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Navy Letter

October 18, 1943: L. Ron Hubbard writes a letter to the Navy asking for orders taking him into combat duty.

May 22, 1946: Aleister Crowley cables his US office after reading reports from his branch headquarters in America and Jack Parsons's accounts of the occult ceremony he had performed with L. Ron Hubbard: "Suspect Ron playing confidence trick--Jack Parsons weak fool--obvious victim prowling swindlers." In a letter a few days later he said, "It seems to me on the information of our brethren in California that Parsons has got an illumination in which he lost all his personal independence. From our brother's account he has given away both his girl and his money. Apparently it is the ordinary confidence trick."

VA Medical Exam

December 11, 1947: Hubbard has another VA medical exam. Examiner Roy H. Nyquist notes a previously undocumented injury claimed by Hubbard: 1942 - Fell down a ladder on SS Pennent in 1942 injuring his back, rt hip, left knee and right heel. This claim was rather strange - not only is there no previous mention of it in Hubbard's extensive medical records, but Hubbard does not appear to have sailed on the "SS Pennent".

Navy Letter

February 19, 1948: L. Ron Hubbard writes to the US Navy, asking that his previous letter of resignation be disregarded, in response to a reply from the Chief of Naval Personnel regretting Hubbard's decision to resign.

Navy Letter

May 1, 1951: L. Ron Hubbard writes to the Veterans Administration stating that he is "willing to submit to a physical examination in connection with my claim for disability compensation." By 1951, he had already sold many copies of Dianetics, in which he claims that his "research" had enabled him to completely cure himself of all the injuries and maladies he suffered during the war.

Navy Telegram

May 24, 1951: L. Ron Hubbard sends a telegram to his mistress, Barbara: "Better keep our plans a close secret as I do not know what they would try to do to you if they knew. Be very careful. All my love, Ron."

Mesa Picket

January 6, 2001: Critics picket in Mesa

San Francisco Picket

January 6, 2001: Critics picket in San Francisco

Phoenix Picket

January 6, 2001: Bruce and Kathy Pettycrew picket in Phoenix, Arizona - "Still shrinking"

Atlanta Picket

January 6, 2001: Ethercat pickets in Atlanta, Georgia - "I don't know what accounts for the lessened car count at the org, except maybe the pickets, the 2001 boycott, the well-informed public, the internet - generally speaking, the efforts of all the critics."

San Francisco Picket

January 6, 2001: Phil, Peaches, Sal, and Kristi Wachter picket in San Francisco - "nice, quiet picket; Craig shadows me; new picketer: Sal; 231 fliers"