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

Behind the Bastards

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The Great Wall of China - A History of Scientology

Gatt spent some time in the Far East, but it was mostly on military bases with his parents. We have his diaries from those times and he's not weirdly racist for an American in like 1920, but he's pretty racist. Most of them involved American travelers meeting beautiful foreign women. He didn't seem to know how to write sex scenes. But we do know that this is the time when he first started sketching out short stories because he spent a lot of boring time on boats and trains.

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