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Ever since the early 1980s, when the CMO appeared as the new leaders of Scientology, filling the vacuum of convicted felon Mary Sue Hubbard and her co-conspirator husband in hiding, L. Ron, some have seen the CMO as likely reincarnated Nazis.
That L. Ron Hubbard was still secretly running Scientology, and the CMO was implementing his instructions, was not known at that time.
It was believed by some that evil forces had hijacked Scientology.
This confirmed the warnings from Hubbard himself, warnings made from the early 1950s onward. Initially it had been the Russian Communists that were eager to grab Scientology for their own use, then, concurrent with the shift in public opinion during the unpopular Vietnam war, Hubbard "discovered" that it was the Nazis.
Overnight, Scientology Public Relations people, whenever possible, changed from accusing Scientology critics of being Communists to being Nazis.
Hubbard had told Scientologists that "Smersh" still existed and was the primary force on Earth opposing Scientology. Smersh had been part of the Stalin-era security apparatus, and was later used by author Ian Flemming, in his novels, as one of James Bond's adversaries.
The twist, added by Hubbard, was that Smersh was directed by Nazis, not Communists. To make a long story short, and jumping ahead a decade into the 1980s, it seemed to make sense, to some, that Smersh had finally taken over Scientology by infiltrating it by way of reincarnated Nazis, who, cleverly, had positioned themselves as Commodore's Messengers.
In the early 1980s, I witnessed long and very serious conversations amongst Scientology OTs recently expelled from the CofS, and still confused and dazed from recent events, about how Miscavige and his lieutenants were reincarnated Nazis, with Miscavige, of course, being Hitler.
So this idea has been around for a while.
That L. Ron Hubbard was still secretly running Scientology, and the CMO was implementing his instructions, was not known at that time.
It was believed by some that evil forces had hijacked Scientology.
This confirmed the warnings from Hubbard himself, warnings made from the early 1950s onward. Initially it had been the Russian Communists that were eager to grab Scientology for their own use, then, concurrent with the shift in public opinion during the unpopular Vietnam war, Hubbard "discovered" that it was the Nazis.
Overnight, Scientology Public Relations people, whenever possible, changed from accusing Scientology critics of being Communists to being Nazis.
Hubbard had told Scientologists that "Smersh" still existed and was the primary force on Earth opposing Scientology. Smersh had been part of the Stalin-era security apparatus, and was later used by author Ian Flemming, in his novels, as one of James Bond's adversaries.
The twist, added by Hubbard, was that Smersh was directed by Nazis, not Communists. To make a long story short, and jumping ahead a decade into the 1980s, it seemed to make sense, to some, that Smersh had finally taken over Scientology by infiltrating it by way of reincarnated Nazis, who, cleverly, had positioned themselves as Commodore's Messengers.
In the early 1980s, I witnessed long and very serious conversations amongst Scientology OTs recently expelled from the CofS, and still confused and dazed from recent events, about how Miscavige and his lieutenants were reincarnated Nazis, with Miscavige, of course, being Hitler.
So this idea has been around for a while.