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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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Scientology - The Apollo's Medical Officer

The Apollo's medical officer was a guy named in Kalki with six months of nursing experience under his belt. Hubbard got angry at him because he didn't need painkillers. In the mid 1972, the French government launched an investigation into the Church of Scientology while several of their ships were docked for engine repairs. He fled to the east coast of the United States and spent 10 months in a New Jersey hotel watching daytime TV and drinking way too much brandy.

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