L. Ron Hubbard 1973 in Hiding: The Writing of Operation Snow White & Ordering the Destruction of EST Creator Werner Erhard

[J. Swift]

L. Ron Hubbard 1973. Colorized by The Scientology Money Project for transformative purposes.

In 1973, L. Ron Hubbard had fled his flagship Apollo after being charged with fraud in France. Fearing an Interpol Red Sheet—essentially an international arrest warrant—he returned secretly to the United States and lived in a nondescript apartment in Queens, New York, under an assumed name. He had his aides Jim Dincalci and Paul Preston with him.

Hubbard had been away from America since 1959, when he purchased Saint Hill Manor from the Maharaja of Jaipur, Man Singh II. In 1967 he went to sea with his newly formed Sea Organization, commanding the Apollo and other ships as the self-styled “Commodore.”

Jim Dincalci told us that Hubbard maintained an insatiable appetite for pulp fiction during his concealment. Each time Dincalci ran errands or visited local markets in Queens, Hubbard instructed him to return with stacks of the dime-store paperbacks.

WERNER ERHARD


Werner Erhard 1973. Colorized by The Scientology Money Project for transformative purposes.

While in hiding, Hubbard spent much of his time consuming American television, immersing himself in the popular culture he had missed during his fourteen years abroad. It was during one of these late-night viewing sessions that he saw Werner Erhard, the founder of Erhard Seminars Training (EST), being interviewed on television.

The sight infuriated him. Hubbard recognized Erhard as a former Scientologist who had achieved the status of Grade IV Release before breaking away. Now Erhard was gaining national attention for a slickly marketed self-improvement movement that bore unmistakable similarities to Scientology’s “processing” and “training routines.”

Hubbard viewed EST as a brazen theft of his ideas — a self-realization and enlightenment counterfeit peddled to the very public Hubbard believed he alone had the right to enlighten. Indeed, Hubbard had created the Sea Org with the ultimate goal of putting in Scientology ethics on this planet and the universe:

I, ___________________ DO HEREBY AGREE to enter into employment with the SEA ORGANIZATION and, being of sound mind, do fully realize and agree to abide by its purpose which is to get ETHICS IN on this PLANET AND UNIVERSE and, fully and without reservation, subscribe to the discipline, mores and conditions of this group and pledge to abide by them.

THEREFORE, I CONTRACT MYSELF TO THE SEA ORGANIZATION FOR THE NEXT BILLION YEARS.

The Sea Org was a hardcore billion year contract with face-ripping ethics, sec checks, merciless stats, poverty, bad food, sleep deprivation, and the RPF. By comparison what was EST? A a two-weekend seminar where you might get called an asshole by the trainer for running your bullshit racket?

Although EST graduates did not know it, Werner Erhard quietly employed a few former Scientology auditors on his staff. Their task was to security check other EST staff members and to “put in Werner’s ethics” whenever disloyalty or dissent surfaced.

Hubbard seethed at the thought of Werner making money by ripping off Scientology. To the Guardian’s Office, he dismissed EST as nothing more than a revival of “1950s Scientology group processing.” As an EST graduate, including completion of the six-month GSLP, we disagree—but that is a subject for another time.

According to aides, Hubbard’s anger over Erhard’s success became obsessive. He ranted that Erhard had “stolen Scientology,” and that the Church should expose him. This period marked a resurgence of Hubbard’s paranoia about rivals and “squirrels”—those who, in his view, had stolen and corrupted his techniques. Hubbard ordered the Guardian’s Office to begin a program on Werner Erhard.

OPERATION SNOW WHITE

Still, while Hubbard ordered the Guardian’s Office to investigate Werner Erhard, he had far greater worries than Werner. In 1973, EST was only beginning its meteoric rise, but it was already drawing far more favorable media attention than Scientology. Hubbard’s true obsession lay elsewhere: what he believed were the false reports about Scientology contained in the files of Western governments.

