taken refuge on the ship in an attempt
to escape foreign military service.
The naval officer denied that he had given a direct order
forbidding Naval personnel to pay courtesy visits to the Apollo, but admitted
that he had "strongly advised" such a prohibition to the Captains of
U.S. Naval vessels in the area. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 76/77)
... By this
time, it was the Sea Org, and we set up the first AO that
delivered OT III in Valencia on the ship, on the Flagship. Sorry.
It wasn't the Flagship yet. It was the 'Royal Scotsman' at that
time. The Flagship was the 'Athena' or the old 'Avon River' at
the time, and I was the Tech Sec, the first one there, and it was
quite good. We had a big flow of people coming in from all over
the world.
Now, at the same time, LRH took the 'Athena' and did
"Mission Into Time", from which that book was written.
That same year we also had AO Alicante, AO Edinburgh, AOLA.
That's interesting because, right at that time, I'd been the CO
of each of those Orgs, and I'd gotten Power stats at each of
them, and also got promoted to Captain at this time 'cause I'd
done my navigation hat.
I knew how to sail ships and run ships. Motor ships, sailing
ships and so on, and also had been in Power on three missions on
AOs, so I got my Captain's awarded, and there was only, and still
is, only two. There's Mary Sue and myself.
We had the famous 'Liability Cruise' that year before the AO,
or in between the AO on the ship and the AO at Alicante.
I told you, I think, once, that story about how the life boats
got blown ashore in the wind when we were doing drills one day
and the Spanish government arrested everybody and threw them in
jail, and thought we were a Russian spy-ship. And came out
finally, and Mary Sue handled the guys very well and offered the
guys with the machine-guns tea and everything, so that they had
to take the tea-cups and drop their machine-guns.
And the officer that came out believed that she was a Russian
at first and then she handled him and told him the truth, that
she was an American and this ship was merely doing a cruise and
we were actually now in the process of making a movie and that's
why everybody was, - so you know - they had handcuffs on their
wrists and things like that - it was part of a movie, right? So
anyway, that was the 'Liability Cruise'.
Well, we got the ship in shape and refitted in Alicante and
got it up to Marseilles and the Boss christened it the Flagship
and came aboard again from the 'Athena'.
At that time, also that year, we did the Pubs Mission. I did
that one myself to Pubs in Edinburgh, and we found there that
"plants" were put in by the World Federation of Mental
Health and that they were in the Shipping Department, which were
mis-addressing all the books being sent out and causing their
stats to go down. I traced t+he guys back to the pharmacy shop
where they were getting drugs, and to the owner, who was in phone
communication with a guy named Dr. Carstairs who worked in the
Medical School of Edinburgh and was the President of the World
Federation of Mental Health.
That year also, (we had done one earlier), in 1967, we did the
World Wide missions, a series of missions that showed we had to
take over the responsibility from Management as well, because the
WW Exec Council and so on just could not run Orgs properly...
... and we did a couple of missions also to
Switzerland, to make sure that we continued in our operations to
take over some of those fraudulent Mental Health Groups and so
on, and part of the purpose then (after the English newspaper
attacks), that LRH gave to the GO, was to take over the entire
field of Mental Health. (CBR-debrief from 1982)
OT levels IV, V and VI released. (CofS)
David Mayo: In January 1968, I joined the Sea Org and continued my tech
training, frequently working and studying under LRH; e.g., I did
my technical internships under LRH, audited under LRH as the Case
Supervisor and later worked as a Case Supervisor under LRH, as
the Senior C/S. (David
Mayo, Open Letter)
LRH asked for volunteers to accompany him on a special mission on the Avon
River.
Amos Jessup was among the first to step forward. 'He didn't tell us ahead
of time what we were going to do, but it didn't matter to me, I'd have
followed him through the gates of Hell if I had to. I was glad to do anything
for him because I felt that what he had done to help others was so great an
accomplishment he deserved whatever help I could offer. People felt he was a
miracle worker, someone who had demonstrated a far higher level of competence
than anything we could aspire to. It was as exciting and stimulating as hell
to be with him. You had to be on your toes, put out your maximum effort, but
it was always very refreshing and therapeutic.'
Hubbard accepted thirty-five volunteers for the mission and for the next
few weeks conducted daily training sessions on the deck of the Avon River,
often watched by envious students hanging over the rails of the Royal
Scotman moored alongside in Valencia harbour. With a stop watch in one
hand, the Commodore put the crew through innumerable drills to rescue men
overboard, fight fires, handle lines, launch and retrieve small boats and
repel boarders - he told them he was worried about piracy in the Mediterranean
and wanted to be sure they would not panic if that circumstance arrived.
