Friday, 1 c. May c. 1959:
LRH and family move into St. Hill Manor.
SOURCE: Russell Miller, book: Bare Faced Messiah, Chapter 14
Friday, 1 c. May c. 1959:
Daniel Ellsberg gives talks to Henry Kissinger's "seminar at Harvard." They are talks from Ellsberg's "Lowell Lecture" series, "The Art of Coercion." [NOTE: No date in 1959 is provided by Ellsberg, but it seems that it would have to have been between his "Lowell Lecutures" (see 15 c. March 1959), and his fellowship at Harvard ending (see 1 c. June 1959).]
SOURCE: Book, "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg
Friday, 15 c. May 1959:
"While in the church, DeWolf lived well, associating with such notables as Thomas Driberg, then head of the British Labor Party and later a Peer. Driberg, now deceased, has been identified by English journalist Chapman Pincher as a double agent for MI5 and the KGB. DeWolf said the KGB connection was true." [NOTE: Date is only guessed at very broadly, because the only clue in the UPI story this comes from is "While in the church." DeWolf, aka Nibs, aka L. Ron Hubbard Jr., was "in the church" from 1953 through 1959. This entry will be put in the vicinity of several dates when it can be confirmed, from other sources, that DeWolf was in England.]
SOURCE: UPI smear story on LRH, dated 29 May 1982, on file
Monday, 25 May 1959:
Quoted from the source concerning Admiral Harry Felt (who by this time may already have Daniel Ellsberg as a consultant):
Commander in Chief, Pacific (CINCPAC) [Admiral Harry Felt] extends the advisory and training operation in Vietnam as follows:
* Provide MAAG [Military Assistance Advisory Group] advisors down to and including Infantry Regimental level and Artillery, Armored and separate Marine Battalion level.
* Place the advisors in the field with the HQ of the units being advised in order to furnish advice on the preparation of daily plans, monitor the day-to-day conduct of operations and render on the spot advice based on the situation as it exists at the time. This will include tactical advice as well as that provided on logistical matters, including medical support problems, the evacuation of the wounded, transportation problems, road and rail construction, bridging supply procedures, maintenance of equipment etc.
* Evaluate Vietnamese requests for additional equipment, road building materials, heavy engineering equipment etc. in the light of the direct observations of the on-the-spot advisors as well as upon other information available.
* Evaluate the level of cooperation and coordination among Vietnamese Army, Navy and Air Force elements and take necessary corrective action with Vietnamese officials in those instances where deficiencies are reported by on-the-spot advisors.
* The activities of MAAG Advisors must be limited to advisory functions and under no circumstances shall they participate directly in combat operations nor will they accompany units on anti-guerrilla operations in areas immediately adjacent to national boundaries.
SOURCE: Vietnam War Timeline on the web at http://www.vietnamgear.com/war1959.aspx
Friday, 29 May 1959:
The East Grinstead Courier reports: "An American and his delightful family find a haven at Saint Hill." It goes on to say, "The production of plant mutations is one of his most important projects at the moment. By battering seeds with X-rays, Dr Hubbard can either reduce a plant through its stages of evolution or advance it."
SOURCE: Russell Miller, book: Bare Faced Messiah, Chapter 14
Monday, 1 c. June 1959:
Daniel Ellsberg starts in a full-time position at the RAND corporation when his fellowship at Harvard ends. [NOTE: Only the year is known.]
SOURCE: Book, "Wild Man; The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg," by Tom Wells
Monday, 1 c. June 1959:
Daniel Ellsberg, 28, has relocated his family to California and he starts work at his permanent job at the RAND Corporation. His monthly salary is $1,000.00 [NOTE: Only the month and year are available.]
SOURCE: Book, "Wild Man; The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg," by Tom Wells
Monday, 1 c. June 1959:
Daniel Ellsberg is back at the Economics Department at Rand Corporation, this time "as a permanent employee." [NOTE: As so often with Ellsberg, there is no date in 1959, just "summer." It may have to be moved. Also: Much later, Ellsberg refers to CIA agent and NSC member Robert Komer as being "an old friend of mine from Rand days." Therefore this mention of Komer is being put here, though it is uncertain when Ellsberg could have been a "friend" of Komer at Rand, since no mention can be found, so far, of Komer being at Rand until 1969.]
