Why hasn't Scientology been investigated as a criminal enterprise for epidemic levels of fraud, including against taxpayers, enslaving people, and even infiltrating the government, and preparing for armed fight with the police?
If L. Ron Hubbard was such an incompetent clown, as his record often indicates he was, how did he manage to build up an empire worth hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars, attract dozens of celebrity followers, including several billionaire CEOs of high tech or health care companies, that was able to intimidate thousands, create a private espionage organization and influence government at the highest levels?
Like a lot of other religious or cult leaders many skeptics ridicule L. Ron Hubbard as a conman, often pointing to a famous quote from him saying, "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion," to prove that's all there is to him, implying that his followiers are just a bunch of credulous suckers, which often seems partially true, but it doesn't explain it all.
The traditional media rarely covers Scientology much, although Leah Remini's series and a few other occasional shows, explain a little about it. The vast majority of the public is probably unaware about how much trouble they've been involved in, except for those that specifically seek out information about it, or those informed by others trying to spread the word at the grassroots. But those more familiar with it must be wondering how can they possibly get away with all these scams.
For those not familiar with Scientology I can't provide more than a few brief examples of why the government could have and should have been able to charge them with running a criminal organization and enslaving people years ago, but the following excerpts from Lawrence Wright "Going Clear" are a small sample and the rest of his book along with numerous other sources provide many more examples:
Lawrence Wright "Going Clear"
VERY EARLY ONE MORNING in July 1977, the FBI, having been tipped off about Operation Snow White, carried out raids on Scientology offices .... They found a warren of small cubicles, each occupied by half a dozen people dressed in black boiler suits and wearing filthy rags around their arms to indicate their degraded status.
Altogether, about 120 people were huddled in the pitch-black basement, serving time in the Rehabilitation Project Force. The ranks of the RPF had expanded along with the church’s need for cheap labor to renovate its recently purchased buildings in Hollywood. The federal agents had no idea what they were seeing. Within moments, a representative of the church’s Guardian’s Office arrived and began shouting at the agents that they were exceeding the limits of their search warrants. Seeing that the Sea Org members posed no threat to them, the agents shrugged and moved on. (p.140-7)
An ex-marine named Andre Tabayoyon, who oversaw construction of the security at the Gold Base, later testified that church funds were used to purchase assault rifles, shotguns, and pistols; he also said that explosive devices were placed around the perimeter to be used in case of assault by law enforcement officials. ..... Morehead also hired former FBI or CIA agents as private investigators. As soon as an escapee made the mistake of using a credit card, the team would know almost immediately where the charge was placed. (p.201-7)
Whitehill and Venegas worked on a special task force devoted to human trafficking. The laws regarding trafficking were built largely around forced prostitution, but they also pertain to slave labor. ..... Brousseau talked to Whitehill and Venegas at the FBI. He was under the impression that the federal agents were considering a raid on Gold Base. .... The investigation was reportedly dropped. *
* Valerie Venegas told one of her sources that higher-up officials had spiked it; later, she blamed me, because, I had uncovered the probe and had called to verify it with the agents. (Tony Ortega, "FBI Investigation of Scientology: Already Over Before We Even Heard Of It," Village Voice Blogs, March 19, 2012). (p.324-7) Additional excerpts
VERY EARLY ONE MORNING in July 1977, the FBI, having been tipped off about Operation Snow White, carried out raids on Scientology offices .... They found a warren of small cubicles, each occupied by half a dozen people dressed in black boiler suits and wearing filthy rags around their arms to indicate their degraded status.
Altogether, about 120 people were huddled in the pitch-black basement, serving time in the Rehabilitation Project Force. The ranks of the RPF had expanded along with the church’s need for cheap labor to renovate its recently purchased buildings in Hollywood. The federal agents had no idea what they were seeing. Within moments, a representative of the church’s Guardian’s Office arrived and began shouting at the agents that they were exceeding the limits of their search warrants. Seeing that the Sea Org members posed no threat to them, the agents shrugged and moved on. (p.140-7)
An ex-marine named Andre Tabayoyon, who oversaw construction of the security at the Gold Base, later testified that church funds were used to purchase assault rifles, shotguns, and pistols; he also said that explosive devices were placed around the perimeter to be used in case of assault by law enforcement officials. ..... Morehead also hired former FBI or CIA agents as private investigators. As soon as an escapee made the mistake of using a credit card, the team would know almost immediately where the charge was placed. (p.201-7)
Whitehill and Venegas worked on a special task force devoted to human trafficking. The laws regarding trafficking were built largely around forced prostitution, but they also pertain to slave labor. ..... Brousseau talked to Whitehill and Venegas at the FBI. He was under the impression that the federal agents were considering a raid on Gold Base. .... The investigation was reportedly dropped. *
* Valerie Venegas told one of her sources that higher-up officials had spiked it; later, she blamed me, because, I had uncovered the probe and had called to verify it with the agents. (Tony Ortega, "FBI Investigation of Scientology: Already Over Before We Even Heard Of It," Village Voice Blogs, March 19, 2012). (p.324-7) Additional excerpts
The closer anyone looks at how much they were able to get away with without fear of prosecution the clearer it should be that they must have had government connections all along. The claim that they're just defending religious freedom simply isn't adequate if people look close enough at the details. Operation Snow White was supposedly one of the biggest infiltration, if not the biggest, of the United States government in history; and supposedly it began in the sixties and ended when it was exposed in the seventies; or at least that's what they would have people believe. If that was the case I doubt if they could have had their tax exempt status restored in 1993, or avoided prosecution for keeping people imprisoned, even if they were mostly cult members that claimed they were there of their own free will. Books written since then and the article on Village Voice Blogs by Tony Ortega show thatt ehre are plenty of ex-Scientologists that are willing to testify thatt ehy've been detained agaisnt their will, and there's a strong possibility that if some of these people were detained against their will and willing to talk to the police after escaping that more might be willing to talk if they ahd an opportunity to speak to the police, yet the investigation was dropped.
The story Lawrence Wright describes where they convince the IRS to restore their tax exempt status after telling their lawyer, “Marty and I are just going to bypass you entirely. We’re going to see Fred,” (Lawrence Wright "Going Clear") is incredibly hard to believe. There's no way they could have won this without the help of people with political connections, nor could they have killed the raid in 2010, during the Obama administration without political connections. They must have had these connections long after Operation Snow White was exposed and supposedly put to an end; and, I suspect, they almost certainly had these connections before they even became a multi-million dollar organization in the first place. This might even mean that Operation Snow White was designed to confuse the issue and enable them to use it as an excuse to explain away somethings without disclosing the full extent of the government support of this cult.
Wright explains that the government in Morocco and numerous other places around the world including many people in the Caribbean thought Scientology was connected to the CIA, although he doesn't provide any additional evidence, and presents it as if it's just their belief. However, if it's true it begins to explain how they get away with so much, if it's false then there's no reasonable explanation. At several times throughout the book Wright describes how Hubbard is afraid the CIA is out to get him but on one occasion, earlier in the history of Scientology, on or about 1951-2, he writes, "Dianetics will last 10,000 years—for the Army and Navy have it now,” and it also mentions attempts to "sheep-dip" his record with espionage organizations during World War II, which was officially very low level and almost meaningless. These claims have serious credibility problems; however without any connections there's no way his religion could have risen so fast, fallen into debt and gone bankrupt at least once in the fifties, then risen again and bought a fleet of ships to travel the world in the late sixties and early seventies, and go on to be an organization worth hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars with political connections to lobby one presidential administration after another.