At the beginning of March the Avon River set sail, leaving the Royal
Scotman seething with speculation about the nature of her mission. She
headed east, back across the Mediterranean once again, and anchored in a
sheltered bay off Cap Carbonara, on the south-east coast of Sardinia, where
Hubbard mustered the crew on the well deck for a briefing. Standing on a hatch
cover so that he could be seen, he told them he was on the threshold of
achieving an ambition he had cherished for centuries in earlier lives. This
was the first lifetime he had been able to build an organization with
sufficient resources, money and manpower to tackle the project they were about
to undertake. He had accumulated vast wealth in previous lives, he explained,
and had buried it in strategic places. The purpose of their present mission
was to locate this buried treasure and retrieve it, either with, or without,
the co-operation of the authorities. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 280)
UK: A brief article in the spring 1968 edition of
Mental Health informed that publication's readers that "the chief,
long-standing opponent of Scientology, Mr. Peter Hordern, Conservative MP for
Horsham, is beginning to agitate for a public enquiry again. He has received
many letters from disenchanted members - many too frightened to put a signature
to what they write."
These poison-pen missives, including the many anonymous ones, were duly
passed along to the Minister of Health to become part of what the Hon. Gentleman
later described as "a considerable body of evidence about the activities of
the cult in this country", but which he never exposed to public scrutiny.
The continuing pressure built up at the Ministries of Health, of Education
and Science, and at the Home Office, eventually resulted in administrative
action against the Scientologists. (Garrison: Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 188)
HCOPL 25 April 1968
Intelligence Actions
The standard actions of Intelligence are:
- Predict the trouble before it occurs by filing, cross-indexing,
investigation of areas, statistics and other means.
- Investigate for crimes, the individuals who are creating trouble.
- Prosecute.
This is standard, 1 2 3 action and should not be deviated from. The maxim is…when
under attack…attack". The point is….even if you don’t have enough
data to win the case…still attack…LOUDLY. Reason is, it is only those people
that have crimes that will attack us, and they will soon back off for fear of
being found out when attacked back.
L. Ron Hubbard (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
...an urgent radio message arrived from Mary Sue asking the Commodore to
return immediately to Valencia, where there was a 'flap'. ... the 'flap' had
been caused by the port Captain of the Royal Scotman, who had
consistently refused requests from the Spanish port authorities to move the
ship from the dock to a mole in the harbour. The situation had deteriorated to
such an extent that the Spaniards were threatening to tow the ship out to sea
and deny her re-entry. Hubbard sent a mission ashore to heal the rift and
transferred six officers from the Avon River to the Royal Scotman
to report on how the ship was being run.
A few days later, the Royal Scotman dragged her anchor in the outer
harbour as a storm began to blow up. Hubbard heard what was happening over the
radio on the Avon River. He grabbed the nearest available officers,
jumped into the barge and hurried across to the Royal Scotman, running
up on to the bridge to take command. The ship was still secured to the harbour
wall by wire hawsers which were under enormous pressure; if they snapped,
nothing could prevent her being swept on to the rocks. Hubbard managed to slip
the hawsers and re-anchor the ship, but not before her rudder had been damaged
against the mole.
When the emergency was over, the furious Commodore demanded an 'ethics
investigation' to find out who had 'goofed' and meanwhile assigned the entire
ship a 'condition of liability'. Since there were so ew people he could trust,
he appointed Mary Sue to be the new Captain of Royal Scotman. Her
orders were to take the ship to Burriana, north of Valencia, for repairs and
then to cruise up and down the Spanish coast to train the crew. She was to
stay at sea until both the crew was sufficiently well trained and the ship
sufficiently spruce to qualify for upgrading; until then, the Royal Scotman
would remain in 'liability'. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 285/286)
Advanced Organization, Edinburgh, Scotland established. (CofS)
Despatch from The Guardian WW, Mary Sue Hubbard, dated May 26, 1968:
We did this with the people who were giving us trouble – we found The
National Mental Health Association and a lead line off into banking and into the
airforce – we haven’t looked at who in banking or at who in the airforce –
we may find further cross-connections and come up with ONE PERSON. (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Scientology Publications Organization moved from Saint Hill Manor to
Edinburgh, Scotland. (CofS)
At the beginning of June a radio message arrived from Mary Sue to say that
the Royal Scotman was ready for reassessment. Her husband agreed to
up-grade the ship to the next level - 'non-existence' - and gave his
permission for her to sail to Marseilles for his inspection, after which he
would decide if she could resume operations unhindered by the stigma of a
lower condition. The Royal Scotman arrived in the harbour at Marseilles
looking better than she had at any time since going into service for the Sea
Org - she had been painted white from stem to stern, her brasswork was
gleaming and the entire crew bad been fitted out with smart new uniforms.
