Release of the Hubbard Mark II E-Meter, soon followed by the Hubbard Mark
III E-Meter. (CofS)
Have You Lived Before This Life? published. (CofS)
The solid citizens of East Grimstead read a report in the "Courier,"
about a book written by the local Dr. Hubbard entitled, "Have You Lived
Before This Life?"
Much interest is aroused concerning this eccentric
American and his steady stream of followers. Also talked about locally were
the strange "security checks" made on members of the staff and the servants.
This involved the use of the e-meter which the residents thought some
sinister device.
Hubbard's success was now interesting the FBI who had prior to this time
dismissed him as a mental case. He became the only American owner of a
country house in England to be kept under suveilence. File No. 244-210-B.
(The Roots of Scientology)
To some extent, the FBI's interest in Hubbard was a situation of his own making, for the frequently intemperate bulletins and policy letters which flowed from Saint
Hill in an endless stream for distribution to Scientologists around the world were bound to generate the attention of J. Edgar Hoover's staff. On 24 April 1960, for
example, Hubbard issued a bulletin to US franchise holders asking them to do everything in their power to deny the presidency to 'a person named Richard M.
Nixon'.
He claimed that after an innocent reference to Nixon in a Scientology magazine, two armed secret service agents, acting on Nixon's orders, had threatened staff on
duty at the founding church in Washington: 'Hulking over desks, shouting violently, they stated that they daily had to make such calls on "lots of people" to prevent
Nixon's name from being used in ways Nixon disliked... They said Nixon believed in nothing the Founding Church of Scientology stood for...
'We want clean hands in public office in the United States. Let's begin by doggedly denying Nixon the presidency no matter what his Secret Service tries to do to us
now.. . He hates us and has used what police force was available to him to say so. So please get busy on it...'
(Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 141)
Miscavige: The war escalated to a whole new level when Watergate villain Richard Nixon entered the White House. ...In 1960 LRH wrote to all Scientologists with a very farsighted announcement in HCO Bulletin of April 24 1960. In this HCOB, LRH
related the story of how Nixon, while Vice-President, sent several of his secret service agents into the DC org to rough up the girls on duty, all
because LRH had once quoted Nixon.
At the time this bulletin was written, Nixon was running for the office of president. You can see the issue on the screen, entitled: Concerning the
Campaign for Presidency.
LRH concluded by stating: "It is my hope you'll vote and make your friends vote. But please don't vote for Nixon. Even his own secret service agents assure us he stands for nothing we do." - LRH (David Miscavige's IAS speech, 8 October 1993)
An HCO Bulletin in June promulgated the 'Special Zone Plan - The Scientologists Role in Life', in which Hubbard explained how Scientologists could exert influence
in politics. 'Don't bother to get elected,' he wrote. 'Get a job on the secretarial staff or the bodyguard.' In this way positioned close to the seat of power, he argued,
Scientology would be advantageously situated to transform an organization. 'If we were revolutionaries,' he added, 'this HCO Bulletin would be a very dangerous
document.'
In August, the 'Special Zone Plan' was absorbed into a new 'Department of Government Affairs' made necessary, Hubbard gravely explained, because of the
amount of time senior Scientology executives were having to devote to governmental affairs, as governments around the world disintegrated under the threat of
atomic war and Communism. 'The goal of the Department', he wrote 'is to bring government and hostile philosophies or societies into a state of complete
compliance with the goals of Scientology. This is done by high-level ability to control and in its absence by a low-level ability to overwhelm. Introvert such agencies.
Control such agencies.'
Returning to a familiar theme, Hubbard urged his followers to defend Scientology by attacking its opponents: 'If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or
anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace... Don't ever defend, always attack. Don't ever
do nothing. Unexpected attacks in the rear of the enemy's front ranks work best .'
(Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah",
pg. 141)
Hubbard Association of Scientologists International established in Cape
Town, South Africa. (CofS)
Hubbard gives a series of lectures in South Africa.
(The Roots of Scientology)
T. J. Stander, who has played the leading role in the South African
extravaganza, began preparing for the pageant as far back as 1960. On November
22 of that year, he wrote a letter to the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry in New York,
asking that organization what steps they had taken against Scientology,
explaining that "in terms of existing legislation in South Africa, no steps
can be taken to debar Scientologists from practicing, although we are worried in
the extreme about the activities of this body". Stander's signature
identified him as organizing secretary of the S.A. National Council for Mental
Health.
Identical letters were sent to the Philippine Mental Health Association; the
National Association for Mental Health (UK); the Department of National Health
and Welfare (Canada), and to the American Medical Association. (Garrison:
Hidden Story of
Scientology, pg. 216)
Hubbard flies to the US for a series of lectures in Washington,
DC.
(The Roots of Scientology)
Hubbard Communications Office, Ltd., incorporated in the United
States. (CofS)
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