LRH ED: The Great Charity Swindle

EXECUTIVE DIRECTIVE FROM L. RON HUBBARD

LRH ED 66 INT

Date 13 December 1968¹; ²

THE GREAT “CHARITY” SWINDLE

One of the reasons Scientology is fought so hard and with such heavy finance and ferocity is that if it succeeded, it would then end one of the greatest “charity” swindles of all time.

The group who fights Scientology in the press and parliaments is fighting madly to retain control of (amongst other things less savory) a billion pound “research” racket.

It goes this way: A group named so as to make people think it is part of governments over the world, has fund collection chapters and agents.

These see all the rich people they can and the governments and explain that the lot of the “poor insane” (about whom they don’t give a damn as evidenced by their killing them) is so horrible that millions are needed urgently.

The rich people and the deluded governments then lay out fantastic sums of money, millions upon millions each year.

The groups’ representatives then take this money and whack it up amongst their pals.

As simply to split it up would be caught by the tax people, the group invents a “reason why”. It appoints insanity projects for research like, “The Depressive Project”.

Then each local member is paid several thousand a year, in addition to his income for his “research”. This of course is a tax free sum.

The members write up something like, “Depressives are often noticed to be depressed” and that’s it for the year.

The amounts are fantastic in size. We have the lists and boy would any tax agent love to see them!

So, these swindlers built up a structure that would sooner or later cave in.

In these times of actual advances in physics and mathematics sooner or later some independent project would come up with a datum that was real.

Dr Wilhelm Reich, not one of their boys, was imprisoned and killed for making a breakthrough in the ’50s.

It could have ended the golden avalanche.

Then, good Lord, there was Dianetics and Scientology all of a sudden, in one piece and actually working! This gave them an awful turn.

It threatened this yearly harvest.

Scientology is fought because it is effective.

But if the answers are all found, then what happens to begging for funds to “research”? People say, “well, but Hubbard did it. Why don’t you use Scientology?”

The enemy has been hit in the pocketbook, his most vulnerable spot.

His world headquarters began to show more and more deficit. He was down to his last fifty million!

Rich people began to say, “Why don’t you use Scientology?” So they frantically campaigned over the world to discredit it.

Governments were being whipped into line (this group appoints all the “Health” ministers for both parties.) Because they began to wonder. “If it’s all done, why don’t they use it?”
was beginning to be asked. “Why all this dough for research? When it’s all done in Scientology?”

The average member of this enemy group couldn’t care less about the insane.

But they care about their million pound swindle over the world.

One violent opponent of Scientology in this group who had been howling against it in the press, finally backed up and admitted he knew nothing at all about it. Not a thing!
This isn’t the only motive this international group has. It is their finance motive. But in itself it would be enough. They can bribe a lot of people with all that money.

This is one of their secrets – how they finance themselves and pay their agents and get past the tax collector.

What an unsavory group they are! And you can point your finger with accuracy at any politician who supports them. He’s under blackmail or is bribed.

Sort of an odd commentary on the governments of the West, isn’t it?

Birds of a feather?

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They sure have bad luck anyway. The biggest mistake they ever made was to attack Scientology.

But what could they do? There it was, the whole subject of the mind fully researched. We weren’t even in their line of country!

We ran into the biggest single swindle of the century. It desperately tried to discredit us. And we’re knocking it in the head, bang!

For who can stand in the way of truth?

L. RON HUBBARD
Founder

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