In the seventies before the raid exposing Operation Snow White Wright explains that he intended to return to the United States but was tipped off that the IRS was going to impound his ship for tax purposes, then he goes to the Caribbean before returning to Florida only weeks or months later to buy property as described in the following excerpts:
Lawrence Wright "Going Clear"
The crew were thrilled that they would be returning to the States, only to be crestfallen when a message arrived from the Guardian’s Office, just as the ship was approaching port, alerting Mary Sue that agents from US Customs, Immigration, Coast Guard, DEA, and US Marshals were waiting for them to dock, plus 180 IRS agents waiting to impound the ship. ....
By now the rumor about the CIA spy ship had spread all over the Caribbean, making the Scientologists unwelcome or at least under suspicion everywhere they went. ....
One team arrived in the Florida retirement community of Clearwater—a resonant name for Scientologists—to look over a dowdy downtown hotel called the Fort Harrison ... Hubbard purchased the Fort Harrison and a bank building across the street using a false front called the United Churches of Florida (p.130-4) Additional excerpts
The crew were thrilled that they would be returning to the States, only to be crestfallen when a message arrived from the Guardian’s Office, just as the ship was approaching port, alerting Mary Sue that agents from US Customs, Immigration, Coast Guard, DEA, and US Marshals were waiting for them to dock, plus 180 IRS agents waiting to impound the ship. ....
By now the rumor about the CIA spy ship had spread all over the Caribbean, making the Scientologists unwelcome or at least under suspicion everywhere they went. ....
One team arrived in the Florida retirement community of Clearwater—a resonant name for Scientologists—to look over a dowdy downtown hotel called the Fort Harrison ... Hubbard purchased the Fort Harrison and a bank building across the street using a false front called the United Churches of Florida (p.130-4) Additional excerpts
The book goes into more detail in between the time they levave South Carolina and travel around the Carribian but there's no explanation why the IRS, a federal agency, was ready to impound his boat in South Carolina, yet shortly after that they simply let him buy up property in Clearwater! This makes no sense without political connections to clear up his problems. Lawrence Wright goes into more detail about some of these conections, including with Tom Cruise lobbying several presidential administrations and Tommy Davis who's father had close ties to the first Bush administration, and a common public relations organization with more ties to the Bush administration, some of which I'll get to below.
But as far as official conections to Ancient Aliens, there's little or no doubt that they're a UFO cult, but thier beliefs are incredibly clownish surrounding some of L. Ron Hubbard's stories that sound as absurd as some of his science fiction might be, including Xenu, the alleged galactic overlord that they're supposed to beleive in, although Scientologists aren't told about this until they reach a higher OT or Operating Thetan level.
To the best of my knowledge Scientologists avoid any discussion of Xenu and according to Wikipedia: Xenu "The church avoids mention of Xenu in public statements and has gone to considerable effort to maintain the story's confidentiality, including legal action on the grounds of copyright and trade secrecy. However, this article also points out that even though they attempt to keep it secret it has leaked out; and anyone with a basic understanding of copyright or intellectual property laws should realize this is an incredibly weak argument to keep it secret, and it is a tactic often only used to intimidate those that don't understand these laws.
Using the courts in this manner is something that only wealthy people with access to expensive lawyers can even hope to do; but if our justice system was even remotely fair, even they couldn't abuse it like this, which is also further evidence of their political connections. But there is little doubt that they're a fanatical UFO cult with a lot in common with the Theosophical Society, which also has some far-fetched beliefs, but isn't nearly as authoritarian, as I went into in Helena Blavatsky Ancient Aliens Connection? In the article about Helena Blavatsky there is some speculation about the possibility that the espionage organisations might have researched cult activities, and that this might have escalated after the UFO phenomenon escalated, at least in the media, after World War II, most notably after the Roswell crash where Philip Corso claims they obtained some alien technology and he was involved in distributing it to many corporations.
The previous article about Helena Blavatsky, and others that went into more detail, cites ancient megaliths as a major unsolved mystery that couldn't have been moved the way traditional historians claim. Experiments have failed to come close to moving megaliths weighing 10 to 40 tons, yet ancient civilizations managed to move them over 700 tons, on at least one occasion over 420 miles. In the case of Helena Blavatsky there was additional evidence of unexplained phenomena involving what she claimed were astral projections of Master's Morya and Koot Hoomi, among others, like most other mystics this evidence isn't quite as strong as the megaliths but if people look closer at the details it's hard to believe that either the skeptics are completely right about totally dismissing them or the believers are completely right about communication with an advanced intelligence that has the best interests of the human race as their goal.
Evidence of paranormal activity or something that is perceived to be paranormal activity surrounding L. Ron Hubbard is much weaker, but evidence of political connections and possible government support of their activities might be much stronger, although most of the conspiracy theorists, that I can find on the internet making this claim have serious credibility problems. Lawrence Wright and some other researchers, including Jenna Miscavige Hill and Leah Remini seem far more credible; however, they don't explain all the unsolved mysteries surrounding Scientology, which a CIA connection might.
According to Guinness World Records L. Ron Hubbard is the “most published author” with 1,084 published works, presumably including many short stories he wrote in the late thirties under various names, and he's also most translated and most audio books. when it comes to most translated or most audio books this may not be very meaningful since part of the reason for a lot of his sales is the support of the Scientology Church or Cult; however the description of how Lawrence Wright says he put out a lot of these short stories sounds similar to Blavatsky's alleged revelations, "He said that when he was writing stories he would simply 'roll the pictures' in his mind and write down what he saw as quickly as possible. It was a physical act: he would actually perspire when he wrote." (p.27-9) And another description of how he did his writing was described by Wright, "'His restless leg would be jiggling as his hand raced across the page, faultlessly, in handsome, legible script. For other writing, he turned back to his typewriter. “I think he was doing automatic writing,' said Jim Dincalci, one of his medical officers. 'The pages would be flying. When he came out of it, he would blink his eyes, as if coming awake, and he did this thing with his lips, smacking.'” (p.99-105)
Wright also reports that "When one of his followers asked Hubbard how he had been able to dash it off so quickly, Hubbard said that his guardian spirit, the Empress, had dictated it to him." (p.58-65) And according to a "secret memoir" that was allegedly written early in the development of Scientology but not made public until a 1984 lawsuit against Gerald Armstrong who produced this document in his defense. At the time, while L. Ron Hubbard was still alive, the church claimed it was private and objected to disclosing it but didn't deny it's authenticity. According to the document Hubbard allegedly writes, "Nothing can intervene between you and your Guardian. She cannot be displaced because she is too powerful. She does not control you. She advises you. ..... The most thrilling thing in your life is your love and consciousness of your Guardian. ..... You can talk with her and audibly hear her voice above all others. You can do automatic writing whenever you wish. You do not care what comes out on the paper when your Guardian dictates." (p.51-5) this is a long rambling document that seems similar to some other revelations, perhaps including those given to Helena Blavatsky, although different alleged mystics always seem to have different styles, where he tells himself that he can use "self-hypnosis" to develop his Scientology techniques.
This evidence shouldn't be considered exceptionally strong when you consider the source, which although Lawrence Wright seem credible, as far as he goes, a close look at his reporting indicates that one way or another most of the sources for these events that might be considered mystical or paranormal come directly or indirectly from members or former members of this religion, which has credibility problems. But this is a pattern that is repeated in one religious cult after another, including the Mormons, members of the Theosophy Society, Christian Scientists, and many others; however, some of these sources often seem more credible than others and they often can't be dismissed as easily and there's often evidence that if there is absolutely nothing to these scams then there should be no way they could have attracted all these followers.
And there should be no way they could amass such enormous wealth especially since they also often have enormous amounts of expenses, which should have caused Scientology to go bankrupt and stay bankrupt.
