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From: faust@peter.net (Jason Faust)
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Subject: Mind Control Exposed
Date: 3 Nov 1996 20:11:32 GMT
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Many falsehoods and inaccurate statements regarding several aspects
of the religion of Scientology have been observed on ars.
The purpose of this message is to give you a sample of the true data
from the book 'What is Scientology?' and show you where you can look
to get the full contents of this book.

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During the continual process of Dianetics research, both as an auditor
and as an observer of other auditors, Mr. Hubbard naturally came
into contact with a wide variety of cases. And, it was inevitable
that these would include those who had been in the hands of psychiatrists
closely allied to the intelligence community.

Thus it came about, fully twenty-five years before the facts were
made public by Congress, that Mr. Hubbard was the first to announce
and decry government mind manipulation programs. Eventually, of course,
these and other revelations of Central Intelligence Agency criminality
would entirely reshape public perception of this group of spies from
a patriotic and somewhat glamorous image to that of a rogue agency
of dirty tricksters, with its own citizens as victims.

The vehicle was his 1951 book SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, and in it he described
in no uncertain terms the combined use of pain, drugs and hypnosis
as a behavioral modification technique of the worst kind. It was,
he said, so extensively used in espionage work, it was long past
the time people should have become alarmed about it. It had taken
Dianetic auditing to discover the widespread existence of these brainwashing
techniques, and, he added, the only saving grace was that Dianetics
could undo their effects.

With such covert government activity so openly addressed by Mr. Hubbard
and Dianeticists, he had compounded his "crime": In his
first book, he offended psychiatrists; in his second, the intelligence
community. That the two, already closely connected, should now draw
even closer in the common effort to stop him, was not surprising.
What was surprising was the velocity and frequency of subsequent
attacks. By the mid-1950s, as we shall see, at least half a dozen
Federal agencies were brought into the effort to suppress Dianetics
and its assault on the mental health field, including the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

"You would have thought that at the very least I was inciting
whole populations to revolt and governments to fall," a slightly
bemused Mr. Hubbard later wrote of these events. "All I really
was doing was trying to tell man he could be happy, that there was
a road out of suffering and that he could attain his goals."





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