In August 1978, she was indicted by the United States government on charges of conspiracy relating to illegal covert operations mounted by the Guardian's Office against government agencies. Nothing of this known to me until a few weeks ago. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986), commonly shortened to L. Ron Hubbard, was a science-fiction writer and drug fiend[1] who engaged in the ultimate experiment: to create a religion founded on utter bullshit, yet endowed with the sociological and psychological components that "make religions work". [47], The espionage continued for another three months before Meisner's luck ran out and he was caught in June 1976. [10], Although both were committed O.T.O. [41] The Dianetics Foundation was making a huge amount of money, but problems were already evident: money was pouring out as fast as it was coming in, due to lax financial management and Hubbard's own free spending. IAS Patrons, Impact #53 (1994), pp. [3] She originally intended to work in petroleum research, but a friend persuaded her to travel with him to Wichita, Kansas, in mid-1951 to take a Dianetics course at the Hubbard Dianetic Foundation. Entitled "Marriage Hats". In 1998 she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in addition to her existing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It's an unimportant detail but he's had three wives What is important is that his followers were there as he lied, but no matter what the evidence they don't believe it. The arrival of Hubbard and Northrup three weeks after the divorce was filed scandalized Hubbard's family, who deeply disapproved of his treatment of Polly. [61], Northrup filed for divorce on April 23, 1951, charging Hubbard with "extreme cruelty" causing her "great mental anguish and physical suffering". [18] Hubbard and Northrup left for Florida towards the end of April, Hubbard taking with him $10,000 drawn from the Allied Enterprises account to fund the purchase of the partnership's first yacht. The dinner party backfired drastically; Northrup began an affair with Hollister, a handsome 22-year-old who was college-educated and a noted sportsman. According to Northrup's later recollections she repeatedly refused him but relented after he threatened to kill himself. I want her always. Speaking to Dianeticists following the divorce, Hubbard blamed shadowy outside forces for the bad publicity: "We have just been through the saw mill, through the public presses. He had worked as an archivist for the Church of Scientology, gathering source material for a planned biography of L. Ron Hubbard. Sometimes when the two of them were sitting at the table together, the hostility was almost tangible. That is the amazing part about it. He went to live at the house and investigated the black magic rites and the general situation and found them very bad. "[46] In November 1950, Northrup attempted suicide by taking sleeping pills. She and Hubbard eloped, taking with them a substantial amount of Parsons' life savings and marrying bigamously a year later while Hubbard was still married to his first wife, Margaret Grubb. Hubbard rescued a girl they were using. Several ships were purchased to serve as the quarters of the newly created "Sea Org". She gave Hubbard four more children - Diana, Quentin, Suzette and Arthur - over the next six years. How many girls is a man entitled to in one lifetime, anyway? It consists of 'marriage guidance' for Scientologists from the then 'first lady' of the organisation. Not only was the GO not handling these suits, the GO, and particularly Mary Sue Hubbard, even refused to answer our questions about the suits because they viewed themselves answerable only to persons within the GO Our attempts to get information were thwarted by Mary Sue Hubbard. [8], Northrup joined the O.T.O. The FBI declined to take any action, characterizing Hubbard as a "mental case". To Hubbard, her sadness was nothing more than an annoyance. 121669 should complain about invasion of privacy. L. Ron Hubbard's body was found in a motor home with the air conditioner running, tucked behind animal stables on a small ranch outside Creston. caused further tensions in the house, which Aleister Crowley heard about from communications from her housemates. She intended to make use of this discovery by writing a book that would be "completely anti-Christ". As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. [22] On November 22, 1966, the Hubbard Explorational Company Limited was formed with Hubbard and Mary Sue as directors Hubbard being described as expedition supervisor and Mary Sue as company secretary. He replied, "You know, I'm a public figure and you're nobody, so if you have to go through the divorce, I'll accuse you of desertion so it won't look so bad on my public record. Helen and Jack were engaged in July 1934[6] and married in April 1935. Northrup