SOURCE: Book, "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg
Tuesday, 2 June 1959:
"I am now busy making FCDC solvent and am sending Nibs over [from London] to see to it."
SOURCE: HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE, 37 Fitzroy Street, London W. I, HCO POLICY LETTER OF 2 JUNE 1959; "A COMMENT ON FINANCE"
Wednesday, 10 June 1959:
A bibliography is published: "Comprehensive Bibliography of Interrogation Techniques, Procedures, and Experiences," Air Intelligence Information Report, Unclassified, 10 June 1959.
The referenced source describes the report: "This bibliography of 158 items dating between 1915 and 1957 comprises 'the monographs on this subject available in the Library of Congress and arranged in alphabetical order by author, or in the absence of an author, by title.' No descriptions are included, except for explanatory sub-titles. The monographs, in several languages, are not categorized. This collection is extremely heterogeneous. Most of the items are of scant or peripheral value to the [CIA] interrogator."
SOURCE: A CIA manual, declassified in 1996, and available on the Internet: "KUBARK [Codename for CIA] COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INTERROGATION--July 1963."--Bibliography
Thursday, 11 June 1959:
Quoted from the source [NOTE: OSI is the Air Force Office of Special Investigations]:
Sylvia Hoke's CIA Security File contained "Two sealed envelopes" which were withheld as was "Information regarding father / 3rd Party / 3rd Agency Information Contained memo dated June 11, 1959, (3rd Agencies - OSI, U.S.A.F. + FBI)." [NARA CIA 1993.07.25.08:39:37:560310]
SOURCE: A.J. Weberman, Nodule 11
Wednesday, 1 c. July c. 1959:
A book is published: Gill, Merton, Inc., and Margaret Brenman, "Hypnosis and Related States: Psychoanalytic Studies in Regression," International Universities Press Inc., New York, 1959.
The referenced source describes the book: "This book is a scholarly and comprehensive examination of hypnosis. The approach is basically Freudian but the authors are neither narrow nor doctrinaire. The book discusses the induction of hypnosis, the hypnotic state, theories of induction and of the hypnotic condition, the concept of regression as a basic element in hypnosis, relationships between hypnosis and drugs, sleep, fugue, etc., and the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy. Interrogators may find the comparison between hypnosis and 'brainwashing' in chapter 9 more relevant than other parts. The book is recommended [for CIA interrogators], however, not because it contains any discussion of the employment of hypnosis in interrogation (it does not) but because it provides the interrogator with sound information about what hypnosis can and cannot do."
SOURCE: A CIA manual, declassified in 1996, and available on the Internet: "KUBARK [Codename for CIA] COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INTERROGATION--July 1963."--Bibliography
Wednesday, 1 C. July 1959:
A bibliography is published: "Interrogation Methods and Techniques," KUPALM, L-3, 024, 941, July 1959, Secret/NOFORN.
The referenced source describes the report: "This bibliography of 114 items includes references to four categories: books and pamphlets, articles from periodicals, classified documents, and materials from classified periodicals. No descriptions (except sub-titles) are included. The range is broad, so that a number of nearly-irrelevant [for CIA interrogators] titles are included"
SOURCE: A CIA manual, declassified in 1996, and available on the Internet: "KUBARK [Codename for CIA] COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INTERROGATION--July 1963."--Bibliography
Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
[NOTE: There is no date given for the following. This is merely an estimate based on when DeWolf is believed to have been supervising auditing in FCDC.] Quoted from the source:
"MR. SHOEMAKER: Mr. DeWolfe [sic--DeWolf], do you personally-- do you have firsthand knowledge of how the material that was obtained for the auditing process was used?
