Lecture: Civil Defense

New Channels for Putting Dianetics Into Society
I’ve been working on the first in a series of new books. The book I’m working on currently would seem at first glance to be well off the beaten track of Dianetics. I am writing a basic manual of civil defense.I happened to take a look at the federal [...]

FBI: HASI letter to Better Business Bureau

Records from http://usminc.org/FBIFILES/FIVE/05008.pdf

HUBBARD ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTOLOGISTS INTERNATIONAL
806 North Third Street
Phoenix, Arizona
June 12, 1954
Better Business Bureau
834 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona
Gentlemen:
For your interest, the Hubbard Association of Scientologists, an Arizona Corporation, has brought about certain changes in Scientology, and of which we would like to acquaint you.
Scientology is described as a science of knowingness.  It is actually [...]

FBI: Report to Naval Investigative Service re: Scientology (1968)

Records from http://usminc.org/FBIFILES/EIGHT/08011.pdf

200 Mercantile Continental Building
Dallas, Texas 75201
February 26, 1968
[xxx]
Senior Resident Agent
Naval Investigative Service
1314 Wood Street, Room 613
Dallas, Texas 75202
[...]
In 1960 information was received that an organization called Scientology of Dallas was located at 3519 Oak Lawn Avenue, Dallas, Texas. It was indicated that testers of this organization allegedly study a Russian text book on [...]

Hubbard’s “Allied Scientists of the World” Scam

More information has surfaced recently about Hubbard’s “Allied Scientists of the World” scam, which he ran in 1951-52. 1, 2
Between December 1945 and January 1946, Robert A. Heinlein exchanged letters with Dr. Francis M. Pottenger concerning a “project” called “The Federation of Atomic Scientists” and later the “Federation of American [...]

FBI Reports: Allied Scientists of the World

SECURITY INFORMATION – CONFIDENTIAL
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
DENVER, COLORADO
REPORT MADE BY: DENVER, COLORADO
DATE WHEN MADE: 1-9-52
PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE: 12-5, 11, 21-51 ; 1-7-52 REPORT MADE BY: xxx
TITLE: ALLIED SCIENTISTS OF THE WORLD
CHARACTER OF CASE: INTERNAL SECURITY – X
SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:
In November, 1951, subject organization mailed letters and literature to numerous scientists throughout the [...]

Lecture: Terminals and Communication

Electronics engineers are good men, but they have the frailty of falling into their own trap. They start to depend upon electronic flows. They start to depend upon pieces of brass and copper and glass in order to accomplish these things. And so when they-usually, when then they start to theorize, even as I did [...]

Lecture: The Magic Button

But if they press you—remember the old adding machine idea that appeared in Dianetics very early?1 For those of you that have forgotten it or need your memories refreshed, could I—could I just tell you that little one? The held-down five? Hm?
Audience: Yes.
All right. Now, it seems like up at Harvard University—they have a [...]

Lecture: Auditor Interest

Now, nearly every one of us knows something about a case intellectually, that we’ve actually never seen in a case. We know something could be theoretically true about a case, or a certain combination of circumstances would be true about a case, but we’ve never just sat down and seen it right there – bang! [...]

Lecture: Be, Do, Have Straightwire

The  scientific  method  which  is  used  today  was  discussed  with  the  engineers  at  Bell Laboratories – Ma Bell – at lunch hours, until they had finally decided what they were doing.  Here we let somebody decide what he was doing instead of deciding what was so. And we  found out that the scientific method, in [...]

Lecture: Review of Progress of Dianetics and Dianetics Business (1)

The earliest stages of Dianetics (it might amuse you) came when a study of General Semantics indicated that there was some possibility that words themselves were very aberrative — just words. And the first effort of Dianetics, along the line of going back down the time track and so forth, was to clarify the definitions [...]

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