Ron's Journal 67
(quotation from recording made 20 Sept 67)
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With all of this action being taken against us in the last 17 years I found after the Southern African matter that it was vitally necessary that I isolate who it was on this planet who was attacking us. The attacks were always of the same pattern. They always followed the same newspaper routes. They always used the same type of parliamentary member. And I thought that I had better look into this very thoroughly. The organization under the direction of Mary Sue* employed, and actually had employed earlier than I returned from Southern Africa, employed several professional intelligence agents who had long and successful professional backgrounds and they looked into this matter for us. And the result of their activities, although it's still in progress, have told us all that we needed to know with regard to any enemy we had on this planet.
Our enemies on this planet are less than 12 men. They are members of the Bank of England and other higher financial circles. They own and control newspaper chains and they are oddly enough directors in all the Mental Health groups in the world which have sprung up. Now these chaps are very interesting fellows. They have fantastically corrupt backgrounds, illegitimate children, government graft, a very unsavoury lot. And they apparently some time in the rather distant past had determined upon a course of action. Being in control of most of the gold supplies of the planet they entered upon a program of bringing every government to bankruptcy and under their thumb, so that no government would be able to act politically without their permission.
The rest of their apparent program was to use mental health, which is to say psychiatric electric shock and prefontal lobotomy, to remove from their path any political dissenters. They were the people behind the Siberia Bill, which almost passed the House of Representatives in the United States, and did pass, if I remember rightly, the Senate, which gave the power to any governor in... of any state in the United States simply to pick up anyone on the street and send him to Alaska. We defeated this Siberia Bill and many other mental health “acts” of this character, but never really before knew from whom they were coming.
Anyway, these fellows have gotten nearly every government in the world to owe them considerable quantities of money through various chicaneries. And they control, of course, income tax, government finance.... Wilson for instance, the current Premier of England, is totally involved with these fellows and talks about nothing else actually.
They organized these mental health groups which sprang up simultaneously all over the world and anything that has mental health in it, in its name, or mental hygiene, or other things of that character, such names as that are all part of the organization which stems from these, less than a dozen really, men. Now, this is very interesting, because we, innocently, moved forward in 1950 and came straight across this very very broad plot. If there was a cure to mental illness, then people would say, “You had better send him to an auditor”, and would begin to ask questions, if someone was electric shocked or given a prefontal lobotomy. Whereas only by electric shocking and prefrontal lobotomies could they effectively remove their political enemies or objectors.
Now, of course, these fellows are very suppressive indeed and they are actually quite miserable. They're fighting the Martians and everyone and anyone is their enemy. They are very badly served. Any of their people can be bought for £100. These fellows are unable, of course as any Suppressive, really to complete a cycle of action and they always choose the wrong target whenever they go about anything. They have failed in nearly every part of their mission except this one of making every government bankrupt and owe them fantastic sums. Now these chaps can throw newspaper chains through one of their numbers. Sir, I don't know if it Sir, but it's Cecil King and these newspaper chains go down into Southern Africa, they go into Australia, they go into, of course, all parts of the world, and this newspaper chain was what was being used to try to give us a bad name. It was very interesting that the only effort they ever made was simply to discredit us. That is what they could be counted upon to do, is simply discredit us and discredit the workability. There is no faintest doubt in their minds but that our technology does work, because many other such activities as subub** and so forth have gone on unmolested by them. It is only the intensely workable technology of Scientology which has attracted their eye. They have collected rather interesting files on us, our people and organizations, and their orders concerning what to do about this is part of their files. It all makes very interesting reading. We, of course, have full copies of their files. It was, of course, their bad luck to tangle with someone who had been trained in the field of intelligence. My, the allied governments, which is myself, and they had insufficient security and insufficient loyalty amongst their own people to keep out the intelligence agents, which we sent in against them. That is a very cloak and dagger activity, which is more or less over at this time.
We have however our own files on them and a corrupt lot they are. I think we probably have enough to discredit them utterly, if we ever published what we knew. But our position with regard to this dozen fellows, I think they number about ten really, our... count in a couple of their major henchmen and you have a dozen. I think probably that they will never be successful at anything – Suppressives seldom are. Gradual inflation is leading them forward to where even their own personal fortunes will probably be eclipsed in the debacle which they themselves are manufacturing. Gradual inflation of money will, of course, make theirs worthless too.
Now, these people are not our major objective, we are not even vaguely dedicated to their destruction. Otherwise we long since would have utilized the information which we have on them. If you were driving a fire engine toward a raging fire and some cur dogs rushed out to bark at your wheels, I don't think you would stop and begin to fight the cur dogs, unless you were quite mad of course. And that is our position. There is a fire which we are on route to put out and this is the line we are traveling and this other is merely a side show, which has been impeding and has made the work relatively difficult. It is rather hard to drive with a dozen cur dogs getting in underneath your wheels and around and about the fire engine.
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L. RON HUBBARD