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Part One: The Last Days of L. Ron Hubbard

Behind the Bastards

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The Man With the Most Skeletons

Hubbard's main goal was to unseat Gabriel Kazares, who had grown into a figure of almost Luciferian importance to the Scientologist. They were worried about his moderate concern about them taking over his town with a paramilitary security force. The Guardian's office made hasty plans to give him a welcome. A Scientologist posing as a Washington reporter sought an interview with Kazares and introduced him to a friend Sharon Thomas in Rock Creek Park. She temporarily lost control of her car and ran into a pedestrian who crumpled dramatically. Miss Thomas accelerated away without stopping, leaving the injured man lying on the road. Is the injured man also a client? Yeah, he's assigned to everyone involved as

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