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Joan de Veulle - England 50s 60s

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{{Personal Profiles
|Deceased=Yes
|Died on=1988
|Nationality=British
|Org. affiliation=London HASI
|Posts=HCO Area Secretary (London), Extension Course Instructor, Registrar
}}
Joan was born 1905 in Handsworth, Birmingham UK and died 1988 in Somerset UK<ref>[http://scientology.wikia.com/wiki/Joan_de_Veulle wikia database]</ref>

''This "stub" written by [[Antony Phillips]]. Any who have more data please add or write to me.''

I know nothing of Joan's early life.

=== Coming into Scientology ===

Joan had been reading all the books she could find on psychology, and non of them satisfied what she was looking for. At the end of 1956 she came across Ron's book ''Fundamentals of Thought'', and felt this was it (actually that was the year the book was published). She took a Communication Course, and then the full HPA (professional auditor course) in 1957. At a later date she did the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (at the time it was only available at Saint Hill, England)

=== Staff Member ===

She was on staff at the London HASI for a long time. I remember she was Extension Course Instructor at one time (that was a correspondence course in major Scn books, like ''Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health'' and ''Science of Survival''). She wanted to do the 6th London ACC and asked me to take on the Extension Course job while she was on it, which I did. She was also Registrar at London. Her most prominent job was HCO Area Secretary, London, at a time HCO was a separate body to the HASI London (but in the same building, 37 Fitzroy Street). Here she was in regular touch with Ron Hubbard, traveling down to Saint Hill to confer with him.

=== Retirement ===

In the 1970's I was in touch with her (by the "modern media" of the time, cassette tapes). And one summer when I went to England on holiday, my father (in a London suburb) lent me his car to travel down to Porlock, Somerset (situated near Exmoor National Park ). She had retired there to live with her sister. They were both keen gardeners and were brought up in Porlock in a house which was shaded from the sun much of sunny days by the Exmoor Hills. They had therefore brought a plot of land not affected that way, had built a small house on it, and were busy gardening. This was before the big exodus from the church, and the stronger suppressiveness of the 80's. We could let our hair down, and she told me quite a bit.

She talked of [[Reg Sharpe]] and [[John Damonte]] (click their names to go to articles on them).
She also told me that she had had auditing in London, which was CSed by Ron. In the period just after Power Processing came out, she told me that once, that when she was together with Ron, he looked at her, and then told her that she did not need to do Power Processing (at that time ''everybody'' had to do Power Processing before they could go on to the Clearing Course)). I interviewed her on cassette, and she talked about her early experiences in Scientology, including how the training was done then.

== Joan de Veulle Interview ==
<flashmp3>http://scientolipedia.org/w/extensions/HTML5video/videos/Joan De Veulle 1975.mp3</flashmp3> 
Note that the second part of this interview/discussion supplements the page on [[Teaching by Agreement]].

TEMPORARY LINK

http://www.ivymag.org/jdv/jdv.html

== Follow Up ==
Later I wrote to Joan and got a letter from her sister saying she was dead. It is not yet known whose body she is living in now.

Antony Phillips (ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk)

=== References ===
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L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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{{Articles
|Author=Robert Vaughn Young
Intro by A. Phillips
|Website=http://www.antology.info/
|Email=ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk
}}
== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

Added by Antony 5th April 2021: The article by Robert Vaughn Young on battered women is at: http://www.freezoneearth.org/HolyCows/articles/28vaughnabuse.htm .
it is definitely a MUST for those who wonder why people go back to the Scientology Org and battered women go back to the person who battered them.

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two Important Omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* [[Ann Tidman|Annie Broeker]] - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the loop.(<ref>[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Recollections_1_-_Sarge See article by Steve "Sarge" Pfauth] </ref>

* [[Gene Denk|Gene Denk]] - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine).
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
The Takeover – Mike Goldstein's experience [http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
Account of Mission Holders Conference [http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/missions.html]

[[Category:History of Scientology]]

L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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AntPhillips: /* Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article */ reference to another Robert Vaughn Young article

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== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

Added by Antony 5th April 2021: The article by Robert Vaughn Young on battered women is at: http://www.freezoneearth.org/HolyCows/articles/28vaughnabuse.htm .
it is definitely a MUST for those who wonder why people go back to the Scientology Org and battered women go back to the person who battered them.

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* [[Ann Tidman|Annie Broeker]] - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the loop.(<ref>[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Recollections_1_-_Sarge See article by Steve "Sarge" Pfauth] </ref>

* [[Gene Denk|Gene Denk]] - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine).
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
The Takeover – Mike Goldstein's experience [http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
Account of Mission Holders Conference [http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/missions.html]

[[Category:History of Scientology]]

Charles Berner

2021-04-01T07:41:53Z

AntPhillips: Capitalised headings

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Biographical information needed...

== Early Life ==
Charles Berner (a.k.a. Yogeshwar Muni) was born in 1929 in CA, USA. He passed on in 2007 in Merimbula, NSW Australia.
Charles' childhood home was in Colton, California, which he remembered with great affection. He lived here for the first 18 years of his life. The house and the neighboring one were designed and built by his father.
Charles had dyslexia and couldn't read until age 14, when he laboriously taught himself, sitting in the kitchen every day while his mother was making the meal. He asked her help whenever he couldn't figure out a word, quite often at first. After working through The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Virginian, he was able to proceed using only the giant family copy of Webster's Dictionary.
In 1947 he graduated from Colton High School. Soon afterward he married his first wife, Virginia Mae Schermerhorn, in 1948.
After College, he worked as a laboratory technician at the National Bureau of Standards, Corona, California and then as an instrument technician at General Dynamics, Pomona, California.
Charles always said he was 'raised scientist', rather than in a religious tradition, but his interest in what life was really about led him to attend services at various churches.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Charles studied under Ding Le Mei (Institute of Mental Physics) and L. Ron Hubbard, and went to Saint Hill Manor.

== Spiritual Roots ==
info on spiritual quest...(including Scientology)

== Enlightenment Intensive ==

== Other ==

== Video ==
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Thread:Talk:Bevan Preece - Interview about Independent Movement from 1982/Message to go to Bevan/reply

2021-02-25T16:50:32Z

AntPhillips: Reply to Message to go to Bevan

7 years later no response - wonder if any one has lookedǃǃ

Bevan Preece - Interview about Independent Movement from 1982

2021-02-25T16:16:34Z

AntPhillips: Removed warning re- sound on mobile phones

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The early 80s was a period of the large breakaway from the "Church of Scientology". This Interview gives a picture of it in Australia, and England.

In September 1984 I visited East Grinstead, England for the purpose of getting some one from the Independent Scientology Group there to ascertain if I was complete on the Scientology level audited NOTs. I took the opportunity of interviewing in East Grinstead an old friend from my London days, Bevan Preece.

In the early 80s we sometimes described those who had left the Church as "splinters". Bevan talks here of the splinter movement and how they preferred to call themselves independents.

The interview is 2 hours long and in some places the quality is a bit poor, but it certainly gives an idea of the pioneer spirit of the times.

When listening to it, it is perhaps wise to remember that there was no Internet, no CDs and international telephone calls were expensive and there was no direct dialing. In that connection, I had to edit a bit out of the tape, and not having editing facilities I have recorded over the bit to be removed (one hour and six minutes into the tape).

The interview gives a good view of how things were at East Grinstead and in Australia at the very beginning of what was a great exodus from Scientology, how it was organised, something of the spirit of the times, with some ideas on organisation of what is now often called the free zone. It makes mention of Captain Bill Robertson's part, and the background to the videos of Captain Bill at East Grinstead (at [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Bill_Robertson]] ).

http://scientolipedia.org/w/extensions/HTML5video/videos/840922%20Bevan%20Preece%20-%20Freezone%20Beginnings.mp3

== references ==

There is mention of Jon Atack (just after the one hour point), who we (in Denmark) knew as the founder and early editor of the Magazine ''Reconnection'' which was the first free zone magazine we received in Denmark. See http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/read/reconnection/issue01.html which unfortunately does not give the layout of the magazine. (''Picture needed'')

Mention of [[Bill Robertson|Captain Bill]] at 28 minutes in, and 39 minutes

Candacraig, mentioned at 49 minutes in was a Manor House in Scotland, which was a delivery centre run by Robin Scott. (You can google Candacraig)

''You are invited to add data, including time into tape where references occur.'' 
Under discussion (top of page, left) there is a message I would like passed on to Bevan.

[[Category:Scientology - 1980's]]

Self Clearing by The Pilot

2021-01-18T17:11:59Z

AntPhillips: /* 4.Where to get Self Clearing materials */ added working link

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This book contains many procedures based on Scientology theory for "do it yourself" improving of a persons condition and abilities. It was written in 1997 by a keen student of Scientology, who thoroughly disagreed with the path the Church of Scientology had taken in more recent years. Fearing the Church would treat him badly if they knew who he was, he wrote under the pseudonym of The Pilot.

== The Pilot's Announcement ==

''The Pilot wrote a homepage for Self Clearing which appeared on the now extinct Freezone America Homepage. It refers to some material including links which are out of date now, but here are more important parts.''

==== 1. What is ''Self Clearing''? ====

''Self Clearing'' is the practice of using mental exercises and processes to clear oneself of barriers and aberrations (distortions) which prevent one from operating in an optimum manner.

Processing consists of asking oneself questions and answering them not just once but many times so as to push through surface reactions and find deeper truths.

Mental exercises consisted doing actions repetitively to raise one's awareness and control.

You might, for example, simply look around the room and noticed things that you like. If you do this a number of times in a row, you will focus your attention and the room will seem a bit brighter.

Or you might recall a time when you had fun and then recall a time when somebody else had fun, and alternate these two processing commands, recalling time after time until your recall penetrates to something that has been deeply buried and long forgotten.

These are just beginning steps. There are thousands of these processes.

It is expected that by using these processes, you will raise your ability and awareness to undreamed heights.

==== 2. Where does this lead? ====

The goal is to remove all mental blockage and regain full ability.

What that really means depends on what we really are.

The practice of self clearing does not presume to dictate what you will find or what abilities you will achieve.

Belief in the theology of self clearing is not a requirement for practising it.

With that in mind, we will say that the practitioners often discover a number of very incredable sounding things.

Extensive use of the recall techniques might lead to the remembrance of past lives.

Extensive use of the perception techniques might give one flashes of non-physical perception.

Working with things such as problems, one might discover that one creates one's own problems and brings one's own opposition into existence.

And at basic, one might well discover that we are godlike immortal beings who have become trapped within universes of our own creation.

But this is all nothing more than a speculation as to what you might find. In practice, you might find whatever you find.

You certainly do not have to believe in past lives to practice the techniques. If you want you can chalk that one up to simply exercising one's powers of imagination. The technique will still build up your ability to focus and concentrate and handle situations in life.

==== 3. Where did this come from? ====

This practice has evolved from Scientology which was founded in 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard.

Scientology in turn was an outgrowth of Dianetics. It came about when the original Dianetics theories of all aberrations originating in the prenatal area failed in practice and the engrams (painful incidence) were found to lead back to past lives instead.

Since Scientology places heavy restrictions upon its members and upon the uses of techniques, the non-orthodox Scientologists are known as The Freezone and the two factions are currently (1997) heavily at odds with each other.

The Church of Scientology's own website is at www.Scientology.org.

''[Here followed links current at that time]''

==== 4.Where to get Self Clearing materials ====

''Self Clearing'' book has been made freely available on the Internet. Can be picked up from the following sites among others;

''[Old links out of date place new links here]''
http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down)
http://freezoneearth.org/pub/SELF%20CLEARING%202004.pdf

The techniques can be used by anybody who is willing to put in the time and effort required to work through the book.

The initial version of the book consists of 48 chapters, each of which might be considered to be a stage or level or area that is to be addressed in self clearing. There will probably be more chapters in the future as research is carried forward.

The book is to be worked through twice, once in a light manner to orient oneself, develop understanding, and handle things which are currently in one's way. And the second time to carry the process to deeper levels and expand each section to full mastery.

On a second pass, one will be expected to expand the chapters with other materials. Many of these are in the ''Super Scio'' book which I previously released onto the Internet.

The ''Super Scio'' book represents my own research notes on working beyond the levels that were available in orthodox Scientology. It expects that you are already familiar with Scientology or have work through the ''Self Clearing'' book.

It is available on these links among others:

http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down)

==== 5.Who is The Pilot? ====

I am a secret reformer within the Church of Scientology.

I wish to make the technology freely available to everyone and I wish to see the research continue.

I remain anonymous at this time because the CofS has a reputation for viciously attacking any of their members or ex-members who attempt to do either of these actions.

They currently believe that the technology is inviolate, cannot be revised or extended, and must remain frozen in the form left by Hubbard at his death.

In the early days, a beginning was made towards researching unsupervised self processing at home, as is evidenced by Hubbard's ''Self Analysis'' book which is still available.

But this was not carried forward, and any attempts at carrying this beyond what is in this beginners book by Hubbard (which, being by Hubbard, is considered inviolate) is sternly attacked.

And yet, a careful examination of the early research and the later discoveries shows that these could be combined with a benefit to make the entirety of the technology easily available to everyone on a do-it-yourself basis.

This is abhorrent to the current management of the CofS which charges absurdly high prices for a very limited subset of the technology.

That subset represents approximately a third of the area covered by ''Self Clearing''.

Many other areas were investigated by Hubbard in the 1950s but were not carried forward to the point where they can be applied in the rote and pedantic manner currently used by within the CofS.

This represents another third of the areas covered by ''Self Clearing'', and actions necessary to upgrade these to the point where they could be used for this purpose are again in violation of CofS practices because the sacred works must never be altered or extended.

And then there is the remaining Self Clearing material which is based upon my own research beyond the works of Hubbard, and this is the most abhorrent to the current management because technology is considered to be complete and nobody besides Hubbard (who is no longer around) may further research or experiment with it.

For this reason I remain hidden. You can visit the critics sites for stories of what happened to various people who did not remain so well hidden.

==== 6. Keeping up with the news ====

There is much ongoing critical discussion going on in the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup. ''[This was applicable in 1997]''

If you cannot get these on your news server or do not have access to a news server, Homer@lightlink.com provides these newsgroups on an open news server as a public service. The link is at newsact.lightlink.com ''[no longer functioning with this purpose]''

I often post to these groups. Technical questions can be posted to ACT.

An archive of my past postings is kept at http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down to '''Posting Archives''')

You can also search for these postings at dejanews ''[out of date links omitted here]''

The road to truth is finally open. The toll bridge that blocks its use has finally been bypassed. The speed limit signs have finally been taken down.

We need only roll up your sleeves and get to work.

Sincerely,

The Pilot.

''[The Pilot added his PGP key, a 1997 copyright paragraph and an apology that one cannot email him]''

== Review by [[James Moore]], England ==

''First published in IVy 37, page 47 [[http://articles.ivymag.org/pdfs.html]]''

:''Self Clearing, A Handbook for Self Enlightenment'', by The Pilot [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Ken_Ogger]]. Available free on the Internet, for example from http://www.freezoneearth.org/pub/Clearing.pdf. ''[This is the first edition]'' The “Word” version of the printed book comprises about 350 pages. If you are not on the Internet, or do not have time and patience to print it out, it is possible that your ''IVy'' distributor will have a local source willing to sell a photocopy of the book. ''[IVy ceased to be published in 2008]''

SINCE THE PILOT appeared on the two Scientology newsgroups on Internet about a year ago he has entered a lot of theta material into a rather enturbulated area. He has written extensively both on tech matters and (citing Ron) on how the present day church has slipped far away from the Scientology which Ron helped form over 40 years ago. See for example the article in the last ''IVy'', page 32 “Ron’s Research Line”. He has shown in many ways that his grasp of Ron’s writings and lectures is deep, and covers the whole time track of Scientology. This comprehension is no mean feat. Ron wrote and said much. The Pilot deserves attention, and I predict that he will significantly change the course of events, mostly in free (from church influence) Scientology, but also in the church.

The arrival of his ''Self Clearing'' book is a very significant landmark in his career, and also a very significant land mark in the history of do-it-yourself self enhancement.

=== For all ===

A claim is made that the ''Self Clearing'' book can be read and used by all, regardless of whether they have had Scientology experience. I have seen this claim before, notably in ''TROM (The Resolution of Mind)'' and ''Excalibur Revisited'', and in my view these were very hollow claims. ''Self Clearing'' does fulfil this claim, and I would gladly give it to an enhancement seeking person who knew nothing of Scientology.

To a Scientologist or ex Scientologist I would be a little diffident, if the person was not familiar with Scientology in the 50’s. Scientology has changed a lot, and The Pilot brings into his book freer concepts found in the 50’s but later abandoned. For those people who have only had Scn church contact within the last 30 years, I would strongly advise reading ''The Reformers Home Page'', which the Pilot prepared and got posted on Internet, before doing ''Self Clearing''. Here are many quotes from Ron which seem to go completely against what the modern “churchgoer” is led to believe is in Ron’s Spirit. Internet users can read the reformer’s Home Page at [[http://freezoneearth.org/pilot/reformer.html]] . They are in for a few surprises.

=== A gradient ===

The book contains all necessary explanations. It is a sort of bridge or path, but possibly a broader one than the modern Scientology one, in that it works on what might be called OT aspects (perceptions independent of the body) from the beginning. It is a gradient, and because of that I would suggest everyone do it chapter by chapter, rather than reading the whole thing, or skipping ahead, before doing it.

It is not necessary to use a meter, in fact the book is written on the basis that you do not have a meter. For four or five years Scientology did not use e-meters, and I suspect someone not using a meter will increase in intuition (knowingness) faster than with the use of a meter. And the gradient is not too shallow, because one is allowed to skip over those things which do not seem relevant at that time. In fact The Pilot talks of doing the book twice, because for different people things will have reality at different times.

=== Any one person can do it ===

In the early days of Scientology (Dianetics rather) the popular cry went out “any two persons can do it”. Forty years later we have a better cry “Any one person can do it”. And now we have forty years extra experience. This is much better. There is no charge, and no future charge. Because of that nobody is likely to pour large sums of money into promoting it. But you can help here. Make it known.

----

The above review is of the first edition of The Pilot's book. He wrote a second edition, which was found on his computer after his death, where some things were added and improvements made and the following is a link to it [[http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html#Self2004]] . 
There are some translations at [[http://selfclearing.com]] - some may be partly first edition, partly second edition.

== Note to the ''Self Clearing'' Internet list (added March 2016) ==

''When The Pilot first published "Self Clearing" anonymously an Internet list for it was set up which is now closed. The following is an edited reply to a query on the list, which gives some indication of the background to the issue of the book.''

At 19:47 12-03-2016, xxxxx wrote: 
:Ant, 
:Have you completed the ''Self Clearing'' book? 
:If not, how much have you done? 
:Regards, 
:xxxxx

Dear xxxx and Self Clearers,

The brief answer (so far as it is an answer) to xxxx's question is that I have never run '' Self Clearing'' book.

That answer might get someone to ask "Why did you bother to start a '' Self Clearing'' list when The Pilot published his book, and why have you bothered to keep it going for all the years since?".

So I'll cover that.

When I got my first Scientology auditing in 1954 I got a session once a week and the auditor, Dennis O'Connor/O'Connell, encouraged me to do the processes of Hubbard's book ''Self-Analysis'' in between sessions. That is to say I should self audit! That was far beyond my capabilities at the time. But it was an encouragement by a field auditor for me to audit myself. Self auditing was a recognised part of Scientology, as is witnessed by that book'' Self-Analysis''[[http://www.truelrh.com/5108_SA/alter_SA.html]].

But after that, in the long history of Scientology, self auditing was discouraged if not forbidden.

It's true that after Gradation Chart and when Power Processing were added to it (1965) a new step was added to the Gradation Chart which was called R6 (End Words) and this was a step which one audited on oneself. But a great distinction was made in that this was not self auditing but was ''solo auditing'', with the inference that self auditing was Very Bad Thing (!). Solo auditing was just for the high and mighty people who had done the whole Gradation Chart and were about to do the Clearing Course. At that time one had to be a Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (SHSBC) graduate in order to solo audit. (Other ways of clearing, creating clears, had been tried and dropped).

In the period from 1955 (when I took my first training) to 1983 (when I was thrown out of the Church of Scientology) I was on staff for some of the time were I got some auditing including supervised co-auditing, enough to bring me a little bit further on the way. I also did a certain amount of training, including some levels of the Briefing Course and, the wonder of it all, starting in July 1981, I did the Happiness Rundown Course and Internship [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Two_Happiness_Rundowns]]. Here the big emphasis was on the fundamentals of auditing. These are very fundamental, basic and with no element of confidentiality about them.

When I had recovered my equilibrium (after being thrown out of my "stable datum", official Scientology, in 1983) I got involved in Freezone activities including going to some conferences, editing magazines, and running Internet lists. It was here that The Pilot ducked up in my sphere of consciousness, first with his issuing "The Webpage of Total Freedom -- Scientology Reformer's Homepage" [[http://freezoneearth.org/pilot/reformer.html]] (1997) which really laid it on the line how the "Church" was violating L Ron Hubbard's policies. This was followed by The Pilot's ''SuperScio'', [[http://caersidi.freeshell.org/FZA/pilot/sscio/]] an 800 page book which is rather wild in parts which I have not read all of, but it does display very deep knowledge of Scientology. I considered it a good work, and started an Internet list for it.

In 1998 he produced, again anonymously on the Internet, ''Self Clearing'' [[http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html]]. I was extremely enthusiastic about this. Here was something which really made self auditing workable (for those up to it). There are so many aspects of it that I marvel at but I won't go into these in depth here but will mention that the introductory chapters are very important -- they are pearls of wisdom.

But ''Self Clearing'' doesn't meet everybody's needs, as amongst other things it does require self-discipline as you lack the discipline of having appointments with an auditor and having to keep your nose in it until you can see you have reached an end phenomenon of a process.

I certainly considered it was important enough to have an Internet List of its own so I establish one and that's where we are today.

So you can see historically the publication of The Pilot's book ''Self Clearing'' is a landmark, making self auditing acceptable and in a number of cases helping people along the road to more ability, more fun in life, and also a good deal more understanding of how life and other human beings operate.

To sum up, despite the successes obtained by many people with the first Dianetic auditing, we did not know much about the mechanics of the mind and the traps that were in it at that time. Over the first years of Scientology we learnt a lot. The Pilot, an independent freethinking soul with a deep understanding and experience of Scientology, took the subject of self auditing up again and refined it. His ''Self Clearing'' book contains this refinement. It still needs discipline and duplication of the material in the book, but for the independent and courageous soul it is far in excess of the poor tools we had available in 1950. But it does not serve the purposes of those who want a "way to greater freedom" which leaves them in control and able to extort money and obtain meek obedience.

You could probably make yourself a lot more free working alone with this.

All best wishes,

Ant.

'''PS.''' I might add that I do 20 or 30 minutes of Opening Procedure by 8C on myself every day as well as a touch assist on my body's weak points – it's knees. ;-) .

