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Church of Spiritual Technology

2008-05-14T22:34:23Z

Shutterbug: flagged OR. Don't get me wrong, I like this article.

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[[Image:ChurchOfSpritualTechnologyLogo.svg|thumb|right|Logo of the Church of Spiritual Technology.]]
The '''Church of Spiritual Technology''' (CST) is a [[Californian]] 501(c)(3) [[non-profit corporation]]<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IRS-recog-letter-CoS.pdf Letter by the Internal Revenue Service to Flemming Paludan, Regional Director, Danish Tax-Office, Washington, D.C., USA, December 22nd, 1993]</ref>. It was incorporated in [[1982]]. 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'''. This church receives 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/asi.html Author Services, Inc. (ASI) representing the literary, theatrical and musical works of L. Ron Hubbard]</ref>

In a 1993 memorandum by the [[Church of Scientology International]], the role and function of CST has been described as follows:

<blockquote>"[...] CST [...] is an autonomous church of the Scientology religion outside of the international Scientology ecclesiastical hierarchy. CST conducts an extensive program of activities to preserve and archive the Scientology Scriptures for use by future generations. CST also owns the option to acquire RTC's rights to the Scientology advance[d] technology and religious marks under three narrowly defined sets of circumstances, each of which contemplates a serious threat to continued existence of the religion. CST is the principal beneficiary of Mr. Hubbard's estate, provided that it obtains recognition of its tax-exempt status. [...]"<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Summary_Description_CST-AT-ASI.pdf Summary Description of Other Scientology Organizations - CST (Church of Spiritual Technology), Author's Family Trust, ASI (Author Services Inc.) - CSI Prod. 11-4-93, Bate Stamp: 151412 - 151413, Ex. 1-8, Washington, DC 1993]</ref></blockquote>

== Corporate Information ==

'''Basic Information'''

The Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) was [[incorporated]] by Sherman Lenske in Woodland Hills, [[California]] on May 27th, 1982<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Incorporation-CST.pdf Articles of Incorporation of Church of Spiritual Technology, Endorsed Filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the Sate of California, Woodland Hills, California, May 27th, 28th & June 1st, 1982]</ref>. The [[Bylaws]] of CST were signed on June 7th, 1982 by its General and Special [[Directors]], who were at that time Lyman Spurlock, Rebecca Pook, Maria Starkey, Stephen A. Lenske, Sherman D. Lenske and Lawrence A. Heller<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bylaws-CST.pdf Bylaws of Church of Spiritual Technology, California, June 7th, 1982]</ref>. In 1986, CST's [[Articles of Incorporation]] were [[amended]] to clarify the "[[disposition]] of the [[corporation|corporation's]] [[assets]] upon [[dissolution]]"<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Amended_Articles_of_Incorporation_CST.pdf Certificate of Amendment of Articles of Incorporation - Church of Spiritual Technology, Endorsed filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of California, Bate Stamp: 02008 - 02009, California, April 9th, May 13th & 14th, 1986]</ref>.

On August 18th, 1993, CST filed an application for [[tax exemption]] under section [[501(c)#501(c)(3)|501(c)(3)]] of the [[Internal Revenue Code]]<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Application-501-CST.pdf Form 1023 - Application for Recognition of Exemption Under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code - Church of Spiritual Technology, Washington, DC, August 18th, 1993]</ref>. The [[Internal Revenue Service]] granted CST's request for exemption through an official recognition letter on October 1st, 1993<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IRS-Recognition-Letter-CST.pdf Recognition Letter for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status - Church of Spiritual Technology, Washington, DC, October 1st, 1993]</ref>.

'''Licensing of Trademarks & Service Marks'''

The existence and founding of CST is intimately connected to the creation of the [[Religious Technology Center]], which was incorporated on January 1st, 1982. Shortly after its inception, RTC received on May 16th 1982 "the ownership, supervision and control" of the [[trademarks]] and [[service marks]], identifying "Scientology applied religious philosophy" and "Dianetics spiritual healing technology" by the originator and founder of Scientology, [[L. Ron Hubbard]] through a so-called "[[Assignment]] [[Agreement]]"<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Assignment-RTC.pdf "Assignment Agreement (LRH/RTC) (Marks)", Notarized Agreement between L. Ron Hubbard and the Religious Technology Center, County of Los Angeles, California, May 16th, 1982]</ref>.

This agreement was subject to an additional "[[Option]] Agreement" between Hubbard, RTC and CST. In two so-called "Option Agreements" from May 1982, Hubbard granted CST the right to purchase at any time from RTC the "Marks", the "Advanced Technology" and all the rights to them for the sum of $ 100<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Option-Agreement-LRH-CST.pdf "Option Agreement (Marks)", Notarized Agreement between L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Spiritual Technology, County of Los Angeles, California, May 10th, 1982/July 9th, 1982]</ref><ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Option-Agreement-LRH-CST-AT.pdf Option Agreement (Advanced Technology-U.S.) - Notarized Agreement between L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Spiritual Technology, California, May 10th & July 9th, 1982]</ref>.

Parallel and similar sounding agreements between Hubbard, RTC and CST were created during that period concerning the so-called "Advanced Technology," which consists of unpublished derivates of Scientology's confidential "Advanced technology"<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Assignment-Agreement-LRH-RTC-AT.pdf "Assignment Agreement (LRH/RTC) (Advanced Technology - US)", Notarized Agreement between L. Ron Hubbard and the Religious Technology Center, Los Angeles, California, May 10th & 16th, 1982]</ref>.