agreed but Hubbard reneged on the deal and flew to Chicago, where he found a psychologist who wrote a favorable report about his mental condition to refute Northrup's accusations. "[14] Cyril Vosper, one of the Saint Hill staff at the time, noted the differing impressions left by the Hubbards: "I always had great warmth and admiration for Ron he was a remarkable individual, a constant source of new information and ideas but I thought Mary Sue was an exceedingly nasty person. [43] She left Wichita as soon as Alexis was returned to her. whom I believed to be my wife, having married her and then, after some mix-up about a divorce, believed to be my wife in common law. David was an original deputy to the late founder L. Ron Hubbard and had been working in the upper hierarchy of the Church since he was a teenager. She was a bitch. At the order of both of the Hubbards, the GO ran scores of operations against Scientology's enemies. . She was part of a free love colony in Pasadena. folders or files" to obtain information for purposes of intimidation and or harassment is repugnant. . A curly haired, middle-aged woman - who US magazine National . In April 1969, Mary Sue was promoted by Hubbard to serve as the captain of the Royal Scotman and ordered to cruise up and down the coast of Spain to train the vessel's inexperienced crew of Scientologists, who had made a string of mistakes that infuriated Hubbard. [3] In it, she thanked her husband "for having given the most precious gifts of freedom and true beingness to me and my fellow man. Without him, none of this would have been possible; and so to Ron goes my everlasting gratitude for having provided for all of us the road to Clear. I have not at any time believed otherwise than that L. Ron Hubbard is a fine and brilliant man. They would go to bed very late, usually in the small hours of the morning, and get up in the early afternoon [Mary Sue] had a separate bedroom, but usually had breakfast with him scrambled eggs, sausages, mushrooms and tomatoes. They married April 25, 1909, in Omaha, Nebraska. An explorer, a mystic, a bestselling author, a nuclear physicist . members, Northrup's usurpation of Helen's role led to conflict between the two sisters. "[83], Despite clearly being written by Hubbard, who spoke in the first person in the letter, it was signed "Your good friend, J. Edgar Hoover". "[70] She did not give evidence but was awarded custody of Alexis and $200 a month in child support. On the other hand her credibility leaves much to be desired. The fact is that Hubbard had been married 3 times at the time of the interview. With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. In three years of marriage to Hubbard, she had set up home in seven different states and had never stayed in one place for more than a few months. He thought I had thrown in with the psychiatrists, with the devils. His first wife had not obtained divorce until '47 and he was married in '46. Hubbard subsequently returned to the Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey. "[13] Ken Urquhart, who worked for the Hubbards as their butler in the 1960s, commented that Mary Sue "could be very sweet and loving, but also very cold. She joined as a teenager along with her older sister Helen. [32], The relationship was not an easy one. [62] She had consulted doctors who "concluded that said Hubbard was hopelessly insane, and, crazy, and that there was no hope for said Hubbard, or any reason for her to endure further; that competent medical advisers recommended that said Hubbard be committed to a private sanatorium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia."[62]. L. Ron Hubbard was not in any way a nice guy, he was a deeply horrible person (who was also correctly described by our moderator freezoneandproud as a "rat bastard"). [32] They were reunited in September 1973, when the possibility of extradition had passed. She played a leading role in the management of the Church of Scientology, rising to become the head of the Church's Guardian's Office (GO). [45] Mary Sue was closely involved in the strategy; a letter written by her, approving the thefts, was later used in evidence against her. in October 1969, the newspaper printed a statement attributed to the Church of Scientology (but written by Hubbard himself[80]) that asserted: Hubbard broke up black magic in America L. Ron Hubbard was still an officer of the US Navy because he was well known as a writer and a philosopher and had friends amongst the physicists, he was sent in to handle the situation. At six-twenty-five I would go into his office with a jacket for him to wear to table and after dinner they would spend an hour or so watching television with the children and then he and Mary Sue would return to work in their separate offices. [54] The downfall of the GO led Hubbard to distrust it, believing it to be riddled with