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LAW: THE POWER OF A THETAN STEMS FROM HIS ABILITY TO HOLD A POSITION IN SPACE.

– L. Ron Hubbard, HCO PL 29 July 71 I WHY HATTING?

When you find an individual is lying to you, you know that the individual is trying to control you. You can put that down. One way or the other, this individual is trying to control you. That's a mechanism of control. The individual is lying to you, so they're trying to control you. Because if they give you enough misinformation they'll throw you far enough down the Tone Scale so they can control you.
 
Conversely, if you see an impulse on the part of a human being to control you, you know very well that that human being is lying to you. Not is just going to – is lying to you. Check up the facts, you'll find out they're always true. That person is trying to control you, he's lying to you. He's got to tell you lies in order to continue control, because the second you start telling anybody anything close in to truth, you start releasing him and he gets tougher and tougher to control. So you can't control somebody without telling them a bunch of fibs.
 
You will find that command has this very often as its greatest weakness. It'll try to control instead of lead. And the next thing you know, it's lying to the crew, lying to the crew – lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. And it gets worse and worse and then all of a sudden the thing blows up.
 
– L. Ron Hubbard, Tape Series: Incidents On the Track: Technique 88 Before Earth
Tape: Overt Acts, Motivators and DEDs
Pages: 185 -186