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Your dark-minded 1950's cold war propaganda is well taken here Veda.
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Some background:
During the 1950s, and much of the 1960s, the "public" "hated" communists, so
Hubbard made a point of being vehemently and publicly anti-communist, and
sought to identify his perceived enemies, including his wife, as communists or communist sympathizers.
However,
Hubbard could vary his approach if it seemed advantageous to do so. For example, in the mid 1960s, when Senator McCarthy and McCarthyism were regarded negatively by certain people he was then attempting to influence, he
instructed that Scientology be identified as anti-Capitalist.
In a 6 October 1965 (broadly circulated) 'Executive Letter' Hubbard announced, "
McCarthyism has many faces. It is still abroad today."
And in another (non public) issue, 'Enquiry Rumor UK' of 9 February 1966, Hubbard (privately) explained:
"Couple the words psychiatry with Capitalism - allege that psychiatry is the Capitalist's tool. A Conservative opened the attack in the UK and found the Press beating the drum for us."
When this approach did not prove effective, Hubbard quickly resumed his prior long standing tactic of calling his enemies "communists." After all, many people were still anti-Communist, even if "McCartyism" had become unpopular.
Then, there was another shift. By 1971, with the USA Vietnam war becoming increasing unpopular, and Scientology's membership, and potential membership, becoming younger, Hubbard switched to calling his enemies fascists and Nazis.
There are numerous accounts of Hubbard being paranoid and seeing enemies everywhere, but also he seemed to be mindful of the use of propaganda technique, and adjusted it according to the prevailing public opinion. This was later formalized into his own confidential Scientology Propaganda tech.
L. Ron Hubbard explained how to use propaganda (to push the "hate" and "love" "buttons") in his confidential 'Battle Tactics' of 16 February 1969:
"The only safe public opinion to head for is they love us and are in a frenzy of hate against the enemy, that means standard wartime propaganda is what one is doing... Know the mores of your public opinion, what they hate. That's the enemy. What they love. That's you."
And another piece of Scientology tech, from Hubbard's confidential 'Black Propaganda' of 12 January 1972:
"The objective is to be identified as attackers of popularly considered evils. This declassifies us from former labels. It reclassifies our attackers as evil people."