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“The post of THE GUARDIAN is established herewith. The Guardian is the most senior executive of Scientology just below the Executive Director. The post is senior to Executive Secretaries. ... |
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The purpose of the Guardian is: |
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TO HELP LRH ENFORCE AND ISSUE POLICY, TO SAFEGUARD SCIENTOLOGY ORGS, SCIENTOLOGISTS AND SCIENTOLOGY AND TO ENGAGE IN LONG TERM PROMOTION.” |
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L. Ron Hubbard |
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(from HCO PL 1 Mar 66 “The Guardian”) |
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The story of Mary Sue Hubbard (1931-2002) (page 2)
This section of the ‘The story of Mary Sue Hubbard’ will be about the occurrences in the Guardian Office of which she was appointed the Controller.
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The official story in the media and even the Church of Scientology is one about infiltrations in governments, stealing materials from government offices, and executing covert operations against perceived enemies of Scientology. After a raid that was carried out by the FBI, 8 Jul 77, documents uncovered disclosed illegal actions. Ultimately this lead to the dismantling of the office and 11 of its staff getting jail sentences for shorter or longer time periods.
The other lesser known version of the story is one of protecting and safeguarding the organization from attacks from the outside, but also from within the organization. The Guardian Office was a last stand as it did not answer to anyone within the organization, making it impossible to subdue the Guardian Office. This in effect meant that the Church of Scientology could not be taken over by outer entities or through internal struggles and intentions from within the organization. If one wanted to establish that the Guardian Office had to be taken out one way or the other. This is something you can achieve if you succeed to infiltrate the Guardian Office and then have a person planting various illegal materials which after a subsequent raid would be uncovered and could be held against the Guardian Office.
Which is the correct story line? Was the Guardian Office corrupt and Mary Sue possibly aimed to take over the organization from L. Ron Hubbard or was it may be the intention of David Miscavige to accomplish such a thing? You'll have to be the judge of that...
Here one does have to regard the ultimate outcome of matters. A brief time line tells us:
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The FBI raid conducted, 8 Jul 77. |
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The indictions against the 11 Guardian Office members were presented on 15 Aug 78.
Final convictions: “Two Scientologists Are Convicted Of Aiding in U.S. Office Break-ins” (‘The Washington Post’, 27 Nov 80). “Convictions of 9 Scientologists in Plotting Thefts Are Upheld” (‘The Washington Post’, 3 Oct 81). |
| David Miscavige reveals in his Declaration dated 17 Feb 94 that: |
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“In 1981, a Church investigation was begun into the activities of the GO.” |
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“On July 13, 1981, ..., a coordinated series of CMO missions were sent out concurrently to take over the GO.” Eventually and not so long after that they forced “Mary Sue Hubbard's resignation”. |
| [... then “revoking her resignation and condemning the actions of the CMO.” and aiming “to regain control of the GO”. David Miscavige then tells that “Scores of GO staff responded, locking the missionaires out of their premises and were intending to hire armed guards to bar access by me and the other Church officials who had ousted them.” According to his statement it appeared to be enough that he “then confronted the mutineers”. Next David Miscavige “persuaded Mary Sue Hubbard to again resign, which ended the last vestige of GO resistance.”. It is interesting that according to David Miscavige's telling that it sufficed to have “confronted the mutineers” to then have Mary Sue Hubbard suddenly submit? What does that mean, what exactly did he do?] |
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“NOVEMBER 1, 1981.
The Church of Scientology International was founded, signaling a new era of Scientology management.” |
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It is noted that David Miscavige does not say in his Declaration that he authored the “strong standardized corporate structure” only that it “was required to facilitate the rapid expansion of Scientology and maintain high ethical standards in a widespread international network of churches.”. |
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But it does say that on the RTC website since at least Jul 2004: “In the early 1980s, he authored the reorganization of the Church’s corporate and management structures, heralding a new era for the religion and years of sustained growth and stability.” (see here, last checked: 25 Apr 2024). |
| Both the entries in the Declaration and the RTC website say in effect the very same things: “a new era” [or “reorganization”] of “corporate structure” and “management”, “rapid expansion” vs “sustained growth”, and “high ethical standards” vs “stability”. It is an admittance good as any that David Miscavige was responsible for all this. |
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Then we get “the formation of the Religious Technology Center on 1 January 1982.”. |
The ‘Guardian Office’, the ‘Guardian’, and the ‘Controller’
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Office of the Controller
Office of the Guardian |
| The Guardian Office as such was introduced in March 1966. HCO PL 1 Mar 66 “The Guardian” notes: |
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“The post of THE GUARDIAN is established herewith.
The Guardian is the most senior executive of Scientology just below the Executive Director. The post is senior to
Executive Secretaries. ... |
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The purpose of the Guardian is: |
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TO HELP LRH ENFORCE AND ISSUE POLICY, TO SAFEGUARD SCIENTOLOGY ORGS, SCIENTOLOGISTS
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The First Guardian is Mary Sue Hubbard.” LRH |
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On 1 September 1966 “FOUNDER L. Ron Hubbard resigned from the Board of Directors and post of Executive Director and was given the title Founder, to continue his writing and research” (from ‘What Is Scientology?’ (1978 edition), page 142). 