"MR. DeWOLFE: Yes of course, everybody was told that the files were confidential, that they were treated as if they were files of, say, a doctor or a priest or an attorney. And they were, in the main, by most people, but-- it was quite inviolate. But of course, Dad and I had complete access to it.
"And-one thing I ought to mention is that--it's kind of embarrassing to mention--I'm the one who originated the bugging of auditing rooms in the Hubbard Guidance Center in Washington, D.C. so we could pick up on what was going on in an auditing session. And what I told everybody at the time was that most of the people that worked in the Hubbard Guidance Center--the Hubbard Guidance Center was the auditing department. It was the--where people got their auditing.
"And--but most of the people there were students of mine. So, I put the microphones in and the speakers, et cetera, and the tape recorders so that I could monitor their progress as students. That's what they were told.
"But their files were used, as I said, for pressure, blackmail, and all these other--some of those bits and pieces back in--yesterday."
SOURCE: Ronald DeWolf in Clearwater Hearings, 6 May 1982
Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
Bernard Barker is in Cuba and has been "a regular contact of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," but is "turned over to the Agency [CIA]" around this time as a "source of information" until he is "evacuated" in "early 1960. [NOTE: Only date given for turn-over to CIA is "mid-1959."]
SOURCE: Memorandum of CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters, 6 July 1972, Watergate Committee Exhibit No. 142
Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
Quoted from the source:
Abraham Zapruder...moved to Dallas, Texas and in 1953 he joined with Jeanne LeGon to form the clothing design firm called, Nardis of Dallas. Jeanne LeGon designed the clothing and Abraham Zapruder cut the patterns and the material for her. ...In 1959 the partnership broke up when Jeanne LeGon married George De Mohrenschildt. Zapruder established his own company manufacturing ladies dresses.
SOURCE: Abraham Zapruder bio on the web at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKzapruder.htm
Wednesday, 1 c. July c. 1959:
Quoted from the source for an entry that has no date, but must be in 1959 and before Zapata Offshore was created:
De Mohrenschildt's...personal address book...contained this entry: "Bush, George H.W. (Poppy) 1412 W. Ohio also Zapata Petroleum Midland." There is of course the problem of dating this reference. George Bush had moved his office and home from Midland to Houston in 1959, when Zapata Offshore was constituted, so perhaps this reference goes back to some time before 1959. There is also the number: "4-6355."
SOURCE: "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
Quoted from the source:
Abraham Zapruder...moved to Dallas, Texas and in 1953 he joined with Jeanne LeGon to form the clothing design firm called, Nardis of Dallas. Jeanne LeGon designed the clothing and Abraham Zapruder cut the patterns and the material for her. ...In 1959 the partnership broke up when Jeanne LeGon married George De Mohrenschildt. Zapruder established his own company manufacturing ladies dresses.
SOURCE: Abraham Zapruder bio on the web at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKzapruder.htm
Wednesday, 1 c. July c. 1959:
Quoted from the source, Daniel Ellsberg [date 1959 can only be guessed at]:
As a RAND employee on Air Force contract, I became during 1959-60 a consultant to the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC)
SOURCE: A "Right Livelihood Biography Submission" by Daniel Ellsberg, on the web at http://www.ellsberg.net/content/view/45
Saturday, 4 July 1959:
L. Ron Hubbard reasserts ownership of copyrights and trademarks by HCO.
"L. Ron Hubbard and the Hubbard Communications Office, Ltd are the proprietors of all trademarks, copyrights and materials of Dianetics and Scientology.
"L. RON HUBBARD"
[NOTE: This reference, and the reference for 15 November 1958, specify "HCO Ltd." But, according to later Policy Letters (see, especially, 30 September and 6 November 1964 entries, and their referenced HCO PLs), neither HCO Ltd or HASI Ltd, per se, ever legally had any assets transferred to them, as they never were granted non-profit status.]
SOURCE: HCO PL 4 July 1959, "ACTIONS FOR HCO SECRETARIES FACED WITH ILLEGAL USAGE"