Hubbard was convinced these official dossiers were poisoning public opinion and blocking Scientology’s expansion. He wanted those files stolen, read, and “corrected.” From this paranoid conviction, he conceived Program Snow White—a sweeping intelligence and infiltration operation that would ultimately lead to criminal indictments against his wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, and ten other Guardian’s Office officials. All signed a Stipulation of Evidence and served prison terms. Mary Sue Hubbard is seen here outside a U.S. federal courthouse.


Washington Post photo of Mary Sue Hubbard. Colorized by The Scientology Money Project for transformative purposes.

 

[Isaac]

Thank you for this info Jeffrey. It is very much appreciated as I did not know how Werner E was involved with Scientology

 

[Zertel]

I've always liked that picture of Elron. He looks comfortable at his typewriter with a smoke. Long hair and mutton chops were fashionable in the 70's.

Yeah, EST was a spinoff of grade 4, "What do you use to make yourself right and others wrong?" etc. I think EST was something like what games are you playing and what are you telling yourself to justify your failures. Don't quote me on that.

IIRC Ehrhard went on to do some useful things after he sold EST. Scn might have been the impetus for several self awareness group start ups since it was expanding and making lots of money.

From wiki:

The term large-group awareness training (LGAT) refers to activities—usually offered by groups with links to the human potential movement—which claim to increase self-awareness and to bring about desirable transformations in individuals' personal lives.[1] LGATs are unconventional; they often take place over several days,[2][3] and may compromise participants' mental wellbeing.[4][5]
LGAT programs may involve several hundred people at a time.[6] Though early definitions cited LGATs as featuring unusually long durations, more recent texts[which?] describe trainings lasting from a few hours to a few days.
Forsyth and Corazzini cite Lieberman (1994) as suggesting "that at least 1.3 million Americans have taken part in LGAT sessions".[7]

P.S. Nice job on the colorization. It makes the old photos come to life.

 

[ILove2Lurk]

Hubbard was convinced these official dossiers were poisoning public opinion and blocking Scientology’s expansion. He wanted those files stolen, read, and “corrected.” From this paranoid conviction, he conceived Program Snow White—a sweeping intelligence and infiltration operation that would ultimately lead to criminal indictments against his wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, and ten other Guardian’s Office officials. All signed a Stipulation of Evidence and served prison terms. Mary Sue Hubbard is seen here outside a U.S. federal courthouse.

Rinder Obscura
(Latin "obscūrus" ... dark, dim, unclear, hidden, or little-known)​

michaeljrinder on March 11, 2014 at 1:48 pm said:​

Ron absolutely abolished the GO. The Exec Strata was formed and the issues written about it before the formation of OSA. I had personal conversations with LRH about the disbandment of the GO and his desire to see it eradicated entirely as it had become a liability. You do not think that the GO was disbanded without his knowledge and Guardian PL canceled etc etc etc. Where are the docs? They don’t exist, remember, LRH was trying to avoid being connected in any way to the actions of the GO or Mary Sue, he was an unindicted co-conspirator. Nothing was in writing. And though he had expressed a LOT of disgust about the GO during the “Confront of Evil” period and the formation of the Office of Evaluation and Execution, where it came up routinely that GO staff were employing org staff in their personal business, the reason for disbanding the GO was that they were not protecting him from criminal and civil liability. He considered they had betrayed him (inclusive of Mary Sue).​

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The idea that he knew nothing about Snow White and the illegal acts that were ongoing is tantamount to saying L. Ron Hubbard was blind, unaware and incapable of spotting an outpoint. That was NOT the case. He was briefed by Mary Sue every single day at lunch during the heyday of the GO Ops — in detail. If she didnt tell him “Joe Blow infiltrated the IRS and got documents” she told him what they knew (if you don’t believe he expected to be briefed about everything the GO was doing, then you also give him less credit than he deserved, he was not one not to be curious) and he would have figured it out. Believe me, the programs and actions written to implement Snow White WERE know and authorized all the way to the top.​

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LRH directed exactly what was to be done at the Mission Holders Conference in SFO following the one in Clearwater. The whole thing was recorded so it could be sent to him. He listened to it, sent Miscavige and the others commendations and ordered that the entire transcript be published.​

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All of this information has been broadly published before. Just read Marty Rathbun’s books and blog and numerous other sources.​

 

[Hatshepsut]

It's harder to sell the business, cash in, and hightail it out into secret retirement once you're old or senile. The ego doesn't quit. Reference the meme of old mafia bosses. Their henchmen destroyed any who could testify against the preferred image they wanted so badly. Ron didn't employ SuperDon schnazziness in old age: Just, 'Hand me all your cash NOW......and I'll let you LIVE.....for eternity"....... ' or in eternity'.

