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Anonymous asked this question on 4/18/2000:

I've heard conflicting reports as to L. Ron Hubbard's past. Was he a war hero? Was he a nuclear scientist? I heard that in his youth that he was an Indiana Jones types - is that true?

Greg Churilov refused to answer this question on 4/18/2000:

All biographical data on Mr. Hubbard is available at http://www.lronhubbard.org He was a decorated war hero (Lieutenant, Jr. Grde, US Navy).

[What the cultist doesn't mention is that the cult claims he got awarded either 22 or 23 medals. In fact he got three or four -- medals which were awarded to everyone. Hubbard's real war record -- including Navy records -- can be reviewed at http://www.ronthewarhero.org/ I suspect tahat this cultist is aware of Hubbard's record and is rather embarrassed that his cult masters have to lie about it - flr]

He attended courses on Nuclear Science at George Washington University.

[And that's utter nonsense. He attended a non-accredited course that was incidentally held on the George Washington University Campus. He did not, as this cultist was told to believe, "attend" the University. Additionally, the one physics course that Hubbard took resulted in an F grade -- because Hubbard was totally and completely uneducated and had some rather profoundly (tyhough amusingly) wrong notions about even the simplest of physics - flr]

With his father in the Navy, young Hubbard did get to travel a lot and see lots of Asia and the Far East.

[And that's wrong, too. Hubbard never managed to make it to Asia or this "Far East" which this cultist seems to think is different than Asia. His war record includes the "sinking" of magnetic rock formations and firing on Mexico's Coronodos island, among other rather stupid acts. Hubbard didn't exactly declare war on Mexico, by the way. No, shooting up Mexico's Coronodo islands was a stupid accident - flr]

There is also a LOT of misinformation about Hubbard on defamatory sites, run by people whose purpose is to sla The truth is in documents and photographs of L.Ron Hubbard's life, all a matter of public record.

[Amusingly, Hubbard's war record is publically available. The Scientology cult's leaders, however, make sure that their rubes never get a chance to see it - flr]

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