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Guardian Office (GO) training pack, three volumes
One primary source of Hubbard's media policy is a set of three volumes from the United States Guardian Office. This organization was not part of the United States government, but was set up by Hubbard. The three volumes are valuable in that they put a set of diverse policies into valid context. That is the context in which the policies are expected to be applied.
The volumes are labeled "Confidential, Pack 1 of 3, (2 of 3, 3 of 3)" and titled Information Full Hat. There is a large emblem, the text of which states "United States Guardian Office." The emblem's graphics contain what appears to be a symbol associated with Scientology, the letter "S" superimposed over two vertically offset triangles, set in a large shield or badge, guarded by two outward facing creatures resembling lions with talons in place of feet and holding, in the manner of halyards, Scientology crosses mounted on long handles.
1. Guardian Order 1314 of 9 September 1974, GO Basic Data Checksheet
Inside of the front cover is a blank "checksheet." This one is Guardian Order 1314 of 9 September 1974, with distribution given as "Info Bureau Only." It is labeled "Confidential, Intelligence Course." It contains a list of the contents of the volume with a horizontal line beside each item. The line is for the initials of the person doing the course for which these volumes are a text. Initials on photocopies would signify that the trainee has been checked out on the material (thus the word "checksheet"), and has therefore understood the material and can apply it. Each volume is split into sections, the sections into parts, with policies falling under parts.
The excerpts were selected for their relevance to dealing with public relations and the media, and include coined words to demonstrate how the jargon is used. The items are presented in the sequence in which they appear in the course. Sections, parts and policies are labeled as they appear on the "checksheet." For instance, the following designates the document listed as item 3 under "Part A: The Information Bureau," under "Section 1: General Information" in volume 1 of the set:
Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 3
The checksheet begins:
Confidential Intelligence Course
Guardian Order
In the following, "GO" is the abbreviation for Guardian Office, and "1314" is a sequential number assigned to the document.
GO 1314
9 September 1974GO Basic Data Checksheet
...Section 1. General Information ...
Books:
1) Brainwashing
2) Hidden Story of Scientology
3) Part 1 South African Submission
(to be read in office space)
2. On the inside of the first volume, there is a photocopy of a 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch book cover with the text,
Brain-Washing, A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics - Psychopolitics - the art and science of asserting and maintaining dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, bureaus, and masses, and the effecting of the conquest of enemy nations through "mental healing."
There is also an order form for the book from an "Emissary Publications" in Clackamas, Oregon.
Part A - The Information Bureau ...
3. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 3
The following is used to identify this Hubbard policy. The originating office is the HCO, which stands for "Hubbard Communication Office." Issue date and title are also given. This is the policy that creates the Guardian Office.
HCO Policy Letter
March 1, 1966
The Guardian ...
There are various relationships in which a Guardian Office character may find itself. One of the settings involves
DANGER
In the following Hubbard (LRH) defined this setting in the manner of a military commander. Hubbard used the word "hat" in the sense of "role."
This action is the "LRH Heavy Hussars Hat". This function is to move in heavily where there is a threat of importance to an org[anization] or Scientology after the usual lines and posts have goofed.
The function of the "LRH Heavy Hussars" would be to remove the threat. ...
As the following states, the actions of the "LRH Heavy Hussars" are to be published so that records of past actions may be referred to.
All Danger Conditions regardless of when and how assigned are traced as to what changed before they occurred and a full record of all findings is kept and published.
The purpose of recording what happened before a danger condition is to determine a cause-effect relationship. The three Guardian Office volumes being studied are examples of this type of publication.
Another relationship in which a character may find itself involves
AFFLUENCE
The primary function is to be informed of and to trace every affluence awarded to find out what happened before it occurred and to publish findings.
The idea of recording what happened before an affluence is to determine a cause-effect relationship.
Besides studying existing relationships, Hubbard also looked to the future in establishing the Guardian office by including as one of its functions
LONG RANGE PROMOTION
This included planning for the customers publications and for conventions, called congresses.
This activity draws up motifs for magazine for a year in advance, draws up Congress names.
The activity tells the org what to promote, what to stress and co-ordinates promotion.
Hubbard recognized the importance of the data that was to flow through the mass media and established in the Guardian Office an
INFORMATION SECTION
Hubbard's planning encompassed not only the local scene, but coordination of broad geographical areas.
Both planetary and organization information is handled by this activity.
Once the information is gathered, it was to be put to a use, described as "intelligence."
Intelligence is defined as information leading to predictions of occurrences and useful in forecasting events and so assisting planning and in handling matters arising from events.
It can be seen from the following that the value of outside media is recognized.
The Planetary Information Unit works with newspapers, economic newsletters, bulletins of information services, etc, and keeps a file of clippings under headings of interest to Scientology. By such studies one can predict which way cats are going to jump and organize to meet situations which may threaten Scientology from possible enemies or to take advantage of situations which might benefit Scientology.
"Entheta" is a coined word used to describe information that somehow nullifies or displaces Scientology's truth. In the following Hubbard makes a statement that relates entheta to incompetence. Hubbard indicates there is a cause-effect relationship between the competition's commodity, "entheta," and his customer's commodity, "truth." The existence of "entheta" prior to incompetence is presented to be evidence of this relationship.
It is true that entheta in an area is proportional to org incompetence in that area and real trouble in areas has always been preceded by at least two years of heavy entheta in public letters from that area.
The relationship is stated to be proportional and implied to be direct, namely that if "entheta" did not exist, neither would incompetence. It is posed as a statement of truth to which the reader is expected to agree, thus creating a reality intended to be beneficial for the customer.
Hubbard recognized that authority alone was not enough to gain agreement and included a section on
POWERS
To the customer, certificates and awards have value both in achievement and in amount of time and money spent to attain the same.
The Guardian may cancel or suspend or award certificates and awards.
FIRST APPOINTMENT
The First Guardian is Mary Sue Hubbard.
Mary Sue Hubbard is L. Ron Hubbard's wife. At the end of most policies a name is given, along with copyright information:
L. RON HUBBARD
copyright 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard
4. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 5
Board Policy Letter
27 May 1970 RA
The Organization of the Guardian's Office
A sample organization of public information collection and distribution in Scientology is given as follows, with details omitted as indicated:
GUARDIAN'S OFFICE
I. Service Bureau (Personnel, Training, etc) II. Information Bureau Branch One Information Collection Section Information Operation Section Branch One CIC (Combat Information Center) Branch Two Information Investigations Section Information Handling Section Branch Two (Combat Information Center) III. Public Relations Bureau PR Branch One PR Planning Section PR Actions Section PR Liaison Office PR CIC Branch One Section PR Branch Two PR Information Section PR Operations Section PR Branch Two CIC Section PR Archives Branch PR Library Collections Section PR Library Filing Section PR Library Index Section IV. Legal Bureau Legal Branch One Non-Litigation Legal Investigations Section Legal Handling Section Legal CIC Branch One Legal Branch Two Litigation Legal Research Section Legal Actions Section Legal CIC Branch Two V. Finance Bureau [...] VI. Special Coordination Bureau Public Relations and Consumption Branch One Long Range Planning Department Compilations Department Sales Management Department Human Rights Branch One Establishment Department Human Rights Operations Department Enhancement Department Social Reform [...] Rehabilitation [...] CIC [...]
There appears to be ample organization to serve as a basis for media functions.
5. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 7
HCO Policy Letter of 20 February 1972
Intelligence and Security
This policy sets forth a requirement for obscuration as follows:
Any instance in which "intelligence" must be referred to broadly or on a remimeo or all staff issue, as in org board posting or staff lists, the word 'information' is to be substituted. Hence D/G for Intelligence and Port Intelligence Office become D/G for Information and Port Information Officer respectively.
Similarly the word "Inquiry" is substituted for "Investigation". Hence Inquiry Officer or Inquiry section.
The purpose of obscuration is to protect information as a commodity from compromise. The signing sequence of this instruction indicates Hubbard's chain of command. Budlong reported to Kember, who reported to Mary Sue Hubbard, who reported to L. Ron Hubbard.
Mo Budlong
D/G for Information WW
for
Jane Kember
The Guardian WW
Approved by
Mary Sue Hubbard
The Controller
for L. Ron Hubbard
FounderCopyright 1972 by L. Ron Hubbard
6. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 9
MSH write-up: duties of intelligence chief
Confidential
Intelligence Chief
Agents of the competition are sometimes referred to as traitors or "suppressives" as listed in the following purpose of an "intelligence chief":
3. To ensure data obtained from investigations conducted is used to deter utterly the traitor or the Suppressive from continuing his destructive actions.
The following statement signifies that records should be promptly filed "in present time," meaning now:
4. To ensure that the Intelligence CIC Board (Combat Information Center) is maintained in present time.
The importance of filing is given.
5. To ensure all Intelligence cross-filing is done correctly so that proper appreciation (evaluation which leads to the spotting of Trouble Sources) can be done.
Agents of the enemy are categorized in various ways.
7. To ensure that Intelligence files are divided into two basic functions: the files having to do with Traitors (Org members or former Scientologists) and exterior Suppressives (members of governments, groups, or individuals out in society who are attacking or possibly will attack Scientology).
The importance of the popular media is not underestimated.
8. To ensure that clipping files are kept under headings of interest to Scientology so that studies of same can predict future actions and so Intelligence investigations can be done to meet such situations or trouble or the data can be used to the benefit of Scientology. Example: medical, psychology, psychiatry, etc.
This is to be a standard policy.
12. To ensure that Intelligence Officers are appointed in all Orgs.
There is a hierarchy, each level of which is assigned to monitor the next lower level.
14. To ensure all Intelligence Officers gives summaries on all investigations being conducted and to see that such summaries report facts and facts only. No generalities, evaluations, suppositions or conclusions are wanted. Only specifics and facts are wanted.
Certain agents of the enemy are pre-defined.
18. To be ever vigilant to the constant possibility of attacks from governmental areas, in particular attacks from medical, psychological and psychiatric agencies within governments; from tax agencies within governments; and from governmental Immigration Agencies.
In the event that not everything has been covered, there is a catch-all statement.
22. To WIN in all Intelligence activities.
no signature or copyright
There is a typed in note on the checksheet pertaining to items 10 through 16 of this section. It says:
NOTE: The following items were not part of the original checksheet. They are included for orientation purposes to the command channels and how the goals and purposes of this organization relate to the products and statistics.
7. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 10
Guardian Order GO 1366 MSH 10 October 1974
The "MSH" above designates this Guardian Order is from Mary Sue Hubbard.
In this document the "Guardian Order" consists of one sentence, used to get across a basic idea.
The primary function of the Guardian Office is:
To sweep aside opposition sufficiently to create a vacuum into which Scientology can expand.
Mary Sue Hubbard Controller
8. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 11
Guardian Order
GO 1514 LRH
26 January 1975
The "LRH" above signifies that this Guardian Order is from L. Ron Hubbard. Note that the following denotes a purpose, while the previous Guardian Order denoted a function.
The new purpose is:
ESTABLISHING THE INDISPENSABILITY OF SCIENTOLOGY
This no more than the truth.
The truth in this sense denotes Hubbard's agreed-upon concept of reality.
Hubbard also recognized the value of repeatedly questioning opponents as part of a public relations (PR) strategy. The second part of the strategy is to have the public eventually take up the repetitive questioning process.
