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CBR: Anyway, 1976 now, we move along. The Flag Land Base was
set up. I did the post of CO FSO, I did some missions out to PAC area, I
got appointed CS-1. LRH, meanwhile, had not moved into the Flag Land
Base, because of this attack scene going on down there at the time from
the local Clearwater Mafia. He lived nearby, in a small
town nearby, and then he moved to California with a small staff in 1976.
Whereupon, he started writing the movies, the films, the tech films, and
so on like that. And he wanted a good place to do that, and that was his
job there, to get those films produced, to keep the Tech standard.
Started it out in 1976.
Now I did the CS-1 post, found out a lot about Ethics and Justice in
the United States at that time which was in very poor shape. I could
tell you some horror stories from that but you've probably heard them
all anyway. I tried to get Justice and equitable Ethics going in,
fairness, and truth, and was getting pretty successful at it. I had a
lot of people writing to me and trying to get things done and I did
them; I got the Review Comm-Evs and got evidence pulled out and found
out who the real bad guys were, and everything. And I think I did pretty
well on that post. And I was fully hatted for it, by the way, A to I.
And then I went on my annual leave, and when I came back, they needed
me on the CS-E post. So I took the CS-E post because that was the big
flap at that time. I always have to go where the flaps are, you know,
and got on the CS-E post and I was on that late 1976 and early
1977. (CBR-debrief
from 1982)
Peter Green: Ok, in 1976 the Kemps had their Mission in Orange
County, a Tustin Mission, taken away from them by Henning Heldt
complying with this order and they tried to get justice on standard
Scientology lines and had considerable problems. Their petitions to LRH
(to try to reclaim the building, about a $2.5 million building, plus
their Mission and their mest and their back salary, and so forth, which
had been illegally stolen from them) were never passed through. They
were found, subsequently, in the FBI documents. (Peter
Green debrief, 23.6.1982)
United Churches of Florida admits its connection to
Scientology. (Brief
overview of Scientology's interaction with Clearwater
Florida)
Scientologists release a "fact sheet" on Mayor Cazares and his wife,
accusing them of all manner of business and personal crimes; try to
discredit him with rumours pertaining to his sex life, and attempt to
frame him in a hit-and-run accident. (Brief
History of Scientology in Clearwater)
Bent Corydon had Riverside Mission, which was one of
the biggest in the world with 150 staff, stolen from him, largely at the
instigation of John Woodruff. And Bent can tell his own story if
you are interested.
Then Phil Spickler, old-timer, was fined by John Woodruff who,
at that time, was the Deputy or the Franchise Officer U.S. operating out
of the Kemp's old Mission in Orange County. And Phil Spickler was fined,
I think, $25,000 because he was not charging full rates for auditing.
And so John computed what the income would have been if he had charged
full rates and then fined him $25,000 for arrears of tithes that would
have been paid if he hadn't cut his prices. Phil Spickler's wife sold
their house, they paid the bill and he quit his Mission.
(Peter
Green debrief, 23.6.1982)
The Guardian's Office discovered that local newspapers were moving
closer to discovering the real identity of United Churches. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 338)
On 28 January 1976, the 'Reverend' Arthur J Maren, a striking figure
with an Old Testament beard, arrived in Clearwater from Los Angeles to
announce at a news conference that the Church of Scientology were the
owners of the Fort Harrison Hotel and the Bank of Clearwater building.
Its involvement had not previously been revealed only out of an
altruistic desire to avoid overshadowing the work of its subsidiary
organization, United Churches. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 338)
... five hundred citizens attended an open day at the Fort Harrison
Hotel to view the renovation work that had already been completed. Maren
reassured those present that there was nothing to fear from Scientology.
Next day, the Church of Scientology filed a $1 million lawsuit
against Mayor Gabriel Cazares, accusing him of libel, slander and
violation of the church's civil rights. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 338)
LRH reportedly gives away his identity to a tailor in Tarpon Springs,
Florida, then has to flee from Dunedin. He takes Kima Douglas and her
husband, Mike Douglas Ñleaving MSH behind in Dunedin. They drive
north, toward New York, but at some point around New Jersey the
decision is made to turn around and go to Washington, D.C. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 339)
Kima found a comfortable brownstone on Q Street in Georgetown, only
nine or ten blocks from the Washington org...
