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The whereabouts of L. Ron Hubbard  (page 2)

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Reported technical developments in the period 1972-76

• Published printed materials 1972-76
• Taped lectures 1972-76
          (Includes:  ‘New Vitality Rundown’ (NVRD) (Oct-Nov 75))
  

 
Published printed materials 1972-76

The 1991 release of ‘The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology’ volume X: 1972-1976 has various entries at each year in where a brief summary is given of developments and what had been going on that particular year. Such summaries (about the same text) are also found in chapter 42 in ‘What Is Scientology?’ (1992 release). These notices do not appear in the 1976 release of these ‘Technical Bulletins’ volumes, and not either in the 1978 release of ‘What Is Scientology?’ for which reason I can not directly compare or refer to them. Various selections have been extracted from these summaries in the below analysis.

 
Taped lectures 1972-76

The book ‘What Is Scientology?’ (1978 release) lists various tapes from 1972-75 that have not been published and basically are not publicly available. There is in addition a cassette from 1976 that was prepared as a personal message to each org, this appears published and is available on cassette format. This is an odd recording, it starts with a musical composition made with help of a synthesizer. The tape gives the impression to be a clever compilation.

The new and completely reworked 1992 release of this ‘What Is Scientology?’ book has chosen to skip the mention of various tape lectures. Noteworthy is the disappearance of listing of 5 tapes from the Flag Executive Briefing Course (FEBC) from 1971. All 12 lectures were listed in the 1978 book on page 318. The 1992 release of the book however skips to list the lectures #8 to 12. It is not really clear to me why this is? What harm would it do to have them listed as they were already in the 1978 book? Why not continue to at least acknowledge their existence? In addition all 12 of these lectures have been on sale during the early 80's pretty much to any public Scientologist. They were not advertised as such, but if requested you actually could buy copies on reel to reel. This included also the complete set of the Class VIII Course lectures 1-19 from 1968. These however are listed all of them in the 1992 book although today and already back then were considered only for those doing the course, thus confidential. As a side note extensive quotations from these Class VIII Course lectures have appeared for example in the periodical Source.

‘New Vitality Rundown’ (NVRD)  (Oct-Nov 75)

Then ‘What Is Scientology?’ (1978 release) lists on page 319 those 22 tapes that make up the Special Rundown. (for list of tapes 1972-76 consult here, link will open as a pop-up window)

Pierre Ethier (Class XII Auditor, since early 90's) notes on his website: “The same people are also content to tell the world that the ‘last technical lecture from LRH dates from 1972’, utterly oblivious of the fact that in late 1975, LRH gave a series of 22 lectures on the Flag Only ‘Special Rundown’ (later to be called ‘New Vitality Rundown’ or NVRD), to a group of over 40 Tech People.”.

Then 1996 comes with a surprise in the form of the release of HCOB 7 Mar 96 “Handling a Read”. A Remimeo release, meaning free for distribution and copying. It was included in some packs and various. Notices found in this release tell amongst other: “Excerpted from LRH lecture on 12 November 1975, New Vitality Rundown Lecture 14. The lectures are restricted to Flag auditors only, but the following data is applicable to all metered auditing and is therefore issued broadly as an HCOB.”. It is not really clear to me why this had to be released as late as 1996. When I go through the HCOB it gives strongly the impression to be L. Ron Hubbard's way of lecturing. But can it be dated positively at 1975? Some questions remain to be answered. Just because some little piece of information surfaces at some place, it does not automatically mean that everything that comes along with it or has been part of some tale, that this has to be accepted as authentic as well.

Operation ‘Snow White’  (Apr 73)  & ‘Operation Freakout’  (Apr 76)

• Ethics and justice anno 1970
• Operation ‘Snow White’ (Apr 73)
• Operation ‘Freakout’ (Apr 76)

Various operations are said to have been executed by the Guardian Office (for definition see page “The story of Mary Sue Hubbard (1931-2002)”, chapter “A note about the ‘Guardian Office’ episode”). In particular 2 of them have received a bad reputation and appear widely being referred to and presented on the Internet at a variety of places. So these are the ones to briefly address here. The details about these are said to have come to light because of the FBI raids on the Scientology's headquarters in Washington, DC and Los Angeles (including the Guardian Office) on 7 July 1977. I am not sure how these documents came to be so much discussed out on the Internet though, various of these papers therefore must have come out into the open and thus had left the courthouse. Various scannings of these actual documents appear also available although some of these are of rather poor quality and hard to decipher.