The org board from 1966 listed “Mary Sue Hubbard THE GUARDIAN WW” directed placed under “L. Ron Hubbard FOUNDER”.
| Early 1969 introduced the post of Controller: |
Note: HCO PL 18 may 73 “Mini 7 Division Org Board and Tech Admin Ratio” still only lists the Guardian WW (see ‘Modern Management Technology Defined’ (1976 Edition), on page 603).
| According ‘The Organization Executive Course, Division 7’ volume, page 33 (1974 edition), Mary Sue Hubbard was listed on the Organizational Board as the Controller at least since 1971. She acted as the Controller issue-wise at least since the release of HCO PL 8 Feb 72 II “Targeting of Divisional Statistics and Quotas”. |
| I am not sure, but may be (probably) already at that time (since 1969, 1971 or 1973?) the post of Guardian was held by Jane Kember (after all these posts were “for life”). Mary Sue's function by now had turned into that of an overseer. |
| I am not confident about when exactly Mary Sue turned Controller, although this was not already at the time when the post was established through the release of HCO PL 21 Jan 69 “Controller”. Because I have it evidenced that Mary Sue acted as the Guardian (indicated as CS-G*) in December 1969 as per a Guardian Order she had issued. |
| In August 1973 a Controller Communicator Network was established to assist the duties of the Controller as per HCO PL 16 Aug 73 “Controller Communicator Network ” (later reissued as a BPL on 24 Aug 75). It established the post of the Controller Communicator. |
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“PURPOSE: The purpose of the Controller Communicator is: |
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To find and report situations to The Controller and to obtain compliance on orders issued by The Controller. |
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SENIORITY: All Controller Communicators operate under the authority of The Controller. |
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The immediate senior of the Controller Communicator is the Controller Communicator Flag. The senior of the Controller Communicator Flag is The Controller, Mary Sue Hubbard. |
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A Continental Guardian ranks with but not above or below a Controller Communicator for his Continental Guardian Office.” Mary Sue Hubbard,
The Controller
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(see also ‘Modern Management Technology Defined’* (released 1976)) |
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 There exists an 80-page brochure that aims to lay out the various functions of this Guardian Office (GO).
This publication consists largely of a collection of newspaper clippings intermixed with various explanations from the Church of Scientology about its organization and the different sections of the Guardian Office and which direction it had taken since its incorporation in 1966. Initially I had expected that Mary Sue would have been mentioned in there as it is generally claimed and/or accepted that she run the office. To my surprise she was not mentioned in it anywhere! The office itself was headed by Jane Kember, who is shown with large photograph and all.
It was released by the Church of Scientology of California and appears to be exceedingly rare. I only have come across three copies during many years, one of which that I own. Things went seriously downhill for the Guardian Office almost coincidentally with its release (it carries “Copyright © 1959, 1978”). It seems rather likely that the distribution of this publication was halted or cancelled altogether because of the events from that time that essentially started with the FBI raid on the Scientology headquarters and the Guardian Office on 8 July 1977, culminating in jail assignments of various of GO staff executives including Mary Sue Hubbard in the early 80s, followed by the disbandment of the Guardian Office. It's extreme rarity and the fact that indeed very few individuals even appear to know about this publication would confirm that notion. The most recent newspaper clipping that we find in the publication dates to June 12, 1978. |
| The Guardian Office was later in 1983 replaced with, or rather rechristened as, the Office of Special Affairs (OSA). Any association between the two denominations, for something that was essentially the very same office, was certainly not deemed desirable. One was basically not allowed to refer to the GO as being a forerunner of OSA. I have been informed by a person that had worked in OSA for a period of 10 years that within OSA this was even defined as an enemy line. The message that went out was that GO was something rather different from OSA. This publication makes it rather clear though that it is nonetheless the same office with the same duties. |
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Extracts from ‘The Guardian Office’, released 1978 (pop-up window) |
Some notes about Guardian Office operations
(Includes: ‘Snow White Program’ (Apr 73) & ‘Operation Freakout’ (Apr 76))
The Guardian Office ran or carried out these various projects. Non-optimum situations were evaluated and a way was figured out to reverse non-optimum situations. The details of these project were privy to the Guardian Office, then a variety of them came to light through a raid that the FBI had performed on the office of the Guardian Office in 1977. A variety of them ended up into the public domain as soon as they became a matter of the court.
There is an attempt for a list of these projects on Wikipedia: “List of Guardian's Office operations”. For the larger part, that what is presented, are bits and pieces and we don't really get to the gist of them. People however have made attempts to puzzle things together per the available data. It often however turns very subjective. To be able to do a proper evaluation one does need access the actual project orders that the Guardian Office has issued on them. Some of them we appear to have. The next thing one has to establish is that what the actual project orders state, and compare that with that people that were assigned to them actually have done.
It is noted that the bulk of these projects that are named or addressed on that Wikipedia page date to 1975-76, which is rather late in time considering that the Guardian Office was created in 1966.
