37.Patrick George, lawyer with Kennedys, email to author.
38.Confirmed by Chris Guider.
39.Chris Guider interview with author.
40.Patrick George, lawyer with Kennedys, email to author.
41.Valeska Paris interview with author.
42.Chris Guider interview with author.
43.Valeska Paris interview with author.
44.Ramana Dienes-Browning interview with author.
45.ibid.
46.Marc Headley, Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology, BFG Books, Burbank, 2009, p. 314.
47.José Navarro interview with author.
48.ibid.
Chapter 2
1.Hubbard arrived in Brisbane on 11 January 1942. His arrival documented at: www.lermanet.com/L_Ron_Hubbard/mr271.htm. The temperature reached 31.4°C in Brisbane that day according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
2.David Malouf, Johnno, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1998, p. 189.
3.Peter A Thompson and Robert Macklin, The Battle of Brisbane, ABC Books, Sydney, 2000, p. 2.
4.Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1987, p. 93.
5.ibid.
6.Testimony of Thomas S Moulton, Church of Scientology v Armstrong, 21 May 1984.
7.ibid.
8.Kima Douglas in vol. 25, p. 4459 court transcript of Church of Scientology of California v Gerald Armstrong, Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, case no. C 420153. Kima was asked by the Judge if Hubbard had any bullet wounds in his back. Her reply was, ‘No, sir.’
9.Hubbard’s ‘The Game of Life’ Lecture, London, 7 February 1956: www.carolineletkeman.org/archives/10417
10.Report by L. Ron Hubbard, 5 February 1942: www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/navalint. htm
11.Memorandum from US Naval Attaché to Australia, 14 February 1942: www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/1942/420214.gif
12.ibid.
13.Cable from US Naval Attaché to Australia, 17 February 1942: www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/1942/420217.gif
14.Chris Owen, Ron the War Hero: www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/navalint.htm
15.L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Executive Letter, 6 October 1965.
16.Jon Atack, Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky (2nd edn), Richard Woods, Worthing, 2013, pp. 81–86.
17.Letter from Fletcher Prouty to Michael Joseph Ltd, 4 October 1987.
18.Jon Atack, ‘Religion or Intelligence Agency’, paper delivered at the Dialog Centre International conference in Berlin, October 1995: www.religio.de/atack/intelli.html
19.Flag Operations Liaison Memo, 28 May 1974.
20.L. Ron Hubbard, ‘My Philosophy’, as quoted in Jon Atack’s Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky (2nd edn), Richard Woods, Worthing, 2013, p. 89.
21.Chris Owen, Ron the War Hero: www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/crippled.htm
22.George Pendle, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, Harcourt, 2005, p. 32.
23.ibid., p. 214.
24.For details go to John Whiteside Parsons, The Book of Babalon: http://hermetic.com/parsons/the-book-of-babalon.html For more context, see Lawrence Wright, op. cit., pp. 45–47.
25.Alexander Mitchell, ‘The Odd Beginning of Ron Hubbard’s Career’, Sunday Times, 5 October 1969.
26.Jon Atack, personal communication with author.
27.Alexander Mitchell, loc. cit. See also Jon Atack, Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky (2nd edn), Richard Woods, Worthing, 2013, p. 105. Also Atack’s paper ‘Hubbard and the Occult’: www.spaink.net/cos/essays/atack_occult.html. Atack had access to the complete OTO correspondence.
28.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 112.
29.Jon Atack, Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky (2nd edn), Richard Woods, Worthing, 2013, p. 97.
30.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 116.
31.ibid., p. 118.
32.George Pendle, op. cit., p. 267.
33.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 120.
34.Jon Atack, op. cit., p. 106.
35.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 126.
36.ibid., p. 127.
37.ibid.
38.ibid., p. 129.
39.ibid., p. 134.
40.Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2013, p. 49.
41.ibid.
42.Letter from L. Ron Hubbard to Veterans Administration, 15 October 1947.
43.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 139.
44.ibid., p. 142. These fingerprints were used to authenticate his body when he died.
45.What is Scientology? – compiled by the staff of the Church of Scientology, Bridge Publications, Los Angeles, 1998, p. 122.
