It carried out an international campaign against psychiatry, Interpol, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and various other government agencies. [44] Klowden recalled that Northrup "was very hostile to me. Mary Sue Hubbard was still asserting her authority over the GO from her position as Controller. [75] L. Ron Hubbard died on January 24, 1986, at his ranch near Creston, California. "[6] Three weeks later, on September 24, 1952, she gave birth to her first child, Diana Meredith de Wolfe Hubbard. 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. She was convicted in December 1979 and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and the payment of a $10,000 fine. I may live a long time and again I may not. I hope my heart lasts. L Ron Hubbard was an American author, philosopher, and the founder of the 'Church of Scientology.' He started as a writer of science fiction but later moved to self-help and psychology-related topics. His family wasn't there. She was a bitch. . He was 74 years old. Currently missing somewhere in California. She is all I have to live for. In 1998 she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in addition to her existing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). [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. Further, through Parsons, she was strangely intimate with many scientists of Los Alamo Gordos [Alamogordo in New Mexico was where the first atomic bomb was tested]. [33] When it became known in October 1974 that the FBI wished to interview Hubbard, Mary Sue persuaded her husband to avoid going ashore in the United States and the Apollo spent the next year sailing from port to port in the Caribbean. I doubt that she would face what you have with me or support me as well. Fortunately for Northrup as it was the peak of the McCarthyite "Red Scare" Hubbard's allegations were apparently ignored by the FBI, which filed his letter but took no further action. IAS Patrons, Impact #53 (1994), pp. that Jack did get together. He and Mary Sue moved initially to Daytona Beach, Florida in August 1975. He moved in with me about two months ago, and although Betty and I are still friendly, she has transferred her sexual affection to Ron. She did, however, resurface on a few occasions during the remaining years of her life. She was a leading figure in Scientology for much of her life. 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. I am better suited to her temperamentally we get on well. folders or files" to obtain information for purposes of intimidation and or harassment is repugnant. [34], The Scientology fleet was finally disbanded in 1975, when Hubbard decided to move ashore and establish a "land base" in Florida. On "Scientology and the Aftermath," Leah Remini discussed the family members of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and the abuse they suffered. I'll just go to the airplane. On the one hand she certainly appeared to be a pathetic individual. But anyone who underestimated Mary Sue made a big mistake. 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. Weeks passed without word from Hubbard. Hubbard spread allegations that she was a Communist secret agent and repeatedly denounced her to the FBI. Northrup, who was beginning a pregnancy, was said to have been delighted with the location. 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". Pat Broeker, Hubbard's personal messenger at the time, had gone into hiding with him once before and knew how. [38] Northrup became Hubbard's personal auditor (Dianetic counselor)[39] and was hailed by him as one of the first Dianetic "Clears". To that end he wrote Dianetics, proving to all the world just how mediocre a writer he was . [12], Northrup's hostility towards other members of the O.T.O. She kept saying to me, 'What is he worried about?' Parsons was deeply dismayed but tried to put a brave face on the situation, informing Aleister Crowley: About three months ago I met Captain [sic] L. Ron Hubbard, a writer and explorer of whom I had known for some time He is a gentleman; he has red hair, green eyes, is honest and intelligent, and we have become great friends. I know, because I personally met with her and obtained her resignation At first, Mary Sue Hubbard was not willing to resign. 6.3K I've been married twice. [32], The relationship was not an easy one. Ironically, the wedding took place only 30 miles from the town where Hubbard had married his first wife thirteen years previously. [3] The couple had three daughters. Her actual true name is a Russian name. They spent most of their time working; there was very little socializing. After her resignation from the GO, Mary Sue Hubbard ceased to have any involvement in the management of the Church of Scientology. The attach did not act on the request; having asked the FBI for background information, he was told that Hubbard had been interviewed but the "agent conducting interview considered Hubbard to be [a] mental case. She may have a record . The grand jury named Hubbard as an unindicted co-conspirator; the seized Guardian Office. The fact is that Hubbard had been married 3 times at the time of the interview. Hope to see you once more. [8] In October 1953 they returned to the US where Hubbard gave a series of lectures in Camden, New Jersey and established the first Church of Scientology. Photo by the Miami Daily News. [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. There, creased between space adventures and tales of alien invasion, were the pages . He promised that he would tell her where Alexis was if she signed a piece of paper saying that she had gone with him voluntarily. Mary Sue strongly opposed these changes and reappointed herself Controller, rescinding the CMO's permission to investigate the GO. According to him, Sara had served a stretch at Tahatchapie [sic] (in a desert woman's prison) and was a dope addict. of age, 5'10", 140 lbs. Her achievement was commemorated in a special tribute edition of the Scientology newspaper The