The two projects that particular have hit the media and received a bad repute are the ‘Snow White Program’ (Apr 73) and ‘Operation Freakout’ (Apr 76). The former is described on Wikipedia as “a criminal conspiracy” which, if one goes over the actual project orders, would be an incorrect classification per the data we have at hand. The latter one involves, that we will call the framing of Paulette Cooper, who had written an antagonistic book about Scientology that was published in 1971. Here we appear to be dealing with, just based on the papers that surfaced in the FBI raid, that some infantile individuals thought up to falsely accuse Paulette Cooper of various things. Interesting is that the papers indicate that Operation Freakout wasn't actually executed.
The trouble with the Guardian Office
(1) And then things went wrong ...
| From ‘What Is Scientology?’ (1992 Edition), page 508: |
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“In 1981, after a series of Sea Organization inspections of the Guardian's Office (GO), it was found that the GO—a small unit of the Church established in 1966 to protect the Church from external threats—had become entirely autonomous, operating without regard to Mr. Hubbard's policies and was, in fact, attempting to usurp control of the Church.
Further investigation by Sea org executives revealed that the GO's corruption was so extensive it had been hindering Church expansion internationally—inhibiting both public and staff from advancing up the bridge. As a result of these investigations, Sea Org officials disbanded the Guardian's Office entirely.” |
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This Guardian Office was headed by the Guardian. At least since about mid-1973 Mary Sue Hubbard was referred to as the Controller. The publication ‘What Is Scientology?’ (1992 Edition to present) make no mention of any of this. In fact this whole book makes no reference anywhere at all of the person Mary Sue Hubbard that I could find!
So it is claimed that this Guardian Office was “operating without regard to Mr. Hubbard's policies and was, in fact, attempting to usurp control of the Church”. Then, would Mary Sue Hubbard have been involved with “attempting to usurp control of the Church”? This association is not made directly like this anywhere in particular, although this is what it amounts to. Mary Sue was the Controller and was regarded as overall responsible for the Guardian Office. To me it is unclear how much in control of, and in which degree she knew what had been going on in the Guardian Office. Now, if the claim be true, then why would she want to take ‘control’ of the Church? For what reason and benefit? In a sense she was already in control because of her position. Also something to consider is if L. Ron Hubbard could have been lead behind the curtain by Mary Sue. But then, would L. Ron Hubbard have been easy to fool? Would he remain being together with someone that intends to rule him out? I never understood this issue about Mary Sue Hubbard. For years I had been hearing that Mary Sue remained ‘in good standing’ as a Scientologist and all that. During the late ’80s I was told at Flag (Clearwater, Fl) that these words came from Mr. David Miscavige. If true, they are empty words if you'd ask me. She never appeared at any international church meetings since the early ’80s, or even during the ’70s for that matter. No one knew really where she was. When she died, she received not a single word of appreciation of any kind, it was not even mentioned that she had passed away! The Church of Scientology officials passed it all by completely in silence. The appreciation however from L. Ron Hubbard seems quite clear though (see below).
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“Mary Sue, my dear wife, who has helped and contributed so much since the early days of dianetics.” LRH
‘The Auditor 43’, [Dec ’68] had a special colour photo supplement as a New Year wish in where L. Ron Hubbard listed some of his “favourite things”, this included boats, photography, his wife and their 4 children, and the dog Vixie. All with accompanying text from L. Ron Hubbard. |
Now, do we have any reference from L. Ron Hubbard himself as if something would be wrong with Mary Sue? I have been unable to find any such, or be able to establish the authenticity of any such. Nonetheless since there have been many rumours in regards to Mary Sue. Some claim that she was a plant (infiltrator) of some kind. I am not sure about what she then was supposed to do, and what aims she would have had. Another version is that she may have been framed. After all outside forces could not infiltrate the Scientology organization as long she was there. The removal of Mary Sue opened the door so to speak.
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“As the organization rapidly expands, so will it be a growing temptation for antisurvival elements to gain entry and infiltrate, and attempts to plant will be made. |
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To foil these, all staff members must be alert to attempts of this nature and it is their duty to inform the Technical Director, or above, of any doubts they may have and to see that the necessary action is taken.” LRH
(from HCO PL 30 Oct 62 I “Security Risks Infiltration”) |
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“... the United States government and the efforts of that government since 1955, stepped up since 1963, to seize Scientology rather than forbid or stop it ... .” LRH
(from HCO PL 14 Jun 65 III “Politics, Freedom from”) |
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The Guardian Office that was called into being in 1966 and was effectively setting stops to that, after all, this was what the Guardian Office was created for! Out on the Internet various versions about this issue of the Guardian Office can be found. Just keep in mind that different versions are around, and also do not overlook that which was at stake. The main point I want to stress here is that time after time L. Ron Hubbard has been more than just appreciative towards Mary Sue. On tape lectures and such she got repeatedly acknowledged by him. Mary Sue was present and involved since the initiating years of Dianetics and Scientology. She always had been there on the side of L. Ron Hubbard. Since the early ’80s till this day however she is simply ignored by the Church of Scientology. It's like she never even existed! Various questions that I have in my opinion have not accurately been addressed nor answered by Church of Scientology officials regarding Mary Sue Hubbard.