PR actions are easily grooved over in this direction.
For instance, the repeating question of why an indispensable public activity is being hit holds those who hit it in question.
We have to move in the direction of repeating something so often it is repeated. This new purpose does that.
Hubbard was very versatile in adapting anything his customer did into something the public could not do without.
In other words, we can groove anything we are already doing into this channel. ...
L. Ron Hubbard
Founder(no copyright)
9. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 12
AG I ADMIN SCALE (no date) Ten pages of L. R. Hubbard's selected policy excerpts on the overall goals, purposes, policy, plans, programmes, projects, orders, ideal scene, statistics and valuable final products of this area.
This is a collection of excerpts taken from Hubbard by his own organizations. It indicates what is considered important by the people who performed the various tasks. The functionality of the excerpts are indicated by the headings under which they are listed: goals, purposes, policies, plans, programs, projects, orders, etc.
GOALS:
To sweep aside opposition sufficiently to create a vacuum into which Scientology can expand.
GO 1366 MSH 10 Oct 74
The following is a purpose of the Public Investigation Section, as opposed to a purpose of the Guardian Office, which was mentioned above.
PURPOSES:
To help LRH investigate public matters and individuals which seem to impede human liberty so that such matters may be exposed and to furnish intelligence required in guiding the progress of Scientology.
HCOPL 17 Feb 66
Public Inv[estigation]. Sect[io]n.
The media take priority in targets, second only to whoever is labeled "the enemy." This list also gives the sequence of other important social factors in Hubbard's policies, such as politics, finance, allies and society in general and in regard to public opinion.
The vital targets on which we must invest most of our time are:
T1. Depopularizing the enemy to a point of total obliteration.
T2. Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media.
T3. Taking over the control or allegiance of key political figures.
T4. Taking over the control or allegiance of those who monitor international finance and shifting them to a less precarious finance standard.
T5. Generally revitalizing the societies in which we are operating.
T6. Winning overwhelming public support.
T7. Use all other similar groups as allies.
HCO PL 16 Feb 69
Targets Defense
The above is the identification of the policy from which the list of targets are taken. The originating office is the Hubbard Communication Office; it is a policy letter (PL) issued on the date given, entitled "Targets Defense."
In the following the "war" is set in the field of mental healing. The second and third sentences set the thresholds of direct attack. That is to begin when sympathy has been obtained from the authorities in making arrests and taking prisoners, and will end once the enemy installations have been appropriated.
Our war has been forced to become to take over absolutely the field of mental healing on this planet in all forms.
Our direct assault will come when they start to arrest his principals and troops for crimes (already begun).
Our total victory will come when we run his organizations, perform his functions and obtain his financing and appropriations.
Note 2 Dec 69
Intell Actions
Covert Intell
Data Collection
The above is from a note referring to "Intelligence Actions" in the Covert Intelligence section of Data Collection.
The new purpose (of the GO) is: ESTABLISHING THE INDISPENSABILITY OF SCIENTOLOGY.
GO 1514 LRH 26 Jan 75
The purpose of having data, as defined below, is to have the ability to differentiate friends from enemies. This is a very small excerpt from the Hubbard Communications Office Manual of Justice.
POLICY:
Intelligence is therefore that activity which collects data and keeps it adding up so that we know our foes from ours [sic] friends and so that we can act to separate out the sources of trouble in any given situation.
HCO Manual of Justice
16 Apr 59
Here is an excerpt from the Public Investigation Section. The "ethics section" referred to is what for Hubbard's customers is an Internal Investigation Section.
This section may never be used on ethics section matters but may work with ethics when an ex-Scientologist is involved.
This section has nothing to do with dispersed investigations of isolated cases. It may only work on matters relating to groups and individuals who are parts of these groups...
Following is the overall picture of how media policy fits in with attacks.
1. Note what public or private group is attacking Scientology.
2. Get a project warrant from the Advisory Council Area or WW to investigate it.
3. Collect as many case histories as possible on the individuals of that group, specializing on those that can be led to criminal prosecution by state or world agencies.
4. See that enough of the data is made available to the state or world agencies to obtain convictions.
5. See that excellent press coverage is given the disclosures over as long a period of time as possible.
6. See that HCO and Scientology are given full credit for protecting human rights and liberty.
7. The idea is that the press feeds on these (murder, assault, destruction, violence, sex, dishonesty) factors and we feed them someone else's. It will be found that our own Scientology groups contain so few of these they have to be invented about us. We need never invent them in the attacking group. The will be found to be there.
Public Inv. Sectn
17 Feb 66
Following is a restatement of the above from a broader point of view
This is the correct procedure:
1. Spot who is attacking us.
2. Start investigating them promptly for felonies or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies.
3. Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them.
4. Start feeding lurid, blood, sex, crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press.
Don't ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough on the attackers all the way.
The way we will eventually stop all attacks from there on out is by processing the society as follows:
1. Locate the source of the attack on us.
2. Investigate it.
3. Expose it with lurid publicity.
We are a practitioner to the society. It has rotten spots in it. Those show up in attacks on us. We investigate and expose - the attack ceases.
Attacks on Scientology
HCOPL 25 Feb 66
An HCOPL is a Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter.
The following shows that Hubbard advocated an active interest in the popular media. The "way cats are going to jump" is a figure of speech to signify events that are difficult to predict
The Planetary Intelligence Unit works with newspapers, economic newsletters, bulletins of intelligence services, etc., and keeps a file of clippings under headings of interest to Scientology. By such studies one can predict which way cats are going to jump and organize to meet situations which may threaten Scientology from possible enemies or to take advantage of situations which might benefit Scientology.
Hubbard's Standing Order #1 was that anyone could write to him at any time about anything. The letters he received then are referred to as SO #1 letters.
The Org Intelligence Unit receives copies of all SO #1 letters watching for upsets or trends in specific areas in order to correct those in control of the area and regularly reviews the number of Dead Files per area to see if some area of Scientology has more dead filed than others.
"Dead Files" are those of people who are not actively being corresponded with. Only active files could produce an income.
"Entheta" in the following refers to communication from the "enemy."
It is true that entheta in an area is proportional to org incompetence in that area and real trouble in areas has always been preceded by at least two years of heavy entheta in public letters from that area.
HCOPL 1 March 65
The Guardian
Hubbard expected his intelligence officers to act solely as eyes and ears, not as decision makers
An Intelligence Officer collects data, files by name and area, writes summaries and forwards the data to the correct terminal. This person should never at any time consider themselves capable of giving an estimate of the situation. This is done by the head of the division.
Hubbard delineated a concept, such as intelligence, as follows:
The standard actions of intelligence are:
1. Predict the trouble before it occurs by filing, cross indexing, investigation of areas, statistics and other means.
2. Investigate for crimes, the individual's [sic] who are creating trouble.
3. Prosecute.
This is standard 1,2,3 action and should not be deviated from. The maxim is "when under attack ... attack". The point is ... even if you don't have enough data to win the case ... still attack ... loudly. Reason is, it is only those people that have crimes that will attack us, and they will soon back off for fear of being found out when attacked back.
HCOPL 25 Apr 68
Intell Actions
Following is further clarification of the value Hubbard put on traditional media.
...by studying clippings you can find out who has given them hostile data earlier or to whom they are referred for hostile data.
By taking these hostile names, one can then do a rundown on the person or his connections or both.
As there are actually very few of these names they thereby (cross filing) lead one to common denominators and one can locate attack sources ...
Intelligence data when gained, can be fed back to PRO for more spectacular confrontations ...
PRO signifies Public Relations Officer. More information on what Hubbard expected a PRO to do is given in a different source.
This activity (investigate, press counter-attack such speakers) must not be neglected ...
HCOPL 16 Feb 69
Enemy Names
Tactics and strategy may be thought of as two aspects of technology as follows:
If you uniformly apply the tactics and strategy of battle to the rows we get into, press or legal or public confrontations, you will win ...
The following puts the field of thought, as used by Hubbard, into context..
One parallels in the field of thought what is used and done in the field of battle in other ages.
Hubbard emphasized the concept of "all-or-nothing" in the following, in which the word "reasonable" refers to a condition to be avoided.
... it is not safe to hope for any half way win. We must ourselves fight on a basis of total attrition of the enemy. So never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate him.
Disagreement in one's own area is a thing to be avoided.
It is bad warfare to fight battles on your own terrain, in your own subject areas. It is not good to fight in the territory of allies. Fight battles wherever possible only on enemy terrain, in and about his subject and his people, not ours. You can gauge your relative success by this. When all battles are fought on his terrain you are winning.
Following is a rationalization for those mindful of budgets.
A good general expends the maximum of enemy troops and the minimum of his own. He makes the war costly to the enemy, not to himself.
Press, public opinion and governments are all listed as prospective settings for the same actions:
One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections. He deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections and power. He takes over enemy territory. He raids and harasses. All on a thought plain - press, public opinion, governments, etc.
Intelligence identifies targets and finds out enemy plans and purposes, enemy connections and dispositions, etc. It is fatal to attack a wrong enemy. But is good tactics to make the enemy attack wrong targets or persons himself.
Making "the enemy attack wrong targets" was a good tactic for public relations purposes. Hubbard wrote that his customer should be resourceful and clever in the rules of war, but still maintain a saintly image.
We will make it all the way providing we look on this in terms of active battle and not as "if we are saintly good we will win". The people who win wars have a saintly image but they win the war by clever and forceful use of the rules of tactics, strategy and battle.
Wars are composed of many battles.
Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars.
HCOPL 16 Feb 69
Battle Tactics
Hubbard considered the Public Relations Officer (PRO) to be an arm of intelligence.
... look for the very expert PRO response, the non-sequiter [sic] curve. These are the key figures who get their orders what to say, what to push.
These men are actually top PRO-intelligence operatives...
Hubbard gave the reason people could serve the enemy in such a manner.
Many such spokesmen are under direct blackmail so the trick is to find what blackmail the enemy has on them...
The following balances the above statement that enemy public relations are key figures.
These people are nobody in themselves. But they lead back to key organizations and these lead back to key figures highly placed. When you have these you are in business.
HCOPL 16 Feb 69
Enemy PROs
Undercurrents of Hubbard's media policy follow.
Getting enemy information sources "expended" is the equivalent of "neutralizing" enemy sources.Essentially a covert operation is intended to embarrass, discredit or overthrown or remove an actual or possible opponent.
It is a small war carried on without its true source being disclosed.
Generally the operation is preceded by data collection to establish the target validity and to plan the operation.
It follows all the rules of war but uses propaganda, psychological effect, surprise, shock, etc., to achieve its ends.
It is normal to establish the objective of the covert operation very clearly, whether large or small, long term or short term.
To fight a covert operation or to do one needs channels, contacts, direct planned campaigns with known objectives. One can also fight a covert operation by exposure of it and its principals for which one needs documents.
Covert operations are weak in that they fade out on exposure. Thus a covert operation has to lead to an overt operation to succeed.
Exposure authenticated by documents, can halt this process. The demonstration of falsity of utterance can discredit the agents planting data.
Whether overtly or covertly obtained data is:
(a) Collected
(b) Digested
(c) Used
Use is planning or exposure or for finding where to get more data.Our tactics of offense and defense are based on data.
