Heh - L. Ron Hubbard documents released by the Brits
FRAUD...
From the
UK Telegraph:
Britain's secret mission to expose Scientology leader as 'fraud'
Whitehall officials discovered the science-fiction writer, who invented a religion now followed by celebrities such as Tom Cruise, awarded himself a PhD from a sham college he had acquired in California.
The information was gathered in secret by workers at the British consulate in Los Angeles on behalf of the government, which feared a libel action following its 1968 decision to ban followers from entering Britain to visit the sect's headquarters in East Grinstead, West Sussex.
The documents show Britain was not alone in probing Scientology. The dossier of evidence, gathered during the 1970s, included the extraordinary claim by an American official that the sect had sent bogus doctors to hypnotise a legal investigator and declare him ‘mentally ill’ to thwart his inquiries into their activities.
The Department of Health files, many of which were classified until 2019, have been released by the National Archive following a Freedom of Information request by The Times.
They include a signed statement by former senior Scientologist, John McMaster, who said Hubbard and others faked ‘qualifications’ in Dianetics, the spiritual ‘science’ behind Scientology.
It should be interesting to see the reaction to this little bit of news... Of course, there are people whose thought processes are so lax that they will follow anything put before them but this should shake up a few of the true believers.
Posted by DaveH at August 10, 2009 12:39 PM
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