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The '''Church of Spiritual Technology''' ('''CST''') was incorporated in the State of [[California]], [[USA]] in [[1982]].<ref>http://www.americanreligion.org/books/scientology.html</ref> This [[non-profit]] organization owns all the [[copyright]]s of the estate of [[L. Ron Hubbard]]. The CST is [[doing business as]] '''L. Ron Hubbard Library'''. The CST is unusual in that it has no members or [[clergy]], which is allowed under California law. This church gets its income from [[Royalties|royalty]] fees paid to it by licensing of the copyrighted materials of [[Dianetics]] and [[Scientology]] to [[Scientology]]-connected organizations approved by the [[Religious Technology Center]], and from its wholly owned for-profit subsidiary [[Author Services Inc.]] which publishes and promotes Hubbard's fiction works.<ref>http://www.asirights.com/aboutasi.htm</ref>

[[Religious Technology Center]] is the holder of the trademarks and service marks of Scientology and is safeguarding its application. CST is the holder of the [[copyrights]] and licenses their use. The [[Church of Scientology International]] is the organization providing management services to other Scientology Churches all over the world.

[[Image:ChurchOfSpritualTechnologyLogo.svg|thumb|left|Logo of the Church of Spiritual Technology]]
The CST oversees the Scientology scriptural archiving project, which aims to preserve the works of Hubbard on stainless steel tablets and encased in [[titanium]] capsules in specially constructed [[Vault (architecture)|vaults]] throughout the world. The most famous example is the [[Trementina Base]], an underground vault built into a mountainside near [[Trementina, New Mexico]]. It is marked by a CST logo visible only from a high altitude and was built in the late [[1980s]].<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112601065.html WashingtonPost.com] - 'A Place in the Desert for New Mexico's Most Exclusive Circles', Richard Leiby, ''[[Washington Post]]'', p D01 (November 27, 2005)</ref><ref>{{cite web | first = Anderson| last = Cooper| authorlink = Anderson Cooper | title = Inside the Church of Scientology| url = http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/02/acd.01.html| format = Transcript | work = [[Anderson Cooper 360°]]| publisher = [[CNN]] | date = [[2005-12-02]] | accessdate = 2007-09-23}}</ref>

For the first 21 years of its existence, few members of the [[Church of Scientology]] ever heard the name Church of Spiritual Technology. Its founders included [[Meade Emory]],<ref>http://www.law.washington.edu/Faculty/Emory/ </ref> a non-Scientologist who used to work for the [[Internal Revenue Service]] but went into private practice as a tax lawyer. He was hired as a specialist for the complex Internal Revenue Codes. The Church of Scientology International and most Scientology organizations settled with the IRS about 11 years later when the service passed a resolution in 1993 declaring them tax-exempt.

Unlike other Scientology organizations (which require all corporate officers to be Scientologists in good standing), the Church of Spiritual Technology includes "Special Directors" who are not required to be Scientologists, but who are required to be lawyers "to ensure that CST takes no action to jeopardize its tax-exempt status" (CST vs. IRS, US Claims Court No. 581-88T, June 29, 1992).<ref>http://www.angelfire.com/blog/suleiman2/cst_vs_irs_1992.html</ref>

==Trademarks==
[[The Way to Happiness]] and The Way to Happiness symbol are trademarks and services marks owned by the Church of Spiritual Technology, operating as the L. Ron Hubbard Library.

==Notes==
<references />

== References ==
* [http://www.sc-i-r-s-ology.pair.com/ Sc-I-R-S-ology.pair.com] - 'Church of Spiritual Technology, a "Church" approved by the Department of the Treasury, Owns and Controls all Scientology' (critical website)
* [http://freezone.najbjerg.info/church-of-spiritual-technology najbjerg.info] - Church of Spiritual Technology, an organization approved by Hubbard (website with documents)
* [http://www.angelfire.com/blog/suleiman2/cst_vs_irs_1992.html CST vs. IRS 1992] "The Articles of Incorporation require that CST have three such Special Directors, and further requires that they be lawyers in order to ensure that CST takes no action to jeopardize its tax-exempt status. The General Directors and staff of CST are, however, closely linked to other Scientology organizations. The General Directors (the governing body) must be in good standing with the mother church. Staff members are required to be members of the Sea Org. Trustees of the organization are required to have been Scientologists for at least eight years, and must be highly trained in the teachings and technology of Scientology. CST trustees are also required to remain actively involved in giving and receiving Scientology services. They must also participate in at least twelve and one half hours of training per week."