Under these agreements, RTC is forced to turn over 90 % of its net income to CST. A document from 1991, reflecting the "financial money flows" of RTC during the year 1989, actually showed a turnover of 59 % of RTC's net income towards CST<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Analysis-Financial-Flows-RTC.pdf "Religious Technology Center - Analysis of Financial Flows 1989", Exhibit I-9 for Application for Tax-Exempt Status 501(c)(3), Bate Stamp: CSI Prod 11-4-93 151414]</ref>.

Other examples of [[trademarks]] and [[service marks]], which are owned by CST are [[The Way to Happiness]] and The Way to Happiness symbol. As such, CST operates as the L. Ron Hubbard Library.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.twth.org/reprinting/files/reprint-instructions.pdf | title = How to obtain permission to reprint The Way to Happiness booklets | accessdate = 2006-12-02 | publisher = The Way to Happiness Foundation International}}</ref>

==Archives==
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.<ref>{{cite web | first = Bob | last = Henderson | title = Vault to get Hubbard's writings | url = http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50647275.html?dids=50647275:50647275&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT | work = | publisher = [[St. Petersburg Times]] | date = [[1991-07-25]] | accessdate = 2007-12-12 }}</ref> 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>

==Structure==
The very first time the Church of Spiritual Technology was mentioned publicly to scientologists by COB RTC David Miscavige in 2000 on the New Year's event. <ref>[http://freezone.najbjerg.info/dokumenter/the-new-year-2000-event?set_language=en New Year 2000 event speech excerpt, by D.Miscavige]</ref> Its founders included [[Meade Emory]],<ref>[http://www.law.washington.edu/Faculty/Emory/ Faculty | UW School of Law]</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), as well as the Scientologist general directors and staff, 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 CST vs. IRS - United States Claims Court, June 29 1992]</ref>

==See also==

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*[[Scientology]]
*[[Dianetics]]
*[[Church of Scientology]]
*[[Religious Technology Center]]
*[[Church of Scientology International]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

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

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Scientology Int. Base

2007-10-02T01:25:51Z

Shutterbug: /* About the Base */ rem confidentiality controversy where there is none...

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The '''Gold Base''' is a term coined by former Scientologists for what they say are the international headquarters of the [[Church of Scientology]]<ref name="tabayoyan">[http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_at.html Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyan] United States District Court, Central District of California case no. CV 91 6426 HLH (Tx)</ref><ref name="prince">[http://lisatrust.bogie.nl/Media/video/legal/prince_erlich.pdf Affidavit of Jesse Prince] United States District Court, Central District of California, San Jose Division case no. C-95-20091 RMW (EAI)</ref>, located on a 500 acre parcel of land near [[Hemet, California|Hemet]], California. The area is the home of [[Golden Era Productions]], the media and publications division of the church, which is the largest of the many organizational units located there. [[David Miscavige]] and other top leaders of the church are said to live and work on the Base. <ref name="quill">"[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 name="latimes">[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>

==About the Base==
The base is home to all of the highest level management units of the [[Church of Scientology]]<ref name="tabayoyan"/><ref name="prince"/>, all of which are staffed by [[Sea Organization]] members. Among the organizations there are the [[Religious Technology Center]], the [[Commodore's Messenger Organization]] International and [[Golden Era Productions]]. [[Golden Era Productions]] manufactures the [[E-Meter]] and produces and distributes all church audio-visual materials, both internal and promotional.<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>

The Gold Base is also referred to as the "Int Base".<ref name="stone"/> In the 1980s the location of the base and the presence of international management there were kept secret, even to Scientologists at lower organizations.<ref name="prince"/>. Golden Era Productions nowadays does Open Houses and leaves its golf course open to community groups<ref>[http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_golf21.28489c8.html Scientology golf links off limits]</ref>

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"/>

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>

==Features==
Notable buildings and features in Gold Base include:
*Upper Villas - RTC offices and housing, where David Miscavige and other high level Scientologists live and work
*BonnieView - L. Ron Hubbard's former home, kept pristine and waiting by staff
*Cine Castle, main film studio in the shape of a castle, for producing church A/V materials
*OGH buildings - Old Gilman House. Formerly "isolation" space for physically ill staff. Possibly now used for [[auditing (Scientology)|auditing]] or solo auditing.
*Del Sol - CSI offices, and auditing rooms for staff.
*Staff berthing - four buildings where staff live.
*Qual Gold - Headquarters for Qual Sec, in charge of "quality control" as per the Hubbard organization policies. In practice this mostly means facilities staff auditing and training.
*MCI - This large building is the staff dining hall, known as "Massacre Canyon Inn" from the building's pre-Scientology name when the property was a resort.

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==

[[Keith Henson]] picketed 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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Scientology Int. Base

2007-10-02T01:18:09Z

Shutterbug: streamlined and corrected, needs more work

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The '''Gold Base''' is a term coined by former Scientologists for what they say are the international headquarters of the [[Church of Scientology]]<ref name="tabayoyan">[http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/aff_at.html Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyan] United States District Court, Central District of California case no. CV 91 6426 HLH (Tx)</ref><ref name="prince">[http://lisatrust.bogie.nl/Media/video/legal/prince_erlich.pdf Affidavit of Jesse Prince] United States District Court, Central District of California, San Jose Division case no. C-95-20091 RMW (EAI)</ref>, located on a 500 acre parcel of land near [[Hemet, California|Hemet]], California. The area is the home of [[Golden Era Productions]], the media and publications division of the church, which is the largest of the many organizational units located there. [[David Miscavige]] and other top leaders of the church are said to live and work on the Base. <ref name="quill">"[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 name="latimes">[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>

