L. Ron Hubbard Drawn by Tommy Shand (12) The Religious Technology Center, representing the Church of Scientology, would not let me place an actual photograph of Hubbard on my site, citing copyright restrictions. Therefore, I commissioned my son to draw a portrait. Did he do a good job? Click here and compare Tommy's drawing with the photo on the official L. Ron Home Page.

"Looking down the line at the spirit of men of great and murderous deeds...and you'll find out they're strange boys, very stange boys. They just never, never kind of nailed down in the right place, and did just exactly the right things. You look in vain for the old school tie."
     - L. Ron Hubbard

The major sources quoted for the biblographical background on Hubbard include the Church of Scientology's publication What is Scientology? - Chapter 3 and Jon Atack's article from FACTNET titled "The Total Freedom Trap, Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard".

L. Ron Hubbard

Early Years

"He also claimed to have been a blood brother of the Blackfoot Indians by the age of four. However, the Blackfoot Indians dismiss 'blood brothers' as a Hollywood fantasy, and there is no more truth in Hubbard's other boasts. His early life was undistinguished, and one childhood friend recalls that Hubbard was actually afraid of horses. Hubbard asserted that his grandfather was a wealthy cattle-baron. Factually, Lafayette Waterbury was a small town veterinarian, who ran a series of failing businesses."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"In early 1923, when Ron was twelve, he and his family moved to Seattle, Washington, where his father was stationed at the local naval base. He joined the Boy Scouts and that year proudly achieved the rank of Boy Scout First Class. The next year he became the youngest Eagle Scout ever, an early indication that he did not plan to live an ordinary life.
"At the end of that year, young Ron traveled to the nation's capital via the Panama Canal, meeting Commander Joseph C. Thompson of the US Naval Medical Corps. Commander Thompson was the first officer sent by the US Navy to study under Sigmund Freud, and took it upon himself to pass the essentials of Freudian theory to his young friend."
     - What is Scientology?

"Hubbard's extensive teenage diaries-used as evidence in a California court case-show no interest in psychological or philosophical ideas."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"In 1927, at the age of sixteen, Ron took the first of his several voyages across the Pacific to Asia. There, both on his own and in the company of an officer attached to the British legation, he took advantage of this unique opportunity to study Far Eastern culture. Among others he befriended and learned from was a thoroughly insightful Beijing magician who represented the last of the line of Chinese magicians from the court of Kublai Khan."
"It was also through the course of these travels that Ron gained access to the much talked-about but rarely seen Buddhist lamaseries in the Western Hills of China - temples usually off-limits to both local peasants and visiting foreigners."
"In addition to the local Tartar tribes, he spent time with nomadic bandits originally from Mongolia. He further traveled up and down the Chinese coast exploring villages and cities, delving into the fabric of the nation."
     - What is Scientology?

"He did not actually visit Mongolia, India nor Tibet. His two visits to China were short excursions in the company of his mother. Hubbard confessed the brevity of his Chinese stay in an interview with Adventure magazine in 1935. "
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

Researcher and Writer

"He failed to qualify for the third year of the course, because his grades were too low. It would later be claimed that Hubbard had degrees in both civil engineering and mathematics. He graduated in neither, and his grades in mathematics were very poor. While at University, Hubbard also failed a short course in 'molecular and atomic physics'."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"He directed two expeditions, the Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition, a two-and-a-half month, 5,000 mile voyage aboard the four-masted schooner, Doris Hamlin, and the West Indies Mineralogical Expedition, which completed the first mineralogical survey of the island of Puerto Rico under US rule."
     - What is Scientology?

."..The trip was announced in the University newspaper under the heading 'L. Ron Hubbard Heads Movie Cruise Among Old American Piratical Haunts'. "
"In the event, the expedition reached only three of its sixteen proposed ports of call, failing to take any film. In a 1950 interview, Hubbard dismissed it as 'a two-bit expedition and a financial bust'."
"Hubbard's second supposed expedition was described by him as the 'first complete mineralogical survey' of Puerto Rico. Again, there are no records of such a survey, because Hubbard seems to have spent most of his time in Puerto Rico prospecting unsuccessfully for gold."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"Upon his return to the United States, and with scientific grants few and far between, he began to write his way to fame and fortune, supporting his research by becoming one of the most popular writers of the 1930s."
     - What is Scientology?

