Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

Was taking Alexis to Cuba difficult? Cuba in those days was a country known as a wide open place,
you could do anything you wanted to do. They didn't care what you did as long as you brought
money. It was the corruption centre of universe. You didn't need a passport, it was a place for
Americans to go and have a good time.
He was not planning to keep the baby, he was just using her. Of course she was his daughter -
she looked exactly like him.
Most of the time in Cuba he dictated almost every night. As I was transcribing the material I thought
it was dull - the dullest book he ever wrote - it was nowhere. I thought it was horrible. He thought it
was true and important, but it was terribly boring and repetitive.
We walked into the embassy, asked to talk to the officer of the day and this young captain showed
up, Ron talked to him, officer to officer. The officer said, "Well, Mr H., we'll try and help you out."
Hubbard said there were people who wanted to get hold of his material and destroy it and he
needed help and protection from a fellow officer.
He wrote a letter to a senator pledging to have a military aeroplane sent to Havana to pick him up.
One of the old senators, probably somebody he'd met. He knew a lot of people in Washington.
There was no response.
Purcell sent a plane for him. I suppose Purcell had been either to LA or Elizabeth and said, "If you
ever need any help..."
When I got back to Wichita Ron was living with his housekeeper, who'd already made designs on
him, but she didn't last. He enjoyed women, liked to have a woman to go to bed with and if the
woman got pregnant you just had to handle that. Mary Sue was just another student in the
programme when I got there. I liked her and we talked when we went out to dinner. Not long after
that she got hooked up with Hubbard. She said she'd like to go out with me but I said I had to go to
LA and said let's do it when I come back. But I didn't come back.
Hubbard was sleeping with his housekeeper. She was an attractive woman in her 40s. He didn't
like to have a woman around without making use of her. He had a large old house in a pleasant
residential area.
Purcell was a successful builder and real estate developer. He was skinny, chronically constipated
and wanted to get over it with Dianetics, this was what Ron told me. It was well known Don was
constipated. He was emaciated-looking. I suspect that what went wrong was that Ron wanted to
spend too much of Don's money and Don probably clamped down and Ron got pissed off and
went to Phoenix. I went there in '52.
By the time I got to Phoenix it was Scientology and Ron was living in a nice house on country road -
I guess with Mary Sue - and classes were being held downtown. I stayed with them maybe a week
and then I was assigned some work to do in LA and I wrote a whole series of material to
supplement his lectures, trying to expand on his ideas. The author's name purports to be "D.
Folgere", really Folgere, an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "follower". He wanted me to put my name
on it, but I wouldn't.
He didn't change at all, ever.
He did it the way everyone did - he promised heaven, "I have the key which can open the door. Do