In 1964 LRH wrote about an article published by those whose only wish is to destroy:

“This ‘article’ is a rather clumsy effort to discredit the leader of a movement by direct personal attack. This is in actual fact assassination of character. They cannot simply shoot one – for that makes a martyr. So they assassinate one’s character.  

“By misquotes and inferences, statements out of context and avoiding all actual values, they seek to kill confidence and therefore the movement.”

– L. Ron Hubbard
HCO Information Letter
March 16, 1964