Hubbard was all smiles, presided over a ceremony to remove all lower
conditions and promptly moved back into his cabin on board. A few days later
the Royal Scotman sailed for Melilla in Spanish Morocco, eight hundred
miles distant. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 287)
'USIS OFFICER STATES HUBBARD RUNS FLOATING UNIVERSITY
OF QUESTIONABLE MORAL CHARACTER, NOT ACCREDITED ANY US UNIVERSITIES AND POOR
REPRESENTATIVE FOR US ABROAD..' (CIA cable traffic)
Church of Scientology of Denmark, founded in Copenhagen. (CofS)
Hubbard Academy of Personal Independence of Edinburgh, Scotland founded. (CofS)
Church of Scientology of San Francisco, California founded. (CofS)
1968, 28.6.
The move against Scientology in New Zealand was begun in the usual way: on
June 28, 1968, a petitition bearing 716 signatures was presented to Parliament, asking that a Board of
Inquiry be set up to investigate Scientology, and requesting legislative action.
The petitition was referred to the Select Committee on Social Services, which,
after hearing evidence, recommended that the Inquiry be held. (O. Garrison, Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 167)
IRS (petition for amendment
of judgment - see: 5.7.67):
The court carefully avoided the underlying issue of the case, that is, the
question of whether the Government and the courts are entitled to judge or
characterize a religious practice for purposes of allowing or denying tax
exemption,
Writing the opinion for the court, judge Collins declared: "The court
finds it unnecessary to decide whether plaintiff is a religious or educational
organization as alleged, since, regardless of its character, plaintiff has not
met the statutary conditions for exemption from income taxation."
Thereafter, none of the precedent cases cited by the opinion were concerned
with religious bodies. Instead, they involved such organizations as The Broadway Theatre League of Lynchburg, Va.,
Birmingham Business College, Texas Trade School and Underwriters' Laboratories,
Inc.
The nit-picking, letter-of-the-law opinion cited as evidence that some of the
Church's net earnings inured to the benefit of private individuals, included
such bagatelles as the fact that Hubbard had use of an automobile at the
organization's expense and that the Church provided and maintained a personal
residence for Hubbard and his family. Mrs. Hubbard had received rent for
property owned by her that was leased to the Church. And there was "a
completely unexplained figure of $25o, and loans of $8oo were received in
1958-59". There was also the weighty fact that L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. had been
reimbursed for expenditures of approximately $2oo in 1957-8 and 1958-9. And so
on.
The court concluded as a matter of law that the Founding Church of
Scientology was not entitled to a tax-exempt status, and dismissed their
petition.
The only remaining legal recourse open to the Founding Church of Scientology
was to petition the Supreme Court to review its case. Accordingly, attorneys for
the Mother Church asked the High Court for a writ of certiorari, arguing that
denial of tax exemption to a particular religion constitutes discrimination
among religions and is therefore a violation of the establishment clause of the
First Amendment.
In opposition, government attorneys again dwelt upon the fees, royalties and
compensation for services Hubbard had received and arrogantly asserted that, as
"tax exemption is a matter of legislative grace, petitioner has the burden of clearly
establishing a right to it".
The Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari. (Garrison: Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 181-183)
...while Hubbard was still in Bizerte, the government in Britain finally
decided to take action against Scientology. Kenneth Robinson, the Health
Minister, stood up in the House of Commons and announced a ban on Scientology
students entering the UK. 'The Government is satisfied,' he said, 'having
reviewed all the available evidence, that Scientology is socially harmful. It
alienates members of families from each other and attributes squalid and
disgraceful motives to all who oppose it. Its authoritarian principles and
practices are a potential menace to the personality and well-being of those so
deluded as to become its followers; above all, its methods can be a serious
danger to the health of those who submit to them.'
A few days later, the Home Secretary announced that L. Ron Hubbard was
classified as an 'undesirable alien' and would consequently not be allowed
back into Britain, a decision that prompted Hubbard to send a telex to Saint
Hill complaining that 'England, once the light and hope of the world, has
become a police state and can no longer be trusted.'
These developments spurred British newspapers to renewed efforts to find
and interview the elusive Mr Hubbard. The Daily Mail, which had
recently been pleased to publish the numbers of Hubbard's bank accounts in
Switzerland, was first to track him down in Bizerte. Hubbard affected an
attitude of nonchalant indifference to events in Britain and did his best to
charm the Mail team. He invited the reporters on board, showed them his
sixteen war medals in a framed case behind his desk and politely answered
questions for more than two hours. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 289)
UK: On July 25, 1968, in response to Mr. Johnson
Smith's question in the House as to what action he proposed to take concerning
Scientology, Kenneth Robinson replied:
"The Government are satisfied, having received all the available
evidence, that Scientology is socially harmful. It alienates members of
families from each other and attributes squalid and disgraceful motives to all
who oppose it; its authoritarian principles and practice are a potential
menace to the personality and well-being of those so deluded as to become its followers; above all, its methods can be a serious danger to the
health of those who submit to them. There is evidence that children are now
being indoctrinated.
