“The keynote of such ‘developments’ is how to avoid auditing and prevent revealing overts.
“We don’t object to Dianetics or Scientology being used. We prefer it to have its right name. But we like to have it in clean hands.
“They are quite violent on the subject of ethics as you ordinarily expect a criminal to be and are savage about organizations, having stolen money and lists from ours. They are being careful not to attack me publicly in the hopes people will think them noble and inspired. They’re inspired all right – by the ‘buck.’ But we wish them no bad luck. We don’t have to. It’s punishment enough just to be themselves and live with what they are.”
– L. Ron Hubbard
From LRH Issue
27 September 1965