Telex communications were set up and the usual retinue of messengers
and aides moved in, including Jim Dincalci, who drove up from Florida
towing a U-Haul trailer loaded with the Commodore's personal possessions
and private papers. Daily reports began arriving from Mary Sue, many of
them detailing the activities of Operation Snow White. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 339)
Here are two accounts of a "hit-and-run" scam allegedly run on Mayor
Cazares of Clearwater. The first account is from "Bare Faced Messiah":
"Rock Creek Park was...the chosen venue for a fake hit-and-run accident
which the Guardian's Office set up in an attempt to end the political
career of the troublesome mayor of Clearwater. Gabriel Cazares...would
be attending the national mayors' conference in Washington from 13-17
March and the Guardian's Office made hasty plans to give him a
welcome.
A Scientologist posing as a Washington reporter sought an interview
with Cazares and introduced him to a friend, Sharon Thomas, who offered
to show the mayor the sights of Washington. Miss Thomas was, of course,
working for the Guardian's Office. Driving with the mayor through scenic
Rock Creek Park, she temporarily lost control of her car and ran into a
pedestrian, who crumpled dramatically. To the mayor's horror, Miss
Thomas accelerated away without stopping, leaving the injured man lying
on the road.
"A Guardian's Office memo the following day discussed ways of using
the accident to discredit Cazares and concluded: 'I should think the
mayor's political days are at an end.' Curiously Cazares was also on the
Commodore's mind. On the very same day, Hubbard scrawled a note to the
GO: 'Cazares - is there still some possibility the Cubans in Miami might
get the idea he is pro-Castro?'
"The 'victim' of the hit-and-run accident was a young man called
Michael Meisner, a Scientologist since 1970. Meisner was the key figure
in Operation Snow White: he was 'running' all the GO agents who had been
infiltrated into government agencies in Washington, had personally taken
part in several burglaries at the Department of Justice and organized
the copying of tens of thousands of secret government files."
The book "Religion, Inc." tells the story this way: "The darkest
operation yet was mounted in March 1976 when the Mayor [Cazares] went to
Washington for a national conference of mayors. He was met by Joseph
Alesi posing as a reporter and was introduced to Sharon Thomas who
offered to show him Washington. As Cazares and Thomas were driving
along, she hit a pedestrian (Church of Scientology agent Mike Meisner
who feigned injury) and drove on. Following the hit-and-run 'accident',
a church memo gleefully recorded 'I should think the Mayor's political
days are at an end'" (SOURCE: Bare
Faced Messiah, Chapter 20; Book: Religion, Inc.)
L. Ron Hubbard established Universal Media Productions in
Clearwater, Florida, to produce Scientology films. (CofS)
In March, gift shop owners in the Ft. Harrison Hotel sue the
church because the public is no longer allowed into the hotel, they
phones, burglar alarm, and air conditioning are shut off.
(Brief
overview of Scientology's interaction with Clearwater
Florida)
A March internal church memo lists areas Scientology wants to
infiltrate - the St. Petersburg Times, the mayor, channel 13,
"Snyder", Florida attrorney general, and Florida state attorney
(Russell). (Brief
overview of Scientology's interaction with Clearwater
Florida)
U.S. Directorate Secretary World-Wide Michael Taylor informs
Greg Willardson, that the IRS London targets have been "handled."
Ref: Stipulation
of Evidence, United States of America vs Mary Sue Hubbard et al, Oct
1979, p. 21 (Timeline
of Scientology versus the IRS)
Now, in 1976, the first document we have here is an Eval issued by
Diana Hubbard Horwich (who was then CS-6) on data received from the
Guardian World Wide and the Deputy Guardian Finance World Wide, in other
words, Jane Kember and Herbie Parkhouse. And that is Aide's Order number
176-2, 5 March 1976, Flag only, Senior Execs and G.O. W.W. Confidential,
Franchise Network.
The situation: An individuated Network of Missions who are not
forwarding public up the Bridge, and instead are implicated in unusual
deals with orgs and milking public for their money, etc.
