John Sanborne, who worked with Hubbard for many years, recalled: Earlier on (before the divorce) he made this stupid attempt to get Northrup brainwashed so she'd do what he said. She had covered up for him so much, and there had been so many opportunities for her to betray him, that she couldn't believe he would think that. L. Ron Hubbard was not in any way a nice guy, he was a deeply horrible person (who was also correctly described by our moderator freezoneandproud as a "rat bastard"). Her achievement was commemorated in a special tribute edition of the Scientology newspaper The Auditor, titled simply: "Mary Sue Hubbard Clear #208". In this same year, Hubbard launched a new religion based on two books he had written, Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science, and Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. [54] She reacted angrily; in a 1992 trial in Canada, Miscavige told the court that she had called him "some pretty nasty names" and threatened him with a large ashtray held close to his face, but she had eventually agreed to step down. L. Ron Hubbard and Sara, his second wife, aboard the schooner Blue Water II, June 1946 in Miami, Florida. I loved to make plots. [88] In one publication the Church has airbrushed Northrup out of a photograph of the couple that appeared in the Miami Daily News issue of June 30, 1946. He sought to explain it to his followers as being the result of his victimization by his ex-wife. "[71] She was so desperate to leave by the time she got to the airport that she left behind her daughter's clothes and her own suitcase and one of Alexis's shoes fell off as she dashed to the plane. Northrup was a major figure in the Pasadena branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O. member, wrote to Karl Germer to explain the situation: As you may know by this time, Brother John signed a partnership agreement with this Ron and Betty whereby all money earned by the three for life is equally divided between the three. I've been married twice. As part of a wider strategy codenamed Operation Snow White, the GO succeeded in infiltrating a Scientologist into the IRS to steal files about the government's litigation strategy against Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard PO Box 24152 Tampa, FL 33623 28 November 1980. They would go to bed very late, usually in the small hours of the morning, and get up in the early afternoon [Mary Sue] had a separate bedroom, but usually had breakfast with him scrambled eggs, sausages, mushrooms and tomatoes. Liked this page? He moved in with me about two months ago, and although Betty and I are still friendly, she has transferred her sexual affection to Ron. Photo by the Miami Daily News. The attach did not act on the request; having asked the FBI for background information, he was told that Hubbard had been interviewed but the "agent conducting interview considered Hubbard to be [a] mental case. [79], The establishment and expansion of Scientology. Speaking several years later to the St. Petersburg Times newspaper, Miscavige commented: I knew if it was going to be a physical takeover we're going to lose because they had a couple thousand staff and we (the "messengers") had about 50. Hubbard grew up in Helena, Montana, and studied at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. A change in the visa regime in the UK enabled foreigners to remain indefinitely if they had sufficient means to support themselves. "I thought he was pretty. CMO staff investigating the GO were physically expelled from the Church of Scientology's Los Angeles headquarters, and the Controller's files were guarded day and night. I may live a long time and again I may not. Mr. Ronald Reagan President . Hubbard established his career as a writer with science fiction and fantasy novels, including the novel Battlefield Earth, which was adapted into a feature film in 2000. TIL L Ron Hubbard's first wife once discovered two love letters the Scientology founder had written, to two different women, in the couple's outgoing mail. en.wikipedia.org 48K 1.5K 1.5K comments Best Add a Comment SoylentPersons 4 yr. ago Did she then get disappeared like David Miscavige's wife? The other five defendants received lesser sentences and fines. Mary Sue Hubbard signed a letter revoking her resignation and condemning the actions of the CMO. The Hubbards returned to the United States in November when their visa expired and moved into an apartment in Philadelphia. "[47] He told her that he didn't want to be married "for I can buy my friends whenever I want them" but he could not divorce either, as the stigma would hurt his reputation. [22] On November 22, 1966, the Hubbard Explorational Company Limited was formed with Hubbard and Mary Sue as directors Hubbard being described as expedition supervisor and Mary Sue as company secretary. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard served in the US Navy in the 1940s. Louis Culling, another O.T.O. [deleted] 6 yr. ago. . [23] Hubbard's relationship with Northrup, while legal, had already caused alarm among those who knew him; Virginia Heinlein, the wife of the science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, regarded Hubbard as "a very sad case of post-war breakdown" and Northrup as his "latest Man-Eating Tigress".