We need data to predict his offensives and counter them and data to use on our attacks on him.
We remove his agents and vanquish his troops and we directly attack his central group. That's sound tactics.
By demonstrating his falsity about us we rehab our own repute (a long road back). By showing his sources to be false we get them expended.
By showing him to be brutal, venal and plotting we get him discarded.
2 Dec 69
Intell Actions
Covert Intell
Data Collection
Data was to be collected and processed for the purpose of estimations.
The first function of Intelligence is providing planning, command and policy making with ESTIMATIONS OF THE COURSE OF FUTURE EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE TO THE GENERAL ACTIVITY.
The normal process of intelligence is to procure by numerous and varied and always changing means or to use accumulated stores of DATA on a given subject (called raw data), add to it the data of the requiring organisation, process and coordinate the whole, and Flair, and furnish a prediction which tells whether or not there is a situation, its benefit or danger, its extent and priority of attention, for the use of planning command and policy and including in its submission all data used (within the limits of propriety and security). This is called an ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION.
"Flair" apparently is used to mean creative reason. Failing to reason out a situation would then be a failure.
ANY SITUATION WHICH COMES AS A SURPRISE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OR ANY PART OF IT IS AN INTELLIGENCE FAILURE.
INTELLIGENCE FURNISHES MUCH OF THE DATA ON WHICH EVALUATION IS BASED. AND INTELLIGENCE SHOULD FURNISH THE SITUATIONS, THE PREDICTIONS, WHICH TELL WHETHER AN EVALUATION SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT BE DONE.
The above taken literally in conjunction with earlier material that states that an intelligence officer forwards only data, never estimations, would mean that final evaluation is a function solely of the data.
What could be called SUPPORT intelligence (or attack or offensive intelligence) is the other side of the coin and also forms a vital part of intelligence activities. But here Intelligence is carrying out part of a program furnished by evaluation to command and ordered executed.
One purpose of the above paragraph, taken literally, is to communicate that "support" intelligence will be used when "attack" intelligence is meant. This fits in with the context of the next paragraph, which proceeds to discuss avoidance of violence and illegality. Hubbard also pointed out the advantage of obtaining papers legally, in that papers so obtained may be presented in a court of law against whoever the targets may be.
All defensive and support intelligence is done in a way that brings no liability to the organization. When Intelligence is clumsy and short cuts its actions by illegal means or violence in any service, it can have a Watergate. There is no need for this sort of thing actually. A "suitable guise" on the other hand is not illegal. Papers secured in a legal manner can be presented in courts and used whereas covertly obtained materials are sometimes useless because one cannot refer to them and they would serve at best only as a guide as to where to look legally for documents one CAN use, so why not have enough flair to know where to look for papers that can be legally used?
An Intelligence unit, then is the beginning and part of the end of all SITUATIONS. Normally it is divided into two parts, one which is defensive, the other which is supportive (or attack).
GO 784 8 June 73 Intell Its Role
AG stands for Assistant Guardian. Here are some plans and standard actions for the role of an Assistant Guardian that show one relationship of operations to the press.
PLANS:
1. An AG I fully trained on post.
2. The AG I carrying out standard actions:
a. Knowledge by broad observation and attention to tell tale small signs.
b. Predict the trouble before it occurs by filing, cross indexing, investigation of areas, stats and other means.
c. Spot an area heating up for an attack.
d. Locate the source of the attack on us.
e. Investigate for crimes the individuals who are causing trouble.
f. Handle by running operations, exposure via the press, or by prosecution.3. The Planetary Planning Unit works out ways to prevent future attacks and how to take advantage of situations that will develop. (HCOPL 1 Mar 65, Guardian)
4. The Org Planning Unit predicts trouble by such things as too much entheta from an area, too much sex going on in an org and working closely with HCO plans how to reorganize the org in that area without destroying it. Such planning also handles a public programs for an entheta area to weaken anti-Scientology propaganda, at the same time stiffening up Ethics and quality of service in the area and investigating why Ethics and quality of service are down so that they can be remedied. (1 March 66, Guardian)
Plans are further broken down into programs of both the offensive and defensive variety..
PROGRAMMES:
1. Offensive programmes as issued or approved by LRH, MSH or the Guardian.
2. Defensive programmes as issued or approved by LRH, MSH or the Guardian.
Programs are broken down into projects.
PROJECTS:
As issued and necessary to carry out B1 programme targets.
B1 refers to "Branch 1" as listed in item 5 of this part, section and volume (inventory item 4). Projects are then finally broken down into orders for which compliance is reported.
ORDERS:
As needed to achieve compliance with command intention.
The ideal scene is a statement of what is being attempted in the above plans, programs, projects and orders.
IDEAL SCENE:
Attackers against Scientology located and removed from their positions of power so that Scientology can get on with it. And any threat of attack restrained, leaving Scientology a clear field.
Statistics are a means whereby compliance can be measured.
STATISTICS:
The statistic is a dual statistic:
a. # of Br I points. (see attached)
b. # of Br II points. (see attached)
The results of the ideal scene as stated above are referred to as valuable final products.
VALUABLE FINAL PRODUCTS:
More amenable frames of mind on the part of all enemies.
As mentioned in the organization of the Guardian's Office, the Information Bureau contains two branches. Branch I is for information collection and operation; Branch II is for Information Investigations and Handling. Statistics are the means by which branch performance is measured. Statistics are awarded in accordance with the priorities of the branches, with more important actions receiving a greater number of points. These statistics serve to indicate exactly the role of the media in the underlying press strategy of Hubbard's system of organization.
Br I and II Statistics:
Br I (also that of the Br I Director) Total Points a. An enemy or potential enemy removed from the position of power from
which he is attacking or could attack. 250 b. An enemy or potential enemy seriously restrained from attacking and
whose position of power is seriously damaged. 75 c. An enemy or potential enemy whose position of power has been
impaired and his ability to attack is reduced or impeded. 20 d. An attack prevented or depowered. 100 e. Documented and estimated data showing or predicting the state or plans
of an enemy in relation to Scn or potential Scn activities; and
distributed to the proper terminals in a usable form. 25 f. Documented critical or scandalous (discreditable) data about an enemy,
not publicly known, turned over to the proper terminals in usable form. 25 g. Documented criminal or scandalous (discreditable) data about an
enemy, publically [sic] available, turned over to the proper terminals
in a usable form. 5 h. An enemy file on Scn obtained, excerpted and sent up lines in usable
form. 25 i. An unpredicted attack. -100 j. An operation blown where the enemy has evidence that it was of CofS
origin. -250
The result of removing opposition to the organization is theorized to increase the number of the organization's customers.
Br II (also that of the Br II Director):
Number of staff, students and PCs actively on lines this week in the area. (Includes orgs and missions in the geographical area of responsibility).
10. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 13
Branch One Admin Scale (one page, circa 1976)
The overall theme is presented as a goal.
Goals: Scientology expanded unopposed by external suppressives across the planet.
In the purposes, certain public matters are presented as impediments to human liberty on which intelligence must therefore be gathered.
Purposes: To help LRH investigate those public matters and individuals which seem to impede human liberty so that such may be exposed and to furnish intelligence necessary in guiding the progress of Scientology.
The forward progress of the customer, Scientology, is linked to detecting and handling those who are alleged to suppress the customer.
To help Ron safeguard the Scientology Orgs., Scientologists and Scientology by effectively carrying out all intelligence activities which lead to the further prediction of areas of trouble and which lead to resolution of such areas before trouble occurs; and to detect and handle the suppressives, exterior to Scientology orgs and Scientologists, who uses his power and position or the power and position of authorities to attempt to stop the forward progress of Scientology and Scientologists.
As stated, the policy is placed in a "hat." A "hat" is a write-up of duties.
Policy: As laid down by LRH in the intelligence Branch One Director HAT.
The customer's expansion is made purely a function of the ability to reduce power of those who suppress the customer.
Plans: Generally to locate every source of opposition to Scientology and the control point of these sources and to reduce their power to ineffectiveness and/or take them over.
The target of intelligence gathering is listed specifically as people, referred to as WHOs.
Ideal Scene: A Branch One Director directing and co-ordinating the activities of Branch One; where investigations are being conducted into public matters and individuals which seem to impede human liberty thus enabling the prediction of attacks and detection of external suppressives who are using their power and position and/or the power or position of others to suppress Scientology; where data collected is swiftly and accurately cross-filed; and where WHOs are found and permanently handled by effective operations.
The result of these plans and policies is intended to be eradication of enemies.
11.Valuable Final Product: Exterior enemies and attacks located and restrained and/or removed.
Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 14
Branch II Director's Organization Chart (circa Jan 1976)
(One page, showing the command lines from LRH on down.)Purpose of Post: To support LRH and ensure the expansion of Scientology, by locating any and all internal situations/individuals which could impede the progress of Scientology, and successfully handling those situations/individuals to a point of no threat to the Organization.
An Org[anization] Board lets every individual in the organization know that they have a direct relationship and what that relationship is to the lead individual, LRH, L. Ron Hubbard. The following lists the connections between southeast United States Branch I and II directors and LRH. Anyone working for those directors would also be connected to LRH along the same channels.
Position on the Org Board:
LRH
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SEUS BR I SEUS BR II
DIR DIR
*Southeastern United States
12. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 15
Organization Chart of the Guardian Network
(Government exhibit 1-A, Circa 1978) (one page) ...
13. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part A, The Information Bureau, item 16
Organization Chart of the Guardian Office Network This chart shows the various Bureaus for B1, B2, B3, B4 and B5 on a worldwide level as well as the United States level. (One page from the St. Petersburg Times 1980 Pulitzer Prize reprint of their award winning series.)
Chart shows church's two main divisions: Sea Organization, based in Clearwater; Guardian's Office World-Wide, in England, with subsidiary in Los Angeles, supervising all local Guardian's Offices in U.S. It serves as an example of the usefulness that the media can have in Hubbard's script.
Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War
United States Guardian Office
Section 1 General InformationPart B - The War
1. Info Ltr 13 Apr 61, Terror Stalks
14. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 1
HCO Information Letter of April 13, 1961
Terror Stalks
The scenario Hubbard created in the following is that there was public outcry against him before he published his book, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health."
A piercing scream against Dianetics arose before the first book was published in 1950. Press was hot against it before the first foundation was formed.
Hubbard created connections between various events and named figures, but it is not clear whether his figures prove the connections he created.
For seven months before there was any personnel or personal troubles publicized, the bulk of articles against Dianetics had already appeared. At one time three national magazines were simultaneously on the stands screaming in lead articles about Dianetics and myself - and this was five months before any "divorce" publicity. And amongst the hundreds of reporters and commentators who screamed only one ever talked to me, and, from various evidences, none had read the book or knew anything about the subject.
Hubbard also published an article on "Dianetics" in a magazine called Astounding Science Fiction in May 1950.
Until May, 1950 I received only favorable publicity - on expeditions or comings or goings. In May 1950 there was a concerted shriek from people who (a) had not read the book and (b) who knew nothing bad about me
Hubbard named names of certain groups as enemies for this period of time. Presumably there were reasons for the groups named, for instance, John F. Kennedy was a Roman Catholic.
These howls came from both conservatives and liberal groups alike - the AMA - The Commies, the Socialists, the Roman Catholics.
