[FPSPACE] L. Ron Hubbard and the KGB and Venona

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi all - 

According to the KGB's own files, they tried to
recruit L. Ron Hubbard:
 
http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/kgb/deep/kgb_deep_ref_detail.htm
 
According to Ron Jnr's account with Penthouse: 
http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/scien240.html
Ron the Con was working with the KGB:
 
"Penthouse: Your father was selling information to the
Soviets?
 
"Hubbard: Yes. That's where my father got the money to
buy St. Hill Manor in East Grinstead, Sussex, which is
the English headquarters of Scientology today.
 
"Penthouse: What information did your father have to
sell the Soviet government?
 
"Hubbard: He didn't do any spying himself. What he
normally did was allow these strange little people to
go into the offices and into his home at odd hours of
the night. He told me that he was allowing the KGB to
go through our files, and that he was charging £40,000
for it. This was the money he used for the purchase of
St. Hill Manor.
 
"Penthouse: Do you know any specific information that
the KGB got from your father that might have been
harmful to security?
 
"Hubbard: The plans for an infrared heat-seeking
missile in the early fifties. They obtained the
information by extensive auditing of the guy who was
one of the head engineers. There were great
infiltrations clear to this day. There has always been
an inordinate interest on the part of Scientology in
military and government personnel. There's no way for
me to prove it sitting here, but I believe that the
KGB trained East German agents who came via Denmark to
London to the United States who were, supposedly,
Scientologists. They made very good Scientologists.
They were very well trained.
 
...
 
"Penthouse: What was the first example you can remember
of your father's espionage activity?
 
"Hubbard: I remember one day in 1944 when he
came home from the naval base where he was stationed
in Oregon with a big, gray metal box under his arm. He
put in our little attached garage and put a tarp over
it. That weekend a couple of funny little guys came
over to the house. I remember it was summer and they
were wearing heavy woollen overcoats --dark brown
overcoats. It stuck in my mind: what are they doing
wearing overcoats when it's hotter than hell? I was
only about ten at the time. Anyway, these big,
sweating guys take the box and put in in their car and
drive off. But before they'd come, I'd snuck a look in
the box. It had this strange-looking object in it. I
didn't know what the hell it was. 
 
"Later on, in the fifties, I was walking through a war
surplus store and I suddenly saw an object that was
just like the one I'd seen in the box. It was the
heart of the radar. During the war --when those men
took it from our garage --it was super-secret,
super-valuable, worth thousands of dollars. I remember
that people were told to commit suicide if it ever got
captured in order to blow it up.
 
"Then, in 1955, I went to work in the Scientology
office in London. I noticed a woman in the office
doing strange things with strange people in the
office, so I investigated her. I found out she was a
card-carrying member of the Communist Party. 
 
"I got very angry at her and broke into her apartment,
where I found dozens of little code pads. They looked
like little milk pads with a whole mess of letters and
numbers on them. [VENONA-epg]
 
"I had people follow her to the Russian Embassy. I
finally wrote a long report to my father about her. He
was furious. He told me not to investigate anymore,
not to write anymore, not to tell anyone what I had
found out, to destroy all my evidence. I yelled at
him, "The goddamn Russians are running around the
office and doing God knows what." He yelled back. "I
want'em there!" He told me that she was placed there
by the KGB with his knowledge and consent. 
 
"This really bothered me. My grandfather, who was a
lieutenant commander in the navy, had impressed me
with his red-white-and-blue honor and integrity. He
was an officer of the old school. 180 degrees
different from my father, in fact, I credit him a
great deal with my ability to get rid of Scientology
and get my head straightened out, because his
patriotism had gotten through to me and made me sour
on what my father was doing in dealing with the
Russians.
 
"All of this makes Ron the Cons's stay with Jack Parsons and
Bob Cornog much more interesting. While Ron the Con
claimed that he had busted up Soviet spy rings, it
sure as hell looks more like he was running them for
cash, or maybe playing both sides.
 
However it plays out, this is one hell of a story. Does anyone here have any information on post war Soviet solid rocket grains?
 
good luck anonymous,
E.P. Grondine
 


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