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Part One: How L. Ron Hubbard Lied His Way to Godhood

Behind the Bastards

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The Godfather - Part Two

Hubbard tried to start a career as a screenwriter in Hollywood, but he couldn't hack it. He moved back East to write more trashy pulp fiction in the woods with his wife. The Church of Scientology says he was one of the legends of Hollywood's Golden Age. For the rest of his life, he would claim to be a Hollywood screenwriter and just claimed he had written famous movies that he didn't write.

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