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The News-Herald 



Son of Scientology


He’s the son of the founder of the controversial church he now calls a
dangerous cult.

For a look inside Scientology see the story below.

Newkirk Herald,
July 7 - July 13, 1982

by Dennis Wheeler



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


He’s been called the Son of Scientology

His name has been changed from L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., to Ron deWolf, and
he’s the firstborn son of the former science fiction writer who
founded the Church of Scientology. It’s been 23 years since he’s seen
his father, and he suspects that the founder of what many people call
a destructive cult may, in truth, be dead.

To be perfectly frank, my life’s been pretty much of a disaster and a
miserable mess because of Scientology — and you can quote me on that."
he told the News-Herald recently in an exclusive interview.

At the age of 48, DeWolf still has the startling red hair that
characterized his father. He lives with his wife and youngest son in
Carson City, Nevada; five other children are grown and live elsewhere.

His version of his father’s life, in fact, is radically different from
that painted by the Church. Scientology publications portray the
senior Hubbard as an idealistic young man who traveled the world in
search of truth — an explorer, writer, filmmaker, soldier, and
humanitarian, highly educated and eager to eliminate the ills of
modern society.

But DeWolfe flatly says: "Better than 90 percent of what my father has
written about himself is untrue." He tells harrowing tales of his own
childhood, recalling how during World War II "my father used to mix
phenobarbital with bubble gum and give it to me and my sister — I
remember the darn stuff was very bitter. Then he would tell us
stories, great stories, but I could never remember him finishing a lot
of them. He would feed us bubble gum, and then try to put us in
hypnotic trances in order to create what he called a ‘moonchild.’

This, says DeWolf, stemmed from his father’s continual interest in
black magic and the occult. DeWolf himself was born prematurely,
weighing two pounds, two ounces, and he now tells people, " I wasn’t
exactly born, I was aborted. He was trying to do an abortion bit on
me. He had one of those insane things, especially during the ‘30s, of
trying to invoke the devil for power and practices. My mother told me
about him trying out all kinds of various incantations, drugs and
hypnosis...His initials for it were PDH — pain, drugs, hypnosis. The
use of PDH, coupled with black magic, was an effective for of
brainwashing or mind control. You’ll see throughout early Scientology
literature, ‘PDH.’"

DeWolf also describes his father as a wife-beater. "He used to beat
her up quite often. He had a violent, volcano-type temper, and he
smacked her around quite a bit. I remember in 1946 or 1947 when he was
beating up my mother one night. I had a .22 rifle and I sat on the
stairway with him in my sights, and I almost blew his head off."

Then, in 1950 when DeWolf was 18, the senior Hubbard wrote the
phenomenal best-selling book which gave birth to the Church of
Scientology, Dianetics: The Modern Science of mental Health. The Book,
according to its publishers, documented the results of Hubbard’s
intensive research on roughly 280 "case histories." But DeWolf says,
"All were subcreated by Dad. None of them were case histories
whatsoever; they were done strictly out of his mind, sitting at a
typewriter in a few weeks times."

Nevertheless, soon after the book’s publication, "Dianetics
Foundations" were set up in order to allow people to buy "dianetic
auditing," or counseling. DeWolf received auditing in Seattle, but his
father refused to let him tell his auditors his true identity --
which, DeWolf points out with a laugh, "makes it rather impossible to
receive any auditing if it’s being done under an assumed name and you
can’t reveal 99 percent of your past...One day I got tired of it, and
told one of the auditors who I was. You would have thought the poor
girl went into cardiac arrest...That was my first taste of being what
later I used to refer laughingly as ‘the great red godlet.’"

Hubbard’s relation to his father allowed him to rise rapidly in the
world of Dianetics, and he was one of the original incorporators of
the very first Church of Scientology in New Jersey in 1954. Later he
became the chief instructor of advanced clinical courses both in
England and the United States, delivering many of his lectures, he
says, off the top of his head while stoned on drugs. "Also later on, I
became Executive Secretary, which meant that I was the head of
Scientology in the United States."

DeWolf says he was present at the 1954 convention of Scientologists in
Arizona at which his father fired a pistol into the floor, thus
allegedly demonstrating the process called "R2-45" — shooting a
"Supressive Person" in the head. "I thought he was kidding and that it
was a blank, but it wasn’t; there was a hole in the floor. It was for
real; he meant it."

During the ‘50s, DeWolf continues, he conned people out of their
money, used black magic, distributed drugs, and took advantage of the
church’s female followers, participating in private orgies with his
father and three or four women. "His theory was that one has to open
or crack a woman’s soul in order for the satanic power to pour through
it and into him," Dewolf said in a recent magazine interview. "It got
kind of far out, culminating in a variety of sex acts. Dad also had an
incredibly violent temper. He was into S&M and would beat his
mistresses and shoot them full of drugs." His father used amphetamines
and cocaine, DeWolf says, plus some hallucinogens.

