The Hidden Story of SCIENTOLOGY

Omar V. Garrison

The Citadel Press - Secaucus, N. J.

First American edition, August 1974
Copyright © 1974 by Omar V. Garrison
All rights reserved
Published by Citadel Press
A division of Lyle Stuart, Inc.
120 Enterprise Ave., Secaucus, N. J. 07094
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress catalog card number: 74-80818
ISBN o-8o65-0440-4

"Any new vital force in the world has a hard time."

L. RON HUBBARD

Acknowledgements

The ultimate value of any work of investigative reporting depends to a large  degree on the co-operation of honest and forthright informants, who supply the  source material upon which it is based. This book is no exception.

Accordingly, the author wishes to express his gratitude to all who have  provided data which clarify and support this work's central argument.

O. V. G.

Contents

 

Foreword 11

1. A Look at Dianetics 19
2. Scientology: Knowing How to Know 33
3. The Hubbard Electrometer 59
4. AMA's Operation Catspaw 66
5. The Crafty Art of Psychopolitics 84
6. "With Evil Eye and Unequal Hand" 128
7. The Little Gods Down Under 144
8. The IRS Role 175
9. England: The Scramble for Stones 183
10. Privilege and Perjury in South Africa 214

Epilogue 231