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“Mary Sue and I, you know, have been married now for eight years. We went down to Oklahoma and hooked it up about eight years ago. Smart move on my part; probably not so smart on hers.” LRH
(from State of Man Congress lecture #5 “Marriage”, given on 2 Jan 60) |
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Either way Mary Sue Hubbard and with her 10 other members in the Guardian Office (including Jane Kember) were found guilty of various matters in 1979-80, and were adjudicated to serve jail sentences. It would not be surprising that she usually is remembered for these incidents in an unfavourable manner by the public in general, and that the focus from news reporting agencies is on this, see for example here (pop-up window). The information though that is found on the Internet and news media appears often rather distorted and incomplete. One person says or claims something, and the rest just copies and may add another twist to it. We have obviously not been given the whole picture, we are obviously missing out on information here. In the case of Mary Sue Hubbard usually she is pictured rather negatively. She quite clearly has the Church of Scientology against her, but also the opponents to Scientology, and even various Free Zone groups claim that she was a plant of some sort. Nonetheless L. Ron Hubbard does not say a single bad word about his wife! What does this all end up to? What for example does this tell about the position of the Church of Scientology and the various Free Zone groups claiming she was a plant? We seldom hear the other side of the story. May be it is about time to gather the actual background story about this tale of Mary Sue Hubbard. To actually collect all the information and facts and unravel the puzzle. It is necessary to be diligent and complete, after which you can then compare and investigate all the inconsistencies.
(2) The take of Mr. David Miscavige of the events
| It appears quite clearly from this that Mr. David Miscavige targets the person Mary Sue Hubbard directly. A selection: |
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“… particularly Mary Sue Hubbard, even refused to answer our questions …” |
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“Our attempts to get information were thwarted by Mary Sue Hubbard.” |
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“… Mary Sue Hubbard was covertly attempting …” |
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“… Mary Sue Hubbard and the rest of her criminal group …” |
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“… Mary Sue Hubbard and her GO allies …” |
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“… senior GO officials secretly met with Mary Sue Hubbard and conspired to regain control of the GO …” |
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| It does bother me though that Mr. David Miscavige is pointing this finger at Mary Sue Hubbard when L. Ron Hubbard has not ever done that, quite the contrary. |
This first paragraph (#26) of this part of the affidavit of Mr. Miscavige that is addressing the Guardian Office provides for a circumscription and various statements from Mr. Miscavige. The chapter starts with saying: “To understand the magnitude of this upheaval, a description of the history, power and authority of the GO is vital.”. Here below I cite this whole paragraph in sections and let them follow with my comments:
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“The GO was established in March of 1966 because legal and other external facing matters were consuming the time and resources of Churches of Scientology.” |
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TO HELP LRH ENFORCE AND ISSUE POLICY, TO SAFEGUARD SCIENTOLOGY ORGS, SCIENTOLOGISTS
AND SCIENTOLOGY AND TO ENGAGE IN LONG TERM PROMOTION.” LRH. |
| The Guardian as appointed in each organization could be seen as an entity that acts independently from the org lines in order to safeguard and possibly guide the org in the right direction. It particularly interferes if it affects matters involving (as listed in this policy letter): |
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“to be informed of and to trace every affluence awarded to find out what happened before it occurred and to publish findings” |
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“works out or calls for and approves the long range promotion of Scientology” |
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“defined as data leading to predictions of occurrences and useful in forecasting events and so assisting planning and in handling matters arising from events” |
| Per the above it is not in particular about legal matters. It is rather that the Guardian's Office is as the name suggests was the guardian of Scientology. This may effect legal matters indirectly, although it is not per sé about that. At least not as is laid out in the original policy letter of March 1966. |
| It may have grown to be like that as time passed, however it was not in particular like that at its initiation back in March 1966! The brochure ‘The Guardian Office of the Church of Scientology’ (issued 1978) confirms: “The functions have evolved to a degree since 1966, as one can see from the present organization of the Guardian Office.”. |
| In particular various internal matters relating to legal were taking care of by HCO* which is laid out in HCO PL 15 Nov AD8 “The Substance and First Duty of HCO” and HCO PL 15 Nov AD8 II “Legal Aid – HCO”. It was affecting “Seals, copyrights, marks, tapes, bulletins and books”. The Guardian Office basically only interfered in case of a flap on the org lines. |
| But it then says in the section of this brochure ‘The Guardian Office of the Church of Scientology’ (issued 1978) that bears reference to legal matters: “The function of the Legal Bureau is to handle all legal matters. These include maintaining the corporate status and legal safety of the Church. All matters pertaining to Church incorporation, taxes, trademarks and patents are the concern of this Bureau. Any suits involving the Church are handled by the Legal Bureau also.”. Is HCO by-passed here? Nonetheless it is clearly stated in HCO PL 15 Nov AD8 “The Substance and First Duty of HCO”: “All this applies now and later. And it will become more important as time goes on.” LRH. So, what situation would we be facing this day if it had remained in the hands of HCO? |
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“In particular, Church leaders were being distracted from their primary functions of ministering to the spiritual needs of their expanding religious communities and building their organizations.” |
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“During the 1970s the GO operated as an entirely autonomous organization unchecked and unsupervised by the ecclesiastical management of the Church. The power of the GO was absolute.” |
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“The Guardian is the most senior executive of Scientology just below the Executive Director. The post is senior to
