Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

Two members of the Sea Org hoist an unfortunate Scientologist overboard. This photo,
taken by Hubbard himself, was published in The Auditor, issue 41, 1968. The editor
thought it was a little joke on Hubbard's part; hence, the tongue-in-cheek caption.
Of course, it was anything but a joke, and the unfortunate editor was himself
sent to the RPF when Hubbard read the article. @pgplate(292)
'I thought it was terrible, inhumane and barbaric,' said Hana Eltringham. 'Some of the people on the
course were middle-aged women. Julia Salmon, the continental head of the LA org, was fifty-five
years old and in poor health and she was thrown overboard.
She hit the water sobbing and screaming. LRH enjoyed it, without a doubt. Sometimes I heard him
making jokes about it. Those were the moments when I came closest to asking myself what I was
doing there. But I always justified it by telling myself that he must know what he was doing and that
it was all for the greater good.'
Diana Hubbard also appeared to enjoy the ceremony and often ordered overboards. 'I remember
coming out on deck one day when I was chief officer,' said Amos Jessup, 'and finding my whole
division of four or five people being thrown overboard. I didn't know anything about it and said,
"What the hell's going on here?" Then I noticed Diana looking down at me from the deck above and
I thought, "Jesus Christ!"'