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LRH and CIA
By coincidence this is a result of a correspondence yesterday with Ken Urquhart on the concept of CIA being on the Apollo. Raised on
our FZ forum.
I felt it useful to propagate in that particularly Rons Orgs guys
tend to go for CBRs conspiracy theories, which one can trace to LRH conspiracy theories. I love that ROs train so many.
Ken was there at the time.
bb [ aka Terril Park]
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A story appeared on a public list recently that caught the attention
of Ken Urquhart, formerly LRH's Personal Communicator on The Apollo and later at Clearwater -- until he was RPF'd for "Rock Slams." by the then CMO and their cohorts, under the influence of Dear Miscavige.
I had some exchanges with Ken on the subject, and the following is
the gist of what he said:
The story/rumor/fable/fantasy/brain-fart is that LRH was caught in a
web of conspiracy in 1972, with the CIA aboard the ship. The only
"conspiracy" that troubled LRH in that year was the effort by the French
Government to have him extradited from Morocco, where he was
living in his Tangiers villa. That effort was beyond his ability to control
or subvert, so he skipped over to the US in a hurry, staying there for
a year.
Part of the rumor is that Paul Preston, a member of the ship's crew
in 1972 had a history in the military and was therefore, ipso facto, a
member of the CIA. In actual fact, Preston was one of the few people
that LRH took with him to the USA in 1972. As LRH was in some
danger then and needed to hide, would he have taken from the ship
the one supposed known CIA member/plant?
I have my own direct recall of those days. I put LRH on the plane to
NY. I had to get him out of Lisbon without anyone knowing he was
going, or that it was he who was going anywhere. At the airport, I
had two senior crew-members pass within a foot or so of my body,
and neither noticed us. I took this as a measure of LRH's abilities,
not mine. Anyway, I thought I could verify my recall and my
estimation of this rumor, and I checked out the CIA story with
one of the people who went to NY with LRH in 1972-73, and
who, of course, knew Preston well.
I asked for his comments on the following excerpt from a chat list:
"Many of those involved with RONS Orgs. are familiar with Capt. William Robertson and his statement about a prearranged signal. Apparently Ron walked away from CBR right in the middle of a comm. cycle and it seems that Ron was signaling him that Ron had been compromised. I believe a Green Beret by the name of Preston (or a name similar to that) was spotted on board by Ron."
and I added, to clarify things for my old friend, "What this writer was saying earlier
is that the CIA was on board the Apollo by 1972, and that LRH was fully aware of the fact."
My friend's response was:
"Hi Ken,
This is pretty silly stuff. If preston was CIA why did lrh let him come with him to NYC for 10 months, and handling all the secret communication? Tell them to get a life! You were there the night LRH decided to have him as his body guard.
I doubt secret signals between LRh and bill. Between you and him very possible, but Capt Bill!!!??"
To this, BB, I will now add something of my own view of LRH as he was at that time:
Ron didn't "do" signals. If he wanted you to understand something,
you got it loud and clear with no ambiguities. He didn't "do"
compromise either. If he was put at effect, he yelled, screamed.
stamped his feet, and he ACTED to end the unwelcome influence.
I guess one had to experience the man to know how he behaved.
He was afraid of nothing, fought on his toes all the time, he moved
very quickly, and was capable of mighty and very fast punches as
he moved.
Signals and compromises be damned!
If he had had any inkling that a CIA operative was on
the ship -- had that person got on board past the crew's watchfulness,
let alone that of MSH (who would have laid down her life to keep her
husband secure) -- that person would have been rushed off the ship
faster than he could think "CIA." Moreover, LRH would have instantly
dreamed up a way to use the development as a severe embarrass-
ment for the CIA and the American Government. Then the decks would
have been suddenly manned by formerly very senior execs.
LRH was a professional. He didn't live his life like a character out of
a very second-rate novel. With all due respect to the people who
believe silly rumors that make him a lot less than he was, to those
that were fortunate enough to take the measure of the man -- to
know, as the British Victorians used to say, to know the size of
his boots -- the rumor-creators look like they have watched too
many soaps, read too many sci-fi novels. I ask them please to
look at any false data they might have, and get real.
It's time we started remembering that LRH, with all his faults
and failings, was a VERY BIG BEING with staggering
confront, courage, and energy. The hardest thing for people
to realize about him, those who never experienced him, is
how BIG he was, how far above the 'merely human' he
could be. And probably still is. There isn't one human being
on planet Earth that LRH couldn't blow away if he wanted to,
if face-to-face.
[May one D.Miscavige be high on the Old Man's list for blowing
away (if he has such a list). Well, for all I know, I might be on
that list too. )]
All best wishes, bb.
