All right, air-raid warning. In come these old, obsolete five-hundred-mile-an-hour planes. These things come in, the air raid warning system goes up, everybody grabs their helmets, they grab their first-aid kits, they walk out into the street, the people powder their noses a second time, go out of the nightclub in an orderly fashion. They […]
The Civil Defense Angle
Lecture: The Success of Dianetics
We have another project going, and we’re ready to cut loose on this project just as soon as we can. Los Angeles is probably going to hit Arizona in an atom bombing. The Southwest is probably a part of the country to which many people will drift (after an atom bombing). There’s no reason why […]
Lecture: Rugged Individualism
You walk into a government agency and you give them any problem that is related to that agency but is not exactly right in the middle of the paragraph that tells it what it could do and it won’t have a single thing to do with it. So you go over to another agency and […]
Lecture: The Overt Motivator Sequence
And you study men under stress and men in various guises and men under various actions of this particular character, and you find out that the world has built up a series of superstitions about people. And they’re not facts–they’re superstitions. They hardly even are dignified as findings. Your animal psychologist has categorized the whole […]
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 Scientists.” Heinlein explained that […]
Article: Scientology Volunteer Minister Campaign
In this 2010 article, David Miscavige summarizes his Volunteer Minister campaign: All of which makes for a Volunteer Minister life support system, including partnerships with police departments from across the world of law enforcement; the same again for search and rescue, civil defense and emergency response units across the whole disaster management community; and still […]