==About the Base==
The base is home to all of the highest level management units of the [[Church of Scientology]]<ref name="tabayoyan"/><ref name="prince"/>, all of which are staffed by [[Sea Organization]] members. Among the organizations there are the [[Religious Technology Center]], the [[Commodore's Messenger Organization]] International and [[Golden Era Productions]]. [[Golden Era Productions]] manufactures the [[E-Meter]] and produces and distributes all church audio-visual materials, both internal and promotional.<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>

The Gold Base is also referred to as the "Int Base".<ref name="stone"/> In the pre-internet era, the location of the base and the presence of international management there were kept secret, even to Scientologists at lower organizations.<ref name="prince"/>

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"/>

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>

==Features==
Notable buildings and features in Gold Base include:
*Upper Villas - RTC offices and housing, where David Miscavige and other high level Scientologists live and work
*BonnieView - L. Ron Hubbard's former home, kept pristine and waiting by staff
*Cine Castle, main film studio in the shape of a castle, for producing church A/V materials
*OGH buildings - Old Gilman House. Formerly "isolation" space for physically ill staff. Possibly now used for [[auditing (Scientology)|auditing]] or solo auditing.
*Del Sol - CSI offices, and auditing rooms for staff.
*Staff berthing - four buildings where staff live.
*Qual Gold - Headquarters for Qual Sec, in charge of "quality control" as per the Hubbard organization policies. In practice this mostly means facilities staff auditing and training.
*MCI - This large building is the staff dining hall, known as "Massacre Canyon Inn" from the building's pre-Scientology name when the property was a resort.

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==

[[Keith Henson]] picketed 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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Church of Spiritual Technology

2007-09-21T21:53:38Z

Shutterbug: /* Notes */hate site

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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>

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>

==Notes==
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== 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)

[[Category:1982 establishments]]
[[Category:Intellectual property law]]
[[Category:Scientology organizations]]

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Church of Spiritual Technology

2007-09-21T21:52:12Z

Shutterbug: /* Trademarks */ unrelated, seems to be copied in the wrong article.

{{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>

==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)

[[Category:1982 establishments]]
[[Category:Intellectual property law]]
[[Category:Scientology organizations]]

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Church of Spiritual Technology

2007-04-19T00:54:17Z

Shutterbug: double box

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)

[[Category:1982 establishments]]
[[Category:Intellectual property law]]
[[Category:Scientology organizations]]

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Quentin Hubbard

2007-04-17T18:43:03Z

Shutterbug: Undid revision 123569397. Learn reading.

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| birth_date = [[January 6]], [[1954]]
| birth_place = [[United States]]
| death_date = [[November 12]], [[1976]]
| death_place = [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], [[United States]]
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{{ScientologySeries}}
'''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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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 ==
There have been rumors spread by a former Scientologist that Quentin was murdered by Scientologists because he was gay and was planning to leave the Church to go to flight training school.
[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/quentin-coronor.htm] [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Quentin_Hubbard_22/]
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/].

==References==
<div class="references-small">
<references />
</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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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Quentin Hubbard

2007-04-13T23:52:40Z

Shutterbug: /* Controversy */ none of the cited sources says that.

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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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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 ==
Two former Scientologists have suggested that Quentin was murdered because he was gay and was planning to leave the Church to go to flight training school.
[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/quentin-coronor.htm] [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Quentin_Hubbard_22/]
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/].

==References==
<div class="references-small">
<references />
</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbard, Quentin}}
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[[Category:1976 deaths]]
[[Category:Scientology controversy]]

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Quentin Hubbard

2007-04-13T19:13:57Z

Shutterbug: Undid revision 122546459. Tilman's unsourced murder accusation rv'ed. Shaky ground.

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{{ScientologySeries}}
'''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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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" />

==References==
<div class="references-small">
<references />
</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbard, Quentin}}
[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:1976 deaths]]
[[Category:Scientology controversy]]

{{Template:Scientologyfooter}}

Church of Spiritual Technology

2007-04-13T18:12:54Z

Shutterbug: the usual

Quentin Hubbard

2007-04-13T16:25:53Z

Shutterbug: Undid revision 122496490. they are not enough for the murder (felony) accusation you make here with that. and I guess the the cited coroner did not know that Q wanted to become a pilot.

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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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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" />

==References==
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</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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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Quentin Hubbard

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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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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" />

==References==
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<references />
</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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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Church of Spiritual Technology

2007-04-09T03:51:00Z

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Church of Spiritual Technology

2007-04-06T17:11:08Z

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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>

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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Quentin Hubbard

2007-03-26T04:55:23Z

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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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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 ==
Some have suggested that Quentin was murdered by Scientologists because he was gay and was planning to leave the Church to go to flight training school.
[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/quentin-coronor.htm] [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Quentin_Hubbard_22/]
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/].

==References==
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<references />
</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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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Fair Game (Scientology)

2007-03-26T04:29:46Z

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'''Fair Game''' was a status assigned to those whom the [[Church of Scientology]] had officially declared to be "[[Suppressive Person]]s" or SPs. "Suppressive Persons" are those whose actions are deemed to "suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist." Often, this means they have been overtly critical of the church. The term "Fair Game" has also often been used to refer to a set of tactics used against perceived enemies of Scientology.

[[L. Ron Hubbard]], the founder of Scientology, formulated the so-called "Fair Game Law" in 1965 but declared it "cancelled" only three years later in the wake of criticism from the media, courts and politicians. However, Church lawyers later admitted that the "Fair Game" policy had continued in operation until as late as 1980, when it was again officially declared "cancelled". There have been frequent allegations ever since that the policy's purpose remains in force and that "Fair Game" tactics are still used to attack perceived enemies of Scientology. The Church of Scientology has denied this, although it has also asserted that "Fair Game" is a legally protected form of "religious expression".

