Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (64 page)

159
miniature kangaroos:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 140.

160
hypnotize Sara’s mother:
Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

161
“The organization is clearly schizophrenic”:
Judge Paul G. Breckenridge,
Church of Scientology, California, v. Gerald Armstrong
.

162
“I went right down”:
Hubbard, “The Story of Dianetics and Scientology,” lecture, Oct. 18, 1958.

163
“I used to sit”:
Sue Lindsay, “Book Pulls Hubbard into Public,”
Rocky Mountain News
, Feb. 20, 1983.

164
“I cannot imagine how”:
Hubbard letter to Veterans Administration, Jan. 27, 1948.

165
“Been amusing myself making”:
Hubbard letter to Russell Hays, July 15, 1948.

166
he floats the idea of a book:
Ibid.

167
“I got to revolutionize”:
Ibid., Aug. 16, 1948.

168
“I was hiding behind”:
Hubbard, “The Story of Dianetics and Scientology,” lecture, Oct. 18, 1958.

169
“I will soon, I hope”:
Hubbard letter to Robert Heinlein, Nov. 24, 1948.

170
a Guggenheim grant:
Ibid., Sept. 25, 1948.

171
a loan of fifty dollars:
Ibid., Feb. 17, 1949.

172
“Golly, I never was”:
Ibid., Mar. 3, 1949.

173
“getting case histories”:
Ibid.

174
“My hip and stomach”:
Ibid., Mar. 8, 1949.

175
It ain’t
agin
religion”:
Ibid., Mar. 31, 1949.

176
“Dammit, the man’s got”:
John Campbell letter to Robert Heinlein, July 26, 1949.

177
“deep hypnosis”:
Ibid.

178
“I was born”:
Ibid., Sept. 15, 1949.

179
lost twenty pounds:
Ibid.

180
“The key to world sanity”:
Ibid.

181
“a little old shack”:
Hubbard letter to Robert Heinlein, Dec. 30, 1949.

182
Announcing a New Hubbard Edition:
Undated correspondence from Hubbard to Robert and Virginia Heinlein.

183
“Ron is going at”:
Sara Hubbard letter to Robert and Virginia Heinlein, May 2, 1950.

184
“begun Jan. 12, ’50”:
Hubbard letter to Robert and Virginia Heinlein, Mar. 28, 1950.

185
the Empress, had dictated:
Atack,
A Piece of Blue Sky
, p. 101.

186
Sara read Korzybski:
Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

187
“Bob Heinlein sat down”:
Hubbard, “Study of the Particle,” lecture, Oct. 29, 1953.

188
“This article is
not
a hoax”:
Quoted in Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 153.

189
“I know dianetics is”:
Ibid, pp. 152–53.

190
Nobel Peace Prize:
Alfred Bester, “Part 6 of Alfred Bester and Frederik Pohl—The Conversation,” recorded at The Tyneside, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, June 26, 1978.

191
“fifty thousand years”:
What Is Scientology?
, p. 106.

192
“with 18 million copies sold”:
Ibid.

193
“Cells are evidently sentient”:
Hubbard,
Dianetics
, p. 70.

194
“The operator then touches”:
Ibid., pp. 55–56.

195
“handled like a marionette”:
Ibid., p. xiii.

196
“many years of exact research”:
Ibid., p. xxv.

197
“She is rendered”:
Ibid., p. 60.

198
“This is not theory”:
Ibid., p. 75.

199
“exact science”:
Ibid., p. xviii.

200
“Dianetics deletes”:
Ibid., p. xiii

201
“You will find many”:
Ibid., p. xxv.

202
outnumbering those being treated:
“Care of Mental Patients Remains Major Problem,”
Associated Press
, Apr. 29, 1949. Reitman,
Inside Scientology
, p. 26.

203
“in less than twenty hours”:
Hubbard,
Dianetics
, p. ix.

204
“It was sweepingly”:
Hubbard, “The Story of Dianetics and Scientology,” lecture, Oct. 10, 1958.

205
“This volume probably”:
Isidor Isaac Rabi, “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard (review),
Scientific American
, January 1951, pp. 57–58

206
“expressive of a spirit”:
Erich Fromm, “ ‘Dianetics’—For Seekers of Prefabricated Happiness,”
The New York Herald Tribune Book Review
, September 3, 1950, p. 7.

