THE FIRST RESEARCH

   Regarding Dianetics, Hubbard stated "The first research was intended
to help allied prisoners of war degraded by the Japanese and Chinese
prison camps and who after VJ day were transferred to Oak Knoll Naval
Hospital." (HCO Bulletin 2 April 1969, revised 14 May 1969, "Dianetic
Assists")
   In the tape "The Story of Dianetics and Scientology" Hubbard states
that "the end of the war I spent about a year in the hospital
recuperating from an accumulation of too much war-time Scotch, and
overdoses of lead [laughs]."
   "During that last year, I studied at the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital
library."
   "I was able to get in a year's study at the medical library."
   Hubbard claimed to have worked with a psychiatrist named Yankiwitz
[sp?] who was studying released prisoners of war.  Hubbard claimed to
have "wrecked" Yankiwitz's experiment by conducting his own Dianetics
experiments on these patients, thus screwing up the results by
improving the patients.  Hubbard says he "slipped a little bit of
Freud" on these patients, and some of the beginnings of Dianetics and
Scientology, and they improved.
   Hubbard says these experiments "are unfortunately not available to
us" but that they are probably still in the Naval records.  "This was
the first broad test of it all" Hubbard declares.


   Now to quote from Russell Miller's Bare-Faced Messiah;

        On 2 September 1945, after the horror of Hiroshima and
     Nagasaki, the Japanese signed the surrender instrument on the
     quarterdeck of the USS Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.  Three
     days later, Ron was re-admitted to Oak Knoll Naval Hospital,
     Oakland, not as a result of heroic war wounds, but to be treated
     for 'epigastric distress'.  It was in this rather inglorious
     situation, suffering from a suspected duodenal ulcer, that the war
     ended for Lieutenant L. Ron Hubbard, US Navy Reserve.
        He, of course, saw it somewhat differently: 'Blinded with
     injured optic nerves, and lame with injuries to hip and back, at
     the end of World War Two I faced an almost non-existent future...
     I was abandoned by family and friends as a supposedly hopeless
     cripple and a probable burden upon them for the rest of my days...
     I became used to being told it was all impossible, that there was
     no way, no hope.  Yet I came to see and walk again...' [Bare-Faced
     Messiah p. 110.  The Hubbard quote is from "My Philosophy" by
     Hubbard]

   "Facts About L. Ron Hubbard" states that "in 1944 he [LRH] was
severely wounded and was taken crippled and blinded to Oak Knoll Naval
Hospital."
   
   So now, we have Hubbard making two opposite claims about his stay at
Oak Knoll;
1) he was severly wounded and blind, and recovered using Dianetics
techniques
2) he spent the year there doing research in the library and on
ex-prisoners of war.
And third, you have the medical history of Hubbard claiming he was
there for ulcers.
   Personally, I would find it hard to study in a library if I was
blind.
   Also, this "research" cannot rightly be called that if you go by
what Hubbard himself says.  I highly recommend the tape "The Story of
Dianetics and Scientology" [#581OC18] for those of you who like
researching this subject.