==Predecessors of "Fair Game"==

As early as the mid-1950s, Hubbard advocated taking a punitive line towards the perceived enemies of Scientology. In 1955, Hubbard told Scientologists that "the law can be used very easily to harass ... The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage, rather than to win - if possible, of course, ruin [the target] utterly".<ref>Hubbard, "The Scientologist - A Manual on the Dissemination of Material", reprinted in ''The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology'' volume 2, pp.151-171, 1979 printing</ref>

His confidential ''Manual of Justice'' of 1959 advocated using private investigators, as critics were invariably "found to be members of the Communist Party or criminals, usually both. The smell of police or private detectives caused them to fly, to close down, to confess." <ref>Hubbard, ''[http://www.xenu.net/archive/go/man_just.htm Manual of Justice]'', p.5 (1959)</ref> In a very similar vein, he advised that "If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace." <ref>Hubbard, "Dept of Government Affairs", HCO Policy Letter of [[15 August]] [[1960]]</ref>

By the time "Fair Game" was established, therefore, Hubbard already had a policy of taking direct action – whether in the courts or otherwise – against those he regarded as enemies. In this respect, "Fair Game" was merely a further development of a long-established approach.

==The "Fair Game Law"==

The "Fair Game Law" was introduced by Hubbard in a March 1965 [[Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter]] (HCOPL), at about the same time that Scientology was experiencing serious difficulties with an ongoing public enquiry and media criticism in the [[Australia]]n state of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. The Church was also experiencing defections by veteran members critical of Hubbard's leadership. Several of the provisions of the "Fair Game Law" were directly related to collaboration with such "hostile" enquiries and the media, and others targeted splinter groups and those connected with them.

Hubbard highlighted so-called "[[suppressive person]]s" as "the chief stumbling block, huge above all others" and introduced a number of penalties for actions described as "suppressive". These included actions such as public criticism of Scientology or individual Scientologists, demanding the return of training fees, splitting from Scientology, giving critical testimony about Scientology to public inquiries, writing critical letters to newspapers, remaining connected to individuals "demonstrably guilty of Suppressive Acts" and handing Scientologists over to law enforcement authorities "without defense or protest", amongst other offenses.

The list of "suppressive acts" also included "1st degree murder, arson, disintegration of persons or belongings not guilty of suppressive acts". This prompted much criticism, not least from the courts. [[John Megaw|Lord Justice Megaw]] commented in a 1971 [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|Court of Appeal]] case, "What does that mean? That it was, in the eyes of this organisation in 1965, 'a suppressive act' to be guilty of 'first degree murder', provided that the person you murdered had not been guilty of suppressive acts. The implication is obvious." <ref>''Hubbard and another v Vosper and another''. Court of Appeal, Civil Division, 17-[[19 November]] [[1971]]</ref>

As for the penalties for acts considered hostile to Scientology, Hubbard wrote:

<blockquote>
A Suppressive Person or Group becomes ''fair game''. By FAIR GAME is meant, may not be further protected by the codes and disciplines or the rights of a Scientologist. <ref>Hubbard, HCOPL 1 Mar 65 "Suppressive Acts - Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists - The Fair Game Law"</ref>
</blockquote>

Later in December of that year Hubbard reissued the Fair Game policy with additional clarifications to define the scope of Fair Game. Crucially, he made it clear that the policy applied to non-Scientologists as well, and that it was not just a matter of internal discipline within the Church. He declared that

<blockquote>
The homes, property, places and abodes of persons who have been active in attempting to: suppress Scientology or Scientologists are all beyond any protection of Scientology Ethics, unless absolved by later Ethics or an amnesty ... this Policy Letter extends to suppressive non-Scientology wives and husbands and parents, or other family members or hostile groups or even close friends. <ref>Hubbard, [http://www.planetkc.com/sloth/sci/sp_rules.html HCOPL 23 December 1965, "Suppressive Acts - Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists - The Fair Game Law"] </ref>
</blockquote>

Hubbard made it clear elsewhere in his writings that the policy would be applied to external organizations, including governments, that were guilty of having interfered with Scientology's activities. He told Scientologists:

<blockquote>
If the [[Internal Revenue Service]] (off-policy in refusing the FCDC [''Founding Church of Scientology, Washington DC''] non-profit status though it qualifies) continues to act up or if the [[Food and Drug Administration|FDA]] does sue we can of course Comm Ev [''Committee of Evidence''] them and if found guilty, label and publish them as a Suppressive Group and fair game ... [N]one is fair game until he or she declares against us. <ref>Hubbard, HCOPL [[2 April]] [[1965]], "Administration outside Scientology"</ref>
</blockquote>

The policy was further extended in October 1967, when Hubbard defined the "penalties" for an individual deemed to be in a "Condition of Enemy":

<blockquote>
ENEMY — SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed. <ref>HCOPL 18 October 67 Issue IV, ''Penalties for Lower Conditions''</ref>
</blockquote>

