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ehind this sinister institution. “Recently a check showed that we had never seen or
heard of an ‘insane’ person who had not been in their hands,” Hubbard writes. “And the
question arises, is there any insanity at all? That is not manufactured by them?” He said
that SMERSH had made one big mistake, however; it attacked Scientology. He vowed
revenge.
Hubbard had been wooing a young Florida woman, Elizabeth Gablehouse, to join the
Sea Org. She had come from a prominent family in Tallahassee, Florida, and had studied
in Europe. She spoke French, German, and Spanish. She had admirable social skills;
moreover, she was a redhead, always a stamp of pre-eminence in Hubbard’s book.
Finally, Kit agreed to join the Royal Scotman in 1969, just as the ship was being expelled
from Corfu. She was soon appointed to the “Missionaires Elite Unit.” Hubbard already
had an assignment in mind for her.
Hubbard set a course for Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia. On the way, he
personally tutored her in his plan to take over the World Federation for Mental Health,
which was headquartered in Geneva. Hubbard had learned that the organization had
never bothered to actually incorporate itself in Switzerland. His grand idea was to set
up an oce in Bern, the capital, posing as an American delegation of the WFMH bent
on reforming the organization from within. The true scheme was to establish a presence
in the country long enough to incorporate as the WFMH; and then, posing as the actual
mental health organization, go to the United Nations with a plan for enforced
euthanization of the “useless or unxable” elements of society. Hubbard predicted that
the outcry that would surely follow would turn the world against the WFMH. It would be
a powerful strike against his most formidable enemy, SMERSH.
All the way to Sardinia Hubbard drilled Kit in the history of the health organization,
its former presidents, and the policies it supported, such as electroshock therapy. Kit
didn’t need to be persuaded about the dangers of that practice; her own mother had
been subjected to electroshock in the 1940s, without her consent, as treatment for
postpartum depression. After that, her mother suered from amnesia and a fear of
change and losing control.
By the time the Royal Scotman docked in Cagliari, Kit was well schooled. She and
another Sea Org member, Mary Pat Shelley, a trained Shakespearian actress from
Cincinnati, traveled to Bern. They set up an oce, purchased furniture, and covered the
walls with phony certicates. They had business cards and stationery printed. Then they
filed papers for incorporation as the World Federation for Mental Health.
Soon after that, they received a call from the Federal Oce of Public Health in
Switzerland demanding to know what they were up to. The two women were invited to
explain themselves to the director himself.
Kit and Marjorie were both in their early twenties. They dressed in dowdy clothes and
put powder in their hair to make themselves appear older. When they arrived at the
oce, they were shown to a conference room with about ten other people, including the
director, a stenographer, and several lawyers. Mary Pat’s hands were trembling as Kit
brazenly presented their case for taking over the WFMH. She claimed that the
organization had long been misrepresenting itself; for instance, was the director aware