Somehow Scientology always manages to overcome enormous amounts of problems that should destroy it one time after another, yet it doesn't, often based on explanations that are as absurd as his claims including bizarre conspiracy theories that often contradict each other, either blaming the CIA or Communist conspirators, or what ever suits their purposes at any govern time. And there's often subtle evidence that they might have connections from wealthy supporters. According to Wright the Dianetics Foundation, which is what it was called in the year or so before they adopted the name Scientology, almost fell apart after a brief surge in sales, he writes, "In the space of a year, Hubbard had gone from destitution and obscurity to great wealth and international renown, followed by a crashing descent. The foundation he had created to train auditors plummeted into debt and soon declared bankruptcy." (p.71-7)
At about this same time he's visiting a wealthy friend in Wichita Kansas, Don Purcell and another friend Russell Hays who's consulting for the Cessna Aircraft Corporation. Wright explains that he wrote "a letter to the US attorney general, explaining the peril he was in. 'I am, basically, a scientist in the field of atomic and molecular phenomena,' he said by way of introduction. He said that his own investigation showed that Sara was tied to Communists who had infiltrated the Dianetics Foundation." It's unclear exactly how, but he managed to revive Scientology and expand it again instead of completely falling apart. Conspiracy theories that should have been laughed off weren't, and even though his claims for being a "scientist in the field of atomic and molecular phenomena" should have serious credibility problems, he managed to come back and attract many more followers by the sixties when he bought a fleet of boats, without a clear source of income for this fleet, which must have cost a fortune.
If on the other hand it is somehow related to the exchange of technology that Philip Corso claims he was involved in then this could be part of a bizarre cover story where pieces of the truth are disclosed in a manner that is so absurd that no rational person would believe it, which might be par for the course when it comes to CIA activities about this subject.
Everything about this Cult clearly seems to be incredibly absurd and insane, yet they somehow manage to attract an enormous number of intelligent rational people including a long list of celebrities and many people in highly educated fields, many listed on Wikipedia: List of Scientologists If there is some sharing of technology from aliens it could conceivably include technology allegedly developed by at least a few Scientologists, Sky Dayton founder of Founder of EarthLink and Boingo, and co-founder of more high tech companies, Doug Dohring Ex-owner of Neopets, and Robert W. Duggan former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Pharmacyclics and previously served as CEO of surgical systems maker Computer Motion from 1997 to 2003.
Are we supposed to believe that blind followers of a fringe cult can develop these technologies? Of course, if alien technology is being developed, as Corso claims these companies would be a small fraction of the corporations potentially influenced by this and they're not one of the companies that Corso mentions, including Dow Chemicals, DuPont and Monsanto; nor are they any of the most obvious companies like Apple, Microsoft, or Spacex, that might benefit greatly from alien technology, and might be ahrd to explain without it; however if they were trying to do this in secret it's hard to imagine they would make it that obvious and these two members are keeping a very low profile. Only those that look for this information are likely to find it and it's hard to know what to make of it.
Considering Scientology's opposition to the Pharmaceutical industry Robert W. Duggan seems like a surprising member due to his ties to the biopharmaceutical industry. It is also odd that someone that attended the University of California in both Santa Barbara and Los Angeles without graduating from either managed to develop a company that turned him into a multi-billionaire; however this could make more sense if he was fronting for a company that was developing alien technology transferred to private hands as Corso claims has been going on.
One of the more suspicious potential connections to alleged UFOs with Scientology might be the controversial circumstances surrounding L. ron Hubbard's son's death when he allegedly left on a trip out to Nevada to try to go to Area 51. Lawrence Wright describes it in the following excerpts:
Lawrence Wright "Going Clear"
.... Word went out that Quentin had “blown”—in other words, he had fled. He left a confused note, full of references to UFOs, saying that he was going to Area 51, the secret airbase north of Las Vegas, Nevada, where the CIA has developed spy planes; in popular culture, Area 51 was said to be where an alien spacecraft was stored. ....
..... He stopped in St. Louis on his drive west and took a VIP tour of the giant aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas. He was enthralled by the display of aircraft and artifacts of the Mercury and Gemini space programs; he even got a ride in one of the company’s business jets. “He was so happy,” Cindy Mallien, who had lunch with him that afternoon, recalled. “He was just beaming.” But only a few days later, Las Vegas police were trying to identify a slight young man with blond hair and a reddish moustache who had been discovered comatose in a car parked on Sunset Road facing the end of the runway of McCarran Airport. .....
.... Hubbard himself was convinced that Quentin was murdered as a way of getting at him. (p.130-4) Additional excerpts
.... Word went out that Quentin had “blown”—in other words, he had fled. He left a confused note, full of references to UFOs, saying that he was going to Area 51, the secret airbase north of Las Vegas, Nevada, where the CIA has developed spy planes; in popular culture, Area 51 was said to be where an alien spacecraft was stored. ....
..... He stopped in St. Louis on his drive west and took a VIP tour of the giant aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas. He was enthralled by the display of aircraft and artifacts of the Mercury and Gemini space programs; he even got a ride in one of the company’s business jets. “He was so happy,” Cindy Mallien, who had lunch with him that afternoon, recalled. “He was just beaming.” But only a few days later, Las Vegas police were trying to identify a slight young man with blond hair and a reddish moustache who had been discovered comatose in a car parked on Sunset Road facing the end of the runway of McCarran Airport. .....
.... Hubbard himself was convinced that Quentin was murdered as a way of getting at him. (p.130-4) Additional excerpts
Why would the son of a fringe cult leader get a VIP tour at McDonnell Douglas?
You can draw your own conclusions as well as me; but there's something extremely suspicious about his death, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to speculate about the possibility that he might have known something about the development of advanced technology coming from aliens, assuming Corso is partly correct. I'm not aware of any direct and solid evidence to prove this assuming many people doubt the claims of Philip Corso and others that have made similar claims like Bob Lazar, who has even more credibility problems; but that seems to be par for the course on this subject.
If this hypothesis is partly true then there's little doubt that they've been mixing little pieces of the truth with the most preposterous claims since the beginning. But if it's not true then there still has to be another explanation for many other unsolved mysteries including how ancient megaliths were moved, unsolved mysteries surrounding other mystics, and how this irrational and insane cult rose to become a billion dollar organization with an enormous amount of political connections.
Quentin's death was just one of many, Wright says that there were nine suspicious deaths at the Clearwater facility, including Lisa McPherson, who is one of the most famous ones; but there are many more that have been documented by Xenu-directory: Why are they dead, Scientology? which lists names for each of them. Some of them appear to be natural causes, although closer research might indicate some additional suspicious activity for them as well, perhaps their reluctance to seek traditional medical care, especially when it comes to psychiatric problem. I can't completely rule out the possibility that they might be taking things out of context or exaggerating them, which no doubt is what the Church of Scientology, claims; however even without checking all of them I recognize a few that are major problems including Elli Perkins who was killed by her own son, Jeremy M. Perkins who had serious psychological problems.
Jeremy had a history of paranoid schizophrenia and they treated him with vitamins. Supposedly he "began sleeping in the living room, near his parents’ bedroom, as he felt aliens were in the ceiling of his bedroom." Supposedly after he was found not guilty by reason of insanity they began treating him with traditional anti-psychotic medication, and he'll be released from psychiatric care as soon as they think he can function safely without being a harm to himself or others.