"Factually, it took Hubbard several years to make even a precarious living from his writing. He wrote under such stirring pen names as Rene Lafayette, Tom Esterbrook, Kurt von Rachen, Captain B.A. Northrup, and Winchester Remington Colt. Under the name Legionnaire I48, Hubbard concocted 'true' stories about his supposed exploits in the French Foreign Legion, but mainly he churned out adventure stories for the cheap 'pulp' magazines. "
"He contributed to many such magazines, including Thrilling Adventures, The Phantom Detective and Smashing Novels Magazine, eventually turning to science-fiction and writing chiefly for Astounding Science Fiction."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form, even if all the books are destroyed, That goal is the real goal as far as I am concerned."
     - L. Ron Hubbard in a 1938 letter to his first wife, Polly (Margaret Louise Grubb)

"By the time he created Dianetics, in 1950, he was writing imaginative, if rather unstylish, science-fiction, and exploring ideas which he would later incorporate into Scientology. "
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"His expeditions continued as well. Elected a member of the prestigious Explorers Club in New York City, he was bestowed custody of their flag, a high honor in the field of exploration, for the Alaskan Radio Experimental Expedition in May 1940. This expedition of the coastal charts of British Columbia and Alaska, while augmenting his knowledge of more cultures - the Tlingit, the Haida and the Aleut Indians of Alaska."
     - What is Scientology?

"Writing to the Seattle Star in November 1940, Hubbard complained that the 'expedition' had been hindered by repeated failures of the Magician's engine. Hubbard and his first wife spent most of their time stranded in Ketchikan, Alaska, while he tried to write enough stories to pay for costly engine repairs. Eventually, he used borrowed money to leave Alaska - money he failed to repay. "
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

The War Years

"Hubbard's eyesight had prevented his admission to the U.S. Naval Academy, prior to his enrollment at University. In 1941, he was accepted into the Navy Reserve after receiving a waiver for his inadequate vision. Factually, he oversaw the refitting of two small vessels in U.S. harbors. His second such command was withdrawn after a cruise down the west coast. During the course of this journey, Hubbard managed to involve a number of craft in a 55-hour battle against what he believed to be two Japanese submarines. The incident was reviewed by Admiral Fletcher who pronounced 'an analysis of all reports convinces me that there was no submarine in the area.'"
"Hubbard completed this 'shake down cruise' by firing on a fortunately uninhabited Mexican island. He was removed from command, and Rear Admiral Braisted wrote in a fitness report, 'Consider this officer lacking in the essential qualities of judgment, leadership and cooperation. He acts without forethought as to probable results ... Not considered qualified for command or promotion at this time. Recommend duty on a large vessel where he can be properly supervised.'
"The advice was followed, and Hubbard served briefly as a navigation officer aboard the USS Algol, before its departure from U.S. waters.
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"In 1945, left partially blind with injured optic nerves and lame from hip and back injuries, Mr. Hubbard was hospitalized at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland, California."
     - What is Scientology?

"By 1945, he had received 29 medals and palms, and had seen action in five theatres."
     - "The Church of Scientology: 40th Anniversary"

"Not only was Hubbard not wounded, but apart from his imaginary submarine battle, he never saw combat. He received four routine service medals for his duty in Australia and the U.S. "
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"In contradictory accounts, Hubbard claimed to have spent either one or two years at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, developing Dianetics and curing his injuries through its use....Factually, Hubbard spent the last months of the war largely as an outpatient at Oakland Naval Hospital. His chief complaint was an ulcer, though between his admission to hospital and his separation from the Navy his eyesight deteriorated markedly. This visual deterioration became part of his pension claim to the Veterans Administration."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"In seeking disability money, Hubbard told military doctors that he had been 'lamed' not by a bullet but by a chronic hip infection that set in after his transfer from the warm tropics of the Pacific to the icy winters of the Atlantic Coast, where he attended a Navy-sponsored school of military government.
"Moreover, his eye problems did not result from an exploding bomb or the blinding flash of a gun. Rather, Hubbard said in military records, he contracted conjunctivitis from exposure to 'excessive tropical sunlight'."
     - "LRH, the story of L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology"
     St. Petersburg Times, June 24, 1990