Auditor, titled simply: "Mary Sue Hubbard Clear #208". [43] She left Wichita as soon as Alexis was returned to her. "[77] He notes as an example of "this apparent erasure of Sarah Northrup from his mind"[77] a 1968 interview with the British broadcaster Granada Television, in which Hubbard denied that he had had a second wife in between his first, Polly, and the present one, Mary Sue:[77], HUBBARD: "How many times have I been married? An archive of documents released by FBI about L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. Hubbard, who had left his wife and two children with relatives years earlier, bigamously married Sara. The other five defendants received lesser sentences and fines. TIL L Ron Hubbard's first wife once discovered two love letters the Scientology founder had written, to two different women, in the couple's outgoing mail. Russell Miller notes: They were indeed an unlikely couple a flamboyant, fast-talking extrovert entrepreneur in his forties and a quiet, intense young woman twenty years his junior from a small town in Texas. My right side is paralyzed and getting more so. "[24] They were married in the middle of the night of August 10, 1946 at Chestertown, Maryland after awakening a minister and roping in his wife and housekeeper to serve as witnesses. [3], The Hubbards returned again to London at the end of September 1955, where they took over the day-to-day management of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International. In the summer of 1972, Hubbard ordered that around $2 million in cash be transferred from OTC bank accounts in Switzerland to the Apollo, where it was stored for the next three years in a locked file cabinet to which Mary Sue Hubbard had the only set of keys. Hubbard would evolve into the leader of the Church of Scientology.[1]. If she could not break it up by making social engagements with key personnel she, and her gang, would go out to a bar and keep calling in asking for certain people to come to the telephone. When Hubbard's active stint in the Navy was over he stayed on the West Coast, moving to Los Angeles in 1945. . [7] Her parents not only knew about her unconventional living arrangements but supported Parsons' group financially. In this same year, Hubbard launched a new religion based on two books he had written, Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science, and Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. [72] When the case came to trial in May 1984, she told the Superior Court of Los Angeles County that she had been "mentally raped" and "emotionally distressed" knowing that others had seen the documents. Apart from captaining the Royal Scotman for a period, Mary Sue's duties included managing the sprawling empire of the Guardian's Office agency within the Church of Scientology and serving as the chair of an executive group known variously as the Commodore's Staff Aides, the Aides Council, and the International Board of Scientology Organizations. [1] [18] Not long afterwards Hubbard bought Saint Hill Manor at Saint Hill Green, near East Grinstead, West Sussex. American Religious Leader L. Ron Hubbard was born Lafayette Ronald Hubbard on 13th March, 1911 in . Alternative_Effort 7 mo. "[70] She did not give evidence but was awarded custody of Alexis and $200 a month in child support. A chance meeting with a man named Jack Parsons led to Hubbard and his new friend performing a bizarre ritual. The veins in his forehead would engorge" and he would hit her "out of the blue", breaking her eardrum in one attack. Commonly armed. In the late 1990s, Hubbard fell ill with breast cancer and died in 2002. Meals for the Commodore and his family were cooked in a separate galley by their personal chef, using ingredients brought by couriers from the United States.[26]. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.', and 'To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. [15] Hubbard soon began an affair with Northrup after beginning "affairs with one girl after another in the house. Or whatever. According to his public relations assistant, Barbara Klowden, Hubbard became increasingly paranoid and authoritarian due to "political and organizational problems with people grabbing for power. Screen grab Lawrence Wright, the author of the best-selling book on Scientology, "Going Clear," says his research found. [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. They married April 25, 1909, in Omaha, Nebraska. [64], The convictions of Mary Sue Hubbard and the other GO staff executives were upheld by a federal appeals court in October 1981,[65] and in November seven of those convicted dropped their appeals but not Mary Sue, who continued to fight the charges. "[11], Helen was far less sanguine, writing in her diary of "the sore spot I carried where my heart should be",[11] and had furious sometimes violent rows with both Parsons and Northrup. [25][26], Around the same time, Hubbard proposed marriage to Northrup. They set up a business partnership on January 15, 1946 under the name of "Allied Enterprises", with Parsons putting up $20,000 of capital, Hubbard adding $1,200 and Northrup contributing nothing. This was the only time Hubbard allowed an outside crew to interview him. He was furious and threatened to kill Alexis rather than let Northrup care for her: "He didn't want her to be brought up by me because I was in league with the doctors. Share it! Only two months later, over 55,000 copies had been sold and 500 Dianetics groups had been set up across the United States. A young girl is nearly dead because of this effort. According to the Church of Scientology, the reason for the trip was that "amid the constant violence of the turncoat Don J. Purcell of Wichita and his suits which attempted to seize Scientology, Mary Sue became ill and to save her life, Ron took her to England where several Dianetic groups had asked him to form an organization. [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. "[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. [27] The