46.In Gerry Armstrong’s trial a letter was supplied that showed Hubbard requested his disability pension cheques be sent to another address in 1958. Ken Urquhart, former Personal Communicator to Hubbard, said he was responsible for looking after his pension cheques up until approximately 1972. www.clearing.org/cgi/archive.cgi?/bluesky/part2.txt
47.According to Hugh Urban, religious scholar and author of The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/02/scientology_and_4.php
48.For a list of Hubbard’s ‘affirmations’, called ‘admissions’ by some, go to: www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/ars/ars-2000-03-11.html
49.ibid.
50.Decision of Judge Paul G Breckenridge Jnr, Church of Scientology of California v Gerald Armstrong, Superior Court of the State of California, 1984.
51.Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Dover Publications, New York, 1957, p. 263.
Chapter 3
1.Author interview with Dylan Gill, who helped build some of Scientology’s vaults while working for the Church of Spiritual Technology.
2.L. Ron Hubbard, Christmas message, Communication, Church of Scientology, December 1963.
3.Sea Org Flag Information Letter 67, October 1977.
4.Letter from L. Ron Hubbard to Robert Heinlein, 8 March 1949.
5.Savannah Morning News, 28 April 2002.
6.Letter from L. Ron Hubbard to Robert Heinlein, 3 March 1949.
7.ibid., 24 November 1948.
8.‘A Note on Excalibur’: www.ronthephilosopher.org/phlspher/page06.htm
9.www.whatisscientology.org/html/Part01/Chp03/pg0114.html
10.ibid.
11.Forrest Ackerman in Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1987, p. 135.
12.ibid., p. 136.
13.Gerry Armstrong, The Secret Life of L. Ron Hubbard, 3BM, Channel 4, UK, 1997.
14.‘A Note on Excalibur’: www.ronthephilosopher.org/phlspher/page06.htm
15.Taken from the now-defunct weblink: www.lronhubbard.org.au/the_discovery/
16.Arthur J Burks, ‘Yes There Was a Book Called Excalibur by L. Ron Hubbard’, The Aberee, December 1961.
17.Letter from L. Ron Hubbard to his wife Polly, 1938, known as ‘The Skipper Letter’ and registered for copyright by Hubbard’s agency, ASI.
18.Arthur J Burks, loc. cit.
19.Skipper letter, loc. cit.
20.ibid.
21.Letter from L. Ron Hubbard to Forrest Ackerman, 13 January 1949.
22.Letter from L. Ron Hubbard to Robert Heinlein, 8 March 1949.
23.ibid.
24.ibid., 31 March 1949.
25.John Campbell in Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2013, p. 59.
26.Astounding Science Fiction, December 1949.
27.ibid., March 1950.
28.ibid., May 1950.
29.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 155.
30.L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Bridge Publications, Los Angeles, 1985, p. 69.
31.ibid., pp. 74–75.
32.ibid., p. 12.
33.ibid. pp. 102–121.
34.ibid.
, p. viii.
35.ibid., p. 173.
36.ibid., p. 145.
37.L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Hermitage House, 1950, p. 158.
38.Lawrence Wright, op. cit., pp. 67–68.
39.L. Ron Hubbard Jnr, ‘Inside the Church of Scientology – an exclusive interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr’, Penthouse, June 1983.
40.Barbara Klowden interview with Russell Miller.
41.Isaac Isidor Rabi, ‘Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard’, Scientific American, January 1951.
42.ibid.
43.‘Psychologists Act Against Dianetics’, New York Times, 9 September 1950.
44.Journal of Clinical Medicine, March 1951, editorial by Frederick R Stearns.
45.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 150.
46.ibid., p. 169 and Jon Atack, Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky (2nd edn), Richard Woods, Worthing, 2013, p. 126.
47.Jon Atack, Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky (2nd edn), Richard Woods, Worthing, 2013, p. 123.
48.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 159.
49.Helen O’Brien, Dianetics in Limbo, Whitmore Publishing Company, Pittsburgh, 1966, p. vi.
50.Jon Atack, op. cit., p. 125.
51.ibid., p. 123.
