Was Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard Murdered?
Theories are floating that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was murdered as part of a hostile takeover of the Church of Scientology by current leader David Miscavige perhaps with the help of a high-level Scientologist named Norman Starkey. As is told by the author of one version of this theory, Starkey took over as executor of LRH's estate in a vicious struggle for control of the wealthy, but failing Church.
This was 1986, the Church was spending millions of dollars battling the IRS, they had yet to claw their way out of the abyss of public ill-will created by Operation Snow White, when several members of the Church, including L. Ron Hubbard's own wife, Sue, were indicted in 1979 and sent to prison for breaking into federal government offices and attempting to pervert and extort officials within the IRS and FBI.
Operation Snow White was the Church of Scientology's name for a project during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members; the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history[1] with up to 5,000 covert agents.[2] This was also the operation that exposed 'Operation Freakout', due to the fact that this was the case that brought the government into investigation on the Church.[2]Continued on the next pageUnder this program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, and theft of documents in government offices, most notably those of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Eleven highly-placed Church executives, including Mary Sue Hubbard (wife of founder L. Ron Hubbard and second-in-command of the organization), pleaded guilty or were convicted in federal court of obstructing justice, burglary of government offices, and theft of documents and government property. The case was United States vs. Mary Sue Hubbard et al., 493 F. Supp. 209.
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