trip had the air of a punishment detail and was dubbed the "liability cruise"; conditions on board were reportedly appalling. [2], Although she later remembered her childhood with warmth, Northrup's upbringing was marred by her sexually abusive father, who was imprisoned in 1928 for financial fraud. [40] Established in response to the battering that Scientology was receiving at the time from governments and the media, the GO was tasked with tackling any "threat of great importance" to Scientology. The O.T.O. [63] Hubbard continued to develop Dianetics (and ultimately Scientology), through which he met his third and last wife, Mary Sue Whipp, in late 1951 only a few months after his divorce. [66] She lost her final appeal in April 1982[67] and was ordered to begin a prison term in January 1983. "[83], He said that Northrup had been a Nazi spy during the war and accused her and Hollister of using the divorce case to seize control of Dianetics: "They obtained considerable newspaper publicity, none of it true, and employed the highest priced divorce attorney in the US to sue me for divorce and get the foundation in Los Angeles in settlement. [70] Her reunion with her daughter was uncertain to the last, as Hubbard had second thoughts about letting her go as he drove Northrup and Alexis to the local airport. She personally handled large quantities of cash on Hubbard's behalf. An attempt was made to have her sign an affidavit stating that she was in fact the daughter of L. Ron Hubbard's first son, her half-brother L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.[87], As the United Press International news agency noted, Church of Scientology biographies of Hubbard's life do not mention either of his first two wives. caused further tensions in the house, which Aleister Crowley heard about from communications from her housemates. He was struggling with constant writer's block and leaned heavily on Northrup to provide plot ideas and even to help write some of his stories. Drug addiction set in fall 1950. An explorer, a mystic, a bestselling author, a nuclear physicist . My wits never gave way under all you did and let them do but my body didn't stand up. They lived there incognito for a few months before moving into an apartment in Dunedin on the west coast of Florida, a few miles north of the town of Clearwater where a Scientology front company had bought the old Fort Harrison Hotel to serve as Scientology's new headquarters. Miscavige provided a first-hand account of these events, in an affidavit submitted in a case heard in 1994 in California, Church of Scientology International vs. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz. In the end, Hubbard's wife and the others were found guilty of charges of conspiracy and burglary. [28] The "liability cruise" ended in June 1969. The raids of July 1977 were the result.[49]. [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. "[12] Joan Vidal, a friend of the sculptor Edward Harris, who was commissioned by Hubbard to create a bust of him, described Mary Sue as "a rather drab, mousy, nothing sort of person, quite a bit younger than him. Liked this page? "[63], The divorce writ prompted a deluge of bad publicity for Hubbard and elicited an unexpected letter to Northrup from his first wife, Polly, who wrote: "If I can help in any way I'd like toYou must get Alexis in your custodyRon is not normal. 95 quotes from L. Ron Hubbard: 'Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.', 'When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. Hubbard established his career as a writer with science fiction and fantasy novels, including the novel Battlefield Earth, which was adapted into a feature film in 2000. "[46] In November 1950, Northrup attempted suicide by taking sleeping pills. This work took a variety of forms, including public relations, legal actions, and the gathering of "intelligence" on perceived enemies. [73], A month later, in the English High Court of Justice, Mr Justice Latey declared in a case in which Scientology was a prominent issue that "Mr Hubbard is a charlatan and worse, as are his wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, and the clique at the top privy to the cult's activities. Mary Sue was grief-stricken, though she later attempted to persuade friends that Quentin had died from encephalitis. Northrup played a significant role in the development of Dianetics, Hubbard's "modern science of mental health", between 1948 and 1951. Your character is superior. [56] The Messengers, who were mostly in their teens and early twenties, became Hubbard's sole means of communication with the Church. Although he bluffed it out initially, a warrant was issued for his arrest in August. ", "Court upholds convictions of 9 Scientologists", "Church of Scientology of California, Plaintiff, Mary Sue Hubbard, Intervenor, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Defendant Memorandum of Intended Decision", "Son of Church Founder Is Sued by Stepmother", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary_Sue_Hubbard&oldid=1139846347, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 05:30. Various Scientology experts are now comparing David's disappearance to that of founder L. Ron Hubbard, who died in 1986 after spending years dealing with lawsuits and legal battles until he became . members. 