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

Behind the Bastards

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Dionetics and Hubbard

When Dr. Winter left, Hubbard announced that the doctor had been engaged in a scheme to take over the foundation. In 1951, his wife Sarah attempted suicide. Elron audited her afterwards and claimed to have recovered an engram that told him his wife's suicide attempt had been caused by a phone call from Barbara about work-related business. "I don't give a good goddamn about the world," he said when she asked if he would leave her free to marry a Sharpie with a cigar in his mouthfrom Muncie, Indiana.

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