Part 16 (1/2)
[>] No evidence has been found: The Scientology researcher Chris Owens has written extensively on Hubbard's war record, using Hubbard's navy records and other data acquired through the Freedom of Information Act. Most of his findings are contained in the e-book Ron the War Hero: L. Ron Hubbard and the U.S. Navy, 194150, e Pendle, Strange Angel, p. 267.
[>] ”writing material”: Letter from Hubbard to Chief of Naval Personnel, file number 113392, April 1, 1946, as cited in Pendle, Strange Angel, p. 268.
[>] ”near mental and financial collapse”: Letter from Parsons to Aleister Crowley, 1947, as cited in Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival, p. 168.
”broke, working the poor-wounded”: Letter from De Camp to Isaac Asimov, August 27, 1946, as cited in Pendle, Strange Angel, p. 271.
[>] quietly writing a series: Hubbard's affirmations have been a point of controversy since they were revealed during the 1984 Armstrong case. During his trial, Armstrong read portions of them into the record, and the Church of Scientology authenticated them. More than fifteen years later, in 2000, Armstrong received an e-mailed copy of the affirmations, which he posted on his website, e from A Doctor's Report; all references to Helen O'Brien come from Dianetics in Limbo, as do quotations. The account of the Shrine Auditorium event draws from Gardner's Fads and Fallacies and from Russell Miller's Barefaced Messiah.
For general historical and biographical information on Hubbard, I relied upon Atak's A Piece of Blue Sky and Miller's Barefaced Messiah, as well as Sara Northrup's account of her marriage as told to the Los Angeles Superior Court during her 1951 divorce proceedings and to the writer and former Scientologist Bent Corydon for his book L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?, written with Brian Ambry.
For correspondence from Hubbard, I relied on scans of original letters published by the Church of Scientology International at several websites, notably ”Ron the Philosopher: The Birth of Dianetics,” which is published at muniques on their website Refund and Reparation (e from The Collected Works of C. G. Jung; Morton Hunt's The Story of Psychology; Lauren Slater's Opening Skinner's Box; Jack El-Hai's The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness; Stephen Whitfield's The Culture of the Cold War; and Hugh Urban's article ”Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America.”
In addition, I relied on a tremendous number of newspaper and magazine stories from the 1950s, notably those that appeared in Time, Newsweek, and Look magazines, all of which have been cited below or in the bibliography.
[>] ”rape women without”: Letter from Hubbard to Forrest Ackerman, January 13, 1949, carolineletkeman.org/sp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=387&Itemid=116.
[>] Hubbard offered the APA: Letter from Hubbard to the American Psychological a.s.sociation, April 13, 1949, munity's view of Dianetics, also makes the point that while most physicians ”maintain their haughty silence, the dianetics vogue flourishes.”
”lunatic revision of Freudian psychology”: Williamson, Wonder's Child, p. 183.
[>] ”I considered it gibberish”: Isaac Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, p. 587.