Suppressive Person Defense League

I’m including here a short set of excerpts from Hubbard’s OT III materials, and another short set from his science fiction yarn Revolt in the Stars. I believe that by comparing these two sets of excerpts a reasonable person would conclude that several significant facts are identical in OT III and in Hubbard’s RTS plot. That is, they’re both what is commonly known as the Xenu Story.

I’ve included as excerpts what I believe is a minimum but sufficient amount for a reasonable person to make a reasoned comparison of them. The RTS manuscript I took the excerpts from is one that has been distributed and circulated for several years that I know of.

Hubbard wrote the screenplay for RTS, and probably half the “novel,” which tracked the script, in 1977 in Sparks, Nevada, where he’d fled following the July 1977 FBI raid. He then gave his daughter Suzette the task of writing the second half, also closely tracking the script. So probably the last half of the excerpts are hers, taken religiously from Hubbard’s screenplay.

I was assigned to proofread the screenplay and the novel in December 1977, the same day I got out of the Clearwater RPF. In 1980 or 81, I routed onto OT III at AOLA, and of course read the Xenu story, and knew then it was exactly what I’d proofread. When the OT III materials became an issue in the Scientology v. Wollersheim litigation, I wrote a declaration covering these points.

I also including here just a few lines from RTS not for their fact content but to make it clear that the story is science fiction, although I don’t think Scientology ever disputed this fact. The RTS excerpts start with Hubbard’s SF hero Loyal Officer Rawl talking via high tech from 75 million years ago to present time earthlings.

The OT III excerpts are, of course, religious scripture, and Scientology has also not disputed this fact. I believe that a reasonable person who studied merely these two sets of excerpts would conclude that Scientology’s religious scripture is science fiction, and that religious scripture and science fiction are not mutually exclusive.