The narrative told by the media on the few occasions they reported on this is that his mental illness may have been a result of a chemical imbalance, that should be treated with medication, and I can't rule this out without better research; however there are a lot of examples where they come to this conclusion when there are major social problems that may have contributed as much if not more than any potential chemical imbalance, which by most accounts are hard to diagnose. However there's also a lot more credible research to show that one of the biggest contributing causes of violent behavior later in life is often child abuse at an early age, which often teaches children to deal with their problems through violence and escalates to more violence later in life.
According to court records there might be some evidence to indicate that this was part of the problem, which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Scientology, although there are plenty of stories about using abusive child rearing tactics in Scientology and controlling children used for labor or other reasons. The psychiatric report says "he was disciplined by spanking till age 15" ..... "He stated .... 'At five years old I broke into a house through a screen door and he spanked me ten times, but I didn’t mind. One year ago he strangled me or choked me, I can’t remember why.'” ..... "He attributed weird phenomenon around the house to his mother." (Jeremy Perkins Court Files)
The statement that his father strangled or choked him a year earlier would presumably have been when he was twenty-seven years old, or so which indicates that here may have been some form of conflict or abuse when he was an adult. His statement about there being "weird phenomenon around the house" was almost certainly attributed to schizophrenia, as it often is with these claims and most people will agree is the more rational conclusion; however there is plenty of research to show that this type of paranoia or alleged hallucination is much more common from children that have been severally abused, which may be the case.
It shouldn't be controversial to teach about how early child abuse leads to many other problems, yet the mainstream media and many so-called rational skeptics almost never discuss this. This is odd, when it comes to skeptics ignoring this, because if there's no unexplained phenomena, then this is almost certainly a major part of the explanation of how many cults indoctrinate their followers to believe what they're told without question, as I explained in Dobson’s Indoctrination Machine, and the principles could just as easily apply to other cults including Scientology. The same tactics that teach people to believe what they're told and blindly obey orders without question also lead to more violence.
However early child abuse used to indoctrinate children isn't good enough to explain many unexplained phenomena including how ancient megaliths were moved, and some of the unsolved mysteries surrounding other mystics, UFO sightings, and how this cult gained an enormous amount of money or was able to avoid accountability from the government, which could deprive them of their tax exempt status and prosecute them for their crimes if they wanted to. Therefore, if there's something to this theory we can't completely rule out the possibility that there might actually have been some unexplained phenomena, or of there's something to alien abduction claims it's worth considering if this might be related.
Despite problems like this Scientology has an incredibly long record of lobbying the government, in at least a couple examples with some success, to implement their policies, with a minimum amount of media coverage, although Lawrence Wright reported on some of them in the following excepts, including one example where tax payer money was used to fund a program similar to their troubled Narconon as described in the following excepts:
Lawrence Wright "Going Clear"
Kirstie Alley, who served as the national spokesperson for Narconon for a number of years, describes herself as “the heart and soul of the project,” because it had helped break her dependency on cocaine. A year after 9/11, Tom Cruise set up a program for over a thousand rescue workers in New York to go through a similar procedure, which was paid for in part by using city money. (p.195-6)
Miscavige hired Hill & Knowlton, the oldest and largest public relations firm in the world, to oversee a national campaign. The legendarily slick worldwide chairman of Hill & Knowlton, Robert Keith Gray, specialized in rehabilitating disgraced dictators, arms dealers, and governments with appalling human-rights records. As representatives of the government of Kuwait, Hill & Knowlton had been partly responsible for selling the Persian Gulf War to the American people. One of the company’s tactics was to provide the testimony of a fifteen-year-old girl, “Nayirah,” to a human-rights committee in the US House of Representatives in October 1990. .... the girl turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States and had never volunteered at the hospital. ..... Gray had also worked closely with the Reagan campaign. ..... There were full-page ads in newsmagazines (p.217-9)
In the eyes of the world press, Scientology had murdered Lisa McPherson. She was one of nine Scientologists who had died under mysterious circumstances at the Clearwater facility. (p.236)
Clinton set up a meeting for Travolta and Cruise with Sandy Berger, his national security adviser, who was given the additional assignment of being the administration’s “Scientology point person.” .... However, the US State Department began pressuring the German government on behalf of Scientology. The Germans were puzzled that their American counterparts seemed not to know or care about the church’s RPF camps, which the Germans called penal colonies, and the reported practices of confinement, forced confessions, and punishing physical labor, which they said amounted to brainwashing.
Cruise poured millions of dollars into the church—$3 million in 2004 alone. .... Cruise repeatedly consulted with former President Clinton, lobbying him to get Prime Minister Tony Blair’s help in getting the Church of Scientology declared a tax-deductible charitable organization in the United Kingdom. .... In 2003, he met with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, to express the church’s concerns over its treatment in Germany. ....
That same year, Cruise and Davis lobbied Rod Paige, the secretary of education during the first term of President George W. Bush, to endorse Hubbard’s study tech educational methods. Paige had been impressed. For months, Cruise kept in contact with Paige’s office, urging that Scientology techniques be folded into the president’s No Child Left Behind program. (p.249-50)
In the same period that Cruise was chastising Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants, Kirstie Alley and Kelly Preston were testifying before state lawmakers in Florida, who passed a bill, written in part by Scientologists, that would hold schoolteachers criminally liable for suggesting to parents that their children might be suffering from a mental health condition, such as attention deficit disorder. Governor Jeb Bush vetoed the bill. Governor Jon Huntsman did the same in Utah. (p.295-7) Additional excerpts
Kirstie Alley, who served as the national spokesperson for Narconon for a number of years, describes herself as “the heart and soul of the project,” because it had helped break her dependency on cocaine. A year after 9/11, Tom Cruise set up a program for over a thousand rescue workers in New York to go through a similar procedure, which was paid for in part by using city money. (p.195-6)
Miscavige hired Hill & Knowlton, the oldest and largest public relations firm in the world, to oversee a national campaign. The legendarily slick worldwide chairman of Hill & Knowlton, Robert Keith Gray, specialized in rehabilitating disgraced dictators, arms dealers, and governments with appalling human-rights records. As representatives of the government of Kuwait, Hill & Knowlton had been partly responsible for selling the Persian Gulf War to the American people. One of the company’s tactics was to provide the testimony of a fifteen-year-old girl, “Nayirah,” to a human-rights committee in the US House of Representatives in October 1990. .... the girl turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States and had never volunteered at the hospital. ..... Gray had also worked closely with the Reagan campaign. ..... There were full-page ads in newsmagazines (p.217-9)
In the eyes of the world press, Scientology had murdered Lisa McPherson. She was one of nine Scientologists who had died under mysterious circumstances at the Clearwater facility. (p.236)
Clinton set up a meeting for Travolta and Cruise with Sandy Berger, his national security adviser, who was given the additional assignment of being the administration’s “Scientology point person.” .... However, the US State Department began pressuring the German government on behalf of Scientology. The Germans were puzzled that their American counterparts seemed not to know or care about the church’s RPF camps, which the Germans called penal colonies, and the reported practices of confinement, forced confessions, and punishing physical labor, which they said amounted to brainwashing.
Cruise poured millions of dollars into the church—$3 million in 2004 alone. .... Cruise repeatedly consulted with former President Clinton, lobbying him to get Prime Minister Tony Blair’s help in getting the Church of Scientology declared a tax-deductible charitable organization in the United Kingdom. .... In 2003, he met with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, to express the church’s concerns over its treatment in Germany. ....