Antony A Phillips 
< mailto:ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk> 
www.antology.info

[[Category:Books about Scientology]][[Category:Scientology Offshoots]]

Self Clearing by The Pilot

2021-01-18T16:37:57Z

AntPhillips: /* 5.Who is the pilot? */ Typo (capitalisation)

{{Articles
|Image=Ken-Ogger-1.jpg
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{{Offshoot}}
This book contains many procedures based on Scientology theory for "do it yourself" improving of a persons condition and abilities. It was written in 1997 by a keen student of Scientology, who thoroughly disagreed with the path the Church of Scientology had taken in more recent years. Fearing the Church would treat him badly if they knew who he was, he wrote under the pseudonym of The Pilot.

== The Pilot's Announcement ==

''The Pilot wrote a homepage for Self Clearing which appeared on the now extinct Freezone America Homepage. It refers to some material including links which are out of date now, but here are more important parts.''

==== 1. What is ''Self Clearing''? ====

''Self Clearing'' is the practice of using mental exercises and processes to clear oneself of barriers and aberrations (distortions) which prevent one from operating in an optimum manner.

Processing consists of asking oneself questions and answering them not just once but many times so as to push through surface reactions and find deeper truths.

Mental exercises consisted doing actions repetitively to raise one's awareness and control.

You might, for example, simply look around the room and noticed things that you like. If you do this a number of times in a row, you will focus your attention and the room will seem a bit brighter.

Or you might recall a time when you had fun and then recall a time when somebody else had fun, and alternate these two processing commands, recalling time after time until your recall penetrates to something that has been deeply buried and long forgotten.

These are just beginning steps. There are thousands of these processes.

It is expected that by using these processes, you will raise your ability and awareness to undreamed heights.

==== 2. Where does this lead? ====

The goal is to remove all mental blockage and regain full ability.

What that really means depends on what we really are.

The practice of self clearing does not presume to dictate what you will find or what abilities you will achieve.

Belief in the theology of self clearing is not a requirement for practising it.

With that in mind, we will say that the practitioners often discover a number of very incredable sounding things.

Extensive use of the recall techniques might lead to the remembrance of past lives.

Extensive use of the perception techniques might give one flashes of non-physical perception.

Working with things such as problems, one might discover that one creates one's own problems and brings one's own opposition into existence.

And at basic, one might well discover that we are godlike immortal beings who have become trapped within universes of our own creation.

But this is all nothing more than a speculation as to what you might find. In practice, you might find whatever you find.

You certainly do not have to believe in past lives to practice the techniques. If you want you can chalk that one up to simply exercising one's powers of imagination. The technique will still build up your ability to focus and concentrate and handle situations in life.

==== 3. Where did this come from? ====

This practice has evolved from Scientology which was founded in 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard.

Scientology in turn was an outgrowth of Dianetics. It came about when the original Dianetics theories of all aberrations originating in the prenatal area failed in practice and the engrams (painful incidence) were found to lead back to past lives instead.

Since Scientology places heavy restrictions upon its members and upon the uses of techniques, the non-orthodox Scientologists are known as The Freezone and the two factions are currently (1997) heavily at odds with each other.

The Church of Scientology's own website is at www.Scientology.org.

''[Here followed links current at that time]''

==== 4.Where to get Self Clearing materials ====

''Self Clearing'' book has been made freely available on the Internet. Can be picked up from the following sites among others;

''[Old links out of date place new links here]''
http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down)

The techniques can be used by anybody who is willing to put in the time and effort required to work through the book.

The initial version of the book consists of 48 chapters, each of which might be considered to be a stage or level or area that is to be addressed in self clearing. There will probably be more chapters in the future as research is carried forward.

The book is to be worked through twice, once in a light manner to orient oneself, develop understanding, and handle things which are currently in one's way. And the second time to carry the process to deeper levels and expand each section to full mastery.

On a second pass, one will be expected to expand the chapters with other materials. Many of these are in the ''Super Scio'' book which I previously released onto the Internet.

The ''Super Scio'' book represents my own research notes on working beyond the levels that were available in orthodox Scientology. It expects that you are already familiar with Scientology or have work through the ''Self Clearing'' book.

It is available on these links among others:

http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down)

==== 5.Who is The Pilot? ====

I am a secret reformer within the Church of Scientology.

I wish to make the technology freely available to everyone and I wish to see the research continue.

I remain anonymous at this time because the CofS has a reputation for viciously attacking any of their members or ex-members who attempt to do either of these actions.

They currently believe that the technology is inviolate, cannot be revised or extended, and must remain frozen in the form left by Hubbard at his death.

In the early days, a beginning was made towards researching unsupervised self processing at home, as is evidenced by Hubbard's ''Self Analysis'' book which is still available.

But this was not carried forward, and any attempts at carrying this beyond what is in this beginners book by Hubbard (which, being by Hubbard, is considered inviolate) is sternly attacked.

And yet, a careful examination of the early research and the later discoveries shows that these could be combined with a benefit to make the entirety of the technology easily available to everyone on a do-it-yourself basis.

This is abhorrent to the current management of the CofS which charges absurdly high prices for a very limited subset of the technology.

That subset represents approximately a third of the area covered by ''Self Clearing''.

Many other areas were investigated by Hubbard in the 1950s but were not carried forward to the point where they can be applied in the rote and pedantic manner currently used by within the CofS.

This represents another third of the areas covered by ''Self Clearing'', and actions necessary to upgrade these to the point where they could be used for this purpose are again in violation of CofS practices because the sacred works must never be altered or extended.

And then there is the remaining Self Clearing material which is based upon my own research beyond the works of Hubbard, and this is the most abhorrent to the current management because technology is considered to be complete and nobody besides Hubbard (who is no longer around) may further research or experiment with it.

For this reason I remain hidden. You can visit the critics sites for stories of what happened to various people who did not remain so well hidden.

==== 6. Keeping up with the news ====

There is much ongoing critical discussion going on in the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup. ''[This was applicable in 1997]''

If you cannot get these on your news server or do not have access to a news server, Homer@lightlink.com provides these newsgroups on an open news server as a public service. The link is at newsact.lightlink.com ''[no longer functioning with this purpose]''

I often post to these groups. Technical questions can be posted to ACT.

An archive of my past postings is kept at http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down to '''Posting Archives''')

You can also search for these postings at dejanews ''[out of date links omitted here]''

The road to truth is finally open. The toll bridge that blocks its use has finally been bypassed. The speed limit signs have finally been taken down.

We need only roll up your sleeves and get to work.

Sincerely,

The Pilot.

''[The Pilot added his PGP key, a 1997 copyright paragraph and an apology that one cannot email him]''

== Review by [[James Moore]], England ==

''First published in IVy 37, page 47 [[http://articles.ivymag.org/pdfs.html]]''

:''Self Clearing, A Handbook for Self Enlightenment'', by The Pilot [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Ken_Ogger]]. Available free on the Internet, for example from http://www.freezoneearth.org/pub/Clearing.pdf. ''[This is the first edition]'' The “Word” version of the printed book comprises about 350 pages. If you are not on the Internet, or do not have time and patience to print it out, it is possible that your ''IVy'' distributor will have a local source willing to sell a photocopy of the book. ''[IVy ceased to be published in 2008]''

SINCE THE PILOT appeared on the two Scientology newsgroups on Internet about a year ago he has entered a lot of theta material into a rather enturbulated area. He has written extensively both on tech matters and (citing Ron) on how the present day church has slipped far away from the Scientology which Ron helped form over 40 years ago. See for example the article in the last ''IVy'', page 32 “Ron’s Research Line”. He has shown in many ways that his grasp of Ron’s writings and lectures is deep, and covers the whole time track of Scientology. This comprehension is no mean feat. Ron wrote and said much. The Pilot deserves attention, and I predict that he will significantly change the course of events, mostly in free (from church influence) Scientology, but also in the church.

The arrival of his ''Self Clearing'' book is a very significant landmark in his career, and also a very significant land mark in the history of do-it-yourself self enhancement.

=== For all ===

A claim is made that the ''Self Clearing'' book can be read and used by all, regardless of whether they have had Scientology experience. I have seen this claim before, notably in ''TROM (The Resolution of Mind)'' and ''Excalibur Revisited'', and in my view these were very hollow claims. ''Self Clearing'' does fulfil this claim, and I would gladly give it to an enhancement seeking person who knew nothing of Scientology.

To a Scientologist or ex Scientologist I would be a little diffident, if the person was not familiar with Scientology in the 50’s. Scientology has changed a lot, and The Pilot brings into his book freer concepts found in the 50’s but later abandoned. For those people who have only had Scn church contact within the last 30 years, I would strongly advise reading ''The Reformers Home Page'', which the Pilot prepared and got posted on Internet, before doing ''Self Clearing''. Here are many quotes from Ron which seem to go completely against what the modern “churchgoer” is led to believe is in Ron’s Spirit. Internet users can read the reformer’s Home Page at [[http://freezoneearth.org/pilot/reformer.html]] . They are in for a few surprises.

=== A gradient ===

The book contains all necessary explanations. It is a sort of bridge or path, but possibly a broader one than the modern Scientology one, in that it works on what might be called OT aspects (perceptions independent of the body) from the beginning. It is a gradient, and because of that I would suggest everyone do it chapter by chapter, rather than reading the whole thing, or skipping ahead, before doing it.

It is not necessary to use a meter, in fact the book is written on the basis that you do not have a meter. For four or five years Scientology did not use e-meters, and I suspect someone not using a meter will increase in intuition (knowingness) faster than with the use of a meter. And the gradient is not too shallow, because one is allowed to skip over those things which do not seem relevant at that time. In fact The Pilot talks of doing the book twice, because for different people things will have reality at different times.

=== Any one person can do it ===

In the early days of Scientology (Dianetics rather) the popular cry went out “any two persons can do it”. Forty years later we have a better cry “Any one person can do it”. And now we have forty years extra experience. This is much better. There is no charge, and no future charge. Because of that nobody is likely to pour large sums of money into promoting it. But you can help here. Make it known.

----

The above review is of the first edition of The Pilot's book. He wrote a second edition, which was found on his computer after his death, where some things were added and improvements made and the following is a link to it [[http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html#Self2004]] . 
There are some translations at [[http://selfclearing.com]] - some may be partly first edition, partly second edition.

== Note to the ''Self Clearing'' Internet list (added March 2016) ==

''When The Pilot first published "Self Clearing" anonymously an Internet list for it was set up which is now closed. The following is an edited reply to a query on the list, which gives some indication of the background to the issue of the book.''

At 19:47 12-03-2016, xxxxx wrote: 
:Ant, 
:Have you completed the ''Self Clearing'' book? 
:If not, how much have you done? 
:Regards, 
:xxxxx

Dear xxxx and Self Clearers,

The brief answer (so far as it is an answer) to xxxx's question is that I have never run '' Self Clearing'' book.

That answer might get someone to ask "Why did you bother to start a '' Self Clearing'' list when The Pilot published his book, and why have you bothered to keep it going for all the years since?".

So I'll cover that.

When I got my first Scientology auditing in 1954 I got a session once a week and the auditor, Dennis O'Connor/O'Connell, encouraged me to do the processes of Hubbard's book ''Self-Analysis'' in between sessions. That is to say I should self audit! That was far beyond my capabilities at the time. But it was an encouragement by a field auditor for me to audit myself. Self auditing was a recognised part of Scientology, as is witnessed by that book'' Self-Analysis''[[http://www.truelrh.com/5108_SA/alter_SA.html]].

But after that, in the long history of Scientology, self auditing was discouraged if not forbidden.

It's true that after Gradation Chart and when Power Processing were added to it (1965) a new step was added to the Gradation Chart which was called R6 (End Words) and this was a step which one audited on oneself. But a great distinction was made in that this was not self auditing but was ''solo auditing'', with the inference that self auditing was Very Bad Thing (!). Solo auditing was just for the high and mighty people who had done the whole Gradation Chart and were about to do the Clearing Course. At that time one had to be a Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (SHSBC) graduate in order to solo audit. (Other ways of clearing, creating clears, had been tried and dropped).

In the period from 1955 (when I took my first training) to 1983 (when I was thrown out of the Church of Scientology) I was on staff for some of the time were I got some auditing including supervised co-auditing, enough to bring me a little bit further on the way. I also did a certain amount of training, including some levels of the Briefing Course and, the wonder of it all, starting in July 1981, I did the Happiness Rundown Course and Internship [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Two_Happiness_Rundowns]]. Here the big emphasis was on the fundamentals of auditing. These are very fundamental, basic and with no element of confidentiality about them.

When I had recovered my equilibrium (after being thrown out of my "stable datum", official Scientology, in 1983) I got involved in Freezone activities including going to some conferences, editing magazines, and running Internet lists. It was here that The Pilot ducked up in my sphere of consciousness, first with his issuing "The Webpage of Total Freedom -- Scientology Reformer's Homepage" [[http://freezoneearth.org/pilot/reformer.html]] (1997) which really laid it on the line how the "Church" was violating L Ron Hubbard's policies. This was followed by The Pilot's ''SuperScio'', [[http://caersidi.freeshell.org/FZA/pilot/sscio/]] an 800 page book which is rather wild in parts which I have not read all of, but it does display very deep knowledge of Scientology. I considered it a good work, and started an Internet list for it.

In 1998 he produced, again anonymously on the Internet, ''Self Clearing'' [[http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html]]. I was extremely enthusiastic about this. Here was something which really made self auditing workable (for those up to it). There are so many aspects of it that I marvel at but I won't go into these in depth here but will mention that the introductory chapters are very important -- they are pearls of wisdom.

But ''Self Clearing'' doesn't meet everybody's needs, as amongst other things it does require self-discipline as you lack the discipline of having appointments with an auditor and having to keep your nose in it until you can see you have reached an end phenomenon of a process.

I certainly considered it was important enough to have an Internet List of its own so I establish one and that's where we are today.

So you can see historically the publication of The Pilot's book ''Self Clearing'' is a landmark, making self auditing acceptable and in a number of cases helping people along the road to more ability, more fun in life, and also a good deal more understanding of how life and other human beings operate.

To sum up, despite the successes obtained by many people with the first Dianetic auditing, we did not know much about the mechanics of the mind and the traps that were in it at that time. Over the first years of Scientology we learnt a lot. The Pilot, an independent freethinking soul with a deep understanding and experience of Scientology, took the subject of self auditing up again and refined it. His ''Self Clearing'' book contains this refinement. It still needs discipline and duplication of the material in the book, but for the independent and courageous soul it is far in excess of the poor tools we had available in 1950. But it does not serve the purposes of those who want a "way to greater freedom" which leaves them in control and able to extort money and obtain meek obedience.

You could probably make yourself a lot more free working alone with this.

All best wishes,

Ant.

'''PS.''' I might add that I do 20 or 30 minutes of Opening Procedure by 8C on myself every day as well as a touch assist on my body's weak points – it's knees. ;-) .

Antony A Phillips 
< mailto:ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk> 
www.antology.info

[[Category:Books about Scientology]][[Category:Scientology Offshoots]]

Self Clearing by The Pilot

2020-12-07T17:21:46Z

AntPhillips: /* Note to the Self Clearing Internet list (added March 2016) */ minor addition

{{Articles
|Image=Ken-Ogger-1.jpg
|Type of Article=Books about Scientology
}}
{{Offshoot}}
This book contains many procedures based on Scientology theory for "do it yourself" improving of a persons condition and abilities. It was written in 1997 by a keen student of Scientology, who thoroughly disagreed with the path the Church of Scientology had taken in more recent years. Fearing the Church would treat him badly if they knew who he was, he wrote under the pseudonym of The Pilot.

== The Pilot's Announcement ==

''The Pilot wrote a homepage for Self Clearing which appeared on the now extinct Freezone America Homepage. It refers to some material including links which are out of date now, but here are more important parts.''

==== 1. What is ''Self Clearing''? ====

''Self Clearing'' is the practice of using mental exercises and processes to clear oneself of barriers and aberrations (distortions) which prevent one from operating in an optimum manner.

Processing consists of asking oneself questions and answering them not just once but many times so as to push through surface reactions and find deeper truths.

Mental exercises consisted doing actions repetitively to raise one's awareness and control.

You might, for example, simply look around the room and noticed things that you like. If you do this a number of times in a row, you will focus your attention and the room will seem a bit brighter.

Or you might recall a time when you had fun and then recall a time when somebody else had fun, and alternate these two processing commands, recalling time after time until your recall penetrates to something that has been deeply buried and long forgotten.

These are just beginning steps. There are thousands of these processes.

It is expected that by using these processes, you will raise your ability and awareness to undreamed heights.

==== 2. Where does this lead? ====

The goal is to remove all mental blockage and regain full ability.

What that really means depends on what we really are.

The practice of self clearing does not presume to dictate what you will find or what abilities you will achieve.

Belief in the theology of self clearing is not a requirement for practising it.

With that in mind, we will say that the practitioners often discover a number of very incredable sounding things.

Extensive use of the recall techniques might lead to the remembrance of past lives.

Extensive use of the perception techniques might give one flashes of non-physical perception.

Working with things such as problems, one might discover that one creates one's own problems and brings one's own opposition into existence.

And at basic, one might well discover that we are godlike immortal beings who have become trapped within universes of our own creation.

But this is all nothing more than a speculation as to what you might find. In practice, you might find whatever you find.

You certainly do not have to believe in past lives to practice the techniques. If you want you can chalk that one up to simply exercising one's powers of imagination. The technique will still build up your ability to focus and concentrate and handle situations in life.

==== 3. Where did this come from? ====

This practice has evolved from Scientology which was founded in 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard.

Scientology in turn was an outgrowth of Dianetics. It came about when the original Dianetics theories of all aberrations originating in the prenatal area failed in practice and the engrams (painful incidence) were found to lead back to past lives instead.

Since Scientology places heavy restrictions upon its members and upon the uses of techniques, the non-orthodox Scientologists are known as The Freezone and the two factions are currently (1997) heavily at odds with each other.

The Church of Scientology's own website is at www.Scientology.org.

''[Here followed links current at that time]''

==== 4.Where to get Self Clearing materials ====

''Self Clearing'' book has been made freely available on the Internet. Can be picked up from the following sites among others;

''[Old links out of date place new links here]''
http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down)

The techniques can be used by anybody who is willing to put in the time and effort required to work through the book.

The initial version of the book consists of 48 chapters, each of which might be considered to be a stage or level or area that is to be addressed in self clearing. There will probably be more chapters in the future as research is carried forward.

The book is to be worked through twice, once in a light manner to orient oneself, develop understanding, and handle things which are currently in one's way. And the second time to carry the process to deeper levels and expand each section to full mastery.

On a second pass, one will be expected to expand the chapters with other materials. Many of these are in the ''Super Scio'' book which I previously released onto the Internet.

The ''Super Scio'' book represents my own research notes on working beyond the levels that were available in orthodox Scientology. It expects that you are already familiar with Scientology or have work through the ''Self Clearing'' book.

It is available on these links among others:

http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down)

==== 5.Who is the pilot? ====

I am a secret reformer within the Church of Scientology.

I wish to make the technology freely available to everyone and I wish to see the research continue.

I remain anonymous at this time because the CofS has a reputation for viciously attacking any of their members or ex-members who attempt to do either of these actions.

They currently believe that the technology is inviolate, cannot be revised or extended, and must remain frozen in the form left by Hubbard at his death.

In the early days, a beginning was made towards researching unsupervised self processing at home, as is evidenced by Hubbard's ''Self Analysis'' book which is still available.

But this was not carried forward, and any attempts at carrying this beyond what is in this beginners book by Hubbard (which, being by Hubbard, is considered inviolate) is sternly attacked.

And yet, a careful examination of the early research and the later discoveries shows that these could be combined with a benefit to make the entirety of the technology easily available to everyone on a do-it-yourself basis.

This is abhorrent to the current management of the CofS which charges absurdly high prices for a very limited subset of the technology.

That subset represents approximately a third of the area covered by ''Self Clearing''.

Many other areas were investigated by Hubbard in the 1950s but were not carried forward to the point where they can be applied in the rote and pedantic manner currently used by within the CofS.

This represents another third of the areas covered by ''Self Clearing'', and actions necessary to upgrade these to the point where they could be used for this purpose are again in violation of CofS practices because the sacred works must never be altered or extended.

And then there is the remaining Self Clearing material which is based upon my own research beyond the works of Hubbard, and this is the most abhorrent to the current management because technology is considered to be complete and nobody besides Hubbard (who is no longer around) may further research or experiment with it.

For this reason I remain hidden. You can visit the critics sites for stories of what happened to various people who did not remain so well hidden.

==== 6. Keeping up with the news ====

There is much ongoing critical discussion going on in the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup. ''[This was applicable in 1997]''

If you cannot get these on your news server or do not have access to a news server, Homer@lightlink.com provides these newsgroups on an open news server as a public service. The link is at newsact.lightlink.com ''[no longer functioning with this purpose]''

I often post to these groups. Technical questions can be posted to ACT.

An archive of my past postings is kept at http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down to '''Posting Archives''')

You can also search for these postings at dejanews ''[out of date links omitted here]''

The road to truth is finally open. The toll bridge that blocks its use has finally been bypassed. The speed limit signs have finally been taken down.

We need only roll up your sleeves and get to work.

Sincerely,

The Pilot.

''[The Pilot added his PGP key, a 1997 copyright paragraph and an apology that one cannot email him]''

== Review by [[James Moore]], England ==

''First published in IVy 37, page 47 [[http://articles.ivymag.org/pdfs.html]]''

:''Self Clearing, A Handbook for Self Enlightenment'', by The Pilot [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Ken_Ogger]]. Available free on the Internet, for example from http://www.freezoneearth.org/pub/Clearing.pdf. ''[This is the first edition]'' The “Word” version of the printed book comprises about 350 pages. If you are not on the Internet, or do not have time and patience to print it out, it is possible that your ''IVy'' distributor will have a local source willing to sell a photocopy of the book. ''[IVy ceased to be published in 2008]''

SINCE THE PILOT appeared on the two Scientology newsgroups on Internet about a year ago he has entered a lot of theta material into a rather enturbulated area. He has written extensively both on tech matters and (citing Ron) on how the present day church has slipped far away from the Scientology which Ron helped form over 40 years ago. See for example the article in the last ''IVy'', page 32 “Ron’s Research Line”. He has shown in many ways that his grasp of Ron’s writings and lectures is deep, and covers the whole time track of Scientology. This comprehension is no mean feat. Ron wrote and said much. The Pilot deserves attention, and I predict that he will significantly change the course of events, mostly in free (from church influence) Scientology, but also in the church.

The arrival of his ''Self Clearing'' book is a very significant landmark in his career, and also a very significant land mark in the history of do-it-yourself self enhancement.

=== For all ===

A claim is made that the ''Self Clearing'' book can be read and used by all, regardless of whether they have had Scientology experience. I have seen this claim before, notably in ''TROM (The Resolution of Mind)'' and ''Excalibur Revisited'', and in my view these were very hollow claims. ''Self Clearing'' does fulfil this claim, and I would gladly give it to an enhancement seeking person who knew nothing of Scientology.

To a Scientologist or ex Scientologist I would be a little diffident, if the person was not familiar with Scientology in the 50’s. Scientology has changed a lot, and The Pilot brings into his book freer concepts found in the 50’s but later abandoned. For those people who have only had Scn church contact within the last 30 years, I would strongly advise reading ''The Reformers Home Page'', which the Pilot prepared and got posted on Internet, before doing ''Self Clearing''. Here are many quotes from Ron which seem to go completely against what the modern “churchgoer” is led to believe is in Ron’s Spirit. Internet users can read the reformer’s Home Page at [[http://freezoneearth.org/pilot/reformer.html]] . They are in for a few surprises.