 

[I M Dex]

I could understand Hubbard's ire at Ehrhard for stealing from Scientology, especially the 3% of "the tech" that didn't derive from someone else's work.

 

[Hatshepsut]

RTC Objection

The meat of it. All writers steal.

Table of Contents

English

Ring card girl

 

[Zertel]

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

Wow! Who decided to compile this encyclopedia and why? At a glance it seems to be a response to a legal matter in 1996.

Scientology - Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge

The arguments are rational discussions but getting through that whole thing would require full use of the Study Tek including word clearing, demo kit and clay demos! At the end one should be awarded a Doctorate of . . .(something)

random sample:

Individuation means:
1. All formations opposing each other in our consciousness are whole individuals, are individually whole.
2. All combined parts which mutually join to a unit are likewise individuals, individual parts of the whole.

The whole thing is like that.

The PROBLEM
I. Knowledge as the Problem of Science: Scientology or Eidology
II. Consciousness, Conscious-Beingness, World-Beingness
III. Scientology, Phenomenology, Cosmology
Axiomatics . . . etc.

Lastly:

AI Overview
The study of knowledge is called epistemology, which is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. It examines questions about the nature, origin, methods, and limits of knowledge, as well as the distinction between justified belief and opinion. It is also known as the "theory of knowledge".

 

[Zertel]

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

Wow! Who decided to compile this encyclopedia and why? At a glance it seems to be a response to a legal matter in 1996.

Scientology - Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge

The arguments are rational discussions but getting through that whole thing would require full use of the Study Tek including word clearing, demo kit and clay demos! At the end one should be awarded a Doctorate of . . .(something)

random sample:

Individuation means:
1. All formations opposing each other in our consciousness are whole individuals, are individually whole.
2. All combined parts which mutually join to a unit are likewise individuals, individual parts of the whole.

The whole thing is like that.

The PROBLEM
I. Knowledge as the Problem of Science: Scientology or Eidology
II. Consciousness, Conscious-Beingness, World-Beingness
III. Scientology, Phenomenology, Cosmology
Axiomatics . . . etc.

Lastly:

AI Overview
The study of knowledge is called epistemology, which is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. It examines questions about the nature, origin, methods, and limits of knowledge, as well as the distinction between justified belief and opinion. It is also known as the "theory of knowledge".

The above was after a quick look - I had things to do. Apparently there was a website in Germany about scn and scn didn't like it and sued whoever wrote it. Who wrote it and why who knows. The "treatise" must be a hundred pages long with fifty tons of significance (musings). I hope they got paid for their effort.

When I was in scn I would call it epistemological, to wit:

"The study of knowledge is called epistemology, which is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. It examines questions about the nature, origin, methods, and limits of knowledge, as well as the distinction between justified belief and opinion."

Mr. Hubbard called it "Knowing how to know" and had something to say about damn near EVERYTHING! Plenty of theories to think over. haha

 

[Enthetan]

Snow White and the Mormons

https://twitter.com/x/status/2051372744558756136

 

[Enthetan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2051376512062910499

https://twitter.com/x/status/2051384883247796431

https://twitter.com/x/status/2051394518344212706

 

[I M Dex]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2051376512062910499

https://twitter.com/x/status/2051384883247796431

https://twitter.com/x/status/2051394518344212706

Sounds rather dubious.

 

[Type4_PTS]

Snow White and the Mormons

https://twitter.com/x/status/2051372744558756136

I've not seen any evidence for what this guy is claiming, or even seen anyone ever making any of these allegations before.