Hubbard advanced his conclusions from the above as follows:
Thus we can rule the following facts out of all the protests and "bad publicity" of the past eleven years:
1. That it stems from any knowledge of the subject;
2. That it is a concerted effort by any one group; and
3. That it is based on any knowledge of myself
After his above refutation of the poor publicity he had received for the prior decade, Hubbard then proceeded on to look at the motivations of the people who he perceived as responsible for his poor publicity.
Now if we look further we also find these facts:
The conclusion of the following could be that practices had arisen in the same decade in which Hubbard had received bad publicity that he believed to be more deserving of the bad publicity than he was.
6. Many truly dangerous practices have risen up amongst man such as a new Indian version of whirling dervishism now rampant in England;
7. Brainwashing was introduced in the past eleven years by the Russians;
8. A dozen violent and harmful psychiatric treatments have been developed.
The justification for the apparent unexplained tolerance of practices so outlandish from Hubbard's viewpoint is suggested as collaboration on the part of governments.
And no sustained protest has continued to be made in the press against these. Indeed the U.S. Government adopted brainwashing calmly and the British Government and people of the U.S. have accepted new psychiatric treatments, organizations and propaganda without real protest.
Note that the facts referred to by Hubbard in the following are the statements he presented as fact earlier in this paper.
If you look this over with cold dispassion, examine it thoroughly from the light of the facts, only one explanation seems to remain.
They are terrified of our postulates!
This analysis places a fantastic dissemination weapon in our hands. The terror in the protest is obvious since it is misemotional and is not based on confronted facts.
"Misemotional," as used above, is a coined word meaning approximately "misplaced emotional." An outcome of the above is that Hubbard's customer is to interpret the reaction of a person who disagrees as a misplaced emotion. Therefore, based on the assumption that this interpretation is correct, Hubbard posed a counter-reaction.
To any attack by anyone, we can reply, "Why are you terrified of Scientology?" or "Why are you afraid of Hubbard?" or "Why are you frightened of Scientologists?"
For plainly this is the case.
Hubbard wrote there is more justification for the actions of people who disagree.
I'll admit that evil men sense the germs of their own destruction.
There may be unconscious recognition in this. ...
But, of this we are certain. We inspire terror in some men.
L. Ron Hubbard copyright 1961 by L. Ron Hubbard
15. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 2
Hubbard presented an imaginative, unique angle in this announcement. It is told from the view of someone, possibly whose identity would have be protected for safekeeping, close to the US Navy. The person whose first name could be Ray seems, by his communication, to be reporting to Hubbard from the government on matters of interest to Hubbard's customer, Scientology.
HCO Information Letter of May 8, 1961
Communism and ScientologyThe following cable from a Scientologist now close to the Navy in the United States gives sudden interest to the pamphlet "Why some fight Scientology":
HCO STHILL EGSTD [Saint Hill East Grinstead] Z220 SANDIEGO CALIF 27 5 842P VIA WESTERN UNION CABLES
LT HUBBARD TELEX 8876 EAST GRINSTEAD -
SCIENTOLOGY OPPONENTS PROVED COMMUNIST BY BUREAU OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE 100 USN PERSONNEL PER MONTH TO TAKE COMMUNICATIONS COURSE LETTER FOLLOWS -
RAY
The Communications Course is the name of a program offered by Hubbard's customer.
L. Ron Hubbard
copyright 1961 by L. Ron Hubbard
16. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 4
HCO Information Letter of November 9, AD12
Ron's Journal No. 2
Hubbard made his writings seem personal by relating what he was writing to world events.
It seems from here that the world went through a psychotic break in October. Along with Cuba and the near boom of the bomb, with Russia helping India against Red China, things closer to home also went spinny.
A "psychotic break" is a mental breakdown. "Spinny" means "confused" in the above text.
There were crises in the world of Scientology in the following places: South Africa, England, Australia and the U.S.
Two of these emergencies were governmental.
Hubbard resolved his customer's difficulties by pinpointing the alleged source of those difficulties. In this case one source would be irate parents and the other the FDA. A "Mark IV" is a model number of an electronic device used by the customer to measure electrical resistance in the subject's skin during interrogation. It is also referred to as a "meter" or "e-meter.".
The other governmental emergency (U.S.) was traced to the irate parents of a student who were hammering at FDA (Food, Drug Admin.) to seize all E-meters and close down all Scientology in the U.S. One wonders at their missed withholds! The matter is being fought but 35 Mark IVs are held up in Customs in the U.S. and F.D.A. orders. The F.D.A. has been trying for years to halt our meters. They have authority over all "diagnostic and therapeutic electrical machinery." They pass as wonderful all psychiatric electric shock machines even when they kill patients. One wonders at the political colour that favours machines that murder and outlaws those that disclose truth.
Of all the methods Hubbard has of detecting enemies, one of the most unique is by use of the e-meter. The e-meter has a dial on a gauge. Since electrical resistance of the skin varies, the dial moves sporadically up or down. Various type of movements are given names. The type of movement that supposedly designates a criminal or an enemy is called a "Rock Slam."
The other two emergencies were cause by Rock Slammers, so upgrade the importance of Rock Slam and ordinary sec[urity] checks.
Occasionally Hubbard set off the urgency of his writings with relevant personal experiences.
Early darkness and autumn chill are upon us. I have my new Pontiac out in the garage (sigh) and no spare instant to drive it. It's my cameras and cars which suffer in the midst of all these flaps.
L. Ron Hubbard
copyright 1962 by L. Ron Hubbard
17. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 5
HCO Information Letter of January 8, AD13
Ron's Journal No. 3
Hubbard sets a tone of personal annoyance at not being able to enjoy having a weekend off.
Well, I just spent one of those weekends where after a full week's work I find myself alone with an avalanche of emergency despatches.
His customer's building was raided by federal agents. The role Hubbard set for the press is one of covering up for the actions of government.
The U.S. Government went more than abnormally insane last week and did the following all off its own little bat:
(1) Organized a smear campaign in the press to cover up
The following two notes also show one importance of being a church and having religious books.
(2) An armed raid on a church and
(3) The seizure of philosophical religious book stocks.
Hubbard associated the raid by the US federal government with tactics by Hitler.
These were Hitler's exact tactics when he got "agin" something. The smear campaign was in Washington D.C. papers, on the streets four hours before the raid occurred. Carefully the papers make no mention of "Church" or seizure of religious texts. The Church was the Founding Church of Scientology. The books were 21 titles of our Scientology texts.
The proper response to a government raid was said to stand one's ground even though one may have been stunned.
The org today is operating and, though shocked, stood up well to the violence done. Meters were also seized.
The sequence of events seems to denote some cause between the government raid and offering President Kennedy help with government space travel.
The action came soon after I offered Kennedy, a Catholic, help in the space race.
Hubbard gave the scene as one in which ideas he related as facts could be the downfall of the US government. The reasoning for the downfall is given as a factual contradiction of the US Constitution. The result of the distribution of these ideas of fact is given as hesitation on the part of other countries in dealing with the United States. Hubbard also asked a rhetorical question of who would want to be associated with a country about which he would relate these facts?
But what is interesting is that no press has mentioned the above (1), (2), (3) facts. Given to the public just as they are, they could ruin the Kennedy regime, if not the U.S. Government over a longer period. They are in the teeth of the Constitution of the United States and abroad would give pause to all this enthusiasm for U.S. domination of world defence. Who wants to be tied up with a country dedicated to religious persecution and Hitler methodology?
Hubbard publicly stated his satisfaction with the job done by the organization in Washington, D.C., which was raided by federal agents. He seemed convinced that as a result of his work, his customer will be successful. He then advised his readers that they could help by spreading the word to their friends and to the local newspaper:
The DC org was superb! And as a result of our work we'll surely win. You can help too. Just tell it to our local paper and your friends, "The U.S. Government has conducted a smear campaign in the press to cover up a raid on a church and the seizure of all stocks of 21 religious and philosophical textbooks; wasn't that the way Hitler began?"
Hubbard ended up his news letter with a note of optimism, getting across the point that only good news had been received up until the unexpected raid by the US government. He expressed surprise that such an action could take place, then reassured his audience that even such an unpleasant surprise could still turn into good news for the movement.
It did look like a lovely New Year. For days, until the U.S. Government went mad, I received only good news from everywhere. And then Bang. But maybe that will be good news too.
We'll still be alive when the cold wind moans through the girders of their gutted buildings. And we'll be alive when the only government on Pennsylvania Avenue will be the frightened scurry of a paper in the dusty street.
The sad part of it is, they could have been alive too.
A Happy New Year to you.
L. Ron Hubbard
copyright 1963 by L. Ron Hubbard
18. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 6
HCO Information Letter of January 15, AD.13
The DC Situation
Hubbard started out this letter with a statement to his readers of what he said was general knowledge.
As you know on January 5, 1963, the Health Education and Welfare Dept., and the "Food and Drug Administration" of the US. Government conducted a smear campaign in the press and then raided the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington and seized the total stock of 21 book titles.
He first characterized the raid as a result of the government agencies' attack not personally upon his customer, but against "quasi-religious" groups in general. He stated that the raid against his customer's organization was merely a test case which, if successful, would mean government systematic eradication of "all religious psychology in the U.S." He used a time sequence of events in an example apparently intended to show cause. First he said Saint Thomas Aquinas invented psychology in the 13th century. He next said that the government raiding agency was founded when the US president was "so friendly with Communism." A consequence of these two events was the idea that the US government was really trying to use the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as a form of political secret police. He expressed disbelief in the idea that the government was really trying to eradicate "quasi-religious" groups.
As data comes in, the raid was a spearhead of an organized attack by HEW's FDA on "quasi-religious groups who use healing aids" and is their test case so they can shut down all religious psychology in the U.S. As psychology was founded by Saint Thomas Aquinas of the Roman Catholic Church in the 13th century, and as the FDA was founded when Roosevelt was so friendly with Communism, we think the U.S. Government is trying its strength against all free thought in an effort to set up an NKVD of thought in the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare. We don't think they are out to get "quasi-religious groups."
Hubbard brought up the idea that the government was terrified of his customer. He portrayed intent on the part of the government to make his customer's actions illegal before his customer's "horrible honesty spreads."
Our Security Check utterly panicked the Government. They quoted it to the papers. They've got to get the E-Meter made illegal before this horrible honesty spreads.
Hubbard advocated writing to members of congress. He let it be known that ample funds were being collected to support his customer's religious freedom and gave reassurances that lawyers of good quality were being employed. Not only that, but he stated that he was going to get more back than just what had been seized during the raid in Washington, D.C.
We have heavily written Congress. The FCDC* is collectin [sic] a million dollar fund for Religious Freedom. We have the best attorneys in Washington. And we are not only going to get our books and meters back.
*Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C.
He further stated that the government intended to confiscate anything in the country known as a "healing device" or a lie detector. He emphasized that notion as fact, and stated that the government's slogan was, "'Make the U.S. safe for Communists and criminals.' And Government agents."
In the Governments they plan to seize, on the basis of this case, every "healing device" in the United States and every lie detector in the country. That's their goal. "Make the U.S. safe for Communists and criminals." And Government agents.
Hubbard stated that it was a mistake to choose his customer as the test case for the scenario that he depicted. He acknowledged the possibility of "quacks" in the country, but gave assurances that he and his customer did not possess that quality.