The Guardian Office as time went by would have gotten involved with illegal activities may be not as early as 1973, but various may have lead to that what happened in the few years following. Different answers can be given for the reason why this would have evolved like that. It simply could have become corrupted all by itself. The book ‘What Is Scientology?’ (1992 Edition), says on page 508 that it “had become entirely autonomous, operating without regard to Mr. Hubbard's policies”. But what if it would have been a carefully calculated infiltration attempt executed by outsiders making then the Guardian Office appear as if being criminal, which then would give government agencies (such as the FBI) a carte blanche to raid the organization. Further developments then would have made it possible to effectively overthrow the Guardian Office, the entity that had been created solely for the purpose of protecting the organization from amongst other infiltration. The time coincidence of all this is rather interesting.

 
Ethics and justice anno 1970

Ethics is defined as something that is done by the person him or herself. It turns to justice when some other (or group) has to put in ethics on someone else for the sake of some individual or group.

Obviously there is a practical side to all this. One should defend oneself, but one should not be inconsiderate either. Originally issued at the St-Hill organization in England, the'Manual of Justice' was reissued in Denmark in 1972.

In 1966 the Guardian Office had been established. Its duty was basically to protect the Scientology organization. It dealt with external affairs involving information, legal, public relation, and finance. There was also the matter of guarding oneself in regards to infiltration. These were the measures that were taken to counteract the corruption of so to say the technology of Scientology (see HCO PL 1 Sept 69 “Counter-Espionage”). Previously there was no need for such a separate entity such as the Guardian Office, but at this time it was evidently judged that now there was. During the late 60's the lines were set up of how this Guardian Office would operate and do its duty of guardianship. Various policy letters also were written and issued to make known these lines and also to explain the existence and the duties of this Guardian Office. These are found in various policy letters issued during that time (see Organization Executive Course volume 7 (1974 Edition), department 20 section on especially pages 490 to 506).

By 1970 things had cooled down and other objectives got once again promoted: “The enemy attacks are yesterday's news. He's dead. Now you HAVE TO OPEN UP YOUR AREA AND GO GO GO!”  LRH  (from ‘LRH ED 120 Int’, 27 Aug 70 “Auditors Association Project in YOUR AREA For Class IV Orgs”).

 
Operation ‘Snow White’ (Apr 73)

“GUARDIAN'S ORDERS – These are issued by the Guardian's Office to its staffs. They contain policy, programs, orders, directions. They do not retire. They are usually issued by the Controller or Guardian but can be issued by Deputy Guardians and Assistant Guardians if they so state but no Assistant or Deputy Guardian may issue any order on their own–it must be from the Controller or Guardian or in their name and by their authority. They apply to Guardian staffs and are filed by Guardian Offices.”          LRH
         (from HCO PL 24 Sept 70 “Issues – Types of”)

There was in fact very good reason for executing such a program. Omar V. Garrison discusses this in great detail in a chapter in his book “Playing Dirty” (Published 1980). The applicable chapter would be “4. The ‘Mystery Ship’ Apollo” (consult here, link will open as a pop-up window). Efforts may have been made by various government agencies (US in particular) to get the vessel Apollo banlisted in the various ports while spreading rumours and false reports. It in fact forced them to finally go in land and create the Flag Land Base as they had by then been banlisted by all ports in the Caribbean. (see for more details chapter on this page entitled “Why ‘Flag Land Base’? (Sept 73-Nov 75)”, last section “‘Playing Dirty’”).

Is there anyone out there that has all of the pages (including last page with signatures) of ‘Guardian Order 732’, 20 Apr 73 “Snow White Program” and in better quality? Please contact me!

 
Operation ‘Freakout’ (Apr 76)

May be the name of this particular operation has been inspired by the debut lp (1966) of the Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa) of the same name? Well, who knows...!

There are some inconsistencies to be found with this Operation Freakout from 1976 in regards to the actual claimed personal involvement of L. Ron Hubbard with it. The operation itself however, after going over these actual documents, may be found harder (or rather impossible) to actually defend.

The infamous Operation Freakout is said to have been devised on 1 April 1976 by the aforesaid Guardian Office. Its “Major Target” was “To get P.C. incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks.” (P.C. then would be Paulette Cooper). If these documents that surfaced at the FBI raid indeed are authentic then it is rather nasty. It lays out in minute detail how one is to impersonate Paulette Cooper, by having another person dress like here, imitating her looks (hairdo), to then act drunk or paranoid in public, and making believe that this is Paulette Cooper. Further to imitate her voice while making various threats by phone, and putting together a faked message (bomb threat) by cutting and pasting text from particular magazines that Paulette easily could be associated with.