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“The powers of the Guardian may not be deputized or exercised by any committee or Council or deputy or assistant
and may only be exercised by the Guardian.” & “The Guardian may dismiss any Executive or staff member seeking to deny or exercise the Powers of the Guardian.” (these Powers are listed at large and in detail in this policy letter). |
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“The Guardian's powers are derived from the Executive Director who already has and exercises these powers.” |
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“But the Guardian has great power in that none but the Executive Director can cancel an order from the Guardian.” |
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| In essence however as per HCO PL 1 Mar 66 “The Guardian” it is not supposed to be “checked and supervised by the ecclesiastical management of the Church”. How are you going to guard the organization if one was to unconditionally submit to that. The Guardian Office was to act if things had gone or tended to go awry. Also per the same policy letter its powers were not either to be “absolute”. Things here however may through time have grown to become that, but we then do not find this reflected in these original references about the Guardian Office. |
| Either way the Guardian at least to some extend had to answer to the Executive Director as per this policy letter. He also, as any staff member, had to abide by policy. Therefore the “power of the GO” could not have been “absolute” as it is not senior to policy. Also various persons report to me that they had queried ‘orders’ issued by Guardian Office terminals that were rescinded. |
| More importantly though unlike for example Religious Technology Center (RTC) they could not withhold licenses from Churches, Field Auditors or Franchises. Nor could they illegally cancel certificates to enforce altered tech even if they would have wanted that. |
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“Unless a member of the GO, one could not even enter their locked offices.” |
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| Ironically enough this appears quite true for the unit that replaced the Guardian Office since 1983, which is the Office of Special Affairs (OSA). If the organization was large enough one was not allowed to enter the actual working offices of OSA. I remember this quite clearly from Flag (senior organization, located in Clearwater, Fl.), at least this was so during the late ’80s. |
| Also various persons report to me that even though they were no actual members of the Guardian Office but yet spent much time in their offices, consulting with the Assistant Guardian about staff auditing, training and other things. |
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| This is rather untrue. The Guardian Office did not hold the directorship of either Hubbard Association of Scientologists International (HASI) or the Church of Scientology of California (CSC) which where at the time the two main corporate entities. This becomes quite clear when one consults the various legal documents. |
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“They and they alone dealt with legal affairs of the Church.” |
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HCO for the most part handled the internal legal affairs. The Guardian Office only stepped in when some situation turned into a flap. As I noted earlier however over time the duties of the Guardian Office appear to get adjusted as we can see from the brochure ‘The Guardian Office of the Church of Scientology’, issued in 1978. |
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“The GO operated in complete secrecy, and conducted its affairs independently of the Church and its management and personnel. Any attempt to find out their affairs, by Church ecclesiastical staff or any Scientologist, was met with the same ‘treatment’ they handed out to others.” |
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| Be it noted here that Mr. David Miscavige was responsible for the missions/missionaries that were send out in his capacity of being the CMO* Action Chief (heading the Mission bureau) during 1979 (I have various Flag Orders addressing Mission matters that are carrying his name and post). He therefore must have been aware of Mission tech existing and how one was to deal with that. |
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“For instance, GO staff carried out illegal programs, such as the infiltration of government offices for which eleven members of the GO were prosecuted and convicted.” |
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| Illegal actions taken are rather hard to justify, although this may have been at the behest of agent provocateurs. May be so, nonetheless some things are not really clear about this as I touched earlier in my Guardian Office overview. There is also an irony present which involved the actions of various government entities taken against the Church of Scientology and in particular against the yacht Apollo. The controversy in these matters are at large discussed in Omar V. Garrison's book ‘Playing Dirty’ (issued 1980). |
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“There were also instances in which GO staff used unscrupulous means to deal with people they perceived as enemies of the Church -- means that were completely against Scientology tenets and policy, not to mention the law.” |
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A note may be made here that factually there has not been a particular entity in existence that had absolute power within the Scientology network, i.e. until Mr. David Miscavige assumed control of the Religious Technology Center (RTC) as its Chairman of, as some propose, some ‘elusive and mysterious’ Board of Directors. Could this pose the situation that Mr. David Miscavige accuses Mary Sue Hubbard of things he himself has been doing or wished to establish for himself? After all he frequently has been receiving accusations at his address that he has been doing that, we actually can read about that on the Internet and in the media. Then if we perceive that if someone is a bit too overzealous with the righteousness of one's own role played in something then we may for a moment consider for example the implications of HCOB 31 Jan 70 “Withholds, Other Peoples”. Some may very well not like that I propose such an association. Well, put it to the test.
Examine the statements of Mr. David Miscavige in this 1994 affidavit. You see, there are some ingredients in all these happenings that are inconsistent and this actually bothers me.
Then we should also consider here the directions of L. Ron Hubbard that are found in HCO PL 4 Jan 66 VI “LRH Relationship to Orgs”. This reference tales about the various responsibilities or the hats worn by him. They are listed as: “LRH, An individual”, “LRH Trustee”, “LRH Board Member”, “LRH, Executive Director” and “LRH, Staff Member”. The reference then details about their specifics and significances.
