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BARE-FACED MESSIAH -- THE TRUE STORY OF L. RON HUBBARD

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Chapter One

1. Oregon Journal, 22 Apr 1943

2. Mission Into Time, L. Ron Hubbard, 1973

3. Letter to author, 25 May 1986

4. 1938 biography of L. Ron Hubbard by Arthur J. Burks, president of American Fiction Guild

5. Interview with Andrew Richardson, Helena, Montana

6. Harry Ross Hubbard navy record

7. Facts About L. Ron Hubbard - Things You Should Know, Flag Divisional Directive, 8 Mar 1974

8. Mission Into Time, L. Ron Hubbard, 1973

9. Letter to author, 25 Mar 1986. Also US Govt Memorandum, 16 Nov 1966.

10. Letter to author, 1 Feb 1986

Chapter Two

1. Facts About L. Ron Hubbard - Things You Should Know, Flag Divisional Directive, 8 Mar 1974

2. What Is Scientology?, 1973, p. xlii

3. ibid., p. xliv

4. Scientology: A New Slant on Life, L. Ron Hubbard, 1965

5. Facts About L. Ron Hubbard - Things You Should Know, Flag Divisional Directive, 8 Mar 1974

6. Letter to author from Montana Historical Society, 24 Mar 1986

7. Interview with Gorham Roberts, Helena, Montana, April 1986

8. Interview with Mrs. Margaret Roberts, Helena, Montana, April 1986

9. H.R. Hubbard navy record

Chapter Three

1. Deck log, USS Gold Star

2. L. R. Hubbard Service Record Book, US Marine Corps

3. Ibid.

4. Unidentified newspaper clipping

5. Letter from H. R. Hubbard to South Eastern University, 1930

6. Certified airman's file, Federal Aviation Administration, 12 May 1986

7. Ibid.

8. L. R. Hubbard Service Record Book, US Marine Corps

9. Preble County News, 21 July 1983, (reprint of original article)

10. Adventure, 1 October 1935

11. The Hatchet, 24 May 1932

12. Letter from Oceanographic Office, Dept of Navy, 22 June 1970

13. Letter to author from University of Michigan, 23 April 1986

14. Letter to author from Director of Archives, The New York Times, 14 April 1986

15. Report from Clifford Kaye, US Geological Survey, 22 June 1970

16. Letter from Dept of Natural Resources, San Juan, 10 Oct 1979

17. Letter from Dr Meyerhoff, 11 Feb 1980

Chapter Four

1. Letter to author from Mrs. Catherine Gillespie, Dec 1986

2. Certified airman's file

3. Ibid.

4. Interview with Mrs. Roberts

5. Frank Gruber, The Pulp Jungle, 1967

6. Certified airman's file

7. Adventure, 10 October 1935

8. Interview with Robert Macdonald Ford, Olympia, Washington, 1 September 1986

9. Facts About L. Ron Hubbard, Flag Divisional Directive of 8 Mar 1974

10. L. Ron Hubbard autobiographical notes, 1974

11. Rocky Mountain News, 20 February 1983

12. A Brief Biography of L. Ron Hubbard

13. Interview with R.M. Ford

Chapter Five

1. Jack Williamson, Child of Wonder, 1985

2. Isaac Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 1979

3. Ron The Writer, Author Services Inc., 1982

4. The John W. Campbell Letters, Vol. I, 1985

5. Ron The Writer, Author Services Inc., 1982

6. L. Ron Hubbard, Mission Into Time, 1973

7. Ibid.

8. The Aberee, Dec. 1961

9. Author's interview with Ford, 1 September 1986

10. The John W. Campbell Letters, Vol. I, 1985