=== A gradient ===

The book contains all necessary explanations. It is a sort of bridge or path, but possibly a broader one than the modern Scientology one, in that it works on what might be called OT aspects (perceptions independent of the body) from the beginning. It is a gradient, and because of that I would suggest everyone do it chapter by chapter, rather than reading the whole thing, or skipping ahead, before doing it.

It is not necessary to use a meter, in fact the book is written on the basis that you do not have a meter. For four or five years Scientology did not use e-meters, and I suspect someone not using a meter will increase in intuition (knowingness) faster than with the use of a meter. And the gradient is not too shallow, because one is allowed to skip over those things which do not seem relevant at that time. In fact The Pilot talks of doing the book twice, because for different people things will have reality at different times.

=== Any one person can do it ===

In the early days of Scientology (Dianetics rather) the popular cry went out “any two persons can do it”. Forty years later we have a better cry “Any one person can do it”. And now we have forty years extra experience. This is much better. There is no charge, and no future charge. Because of that nobody is likely to pour large sums of money into promoting it. But you can help here. Make it known.

----

The above review is of the first edition of The Pilot's book. He wrote a second edition, which was found on his computer after his death, where some things were added and improvements made and the following is a link to it [[http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html#Self2004]] . 
There are some translations at [[http://selfclearing.com]] - some may be partly first edition, partly second edition.

== Note to the ''Self Clearing'' Internet list (added March 2016) ==

''When The Pilot first published "Self Clearing" anonymously an Internet list for it was set up which is now closed. The following is an edited reply to a query on the list, which gives some indication of the background to the issue of the book.''

At 19:47 12-03-2016, xxxxx wrote: 
:Ant, 
:Have you completed the ''Self Clearing'' book? 
:If not, how much have you done? 
:Regards, 
:xxxxx

Dear xxxx and Self Clearers,

The brief answer (so far as it is an answer) to xxxx's question is that I have never run '' Self Clearing'' book.

That answer might get someone to ask "Why did you bother to start a '' Self Clearing'' list when The Pilot published his book, and why have you bothered to keep it going for all the years since?".

So I'll cover that.

When I got my first Scientology auditing in 1954 I got a session once a week and the auditor, Dennis O'Connor/O'Connell, encouraged me to do the processes of Hubbard's book ''Self-Analysis'' in between sessions. That is to say I should self audit! That was far beyond my capabilities at the time. But it was an encouragement by a field auditor for me to audit myself. Self auditing was a recognised part of Scientology, as is witnessed by that book'' Self-Analysis''[[http://www.truelrh.com/5108_SA/alter_SA.html]].

But after that, in the long history of Scientology, self auditing was discouraged if not forbidden.

It's true that after Gradation Chart and when Power Processing were added to it (1965) a new step was added to the Gradation Chart which was called R6 (End Words) and this was a step which one audited on oneself. But a great distinction was made in that this was not self auditing but was ''solo auditing'', with the inference that self auditing was Very Bad Thing (!). Solo auditing was just for the high and mighty people who had done the whole Gradation Chart and were about to do the Clearing Course. At that time one had to be a Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (SHSBC) graduate in order to solo audit. (Other ways of clearing, creating clears, had been tried and dropped).

In the period from 1955 (when I took my first training) to 1983 (when I was thrown out of the Church of Scientology) I was on staff for some of the time were I got some auditing including supervised co-auditing, enough to bring me a little bit further on the way. I also did a certain amount of training, including some levels of the Briefing Course and, the wonder of it all, starting in July 1981, I did the Happiness Rundown Course and Internship [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Two_Happiness_Rundowns]]. Here the big emphasis was on the fundamentals of auditing. These are very fundamental, basic and with no element of confidentiality about them.

When I had recovered my equilibrium (after being thrown out of my "stable datum", official Scientology, in 1983) I got involved in Freezone activities including going to some conferences, editing magazines, and running Internet lists. It was here that The Pilot ducked up in my sphere of consciousness, first with his issuing "The Webpage of Total Freedom -- Scientology Reformer's Homepage" [[http://freezoneearth.org/pilot/reformer.html]] (1997) which really laid it on the line how the "Church" was violating L Ron Hubbard's policies. This was followed by The Pilot's ''SuperScio'', [[http://caersidi.freeshell.org/FZA/pilot/sscio/]] an 800 page book which is rather wild in parts which I have not read all of, but it does display very deep knowledge of Scientology. I considered it a good work, and started an Internet list for it.

In 1998 he produced, again anonymously on the Internet, ''Self Clearing'' [[http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html]]. I was extremely enthusiastic about this. Here was something which really made self auditing workable (for those up to it). There are so many aspects of it that I marvel at but I won't go into these in depth here but will mention that the introductory chapters are very important -- they are pearls of wisdom.

But ''Self Clearing'' doesn't meet everybody's needs, as amongst other things it does require self-discipline as you lack the discipline of having appointments with an auditor and having to keep your nose in it until you can see you have reached an end phenomenon of a process.

I certainly considered it was important enough to have an Internet List of its own so I establish one and that's where we are today.

So you can see historically the publication of The Pilot's book ''Self Clearing'' is a landmark, making self auditing acceptable and in a number of cases helping people along the road to more ability, more fun in life, and also a good deal more understanding of how life and other human beings operate.

To sum up, despite the successes obtained by many people with the first Dianetic auditing, we did not know much about the mechanics of the mind and the traps that were in it at that time. Over the first years of Scientology we learnt a lot. The Pilot, an independent freethinking soul with a deep understanding and experience of Scientology, took the subject of self auditing up again and refined it. His ''Self Clearing'' book contains this refinement. It still needs discipline and duplication of the material in the book, but for the independent and courageous soul it is far in excess of the poor tools we had available in 1950. But it does not serve the purposes of those who want a "way to greater freedom" which leaves them in control and able to extort money and obtain meek obedience.

You could probably make yourself a lot more free working alone with this.

All best wishes,

Ant.

'''PS.''' I might add that I do 20 or 30 minutes of Opening Procedure by 8C on myself every day as well as a touch assist on my body's weak points – it's knees. ;-) .

Antony A Phillips 
< mailto:ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk> 
www.antology.info

[[Category:Books about Scientology]][[Category:Scientology Offshoots]]

Self Clearing by The Pilot

2020-12-07T17:15:40Z

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{{Articles
|Image=Ken-Ogger-1.jpg
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{{Offshoot}}
This book contains many procedures based on Scientology theory for "do it yourself" improving of a persons condition and abilities. It was written in 1997 by a keen student of Scientology, who thoroughly disagreed with the path the Church of Scientology had taken in more recent years. Fearing the Church would treat him badly if they knew who he was, he wrote under the pseudonym of The Pilot.

== The Pilot's Announcement ==

''The Pilot wrote a homepage for Self Clearing which appeared on the now extinct Freezone America Homepage. It refers to some material including links which are out of date now, but here are more important parts.''

==== 1. What is ''Self Clearing''? ====

''Self Clearing'' is the practice of using mental exercises and processes to clear oneself of barriers and aberrations (distortions) which prevent one from operating in an optimum manner.

Processing consists of asking oneself questions and answering them not just once but many times so as to push through surface reactions and find deeper truths.

Mental exercises consisted doing actions repetitively to raise one's awareness and control.

You might, for example, simply look around the room and noticed things that you like. If you do this a number of times in a row, you will focus your attention and the room will seem a bit brighter.

Or you might recall a time when you had fun and then recall a time when somebody else had fun, and alternate these two processing commands, recalling time after time until your recall penetrates to something that has been deeply buried and long forgotten.

These are just beginning steps. There are thousands of these processes.

It is expected that by using these processes, you will raise your ability and awareness to undreamed heights.

==== 2. Where does this lead? ====

The goal is to remove all mental blockage and regain full ability.

What that really means depends on what we really are.

The practice of self clearing does not presume to dictate what you will find or what abilities you will achieve.

Belief in the theology of self clearing is not a requirement for practising it.

With that in mind, we will say that the practitioners often discover a number of very incredable sounding things.

Extensive use of the recall techniques might lead to the remembrance of past lives.

Extensive use of the perception techniques might give one flashes of non-physical perception.

Working with things such as problems, one might discover that one creates one's own problems and brings one's own opposition into existence.

And at basic, one might well discover that we are godlike immortal beings who have become trapped within universes of our own creation.

But this is all nothing more than a speculation as to what you might find. In practice, you might find whatever you find.

You certainly do not have to believe in past lives to practice the techniques. If you want you can chalk that one up to simply exercising one's powers of imagination. The technique will still build up your ability to focus and concentrate and handle situations in life.

==== 3. Where did this come from? ====

This practice has evolved from Scientology which was founded in 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard.

Scientology in turn was an outgrowth of Dianetics. It came about when the original Dianetics theories of all aberrations originating in the prenatal area failed in practice and the engrams (painful incidence) were found to lead back to past lives instead.

Since Scientology places heavy restrictions upon its members and upon the uses of techniques, the non-orthodox Scientologists are known as The Freezone and the two factions are currently (1997) heavily at odds with each other.

The Church of Scientology's own website is at www.Scientology.org.

''[Here followed links current at that time]''

==== 4.Where to get Self Clearing materials ====

''Self Clearing'' book has been made freely available on the Internet. Can be picked up from the following sites among others;

''[Old links out of date place new links here]''
http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down)

The techniques can be used by anybody who is willing to put in the time and effort required to work through the book.

The initial version of the book consists of 48 chapters, each of which might be considered to be a stage or level or area that is to be addressed in self clearing. There will probably be more chapters in the future as research is carried forward.

The book is to be worked through twice, once in a light manner to orient oneself, develop understanding, and handle things which are currently in one's way. And the second time to carry the process to deeper levels and expand each section to full mastery.

On a second pass, one will be expected to expand the chapters with other materials. Many of these are in the ''Super Scio'' book which I previously released onto the Internet.

The ''Super Scio'' book represents my own research notes on working beyond the levels that were available in orthodox Scientology. It expects that you are already familiar with Scientology or have work through the ''Self Clearing'' book.

It is available on these links among others:

http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down)

==== 5.Who is the pilot? ====

I am a secret reformer within the Church of Scientology.

I wish to make the technology freely available to everyone and I wish to see the research continue.

I remain anonymous at this time because the CofS has a reputation for viciously attacking any of their members or ex-members who attempt to do either of these actions.

They currently believe that the technology is inviolate, cannot be revised or extended, and must remain frozen in the form left by Hubbard at his death.

In the early days, a beginning was made towards researching unsupervised self processing at home, as is evidenced by Hubbard's ''Self Analysis'' book which is still available.

But this was not carried forward, and any attempts at carrying this beyond what is in this beginners book by Hubbard (which, being by Hubbard, is considered inviolate) is sternly attacked.

And yet, a careful examination of the early research and the later discoveries shows that these could be combined with a benefit to make the entirety of the technology easily available to everyone on a do-it-yourself basis.

This is abhorrent to the current management of the CofS which charges absurdly high prices for a very limited subset of the technology.

That subset represents approximately a third of the area covered by ''Self Clearing''.

Many other areas were investigated by Hubbard in the 1950s but were not carried forward to the point where they can be applied in the rote and pedantic manner currently used by within the CofS.

This represents another third of the areas covered by ''Self Clearing'', and actions necessary to upgrade these to the point where they could be used for this purpose are again in violation of CofS practices because the sacred works must never be altered or extended.

And then there is the remaining Self Clearing material which is based upon my own research beyond the works of Hubbard, and this is the most abhorrent to the current management because technology is considered to be complete and nobody besides Hubbard (who is no longer around) may further research or experiment with it.

For this reason I remain hidden. You can visit the critics sites for stories of what happened to various people who did not remain so well hidden.

==== 6. Keeping up with the news ====

There is much ongoing critical discussion going on in the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup. ''[This was applicable in 1997]''

If you cannot get these on your news server or do not have access to a news server, Homer@lightlink.com provides these newsgroups on an open news server as a public service. The link is at newsact.lightlink.com ''[no longer functioning with this purpose]''

I often post to these groups. Technical questions can be posted to ACT.

An archive of my past postings is kept at http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html (scroll down to '''Posting Archives''')

You can also search for these postings at dejanews ''[out of date links omitted here]''

The road to truth is finally open. The toll bridge that blocks its use has finally been bypassed. The speed limit signs have finally been taken down.

We need only roll up your sleeves and get to work.

Sincerely,

The Pilot.

''[The Pilot added his PGP key, a 1997 copyright paragraph and an apology that one cannot email him]''

== Review by [[James Moore]], England ==

''First published in IVy 37, page 47 [[http://articles.ivymag.org/pdfs.html]]''

:''Self Clearing, A Handbook for Self Enlightenment'', by The Pilot [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Ken_Ogger]]. Available free on the Internet, for example from http://www.freezoneearth.org/pub/Clearing.pdf. ''[This is the first edition]'' The “Word” version of the printed book comprises about 350 pages. If you are not on the Internet, or do not have time and patience to print it out, it is possible that your ''IVy'' distributor will have a local source willing to sell a photocopy of the book. ''[IVy ceased to be published in 2008]''

SINCE THE PILOT appeared on the two Scientology newsgroups on Internet about a year ago he has entered a lot of theta material into a rather enturbulated area. He has written extensively both on tech matters and (citing Ron) on how the present day church has slipped far away from the Scientology which Ron helped form over 40 years ago. See for example the article in the last ''IVy'', page 32 “Ron’s Research Line”. He has shown in many ways that his grasp of Ron’s writings and lectures is deep, and covers the whole time track of Scientology. This comprehension is no mean feat. Ron wrote and said much. The Pilot deserves attention, and I predict that he will significantly change the course of events, mostly in free (from church influence) Scientology, but also in the church.

The arrival of his ''Self Clearing'' book is a very significant landmark in his career, and also a very significant land mark in the history of do-it-yourself self enhancement.

=== For all ===

A claim is made that the ''Self Clearing'' book can be read and used by all, regardless of whether they have had Scientology experience. I have seen this claim before, notably in ''TROM (The Resolution of Mind)'' and ''Excalibur Revisited'', and in my view these were very hollow claims. ''Self Clearing'' does fulfil this claim, and I would gladly give it to an enhancement seeking person who knew nothing of Scientology.

To a Scientologist or ex Scientologist I would be a little diffident, if the person was not familiar with Scientology in the 50’s. Scientology has changed a lot, and The Pilot brings into his book freer concepts found in the 50’s but later abandoned. For those people who have only had Scn church contact within the last 30 years, I would strongly advise reading ''The Reformers Home Page'', which the Pilot prepared and got posted on Internet, before doing ''Self Clearing''. Here are many quotes from Ron which seem to go completely against what the modern “churchgoer” is led to believe is in Ron’s Spirit. Internet users can read the reformer’s Home Page at [[http://freezoneearth.org/pilot/reformer.html]] . They are in for a few surprises.

=== A gradient ===

The book contains all necessary explanations. It is a sort of bridge or path, but possibly a broader one than the modern Scientology one, in that it works on what might be called OT aspects (perceptions independent of the body) from the beginning. It is a gradient, and because of that I would suggest everyone do it chapter by chapter, rather than reading the whole thing, or skipping ahead, before doing it.

It is not necessary to use a meter, in fact the book is written on the basis that you do not have a meter. For four or five years Scientology did not use e-meters, and I suspect someone not using a meter will increase in intuition (knowingness) faster than with the use of a meter. And the gradient is not too shallow, because one is allowed to skip over those things which do not seem relevant at that time. In fact The Pilot talks of doing the book twice, because for different people things will have reality at different times.

=== Any one person can do it ===

In the early days of Scientology (Dianetics rather) the popular cry went out “any two persons can do it”. Forty years later we have a better cry “Any one person can do it”. And now we have forty years extra experience. This is much better. There is no charge, and no future charge. Because of that nobody is likely to pour large sums of money into promoting it. But you can help here. Make it known.

----

The above review is of the first edition of The Pilot's book. He wrote a second edition, which was found on his computer after his death, where some things were added and improvements made and the following is a link to it [[http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html#Self2004]] . 
There are some translations at [[http://selfclearing.com]] - some may be partly first edition, partly second edition.

== Note to the ''Self Clearing'' Internet list (added March 2016) ==

''When The Pilot first published "Self Clearing" anonymously an Internet list for it was set up which is still running. The following is an edited reply to a query on the list, which gives some indication of the background to the issue of the book.''

At 19:47 12-03-2016, xxxxx wrote: 
:Ant, 
:Have you completed the ''Self Clearing'' book? 
:If not, how much have you done? 
:Regards, 
:xxxxx

Dear xxxx and Self Clearers,

The brief answer (so far as it is an answer) to xxxx's question is that I have never run '' Self Clearing'' book.

That answer might get someone to ask "Why did you bother to start a '' Self Clearing'' list when The Pilot published his book, and why have you bothered to keep it going for all the years since?".

So I'll cover that.

When I got my first Scientology auditing in 1954 I got a session once a week and the auditor, Dennis O'Connor/O'Connell, encouraged me to do the processes of Hubbard's book ''Self-Analysis'' in between sessions. That is to say I should self audit! That was far beyond my capabilities at the time. But it was an encouragement by a field auditor for me to audit myself. Self auditing was a recognised part of Scientology, as is witnessed by that book'' Self-Analysis''[[http://www.truelrh.com/5108_SA/alter_SA.html]].

But after that, in the long history of Scientology, self auditing was discouraged if not forbidden.

It's true that after Gradation Chart and when Power Processing were added to it (1965) a new step was added to the Gradation Chart which was called R6 (End Words) and this was a step which one audited on oneself. But a great distinction was made in that this was not self auditing but was ''solo auditing'', with the inference that self auditing was Very Bad Thing (!). Solo auditing was just for the high and mighty people who had done the whole Gradation Chart and were about to do the Clearing Course. At that time one had to be a Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (SHSBC) graduate in order to solo audit. (Other ways of clearing, creating clears, had been tried and dropped).

In the period from 1955 (when I took my first training) to 1983 (when I was thrown out of the Church of Scientology) I was on staff for some of the time were I got some auditing including supervised co-auditing, enough to bring me a little bit further on the way. I also did a certain amount of training, including some levels of the Briefing Course and, the wonder of it all, starting in July 1981, I did the Happiness Rundown Course and Internship [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Two_Happiness_Rundowns]]. Here the big emphasis was on the fundamentals of auditing. These are very fundamental, basic and with no element of confidentiality about them.

When I had recovered my equilibrium (after being thrown out of my "stable datum", official Scientology, in 1983) I got involved in Freezone activities including going to some conferences, editing magazines, and running Internet lists. It was here that The Pilot ducked up in my sphere of consciousness, first with his issuing "The Webpage of Total Freedom -- Scientology Reformer's Homepage" [[http://freezoneearth.org/pilot/reformer.html]] (1997) which really laid it on the line how the "Church" was violating L Ron Hubbard's policies. This was followed by The Pilot's ''SuperScio'', [[http://caersidi.freeshell.org/FZA/pilot/sscio/]] an 800 page book which is rather wild in parts which I have not read all of, but it does display very deep knowledge of Scientology. I considered it a good work, and started an Internet list for it.

In 1998 he produced, again anonymously on the Internet, ''Self Clearing'' [[http://freezoneearth.org/downloads/files.html]]. I was extremely enthusiastic about this. Here was something which really made self auditing workable (for those up to it). There are so many aspects of it that I marvel at but I won't go into these in depth here but will mention that the introductory chapters are very important -- they are pearls of wisdom.

But ''Self Clearing'' doesn't meet everybody's needs, as amongst other things it does require self-discipline as you lack the discipline of having appointments with an auditor and having to keep your nose in it until you can see you have reached an end phenomenon of a process.

I certainly considered it was important enough to have an Internet List of its own so I establish one and that's where we are today.

So you can see historically the publication of The Pilot's book ''Self Clearing'' is a landmark, making self auditing acceptable and in a number of cases helping people along the road to more ability, more fun in life, and also a good deal more understanding of how life and other human beings operate.

To sum up, despite the successes obtained by many people with the first Dianetic auditing, we did not know much about the mechanics of the mind and the traps that were in it at that time. Over the first years of Scientology we learnt a lot. The Pilot, an independent freethinking soul with a deep understanding and experience of Scientology, took the subject of self auditing up again and refined it. His ''Self Clearing'' book contains this refinement. It still needs discipline and duplication of the material in the book, but for the independent and courageous soul it is far in excess of the poor tools we had available in 1950. But it does not serve the purposes of those who want a "way to greater freedom" which leaves them in control and able to extort money and obtain meek obedience.

You could probably make yourself a lot more free working alone with this.

All best wishes,

Ant.

'''PS.''' I might add that I do 20 or 30 minutes of Opening Procedure by 8C on myself every day ;-) .

Antony A Phillips 
< mailto:ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk> 
www.antology.info

[[Category:Books about Scientology]][[Category:Scientology Offshoots]]

Clearing--A Guide for Professionals

2020-11-02T10:06:12Z

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|Image=Clearing.FC-BCsml.72.jpg
|Author=[[Hank Levin]]
|Type of Article=Books about Scientology
|Website=http://clearingtech.net/
|Email=hank@clearingtech.net
}}
{{Offshoot}}
This 350 page book is probably the best all-round guide to running a Clearing practice, Clearing being the effective counselling side of Scientology. It covers from the various processes, how and when to use them, to how to spot and handle the more difficult people who turn up for Clearing.

== The Contents ==

Section 1 contains Theory and Basic Techniques

There are chapters on the following; introduction, understanding the mechanics of thought, the anatomy of dysfunction, basic skills and concepts of clearing, the clearing practitioners code, precision communication, working with the Clarity Biomonitor.

Section 2 concerns Advanced Techniques and has the following chapters; advanced metering skills – instant reads, further procedures, buttons – handling suppressed and invalidated pictures, unburdening, handling specific issues, the four remedial routines, more regressions, running full-lifetime regressions, body-read procedure, emblem therapy, clearing by list, session troubleshooting and repair, suppression, suppressive personalities and rollercoasters, working with couples, managing your clearing practice, training your clients.

There are 20 appendices including a glossary, various assessments and rundowns.

== Testimonials ==

(Taken from Amazon books Internet page)

=== By Kimile Levell ===
[[File:Clearing.FC-BCsml.72.jpg|500px||right|alt text]]
Wow, finally a simple and concise approach to Clearing! I have been a Clearing practitioner since 1989 and I have used numerous methods in my practice and nothing compares to Hank Levin's manual. It is very well written, easy to understand and leaves nothing out. I am impressed with the knowledge the author has about the meter and about Clearing. Anyone who has an interest in becoming a Clearing practitioner and who uses this work will have a huge advantage by following this material. I have used Hank's processes and have had great success with my clients. I'm also using this manual for training my students, and they are having huge breakthroughs with themselves and their clients. I wish I'd had it from the start of my practice. ''Clearing – A Guide for Professionals'' is at the core of my work now. I use it daily with clients and students, and they use it daily in their practices and in their lives.