[24]. "[70] She did not give evidence but was awarded custody of Alexis and $200 a month in child support. Harry was born "Henry August Wilson" in Fayette, Iowa but was orphaned as an infant and adopted by the Hubbards, a farming family of Fredericksburg, Iowa. She personally handled large quantities of cash on Hubbard's behalf. Your passion for Betty also gave you the magical force needed at the time, and the act of adultery tinged with incest, served as your magical confirmation in the law of Thelema. A curly haired, middle-aged woman - who US magazine National . His sexual difficulties with Northrup, for which he was taking testosterone supplements, are a significant feature of the document. She had been part of Jack Parsons' group because "she had been sent in there by the Russians. That was one of the reasons L. Ron Hubbard never had a relationship with her. His second wife, Sarah, claimed mental and . After the vessel had been renovated by Scientologists, Mary Sue and the children moved into the upper-deck accommodation in November 1968. [7], They went back to London in December on a fresh visa and stayed there until the end of May 1953, before departing for an extended holiday in Spain. They set up home in a villa on the outskirts of the Moroccan city of Tangier. On the night of February 24, 1951, Alexis was being looked after by John Sanborne while Northrup had a night at the movies. Starcasm Staff March 30, 2015 L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology In the HBO documentary Going Clea r that aired Sunday night it was revealed that according to Scientology founder L. Ron. She gave Hubbard an ultimatum: get treatment or she would leave with the baby. Everyone was very calm, gunners joking about who would get in the first shot," Hubbard wrote. She was part of a free love colony in Pasadena. He told me how he had met Northrup. After breakfast he would go into his office and I would rarely see him again until six-thirty when I had to have the table laid for dinner. [1] He issued an internal directive in 1979 asserting that major failures must result from the presence of multiple Suppressives, who would need to be rooted out along with their "connections". To that end he wrote Dianetics, proving to all the world just how mediocre a writer he was . Last edited on 17 February 2023, at 05:30, International Association of Scientologists, "Will the L. Ron Hubbard House Turn a Camelback Neighborhood Into a Scientology Recruitment Mecca? When Hubbard's active stint in the Navy was over he stayed on the West Coast, moving to Los Angeles in 1945. [55], In 1981, the "All Clear Unit" was established within the CMO, tasked with the purpose of making it "All Clear" for Hubbard to come out of hiding. [33] She later recalled: "I would often entertain him with plots so he could write. "[24], The couple moved repeatedly over the following year first to Laguna Beach, California,[28] then to Santa Catalina Island, California,[29] New York City,[30] Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania[31] and ultimately to Hubbard's first wife's home at South Colby, Washington. I telephoned Hubbard's lawyer in Elizabeth and warned him: "Listen, asshole, if you don't get that baby back I'm going to burn you. "[13] Concluding that she was a vampire, which he defined as "an elemental or demon in the form of a woman" who sought to "lure the Candidate to his destruction," he warned that Northrup was a grave danger to Parsons and to the "Great Work" which the O.T.O. [28] The "liability cruise" ended in June 1969. [81], Only a couple of months later, he highlighted Northrup to his staff as a participant in a "full complete covert operation" mounted against Dianetics and Scientology by a "Totalitarian Communistic" enemy. that Jack did get together. This was done before his divorce from his first wife, Polly. [86] In June 1986 the Church of Scientology and Alexis agreed a financial settlement under which she was compelled not to write or speak on the subject of L. Ron Hubbard and her relationship to him. Now a new report claims the 58-year-old is alive and, in mid-December, was spotted leaving a Scientology cruise ship in the Caribbean. If she could not break it up by making social engagements with key personnel she, and her gang, would go out to a bar and keep calling in asking for certain people to come to the telephone. [31] Hubbard returned to the United States, living under a false name in New York City while Mary Sue and the children remained aboard the Apollo. She recalled that "with or without an argument, there'd be an upsurge of violence. Therefore, the worst possible penalty a Scientology child molester could receive in a Scientology religious arbitration would be a Suppressive Person declare. [39] Rather than telling Northrup where Alexis was, he called her and said that "he had cut [Alexis] into little pieces and dropped the pieces in a river and that he had seen little arms and legs floating down the river and it was my fault, I'd done it because I'd left him."