11. Letter from H. Latane Lewis II, 14 February 1938

12. L. Sprague de Camp, Elron and the City of Brass (Fantastic, August 1975) & Science Fiction Handbook, 1953

13. Asimov, op. cit.

14. Brian Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree, 1986

15. Fantastic, August 1975

16. FBI files on L. R. Hubbard

17. Author's interview with Mrs Roberts, April 1986

18. Letter to author from National Geographic, 3 Mar 1986

19. Interview with former Senator R.M. Ford

Chapter Six

1. Memorandum from Hubbard to Magnuson, 22 July 1941

2. Memorandum for Assistant Hydrographer, 22 October 1941

3. Despatch from US Naval Attaché, Melbourne, 14 February 1942

4. Memorandum from C.O. USS YP-422, 12 September 1942

5. Moulton testimony in Church of Scientology v. Armstrong, 21 May 1984

6. USS PC-815 Action Report, 24 May 1943

7. Memorandum from Commander NW Sea Frontier, 8 June 1943

8. Record of proceedings, Board of Investigation, USS PC-815, 30 June 1943

9. Letter of admonition from Commander, Fleet Operational Training Command, Pacific, 15 July 1943

10. Report on the Fitness of Officers, 29 May - 7 July 1943

11. Letter from L. Ron Hubbard Jr., 26 January 1973

12. L. Ron Hubbard autobiographical notes, 1972

13. Ron The Writer

14. Rocky Mountain News, 20 February 1983

15. Deck log of USS Algol, US National Archives

16. Foreword to Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon, 1986

17. Asimov, op. cit.

18. Williamson, op. cit.

19. Hubbard, My Philosophy, 1965 and passim

Chapter Seven

1. L. R. Hubbard Claim 7017422, Veterans' Administration Archives

2. Alva Rogers, Darkhouse, 1962

3. John Symonds, The Great Beast, 1971

4. Letter from L. Sprague de Camp to Symonds, 5 August 1952

5. Interview with Nieson Himmel, Los Angeles, 14 August 1986

6. Letter to author from Jack Williamson, 1 November 1986

7. Rogers, op. cit.

8. Rogers, ibid.

9. Interview with Himmel.

10. Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival, 1972

11. Interview with Himmel.

12. Symonds, op. cit.

13. Rogers, op. cit.

14. Parsons file, O.T.O. archives, New York

15. Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

16. Grant, op. cit.

17. Parsons v. Hubbard & Northrup, Case No. 101634, Circuit Court, Dade County, Florida.

18. Book of Babalon, O.T.O archives, New York

19. ibid.

20. John Parsons, 'Magical Record', O.T.O. archives, New York

21. Symonds, op. cit.

22. Letter to author from Mrs Catherine Gillespie, November 1986

23. Hubbard file, VA archives

24. L. R. Hubbard navy record

25. O.T.O archives, New York

26. ibid.

27. Grant, op. cit.

28. Parsons v. Hubbard & Northrup

29. Hubbard file, VA archives.

30. Pasadena Star News, 21 June 1952 and 5 July 1952

Chapter Eight

1. Report of Physical Examination, VA file, 19 September 1946

2. Transcript - Church of Scientology v. Armstrong

3. Hubbard file, VA archives

4. Interview with Merwin, Los Angeles, August 1986

5. The John W. Campbell Letters, Vol. 1

6. Interview with Mrs Roberts

7. Interview with Ford

8. Interview with Forrest Ackerman, Hollywood, 30 July 1986

9. Hubbard file, VA archives

10. ibid.