"Eyes are sensitive to bright sunlight and I can't read very much and I have severe headaches...My stomach trouble keeps me on a very rigid diet - can only eat milk, eggs, ground meat and strained vegetables...I tire quickly and become nauseated when I work hard...My left shoulder, hip - in fact the entire left side is bothered with arthritic pains - can't sit any length of time at typewriter or desk..."
     - L. Ron Hubbard in a 1946 visit to the VA medical center in Los Angeles

In 1947 Hubbard added to his bulging file at the Veterans Administration.

"Toward the end of my military service I avoided out of pride any mental examinations, hoping that time would balance a mind which I had every reason to suppose was seriously affected.
"I cannot account for nor rise above long periods of moroseness and suicidal inclinations, and have newly come to realize that I must first triumph above this before I can hope to rehabilitate myself at all."
     - L. Ron Hubbard in a letter to the VA

"Hubbard did...receive a monthly, 40 percent disability check from the government through at least 1980."
     St. Petersburg Times, June 24, 1990

The Birth of Dianetics

"With his separation from the Navy, Hubbard abandoned his first wife and their two young children to take up the practice of 'Magick'."
"Hubbard...started to use self hypnosis, confiding to his notebook such hypnotic affirmations as 'all men are my slaves'. His personal papers also make it clear that he was deliberately pretending war-related ailments so that he could clam a pension increase. By this time, Hubbard was already addicted to the barbiturate drugs originally prescribed for his ulcer. "
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"Returning to Washington, DC, Ron compiled his sixteen years of investigation into the human condition, writing the manuscript 'The Original Thesis' (today published under the title The Dynamics of Life), a paper outlining the principles he was using."
"The first published article on Dianetics, entitled 'Terra Incognita: The Mind,' appeared in the Winter/Spring 1949-1950 issue of the Explorers Club Journal. "
     - What is Scientology?

A second draft, "largely written as a favor for longtime friend and editor John Campbell, appeared in Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction magazine as 'Evolution of a Science'. Yet, in that neither of these papers offered a definitive explanation of how Dianetics was employed, Mr. Hubbard was further persuaded to write a full-length handbook."
     - "The Church of Scientology: 40th Anniversary"

"Hubbard gave strange demonstrations of hypnosis in 1946, and wrote to his literary agent about a new project with many selling 'angles'. Marrying hypnotic technique to research long abandoned by Freud, Hubbard came up with Dianetics. In 1950, he modified the hypnotic technique without further 'research' to write the book Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health was published on May 9, 1950. The response was instantaneous and overwhelming. Almost overnight the book became a nationwide bestseller, with 25,000 letters and telegrams of congratulations pouring in to the publisher. The book hit the 'New York Times' bestseller list where is remained week after week, month after month, forever changing L. Ron Hubbard's life..."
     - What is Scientology?

"Dianetics sold 150,000 copies before being withdrawn from sale by its publisher. The American Psychological Association cautioned would-be Dianetics that no scientific evidence for the many claims made in Dianetics had been forthcoming. There can be no doubt that Hubbard had invented both cases and statistics to write the book."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"By late fall of 1950, there were more than 750 groups across the country applying Dianetics techniques, while newspaper headlines proclaimed, 'Dianetics Taking US by Storm,' and 'Fastest Growing Movement in America'."
     - What is Scientology?