This Operation Freakout first needed an approval (in CSW* form) before it could be executed. The attached CSW noted as data: “PC has been arrested before for Bomb threats against the C of S. We reinforce this background and get her committed.”. The approval for the plan to frame Paulette Cooper came on 5 April 1976. Some additions were added, new CSW attached which got then approved on 13 April 1976. These given approvals are interesting as these are signed with an ‘R’. At various places on the Internet I have seen that it is claimed that this would be L. Ron Hubbard that personally had approved all this. This however is indeed a very silly claim. For (1) approval lines within the Scientology organization follow an exact routing (list of particular persons/terminals indicated in the upper left corner of such a document), and L. Ron Hubbard is not among these 3 terminals that are listed; (2) it is not in the handwriting of L. Ron Hubbard; (3) there is nothing that indicate that L. Ron Hubbard would have been involved with the operations of the Guardian Office in person, also because this was ‘for’ or ‘by’ the Controller or Guardian (see HCO PL 24 Sept 70 “Issues – Types of”); (4) many during that time were imitating the mannerisms of L. Ron Hubbard, by imitating his ways and also writing just an ‘R’ for signature. It is noted that the 5 April 1976 approval note has in fact 2 different persons signing with just an ‘R’! One of these R's in fact appears to be a ‘Randy’.

I would personally judge that this Operation Freakout appears to be of a rather infantile nature. What were some people actually thinking here? If you get involved with such things then sooner or later it will backfire. On the other hand I find it equally infantile to (without proper verification) to just always try to make an association for L. Ron hubbard's personal involvement for any that may have occurred! One may wonder then why he at various occasions personally had to interfere to get something corrected because some had gone off the rails once again and had started to do something they were not supposed to (for relevant reading material consult here –“Inventing the wheel all over again”–, link will open in separate window). People do as people do.

This Operation Freakout by the way, as has been reported, was never actually executed. Only some papers (plans) telling these things had been found when the Guardian Office got raided in July 1977. Either way it would make for a good excuse to actually execute a raid. Some however seem to believe that it was executed. Please verify your data. Even Paulette Cooper's ‘Harassment Diary’ (1982) makes no mention that she has been subjected to these exact things that this Operation Freakout plan tells about. Per the data at hand it appears so that the raid of July 1977 pulled the documents before they could have been executed, but more likely it had been abandoned. Please note that I have seen many projects and so on, approved or not, being abandoned prior to actual execution. Please let's be a bit realistic about these matters. The papers presented do not show any mission succesfully completed and/or any debrief notices. If it would have been executed, these would have been there.

The era of adoration celebrates its birth - ‘Hymn of Asia’  (late 73)

In respect to this musical work it is interesting to note the later musical release of this book the ‘Hymn of Asia’ from mid-2000. Which was announced as “the first ever musical adaption of Hymn of Asia. An Eastern Poem by L. Ron Hubbard” (underlining is mine). This would indicate that the 1972 ‘Hymn of Asia’ musical interpretation from November 1972 would have been something else.

‘Hymn of Asia, An Eastern Poem’ by L. Ron Hubbard  (the 1974 book)

The book was reissued in 1984. To that effect we see various advertisements for the book and further articles dedicated to Buddha in the magazine (ca June-Nov 84). Around August 2000 we then see a musical release of it: “Now on compact disc, a vast and joyous musical experience, beautifully packaged in hardback with the 1,062-line poem fully illuminated. Stunningly performed by the Golden Era Musicians with special guest artists.”. This latest release appears to have abandoned the original illustrations that had come about when “in late 1973 its author directed its publication and subsequently personally supervised the collaboration of a talented artist, designer and calligrapher”.

“Who is L. Ron Hubbard?   Why is he here?                           Ron's new book “Hymn of Asia” provides startling answers to these questions.                           ORDER IT TODAY! Hymn of Asia reveals a climatic moment in Man's spiritual history and foretells a future Man has waited 2,500 years for. 2,500 years ago a great prophecy was made that a golden-haired Westerner would develop Scientology and make total freedom possible. Hymn of Asia is the full story of that prophecy and its incredible fulfillment. But above all Hymn of Asia is Ron's most personal and intimate statement. In Hymn of Asia Ron tells you who he is, why he has come, what his personal feelings are with regard to Western civilization, what his plans are for the future.    Further in Hymn of Asia you'll discover Ron's practical, down-to-earth instructions for creating a new cultural renaissance of Earth, a new golden age. First written some 18 years ago for a Buddhist Convention celebrating the 2,500th anniversary of Buddha's life, L. Ron Hubbard waited until 1974 to publish the work as a full length book. Through the years unauthorized and inaccurate typewritten copies were passed around by hand. The demand for full publication grew enormous. It became the most sought-for unpublished work of its day.”           (from ‘Advance! 28’, Jan 75, page 13)

Now if you present yourself with an association like this then you are asking for a reaction of the receiving public! What kind of response can one expect to get if you portray yourself as some kind of successor of Buddha, more even so, as someone that had gone beyond that what Buddha achieved?

