Re: NEW Movie: The Spellcasters - Hollywood, Scientology, The CIA and the Truth Movem
I agree with that. I'm disappointed to find the errors in the movie pointed out in the forum here. It is sloppy and unprofessional. It makes it difficult for the ex-insiders to really take serious and does a disserve. I feel atleast one of you should contact Josh Reeves about the issues as I do not have the indepth knowledge or experience with Scientology.
Here are several references to LRH’s having been involved in “Intelligence”. In both cases the idea is being promoted by LRH and/or Scientology organization as either a shore story for his involvement with Jack Parsons or to inflate his biography. I would suggest that any further capitalization on the notion that there was a significant connection with the intelligence community based on these particular assertions is to reinforce the Church’s own goals and not a furtherance of the truth.
Having said that, I do believe LRH and the Church would like to cultivate a beneficial relationship with government and private intelligence agencies if possible, in order to provide legal and PR cover and to open diplomatic doors. The problem is, the Church is paranoid of infiltration and the intelligence community probably figures they are nuts.
All levels of the Sea Org are inculcated with ideas of compartmentalization, confidentiality, dossier building and reporting which emulate intelligence operations behavior and I think it is fair to say that the Sea Org culture holds the intelligence community in simultaneous contempt and envious regard.
When you have been it it you develop a sense for what is likely with these people given their value system and self delegated moral authority but within that framework just about anything is possible.
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A Piece of Blue Sky by Jon Atack
http://www.instinct.org/texts/bluesky/bs2-6.htm
Hubbard broke up black magic in America: Dr. Jack Parsons of Pasadena, California, was America's Number One solid fuel rocket expert. He was involved with the infamous English black magician Aleister Crowley who called himself "The Beast 666." Crowley ran an organization called the Order of Templars Orientalis [sic, actually "Ordo Templi Orientis"] over the world which had savage and bestial rites. Dr. Parsons was head of the American branch located at 100 Orange Grove Avenue [actually 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue], Pasadena, California. This was a huge old house which had paying guests who were the U.S.A. nuclear physicists working at Cal. Tech. Certain agencies objected to nuclear physicists being housed under the same roof.
L. Ron Hubbard was still an officer of the U.S. Navy because [sic] he was well known as a writer and a philosopher and had friends amongst the physicists, he was sent in to handle the situation. He went to live at the house and investigated the black magic rites and the general situation and found them very bad.
Parsons wrote to Crowley in England about Hubbard. Crowley "the Beast 666" evidently detected an enemy and warned Parsons. This was all proven by the correspondence unearthed by the Sunday Times. Hubbard's mission was successful far beyond anyone's expectations. The house was torn down. Hubbard rescued a girl they were using. The black magic group was dispersed and destroyed and has never recovered. The physicists included many of the sixty-four top U .S. scientists who were later declared insecure and dismissed from government service with so much publicity.
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http://www.instinct.org/texts/bluesky/bs2-4.htm
Hubbard also referred to his time in Naval Intelligence, and much is made of this experience by Scientologists. On his U.S. Navy Reserve commission papers, issued in July, 1941, he was designated a volunteer for "Special Service (Intelligence duties)," an assignment he requested. His service record shows that when he was eventually called to permanent active duty in November, he was indeed posted as an "intelligence officer." The expression conjures up cloak and dagger images better associated with the CIA's forerunner, the Office of Strategic Services, which did not exist at that time. Although the U.S. was not yet at war, France had fallen and the Japanese threat was recognized. The U.S. Navy was on a major recruiting drive when Hubbard was commissioned. The duties of intelligence officers at that time were largely routine, including the censorship of letters, and the collection, compilation and distribution of information. Hubbard nominally served in this capacity for five months, spending much of that time either in transit or in training.