== External links ==
* [http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefsspiritualtech.htm About.com] Definition of Church of Spiritual Technology (CST)

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Church of Spiritual Technology

2007-09-28T02:25:25Z

AndroidCat: Better for short articles

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'''Author Services Inc.''' (ASI) is a literary agency that represents only one author, the late [[Scientology]] founder [[L. Ron Hubbard]]. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the [[Church of Spiritual Technology]].<ref>[http://www.sc-i-r-s-ology.pair.com/documents/1993-10-01closingagrmt.html#irsorder IRS-Scientology Closing Agreement], [[1993-10-01]]</ref>

ASI was incorporated as a for-profit company in the state of [[California]] on October 13, 1981 and is located in [[Los Angeles]], at 7051 Hollywood Blvd. ASI pays a substantial portion of its income to the [[Church of Spiritual Technology]], a non-profit corporation also based in California.

Since its incorporation ASI manages [[L. Ron Hubbard]]'s personal, business and literary affairs. After Hubbard’s death in 1986, ASI continued to represent his literary and musical works worldwide.

ASI administers and holds the [[Writers of the Future|Writers and Illustrators of the Future]] contest. The contest had been established and sponsored by Hubbard in [[1983]] and since was supported by Science-Fiction writers such as [[Robert Silverberg]], [[Kevin J. Anderson]], [[Larry Niven]], [[Frederik Pohl]], [[Gene Wolfe]], [[Orson Scott Card]] and others.<ref>[http://www.writersofthefuture.com/history.htm History of "Writers of the Future"]</ref>

ASI also sells book cover prints and special editions.<ref>[http://www.asirights.com/aboutasi.htm ASI International Rights Catalogue]</ref> In 2005 ASI received a verification certificate from Guinness World Records on behalf of [[L. Ron Hubbard]] for being the "most translated author" in the world.<ref>[http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001476331 The Book Standard of 9 November 2005]</ref>

While ASI presents Hubbard's fiction and secular works under the [[Galaxy Press]] label, his Scientology-related writings are represented by [[Bridge Publications (Scientology)|Bridge Publications]] (New Era Publications outside North America).

==Notes==
<references/>

==References==
* [http://www.ex-cult.org/Groups/Scientology/sandiego.txt Hubbard Hot Author Status Called Illusion] (Mike McIntyre, ''San Diego Union'' April 15, 1990, p1)

==External links==
* [http://www.authorservicesinc.com/ Official web site]
* [http://www.sc-i-r-s-ology.pair.com/documents/1981-10-13asiinc.html Information on ASI connection to the CST] (Sc-I-R-S-Ology)
* [http://www.asirights.com/news.htm News Site of ASI showing their worldwide activities]
* [http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/hubbard.html Strange Vibrations] [[David Langford]] about ASI's activities during Conspiracy '87, the 1987 [[Worldcon]].

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Church of Spiritual Technology

2007-09-24T00:56:33Z

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Church of Spiritual Technology

2007-09-24T00:53:04Z

AndroidCat: Added CNN ref

{{ScientologySeries}}
The '''Church of Spiritual Technology''' ('''CST''') was incorporated in the State of [[California]], [[USA]] in [[1982]].<ref>http://www.americanreligion.org/books/scientology.html</ref> This [[non-profit]] organization owns all the [[copyright]]s of the estate of [[L. Ron Hubbard]]. The CST is [[doing business as]] '''L. Ron Hubbard Library'''. The CST is unusual in that it has no members or [[clergy]], which is allowed under California law. This church gets its income from [[Royalties|royalty]] fees paid to it by licensing of the copyrighted materials of [[Dianetics]] and [[Scientology]] to [[Scientology]]-connected organizations approved by the [[Religious Technology Center]], and from its wholly owned for-profit subsidiary [[Author Services Inc.]] which publishes and promotes Hubbard's fiction works.<ref>http://www.asirights.com/aboutasi.htm</ref>

[[Religious Technology Center]] is the holder of the trademarks and service marks of Scientology and is safeguarding its application. CST is the holder of the [[copyrights]] and licenses their use. The [[Church of Scientology International]] is the organization providing management services to other Scientology Churches all over the world.

