Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

He did do a lot of research and had a lot of other people doing writing and research for him. A lot of
his research was done in solo auditing. He would try ideas out on himself and pass them on to me
to run on other people.
In Hemet in 79 I'd watch TV with him and he'd reminisce. He talked about time when he was a
troubadour in the Blue Mountains and went around, playing the guitar, singing hill-billy songs and
earned his living that way. I didn't know whether it was true. I think he made it up on the spur of the
moment because I'd never heard that before. He had a guitar there and sang some songs. He
could play to some degree, but he seemed pretty amateurish. I think he made up the songs as he
went along, but they sounded like hill-billy songs. I was auditing them, and had an apartment next
to him.
He was ill in late '78, September, and I was transferred to La Quinta when he was ill. He thought
there was going to be an FBI raid and in early 79 he left La Quinta and ended up in an apartment
complex in Hemet. Later I was transferred to audit him on NOTs and then he went on to doing Solo
NOTs in mid '79.
After the Sea Org went ashore I went to Daytona. LRH was there living in a separate building. We
took over a motel and he lived virtually next door, although it was supposed to be a secret. None of
us were supposed to know where he was, but we used to see him. The Sea Org had these big
secrets, but from the balcony of our motel you could look across to the hotel where he was living.
We were given a false reason, a weird reason, that no one was to go to that hotel, even for a drink
in the bar, because they were SPs [Suppressive Persons] there, so we should stay away. Nobody
believed that, it was too outlandish. Then he would come to the motel and give us a lecture almost
every day for a couple of weeks. He would arrive in a car which we had seen drive out of the motel,
turn in the opposite direction and go round the block and come to us. Some of messengers lived
with him; we used to see them come out of the hotel and walk to our motel. We all used to pretend
not to know where he was.
Then we moved to Clearwater and Hubbard lived in an apartment in Dunedin, 10-15 minutes' drive
away. It was still supposed to be secret. The crew that went back and forth was sworn to secrecy.
We got a tailor to come in and make suits for him, and Hubbard told him who he was, and the tailor
told one of the local newspapers.
Then he left and went to California to La Quinta. After La Quinta he went to Lake Paris briefly and
then in early 79 he went to Hemet.
I was in Clearwater in September '78 and I was told to go to La Quinta. He was very ill. Dr [Eugene]
Denk was there and trying to find out what was wrong with him. He was very weak, had low blood
pressure, pulse rate, low temperature. He was lying on his back in bed, almost in a coma for a
week or two. He talked a little but not very much. He talked very slowly and quietly. I didn't know what
was wrong with him. One of the things established was that he had blood coagulation problem, but
that wasn't why he was in bed. Denk prescribed anti-coagulant for his blood but that was to prevent
a stroke. He was in a Spanish-style bungalow at La Quinta. He had an office in his bungalow, it
was on a property with other buildings. Mary Sue was in LA in another secret location.
I was surprised and shocked at his condition. It was a telex message addressed to CMO
[Commodore's Messenger Org] that transferred me, but gave almost no info. It was extremely
urgent and said it was important that I was to be put on the next plane to LA. It was top secret. I
didn't know what it was for, how long it was for. So I grabbed a few clothes in my suitcase, I had 20
minutes to get to the airport, and I wasn't allowed to tell anyone I was going. I couldn't even see my