The women serving L. Ron Hubbard, says his son, "were very good at
doing the dirty work, at running money or drugs back and forth. They
were very good in any of the dirty tricks-department, because they had
absolutely totally slavish devotion to L. Ron Hubbard.

Current members of Scientology may be horrified at these stories of
the early days of their church, especially since the tales are told by
the actual son of the sect’s founder. And DeWolf himself admits that
the drug abuse and black magic rites "weren’t necessarily in the
Scientology hierarchy, not at the top of the pyramid but more like
side-by-side with it. You could be a Scientology leader and not know
anything about it".

In 1959, DeWolf abruptly left the Church. The defection, he says, was
prompted by his wife Henrietta, whom he’d always shielded from
Scientology. "She’s terribly patient and loses her temper maybe once
every five years— and if she ever does, the whole universe shakes."
says DeWolf with a grin. "Anyhow, she just flatly said to me one day,
‘Make your choice — me or Scientology,’ and she really meant it.
Perhaps because of my own childhood, my family was very important to
me. So one weekend I just threw a letter in the mailbox and left, to
drive cross country to Los Angeles. Then on January 3, 1960, my father
sent me a telegram saying that he was going to have me arrested for
theft of a mailing list and money — that he was going to ‘crush’ me,
and that I’d better run and hide or he would find me and destroy me."
Later, however, father and son were more amiable and exchanged
correspondence, although they never saw each other again.

Life outside Scientology was "terrible" at first says DeWolf: "I
didn’t know how to make a living— except for being a god." since 1959,
though, he’s held a variety of jobs, currently as an apartment manager
and before that in the security division of a casino/hotel.

Scientology officials now sometimes claim that DeWolf denounces his
father only to gain publicity for himself and to promote the book he’s
writing. DeWolf, however, claims, that in the past 23 years since
leaving the cult, he received only $6,300 related to Scientology "
from "both sides of the fence."

And not all professionals in the "anti-cult" field trust DeWolf,
either, Scientology officials, while reluctant to admit DeWolf’s very
existence, when faced with his accusations distribute a transcript of
a videotape which DeWolf made in 1972. On tape, DeWolf says he had no
personal knowledge of any wrong-doing or illegal acts or brutality
against people by members of Scientology, and that he lied in earlier
testimony.

DeWolf now says the tape was made "under duress...I did a lot of
talking to a lot of people, and nobody believed me. They thought what
I had to say was as far out as Scientology itself. But I can’t expose
L. Ron Hubbard without exposing myself. So I had to reach a point
where I was ready, willing, and able to in actual fact let everything
— everything hang out. The whole ball of wax — the good, the bad, the
beautiful, the ugly...It wasn’t really until 1978, in fact, that I got
out from under it. I didn’t have all kinds of counselors or
‘deprogrammers.’"

The elder Hubbard, according to his son, "had a tremendous amount of
charisma. His ability to sway people was really quite awesome. I saw
people come in there angry as hell at him, and two seconds later
they’d walk away happy — you’d wonder what happened. That’s one of the
reasons it was very difficult for me, and for many other people, to
get away, to get out from under."

DeWolf’s mother, he says, was divorced from his father and died an
alcoholic in 1963, bitterly opposed to her ex-husband and the
organization that he founded. To date, according to DeWolf, Hubbard is
known to have had at least seven children by three wives. His current
wife, Mary Sue, is one of nine top Scientology leaders convicted on
charges of conspiracy, burglary, or theft of secret documents from
federal offices in Washington, D.C. In 1975, DeWolf’s half brother
Quentin apparently committed suicide in Las Vegas; he was found in a
car with a hose running into it from the exhaust pipe.

Is the founder of Scientology himself still alive? Probably not, says
Dewolf, "although I haven’t seen his body, or been to his funeral."
Hubbard hasn’t made any tape recordings to his followers for several
years, and if he is alive, he’s hiding, perhaps on a resort ranch in
Southern California. As recently as a year ago DeWolf received a
typewritten correspondence purportedly from Hubbard, but he claims the
style of writing isn’t his father’s. The last documented time a
non-Scientologist saw Hubbard, according to DeWolf, was in 1980.

Scientology officials say the founder of their church is alive and
well, still engaged in "research," although they claim he gave up his
role in leadership in 1966. In the Scientology mission in Santa Rosa (
as in most missions) is a mailbox emblazoned with Hubbard’s "Standing
Order," which states that any mail addressed to him will be received
by him. And Hubbard’s 850-page novel, Battlefield earth, will be
released by St. Martin’s Press in October — the book tells of
interplanetary war and "intergalactic financial intrigue" between
Earth and the "Psychlos."

The future of Scientology? DeWolf believes the entire superstructure
is crumbling under the glare of publicity and incontrovertible,
documented evidence that Hubbard repeatedly has lied about himself —
thus prompting even his most devoted followers to wonder if he’s lied
about other things as well. "The key to sorting someone’s head out
about Scientology is L. Ron Hubbard," says DeWolf, "He is ‘source,’
‘cause,’ ‘creator,’ and ‘founder,’ Lay the true and actual man and his
past out and the ‘construct’ falls apart. There’s no need to argue or
even debate."

