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TONY ORTEGA
Excerpt:Last year, Scientology marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of Dianetics — the L. Ron Hubbard book that started everything — with a new edition and a big celebration of the 1950 milestone.
The church has had less to say about Hubbard’s fortunes the following year, after the hubbub over Dianetics died down and 1951 turned out to be perhaps Ron’s most nightmarish year ever.
Those are the milestones we’ve been marking this year, and one after another it was a string of disasters unfolding 75 years ago for the well-known pulp fiction writer.
As 1951 began, a press that had been merely curious about Dianetics when it first appeared now began to take a harder, more skeptical look at it, like this early takedown by the great Carey McWilliams.
In February, convinced that his wife Sara was going to have him committed, Hubbard kidnapped their infant daughter Alexis and then tried to kidnap Sara to have her declared insane. He then tried to turn in some of his top former supporters to the FBI, claiming that they had turned out to be Communists.
While Hubbard was still hiding their daughter Alexis from her, Sara filed for divorce in April and went public with accusations that he was violent and insane. Hubbard, however, had absconded with Alexis to Cuba and he finally told Sara where they were in a bizarre April 15 letter.
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Last year, Scientology marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of Dianetics — the L.