During the 80's at a time when I learned about the existence of this book I recall that it was commonly perceived by the Scientology parishioners that L. Ron Hubbard would be the reincarnation of Buddha himself, he could not finish the tech back then, so he prophesied that he would come back later at a time to do exactly that. At a time that the communication lines (print, radio, television etc.) would have developed sufficiently so that the message could go out easily and effectively to all. Well, something like this I got to hear. Basically this is the view that got created by this ‘Hymn of Asia’ publication.

Personally I have never understood why this was all merchandised like this. Why would this be so interesting? To turn L. Ron Hubbard into a God or guru of some kind, the adoration naturally then will have to follow, and in fact it did! Obviously since that time efforts were in progress to make L. Ron Hubbard stand out, to turn him into something really special. Now, the subject of Scientology could attract my attention, but this? L. Ron Hubbard could add a certain amount of flamboyance or rather élan in his lectures, but this is far from portraying oneself as some successor of Buddha and even go beyond that! If you do that then you are asking for a certain response! Why was this response not asked for prior to 1973? So why was it there now? What had changed? Is this the behaviour that is brought into existence by the lesser bright ones, because it seems to be the habit of these to convince oneself that one has truly achieved freedom. You just adore something, thus you don't really have to do something anymore yourself. After all your paradigm has been created and put to use. World history reveals that this pattern has been exercised time after time. Some may understand the concept that I relate about here.

The source of the writing is also sort of dubious. I wonder what this Buddhist Convention would say. The publications introduction notices say that it “was written for a Buddhist Convention”. But was it actually submitted there, and if so was it offered anonymously or with the author's name? The introduction notices do not tell. Is there somewhere a record where one could check out these things? The publication in its introduction notices is not even sure about the year, it says “1955 or ‘56”. I have also no data nor any sources for the claim that is made concerning it being the “most sought-for unpublished work of its day”. Sure would be interesting to check out the archives of the Church of Scientology for all this.

The publication and the rumours around it disturbed me back then as it disturbs me today. It may very well have been written by L. Ron Hubbard in reality, however the way it has been presented since the book release close to 20 years later in late 1974 may not have done the cause and the concept of the subject of Scientology a favour.

The ‘LRH room’ or ‘Commodore's room’

The Scientology organization also have this thing of having an LRH room. The place where the door used to be is then replaced with a braid or ribbon cord fastened at the sides of the doorway preventing you to enter the room (like you see in museums). The room has a writingdesk placed in the middle of it, then there are various bookcases with the books of Scientology and other. In 1983 I think it was I asked the HAS of Amsterdam org about this. She said that the idea was that if L. Ron Hubbard would come by a particular organization, that he then would have a room for use. I could see some logic in this, but I was thinking that if he would use that room that they may have to put back that door for that occasion. The years went by, we past 1986, but the LRH room continues to be in existence! Every Church of Scientology around today does have such a room placed in clear view, but what purpose does it suit today? (other than resembling an altar of some sort for adoration). Another question is where this initiative of having this LRH room is actually deriving from. For sure I really haven't ever seen any reference from L. Ron Hubbard about this. I am also unsure about exactly since when we first started to have such LRH rooms. There is even such a room on the vessel Freewinds, there it is referred to as the Commodore's room. I am still looking into this, do you care to relate your memories then please contact me!

Idolatry at Scientology events

Regularly the Church of Scientology organizes these gatherings referred to as events. This is for new releases, new information, updates on various, celebrations, achievements, etc. The more important happenings are filmed, video's of these are send to the various local Scientology organizations around the world. These local organizations then arrange their local event and invite their parishioners to come and watch this video.

Something similar we see happening in the Course room. There is also here some routine to clap and standup as well mostly at the end of the last study period of the day. Success stories and course completions are also presented, and then when the person utters his/her appreciation to L. Ron Hubbard, we see happening that I described in the previous at these events. A note can be made here that at the Introduction Courses (socalled Div 6 Courses) this routine is often skipped. Then when you move on to the Advanced Courses (different Course room if larger organization) you may get groomed for the routine. How things are at your local organization may slightly differ from this though. Either way I didn't like the blind routine when I was first subjected to it and I don't like it today.