[[Image:ChurchOfSpritualTechnologyLogo.svg|thumb|left|Logo of the Church of Spiritual Technology]]
The CST oversees the Scientology scriptural archiving project, which aims to preserve the works of Hubbard on stainless steel tablets and encased in [[titanium]] capsules in specially constructed [[Vault (architecture)|vaults]] throughout the world. The most famous example is the [[Trementina Base]], an underground vault built into a mountainside near [[Trementina, New Mexico]]. It is marked by a CST logo visible only from a high altitude and was built in the late [[1980s]].<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112601065.html WashingtonPost.com] - 'A Place in the Desert for New Mexico's Most Exclusive Circles', Richard Leiby, ''[[Washington Post]]'', p D01 (November 27, 2005)</ref><ref>{{cite web | first = Anderson| last = Cooper| title = Inside the Church of Scientology| url = http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/02/acd.01.html| format = Transcript | work = Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees| publisher = CNN | date = [[2005-12-02]] | accessdate = 2007-09-23}}</ref>

For the first 21 years of its existence, few members of the [[Church of Scientology]] ever heard the name Church of Spiritual Technology. Its founders included [[Meade Emory]],<ref>http://www.law.washington.edu/Faculty/Emory/ </ref> a non-Scientologist who used to work for the [[Internal Revenue Service]] but went into private practice as a tax lawyer. He was hired as a specialist for the complex Internal Revenue Codes. The Church of Scientology International and most Scientology organizations settled with the IRS about 11 years later when the service passed a resolution in 1993 declaring them tax-exempt.

Unlike other Scientology organizations (which require all corporate officers to be Scientologists in good standing), the Church of Spiritual Technology includes "Special Directors" who are not required to be Scientologists, but who are required to be lawyers "to ensure that CST takes no action to jeopardize its tax-exempt status" (CST vs. IRS, US Claims Court No. 581-88T, June 29, 1992).<ref>http://www.angelfire.com/blog/suleiman2/cst_vs_irs_1992.html</ref>

==Trademarks==
[[The Way to Happiness]] and The Way to Happiness symbol are trademarks and services marks owned by the Church of Spiritual Technology, operating as the L. Ron Hubbard Library.

==Notes==
<references />

== References ==
* [http://www.sc-i-r-s-ology.pair.com/ Sc-I-R-S-ology.pair.com] - 'Church of Spiritual Technology, a "Church" approved by the Department of the Treasury, Owns and Controls all Scientology' (critical website)
* [http://freezone.najbjerg.info/church-of-spiritual-technology najbjerg.info] - Church of Spiritual Technology, an organization approved by Hubbard (website with documents)
* [http://www.angelfire.com/blog/suleiman2/cst_vs_irs_1992.html CST vs. IRS 1992] "The Articles of Incorporation require that CST have three such Special Directors, and further requires that they be lawyers in order to ensure that CST takes no action to jeopardize its tax-exempt status. The General Directors and staff of CST are, however, closely linked to other Scientology organizations. The General Directors (the governing body) must be in good standing with the mother church. Staff members are required to be members of the Sea Org. Trustees of the organization are required to have been Scientologists for at least eight years, and must be highly trained in the teachings and technology of Scientology. CST trustees are also required to remain actively involved in giving and receiving Scientology services. They must also participate in at least twelve and one half hours of training per week."

== External links ==
* [http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefsspiritualtech.htm About.com] Definition of Church of Spiritual Technology (CST)

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Church of Spiritual Technology

2007-09-22T04:33:46Z

AndroidCat: rv. The trademarks are definitely related since these ones are owned directly by CST rather than RTC.