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“Our growth depends on our staying out of trouble, getting our lines in and keeping corporate structure straight. And understanding these separate identities or titles and functions and using them. ... |
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It is doubtful if this situation will change. ... |
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My identities are therefore woven in to the pattern so they don't have to be altered to keep things going. ... |
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This is not only today then, but tomorrow as well and the above identities are firm as identities whether I am here or not. Even today 99% of my functions are done by delegated authority. ... We won't vanish if I as a person vanish. ... |
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So whatever happens to me as a person leave this LRH identities on the org unfilled and all will be well. If you try to fill them catastrophe will result.” LRH |
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Now, we have this occurrence of the Religious Technology Center (RTC) and a whole variety of additional corporations coming into being in 1982. Then we see that Mr. Miscavige surfaces as the Chairman of the Board (COB) of this RTC. Things since that time have been changing around. The question is if the directions given in HCO PL 4 Jan 66 VI “LRH Relationship to Orgs” have been violated. In order to be able to do a comparison we thus are forced to put the question: “Did ‘catastrophe’ occur?”.
(3a) Notes about Quentin Hubbard (and some conspiracy theories)
(The silence of Mary Sue Hubbard & The mysteries surrounding the death of Quentin Hubbard)
| It is also rather noteworthy that Mary Sue Hubbard herself is rather silent about these matters. We don't hear her story told by herself. Her story is persistently told by others. Why would this be? If an attempt had been made to actually infiltrate and take over the organization then how would one go about things? How to keep those persons involved or that could expose what really was going on, how to keep them quiet? |
| Is there a possibility that the ‘murder’ (allegedly suicide) of the oldest son Quentin Hubbard (died 12 November 1976) may have been used to keep Mary Sue Hubbard quiet. Could there be any truth in this? It is a reality that the circumstances surrounding his death are still clouded in mystery till this day: (pop-up window) |
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Quentin Hubbard: “Scientology Student Death Probe” (Las Vegas Sun,
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“Hubbard's son Quentin also died under mysterious circumstances in 1976. He had disappeared from his home in Clearwater, Florida, and was found unconscious in a car next to the Las Vegas airport. (Coroner's report is attached as Exhibit U. He died unidentified, as a ‘John Doe.’) The engine of the car was on and a hose ran from the exhaust pipe (although it appeared to have fallen off when the authorities arrived) to the window, making it appear to be a suicide. But, like his father's death, there were a number of nagging questions. For example, Quentin was found unkempt with a beard stubble, a state that no one who knew Quentin could accept. (He was ultra-meticulous in his appearance.) Or that the license plate of the car was missing and found under a rock some distance away. Or that his wallet was gone, making identification impossible. Or that a near-empty bottle of liquor was found, as if he had been drinking, when Quentin did not. Or that there were needle marks on his arms, when he did not use drugs.” |
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| Robert Vaughn Young was a member of the Church of Scientology for a period of 20 years (1969-1989), it is reported that he had worked in the highest management
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Much is assumed although little is actually supported by fact. We also have this interesting time coincidence. Only a 6 months later on 10 May 1977 the HASI organization (that held the copyrights of Scientology) had gone defunct (see for details my study on HASI, see page “Scientology membership:
HASI vs IAS - A comparison”) and then the subsequent FBI raid on the Scientology headquarters and the Guardian Office that took place on 8 July 1977.
| There are various rumours that go around about Quentin. Some claim that (1) he was a homosexual (no actual evidence surfaces that would confirm this); (2) that he would have attempted suicide earlier in 1974 for which reason he was send to the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) (this claim to date is unclear and unconfirmed by fact); (3) that all he really wanted to do was to fly aeroplanes instead he was groomed by his father to take over the Scientology organization after him (old numbers of the Scientology periodical The Auditor do confirm his interest for aeroplanes although this was at a rather young age), and; (4) that he was a nice individual and stable but yet was unable to oppose his father. |
| In a “Special Message From Lt. Quentin Hubbard” published in ‘Clear News 80 (AOLA edition)’, [Feb 73] it says: “I, Quentin Hubbard, am a Flag trained Case Supervisor who was kept on the straight and narrow by the Founder and was eager to apply my tools to the HGC and Advanced Courses.”. Mind though this “kept on the straight and narrow” has to be taken in the proper context. Quentin had just turned 19 years at that time and he was performing on a mission* to correct various matters that had gone awry in the AOLA*. People fired on such missions naturally have to operate on detailed instructions, and for this reason they are also specially trained (Mission School). Per this issue number of Clear News he also handled it rather successfully. Considering the nature of doing missions within the Scientology organization, he was doing these things but could then not oppose his father? It also strikes me as odd as if Quentin would not have been allowed to give in to some passion about flying, after all L. Ron Hubbard himself had been a pilot. |
| The sources given for various of these rumours appear to be very few, and these are not always very reputed sources either (decide for yourself), nonetheless these are the ones that persistently go around, and in particular are spread about by those persons that oppose the subject of Scientology. It further appears acknowledged that he was very well acquainted with the Scientology technology, he was a Class XII auditor. The persons that knew him that I personally have spoken to tell that he was a very gentle and polite person, but also say that he may not have been the kind of leading figure as his father was. |
A story is also being told that at a time, that sequences of these claimed take over and infiltration plans were put into working order, that the Hubbard's were kept safe at some place. Quentin however had managed to escape. Not long after that he was then found as he was. It may also be noteworthy that the various Scientology-related magazines made no notice of his passing anywhere.
| A very last notice in regards to Quentin Hubbard as found in the various Scientology magazines: |
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Quentin Hubbard returns to the Founding Church for a special event
About four hundred people crowded the Academy and other areas of the Founding Church of Scientology on Saturday March 20th to see special guest speaker Quentin Hubbard and find out more about the new Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida.
