The twisted legacy, tarnished legend of one L. Ron Hubbard – half con man, half tragic prankster, bombastic but vacuous minded preacher of empty sermons, two-bit peddler, bottler of poisonous, pseudo-religious bilge water – still persists among his legions of cult followers to whom Hubbard’s public image nevertheless remains unsullied if not equivalent to that of a seminal demigod.
It could be so argued that, in his time, motivated by nothing more than ego-driven desperation and with the stubborn, inflexible temperament of a jack-booted dictatorial tyrant, Hubbard managed to create a behemoth, immortal monument to himself in the form of Scientology. Like all successful con men, professional tricksters, Hubbard appeared to possess an uncanny grasp on the fundamentals of human nature – that insatiable need to transcend the mundane, the ordinary to become an integral part of something borne of vivid imagination, to be held captive to a fantastical idea much larger than oneself – the egregious exploitation of which became the foundational bricks upon which his Scientology empire was founded, built. But as shall be explained further, Hubbard was also a chameleon, a sinister changeling, a daring thespian cast in the starring role of dark burlesque theatrical productions.
In fact, it has been discovered that Scientology wasn’t the only large-scale con game “Hubbard” fronted for, and that his professional career began as a journeyman character actor, a product of American television’s golden age who was also a popular pop singer and television host, a culturally influential magazine mogul, and a 1960’s LSD guru posed as counter-culture hippy.
SCIENTOLOGY AS GOVERNMENT
The ultimate purpose and goal of Scientology was chillingly revealed in a policy letter alleged to have been written by cult leader L. Ron Hubbard on August 5, 1959: “Remember one thing, we are not running a business, we are running a government. We are in direct control of people’s lives.”
Hubbard, alleged to have been a writer of pulp science fiction, is primarily renowned for his best-selling tome entitled Dianetics, premised on the dubious proposition that human beings could reach a ‘superhuman’ state of ‘clear’ through the elimination of ‘engrams’ or memories stored in the subconscious which when rousted forth into the conscious mind caused health problems. It should be noted that Dianetics’s publishing date in 1949 was somewhat serendipitous, in that it fell shortly after the establishment of CIA in Langley, Virginia in 1947 and corresponded with the CIA’s ongoing covert operations, including Artichoke, Bluebird, and the more well-known MK ULTRA, which was later expanded into MK NAOMI. ‘Engrams’ or traumatic memories from one’s past and even past lives, in an individual so afflicted, Hubbard theorized, could be eliminated by submitting to treatments administered by an electro- psychometer or e-meter, treatments for which Hubbard duped his followers into paying copious sums of money. Hubbard’s theory of Dianetics borrowed heavily from Sigmund Freud and a sex magic ritual hatched from the mind of influential occultist and MI5 agent Alistair Crowley (aka Prince George Duke of Kent/Winston Churchill/Bob Hope/Jack Benny) called Dianism, based upon the ancient cult of Diana, the Roman goddess of chastity, while the e-meter was nothing but a more elementary version of the polygraph device, a device also used at that time by Grover Cleveland Backster, department head of CIA’s polygraph unit founded shortly after World War II. During his tenure at Langley, Backster employed the polygraph to perform experiments measuring the galvanic skin response – property of the human body that causes variation in the electrical characteristics of the skin – of certain breeds of plants to test his hypothesis that plants, like humans, can feel pain and are capable of developing extra sensory perception.
The brief excitement generated among the general public by the publishing of Dianetics notwithstanding, both Hubbard and CIA’s Backster came to have one thing in common: their respective theories were roundly rejected by notable and credentialed academics as scientifically unsound. In his zeal to reestablish his vanishing credibility, Hubbard was then alleged to have created Scientology, a pseudo-religious philosophy extolling the idea that humans could acquire God-like powers, a quixotic if not grandiose notion which not only returned Hubbard to mass notoriety but ushered newfound hordes of gullible, misguided followers into Scientology’s fold thereafter.
Recently, while performing research for this particular article, I came upon a BBC produced documentary concerning Hubbard’s life. Several things struck me while watching. For one, BBC is a propagandizing organ of British intelligence (MI7) and therefore anything regurgitated by BBC about any topic should be properly and thoroughly scrutinized, questioned. Secondly, still images included in the documentary presentation which purported to depict a young Hubbard, upon further scrutiny, appeared to be crude photoshopped/cut and paste backdated composites. Additionally, everyone interviewed for the documentary claiming to have been close associates of either Hubbard or his Scientology organization appeared to be actors who without exception during their screentime would peer off camera as if to check their lines written on cue cards or flashing on teleprompters. Scenes which depicted Hubbard garishly dressed as a naval Commodore while commanding his crew of cult followers aboard ship on the high seas – Scientology had a sea organization – appeared stilted, scripted for a television audience’s consumption.
Given this, questions of prime importance remained: 1.) Who was L. Ron Hubbard and 2.) Since his biographies accentuate that Hubbard was always mired in financial difficulty, from where did his capital arrive to establish the Church of Scientology?
Turns out, further investigation uncovered connections between Hubbard and other figures who were previously identified as perpetrators of Post-Modern Reality Simulation and that Hubbard’s Scientology cult was set up as a drug trafficking money laundry and a front for CIA covert/black operations.