"There is no power under existing law to prohibit the practice of
Scientology; but the Government have concluded that it is so objectionable
that it would be right to take all steps within their power to curb its
growth.
"It appears that Scientology has drawn its adherents largely from
overseas, though the organisation is now making intensive efforts to recruit
residents of this country. Foreign nationals come here to study Scientology
and to work at the so-called College in East Grinstead. The Government can
prevent this under existing law (the Aliens Order), and have decided to do so.
The following steps are being taken with immediate effect:
- The Hubbard College of Scientology, and all other Scientology
establishments, will no longer be accepted as educational establishments
for the purpose of Home Office policy on the admission and subsequent
control of foreign nationals;
- Foreign nationals arriving at United Kingdom ports who intend to proceed
to Scientology establishments will no longer be eligible for admission as
students;
- Foreign nationals who are already in the United Kingdom, for example, as
visitors, will not be granted student status for the purpose of attending
a Scientology establishment;
- Foreign nationals already in the United Kingdom for study at a
Scientology establishment will not be granted extensions of stay to
continue those studies;
- Work permits and employment vouchers will not be issued to foreign
nationals (or Commonwealth citizens) for work at a Scientology
establishment;
Work permits already issued to foreign nationals for work at a Scientology
establishment will not be extended."
This announcement was made at the final session of Parliament before
adjournment for holidays. It thus precluded any adequate deliberation or debate
by the members on the issue. Furthermore, sufficient hard evidence to support
such a drastic measure had not been presented.
It was all shamelessly unfair, and the more responsible elements of the
British press began to smell a rat. These knights of the ballpoint lance did not
care what happened to Scientologists (indeed, it was largely with their
assistance that the situation was what it was), but they suddenly came to their
senses long enough to realize that the arrogant and arbitrary exercise of power
by Government administrators threatened not only the freedom of Scientologists,
but their own as well. (Garrison: Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 189/91)
... the Minister had repeated the assertion: "My Right Hon. Friend the
Home Secretary and I have amassed a considerable body of evidence about
the activities of the cult in this country." (Garrison: Hidden Story of
Scientology, pg. 203)
1968, July
UK after the ban:
In July 1968, for example, a charter flight which was to bring 186 American
students to Scotland was cancelled by the airline after being informed by the
Home Office that the Scientologists would not be allowed to enter the United
Kingdom.
Less than one month later, 2oo South Africans and 6oo Americans, who wanted
to attend a Scientology congress in London, were refused admission.
At the entrances to the Croydon hall where the congress was held, squads of
Scotland Yard detectives screened delegates entering the building.
Home Office commissars issued a warning to foreign visitors that anyone who
came to Britain to attend the Scientology conclave, but put down
"holiday" on his landing card, as the purpose of his visit, would be
guilty of an offence.
In an action that must have surprised and greatly annoyed the Yanks who were
not Scientologists, immigration officers asked every American arriving in
Britain during the period just preceding the congress: "Why have you come
here?" (Garrison: Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 193)
Two young new Zealanders
-Sandra Stevens, eighteen and Bruce Gibson, twenty-four - who made the long
journey from the antipodes to take a sixmonth course in Scientology at Saint
Hill - were refused entry by the chief immigration officer at Heathrow Airport.
They were taken into custody and detained in prisons for convicted criminals, while legal representations were being made on their
behalf.
Sandra, who was sent to Holloway Prison for women, told her story in these
words: (Note: read the story...) (Garrison: Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 195-198)
Members of the Church (and here I am referring to English members, not
foreign nationals) were made the victims of various kinds of slander,
discrimination and spite. Here are some typical instances:
The headmaster of a private school refused to accept the son of a prominent
Scientologist as a pupil, declaring,
"The father has drawn a great deal of
attention to himself and the family belongs to an organization said to be
socially harmful."
Six doctors in East Grinstead, Sussex (home of Scientology's world
headquarters) refused to accept Scientologists as patients on their National
Health Service lists. A spokesman for the group told newsmen that "ethical
reasons" prevented his stating his objections. A lay member of the East
Sussex National Health Executive Council made a public statement, saying:
"It is within my official knowledge that local doctors are most
unwilling to include Scientologists in their lists of patients for the reason
that they naturally want to avoid association with people who are frequently
unclean and are often found living in most unsatisfactory conditions"
Britains largest insurance company, the Royal Insurance Group, withdrew its
policy on Scientology's international headquarters - Saint Hill Manor. The
reason given by company executives was that
"we are pruning our portfolio
of unprofitable business".