Now if this technology is something to have, well then it will quite easily advocate itself! You really don't need to create some kind of icon of the person of L. Ron Hubbard, put that on a pedestal and start idolizing it. To me quite clearly this is actually drawing the attention away from the subject of Scientology. And Scientology is about the subject of Scientology, and not that what some turn it into! This idea of creating such an icon appears purposely sustained by the way how L. Ron Hubbard is presented on especially the events that we have had during the latest decennium. When historical pieces of information are related about for example while interviewing some person who personally had known L. Ron Hubbard so during the 50's or 60's or so. At these events then the impression is given that L. Ron Hubbard did everything all by himself. As if no other person would have contributed, researched or such. And this is not quite true. Extensive parts of the technology came about with help of various individuals. L. Ron Hubbard also made use of socalled research auditors. We hear nothing about these other persons' contributions, it is the icon of L. Ron Hubbard that is persistently pushed upwards as if superhuman of some sort. No wonder you end up with idolatry.

I sometimes wonder what L. Ron Hubbard himself would do if he could visit there and see this happening. He may say something like, but please sit down, sit down. Would he be flattered by the robotic behaviour, I really don't think so! Simply realize that the best tribute you can give to L. Ron Hubbard is not to go (too much at least) into this idolatry business, but rather by what you do or not do in your day to day walk in life.

The era of adoration celebrates its birth (2) - ‘SO #1 Line’  or  ‘You can always write to Ron’  (1961-85)

• Introduction, brief overview, and a few notices
• ‘Standing Order’
• (1) The ‘SO #1 Line’, its original purpose, changes and the ‘LRH Communicator’
          (Includes:  L. Ron Hubbard about SO #1;  ‘Standing Order’ line cancelled since 1986?)
  
• (2) An overview of ‘Standing Order’ notices published worthy of particular mention  (chronological)
• Write to ‘International Management’  (1983-85)
• Write to ‘Executive Director International’ (ED Int)  (1986-present)

There exist some obvious misconceptions about what this actually was about and how it was promoted. Especially since the 2nd half of the 70's this appears to have been the case.

 
Introduction, brief overview, and a few notices

 
‘Standing Order’

Ability:  Initially these notices appear quite seldom in this Ability periodical. As mentioned first in #136 (Jan 62), the next one in #141 (Sept 62), then #169 (Mar 65), #170 (Apr 65), #178 (Jan 66), then in #222 & #223 during late 1969. It is not until early 1972 that they appear more frequently. Then since #268 (Nov 73) they appear in about every issue.

Source:  This magazine got its first unnumbered issue published in about November 1975. Right from this first number we find these Standing Order notices appear in them headed with the text “You can always write to Ron about you case or problems.” (see example listed for Advance!). Variations of these notices continue to appear until 1985 in about each issue.

 
(1 ) The ‘SO #1 Line’, its original purpose, changes and the ‘LRH Communicator’
        (Includes:  L. Ron Hubbard about SO #1;  ‘Standing Order’ line cancelled since 1986?)

‘Standing Order’ line cancelled since 1986?

 
(2) An overview of ‘Standing Order’ notices published worthy of particular mention  (chronological)

The first occurrence of such a Standing Order notice to be accompanied with a photograph of L. Ron Hubbard is found in ‘Ability 259’, Apr 73. Thereafter it is used only sporadically. Then more frequently since so about March 1976. Finally so about late 1979-80 it went from frequently to most of the time/always. In particular in Ability (the -large sized- issues of the magazine) these illustrations could get very large proportions as time progressed.

	“The SO No. 1 line enables public to assist Ron in his invaluable research in many different fields, including –
	A.  Technical research;
	B.  Organizational research (how orgs and missions are doing);
	C.  Information on world affairs for sociological research;
	D.  Dissemination successes;
	E.  Training wins;
	F.  Processing wins;
	G.  Case or problems which persons may want Ron to know about;
	H.  Many other areas.”          (from ‘Clear News 145 (AOLA edition)’, Nov/Dec 77, page 9: “Ron's SO #1 Line: What it is - Its value to Ron and Scientology” (see also ‘The Auditor 139 (UK Edition)’, Jan 78))

This is added upon by ‘Ability 316’, Jul 78 in article “The Value of Your Letters to Ron” that says: “One example was the ‘Tech Correction Roundup’ Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, which Ron wrote after research following letters in from people like yourself. People write, and Ron listens.”. Referred is here to HCOB 24 Jan 77 “Tech Correction Round-up” that listed a whole variety of deviations of standard technology and which with this issue were corrected.