Infighting in Scientology at the moment is rampant, DeWolf believes.
"Remember this basic thing — it’s a money-and-power game, period. It’s
who’s got all the money, who can step on whom to climb up higher, who
can control the most number of people, who’s got the best ‘stats,’
meaning statistics. It’s a mad scramble up the pyramid, and let’s see
who we can trample in the climb.’

"There’s a lot of strong-arm stuff which of course the corporations of
Scientology have always disavowed as being some misguided member doing
something on his own initiative," DeWolf continues. "Or maybe they are
changing. But the only problem is they’ve said that before — over and
over and over again. About once a year they say that, and we always
used to say that very same thing."

 

END

 
above file is here 
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/newsherald-DeWolfe07-82.htm

Ron Dewolf testimoney during the 1982 Clearwater hearings is here :
http://www.lermanet.com/82cwcommission/   {index page)

Day 2 - pages 1 to 20 Ron Hubbard's son's testimony, Ron DeWolfe

Then, I arrived in Phoenix, Arizona in early '52. He had just arrived
from Wichita with Mary Sue. And the very first day -- the very first
day I arrived, he wanted me audited immediately. But I had been
-driven all night and I was eighteen years old. I knew nothing about
Scientology. All I had read was Dianetics*: The Modern Science of
Mental Health, and it never really interested me very much as a book
when I was young. So, after about a couple of weeks there, we got
involved -- he asked me to sit down on the couch, and I was high on
Benzedrine, Bennies. And we started doing, quote, "research" on a book
called History of Man. So, we spent a couple, three days on that.
Here's the book here, The Scientology History of Man; here's a copy of
it. And all the incidents -- he did a few with Mary Sue, but the
majority of incidents in it were off the top of my head, as I had
upwards of twenty, thirty milligrams of Bennies in me.

[ Bennies = Speed = amphetamines ]

Day 2 - pages 21-40 MR. DeWOLFE: Well, that is slightly incorrect. I
was very much a part of the criminal conspiracy through the fifties,,*
so it really wasn't me watching it become a criminal conspiracy. It
would have to be I watched it continue to become a criminal
conspiracy, to be more accurate. Well, you must realize that power
corrupts, and. absolute power corrupts absolutely. But I wish to
paraphrase on that, which is that, for instance, power is very
enjoyable, and total and absolute power is ecstasy. 2-23 The --
Scientology is a power and money game.

Day 2 - pages 41-60

MR. LECHER: Your father wanted you to steal an H- bomb?

MR. DeWOLFE: Yeah. He wanted me to 

MR. LECHER: From whom? 

MR. DEWOLFE: Anybody and everybody. We got -- I never got into it,
because.I said, "Oh, no, thank you." And sort of -- things went click
in my head, and I said, "I don't -- I have two children and I don't
want to get involved in that." And that was in late 1958.
MR. LECHER: He wanted you to steal the parts or the whole bomb?
MR. DeWOLFE: No. He wanted a whole package. The but the -- as an
example, one of the things he said to me.-was that he said it many,
many times he said, "Don't call it murder, call it suicide." And
there's another quote, "I connotate loyalty as the highest ethic."
That means, "Follow me." That means, "Total dedication, total loyalty
to me, L. Ron Hubbard."And that's the one-thing that he put before any
and all everything. And -


Day 2 - pages 61-80. DeWOLFE: The origin simply was that if anybody
gave us any problem, any trouble, why, we'd just attack them. We had
-- we were pretty successful at it. And if you're talking about power
and what have you, that was a lot of fun to take on the FBI, take on
the IRS, take on the government, take on anybody and whip it out. And
as I said, I'm twenty -- in the early twenties, and we're stomping the
hell out of people and getting away with it. But the point -- that's
pretty heady stuff.


Day 2 - pages 81-100 MR. GREENE: I might direct your attention to the
last entry in the left-hand column: In Nuclear and Atomic Physics,
Hubbard received an F.
The faculty took action, which is indicated in the lower right-hand
corner of the exhibit, if you could move it up on the screen. Mr.
Hubbard was on probation when he returned-in September of 1931. Again,
directing your attention to the left-hand column, in
Mathematics/Calculus, Hubbard received an F .

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L Ron Hubbard's great grandson: Jamie Kennedy explains what
$cientology really is: "My mother still has a letter from Ron
threatening to break my grandfather's legs"

The mp3 track you want to hear is "Judas' Son" - enjoy 
[ parental advisory - adult language ] [ Audio file, mp3]
http://www.mp3.com/stations/jamie_kennedy








Ferengi + Borg = Scientology
I'd prefer to die speaking my mind than live fearing to speak.
The only thing that always works in scientology are its lawyers
The internet is the liberty tree of the new millennium
Secrets are the mortar binding lies as bricks together into prisons for the mind
http://www.lermanet.com/grifters.htm - mentioned 4 January 2000 in
The Washington Post's - 'Reliable Source' column re "Scientologist with no HEAD"
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