Hi Piney, all -
You probably want to read Bare Faced Messiah, which is available online (at the clambake link below). It's quite a story.
L. Ron Hubbard was really pathological, and that he was one of the first NAFPS is no surprise. Let me give you an idea of the true man.
It is well know that in an interview with Penthouse magazine Ron Hubbard Jnr made allegations about his father L Ron Hubard's service to the KGB:
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/penthouse-LRonHubbardJr-interview-1983.htmIt is also well known that Ron Hubbard Jnr denied there claims during a period of financial stress:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_DeWolfFortunately, independent means exist to verify Ron Jr.'s claims.
After the Second World War, the Soviet cipher system used by the KGB and GRU was cracked and many of their messages were read. Unfortunately, large gaps still remain in the readings of those messages, and half of their agents remain unidentified, but still -
"Penthouse: What was the first example you can remember
of your father's espionage activity?
"Hubbard: I remember one day in 1944 when he
came home from the naval base where he was stationed
in Oregon with a big, gray metal box under his arm.
From Bare Faced Messiah we can identify this time period
as between December, 1943 and June, 1944
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfm06.htmNow for the charge:
"He [Ron Snr.] put [it] in our little attached garage
and put a tarp over it. That weekend a couple of funny little guys came
over to the house. I remember it was SUMMER"
May, 1944 - June, 1944
"and they were wearing heavy woollen overcoats --dark brown
overcoats. It stuck in my mind: what are they doing
wearing overcoats when it's hotter than hell? I was
only about ten at the time. Anyway, these big,
sweating guys take the box and put in in their car and
drive off. But before they'd come, I'd snuck a look in
the box. It had this strange-looking object in it. I
didn't know what the hell it was."
"Later on, in the fifties, I was walking through a war
surplus store and I suddenly saw an object that was
just like the one I'd seen in the box. It was the
heart of the radar. During the war --when those men
took it from our garage --it was super-secret,
super-valuable, worth thousands of dollars. I remember
that people were told to commit suicide if it ever got
captured in order to blow it up."
Presumably, this operation would have been run out of
the "residence" in San Francisco, code named Babylon
[Vavilon]. We do have one visit to Portland:
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/06_June_1944_R4_m2_p1.gifto/with Boev on 30 May, 1944.
From a Venona index:
http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page66.html we have:
Boev (KGB Line, San Francisco) [source Venona]
Boevoj = Petrov on Tsiolkovskij (ship) (KGB Line, San Francisco) [source Venona]
Its humourous to note the Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was the founder of
Russian rocketry. Boev appears to have been a courier.
Apparently this was part of this visit:
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/29_May_1944_R4_m1_p1.gifThere is an officer Nazarov in Vancouver, Canada at this time, who has come from Los Angeles
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/30_May_1944_R3_m2_p2.gifThese Venona intercepts appear to substantiate Ron Jr.'s accusations of his father Ron Hubbard's work for the KGB.
Later on, L Ron Hubbard stole some of his acquaintances' work on hypnosis and created his own religion. These hypnotic techniques can work on anyone, and that includes those of Native American ancestry, which may account for some of what you're seeing.
The man was so crazy he went way beyond being simply evil.
E.P. Grondine
"Amazing Stories"
- a biography of cult leader Richard Kieninger