52.Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard Jnr, Messiah or Madman?, 1987, p. 287: www.xenu.net/archive/books/mom/Messiah_or_Madman.txt
53.Helen O’Brien, op. cit., p. 27.
54.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 165.
55.ibid.
56.ibid.
57.ibid., p. 166.
Chapter 4
1.RW Chalmers, The Annals of Essendon, vol. 2, 1998, p. 309.
2.ibid., p. 304.
3.The Moonee Valley Thematic Environment History, City of Moonee Valley, 2012, p. 101.
4.Australian Dictionary of Biography – Frank McEncroe.
5.For example, Honolulu passenger and crew list, 11 March 1933, 9 April 1938, 28 January 1939.
6.Frances B Cogan, Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941–1945, University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2000, p. 1.
7.Extract from D’Arcy Hunt’s diary: www.cnac.org/emilscott/darcyhunt01.htm
8.D’Arcy Hunt, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 5406.
9.ibid.
10.ibid.
11.ibid., p. 5407.
12.ibid., p. 5409.
13.ibid.
14.ibid., p. 5410.
15.ibid., p. 5413.
16.Don Greenlees, ‘Dianeticism – the new science that could change our lives?’ The Argus, 12 November 1951.
17.Treasure Southen, Anderson Inquiry Transcript, p. 4840.
18.ibid., p. 4841.
19.ibid., p. 4843.
20.Advertisement in The Argus, 7 May 1952: DIANETICS Forum. Meeting. Room 109, VRI Bldg., Flinders St. Station. 8 p.m. Fri. May 9.
21.D’Arcy Hunt, op. cit., p. 5410.
22.Edgar Oswald Haes, The Release of Psychic Energy: Psychoanalysis for Ordinary People, Australian Psychology Centre, Sydney, 1949.
23.Advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald, 5 May 1951: DIANETICS latest literature from USA now available AUSTRALIAN PSYCHOLOGY CENTRE, 296 Pitt Street, 2pm 5pm
24.Advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 1952: DIANETICS – the ‘New’ Psychology 3 wkly lectures by EO Haes, com Wed., 19 Nov., 7 30 p.m. Fee 3/Australian Psychology Centre – 296 Pitt St., 1st floor.
25.Sara Northrup Hubbard affidavit, 23 April 1951: www.spaink.net/cos/LRH-bio/sara.htm
26.ibid.
27.ibid.
28.ibid.
29.L. Ron Hubbard letter to Robert Heinlein, 28 March 1950.
30.ibid.
31.‘Wife accuses mental health expert of torturing her’, The Times Herald, 24 April 1951.
32.Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2013, p. 71.
33.ibid.
34.ibid., p. 72.
35.Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1987, p. 182 and correspondence with Jon Atack.
36.Sara Northrup Hubbard affidavit, 23 April 1951.
37.‘Hiding of baby charged to dianetics author’, Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1951.
38.Sara Northrup Hubbard affidavit 23 April 1951.
39.ibid.
40.The Courier-Mail, 25 April 1951.
41.‘The Scientology story’, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 1990.
42.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 180.
43.Hubbard letter to the Attorney-General, 14 May 1951.
44.Jon Atack, Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky (2nd edn), Richard Woods, Worthing, 2013, p. 139.
45.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 185.
46.ibid.
47.Jon Atack, loc. cit.
48.Russell Miller interview with Barbara Klowden.
49.Sara Hubbard statement 11 June 1951.
50.Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 193.
51.Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard Jnr, Messiah or Madman?, 1987, p. 285: www.xenu.net/archive/books/mom/Messiah_or_Madman.txt
52.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 195.
53.ibid.
54.ibid., p. 197.
55.ibid.
56.ibid., p. 200.
57.ibid.
58.Jon Atack: http://tonyortega.org/2014/02/01/jon-atack-takes-apart-the-scientology-emeter/
59.Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst, Trick or Treatment, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2008, p. 164.
60.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 201.
61.Marc Headley, author of Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology, BFG Books, Burbank, 2009, says one type E-Meter cost $40 per machine to build. The same one sells for $6000.
62.Hugh Urban, The Church of Scientology – A History of a New Religion, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2011, p. 71.