{{ScientologySeries}}
The '''Church of Spiritual Technology''' ('''CST''') was incorporated in the State of [[California]], [[USA]] in [[1982]].<ref>http://www.americanreligion.org/books/scientology.html</ref> This [[non-profit]] organization owns all the [[copyright]]s of the estate of [[L. Ron Hubbard]]. The CST is [[doing business as]] '''L. Ron Hubbard Library'''. The CST is unusual in that it has no members or [[clergy]], which is allowed under California law. This church gets its income from [[Royalties|royalty]] fees paid to it by licensing of the copyrighted materials of [[Dianetics]] and [[Scientology]] to [[Scientology]]-connected organizations approved by the [[Religious Technology Center]], and from its wholly owned for-profit subsidiary [[Author Services Inc.]] which publishes and promotes Hubbard's fiction works.<ref>http://www.asirights.com/aboutasi.htm</ref>

[[Religious Technology Center]] is the holder of the trademarks and service marks of Scientology and is safeguarding its application. CST is the holder of the [[copyrights]] and licenses their use. The [[Church of Scientology International]] is the organization providing management services to other Scientology Churches all over the world.

[[Image:ChurchOfSpritualTechnologyLogo.svg|thumb|left|Logo of the Church of Spiritual Technology]]
The CST oversees the Scientology scriptural archiving project, which aims to preserve the works of Hubbard on stainless steel tablets and encased in [[titanium]] capsules in specially constructed [[Vault (architecture)|vaults]] throughout the world. The most famous example is the [[Trementina Base]], an underground vault built into a mountainside near [[Trementina, New Mexico]]. It is marked by a CST logo visible only from a high altitude and was built in the late [[1980s]].<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112601065.html WashingtonPost.com] - 'A Place in the Desert for New Mexico's Most Exclusive Circles', Richard Leiby, ''[[Washington Post]]'', p D01 (November 27, 2005)</ref>

For the first 21 years of its existence, few members of the [[Church of Scientology]] ever heard the name Church of Spiritual Technology. Its founders included [[Meade Emory]],<ref>http://www.law.washington.edu/Faculty/Emory/ </ref> a non-Scientologist who used to work for the [[Internal Revenue Service]] but went into private practice as a tax lawyer. He was hired as a specialist for the complex Internal Revenue Codes. The Church of Scientology International and most Scientology organizations settled with the IRS about 11 years later when the service passed a resolution in 1993 declaring them tax-exempt.

Unlike other Scientology organizations (which require all corporate officers to be Scientologists in good standing), the Church of Spiritual Technology includes "Special Directors" who are not required to be Scientologists, but who are required to be lawyers "to ensure that CST takes no action to jeopardize its tax-exempt status" (CST vs. IRS, US Claims Court No. 581-88T, June 29, 1992).<ref>http://www.angelfire.com/blog/suleiman2/cst_vs_irs_1992.html</ref>

==Trademarks==
[[The Way to Happiness]] and The Way to Happiness symbol are trademarks and services marks owned by the Church of Spiritual Technology, operating as the L. Ron Hubbard Library.

==Notes==
<references />
http://www.lermanet.com/CST/index.htm (www.Lermanet.com CST page)

== References ==
* [http://www.sc-i-r-s-ology.pair.com/ Sc-I-R-S-ology.pair.com] - 'Church of Spiritual Technology, a "Church" approved by the Department of the Treasury, Owns and Controls all Scientology' (critical website)
* [http://freezone.najbjerg.info/church-of-spiritual-technology najbjerg.info] - Church of Spiritual Technology, an organization approved by Hubbard (website with documents)
* [http://www.angelfire.com/blog/suleiman2/cst_vs_irs_1992.html CST vs. IRS 1992] "The Articles of Incorporation require that CST have three such Special Directors, and further requires that they be lawyers in order to ensure that CST takes no action to jeopardize its tax-exempt status. The General Directors and staff of CST are, however, closely linked to other Scientology organizations. The General Directors (the governing body) must be in good standing with the mother church. Staff members are required to be members of the Sea Org. Trustees of the organization are required to have been Scientologists for at least eight years, and must be highly trained in the teachings and technology of Scientology. CST trustees are also required to remain actively involved in giving and receiving Scientology services. They must also participate in at least twelve and one half hours of training per week."