1979:
‘The Auditor 154 (UK Edition)’, (Jun 79) reports: “81,023 Letters to Ron in one Year!”. It is interpreted as: “That's a sign of how many people realised that Ron meant it when he wrote:
  ‘You are my friends and I like to hear from my friends. Therefore the lines are wide open to your comm and from me to you. Love – Ron.’ (LRH ED 223 Int)”. This issue of The Auditor also lists a table with letters received covering 1974 to 1978 (see illustration here under).
Now who is going to answer all that mail? A simple calculation (81,023 divided with 365 days) amounts to 222 received letters each day for one year. That's a whole lot of mail to answer to. Let's assume that you answer 1 letter (includes reading it, getting paper, put in envelope, etc) in 1 minute, then still it would take more than 3½ hours of time each day for one whole year. This cuts significantly in the time you could spend on other things.
The following is what an old-timer Scientologist confided to me (came to Scientology in 1978 and shortly after joined staff and became a highly trained auditor): “Around Sep 79, maybe Oct, on a staff meeting it was shown the stats* of ‘Letters to LRH’ it was about 70,000 (seventy thousands sic!) in only 9 or so months - and LRH was all answering them personally. Then everyday new PLs and HCOBs were released, all written by LRH. Every checksheet was a PL. And if you have ever put together a checksheet you can say how much time it takes. By all my honor to the old man, but that was impossible.”.

We can actually compare this with an article that appeared in ‘Clear News 130 (AOLA edition)’ 10 Dec 75 entitled “The AOLA Letter Registrars Are Answering Over 800 Letters a Week!!!”. It doesn't say how many Letter Registrars there were at AOLA but as it is plural it will be at least 2 of them, so let's assume that. Each of them then writes 400+ letters a week. It was expected/claimed that L. Ron Hubbard would write a total of 1554 letters each week (222 x 7). That is almost 4 times as much as each of these AOLA Letter Registrars did. Which in the article is proudly presented and commended. Mind also that this was the actual job of these Letter Registrars. L. Ron Hubbard however did it only as a side task. That any person would have done all that by himself under these conditions is indeed a shear impossibility.

 
Write to ‘International Management’  (1983-85)

Early numbers of the periodical ‘Scientology News International’ had this “You can always write to International Management” notice in them. By the time Issue 8 was issued in early 1986 it had turned to “Write to: Guillaume Lesevre, Executive Director International”. It was this person that actually headed the International Management Executive Committee (IMEC) that issued this periodical.

 
Write to ‘Executive Director International’ (ED Int)  (1986-present)

“The essence of good management is CARING what goes on.”  LRH        HCO PL 10 Nov 66 Good versus Bad Management Following Ron's long-standing tradition of maintaining wide open the communication lines of scientology, you have an open line to the Executive Director International. The Executive Director International cares. he would like to hear from you on any matter. You are appreciated and your communication is valuable.    “The prevention of shrink and the continuation of expansion is the prime reason for the Executive Director's existence. To do it the Executive Director must have the proper Comm lines”. LRH, HCO PL 22 Feb 65 Executive Director Comm Lines. He is interested in your wins and will help you with any matter you care to write about, providing you with the exact Source reference on that subject. Any communication sent will be given swift and on-Source attention. Write to: Guillaume Lesevre, Executive Director International 4833 Fountain Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027 U.S.A.

The exact same text appears for the first time in periodical The Auditor since ‘The Auditor 201 (US Edition)’, early 86. It is obvious that the Open Line to L. Ron Hubbard was replaced and re-established with the Open Line to ED Int.

The era of adoration celebrates its birth (3) - L. Ron Hubbard vs Biographies  or  The presentation of his person through the years  (1961-present)

• The original status quo
• Presentation of L. Ron Hubbard - The marking of a change (Sept 73)
• The initiative for an ‘official’ biography on L. Ron Hubbard? (since Jan 80)
• Into the 90's ...
• Present time ...

