Re: Harlan Ellison on Scientology

In article <3sdljj$8i9@panix.com> cp@panix.com (Charles Platt) writes: >As I recall, Moskowitz made a brief reference in one of his books to the
>alleged statement by L. Ron Hubbard that someone could get rich by
>starting a new cult or religion. This alleged statment, true or false, was
>widely circulated through science-fiction fandom in the 1970s, and no one
>else who attended the meeting where Moskowitz supposedly heard the
>statement ever seemed to dispute it substantially.
This was the Nov. 7, 1948 meeting of ESFA in Newark. Supposedly, Moskowitz signed an affadavit to the effect that Hubbard made the remark in a Q&A session after giving a speech; allegedly the Church of Scientology has sworn affadavits from David Kyle and Jay Kay Klein stating that they were present at the Nov. 7, 1948 meeting and they did not hear Hubbard make the remark.

Lloyd Eshbach states that he heard Hubbard make the remark in a hotel room in New York around this time. He does not mention Ellison or any of the people Ellison names as being present. However, in Ellison's favor, Eshbach does state that he did meet Ellison for the first time when Ellison was only 15, in Cleveland. This would have been late 1949 or early 1950, presumably.