63.Russell Miller, op. cit., p. 204.
64.ibid., p. 205.
65.Jon Atack, loc. cit., p. 145.
66.Jon Atack, Never Believe a Hypnotist, 1994, www.lermanet.com/exit/parsons.htm
67.Jim Dincalci interview given to UK Channel 4 program ‘Secret Lives – L. Ron Hubbard’, 1997.
68.D’Arcy Hunt, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 5420.
69.Treasure Southen, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 4843.
70.ibid.
71.The Journal of Scientology, Issue 38G, 1954.
72.The Journal of Scientology, Issue 40G, 1954.
73.Department of Immigration memo, 25 February 1955, and undated memo no. 55/10765.
74.Undated Department of Immigration memo no. 55/10765.
75.Treasure Southen, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 4844.
76.Doug Moon, Anderson Inquiry testimony.
77.ASIO Minute for Senior Field Officer – Hubbard Association of Scientologists International – 30 July 1956.
78.ibid.
79.Roger Meadmore interview with author.
80.David Cooke correspondence with author.
81.The Argus, 26 March 1955.
82.The Argus, 30 December 1955.
83.Doug Moon, Anderson Inquiry transcript p. 2179.
84.Hubbard, The Scientologist: a Manual on the Dissemination of Material. This article first appeared in Ability, the Magazine of DIANETICS and SCIENTOLOGY, Major Issue 1, March 1955.
85.George Maltby, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 4657.
Chapter 5
1.Letter from Hubbard to Helen O’Brien, 10 April 1953, submitted as evidence in Church of Scientology of California v Gerald Armstrong.
2.ibid.
3.Roy Wallis, The Road to Total Freedom : A Sociological analysis of Scientology, Columbia University Press, New York, 1977, p. 128.
4.Nieson Himmel, as quoted in Russell Miller, Bared-Faced Messiah, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1987, p. 117.
5.Sam Moskowitz affidavit: www.xenu-directory.net/mirrors/www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_sm_930414.htm
l. Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Over My Shoulder: Reflections on a Science Fiction Era, Oswald Train, Philadelphia, 1983, pp. 125–126. For more witnesses and Sturgeon’s comments, see: www.donlindsayarchive.org/scientology/start.a.religion.html
6.According to Gallup polls, 1955 and 1958 had the highest churchgoing rates in US history.
7.Robert S Ellwood, The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict, Rutgers University Press, Brunswick, 1997, p. 1.
8.‘Dear Skipper letter from L. Ron Hubbard to his then wife Polly, 1938.
9.‘The Shrinking World of L. Ron Hubbard’, World in Action, Granada Television, July 1968. Transcript at: www.lermanet.com/scientology/transcripts/shrinking.htm
10.Telex, 1979, provided to author by former Sea Org member Nancy Many.
11.Charlie Nairn interview with author.
12.ibid.
13.ibid.
14.ibid. Hana Eltringham says it could have been as many as 300–350 on board at the time.
15.Charlie Nairn interview with author.
16.Charlie Nairn email to author.
17.ibid.
18.Charlie Nairn interview with author.
19.Charlie Nairn email to author.
20.Charlie Nairn interview with author.
21.ibid.
22.ibid.
23.Peter Cox, On the Box: Great Moments in Australian Television 1956–2006, Powerhouse Publishing, Haymarket, 2006, p. 8.
24.Doug Moon, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 2078.
25.Phillip Wearne, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 4785.
26.Roger Boswarva interview with author.
27.The author can vouch for this, having trained as a surf lifesaver there!
28.Roger Boswarva interview with author.
29.Forbes Carlile interview with author.
30.Roger Boswarva email to author.
31.Steven Hassan interview with author.
32.Roger Meadmore, Anderson Inquiry transcript, p. 6393.
33.Roger Meadmore interview with author.
34.ibid.
35.Race Mathews interview with author.
36.ibid.
37.For example, Melbourne HASI Schedule of Training, April 1958.
38.ASIO Minute, 7 July 1958, Hubbard Association of Scientologists International, Victorian Office.
39.ibid.
40.Average weekly wages – Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia 1960, Chapter 12, p. 426.
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