I knew someone who had a good deal of experience with Scientology in the 70’s also. He was holding his infant son when 2 members of the Guardian Office threatened him with expulsion if he did not spy for them. He immediately went to the director of the Mission who sent an Ethics report to LA about these 2. Little did we know at that time, the LA org was responsible for this behavior, we thought it was rogue agents, it was not, it was SOP. In my experience, this is a schizo type group in the sense that some real gains can come through some of its services,and this is what you see from the celebs who only see that side. The cult part is the scary part.
Hubbard wrote grade B science fiction.
Yep.