"Hubbard's following diminished as people realized that his claims were grossly exaggerated, and with the collapse of the first Dianetic Foundations and Hubbard's second marriage."
"The new Wichita Foundation soon ran into trouble, and Hubbard abandoned it to its creditors, accusing Don Purcell - who had earlier saved him accepting $500,000 from the American Medical Association to ruin him."
"February 1952 found Hubbard penniless, and stripped of both the rights to Dianetics and most of his following. One of his associates stole the mailing lists of the Wichita Foundation, and Hubbard started to send out ridiculous attacks upon the Foundation and increasingly pathetic requests for money. "
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

Scientology - the Road to Total Freedom

"With Scientology, Hubbard asserted that we are all spiritual beings ('thetabeings', and later 'thetans'), who have lived for trillions of years, incarnating again and again. He claimed that through the use of his new techniques, anyone could achieve supernatural powers. In 40 years, no scientific evidence has been provided for these claims."
"In April 1953, Hubbard wrote to one of his deputies asking what she thought of 'the religion angle'. Later that year, he incorporated the Church of Scientology, which was licensed by his Church of American Science. The incorporation was kept secret, so that Hubbard could distance himself from it."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"Given the inherently religious nature of Mr. Hubbard's work through these years, it was only natural that those surrounding him would come to see themselves, not only as students of a new philosophy but also as students of a new religion. And so, in 1954, Scientologists in Los Angeles established the first Church of Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard founded the subject - early Scientologists began the Church."
"In 1959, Mr. Hubbard and his family moved to England, where he purchased the Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, Sussex. This was to be his home for the next seven years, and the worldwide headquarters of the Church of Scientology."
     - What is Scientology?

"In his many lectures he spoke of his adventures in para-military space organizations prior to his coming to Earth. He claimed to be Guatama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, in a previous life. He stated his mission was to create a New Civilization by the Scientologization of the Earth."
     - Harrington, "Scientology, a Cohercive Psychological System"

"In early 1968, with the Sea Org still in its infancy, we were just pulling out of Puerto Spain, and LRH came out of a solo auditing session (where he audited himself) with a big all-knowing grin on his face. He was going 'Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Uh-huh!' He was just waiting someone to ask, 'What's happening?' and beg him for an explanation. Someone did, and he revealed that he had actually been the author of The Prince. He was the Duke of Medici when he wrote it, he explained, and he had been ripped off posthumously. Machiavelli was a thief, not the author of this classic, having fraudulently published the stolen manuscript over his own name.
"On another occasion he let it slip that he had been Robespierre, the famous lawyer during the French revolution. And he also claimed to have been Cecil Rhodes in Southern Africa up till 1902, and between Rhodes and this life beginning in 1911, a little boy who drowned. He would talk about the vast level of influence Rhodes had on the British crown. He explained that, as Rhodes, he was the darling of Queen Victoria. She and the Kaiser of Germany were squabbling monarchs. They argued often about where the boundaries of their colonies were in Africa, and he was very instrumental in helping to cool down the temper tantrums between them. At the same time Rhodes had hid big gold stashes in the Rhodesian and South African areas. LRH wanted to recover these while he was there in 1966. Of course, Scientologists had no inkling of any of this."
     Elena Lorrel in Brent Corydon's Messiah or Madman

"In 1966 he tried to influence Rhodesian politics by producing, 'uninvited', a 'tentative constitution' for that country while attempting to 'ingratiate himself with the leading political figures' of the country. In that constitutional proposal Hubbard required that all voters ('electors' as he called them) had to have '[a] good standard of literacy in English' [Hubbard, 'A Tentative Constitution of the Nation of Rhodesia' ], and it may have been that he saw this literacy requirement as an opportunity to have Scientology form the basis of the emerging country's educational system. In any case, he was expelled from the country in July."
     - Stephen A. Kent, "International Social Control by the Church of Scientology"

"Having been asked to leave Rhodesia in 1966, and fearing British government action (he was later banned from entry), Hubbard fled to Las Palmas and created the 'Sea Organization'."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"I have already made an experiment. I went off by myself into Southern Africa to see whether or not an OT would make it singly and all alone, without any assistance, against the environment around him. And I found out that he would not do too much good. But a group of OTs would be entirely irresistible, and necessary to carry off this type of operation."
     - L. Ron Hubbard, Ron's Journal '67

"On September 1, 1966 with Scientology established as a worldwide religion, Mr. Hubbard resigned his position as Executive Director of the Church and stepped down from the boards of all Church corporations in order to fully devote himself to researches into the highest levels of spiritual awareness and ability. "
     - What is Scientology?