When the Scientologists purchased an advertisement in the Tunbridge Wells
telephone directory, it appeared under the classification, Zoos. Later the
Government Post Office wrote to Thomson Directories, who print the book, asking them not to carry any more advertising for Scientology under any
classification. (Garrison: Hidden Story of Scientology, pg. 199)
The ability of the group fighting Scientology to use even the Foreign Office
to harass Hubbard and his followers in distant parts of the world should make even the most resolute
flagwaver stop and think.
Consider, by way of illustration, the Corfu caper. Anyone who has read any of
the many accounts of British war-time intelligence activities will immediately
recognize a familiar pattern in the whole episode. (Garrison: Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 198/99)
... during the summer of
'68 is when the ban came in England, and that was a direct attack
by the enemy on Scientology.
It was banning all foreign Scientologists from England. It was
not a law. It was just an instruction sent down from a guy named
Kenneth Robinson, the Home Secretary. He just issued an order on
instructions from the head bankers in England, who were getting
their instructions from the head "honchos" in
Switzerland, which are the guys at the top of the ladder, as you
will find out on RJ67. And there's one guy that actually is the
chief of those, and we know who that is - a guy named Strasbourg,
J. Strasbourg, Herr J, Mr. J. He's the guy behind the scene that
tells the bankers what to do and they tell the various government
officials who owe them money. (Not the government officials, but
the government owes them money.) (...)
... finally I got an order
from the ... and
he said ' take your Americans (because we'd been given two weeks
to leave the country) and go over to the United States and set up
another AO over there, an AOLA. And at the same time he was
sending out another mission to set up one in Europe, in
Copenhagen.
At that time, I think the ship was in Greece, being that they
were going to also set one up in Greece, but then there was an
"American Embassy to the British Embassy to the Greek
Embassy report" which said that we were some kind of drug
addicts and we were drug smugglers and all that shit. And a lot
of bad PR happened and the ship had to leave Greece. Naval
vessels in the Greek ports were being told 'don't associate with
those Scientologists, you know they are all bad, they have drugs
and they're hippies and they're this and that'. And the
commanders of ships were being advised by the psychiatrists
aboard.
We found all this out from our intelligence operations then.
However, all during this time, reporters were being sent down to
interview the Boss, and they weren't being allowed in, of course,
and also people were trying to be planted aboard to kill him, and
so on, and we caught every one of them.
... So we were quite willing to do this move and we jumped over to
LA with all our OT materials. Got them through Customs without
anyone looking at them. Set up the AOLA and sent back Flag about
1/4 million dollars in about 10 or 12 weeks. (CBR-debrief from 1982)
 | American Saint Hill Organization (ASHO) and Advanced Organization Los Angeles
(AOLA) opened in Los Angeles, California. During this month L. Ron Hubbard
released and personally supervised the Class VIII Course aboard the flagship
Apollo. He also released the Drug Rundown. |
| The Phoenix Lectures published. (CofS)
|
Sea Org at Corfu...
By the time the Avon River joined the flagship in Corfu, Hubbard was
so enamoured with Greece that he decided to change the names of all his ships in
honour of his new hosts. The Royal Scotman became the Apollo, the Avon
River the Athena and the Enchanter, which had been pottering
around the Mediterranean on various missions for the Commodore and frequently
breaking down, was re-named the Diana. 'Overboarding' was a daily ritual. The names of those who were to
be thrown overboard were posted on the orders of the day and when the
master-at-arms walked through the ship at six o'clock every morning banging on
cabin doors and shouting 'Muster on the well deck, muster on the well deck!'
everyone knew what was going to happen. 'Anyone to be thrown overboard would be
called to the front,' said Ken Urquhart, 'and the chaplain would make some
incantation about water washing away sins and then they would be picked up and
tossed over. People accepted it because we all had a tremendous belief that what
Ron was doing would benefit the world. He was our leader and knew best.' (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 292)
The Class VIII Auditor Course released. (CofS)
Some of the unmortgaged Members on both sides of the House
challenged the Health Minister to publish the evidence he claimed to have in his
possession and upon which he based his statements and actions against
Scientology.
Mr. Robinson could not, of course, produce something which quite obviously he
did not have. He took cover behind the shield so widely used by government
functionaries in all countries - the alleged confidentiality of his information.
Detailed evidence proving the cult's potential danger to health, said he,
consisted of individual case histories which it would be inappropriate to make
public.
Referring to the massive attack in the media, Robinson declared with a
straight face that evidence of Scientology's social dangers had already been
published widely in the press. (Garrison: Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 192)
Ken
Urquhart (personal butler of LRH and later LRH comm):
I went to the ship in October, 1968, expecting punishment. I was
made very welcome by those in the crew that knew me from Saint Hill; they
assumed I’d come to join the Sea Org. LRH seemed to take no notice of my
arrival, but when we bumped into each other he was as warm and friendly as ever.
