Ron Hubbard’s close friends really thought of him « The Underground Bunker. A couple of weeks ago, we looked at a 1. L. Ron Hubbard which hasn’t received a lot of attention before. Russell Miller paraphrased the letter in his 1. Bare- Faced Messiah, but the full text of the letter has never been published in a book or news article, as far as we know. In it, Hubbard wrote to his friend Forrest Ackerman about the work he was doing on what would become Dianetics, the 1. Hubbard’s fortunes and eventually lead him to create Scientology.
But Hubbard sounded far from a man about to become “mankind’s best friend” and a great humanitarian who was setting out to improve the human race. Instead, he sounded like kind of a creep.“Have a nice office. Could become a den of vice very easily, I fear, so I only allow women over 1. And he promised Forry that he’d soon send him an early copy of the book. Then you can rape women without their knowing it, communicate suicide messages to your enemies as they sleep, sell the Arroyo Seco parkway to the mayor for cash, evolve the best way of protecting or destroying communism, and other handy house hold hints. If you go crazy, remember you were warned. That Hubbard, what a card.
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He also admitted that it was a good “publishing trick” to have people sign releases before they read the book in case it caused them to go insane. Now, he admitted that it was just a good “trick” to get the book attention which, of course it was.) He admitted that he had put the book away for a while, but then had become interested in it again “and have not decided whether to destroy the Catholic church or merely start a new one.”In all, it was a remarkable look at L.
Ron Hubbard before he put on a very different face and told the world that he’d made the most significant scientific advance since man’s discovery of fire — which is the actual boast that he makes at the start of Dianetics. Our posting of the letter produced a lot of interesting reactions. Someone accused us of not knowing that Hubbard was “joking” and that we were fools to think he was actually saying that Dianetics would give someone the power to “rape women without their knowing it.”That one caught us by surprise. We thought it was quite obvious that Hubbard was almost always putting everyone on, and the real challenge was to find those extremely rare occasions when he was actually telling the truth.
The other reaction that caught our attention were the readers who questioned the letter’s authenticity. We had anticipated this, and had talked to Gerry Armstrong before we posted the text of the letter. It was Armstrong who had discovered the letter when he saved a huge cache of Hubbard documents from being destroyed in 1. He had later been sued because he’d kept copies of some of those documents, but he was thoroughly vindicated in court. We’ve written extensively about his other legal nightmares.) To this day, he and his wife Caroline Letkeman maintain extensive web archives of Hubbard’s documents, which is where we had found the text of the 1. Gerry told us he doesn’t have an image of the original document, but, he told us, “To my knowledge, the Scientologists have never challenged the letter’s authenticity.
I had it when I was doing the biography project, and I have always believed that it is real.”That wasn’t good enough for some folks who saw our post and didn’t like what the letter said. One of our sources, however, pointed out that what might answer those doubts was that Hubbard had said similar things in letters to his good friend, legendary science fiction writer Robert Heinlein. We were told that there were actually some very interesting things about Hubbard in Heinlein’s collection of letters, some of which had not been made public before. Oh really? Well, that set us off on a hunt. And we did find some very interesting items.
But here’s the deal. Heinlein’s letters are held by a trust that allows anyone to download copies of them for a small fee.
But they are very particular about the use of that material. So what we’re going to do is carefully describe what’s in those letters and supply some short quotes in the name of “fair use.” As for images of the letters for you doubters, we’ll let you pay a few bucks and download the letters for yourself.
We promise that you will find exactly what we’re about to reveal. OK, so here we go. Robert Heinlein to John Arwine, May 1. By the end of World War II, Heinlein (1. Hubbard (1. 91. 1- 1. Heinlein’s career in fiction was still growing and his best books were ahead of him. But that didn’t seem to be the case with Hubbard, who had spent much of the war chasing after naval postings that tended to end in disaster.
Now, after the war, Hubbard seemed to be struggling with finding direction, at least from Heinlein’s perspective. I am considerably disturbed by them,” Heinlein confided to their mutual friend, John Arwine, who was, like Hubbard, a war veteran. Heinlein told Arwine that he was concerned that Hubbard was trying to be a “Big Operator” rather than getting his writing career back in order.
Heinlein was apparently aware of Hubbard’s involvement in 1. Jack Parsons, the Caltech rocket scientist who was into the occult and with Hubbard got up to some pretty strange sex magick rituals. After Hubbard took Jack’s girlfriend Sara “Betty” Northrup away from him, the three of them cooked up a scheme to buy sailboats, sail them to Florida, and then sell them at a profit. Parsons ended up getting rooked in the deal. Heinlein appears to have been aware of some of these details and warned Arwine not to get involved with Hubbard if he ran into him in New York. As for Hubbard’s history with Arwine, the Scientology founder later turned that friendship into one of our favorite yarns of all time. A couple of years ago, we posted a segment from the 2.
Hubbard birthday celebration, which included this amazing tall tale that Hubbard spun in a lecture that had been turned into a short film by the wizards at Scientology’s Golden Era Productions. If you haven’t seen it, you’re really in for a treat! We sure are glad Hubbard and his Navy pal turned in these scoundrels, who were then punished and the country was saved from their treachery. Which reminds us: why isn’t there a national holiday dedicated to this ginger God of a man? Of course, this event never happened. And rather than save the world from the country’s rebellious atomic scientists, Hubbard instead got into occult “magick” after the war ended, and his buddy John Arwine was actually told to stay far away from Hubbard by their mutual pal, Robert Heinlein. Leslyn Heinlein to Catherine and L.
Sprague de Camp, August 7, 1. Robert Heinlein’s second wife, Leslyn, also had concerns about their friend Ron Hubbard in the days following the war. In a letter to science fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp and his wife Catherine, Leslyn explains that she and her husband are really concerned about Ron, who seems “possessed by some entity out of one of the more horrid Unk. Possessed by some creature out of science fiction? If she only knew how close she really was. Leslyn warns Catherine to keep Sprague away from Hubbard and his new wife Betty Northrup, who she says is Hubbard’s latest “Man- Eating Tigress.”They had tried to warn John Arwine about going near Hubbard, but Arwine had stopped answering their letters, she says.
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Howard’s Conan character in a series of posthumous collections and pastiches put together by de Camp in the 1. Reading his letters, de Camp strikes us as a no- nonsense kick in the pants. He reassured the Heinleins that he wasn’t putting up with any funny business from Hubbard. But he disagrees that Hubbard is suffering some kind of post- war breakdown.“I think he always was that way, but when he wanted to make a good impression or get something out of somebody he put on a first- class charm act,” de Camp writes.