Los Angeles Free Press November 29, 1968 Six Constitutional violations FDA raids Church of Scientology There's a smell of conspiracy about life and death. (2) People find awareness and freedom. in the air, of late, involving the it interesting. (3) People find it American Food and Drug Admin- When this happens, according to works. (4) People pass it along to Scientologists, physical ills often istration, the British Ministry of others. (5) It grows. Health and the Victorian Parlia- fall away, never to return; emo- Since its inception, Scientology tional problems tend to vanish; IQ's ment of Melbourne, Australia, has expanded to include 22 inter- It centers around the Church of raise; reaction times are bettered; national organizations, hundreds of and an individual is happier and Scientology, a religion founded by franchise centers and a member- American philosopher L. Ron Hub- more capable as well as emotion- ship in the millions. ally more stable. bard, and incorporated in Washing- Scientology practices involve the ton, D.C. in 1955. The application of this technol- precise application of a two-way ogy involves the use of a device The story of Scientology, ac communication technology de- cording to Hubbard, is a decep-- called an Electrometer—or, more signed to free one from emotional commonly, an E- Meter. It is used tively simple one. (1) A Doctor of upsets and difficulties of the past Philosophy develops a philosophy to measure the body's resistance to and to Increase one's spiritual a minute electrical current. Ac- cording to Scientologists, the me- ter registers the amount of emo- tional •charge' on an area of com- munication, and indicates, as the communication process is em- ployed, when that charge has lift- ed or °blown." The FDA first made it appear- ance on the Scientology scene in 1959 when they hired TaylorQuinn as a spy, and enrolled him as a student in the academy of the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C. to gather infor- mation. On August 13, 1962, Hubbard wrote a letter to then-President Kennedy offering to place at his disposal the facilities of Scientol- ogy for use in training astronauts and improving the educational sys- tem of the nation. At that time Ken- nedy requested more information through his regular channels. This request apparently fell into the hands of the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare's Food and Drug Administration. Within 48 hours, FDA agents had entered every Church of Scientology in the U.S. demanding °evidence° on the E- Meter. On January 4, 1963, the FDA made a sudden armed raid on the Church in Washington D.C., seiz- ing tens of thousands of copies of Church books, E- Meters and train- ing aids worth more than $110 U.S. MARSHALS SEIZING &METERS AND PUBLICATIONS FROM CHURCH thousand, as well as private con- fessional files. The raid itself is described in Page 21 the Congressional Record of Sept. 8, 1965, by Senator Edward V. Long resulted In the government Insti- of Missouri. "True to form, tuting an Inquiry into Scientology this re- by a one-man tribunal, Kevin An- cent raid was preceded by intelli- derson QC, gence from an FDA spy planted on On the 101st day of the 160-day the premises.... FDA agents and inquiry, Anderson announced pub- federal marshalls descended on licly the conclusion he hadalready private property while local police reached and would later publish. roped off the street ... they ran Sworn affadavits of witnesses make through the premises, banged on it plain that Anderson was biased, doors, shouted and seized what they vicious and predictably hostile; he viewed as incriminating evidence. intimidated witnesses, suppressed "Three particular aspects of this evidence, and—in the words of one episode were especially shocking. witness—"turned the Inquiry into . • . First, the incursion tookplace an Inquisition? on church ptoperty. Second, the The end result of the inquiry was agents had no valid search war- that Scientology was banned from rant. Third, the . . objects sought the state of Victoria in Australia. and seized were devices used in Throughout the rest of the country, the church's confessional proced- however, Scientology has continued ures." to grow at a phenomenal rate. During the raid the agents and And, finally, let's look at the deputies (apparently Baltimore scene in England. The Church Longshoremans' tinidn members headquarters and the Hubbard Col- specially deputized as marshalls lege of Scientology are located in for the raid) broke into students' England. and staff's homes in the neighbor- In late 1987 or early 1968, Scot- hood, seizing "evidence' going land Yard, apparently acting on or- through womens' purses, and rif- ders filtered down through the hier- ling desks. archy of the government, began an In the raid, the FDA violated six investigation of Scientology, which points of the Constitution, including included phone taps and under cover the lack of a valid search warrant. agents. The investigation yielded no In the weeks following the raid, evidence of any kind. the FDA made an offer to settle In August, this year, on the last out of court. The offer was refused by the Church. When the FDA day of Parliament, Keneth Robin- failed to file any charges, the son, Minister of Health. (and for- Church filed suit against the FDA. mer Vice-Chairman of the inde- To date, the case is on appeal and pendent but government-financed the charges against the church have National Association for Mental dwindled to those of mis-labeling Health) viciously attacked Scien- the