Ken
By coincidence this is a result of a correspondence yesterday with Ken Urquhart on the concept of CIA being on the Apollo. Raised on
our FZ forum.
I felt it useful to propagate in that particularly Rons Orgs guys
tend to go for CBRs conspiracy theories, which one can trace to LRH conspiracy theories. I love that ROs train so many.
Ken was there at the time.
bb [ aka Terril Park]
-------------------------
A story appeared on a public list recently that caught the attention
of Ken Urquhart, formerly LRH's Personal Communicator on The Apollo and later at Clearwater -- until he was RPF'd for "Rock Slams." by the then CMO and their cohorts, under the influence of Dear Miscavige.
I had some exchanges with Ken on the subject, and the following is
the gist of what he said:
The story/rumor/fable/fantasy/brain-fart is that LRH was caught in a
web of conspiracy in 1972, with the CIA aboard the ship. The only
"conspiracy" that troubled LRH in that year was the effort by the French
Government to have him extradited from Morocco, where he was
living in his Tangiers villa. That effort was beyond his ability to control
or subvert, so he skipped over to the US in a hurry, staying there for
a year.
Part of the rumor is that Paul Preston, a member of the ship's crew
in 1972 had a history in the military and was therefore, ipso facto, a
member of the CIA. In actual fact, Preston was one of the few people
that LRH took with him to the USA in 1972. As LRH was in some
danger then and needed to hide, would he have taken from the ship
the one supposed known CIA member/plant?
I have my own direct recall of those days. I put LRH on the plane to
NY. I had to get him out of Lisbon without anyone knowing he was
going, or that it was he who was going anywhere. At the airport, I
had two senior crew-members pass within a foot or so of my body,
and neither noticed us. I took this as a measure of LRH's abilities,
not mine. Anyway, I thought I could verify my recall and my
estimation of this rumor, and I checked out the CIA story with
one of the people who went to NY with LRH in 1972-73, and
who, of course, knew Preston well.
I asked for his comments on the following excerpt from a chat list:
"Many of those involved with RONS Orgs. are familiar with Capt. William Robertson and his statement about a prearranged signal. Apparently Ron walked away from CBR right in the middle of a comm. cycle and it seems that Ron was signaling him that Ron had been compromised. I believe a Green Beret by the name of Preston (or a name similar to that) was spotted on board by Ron."
and I added, to clarify things for my old friend, "What this writer was saying earlier
is that the CIA was on board the Apollo by 1972, and that LRH was fully aware of the fact."
My friend's response was:
"Hi Ken,
This is pretty silly stuff. If preston was CIA why did lrh let him come with him to NYC for 10 months, and handling all the secret communication? Tell them to get a life! You were there the night LRH decided to have him as his body guard.
I doubt secret signals between LRh and bill. Between you and him very possible, but Capt Bill!!!??"
To this, BB, I will now add something of my own view of LRH as he was at that time:
Ron didn't "do" signals. If he wanted you to understand something,
you got it loud and clear with no ambiguities. He didn't "do"
compromise either. If he was put at effect, he yelled, screamed.
stamped his feet, and he ACTED to end the unwelcome influence.
I guess one had to experience the man to know how he behaved.
He was afraid of nothing, fought on his toes all the time, he moved
very quickly, and was capable of mighty and very fast punches as
he moved.
Signals and compromises be damned!
If he had had any inkling that a CIA operative was on
the ship -- had that person got on board past the crew's watchfulness,
let alone that of MSH (who would have laid down her life to keep her
husband secure) -- that person would have been rushed off the ship
faster than he could think "CIA." Moreover, LRH would have instantly
dreamed up a way to use the development as a severe embarrass-
ment for the CIA and the American Government. Then the decks would
have been suddenly manned by formerly very senior execs.
LRH was a professional. He didn't live his life like a character out of
a very second-rate novel. With all due respect to the people who
believe silly rumors that make him a lot less than he was, to those
that were fortunate enough to take the measure of the man -- to
know, as the British Victorians used to say, to know the size of
his boots -- the rumor-creators look like they have watched too
many soaps, read too many sci-fi novels. I ask them please to
look at any false data they might have, and get real.
It's time we started remembering that LRH, with all his faults
and failings, was a VERY BIG BEING with staggering
confront, courage, and energy. The hardest thing for people
to realize about him, those who never experienced him, is
how BIG he was, how far above the 'merely human' he
could be. And probably still is. There isn't one human being
on planet Earth that LRH couldn't blow away if he wanted to,
if face-to-face.
[May one D.Miscavige be high on the Old Man's list for blowing
away (if he has such a list). Well, for all I know, I might be on
that list too. )]
All best wishes, bb.
Ken