It is a total outpoint eval, and extremely false. It turns all
plus-points of the Missions into out-points and all out-points of the
Orgs into plus-points, as you can see by reading it: Data-- the
Guardians Office, particularly the Guardian World Wide and Deputy
Guardian Finance World Wide (Kember and Parkhouse), have been doing a
commendable job of data collection. Also, an Obs Mission from Flag to
Franchise Office World Wide was sent. This has resulted in a great
abundance of data. The major points of analysis are......
This eval was issued by Lieutenant Commander D.H. Horwich
CS-6, approved by CS-6 Action Aide, and the authority for it is SH
verification D.M., which is presumably, David Miscavige. The
issue is DHH, MI, AD, MSH, Mary Sue Hubbard, for the Board of Directors.
I won't go into what it says because you can read that. As a result
of this, a mission was put into training: J.C. Hughes and John Woodruff
were sent to World Wide. Mike Davidson, who was a Kha-khan who
had been making the Missions' stats go up for 9 consecutive years, had
expanded the Mission Network to a point where it accounted for, as early
as 1968, 60% of World Wide's Gross Income. He built the Franchise
Network to be a major contributing part that wa supporting the G.O. That
was from where the funding for the G.O. came: from the tithes from the
Missions. And Mike Davidson was summarily removed and thrown in the
Estates Project Force, then targeted by Jane Kember who succeeded
in doing him in. (Peter
Green debrief, 23.6.1982)
'I don't think I will ever regret making my discoveries public. My
sole purpose was to serve and give man the knowledge I had
. . . I've never looked to quarrel with anybody.' (First statement to the press by L. Ron Hubbard for five years,
read by Diana Hubbard at a reception in Quebec, to launch a new edition
of Dianetics, 28 April 1976.)
Meisner and Wolfe are caught by the FBI after a
security guard at the US Courthouse becomes suspicious of their (forged)
IRS credentials. Meisner escapes and is hidden from the FBI by the GO,
but eventually turns himself in. Ref: "A Piece of Blue Sky", Jon Atack
(1992), p. 237 (Timeline
of Scientology versus the IRS)
... And what happened was that this guy Michael Meisner was
the one that proposed the break-in. He was the AG Washington. Now, the
funny thing is that two people in Washington at the time when he
proposed that - before it was even done, before it was accepted - KNEW
and had evidence that he was a government agent. Those two people
were Bill Franks and Lynn Murphy.
Now, those two people wrote up reports on separate lines - 'cause
Franks was Sea Org and Lynn was GO - they wrote up reports on separate
lines to Mary Sue to tell her that Michael Meisner is a Government
agent and he should be gotten out of here. He's not a GO guy. He
doesn't think like us. He doesn't act like us. He has connections to the
Government, he is trying to get the Church in trouble, etc, etc, etc.
In other words, they EXPOSED him. They sent the things up the line.
Jimmy Mulligan stopped these communications from going to Mary
Sue. They did not go to Mary Sue. He ordered, through the connections he
had to the Sea Org, from his mysterious GO post of Controller's
Committee, that Bill Franks be removed from Washington Org and
Comm-Eved and RPF'd: and he was. And that Lynn Murphy be brought
back to PAC and Comm-Eved and RPF'd; and she was. And she was also
kicked out of the GO. And they were so spinny, they didn't even realize
what it was for. But it wasn't for any of their stats or anything. It
was just the fact that they had tried to expose a plant. (CBR-debrief
from 1982)
"In the brownstone on Q Street, an agitated Hubbard showed Kima
Douglas a telex from Mary Sue and asked, 'What am I going to do about
this?' 'The essence of the report,' said Kima, 'was that they had caught
the man who had been getting all this great information for us from the
tax files.' Although no arrests had yet been made, Hubbard surmised,
correctly, that there was trouble in store. His instinct, once again,
was to flee."Next day, in the brownstone on Q Street, an agitated
Hubbard showed Kima Douglas a telex from Mary Sue and asked, 'What am I
going to do about this?' 'The essence of the report,' said Kima, 'was
that they had caught the man who had been getting all this great
information for us from the tax files.' Although no arrests had yet been
made, Hubbard surmised, correctly, that there was trouble in store. His
instinct, once again, was to flee.