=== By Michael David ===

A very compact book here. There is no wasted info.I use the book as a solo practitioner, and although I have been solo clearing for many years this book picked up on things I had missed along the way. There are some wonderful rundowns and questions, and just about anything can be handled---it just takes some willingness (not even a lot). It is so simple, yet those who are drawn to it are in for a treat. Levin's contribution is immeasurable.

Just his info on problems and quandries is worth the price of the book.

=== By Joneve ===

I am very pleased with this book. It seems to cover everything a practitioner would need to know to start a business and work towards clearing others (and self). It is well-written and engaging, too -- easy to get into and stay with (could be better proofed - maybe next printing). The processes are described and presented simply and clearly: powerful stuff! Note: in working with a partner, it is important to choose one with a high level of ethics.

== Ordering Details ==

Order from: https://clearingtech.net/category/products/publications/

There are some slightly cheaper used copies at: http://www.amazon.com/Clearing-Professionals-Personal-Obstacles-Happiness/dp/0977999718/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442521169&sr=8-1&keywords=Clearing-a+Guide+for+Professionals

[[Category:Books about Scientology]]

Teaching by Agreement

2020-10-06T13:48:53Z

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{{Articles
|Author=[[Antony A Phillips]]
|Type of Article=History of Scientology - Technical
|Website=http://www.antology.info/
|Email=ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk
}}
In 1957 I used Teaching by Agreement for six months for teaching a Personal Efficiency course in Dublin (Eire). I found it challenging but very valuable. Later I got to hear that teaching it that way had been cancelled. I put off describing it because I thought “surely it is in some Bulletin or other” and put it off for another day. However I got round to trying to find where it had been delineated, and I could not really find the knowledge I had on it, so here is an effort to pass on what I received.

At the end of this is the references that I did find, and excerpts from two of them.

Although I had in 1955 and January 1956 undergone a Hubbard Professional Auditor course, I did not really gain much understanding from the course (as I now remember). However one thing did happen which perhaps helped in understanding and running Teaching by Agreement; I had to learn the first 50 Scientology Axioms by heart, so I could write them word for word, comma for comma, for my HPA exam.

My first introduction to Teaching by Agreement was in PAB 79 and then a lecture by Ron Hubbard at a London Congress in the Autumn of 1956. Looking at that lecture I cannot now see what inspired me so much – but I was enthusiastic. In 1957 I was offered the job of Director of the American College of Personal Efficiency in Dublin. Here was a chance to use Teaching by Agreement, and I took it. Looking back I suppose I got my data verbally, from John Noble who taught the Personal Efficiency Course in London. I think I sat in on PE Course he ran. I cannot remember much about it so lets go on to what I learned and used.

==Basic Principles==

Here are some of the basic tools that PE instructors use – all are parts of Scientology basics:
* Communication – and that two way communication is the optimum.
* Reality both by agreement and by solids (example: writing things on the blackboard)
* Contribution from each participant (contribution is high on the Havingness Scale and allowing contribution therefore increases tone level).
* Granting of Beingness
* Stable Datum and Confusion
* Doingness (partly in the form of giving homework applying what they have learned)
* CCH (including relation to ARC)

==The Procedure==

In most Scientology tech, especially that developed after that time, you find a procedure and a patter, which you follow “semi-robotically”. This is not the case with Teaching by Agreement. There is no set patter.

You use the principles listed above. They are very important. How you use them is up to you, and you will certainly yourself develop through doing it repeatedly (practice makes better). Obviously to get two way comm going you will usually have to ask a question. You should probably ask it of an individual. When you get a reply you could ask another individual if they agreed with that. If possible (if the answer was short) you would write it on the blackboard (or a modern substitute) so all could see. That is use of the reality scale, where at one level reality is solid – you have the item “in MEST” on the blackboard. You could ask for examples of something, especially if things became a bit theoretical, thus bringing up reality. A discussion of the example might start (more two way comm) usually ending in greater agreement and thus increased ARC.

In your own practice of Teaching by Agreement I would suggest you start on a gradient (I did, you can see my account in the reference below to ''IVy'' magazine). Make sure you understand the basics delineated above, and refresh yourself on them now and again. If you are using it with a Personal Efficiency Course you would probably cover the points mentioned below by Ron.

At this point in writing this article I racked my brains as to what more helpful I could say. But it is not a procedure, and I do not want anything I say to lead into a set patter. With limited knowledge, I suspect that the cancellation of use of Teaching by Agreement in Scientology organisation's Personal Efficiency Courses, was due to instructors becoming mechanical, using a set patter regardless of the people in front of them. That is just a guess.

==Excerpts==

The following is an '''excerpt from ''IVy''''' (''International Viewpoints'') No. 44 http://articles.ivymag.org/pdf/IVy44.pdf page 13, written by myself some years ago.

:“Briefly this talked of a method of “lecturing” to newcomers which was a two way comm with individuals in a group, asking them questions, not giving data, and questioning until the audience had come to an agreement on what was asked (we covered basics like “What is communication?”). This method was called “Teaching by Agreement” and was apparently pioneered in Dublin. The principle was very real to me (little else was), I was inspired by it, and it could be that I postulated that I would teach PE that way.”
:
:…
:
:“So I doggedly taught that course, and actually got fairly good at this teaching by agreement lark. I found it real fun, for example, asking one person “What is communication?”, acknowledging any answer (I wrote up the answer, as solid is one level of reality), then asking another individual if they agreed, getting them to amplify, and handling originations etc. from the individuals, finally coming to an agreement which was usually a paraphrase of the Scientology definition of the subject. Getting every one to contribute.
:
:“Each night homework was set, getting them to see the principle taught. I can remember one instance where the homework was to get someone to do something, using ARC. A lady typist aged about 20, came in overjoyed. She had got her younger brother, who previously was out of her control, to mend a puncture in her bicycle. The first night (Monday, after testing) we taught create survive persist. The man I replaced, who was a former Roman Catholic told me how difficult it was to teach this in Dublin, as the Roman Catholic belief was that only God could create (I never knew if that was true). That looked a bit fishy to me, so in the beginning I was very careful to tell them that the create we were talking about was creating something out of something, like creating a cake out of the ingredients, while God created something out of nothing. Looking back I’d say it was a bit out integrity on my part, as any one can create in their own universe a cat (mock up) out of nothing. Later I found no difficulty in going over the cycle of action without the need for my special explanation, and I guess my predecessor was himself creating a difficulty out of nothing!”
:…
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:“I taught the Personal Efficiency course about 25 times. Each time working hard (on the teaching by agreement principles) to get a new set of individuals to have an understanding of some Scientology basics. Despite my general low communication level, there was nothing robotic about this teaching. Each week there were a new set of individuals in a new unit of time. I really got a very good grip on those basics, something I have been very thankful for ever since. When the church “went mad” and chucked far more able [people than] me out in 1983, I knew that those basics were right, and, when I slowly realized I was not a suppressive person, dangerous to any Scientologist I talked to, I could no doubt more easily see
where the church had gone wrong. In fact those 25 or so weeks (at age 27) gave me probably the first worthwhile stable data I got on what life was about and how to handle it.”

'''Extract from''' : ''How to Create and Instruct a PE Course'' (part 2) - A lecture given on 18 October 1956 by L. Ron Hubbard.

:“Well, boy, you will lay the most dreadful egg that any ostrich ever fell over if you try to teach them the entirety of ''Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought''.
:
:“What you teach them is a very, very simple thing. You teach them the basic and fundamental principles of Scientology. And these are:
:
:" 'The cycle of action of the MEST universe is create-survive-destroy.' If you can teach these people that in a couple of hours, you're doing fine.
:
:“The next thing that you teach them is the eight dynamics. This disenturbulates life and compartments it and individuates it so that it isn't a big, horrible blur. Teach them the eight dynamics, definition for; give them illustrations of, and that's that. And if you can teach them that in a couple of hours you're doing awful well.
:
:“Now, you teach them about ARC – affinity, reality and communication – and how you use it and employ it in the general activities of life. And, boy, if you can teach them that in four hours, you're a genius. Just that, see: "There is affinity, there is reality, there is communication." That's what you teach them in four hours.
:
:“The next thing you can teach them about is some havingness – possession, environment, contact. There is such a thing as a universe. There is such a thing as this room. There is such a thing as a typewriter or a drill press. Things are. Things exist. And people have them or don't have them at will.
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:“Now, these are awful fundamental things. These are terribly fundamental. There are some more fundamentals of exactly this nature and character that you could teach them. But don't try to teach them that in the same course. You teach this course in a peculiar way, very peculiar way. You teach this course by getting a maximum of agreement with the people you're trying to teach these things to.
:
:“Now, you all learned Dianetics and Scientology by hard study, application, observation, experience, rationalization and so forth. You didn't learn it in ten hours. Did you?
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:“''Audience: No.''
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:“Well, by golly, don't try to teach it in ten hours because you won't be able to. And that's that. ...”

==References==

There is discussion on the PE Course and Teaching by Agreement which is part of a cassette tape with Joan de Veulle at [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Joan_de_Veulle_-_England_50s_60s]]

PAB 79, The Open Channel, 10th April 1956. (Red Volume II page 389 in the first edition)

Ant's Account at ''IVy'' 44 page 13 to 15 http://articles.ivymag.org/pdf/IVy44.pdf

LRH lecture: 5610C18 “How to Create and Instruct a PE Course”

Socratic Method see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method]].

== Comment from Ken Urquhart and Antony's further comments ==

I asked a fellow old timer, [[Ken Urquhart]], to look at this and comment, and he sent this reply:

:Hello, Ant, and thanks for asking me to look over your article on Teaching by Agreement.
:
:I think you have done a very good job -- no, excellent -- in view of the fact that you have so few references to fall back on and neither of your references goes into much detail.
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:The approach -- that you describe seems to me exactly what I recall from the PE at London in 1957, given by a fellow called John Searle (thanks for nudging my memory on his name). I did another PE later, under Nina West, who was far too in-your-face for me but I think she used the same approach. I have the impression, though, that she was really pushy and not so good at granting beingness. In fact, Nina laughed very loudly at one of my answers and encouraged the other attendees to guffaw also! I didn’t take too much notice, being well convinced of my own rightness on the question. :))
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:I really liked the method under John Searle.
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:To sum up: Your instructions seem full, accurate, and adequate to pass the piece of technology on. I think you have just about 'nailed it,' as they say, and I can't think of anything you should add or change.
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:Well, possibly you could gild the lily by drawing up a checksheet with demos and drills. But I wouldn't fault you for not doing that. Perhaps some eager beaver will do it, and will submit it to you for final approval.
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:Very well done, Ant!
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:All best wishes,
:
:Ken

The way Nina handled her disagreement of what Ken said at one point, is probably an example of what caused Teaching by Agreement to be canceled. You do not, covertly or overtly, invalidate a participant - that is not granting beingness! The "proper way", in my opinion (if you want to do more than impartially acknowledge and go on), would be to ask another person in the group (who you had an idea would not agree) if s/he agreed, and get a discussion going, and thus get more people contributing, and thus increasing ARC. Covertly invalidating does not remind me in any way of the true spirit of Scientology (as I understand it) but a gradient to Hitlerism or the present day official Scientology body.

But I do not think "drawing up a checksheet with demos and drills" would be gilding the lily, but would be throwing black paint on the lily. The essence of Teaching by Agreement, in my opinion, was spontaneity and a relaxed attitude, and I think this comes about only by a thorough understanding of Scientology, and practice (experience) teaching (for example) these basic materials many times. In fact I see no other way (drills leading to dictatorship, almost) than starting of ones practical experience of Teaching by Agreement with a lecture (with an audience of less than ten or 15) and occasionally putting a question ("Does that seem reasonable to you?" or something) to an individual - something like that. In other words working your way on a gradient to "full" Teaching by Agreement.

=== Further Comments ===

After I have received a few letters on the above a couple more thoughts appeared (or re-appeared!) in my universe.

In ''Science of Survival'' Ron Hubbard describes three "Methods used by subject to handle others". It seems (from Ken's description) that Nina probably used both nullification and domination, both of which lie at the "negative" end of the 0 to 4.00 Scientology Tone Scale. Teaching by Agreement properly done, uses only the third method to handle others, namely enhancement. The first two methods violate the Scientology idea of granting of beingness.

Looking at Ken's description of the little occurrence with Nina I can also see a sort of "misuse" of another Scientology principle; the ideas of the cycle of action and cycle of control. You see this sort of thing in many areas. As examples in some extreme political ideologies, where often what they propose seems to boil down to stopping. In some Scientology material stop is related to destroy. It appears that things are always changing, and the idea of opposing all change (stopping change) tends to lead downwards. The possibly better way in general is to observe what changes are afoot and influence (change) those tendencies in a way you want things to go (hopefully something more survival). In the example with Nina, this could be done by asking another if they agreed and getting their and others' viewpoints. This way you are also enhancing the others who contribute, giving them the feeling they have something valuable to contribute, etc. Also your enhancing attitude is infectious, encouraging the timid also to contribute perhaps only with a nod of agreement or a smile, a step up in the gradient from where they were.

Note that at the top of this page you can click on where it says Discussion and put your comments in - I think this is an important subject. I am particularly keen to get data from people who have experienced Teaching by Agreement. [[Antony Phillips|Ant]]

==Postscript==

I think a bit more investigative journalism is required on this. If you can find more references or accounts I would be very pleased to hear about it. Also more recent experiences in using it or lower gradients towards Teaching by Agreement week after week. It is certainly something you improve by doing it again and again. Contact me: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk

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LRH Videos

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"Classification and Gradation", and "The Clearing Congress" videos are now available at Scientolipedia.org! (see below)

== Inside Scientology ==
''Best overview of the subject of Scientology - Recommended for new people but long-time Scientologists enjoy it as well.''

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== rare footage of LRH in S. Africa - 1960 ==
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== Clearing Congress 1958 ==

The Clearing Congress Lectures, which were given in the Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC from the 4th to 6th July 1958, were something of a landmark in the history of Scientology in that they were the first time that Ron's lectures were filmed. As was the practice in the 50s congresses given in one "Scientology capital" (London and Washington DC only at that time) were repeated shortly after in the other one. When this was repeated in London it was a bit of a sensation. Afterwards the films were shown for free in the London org every Sunday as an introductory lecture and for some time [[Bevan Preece - Interview about Independent Movement from 1982| Bevan Preece]] supervised these.

Volume 3 of the first edition of the ''Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology'' (the "Red Volumes") states the following about this conference, quoting from ''Ability 79'': 
"CLEARING CONGRESS LECTURES / Washington, D.C./ 4-6 July 1958 
"It began with a presentation by L.Ron Hubbard of 15 clear bracelets to some of the Clears attending. From this beginning he went on to cover, in nine fact-packed hours of lecture, the entire subject of Scientology and Clearing. Six of the lectures are available in color film. All of the data needful for a complete understanding of the subject was outlined and the data necessary to production of Clears was given in full." 
In the 1991 edition of ''The Red Volumes'' the following from ''Ability 79'' is added: 
"This is the first congress ever filmed. Shot by professional cameramen in 16 millimeter sound color, the first six hours comprise a living record of the historic event. This film will be shown through the field, containing as it does, a complete and simple presentation of the subject for the general public as well as the professional Scientologist - a spanning of interest and presentation of unusual accomplishment in itself." 
This was before the present series of Clears which started in 1967 with [[John McMaster]].

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== RJ 28 - San Diego ==
[[Howard Dickman]] had a copy of the original cassette and recently put together this video presentation exclusively for Scientolipedia. ''(for more details about the San Diego org and Howard's experiences with Scientology clik on the link to his name)''

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Rhona Smit

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''Rhona had been a Scientologist for 60 years and worked for LRH. In the last year [written in 2014] she became acutely aware of the issues facing Scientology internationally and thoroughly researched them. She made contact with long lost friends who long ago left the church. In her final months she contributed several articles to this blog and was deeply aligned to what we are trying to do: Allow Scientologists to get back in comm.''

''Rhona’s passing is representative of a reality we face: A diminishing number of people who knew LRH personally. It is of vital importance that their stories be preserved.''<ref>[http://backincomm.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/in-memorium-rhona-smit/ Back In Comm Blog]</ref>

''A private memorial was held on Sunday the 29th of June 2014''.<ref>[http://backincomm.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/back-in-comm-what-it-looks-like/ Memorial for Rhona Smit]</ref>

== Early Life ==

Rhona was born in Springs [Near Johannesburg, South Africa] in 1933, eldest daughter of Gwendoline and Bill Earnshaw. She had one brother Mac and two sisters, Linda and Dianne.

She completed the first three years of school in fifteen months. At the age of 10 her grandmother paid for her to learn the piano and she took formal lessons, doing both theory and practical for four years.

When the high school she attended was closed by the government for an indefinite period because of a polio epidemic, her parents enrolled her in a private commercial college. Here she learned secretarial skills and began work for a chartered accountant at the age of 15.

In her late teens she became a Sunday school teacher in the Methodist church and made the decision to get confirmed. The minister who performed the confirmation ceremony was later one of the accused in the notorious treason trial of 1956[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Treason_Trial].

== Scientology ==
When she was 19 she made the decision to go overseas and worked in the day at her secretarial job and at night put on gum boots and a white coat to work in the factory, earning extra money to pay for her overseas trip.

In June 1954, the year she turned 21, she went to England with the intention of spending a year on a working holiday. She discovered Scientology within the first week of being in London.

During the first year in London before finally joining staff at the London org, she landed a job doing a PR caper for one of the leading London newspapers and as a result traveled some 2,500 miles throughout England and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man| Isle of Man]. She worked as a secretary to one of London’s leading theatrical agents Al Parker and accounts highlights such as taking dictation from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Attenborough|Richard Attenborough]. She had other interesting interactions with Jack Hawkins, Diana Dors (Britian’s Marilyn Monroe) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Howard|Trevor Howard] among others.

Rhona then decided to do the Hubbard Professional Auditor Course. Several months later she resigned from her PR job, and joined staff at the London org as secretary to Jack Parkhouse, the Association Secretary of the London org. She met [[L Ron Hubbard]] in the same year when he arrived in London to deliver the [http://scientolipedia.org/info/Getting_All_the_Lectures#55--4th_London_ACC|4th London ACC].

And so began Rhona’s long journey in Scientology.
== Working for L Ron Hubbard ==
Rhona is well known for her many interesting tales about her experiences with LRH , and at the time of her passing was in the process of documenting her memoirs and life with Ron. She tells of many anecdotal incidents like trying to find ice in the middle of winter in London for Ron’s Coke [Coca Cola], and locating a tobacconist that stocked his brand of cigarette. She was assigned the task of buying linen and other household paraphernalia for the impending arrival of Ron, [http://scientolipedia.org/info/Getting_All_the_Lectures#55--4th_London_ACC|Mary Sue] and their children to London.

In 1956 when Ron went back to the US, he offered Rhona the option of traveling to South Africa to open an org there, which he later postponed and invited her to join him in the US instead. She departed the UK in October 1956 aboard a small cargo ship in charge of the Hubbard family’s gear (including Ron’s Jaguar), and arrived in New York. From there she caught a train to Washington org and helped supervise the [http://scientolipedia.org/info/Getting_All_the_Lectures#56--15th_ACC_Power_Of_Simplicity|15th ACC].

Returning to London org a few months later, she was assigned the task of conducting a Bachelor of Scientology Course. It was back in London that she met and later married her first husband, John Swinburne. That famous "HCO Justice Manual" that's all over the internet, has a covering memo from "Rhona Swinburne". Ron made several trips back and forth between the UK and US. Rhona had many a tale of her interactions with him over those years.

Rhona had the rare privilege of attending all the lectures of the 15th Washington ACC and all the lectures of the 5th London ACC. She also attended lectures at Congresses in London and Johannesburg. She attended many lectures LRH delivered in Washington DC and London apart from ACC lectures.

[[File:RhonaSmit-fitzroy-street-50s.png|left]]
== LRH's pc ==
Rhona both audited LRH and was audited by him one-on-one in 1956. During the course of the 15th Washington ACC in 1956, Ron audited Rhona as a demo. He told the watching students he could tell by the flippancy of her answers that she wasn’t really in session. In 1957 she was part of the audience at the [http://scientolipedia.org/info/Getting_All_the_Lectures#57--London_Congress_On_Nuc_Radiation_Control_.26_Health|Radiation Congress] when he delivered group auditing. In 1958 during the 5th London ACC she had a number of hours auditing from him on a one-on-one basis.

Rhona was also personally trained and drilled by Ron on the TRs. Ron told her that she was the only staff member he could do this with. He had tried to do it with the Dir Training and decided he couldn’t make it so he chose Rhona. Thereafter she was given the job of training the staff and the UK field on the TRs.

=== Special Projects ===
In 1957 she was transferred to HCO (Hubbard Communications Office) and in 1958 was appointed as the first ever HCO Exec Sec WW by LRH. It was during this time she was asked to find a home for LRH and his family, and upon LRH’s return to London she showed him a brochure of the estate of the Maharaj of Jaipur which was about to be auctioned. Ron’s response to Rhona was “buy it” which she duly did. This was the birth of the [http://www.sainthillmanor.org.uk/|International Headquarters of Scientology World Wide—Saint Hill]. Ironically, Rhona never saw Saint Hill until 1976 when she went there to do her OT Levels.

Rhona not only worked for LRH, but also became his friend. She spent many evenings with him and Mary Sue at their home for dinner parties and other socials. She recounts one such visit where Ron, holding cards behind his back, could tell from various locations what card he was holding.
== Starting a Family ==
In 1959, by now 8 months pregnant, Rhona finally left London to join her husband in Australia where her eldest daughter Carol was born. The marriage only lasted a short while after that, and in 1960 Rhona returned to South Africa with Carol.

Throughout the years, Rhona stayed in touch with Ron. She has a number of rare hand-written letters from him. At some point Ron awarded her the SHSBC for her years of dedicated work in Scientology. Unfortunately she never acted on this award.

Rhona continued her dedication to and studies of Scientology traveling through to the Hancock Street Org in Johannesburg by train every day (she was living in Springs with her parents). In 1962 she met and won the heart of confirmed bachelor Mike Smit, who was running the PE . They got married and moved to Pinelands in the Cape where their daughter Shelley was born. Rhona joined staff in Cape Town org where she held the posts of HCO Exec Sec and Dissem Sec.

In 1965 Rhona and Mike moved to Port Elizabeth, where Rhona completed another 2.5 year contract with the PE Org. During this time her third child and only son Andre was born on the 2nd April 1966.
[[File:RhonaSmit-fitzroy-street.png|right]]
Rhona, Mike and their 3 children returned to Springs early in 1967. Rhona dedicated herself to being a homemaker and raising her children for the next few years, in amongst odd job stints to compliment the family income. She became an accomplished seamstress and knitter, and learned to master her [http://www.pinterest.com/vintageknitting/vintage-knitmaster-empisal-studio-sliver-reed-knit/|Empisal Knitting machine], churning out dozens of garments for her family and friends. Her daughters, in stylish hand-made clothes, were quite the envy of their friends. She sewed all Shelley’s ballet costumes, sometimes making up to 18 duplicates for the whole troupe.