Suppressives; he severed his communications with it[55] and put his reliance instead on the Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO), a group he had formed in 1968 and whose purpose was to relay messages to and from church staff as Ron's personal representatives. In reality, Hubbard had made an unsuccessful request for assistance from the US military attach to Havana. [71] In June 1984, Judge Paul G. Breckenridge ruled against the Church and Mary Sue Hubbard, criticizing her credibility as a witness: LRH's wife, Mary Sue Hubbard is also plaintiff herein. Mary Sue was grief-stricken, though she later attempted to persuade friends that Quentin had died from encephalitis. [27] The trip had the air of a punishment detail and was dubbed the "liability cruise"; conditions on board were reportedly appalling. Hubbard, who had left his wife and two children with relatives years earlier, bigamously married Sara. [20], Northrup later recalled that the boat had been caught in a hurricane in the Panama Canal, damaging it too badly to be able to continue the voyage to California. [19] His health and emotional difficulties were reflected in another, much more private, document which has been dubbed "The Affirmations". Despite insisting on clean living and even prohibiting followers from taking necessary medication, Hubbard loved to party. She played a central role in the financial management of the Church of Scientology's two principal corporations, the Church of Scientology of California and the United Kingdom Church of Scientology. [66] She lost her final appeal in April 1982[67] and was ordered to begin a prison term in January 1983. ", HUBBARD: "I never had a second wife."[78]. "[14], In August 1945, Northrup met L. Ron Hubbard for the first time. Hubbard was struggling with illness in 1980 and he was living in San Luis Obisbo . She accompanied her husband to Phoenix, Arizona, where they established the Hubbard Association of Scientologists the forerunner of the Church of Scientology, which was itself founded in 1953. In May 1951, Northrup filed a further complaint against Hubbard, accusing him of having fled to Cuba to evade the divorce papers that she was seeking to serve. My wife Sara."[74]. It is, of course, rather ironic that the person who authorized G.O. Born as Henry August Wilson, adopted by James W. Hubbard and Philena Jane Potter Hubbard, who changed his name to Harry Ross Hubbard. The Hubbards had four children: Diana (born 1952), Quentin (19541976), Suzette (born 1955), and Arthur (born 1958). The writer Lawrence Wright was told in September 2010 by Tommy Davis, the then spokesman for the Church of Scientology, that Hubbard "was never married to Sara Northrup. I'm actually gonna disagree with most people here. The final version of Dianetics was written at Bay Head, New Jersey in a cottage which the science fiction editor John W. Campbell had found for the Hubbards. ismertebb nevn L. Ron Hubbard amerikai sci-fi -r s a szcientolgia egyhz alaptja. Share it! She struck the familiar pose of not seeing, hearing or knowing any evil. Hubbard grew up in Helena, Montana, and studied at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He said he went to a party and got drunk and when he woke up in the morning he found Northrup was in bed with him. [7] Her parents not only knew about her unconventional living arrangements but supported Parsons' group financially. Mary Sue Hubbard died on November 25, 2002, aged 71, at her home in Los Angeles. Mr. Ronald Reagan President . After the vessel had been renovated by Scientologists, Mary Sue and the children moved into the upper-deck accommodation in November 1968. Maybe he should be reincarnated as a rabbit. "[76] As Downsborough put it, he portrayed himself as "a constant victim of women". [84] Even his own staff were shocked by the contents of Hubbard's letter; he ended his instructions to them with the statement, "Decency is not a subject well understood". Mary Sue strongly opposed these changes and reappointed herself Controller, rescinding the CMO's permission to investigate the GO. Although she was not yet twenty-four years old, she exercised considerable power within the Scientology movement and people around Hubbard quickly learned to be wary of her. American Religious Leader L. Ron Hubbard was born Lafayette Ronald Hubbard on 13th March, 1911 in . By that time, Hubbard had separated from his first wife, Margaret "Polly" Grubb, but he was still legally married to her when he proposed to Northrup. [51] Around the end of February 1980, Ron Hubbard went into hiding[52] and remained in seclusion in the small town of Creston, California, for the remaining six years of his life. [43] L. Ron Hubbard was said to have been fully aware of the GO's actions; the US government would later declare him to be an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the GO's illegal