Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.

" In 1990 the Church provided the Los Angeles Times with a document that was said to be a copy of Hubbard's official record of service. " Scientology texts say that he returned from the war "[b]linded with injured optic nerves and lame with physical injuries to hip and back" and was twice pronounced dead. In mid-1972 Hubbard tried again in Morocco establishing contacts with the country's secret police and training senior policemen and intelligence agents in techniques for detecting subversives.

His expedition came to an end when Britain Greece Spain Portugal and Venezuela all closed their ports to his fleet. Later he developed Dianetics "the modern science of mental health. : /ɛl rɒn ˈhʌˌbərd/ ELL-ron-HUB-ərd) and often referred to by his initials LRH was an American pulp fiction author and the founder of the Church of Scientology.