That same year, Cruise and Davis lobbied Rod Paige, the secretary of education during the first term of President George W. Bush, to endorse Hubbard’s study tech educational methods. Paige had been impressed. For months, Cruise kept in contact with Paige’s office, urging that Scientology techniques be folded into the president’s No Child Left Behind program. (p.249-50)
In the same period that Cruise was chastising Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants, Kirstie Alley and Kelly Preston were testifying before state lawmakers in Florida, who passed a bill, written in part by Scientologists, that would hold schoolteachers criminally liable for suggesting to parents that their children might be suffering from a mental health condition, such as attention deficit disorder. Governor Jeb Bush vetoed the bill. Governor Jon Huntsman did the same in Utah. (p.295-7) Additional excerpts
Some of the deaths listed in Xenu-directory were related to the Narconon program that they were lobbying for, including a few in Europe before a similar plan was implemented for 9/11 rescue workers. They weren't successful in lobbying to ban teachers from recommending psychiatric help, but this appears to be because the pharmaceutical industry was more successful in lobbying against it. This may also be the same reason that Hill & Knowlton stopped representing Scientology, there was a lawsuit about this but it was settled without disclosing to the public the terms. Both Scientology and the Pharmaceutical industry have credibility problems and financial incentives to lobby the government for their views. Other sources like Harriet Washington or Marcia Angell have also done research into the pharmaceutical industry and raised legitimate doubts about their profit motive, yet they have little or no success in lobbying the government to implement policies to protect the public, based on more reliable research than Scientology provides. At times, it appears that some of Scientology's objections to the pharmaceutical industry might be legitimate, but their reasons are often suspect and their alternatives are no better.
The same goes for lobbying for the "No Child Left Behind Program," which they may have successfully influenced; Wall Street executives, economists with no education background, Bill Gates, and Scientology have all had an enormous amount of success in lobbying for school reform programs; however Diane Ravitch, educators, and social activists routinely have to put on massive protests to slow down the massive efforts to privatize the education system with little or no concern for the children.
The high tech corporations and oil companies etc. have an enormous amount of success lobbying for their own best interests but the grassroots and social activists have little or no influence on the government, whether or not Corso is partly right about sharing technology with these corporations; however, if he's partly right, and if there is some connection between Scientology and the technology developed with alien influence, then it's virtually guaranteed that it impacts both sides of those lobbying the government against the best interests of the public.
In a previous article, Researching Poor, Slaves, Prisoners, To Benefit Ruling Class With Alien Technology? I explored the possibility that this might be part of a research project to develop advanced medical treatment; with or without alien technology there is some of this going on based on some of the reliable sources including Harriet Washington and Marcia Angell, who rarely get any coverage from the mainstream media and some low profile reports from the mainstream media that reports on how Chinese prisoners are being used for organ transplants or research. However, it may be more likely and more advanced with alien technology; and with or without it, Scientology could be providing a control group since they use a different type of treatment, with vitamins and natural cures, as opposed to traditional cures from mainstream medical practitioners.
Regardless of what their motive is they attempt to use religious freedom as their justification for their activities, although this shouldn't hold up at all when it comes to holding people against their will and many of their other fraudulent activities. One of the defenses that they used involved a Catholic priest that essentially argues that since other religious movements were abusive in the early stage of indoctrinating their followers that it is justifiable freedom of religion as described in the following excerpts:
Lawrence Wright "Going Clear"
Frank K. Flinn, a former Franciscan friar and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, has testified repeatedly on behalf of Scientology—notably, in 1984, when the Church of Scientology, along with Mary Sue Hubbard, sued Gerald Armstrong, the former archivist for the church. Flinn defined religion as a system of beliefs of a spiritual nature. There must be norms for behavior—positive commands and negative prohibitions or taboos—as well as rites and ceremonies, such as initiations, sacraments, prayers, and services for weddings and funerals. By these means, the believers are united into an identifiable community that seeks to live in harmony with what they perceive as the ultimate meaning of life. Flinn argued that Scientology amply fulfilled these requirements, even if it differed in its expression of them from traditional denominations.
Like Catholicism, Flinn explained, Scientology is a hierarchical religion. He compared L. Ron Hubbard to the founders of Catholic religious orders, including his own, started by Saint Francis of Assisi, whose followers adopted a vow of poverty. Financial disparities within a church are not unusual. Within the hierarchy of Catholicism, for instance, bishops often enjoy a mansion, limousines, servants, and housekeepers; the papacy itself maintains thousands of people on its staff, including the Swiss Guards who protect the pope, and an entire order of nuns dedicated to being housekeepers for the papal apartments.
The Catholic Church also maintains houses of rehabilitation (like the RPF) for errant priests hoping to reform themselves. Flinn saw the RPF as being entirely voluntary and even tame compared to what he experienced as a friar in the Franciscan Order. He willingly submitted to the religious practice of flagellation on Fridays, whipping his legs and back in emulation of the suffering of Jesus before his crucifixion. Flinn also spent several hours a day doing manual labor. As a member of a mendicant order, he owned no material possessions at all, not even the robe he wore. Low wages and humble work were essential to his spiritual commitment.
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One of Flinn’s most interesting and contested points had to do with hagiography, by which he meant attributing extraordinary powers—such as clairvoyance, visions of God or angels, or the ability to perform miracles—to the charismatic founders of a religion. He pointed to the virgin birth of Jesus, the ability of the Buddha to “transmigrate” his soul into the heavens, or Moses bringing manna to the people of Israel. Such legends are useful in that they bolster the faith of a community, Flinn said. The glaring discrepancies in Hubbard’s biography should be seen in the light of the fact that any religion tends to make its founder into something more than human.
Flinn was asked to testify about a policy Hubbard had written in 1965 titled “Fair Game Law,” in which he laid down the rules for dealing with Suppressive Persons. That category includes non-Scientologists who are hostile to the church, apostates, and defectors, as well as their spouses, family members, and close friends. “A truly Suppressive Person or Group has no rights of any kind,” Hubbard wrote. Such enemies, he said, may be “tricked, lied to or destroyed.” In 1965, he wrote another policy letter ambiguously stating, “The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. [The new ruling] does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP.” The supposed revocation of Fair Game took place before Operation Snow White, the harassment of Paulette Cooper and other journalists, the persecution of defectors, and many other actions undertaken by church insiders that were done in the spirit, if not the name, of the original policy.
“Almost all religious movements in their very early phase tend to be harsh,” Flinn reminded the court. He contended that they tend to evolve and become more lenient over time. As for disconnection, he declared that it was “functionally equivalent to other types of religious exclusions,” such as shunning of nonbelievers among Mennonites and the Amish. In the Book of Leviticus, for instance, which is part of the Torah and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, idolaters and those who have strayed from the faith were to be stoned to death. That practice has disappeared; instead, Orthodox Jews will sit Shiva for the nonbeliever, treating him as if he is already dead. “So this kind of phenomenon is not peculiar to Scientology,” Flinn concluded. The implication underlying Flinn’s testimony was that Scientology is a new religion that is reinventing old religious norms; whatever abuses it may be committing are errors of youthful exuberance, and in any case they are pale imitators of the practices once employed by the mainstream religions that judges and jurors were likely to be members of. (p.224-9) Additional excerpts
Frank K. Flinn, a former Franciscan friar and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, has testified repeatedly on behalf of Scientology—notably, in 1984, when the Church of Scientology, along with Mary Sue Hubbard, sued Gerald Armstrong, the former archivist for the church. Flinn defined religion as a system of beliefs of a spiritual nature. There must be norms for behavior—positive commands and negative prohibitions or taboos—as well as rites and ceremonies, such as initiations, sacraments, prayers, and services for weddings and funerals. By these means, the believers are united into an identifiable community that seeks to live in harmony with what they perceive as the ultimate meaning of life. Flinn argued that Scientology amply fulfilled these requirements, even if it differed in its expression of them from traditional denominations.