They really messed up their attack by choosing us for their test case. Possibly there are quacks in the U.S. But we're not amongst them.
Hubbard typified the nature of a welfare department, such as the one that raided his customer, as one that specializes in victims. In one instance Hubbard capitalized the first letter of "victims" to express the personification of the concept, that he was talking about victims more as an abstract notion than as people. He stated, "They reward only victims. They make only victims." A conclusion that could be drawn from this, he stated, was that the welfare department could, at best, be thought of as a "reformed gangster."
The officials of a Welfare [sic] Department specialize in Victims. They are personally interested only in victims. They reward only victims. They make only victims. The professional do-gooder is at best a reformed gangster.
Hubbard then put his connections in proximity to each other in a form by which welfare seemed to promote helplessness.
Welfare states are run for victims, think only about victims and create only victims. That is the basic disease of all socialistic endeavors. Welfarism is a psychotic mental disease born out of guilty conscience and conducted only for the victim by those that try to make victims. Government of the helpless by the helpless and for the helpless has always perished from this Earth.
He then acknowledged that he had been a bit extreme and that he might even be called an unpleasant name for that. His reasoning for his action was that he despised sickness being sold to the public as health.
Well, this outburst makes me no Tory. It's just that I despise psychosis peddled as the ultimate sanity.
Hubbard stated the raid upon his customer raised a question as to whether the government was really a government or a book-burning form of Fascism that strove to suppress those who sought truth. He also stated that the reason Europe did not print news of the raid was that he stopped that from happening. He did not state how he might have done that, merely, "I stopped it."
For this attack opened the burning question: Is this a Constitutional Government of the United States? Or is it a Hitlerian Fascism that raids churches, burns books and tries to stamp out searches after truth?
There was no European press on it. I stopped it.
Hubbard set a sequence of events to show that this sort of situation had happened before, but that if his readers let this happen again, they might not get another chance. He expressed regret that the era of greatness was a thing of the past and pointed out that his readers were experiencing the death throes of a dying country. In closing he stressed that it was important for his customers to do their jobs and hope for a better day.
But force without principle, cannons without a decent cause, have laid Earth waste before. And it would seem are about to do it again, finally and thoroughly.
The day of Great Nations is dead. But the dying agonies of these States seek to strike us all into degradation.
Just hold on and do your job, get and give case gains and get clear. And another day, a better day will dawn for all of us.
L. Ron Hubbard
copyright 1963 by L. Ron Hubbard
19. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 7
This text used the media to spotlight a point that Hubbard thought important for his customer.
HCO Information Letter of June 4, 1963
Sobering Facts
Hubbard reported that this letter was a reprint of an article for which he asked permission from King Features Syndicate. He said the article was written by Ralph de Toledano. The article, in turn described a book that de Toledano said had been "smuggled out the Soviet Union." The book described was written by a General Vasily D. Sokolovsky, who was a senior official in the Red Army. In his book Sokolovsky issued disinformation that was presented by de Toledano and then by Hubbard with no comment as to whether the information they were forwarding was true or not. The contents of the book were merely replicated from the book by de Toledano and then reprinted under Hubbard.
King Features Syndicate of New York very kindly gave us permission recently to reprint the following release of the book Soviet Military Strategy by Ralph de Toledano.
The present lull in the world situation is deceptive in inducing a leisurely sense of time.
Here is the release:
RUSS A-WAR WOULD SMASH U.S. - SOVIET 'MEIN KAMPF' DETAILS BLUEPRINT FOR HOLOCAUST By Ralph de Toledano Copyright 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
A 450-page book, smuggled out of the Soviet Union, may jolt the American people out of the horse-and-buggy strategic thinking - that is, if the text is ever made public.
Written by Marshal Vasily D. Sokolovsky and 13 other senior officers of the Red army, it is "Mein Kampf" [sic] blueprint for burying the West in a nuclear holocaust.
The book, "Soviet Military Strategy", represents the U.S.S.R.'s official military position. Its major point is, that the Soviet Union must and will launch an all-out nuclear attack on the United States once it has superiority in the new weapons.
While the U.S.S.R. is in the process of seeking this lead, it will continue to operate behind a propaganda smokescreen - calling for "negotiation" with the West, the relaxation of tension, and end to the war.
The book was said to contain "some of the key points in the Soviet nuclear war plan," and it was said that these points were under study by experts in the highest levels of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency. Point number one, as presented from the view of the Soviet General in his presumably English-language book, was that the Soviet Union was currently still subject to a surprise attack. As a result of this vulnerability, "political" means would be put into effect as a preventive measure. The word "political" was put in quotation marks to designate that was the word used by the Soviet General. Point number three clarified point one as follows:
Here are some of the key points in the Soviet nuclear war plan - now being secretly studied by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon's highest echelons:
1. A surprise attack by the West on the Soviet Union is still possible. Therefore "political" means must be used to prevent it. ...
3. War can be won only be a "first strike" and through the "total Destruction" of the enemy. "Wars of liberation" merely serve political ends.
Part of the message contained in the article was that the enemy was to be moved "in as close to the American heartland as possible," leaving the question open of whether this part of the plan was already underway. It was further stated that the enemy that was thus pre-positioned in the United States was to move into areas even though they might be subject to lethal doses of radiation. This was said not to be a factor in the alleged takeover.
6. All troops must be developed long before the attack signal is given. These forces must be dug in as close to the American heartland as possible so that they can be moved readily after the knockout blow.
7. Radioactivity is not considered a military factor. Field commanders will be under instructions to move into contaminated areas immediately, regardless of the loss of life to Soviet troops exposed to radioactivity.
This letter was authorized in Hubbard's name as follows:
Issued by: Robin Hancocks
HCO Franchise Secretary WW
for L. Ron HubbardCopyright 1963 by L. Ron Hubbard
20. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 8
HCO Information Letter of November 24, 1963
Essential Information every Scientologist should know
Part of the purpose of this text seems to be the counteracting of influence upon his customer that any media may have had. Hubbard or his staff gave his customer information meant to "correct" the information that apparently been previously distributed by the press.
To correct certain misconceptions held by newspapers and areas of the public, the following information is released to assist Scientologists in correcting such ideas:
Some of the information presented concerned the person of L. Ron Hubbard. It was stated that he had an income of his own, but that some of his expenses were paid by the customer. It was also stated that the customer was in debt to Hubbard for "considerable sums" of money. Nevertheless, Hubbard was also said to have paid all his expenses of his original research. Hubbard was stated to have donated all proceeds from his first book to the customer he had at the time. It was also stated that Hubbard owned the estate at which his customer was doing business, that he received no rent, and that he had obtained the money to buy that estate from sales of properties he held in the United States.
LRH* has his own personal income. Organizations pay his expenses when traveling and some research expenses. Organisations currently owe LRH considerable sums of moneys loaned to them by LRH - Johannesburg over 3,000 pounds, London 7,000 pounds, etc.
*L. Ron Hubbard
LRH paid all the original costs of research out of his own pocket. The royalties of the first book, DMSMH*, were all given to the first foundations. LRH owns Saint Hill as his own home, paying for it with his own monies received from the sales of a Virginia property and a yacht he owned. He receives no rent for Saint Hill partial use by HCO Division of HASI* or the Saint Hill Course.
*Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
*Hubbard Association of Scientologists International
Hubbard or his staff informed his customers that
There would be nothing wrong if LRH did make money from Scientology as Scientologists are perfectly willing to pay him for his services in administration and research. Boards and officers often express the hope of paying Ron book royalties and sums for good will and amounts loaned and LRH will be perfectly willing to accept them. LRH in some Orgs has drawn a nominal salary in the past as Co-ordinator of Research and it has been well earned but he has drawn no pay for the past several years until lately when 25 pounds a week was given him for his out of pocket expenses.
Under the heading of "Organizations," the text stated that Hubbard's first organizations had not been formed or controlled personally by him, and that these organizations were a failure. Specifically, the "press and public relations" of the organizations were stated to have been mishandled by others. One quote in particular is ascribed to a person other than Hubbard.
To the late Joe Winter M.D., an original board member, we owe the stress on psychosomatic medicine. "70% of all ills are psycho-somatic, Dianetics can cure them" was Winter's and these handouts were written by Winter.
The organizations that Hubbard allegedly formed personally were praised for their productiveness in non-communist parts of the world. It was further stated that those organizations continued asking Hubbard for his assistance. Hubbard was said to have set records in his service to his organizations, and a specific figure was assigned to his worthiness.
The record of advance and growth under LRH direction and the able service of those he has appointed mark something like a record. Any International firm would have paid $125,000 a year to a general-manager who could have duplicated this feat.
Under the heading of "Press" was stated that bad press begets bad press. Therefore the cause of any bad press in existence at the time would have been due to the earlier bad press that, as stated above, originated from the organizations that, it was stated, were not formed or controlled by Hubbard. The reader was assured that the trend supposedly inherited by Hubbard was gradually being reversed. Not only that, but all press was alleged to be based on attacks inspired by the American Medical Association and the American communists. Furthermore, it was emphasized, nobody from the press had over a period of 13 years personally interviewed Hubbard. It was said to be significant that the press would write stories about Hubbard without having first interviewed him. A sign was given that the old trend was, indeed, being reversed in that a "star writer" from The Saturday Evening Post was being sent to interview Hubbard at his estate in England.
Under the heading of "Degrees" was stated,
You often hear slurs on LRH "lack of degrees". .... But there are no degrees or courses given in Universities for the subjects he researches. He does not practice in any field requiring a degree. He does not need or want degrees, but even so he has them.
Hubbard's customer used an electrical device, called an E-Meter, to interrogate members of the customer's organization. Both an association and a disassociation was made between this device and "subversives" and is cited with a short introduction as follows:
The E-Meter is actually a psycho-galvanometer invented about 60 years ago. It is capable of being used as a lie detector. Our modern meter is a transistor version and is tuned to detect overcharged mental areas. ... It does not diagnose and will not cure illness and has never been used as such.
By the following Hubbard let the potential of the E-Meter to detect subversives be known to its users.
The Meter is feared by subversives. Only Scientologists with meters could detect subversives. Trained Scientologists are the world's foremost meter or lie detector operators. Therefore subversive and criminal elements are terrified of and fight the meter.
Even though Hubbard stated the E-Meter had great potential, he also stated that restrictions were usually self-imposed on this great potential. The above-mentioned potential was said to be directed towards people knowing truth about themselves. It was also stated that this potential was available to the general public in "toy stores."
That Scientologists seldom use the meter to detect subversion and only use it to assist people to know the truth about themselves, does not deter this attack. Cruder E-Meters are generally available in the world and one version can be bought in toy stores in the U.S.
Under the heading "The Politics of Scientology" it was stated that the customer's politics could easily turn into the politics of freedom. The politics of freedom was set in opposition to the politics of bureaucracy. Hubbard wrote that the bureaucracies labeled anything that limited the rights of bureaucracy as "Rightist." In his words,
A rightist is defined "as one who believes in limiting bureaucracies and in the rights of the individual." Therefore Scientology whether it will or no gets classed as a "Rightist movement". It is listed in directories in the U.S. as one of the first 17 Rightist Movements of the U.S.
