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Part Two: The Last Days of L. Ron Hubbard

Behind the Bastards

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The Purification Rundown - A Cure for Drug Addiction

Hubbard's main interest was the purification rundown which he viewed as a cure for drug addiction. In Oklahoma it killed four people over the course of three years. He decided this achievement had clearly earned him a Nobel Prize and he wrote it in order to his PR officer authorizing the expenditure of unlimited funds to win him the Nobel prize. On May 25th, 1977, Star Wars launched to a world of unsuspecting moviegoers. It made conservatively all the money and changed both Hollywood and the world forever.

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