Bare-Faced Messiah tells the extraordinary story of L. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Ron Hubbard - a man of hypnotic charm and limitless imagination - was even more astounding than the fiction Using all his skills as a top investigative journalist, Russell Miller reveals that the true life of L. Bare-Faced Messiah exposes the myths surrounding the fascinating and mysterious founder of the Church of Scientology and provides the definitive account of how the notorious organisation was created.

Back on shore in the US, he directed an operation aimed at infiltrating government offices to launder their bulging files on the Church of Scientology. For nearly ten years he sailed the oceans as the commodore of his own private navy, served by nymphet messengers in hot-pants who dressed and undressed him and were trained like robots to relay orders in his tone of voice. He soon founded his own 'church' and then rampaged around the world variously pursued by the CIA, the FBI and outraged governments. While writing pulp science fiction, he claimed to have made discoveries about the workings of the human mind that would enable cures to be found for everything from cancer to the common cold. What is not in dispute is that Hubbard was one of the most bizarre characters of the twentieth century. In the words of a Californian judge, he was schizophrenic, paranoid and a pathological liar. In the words of his 'official' biography, Hubbard was an explorer, engineer, scientist, war hero and philosopher. Ron Hubbard, a penniless science-fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology, became a millionaire prophet and convinced his adoring followers that he alone could save the world.

Bare-faced Messiah by Russell Miller