==Application of the Fair Game Law==

Hubbard claimed in a 1976 affidavit that Fair Game was never intended to authorise harassment, stating that:
<blockquote>
There was never any attempt or intent on my part by the writing of these policies (or any others for that fact), to authorise illegal or harassment type acts against anyone.
<p>
As soon as it became apparent to me that the concept of 'Fair Game' as described above was being misinterpreted by the uninformed, to mean the granting of a licence to Scientologists for acts in violation of the law and/or other standards of decency, these policies were cancelled. <ref>Hubbard, affidavit of [[22 March]] [[1976]], quoted in David V Barrett, ''The New Believers: A Survey of Sects, Cults and Alternative Religions'', p. 464 (Octopus Publishing Group, 2003)</ref>
</blockquote>
However, it is clear from Hubbard's own writings that "Fair Game" was not merely intended as a passive practice. In 1965, he gave wide circulation to an executive instruction explicitly ordering the harassment of defectors under the auspices of "Fair Game". A prominent Scientologist named Harry Thompson had broken away from the Church and started his own splinter movement, [[Amprinistics]], based on a modified version of Scientology. Hubbard reacted strongly to this and issued an Executive Letter urging Scientologists not to have anything to do with it. He also spelled out what should be done about (or to) Amprinistics' founders and members, specifically ordering Scientologists to harass the defectors:
<blockquote>
'''Treatment'''. They are Fair Game, can be sued or harassed. Horner can be barred out of any Commonwealth Country or England as he was the subject of a deportation order from England and his file has come alive again in the Home Secretary's Office [sic]. Harry Thompson's wives and victims are always looking for him to have him arrested. Watson is a set-up for arrest as a homosexual. Any meeting held by them should be torn up. ... If these persons move into your area act through any agency you can to have them deported or arrested on whatever grounds. England is currently too hot for them so they may tour about. Horner's UK deportation order, Thompson's police record and Watson's homosexuality make them very vulnerable to deportation or arrest...
<p>
Therefore this is our policy: (1) Do not mention the name Amprinistics in public or in our magazines or issues. (2) Harass these persons in any possible way. (3) Label publicly "ideas which preach no-auditing as simply Suppressive Actions to deny people case gains." (4) Tear up any meeting held and get the names of those attending and issue SP orders on them and you'll have got rid of a lot of rats. <ref>Hubbard, HCO Executive Letter of [[27 September]] [[1965]], "Amprinistics"</ref>
</blockquote>
According to the sociologist [[Roy Wallis]], "those who attended Amprinistics meetings claim that they found themselves spied upon by Scientology personnel, and shortly after were declared Suppressive Persons, Enemies and Fair Game." <ref>Wallis, ''The Road to Total Freedom'', p. 151</ref>

Also in 1965, Hubbard publicly declared the entire government and parliament of the [[Australia]]n state of [[Victoria, Australia|Victoria]], plus their "families and connections", to be "fair game". <ref>Hubbard, "The Auditor", no. 31, p. 1. (1965)</ref> The declaration was followed by a series of lawsuits against Australian politicians and judicial figures, which were eventually dismissed by the courts.

During the late 1960s, complaints about alleged "Fair Game" harassment played a major part in prompting a number of public enquiries in the nations of the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]]. In the report of the UK enquiry into Scientology, Sir [[John Galway Foster|John Foster]] highlighted two cases that had come to his notice:
<blockquote>
[A] defector from Scientology who had risen through the ranks to a high position in the organization was declared "Fair Game" over Mr. Hubbard's signature when he decided to dissociate himself. Thereafter, members of the Scientology leadership were found writing to third parties to say that the defector had been "excommunicated for theft and perversion". Another Scientologist, who had sued for the return of his auditing fees, found himself the subject of a private prosecution for theft by the Scientology leadership. Fortunately for him, he was acquitted. <ref>''Enquiry into the Practice and Effects of Scientology'', December 1971, p. 130</ref>
</blockquote>
Hubbard's definition of the policy of "Fair Game" was promulgated quite separately from his instructions on the implementation of the policy. He issued a series of limited-circulation policy letters setting out the tactics to be used against those regarded as "Fair Game". A common theme uniting them was that perceived enemies had, by their actions, deprived themselves of any right to be treated with consideration. He expressed this succinctly in a 1966 executive directive:
<blockquote>
(a) People who attack Scientology are criminals.<br/>
(b) That if one attacks Scientology he gets investigated for crimes.<br/>
(c) If one does not attack Scientology, despite not being with it, one is safe. <ref>Hubbard, LRH Executive Directive of [[2 December]] [[1966]], ''Confidential: Project Squirrel''</ref>
</blockquote>
A standard set of methods was devised to deal with "attacks on Scientology". These included the following steps:
<blockquote>
(1) Spot who is attacking us.<br/>
(2) Start investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using own professionals not outside agencies.<br/>
(3) Double curve our reply by saying we welcome an investigation of them.<br/>
(4) Start feeding lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence on the attackers to the press. Don't ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it rough, rough on attackers all the way. <ref>Hubbard, HCO Policy Letter of [[15 February]] [[1966]], ''Attacks on Scientology (Additional Pol Ltr)''</ref>
</blockquote>
==Controversy and cancellation==

The "Fair Game" policy soon gained notoriety in the [[United Kingdom|British]] press, and even received mention in Parliament. In response to the criticism, Hubbard issued a new policy letter which ostensibly cancelled "Fair Game":
<blockquote>
The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP. <ref>Hubbard, HCOPL [[21 October]] [[1968]], ''Cancellation of Fair Game''</ref>
</blockquote>
The following month, the Church of Scientology issued a "code of reform" which purported to cancel several of the Church's most-criticized policies. This highlighted the "Cancellation of declaring people Fair Game". <ref>Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Hubbard Scientology Organisation in New Zealand, June 1969, p. 25</ref>

However, commentators soon pointed out that the wording of the "cancellation" merely abolished the ''term'' "Fair Game" but not the ''practice'', as the "treatment or handling of an SP" remained unchanged. Lord Justice Stephenson of the English [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|Court of Appeal]] commented in 1979 that "the policy letter of [[1 October]] [[1968]] cancel[led] publication of the policy in the interests of public relations. but not the policy itself." <ref>''Church of Scientology of California v Department of Health and Social Security and others''. All England Law Reports (1979), vol. 3</ref> Similarly, Justice Latey of the English [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] commented in a 1984 case that
<blockquote>
It was suggested, but not pursued, that this did cancel the Fair Game treatment. It did nothing of the kind as the last sentence shows. It was cosmetic only for public consumption. <ref>''Re B & G (Minors) (Custody)''. High Court (Family Division), [[23 July]] [[1984]]</ref>
</blockquote>
Hubbard's cancellation of the labeling of "Fair Game" also did not extend to cancelling its implementation. His directives on the use of so-called "noisy investigation" and "dead agenting" tactics were never rescinded and remain part of the corpus of official Church policies.