The group first watched a color video tape preview of the new facilities at the Flag Land Base. The film told more about the courses and processing available at the Land Base that make it a ‘mecca for those who seek technical perfection.’
Quentin Hubbard's talk marked his first return to the Founding Church since 1959. He spoke to the enthusiastic crowd for nearly three hours — a new record for him. His talk centered around a capsule history of his father's development of Dianetics and Scientology and of the expansion that has taken place up to the present time. Quentin's listeners — ‘old hands’ and newcomers alike — heard new stories about Ron and Mary Sue Hubbard's experiences and about the Sea Organization's adventures during the formative years of Scientology.” |
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(from ‘Ability 293 Major’, Apr 76 (see also ‘Ability 294 Minor’, May 76)) |
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| Peculiar enough is the picture of Quentin as was published with the above article not a very recent photograph. It appears it had been taken from a photo shoot that he had together with his sister Diana at least about 2½ years earlier (late 1973). It is peculiar because photographs of Diana are about, but very few exist from Quentin. The published photograph, as it appears, had been edited from a larger picture (see complete photograph on the outer right). |
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(3b) A take over plan devised? (with reference to ‘The Crowley Files’ & Quentin Hubbard)
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“Someone considered Quentin a barrier to seizing full control of the Church so they eliminated him, then they got rid of his mother by setting her up. |
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Now with them out of the way. It gave them the opportunity to put their agent in place and groom him to take control of the whole organization as its unquestioned Tzar or Dictator. |
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Their mole was none other than David Miscavige. |
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Again, just another one of them ‘conspiracy theories’? |
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Well not totally theory if you follow these links:
http://cryptome.org/cia-2619.htm |
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You'll find Miscavige here under the M's
http://cryptome.org/cia-2619.htm#M |
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And his friend, lifetime member of the CTCC* and fellow co-conspirator Heber Jentsch here:
http://cryptome.org/cia-2619.htm#J |
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I'm sure there were others not listed as well that helped. |
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My conclusion is that it was an inside job, once they figured out that Remote Viewing actually worked and that the Church of Scientology as it was, was an actual threat. |
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Not just another wacky cult.” |
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| Notes: The link to the ‘CIA source list’ at http://cryptome.org has since moved to http://cryptome.info/0001/cia-2619.htm (last checked: 10 Apr 2013). This list is also found at http://www.crow96.20m.com (click at ‘CIA source list’). These present a list of a total of 2,619 ‘CIA Sources’. This is defined as: “A source is not a paid agent but an individual who can occupy a position of influence, such as an international banker, a member of the print or television media, or a scholar or academic, who might be in a position to influence official decisions or supply necessary support for an official CIA position.”. The file is a selection from ‘The Crowley Files’. Robert Trumbull Crowley was a senior Central Intelligence Agency officer from 1948 until the mid-1980s. |
http://www.crow96.20m.com says: “The Crow was the CIA code name for Robert Trumbull Crowley, once Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations for that agency.
In 1996, Crowley gave a quantity of his private papers to several journalists.
Because of his position with the CIA, Crowley was privy to many of the agencies most closely-kept secrets and his files are legendary.
After his death in October of 2000, various official U.S. agencies attempted to get these files back into official cover but they have proven to be completely unsuccessful.” |
| All this starts to sound awfully alike some sort of JFK murder conspiracy. In where the Church of Scientology does seem (sort of) to have assumed the role of the Warren Commission. We may not even be very wrong about that either. The reality is that the story that we are being told in regards to Mary Sue has big holes in it. There are too many inconsistencies found. What to say for example about Mr. David Miscavige that witnesses and speaks out against Mary Sue Hubbard, when L. Ron Hubbard had never anything but good things to say about her? |
| If you go to Dallas today they will tell you the story of the lonesome killer. They will display the rifle that allegedly was used to shoot John F. Kennedy. They will show you the building and the exact spot from which Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly had fired these shots. You may also hear the story of the magical bullet. This is still the official version told today, nonetheless this tale also has such holes in it that makes it a shear impossibility that it would/could have happened that way. The discussion about that and the controversy are still ongoing this day. Some happenings as it seems are not meant to be cleared, and they will remain shrouded in mystery as was intended. Thousands of classified documents are still kept under seal. |
| These are commonly brushed off as conspiracy theories because they counter the official government approved version of happenings. I guess a supposed take over of Scientology will also be placed in that category. Coincidentally we see the creation of the Religious Technology Center (RTC) in Jan 82, that involved a compete reorganization of the Scientology organization and the way it was going about things. The last obstacle, the Guardian Office was taken out (1981). A coup d'état or not, find out for yourself. An overview of various criteria can be consulted at link here below: (separate window) |
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“The dawning of ‘Religious Technology Center’ (RTC) and new management (1982-83)(A coup d'état?)” |
Aftermath
The ‘Office of Special Affairs’ (OSA)
The duties of the Guardian Office have since been taken over by the Office of Special Affairs (OSA). The Office of Special Affairs International was formatted as such in December 1983, it is circumscribed as “a network within the Church of Scientology International which plans and supervises the legal affairs of the church, under the board of directors.” (from ‘What Is Scientology?’ (1992 Edition), page 649).