207
“The art consists”:
S. I. Hayakawa, “From Science-fiction to Fiction-science,” Etc. 8, no. 4 (Summer 1951).

208
“While listening to Hubbard”:
Winter,
A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics
, p. 11.

209
“When I count”:
Hubbard,
Dianetics
, p. 201.

210
“He would hold hands”:
Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

211
“He has on a long”:
Winter,
A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics
, pp. 15–16.

212
“Everything goes back”:
Freud letter to Wilhelm Fliess, May 2, 1897.

213
“It seems to me”:
Ibid., p. 461.

214
“The extreme achievement on these lines”:
Freud, “The Paths to the Formations of Symptoms,” Lecture 23 in
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
, trans. Jas. Strachey, p. 460. Whitehead comments on this passage: “To generalize from the experience of Freud and his colleagues and from later experiments in hypnotic age-regression, the further one pushes the subject back into the past, the more apt one is to provoke confabulation.” Whitehead,
Renunciation and Reformulation
, p. 80.

215
“had passed for ‘normal’ ”:
Hubbard,
Dianetics
, pp. 299–300.

216
“It is a scientific”:
Ibid., p. 132.

217
“Twenty or thirty abortion attempts”:
Ibid., p. 158.

218
“However many billions”:
Ibid., pp. 132–33.

219
“One I observed when”:”
L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., testimony. City of Clearwater Commission Hearings Re: The Church of Scientology, May 5, 1982.

220
“I was born at six”:
Allan Sonnenschein, “Inside the Church of Scientology: An Exclusive Interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.,”
Penthouse
, June 1983. The church’s objections to Hubbard Jr.’s statements, based on his signed retraction, and his disavowal of the retraction, are noted above.

221
“but conceived despite all precautions”:
“The Admissions of L. Ron Hubbard,”
www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2000-03-11.html

222
Hubbard kicked her:
Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

223
Hubbard told one of his lovers:
“Barbara Kaye,” quoted in Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 168.

224
“Migraine headache”:
Church of Scientology International, letter from L. Ron Hubbard to the American Psychological Association, Apr. 13, 1949,
www.ronthephilosopher.org/phlspher/page16.htm
.

225
In a similar letter:
Letters and Journals: The Dianetics Letters
, The
Ron
magazines, pp. 14–15.

226
When scientists tested:
Ibid., p. 74.

227
“The psychiatrist and his front groups”:
Hubbard, “Today’s Terrorists,”
psychfraud.freedommag.org/page44.htm
.

228
“had the power to torture”:
Hubbard,
Introduction to Scientology Ethics
, p. 264.

229
“the sole cause of decline”:
Hubbard, “Pain and Sex,” HCO Bulletin, Aug. 26, 1982.

230
“The money was just”:
Corydon,
L. Ron Hubbard
, p. 307.

231
The people who were drawn:
Wallis,
The Road to Total Freedom
, p. 56.

232
Through Dianetics, they hoped:
Ibid., pp. 62–63.

233
“has complete recall”:
Hubbard,
Dianetics
, p. 171.

234
“World’s First Clear”:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 165.

235
“there were never any clears”:
O’Brien,
Dianetics in Limbo
, p. xi.

236
“With or without an argument”:
Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

237
“I do not want to be an American husband”:
Sara Northrup Hubbard vs. L. Ron Hubbard
, Complaint for Divorce. Los Angeles, Apr. 23, 1951.

238
Sara and Miles were plotting:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 176.

239
“He didn’t want her”:
Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

240
“dianetic baby”:
W. A. Sprague and Roland Wild, “Can We Doctor Our
Minds
at Home?”
Oakland Tribune
, Oct. 29, 1950.

241
“Don’t sleep.”:
Corydon,
L. Ron Hubbard
, p. 306.

242
“We have Alexis”:
“Dianetics Chief’s Conduct Lashed,”
Los Angeles Times
, Apr. 25, 1951.

243
a young couple had just left:
“Hiding of Baby Charged to Dianetics Author,”
Los Angeles Times
, Apr. 11, 1951.

