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Part Two: L. Ron Hubbard: The Greatest Con-Man In History

Behind the Bastards

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The Story of Elrond Hubbard

Elrond Hubbard started in addition to lying about his background, claiming that all of his years of work as a trashy sci-fi writer and his globe-trotting adventures were all research. He told Parade Magazine that he'd had a child with his new wife, Sarah Hubbard, which was true. The audience immediately started asking her stuff like what did you have for breakfast on October 3, 1942? What's on page 122 of Dianetics? She couldn't answer any of this stuff.

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