The irony is here that the Guardian Office was accused of various wrongdoing for which reason it had been disbanded. In its ashes the Office of Special Affairs arose, which was supposed to carry out their duties in a proper manner, something, as it was proclaimed, the Guardian Office then had failed to fullfil. If we are to believe the revelations of Mike Rinder who was heading the OSA unit as the executive director from 1983 to 2007, then the things he has been saying ever since were not very flattering for what OSA was involved with doing to its previous staff (that had left because of discord) and any other perceived enemies of Scientology. There was premeditated behaviour that resembles fair gaming, forcing people to disconnect from family members, harassments, slandering, character assassinations, provocations, private investigators were put on their tails, and so on.
Vocabulary:
AD..:
‘After Dianetics ..’. The main book ‘Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health’ was first published in 1950. Therefore for example AD8, AD12, and AD29 would respectively give the years 1958, 1962 and 1979.
AOLA:
‘Advanced Organization Los Angeles’: A Scientology organization which services higher level auditing & training, located in Los Angeles, USA.
BPL:
‘Board Policy Letter’. Color flash–green ink on cream paper. These are the issues of the Boards of Directors of the Churches of Scientology and are separate and distinct from HCO Policy Letters written by LRH. Only LRH issues may be printed green on white for policy and only LRH issues may have the prefix HCO. These Board issues are valid as Policy. (BPL 14 Jan 74R I, New Issues).
This issue-type was established in January 1974. In October 1975 a project was started to cancel HCO PLs not written by L. Ron Hubbard and if still found being of value having them reissued as BPLs. By 1980 all BPLs had been revoked.
CMO:
‘Commodore Messenger Organization’. A senior entity within the Sea Organization of the Church of Scientology.
CTCC:
‘Church Tax Compliance Committee’ (Church of Scientology)
GO:
Short for ‘Guardian Office’. See at that entry in vocabulary.
Guardian Office (GO):
In 1966, the Office of the Guardian was established. The purpose of the Guardian Office was to help enforce and issue policy to safeguard Scientology Churches, Scientologists and Scientology, and to engage in long term promotion. (from publication ‘The Guardian Office’, released 1978). It dealt particularly with the legal affairs concerning the Church of Scientology. In 1983 rechristened as ‘Office of Special Affairs’ (OSA)
HCO (Division):
‘Hubbard Communications Office’. It's in charge of the org boards, personnel, hatting and communication lines. HCO builds, holds, maintains, mans and controls the organization. It's in charge of inspection and it's in charge of ethics. Has the say on all copyrights and trademarks, rights of materials and the issuance of publications.
HCO PL:
‘Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letter’. Color flash–green ink on white paper. Written by LRH only, but only so starting from January 1974. These are the organizational and administrative issue line. For more information go here (separate window).
LRH:
An usual abbreviation for ‘L. Ron Hubbard’.
mission:
1. A mission could be defined for our use as a formally authorized individual or group sent to perform a specific task or duty sent by Operations. That would require, then, personnel selection, training, briefing, Mission Orders, dispatch and full admin. The difference between an errand and a mission is that missions are sent by an Operations Officer, errands are sent by anyone else. When an “errand” involves more than one day it should be handled by Operations, not by some other division. It then becomes a mission. (FO 2530R) 2. To handle downstat orgs and areas the Sea Org simply gets in ethics. This is done in such a way as to enable that org or area to get in tech, which makes it possible then for them to get in admin. In order to do this we send out missions. These have unlimited ethics powers and enough force to accomplish their purpose of getting in ethics. (FO 228) 3. A mission consists of a missionaire trained officer and missionaire trained personnel. (FO 1802)
Mission School is designed to train a Sea Org member to undertake and execute a mission, any mission. It provides the know-how and technology to get the job done. (FO 2505).
‘Modern Management Technology Defined’ (released 1976):
This is within the Scientology organization commonly referred to as simply ‘Admin Dictionary’. Presently used editions of this book are identical to this first edition.
‘The Organization Executive Course’:
Subtitled in the 1970-74 release: ‘An Encyclopedia of Scientology Policy’. This is a series of books that contain the HCO PLs, and any references that are primarily dealing with administrative matters. They are divided up division wise. The HCO PLs are printed in green ink on white paper, and the volumes themselves come in green bindings. These books may also be referred to as the ‘green volumes’ or even ‘OEC volumes’. The ‘old green volumes’ then would refer to the 1970-74 release, the ‘new green volumes’ instead to the 1991 release. See a listing of published volumes here (pop-up window).
RTC:
‘Religious Technology Center’. The highest echelon within the Church of Scientology.
Withholds (W/Hs):
Something a person did that he isn't talking about. Basically, it is a no action after the fact of action in which the individual has done or been an accessory to doing something which is a transgression against some moral code consisting of agreements to which the individual has subscribed in order to guarantee, with others, the survival of a group with which he is co-acting or has co-acted toward survival. (Marriage Hats booklet)
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