HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
Remimeo HCO POLICY LETTER OF 25 FEBRUARY 1966
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HCO Sec Hat HCO Div
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Dist Sec Hat _ATTACKS ON SCIENTOLOGY_
Press Hat (Additional Pol Ltr)
Sect 3 Dept 3
Anyone proposing an investigation of or an "Enquiry" into Scientology
_must_ receive this reply and no other proposal:
"We welcome an investigation into (Mental Healing or whoever is
attacking us) as we have begun one ourselves and find shocking
evidence."
You can elaborate on the evidence we have found and lay it on thick
attacking the attackers only.
NEVER agree to an investigation of Scientology. ONLY agree to an
investigation of the attackers.
This was the BIG error made in Victoria. I okayed an Enquiry into
_all_ mental healing. I ordered evidence on psychiatric murders to be
collected. Non-Compliance with these orders brought on the loss of
Melbourne and the law in Victoria against Scientology. This was the
non-compliance that began it. The original order I gave was relayed
as "we welcome an Enquiry into Scientology...." or it was changed to
that in Melbourne.
This is correct procedure:
(1) Spot who is attacking us.
(2) Start Investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using our
own professionals, not outside agencies.
(3) Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of
them.
(4) Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the
attackers to the press.
_Don't_ _ever_ tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it
rough, rough on attackers all the way.
You can get "reasonable about it" and lose. Sure we break no laws.
Sure we have nothing to hide. BUT attackers are simply an
anti-Scientology _propaganda_ agency so far as we are concerned. They
have proven they want no facts and will only lie no matter what they
discover. So BANISH all ideas that any fair hearing is intended and
start our attack with their first breath. Never wait. Never talk
about us -- only them. Use _their_ blood, sex, crime to get headlines.
Don't use us.
I speak from 15 years of experience in this. There has never yet been
an attacker who was not _reeking_ with crime. All we had to do was
look for it and murder would come out.
They fear our Meter. They fear freedom. They fear the way we are
growing. Why?
Because they have too much to hide.
When you use _that_ rationale you win. When you go dishwater and say
"We honest chickens just plain love to have you in the coop, Brer
Fox," we get clobbered. The _right_ response is "We militant public
defenders of the freedom of the people want that there Fox
investigated for eating living chickens!" Shift the spotlight to them.
No matter how. Do it!
You can elaborate on the formula. Let's say some other branch of
government wants to investigate us via the press. Just apply the
formula:
"We welcome a public enquiry into (that branch activity) as we already
have begun to investigate their (-----)." It will always work. It
even would have worked on the U.S. F.D.A. when they first began five
years before their raid on DC. They run! And that's all we want.
_HOW TO STOP ATTACKS_
The way we will eventually stop all attacks from there on out is by
processing the society as follows:
(1) Locate a source of attack on us.
(2) Investigate it.
(3) Expose it with wide lurid publicity.
You see the same thing in a preclear. He has a rotten spot in his
behaviour. He attacks the practitioner. The spot is located on a
meter. It blows and the preclear relaxes.
Well this is _just_ what is happening in the society. We are a
practitioner to the society. It has rotten spots in it. Those show
up in attacks on us. We investigate and expose -- the attack ceases.
We use investigators instead of E-Meters. We use newspapers instead
of auditor reports. But it's the same problem exactly.
So long as we neglect our role as auditor-to-the-society we will be
attacked.
Society is pretty crazy. It's a raw jungle. So it will take a lot of
work. We must be willing to put in that work as a group or we'll be
knocked about.
Remember, CHURCHES ARE LOOKED UPON AS REFORM GROUPS.
Therefore we must act like a reform group.
The way to seize the initiative is to use our own professionals to
investigate intensively parts of the society that may attack us. Get
an ammunition locker full. Be sure of our facts. And then expose via
the press.
If we do this right, press, instead of trying to invent reasons to
attack us will start hanging around waiting for our next lurid scoop.
We _must_ convert from an attacked group to a reform group that
attacks rotten spots in the society. We should not limit ourselves to
mental healing or our own line. We should look for zones to
investigate and blow the lid off and become known as a mighty reform
group. We object to slavery, oppression, torture, murder,
perversions, crime, political sin and anything that makes Man unfree.
The only error we can make is to disperse our investigation. We do a
preliminary look, then we must select a target and investigate it
until we have the cold facts and then BANG, fire the salvo.
Don't worry about libel if our facts indicate rottenness. The last
thing that target will do is to sue as then we would have a chance to
prove it in court, _which_ they are terrified of our doing.
Remember -- the only reason we are in trouble with the press or
governments is that we are not searching out and exposing rotten spots
in the society. We _must_ practice on the whole group called society.
If we do not it will attack us just as a preclear will attack a
Scientologist that won't audit him.
To get wholly over to cause we must select targets, investigate and
expose _before_ they attack us.
We have at this writing a long way to go. But we might as well start
somewhere. Begin by investigating any attacking group, find and
expose the dead bodies. Then work on to our selecting the targets.
And that will handle it all.
LRH:ml L. RON HUBBARD
Copyright (c) 1966
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED