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The Scientology Story: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard // Chapter 2: Creating the Mystique

Title: The Scientology Story: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard // Chapter 2: Creating the Mystique
Date: Sunday, 24 June 1990
Publisher: Los Angeles Times (California)
Authors: Joel Sappell, Robert W. Welkos
Main source: articles.latimes.com

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Hubbard's image was crafted of truth, distorted by myth. To his followers, L. Ron Hubbard was bigger than life. But it was an image largely of his own making. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge put it bluntly while presiding over a Church of Scientology lawsuit in 1984. Scientology's founder, he said, was "virtually a pathological liar" about his past. Hubbard was an intelligent and well-read man, with diverse interests, experience and expertise. But that apparently was not enough to satisfy ... [Read the rest at articles.latimes.com]