244
clean bill of health:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 179.

245
“cut her into little pieces”:
Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

246
“He believed that as long”:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 179.

247
“systematic torture”:
Sara Northrup Hubbard vs. L. Ron Hubbard et al
. Superior Court, State of California, April 23, 1951.

248
“If I can help”:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 189.

249
a monkey in a cage:
Ibid. Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

250
Hubbard wrote all night:
Russell Miller interview with Richard de Mille, “The
Bare-Faced Messiah
Interviews,” July 25, 1986,
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/demille.htm
.

251
“People below the 2.0 level”:
Hubbard,
Science of Survival
, p. 28.

252
“Sex,” he wrote:
Ibid., pp. 114–15.

253
“Here is the harlot”:
Ibid., p. 116.

254
“we get general neglect”:
Ibid., p. 118.

255
To Alexis Valerie Hubbard:
Ibid. The dedication was removed from subsequent editions.

256
“as a classified scientist”:
“Dianetics Man Reports He’s in Cuban Hospital,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 2, 1951.

257
“a Cadillac so damn long”:
Russell Hays tape with Barbara Hays Duke, June 30, 1984.

258
“I am, basically, a scientist”:”
Hubbard letter to the Attorney General, Department of Justice, May 14, 1951.

259
“He told me that I was under the influence”:
Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

260
The foundation he had:
“Science Group in Bankruptcy,”
Wichita Beacon
, February 25, 1952.

261
“That didn’t please him”:
Russell Hays tape with Barbara Hays Duke, June 30, 1984.

262
“It sees all, knows all”:
Hubbard,
Electropsychometric Auditing Operator’s Manual
, p. 57.

1
constructing the intricate bureaucracy:
When Hubbard was alive, he oversaw the church bureaucracy. Directly under him were the Executive Director International, who handled administration, and a Senior Case Supervisor International, who oversaw the tech. Hubbard appointed both officials. To one side of the EDI on the organizational chart was the Watchdog Committee, which consisted of executives in charge of each division of the international orgs. Under Miscavige, the EDI was essentially eliminated. Interview with Roy Selby.

2
“sperm dreams”:
Hubbard,
Dianetics
, p. 294.

3
“
as early as shortly before
”:
Hubbard,
Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science
, p. 93.

4
“The subject of past deaths”:
Hubbard,
Science of Survival
, p. 61.

5
“There is a different feel to”:
O’Brien,
Dianetics in Limbo
, p. 14.

6
“I literally shuddered”:
Ibid., p. 20.

7
about twenty percent of the population:
Hubbard,
Scientology: A New Slant on Life
, p. 192.

8
“A Suppressive Person will”:
Hubbard,
Introduction to Scientology Ethics
, p. 171.

9
“The artist in particular”:
Hubbard,
Scientology: A New Slant on Life
, p. 195.

10
Imitators and competitors came:
Cf. Wallis,
The Road to Total Freedom
, pp. 80 ff.

11
“I’d like to start a religion”:
Eshbach,
Over My Shoulder
, p. 125. Hubbard allegedly made this remark in 1948 or 1949. Arnie Lerma, a former Scientologist who maintains an anti-Scientology website, compiled a list of nine witnesses who said that they heard Hubbard make similar claims;
www.lermanet.com/reference/hubbard-start-a-religion.htm
. Hubbard’s son, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., said, “He told me and a lot of other people that the way to make a million was to start a religion.” Allan Sonnenschein, “Inside the Church of Scientology: An Exclusive Interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.,”
Penthouse
, June 1983. Sara Northrup recalled that Hubbard “kept saying ‘If you want to make any money
the only way to do it is to make a religion so the government wouldn’t take it all.’ So he thought he could make a religion out of Dianetics.” Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

12
“To keep a person on”:
Revised Declaration of Hana Whitfield,
Church of Scientology vs. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz
, US District Court, Central District of California, Apr. 4, 1994.

13
“Perhaps we could call”:
Hubbard letter to Helen O’Brien, “RE CLINIC, HAS,” Apr. 10, 1953.

