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| 23 Feb |
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In a letter written by LRH to the Department of Justice [see entry for 14 May 1951], he describes this incident: I was in my apartment on February 23rd, about two or three o'clock in the morning when the apartment was entered, I was knocked out, had a needle thrust into my heart to give it a jet of air to produce coronary thrombosis and was given an electric shock with a 110 volt current. This is all very blurred to me. I had no witnesses. But only one person had another key to that apartment and that was Sara.
Russell Miller, book: Bare Faced Messiah, Chapter 11
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Despite remarkable income, the Foundations foundered. The Los Angeles HDRF went down with a retired rear admiral at the helm. In April 1951, Hubbard himself resigned from the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation.
Now, after only a few months, the Foundations were more or less bankrupt, thousands of followers were disillusioned, and Hubbard's private life was splashed all over the newspapers. It was time to cut and run. For Hubbard, it was just another of many new beginnings. The head of the Omega Oil Company, Don Purcell, an ardent Hubbard admirer who had been an early visitor to the Elizabeth Foundation, saved the day.
Don Purcell was a self-made millionaire. He offered Hubbard funds and new premises in Wichita, Kansas. He also offered to pay the debts of the original Foundation... The remaining Foundations were closed.
A Piece of Blue Sky by Jon Atack
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| 24 Apr |
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Ron Hubbard Insane, Says His Wife
LOS ANGELES, April 23 (UP)---
The wife of L. Ron Hubbard, 40, founder of the Dianetics Mental Health Movement, filed suit for divorce today, charging he is suffering from a mental ailment. Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, said competent medical advisers had examined her 40-year-old husband and concluded he was "hopelessly insane" and should be placed in a private sanitarium for psychiatric observation. She said doctors told her husband was suffering from a mental ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia.
San Francisco Chronicle Article of 24 April 1951
Note:
Here is an example of the Enslavers trying to use psychiatric treatment to eliminate a political opponent or competitor.
Incorrectly Included effort to stop LRH with psychiatric "care" - psychs & Sara
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Quote regarding psychiatry taken from LRH tape:
You know why psychiatry doesn't back up Dianetics? I elected them as a field of randomity. It makes a good fight! There never needed to have been one. All I would have had to have done was look at the first psychiatrist that I ran into about Dianetics and sort of say to myself, "I take full responsibility for you, you jerk, even though you are a jerk." I could have said I would take responsibility for psychiatry-responsibility for electric shock, Metrazol, prefrontal lobotomy, their institutional practices. I could have said, "It's all right; that's the best the boys could do at the time; there are better ways to go about it now." Probably now it would be the order of the day of the American Psychiatric Association that any psychiatrist would be shot who didn't use Dianetics. But I say, "Electric shock- rrrrhh! Prefrontal lobotomy-rrrrhh! Institutional conditions-rrrhhh!" Of course, we got a fight! But it has been interesting.
3 December 1951 Advanced Procedure - LRH (R and D vol 9 p 140)
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