[53]. Also note that Hubbard married his second wife whilst he was still married to his first wife. His lawsuit accused Hubbard and Northrup of breaking the terms of their partnership, dissipating the assets and attempting to abscond. The 1969 NASA moon landing was staged in Piedmont NM. Mary Sue Hubbard (Ron's wife and mother to four of his children) and some other leading Guardians Office personnel were imprisoned as a result. "[83], He said that Northrup had been a Nazi spy during the war and accused her and Hollister of using the divorce case to seize control of Dianetics: "They obtained considerable newspaper publicity, none of it true, and employed the highest priced divorce attorney in the US to sue me for divorce and get the foundation in Los Angeles in settlement. The raids of July 1977 were the result.[49]. Parsons took an immediate liking to Hubbard and invited him to stay in the house for the duration of his leave. [38] Northrup became Hubbard's personal auditor (Dianetic counselor)[39] and was hailed by him as one of the first Dianetic "Clears". [46], The marriage was in the process of breaking down rapidly. She persuaded him that the compulsion instilled by the communists would be dissipated by going ahead with the flight: "Well, I have to follow their dictates. "[83], Despite clearly being written by Hubbard, who spoke in the first person in the letter, it was signed "Your good friend, J. Edgar Hoover". He persuaded Northrup to pose as an old friend writing in support of his appeals; in one letter, she claimed untruthfully to have "known Lafayette Ronald Hubbard for many years" and described his supposed pre-war state of health. L. Ron Hubbard's daughter the one he wanted to disappear surfaces online By Tony Ortega, February 6, 2017 . In a memo of December 2, 1969, he wrote that the operation had started with bad reviews of Dianetics, "pushed then by the Sara Komkovadamanov [sic] (alias Northrup) "divorce" actions At the back of it was Miles Hollister (psychology student) Sara Komkosadamanov [sic] (housekeeper at the place nuclear physicists stayed near Caltech) "[82], By 1970, Northrup and Hollister had moved to Maui, Hawaii. On 9 June 1951, Sara signed a handwritten statement scrawled on the notepaper of The Hubbard Dianetic Foundation Inc. of Wichita agreeing to cancel her receivership action and divorce suit in California in return for a divorce "guaranteed by L. Ron Hubbard" in mid-June. Pat Broeker, Hubbard's personal messenger at the time, had gone into hiding with him once before and knew how. But I am 13 years older than she. While previously published books have mentioned part of this . The primary exponent of Scientology is the Church of Scientology, a centralized and hierarchical organization based in Florida, although many practitioners . I just wanted to be free of him! "[13] Ken Urquhart, who worked for the Hubbards as their butler in the 1960s, commented that Mary Sue "could be very sweet and loving, but also very cold. or so the stories go. [84] Even his own staff were shocked by the contents of Hubbard's letter; he ended his instructions to them with the statement, "Decency is not a subject well understood". My right side is paralyzed and getting more so. View Gallery. [18] Hubbard and Northrup left for Florida towards the end of April, Hubbard taking with him $10,000 drawn from the Allied Enterprises account to fund the purchase of the partnership's first yacht. He promised that he would tell her where Alexis was if she signed a piece of paper saying that she had gone with him voluntarily. However, there were a number of obstacles to overcome before the termination of the GO could be accomplished. I had hoped that you could straighten him out. She was convicted in December 1979 and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and the payment of a $10,000 fine. The final experiment L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. Hubbard turned up and took the child. She played a major role in the creation of Dianetics, which evolved into the religious movement Scientology. I believed Sara absolutely; there was no question about the truth in my opinion. He was 74 years old. Nothing of this known to me until a few weeks ago. Heber Jentzsch, president of . When he talked about his first wife, the picture he put out of himself was of this poor wounded fellow coming home from the war and being abandoned by his wife and family because he would be a drain on them. Not only was the GO not handling these suits, the GO, and particularly Mary Sue Hubbard, even refused to answer our questions about the suits because they viewed themselves answerable only to persons within the GO Our attempts to get information were thwarted by Mary Sue Hubbard. [19] The manor, a country house formerly owned by Sawai Man Singh II, the Maharajah of Jaipur, became both the new home of the Hubbards and the world headquarters of Scientology. Who Is L. Ron Hubbard's Wife? In 1984 she acted as an "intervenor" in the Church of Scientology of California's lawsuit against Gerry Armstrong. "[73] He publicly portrayed his marital problems as being entirely the fault of Northrup and her lover Hollister: The money and glory inherent in Dianetics was entirely too much for those with whom I had the bad misfortune to associate myself including a woman who had represented herself as my wife and who had been cured of severe psychosis by Dianetics, but who, because of structural brain damage would evidently never be entirely sane. Excerpt from Wikipedia: "Operation Snow White was