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. In 1960, Leni Riefenstahl and L. Ron Hubbard briefly collaborated on a screenplay that was to be a remake of her popular 1932 film directing debut, Das blaue Licht ('The Blue Light'). "I thought he was pretty. She was credited with helping to coin the word "Scientology". Things like, "Be his wife, have a family that looks good, not have a divorce." members. It is thought to have been written around 19467 as part of an attempted program of self-hypnotism. . I remember he said to me I was the only person he knew who would set up a white silk tent for him. [8], Northrup joined the O.T.O. The FBI declined to take any action, characterizing Hubbard as a "mental case". The Hubbards had four children: Diana (born 1952), Quentin (19541976), Suzette (born 1955), and Arthur (born 1958). In the world of speculative fiction Your favorite authors Have selected best new voices of the year. But he did save her life and pull her out of that whole black magic ring. Goodbye I love you. [19], Germer informed Crowley, who wrote back to opine: "It seems to me on the information of our brethren in California that Parsons has got an illumination in which he has lost all his personal independence. Despite insisting on clean living and even prohibiting followers from taking necessary medication, Hubbard loved to party. He stated: In 1981, a Church investigation was begun into the activities of the GO. [It] was made clear that we had no choice but to overthrow the GO and dismiss everyone who had violated Church policy or the law. I loved to make plots. . [32] They were reunited in September 1973, when the possibility of extradition had passed. 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. [4], She became pregnant in February 1952 and married Hubbard the next month. And it was the nineteenth of June and it was the happiest day of my life. 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". Now a new report claims the 58-year-old is alive and, in mid-December, was spotted leaving a Scientology cruise ship in the Caribbean. Hubbards mission was successful far beyond anyones expectations. "[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. However I am afraid that most of the money has already been dissipated. The practice of culling supposedly confidential "P.C. In the UK alone, it issued hundreds of writs against the media for publishing negative reports on Scientology. Lafayette Ron Hubbard is a controversial figure. Despite her complicated feelings toward the man, Sara was overwhelmed with grief and sadness. Hubbard attempted to patch up the marriage in January 1951 by inviting Northrup and baby Alexis to Palm Springs, California where he had rented a house. That is the amazing part about it. 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. [1] She soon rose to the rank of a second degree member, or "Magician", of the O.T.O. After breakfast he would go into his office and I would rarely see him again until six-thirty when I had to have the table laid for dinner. 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.. "All guns were now manned with great attention as it was supposed that the sub was trying to surface. Please report problems, errors or suggestions to heldal@online.no Download all files as ZIP archive(745Kb) Back to introduction DATE TO FROM DESCRIPTION 16 May 1940 FBI L Ron Hubbard Reporting on a possible Nazi. 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. She told the court that she had not seen her husband since January 1980, "but I've written him personal letters but I don't believe he's getting them" as he had not replied to them. Eventually she did so. "[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. Sara Elizabeth Bruce Northrup Hollister (April 8, 1924 - December 19, 1997) was an occultist and second wife of Scientologist founder L. Ron Hubbard. Alec Nevala-Lee, author of Astounding, a forthcoming book on the history of science fiction, digs into the writing career of L. Ron Hubbard, gaining new insights into the life of the controversial founder of dianetics and the origins and nature of Scientology itself. 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. The primary exponent of Scientology is the Church of Scientology, a centralized and hierarchical organization based in Florida, although many practitioners . Hubbard's financial troubles were reflected in his attempts to persuade the Veterans Administration to increase his pension award on the grounds of a variety of ailments which he said were preventing him finding a job. By this time the Foundation had filed for bankruptcy, and Hubbard's erstwhile backer, Don Purcell, was left to deal with its substantial debts. [36] This eventually became the first draft of Hubbard's book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which marked the foundation of Dianetics and ultimately of Scientology. The Hubbards returned to the United States in November when their visa expired and moved into an apartment in Philadelphia. Black hair. One of his aides, David Mayo, was dispatched by Hubbard to suggest that Mary Sue might consider a divorce. His second wife, Sarah, claimed mental and . I have many experiments in mind.[16]. I think I have made a great gain and as Betty and I are the best of friends, there is little loss. "[43], By October, the Foundation's financial affairs had reached a crisis point. carry huge amounts of cash around in his pocket. I didn't know why it was so important to him; I'd never met Sara and I couldn't have cared less, but he wanted to persuade me that the marriage had never taken place. I remember going past a Lincoln dealer and admiring one of those big Lincolns they had then. [51] She stated that she was "not interested in revenge; I'm interested in the truth. That's what he was really worried about, that she would reveal during the case that she was only relaying his orders. Following the birth, the Hubbards moved into a house in Silver Spring, Maryland. She played a major role in the creation of Dianetics, which evolved into the religious movement Scientology. Her real motive in filing for divorce, he said, was to seize control of Dianetics. 121669 should complain about invasion of privacy. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 2nd wife of L. Ron Hubbard Hubbard's strange writings did seem to imbue him with a special kind of confidence and belief in his own abilities, which for many seemed like supernatural powers. He sold his first story in February 1934, an adventure tale called "The Green God" that featured a heroic American killing a bunch of Chinese bad guys.
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