"On 22 November 1966, the Hubbard Explorational Company Limited was incorporated at Companies House in London. The directors were L. Ron Hubbard, described as expedition supervisor, and Mary Sue Hubbard [his third wife], the company secretary. The aims of the company were to 'explore oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and waters, lands and buildings in any part of the world and to seek for, survey, examine and test properties of all kinds'."
"...His vision was of a domain of his own creation on the freedom of the high seas, connected by sophisticated coded communications to its operations on land. Its purpose would be to propagate Scientology behind a screen of business management courses.
"Before the end of 1966, the 'Sea Org' - as it would inevitably become known - had secretly purchased it s first ship, the Enchanter, a forty-ton sea-going schooner."
     - Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah

"With Scientology now a thriving worldwide religion, Mr. Hubbard simply could not continue his very demanding advanced research while remaining on the administrative front; hence his move to the 3,200-ton Royal Scotman, later to be rechristened the Apollo, and his formation of the Sea Organization--all in the name of a distraction-free research environment. Given that those first Sea Organization members were largely unfamiliar with the sea, 1967 marked a period of extensive training, with Mr. Hubbard drafting much instructional material on the care and management of ships."
     - "The Church of Scientology: 40th Anniversary"

"Organization members dressed in naval uniforms and formed a para-military, quasi-religious organization and started a massive world-wide recruitment effort to build the group that would 'Clear' the planet."
     - harringtonj-smtc@nova.novanet.org, "Scientology, a Cohercive Psychological System"

"On board ship for the next seven years, he again traveled extensively, while devoting his attention to ever-worsening problems facing society through the late 1960s and early 1970s."
     - What is Scientology?

"For eight years, from 1967 to 1975, Hubbard and his retinue (numbering several hundred) plied the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in a flotilla of unseaworthy vessels. The incompetence of the crews led to many accidents."
     - "The Total Freedom Trap"

"Another reason we were in that part of the world sailing around on these ships was the fact, LRH explained, that he had been a corsair (pirate), sailing between the Mediterranean and the new world in the 1700s when the rum triangle was going on. Amongst other things, we were searching for the booty he said he had stashed in different places around the Mediterranean during that lifetime. Oh yes, we were there searching for gold. The real reason for the Sea Org initially was for him to go back and collect these stashes of gold. And then at the same time to amass a group of people to win him a country."
     Elena Lorrel in Brent Corydon's Messiah or Madman

According to former Sea Org members, Hubbard did illegally recover treasure from the sunken ruins of Carthage and several other sites. The main source of his income, though, was continuing revenue from book sales and Scientology organizations throughout the world.

"There was lots of money aboard. We had to courier 7 or 8 million dollars in cash to Switzerland. And on a later trip much more than that was couriered. It was couriered from the Dutch Antilles island of Curacao, near Venezuela. LRH was really like a squirrel with nuts, stashing it. He stashed gold bullion too."
     Hana Eltringham in Brent Corydon's Messiah or Madman

Living in abject poverty and virtual slavery, many members of the Sea Org suffered harsh internal discipline for perceived dereliction of duty. Hubbard was not only verbally abusive (often screaming at crew members or his wife for up to fifteen minutes at a time) but seemed to relish meting out punishment, such as sentencing transgressors (including children) to days of hard labor in the cramped confines of the chain locker. Due to cultural arrogance and incompetent seamanship, the Sea Org eventually wore out their welcome and became persona non grata at most Mediterranean stops.
There were also failed attempts by Hubbard's agents to use political intrigue to create a country of convenience from which to base their operation. After a cozy initial relationship, the Greek junta ordered out Hubbard and his flagship Apollo out of Greece in March of 1969. The Sea Org next became embroiled in a failed coup attempt against the king of Morocco and were expelled when Scientology sec-checking (lie detection) implicated the king's internal security staff. In 1974 in Funchal, Portugal the Apollo was attacked by a mob who thought the visiting Scientologists were CIA agents.