== External links ==
* [http://altreligion.about.com/library/glossary/symbols/bldefsspiritualtech.htm About.com] Definition of Church of Spiritual Technology (CST)

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Scientology Int. Base

2007-08-26T00:59:21Z

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The '''Gold Base''' is a 500 acre parcel and the headquarters of [[Golden Era Productions]], the media division of the [[Church of Scientology]], located at 19625 [[California State Route 79|Highway 79]], [[Gilman Hot Springs, California]] 92583, near [[Hemet, California|Hemet]]. Part of the Base borders [[U.S. Department of Defense]] property.

==About the Base==
Gold Base produces the [[E-Meter]]s the [[Church of Scientology]] uses and sells to practitioners.<ref name="goldeneye">{{cite news | first = Thomas C | last = Tobin | title = A place called 'Gold' | url = http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologygold.html | publisher = [[St. Petersburg Times]] | date = [[1998-10-25]] | accessdate = 2007-03-18}}</ref> It has film and sound facilities and produces the films used in and sold by the Church. It is staffed by members of the [[Sea Organization]] from the [[Religious Technology Center]], the [[Commodore's Messenger Organization]] International and Golden Era Productions. [[David Miscavige]] and other top leaders of the church live on the Base.<ref>"[http://www.xenu.net/archive/go/quill.htm Scientology from inside out]" by [[Robert Vaughn Young]], Quill magazine, Volume 81, Number 9, Nov/Dec 1993.</ref><ref>[http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientology18dec18,0,2963052.story "Tom Cruise and Scientology"], Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2005: "voter registration records list the Gilman Hot Springs complex as Miscavige's residence since the early 1990s and as recently as the 2004 general election"</ref><ref name="stone">"[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9363363/inside_scientology Inside Scientology]" by Janet Reitman. [[Rolling Stone]], Issue 995. March 9, 2006. Pages 55 - 67.</ref>

The Gold Base is also referred to as the "Int Base".<ref name="stone"/>

In an article published in the [[LA Weekly]], Gale Holland wrote that there are critics of the Church of Scientology who say that Gold Base "houses the church's highly secretive security apparatus".<ref name="UnfairGame">{{cite news | author = Gale Holland | title = Unfair Game: Scientologists Get Their Man | url = http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/unfair-game/4713/ | publisher = [[LA Weekly]] | date = [[2001-06-20]] | accessdate = 2007-08-25}}</ref> There are motion sensors every several feet and mounted video surveillance cameras.<ref name="stone"/> Former Scientology security officer [[Andre Tabayoyon]] has testified in court that the Gold Base is illegally stockpiling weapons and ammunition.<ref>http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/mpoulter/worst/andre2.html</ref> His wife also swore in her affidavit that Sea Org women were forced to have abortions against their will.<ref>http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/mpoulter/worst/abortion.html</ref>

Currently, most base personnel live in Hemet at the Vista Gardens Apartments or the Kirby Apartments and commute by base-owned bus.<ref name="inland">{{cite web |url = http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2005-12/21006726.pdf |format = [[PDF]]|title = Scientology's inland empire |accessdate = 2007-08-25 |last = Perry |first = Rebecca | coauthors = Kelsen, Don|date = [[2005-12-17]]|work = [[Los Angeles Times]]|publisher = }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = Staff | title = After spending half of her life in Scientology, she found truth & freedom in Jesus Christ | journal = Baptist Press | date = August 16, 2005 | url = http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=21407 }}</ref>

Scientology also maintains the [[Trementina Base]] in [[New Mexico]] as a high-tech archive of Hubbard's spoken and written words, with similar archives located in [[Petrolia, California]] and [[Crestline, California]].<ref>http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/trementina-vault3.htm</ref>