14
Hubbard incorporated three different churches:
Wallis,
The Road to Total Freedom
, p. 128.

15
The Church of Scientology of California:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, pp. 220–21.

16
“many, many reasons”:
Jas. Phelan, “Have You Ever Been a Boo-Hoo?”
Saturday Evening Post
, Mar. 21, 1964.

17
“The goal of Dianetics”:
Hubbard,
Science of Survival
, p. xxxviii.

18
“injected entities”:
Hubbard,
Scientology: A History of Man
, p. 20.

19
“In the bivalve state”:”
Ibid., pp. 40–42.

20
“pragmatic, cold, cunning”:
Hal Holmes, personal communication.

21
She had flinty blue eyes:
Ken Urquhart, “Friendly Recollections of Mary Sue Hubbard,”
marysuehubbard.com/ken.shtml
.

22
Hubbard was prospering once again:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, pp. 226–27.

23
“so knock off the idolizing.”:
Interview with Philip Spickler.

24
“It should be taken daily”:
Hubbard,
All About Radiation
, p. 113.

25
much of their time unsupervised:
Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

26
extensive household staff:
Anderson,
Report of the Board of Inquiry into Scientology
, p. 42.

27
The headline in
Garden News:
Quoted in Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 235.

28
“mapping out the bank”:
Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

29
School was, as usual:
Ibid.

30
“What is this ‘Scientology’?”:
Ibid.

31
“little old English lady”:
Ken Urquhart, “My Friend, the Titan,”
IVy
60, Jan. 2003.

32
“Your friends”:
Ibid.

33
It was rumored that:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, pp. 215–16.

34
“My attention wandered”:
Ken Urquhart, “My Friend, the Titan,”
Ivy
60 (Jan. 2003).

35
“all mental and nervous disorders”:
Malko,
Scientology
, p. 76. Miriam Ottenberg,
The Evening Star
, January 1963.

36
The IRS began an audit:
The IRS audit began in 1965. The Church of Scientology of California was informed by the IRS that it no longer was recognized as a tax-exempt religious organization in July 1967. That status remained in effect for twenty-six years.

37
“There are some features”:
Report of the Board of Inquiry into Scientology
, p. 1.

38
“a man of restless energy”:
Ibid., p. 42.

39
“Some of his claims”:
Ibid., p. 43.

40
“an insensate hostility”:
Ibid., p. 47.

41
The report led to:
Rev. Kenneth J. Whitman, President of the Church of Scientology of California and National Spokesman, undated “Press Statement” (although stamped “Top Secret”). Documents that the church obtained through Freedom of Information requests do show widespread cooperation among various international investigative agencies.

42
another “first Clear”:
Lamont,
Religion, Inc
., p. 53. Hana Eltringham says it was in August 1966, but Hubbard and McMaster were already in Rhodesia by then. Affidavit of Hana Eltringham Whitfield, Mar. 8, 1994.

43
McMaster adopted a clerical:
Lamont,
Religion, Inc
., p. 57.

44
Scientology’s first “pope”:
Ibid. Kenneth Urquhart remembers the post as being merely a “cardinal.” Kenneth Urquhart, personal communication.

45
“He was very pronounced”:
Interview with Jim Dincalci.

46
“curb the growth”:
Wallis,
The Road to Total Freedom
, p. 195.

47
“I had been ill”:
“Further Information on L. Ron HUBBARD and Laurence L. HAUTZ,” CIA dispatch, Aug. 22, 1966.

48
He resigned as Executive:
Reitman,
Inside Scientology
, p. 80; and Malko,
Scientology
, p. 82.

49
Rhodes was homosexual:
Rotberg,
The Founder
, p. 408.

50
Hubbard had a fantasy:
Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

51
issuing passports:
Hana Eltringham (Whitfield), interview, “Secret Lives—L. Ron Hubbard,” Channel 4, UK, 1997.

52
However, the current prime minister:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 258.

53
“He told me Ian Smith”:
Lamont,
Religion, Inc
., p. 54.

54
“drinking lots of rum”:
Corydon,
L. Ron Hubbard
, p. 59. The church says an apostate fabricated this letter.