 

[Zertel]

Sounds rather dubious.

This might explain it - somebody being "artistic or poetic" - Lol

AI Overview

"Sola requiem" is not a standard, singular idiom but a combination of Latin terms often used in artistic, musical, or poetic contexts. "Sola" means "alone" or "by itself" (feminine form), while "Requiem" refers to a mass or song for the dead, originating from the Latin for "rest". Together, it translates to "A lone rest," "Rest alone," or "A requiem for one." [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Key Meanings and Contexts:

• Artistic/Musical Context: Often used to describe a musical piece, song, or poem focusing on mourning, death, or personal remembrance, frequently highlighting a solitary, personal loss (e.g., Requiem for Eli, a,k,a, Missa Solis).
• Thematic Meaning: It suggests a singular focus on the departed or a solitary journey to rest. [1, 2]

 

[Enthetan]

Sounds rather dubious.

Maybe so, but it’s got over 67 thousand views, and these people are forming a very negative opinion about Scientology.

And then some of these people are going to research Operation Snow White for themselves, and form an even more negative opinion about Scientology.

Scientology prospered when nobody had really heard about it, and the GO was successful in suppressing negative reports.

It collapsed when lots of people saw negative stories, and any potential recruit was likely to know someone who had read something negative.

 

[I M Dex]

Maybe so, but it’s got over 67 thousand views, and these people are forming a very negative opinion about Scientology.

And then some of these people are going to research Operation Snow White for themselves, and form an even more negative opinion about Scientology.

Scientology prospered when nobody had really heard about it, and the GO was successful in suppressing negative reports.

It collapsed when lots of people saw negative stories, and any potential recruit was likely to know someone who had read something negative.

I haven't any trust of purported view numbers, especially since Aaron supposedly got over "5 million views" for a video that I haven't the slightest doubt didn't crack 1% of that number in actual amount of times viewed by actual individuals. But if that video serves to dissuade someone from getting involved with the "Church" of Scientology, that's a good thing.

 

[TheSneakster]

Rinder Obscura
(Latin "obscūrus" ... dark, dim, unclear, hidden, or little-known)​

michaeljrinder on March 11, 2014 at 1:48 pm said:​

Ron absolutely abolished the GO. The Exec Strata was formed and the issues written about it before the formation of OSA. I had personal conversations with LRH about the disbandment of the GO and his desire to see it eradicated entirely as it had become a liability. You do not think that the GO was disbanded without his knowledge and Guardian PL canceled etc etc etc. Where are the docs? They don’t exist, remember, LRH was trying to avoid being connected in any way to the actions of the GO or Mary Sue, he was an unindicted co-conspirator. Nothing was in writing. And though he had expressed a LOT of disgust about the GO during the “Confront of Evil” period and the formation of the Office of Evaluation and Execution, where it came up routinely that GO staff were employing org staff in their personal business, the reason for disbanding the GO was that they were not protecting him from criminal and civil liability. He considered they had betrayed him (inclusive of Mary Sue).​

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The idea that he knew nothing about Snow White and the illegal acts that were ongoing is tantamount to saying L. Ron Hubbard was blind, unaware and incapable of spotting an outpoint. That was NOT the case. He was briefed by Mary Sue every single day at lunch during the heyday of the GO Ops — in detail. If she didnt tell him “Joe Blow infiltrated the IRS and got documents” she told him what they knew (if you don’t believe he expected to be briefed about everything the GO was doing, then you also give him less credit than he deserved, he was not one not to be curious) and he would have figured it out. Believe me, the programs and actions written to implement Snow White WERE know and authorized all the way to the top.​

​

LRH directed exactly what was to be done at the Mission Holders Conference in SFO following the one in Clearwater. The whole thing was recorded so it could be sent to him. He listened to it, sent Miscavige and the others commendations and ordered that the entire transcript be published.​

​

All of this information has been broadly published before. Just read Marty Rathbun’s books and blog and numerous other sources.​

Excuse me, but you've omitted the link to the exact original source of this quote. Kindly provide it.