==Features==
Notable buildings and features in Gold Base include:
*Upper Villas - where David Miscavige and other high level Scientologists and celebrities stay.
*BonnieView - the home for L. Ron Hubbard when he returns in his next life.
*Staff berthing - four buildings where staff live.
*CMO Int - [[Commodore's Messengers Organization International]]. CMO Int has the function of establishing and running all management units under Church of Scientology International (CSI)'s control.
*OGH buildings - Old Gilman House. Probably used for [[auditing (Scientology)|auditing]] or solo auditing.
*RTC building - where [[Religious Technology Center]] is headquartered.
*Del Sol - auditing rooms for staff.
*Qual Gold - Headquarters for Qual Sec, in charge of "quality control".

Gold Base also has recreational facilities, including a running track, basketball, volleyball, and soccer facilities, an exercise building, a waterslide, a small lake with a training ship (the ''Laissez-Faire''), two beaches, and a golf course.<ref>http://alley.ethercat.com/cgi-bin/xint/xint.cgi?2</ref><ref name="inland"/>
==Picketing at Gold Base==

Henson picketed the secretive, and allegedly heavily-armed<ref>http://lermanet.com/cos/andres.html</ref>, Gold Base compound to protest the deaths of a Scientologist, Stacy Moxon Meyer, and a non-Scientologist, Ashlee Shaner.

Meyer, the daughter of lead Scientology attorney [[Moxon & Kobrin|Kendrick Moxon]], died in an accident in an underground electrical vault at the Gold Base at about the same time that picketers aboveground were protesting the previous death of Ashlee Shaner. Shaner died in an auto accident on the road fronting Gold Base when a contractor working for the Church was moving a piece of [[Loader (equipment)|construction equipment]] across the highway after dusk without adequate lighting.<ref>http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/shanner-nove.htm</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}

== External links ==

* [http://www.scientologytoday.org/corp/csi5.htm ScientologyToday: Golden Era Productions]
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.830819,-116.985984&spn=0.016425,0.027968&t=k&hl=en Satellite photograph of "Gold base", Gilman Hot Springs, California]
*[http://www.lermanet.com/image/hemet-labeled.jpg Similar Satellite photograph with key to features]
* [http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientology18dec18,0,2963052.story?coll=la-home-headlines L.A. Times article discussing the Gold Base]

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Quentin Hubbard

2007-08-16T03:35:44Z

AndroidCat: rv two gibberish edits by Countesskrak, who reminds me of a certain banned user.

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'''Geoffrey Quentin McCaully Hubbard''' ([[6 January]][[1954]] – [[12 November]][[1976]]), was the son of [[L. Ron Hubbard]], the founder of the [[Church of Scientology]]. His father had groomed his son to take over the organization for him<ref name="BlueSky"/>. Quentin was discovered by police October 28, 1976, unconscious from an apparent [[suicide]] attempt, and died two weeks later without having regained consciousness.<ref name="Miller">{{cite book | author=Miller, Russell | title=[[Bare-faced Messiah]], The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard | publisher=Henry Holt & Co | location=New York | edition=First American Edition | year=1987 | id=ISBN 0-8050-0654-0 |url=http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm }}</ref>

==Life==
Geoffrey Quentin McCaully Hubbard was born on January 6, 1954 as the son of L. Ron Hubbard and [[Mary Sue Hubbard]]. Quentin wanted to be a pilot as a child but later was happy to dedicate himself to the Church and rising through its hierarchy.

Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref name="BlueSky">{{cite book | last = Atack | first = Jon | authorlink = Jon Atack | title = [[A Piece of Blue Sky]] | accessdate = 2007-06-25 | year = 1990 | publisher = Carol Publishing Group | isbn = 0-8184-0499-X | chapter = Chapter 6 - The Flag Land Base | chapterurl = http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm}}</ref><ref>[http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/books/bfm/interviews/kima.htm Interview with Kima Douglas], Oakland, California, 27 August 1986</ref> caused him a great deal of personal torment due to the [[homophobia]] of the era and his father's creation of a new religion that [[homosexuality and Scientology|officially categorized homosexuals]] as "sexual pervert[s]" and "quite ill physically".<ref name="DMSMH85">{{cite book | last = Hubbard | first = L. Ron | authorlink = L. Ron Hubbard | title = Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health | edition = 1985 edition | year = 1985 | month = | publisher = [[Bridge Publications]] | location = Los Angeles, CA | id = ISBN 0-88404-219-7 | pages = 140 | chapter = Part 2, Chapter 5 | quote = The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in dynamic two such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically.}}</ref> Another source close to him claims that his alleged homosexuality was an act. <ref name="Pignotti"> [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/#commendation Monica Pignotti's account of her time in Scientology]: "Quentin and I came very close to getting involved sexually, but we didn't because he told me that several years earlier, he had become sexually involved with a young woman and she had been sent off the ship when his father found out. He didn't want to get me into that kind of trouble, so we remained good friends."</ref> His unrealized dream was to become an airplane pilot.<ref name="Miller" /><ref name="Pignotti"/><ref>[http://www.scientology-kills.org/personal_pgs/hubbard_q/hanna.htm Hana Eltringham Whitfield Remembers Quentin]</ref><ref>[http://www.xenu.net/entheta/entheta/media/tv/secret/secret3.html Secret Lives - L. Ron Hubbard], Channel 4, November 19, 1997</ref>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]]<ref name="Miller" />. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]]. It is believed that he committed suicide in his car through carbon monoxide poisoning, although his toxic screen came back negative for drugs and [[carbon monoxide]] in his body. <ref>[http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_hw94a.html Affidavit of Hana Whitfield], April 4, 1994</ref> His wallet was gone, and the license plate of the car was missing and found under a rock some distance away. <ref>[http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/rvy.htm Affidavit of Robert Vaughn Young], April 4, 1994</ref> A former Scientologist later stated that, under the instructions of the [[Guardian's Office]], he and another Scientologist had illegally removed Quentin's medical records from the hospital where he had died, over concern that they contained evidence of a homosexual encounter shortly before his death.<ref name="Miller" />

== Controversy ==
One source critical of the Church of Scientology suggested that Quentin was murdered by Scientologists because he was homosexual and was planning to leave the Church to go to flight training school.
[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/quentin-coronor.htm]
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/].

==References==
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=== Further reading ===
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* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
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==External links==
* [http://www.scientology-kills.org/personal_pgs/hubbard_q/hubbard.htm Tribute to Quentin]
* [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Quentin_Hubbard_22/index.html Scientology associated deaths]

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The '''Gold Base''' is a 500 acre parcel and the headquarters of [[Golden Era Productions]], the media division of the [[Church of Scientology]], located at 19625 [[California State Route 79|Highway 79]], [[Gilman Hot Springs, California]] 92583, near [[Hemet, California|Hemet]]. Part of the Base borders [[U.S. Department of Defense]] property.

==About the Base==
Gold Base produces the [[E-Meter]]s the [[Church of Scientology]] uses and sells to practitioners. It has film and sound facilities and produces the films used in and sold by the Church. It is staffed by members of the [[Sea Organization]] from the [[Religious Technology Center]], the [[Commodore's Messenger Organization]] International and Golden Era Productions. [[David Miscavige]] and other top leaders of the church live on the Base. <ref>"[http://www.xenu.net/archive/go/quill.htm Scientology from inside out]" by [[Robert Vaughn Young]], Quill magazine, Volume 81, Number 9, Nov/Dec 1993.</ref> <ref>[http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientology18dec18,0,2963052.story "Tom Cruise and Scientology"], Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2005: "voter registration records list the Gilman Hot Springs complex as Miscavige's residence since the early 1990s and as recently as the 2004 general election"</ref> <ref>"[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9363363/inside_scientology Inside Scientology]" by Janet Reitman. [[Rolling Stone]], Issue 995. March 9, 2006. Pages 55 - 67.</ref>

The Gold Base is also referred to as the "Int Base".