In Hubbard's world, the powers-that-be also included the Communists, which he wrote with a capital "C." The politics of the communists were said to include promoting any action that gave the state total power. This was set in opposition to individual's and the customer's rights. The politics of Communism was even said to include denying the individual the "right to be paid for his work." As Hubbard stated, "This is slavery in modern garb." Thus, Hubbard reasoned, his customer followed a politic that was unlike that of communism. In regards to how this could affect the customer's public relations, he wrote, "The Communist uses all manner of fellow travelers to spread his ideas and this helps to give us bad press."
Yet another reason was given for the negative light the press had shed upon Hubbard's customer. In more statements, Hubbard again referred to the potential of his customer to "appear" to heal people and this appearance of healing was said to be an "economic threat" to the drug manufacturers and medical associations. Billions of dollars in income was said to be at stake due to this appearance of healing without drugs. Hubbard used this as another reason for his customer getting negative press, simultaneously disclaiming any interest in healing people.
The Medical Associations and drug manufacturers fear the appearance of easy drugless healing and so campaign against any economic threat to their multi-billion dollar income. This also gives us bad press even though we have small interest in healing.
The reasons for the negative publicity had been brought up, analyzed, communicated and discounted. With that done, the press was said to be not actually relevant when it came to increasing income for the customer.
But press has no real bearing on Scientology growth. Good news stories and bad news stories alike do not really increase or decrease Central Organization traffic. Scientology goes by word of mouth, not by press.
Material with which the customer dealt was said to be similar to the material upon Buddhism was based. To support this statement, the name of the person who supposedly founded Buddhism was given, "Gautama Siddhartha," and an approximate time frame was given during which he "attempted" this material, "2,500 years ago." Buddhism was described as the world's first civilized religion, and religion was said to be philosophy that dealt with people as spirits. The laws of the world's first civilized religion were said to be very close to those of the customer's. The conclusion of these statements was said not to be that the customer practiced Buddhism, but that there was little doubt that the customer was dealing in the area of religion when using the prescribed material.
Another statement given to support the religious nature of the customer was that theosophy followed a set of rules similar to those that the customer followed. It was said that theosophy had been declared a religion by an authoritative body, namely US federal courts.
The conclusion given was that the customer therefore practiced a body of knowledge that was religion. The customer was reassured that there was never really any doubt but that this knowledge had always been a religion The reason given for this certainty was that religion was supposedly, by definition, the study of the spiritual nature of human beings. To further clarify this statement it was pointed out that this idea was in contrast to the study of the animal nature of the human race.
Under the heading of "Mission" is the customer's mission statement "to give Man wisdom and freedom." This was said to have a civilizing nature, and it was also said to be a matter of the individual's freedom. It was stated that "Men are prisoners of themselves" and that they would only ever be liberated by "truth." One conclusion drawn from this information was that if human beings were sane, then their societies would be sane. In conjunction with this it was stated,
If you, the individual, knew the truth and were processed toward the truth, you would be free. Only lies degrade you. This is the lesson of Scientology.
In regards to various sentiments that people might have toward the above mission, it was said that combating the stated mission was impossible. For that reason preferences were expressed that the customer not make a habit out of confronting any opposing views or even taking them seriously.
Those who opposed the mission were said to be at a disadvantage in that they dealt with only finite periods of time whereas the customer did not. In summary,
A thousand years from now Scientology will be a bright name when anything now governed will have vanished from the role of nations.
As an incentive for future hope it was stated that charging money to have the customer receive this mental processing could eventually be a thing of the past once the full intention of the customer's body of knowledge came into play.
Issued by: HCO WW Staff
for L. Ron Hubbard
Copyright 1963 by L. Ron Hubbard
All rights reservedP.S. - NEWS:
Old Saint Hill Graduates are offered training to their next classification and their HGA* for the reduced fee of 150 pounds for 20 weeks. All O.T.* materials and new auditing styles are available at Saint Hill, plus a new co-audit to O.T., now being organized for graduates.
*Hubbard Graduate Auditor, a level of attainment offered by the customer *Operating Thetan, a level of attainment offered by the customer
Write the Course Administrator.
L. Ron Hubbard
21. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 9
HCO Executive Letter of 7 April 1965
Ron's Journal No. 11
E-Meter Persecution by the Food and Drug Admin.
U.S.
In this case Hubbard ascribed public investigations into his customer to the Catholic Church. This conclusion was come to after statements that an Australian Catholic "bigot" was submitting a report to the authorities in that country and that the US Federal Drug Administration was inspired by Catholics. He wrote this was surprising for him as he thought the Catholics no longer burned witches, for which reason he stated they were driven from England in centuries past. Hubbard then, perhaps light-heartedly, suggested that his customer "hex" Anderson and the FDA. Hubbard also commented that the graves of the witches allegedly burned by Catholics several hundred years earlier were the best kept in the local cemetery. Using this as a basis he suggested, perhaps lightheartedly, that
It's almost a recommendation, it seems, to be harassed by the Catholics! ....
Ron
Copyright 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard
22. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 10
HCO Executive Letter of 4 June 1965
OCA Graph of woman before and after electric shock treatment
This is a graph that charts the results from a psychological test. It shows two columns higher after shock treatment and 8 columns lower.
L. Ron Hubbard
Copyright 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard
23. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 11
HCO Executive Letter of 6 October 1965
The Melbourne Enquiry into ScientologyRegarding the opposition party "enquiry" into Scientology in the State Parliament in Melbourne and its "findings" the following story was written in reply by L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of Scientology.
In regard to the inquiry into Hubbard's customer in Australia and its findings, Hubbard rhetorically asked
Does a Man in the 20th Century have a right to write what he believes to be the truth?
Hubbard wrote that he was a writer and a philosopher. To substantiate this he stated he had a degree in philosophy. He placed this concept in contrast to being a psychiatrist or a psychologist, for which he wrote he did not have a degree. He further substantiated the claim to being a writer by saying that he had written books. Not only that but he said millions of people had read the books he wrote. He expressed solidarity with his fellow man in believing that people are good and that they deserve help.
Hubbard wrote that there are many variations of prejudice, and that one of these variations was present in the Australian inquiry. He founded that conclusion by saying that the investigators in Australia had already come to their conclusions before they held their investigation. Hubbard stated that the Australian inquiry would not have taken place in England because it would supposedly "have been laughed out of existence." He wrote that the conduct of the inquiry was illegal according to what he termed "common law," and that if it would have taken place in England, the attorneys would certainly have been disbarred.
In contrast to the prior disapproval, Hubbard also expressed a sort of mercy in stating
Well, Australia is young. In 1942 as the senior US naval officer in Northern Australia by a fluke of fate I helped save them from the Japanese. For the sake of Scientologists there, I will go on helping them. They have a lot to learn.
He also, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, expressed sympathy for his presumed persecutors, and gave fear as a reason for their actions.
In closing, Hubbard again invoked the three witches allegedly executed for "heresy" buried in the local cemetery. He wrote the same sort of barbarism that was driven from England in the past was driving his current opposition, and this was supposedly reinforced in that both his and the witches enemies were Catholic. He ended this section on a thankful note.
Let us be thankful that this desire to persecute is now 12,500 miles away from us....
L. Ron Hubbard
Copyright 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard
24. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 12
HCO Executive Letter of 10 October 1965
Ron's Journal #17
Government Conflicts
In this letter Hubbard stated that conflict with "governments" started in January two years prior when his customer's Washington, D.C. organization was raided by federal agents.
He stated that the raid was unavoidable, but that the era it brought upon the customer was coming to an end and was completely to the customer's good. He wrote of errors committed in the Australian inquiry on the part of the government and stated that the newspapers would avoid printing the story for fear of being sued in court. He also stated that some conduct occurred in Australia on the part of the government that, although not legal, shed a very poor light upon his customer's accusers. Hubbard reassured his client:
I have worked on all this since January 1963, mining the road they would have to travel. And they are obligingly exploding the mines on schedule.
All we have to do is smartly execute the plans and orders already prepared and very soon we will have a complete victory.
Then our government conflict phase will be over. With such victories to our credit other governments will not attack.
The keynote of our campaign has been to do right and keep our noses clean and thus render ourselves invulnerable to proper charges. The attackers thus had nothing to attack but their own idea of us. As this was false, winning points on them is very easy. In each case they attacked us for doing things we do not do.
In declaring victory in the US, Hubbard gave the reason for allegedly poor press coverage as fear by the newspapers of being sued. He assured his readers those fears would be well-founded as he indeed had intentions of suing.
L. Ron Hubbard
Copyright 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard
25. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 13
HCO Executive Letter of 3 November 1965
Issue III
To: Executive Secretaries, Legal Officers, Our Attorneys in any area
From: L. Ron Hubbard
Our U.S. Suits against newspapers on FDA raid stories etc.
In this letter Hubbard suggested the best plan of action as a lawsuit against the newspaper that published the story about the raid on his customer's organization in Washington. He wrote that it would also be helpful to name in the suit the "American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the Better Business Bureau" and the press office that forwarded the story. He wrote that the charge in the suit should be anti-monopoly in nature, and specifically proposed, "'Libel and slander to forward a Conspiracy to monopolize healing in contravention of the Sherman Anti-Trust Laws' or a similar anti-monopoly act."
His customer, he stressed, should be neither put on trial nor defended. The reason he gave this should not happen was that the evidence was inconclusive for any charges.
Hubbard wrote that anything written negative about himself or his customer was based on a 15 year long campaign by the American Medical Association (AMA) to vilify him. This alleged vilification was said to have been caused by "news releases" issued by the AMA to newspapers and magazine. A specific example of such an action was given as an article published by the Diner's Club Magazine. That sort of article, stated Hubbard, was standard fare for the AMA.
The source of the current story about his customer, wrote Hubbard, was the array of old stories. In connection with this he emphasized that he had never been interviewed by a newspaper reporter. Only one writer, "Phelan of the Saturday Evening Post Magazine," was said to have ever interviewed Hubbard. From Hubbard's perspective, that was not really an interview as all Phelan supposedly did was confront Hubbard with newspaper clippings of articles that had been written about the customer. The reason Hubbard gave for this not to be taken seriously was that "He never asked anything about us." ....
It was a remarkable coincidence, Hubbard commented, that before he appeared to challenge the "healing empires" of the AMA and the American Psychological Association, he receive an abundance of personal press coverage, and, as he stressed, it was all good.
"Suddenly, after 20 years of fine personal press in U.S. papers, (1930-1950) the moment my first book on healing is published, good press became violently bad press so that in 1950 "Time Magazine devoted more space to my doings than the President" as one of my press agents once said. And it was all bad press. My book said "any two people by reading this book could help each other" and the book invaded psychosomatic medicine, which accounts for 70% of Mans [sic] ills The change from hero to devil occurred in one day - May 9, 1950, the publication date of Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health - the runaway health best seller of all time."
researcher's note: Hubbard's theories made their first public appearance in an article called "'Dianetics': a new science of the mind" in the May 1950 edition of the 25 cent Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Hubbard did not make it a habit to mention the name of this magazine to his client.