Like Catholicism, Flinn explained, Scientology is a hierarchical religion. He compared L. Ron Hubbard to the founders of Catholic religious orders, including his own, started by Saint Francis of Assisi, whose followers adopted a vow of poverty. Financial disparities within a church are not unusual. Within the hierarchy of Catholicism, for instance, bishops often enjoy a mansion, limousines, servants, and housekeepers; the papacy itself maintains thousands of people on its staff, including the Swiss Guards who protect the pope, and an entire order of nuns dedicated to being housekeepers for the papal apartments.
The Catholic Church also maintains houses of rehabilitation (like the RPF) for errant priests hoping to reform themselves. Flinn saw the RPF as being entirely voluntary and even tame compared to what he experienced as a friar in the Franciscan Order. He willingly submitted to the religious practice of flagellation on Fridays, whipping his legs and back in emulation of the suffering of Jesus before his crucifixion. Flinn also spent several hours a day doing manual labor. As a member of a mendicant order, he owned no material possessions at all, not even the robe he wore. Low wages and humble work were essential to his spiritual commitment.
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One of Flinn’s most interesting and contested points had to do with hagiography, by which he meant attributing extraordinary powers—such as clairvoyance, visions of God or angels, or the ability to perform miracles—to the charismatic founders of a religion. He pointed to the virgin birth of Jesus, the ability of the Buddha to “transmigrate” his soul into the heavens, or Moses bringing manna to the people of Israel. Such legends are useful in that they bolster the faith of a community, Flinn said. The glaring discrepancies in Hubbard’s biography should be seen in the light of the fact that any religion tends to make its founder into something more than human.
Flinn was asked to testify about a policy Hubbard had written in 1965 titled “Fair Game Law,” in which he laid down the rules for dealing with Suppressive Persons. That category includes non-Scientologists who are hostile to the church, apostates, and defectors, as well as their spouses, family members, and close friends. “A truly Suppressive Person or Group has no rights of any kind,” Hubbard wrote. Such enemies, he said, may be “tricked, lied to or destroyed.” In 1965, he wrote another policy letter ambiguously stating, “The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. [The new ruling] does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP.” The supposed revocation of Fair Game took place before Operation Snow White, the harassment of Paulette Cooper and other journalists, the persecution of defectors, and many other actions undertaken by church insiders that were done in the spirit, if not the name, of the original policy.
“Almost all religious movements in their very early phase tend to be harsh,” Flinn reminded the court. He contended that they tend to evolve and become more lenient over time. As for disconnection, he declared that it was “functionally equivalent to other types of religious exclusions,” such as shunning of nonbelievers among Mennonites and the Amish. In the Book of Leviticus, for instance, which is part of the Torah and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, idolaters and those who have strayed from the faith were to be stoned to death. That practice has disappeared; instead, Orthodox Jews will sit Shiva for the nonbeliever, treating him as if he is already dead. “So this kind of phenomenon is not peculiar to Scientology,” Flinn concluded. The implication underlying Flinn’s testimony was that Scientology is a new religion that is reinventing old religious norms; whatever abuses it may be committing are errors of youthful exuberance, and in any case they are pale imitators of the practices once employed by the mainstream religions that judges and jurors were likely to be members of. (p.224-9) Additional excerpts
His claim that “almost all religious movements in their very early phase tend to be harsh,” is certainly true; and this is a major part of the indoctrination process to teach everyone to blindly go along with the program without question. Once the entire group is blindly following the leader then it become more difficult for an individual who thinks for himself to raise legitimate questions.
He's essentially arguing that since traditional religions got started by abusing their followers and teaching them to accept the corruption and lies about supernatural powers of their leaders that new religions should also be able to do this. But this clearly indicates that the "freedom of religion" doesn't belong to the followers who are coerced into adopting flawed beliefs and deprived of their ability to think rationally through these oppressive tactics; instead "freedom or religion applies only to the leaders that use coercion to control the followers.
They also used their legal advantage to intimidate and bankrupt a non-profit organization trying to prevent abuse and turned it into a fake propaganda arm of the Scientology Church as indicated in the following excerpts:
Lawrence Wright "Going Clear"
The interview was preceded by a fifteen-minute report by Forrest Sawyer about Scientology’s claims and controversies. “The church says it now has centers in over seventy countries, with more on the way,” Sawyer said. Heber Jentzsch, the president of the Church of Scientology International, was featured, claiming a membership of eight million people. Sawyer also interviewed defectors, who talked about their families being ripped apart, or being bilked of tens of thousands of dollars. Richard Behar, the Time reporter, recounted how Scientology’s private investigators had obtained his phone records. Vicki Aznaran, a former high official in the church, who was then suing the church, told Sawyer that Miscavige ordered attacks on those he considered troublemakers—“have them, their homes, broken into, have them beaten, have things stolen from them, slash their tires, break their car windows, whatever.”
Koppel allowed Miscavige to respond to the Sawyer report. “Every single detractor on there is a part of a religious hate group called Cult Awareness Network and their sister group called American Family Foundation,” Miscavige said. “It’s the same as the KKK would be with blacks.” He seemed completely at ease.
“You realize there’s a little bit of a problem getting people to talk critically about Scientology because, quite frankly, they’re scared,” Koppel observed.
“Oh, no, no, no, no.”
“I’m telling you, people are scared,” Koppel insisted. (p.217-9)
The church began to plot its counterattack. The Cult Awareness Network, besieged by more than fifty lawsuits brought by Scientologists, went bankrupt in 1996. An individual Scientologist purchased its name and assets at auction. Soon after that, the reorganized Cult Awareness Network sent out a brochure lauding the Church of Scientology for its efforts to “increase happiness and improve conditions for oneself and others.” (p.224-5) Additional excerpts
The interview was preceded by a fifteen-minute report by Forrest Sawyer about Scientology’s claims and controversies. “The church says it now has centers in over seventy countries, with more on the way,” Sawyer said. Heber Jentzsch, the president of the Church of Scientology International, was featured, claiming a membership of eight million people. Sawyer also interviewed defectors, who talked about their families being ripped apart, or being bilked of tens of thousands of dollars. Richard Behar, the Time reporter, recounted how Scientology’s private investigators had obtained his phone records. Vicki Aznaran, a former high official in the church, who was then suing the church, told Sawyer that Miscavige ordered attacks on those he considered troublemakers—“have them, their homes, broken into, have them beaten, have things stolen from them, slash their tires, break their car windows, whatever.”
Koppel allowed Miscavige to respond to the Sawyer report. “Every single detractor on there is a part of a religious hate group called Cult Awareness Network and their sister group called American Family Foundation,” Miscavige said. “It’s the same as the KKK would be with blacks.” He seemed completely at ease.
“You realize there’s a little bit of a problem getting people to talk critically about Scientology because, quite frankly, they’re scared,” Koppel observed.
“Oh, no, no, no, no.”
“I’m telling you, people are scared,” Koppel insisted. (p.217-9)
The church began to plot its counterattack. The Cult Awareness Network, besieged by more than fifty lawsuits brought by Scientologists, went bankrupt in 1996. An individual Scientologist purchased its name and assets at auction. Soon after that, the reorganized Cult Awareness Network sent out a brochure lauding the Church of Scientology for its efforts to “increase happiness and improve conditions for oneself and others.” (p.224-5) Additional excerpts
The official truth has turned into a commodity controlled by lawyers and the courts. Claims made by the Cult Awareness Network before they were driven into bankruptcy and converted into a propaganda arm of Scientology never stopped and are now being reported by Leah Remini on A&E. Leah and her cast of regular characters are doing a great job exposing Scientology, at least to some degree; however there might be some doubts about them as well. For one thing most if not all the people that show up regularly on these shows, including some additional ones besides the series on A&E, are from the former leadership. The same people that were involved in indoctrinating people are now involved in controlling the disclosure about the Cult.
