Alexis Hubbard - by Div 6
The "official" biographies of L. Ron Hubbard mention his 4 children by his third wife, Mary Sue Hubbard:
Diana, Quentin, Arthur and Suzette. Scant mention is made of his first wife (Polly, by which he had 2 children, L Ron Hubbard Jr, and Katherine May) and NO mention is made of his 2nd wife, Sara Northrup, at least officially.
Their union was bigamous, (he married Sara Aug. 10th, 1946) while his divorce from Polly was not final until Dec. 24th, 1957. They had one child, Alexis, who was 3 months old when "Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health" was released in May of 1950. They met during Hubbard's "Black Magic" interlude with Jack Parsons.
In "Messiah or Madman" (
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/S...eld/us-02.html) Bent Corydon describes this time period thus"
"On August 10, 1946, Hubbard and Sara were married in Washington, D.C., in spite of the fact that Hubbard was still married to Polly. Sara did not know about the existing marriage to Polly, or about Hubbard's two children.
Hubbard and Sara ended up living in a trailer in Port Orchard, Washington, just a few miles from Polly and the two children in Bremerton, whom he occasionally visited. A year and four months after marrying Sara, his divorce from his first wife was granted. In April of 1950, just before the publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Hubbard became a father for the third time to Alexis, his daughter with Sara.
Unfortunately, the marriage to Sara was also fated to end in failure. Toward the end of their marriage, both Hubbard and Sara became involved in extra-marital affairs.
Sara left Hubbard early in 1951, accusing him of being "paranoid schizophrenic." Hubbard, perhaps having a legitimate worry in this regard, retaliated by first kidnapping Alexis from the Hubbard Dianetics Foundation premises in Los Angeles, and then by kidnapping Sara and trying to have her declared insane in order to prevent her from doing same to him.
Sara Hubbard, in her divorce complaint, alleged that Hubbard had "repeatedly subjected her to systematic torture, including loss of sleep, beatings, and strangulations and scientific torture experiments." According to Sara, when Hubbard realized that a divorce was inevitable, he asked Sara to kill herself, fearing that a divorce would ruin his reputation.
She said that Hubbard kept her from sleeping for four days, then gave her sleeping pills, nearly killing her. And that once when he nearly strangled her, he ruptured the eustachian tube in her ear, permanently impairing her hearing.
There were other allegations as well, and the conclusion reached in the divorce complaint was that Hubbard was "hopelessly insane."
Hubbard fled to Cuba with baby Alexis, who was then nearly a year old. Eventually, after moving to Wichita to establish the Wichita Foundation with financier Don Purcell, he reached a settlement with Sara in which he agreed to return Alexis to her if she would recant her accusations of him.
On June 12th of 1951, Sara traveled to Wichita to collect Alexis, signing a statement prepared by Hubbard, stating that the things she had said about him were untrue and that L. Ron Hubbard "is a fine and brilliant man."
She caught a bus back to Los Angeles with baby Alexis. She never saw Hubbard again. "
Eerily, his behavior during this affair foreshadows later "developments" in Scientology "control" measures "developed" in the Sea Org, ie: sleep deprivation, violence, extreme working conditions, etc.
Of course a divorce is an emotional, heated affair. Further inquiries into her allegations were documented here:
http://www.religio.de/books/lifeti/sara_bg.htm
Years later, in the aftermath of "Operation Freakout" (in which the CoS attempted to frame author Paulette Cooper for making bomb threats) Sara sent a letter to Paulette, commiserating in the shared wrath they felt from a "betrayed" LRH. The letter is webbed here:
http://www.holysmoke.org/pc/aff-sn.htm
"Mar 20, 1972
Dear Paulette,
Thank you for sending the photostat of the column concerning Ron.
I really think he is a terribly destructive man - and mad as a hatter.
Last fall a couple of men came here to my home on Maui (Hawaii). They looked like undertakers' assistants. They were very pale - wore cheap black suits, white shirts, dark ties.
They told me they were "agents", but they wouldn't tell me what, or who, they were agents for. They wouldn't show me any identification. They had a long list of personal questions to ask me and they had a "warning" to give me. They told me that people posing as reporters might try to get me to talk about Ron but I would be in trouble if I said anything at all to them.
They wanted to come in the house but I wouldn't let them. I told them I wouldn't speak with them unless they came with identification. They said they'd "check with headquarters and be back this evening". I never saw them again.
