On 5 May 2002, Paulettec wrote:

> Someone wrote here a short while ago that I wrote the first expose on
> Scientology. Not exactly. I wrote the first critical *book,* but while
> I was trying to sell it, a negative magazine article came out in Life
> Magazine (written by Alan Levy), and another in Parents Magazine,
> written by Arlene and Howard Eisenberg.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTIVE FROM L. RON HUBBARD of 12 December 1968
RE LIFE ARTICLE AND LETTTER
Staffs Only
Not for public Issue

says, in part,

"It is interesting that Life Magazine in the US has been a violent foe of Dianetics and Scn for 18 years. Their connection to the enemy is not yet established. But it certainly exists. In their letters to the editor in their issue of 6 Dec 68 they made a very fatal error. They published and signed my name to a letter I never wrote them, which makes them guilty of forgery, doesn't it."

Hubbard also mentioned the Saturday Evening Post as earlier having published an article that he disapproved of, so someone may want to look that one up. LRH continued,

"The Intelligence, espionage pattern is very plain here. In the Life article a psychotic is pushed into an org to get no case gain, his identity secret, to get discreditable data and he then writes an article.

But he is already a mental patient. Our Documents and files are often found in enemy hands. And now and then at SE or an org we find a lock smashed or a windown broken."

Hubbard then explained that most agencies with the words "mental health" in their names were actually brainwashed people whose main job it was to stir up bad public opinion. He also wrote that it would be a good idea to use police against these groups, but that police cannot always be relied upon. He said that the literature of one of these groups talked only of world domination and seldom about any cases. This particular group, continued Hubbard, made big mistakes. I guess we would call them foot bullets. He listed two of these mistakes as committing the crime of burglary and murdering mental patients and calling it treatment. Its members, Hubbard warned, were psychotic.

Here's one of Hubbard's interesting definitions of sanity,

"By traditional law, sanity is defined as the 'ability to tell right from wrong.'"

The Life Letters to the Editor re "Scientology -- A Growing Cult Reaches Dangerously into the Mind" (Nov. 15, 1968) by Alan Levy is posted to alt.binaries.scientology. It looks like about 8 letters, including the one Hubbard says is a forgery. If you go to a large library, it might have Life magazine on microfilm from that year.

Joe Cisar, Xenu apologist

Media, read what made me Scientology Public Enemy nbr. 45, or was it 46?

http://www.xenu.net/archive/thesis/cisar-home.html

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