Reference: The Deep State and Scientology
As covered in The Deep State and Scientology the first prominent ‘expert’ detractors of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology in the early 1950s were leading members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and World Psychiatric Association (WPA). They also happened to be serving the CIA as MK Ultra* shock-drug-hypnosis experimenters and operatives. They in turn – through the original establishment evaluations of Hubbard, Dianetics and Scientology – influenced media and government agencies to launch forever attacks on Hubbard and his research into the mind and spirit. Their motives were clear; Hubbard had exposed their secret programs.
If you compare the fundamentals of what Hubbard was practicing with Dianetics (the precursor to Scientology) and what the MK Ultra shock docs were up to there is no surprise why Hubbard became public enemy number one and he and Scientology remained so for rest of his life and beyond.
Dianetics and Scientology were predicated on the idea that humans were adversely affected by their reactive minds. That portion of the mind that unbeknownst to the individual continued to record during moments of pain and unconsciousness (or lowered consciousness such as that induced by hypnosis), including such moments caused by or combined with drugs. During those incidents the reactive mind records words around the person, takes them literally, and they later act as post hypnotic suggestions, below the level of the person’s conscious awareness. This mechanism is the source of painful and illogical conduct by the individual. Dianetics reached those unconscious moments, brought them back to the conscious awareness of the individual thus erasing their unknowing post-hypnotic influence. By doing so, the Scientologist restores and strengthens the individual’s self-determinism and he advances spiritually.
MK Ultra’s written objectives were precisely the opposite. In their own words “to obtain control of the future activities (physical and mental) of any individual, willing or unwilling with a guarantee of amnesia.” MK Ultra sought to implant post hypnotic commands through hypnosis, drugs and pain. The expressed idea was to strip the self-determinism of the individual and replace it with that of the CIA operator. A critical part of their goal was to create amnesia so that the directed crime committed by the programmed agent could never be traced back to the CIA.
Clearly, no one could be more diametrically opposed to the CIA’s MK Ultra in principle and in practice than L. Ron Hubbard. Nor could anyone pose more of a threat to that clandestine operation due to his unique discoveries providing ability to undo its effects.
Naturally, when the victims of MK Ultra later happened upon Dianetics and Scientology, Hubbard’s discoveries uncovered those intentionally implanted moments of pain and unconsciousness and released their power over the individuals affected, and worse from the CIA’s perspective, restored the memory of those individuals.
When Hubbard published this fact in the 1951 book Science of Survival the need arose to discredit Hubbard and Dianetics (and later Scientology). Virtually every federal agency and every corporate media outlet were pressed into service to churn out perpetual anti Hubbard and Scientology harassment and propaganda. It took extraordinary measures to maintain secrecy. In fact, it was not until the late seventies that anyone else outside of the CIA MK Ultra inner circle had any inkling of the atrocities. The most notoriously corrupt and criminal CIA heads – Allen Dulles (1953-1961, effectively 1947-late sixties) and Richard Helms (1963-1976) – had even carefully kept every President from Truman through Ford in the dark about these affairs. Helms ordered the destruction of every single piece of paper connected with MK Ultra in 1973 just when congressional Watergate investigations threatened more probing into the CIA’s workings.
It was rather common then for the CIA to control the important news flows of the day. To illustrate just how cozy and influential the CIA was with media heads in America, consider CIA Director Allen Dulles’ relationship with his personal friends Henry and Claire Booth Luce. Luce was the publisher of the world’s most influential 1950s-1990s publication, Time magazine. The CIA supplied both Luces with LSD which they regularly ingested. Realize, the LSD was supplied while Dulles a) was directing them on a daily basis, and b) LSD was being used by Dulles’ MK Ultra operation to eliminate the free will in unwitting dupes who then carried out the CIA’s mind control ops. There is documented history of the Luce’s many times flanking CIA/State Department plots to topple governments and deceive the American people (see e.g., The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government; David Talbot, Harper 2015).
Between 1950 and 1991 Time was the tip of the battering-ram spear that instigated a host of major attacks upon Scientology. The assault instigated by the Luce/Dulles/CIA Global Security State consortium culminated over 32 years of continuous propaganda hammering with a Time magazine cover in 1991 which proclaimed in bold scare headlines and grotesque cartoonish art: Scientology was the “Cult of Power and Greed.” It was the epitome of the sociopathic attribute of accusing others of one’s own sordid conduct and motives. (More on this in upcoming installments on Scientology and Lawfare, including its timing hoping to forever preclude Scientology from being recognized as a tax-exempt religious and charitable organization).
The interconnection between MK Ultra and anti-Scientology propagandists was so close that it seemed that to be deemed an “authoritative” Hubbard/Scientology detractor required a several year CIA MK Ultra torturer apprenticeship. So it was with the likes of Winfred Overholser (the original Hubbard/Dianetics denouncer and leading member of MK Ultra’s predecessor operations Bluebird and Artichoke; President APA). Another was Ewen Cameron (a most prolific and sadistic MK Ultra experimenter as well as the APA and WPA head when they established their anti-Hubbard, anti-Scientology policies). In the late sixties, the man they passed the anti-Scientology torch to had outdone even their MK Ultra exploits.
This MK Ultra/Anti-Scientology successor played a critical role in covering up the CIA’s program when Congress looked into it in the seventies. He played central roles in two of the 20th Century’s most traumatic blows to the collective psyche of the American people. Ultimately, unwittingly and posthumously, he supplied evidence that throws into question the to-date successful CIA denials of involvement in every significant assassination and assassination attempt in America from John F. Kennedy, through Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and even Donald Trump.
Stay tuned.
*MK Ultra is the CIA mind control program, MK an arbitrary prefix and Ultra an arbitrary word used to name this project. – The Search for the Manchurian Candidate; John Marks 1979
Sources:
- The Search for the Manchurian Candidate; John Marks 1979
- Operation Mind Control; Walter Bowart 1978
- The Devil’s Chessboard; David Talbot 2015
- CIA reading room, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/home
- Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior; L. Ron Hubbard 1951
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