So was Mary Sue. I felt very welcomed. I found life on the ship to be dynamic. I
stayed. (page 7)
HCO Information Letter of 16 October 1968
E-Meters Replace Guns
Terrorists and subversives are far more afraid of E-Meters than guns. An
E-Meter is a small, inexpensive box of electronics that ably distinguishes the
subversive or the criminal from honest men.
Socialism and Communism, growing ever stronger in the Northern Hemisphere,
are a raid on the production of labor by the privileged few. Socialism and
Communism seek to have a people’s labor for no return.
To turn this tide, use E-Meters, not guns.
The E-Meter is violently hated by the subversive who already knows of it and
will try to tear the sky off to prevent its use.
L. Ron Hubbard (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Church of Scientology of Las Vegas, Nevada founded. (CofS)
Australia: In response to pressure brought by the State Health Council and others
associated with that body, in November 1968 a bill was introduced in the
Parliament of Western Australia similar to the one earlier passed by the State
of Victoria; prohibiting the practice and teaching of Scientology. Voting on the measure divided along party lines, with the
government's majority of three insuring passage of the Act. During a lengthy
debate of the Bill. H. Graham, deputy leader of the Opposition promised that
"when a Labour Government is elected - whenever that might be - high on the
list of priorities will be the repeal of this rotten piece of legislation".
Scientologists pointed out that Dr. A. S. Ellis, chairman of the State's
Mental Health Committee, and one of the chief instigators of the Western
Australian legislation, had attended the founding meetings of the World Mental
Health Organization in 1948 and had served under Dr. E. Cunningham Dax for
nearly ten years.
Soon after the outlawing of Scientology in Western Australia, a similar Bill
was introduced in the South Australian legislature. Again, voting divided along
party lines, with the Opposition solidly against it. When the vote was tied, the
deciding vote in favour of the Bill was cast by Tom Scott, Speaker of the House.
Scott's personal physician was an outspoken critic of Scientology and a member
of the South Australian Association for Mental Health, a local affiliate of the
World Federation for Mental health.
Opposition leader D. A. Dunstan, who had previously investigated Scientology
when he was Attorney-General, told members of the House: "I must say that
after a few complaints made to me about Scientology in South Australia, we
investigated this matter, following the urging of the Victorian Chief Secretary.
I had it drawn to my attention that there were a number of prominent citizens of
standing in South Australia who could not in any way be said to be mentally
unstable or unsatisfactory citizens (they were the reverse, being prominent in
community organizations), who were involved in Scientology and who claimed to
have derived personal benefit from it."" (O. Garrison, Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 165-166)
Despatch of Nov. 3, 1968
Dear Jane,
Place an appropriate condition on New York Intelligence –
I have no source of info, being stuck here aboard a ship in the MED….
We have had no copies from them of the incorporation papers of the National
Mental Health Assoc. in New York when the corporation must be registered to do
business.
Jane, baby, we’re losing because we are fighting in the bush league and not
getting to the main central headquarters of the group directing the bush
fighters.
Intelligence is not concentrated on what they should be – the WFMH, the
NAMH – these are the groups I want destroyed.
I’m not interested in the local psychiatrist around the corner – this
data is for PRO who can use how he screws his patient and then shocks them so
much electricity they can’t sue him for rape. PRO digs this data up.. it is
around by the library full.
And get Intelligence on to digging up the data we need to sue the WFMH, to
obtain evidence of conspiracy and attack upon us.
Let’s go – the Charles Berners of the world are nothing compared to what
we have our hands on. …let Intelligence get the data and info we need to blast
this WFMH and its associate groups around the world to smotherings.
Love,
Peter Hollond (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Executive Directive from L. Ron Hubbard 4 November 1968
Press Stories
As a tip off, we have not only located the enemy exactly but find him guilty
of so many crimes that the end for this opposition is in plain view.
I have just had this cheering news that we now are closing in on the basic of
aberration on the 4th Dynamic on this planet. (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
...In the face of growing uneasiness about harsh Ethics within the movement, and
mounting hostility outside, in 1968 Hubbard ordered a public opinion survey of
the Church's current structure and practices. According to Scientology
spokesmen, 318, 885 questionnaires were sent to all parts of the world.
As a result of the replies received, Hubbard issued a directive dated
November 15, 1968, cancelling the practice of disconnection, security checking,
and fair game, and the writing down or otherwise recording of any confessional
materials. (Garrison, Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 173)
Executive Directive From L. Ron Hubbard 24 November 1968
Stability
We have located and are directly attacking the only enemy we had on this
planet, the World Federation of Mental Health and its "National"
chapters. The "National" chapters of it are not part of national
governments although they want people to think so – the crocks. Red as paint
and phony as any confidence game, this was the group who were attacking us for
18 years.
He, the enemy, had control of mental healing on the planet – and killed and
raped and had a ball. We’re going to take over the mental hospitals and the
political guidance and the whole field of mental healing.
So let’s get set for the long pull, shall we. It is our planet after all. (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Executive Directive from L. Ron Hubbard 29 November 1968
The War
You may not realize it staff member but there is only one small group that
has hammered Dianetics and Scientology for 18 years. The press attacks, the
public upsets you receive and all those you have received for all your time in
Scientology were generated by this one group. For eighteen years it has poured
lies and slander into the press and government agencies.
Last year we isolated a dozen men at the top. This year we found the
organization these used and all its connections over the world. They are as red
as paint. Their former President was a card carrying Communist and they have
four on their Board of Directors, yet they reach into International Finance,
Health Ministries, Schools, the Press. They even control immigration in many
lands.
Psychiatry and "Mental Health" was chosen as a vehicle to undermine
and destroy the West! And we stood in their way.
Hey have infiltrated boards of education, the armed services, even the
churches. They hold the wives or daughters of a great many politicians and keep them
"under treatment".
Their "technology" is the same as that used by Intelligence
Services. Electric shocks.
Brain operations. These were used in Lubenka Prison in Russia but are not
allowed on Russians!
Anyway, this was the live wire we got across by being able to undo their
effect on the West.
We are using only legal means over the world. We don’t stoop to murder and
rough house.
Our error was in failing to take over total control of all mental healing in
the West. Well, we’ll do that too. (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Forte, a
retired army officer who had made his home on Corfu, knew a lot. He had reported
the arrival of the Royal Scotman in Corfu to the Foreign Office in
London, correctly deducing that it was, in his words, the 'sinister Scientology
ship'. Subsequently he had been instructed to deliver a letter to Hubbard to
inform him that he had been declared persona non grata in Britain.
The Greek Government
had instituted inquiries about Scientology through its Embassy in London.
Security agents acting for the Colonels had been instructed to check out the
ship, but were assured by the harbourmaster that the Scientologists were
harmless people who abided by the law and gave no trouble. 'I have seen people
being tossed into the sea,' he admitted, 'but they have told me this is part of
their training course.' Major Forte complained that he was besieged by people
objecting to Scientologists being 'harboured' on the island and Corfu's leading
daily newspaper, Telegrafos, published a highly critical feature about
Scientology which really raised Corfiot suspicions with a passing mention of
'black magic'. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 295)
Hubbard and 200 of his adherents who had taken up residence aboard the
3,300-ton ship 4pollo, thought they had found a haven far removed from their
tormentors, when they docked in the harbour of Corfu, a Greek island in the
Ionian Sea.
The local population was friendly, their goodwill no doubt stimulated by the
estimated $5o,ooo a month the Scientologists were pouring into the island
economy, which had to depend ordinarily on what summer tourism brought in.
After five or six halcyon months in their Greek refuge, however, the
Scientologists began to realize that their enemies were at work once more behind
the scenes, plant ing suspicions against Scientology in the minds of local
authorities and spreading false stories among the people concerning the foreign
"cult".
According to the Scientologists' account of the affair, a substantial part of
which I later verified, the main focal point of their difficulties in Corfu was
the Honorary British Vice-Consul, a certain Major John Forte, whom Hubbard
followers suspected, rightly or wrongly, of making derogatory statements about
them to the Greek authorities.
An article appeared in the Corfu newspaper, Telegraphos, warning the
Scientologists that the Greek Government would not tolerate anyone spreading
within her territory theories of religion, politics "or even of black
magic".
Since all of Scientology's literature was in English and the people of Corfu
spoke Greek, such a statement leaves one puzzled as to how Hubbard might
proselytize the local population. It seemed, rather, a pretext for publishing
the whispered gossip already being circulated by word of mouth.
In London, the Greek Embassy was given copies of Hansard which reported in
full the adjournment debate of March 6, 1967 concerning Scientology, as well as
the Health Ministers statement of policy to the House on July 25,
1968, when he
announced the ban against foreign Scientologists.
Apparently to make certain that the information reached Greek Government
authorities at home, the British Embassy in Athens made the same material
available to the Greek Deputy Prime Minister there.
The American State Department also weighed in with a request to Greek
authorities for information concerning a thirty-one-year-old woman from Las
Vegas, whose parents said had been kidnapped by the Scientologists. The woman
had been aboard the Apollo, but had left the ship some time previously. Hubbard
was unable to inform the Greek officials of the woman's whereabouts because he
did not know. Later, she turned up in Athens and expressed surprise that
everybody had been searching for her. "We wonder," said a Scientology
spokesman, "which Embassy or Embassy official hid her all that time." (Garrison: Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 199-200)
Despatch from Peter Hollon to Mo Budlong, 6 December 1968
Re: Intelligence
The following are possibilities for collecting data.