11. Shangri-La, LASFAS club organ, No. 6, May-June 1948

12. Interview with Arthur Jean Cox, Los Angeles, 18 August 1986

13. Interview with A.E. van Vogt, Los Angeles, 22 July 1986

14. FBI memo, 13 April 1967

15. L.R. Hubbard navy record

Chapter Nine

1. The Universe Makers, Donald Wollheim, 1971

2. Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1978

3. A Doctor's Report on Dianetics, Joseph A. Winter, 1951 4. Explorers Journal, Winter/Spring 1950

5. Hubbard's autographical notes, 1972

6. Asimov, op. cit.

7. Williamson, op. cit.

8. Fantastic, August 1975

9. Interview with Jack Horner, Santa Monica, 24 July 1986

10. Interview with Ackerman

11. Scientific American, Jan 1951

12. New Republic, 14 August 1950

13. LOOK, 5 December 1950

14. The New York Times, 6 August 1950

15. Newsweek, No. 36, August 1950

16. Parade, 29 October 1950

17. Los Angeles Daily News, 6 September 1950

Chapter Ten

1. Interview with Cox and letter to Martin Gardner, 30 April 1952

2. Interview with Ackerman

3. Cults of Unreason, Christopher Evans, 1973

4. Interview with A.E. van Vogt

5. Interviews with Barbara Kaye, Los Angeles, 28 July - 5 August 1986

6. Interview with Perry Chapdelaine, Nashville, 25 April 1986

7. Winter, op. cit.

8. Letter to Barbara Kaye from Hubbard, 21 Oct 1951

9. US Govt memo to Director FBI from SAC Newark, 21 Mar 1951

10. Interview with Horner

11. Dianetics and the Professions, A.E. van Vogt, 1953

12. A Factual Report on Dianetics, John W. Maloney, Feb 1952

13. Interview with Richard de Mille, Santa Barbera, 25 July 1986

14. US Govt memo to Director FBI from SAC Chicago, 27 April 1951

15. Letter in FBI files, 10 Mar 1951

16. US Govt memo 62-116151-70, 7 Mar 1952

17. Letter in FBI files, 10 Mar 1951

17. Airgram to Legal Attaché, Havana, 27 April 1951

18. Divorce complaint No. D414498, 23 April 1951, Los Angeles Superior Court

19. Interview with Caryl Warner, Hollywood, August 1986

Chapter Eleven

1. Interview with de Mille

2. Diane Lewis research report, Wichita, January 1987

3. FBI memo, 15 May 1951

4. Wichita Eagle-Beacon, 26 Mar 1983

5. Interviews with Kaye

6. FBI file, 14 May 1951

7. Interview with de Mille

8. Case no. A36594, District Court of Sedgwick County, Kansas

9. Dianetics in Limbo, Helen O'Brien, 1966

10. Telephone interviews with Helen O'Brien, Los Angeles, August 1986

11. Interview with Chapdelaine

12. Hubbard file, VA archives

13. Dianetics Today, Don Purcell, January 1954

14. Interview with Moore, Wichita, November 1986

15. US Govt memos, 1 Oct 1951 and 16 Oct 1951

16. FBI Dn File 100-6136

17. Purcell, op. cit.

18. Hubbard Dianetic Foundation Inc. in Bankruptcy no. 379-B-2, District Court of Kansas

19. Non-attributable interviews in Los Angeles, August 1986, and Haywards Heath, Sussex, May 1986

Chapter Twelve

1. What is Scientology?, 1978 ed.

2. Ability no. 81, 1959

3. Have You Lived Before This Life?, ed. L. Ron Hubbard, 1968

4. Report of the Board of Inquiry into Scientology, State of Victoria, Australia, 1965

5. Religious Sects, Bryan Wilson, 1970

6. Interview with Carmen D'Alessio, London, Jan. 1986

7. Interviews with Helen O'Brien

8. Interview with Fred Stansfield, Burbank, July 1986

9. Evidence of L. Ron Hubbard Jr. at Clearwater hearings, May 1982

10. Bankruptcy file 23747, Federal Records Center, Philadelphia

11. Letter from office of J. Edgar Hoover to Senator Homer Ferguson, 2 Mar 1953

12. Interview with Ray Kemp, Palomar, CA., Aug 1986

13. Interview with Horner

14. Interview with Galusha, Denver, Colorado, March 1986

Chapter Thirteen

1. FBI memo, 11 October 1957

2. FBI memo, 27 February 1957

3. HCO Technical Bulletin, Vol. II, 1955

4. Interview with Cyril Vosper, London, December 1985

5. Interview with Pam Kemp, Palomar, CA, August 1986

6. Founding Church of Scientology v. US Court of Claims No. 22-61

7. Report of Board of Inquiry into Scientology, State of Victoria, Australia, 1965

8. FBI Airtel, 7 August 1958

9. Interview with Vosper

10. Interview with Kemp

Chapter Fourteen

1. Interview with Alan Larcombe, East Grinstead, November 1985

2. Garden News, 18 December 1959

3. A Piece of Blue Sky, Jon Atack, 1992

4. Interview with Joan Vidal, London, January 1986

5. Interview with Mrs. Roberts

6. A Piece of Blue Sky, Jon Atack, 1992

7. Letter from Mary Sue Hubbard to Marilyn Routsong, 4 February 1960

8. Interview with George Hay, London, March 1987

9. HCO News Letter, 7 May 1962

10. Minutes of special staff meeting, HCO Washington, 29 August 1952

Chapter Fifteen

1. 'The Findings on the US Food and Drug Agency' [sic], Church of Scientology, 1968

