That was the exact part of DeWolfe's story that made my B.S. meter go off to it's highest point. Not a plausible story at all. What a story teller. I guess he got it from his dad. Apparently he had a lot to get even for.
The whole Penthouse article is bogus.
Selling U.S. nuclear bomb military secrets because of auditing on the engineer of nuclear bombs in which he violated all the highest of security clearances and gave over this information? lol
There is a total of five pages of material, from Ron Jr., in the book, 'L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman?'. Nothing from the 'Penthouse' article appears there. All the material used in "Madman?' was supported by others' testimony and by court's evidence.
There's a confusion re. the 'Penthouse' article, as stories told to Ron Jr., by his father, were presented as being believed by Ron Jr. Ron Jr. belived some of it, not all of it, and was uncertain about some things. That's one category: Things he was *told* by his father. His father *told* him (he was 17 in 1950) that he was selling secrets to the Russians, just as his father told Scientologists so many things. And, not unlike the Scientologists who are still "sorting it out" and recovering, so did Ron Jr. attempt to do so.
Of course, Ron Jr. had the problem of having been Fair Gamed, by his father and Scientology, for most of his life. The two "buttons" that Scientology Inc. went after were "family, wife, children," and "money, jobs, etc." Scientology Inc. was relentless. There was even a little celebration after Ron Jr.'s son was born with Downs syndrome. They figured that would be the final emotional straw that broke Ron Jr.'s back.
Nice.
Ron Jr. was told many things by his father, but he also *witnessed* his father's behavior: his father throwing dinner plates against walls, his father drinking heavily, and his father using drugs; he witnessed his father's fascination with the writings of Aleister Crowley, and with the darkest aspects of the occult, witnessed his father's use of self-hypnosis with the 'Affirmations' - the 'Affirmations' beginning in the late 1930s. He also witnessed his father secretly stuffing cash into shoe boxes, telling people he had no money, and then declaring bankruptcy, and he witnessed the contempt with which his father regarded Scientologists, the Scientologists to whom his father had repeatedly lied.
All this, and more, has since been confirmed.
However, Ron Jr. was told so many tall tales by his father, that he spent the rest of his life trying to sort it out, and free himself from his father's manipulations. And he said so.
After the birth of Ron Jr.s youngest son in the early 1970s, who was born with Downs syndrome, Scientology Inc. - which was already tightening the screws on Ron Jr. with an assortment of covert dirty tricks, such as messing with his credit rating, having him fired from jobs, and even taking pictures of his kids walking to school, etc. - approached him to "settle, and "make peace." He did, for a while, and then began to speak out again in the early 1980s. A few years later, he had emergency surgery related to diabetes, come under further harassment, was penniless again, and settled again, withdrawing from involvement with the (then) half written 'Messiah or Madman?' book.
Ron Jr.'s name does not appear on the 2nd (1992), 3rd (1996), or Russian language (2005) editions.