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Part Three: L. Ron Hubbard's High Sea Adventures With His Private Cult Navy

Behind the Bastards

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The Avon River - The Only Semen on the Boat

The Avon River was a refitted next and sailed out of port by a professional skipper named John Jones. The crew were 16 men and four women Scientologists who wouldn't know a trawler from a tram car. I was instructed not to use any electrical equipment apart from lights, radio and direction finder. We had radar and other advanced equipment which I was not allowed to use. It's frustrating because you read the stories of these semen and they're all very talk about how crazy this is but they're also really misogynists.

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