A close look might indicate that there are problems with their disclosures, and that they're ignoring some of the problems, although it may take a fair amount of research to recognize this. Sometimes it appears as if they might be using some of the same manipulation and propaganda tactics that Scientology or the traditional media routinely use, including appeals to emotion and dramatic claims like "If I can help one person through this show break free from Scientology then I will" or something like that, this isn't an exact quote but she has made similar declarations with strong emotional appeals; however even though I agree with most of what this show does, I'm not completely convinced that this isn't part of a controlled disclosure effort to help people break free of the Scientology Church when and only when it suits the purpose of those calling the shots, for what ever reason they might have. Part of this might be an act.
One of the few people that have done reports exposing Scientology over the years is Anderson Cooper on CNN, who has ties to the CIA going back to college. This would enable them to control the disclosure, at least partly. And of course Greta Van Susteren is also a Scientologist, although, for one reason or another this is almost never mentioned in the mainstream media, including on the shows that partly expose Scientology. Greta apparently had a minor role in suing the Cult Awareness Network, destroying them financially and even obtaining the records of their clients. Apparently her sister is a psychiatrist that also consults with the CIA, which is very odd considering how opposed Scientology is to psychiatry, and neither Lise or Greta Van Susteren appear willing to talk about it. This could be further evidence of a possible connection, although like many other things it needs additional disclosure.
There should be some doubt about whether or not they're as opposed to psychiatry as they claim to be or if there's something else going on. There have been numerous examples including Both L. Ron Hubbard and Sonny Bono where there were conflicting reports about whether or not there were medications in their blood that Scientology supposedly opposes, when they died. And they use their own form of psychological manipulation to manipulate people, as some of the former Scientologists, including Leah Remini and Ron Miscavige Sr. who describes how he's used L. Ron Hubbard's techniques in the following excerpt of his book, although a modest amount of knowledge about archaeology might raise some doubts about whether he was manipulating the cab driver or if he's trying to manipulate the reader:
Ron Miscavige "Ruthless" 2016
I once tried out my theory of incremental concessions with a taxi driver. Peter Schless and I were taking a taxi to a gig site in Mexico, where we'd docked during a Maiden Voyage Anniversary cruise.
I asked the driver, “Have you ever heard of the pyramids of Chichen Itza?”
“Oh, yes, very famous. I know them well,” he replied.
“I wonder how they got there?” I said.
“I don't know,” he answered.
“You know, I heard that even with modern-day technology, you couldn't move stones that big,” I said. “Did you know that?”
“No, I didn't know that.”
“Yeah, that's what I heard,” I continued.
“Well, it's possible that that is true,” he agreed. I got him to agree to that one point.
After continuing to get a slight agreement here and a slight agreement there, we arrived at the gig site, and I asked the driver, “Okay, then, who built the pyramids at Chichen Itza?”
“People from outer space,” he replied.
I had proved to myself that my theory worked, and I had a witness. Peter laughed his ass off when we got out of the taxi. (p.144-5) Additional excerpts
I once tried out my theory of incremental concessions with a taxi driver. Peter Schless and I were taking a taxi to a gig site in Mexico, where we'd docked during a Maiden Voyage Anniversary cruise.
I asked the driver, “Have you ever heard of the pyramids of Chichen Itza?”
“Oh, yes, very famous. I know them well,” he replied.
“I wonder how they got there?” I said.
“I don't know,” he answered.
“You know, I heard that even with modern-day technology, you couldn't move stones that big,” I said. “Did you know that?”
“No, I didn't know that.”
“Yeah, that's what I heard,” I continued.
“Well, it's possible that that is true,” he agreed. I got him to agree to that one point.
After continuing to get a slight agreement here and a slight agreement there, we arrived at the gig site, and I asked the driver, “Okay, then, who built the pyramids at Chichen Itza?”
“People from outer space,” he replied.
I had proved to myself that my theory worked, and I had a witness. Peter laughed his ass off when we got out of the taxi. (p.144-5) Additional excerpts
This is somewhat ironic, and misleading. To the best of my knowledge the biggest megaliths at Chichen Itza, aren't exceptionally big compared to many other megaliths, although Chichen Itza is supposed to have some other Archaeo-Astronomical characteristics that ancient alien theorists cite for their claims. There might be some megaliths close to, if not slightly more than ten tons at this site; however experiments to move megaliths that big had a fair amount of success, although it took an enormous amount of effort and time. But when these experiments get any bigger, they start cheating; if he had made the same case with the Colossi of Memnon, which weigh 720 tons and was moved 420 miles, allegedly with ancient technology, he could have made a compelling case challenging the official version. Instead he made it sound like he could use a weak argument to manipulate someone to believe something he claimed was false, doing the opposite.
I don't have enough information to confirm all this speculation; however there's ample evidence to show that the official version of truth about many different subjects, including the ones mentioned in this article, are either incomplete or in many cases false. When it comes to things that are considered supernatural the evidence of major unexplained mysteries is strongest for the megaliths which were moved despite experiments that show that it shouldn't have been possible with ancient technology. Next to that UFOs, Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations and many other mystics provide much stronger evidence than Scientology.
This includes the Theosophy Society, which has a fair amount of common ground when it comes to alleged ties to life on other planets and reincarnation, and Mormons, which apparently expressed an interest in buying one of Hubbard's scripts, “Revolt in the Stars,” according to Lawrence Wright who writes, "She shopped the script around and found a buyer willing to offer $10 million—which, at the time, would have been the highest price ever paid for a script, she was told. The Guardian’s Office became suspicious and investigated the buyers, who they learned were Mormons." (p.163-4) It's hard to imagine why the Mormons would be interested in buying this manuscript for a price that even Scientology thought was exceptionally high. Could they have been interested in financing Scientology for some reason? If there is a common influence behind many different cults and they also have ties to the exchange of alien technology could they be working together? The followers at the grassroots level are highly unlikely to be working together, and without additional corroborating evidence it would be arbitrary speculation for many theories, however something along these lines can't be ruled out without additional evidence either.
Scientology has a few surprising defenders that I might not expect to be defending them including Anson Shupe Co-author of "The Mormon Corporate Empire" who has at times exposed cult activities. Colonel Leroy Fletcher Prouty, who has been a critic of the CIA and exposed their secret activities, yet he's also consulted with Scientology. Even Neil deGrasse Tyson allegedly said, “If you believe in the Christian story of Jesus, you can’t call Scientology crazy.”
Some of the people exposing Scientology adamantly try to blame everything on L. Ron Hubbard, and after his death David Miscavige. They often decline to point out many of the biggest controversies, and even Lawrence Wright provides overwhelming evidence that indicates that the government has had ample evidence to prosecute them, but doesn't draw obvious conclusions that they couldn't get away with an enormous amount of what they're doing if they didn't have people covering for them, and some of this began before the alleged infiltration as a result of Operation Snow White. I don't want to knock the people that are doing the best job exposing this scam but there may be times where we may not be able to count on them to finish the job and expose everything, especially since many of them were former leaders of Scientology, and they might be exposing things they were involved in.
There isn't enough information available to answer all the questions some of this raises, or perhaps if there is it's buried underneath an enormous amount of misinformation; but there does appear to be enough evidence to draw the conclusion that there are people intentionally trying to confuse the issue of many subjects. If this is part of a controlled disclosure effort to keep people distracted while they manipulate the public and control a lot of them through various cults, then it could begin to make sense; but there needs to be better research by people that are actually trying to do a good job, including good peer review, instead of so-called experts that routinely ignore facts that don't support their beliefs and there are often people on both sides of the issue making these blunders.