 
The original status quo

“This morning I received a cable from an Org. An urgent cable. Did it say, ‘How do you assess for a Pre-Hav* level’ or something sensible? No, it didn't. It said, ‘Send us some biographical data for a newspaper article.’ I spit. That Org is doing the lousiest job possible in Technical and is all worked up to get publicity. What's this? Do they think a society in this shape will approve Scientology into power? Hell no! And to hell with this society. We're making a new one. So let's skip the approval button from a lot of wogs* and settle down to work to make new people and better people. Then maybe you'll have a society.”          LRH
         (from HCO PL 26 May 61 (Reissued on 21 June 1967) “A Message to the Executive Secretaries and All Org Staff; Quality Counts”)

	“Clearing is now in the reach of every Scientologist.
	Excellent Auditor training is now in the reach of every Academy.
	And these are the only things in the long run that will count. ...
	Deliver the goods. That's a crude way to put it. But if you want a new and better civilization you won't get it by advertising or worrying what people think of you.”          LRH          (from HCO PL 26 May 61 (Reissued on 21 June 1967) “A Message to the Executive Secretaries and All Org Staff; Quality Counts”)

Finally, worthy of notice is also the little publication ‘A Summary on Scientology For Scientists’ (issued in 1969, reissued 1977), that originally was “OFFERED FOR PUBLICATION TO CERTAIN JOURNALS OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES”. Various information is relayed here about the person L. Ron Hubbard and battles fought. It is written by L. Ron Hubbard himself. The full text of this publication can be consulted here (link will open as a pop-up window).

 
Presentation of L. Ron Hubbard - The marking of a change (Sept 73)

It is is only until the early 70's that particular attention was drawn to his person. September 1973 marks the time that suddenly an extensive use of photographs of L. Ron Hubbard found their way into being published in the various Scientology magazines. Late 1973 marks the time of the preparation of the book ‘Hymn of Asia’ (released December 1974) that suggest as if L. Ron Hubbard was the successor of Buddha of some sort. This attention to his person was in fact quite sudden. The question to ask is “Why?” (I address various of this and other in detail in other chapters found in this ‘The whereabouts of L. Ron Hubbard’ study, see the 2 previous chapter to this as part of the article series entitled: “The era of adoration celebrates its birth: (1) ‘Hymn of Asia’ (late 73)” & “(2) - ‘SO #1 Line’ or ‘You can always write to Ron’ (1961-85)”).

Interesting to be mentioned here is also the allegorical presentation of the person of L. Ron Hubbard in ‘What Is Scientology?’ (1978 edition) as part of the illustrative introduction to this book (82 pages full of illustrations) that was placed foregoing Chapter 1. Let's suffice to say that this kind of presentation of his person was rather different then it had been prior to September 1973.

 
The initiative for an ‘official’ biography on L. Ron Hubbard? (since Jan 80)

“So technical progress has been: ... COMPLETE DIANETICS - 1969. COMPLETE SCIENTOLOGY - 1970.”          LRH          (from ‘LRH ED 117 Int’, 26 Aug 70 “Current Cases”)

 
Into the 90's ...

The year 1995 also saw the release of ‘L. Ron Hubbard - A Profile’. This appears to serve best as a broad overview and introduction of the person L. Ron Hubbard, and his main achievements.

Then the year 1996 saw the release of ‘L. Ron Hubbard - Images of a Lifetime’ A very large sized (and heavy) bound book printed on high quality paper. Not a biography per sé, but only intending to be a pictorial allegory of the earlier years of L. Ron Hubbard. It is rather interesting that the photographic track in the book basically ends at 1972. Only a few photographs are still to be seen dated 1974, but we find nothing from the period after that till 1986. It is also quite noteworthy that we find no photographs that include Mary Sue Hubbard or any of their children, they are simply not on any of the photographs that are contained in this publication. Nonetheless he himself regarded them being an important part of his life.

 
Present time ...

It would appear that a full biography would be in preparation. These latest years we frequently have a person appearing at the main Scientology meetings referred to as the Official LRH Biographer. His name is Dan Sherman. At these meetings he then relates about various incidents from the life of L. Ron Hubbard, showing photo materials, documents, and even presents video interviews with persons that had met L. Ron Hubbard one time or another and that were telling about their experiences and impressions. I have viewed quite a few of these video representations, and they are rather interesting. My impression is however also that the focus is entirely surrounding L. Ron Hubbard, as if no other person had contributed anything to the development of the subject of Dianetics and Scientology. The video presentations do give the impression that they have been edited.

