Recently during an episode of our podcast, Group Therapy, Marc and Claire Headley brought up the subject of L. Ron Hubbard’s 10-book series Mission Earth and its depraved content.
We took the opportunity to remind them that we had dived into that subject at the Underground Bunker several years ago, focusing in particular on some of the horrific accounts of child sex that Hubbard describes in the ninth volume of the series, Villainy Victorious.
Well, as if we hadn’t already turned your stomachs enough already, imagine our surprise when, going through some of our archival material leaked to us by former Scientologists, we discovered that we had files from the audiobook version of that book.
That’s just great, isn’t it.
And it was a Scientology production, so it was a full-blown dramatization with some very good voice actors. Also, it was heavily abridged and so you will be spared some of the print book’s sexual specificity.
Still, this is really gross stuff, and it’s ludicrous as science fiction. But let us remind you of the situation before we subject you to some audio.
Near the very end of his life, Hubbard turned again to science fiction, something he had been away from for many years. He had gone into permanent hiding in February 1980, living the last six years of his life with just a small handful of caretakers, eventually settling at a ranch near Creston, California.
While he was in hiding, in 1982 he put out Battlefield Earth, a return to the space opera genre he had been known for in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He then followed that up with a monster work — a 1.2 million-word manuscript that Sea Org worker Robert Vaughn Young found a way to edit and divide into ten separate books, the “Mission Earth” series.
Only the first volume had come out before Hubbard died on January 24, 1986. But according to Young, Scientologists used artificial means to pump up the sales of these books so that they were bestsellers. Despite that, they aren’t spoken of much these days except in ridicule.
In this section of Villainy Victorious, you will hear actors portraying the Earth girl Teenie Whopper (“she must have been fourteen or fifteen at the most”), and a PR man in his thirties, J. Walter Madison. They have recently traveled 22 light-years to the planet Voltar, and they discuss how Teenie had made money on the trip by training and pimping out the catamite Two-lah.
In the print book, these details of the trip are spelled out in vivid detail, but in the audiobook the two of them, Madison and Teenie, are reviewing it as something that has already taken place.
The audio version also spares us many of the specific details of Teenie’s large sex class for young boys, which ends the clip. The Fair Use portion we’ve chosen is seven minutes long. It should give you a pretty good sense of the print book, which is far more explicit.
Hubbard was around 70 years old when he penned the manuscript for the Mission Earth series, living in seclusion, hiding from the Feds and process servers, and also from his own family.
In his history of the book, Young says that a typist quit when references to necrophilia had become too much for her by the third or fourth volume. “She should have seen what was in his unpublished writings, especially the ones with his drawings of penises and vulvas,” Young said.
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Correct me if Im wrong, but I believe that lawyers for the criminal organisation known as the "church" of $cientology have stated in court that everything L RonHubbard wrote was part of the sacred religious scripture of the Co$.
So, necrophilia and underage sex, or not, it's all very, very, religious.
In the 70’s when Hubbard was on the Apollo his yacht, his pride and joy were the Commodores Messengers. Boys and girls specifically trained to be Ron’s eyes and ears and also cater to his every need. When I was there it was clear that there was a lot of crew sexual activity going on including the messengers.
I did not ever detect that Hubbard was involved in that. I do feel he enjoyed the attention of all the young girls in their miniskirts and boys in their blue uniforms and gold braids. Hubbard wrote policies on how non-survival sex was. He set up the perfect push-pull to mess with our heads. The atmosphere on that ship was supercharged with sexual repression.
Hubbards fiction legacy certainly came from his trope “write what you know”. He was one sick ——-.