On January 4, 1963, under the guise of executing a warrant authorizing the
seizure of E-meters, a raiding party of U.S. Marshals, joined by FDA agents and
three narcotics officers from the D.C. Police Department, swooped down on the
church. In Gestapo fashion, they ransacked desks and filing cabinets and, in
addition to E-meters, carted away a truckload of creedal literature. Hoping to
find some evidence of drugs the officers invaded residential quarters occupied by the church staff.
There they rifled closets, bureau drawers, and even lifted bedcovers.
(O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 25)
According to sworn affidavits of eye-witnesses and victims of the affair, the
raiders charged through the main entrance beside which was a large plaque
reading: FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY. In jackboot Gestapo style, they
"burst into the church offices ... and loudly if incoherently demanded and
threatened all in sight; observed absolutely no courtesies except for not
actually shooting the guns they carried, and denied to the Church administrators
any opportunity to arrange that students and Church members not be disturbed,
upset or terrorized.
"Showing no legal warrant, the agents and heavy deputies pounded their
way up stairways, bursting into confessional and pastoral counselling sessions,
causing disruption and violently preventing the quiet pursuit of the normal
practice of religious philosophy. They broke into classrooms.
"They seized all the publications and all the confessional aids called
E-meters they could find in desks, in ladies' handbags, in students' briefcases
and in the session rooms."
"Gradually, the agents removed from the church to the waiting vans some
tens of thousands of copies of over twenty Church books, texts, recorded
sermons; even the Church archives were sacked. The confiscated material was
handled roughly, and when ministers of the Church asked that their property be
handled more carefully, the 'deputies' from Baltimore gave only sneering
illiteracies for answer." (O. Garrison, Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 132-133)
...Although in their libel of information, the FDA did not ask for seizure or
condemnation of alleged labelling - that is, literature - when the warrant was
issued, it also authorized the arrest of "an undetermined number of items
of written, printed or graphic matter".
In the raid on the church, which was carried out as soon as FDA officials had
the warrant in their hands, federal agents seized not only the E-meters, but the
entire stock of Scientology books and creedal literature. An FDA spokesman later
boasted to newsmen that the agency's enforcers had seized and carted away three tons of equipment and printed material. (O. Garrison, Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 134-135)
The looted E-meters, 5000 volumes and 20,000 booklets were not
returned until October 24, 1973. When a count was taken, it was found that 25 of
the E-meters were missing. They were never accounted for. (O. Garrison, Playing
Dirty, pg. 35 and
LRH: On January the 22nd of 1963, the Food and Drug Administration made a raid
with drawn guns on our organization in Washington, D.C., immediately after we
had offered to then-president Kennedy assistance in his national programs with
the use of Scientology. His reply to this, apparently, was to order a raid on
our organization.
I determined at that time that organizations must carry on a line of
defense and that I must accelerate the technology, advance and wrap up the
entire subject in a very short time. (Ron's Journal 67)
LRH: ... Time rolled along. The FDA suddenly became very
interested in the organization, sniffing around the corners. The U.S.
Government issued an organized smear campaign in the Washington Press, calling
us all sorts of hard names.
Then they raided a Church and seized philosophical and
religious texts and meters - an armed raid on a Church. Stop and think about
that for a moment. How could they get away with this? How did they do this?
The way they did it was to lie to federal court, and they're in trouble.
They didn't tell the right name of the organization to the
court and so got a warrant. The president of the United States issued the
warrant, it said so right on the warrant. The said it was for the
"distribution center" and the "Hubbard guidance center"
and the "Academy of Scientology." And the premises are all rented by
and under the name of The Founding Church of Scientology, Washington, DC.
They broke into the organization and actually made quite a
mess of things. They burst into sessions and snatched e-meters off of auditing
desks. Somebody said, "You realize that you're raiding a church,"
and this kind of slowed them down. ...
Of course, there will be repercussions. The immediate thing
that will happen, we're supposed to go to court to claim our property and give
reasons why. Actually, this is a very easy action to win. The warrant is
false.
Our New York attorneys say all we ought to do is go in and
grab the property. Our Washington attorneys say no, we had better use this to
unseat the current administration.
Today, something was mailed to Congress and every
Congressman and Senator would receive a statement by me saying I would like to
have a meeting with President Kennedy because I'm sure that we could settle
our religious differences. In view of the fact they're trying to shoot this
guy down right now, I think they'll finish the job. ... (Tape
lecture: 6301C08,
ROUTINE 2-10 AND ROUTINE 2-12)
HCO Information Letter of January 8, AD13
Ron’s Journal No. 3
The U.S. Government went more than abnormal insane last week and did the
following all of its own little bat:
- Organized a smear campaign in the press to cover up
- An armed raid on a church and
- The seizure of philosophical religious book stocks.