Rhona was an accomplished cook, and she became quite well-known for her flair in the kitchen. She and Mike hosted many dinner parties and guests would leave the house satiated with world class food. She also loved to bake, and especially enjoyed doing so with her grandchildren helping her. Her famous Christmas cake, Pavlovas and pineapple upside-down cakes were lapped up quickly. During this time Rhona also turned her hand to doing some writing (she was already an accomplished writer) and a few of her articles were published in various magazines and newspapers.
== A Life Dedicated to Scientology ==
In the early 1970’s Rhona assisted with many cycles on behalf of the Religious Defense League and was a key role-player in a number of successful campaigns and projects. Around this time she was also traveling into Joburg by train with all 3 of her children to go on course at the Joburg Org which was now located at 99 Polly Street.

In the late 1970’s Rhona, Mike and family moved back to Johannesburg, and Rhona traveled to the UK to do her Solo course and visit Saint Hill for the first time since she had bought it all those years ago. Shortly after her return, she joined staff again, this time in the Guardians Office – Department of PR. Carol later joined the GO as well, and Shelley finally followed suit in 1978. She served another 5 year contract until 1981. By this time, Rhona had served in excess of 16 years working for the Church.

With her children growing up and becoming independent, Rhona returned to the working world where she had a number of jobs, including a sojourn at the Hubbard College of Administration.
[[File:RhonaSmit memorial.jpg|border|500x300px|left|link=http://backincomm.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/back-in-comm-what-it-looks-like/|Rhona's memorial service]]
In 1983 she became a grandmother for the first time when her eldest grandson Jean was born. Pierre followed in 1985 – both Shelley’s children.

In December 1991, Rhona made another trip to Saint Hill and achieved the State of OT3.

5 years later in 1990 her 3rd grandson Jesse arrived, son of Andre and Debbie. In 1992 her only granddaughter Dominique was born, Shelley’s third child. And 21 years later in 2013 her 4th and youngest grandchild, Troy entered her life – son of Andre and Lindsay. She has 2 great-grandchildren Caleb (4, son of Jean and Kirsty) and just this year, 13 days before her 81st Birthday, her great-granddaughter little Mia was born – daughter of Pierre and Tanya.

Rhona was a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. The well being of her family and grandchildren were of paramount importance to her. She had a deep desire to help her family in every way she possibly could, and loved them all unconditionally. She treasured special moments spent with her family and ensured all her grandchildren knew how special they were to her.

At the ripe old age of 78, Rhona joined staff yet again, part-time as the Letter Reg for Joburg Org. Sadly, she had to end her tenure prematurely due to suffering a minor stroke in August 2013. In total, she had served close to 20 years working for Scientology, in addition to many volunteer hours spent on other Church-related projects. Her lifetime of dedication to LRH and Scientology Technology never wavered.

After her recovery, Rhona embarked on a project of writing her memoirs, and rekindling relationships with people she had lost contact with over the years. She was very happy to find many old friends, and was excited about re-connecting with them.

Rhona was a consummate professional in everything she did. She had many hobbies and interests, was an avid reader and had a keen interest in world affairs. She spent many hours recording a lifetime of memories through scrapbooking – one of her many hobbies. She never stopped learning new things and at the ripe old age of 80 was discovering the wonderful world of the Internet and blogging.

Rhona was a warm-hearted, caring and compassionate person. She took great care to improve the lives of others around her. She touched the lives of everyone she met and was loved and admired by many. She also had a wonderful sense of humour and always tried to see the positive side of any situation she was faced with.

Rhona leaves behind a great legacy. With love an admiration, we bid her adieu.

Go well, dear Rhona.

==Addendum by Antony Phillips written in January/February 2020.==

I can see by viewing the history of this article that I did make some minor changes to it. There is a good deal to add. I was expecting to hear more "from her".

I first came across Rhona in 1957/8 when I worked at HASI London (the Scientology organisation). Rhona Earnshaw (her maiden name) was at that time secretary at 37 Fitzroy Street in London. At that time HCO was a separate organisation to HASI. I remember her well though I did not have a lot to do with her though I do remember when I was demoted from Dir of Training to an ordinary staff auditor. At that time we also had number 7 Fitzroy Street and I passed her in the street walking between the two buildings where she sympathised with me about my demotion.

50 years or so later (2014) she contacted me on Skype from South Africa. We had a number of conversations and I understood that her position was as follows. She had two daughters and all three of them were in the church. The one daughter had discovered something of the FriScientology movement and communicated it to Rhona who apparently at first was quite sceptical. However Rhona and this daughter were now outside of the church of Scientology; the other daughter was still in and there was a great deal of tension. The daughter who was out had a house and in the garden was a cottage where Rhona lived with a computer. Rhona was busy communicating by the computer and had found my address and home page and contacted me. She was also writing into her computer data she had on the church and Ron.

She told me quite a lot about herself and we had we had many good conversations (most of which I have unfortunately forgotten for the moment). I understood because she and her one daughter had left the church there was tension between them and the other daughter. However they were still in communication. At the time this puzzled to me quite a bit but I did not ask about it. There was talk about disconnecting. But he did not seem to happen. I think at some point she did have some sort of illness (after talking to the daughter in the church - not really sure of that). However it came to a point where the daughter in the church was going to fly from Johannesburg to Cape Town with Rhona and this was to be the last time before the daughter disconnected from Rhona.

Not to be facetious, though I am afraid it is, what happened was that Rhona disconnected from her body. She was taken ill on that flight and died.

I did not hear anything more about the contents of the computer or anything else at all from Rhona's daughter, came to forget about it, and now wonder what happened. So if anyone wants to investigate that area for me please let me know the results and either entered into this Scientolipedia page or let me do so.

== References ==
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L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* [[Ann Tidman|Annie Broeker]] - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the loop.(<ref>[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Recollections_1_-_Sarge See article by Steve "Sarge" Pfauth] </ref>

* [[Gene Denk|Gene Denk]] - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine).
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
The Takeover – Mike Goldstein's experience [http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
Account of Mission Holders Conference [http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/missions.html]

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L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* [[Ann Tidman|Annie Broeker]] - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the loop.(<ref>[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Recollections_1_-_Sarge See article by Steve "Sarge" Pfauth] </ref>

* [[Gene Denk|Gene Denk]] - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
The Takeover – Mike Goldstein's experience [http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
Account of Mission Holders Conference [http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/missions.html]

[[Category:History of Scientology]]

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The article on Bevan Preece contains a 2 hour MP3 file. It does not work on my computer (Windows 10) and it does not work on the computer of one of those I sent the page link to. I am reduced to copying the MP3 file link and sending it to my list. Unfortunately I do not have the horsepower to correct the Scientolipedia page (I think I do not, at any rate I do not know how to). Can someone handle? It is an important historical interview concerning the split from the "church".

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It is working on Chrome now but gives me a warning that it would stop at end 2020. I just ran into this link which should help you: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/07/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-flash.html .

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I think I have mentioned this but I cannot find it. HOWEVER: I have just gone to Joan de Veulle page (there is something valuable in the interview). When I clicked on the interview to hear it I got some sort of a notice asking me if it was okay to open flash and at the same time telling me that flash will not be supported after 2020 (exact wording forgotten). Are steps being taken to see that MP3 files on the site are available? (This is on Windows 10)

An Outline of Dianetics

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{{Articles
|Image=Outline of Dianetics -1952.jpg
|Author=Five authors
|Type of Article=Books about Scientology
}}
This is a small booklet of 20 pages plus the cover. It cost two shillings and sixpence, which was an eighth of a pound (£) and contains five articles. It was issued by "The Dianetic Study Group" with a London address in 1952, and presumably there was not yet any official organisation in Great Britain, and this was part of an early attempt to get Dianetics known.

The articles are:

Introduction by the Hon. Sec. of the Dianetic Study Group

The Original Basis of Dianetics, by Dennis O'Connell

A Summary of the Latest Developments in Dianetic Therapy by Jean Köllerström

A Psycho-Therapist comments on Dianetics by Oscar Köllerström

Some Therapeutic Results of Dianetics by George Hay

and

The Psychometric Evaluation of Dianetics (the results of Therapy – with Psychometric Data) by Richard Benjamin.

At the back is an information summary, with the names and addresses of two bookshops, two practitioners (Jean Kollerström and Dennis O'Connell), "Dianetic Consultants" and The Dianetic Federation of Great Britain.

=== Reference ===

PDF available for download at the following link: [http://www.antology.info/other-editions.php]

Dennis Stephens' extensive account of early Dianetics in London is at [[http://scientolipedia.org/info/1950s_Part_1_-_Dennis_Stephens]]. It is a rather large file so to find the references for example to Dennis O'Connell, when you're in the file, you can press control F and then enter "O'Connell" (38 references).

[[Category:Books about Scientology]]

Brainwashing - the book

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{{Articles
|Image=Brain-Washing front.png
|Topic=Semi-Scientology books
|Type of Article=History of Scientology
}}
This book, sold by Scientology in the 1950s, is described on the front page as "A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics". The front page page also states "PSYCHOPOLITICS – the art and science of asserting and maintaining dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, bureaus, and masses, and the effecting of the conquest of enemy nations through 'mental healing.' " Some Scientologists at the time believed it was written by Ron Hubbard. 
The copy we have here has at the end: "Published as a public service by the Church of Scientology" and the address of the American Saint Hill Organisation in Los Angeles.

Under references below you have a scanned in copy of the book, with the chapter titles as follows:

An Address by Beria 
The History Definition of Psychopolitics 
The Constitution of Man As a Political Organism 
Man Is an Economic Organism 
State Goals for the Individual and Masses 
An Examination of Loyalties 
The General Subject of Obedience 
Anatomy of Stimulus-Response Mechanisms of Man 
Degradation, Shock and Endurance 
The Organisation Mental Health Campaigns 
Conduct under Fire 
The Use of Psychopolitics in Spreading Communism 
Violent Remedies 
Recruiting of Psychopolitics Dupes 
The Smashing of Religious Groups 
Proposals Which Must Be Avoided 
In Summary 

There is no publisher or publication date to the book and no author, although there is an editorial note which is signed by Charles Stickley, New York, 1955

[[File:Charles Stickley's introduction 1955.png|650px|thumb|left|Editorial note to Brain-Washing.]]

== References ==
*[http://scientolipedia.org/w/images/b/bc/Brain-Washing_Manual.docx Text Version]
*[http://www.antology.info/other-editions.php Later authentic printing by the American St. Hill Organisation (PDF file is unsearchable).]

[[Category:Scientology Books]]

Word Clearing Method 9

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{{Glossary
|Term=Word Clearing Method 9
|Definition=WORD CLEARING METHOD 9, the procedure is: (1) student or staff member reads the text out loud. He is not on the meter. (2) the word clearer has a copy of the text and reads along with the student silently. (3) if the student leaves out a word or stumbles
or exhibits any physical or verbal manifestation while reading
the text, the word clearer immediately asks for the misunder-stood
word or term and gets the meanings cleared with a
dictionary and put into sentences until the word is understood
and VGIs ar~ present. (BTB 30 Jan 73RA II) Abbr. M9.
}}
WORD CLEARING METHOD 9, the procedure is: (1) student or
staff member reads the text out loud. He is not on the meter. (2)
the word clearer has a copy of the text and reads along with the
student silently. (3) if the student leaves out a word or stumbles
or exhibits any physical or verbal manifestation while reading
the text, the word clearer immediately asks for the misunder-stood word or term and gets the meanings cleared with a
dictionary and put into sentences until the word is understood
and VGIs ar~ present. (BTB 30 Jan 73RA II) Abbr. M9.

L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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{{Articles
|Author=Robert Vaughn Young
Intro by A. Phillips
|Website=http://www.antology.info/
|Email=ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk
}}
== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It was later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* [[Ann Tidman|Annie Broeker]] - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the loop.(<ref>[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Recollections_1_-_Sarge See article by Steve "Sarge" Pfauth] </ref>

* [[Gene Denk|Gene Denk]] - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
The Takeover – Mike Goldstein's experience [http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
Account of Mission Holders Conference [http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/missions.html]

[[Category:History of Scientology]]

L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It was later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* [[Ann Tidman|Annie Broeker]] - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the loop.(<ref>[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Recollections_1_-_Sarge See article by Steve "Sarge" Pfauth] </ref>

* [[Gene Denk|Gene Denk]] - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
The Takeover – Mike Goldstein's experience [http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
Ant's Scientology Story [http://www.antology.info/index-4.html] 
Account of Mission Holders Conference [http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/missions.html]

[[Category:History of Scientology]]

L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It was later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* [[Ann Tidman|Annie Broeker]] - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the loop.(<ref>[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Recollections_1_-_Sarge See article by Steve "Sarge" Pfauth] </ref>

* [[Gene Denk|Gene Denk]] - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
[http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
Ant's Scientology Story [http://www.antology.info/index-4.html] 
Account of Mission Holders Conference [http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/missions.html]

[[Category:History of Scientology]]

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AntPhillips: Reply to Flash

Thanks.I hope you are right.There was a period when I could not get sound interviews to work from Scientolipedia. I had to extract the file name (via history) and play them separately. This got handled when I updated Flash.

L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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AntPhillips: /* The Blue Flash */ typographic (line breaks queasy)

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|Author=Robert Vaughn Young
Intro by A. Phillips
|Website=http://www.antology.info/
|Email=ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk
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== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It was later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* Annie Broeker - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the loop.

* Gene Denk - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
[http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
[http://www.antology.info/index-4.html] 
Account of Mission Holders Conference [http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/missions.html]

[[Category:History of Scientology]]

Have You Lived Before This Life

2020-04-26T08:26:22Z

AntPhillips: /* Reference */ lineBreak added

{{Articles
|Image=HaveYouLived-firstEdCover.jpg
|Author=[[Antony A Phillips]]
|Type of Article=History Of Scientology
|Website=http.antology.info
|Email=ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk
}}

This book gives descriptions (called case histories) of 62 people, audited on the [[5th London ACC]] to investigate in a therapeutic manner lives they had had before their present life. The book was first published 1958 by Hubbard Association of Scientologists International Limited in London

== Project Engineers ==

In the London Scientology organisation there were about 6 people who were staff auditors. Their job was to apply individually Scientology techniques to paying persons. They audited 25 hours a week. Working from 9.00 to 7.30 with an hour (from 12.00 to 13.00) for lunch they had a certain amount of extra time, which was used both to mark tests of clients, and to write letters to people who had been in contact with the organisation. However at this time Hubbard named a few of them "Project Engineers" and they used their time when not auditing on specially designated tasks. One of them was Maura Chamberlain (mother of Neville Chamberlain, who was later a Sea Org Member and even later was associated with Alan Walter's Knowledgism) and she was given the task of collecting reports from practitioners and subjects from the recently run [[5th London ACC |5th London Advanced Clinical Course]] (ACC). The result of her work was the book ''Have You Lived Before This Life''. There was a general expectancy that this would be a great book, breaking down the barrier between Scientology and the public, and that when people read it, they would come streaming into the org to learn more of their past lives.

== The Contents ==

The first edition of the book has 183 pages, is hard back, 12 cms by 19cms. Immediately after the copyright notice are four and a half pages containing a list headed: "THESE ARE THE THERAPISTS WHO TOOK PART IN THIS EXPERIMENT. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY TO CALL ANY OF THEM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS." There then followed 62 names and addresses of participants, 27 of which had a phone numbers, 35 with addresses in England (others were in continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and USA).

This was followed by the table of contents which read:

List of Therapists Page 3 
Introduction Page 11 
The Conditions of the Experiment page 13 
A Note on Past Lives Page 17 
The Incidents Page 21 
Glossary Page 23 
Reports on Cases 1 to 42 Page 25 
Conclusion Page 183 

Some of the Reports were headed "Preclear's Report" and some "Scientologist's Report". In each case the Scientologist is named (a couple are anonymous) while the preclears merely appear as "Case No. nn". The preclears were all students on the ACC, named at the front of the book.

The types of incidents vary quite a bit, some being somewhat weird and some a very long time ago.

The conclusions section reads as follows:

:Now what do you think? 
:Seventy conservative, well trained, Scientologists, the most effective practitioners in today's world of mental healing, have gone through these experiences. Seventy sane people have some evidence that they have lived before. 
:What about the rest of the human race? 
:You have the names and addresses and phone numbers in this book. You can call them and verify the matter yourself. Some believe it, some do not. Talk to them all if you wish. 
:Or come to the HASI, 37 Fitzroy Street, London W.1, and ask about it. The HASI is only interested in healing people and clearing them. The Association has no real interest in fads and crazes. It is a scientific institution. It exists only for public service. But it has had to view past lives with more than ridicule. Past lives come up too often in clearing to be ignored. 
:Will they come up with you? 
:THE END.

== Sequal ==

A sequel was planned as documented in ''Ability'' 115, but never materialised:

:RESEARCH PROJECT 
:May I request the assistance of all auditors in the following research program: ''Have You Lived Before This Life ?'', the new book, has elicited such deep interest that it will be followed in a few months by a sequel: '' Where are you Buried?''. You can help by doing the following: (a) Check out your preclears for recent deaths, and any you find have died in the last century in the country where you are, (b) write down all particulars for record, (c) then go to the place of burial and locate the grave or get a copy of the death roll from official sources, or both, and (d) send all data, the story of the life and death, to HCO W W, Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England. Be sure you have the preclear's permission for data to be used. Be sure data is authentic in every possible way. The resulting collection may be published in book form. L. Ron Hubbard

== Reference ==

At the following link the 1974 edition of the book is available for free download: [https://stss.nl/stss-materials/English/Books/Have%20You%20Lived%20Before%20This%20Life%20HYLBTL.pdf]. This is the third printing and does not contain the names, addresses and telephone numbers.
There is a description of the ACC at [[5th London ACC]] (Added April 2020) A PDF of the first edition, with names and addresses of some 5th London ACC students has now been made and is available at: http://www.antology.info/first-editions.php .

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Have You Lived Before This Life

2020-04-26T08:22:30Z

AntPhillips: /* Reference */ link to 1st edition added

{{Articles
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|Author=[[Antony A Phillips]]
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This book gives descriptions (called case histories) of 62 people, audited on the [[5th London ACC]] to investigate in a therapeutic manner lives they had had before their present life. The book was first published 1958 by Hubbard Association of Scientologists International Limited in London

== Project Engineers ==

In the London Scientology organisation there were about 6 people who were staff auditors. Their job was to apply individually Scientology techniques to paying persons. They audited 25 hours a week. Working from 9.00 to 7.30 with an hour (from 12.00 to 13.00) for lunch they had a certain amount of extra time, which was used both to mark tests of clients, and to write letters to people who had been in contact with the organisation. However at this time Hubbard named a few of them "Project Engineers" and they used their time when not auditing on specially designated tasks. One of them was Maura Chamberlain (mother of Neville Chamberlain, who was later a Sea Org Member and even later was associated with Alan Walter's Knowledgism) and she was given the task of collecting reports from practitioners and subjects from the recently run [[5th London ACC |5th London Advanced Clinical Course]] (ACC). The result of her work was the book ''Have You Lived Before This Life''. There was a general expectancy that this would be a great book, breaking down the barrier between Scientology and the public, and that when people read it, they would come streaming into the org to learn more of their past lives.

== The Contents ==

The first edition of the book has 183 pages, is hard back, 12 cms by 19cms. Immediately after the copyright notice are four and a half pages containing a list headed: "THESE ARE THE THERAPISTS WHO TOOK PART IN THIS EXPERIMENT. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY TO CALL ANY OF THEM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS." There then followed 62 names and addresses of participants, 27 of which had a phone numbers, 35 with addresses in England (others were in continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and USA).

This was followed by the table of contents which read:

List of Therapists Page 3 
Introduction Page 11 
The Conditions of the Experiment page 13 
A Note on Past Lives Page 17 
The Incidents Page 21 
Glossary Page 23 
Reports on Cases 1 to 42 Page 25 
Conclusion Page 183 

Some of the Reports were headed "Preclear's Report" and some "Scientologist's Report". In each case the Scientologist is named (a couple are anonymous) while the preclears merely appear as "Case No. nn". The preclears were all students on the ACC, named at the front of the book.

The types of incidents vary quite a bit, some being somewhat weird and some a very long time ago.

The conclusions section reads as follows:

:Now what do you think? 
:Seventy conservative, well trained, Scientologists, the most effective practitioners in today's world of mental healing, have gone through these experiences. Seventy sane people have some evidence that they have lived before. 
:What about the rest of the human race? 
:You have the names and addresses and phone numbers in this book. You can call them and verify the matter yourself. Some believe it, some do not. Talk to them all if you wish. 
:Or come to the HASI, 37 Fitzroy Street, London W.1, and ask about it. The HASI is only interested in healing people and clearing them. The Association has no real interest in fads and crazes. It is a scientific institution. It exists only for public service. But it has had to view past lives with more than ridicule. Past lives come up too often in clearing to be ignored. 
:Will they come up with you? 
:THE END.

== Sequal ==

A sequel was planned as documented in ''Ability'' 115, but never materialised:

:RESEARCH PROJECT 
:May I request the assistance of all auditors in the following research program: ''Have You Lived Before This Life ?'', the new book, has elicited such deep interest that it will be followed in a few months by a sequel: '' Where are you Buried?''. You can help by doing the following: (a) Check out your preclears for recent deaths, and any you find have died in the last century in the country where you are, (b) write down all particulars for record, (c) then go to the place of burial and locate the grave or get a copy of the death roll from official sources, or both, and (d) send all data, the story of the life and death, to HCO W W, Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England. Be sure you have the preclear's permission for data to be used. Be sure data is authentic in every possible way. The resulting collection may be published in book form. L. Ron Hubbard

== Reference ==

At the following link the 1974 edition of the book is available for free download: [https://stss.nl/stss-materials/English/Books/Have%20You%20Lived%20Before%20This%20Life%20HYLBTL.pdf]. This is the third printing and does not contain the names, addresses and telephone numbers.
There is a description of the ACC at [[5th London ACC]] (Added April 2020) A PDF of the first edition, with names and addresses of some 5th London ACC students has now been made and is available at: http://www.antology.info/first-editions.php .

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Thread:Help:Technical Support/Flash/reply (2)

2020-04-26T05:54:14Z

AntPhillips: Reply to Flash

From my computer software – Windows 10 (I guess). It only occurs occasionally.

Muzzled Group Co-auditing

2020-04-23T07:52:06Z

AntPhillips: /* Personal Description by Antony A Phillips */ small addition to paragraph

{{Articles
|Topic=Group Co-auditing
|Type of Article=Basic Scientology
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By muzzled in this context we refer to auditing where the auditor is limited in what he/she says to the preclear.