On the following morning, Kima Douglas checked in at National Airport
with her elderly "father", for a flight to Los Angeles. ... At LAX, they
were met by a limousine and driven to Overland Avenue in Culver City,
where Gerry Armstrong had rented four adjoining apartments.
Armstrong had already set up a telex link before the Commodore
arrived. Special decoder equipment was installed to provide direct
secure communications with Clearwater and the Guardian's Office in Los
Angeles... (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 342)
In Culver City , Gerald Armstrong reportedly gets into an argument
with Mary Sue Hubbard's communicator (secretary) after which LRH deems
Armstrong a "security risk" and has him "removed from the property and
locked up and guarded for three weeks in the Scientology intelligence
office [GO] in Los Angeles." (SOURCE: Text file:
"corydon.txt," a version of Bent Corydon's book,"Messiah or
Madman,")
(after Wolfe/Meissner were caught)
Department of Justice sources allege that during the next full
year, the church's Guardian Office in Los Angeles held
Meisner a virtual prisoner, while various plans were made and
abandoned, to provide him with a cover-story for his covert activities
in Washington.
The facts which I have been able to verify, and the manner of
Meisner's eventual departure from Los Angeles, however, do not square
with this charge. Meisner may have been restrained by persuasion or
threat of the consequences of defection, but there is evidence to
support the claim that, for a time at least, he was as eager as anyone
else to find some means of avoiding arrest and prosecution for his
clandestine activities in the Capital. (O. Garrison,
Playing Dirty, pg. 114)
The technical bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology released
in published books for the first time. (CofS)
International Prayer Day, the Church’s first International
Conference for World Peace and Social Reform, was held in
Anaheim, California, attended by 10,000 church members from
around the world. (CofS)
Ranch purchased in the desert at La Quinta, on the east side of the
San Jacinto Mountains.
The Hubbards moved in at the beginning of October 1976 and began to
enjoy a new life of tranquillity on their ranch in the desert. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 343)
Quentin had been found in Las Vegas at 0832 hours on 28 October,
slumped over the steering-wheel of a white Pontiac parked off Sunset
Road alongside the perimeter fence of McCarran Airport at the end of the
north-south runway. All the car windows were rolled up and a white
vacuum cleaner tube led from the passenger's vent window to the exhaust
tail pipe. Tissue papers had been stuffed into the window opening around
the tube and the car's engine was still running.
Officer Bruns of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was
first on the scene. He wrenched open both the car doors and ascertained
that the young man inside was still alive, though unconscious, probably
because the tube had fallen off the tail pipe. He carried no
identification of any kind and there were no licence plates on the car.
There was nothing in the car but a Grundig portable radio, a black tote
bag containing miscellaneous clothing and an open, partly consumed,
bottle of tequila. 'The vehicle appeared as though the subject might
have been sleeping in it,' the police report noted. 'The subject himself
was very unkempt, his clothing was dirty, and would be possibly
described as a vagrant type subject. A white male, appeared in his mid
to late 20s. The subject was transported to Southern Nevada Memorial
Hospital via Mercy Ambulance...' (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 344)
As no one knew who he was, Quentin was admitted to hospital as 'John
Doe'. The only identifying marks that the hospital could record were his
red hair and red moustache. He never regained consciousness and died at
2115 on 12 November. The police records listed him as a 'possible
suicide'.
On the morning of Thursday, 18 November, Arthur Maren arrived at the
coroner's office in Las Vegas and introduced himself as director of
public affairs for the Church of Scientology. He said he would be able
to make a positive identification of the body and at 11.25 he confirmed
that John Doe was, indeed, Geoffrey Quentin McCaully Hubbard, aged
twenty-two. Maren said that Quentin's parents were not in the United
States, but were away on a trip round the world. (Miller:
"Bare-faced Messiah", pg. 345)
- The Volunteer Minister’s Handbook published. (CofS)
- Modern Management Technology Defined - Hubbard Dictionary
of Administration and Management published. (CofS)
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