 

[Zertel]

This might explain it - somebody being "artistic or poetic" - Lol

AI Overview

"Sola requiem" is not a standard, singular idiom but a combination of Latin terms often used in artistic, musical, or poetic contexts. "Sola" means "alone" or "by itself" (feminine form), while "Requiem" refers to a mass or song for the dead, originating from the Latin for "rest". Together, it translates to "A lone rest," "Rest alone," or "A requiem for one." [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Key Meanings and Contexts:

• Artistic/Musical Context: Often used to describe a musical piece, song, or poem focusing on mourning, death, or personal remembrance, frequently highlighting a solitary, personal loss (e.g., Requiem for Eli, a,k,a, Missa Solis).
• Thematic Meaning: It suggests a singular focus on the departed or a solitary journey to rest. [1, 2]

"The entire case ended with the 11 high ranking Scientologist serving five years in prison, along with their church losing tax exemption status along with any other protections or privileges that are granted to religious organizations. The Church of Scientology was left in ruins."
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This is obviously a made up story. The COS still has tax exemption and 11 people didn't serve five years in prison. I'm not on X so I couldn't see the replies and know if anyone challenged it.
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Sola Requiem
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Catholic | Existential Thomist | Veteran | Reluctant Poet | Cinephile | Dissident Right | Host of Requiem Radio
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Summary: "Sola" is a Catholic dude having fun mixing fact and fiction and trashing Scientology and Mormonism at the same time in his satirical fable.
I checked and Thomism (a real word) is an aspect of Catholicism focusing on the works of Dominican friar of Thomas Aquinas.

 

[ILove2Lurk]

Excuse me, but you've omitted the link to the exact original source of this quote. Kindly provide it.

This page has four of Mike's posts from 2014:

Group Engram

Specific post you asked about . . .

Comment 5160

Rinder Obscura
(Latin "obscūrus" ... dark, dim, unclear, hidden, or little-known)​

michaeljrinder on March 11, 2014 at 1:48 pm said:​

Ron absolutely abolished the GO. The Exec Strata was formed and the issues written about it before the formation of OSA. I had personal conversations with LRH about the disbandment of the GO and his desire to see it eradicated entirely as it had become a liability. You do not think that the GO was disbanded without his knowledge and Guardian PL canceled etc etc etc. Where are the docs? They don’t exist, remember, LRH was trying to avoid being connected in any way to the actions of the GO or Mary Sue, he was an unindicted co-conspirator. Nothing was in writing. And though he had expressed a LOT of disgust about the GO during the “Confront of Evil” period and the formation of the Office of Evaluation and Execution, where it came up routinely that GO staff were employing org staff in their personal business, the reason for disbanding the GO was that they were not protecting him from criminal and civil liability. He considered they had betrayed him (inclusive of Mary Sue).​

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The idea that he knew nothing about Snow White and the illegal acts that were ongoing is tantamount to saying L. Ron Hubbard was blind, unaware and incapable of spotting an outpoint. That was NOT the case. He was briefed by Mary Sue every single day at lunch during the heyday of the GO Ops — in detail. If she didnt tell him “Joe Blow infiltrated the IRS and got documents” she told him what they knew (if you don’t believe he expected to be briefed about everything the GO was doing, then you also give him less credit than he deserved, he was not one not to be curious) and he would have figured it out. Believe me, the programs and actions written to implement Snow White WERE know and authorized all the way to the top.​

​

LRH directed exactly what was to be done at the Mission Holders Conference in SFO following the one in Clearwater. The whole thing was recorded so it could be sent to him. He listened to it, sent Miscavige and the others commendations and ordered that the entire transcript be published.​

​

All of this information has been broadly published before. Just read Marty Rathbun’s books and blog and numerous other sources.​

 

[TheSneakster]

This page has four of Mike's posts from 2014:

Group Engram

Specific post you asked about . . .

Comment 5160

Thank you very much. I had already managed to find that page on my own last night. I forgot to update my request, sorry.