Hubbard did use the term "fair game" in a Flag Executive Briefing Course lecture given on [[3 February]] [[1971]] entitled, "As You Return to Your Org" page 6, paragraph 3: "Now, there's only one or two areas that I know of offhand who have such a superfluity of personnel, with such a missingness of production, as to make to make the whole org fair game." However, it is unclear whether "fair game" was intended in the Scientology policy sense, or in the common English sense.

==Ongoing use of "Fair Game"==

Despite the ostensible cancellation of "Fair Game", it continued to cause serious damage to the Church's image and reputation for years afterwards. A series of court cases in England in the 1970s saw "Fair Game" being strongly criticised by senior judges, with (for instance) [[Robert Goff|Lord Justice Goff]] citing it to highlight what he described as the Church's "deplorable means adopted to suppress inquiry or criticism." <ref>Church of Scientology of California v. Kaufman (1973) RPC 635</ref>. Similarly, in other cases, Lord Justice Megaw discussed "Fair Game" at length and concluded that the plaintiffs (the Church) "are or have been protecting their secrets by deplorable means" and "do not come with [[unclean hands|clean hands]] to this court in asking the court to protect those secrets" <ref>[http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/vosper.html Hubbard and another v Vosper and another] (1971)</ref>, and Lord Justice Stephenson noted "the policy letter of [[1 October]] [[1968]] cancelling publication of the policy in the interests of public relations, but not the policy itself." <ref>[http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/dhss.html Church of Scientology of California v Department of Health and Social Security and others] (All England Law Reports (1979), vol. 3)</ref>

It later emerged that "Fair Game" had actually continued in use until at least 1980, despite its cancellation, and there have been frequent allegations that it has remained in force since then. During the 1970s the [[Guardian's Office]] (GO) of the Church of Scientology, headed by Hubbard's wife [[Mary Sue Hubbard|Mary Sue]], conducted a wide-ranging and systematic series of espionage and intimidation operations against perceived enemies of Scientology, such as [[Operation Freakout]] and the [http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/CoS/docs/handling.html Mayor Cazares Handling Project].

The doctrine of "Fair Game" was a central element of the GO's operational policies. The original "cancelled" Fair Game policy is listed as a reference for GO staff in its confidential ''Intelligence Course'', <ref>Guardian Order, ''Confidential - Intelligence Course'', [[9 September]] [[1974]], p.18</ref> which was later entered into evidence in a US Federal court case in 1979. <ref>''United States vs. Mary Sue Hubbard et al.'', 493 F. Supp. 209, (D.D.C. 1979)</ref> During the case Church lawyers admitted that the "Fair Game" policy had continued to be put into effect long after its supposed cancellation in 1968. Indeed, according to an ''[[American Lawyer]]'' investigation, "Fair Game" tactics had been used to force the withdrawal of the presiding judge in an attempt to "throw" the case. <ref>"[http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/media/am-lawyer-1980.html Scientology's War Against Judges]", ''American Lawyer'', December 1980</ref> As the US Government's attorneys put it,
<blockquote>
Defendants, through one of their attorneys, have stated that the fair game policy continued in effect well after the indictment in this case and the conviction of the first nine co-defendants. Defendants claim that the policy was abrogated by the Church's Board of Directors in late July or early August, 1980, only after the defendants' personal attack on [[Charles Richey|Judge Richey]].<ref>Sentencing Memorandum of the United States of America, Mary Sue Hubbard et al, Criminal Case No. 78-401, [[3 December]] [[1979]]</ref>
</blockquote>
The abrogation mentioned above was issued in a policy letter of [[22 July]] [[1980]], "Ethics, Cancellation of Fair Game, more about", issued by the Boards of Directors of the Churches of Scientology. However, this cancellation was itself cancelled in a subsequent HCO Policy Letter of [[8 September]] [[1983]], "Cancellation of Issues on Suppressive Acts and PTSes", which cancelled a number of HCOPLs on the ground that they "were not written by the Founder [Hubbard]". In two subsequent court cases the Church defended "Fair Game" as a "core practice of Scientology", and claimed that it was therefore protected as "religious expression". <ref>Frank K. Flinn testimony in Church of Scientology of California, 1984, vol.23, pp.4032-4160</ref> <ref>Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology of California, Court of Appeal of the State of California, civ.no.B023193, [[18 July]] [[1989]]</ref>

Since then, a number of ex-Scientologists who formerly held senior management positions in the Church have alleged that while working for the Church they saw "Fair Game" tactics continuing to be used. In 1994, [[Vicky Aznaran]], who had been the Chairman of the Board of the [[Religious Technology Center]] (the Church's central management body), claimed in an affidavit that
<blockquote>
Because of my position and the reports which regularly crossed my desk, I know that during my entire presidency of RTC "fair game" actions against enemies were daily routine. Apart from the legal tactics described below, the "fair game" activities included break-ins, libel, upsetting the companies of the enemy, espionage, harassment, misuse of confidential communications in the folders of community members and so forth. <ref>Aznaran affidavit, quoted in Tom Voltz, ''[http://www.lermanet.com/cisar/books/swoe13.htm Scientology with(out) an End]'', chapter 13</ref>
</blockquote>
===Further policy modifications===