While the Gold Base is purportedly an administrative and security headquarters for a religious organization, [http://www.keithhenson.org/unfair.htm] [http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=15199] the walls around this base have an inwardly directed "ultra-barrier" made up of sheetmetal knife-like projections. There has been much speculation about this, since the function of inwardly-directed barriers is to keep people in, rather than keeping people out. There are also motion sensors every several feet and mounted video surveillance cameras. Former Scientology security officer [[Andre Tabayoyon]] has testified in court that the Gold Base is illegally stockpiling weapons and ammunition. [http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/mpoulter/worst/andre2.html] His wife also swore in her affidavit that Sea Org women were forced to have abortions against their will [http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/mpoulter/worst/abortion.html].

Currently, most base personnel live in Hemet at the Vista Gardens Apartments or the Kirby Apartments and commute by base-owned bus.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Rebecca Perry | title = Scientology's inland empire | journal = Los Angeles Times | date = December 17, 2005 | url = http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2005-12/21006726.pdf | format = [[PDF]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = Staff | title = After spending half of her life in Scientology, she found truth & freedom in Jesus Christ | journal = Baptist Press | date = August 16, 2005 | url = http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=21407 }}</ref>

[[Arnaldo Lerma]] has published lists of names of all Gold Base staff, and it has been the subject of speculation why 70 percent of them are women. [http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=15199]

Scientology also maintains the [[Trementina Base]] in [[New Mexico]], with similar bases located in [[Petrolia, California]], [[Crestline, California]]. [http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/trementina-vault3.htm],

==Features==
Notable buildings and features in Gold Base include:
*Upper Villas - where David Miscavige and other high level Scientologists and celebrities stay.
*"BonnieView" - the home for L. Ron Hubbard when he returns in his next life.
*Staff berthing - four buildings where staff live.
*CMO Int - [[Commodore's Messengers Organization International]]. CMO Int has the function of establishing and forcing to run all management units under Church of Scientology International (CSI)'s control.
*OGH buildings - Old Gilman House. Probably used for [[auditing (Scientology)|auditing]] or solo auditing.
*RTC building - where [[Religious Technology Center]] is headquartered.
*Del Sol - auditing rooms for staff.
*Qual Gold - Headquarters for Qual Sec, in charge of "quality control".

Gold Base also has recreational facilities, including a running track, basketball, volleyball, and soccer facilities, an exercise building, a waterslide, a small lake with a training ship (the "Laissez-Faire"), two beaches, and a golf course. [http://alley.ethercat.com/cgi-bin/xint/xint.cgi?2]

==Picketing at Gold Base==

There is a prohibition on [[picketing]] Gold Base stemming from activist [[Keith Henson]]'s picketing in 2000. Although critics hold the provision is unconstitutional, it has not been challenged in recent years. Henson picketed the secretive and heavily-armed [http://lermanet.com/cos/andres.html] Gold Base compound over the unusual deaths of a Scientologist, Stacy Moxon Meyer, and a non-Scientologist, Ashlee Shaner.

Meyer, the daughter of Scientology attorney [[Moxon & Kobrin|Kendrick Moxon]], adverse counsel in many lawsuits involving Henson, died in a bizarre and gruesome accident in an underground electrical vault at the Gold Base. In a horrific coincidence, when Stacy Moxon Meyer was dying underground in the electrical vault, picketers above ground were protesting the previous death of Ashlee Shaner in a ghastly decapitation which occurred at the Gold Base when Scientology was moving construction equipment on the highway at night without lights and in the wrong lane.[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/shanner-nove.htm]

==Notes==
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== External links ==

* [http://www.scientologytoday.org/corp/csi5.htm ScientologyToday: Golden Era Productions]
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.830819,-116.985984&spn=0.016425,0.027968&t=k&hl=en Satellite photograph of "Gold base", Gilman Hot Springs, California]
*[http://www.lermanet.com/image/hemet-labeled.jpg Similar Satellite photograph with key to features]
* [http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientology18dec18,0,2963052.story?coll=la-home-headlines L.A. Times article discussing the Gold Base]
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