More Tid Bits . . . .
I believe the first time LRH had problems with authority was from the AMA
back in the fifties, who I believe set various government agencies investigating
him. I'll see if I can dig up this info again, but maybe you know something about it.
There are copies of numerous letters to and from the director of the FBI
re Hubbard and Dianetics.
Approx 26 in 1951 alone. See URL below. This would pre dispose someone to paranoia no doubt. Something that just occurred to me is that I was wondering if Hubbard's letters to FBI complaining about " communists" was a
way of trying to create good PR for himself with that agency?
As I recall the Melbourne enquiry was initiated because of one person who
complained about something or other, being defrauded? But what other forces and initiatives were behind that?
The later "ban" of 1968 in the UK was ostensibly initiated by one person who was supposedly/actually type 3 and ran in her nightie to a police station
asking to be rescued.
I attended some of the court hearings at that time but can't remember much of any import other than the above. Though I was friends with a guy who was a witness. Alf Wilson if anyone remembers him.
I believe, and still do, that at that time injustice was wreaked against scientology. " Wog" justice in fact bore that out in Oz and the UK, to its credit.
Now I say bring it on with justice.
Without this AMA and FBI attack on Hubbard, I wonder how history
may have gone here?
http://www.xenu.net/archive/FBI/table.html
Below two very interesting examples of FBI files on the matter.
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FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #97
[LETTERHEAD INFORMATION BLACKED OUT]
March 14, 1951
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Snipped . . . . .
Terril,
Yep, good info this. It shows Hubbard definitely had cause to feel he was unjustly attacked by the “authorities.”
This suite by the “Board of Medical Examiners of the Department of Law and Public Safety, State of New Jersey, is probably the first and basic on the chain of attacks by the “establishment” . . . and it is likely that this NJ local board was simply a vehicle that had power to so act on behalf of a larger medical vested interest, like the AMA or Psychology establishment who, being only professional bodies, would not have the powers to harass with a suit.
Had Hubbard “worked with”--- that is, done a “paper” to be presented/published on establishment lines, and then set up his foundation to forward that work, they’d have loved him and left him alone. Instead he called everyone else idiots and told the establishment medicos they had it all wrong!! AND, positioned himself in THEIR game! But as superior to . . . .
Of course they had to prove him wrong!
The other side of the coin is that had he published DMSMH today, it would likely be a very best seller and no one would have attacked him. The climate is very different . . . alternatives to the establishment are even part of the establishment now!
Whatever the truths are concerning his claims made to the FBI of commie acts against him, I do not know. That he was certainly under attack from some quarters is certain, as revealed in your post.
As regards the attacks in Melbourne and the Mel Inquiry, well, you are making me consider posting a chapter of a book I was writing . . . It’s a number of pages, so it will need its own post or thread.
But, bottom line, the “campaign” against “the Scientologists” in Melbourne was begun in 1960! I remember it when I was on my HPA Course in April, 1960, in Mel. It began with press smears, falsehoods and lies about Scn and what it did.
Over the next couple of years, the noise and its source were changed to include a spokesman for the Catholic Church, one Dr. Rumble . . . also known as the “Red” Dr. Rumble locally as he had avowed sympathies for the communist/socialist propaganda and social structure. Also added to the mix of accusers was the local leader of the Psychiatric Assoc, and the Aust. Psychological Asoc. Then, the AMA, (Ozzie Med Assoc) joined in.
Timing wise, this was all brought to a crescendo for election year, 1963?, and then the left wing Labour Party of Victoria and its members of Parliament, in opposition to the governing Liberal Party, started to scream and agitate that “the Government” had done nothing to curb this “evil” of Scn.
The Government rightly answered, “What evil? There are no grounds to act!”
And so, a demand for and settlement on an “Enquiry” resulted.
It is to be noted that the Labour Party in those days stood on joint tickets with self declared communist members of the trade union on election tickets.
The Oz Labour Party in those days was somewhat dominated by the ultra-left wing socialist lot, as was the British Labour Party . . . the Brit end of it having known, self declared “Fabians” in its governing cabinet. The Fabian Party in England being commie/socialist but less strident than the out-and-out street mob types. They were more of the intellectual element of the international socialist force.
It was a long-term, well orchestrated campaign against the Scientologists . . . not the result of some claim of “fraud.” That claim, false, was part of the lie against the org on the basis that its practice was fraudulent.
What is true, is that the guy who “prosecuted” the case against the org during the Inquiry was indeed a criminal who had been indicted in Sth. Australia for fraud and extortion, but beat the charge because he married his secretary, and wives cannot testify in such matters. Name: Philip Wearne. In my book, I note that I coincidently rented offices vacated by Wearne, and collided with documentation to back up the nature and practice of his fraud.