Here is a description, an excerpt, from [[L Ron Hubbard]]'s Bulletin of 10 December 1964 entitled "''Scientology 0'' Listen Style Auditing"

:The co-audit version is merely to get the student to do auditing without having to assume too much responsibility.
:In this version it is really the instructor who is doing the auditing. He starts the session and tells the auditor to give the commands and acknowledge the answers. If this relationship is understood it makes the supervision of a Level 0 group of teams much easier.
:The procedure for running a Listen Style Co-audit is as follows

:1. The auditor seats the pc in his or her chair and then sits down across from the pc, knees a few inches from the pc's. A table is used, or just two chairs, the auditor's report being kept on a clip board. There is, of course, no meter.
:2. The auditor takes the exact auditing command to be used from his text book, bulletin or notes.
:3. He asks the pc if it is all right to audit the pc in the room and if not, makes things right by adjusting the room or location of auditing.
:4. He tells the pc the purpose of such sessions (Reality Factor) "I want to get you used to talking to another." "I want to improve your reach," etc. It's the auditor's goal at this level, not the pc's. PCs don't get a chance to have goals in Listen Style as they would set goals they can't attain at this level and wouldn't have enough reality on auditing anyway to be sensible about it. So, only an R Factor is used-no goals. The auditor also tells the pc exactly how long the session will be.
:5. The auditor tells the pc that all he is going to do is to listen and try to understand the pc, and that all he wants the pc to do is talk on the selected subject the auditor will give him and that if he veers off, the auditor will call it to his attention.
:6. The auditor then quickly starts his auditor's report.
:7. The auditor says "Start of Session".
:8. The auditor gives the command from his text, bulletin or notes. The command must have something to do with telling people things or communicating, and may also specify a subject to talk about.
:9. Further commands are given only when the pc loses track of the subject and wants to know what it was (see Routines for Level 0 for exact handling of commands).
:10. When the pc says something and obviously expects a response, the auditor signifies he has heard, using any normal means.
:11. When the pc says something the auditor doesn't grasp, the auditor asks the pc to repeat it or amplify it so that the auditor does hear it in the fullest sense of the word. (See "The Prompters" below. Only 4 are allowed.)
:12. When the pc stops talking, the auditor must adjudicate whether the pc is simply no longer interested in the subject, or has become unwilling to talk about some bit of it. If the auditor believes the pc has stopped because of embarrassment or some similar reason, the auditor has The Prompters, the only things he is allowed to use.

And here an excerpt from Bulletin of 10 December 1964 "''Scientology 0'' Listen Style Auditing"

:The procedure for running a Listen Style Co-audit is as follows:
:1. Instructor gets the auditors to seat their pcs in their chairs and then sit down.
:2. He writes up on a board the exact wording of the process to be used.
:3. He asks students if the room is alright for them to be audited in.
:4. He tells them what is going to be run in the session (R Factor) and cleans up any questions on the part of pcs (obviously, stress is on getting them able to talk to anyone).
:5. He tells auditors and pcs that all the auditor is permitted to do is to give the command and acknowledge the answers. If pc says anything that cannot be handled with an acknowledgement the auditor will put out his hand behind him and wait for an instructor.
:6. He tells the auditors to keep their auditor's reports.
:7. Instructor then says "Start of Session".

== Personal Description by [[Antony A Phillips]] ==

In 1963 to 1964 I was working and living in Clapham, an easy underground train ride to HASI London at 37 Fitzroy Street, near Totttenham Court Road. There they held courses for the uninitiated in the evenings. Though I had some training, I went to one of them (it was cheap). It was muzzled co-auditing, and the majority of the participants had little knowledge of Scientology. We attended three evenings a week and at that time I think there were about 16 of us, sitting in pairs rather closely packed. For an hour one person of each pair was auditor and the partner was preclear, there was a ¼ hour break (a coffee machine in the hallway) and then we spent an hour with roles reversed. There was an instructor who had an emeter, and he assessed the preclears. The assessment was across the eight dynamics, and I was assessed to talk on sex. At the start of the hour the instructor said "start", and the preclears then started talking to their auditor on the subject they had been assessed on. The muzzled auditor said nothing but just sat patiently waiting and listening. If the auditor felt there was need for help she put her hand out behind her; the instructor seeing it came over and handled what ever it was and returned the preclear to talking to the auditor. After the break the auditors switched to being preclears and vice-versa.

For the whole period I did it I was assigned a very beautiful young lady as auditor. I had realised the importance of communication, was extremely poor in communication, especially with regard to sex, but knew that with practising one improved ability. So I slogged away at this three evenings a week, and the result was a win which I remember 50 years later, where many other small wins from Scientology have merged into a sort of "well, I am a completely different person now". One remarkable thing about this was that I stopped it because I got a job at St Hill, and at St Hill I got issued with all the Bulletins including those I had missed since I had worked on staff at the London Org. Looking back, I cannot remember a single mention of this method of co-auditing being mentioned in Bulletins.

== References ==

L.Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin of 10 December 1964 "''Scientology 0'' Listen Style Auditing"

L.Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin of 6. November AD14, "Styles of Auditing" (Level One, Muzzled Auditing)

[[Category:History of Scientology - Technical]]

Joan de Veulle - England 50s 60s

2020-04-22T06:52:58Z

AntPhillips: /* Follow Up */ removed line made redundant by the passing of time.

{{Personal Profiles
|Deceased=Yes
|Died on=1988
|Nationality=British
|Org. affiliation=London HASI
|Posts=HCO Area Secretary (London), Extension Course Instructor, Registrar
}}
Joan was born 1905 in Handsworth, Birmingham UK and died 1988 in Somerset UK<ref>[http://scientology.wikia.com/wiki/Joan_de_Veulle wikia database]</ref>

''This "stub" written by [[Antony Phillips]]. Any who have more data please add or write to me.''

I know nothing of Joan's early life.

=== Coming into Scientology ===

Joan had been reading all the books she could find on psychology, and non of them satisfied what she was looking for. At the end of 1956 she came across Ron's book ''Fundamentals of Thought'', and felt this was it (actually that was the year the book was published). She took a Communication Course, and then the full HPA (professional auditor course) in 1957. At a later date she did the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (at the time it was only available at Saint Hill, England)

=== Staff Member ===

She was on staff at the London HASI for a long time. I remember she was Extension Course Instructor at one time (that was a correspondence course in major Scn books, like ''Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health'' and ''Science of Survival''). She wanted to do the 6th London ACC and asked me to take on the Extension Course job while she was on it, which I did. She was also Registrar at London. Her most prominent job was HCO Area Secretary, London, at a time HCO was a separate body to the HASI London (but in the same building, 37 Fitzroy Street). Here she was in regular touch with Ron Hubbard, traveling down to Saint Hill to confer with him.

=== Retirement ===

In the 1970's I was in touch with her (by the "modern media" of the time, cassette tapes). And one summer when I went to England on holiday, my father (in a London suburb) lent me his car to travel down to Porlock, Somerset (situated near Exmoor National Park ). She had retired there to live with her sister. They were both keen gardeners and were brought up in Porlock in a house which was shaded from the sun much of sunny days by the Exmoor Hills. They had therefore brought a plot of land not affected that way, had built a small house on it, and were busy gardening. This was before the big exodus from the church, and the stronger suppressiveness of the 80's. We could let our hair down, and she told me quite a bit.

She talked of [[Reg Sharpe]] and [[John Damonte]] (click their names to go to articles on them).
She also told me that she had had auditing in London, which was CSed by Ron. In the period just after Power Processing came out, she told me that once, that when she was together with Ron, he looked at her, and then told her that she did not need to do Power Processing (at that time ''everybody'' had to do Power Processing before they could go on to the Clearing Course)). I interviewed her on cassette, and she talked about her early experiences in Scientology, including how the training was done then.

== Joan de Veulle Interview ==
<flashmp3>http://scientolipedia.org/w/extensions/HTML5video/videos/Joan De Veulle 1975.mp3</flashmp3> 
Note that the second part of this interview/discussion supplements the page on [[Teaching by Agreement]].

== Follow Up ==
Later I wrote to Joan and got a letter from her sister saying she was dead. It is not yet known whose body she is living in now.

Antony Phillips (ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk)

=== References ===
<References/>

[[Category:Personal Profiles]][[Category:Scientology - 1950's]][[Category:Scientology - 1950's England]][[Category:Scientology - 1960's]]
[[Category:Biographies]]

Joan de Veulle - England 50s 60s

2020-04-22T06:50:18Z

AntPhillips: /* Joan de Veulle Interview */ added reference to Teaching by Agreement page

{{Personal Profiles
|Deceased=Yes
|Died on=1988
|Nationality=British
|Org. affiliation=London HASI
|Posts=HCO Area Secretary (London), Extension Course Instructor, Registrar
}}
Joan was born 1905 in Handsworth, Birmingham UK and died 1988 in Somerset UK<ref>[http://scientology.wikia.com/wiki/Joan_de_Veulle wikia database]</ref>

''This "stub" written by [[Antony Phillips]]. Any who have more data please add or write to me.''

I know nothing of Joan's early life.

=== Coming into Scientology ===

Joan had been reading all the books she could find on psychology, and non of them satisfied what she was looking for. At the end of 1956 she came across Ron's book ''Fundamentals of Thought'', and felt this was it (actually that was the year the book was published). She took a Communication Course, and then the full HPA (professional auditor course) in 1957. At a later date she did the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (at the time it was only available at Saint Hill, England)

=== Staff Member ===

She was on staff at the London HASI for a long time. I remember she was Extension Course Instructor at one time (that was a correspondence course in major Scn books, like ''Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health'' and ''Science of Survival''). She wanted to do the 6th London ACC and asked me to take on the Extension Course job while she was on it, which I did. She was also Registrar at London. Her most prominent job was HCO Area Secretary, London, at a time HCO was a separate body to the HASI London (but in the same building, 37 Fitzroy Street). Here she was in regular touch with Ron Hubbard, traveling down to Saint Hill to confer with him.

=== Retirement ===

In the 1970's I was in touch with her (by the "modern media" of the time, cassette tapes). And one summer when I went to England on holiday, my father (in a London suburb) lent me his car to travel down to Porlock, Somerset (situated near Exmoor National Park ). She had retired there to live with her sister. They were both keen gardeners and were brought up in Porlock in a house which was shaded from the sun much of sunny days by the Exmoor Hills. They had therefore brought a plot of land not affected that way, had built a small house on it, and were busy gardening. This was before the big exodus from the church, and the stronger suppressiveness of the 80's. We could let our hair down, and she told me quite a bit.

She talked of [[Reg Sharpe]] and [[John Damonte]] (click their names to go to articles on them).
She also told me that she had had auditing in London, which was CSed by Ron. In the period just after Power Processing came out, she told me that once, that when she was together with Ron, he looked at her, and then told her that she did not need to do Power Processing (at that time ''everybody'' had to do Power Processing before they could go on to the Clearing Course)). I interviewed her on cassette, and she talked about her early experiences in Scientology, including how the training was done then.

== Joan de Veulle Interview ==
<flashmp3>http://scientolipedia.org/w/extensions/HTML5video/videos/Joan De Veulle 1975.mp3</flashmp3> 
Note that the second part of this interview/discussion supplements the page on [[Teaching by Agreement]].

== Follow Up ==
Later I wrote to Joan and got a letter from her sister saying she was dead. It is not yet known whose body she is living in now.

''Personal recollections of Joan and how she was would be much appreciated, preferably before all us that knew her are dead!.''

Antony Phillips (ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk)

=== References ===
<References/>

[[Category:Personal Profiles]][[Category:Scientology - 1950's]][[Category:Scientology - 1950's England]][[Category:Scientology - 1960's]]
[[Category:Biographies]]

Thread:Help:Technical Support/Flash

2020-04-22T06:39:09Z

AntPhillips: New thread: Flash

My computer tells me occasionally "flesh will no longer be supported after December 2020". Does this disable the MP3 files on Scientolipedia? The files, for example by Joan de Veulle - England 50s 60s and Norman Phillips form an important part of the record of Scientology. Best wishes Antony

Have You Lived Before This Life

2020-04-20T16:48:44Z

AntPhillips: /* Reference */ working link Found

{{Articles
|Image=HaveYouLived-firstEdCover.jpg
|Author=[[Antony A Phillips]]
|Type of Article=History Of Scientology
|Website=http.antology.info
|Email=ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk
}}

This book gives descriptions (called case histories) of 62 people, audited on the [[5th London ACC]] to investigate in a therapeutic manner lives they had had before their present life. The book was first published 1958 by Hubbard Association of Scientologists International Limited in London

== Project Engineers ==

In the London Scientology organisation there were about 6 people who were staff auditors. Their job was to apply individually Scientology techniques to paying persons. They audited 25 hours a week. Working from 9.00 to 7.30 with an hour (from 12.00 to 13.00) for lunch they had a certain amount of extra time, which was used both to mark tests of clients, and to write letters to people who had been in contact with the organisation. However at this time Hubbard named a few of them "Project Engineers" and they used their time when not auditing on specially designated tasks. One of them was Maura Chamberlain (mother of Neville Chamberlain, who was later a Sea Org Member and even later was associated with Alan Walter's Knowledgism) and she was given the task of collecting reports from practitioners and subjects from the recently run [[5th London ACC |5th London Advanced Clinical Course]] (ACC). The result of her work was the book ''Have You Lived Before This Life''. There was a general expectancy that this would be a great book, breaking down the barrier between Scientology and the public, and that when people read it, they would come streaming into the org to learn more of their past lives.

== The Contents ==

The first edition of the book has 183 pages, is hard back, 12 cms by 19cms. Immediately after the copyright notice are four and a half pages containing a list headed: "THESE ARE THE THERAPISTS WHO TOOK PART IN THIS EXPERIMENT. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY TO CALL ANY OF THEM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS." There then followed 62 names and addresses of participants, 27 of which had a phone numbers, 35 with addresses in England (others were in continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and USA).

This was followed by the table of contents which read:

List of Therapists Page 3 
Introduction Page 11 
The Conditions of the Experiment page 13 
A Note on Past Lives Page 17 
The Incidents Page 21 
Glossary Page 23 
Reports on Cases 1 to 42 Page 25 
Conclusion Page 183 

Some of the Reports were headed "Preclear's Report" and some "Scientologist's Report". In each case the Scientologist is named (a couple are anonymous) while the preclears merely appear as "Case No. nn". The preclears were all students on the ACC, named at the front of the book.

The types of incidents vary quite a bit, some being somewhat weird and some a very long time ago.

The conclusions section reads as follows:

:Now what do you think? 
:Seventy conservative, well trained, Scientologists, the most effective practitioners in today's world of mental healing, have gone through these experiences. Seventy sane people have some evidence that they have lived before. 
:What about the rest of the human race? 
:You have the names and addresses and phone numbers in this book. You can call them and verify the matter yourself. Some believe it, some do not. Talk to them all if you wish. 
:Or come to the HASI, 37 Fitzroy Street, London W.1, and ask about it. The HASI is only interested in healing people and clearing them. The Association has no real interest in fads and crazes. It is a scientific institution. It exists only for public service. But it has had to view past lives with more than ridicule. Past lives come up too often in clearing to be ignored. 
:Will they come up with you? 
:THE END.

== Sequal ==

A sequel was planned as documented in ''Ability'' 115, but never materialised:

:RESEARCH PROJECT 
:May I request the assistance of all auditors in the following research program: ''Have You Lived Before This Life ?'', the new book, has elicited such deep interest that it will be followed in a few months by a sequel: '' Where are you Buried?''. You can help by doing the following: (a) Check out your preclears for recent deaths, and any you find have died in the last century in the country where you are, (b) write down all particulars for record, (c) then go to the place of burial and locate the grave or get a copy of the death roll from official sources, or both, and (d) send all data, the story of the life and death, to HCO W W, Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England. Be sure you have the preclear's permission for data to be used. Be sure data is authentic in every possible way. The resulting collection may be published in book form. L. Ron Hubbard

== Reference ==

At the following link the 1974 edition of the book is available for free download: [https://stss.nl/stss-materials/English/Books/Have%20You%20Lived%20Before%20This%20Life%20HYLBTL.pdf]. This is the third printing and does not contain the names, addresses and telephone numbers.
There is a description of the ACC at [[5th London ACC]]

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Have You Lived Before This Life

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This book gives descriptions (called case histories) of 62 people, audited on the [[5th London ACC]] to investigate in a therapeutic manner lives they had had before their present life. The book was first published 1958 by Hubbard Association of Scientologists International Limited in London

== Project Engineers ==

In the London Scientology organisation there were about 6 people who were staff auditors. Their job was to apply individually Scientology techniques to paying persons. They audited 25 hours a week. Working from 9.00 to 7.30 with an hour (from 12.00 to 13.00) for lunch they had a certain amount of extra time, which was used both to mark tests of clients, and to write letters to people who had been in contact with the organisation. However at this time Hubbard named a few of them "Project Engineers" and they used their time when not auditing on specially designated tasks. One of them was Maura Chamberlain (mother of Neville Chamberlain, who was later a Sea Org Member and even later was associated with Alan Walter's Knowledgism) and she was given the task of collecting reports from practitioners and subjects from the recently run [[5th London ACC |5th London Advanced Clinical Course]] (ACC). The result of her work was the book ''Have You Lived Before This Life''. There was a general expectancy that this would be a great book, breaking down the barrier between Scientology and the public, and that when people read it, they would come streaming into the org to learn more of their past lives.

== The Contents ==

The first edition of the book has 183 pages, is hard back, 12 cms by 19cms. Immediately after the copyright notice are four and a half pages containing a list headed: "THESE ARE THE THERAPISTS WHO TOOK PART IN THIS EXPERIMENT. YOU ARE AT LIBERTY TO CALL ANY OF THEM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS." There then followed 62 names and addresses of participants, 27 of which had a phone numbers, 35 with addresses in England (others were in continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand and USA).

This was followed by the table of contents which read:

List of Therapists Page 3 
Introduction Page 11 
The Conditions of the Experiment page 13 
A Note on Past Lives Page 17 
The Incidents Page 21 
Glossary Page 23 
Reports on Cases 1 to 42 Page 25 
Conclusion Page 183 

Some of the Reports were headed "Preclear's Report" and some "Scientologist's Report". In each case the Scientologist is named (a couple are anonymous) while the preclears merely appear as "Case No. nn". The preclears were all students on the ACC, named at the front of the book.

The types of incidents vary quite a bit, some being somewhat weird and some a very long time ago.

The conclusions section reads as follows:

:Now what do you think? 
:Seventy conservative, well trained, Scientologists, the most effective practitioners in today's world of mental healing, have gone through these experiences. Seventy sane people have some evidence that they have lived before. 
:What about the rest of the human race? 
:You have the names and addresses and phone numbers in this book. You can call them and verify the matter yourself. Some believe it, some do not. Talk to them all if you wish. 
:Or come to the HASI, 37 Fitzroy Street, London W.1, and ask about it. The HASI is only interested in healing people and clearing them. The Association has no real interest in fads and crazes. It is a scientific institution. It exists only for public service. But it has had to view past lives with more than ridicule. Past lives come up too often in clearing to be ignored. 
:Will they come up with you? 
:THE END.

== Sequal ==

A sequel was planned as documented in ''Ability'' 115, but never materialised:

:RESEARCH PROJECT 
:May I request the assistance of all auditors in the following research program: ''Have You Lived Before This Life ?'', the new book, has elicited such deep interest that it will be followed in a few months by a sequel: '' Where are you Buried?''. You can help by doing the following: (a) Check out your preclears for recent deaths, and any you find have died in the last century in the country where you are, (b) write down all particulars for record, (c) then go to the place of burial and locate the grave or get a copy of the death roll from official sources, or both, and (d) send all data, the story of the life and death, to HCO W W, Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England. Be sure you have the preclear's permission for data to be used. Be sure data is authentic in every possible way. The resulting collection may be published in book form. L. Ron Hubbard

== Reference ==

At the following link the 1974 edition of the book is available for free download: http://www.matrixfiles.com/Scientology%20Materials/Books/HAVE%20YOU%20LIVED%20BEFORE%20THIS%20LIFE%20HYLBTL.pdf . This is the third printing and does not contain the names, addresses and telephone numbers.
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L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It was later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* Annie Broeker - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the
ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the
loop.

* Gene Denk - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
[http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
[http://www.antology.info/index-4.html] 
Account of Mission Holders Conference [http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/missions.html]

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L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It was later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* Annie Broeker - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the
ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the
loop.

* Gene Denk - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following two links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
[http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
[http://www.antology.info/index-4.html]

[[Category:History of Scientology]]

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'''THIS is now posted 13th April 2020'''

Sandbox version of articles on Ron's death. BEING WORKED ON AND MORE DATA NEEDED

L.Ron Hubbard's death.

''THIS IS A STUB. At the moment it consists only of two articles. You are invited to investigate the area and contribute further to data on the matter.''

== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It was later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* Annie Broeker - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the
ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the
loop.

* Gene Denk - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following two links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
[http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
[http://www.antology.info/index-4.html]

L.Ron Hubbard's Death

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== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It was later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* Annie Broeker - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the
ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the
loop.

* Gene Denk - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following two links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
[http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
[http://www.antology.info/index-4.html]

User:AntPhillips/sandbox9

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AntPhillips: /* Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article */ minor

Sandbox version of articles on Ron's death. BEING WORKED ON AND MORE DATA NEEDED

L.Ron Hubbard's death.

''THIS IS A STUB. At the moment it consists only of two articles. You are invited to investigate the area and contribute further to data on the matter.''

== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on to me with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It was later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* Annie Broeker - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the
ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the
loop.

* Gene Denk - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following two links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
[http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
[http://www.antology.info/index-4.html]

User:AntPhillips/sandbox9

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AntPhillips: /* Internet at the Time of the Following Article */ small typos

Sandbox version of articles on Ron's death. BEING WORKED ON AND MORE DATA NEEDED

L.Ron Hubbard's death.

''THIS IS A STUB. At the moment it consists only of two articles. You are invited to investigate the area and contribute further to data on the matter.''

== The Atmosphere and Knowledge in the Freezone around the Time of Ron's Death ==

=== By Antony Phillips===

I was expelled from the Church of Scientology in 1983. Round about the time of Ron's death (January 24, 1986) there was enormous interest in the FriScientology areas I was in touch with. There was speculation as to whether he was already dead. There was great interest in Pat and Annie Broeker who were well known as being among the very few in direct contact with Ron. When it happened The Mission Holders Conference<ref> the Mission Holders Conference was a very important "public" event which was fully reported at the time citation is needed here. Possibly an article on it is needed. The start might be found at the following page and site: http://www.freezoneplanet.org/11t.html .</ref> had been talked about widely. A transcript of it was available, which included examples of extremely unScientological behaviour. Details of Ron's death (the official version) seeped through to us. When Ron's death was announced we had already heard stories about peculiar bodies like the Finance Police and the Watchdog Committee.

With that background I was very sceptical of the version which was sold to us. Refusing an autopsy on religious grounds was quite weird in that I'd never heard of any opinions in Scientology of how bodies were to be disposed of. And in fact I had been to a funeral which Ron conducted and wrote the ceremony for (to be found in ''The Background and Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology of California, Worldwide ''). Here the body (of Ray Kemp's mother) was cremated during the ceremony which is possibly unusual. At that time, in my 30 years of experience of Scientology, I had never heard any particular concern about or interest in what you did with the MEST remains of a human body.

So at the time it happened I was pretty sure that it was what has been called "a put up job". There was a lot of speculation on what had really happened. There was also speculation as to whether he had died a few years earlier.

''This article needs greatly expanding. Realities that existed in and outside the church were vastly different from what they are at the time of writing this (2017) ''

====Internet at the Time of the Following Article====

Internet had not come about during Ron's life (I can't see that he foresaw it). At the time Robert Vaughn Young wrote this article and put it on Internet Internet was in its infancy and very primitive. There were no graphics on Internet. With modern eyes it is perhaps a little difficult to imagine how things would be without graphics. For one thing, can you imagine an Internet without pictures?

