On 23 Oct 2001, JimDBB wrote:

> One Man Britain Can Do Without
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So how, you may well ask, would L. Ron Hubbard react to the above article?

I've included an excerpt from Appendix A of the thesis in my sig file. The item labelled 30 is a description of "Project Psychiatry," as mentioned above. 31 is an example of how Hubbard attacked Lord Balniel. 32 is a "legal point" by which Hubbard explained to his staff that the above article was taken from material which had been stolen from him and put completely out of context. 33 is a little moral booster from Hubbard in the wake of the above article. Finally, 35 is a note from Hubbard two years afterwards in which he is still telling staff not to feel too bad about bad PR.

--- begin of excerpt from appendix A 30. Volume 1 of 3; Section 1, General Information; Part B, The War, item 18

Secretarial Executive Director Office of LRH
SECED 61 WW ...
Confidential
Project Psychiatry

The Ad should read "Investigator: services of trained personnel required for interesting work.

Phone Langham 3601". Repeat the same ad with "Enquiry Agents" as its lead: Advertise often.

Hubbard emphasized that people must be hired as either individuals or as staff. "Our investigators must be our own staff and reliable."

The raids, Hubbard concluded, were the result of his no longer carrying out his old practice of investigating the investigators. In his words, "So long as we investigated attackers, the attacks folded up. When we ceased, the attacks took a new violence."

Therefore a failure to investigate the outside investigators, he theorized, had surely resulted in further investigations from the outside.

Hubbard gave his readers an idea of what to expect in carrying out their vigilance against "attackers."

The attacking group as may be expected has a bad background. It is nowhere legalised by name under law. It derives any "authority" by medical degrees but psychiatrists are not qualified medical doctors in actual training and practice. Insanity has no precise definition, but is whatever they say it is.

And whoever they say is insane is usually somebody who is in a temporary exhaustion or who doesn't agree with them.

This was said to be "far too much power for one group composed of men who at best act insanely when faced with any challenge." For all humanity was aware, Hubbard stated, there was a possibility that "hopelessly insane" people were the product of psychiatrists. The reason he gave for this was that "insanity is anything anybody says it is."

Hubbard also gave graphic details illustrating the power allegedly held by psychiatrists to sexually abuse women and subsequently disable them to prevent future incriminating testimony. "And all with no fear of reprisal. Yet it is rape and murder."

Hubbard informed his readers that his preliminary research was done. He found that it did not matter if the conspiracy upon which he had just reported existed or not. The reason it did not matter, he wrote, was that psychiatry was only as strong as its individual members. Furthermore, he stated psychiatry's practitioners were "weak."

Anticipating some resistance to his efforts, Hubbard reassured his readers,

If we are challenged with incitement to riot we claim we didn't but they did by their actions.

We also will form committees to use this data, collecting together a lot of protest committees that already exist. Psychiatric bloodsports. Psychiatric Auschwitz all proven by individual cases.

L. Ron Hubbard

Secretarial Executive Director Office of LRH
11 March 1966
SECED 70 WW & 342 SH & 7L
Parliament Balniel
Retarded Children

Kemp, according to Hubbard, worked out his own office and used a book authored by two teachers. Kemp's activity, according to Hubbard, was neither condoned nor discouraged by his Scientology client. Hubbard admitted that the book was based on Scientology and that Kemp was at one time associated with Scientology.

For reasons not stated by Hubbard, Kemp received unfavorable publicity about his work. Hubbard wrote that people who had a "vested interest in retarded children" drove Kemp out of business. Although Kemp allegedly had obtained some success in his work, he was said to have been "invalidated" and rejected by "groups interested in retarded children." Hubbard gave "Balniel" as the name of the person whom he suspected as the source of the trouble.

Apparently in response to publicity, Hubbard issued a number of statements. He stated that Scientology does not work with children, much less retarded children. He also said Scientology does "not accept the sick or treat the insane." He informed his public that the "two scandals" that they had heard about had absolutely no connection with "official or approved Scientology." He denied writing a book that would have been associated with scandalous activity. He wrote:

The press, uniformly and wholly incorrectly tied it all in to me personally though at the time of the "Death Lesson" scandal I had been out of the UK for months.