activities. [47] The GO's agent in the IRS, Michael Meisner, was ordered to obtain all files concerning L. Ron and Mary Sue Hubbard from the IRS Office of International Operations, which he succeeded in infiltrating. [45] One evening he arranged a double-date with his wife and Klowden, who was accompanied by Hollister, an instructor in the Los Angeles Dianetic Foundation. Northrup told Cooper that Hubbard was a dangerous lunatic, and that although her own life had been transformed when she left him, she was still afraid both of him and of his followers,[92] whom she later described as looking "like Mormons, but with bad complexions. [19] The manor, a country house formerly owned by Sawai Man Singh II, the Maharajah of Jaipur, became both the new home of the Hubbards and the world headquarters of Scientology. [76] Mary Sue Hubbard continued to be active in Scientology well into the 1990s; in a 1994 Scientology magazine, she was listed as a "Patron" of the International Association of Scientologists, indicating a donation of $40,000. After six weeks of operation[5] it was replaced in April 1952 by the Hubbard Association of Scientologists, established in Phoenix, Arizona, to promote Hubbard's newly announced "science of certainty". [11] Northrup also became pregnant but had an abortion on April 1, 1943, arranged by Parsons and carried out by Dr. Zachary Taylor Malaby, a prominent Pasadena doctor and Democratic politician. [37] She gave birth on March 8, 1950 to a daughter, Alexis Valerie. Thanks to a kind contributor I have acquired a scan of a rare 36-page pamphlet, written by Mary Sue Hubbard (the third wife of L Ron Hubbard). Ernie was adopted by Mrs. Kanzler, the sister of the wife of Edsel Ford, at the request of Katherine Hepburn. He never had a child with her. The case eventually came to trial in September 1979, following months of delay occasioned by a fierce rear-guard action by the Church of Scientology's lawyers. He stated: In 1981, a Church investigation was begun into the activities of the GO. I thought to myself, 'My God, I can't tell her. He told her that she was "in a state of complete madness" due to being dictated to and hypnotized by Hollister and his "communist cell". Recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation files show that just over a year after L. Ron Hubbard created the the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, a precursor to the Church of Scientology, he offered to become an informant for the Bureau, and provide the FBI with a list of its members and copies of their fingerprints.. Her body was cremated two days later and her ashes were scattered at sea off the California coast,[2] where L. Ron Hubbard's ashes had similarly been scattered in January 1986. - Creston, Kalifornia, 1986. janur 24.) I make this statement of my own free will for I have begun to realize that what I have done may have injured the science of Dianetics, which in my studied opinion may be the only hope of sanity in future generations. Her real motive in filing for divorce, he said, was to seize control of Dianetics. Fearing arrest, he fled to Washington, D.C. with a handful of aides while Mary Sue was left behind in Florida continuing her day-to-day management activities. "[50] Hubbard enlisted de Mille and another Dianeticist, Dave Williams, in an attempt to convince her to stay with him. I have no revenge motive nor am I trying to angle this broader than it is. "[8] He was a striking figure who habitually wore dark glasses and carried a cane with a silver handle, the need for which he attributed to his wartime service: as Northrup later put it, "He was not only a writer but he was the captain of a ship that had been downed in the Pacific and he was weeks on a raft and had been blinded by the sun and his back had been broken. Also note that Hubbard married his second wife whilst he was still married to his first wife. [54] She reacted angrily; in a 1992 trial in Canada, Miscavige told the court that she had called him "some pretty nasty names" and threatened him with a large ashtray held close to his face, but she had eventually agreed to step down. He had visited 1003 South Orange Grove Avenue at the behest of Lou Goldstone, a well-known science fiction illustrator, while on leave from his service in the US Navy. Despite this, she still "felt so guilty about the fact that he was so psychologically damaged. Your character is superior. Louis Culling, another O.T.O. [31] Hubbard returned to the United States, living under a false name in New York City while Mary Sue and the children remained aboard the Apollo. The Occult Rocket Scientist Who Conjured Spirits with L. Ron Hubbard Jack Parsons (right foreground) and colleagues prepare for their second-ever rocket engine test in Pasadena, November 1936.. Alexis will get a fortune unless she goes to you as she would then get nothing. Evidently a prime mover but very young. I cared for her rather deeply but I have no desire to control her emotions, and I can, I hope, control my own. carry huge amounts of cash around in his pocket. [86] In June 1986 the Church of Scientology and Alexis agreed a financial settlement under which she was compelled not to write or speak on the subject of L. Ron Hubbard and her relationship to him. The O.T.O. Hubbard would evolve into the leader of the Church of Scientology.