You were limited to text characters which appear on an old-fashioned English typewriter that didn't include foreign letters like æ, ø, å, Æ, Å, Ø (of the Danish alphabet for example). Attempts were sometimes made by grouping letters to make a pattern and the predecessor of the smiley was made in the following manner: :- ) which represent two eyes, a nose and a smile (smiley!). ROFL was another attempt to increase the vocabulary, standing for "Rolling On the Floor Laughing" and there were other sets of initials which every regular Internet user was aware of the meaning of.

The letters were one size and one typescript (the one now call courier). So how did you emphasise something? You did it by using all capitals. If a person used all capitals a lot they could risk being accused of shouting! This was what Robert Vaughn Young did in the article below for showing subheadings to his article, and we have changed his all capital letter headings to wiki subheadings with large and small letters of a different size and type style.

The diversity which you see in modern Internet was not there. Initially there were a number of areas called newsgroups which anybody could write to and which concerned a wide variety of subjects which I suppose would in have included things like gardening, care of babies et cetera. There was quite a number in the end, many of them began their names with the word "alt" (I've forgotten what that means – there were many newsgroups with different prefixes and "alt" was one of them). In the Scientology area there were two, alt.religion.scientology, which came first (presumably there were many beginning with the words alt.religion.xxx)<ref> I got this short note from Homer; "alt stands for alternative, the hierarchy played by different rules from the sci, rec, comp and other [USENET] heirarchies, alt was an unmoderated free for all".</ref> . For some reason a free zone newsgroup was set up with the title Alt.Clearing.Technology, and started by Homer Smith<ref> we need a Scientolipedia page on him</ref>, probably because ARS was a sort of church (official) newsgroup. At that time, after the many departures from the church, there was a search for an alternative name for using the Scientology auditing technology and "Clearing" was one of the names suggested. Shortly after newsgroups started individual lists started, which were run by an individual and you had to join them (you couldn't just barge in without having joined). Homer also started a list which he called Clear L (L standing for list) and this was set up so that if you wrote something as a member of Clear L to Clear L it was automatically posted on to ACT.

== Introduction to Robert Vaughn Young Article==

''The article below from 1998 has been passed on with the following introductory material''

A little something from Robert Vaughn Young:

RVY recalls the death of LRH:

For years Robert Vaughn Young rubbed shoulders with the
more elite echelon in the CoS organization. Since leaving Scientology in 1989, he has been an avowed and outspoken
critic of the CoS, and has testified as an expert witness at
several trials. (To read one of his affidavits, click here<ref>The link did not come through.'' If anybody can trace it please fill in or let me know: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk''</ref>.)
He has been - at times -a regular poster to the USENET
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology<ref>USENET alt.religion.scientology was one of the two places on the early Internet, open to everyone, where Scientology was discussed.</ref>, where he has offered
invaluable insight into the inner workings of the CoS. He is
also an accomplished and gifted writer, as the following will
attest.

RVY was actively involved in the events surrounding
Hubbard's death, but it is only within the last few
years that he has begun to doubt the 'official'
version of what happened during January, 1986. In a recent
post to alt.religion.scientology, he offered this intriguing
tale of his own investigation into the death of LRH.

Additionally I got this data: "RVY -- was a GO guy, in San Francisco to begin with.
He was deeply involved with Snow White<ref>Snow White: This was an operation organised by the Guardian's Office (GO) in the USA and was illegal. 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. 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 project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]]
'' This is definitely a STUB – the full article needed.''.</ref>. -- He is dead from cancer -- He wrote some of ''Battlefield Earth''".

From a post by Robert Vaughn Young (September 2, 1998):

==Hubbard's Death==

===By Robert Vaughn Young===

When Hubbard died, everything changed. (duh) I went to the
death site (his ranch at Creston, near San Luis Obispo CA)
that night along with David Miscavige and some attorneys.
Since none of us - including Miscavige - had ever been
there before, we were met at a restaurant by Pat Broeker who took
us to the ranch. We arrived at perhaps 4 a.m. (Hubbard was
found dead at about 8 p.m. I was told at 10 p.m. We left LA at
perhaps 1 a.m. I wasn't always watching the clock, given
the circumstances.)

What's amusing in the cult's attempt to DA (dead agent<ref>Dead Agent Caper. The dead agent caper was used to disprove the lies. This consisted of counter-documenting any area where the lies were circulated. The lie "they were…" is countered by documents showing that "they were not…" This causes the source of the lie and any other statements from that source to be discarded. (HCO PL 11 May 71 III)</ref>)
me
their saying that I went to the ranch along with some
gardeners and cooks. Right. Gardeners and cooks were the
first to be rushed up that night, before the authorities
were called or the body taken away. ROFL<ref>ROFL (if I remember rightly) means "roll on the floor laughing".</ref>)! Don't you just
love these guys! <ref> Beth made this comment/suggestion:
I get that RVY is being sarcastic here. In other words he is saying there is no way gardeners etc would be the first to see dead LRH but I think it might need more explanation.. ? Dunno
Something like:
''Right! As if gardeners and cooks would be the first people to be rushed up that night before the authorities were called or the body taken away. ROFL! Don't you just
love these guys!''</ref>

Creston ( A property owned by LRH near San Luis Obispo where LRH died – Ed [of earlier version]) was where the story was put together that he had
moved on to the next level of research, or however it was
worded, when it was announced at the Palladium and to the
world. The event was so carefully constructed that no one
noticed that something essential was missing, but I’ll get to
that in a moment. But during The Event, I stayed at the
ranch to deal with any media who might show up or call. None
did and less than 48 hours later, the Challenger space
shuttle blew up, bumping news of his death and any serious
questions from the media. I was monitoring the TV news via a
satellite dish and watched it happen and reported it. While
the rest of the world was in shock, DM was happy because we
had been bumped from the news. But that is how one comes to
view the world at that echelon.

==== The Newberry Ranch====

I later moved to another ranch Hubbard owned, at Newberry
Springs, east of Barstow CA and stayed there for a couple of
months. Hubbard never visited it (it was merely a fallback
location for him) and I never did see that anyone learned
about this one, even the media. I guess they were all hung
up on the Creston property, near San Luis Obispo, where he
died.

The most lasting benefit of my stay at Newberry was that
that was where I stopped smoking. One day DM, Mitoff, Pat
Broeker, Mike Eldridge and I were sitting around and we all
agreed to stop smoking although Broeker was the only
non-smoker. Mitoff had a horrible time of it. He ended up on
Skoal Bandits, spitting disgustingly into a bucket while
driving back and forth to LA, and also addicting me to the
little cusses. In the end, I was the only one who stopped,
making me wish we had put some money in a pool.

In the months I spent between the Creston and Newberry
ranches, Pat and I became good friends. He had been
Hubbard's closest and most trusted aide and confidante for those final years. With what I already knew about Hubbard, Pat and I had the greatest talks. Sometimes Pat and
I were the only ones at the ranch, so we would chat while
moving horses or going to town to shop. I began to learn
about the life Hubbard had led while in hiding for those
last years, moving between towns in the Bluebird bus and
finally settling down in Creston. (BTIAS <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED BTIAS</ref>))

====The Struggle Starts – Who Will Replace Hubbard?====

Meanwhile, a power struggle was brewing to see who would
take control of Scientology and Newberry was the place where
many of the discussions occurred while DM stayed either in
LA or in Hemet. (Jesse will have something to say about that
someday because he was seriously involved in the ensuing
explosion.) It would result in a number of people fleeing
(such as Jesse<ref> Jesse Prince a sci exec</ref>)
) or going to the RPF (such as me).

A key element in the power struggle was Hubbard's last
message to the rank-and-file. Those who were in the cult
back in 1986-87 will remember this incident. It was a
message from Hubbard that was issued as a Sea Org directive.
It said goodbye, wishing them well and establishing a new
rank/position called Loyal Officer or LO. (The term is taken
from OT3.) Pat was to be the LO1 and his wife Annie was to
be LO2 and it basically turned the management of the Sea Org
over to them. And since the SO ran Scientology, that meant
they were at the top of the heap. DM was not mentioned in
the directive. It was later was issued to all staff - with
DM's approval and authority - reduced in size and put in
a small frame with a photo of Hubbard for the desk of every
staff member.

In the meantime, Pat began to slowly take control. I would
often get phone calls from him. He would never identify
himself on the phone, going back to his years of tight
security, but merely would say, "Hi, it's
me."

I won't try to give the details of the ensuing power
struggle because I was in LA and it was happened at Creston,
Newberry and Hemet. (I leave it to Jesse, who was there.)
But the outcome was that Miscavige won. And typical of any
political coup, there was a sudden purge as he consolidated
his power. Anyone DM thought might be a friend of
Broeker's who would pose a threat were sent to
Scientology's equivalent of Lubayanka Prison or Siberia:
the RPF, so I went. For 16 months and three escape
attempts.

Now here is where it gets interesting, folks.

==== Miscavige Cancels Hubbard's Message ====

While I was on the RPF, a directive came out from Miscavige
saying the supposed final message from Hubbard that named
Broeker was a forgery by Broeker and it was being canceled.
That same day, Annie Broeker appeared on the RPF. This was
not the Annie I had come to know. What stumbled into the RPF
was a completely broken person. She was pale and hollow and
her eyes were empty. There was no mistaking it. She had been
broken and only now was she being thrown away into the trash
heap called the RPF. Even then, she was kept under guard,
just to be sure.

====Two important omitteds====

With the cancellation of the message from Hubbard, there
were now two vital things missing that were 100% Hubbard and
100% standard tech and yet no one seemed to notice or, if
they did, no one dared to remark on it. But then, as Hubbard
correctly pointed out, the hardest thing to notice is the
thing that is omitted.

What was now missing was (1) something from Hubbard to all
Scientologists saying goodbye and what he was doing and (2)
something that passed his hat, which is one of the most
basic tenets in the organization. They had been missing at
the event announcing his death but with the cancellation by
Miscavige, they were missing more than ever.

====Where Was Hubbard's Message? ====

One does not require much knowledge about L. Ron Hubbard to
know that it would be completely unlike him to simply leave
- especially if the story about his going off to do more
research were true - and not leave a message. So if he HAD
left as Scientologists were told, where was the message if
the other was a forgery?

But perhaps more importantly, where was the hat turnover? I
don't mean the volumes of policies and bulletins. I mean
something that says, I hereby appoint Joe Blow to take over
as... Would Hubbard leave the planet and not pass on the
command? Hardly.

Or, let's put it in one of the most basic tenets from
Hubbard: if it isn't written, it isn't true.

(Note: Hubbard's will was hardly a Scientology hat
turnover and has not been issued to the rank and file as
policy.)

So the question became (to those of us who wondered), if the
LO directive was a forgery, where was the real one? Where
were Hubbard's wishes IN WRITING?

====Miscavige Had Nothing from Hubbard====

Of course, DM never provided anything and no one was willing
to ask and risk being sent to the RPF with the rest of us.
He said it was a forgery and that was that. End of
discussion.

For the rest of my stay in the cult, Pat Broeker was never
mentioned because, in the cult, you learn what to not talk
about. Pat became what in Orwell's "1984" is a
non-person. He had been written out of history, with anyone
who cared (such as me) being sent to the RPF or interrogated
(security checked) until they got the point, which meant
(per the head on a pike policy) that everyone else got the
message.

So without a shred of WRITTEN evidence from Hubbard and by
canceling what even DM had first agreed was from Hubbard,
Miscavige was now in control while Broeker had
disappeared.

Can you say, "coup"?

But hold on! It gets better.

====Reading the Material Anew ====

After Stacy <ref>So far as I know Stacy was his 2D (wife/partner).</ref> and I fled the cult in 1989, I put it all behind
me. I simply wanted my life back and the last thing I needed
was to think about the cult. They had taken enough of my
life without my adding more. But after a couple of years of
drying out, Stacy and I were invited to help with some legal
cases and this gave us a chance to handle the material that
once handled us. We could now read Hubbard and TALK about
the material, which is completely forbidden in the cult. It
was like back-flushing a radiator and watching what comes
out.

I came across a copy of Miscavige's cancellation of
Hubbards final message and I began to kick it around with
Stacy. As we talked, I started to comment on the various
little oddities, starting with the cancellation itself. I
began to remember a few others that I had packed away at the time. We were having a conversation that Sea Org staff could no more do than a loyal Communists might question the a change of power in the Kremlin, and for the same reasons.<ref>The proofreader wrote: "ANT I do not understand this sentence. If you don’t understand it either suggest we omit it". I can dimly sense it so I think it should be left.</ref>

==== An "Acceptable Truth" Is Fed Scientologists ====

In the weeks and months that followed, I couldn't shake
the events surrounding Hubbard's death and DM's
takeover. Little oddities took on forms like pieces of a jig
saw puzzle. I felt like an amnesiac trying to recover his
memory yet what was there to recover? I was there at the
ranch. I was there when Hubbard's body was taken out. I
was there when the execs were called up the ranch and told
to get an event together, but not being told why. I was
there when the attorneys reported his death and then
scurried to get the body through the coroner. Etc, etc, etc.
So what was the problem? Yeah, the next higher level of
research story was the sort of pap we used to feed the
rank-and-file all the time but it wasn't as if we LIED
to them. (Sort of the way Clinton said he didn't LEGALLY
lie.) We didn't LEGALLY lie, did we?

Per Hubbard's policy, they were given an
"acceptable truth" because of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics." What that
means in plain speak was that there would be panic and
disaffection in the ranks if it was thought that Hubbard -
the OT of all OTs, of course - was not at cause over life
and death. If the tech couldn't help him, how could it
help others? That was the myth that had to be protected at
all costs and that was what the story did when his death was
announced. It fed the myth that everyone so wanted to
believe. (And it kept the money coming in.)

====Working With Puzzle Pieces====

While in the cult, I had done a lot of investigative
reporting and some of the best I did was working on some of
the CIA's mind control documents created under the code
name MK ULTRA. When the CIA released them, much was blanked
out and working with a team of people hand-selected by
Stacy, we went through documents that the media had skipped
past because they were so fragmentary and so heavily
deleted. In one file, for example, there were receipts for
the installation of mufflers on a 1953 Mercury, a tiny
battery-powered motor, elevator tickets to the Empire State
Building, nose plugs, a receipt for someone to attend a
Microscropy convention, etc.

Bit by bit, we struggled to give them meaning until one
piece cracked another, like breaking a code. We came up with
the experiment and got national news on Operation Big City
where bacillus were released (through the mufflers) to test
for bacterial warfare. (The elevator tickets were so agents
could go up and measure the amount of released bacteria.) It
is a story the cult still likes to cite, along with several
others I did for them, under my byline in the Freedom rag.
Since then, per Orwell, my name has been deleted, of
course.

Pouring over those heavily deleted CIA documents was how I
felt like while I chewed on the oddities around
Hubbard's death, such as nothing in writing from him,
Broeker missing, the fact that Denk (Hubbard's physician
at the time of death) had also disappeared, Annie's
appearance and little things that I had seen and learned at
the ranch.

====The Blue Flash ====

And then it hit me. It was what Hubbard calls a blue flash,
the sudden insight.

Hubbard didn't die.

He was killed.

I fell back in my chair, completely stunned. In all of the
years since 1986, I had never once considered that
possibility. Even with my being long out of the cult and
directing criticism at various practices and policies, the
thought had never crossed my mind that Hubbard might have
been killed.

I got a sheet of paper and began to take notes, my heart
pounding and my breathing hurried. That nagging feeling had
turned into an adrenaline rush that I couldn't
explain.

Who was there at the Creston ranch when Hubbard died?

* Pat Broeker - MIA<ref>MIA probably means Missing In Action, used in war and used facetiously when someone from a circle of friends or network unexpectedly disappears (explanation provided by a correspondent).</ref>)

* Annie Broeker - broken, under their control.

* Two Scientology ranch hands. While trusted to work on the
ranch, I came to see how much they were kept out of the
loop.

* Gene Denk - Hubbard's personal physician. (And mine.
Small world.) Denk had disappeared for a year after the
death, which was one of those oddities, before returning to
his practice up the street from the main Hollywood
complex.

End of list, a too-short list so I started to add who went
up that night in the three-car caravan that included DM,
some attorneys and a couple of us "gardeners and
cooks." Nothing there.

I looked at the list. Pat Broeker was the only possibility,
if he was out and alive. For all I knew, he was dead or
locked up somewhere and in a mental state that approximated
cold oatmeal. There was no middle ground. He wouldn't
have been given a safe back-lines job or I would have heard
about it.<ref> A proofreader asked: "Surely DENK was there at LRH’s death and could also have been asked?" My memory of this is that Denk was part of the apparent conspiracy and could not be reached to be asked. More research is needed into this while records still exist. </ref>

====Searching for Broeker====

So how would I find Pat Broeker, if he was alive? I racked
my memory, trying to dig out some clue he might have given
me in the months that we were together but I came up with
nothing. My tendency to not inquire about a person's
personal life had just sold me short. I didn't even know
what state he was from. Who might? Who would know where he
came from or where he was born? I needed some clue to start
the search and the problem was the security that Pat used
for his job. He had explained to me how any trace of him had
been wiped out, to ensure that no one could find Hubbard by
finding him. Plus if Pat had escaped or fled, he was skilled
enough to hide from any search as that was what he had been
doing for years to hide Hubbard from the authorities.

I finally remembered one location he told me about and sent
a message there saying that I was trying to reach him but no
reply came. After a few months I sent another and waited.
The months turned into nearly a year and I basically gave up
until one day when the phone rang.

"Hello?" I said.

"Hi," came a voice. "It's me."

I paused, saying nothing.

"Pat?" I finally said with some incredulity.
"Is that you?"

"Yeah," he said, with what I swear was a twinkle
in his voice. "How are you?"

What a question!

====Rinder Wakes up ====

Let's jump ahead a few years when I was in a deposition
in Denver, in the FACTNet case<ref> EXPLANATION NEEDEDFACTNet case </ref>). The usual goon squad was
there, including Mike Rinder, who proudly heads up the
criminal Dept. 20 where Scientology's felons are
produced. Rinder was struggling to stay awake in the corner
while the cult attorney was going through a list of names,
wanting to know if I had spoken with any of them.
Rinder's head was bobbing as the attorney asked
monotonously, "Pat Broeker?"

I glanced at Rinder. I had to enjoy this one.

"Yes," I said.

I couldn't have gotten a faster reaction with a bucket
of water. Rinder jumped awake and looked at me in shock,
fear and hatred. I smiled.

The questions about my involvement with Broeker were
routine, from a list that they asked for each person I named
but Broeker wasn't routine. They soon stopped to take a
break. Like the good sock puppet <ref> EXPLANATION NEEDED of sock puppet</ref> that he is, Rinder dashed
out of the room, obviously to call DM. (I so wish I could
have watched DM's face too.) About 15 minutes later,
Rinder returned and shoved some questions at the attorney
and the depo continued. But little was gained and not one
question was asked about what Pat might have told me about
Hubbard's death, if he had at all. They clearly
didn't want it on the record, under oath. I found it
amusing, this great powerful cult was so terrified of the
subject, not to mention Broeker.

So let me tell you a little bit about Pat: he's doing
fine and his sense of humor has improved. End of a little
bit.

====The Coroner's Report ====

Now lets back up a tad, before Pat and I spent several days
together, going over old times. I went to San Luis Obispo,
the county seat for where Hubbard died. It was there that I
got the full coroner's report from a very friendly
deputy sheriff[[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hubbard,%20l.r._report.pdf]]. I poured over the pages and noticed that
something called Vistaril was found in Hubbard's blood.
Since the cause of death was a stroke, I assumed it was a
stroke medication so I didn't bother further. Several
days later, I called a physician friend and was going over
the documents and the medical language.

"By the way,? I asked casually, "what's
Vistaril?"

"A psychiatric tranquilizer," he answered
matter-of-factly.

I nearly dropped the phone.

"Excuse me," I said in near-shock, "but what
did you say?"

"Vistaril is a psychiatric tranquilizer, usually
injected through the buttocks."

I flipped to the document where the Coroner had examined
Hubbard's body. I read it to my friend, about the needle
puncture wounds found on the left buttock, under a band-aid.
"Could that be the Vistaril shots," I asked.

"Probably," he said. "That's where they
are usually given."

I looked at the Coroner's report and the blood sample
report.

Holy shit, I said to myself, in my best French. Holy fucking
shit.

====The Autopsy Is Prohibited ====

I pulled out another document, signed by Hubbard. It
prohibited any autopsy of his body on religious grounds,
which was legally binding on officials. DM and attorney
Earle Cooley had shoved it at the coroner to stop him,
leaving him to take only blood samples, which turned up the
Vistaril.

So, I thought, L. Ron Hubbard, the man who fought psychiatry
since 1950 and who railed against the dangers of any
psychiatric drugs had died with them in his brain while
signing a new last will.

Plus even the coroner was suspicious of the will as it had
been signed by Hubbard just before he died. Coincidences
like that tend to make coroner's worry. (I wonder what
the coroner would have thought had he known that Denk was
gambling at Lake Tahoe when Hubbard had his stroke, as
several people can attest. The impression the coroner had
was that Denk was "in attendence" with Hubbard not
only at death but was there at the stroke, having stayed at
the ranch for months. Hmmm....)

I fell back in my chair, trying to catch my breath.

====Outpoints? What Outpoints?====

Okay, I said to myself, let’s see if we understand this.
Hubbard signs a will while on the psychiatric tranquilizer
Vistaril and then dies. The coroner cannot conduct an
autopsy because Hubbard also signed a paper (also while on
Vistaril?) prohibiting an autopsy on religious grounds. The
Scientologist doctor who was in attendance (except when he
went to Lake Tahoe and Hubbard had the stroke) signs the
death certificate as the physician attending to Hubbard and
then disappears for a year. Then even though David Miscavige
has nothing else in writing from Hubbard, he cancels
Hubbard's last message and hat transfer to trusted aide
Broeker and ousts Broeker, who disappears while his wife is
turned into a compliant vegetable, leaving DM in charge.

Nope, nothing wrong here, I facetiously thought. No
outpoints, borrowing Hubbard's word for oddities.

I had to take a walk.

====Starting With A Title====

I don't know when it was but I clearly remember a
particular moment when I sat down at my computer keyboard. I
am one of those writers who needs either the opening words
of the article or a working title in order to really start.
I had a working title, not for an article, but a book, and I
typed it out. Then I leaned back in my chair, took a deep
breath and read it. It said, "Who Killed L. Ron
Hubbard?"

I leaned back and my eyes roamed over each word and letter.
I took in the question and then the words and letters and
back to the question. I even digested the tiny pixels on the
screen, as if I hoped the answer would leap from the
phosphorescence but nothing changed but the black cursor
blinking at me, almost mocking my effort. Yes, I thought, it
is a pretentious question but it was the one I had to try to
answer, if there was an answer.

Then I had the exact moment for the opening words. It was on
the night that Terri Gamboa - former Executive Director of
Author Services, Inc. and now out of Scientology - called me
to DM's office where I was told that Hubbard had died
and that I would be going to his ranch.

====The Writing Starts ====

I leaned towards the keyboard and began to write. To my
amazement, the words and the scene poured out effortlessly.
I wasn't striving for literature. I merely had to
capture the scene.

