About L. Ron Hubbard Part I

By collecting quotes and videos of Hubbard (and also including scientology's view) I will try to develop my character profile for the fictional cult leader out of it.

Hubbard was a broke Science Fiction Writer before he started with Scientology

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
Response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (7 November 1948)

After the successful establishment of Scientology Hubbard started distorting the facts around his persona. How Hubbard is seen by the church nowadays is well explained in this video excerpt out of an official orientation video from scientology:



Hubbard is presented to the viewer as a man of many talents. A wise All Arounder who was a specialist in a lot of different professions. If I'm able to trust the various sources from the net then Hubbard was not much more then a science fiction writer and an "average rated" navy officer in World War II before he founded his religion.
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Benzedrine often helps a case run.
The Intensive Processing Procedure" (1950); "Run a case" = administer Dianetics or Scientology procedures to someone.

It is hard to say if Hubbard was a drug addict but at least it is a known fact that Hubbard didn't hesitate to try out new substances also for the purpose of mind control.
Here is a little excerpt out of an interview with L. Ron Hubbard Jr. that he gave in 1983 to the Penthouse Magazine. L. Ron Hubbard Jr (known as Ron DeWolfe) left the church in the beginning of the 60's

Penthouse: What kind of drugs did he generally use?

Hubbard: At various times, just about everything, because he was quite a hypocondriac. Cocaine, peyote, amphetamines, barbiturates. It would be shorter to list what he didn't take.

Penthouse: Did he encourage you to do drugs?

Hubbard: Well, he used them with me. He was a real night person. We used to sit around all night, sit around his office or home, get loaded up, and talk. He had a pretty liquid tongue. He loved to talk. And of course, in the fifties, he decided that I was the heir apparent, so he wanted to teach me everything he knew. He started me out by mixing phenobarbital into my bubble gum, when I was ten years old. This was to induce deeper trances in order to practice the black magic and to get an avenue to power.

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To promote Scientology Hubbard was using public attention for a certain topic. With the foundation of Scientology in the beginning of the 1950's Hubbard was using the fear of an atomic attack:

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
Professional Auditor's Bulletin 82

This video is one of the best known ephemeral films and illustrates pretty well the fear of an atomic attack.



Another thing people got frightened about were the mind control experiments that korean scientists were trying out on american soldiers in the korean war (see The Manchurian Candidate)

ON CONTROL AND LYING

THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them. When you find an individual is lying to you, you know that the individual is trying to control you. One way or another this individual is trying to control you. That is the mechanism of control. This individual is lying to you because he is trying to control you - because if they give you enough misinformation they will pull you down the tone scale so that they can control you. Conversely, if you see an impulse on the part of a human being to control you, you know very well that that human being is lying to you. Not "is going to", but "is" lying to you.

L. Ron Hubbard
Technique 88