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.
The action came soon after I offered Kennedy, a Catholic, help in the space
race.
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 defense. Who wants to be tied up
with a country dedicated to religious persecution and Hitler methodology?
So on careful trace I find that over twelve years the U.S. Government, not
some special interest, has been sniping at us. Why?
Just tell it to your 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?"
L. Ron Hubbard (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Hubbard issues a general amnesty to all who had been declared
suppressive persons and booted out of Scientolgy.
(The Roots of Scientology)
Hubbard reveals that he had twice visited heaven. His first visit to
heaven, a town high in the mountains on an alien planet, went well enough
but when he came back three-million years later he found the place in a sad
state of disrepair. Later this pair of bulletins would be
deleted from Scientolgy's list of Hubbard's writings.
(The Roots of Scientology)
Noting that the Government was powerless to move against Scientologists until
they had valid evidence, to support such a move, Victorian Health Minister R. W.
Mack issued a statement asking people who thought they had proof of illegal
practices by Scientologists to contact the Crown Law Department.
The health official's request for information about alleged exploitation by
Scientologists was given major prominence in the newspapers and run under a three-column, threebank headline.
When not a single person came forward with a complaint against Scientology,
the no-response story was a brief three-paragraph item, buried beneath an
18-point, one-column head. (I am here referring to articles in the Melbourne Age
of August 10 and 14, 1963, respectively, which were typical.)
For more than two years, at the instigation of Scientology's "eminent
critics", both the police department and investigators for Victoria's
Department of Health had subjected the Church's activities to intensive
investigation. But, according to a public statement of the Minister for Health,
the authorities could find nothing in existing laws under which the
Scientologists could be prosecuted. (O. Garrison, Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 147)
HCOPL 14 August AD13
Scientology Five Press Policies
Certain vested interests, mainly the American Medical Association, a
private healing monopoly, wish to all possible harm to the Scientology
movement over the world in order to protect their huge medical-psychiatric
income and desired monopoly which runs into tens of billions annually. In
their congresses they complain that we and people like us cost them 1.1
billion dollars a year that they don’t receive. Their sole interest is
income. Reference: Minutes of various AMA conferences.
Almost all our bad publicity and attacks is authored by two men, one named
Keaton, the AMA press man, and one named Field, their head of
"investigation". These men flood bad tales about Scientology into
press, magazines, radio, TV. Their sole interest is a medical-psychiatrist
monopoly for the AMA.
Their publicity goes overseas. The FDA is used by these people and FDA
releases are sent overseas.
Hitler and Stalin held power through medical psychiatry. They associate
themselves chiefly with the rich and powerful.
L. Ron Hubbard (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
New legislation would have to be drafted to stop Scientology. That called for fancy
footwork on the political level. Accordingly, a plan of action was worked out.
Phillip Bennett Wearne, a disgruntled former Scientologist, acted as front man
for the get-Scientology alliance. In his own words:
"I knew that the way to go about it was to go to the Labour
Opposition; so former political contacts put me in touch with the Hon. J.
Walton, M.L.C., and he was most interested in bringing in the subject. He was
a backbencher, and a successful attack on some subject like this would be very
helpful to his career as a politician. So I made several visits to Parliament
and he recorded conversations about it, and I gave him notes and documents,
and one thing and another."
On October 17, 1963, Walton delivered an anti-Scientology speech in the
Victorian Legislative Council, calling for a full governmental inquiry into the
practices of the dangerous cult.
His remarks were prominently quoted in the press.
Perceiving that the Opposition had hold of a good thing, John W. Galbally,
Labour leader in the Upper House, gave the attack on Scientology his personal
attention. In a high-decibel speech before the Legislative Council, Galbally censured the Government for its failure to deal with the wicked
"cult", despite repeated warnings from the Mental Hygiene Authority
"and other responsible persons and bodies" (meaning mental health
lobbyists and the AMA).
Availing himself of parliamentary privilege, which protected him against
charges of slander, he described Scientologists as charlatans who were guilty of
intimidation and blackmail, which could lead to insanity and even suicide.
Then, evidently in the belief that to deliver a truly rousing political
oration, one must, in the words of former President Johnson, "get your hand
up under the dress", Galbally read from a list of questions he said were
asked of Scientology "victims who underwent lie detector tests". He
came down hard on those having to do with sexual acts and perversions.
In its sensationalized coverage of the speech, the Melbourne Truth modestly
refused to cite any of the questions which, it said, any newspaper
"conscious of public decency would not publish."
"It is a scandal," Galbally declared, "that the Government
allows this sort of thing to go on in Melbourne."