- Infiltration.
- Bribery.
- Buying information.
- Robbery.
- Blackmail.
The last two are, of course illegal. (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Church of Scientology of Pretoria, South Africa founded. (CofS)
Executive Directive From L. Ron Hubbard 12 December 1968
Re Life Article And
Letter
It is interesting that "Life" Magazine in the US has been a violent
foe of Dianetics and Scn for 18 years.
In England the heads of the largest newspaper chain are also members of the
UK World Federation of Mental Health confederate board of directors.
This is an old intelligence trick – to own or control a press chain in an
enemy country.
It was done by German agents, for instance, to keep Spain out of the war.
Earlier the "Saturday Evening Post" published an article full of
quotes never made. It has gone downhill as a magazine over the years. WFMH
connected publishers often do.
So some of the US magazine and newspaper chains are controlled by the WFMH.
The Intelligence, espionage pattern is very plain here. In the
"Life" article a psychotic is pushed into the org to get no case gain,
his identity secret, to get discreditable data and he then writes an article.
But he is already a mental patient.
Local Agents WFMH has confederates in every country and many states with
sub-chapters in most US cities. They are always named "National" and
have "Mental Health" in their name at nation or state level.
There is a National Institute of Mental Health in Washington DC that is US
Government. The only one in the world really connected to a government. It does
WFMH printing for it at US expense!
All the rest of the "National" groups are phonies. They are only
private groups. Following orders from overseas.
These groups secretly shoot down chiropractors, churches, any Western culture
or advance or healing action. Their standard propaganda line is:
- everyone is insane.
- psychiatrists should be next to every world leader treating them weekly.
- anyone should be subject to seizure as insane without process as law
- Siberian bill they seek to get passed and once almost did pass through
Congress).
- Scientology breaks up families.
- Scientology prevents people from coming to their psychiatrist to seek
real help.
- There are not enough psychiatrists or "facilities".
- All boundaries should be destroyed.
- All constitutions should be destroyed.
- Any current campaign they may have to get something destroyed for a big
Western take over.
A conspiracy formed at the WFMH Congress in London in August 1968 resulted in
simultaneous identical political channel attacks on Scn in several countries.
The "Life" article was crudely timed to be part of this.
And every branch of every rightest group would be delighted to know these US
"mental health" groups are controlled by a foreign group which has
Communists on its board of directors.
The American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association and
such are members of the main world group and are just pawns.
They are called "Mental Healing" but their literature talks only
about world domination and seldom about any cases.
They were founded by a psychotic named Clifford Beers and carry on the
tradition.
It is interesting that WFMH says publicly there is "no difference
between right and wrong" and "psychiatrists are the only enlightened
people who know this". By traditional law, sanity is defined as the
"ability to tell right from wrong." (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Executive Directive From L. Ron Hubbard 13 December 1968
The Great
"Charity" Swindle
One of the reasons Scientology is fought so hard and with such heavy finance
and ferocity is that if it succeeded, it would then end one of the greatest
"Charity" swindles of all time.
The group who fights Scientology in the press and parliaments is fighting
madly to retain control of (amongst other things less savory) a billion pound
"research" racket.
A group named so as to make people think it is part of governments over the
world, has fund collection chapters and agents. These see all the rich people
they can and the governments and explain that the lot of the "poor
insane" (about whom they don’t give a damn as evidenced by their killing
them) is so horrible that millions are needed urgently.
The rich people and the deluded governments then lay out fantastic sums of
money, millions upon millions each year. The groups representatives then take
this money and whack it up amongst their pals. As simply to split it up would be
caught by the tax people, the group invents a "reason why". It
appoints insanity projects for research like, "The Depressive
Project". The members write up something like "Depressives are often
noticed to be depressed" and that’s it for the year.
Dr. Wilhem Reich, not one of their boys, was imprisoned and killed for making
a breakthrough in the 50’s. It could have ended the golden avalanche.
Then, good Lord, there was Dianetics and Scientology all of a sudden, in one
piece and actually working! It threatened this yearly harvest.
This isn’t the only motive this international group has. It is their
finance motive. But in itself it would be enough. (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Executive Directive From L. Ron Hubbard 20 December 1968
Western Countries
Western governments and peoples are under ceaseless and unrelenting attack
from the Communist forces in the "cold war". The enemy has for a long
time been inside, getting laws passed, degrading the society, seizing persons in
the name of psychiatry, pushing up taxes, inflating money…..
The orders the governments followed in attacking us were originated by REDS,
by the usually foreign psychiatrist, operating as per Communist instructions to
destroy all Churches and Scientology in particular. (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
   
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