This crap has been around since 2005 at least:
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=22985
The easiest refutation, for people who might be inclined to believe it, is that no-one has ever written about observing (since he took over) DM taking orders from anyone, or reporting to anyone.
Paul
Attempts to take over Scientology were described by Hubbard going back to the earliest days. Hubbard told of the Soviet KGB's interest in his unpublished work 'Excalibur' and the theft, or attempts at theft, of 'Excalibur' by Soviet agents, as far back as the late 1930s.
According to Hubbard, the Soviets were also interested in him working for them, and one his his bizarre 1950s letters to the FBI - which eventually earned him the "appears mental" designation - described an offer, by the Soviets, to fly him to Russia, where he would have his "own laboratories and receive very high fees," etc. (The date on this letter is 29 July 1955, in case anyone wants to read it in its entirety. Amazing stuff!)
And then, according to Hubbard, there was the U.S. government, which also wanted Hubbard to work for them.
In all cases, of course, Hubbard refused, so as to maintain the integrity of his work. For this he was attacked - so Hubbard's tales go - by both the Russian and U.S. governments.
These attacks took many forms, and pretty much any "attack" by any government, or governmental agency, could be attributed to Scientology having
the knowledge of the human mind, and the ability to free Mankind, and its refusal to be subjugated to the will of enslaving governments, etc.
For example, the IRS taking an interest in Hubbard's shady book keeping, his swindling of others, and his disinclination to pay taxes, could be viewed as merely another attack by those secretly desiring to take over Scientology, and use its advanced knowledge of the mind to enslave rather than to free, etc.
Negative stories about Hubbard in the media could similarly be discounted, being simply acts of revenge by the slave masters, angered at Hubbard's refusal to work on their behalf.
A few months ago from Independent Scientology leader Marty Rathbun:
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With all the chatter about L. Ron Hubbard's alleged shortcomings, it got me thinking about what the effect of the unprecedented ad hominem attacks against the man were. Hubbard was demonized by the cold war establishment perhaps more than any other civilian figure. One cumulative effect of it all was to one degree or another de-humanize him in the public eye..."
As for the attempts to "de-humanize" Hubbard in the public mind, an early attempt is described by Hubbard in his confidential issue, "Intelligence Actions, Covert Intelligence Data Collection' of 2 December 1969. It describes events of 1950:
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The objective of the enemy is to discredit...
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Their first blast was the San Francisco papers, Sept. 1950, quoting the publisher (of Book One) Ceppos being critical of me (he was a communist) followed by the LA papers, pushed then by Sara Komkovadamanov (alias Northrup) 'divorce' actions, followed by attempted kidnapping of myself. Other details were pushed into it including murder of four and so on. This was a full complete covert operation. At the back of it was Miles Hollister (psychology student), Sara Komkovadamanov (housekeeper at the place nuclear physicists stayed near Cal Tech), Gene Benton and his wife - president of the Young Communists League...
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This was a full war against Dianetics..."
Note: all the above parentheses are from the original.
And regarding the same time period...
From a 1977 recorded message, 'Can we Ever Be Friends?':
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Possibly any trouble Dianetics or Scientology ever had began on May 9, 1950 when the U.S government, excited by the possibility of Hubbard's work, sought to force him into classified government service.
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In Washington, they told him they wanted him to work on projects to make people more suggestible. When he declined they threatened and, typically, he refused to bow.
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And the war between the government and Scientology was on."
There's another version of this from the 1978 edition of 'What is Scientology?'. It ends with:
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The government never forgave him for this and soon began vicious, covert international attacks on his work. "
The above two accounts, re. the U.S. government, were taken from a recorded lecture from the 1950s.
There are many other tales and claims from Hubbard in this area, and from that - ah, well, fertilized - ground, spring other subsequent tales, perhaps the best known being those of Captain Bill Robertson, the founder of the world's largest, and most successful, outside-the-CofS Scientology group.
'Markab, the Final Handling':
http://www.freezone.org/cbr/sector9/e_sob19.htm