E-Meter. tology, expressing a "concern for Yet of the materials seized, not the mental well-being" of Its ad- one piece has been returned. And, herents and accusing it of nearly in addition, the FDA has Instituted, everything short of witchcraft. He via customs, a hit-and-miss seiz- promised to produce volumes of ure of E-Meters being sent into evidence supporting his claims. the States and being brought in by The next day he promptly disap- individual, Sc len tologists returning peared into a country retreat. Be- from training at the Hubbard Col- for he left, however, he used his in- lege of Scientology at St. Hill Man- fluence In the Home Office to close or, East Grinstead, Sussex, Eng- England's doors to Scientologists of land. other nations. This was accom- Switch the scene, for a moment, plished by invoking the Aliens Or- to Melbourne, Australia, 1964-65. der, a law designed to be used In the Victoria Parliament there, against individuals, to declareSci- a Mr. Galbally, who is rumored to entologists as a group to beuunde- have some rather murky connec- sirabler The aim was apparently tions with an Australian-govern- the interruption of Scientology ac- ment sponsored mental health tivities and study at the College of group, launched a rather vicious Scientology. attack against Scientology, which Scientologists, however, appear to be a rather resourceful and ef- ficient group. Never having been asked their side of the story, they told it anyway: with broadsheets and throwaways distributed by (Continued on Page 25) (Continued from Page 21) the use of electroshock treatment, Establishment press (which since hand; with personal visits to mem- pre-frontal lobotomies and leucot- the attack has become increasingly bers of the press; with a counter- omies as punitive measures, often pro-Scientologist) that Robinson attack exposingRobinson's connec- resulting in death for the patients. produce the evidence he claims to tion with the NAMH — that organ- The first Scientologists affected have, to date he has produced no- ization being 20,000 pounds over- by the entry ban were a group of 60 thing. Rather, he has sidestepped drawn on its accounts and receiv- arriving on a chartered flight from the issue whenever approached on ing only 2,000 pounds a year sup- the U.S. In the .length of time It it. The ban has apparently been port from the government until took them to be barred from the lifted, at least in part, and the•net Robinson's appointment, when country, work their way through result of the attack is that Scien- there occurred a sudden 10,000 the bureaucratic red tape, board tology membership in England has pound grant; and finally, by throw- another plane headed back, and ar- nearly tripled since the attacks be- ing some light on deplorable con- rive in Los Angeles (less than 24 gan. ditions in mental institutions hours), a contingent of the Scien- About the similarity of these at- throughout the country, including tology Advanced Organization had tacks, Hubbard, Scientology's foun- moved itself—lock, stock and E- der, had this to say: "From all over Meter—from Edinburgh, Scotland, the world the enemies of Scientol- to Los Angeles, and had set up for ogy have been able to find only a business as usual. score or two of complaints about Repeated invitations to sit down it. May I point out that these few and talk the matter over were is- people, about enough to fill a sued by Scientologists to govern- couch, are alive, free and unin- ment officials. They were uni- jured. Those attacking Scientology formly ignored. On investigation, run mental institutions. They make It was discovered that no minister millions out of it. They advocate or government official (other than brutal, murderous actions against Scotland Yard undercover men) the insane. They are terrified of had ever visited any Scientology losing the avalanches of money Center to look for themselves. gouged out of the governments. Despite increasingly voluble de- They see Scientology taking it all mands on the part of the British away with kind, effective measures. There is no question in their minds but that Scientology works. That's why they are attacking it. A thous- and other philosophies and reli- gions arise every years with no outcry from the madmen in charge. cist actions, can not complain. They The hundreds of thousands of vic- can not even talk. They're dead' tims of the enemy, as in all Fas- The most recent harrassment of the Church occurred last TueSday night, Nov. 19, in Arcadia. J. Michael Smith, a member of the Church of Scientology of Cali- fornia, Los Angeles Organization, was denied a business license for a franchise center by the Arcadia City Council. Councilmen Arth, Helms and Considine voted the license down, claiming Scientology was a "God- less religion, anti-governmentand anti-authority," quoting a recent Life magazine article as the source of their information. Dissenting Councilman Butter- worth and Mayor Hage claimed that "the citizens should have the right to decide for themselves what reli- gion they will follow." Butterworth further stated it was not the Coun- cil's right to prejudge Scientology or any organization coming before the council requesting a business license. There is also a question of vio- lation of the constitutional guaran- tees concerning freedom of reli- gion. Smith said, "After what we had to go through to even get a vote on a license, I had already decided I didn't want to open a center in Ar- cadia.' Three other centers have opened in the Los Angeles area since the Arcadia decision.