Brain-washing a synthesis of the Russian textbook on psychopolitics, including an address by Beria, formerly head of the Russian secret police. Revised edition with foreword added
Burbank: American Public Relations Forum, Inc., no date, 1959 or a little later. 68p., staplebound professionally-printed booklet, yellow-buff 9 x 4 inch upright wraps titled in red. Paperstock browned, covers lightly vertically creased, library and John Birch Society stamps on front cover, very good condition.
This "revised" edition may or mayn't be, but there are two new embellishing texts that bump the original "editorial note by Charles Stickley" [Hubbard] to pp.19-20 (the title page got lost along the way, somehow). New text no.1 is the announced foreword pp.1-15 (uncredited, surely Ron), and, no.2, an "Extension of remarks of Hon. Usher L. Burdick of North Dakota in Congress," June of 1957, pp.15-16. Representative Burdick is under the impression that Hitler performed millions of, and Stalin ten million, lobotomies. // Other internal citations date this reissue, which is in this cataloguer's experience scarcer than the 1955 first, let alone the plentiful circa-1960 Kenneth Goff-intro'd public domain issue --Goff seems genuinely not to have been in the Hubbard loop. //// Be that as it may : prefatory address purports to be by Laventri Beria, Stalin's internal security man; text is an unacknowledged forgery by Hubbard. Once you have the attribution in mind it becomes plain from style, preoccupations and general content, that yep, it's Ron. The story of its composition is to be found on pp.107-117 of Bent Corydon's book "L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman?" revised version. Corydon co-authored the first version with Ron Jr., who deposed that "Dad wrote every word of it. Barbara Bryan and my wife typed the manuscript off his dictation." And there was another witness, John Sanborne, quoted in the same pages: "I suggested it. Just kidding around on his front porch. Slygo Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland. Talking about how are we going to get these psychiatrists. I said, 'What we need to do is take over their subject. What we need to put out is a manual of psych-military something or other.. as coming from the communists, and then put a lot of psychiatry in it.' And we're sitting there, with our chairs tipped back on the front porch, tipped against the house, with our feet up on the railing, and all of a sudden he came down on his chair and he grabs me. And I thought, 'I've had it!' And he said, 'That's it!' Then he disappeared into this little front room which was sort of a bedroom and study, and you could hear him in there dictating the book." Corydon analysis of the text is cogent; he also says Hubbard implemented the scenario himself in the 60's, when his control over numerous young folk became overwhelmingly powerful. For a general picture how Hubbard distributed his booklet, see p.222 of Russell Miller's "Bare-Faced Messiah, the True Story of L. Ron Hubbard." Postscript: there seems to have been a precursor, or first version, that Hubbard published in 1946 as "Hypnosis for Sabotage," using the pen name "Damon Clowne"
Cat.No: 83372
Price: $75.00