Brain-Washing (book)
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Brain-Washing (subtitle: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics), sometimes referred to as "The Brainwashing Manual", is a book published by the Church of Scientology in 1955.
It purports to be a transcript of a speech on the use of psychiatry as a means of social control, given by Lavrenty Beria in the Soviet Union in 1950. However L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., son of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, stated:
"Dad wrote every word of it. Barbara Bryan and my wife typed the manuscript off his dictation." [1]
Hubbard's former editor, John Sanborn, confirmed Hubbard Jr.'s testimony.
Hubbard tried to present the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a copy, but the Bureau expressed skepticism about the document's authenticity. [2] The book has Beria using obvious Hubbardisms such as "thinkingness", and making an unlikely mention of Dianetics side by side with Christian Science and Catholicism as major world wide "healing groups".
In 1963 the Australian Board of Inquiry regarded the book as written by Hubbard, something that neither Hubbard nor the Church of Scientology's HASI {Hubbard Association of Scientologists International) refuted at the time.
[edit] The Anderson Report
The final results of the Anderson Report in 1965 declared:
"The Board is not concerned to find that the scientology techniques are brainwashing techniques as practised, so it is understood, in some communist-controlled countries. Scientology techniques are, nevertheless, a kind of brainwashing... The astonishing feature of Scientology is that its techniques and propagation resemble very closely those set out in a book entitled Brain-washing, advertised and sold by the HASI." [3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? by Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.
- ^ Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller.
- ^ Report of the Board of Enquiry into Scientology, by Kevin Victor Anderson, Q.C., Published 1965 by the State of Victoria, Australia.
