[FPSPACE] L. Ron Hubbard, the KGB, and Venona, Part 2

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi all - 
 
In my first note on this topic I repeated Ron Jr's
allegations about his father L Ron Hubard's service to
the KGB. 
 
Fortunately, independent means exist to verify Ron
Jr.'s claims. 
 
After the Second World War, the Soviet cipher system
used by the KGB and GRU was cracked and many of their
messages were read. Unfortunately, large gaps 
still remain in the readings of those messages, and
half of their agents remain unidentified,
but still - 
 
"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.
 
>From Bare Faced Messiah we can identify this time
period as between December, 1943 and June, 1944:
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfm06.htm
 
Now for the charge:
 
"He {Ron Snr.] put [it] 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"
 
May, 1944 - June, 1944
 
"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."
 
Presumably, this operation would have been run out of 
the "residence" in San Francisco, code named Babylon
[Vavilon]. We do have one visit to Portland at exactly
this time:
 
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/06_June_1944_R4_m2_p1.gif
 
to/with Boev on 30 May, 1944.
>From a Venona name index:
http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page66.html we have:
 
Boev (KGB Line, San Francisco) [source Venona]
Boevoj  =  Petrov on Tsiolkovskij (ship)  (KGB Line,
San Francisco) [source Venona]
 
Its humourous to note the Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was
the founder of Russian rocketry. Science fiction. 
 
Apparently this was part of this visit:
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/29_May_1944_R4_m1_p1.gif
 
There is an officer Nazarov in Vancouver, Canada at
this time, who has come from Los Angeles
http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/30_May_1944_R3_m2_p2.gif
 
These Venona intercepts may be evidence of the truth of 
Ron Jr.'s accusations of his father Ron Hubbard's treason.
 
This matter is of some importance, as Ron Hubbard later
lodged with Jack Parsons, explosives expert and inventor
of the first practicable solid rocket fuel, and Bob 
Cornog, who was at work on the explosive triggers for the 
first atomic bombs. Of course, Sudaplatov claimed that 
Beria had shut down the atomic espionage ring by this 
time, hoping to use Oppenheimer as an agent of influence.
Sudaplatov also claimed to have worked Oppenheimer through
a friend of his, and not as a direct agent.

None of the Los Angeles sub-residency messages 
have ever been read. But the security clearances of 
everyone involved with Parsons were stripped, including 
Parsons, Tsien's, Malina's and Cornog's. The FBI later 
investigated Hubbard in the early 1950's when he 
contacted scientists working in secure environments 
trying to raise money. 

Anyone have any insights?

E.P. Grondine    
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