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TONY ORTEGA
Excerpt:
[Dropping a dime]
With the help of a researcher we are continuing to look back at Scientology’s earliest days as they happened 75 years ago.
And 75 years ago this past week, Dianetics author and founder of the Scientology movement L. Ron Hubbard was in high dudgeon!
In our last installment, we recalled how Ron, 39, was frantic that after separating from his second wife Sara Northrup, 25, and hooking up with his secretary Barbara Klowden, he found out that Sara was seeing one of the members of the Dianetics foundation in Los Angeles, Miles Hollister, 22.
Ron decided to kidnap Sara after hiding away their infant daughter Alexis, and then he made a mad dash in the middle of the night in order to get Sara declared insane so he could commit her before she could get him committed. They ended up in Yuma, Arizona.
At that point he abandoned his nutty plan, let Sara go back to LA, but had Alexis brought to him as he headed for Elizabeth, New Jersey, with a stop in Chicago to get his own head examined by a shrink in order to get proof that he was not insane.
After reuniting with the baby in New Jersey, Hubbard and his assistant Richard deMille would eventually head down to Cuba. But before they left, Ron decided it was time to drop a dime with his old pen pal…
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
Hubbard had first written to the FBI in 1940, when he was a writer living in New York, the war was raging in Europe but the U.S. was not yet involved, and Ron decided that a German steward at the Knickerbocker Hotel on West 45th Street named Walter Fast had Nazi sympathies.
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With the help of a researcher we are continuing to look back at Scientology’s earliest days as they happened 75 years ago.
And 75 years ago this past week, Dianetics author and founder of the Scientology movement L. Ron Hubbard was in high dudgeon!
In our last installment, we recalled how Ron, 39, was frantic that after separating from his second wife Sara Northrup, 25, and hooking up with his secretary Barbara Klowden, he found out that Sara was seeing one of the members of the Dianetics foundation in Los Angeles, Miles Hollister, 22.
Ron decided to kidnap Sara after hiding away their infant daughter Alexis, and then he made a mad dash in the middle of the night in order to get Sara declared insane so he could commit her before she could get him committed. They ended up in Yuma, Arizona.
At that point he abandoned his nutty plan, let Sara go back to LA, but had Alexis brought to him as he headed for Elizabeth, New Jersey, with a stop in Chicago to get his own head examined by a shrink in order to get proof that he was not insane.
After reuniting with the baby in New Jersey, Hubbard and his assistant Richard deMille would eventually head down to Cuba. But before they left, Ron decided it was time to drop a dime with his old pen pal…
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
Hubbard had first written to the FBI in 1940, when he was a writer living in New York, the war was raging in Europe but the U.S. was not yet involved, and Ron decided that a German steward at the Knickerbocker Hotel on West 45th Street named Walter Fast had Nazi sympathies.
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When Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard and the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover were pen pals
With the help of a researcher we are continuing to look back at Scientology’s earliest days as they happened 75 years ago.
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