The basis of the suit against the AMA and the APA, Hubbard continued, was that neither "modern medicine" nor "qualification as a medial doctor" were needed to cure any human condition, as he wrote. As evidence to support this assertion he gave the authority of the "Better Business Bureau," which had allegedly stated that "nobody can cure anything including the MDs." As further evidence of the medical profession's lack of trustworthiness, Hubbard stated that practically no member of the medical profession have ever discovered a cure. He then went a step further to say that the notion the public had that doctors could cure anything had been planted there by doctors themselves. To reinforce this notion, doctors were also alleged to have planted in the public mind the dangerousness of anyone curing anything except doctors. To back up this allegation, Hubbard gave the illegality of non-members of the AMA in practicing medicine, and specifically mentioned people trained in the Army as doctors being denied the right to practice medicine as proof. In conclusion he stated,
Yet, as psychiatrists they kill their patients. And adequate proof exists that medical practice is dangerous. ....
Certain points Hubbard said to keep in mind about the law suits in the USA included:
(1) That defending attorneys will quote old clippings as facts unless these are included and answered in our own charges.
(2) That the medical doctor in issuing pamphlets through the Better Business Bureau states that "anyone who says he can cure anything is a quack" and that the medical doctor states he can't cure anything - so why should he have a healing monopoly?
Points Hubbard mentioned about the AMA included:
(5) That issues to press by the AMA and their companion medical doctor group, the APA, consisting [sic] of libel and slanderous attacks and are their means of maintaining a monopoly.
(6) That the AMA does this to all other healing groups.
(7) That neither myself or Scientology need be tried as evidence of defamation issued by the AMA exists concerning many healing groups.
Concerning the poor press coverage Hubbard and his client had received prior to the law suits, he wrote:
(9) That I was never given any bad character anywhere until 1950 when I published a book threatening the profitableness of healing and threatening to break their monopoly. It is easy to prove any charge made in the press by the AMA false. Otherwise I long since would have been put of action.
(10) That the newspapers and clipping bureaus have uniformly forwarded AMA slanders and have not ever sought or published actual interviews of myself. That all actual evidence has been carefully avoided for 15 years.
(11) That it is not necessary to refute press charges over the past 15 years but to use them to show (when attempts are made by the defense to use them) that the campaign is of long duration and is an attempt at monopoly through libel and slander. ....
L. Ron Hubbard
Copyright 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard
26. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 14
HCO Executive Letter of 29th November 1965
To: Executive Secretaries, Legal Officers
From: Ron
Subject: Validity of Vested Interests, Psychiatry's latest development
This contains a photocopy of "Punishment-Reward Therapy Gives Pervert His Freedom" by Richard Homan, Special to the Herald Tribune, Washington Post copyright. Article starts out:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. - A Silver Spring, Md., father who admitted molesting children is on probation today after a psychiatrist testified that the man had responded favorably to painful electric shock treatment. ...
The article ends with:
Questioned later, he said that the method is successful in about 90 percent of neurosis cases. He said that alcoholics, drug addicts and psychotics are being successfully treated, although valid statistics on percentages of cures are still unavailable. He said the treatment should not be confused with shock treatment used by psychotherapists to jolt patients out of a traumatic state, but rather is a variation on Pavlovian thinking, by which a subject is rewarded for good thoughts, and given pain for evil ones.
The accompanying commentary by Hubbard states that the news story "shows the latest tactics in 'treatment'." He clarified the use of quotation marks around "treatment" by further stating "Caning and other types of mayhem have long since been outlawed," signifying that "treatment," as used in this context, does not imply a cure. Hubbard further reinforced this notion by writing, "This 'treatment' would make it impossible to properly treat the patient afterwards and would lower general ability." He reassured his customer that their own treatment would be effective without involving similar cruelty, and ended with the statement
Psychiatry has no basis in law. Most of its technology comes from Russia.
L. Ron Hubbard
copyright 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard
All rights reserved
27. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 15
Secretarial Executive Director Office of LRH
9 February 1966
SECED 45 WW & 301 SH
Exec Secretaries and Secretaries and Legal Officer
Enquiry Rumour UK
In discussing the current rumor of government inquiry and his client's previous dealings with governments in other countries, Hubbard revealed the tools and the goal he had planned for the next government inquiry.
4. Obviously we could have had a ball and put psychiatry on trial for murder, mercy killings, sterilization, torture, and sex practices and could have wiped out psychiatry's good name
The lesson learned was that his customer had been led down the "path to slaughter" for the last time.
6. If we are ever so involved again we demand one on all mental healing activities including psychiatry and demand it loudly. And lead them up the path to slaughter.
Hubbard drafted a contingency plan in the event that a government inquiry into his client was found to be underway, which combined political, undercover and press coverage as follows:
(1) MarySue [sic] will write a letter for the Chaplain to all members of Parliament and have it photolithed and if it hots up mail it to all members of Parliament.
(2) Get a detective on that lord's past to unearth the tid-bits. They're there.
(3) Stress sex and blood in psychiatry and collect data and mount an all out attack in the press on psychiatry, so that "Mental Health" sees that they are going to get hurt and will cool off.
A cardinal rule of Hubbard's was to refuse to let his client be put on the defensive. This was done in this case by building a train of thought that progressively moved away from questions about his client. He gave an example as follows:
We refuse to discuss or describe Scientology. As near as we come is "Well Scientology isn't like psychiatry. In psychiatry they think adultery is a cure for .......". You get it. Curve every answer with answers that MAKE LURID PRESS TO PSYCHIATRY'S COST. Papers by policy only want blood and sex - so give them Psychiatry's and they'll print it. Further couple the words Psychiatry and Capitalism - allege that Psychiatry is the Capitalist tool (a Conservative opened the attack in the UK) and found the press beating the drum for us. ....
Another rule Hubbard used, in this case, was to directly relate negative outside feedback to his customer's allegedly positive internal products. To the customer, this would mean that the greater the outside attack, the greater the internal performance, which in jargon is "up statistic" in the following:
8. Remember those things - we won against the FDA. We are winning on US tax. We have caught the ball on UK tax. Part of our trouble is that we're an up statistic and governments are SP [suppressive person, a category of enemy] and strike at all rising statistics.
Applied in reverse, the above would then mean that those who struck out at, or disagreed strongly, with his customer, were enemies. ....
In preparation for the coming trend, Hubbard sought to prepare his customers for the worst yet to come:
13. This is nothing compared to what will happen when we start taking SPs out of the government! They are rightly afraid.
14. So don't you be. Tomorrow belongs to us. Inevitably there are bumps in the road.
L. Ron Hubbard
28. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 15
Secretarial Executive Director Office of LRH
SECED 52 WW & 312 SH
11 February 1966
Committee for Sane Psychiatry
In this letter, Hubbard advertised for staff members who had either "a knowledge of press" or "an acquaintance with the conditions of the insane in institutions." A name of a person in his customer's organization was given as the one to contact in case either of those two conditions were met. The reason Hubbard gave:
2. We are forming a "Committee for Sane Psychiatry" that will be charged with the responsibility of bringing to the attention of the world the brutal treatment and sex orgies in institutions and drive psychiatry into accept lawful regulation by Parliament and Congress.
The operating procedure for the new task force was described, in part, as follows:
4. Case histories or brutal savage treatment are to be collected and the lurid nature of "treatment" is to be fully documented and exposed by the Committee.
Hubbard listed the goal of the ad hoc group:
6. The object is to obtain legislation by press campaigns and public support to make murder, mayhem and sex violation illegal in institutions for the insane.
....
L. Ron Hubbard
29. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 17
HCO Executive Letter of 21 February 1966
Calculated Risks
This letter is an example of turning a raid by a government into a positive asset. After the federal government's raid on the customer's Washington, D.C. headquarters, Hubbard informed his public that he had taken a "calculated risk" at the time of the raid that was then coming to fruition, slightly three years after the fact. The result, he stated, was that "... nothing can stop us." He said that at the time he realized that his client would be facing more raids and investigations by "governments." Therefore, he continued, and pointed out that this detail could be corroborated by officers in his client's organization, he "ordered them to fight a delaying action while " he continued his own investigations. The strategy he would pursue was the only one that could win, that of "total technology." "Total technology" is what the name implies; considerations about a situation are consumed by those of technique. To illustrate how the customer could think of what he had done, Hubbard gave an analogy:
This was somewhat like seeing the Indians in the distance and instead of readying a barricade, going on inventing a new weapon on the gamble that you would have completed the job before the first brave got to you. Well, 'we done it'. ... And in the nick of time.
Hubbard confided to his readers that using his prescribed technology, they could continue on no matter what.
The only thing you could do to a Clear or an OT [levels of attainment in the technology] would be to make him laugh. But that isn't all a Clear could do. I trust you get it.
Technology, Hubbard continued, was the "ultimate weapon," the one that could save mankind from the enemy, the atomic bomb and unimagined horrors. The ultimate weapon, in turn, was said to be total freedom, a "freedom no gestapo can curtail. A freedom that is completely unqualified."
Hubbard then expressed relief that this technology, identified as a weapon, further identified as freedom, was in the right hands, as freedom "to be free or to strike at will without any fear of retribution could otherwise be rather grim." Hubbard reassured his public that this freedom to strike without concerns for consequence could only ever be used in a decent manner by the customer, as decency was allegedly directly proportional to the amount of technology one attained. In closing, Hubbard urged the readers to hurry to attain the technology.
L. Ron Hubbard
Copyright 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard
All rights reserved
30. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 18
Secretarial Executive Director Office of LRH
SECED 61 WW ...
Confidential
Project Psychiatry
This letter provides instructions on how to set up a public relations attack, purportedly against psychiatry. In it Hubbard states that personnel are to be procured using London newspaper advertisements. (He was apparently operating in England at the time.) A London phone number was to be given as contact, which would relay inquiries to the customer's "Saint Hill" organization in East Grinstead.
The Ad should read "Investigator: services of trained personnel required for interesting work. Phone Langham 3601". Repeat the same ad with "Enquiry Agents" as its lead: Advertise often.
Hubbard authorized five people to work in the group that set up the organization. It was also to employ stenographers and filing personnel. He set the initial maximum budget at 300 pounds per week, and stated it would not go any higher until satisfactory results were achieved. The letter includes instructions not to hire personnel from an outside agency. The rationale was that past difficulties had arisen when using people from agencies were used for purposes of "legal, accounting and investigation." Hubbard emphasized that people must be hired as either individuals or as staff. "Our investigators must be our own staff and reliable."
The raids, Hubbard concluded, were the result of his no longer carrying out his old practice of investigating the investigators. In his words, "So long as we investigated attackers, the attacks folded up. When we ceased, the attacks took a new violence." Therefore a failure to investigate the outside investigators, he theorized, had surely resulted in further investigations from the outside.
Hubbard gave his readers an idea of what to expect in carrying out their vigilance against "attackers."
The attacking group as may be expected has a bad background. It is nowhere legalised by name under law. It derives any "authority" by medical degrees but psychiatrists are not qualified medical doctors in actual training and practice. Insanity has no precise definition, but is whatever they say it is. And whoever they say is insane is usually somebody who is in a temporary exhaustion or who doesn't agree with them.
Hubbard advised his public that they were on the trail of a conspiracy formed by psychiatrists. The result of this conspiracy, he said, was that psychiatrists could arbitrarily have people killed, attacked, disabled or declared insane. On top of that, Hubbard stated, psychiatrists also violated human rights. This was said to be "far too much power for one group composed of men who at best act insanely when faced with any challenge." For all humanity was aware, Hubbard stated, there was a possibility that "hopelessly insane" people were the product of psychiatrists. The reason he gave for this was that "insanity is anything anybody says it is."