The current policy on the handling of "suppressive persons" was promulgated in 1991. <ref>HCO Policy Letter of [[23 December]] [[1965]]RB, revised [[8 January]] [[1991]], ''Suppressive Acts Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists''</ref> It does not include the words "Fair Game", but sets out the type of acts considered to be "suppressive" and spells out how to deal with such situations. It concludes with this statement:
<blockquote>
Nothing in this policy letter shall ever or under any circumstances justify any violation of the laws of the land or intentional legal wrongs. Any such offense shall subject the offender to penalties prescribed by law as well as to ethics and justice actions.
</blockquote>
Critics have noted that this does not exclude the possibility of what might be termed "legal but unethical" actions such as the so-called "dead agenting" tactics of which the Church has often been accused. While the term "fair game" is not included in any publicly disclosed and current Church policy, critics of the Church have often charged that it continues to attack its perceived enemies relentlessly through any means possible. [http://www.lermanet.com/persecution/]

==Court cases involving "Fair Game"==
===The case of L. Gene Allard, 1976===

In 1976, the Church was found legally liable for the malicious prosecution of a dissatisfied Scientologist named L. Gene Allard who left Scientology in 1969. The suit specifically charged the Church with "Fair Gaming" Allard according to Church policy.

===The case of Lawrence Wollersheim, 1980===

In a long and contentious trial, [[Lawrence Wollersheim]], a former Scientologist, alleged that he had been harassed and his business nearly destroyed as a result of "fair game" measures. During appeals, the Church again claimed "Fair Game" was a "core practice" of Scientology and was thus a constitutionally protected activity. That claim was denied by the appellate court on [[July 18]], [[1989]]. After over 20 years of legal wrangling, the Church of Scientology paid Wollersheim the amount of the judgement, plus interest: $8,674,643. <ref>{{cite news|first=Richard |last=Leiby |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A63143-2002May9 |title=Ex-Scientologist Collects $8.7 Million In 22-Year-Old Case |work=The Washington Post |page=A03 |date=[[2002-05-10]] |accessdate=2006-06-13 }}</ref>

===The case of Jakob Anderson, 1981===

In the March 11-16, 1981, Danish court case of ''Jakob Anderson vs The Church Of Scientology of Denmark'', ex-Guardian's Office operative Vibeke Dammon testified that the Church did in fact practice Fair Game and had done so in Anderson's case, in an attempt to get Anderson committed to a psychiatric hospital.

===The case of Gerald Armstrong, 1984===

In 1980, Scientologist and [[Sea Org]] officer [[Gerald Armstrong]] was assigned to organize some of Hubbard's personal papers as the basis for a biography of Hubbard. Omar Garrison, a non-Scientologist known to be sympathetic to Scientology, was hired to write the biography. Both Armstrong and Garrison quickly realized that the papers reflected unfavorably on Hubbard, and revealed that many of Hubbard's claimed accomplishments were exaggerations or outright fabrications. Garrison abandoned the project, and a disillusioned Armstrong and his wife left the Church, retaining copies of the embarrassing materials as insurance against the expected harassment to come.

Armstrong was sued by the Church in 1982 for the theft of private documents. The "Fair Game" policy became an issue in court. Armstrong won the case, in part because the Judge ruled that Armstrong, as a Scientologist of long standing, knew that fair game was practiced, and had good reason to believe that possession of these papers would be necessary to defend himself against illegal persecution by the Church. In a scathing decision, Judge Paul Breckenridge wrote:
<blockquote>
In addition to violating and abusing its own members civil-rights, the organization over the years with its "Fair Game" doctrine has harassed and abused those persons not in the Church whom it perceives as enemies. The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and the bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder LRH. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background, and achievements...
<p>
In determining whether the defendant unreasonably invaded Mrs. Hubbard's privacy, the court is satisfied the invasion was slight, and the reasons and justification for the defendant's conduct manifest. Defendant was told by Scientology to get an attorney. He was declared an enemy by the Church. He believed, reasonably, that he was subject to "fair game." The only way he could defend himself, his integrity, and his wife was to take that which was available to him and place it in a safe harbor, to wit, his lawyer's custody."'' (Judge Paul Breckenridge, Los Angeles Superior Court, [[June 20]], [[1984]])
</blockquote>

During the trial, the Church hired Frank K. Flynn, an adjunct professor of comparative religions, to write a report arguing that Fair Game was a "core practice" of Scientology and thus should be considered a constitutionally protected activity.

==References==
<references />

==See also==
* [[Game (Scientology)]]
* [[Scientology controversy#.22Dead agenting.22|Dead Agenting]]
* [[Foster Report]]

==External links==
=== Church of Scientology owned sites ===
*[http://faq.scientology.org/page38b.htm Q. What does the term “fair game” refer to?] -- from the Church of Scientology's FAQ pages.

