In June 1942, Hubbard was given command of a patrol boat at the Boston Navy Yard, but he was relieved after the yard commandant wrote that Hubbard was "not temperamentally fitted for independent command". [53] In 1943, Hubbard was given command of a submarine chaser, but only five hours into the shakedown cruise, Hubbard believed he had detected an enemy submarine. Hubbard and crew spent the next 68 hours engaged in combat. An investigation concluded that Hubbard had likely mistaken a "known magnetic deposit" for an enemy sub. [54] [55] [56] The following month, Hubbard unwittingly fired upon Mexican territory and was relieved of command. [57] In 1944, Hubbard served aboard the USS Algol before being transferred. The night before his departure, Hubbard reported the discovery of an attempted sabotage. [58] [59] Prison: The Hidden Sentence does provide a lot of that information, and a few of the facilitators here do have books that they can share also. It’s important that we must support the children. There are almost 3 million children in the United States that have an incarcerated parent, and another 10 million that have or had a parent in the prison system. The majority of them are under ten years old. When their parent comes home, they might be an adult. They’ve lived their childhood having to visit the prison and have a relationship with their parents while they’re incarcerated. Hubbard claimed to have traveled to Manchuria, but his diary did not record it. [294] Hubbard claimed to be a graduate engineer, but in fact he earned poor grades at university, was placed on probation in September 1931 and dropped out altogether in the fall of 1932. [131] :31 [295] [131] :31 Hubbard used the title 'Doctor', but his only doctorate was from a diploma mill. Hubbard claimed to have been crippled and blinded in combat, but records show he was never wounded and never received a Purple Heart (a decoration given to all US servicemen wounded in action). Hubbard's Navy service records indicate that he received only four campaign medals rather than the twenty-one claimed by Church biographies. [56] Legacy Hubbard's great-grandson, slam poet Jamie DeWolf. When someone you love has been arrested, tried or taken from you, you have a feeling of powerlessness, loneliness and frustration. Prison Families Alliance is here to give the families a voice and help the families learn that not only are they not alone, but we all share the same feelings, concerns and fears. We also try to help our families navigate the system. We teach them how to advocate for themselves and their loved ones. We tell them what they need to get through this journey. It’s a very long, complicated journey and no one needs to take it by themselves. Ortega, Tony (July 31, 2019). " 'Strange Angel' goes there, teases Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard at season end". The Underground Bunker.

Owen argues that Hubbard likely suffered from venereal disease, writing: "Sulfa drugs were used in treatment but in excess could cause bloody urine, something which Hubbard's shipmate Thomas Moulton saw him passing on at least one occasion. Hubbard himself later complained about the amount of sulfa he had been fed in the Navy. Former Scientology spokesman Robert Vaughn Young claims that Hubbard's private papers refer to him having caught gonorrhoea from a girlfriend named Fern, which forced him to secretly take sulfa." Westbrook, Donald A. (2017). "Researching Scientology and Scientologists in the United States: Methods and Conclusions". In Lewis, James R.; Hellesoy, Kjersti (eds.). Handbook of Scientology. Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion. Brill. ISBN 9789004330542. a b Sappell, Joel; Welkos, Robert (June 24, 1990). "The Making of L. Ron Hubbard: Creating the Mystique". Los Angeles Times. A38:1.

For the first few years of the 1980s, Hubbard and the Broekers lived on the move, touring the Pacific Northwest in a recreational vehicle and living for a while in apartments in Newport Beach and Los Angeles. [256] Hubbard used his time in hiding to write his first new works of science fiction in nearly thirty years— Battlefield Earth (1982) and Mission Earth, a ten-volume series published between 1985 and 1987. [257] They received mixed responses, being "treated derisively by most critics but greatly admired by followers". [258] In OT VIII, Hubbard discusses the Antichrist, a Christian apocalyptic figure, depicted here with the devil whispering into his left ear as visualized by Italian renaissance painter Luca Signorelli. Whitehead, Harriet (1987). Renunciation and reformulation: a study of conversion in an American sect. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-1849-5. OCLC 14002616. OL 2722663M. During the pandemic, Hubbard uncovered 500 letters she had exchanged with her late father while she and her husband prepared to sell their house. Sappell, Joel; Welkos, Robert W. (June 24, 1990). "The Mind Behind the Religion: Chapter Two: Creating the Mystique: Hubbard's image was crafted of truth, distorted by myth". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved July 25, 2022. a b c d Corydon, Bent (1987). L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman?. Lyle Stuart. ISBN 0818404442. ( alternative link)

When Scientology was in trouble in 1955, L. Ron Hubbard told prosecutor he was a 'psychologist' ". tonyortega.org. February 21, 2016. Fromm, Erich. " "Dianetics" – For Seekers of Prefabricated Happiness" (PDF). opus4.kobv.de. But perhaps the most unfortunate element in Dianetics is the way it is written. The mixture of some oversimplified truths, half truths and plain absurdities, the propagandistic technique of impressing the reader with the greatness, infallibility and newness of the author's system, the promise of unheard of results attained by the simple means of following Dianetics is a technique which has had most unfortunate results in the fields of patent medicines and politics; applied to psychology and psychiatry it will not be less harmful. a b Ortega, Tony (2015). The Unbreakable Miss Lovely. London: Silvertail Books. ISBN 9781511639378. After trying and failing for two years to regain my equilibrium in civil life, I am utterly unable to approach anything like my own competence. My last physician informed me that it might be very helpful if I were to be examined and perhaps treated psychiatrically or even by a psychoanalyst. Toward the end of my service I avoided out of pride any mental examinations, hoping that time would balance a mind which I had every reason to suppose was seriously affected. I cannot account for nor rise above long periods of moroseness and suicidal inclinations, and have newly come to realize that I must first triumph above this before I can hope to rehabilitate myself at all. ... I cannot, myself, afford such treatment. Christensen, Dorthe Refslund (2005). "Inventing L. Ron Hubbard: On the Construction and Maintenance of the Hagiographic Mythology of Scientology's Founder". In Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jasper Aagaard (eds.). Controversial New Religions (1sted.). Oxford University Press. pp.227–258. doi: 10.1093/019515682X.003.0011. ISBN 9780195156836. OCLC 53398162.Barrett 2001, p.461; Lewis 2009a, pp.6–7; Melton 2009, p.24; Urban 2011, p.63; Bigliardi 2016, pp.667–668; Thomas 2021, p.47.