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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nJAGC sends us a link to NPR<\/a> which reports on Lawrence Wright’s research of the Church of Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard and his record of service in World War II for an article in the New Yorker<\/a>. According to the New Yorker article;<\/p>\n During the Second World War, Hubbard served in the U.S. Navy, and he later wrote that he was gravely injured in battle: \u201cBlinded with injured optic nerves and lame with physical injuries to hip and back at the end of World War II, I faced an almost nonexistent future. I was abandoned by family and friends as a supposedly hopeless cripple.\u201d While languishing in a military hospital in Oakland, California, he said, he fully healed himself, using techniques that became the foundation of Scientology. \u201cI had no one to help me; what I had to know I had to find out,\u201d he wrote in an essay titled \u201cMy Philosophy.\u201d \u201cAnd it\u2019s quite a trick studying when you cannot see.\u201d In some editions of Hubbard\u2019s book \u201cThe Fundamentals of Thought,\u201d published in 1956, a note on the author says, \u201cIt is a matter of medical record that he has twice been pronounced dead.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n But, according to Wright in the NPR article, Hubbard was never wounded, nor was he the hero that he made himself out to be during the war;<\/p>\n “I had found evidence that Hubbard was never actually injured during the war. … And so we pressed [Tommy Davis] for evidence that there had been such injuries and [Hubbard] had been the war hero that he described,” says Wright. “Eventually, Davis sent us what is called a notice of separation \u2014 essentially discharge papers from World War II \u2014 along with some photographs of all of these medals that [Hubbard] had won. … At the same time, we finally gained access to Hubbard’s entire World War II records [through a request to the military archives] and there was no evidence that he had ever been wounded in battle or distinguished himself in any way during the war. We also found another notice of separation which was strikingly different than the one that the church had provided.”<\/p>\n Furthermore, says Wright, the notice of separation that the church provided was signed by a man who never existed. And two of the medals that Hubbard supposedly had won weren’t commissioned until after Hubbard left active service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, that’s the first time we ever heard of any of that happening, isn’t it? Of course, Hubbard’s version of his service explained that he was an intelligence officer, so the researchers at the CoS claim that he was so secret squirrel that the government had to change his records to hide his actual activities – you know, even though the biggest secret of the war, the fact that the US had used the Enigma Machine<\/a> to break German coded messages, was declassified in 1975, Hubbard’s activities are still secret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"