=== Various studies ===
*[http://www.algonet.se/~tourtel/interests/hubbard_policy-letter_history.html The history of fair game in Scientology as seen from the policy letters] (Michel Snoeck)
*[http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/84f56775ed7f169d?fwc=1 The Scientology Fair Game Timeline] (William C. Barwell)
*[http://www.bernie.cncfamily.com/freddie/materials/fairgame.html Fair Game Cancellation] (Freddie)

=== Critical sites ===
*[http://www.fairgamed.org/ www.fairgamed.org]
*[http://www.suppressiveperson.org/fair_game/index.html suppressiveperson.org on "Fair Game" policy]
*[http://www.xenu.net/fairgame-e.html Operation Clambake present: The "Fair Game" policy]

=== Other ===
*''Deceived: One woman's stand against the Church of Scientology'', Bonnie Woods, London: Published by Hodder & Houghton. 2001. ISBN 0340785675
* Eric J. Ascalon: [http://www.lermanet.com/cos/aujurist.html "Dangerous Science: The Church of Scientology's Holy War against Critics"], ''American Jurist'', November 1995, Vol. 9 No. 2
* [[Robert Vaughn Young]] ''"[http://www.xenu.net/archive/go/legal/rvy.htm Affidafit regarding Fair Game]"'', declaration in the case Church of Scientology International v. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz, 1994.
*[[Stephen A. Kent]], [[University of Alberta]], [http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~skent/Linkedfiles/erlich_fairgamesta.htm Statement on Fair Game for the Dennis Erlich case], February 1999
*Clare Dyer, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,292357,00.html ''Scientologists pay for libel''], ''[[The Guardian]]'', [[9 June]], [[1999]]
*[http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/mbb.htm Attempt to set up and coerce a critic]

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Scientology Int. Base

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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 claim Gold Base, "houses the church's highly secretive security apparatus"[http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/unfair-game/4713/]. The walls around this base have an inwardly directed "ultra-barrier" made up of sheetmetal knife-like projections{{Fact|date=March 2007}}. There has been much speculation about this{{Fact|date=March 2007}}, 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.<ref name="stone"/> 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.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} 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==
<references/>

== 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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Church of Spiritual Technology

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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>

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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Quentin Hubbard

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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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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 ==
Some have suggested that Quentin was murdered by Scientologists because he was gay and was planning to leave the Church to go to flight training school.
[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/quentin-coronor.htm] [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Quentin_Hubbard_22/]
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/].

==References==
<div class="references-small">
<references />
</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbard, Quentin}}
[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:1976 deaths]]
[[Category:Scientology controversy]]

Quentin Hubbard

2007-03-22T21:17:16Z

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{{ScientologySeries}}
'''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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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 ==
Some have suggested that Quentin was murdered by Scientologists because he was gay and was planning to leave the Church to go to flight training school.
[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/quentin-coronor.htm] [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Quentin_Hubbard_22/]
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/].

==References==
<div class="references-small">
<references />
</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbard, Quentin}}
[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:1976 deaths]]
[[Category:Scientology controversy]]

Quentin Hubbard

2007-03-13T19:48:33Z

Shutterbug:

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{{ScientologySeries}}
'''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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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 ==
Some have suggested that Quentin was murdered by Scientologists because he was gay and was planning to leave the Church to go to flight training school.
[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/quentin-coronor.htm] [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Quentin_Hubbard_22/]
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/].

==References==
<div class="references-small">
<references />
</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbard, Quentin}}
[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:1976 deaths]]
[[Category:Scientology controversy]]

Quentin Hubbard

2007-03-09T19:04:22Z

Shutterbug:

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{{ScientologySeries}}
'''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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. Quentin was discovered by police October 28, 1976, unconscious from a possible [[suicide]] attempt or illness 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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 not true. <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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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 ==
Some have suggested that Quentin was murdered by Scientologists because he was gay and was planning to leave the Church to go to flight training school.
[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/quentin-coronor.htm] [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Quentin_Hubbard_22/]
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/].

==References==
<div class="references-small">
<references />
</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbard, Quentin}}
[[Category:1954 births|Hubbard, Quentin]]
[[Category:1976 deaths|Hubbard, Quentin]]
[[Category:Scientology controversy|Hubbard, Quentin]]

Quentin Hubbard

2007-03-09T19:02:17Z

Shutterbug:

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{{ScientologySeries}}
'''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>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/bs4-6.htm A Piece of Blue Sky], pp. 213-214</ref> but Quentin's personality was ill-suited for being the leader of an international [[religious cult]]. Personally he wanted little to do with [[Scientology]]. Quentin was discovered by police October 28, 1976, unconscious from a possible [[suicide]] attempt or illness<ref>Coroner's report of , 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 [[Aviator|pilot]], but his father insisted he dedicate himself to the Church and rise through its hierarchy.

However, Quentin was reluctant to take control over such an organization and had little interest in Scientology. Sources close to him have asserted that his [[homosexuality]]<ref name="Miller" /><ref>[http://members.chello.nl/mgormez/books/a_piece_of_blue_sky/bs4-6.htm A piece of Blue Sky], by Jon Atack, Chapter 6</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 not true. <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>

== Death ==
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in [[1974]],<ref name="Miller" /> but he never received any mental health services, as Scientologists feel that mental health professionals use drugs in order to enslave the human race. In [[1976]], he disappeared from his home in [[Clearwater, Florida]] and he was later found in a car in [[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 ==
Some have suggested that Quentin was murdered by Scientologists because he was gay and was planning to leave the Church to go to flight training school.
[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/quentin-coronor.htm] [http://www.whyaretheydead.net/Quentin_Hubbard_22/]
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/].

==References==
<div class="references-small">
<references />
</div>

==External links==
* [http://www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm Coroner's Report and Death Certificate]
* [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]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hubbard, Quentin}}
[[Category:1954 births|Hubbard, Quentin]]
[[Category:1976 deaths|Hubbard, Quentin]]
[[Category:Scientology controversy|Hubbard, Quentin]]