a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. This proved a puzzle since where there is no legal marriage, there can't be any divorce. Mary Sue strongly opposed these changes and reappointed herself Controller, rescinding the CMO's permission to investigate the GO. member living in the commune at 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue: "Betty went to almost fantastical lengths to disrupt the meetings [of the O.T.O.] Without him, none of this would have been possible; and so to Ron goes my everlasting gratitude for having provided for all of us the road to Clear. "[69], On June 12, Hubbard was awarded a divorce in the County Court of Sedgwick County, Kansas on the basis of Northrup's "gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty", which had caused him "nervous breakdown and impairment to health. Before starting his church in 1954, L. Ron Hubbard earned his living as a pulp fiction writer, churning out story after story across numerous genres. Only two months later, over 55,000 copies had been sold and 500 Dianetics groups had been set up across the United States. [32], The relationship was not an easy one. They married April 25, 1909, in Omaha, Nebraska. She was forced from her post as controller, convicted and imprisoned as a felon, and deserted by her husband. I thought to myself, 'My God, I can't tell her. [78] In December 1995, Hubbard had a mastectomy of her left breast. Its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, has been described variously as the man who "solved the riddle of the human mind" (by the Church of Scientology), 4 as "a mental case" (by the FBI), 5 and as "hopelessly insane" (by his former wife). However I am afraid that most of the money has already been dissipated. She played a major role in the creation of Dianetics, which evolved into the religious movement Scientology. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard ( Tilden, Nebraska, 1911. mrcius 13. They were formally found guilty on October 26, 1979. Hubbard spread allegations that she was a Communist secret agent and repeatedly denounced her to the FBI. of age, 5'10", 140 lbs. She was a sole signatory to the Church of Scientology's trust accounts and was also a director of the Operation Transport Corporation (OTC), a company established in 1968 that served as a conduit for cash transfers from the Church of Scientology to L. Ron Hubbard personally; it was characterized by US Tax Court as a "sham corporation" whose role was the enrichment of the Hubbards. He and Mary Sue moved initially to Daytona Beach, Florida in August 1975. Hubbard married his third wife, Mary Sue Whipp, in 1952. Northrup played a significant role in the development of Dianetics, Hubbard's "modern science of mental health", between 1948 and 1951. "[52] She left Palm Springs on February 3, leaving Hubbard to complain that Northrup "had hypnotized him in his sleep and commanded him not to write. Ernie was adopted by Mrs. Kanzler, the sister of the wife of Edsel Ford, at the request of Katherine Hepburn. This, plus her absolute control of the GO, made it difficult for the Church missionaires [Sea Org staff dispatched to achieve a target or specific goal] to get anything done. Active and dangerous. He thought I had thrown in with the psychiatrists, with the devils. . 24 Award-winning Authors and Illustrators 3 Bonus Short Stories by Kevin J. Anderson L. Ron Hubbard S. M. Stirling Art and . It was horrible. The arrival of Hubbard and Northrup three weeks after the divorce was filed scandalized Hubbard's family, who deeply disapproved of his treatment of Polly. ", HUBBARD: "I never had a second wife."[78]. [25][26], Around the same time, Hubbard proposed marriage to Northrup. But he did save her life and pull her out of that whole black magic ring. Interviewed more than 35 years later, Northrup stated that she had signed the statement because "I thought by doing so he would leave me and Alexis alone. Ronald DeWolf, L. Ron Hubbard's son, told the News-Herald that his father took amphetamines, hallucinogens, and cocaine. [73], A month later, in the English High Court of Justice, Mr Justice Latey declared in a case in which Scientology was a prominent issue that "Mr Hubbard is a charlatan and worse, as are his wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, and the clique at the top privy to the cult's activities. January 8, 1983 Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of the founder of the Church of Scientology, was sentenced in federal court here yesterday to four years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to plant. She turned up destitute and pregnant. There, creased between space adventures and tales of alien invasion, were the pages . The. David was an original deputy to the late founder L. Ron Hubbard and had been working in the upper hierarchy of the Church since he was a teenager. Recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation files show that just over a year after L. Ron Hubbard created the the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, a precursor to the Church of Scientology, he offered to become an informant for the Bureau, and provide the FBI with a list of its members and copies of their fingerprints..
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