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Mary Suzette Rochelle Hubbard born.
(The Roots of Scientology)
LRH: Now in 1954, I got my first clue, and this is where you start coming in, I
got my first clue as to the actual type of personality that gave us a slugging
around. Earlier in doing research on the mind, and so on, I had become a special
officer of the Los Angeles force for awhile… My beat was South Main and
Alvarado and that is the toughest district there is down there, and I got a
little insight into the criminal intelligence and then I began to find out that
I didn’t run across Communists who didn’t have a slightly or largely tainted
criminal background. This was big discovery to me… and as time has gone on I
have gotten a deeper and deeper insight into the type of personality which
raises the devil with this type of work, and it isn’t 90% of the human race,
it is a figure as small as 20%. Of that 20%, only 2 ½ % of the 100, the other
being 17 ½ %, the 2 ½% are really institutional cases. They are utterly mad.
Now when I found out that they are in the minority I began to investigate
whenever we started to take a shellacing, whener we started to be beaten around
I would get a private investigator in the area and have a look around and see
who was at this and that activity, is (it) the suits, no, but that activity of
investigation is the only thing which has tamed down attacks on Scientology. Not
even a punitive action after the investigation was concluded but just the fact
of investigation. (LRH Conference With The Investigators 17 August 1966)
The first Church of Scientology founded in Los Angeles, California. (CofS)
The Church of Scientology of California is founded. It
acts as the mother church. It is initially granted tax exempt status. (Criminal
Time Track: Issue III, (1,15))
The most obvious question that springs from this period is why did the Scientology movement take on the title of a church and thus a religion? Also why did Ron
Hubbard move from the United States to the UK in 1959?
A significant paragraph appears in the section on Ron Hubbard's life history in the Church's book 'What is Scientology'. This
says that in the early 50's the US government tried to monopolise his researches to use them for mind
control of people. It then says that after the government failed to get Hubbard's agreement to this, it embarked on a campaign of covert attacks
on his work. This is the earliest reference In the Church's published history to deliberate discrimination and attacks by
government- backed agencies. Most frequently referred to are the efforts of the
American Psychiatry Association to discredit the movement. This belief in a campaign of covert attacks has grown into massive paranoia
within the Church over the years.
It could be that these real or imagined pressures were more important in deciding to become a Church rather than a belief
that Scientology needed to be a Church to be effective in doing its job of Improving the mental and spiritual health of people.
(The Sad Tale of Scientology,
Eric Townsend, Chapt. 5, pg. 20)
The earliest document disclosing the Air Force's interest in Hubbard and his
group is dated April 5, 1954. It is a report by Col. Leroy Barnard of a special
investigation undertaken at the request of an Air Force base commander in
Colorado, "predicated upon information received" to the effect that a
Dianetics Society in Colorado Springs was "composed of homosexuals,
Communists, or both." (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 20)
1954, late
The Wichita Foundation had not thrived since Hubbard's departure and was having to contend with law suits from Hubbard. In late 1954
Purcell decided he would give up Dianetics and he would switch his support to the breakaway group, Synergetics. He agreed to return
the Dianetic copyrights and publishing rights to Hubbard. (The
Sad Tale of Scientology, Eric Townsend, Chapt. 5, pg. 18)
Dianetics 55! published. (CofS)
Among the books published in 1954 were: 'Group Auditors Handbook' (Vols I & II) and 'Dianetics 55'.
(The Sad Tale of Scientology,
Eric Townsend, Chapt. 5, pg. 19)
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