The Shannon Report by Michael Linn Shannon 1975 After buyinga copy of Dianetics, Michael Shannon decided to do his own research do determine if Hubbard's amazing claims about himself were true, he writes: "Four years and four thousand dollars later, I had a mountain of material which included some files that no one else had bothered to get-copies of the log books of the Navy ships that Hubbard had served on, and his fathers Navy service file. Soon after reading these thousands of pages, I realized that I had a lot of information on Hubbard that had never been included in any of the books that were written about him or his 'church'"

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