My older daughter [Alexis Valerie] (who is Ron's daughter) was home over the holidays. When she arrived back at college there was a man who had been waiting for her in the local inn. He had been there 3 or 4 days.
She asked him to come to her Dorm to talk with him. He told her he was Ron's agent. He had several typewritten pages of "statements" to read her. It had obviously been written by Ron.
It said to her that she was illegitimate - that I was a "street-walker" he had hired as a combination housekeeper-secretary. He said that he fired me and that I came back to his doorstep "destitute and pregnant" and that out of his great heart he had taken me in to see me "through my trouble".
He said that when Alexy was a "Toddler" she was a cute little thing so he took her and a cat, "Motor Boat", along on his wanderings "as pets" for 2 years.
[Alexy was 15 months old when we were divorced]
He also said that during World War II I was a Nazi spy. (He used to tell people that I was a Communist spy who received orders from Moscow by telepathic control). I don't know why he had me change sides.
He said that I had been "used by those in control to discredit Mr. Hubbard." He said he forgave me but it made him very sad.
The paper was signed, "Your good friend, J. Edgar Hoover". The agent told Alexy he was an F.B.I. agent. He would not allow her to inspect it - would only read it to her. At the end he asked her if she had any questions.
She was both angry and shocked that Ron could do such a thing. She told him - "the agent" - it was self-explanatory and asked him to leave. She has had a feeling that her father was a rather romantic figure. These paranoid ravings were frightening to her. She had not realized how sick he was before this incident.
I was furious that he would try to hurt Alexy - I wrote him a long letter telling him what I thought of him for inflicting his madness on Alexy but before I sent it Alexy called and begged me to do nothing. She said, quite rightly, that he was crazy enough to do anything. She asked me to just be thankful that we had escaped contact through all these years.
I really don't know why this recent interest on his part.
Last summer Alexy was in England and dropped by St. Annes Hill [Saint Hill Manor?] - she thought perhaps she could share dinner with him. She was naturally curious about him. She didn't see him.
Maybe he thinks she's going to sue him for back child-support? Maybe he thinks she's going to demand a portion of his estate? Maybe - - - ? I just don't know. Maybe he just resents the fact that I left him.
I hope that when you win your court case, as you must, that you collect court costs and reparations.
His sickness is not just destructive, it is also contagious. I hate to think how many weak people have been harmed by this man.
The day of my divorce from Ron was like a day of rebirth for me. I feel that Alexy and I escaped from a death-in-life situation.
I am really afraid of him. He has such control over his people - and so many of them - that even from England he could do something to hurt Alexy. You have no idea the lengths to which he can go (or, maybe you do?).
These visits from his "agents" are just warnings. The two who came to see me told me as much. It is really frightening not knowing what he might do next.
I had hoped that he had forgotten us - put us out of his mind. Perhaps he thinks I will testify against him in one of the many court cases?
Forgive this rambling letter. I never tell anyone that I was married to Ron - so I have no one to tell about these weird visits. I know you are concerned about Ron so you have the recipients of my meanderings on the subject.
I'm sorry that I never met you. Please do write and tell me what happens with your case. Ron has the advantage of money - but you have rationality on your side. Surely that must be more important. "
Hubbard blamed the breakup of the LA Dianetics foundation on Sara and her communist connections:
http://www.xenu.net/archive/FBI/fbi-89.html
Another letter from Hubbard to the Justice department fills in more details:
http://www.xenu.net/archive/FBI/fbi-110.html
In a secret church policy 'Intelligence Actions - Covert Intelligence Data Collection' of 1969, Hubbard outlined the communist-psychological conspiracy that was out to crush Scientology and further stated: "Their first blast was the San Francisco papers, Sept 1950, quoting the publisher (of Book One) Ceppos being critical of me (he was a communist) followed by the LA papers, pushed then by the Sara Komkovadamanov (alias Northrup) 'divorce' actions, followed by attempted kidnapping of myself. Other details were pushed into it including murder of four and so on. This was a full complete covert operation. At the back of it was Miles Hollister (psychology student), Sara Komkovadamanov (housekeeper at the place nuclear physicist stayed near Caltech)..."
Alexis is not mentioned in any official Church publications.
. [See 'Implantology'] Remember, this is our first chance in all the endless trillions of years of the past . Don't muff it now because it seems unpleasant or unsocial to do Seven [Hammering out of existence incorrect technology], Eight..."
as a supposedly hopeless cripple and probable burden on them for the rest of my days."
or well being...