The Labour Leader's words were still ringing in the air when his colleague,
J. M. Walton, rose to continue the onslaught. From his briefcase he produced an
E-meter, the harmless device that had figured in the now-famous FDA raid on the
Founding Church of Scientology in Washington.
"This is the instrument the Scientologists use to extract confessions
from people in prominent places in the community," he told House members.
He added dramatically: "We are dealing with something that is very deep
and very dangerous."
He was, in fact, dealing with a simple skin galvanometer, but the Victorian
MPs had never seen one before and were properly impressed.
In a final, thumb-screw tactic, Walton suggested that perhaps some members of
the Government had themselves been consorting with Scientologists, to whom they
had divulged their secrets. Because of this they had used their influence to
prevent any official action against the cult. (O. Garrison, Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 147-149)
Church of Scientology of Detroit, Michigan founded. (CofS)
HCO Information Letter of November 24, 1963
Essential Information Every Scientologist Should Know
LRH has his own personal income. Organizations pay his expenses when
traveling and some research expenses.
LRH paid all of 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 owens St 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.
LRH in some Orgs has drawn a nominal salary in the past as Coordinator of
Research and it has been well-earned but he has drawn no pay for the past
several years until lately when 25 (pound) a week was given him for his out of
pocket expenses.
The early Dianetic Organizations were formed and controlled by boards of
directors and in early 1952 failed. They were not under LRH control and
direction their press and public relations were mishandled by these boards. To
the late Joe Winter M.D., an original board member, we owe the stress on
psychosomatic medicine. " 70% of all ills are psychsomatic, Dianetics can
cure them" was Winter’s and these handouts were written by Winter. To
the first publisher we owe "any two can do it by one reading of this
book."
In 1952 in Arizona, LRH started the first Scientology organizations…. LRH
does not own Scientology Organizations. He does however retain ownership of
all copyrights and trade marks and registered marks so as to ensure their
proper and ethical use.
HASI was incorporated as a Religious Fellowship in 1952, two years before
there were any discussions about churches or ministers.
The same type of material as Scientology was attempted about 2500 years ago
by one Gautama Siddhartha and became the world’s oldest civilized religion,
known as Buddhism. Laws of life, exteriorization and other materials of
Buddhism are similar to Scientology.
He (LRH) considers the research part of his task concluded in August of
1963 since all targets ever envisioned were realized as of that date and only
codification and recording remained.
Issued by: HCO WW Staff
For L. Ron Hubbard (Chronology
of Policies and GOs concerning the attacks on Dianetics/Scientology)
Yielding to the combined pressure of Opposition political leaders and mental
health lobbyists, the Victorian Governor-in-Council on November 27, 1963
appointed a Board of Inquiry to "inquire into, report upon, and make
recommendations concerning Scientology as known, carried on, practised and
applied in Victoria".
The "Board" consisted of one man - Kevin Victor Anderson, Q.C., a
senior member of the Victorian Bar and a practicing Roman Catholic. Appointed
counsel to assist the Board in conducting the Inquiry was Gordon Just,
instructed by the Crown Solicitor.
The marathon Inquiry set something of a record for such proceedings, both in
terms of the time consumed (16o days of sittings) and the enormous bulk of
testimony (nearly 4,000,000 words, which filled 8,92o pages of transcript).
When the Inquiry was first announced, the Scientologists expressed enthusiasm
for the hearings because, they said, such an impartial review of the evidence
would completely vindicate Scientology. They co-operated fully with the Board,
providing all documents and records that were requested.
As the Inquiry went forward, however, the proceedings appeared more and more
like an adversary situation in which they were defendents. In a later legal
brief, their lawyers said: "The Inquiry into Scientology was not judicial
in constitution, it was not judicial in function and only perhaps in its
'trappings' was it superficially judicial in its procedure."
A careful, unbiased reading of the transcript certainly supports some of the
principal charges made by the Scientologists against the Inquiry; for example,
that Anderson sometimes adopted the role of prosecutor, and harried both witnesses and counsel for Scientology, while treating with courtesy and
deference those "expert" witnesses hostile to Scientology; that there
was collusion among antiScientology witnesses; that the Board declared some
findings before all the witnesses were heard; and that Anderson and Just used
confidential information from Scientology files to embarrass and ridicule
witnesses for Scientology.
Sessions of the Inquiry that were heard in camera sometimes bore a striking
resemblance to the witch trials of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is
only necessary to identify sex as the Devil and Scientologists as the witches
who corsort with him. An auditing session here figures in the same way as
Sabbats of the past.
The transcript of these sittings was issued as a secret appendix to the
published report and was not generally circulated. However, I have come into
possession of a copy and will quote a portion of it to show the inquisitional
nature of the proceedings. (O. Garrison, Hidden
Story of Scientology, pg. 150-151)
Church of Scientology of Durban, South Africa founded. (CofS)
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