Vocabulary:

     AOLA:
‘Advanced Organization Los Angeles’: A Scientology organization which services higher level auditing & training, located in Los Angeles, USA.
     ASHO:
‘American Saint Hill Organization’. A higher level Scientology organization residing in Los Angeles.
     audit, auditing, auditor:
The application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor (listener). The goal of the auditor is to make the receiver of the auditing look at incidents and reduce the mental charge which may lay upon them. The auditor may not evaluate and has to adhere to the Auditor's code.
     BTB:
‘Board Technical Bulletin’, these are the issues of the Boards of Directors of the Churches of Scientology. Issue-type for technical matters not written by L. Ron Hubbard.
     C/S:
‘Case Supervisor’.  1. That person in a Scientology Church who gives instructions regarding, and supervises the auditing of preclears. The abbreviation C/S can refer to the Case Supervisor or to the written instructions of a case supervisor depending on context. (BTB 12 Apr 72R)  2. The C/S is the case supervisor. He has to be an accomplished and properly certified auditor and a person trained additionally to supervise cases. The C/S is the auditor's “handler.” He tells the auditor what to do, corrects his tech, keeps the lines straight and keeps the auditor calm and willing and winning. The C/S is the pc's case director. His actions are done for the pc. (Dianetics Today, Bk. 3, p. 545)
     CMO:
‘Commodore's Messenger Org(anization)’. A senior Scientology organization.
     condition (ethics):
In Scn the term also means the ethics conditions (confusion, treason, enemy, doubt, liability, non-existence, danger, emergency, normal, affluence, power change or power). The state or condition of any person, group or activity can be plotted on this scale of conditions which shows the degree of success or survival of that person, group or activity at any time. Data on the application of these conditions is contained in the ethics policies and tapes of Scn. (BTB 12 Apr 72R)
     CSW:
‘Completed Staff Work’. An assembled package of information on any given situation, plan or emergency forwarded to me sufficiently complete to require from me only an “approved” or “disapproved.” It (1) states the situation, (2) gives all the data necessary to its solution, (3) advices a solution, and (4) contains a line for approval or disapproval.
     FO, Flag Order:
This is the equivalent to a policy letter in the Sea Org [SO]. Contains policy and sea technical materials. They are numbered and dated. They do not decay, HCO PLs and FOs are both in effect on Sea Org orgs, ships, offices and bases. Black ink on white paper. Distribution to all Sea Org members. It is vital for SO units to have master files and quantity of FOs from which hats can be made up for SO personnel and courses. (HCO PL 24 Sept 70R)
     HCO Area Secretary (‘HCO Secretary’ in early days):
Usually referred to as ‘HAS’. The HAS is in charge of the HCO Division (Div. 1) of the organization. He has the function of establishing the organization.  
      HCO PL (Pol Ltr, P/L or PL):
‘Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letter’: since Jan 74 reserved for L. Ron Hubbard only, these address administrative issues. 
     LRH:
An usual abbreviation for ‘L. Ron Hubbard’.
     MAA:
‘Master at Arms’. Ethics Officer in the Sea Organization (senior Scientology organization).
     org, orgs:
Abbreviation for ‘organization(s)’.
     OT (Operating Thetan):
1. Willing and knowing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time. And that would of course be mind and that would of course be universe. (SH Spec 80, 6609C08)  2. An individual who could operate totally independently of his body whether he had one or didn't have one. He's now himself, he's not dependent on the universe around him. (SH Spec 66, 6509C09)  3. A being at cause over matter, energy, space, time, form and life. Operating comes from “able to operate without dependency on things” and thetan is the Greek letter theta (θ), which the Greeks used to represent “thought” or perhaps “spirit” to which an “n” is added to make a new noun in the modern style used to create words in engineering. (Book of Case Remedies, p. 10)
     preclear (pc):
1. A person who, through Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life. (The Phoenix Lectures, p. 20)  2. A spiritual being who is now on the road to becoming Clear, hence preclear. (HCOB 5 Apr 69)  3. One who is discovering things about himself and who is becoming clearer. (HCO PL 21 Aug 62) Abbr. pc.
     Pre-Have:  (a term relating to auditing and processing)
Before one attained havingness he ran a “beforehavingness” process hence “pre (before) have.” When the full scale was achieved he could have. (LRH Def. Notes)
     Sec ED:
‘Secretarial Executive Directive’. Later these were referred to as LRH ED. An ‘Executive Directive’ issued by ‘L. Ron Hubbard’.
     SO (Sea Org):
Abbreviation for ‘Sea Org(anization)’. This is the senior organization within Scientology that run the Advance Organizations and also see to it that Class IV organizations (lower level services) do function well. If needed they may send out missions to correct if things don't run smoothly.
     squirrel:
Going off into weird practices or altering Scientology. (as per KSW #1: HCO PL 7 Feb 65 “Keeping Scientology Working”).
     stat, stats:
Short for statistic or statistics.
     wog:
‘worthy Oriental gentleman’. 1. This means a common ordinary run-of-the-mill garden-variety humanoid. (SH Spec 82, 6611C29)  2. A wog is somebody who isn't even trying. (SH Spec 73, 6608C02)