Hubbard also gave graphic details illustrating the power allegedly held by psychiatrists to sexually abuse women and subsequently disable them to prevent future incriminating testimony. "And all with no fear of reprisal. Yet it is rape and murder."
Hubbard informed his readers that his preliminary research was done. He found that it did not matter if the conspiracy upon which he had just reported existed or not. The reason it did not matter, he wrote, was that psychiatry was only as strong as its individual members. Furthermore, he stated psychiatry's practitioners were "weak."
Anticipating some resistance to his efforts, Hubbard reassured his readers,
If we are challenged with incitement to riot we claim we didn't but they did by their actions.
We also will form committees to use this data, collecting together a lot of protest committees that already exist. Psychiatric bloodsports. Psychiatric Auschwitz all proven by individual cases.
The result of this work, as envisioned by Hubbard, was to be "at least one bad mark on every psychiatrist in England, a murder, an assault, or a rape or more than one."
L. Ron Hubbard
31. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 19
Secretarial Executive Director Office of LRH
11 March 1966
SECED 70 WW & 342 SH & 7L
Parliament Balniel
Retarded Children
In this letter Hubbard gives information by which his client is to understand an unsuccessful attempt, nearly ten years previously, to treat retarded children. He stated that a man named Ray Kemp had worked with retarded children in "1957 or '58." Kemp, according to Hubbard, worked out his own office and used a book authored by two teachers. Kemp's activity, according to Hubbard, was neither condoned nor discouraged by his Scientology client. Hubbard admitted that the book was based on Scientology and that Kemp was at one time associated with Scientology.
For reasons not stated by Hubbard, Kemp received unfavorable publicity about his work. Hubbard wrote that people who had a "vested interest in retarded children" drove Kemp out of business. Although Kemp allegedly had obtained some success in his work, he was said to have been "invalidated" and rejected by "groups interested in retarded children." Hubbard gave "Balniel" as the name of the person whom he suspected as the source of the trouble.
Apparently in response to publicity, Hubbard issued a number of statements. He stated that Scientology does not work with children, much less retarded children. He also said Scientology does "not accept the sick or treat the insane." He informed his public that the "two scandals" that they had heard about had absolutely no connection with "official or approved Scientology." He denied writing a book that would have been associated with scandalous activity. He wrote:
The press, uniformly and wholly incorrectly tied it all in to me personally though at the time of the "Death Lesson" scandal I had been out of the UK for months.
Hubbard summarized what he had posed as inconsistencies by telling his customer that they were being maligned in an area in which they did not work for things they did not do by a group he called a "retarded children activity."
Hubbard gave information, as a possible explanation for the above-mentioned scandals, which included the presence of private school somewhere in the same geographical area. He said he knew of a person who worked at the school and that person had reported that children had become mentally disturbed as a result of "psychiatric techniques" practiced there. He stated that state of affairs could be connected with Balniel and should therefore be included as part of his customer's investigation into "psychiatry ."
Hubbard ended up by posing a question of whether children were being raided. He then concluded that there was obviously something hidden that should be brought to light.
L. Ron Hubbard
32. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 20
HCO Executive Letter of 19 July 1966
Public Attacks, Legal Point
In this letter Hubbard brought up a point to use in defense, apparently, of some unfavorable publicity. In making this point, he used it as an example to show the reader that groups that publish unfavorable information about his customer are consistent in that they make mistakes. He also took the occasion to emphasize that his customer's programs included goals that, he wrote, improved communication skills and provided intelligence by which problems could be solved. There was nothing peculiar about those actions, he assured his readers.
He also stated that, in the course of research, anything in "the whole field of human knowledge and the mind" might be written down in either books or on papers. He wrote that an endeavor was being made to make his customer's program appear out of the ordinary based on "private books and papers."
Hubbard then referred to a "newspaper group" that obtained notes that he said had been stolen from him. He said his notes looked quite out of the ordinary, and that no public person was ever intended to read them. He alleged the newspaper group had published his writing out of context, thereby misrepresenting his customer's programs.
The lesson to be learned by this, according to Hubbard, was that unfavorable information published about the customer's programs was the result of this "trick used by attackers." The trick, in turn, was to take small portions of material out of context and present it as though it were the norm. Hubbard stated this method was being used to challenge freedom of speech.
Hubbard concluded that a survey would show that Scientology's program was actually nothing out of the ordinary, and that this program consisted of five steps that he cited in the beginning of this letter.
L. Ron Hubbard
Copyright 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard
33. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 21
Executive Directive
26 September 1966
ED 21 WW 27 SH
Applies to Staff Only
Confidential
Current Attack
In this letter Hubbard provides what he calls "confidential data" to allay concerns about recent negative publicity in a newspaper. This data is provided in the form of a numbered list. The first item he presents as a reason not to be concerned about the negative publicity is that it was only presented in one newspaper. "Other papers won't touch it," he wrote. The next reason given for non-concern was that there was only a small number of people behind the story. This assertion was further supposed to be reassuring in that "we know the criminal background and connections of each one." Hubbard next stated that the people behind the newspaper story were actually part of a conspiracy and that they would soon be held accountable for their actions.
To explain the poor public relations, Hubbard wrote, "We have military and defense value, you know, can raise I.Q. in Scientists, shorten reaction time in pilots, improve judgement [sic] in troops and undo brainwashing." That sort of ability was routinely attacked, Hubbard claimed, by the enemies of the country.
Hubbard also made use of a book distributed by Scientology book stores called the "Brainwashing Manual" in this letter. The "Brainwashing Manual" purports to be a "Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics." In an effort to have the Brainwashing Manual taken seriously, Hubbard stated that the volume had been "published in the US Congressional Record." He stated that the manual gives the reasons why his group received negative publicity. These reasons, he summarized, included their refusal to be blackmailed into being disloyal to their cause. Speaking of the Brainwashing Manual, he stated "You can have copies of it for free if you spread them around town."
In an apparent attempt to bolster fighting spirit in the face of bad news, Hubbard wrote that his client's detractors were "walking straight into a minefield." This meant, he continued, that his client's detractors would face personal ruin the moment they were confronted. That stated, Hubbard swung back into military terminology and wrote, "We're sitting here with 12 inch howitzers all loaded and ready to fire. Just make sure we do our jobs and in our attack, don't miss."
L. Ron Hubbard
Founder
34. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 22
HCO Information Letter of 16 October 1968
To: All Orgs
From: Ron
Subject: Article "E-Meters Replace Guns", issued this date for general info
In this letter Hubbard relates his public relations policy to "terrorists and subversives." He stated that subversives win when opposed by an enemy that uses guns. The reason subversives win in that situation, according to Hubbard, is that the subversives win public opinion. In contrast to this Hubbard stated that subversives lose when an opponent that uses the Scientology electrical device that measures skin resistance, called the e-meter. In that case, wrote Hubbard, the subversive elements would lose not only their leaders and communication lines through which they formed resistance, but also any public support they may have had.
In this case, Hubbard also advocated "technology." He stated
A good control requires superior technology. Just now the "superior technology" in political use is mental terrorism in subversive and seditious hands.
Without this sort of controlling technology, wrote Hubbard, there were not enough guns, soldiers and police to keep a population under control or, as he called it "stem the tide." He recognized that a police force was needed, but regarded police as an emergency measure to be used only in the event that technology had failed.
In order to illustrate his point, Hubbard gave the example of the Mau Mau, which was a real-life revolutionary society in Kenya that used terrorist activities in the early 1950s in an attempt to drive out European settlers. He wrote that the Mau Mau had trained terrorists use threats and coercion in order to dominate the population. These terrorists, Hubbard wrote, should have been the ones the police went after. He said what happened instead was that the terrorists escaped detection by training others to do their work for them.
The manner in which terrorists forced others to do their work for them, as stated, included "blackmail on sex and other crimes, threats of reprisals on families, and promised punishment" in the event of non-compliance with demands. This, as Hubbard pointed out, was the reason guns did not work on subversives, as the guns only shot the pawns that the subversives had put in place. And this, in turn, was also supposed to be the reason Scientology e-meters worked better than guns in that the electrical devices could allegedly find the people behind those with whom one was confronted.
That was the reason that a London newspaper had called the e-meter "a box of rubbish," as Hubbard presumably quoted. He further commented that the newspaper was strongly motivated against his client's device in the manner described even though the news company was aware that it could be sued and lose a large sum of money.
If a person refused to voluntarily be attached to an e-meter, as Hubbard wrote, it could still be attached to his body nonetheless, and it would still supposedly function to pinpoint the person behind the person it was attached to. Hubbard pointed out that this was a good deal in the economic sense, too, as a Scientology e-meter cost less than a good rifle at the time.
The purpose of subversion, Hubbard wrote, was to "break down the natural affection and understanding that should exist among people, between employer and employee." This was in contrast to an e-meter, which alleged built up confidence. Two specifications were listed as to how to turn a loyal population against its employers. The first was to use "lies and threats" to corrupt the workers, and the second was to turn the employer against the workers through provocation. Reversing these two actions were said to undo subversion. Hubbard listed the requirements needed for subversion, and these included "messengers, delivery of arms, collection of monies" along with the appropriate roads. E-meters, Hubbard wrote, were the appropriate defense in that sort of situation. The example he gave was that the contents of trucks would no longer have to be inspected; the driver could just be hooked up to the e-meter to find out if he were "clean."
Hubbard wrote that this form of interrogation was opposed by misguided people and the dishonest people allegedly behind them. The important thing to remember was that, in the presence of subversion, "Only the honest have rights."
As Hubbard wrote, subversive people used exact technology. This technology was said to be taught to "criminals in prison, in schools, in foreign states." That was a modern-day "psychosis" that Hubbard advocated be used to "reach men's minds."
One method of overcoming subversion, Hubbard wrote, was to make its practitioners the brunt of a joke. He said that could be done even without the cooperation of the government. His idea was to put the Scientology e-meter into use. It would supposedly work so well that soon police and then governments would follow suit in order to save themselves work in arresting criminals. Supposedly continued use of the e-meter would prevent any recurrence of terrorism.
Hubbard moved on to another example, this time to the country of South Africa. South Africa's problems were said to include:
"Bad world press, fattened by new riots, a press that forgives any vandalism if anyone seeks to keep order and uses guns - i.e. vereeniging, hanga riots;"
Hubbard said that South Africa could easily regain any lost territory by using his client's plan. He stated there were only two ways it could fail. The first would be to discredit his client or the plan. The second would be the failure "to use the most modern weapons and technology to fight back."
L. Ron Hubbard
Copyright 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard
35. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 23
L. Ron Hubbard Executive Directive
ED 42 INT
4 November 1968
Press Stories
This is a letter to give the client encouragement in the face of bad news. It starts out:
Dear Staffs:
Don't feel too bad about any press or publicity or "bad news".
As a tip off, we have not only located the enemy exactly but find him guilty of so many crimes that the end for this opposition is in plain view.
We are rolling up the heavy guns quietly and getting things exactly timed.
It ends up on what is meant to be the cheery news that mankind's most elementary problem was just on the verge of being discovered.
Love
Ron
L. Ron Hubbard
Founder
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