"Hubbard organized a secret service over the years and mobilized it effectively. This was his answer to investigations by various establishments--the American Medical Association in the 1950s, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Australian Government in the mid- and early sixties, the British Government beginning in 1967, and Interpol and the French and U.S. governments during the 1970s (along with an assortment of Mediterranean and North African Governments)."
     - Brent Corydon, Messiah or Madman

"During the early 1970s, the IRS conducted its own auditing sessions and proved that Hubbard was skimming millions of dollars from the church, laundering the money through dummy corporations in Panama and stashing it in Swiss bank accounts. Moreover, church members stole IRS documents, filed false tax returns and harassed the agency's employees. "
     - Time, May 6, 1991 v137 n18 p50(8)

"In 1971 the French initiated legal action against Hubbard and his Paris organization for fraud and customs violations. He was advised by one of his agents that he was in danger of being extradited to France.
"In December of 1972, he flew from northern Africa to New York with a bodyguard and a 'medical officer'. Besides his legal problems, he was also having health problems. The three moved into an apartment in Queens, New York. Hubbard disguised himself with a wig whenever venturing outside. During this time he conceived the project to retrieve confidential information from the U.S. government. He wanted desperately to know what the government had in their files on him and Scientology. He called this project 'Operation Snow White' (the seizing of confidential government files containing 'false' reports in the U.S. Government's files on Hubbard, Scientology and Scientology's perceived enemies)."
     - Brent Corydon, Messiah or Madman

"Returning to shore in 1975, Ron continued his travels - first from Florida to Washington, DC and Los Angeles before finally settling in the southern California desert community of La Quinta near Palm Springs, his home until 1979. There, searching for new ways to make Dianetics and Scientology more easily accessible, he wrote dozens of training films on the subjects to visually demonstrate proper application of technical principles. He directed many of these films himself."
"In 1980, he celebrated his 50th anniversary as a professional writer by again turning his prodigious energy to the field of fiction. He wrote Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3,000, an epic science fiction novel, followed by the ten-volume Mission Earth opus, a satirical romp through the foibles of our civilization. All eleven books went on to become "New York Times" bestsellers, a consecutive bestseller record unmatched by any writer in history."

"Returning to his more serious work with continued research into man's spiritual potentials, Mr. Hubbard traveled extensively through California in the early 1980s. In 1983, he finally resided in the town of Creston, near San Luis Obispo. Here he completed his research and finalized the Scientology technical materials he had spent most of his life developing."
     - What is Scientology?

"By late 1985, with high-level defectors accusing Hubbard of having stolen as much as $200 million from the church, the IRS was seeking an indictment of Hubbard for tax fraud. Scientology members 'worked day and night' shredding documents the IRS sought, according to defector Aznaran, who took part in the scheme. Hubbard, who had been in hiding for five years, died before the criminal case could be prosecuted."
     - Time, May 6, 1991 v137 n18 p50(8)

"L. Ron Hubbard was given Vistaril© by Dr. Gene Denk in his final days, by intramuscular injection in the right buttocks. Vistaril© is a psychiatric drug, used to calm frantic or overly anxious patients. He died on January 24th, 1986, eight days after the fatal stroke, and one day after signing his last will and testament. He died in a 1982 Blue Bird motor home, about five miles East of Creston, CA, at the very remote "Emanuel Camp". His fingernails and toenails were long and unkempt. His hair was long, thin and receding on his forehead.
"David Miscavige personally arrived with documents requesting that no autopsy be performed. 13 photographs taken of his body were later destroyed at the request of Norman Starkey.
"These are public documents, available from the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office. Coroner's file #8936."
     - Ron The Doped Corpse

Hubbard, who was 74 at the time of death was described as being overweight, with white hair and a white beard. "A death certificate signed by a Gene Denk of Los Angeles certif[ied] the cause of death as cerebral haemorrhage."
"On the following day, the ashes of L. Ron Hubbard were scattered on the Pacific from a small boat."
     - Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah

"The more than 25 million words of his lectures--just those that are on tape--are enough to fill over 100 volumes of text. In fact, it may well be that L. Ron Hubbard's works include more literature, recorded research and materials than any other single subject of philosophy, the spirit or religion. In all, there are more than 110 million L. Ron Hubbard books in circulation."
     - "The Church of Scientology: 40th Anniversary"

Other Hubbard Sites

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Hyperlinks

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