Scientology Lies

August 31, 1948: L. Ron Hubbard is fined $25.00 for writing a bad check in San Luis Obispo, California.

December 12, 1948: The United Nations adopts the General Declaration of Human Rights. While Scientology sometimes refers to this document when claiming that Scientologists' rights to religious freedom are violated, Scientology's various corporate organizations regularly violate the rights of individual Scientologists via false imprisonment, denial of a living wage, denial of mental health, and denial of the right to speak freely.

December 12, 1945: L. Ron Hubbard's last Navy report. He is rated at only 5/20 in both eyes (which glasses corrected to 12/20 and 14/20 in right and left respectively). This was certainly poor eyesight but whether it was "legal blindness" is doubtful. There is no record in his file of him having been declared "legally blind".

February 24, 1951: L. Ron Hubbard kidnaps his 9-month-old daughter, Alexis, from her crib. He and Frank Dessler (a Dianetics official) leave Alexis at the Westwood Nurses Registry Agency, paying for a week's care in advance. The owner of the agency reports the matter to the police when Hubbard and Dessler around his suspicions by identifying themselves to him only as "Mr. Olson" and "Mr. Rank." (Actually, LRH identifies himself as "James Olson" - Superman's sidekick? - and signs a false statement under that name, saying his wife was seriously ill.) At some point in Feb. 1951, LRH gives Dessler a written document indemnifying him of any wrongdoing, since Dessler was concerned about being charged with kidnapping. The LA Examiner (newspaper) reports the story a little differently, saying that Sara left Alexis at the Dianetics Foundation in LA, then decided to spend the night in LRH's apartment after finding it unoccupied. She asks a private detective and Miles Hollister, a former Dianetics executive, to stay in the neighborhood. (According to her divorce suit, she had been kidnapped as well and was with LRH at the time the story was printed.)

February 12, 1952: The Hubbard College, the first organization established and controlled by L. Ron Hubbard, is founded in Wichita, Kansas to train Dianetics auditors.

February 23, 1951: Sara Hubbard informs the national executive officer of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation that competent medical advisors recommended that L. Ron Hubbard be committed to a private sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of paranoid schizophrenia. The executive officer immediately reported this to LRH.

February 25, 1951: LRH kidnaps his estranged wife Sara. According to her divorce suit, "Hubbard, Dessler and defendant Richard B. De Mille, having [hidden their daughter Alexis], feloniously dragged plaintiff out of her bed attired only in her night gown, it then being 1:00 o'clock A.M., of the morning of the 24th day of February, 1951, and by the use of threats, strangulation, torture, and false promises to return her child to her, carried and kidnapped plaintiff to Yuma, Arizona." According to an LA newspaper, she had asked a private detective and Miles Hollister, a former Dianetics executive, to stay in the neighborhood. When LRH's car drives off, along with a second car, Hollister and the detective follow. They lose the Hubbards, but trace the other car to Frank Dessler, a Dianetics official who accompanied LRH the previous day when he placed Ron and Sara's infant daughter, Alexis, at a nurses registry agency. LRH and Sara end up in Yuma, Arizona. Later in the day, after Sara's disappearance has been reported to police, Sara speaks to the police by telephone from Yuma, telling them she left LA of her own accord, but complaining that LRH won't tell her where their daughter is. [Editor: Sounds coercived to me.] At some point in Feb. 1951, LRH gives Dessler a written document indemnifying him of any wrongdoing, since Dessler was concerned about being charged with kidnapping.

February 12, 1952: Don Purcell and other members of the Dianetics board of directors vote Hubbard out for gross mis-management.

July 7, 1943: L. Ron Hubbard's command of PC815 and career as ship's commanding officer ends officially.