He and the other person “carrying” the case against the church, one Doug Moone, had been on line getting services, and Moone actually for a period was on staff . . . presumably, it now appears, under cover for the enemy. He accessed confidential PC folders, and such info was used in the Inquiry to embarrass Scientologist witnesses, and our practices, and also factually used to blackmail witnesses into either not testifying or to testify against the org. Max Anderson was one who was subject to this blackmail, as I stated under oath as fact, as Max had told me so himself. Attempts were made to blackmail me on two fronts . . . I stood the bastards up and declared it in court!
And, there had been an effort to set me up in an embarrassing situation/relationship that would have been used against me . . . but which backfired on them
Max Anderson’s wife Jenny (this is the Max and Jenny I shared digs with, the same Max I wrote about in an earlier post with whom the physical universe vanished one night) propositioned me to have sex with her. I declined, gracefully, as a gentleman should. This then was turned around to be represented that I had tried to seduce her. This accusation came up in court . . . . but I blew them out of the water by pointing out the attempts at blackmail on me and the actual surrender to blackmail by Max . . . he was listed a member of Wearne’s “Committee Against Scn” (or such). Max had been turned.
But my mate Panda may have even more nitty-gritty on these little nuances than me, as he had to study it all . . . I only lived my part in it.
London was a similar scene.
The press attacks, and the attacks from academia, had begun at least about two years before the UK “ban” late in 1968. These press and academia attacks, just as in Oz, were the set up and first blast of the orchestrated attack on Scn in England. Indeed there was an effort to do a UK parliamentary trick on Scn based on and using the Melbourne report as a basis and need for action. Fortunately, the Brit sense of fair play, or laziness, only took it as far as a ban on students coming to study Scn.
Indeed, university students (London Uni was just a couple of blocks from the org) used to come into my PE/Intro Lectures to purposefully interrupt and ridicule.
This is the shit I wrote of in an earlier post on how I handled these interjecting trouble-makers that Nexus rudely responded to with invalidation of me and my handling . . . it would have been brighter of him to have enquired as to the circumstances and what it was I was actually handling. But then, he has his “viewpoints,” heh!
As to the “type 3” chick running into a police station . . . . hmmm, I heard some rumor about such, but it was not anyone that had been on lines to my knowledge.
What is fact is that an unknown male in his mid-twenties (not even been to a PE lecture to my knowledge, and I did them all) presented himself into the org wanting to be on staff. They sent him up to me, as Div 6 needed staff. I took one look at this bozo and rejected him (which is my right per policy). The guy just wasn’t there in or with his head. He was, to me, obviously on some kind of drugs, medicinal or otherwise, that were affecting his spiritual presence and demeanor. Real bad vibes.
I also recognized the “plant” type synthetic, deceitful presence he had. I’d been tricked by one in Sydney in 1960.
Three days later he came back in the org, was hanging abut for a while, and suddenly goes into a raving fit. He’s out in terms of awareness and sanity, writhing and tossing on the floor. I happened to be present, and tried to do a very basic assist on him to calm him down but he was too psyched out. We called an ambulance, and had him taken away.
I smelled a plant. It had all the markers of a planted, agent provocateur, sent in to cause a scene for bad publicity.
Fact is, I later had as one of my “agents” working with us in the “007 business” the key Fleet Street reporter who had been writing and placing most of, and certainly the most scurrilous and sensational, of the anti-Scientology articles in the press at that time in 1966-69 . . . . and we are talking top circulation national press. I won’t mention names, as I believe he is still alive in England. He’s a friend. Fact is he was also an intel operative for British intel. He came to us in 1973. (He did some wonderful and lucrative work for us!)
The other fact is that the FBI was injecting its bad shit on Scn to British intelligence in that period 1966 onwards, possibly even earlier. How do I know? The guy who was the “Legal Attaché” at the US Embassy (actually an FBI Special Agent) who was passing the info to the Brits is another friend of mine here in the US. Name: Bill Kish.
When I came to the US and first met Bill, I in due course was interested in having him take over my position in the business when I moved out. His resume showed his position at the London Embassy at the critical time. And we had a good long chat about our relative positions at that time 1966-69.
Bill is a very decent man, one dedicated to his ideals and the job he was doing. And he apologized to me when he found out I had been at the receiving end of the shit after I told him the true scene.
I told him, “The Scientologists are not the enemy, Bill. They’re the good guys. The real enemy are the guys who got you Americans to be feeding all that false shit the Brits!”
He looked at me apologetically, and said, “Well, you know that kind of stuff goes on Rog. I’m sorry it was bad info. I never even looked at the stuff. It comes in, and I send it out. It was just all traffic at the time.”
I told him, all was OK between us. I knew he was just doing his job based on the info he had.
So I write this to point out that there certainly were planned and deliberate attacks by vested interests on Scientology.
Roger
.. of course!
I guess I still had faith that through our efforts, things would get better. 
