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TONY ORTEGA
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How great it was to hear from Going Clear star Hana Whitfield, Scientology’s former “Deputy Commodore” and one of the most interesting former top executives to leave the organization.
She was reacting to a flier we posted with Scientology’s announcement that the newest L. Ron Hubbard shrine is having its grand opening today in Las Palmas, on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.
Scientology leader David Miscavige revealed at the Hubbard birthday event last month that Ron’s Canary Islands villa, where in 1967 he wrote the Xenu hilarity that became “OT 3,” had been purchased and renovated as a shrine, joining other properties that Hubbard lived in during his life.
We thought it was a bit outré for Scientology to restore this property: As Jon Atack explained to us, Ron told his wife Mary Sue in a letter that he was hopped up on various illicit substances while he was there, dreaming up the wild Xenu stuff. We thought Miscavige was taking a bit of a risk turning this place into a shrine, compared to the more staid properties in New Jersey and Phoenix that were associated with Hubbard’s early Dianetics days.
But then we heard from Hana, who had another reason why this is a pretty questionable move by Miscavige.
Namely, that she actually visited Hubbard at the villa in 1967, and it looked nothing like Miscavige’s restoration!
“I saw Hubbard’s villa in Las Palmas in August or September 1967, when the Avon River was undergoing her refit. Jill van Staden, Avon’s Supercargo and my boss, took Hubbard his mail daily and picked up his outgoing mail. She went on a mission and appointed me to do the daily run,” Hana tells us.
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[/td]She was reacting to a flier we posted with Scientology’s announcement that the newest L. Ron Hubbard shrine is having its grand opening today in Las Palmas, on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.
Scientology leader David Miscavige revealed at the Hubbard birthday event last month that Ron’s Canary Islands villa, where in 1967 he wrote the Xenu hilarity that became “OT 3,” had been purchased and renovated as a shrine, joining other properties that Hubbard lived in during his life.
We thought it was a bit outré for Scientology to restore this property: As Jon Atack explained to us, Ron told his wife Mary Sue in a letter that he was hopped up on various illicit substances while he was there, dreaming up the wild Xenu stuff. We thought Miscavige was taking a bit of a risk turning this place into a shrine, compared to the more staid properties in New Jersey and Phoenix that were associated with Hubbard’s early Dianetics days.
But then we heard from Hana, who had another reason why this is a pretty questionable move by Miscavige.
Namely, that she actually visited Hubbard at the villa in 1967, and it looked nothing like Miscavige’s restoration!
“I saw Hubbard’s villa in Las Palmas in August or September 1967, when the Avon River was undergoing her refit. Jill van Staden, Avon’s Supercargo and my boss, took Hubbard his mail daily and picked up his outgoing mail. She went on a mission and appointed me to do the daily run,” Hana tells us.
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Hana Whitfield remembers the Xenu villa — and it didn't look like Scientology's new shrine!
How great it was to hear from Going Clear star Hana Whitfield, Scientology’s former “Deputy Commodore” and one of the most interesting former top executives to leave the organization.
tonyortega.substack.com