2. HCO Bulletin, 11 May 1963

3. Saturday Evening Post, 21 March 1964

4. Interview with Ken Urquhart, Maclean, VA., April 1986

5. Interview with Vosper

6. Anderson, op. cit.

7. Enquiry into the Practice & Effects of Scientology, Sir John Foster, 1971

8. The Road To Total Freedom, Roy Wallis, 1976

9. Secretarial Executive Director, Office of LRH, 9 February 1966

10. The People, 20 March 1966

11. Saxon Hamilton Journal, Summer 1985

12. CIA files obtained via FOI

13. Rhodesia Sunday Mail, 22 May 1966

14. Interview with McMaster, London, March 1986

15. CIA memo, 22 August 1966

16. Interview with McMaster

17. CIA memo

18. Interview with Kemp

19. Interview with McMaster

Chapter Sixteen

1. Letter from assistant secretary, Explorers Club, 8 December 1966

2. Interview with Kemp

3. Mission into Time, L. Ron Hubbard, 1973

4. Interview with Virginia Downsborough, Santa Barbera, CA., August 1986

5. Despatch from LRH, 22 April 1967

6. Cults of Unreason, Christopher Evans, 1973

7. Interview with Amos Jessup, San Diego, July 1986

8. Interview with Hana Eltringham, Los Angeles, March 1986

9. HCO Policy Letter, 26 Sept 1967
10. Interview with McMaster

11. The People, 21 February 1968

Chapter Seventeen

1. Interview with Mary Maren, Los Angeles, August 1986

2. Interview with Jessup

3. Interview with Eltringham

4. Interview with McMaster

5. Interview with David Mayo, Palo Alto, August 1986

6. Daily Mail, 6 August 1968

7. Scientology: The Now Religion, George Malko, 1970

8. Interview with Jessup

9. Interview with Urquhart

10. Interview with McMaster

11. The Commodore and the Colonels, John Forte (pub. Corfu Tourist Publications and Enterprises, 1981)

12. Letter from Mary Sue Hubbard to Sir John Foster, 6 November 1969

13. Interview with Kathy Cariotaki, San Diego, July 1986

Chapter Eighteen

1. Interview with Urquhart

2. Los Angeles Times, 29 August 1970

3. The Guardian, 12 February 1980

4. Guardian Order, 16 December 1969

5. Flag Order no. 1890, 26 March 1969

6. Affidavit of Gerald Armstrong, 16 March 1986

7. Testimony, Armstrong v. Church of Scientology, 1984

8. Interview with Michael Goldstein, Denver, CO, March 1986

9. Interview with Doreen Gillham, Malibu, CA, August 1986

10. Interview with Eltringham

11. Letter from Sara Hollister; testimony Armstrong v. Church of Scientology, 1984

12. Jon Atack archives

13. Interview with Jim Dincalci, Berkeley, CA, August 1986

14. The O.J. Roos Story, 7 September 1984

15. Los Angeles Times, 29 August 1978

16. Letter from Mary Sue Hubbard to Jane Kember, 2 September 1972

Chapter Nineteen

1. Interview with Urquhart

2. Interview with Dincalci

3. Interview with Eltringham

4. Interview with Kima Douglas, Oakland, CA, Sept 1986

5. Interview with Jill Goodman, New York, March 1986

6. Interview with Doreen Gillham

7. Interview with Gerald Armstrong, Boston, February 1986

8. Interview with Tanya Burden, Boston, February 1986

9. L.R. Hubbard navy record

10. Interview with Kathy Cariotaki, San Diego, July 1986

11. Interview with Mrs Roberts

12. Los Angeles Times, 29 August 1978

13. Capt. Bill Roberts Debrief transcript, May 1982

14. Interview with Kemp

Chapter Twenty

1. Interview with Frankie Freedman, Sherman Oaks, CA, Aug 1986

2. Interview with Dincalci

3. Interview with Mayo

4. Clearwater Sun, 5 Dec 1975

5. GO Order 261175, 26 Nov 1975

6. St Petersburg Times, 9 Jan 1980

7. Interview with Douglas

8. Interview with Alan Vos, Maclean, VA, March 1986

9. Officer's Report, D.R. No 76-57596, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

10. Interview with Ed Walters, Las Vegas, Aug 1986

Chapter Twenty-One

1. Affidavit of Anne Rosenblum

2. Interview with Dincalci

3. Religion, Inc., Stewart Lamont, 1986

4. Affidavits of Adelle & Ernest Hartwell, St Petersburg Times, 9 Jan 1980

5. Interview with Douglas

6. Interview with Armstrong

7. Interview with Urquhart

8. Interview with Mayo

9. Interview with Walters

10. Jon Atack archives

Chapter Twenty-Two

1. Forbes, 26 October 1986

2. Interview with Gillham

3. Interview with Mayo

4. Testimony, Church of Scientology v. Armstrong

5. Newsletter of Center for Personal Achievement, 13 February 1984

6. Interview with van Vogt

7. Interview with Downsborough

8. Forbes, 27 October 1986

9. Case No. 47150, re: the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard, Superior Court for the County of Riverside

10. San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune, 30 January 1986

11. Interview with Robert Whaley, Creston, August 1986

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