55
“Your Sugie”:
Interview with Dan Koon. Neville Chamberlin told me he saw Hubbard’s “pharmaceutical cabinet,” which was amply supplied with drugs, and he says he witnessed Hubbard injecting himself in the thigh on one occasion, but he doesn’t know what substance Hubbard was using. “He used drugs almost as a shaman,” Chamberlin speculates.

56
“I want to die”:
Virginia Downsborough, quoted in Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 266.

57
“All this recent career”:
Hubbard, “Ron’s Journal ’67.” Taped lecture.

58
Blavatsky had prophesied:
Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield. This was her impression, although there doesn’t seem to be a reference to such a redheaded leader in Blavatsky. It seems to have been an impression that Whitfield carried with her when she first met Hubbard.

59
“There’s a course starting”:
Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

60
“That is where the Fifth Invaders”:
Ibid.

61
“The rollers! The rollers!”:
. Ibid.

62
“Eyes tire easily”:
Veterans Administration, Report of Medical Examination for Disability Evaluation, July 27, 1951.

63
Hubbard had written:
Hubbard,
Dianetics
, pp. 10–11.

64
a habit of squinting:
Interview with Dr. Catherine Kennedy. Hana Eltringham, for instance, told me that although she never saw Hubbard wearing glasses, “I often saw him squint when he picked up a paper to read.… He did the same when he looked at people he was talking to.”

65
“astigmatism, a distortion”:
Hubbard, Professional Auditor’s Bulletin No. 11, “Eyesight and Glasses,” compiled from ACC tape material, May 1, 1957.

66
“You’re doing yourself”:
Tracy Ekstrand, personal communication.

67
All of Hubbard’s senses:
Interviews with Dan Koon, Tracy Ekstrand, Hana Eltringham Whitfield, and Sinar Parman.

68
Yvonne Gillham:
Interviews with Hana Eltringham Whitfield and anonymous former Sea Org members.

69
There were three ships:
According to Karin Pouw, there were ten ships in the Scientology fleet, but she includes recreational sailboats. There were two “station ships” in Long Beach and Los Angeles, the
Excalibur
and the
Bolivar
, but Hubbard was never on either of them. Mike Rinder, personal communication.

70
The smokestack:
Hawkins,
Counterfeit Dreams
, p. 60.

71
Hubbard spent most of his time:
Ken Urquhart, “What Was Ron Really Like?” address to 2012 Class VIII Reunion, Los Angeles, July 14–15, 2012.

72
His restless leg:
Interviews with Daniel Holeman and anonymous former Sea Org member.

73
“I think he was doing”:
Interview with Jim Dincalci.

74
Hubbard and Mary Sue would dine:
Interviews with Tracy Ekstrand, Bel Ferradj, and Jim Dincalci.

75
Anyone who registered:
Monica Pignotti, “My Nine Lives in Scientology,” 1989.
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/
.

76
“We Come Back”:
Hubbard,
Mission into Time
, p. 27.

77
“The end justifies the means”:
Interview with Jim Dincalci. Actually, Machiavelli never made that statement, although it is frequently attributed to him. It is a mistranslation of a key passage from
The Prince:
“
e nelle azioni di tutti li uomini, e massime de’ principi, dove non e iudizio da reclamare, si guarda al fine
.” “The much quoted fragment—si guarda al fine—can be translated as ‘one must consider the outcome’ but in context, it really refers to consequences of his acts for the stature of the prince, that is, to the blame or praise he earns and not to the relationship between means and ends generally.” Philip Bobbitt, personal communication.

78
a marshal to Joan of Arc:
Joel Sappel and Robert W. Welkos, “The Scientology Story,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 24–26, 1990.

79
Tamburlaine’s wife:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 362.

80
driving a race car:
Reitman,
Inside Scientology
, p. 103.

81
“liaisons in the moonlight”:
Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

82
We had a lot of good-looking girls”:
Hubbard,
Mission into Time
, p. 34.

83
None was found:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 284.

84
“Recall a time”:
Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

85
“If there’s time”:”
Ibid.

86
“The girl would say”:
Hubbard,
Mission into Time
, p. 34.

87
“We did find the tunnel”:
Ibid., p. 40.

88
“The world we live in now”:
Hubbard’s lecture, “Assists,” Class VIII, Tape 10, Oct. 3, 1968.