Hubbard gave information, as a possible explanation for the above-mentioned scandals, which included the presence of private school somewhere in the same geographical area. He said he knew of a person who worked at the school and that person had reported that children had become mentally disturbed as a result of "psychiatric techniques" practiced there.

He stated that state of affairs could be connected with Balniel and should therefore be included as part of his customer's investigation into "psychiatry ."

Hubbard ended up by posing a question of whether children were being raided. He then concluded that there was obviously something hidden that should be brought to light.

L. Ron Hubbard

HCO Executive Letter of 19 July 1966
Public Attacks, Legal Point

He also stated that, in the course of research, anything in "the whole field of human knowledge and the mind" might be written down in either books or on papers. He wrote that an endeavor was being made to make his customer's program appear out of the ordinary based on "private books and papers."

Hubbard then referred to a "newspaper group" that obtained notes that he said had been stolen from him. He said his notes looked quite out of the ordinary, and that no public person was ever intended to read them. He alleged the newspaper group had published his writing out of context, thereby misrepresenting his customer's programs.

The lesson to be learned by this, according to Hubbard, was that unfavorable information published about the customer's programs was the result of this "trick used by attackers." The trick, in turn, was to take small portions of material out of context and present it as though it were the norm. Hubbard stated this method was being used to challenge freedom of speech.

Hubbard concluded that a survey would show that Scientology's program was actually nothing out of the ordinary, and that this program consisted of five steps that he cited in the beginning of this letter.

L. Ron Hubbard
Copyright 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard

Executive Directive
26 September 1966
ED 21 WW 27 SH
Applies to Staff Only
Confidential
Current Attack

to allay concerns about recent negative publicity in a newspaper.

This data is provided in the form of a numbered list. The first item he presents as a reason not to be concerned about the negative publicity is that it was only presented in one newspaper. "Other papers won't touch it," he wrote. The next reason given for non-concern was that there was only a small number of people behind the story. This assertion was further supposed to be reassuring in that "we know the criminal background and connections of each one." Hubbard next stated that the people behind the newspaper story were actually part of a conspiracy and that they would soon be held accountable for their actions.

To explain the poor public relations, Hubbard wrote, "We have military and defense value, you know, can raise I.Q. in Scientists, shorten reaction time in pilots, improve judgement [sic] in troops and undo brainwashing." That sort of ability was routinely attacked, Hubbard claimed, by the enemies of the country.

Hubbard also made use of a book distributed by Scientology book stores called the "Brainwashing Manual" in this letter. The "Brainwashing Manual" purports to be a "Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics." In an effort to have the Brainwashing Manual taken seriously, Hubbard stated that the volume had been "published in the US Congressional Record."

He stated that the manual gives the reasons why his group received negative publicity. These reasons, he summarized, included their refusal to be blackmailed into being disloyal to their cause. Speaking of the Brainwashing Manual, he stated "You can have copies of it for free if you spread them around town."

In an apparent attempt to bolster fighting spirit in the face of bad news, Hubbard wrote that his client's detractors were "walking straight into a minefield." This meant, he continued, that his client's detractors would face personal ruin the moment they were confronted. That stated, Hubbard swung back into military terminology and wrote, "We're sitting here with 12 inch howitzers all loaded and ready to fire. Just make sure we do our jobs and in our attack, don't miss."

L. Ron Hubbard
Founder

L. Ron Hubbard Executive Directive
ED 42 INT
4 November 1968
Press Stories

This is a letter to give the client encouragement in the face of bad news. It starts out:

Dear Staffs:

Don't feel too bad about any press or publicity or "bad news".

As a tip off, we have not only located the enemy exactly but find him guilty of so many crimes that the end for this opposition is in plain view.

We are rolling up the heavy guns quietly and getting things exactly timed.

Love

Ron

L. Ron Hubbard
Founder
[seal, Church of Scientology of California]

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