[1]. There followed a turbulent period during which Ron successfully wrested his materials from the early boards of directors. "[74], In October 1984, Mary Sue filed a $5 million lawsuit against her husband's first son, Ronald DeWolf, accusing him of "massive fraud" for attempting to have his father declared legally dead or mentally incompetent. Polly Hubbard had filed for divorce on the grounds of desertion and non-support, and was not even aware that Hubbard was living with Northrup, let alone that he had married her. His wife is Mary Sue Whipp (30 October 1952 - 24 January 1986) ( his death) ( 4 children), Sara Northrup (10 August 1946 - 13 June 1951) ( divorced) ( 1 child), Margaret Louise Grubb (13 April 1933 - 24 December 1947) ( divorced) ( 2 children) L. Ron Hubbard Net Worth "[13] Concluding that she was a vampire, which he defined as "an elemental or demon in the form of a woman" who sought to "lure the Candidate to his destruction," he warned that Northrup was a grave danger to Parsons and to the "Great Work" which the O.T.O. It just never occurred to me he was a liar. The reactions of Parsons and Helen towards Northrup were markedly different. [73] The controversy surrounding the divorce had severely dented his reputation. The flagship of the Scientology fleet was the 3,280-ton vessel HMSRoyal Scotsman accidentally renamed the Royal Scotman due to a clerical error,[23] a former cattle ferry on the Irish Sea run.[24]. A disaster on the scale of the GO criminal case was clearly the result of the activities of someone hostile to Scientology a Suppressive Person operating within the GO. [39] Rather than telling Northrup where Alexis was, he called her and said that "he had cut [Alexis] into little pieces and dropped the pieces in a river and that he had seen little arms and legs floating down the river and it was my fault, I'd done it because I'd left him."[53]. Please do believe I do so want to help you get Alexis."[64]. [40], Dianetics became an immediate bestseller when it was published in May 1950. She recalled that "with or without an argument, there'd be an upsurge of violence. I know, because I personally met with her and obtained her resignation At first, Mary Sue Hubbard was not willing to resign. Sara Elizabeth Bruce Northrup Hollister (April 8, 1924 December 19, 1997) was an occultist and second wife of Scientologist founder L. Ron Hubbard. In 1933, Northrup's 22-year-old sister Helen met the 18-year-old Jack Parsons, a chemist who went on to be a noted expert in rocket propulsion. Hubbard had a personal steward, as did Mary Sue and the Hubbard children, who all had their own cabins. An archive of documents released by FBI about L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. On July 13, 1981, a matter of weeks after we had uncovered what was going on, and with no advance warning to the GO, a coordinated series of CMO missions were sent out concurrently to take over the GO. The mother had slept with all three men on the same night but as she did not know which had fathered the child, had "thereupon decided to call him Ali, son of ----, son of ----, and son of ---- which impressed the local inhabitants and created a stir throughout the country. I need a magical partner. Worried about the chances of his own prosecution or being served with lawsuits, Hubbard slipped away into hiding. In a memo of December 2, 1969, he wrote that the operation had started with bad reviews of Dianetics, "pushed then by the Sara Komkovadamanov [sic] (alias Northrup) "divorce" actions At the back of it was Miles Hollister (psychology student) Sara Komkosadamanov [sic] (housekeeper at the place nuclear physicists stayed near Caltech) "[82], By 1970, Northrup and Hollister had moved to Maui, Hawaii. And I'm very happily married just now. She informed us that she did not appreciate our investigation of the GO and that if one were needed she would do it. "[42] He began an affair with the twenty-year-old Klowden, much to the annoyance of Northrup, who was clearly aware of the liaison. [36], In October 1976, Hubbard's eldest son by Mary Sue, Quentin, died by suicide at the age of 22. That investigation was prompted by the existence of a number of civil law suits which had been filed at that time against Church of Scientology of California and Mr. Hubbard, and which the GO was supposed to be responsible for handling.
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