Tony Ortega: Google helps Scientology billionaire Bob Duggan hide a dark family secret 2015
The following are some additional sources for this subject, including some not discussed on this article:
Colonel Philip Corso and his Critics: Crossing the Rubicon between Objective Criticism and Debunking Michael E. Salla makes a lot of legitimate points in this article; however, like most other people that research this subject he also makes his share of blunders if you look at some of his other work, as well, so it's important to put principles and facts ahead of so-called experts, since none of them seem to get everything right, perhaps in at least some cases intentionally.
Scientology and the CIA
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Scientology and the CIA Connection 09/08/2011
Scientology and the CIA 02/27/2016
CIA Purged It’s Files Re: Scientology? 11/18/2016
Quentin Hubbard Son of L. Ron Hubbard, allegedly committed suicide in 1976.
Suzette Hubbard White busted for copyright infringement
Sea Org Children Past and Present
Tony Ortega: A Scientology untold history special report: ‘My lunch with Quentin Hubbard’ 07/2/2018
Life and death of Quentin Hubbard (22)
Why are they dead, Scientology?
Rochester Psychiatric Center: Jeremy M. Perkins He believed cars that were driving by were trying to kill him and that trees were talking to him. He also began sleeping in the living room, near his parents’ bedroom, as he felt aliens were in the ceiling of his bedroom.
Jeremy Perkins: A Scientology Family Tragedy
Jeremy Perkins Court Files Mr. Perkins was born to Ellen and Donald Perkins in Buffalo, NY. He describes his childhood as a happy one. He believes he was delivered via c-section due to prolonged labor. He was described by his father as being “slow.” He denied any sexual abuse but stated he was disciplined by spanking till age 15. ..... He stated .... "At five years old I broke into a house through a screen door and he spanked me ten times, but I didn’t mind. One year ago he strangled me or choked me, I can’t remember why.” ..... He attributed weird phenomenon around the house to his mother.
Cult members murdered and dismembered their ‘Chief Apostle’ — and scattered his body across Connecticut 08/03/2018
Reza Aslan is not objective student of history when it comes to Scientology 03/27/2017
For years, the Cult Awareness Network was the Church of Scientology's biggest enemy. But the late L. Ron Hubbard's L.A.-based religion cured that -- by taking it over 09/09/1999 Greta Van Susteren, the CNN legal correspondent, and her husband, influential Washington Beltway attorney John Coale, are Scientologists. They even played a minor role in Scientology's assault on the Cult Awareness Network by representing an Ohio woman who sued a cult-[recovery rehabilitation retreat] named Wellspring, whose executive director also sat on the CAN board. ..... Moxon and his team, meanwhile, brought in cult apologist Anson Shupe from Indiana University, a frequent expert witness on behalf of Scientology, who told the jury he had spent years studying CAN and that it had a history of attacking unconventional religious groups.
At home with Greta Van Susteren 05/02/2006 Religion: Scientology, but you didn't hear it from her. 'I don't discuss religion, sex or money.'
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Greta Van Susteren and her Scientology past 05/02/2006
Anderson Cooper Responds 03/25/2010
The Don Purcell seizing Dianetics lie 07/09/2011
Angry Claims and Furious Denials Over Organ Transplants in China 08/24/2016
Tony Ortega: Our story last week about Narconon deaths kicked up a fuss — and news of two more deaths 10/16/2016 by Tony Ortega
Wikipedia: Narconon
Rehab facility linked to Scientology blamed for deaths of three patients who underwent 'five hours a day in sauna and mega doses of vitamins' 08/14/2012 She became the third person to die while under the care of the flagship facility in the last nine months. Seven have died since 2005
A Comprehensive Updated List of Every Celebrity Linked to Scientology 04/02/2015
Wikipedia: List of Scientologists Robert W. Duggan former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Pharmacyclics and previously served as CEO of surgical systems maker Computer Motion from 1997 to 2003.
Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination or STAND: The “Snow White” Program and the Church of Scientology: The True Story
Hubbard still gave orders, records show 01/24/1980
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Eric Townsend - The Sad Tale of Scientology A Short History: 1950-1985 Chapter Nine Landfall The Flagship Apollo was stormed by an angry crowd on the quayside at Funchal, the capital of Maderia. The crowd believed that ship and Church were a cover operation for the CIA.
My Nine Lives in Scientology by Monica Pignotti (1989) .... The reason for all this secrecy was that Hubbard was extremely paranoid about people who were out to get him, especially United States government organizations, such as the IRS and CIA. .... It seemed that a group of communists in Madiera thought that the people aboard the ship were CIA and one afternoon, they threw rocks at the ship, injuring several people. ...
Anonymous Why We Protest: I believe Scientology is a CIA front group 05/02/2008
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Scientology spokesman confirms Xenu story 03/16/2009
Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program Investigated Poltergeist Connection to Alien Mystery 05/29/2018 Could poltergeists, UFOs and other paranormal phenomena all be related? While it’s always possible new information from the Pentagon UFO program will provide actual data from Bigelow’s AAWSAP research, the presence of electrical engineer Dr. Harold Puthoff, one of the lead researchers for BAASS, warrants a default to skepticism. Puthoff, also one of the sources for the initial NYT disclosure, has a long history of promoting pseudoscience—endorsing psychic fraud Uri Geller and coming to the defense of L. Ron Hubbard's E-meter in a 1974 document Scientology developed for use by the government. Puthoff’s research team, EarthTech International, was subcontracted by Bigelow to write the recently revealed DIA reports.
Leah Remini Speaks Out Against Scientology, Says She Wants to Help Those Who "Don't Have a Voice" 11/28/2016
@OpScientology Archive account suspended on Twitter
William Rex Fowler: $200K Scientology donor found guilty of murdering Thomas Ciancio 02/26/2011
Wikipedia: Johnny Lewis Lewis was raised in a "Jewish-oriented household", though his family also practiced Scientology; his parents attained the highest available level within Scientology, called "Operating Thetan", or OT VIII.[3] He starred in Scientology training films, and was a sponsor of the Scientology drug rehabilitation front group Narconon.[4][5] Lewis left the Church of Scientology in his early 20s. .... On September 26, 2012, Lewis and his 81-year-old landlady Catherine Davis were found dead at Davis' home. ..... Davis' death was investigated as a homicide, in which Lewis was a suspect. It was later determined that Lewis had broken into the house, murdered Davis and killed her pet cat Jesse.
Scientology Protests Still active other related accounts on Twitter suspended
Scientologist and STAND member Tad Reeves released a YouTube video today in which he claimed that Leah Remini’s show was making it so dangerous for Scientologists that he feared for the safety of his family. As Tad has blocked all comments — his video is a “one way flow” where he talks and all of us are supposed to listen — I am replying here at the Scientology Money Project. Sept. 2017
Scientology ‘Could Have Caused Johnny Lewis’ Violent Breakdown,’ Says Former Celebrity President 09/28/2012
Skeptic Magazine: The Decline and (Probable) Fall of the Scientology Empire! 02/17/2012 This decline should have happened long before this article was written, but when the explanations for the mysteries some skeptics attempt to debunk contradict their own beliefs they often ignore inconvenient facts as much as the fringe believers in cults.
The Scientology Conspiracy Theory About Two Artists' "Golden Suicides" 03/18/2015
So you're linking CIA connection only with some treatment for 9/11 rescuers? What you are glossing over is that fact that the entire Scientology cult is in fact a project of the CIA
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