He soon founded his own 'church' and then rampaged around the world variously pursued by the CIA, the FBI and outraged governments. While writing pulp science fiction, he claimed to have made discoveries about the workings of the human mind that would enable cures to be found for everything from cancer to the common cold. What is not in dispute is that Hubbard was one of the most bizarre characters of the twentieth century. In the words of a Californian judge, he was schizophrenic, paranoid and a pathological liar. In the words of his 'official' biography, Hubbard was an explorer, engineer, scientist, war hero and philosopher. Ron Hubbard, a penniless science-fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology, became a millionaire prophet and convinced his adoring followers that he alone could save the world. Bare-Faced Messiah tells the extraordinary story of L.
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