As the cursor flitted across the screen, I began to remember
how it happened that night and into the days that followed.
There was more that I needed to remember but for now, this
would do. Let it roll, I told myself. Let it roll. It was as
if I was regaining myself.

Perhaps six or so hours later, I finally stopped, exhausted
and sufficiently satisfied for the moment. But even then, I
found it difficult to sleep as my mind kept returning to the
ranch, Broeker, DM, the RPF, the Challenger disaster,
Newberry, the ambulance taking away his body. I was
searching for pieces of a puzzle that had no
comprehension.

And how could I possibly answer the question?

-from a post by Robert Vaughn Young (writer@eskimo.com)

=='' Temporary'' Postscript by Antony Phillips==

In asking for help with this article a correspondent sent the following:

:I have read through a second time your article on lrhs death. 
:It seems very interesting. My only comment as I mentioned before is that it has no ending and just seems to end abruptly and I wonder why. 
:If you are going to publish it I think it needs some comment about the ending.

I am very much aware of this problem. I have one more article by Robert Vaughn Young (about the preparation of Ron's book ''Battlefield Earth'') and I remember there is one more very good article he issued at the time which I do not have in my possession. It concerned in detail his arrival after leaving (blowing from) Scientology staff to a small island community in the USA and at a local "pub" he was asked by a woman why he stayed so long. He attempted to answer by giving the analogy of a beaten up woman failing to leave her husband. at that point the woman held up her hands in sort of stop gesture and said something like "Say no more! I stayed so many years with a suppressive husband"

There is humour in Robert Vaughn Young's articles much of which will be missed by people who do not have a background in things that were going on at that time. I can mention some that I am aware of in which I have a suspicion very few are aware of today. They are: the Finance Police, the Finance Dictator, the Watchdog committee. All new posts and institutions in the Scientology organisation which we "splinters" heard off with a certain amount of incredulity: "have things got that mad?" Was the sort of feeling in the group.

I do not know whether records of this and similar most peculiar things still exist. Also at that time we heard of the struggle for power within the church ending up in the making of Pat and Annie Broeker into non-people (in a similar way to Mary Sue Hubbard).

I spent many hours doing the research for the article on Scientolipedia on Jack Horner[http://scientolipedia.org/info/Jack_Horner]. Somehow I no longer have that amount of time available. Can I pass the hat or whatever you like to call it on to others? For this really is an appeal for some one or some group to get to work and patch up an article covering that sort of thing. The longer we wait the less chances there are of patching up the story and filling the gaps apparent to newcomers in the above article.

==References==

The following two links give some ideas of some of the experiences some have had when connected to official Scientology at various times and places. 
[http://www.freezoneplanet.org/bio.html] 
[http://www.antology.info/index-4.html]

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[[Antony_A_Phillips]]

[[Antony_Phillips]]

email: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk (still valid in 2020, my 90th yeear)

I have had a login on this site since 2013 and have contributed a fair amount of items and additions and changes to items already existing.
[[User:AntPhillips|Antony A Phillips]] ([[User talk:AntPhillips|talk]]) 18:46, December 18, 2017 (UTC)

Joan de Veulle - England 50s 60s

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{{Personal Profiles
|Deceased=Yes
|Died on=1988
|Nationality=British
|Org. affiliation=London HASI
|Posts=HCO Area Secretary (London), Extension Course Instructor, Registrar
}}
Joan was born 1905 in Handsworth, Birmingham UK and died 1988 in Somerset UK<ref>[http://scientology.wikia.com/wiki/Joan_de_Veulle wikia database]</ref>

''This "stub" written by [[Antony Phillips]]. Any who have more data please add or write to me.''

I know nothing of Joan's early life.

=== Coming into Scientology ===

Joan had been reading all the books she could find on psychology, and non of them satisfied what she was looking for. At the end of 1956 she came across Ron's book ''Fundamentals of Thought'', and felt this was it (actually that was the year the book was published). She took a Communication Course, and then the full HPA (professional auditor course) in 1957. At a later date she did the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (at the time it was only available at Saint Hill, England)

=== Staff Member ===

She was on staff at the London HASI for a long time. I remember she was Extension Course Instructor at one time (that was a correspondence course in major Scn books, like ''Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health'' and ''Science of Survival''). She wanted to do the 6th London ACC and asked me to take on the Extension Course job while she was on it, which I did. She was also Registrar at London. Her most prominent job was HCO Area Secretary, London, at a time HCO was a separate body to the HASI London (but in the same building, 37 Fitzroy Street). Here she was in regular touch with Ron Hubbard, traveling down to Saint Hill to confer with him.

=== Retirement ===

In the 1970's I was in touch with her (by the "modern media" of the time, cassette tapes). And one summer when I went to England on holiday, my father (in a London suburb) lent me his car to travel down to Porlock, Somerset (situated near Exmoor National Park ). She had retired there to live with her sister. They were both keen gardeners and were brought up in Porlock in a house which was shaded from the sun much of sunny days by the Exmoor Hills. They had therefore brought a plot of land not affected that way, had built a small house on it, and were busy gardening. This was before the big exodus from the church, and the stronger suppressiveness of the 80's. We could let our hair down, and she told me quite a bit.

She talked of [[Reg Sharpe]] and [[John Damonte]] (click their names to go to articles on them).
She also told me that she had had auditing in London, which was CSed by Ron. In the period just after Power Processing came out, she told me that once, that when she was together with Ron, he looked at her, and then told her that she did not need to do Power Processing (at that time ''everybody'' had to do Power Processing before they could go on to the Clearing Course)). I interviewed her on cassette, and she talked about her early experiences in Scientology, including how the training was done then.

== K
Joan de Veulle Interview ==
<flashmp3>http://scientolipedia.org/w/extensions/HTML5video/videos/Joan De Veulle 1975.mp3</flashmp3>

== Follow Up ==
Later I wrote to Joan and got a letter from her sister saying she was dead. It is not yet known whose body she is living in now.

''Personal recollections of Joan and how she was would be much appreciated, preferably before all us that knew her are dead!.''

Antony Phillips (ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk)

=== References ===
<References/>

[[Category:Personal Profiles]][[Category:Scientology - 1950's]][[Category:Scientology - 1950's England]][[Category:Scientology - 1960's]]
[[Category:Biographies]]

Joan de Veulle - England 50s 60s

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{{Personal Profiles
|Deceased=Yes
|Died on=1988
|Nationality=British
|Org. affiliation=London HASI
|Posts=HCO Area Secretary (London), Extension Course Instructor, Registrar
}}
Joan was born 1905 in Handsworth, Birmingham UK and died 1988 in Somerset UK<ref>[http://scientology.wikia.com/wiki/Joan_de_Veulle wikia database]</ref>

''This "stub" written by [[Antony Phillips]]. Any who have more data please add or write to me.''

I know nothing of Joan's early life.

=== Coming into Scientology ===

Joan had been reading all the books she could find on psychology, and non of them satisfied what she was looking for. At the end of 1956 she came across Ron's book ''Fundamentals of Thought'', and felt this was it (actually that was the year the book was published). She took a Communication Course, and then the full HPA (professional auditor course) in 1957. At a later date she did the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course (at the time it was only available at Saint Hill, England)

=== Staff Member ===

She was on staff at the London HASI for a long time. I remember she was Extension Course Instructor at one time (that was a correspondence course in major Scn books, like ''Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health'' and ''Science of Survival''). She wanted to do the 6th London ACC and asked me to take on the Extension Course job while she was on it, which I did. She was also Registrar at London. Her most prominent job was HCO Area Secretary, London, at a time HCO was a separate body to the HASI London (but in the same building, 37 Fitzroy Street). Here she was in regular touch with Ron Hubbard, traveling down to Saint Hill to confer with him.

=== Retirement ===

In the 1970's I was in touch with her (by the "modern media" of the time, cassette tapes). And one summer when I went to England on holiday, my father (in a London suburb) lent me his car to travel down to Porlock, Somerset (situated near Exmoor National Park ). She had retired there to live with her sister. They were both keen gardeners and were brought up in Porlock in a house which was shaded from the sun much of sunny days by the Exmoor Hills. They had therefore brought a plot of land not affected that way, had built a small house on it, and were busy gardening. This was before the big exodus from the church, and the stronger suppressiveness of the 80's. We could let our hair down, and she told me quite a bit.

She talked of [[Reg Sharpe]] and [[John Damonte]] (click their names to go to articles on them).
She also told me that she had had auditing in London, which was CSed by Ron. In the period just after Power Processing came out, she told me that once, that when she was together with Ron, he looked at her, and then told her that she did not need to do Power Processing (at that time ''everybody'' had to do Power Processing before they could go on to the Clearing Course)). I interviewed her on cassette, and she talked about her early experiences in Scientology, including how the training was done then.

== K
Joan de Veulle Interview ==
<flashmp3>http://scientolipedia.org/w/extensions/HTML5video/videos/Joan De Veulle 1975.mp3</flashmp3>

== follow up ==
Later I wrote to Joan and got a letter from her sister saying she was dead. It is not yet known whose body she is living in now.

''Personal recollections of Joan and how she was would be much appreciated, preferably before all us that knew her are dead!.''

Antony Phillips (ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk)

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2020-02-27T13:44:23Z

AntPhillips: New thread: I am so glad…

… That someone (you) have bought my page up to date. I have 10 squared good indicators on that. Thank you.

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AntPhillips: New thread: Welcome

Hi Halvor,

You are very welcome. It is a long time since I have seen activity on Scientolipedia to that extent.

All best wishes, Antony: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk

Thread:User talk:Halvor Raknes/Welcome (2)

2020-02-27T13:32:50Z

AntPhillips: New thread: Welcome

Hi Halvor,

You are very welcome. It is a long time since I have seen activity on Scientolipedia to that extent.

All best wishes, Antony: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk

Rhona Smit

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AntPhillips: /* Addendum by Antony Phillips written in January/February 2020. */ typo

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|Birthdate=01/24
|Birthday=January 24, 1933
|Deceased=Yes
|Died on=20 June, 2014
|Nationality=South African
|Occupation=Scientologist
|Org. affiliation=Saint Hill, London Org
|Years active=59
}}
[[File:RhonaSmit-2.jpg|left|border|300x400px]]

''Rhona had been a Scientologist for 60 years and worked for LRH. In the last year [written in 2014] she became acutely aware of the issues facing Scientology internationally and thoroughly researched them. She made contact with long lost friends who long ago left the church. In her final months she contributed several articles to this blog and was deeply aligned to what we are trying to do: Allow Scientologists to get back in comm.''

''Rhona’s passing is representative of a reality we face: A diminishing number of people who knew LRH personally. It is of vital importance that their stories be preserved.''<ref>[http://backincomm.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/in-memorium-rhona-smit/ Back In Comm Blog]</ref>

''A private memorial was held on Sunday the 29th of June 2014''.<ref>[http://backincomm.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/back-in-comm-what-it-looks-like/ Memorial for Rhona Smit]</ref>

== Early Life ==

Rhona was born in Springs [Near Johannesburg, South Africa] in 1933, eldest daughter of Gwendoline and Bill Earnshaw. She had one brother Mac and two sisters, Linda and Dianne.

She completed the first three years of school in fifteen months. At the age of 10 her grandmother paid for her to learn the piano and she took formal lessons, doing both theory and practical for four years.

When the high school she attended was closed by the government for an indefinite period because of a polio epidemic, her parents enrolled her in a private commercial college. Here she learned secretarial skills and began work for a chartered accountant at the age of 15.

In her late teens she became a Sunday school teacher in the Methodist church and made the decision to get confirmed. The minister who performed the confirmation ceremony was later one of the accused in the notorious treason trial of 1956[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Treason_Trial].

== Scientology ==
When she was 19 she made the decision to go overseas and worked in the day at her secretarial job and at night put on gum boots and a white coat to work in the factory, earning extra money to pay for her overseas trip.

In June 1954, the year she turned 21, she went to England with the intention of spending a year on a working holiday. She discovered Scientology within the first week of being in London.

During the first year in London before finally joining staff at the London org, she landed a job doing a PR caper for one of the leading London newspapers and as a result traveled some 2,500 miles throughout England and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man| Isle of Man]. She worked as a secretary to one of London’s leading theatrical agents Al Parker and accounts highlights such as taking dictation from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Attenborough|Richard Attenborough]. She had other interesting interactions with Jack Hawkins, Diana Dors (Britian’s Marilyn Monroe) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Howard|Trevor Howard] among others.

Rhona then decided to do the Hubbard Professional Auditor Course. Several months later she resigned from her PR job, and joined staff at the London org as secretary to Jack Parkhouse, the Association Secretary of the London org. She met [[L Ron Hubbard]] in the same year when he arrived in London to deliver the [http://scientolipedia.org/info/Getting_All_the_Lectures#55--4th_London_ACC|4th London ACC].

And so began Rhona’s long journey in Scientology.
== Working for L Ron Hubbard ==
Rhona is well known for her many interesting tales about her experiences with LRH , and at the time of her passing was in the process of documenting her memoirs and life with Ron. She tells of many anecdotal incidents like trying to find ice in the middle of winter in London for Ron’s Coke [Coca Cola], and locating a tobacconist that stocked his brand of cigarette. She was assigned the task of buying linen and other household paraphernalia for the impending arrival of Ron, [http://scientolipedia.org/info/Getting_All_the_Lectures#55--4th_London_ACC|Mary Sue] and their children to London.

In 1956 when Ron went back to the US, he offered Rhona the option of traveling to South Africa to open an org there, which he later postponed and invited her to join him in the US instead. She departed the UK in October 1956 aboard a small cargo ship in charge of the Hubbard family’s gear (including Ron’s Jaguar), and arrived in New York. From there she caught a train to Washington org and helped supervise the [http://scientolipedia.org/info/Getting_All_the_Lectures#56--15th_ACC_Power_Of_Simplicity|15th ACC].

Returning to London org a few months later, she was assigned the task of conducting a Bachelor of Scientology Course. It was back in London that she met and later married her first husband, John Swinburne. That famous "HCO Justice Manual" that's all over the internet, has a covering memo from "Rhona Swinburne". Ron made several trips back and forth between the UK and US. Rhona had many a tale of her interactions with him over those years.

Rhona had the rare privilege of attending all the lectures of the 15th Washington ACC and all the lectures of the 5th London ACC. She also attended lectures at Congresses in London and Johannesburg. She attended many lectures LRH delivered in Washington DC and London apart from ACC lectures.

[[File:RhonaSmit-fitzroy-street-50s.png|left]]
== LRH's pc ==
Rhona both audited LRH and was audited by him one-on-one in 1956. During the course of the 15th Washington ACC in 1956, Ron audited Rhona as a demo. He told the watching students he could tell by the flippancy of her answers that she wasn’t really in session. In 1957 she was part of the audience at the [http://scientolipedia.org/info/Getting_All_the_Lectures#57--London_Congress_On_Nuc_Radiation_Control_.26_Health|Radiation Congress] when he delivered group auditing. In 1958 during the 5th London ACC she had a number of hours auditing from him on a one-on-one basis.

Rhona was also personally trained and drilled by Ron on the TRs. Ron told her that she was the only staff member he could do this with. He had tried to do it with the Dir Training and decided he couldn’t make it so he chose Rhona. Thereafter she was given the job of training the staff and the UK field on the TRs.

=== Special Projects ===
In 1957 she was transferred to HCO (Hubbard Communications Office) and in 1958 was appointed as the first ever HCO Exec Sec WW by LRH. It was during this time she was asked to find a home for LRH and his family, and upon LRH’s return to London she showed him a brochure of the estate of the Maharaj of Jaipur which was about to be auctioned. Ron’s response to Rhona was “buy it” which she duly did. This was the birth of the [http://www.sainthillmanor.org.uk/|International Headquarters of Scientology World Wide—Saint Hill]. Ironically, Rhona never saw Saint Hill until 1976 when she went there to do her OT Levels.

Rhona not only worked for LRH, but also became his friend. She spent many evenings with him and Mary Sue at their home for dinner parties and other socials. She recounts one such visit where Ron, holding cards behind his back, could tell from various locations what card he was holding.
== Starting a Family ==
In 1959, by now 8 months pregnant, Rhona finally left London to join her husband in Australia where her eldest daughter Carol was born. The marriage only lasted a short while after that, and in 1960 Rhona returned to South Africa with Carol.

Throughout the years, Rhona stayed in touch with Ron. She has a number of rare hand-written letters from him. At some point Ron awarded her the SHSBC for her years of dedicated work in Scientology. Unfortunately she never acted on this award.

Rhona continued her dedication to and studies of Scientology traveling through to the Hancock Street Org in Johannesburg by train every day (she was living in Springs with her parents). In 1962 she met and won the heart of confirmed bachelor Mike Smit, who was running the PE . They got married and moved to Pinelands in the Cape where their daughter Shelley was born. Rhona joined staff in Cape Town org where she held the posts of HCO Exec Sec and Dissem Sec.

In 1965 Rhona and Mike moved to Port Elizabeth, where Rhona completed another 2.5 year contract with the PE Org. During this time her third child and only son Andre was born on the 2nd April 1966.
[[File:RhonaSmit-fitzroy-street.png|right]]
Rhona, Mike and their 3 children returned to Springs early in 1967. Rhona dedicated herself to being a homemaker and raising her children for the next few years, in amongst odd job stints to compliment the family income. She became an accomplished seamstress and knitter, and learned to master her [http://www.pinterest.com/vintageknitting/vintage-knitmaster-empisal-studio-sliver-reed-knit/|Empisal Knitting machine], churning out dozens of garments for her family and friends. Her daughters, in stylish hand-made clothes, were quite the envy of their friends. She sewed all Shelley’s ballet costumes, sometimes making up to 18 duplicates for the whole troupe.

Rhona was an accomplished cook, and she became quite well-known for her flair in the kitchen. She and Mike hosted many dinner parties and guests would leave the house satiated with world class food. She also loved to bake, and especially enjoyed doing so with her grandchildren helping her. Her famous Christmas cake, Pavlovas and pineapple upside-down cakes were lapped up quickly. During this time Rhona also turned her hand to doing some writing (she was already an accomplished writer) and a few of her articles were published in various magazines and newspapers.
== A Life Dedicated to Scientology ==
In the early 1970’s Rhona assisted with many cycles on behalf of the Religious Defense League and was a key role-player in a number of successful campaigns and projects. Around this time she was also traveling into Joburg by train with all 3 of her children to go on course at the Joburg Org which was now located at 99 Polly Street.

In the late 1970’s Rhona, Mike and family moved back to Johannesburg, and Rhona traveled to the UK to do her Solo course and visit Saint Hill for the first time since she had bought it all those years ago. Shortly after her return, she joined staff again, this time in the Guardians Office – Department of PR. Carol later joined the GO as well, and Shelley finally followed suit in 1978. She served another 5 year contract until 1981. By this time, Rhona had served in excess of 16 years working for the Church.

With her children growing up and becoming independent, Rhona returned to the working world where she had a number of jobs, including a sojourn at the Hubbard College of Administration.
[[File:RhonaSmit memorial.jpg|border|500x300px|left|link=http://backincomm.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/back-in-comm-what-it-looks-like/|Rhona's memorial service]]
In 1983 she became a grandmother for the first time when her eldest grandson Jean was born. Pierre followed in 1985 – both Shelley’s children.

In December 1991, Rhona made another trip to Saint Hill and achieved the State of OT3.

5 years later in 1990 her 3rd grandson Jesse arrived, son of Andre and Debbie. In 1992 her only granddaughter Dominique was born, Shelley’s third child. And 21 years later in 2013 her 4th and youngest grandchild, Troy entered her life – son of Andre and Lindsay. She has 2 great-grandchildren Caleb (4, son of Jean and Kirsty) and just this year, 13 days before her 81st Birthday, her great-granddaughter little Mia was born – daughter of Pierre and Tanya.

Rhona was a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. The well being of her family and grandchildren were of paramount importance to her. She had a deep desire to help her family in every way she possibly could, and loved them all unconditionally. She treasured special moments spent with her family and ensured all her grandchildren knew how special they were to her.

At the ripe old age of 78, Rhona joined staff yet again, part-time as the Letter Reg for Joburg Org. Sadly, she had to end her tenure prematurely due to suffering a minor stroke in August 2013. In total, she had served close to 20 years working for Scientology, in addition to many volunteer hours spent on other Church-related projects. Her lifetime of dedication to LRH and Scientology Technology never wavered.

After her recovery, Rhona embarked on a project of writing her memoirs, and rekindling relationships with people she had lost contact with over the years. She was very happy to find many old friends, and was excited about re-connecting with them.

Rhona was a consummate professional in everything she did. She had many hobbies and interests, was an avid reader and had a keen interest in world affairs. She spent many hours recording a lifetime of memories through scrapbooking – one of her many hobbies. She never stopped learning new things and at the ripe old age of 80 was discovering the wonderful world of the Internet and blogging.

Rhona was a warm-hearted, caring and compassionate person. She took great care to improve the lives of others around her. She touched the lives of everyone she met and was loved and admired by many. She also had a wonderful sense of humour and always tried to see the positive side of any situation she was faced with.

Rhona leaves behind a great legacy. With love an admiration, we bid her adieu.

Go well, dear Rhona.

==Addendum by Antony Phillips written in January/February 2020.==

I can see by viewing the history of this article that I did make some minor changes to it. There is a good deal to add. I was expecting to hear more "from her".

I first came across Rhona in 1957/8 when I worked at HASI London (the Scientology organisation). Rhona Earnshaw (her maiden name) was at that time secretary at 37 Fitzroy Street in London. At that time HCO was a separate organisation to HASI. I remember her well though I did not have a lot to do with her though I do remember when I was demoted from Dir of Training to an ordinary staff auditor. At that time we also had number 7 Fitzroy Street and I passed her in the street walking between the two buildings where she sympathised with me about my demotion.

50 years or so later (2014) she contacted me on Skype from South Africa. We had a number of conversations and I understood that her position was as follows. She had two daughters and all three of them were in the church. The one daughter had discovered something of the FriScientology movement and communicated it to Rhona who apparently at first was quite sceptical. However Rhona and this daughter were now outside of the church of Scientology; the other daughter was still in and there was a great deal of tension. The daughter who was out had a house and in the garden was a cottage where Rhona lived with a computer. Rhona was busy communicating by the computer and had found my address and home page and contacted me. She was also writing into her computer data she had on the church and Ron.

She told me quite a lot about herself and we had we had many good conversations (most of which I have unfortunately forgotten for the moment). I understood because she and her one daughter had left the church there was tension between them and the other daughter. However they were still in communication. At the time this puzzled to me quite a bit but I did not ask about it. There was talk about disconnecting. But he did not seem to happen. I think at some point she did have some sort of illness (not really sure of that). However it came to a point where the daughter in the church was going to fly from Johannesburg to Cape Town with Rhona and this was to be the last time before the daughter disconnected from Rhona.

Not to be facetious, though I am afraid it is, what happened was that Rhona disconnected from her body. She was taken ill on that flight and died.

I did not hear anything more about the contents of the computer or anything else at all from Rhona's daughter, came to forget about it, and now wonder what happened. So if anyone wants to investigate that area for me please let me know the results and either entered into this Scientolipedia page or let me do so.

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