MACHINE GUN MANNY MUNSTER
While performing research into the television actor Peter Falk (aka Rod Serling/Vince Lombardi) it was discovered that one of Falk’s first movie castings included a bit part in an unintentionally comic gangster film entitled Pretty Boy Floyd, released in 1960. Another bit part scripted for that production was a character dubbed Machine Gun Manny, played by Abraham Meister, also known as Al Lewis, who, as learned upon further investigation, was also cast in a pair of popular 1960’s television productions – Car 54, The Munsters. While perusing still publicity images of Meister aka Lewis online, it became apparent that his facial geometry consisted of features – nose, brows, eyes, and chin – similar or identical to that of others who’d been previously investigated. Additionally, recent image comparison analysis demonstrated that Lewis had an identically sized and located epidermal landmark – encircled in red marker in the following pair of images – in common with Hugh Hefner, reputed founder of the Playboy magazine empire.
Below: Al Lewis, Hugh Hefner
Further image comparison analysis demonstrated that the respective facial geometries of Lewis and L. Ron Hubbard also had features – epidermal structures, shapes of the eyes, brows, noses, nasolabial folds, chins, cheekbones, lips, and jawlines – which were similarly if not identically structured. Even the ears appear to be similarly, if not identically structured, aligned. It is also noteworthy that both Hefner and Hubbard are observed donned in similarly styled naval headgear while in the final pair of images in succession, both Hubbard and Lewis are wearing what appear to be an identical black colored cowboy hat.
Further and extensive ear biometric, facial recognition, and image comparison analysis demonstrates that Al Lewis, the veteran vaudeville, Broadway, and television actor was modified into both Playboy magazine mogul Hugh Hefner and Scientology kingpin L. Ron Hubbard. As identified by arrowed red marker in the following images, everyone will observe that Lewis and Hubbard have identically structured hairlines, brows, chins, jawlines, lips, and noses. The epidermal structures of the respective ears also match.
Below: Al Lewis, L. Ron Hubbard
Facial recognition, ear biometric, and image comparison analysis – demonstrated with arrowed red marker in the following sets of images – indicate and confirm that Lewis (aka Hubbard) was also transformed into Playboy magazine mogul/television personality Hugh Hefner.
Below from L to R: Al Lewis, Hugh Hefner
Below: L. Ron Hubbard, Hugh Hefner
Ear biometric, facial recognition, and image comparison analysis also indicate that pop singer/film actor/television host Pat Boone and Hefner (aka Lewis/Hubbard) were also one and the same.
Below: Hugh Hefner, Pat Boone
Ear biometric and facial recognition analysis also confirm a link between Hugh Hefner (aka Lewis/Hubbard/Boone) and 1960’s CIA connected LSD/counter-culture guru Timothy Leary who, like Al Lewis, claimed to be a Ph.D.
Below: Timothy Leary, L. Ron Hubbard, Hugh Hefner
Image comparison analysis reveals that not only do Lewis and Hefner share the same identically located, shaped, and structured epidermal landmark – indicated by arrowed red marker in the following images – but singer/songwriter Pat Boone does as well.
Below: Al Lewis, Hugh Hefner, Pat Boone
In addition, comparative teeth analysis demonstrates that pop singer/television host Pat Boone- who graduated summa cum laude from the same university, Columbia, at which Al Lewis claimed to have matriculated – and L. Ron Hubbard both have a rather conspicuously prominent and identically shaped cuspid – indicated with arrowed red marker in the following pair of images – while the comparative alignments, structures of the respective lateral incisors, first and second bicuspids are identical.
Below: Pat Boone, L. Ron Hubbard
BOONE=HUBBARD/HEFNER/LEWIS/LEARY
During his lifetime, Meister aka Lewis was reputed to be a teller of tall tales, a trait that was also found to be synonymous with Scientology’s charlatan high priest L. Ron Hubbard. Upon examination of his biographies, it was discovered that certain pertinent details of Lewis’s early life remain almost a total mystery, with several mainstream biographical sources claiming that not only is his official birth date in dispute, but that details of his early career in show business prior to becoming a major television star during the era of the 1960’s are hazy, if not opaque. In fact, prior to his popular television roles, the only details to be gleaned concerning Lewis’s professional entertainment resume are scant, with only vaudeville appearances and bit parts in a few Broadway dramas and one musical which were found to be listed. Though a high school dropout, Lewis claimed to have matriculated at Oswego State Teachers College and that he was awarded a Ph.D. in child psychology from prestigious Columbia University.
Alas, most mainstream sources including Wikipedia state that no known administrative record exists at Columbia.
Though AI co-pilot lists Lewis as a singer/songwriter and actor, the singer/songwriter portion of that professional job description seems to have been deleted from all other mainstream biographical sources, including Wikipedia. There also exists some dispute over Lewis’s date and place of birth.
According to Wikipedia, “Ted Lewis, his son, firmly said his father was born in 1923, in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. Other sources placed his birth in Wolcott, New York, but no official record of his birth has been published to date and officials in Wolcott say they have no record of any Meister. The {New York} Times wrote: ‘Lewis was born Albert Meister, probably in 1923, but he insisted he was born in 1910. This, and Lewis’s many other questionable stories mean that much of the actor’s life is a broth of conjecture that his fans will no doubt squabble over for years to come’.”
Such controversies were also found to exist regarding the official biographies of one L. Ron Hubbard. For example, there are sharp discrepancies between Hubbard’s glittering but absurd claims concerning his U.S. naval career as a young man and the stark realities of the U.S. Navy’s official record. While to his Scientology followers Hubbard claimed to have been a decorated war hero with an immaculate record as a competent naval officer, the U.S. navy’s official record shows him to have been a comically foolish, if not incompetent officer often operating under delusions of grandeur complicated by insufferable arrogance and a stubborn sense of self-importance.
It appears more than likely – as confirmed by an article published at https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/04/investigative-series/scientology-the-cia-and-mk-ultra/ – that Hubbard’s time with the U.S. Navy was spent in naval intelligence as an apprentice intelligence asset who was trained to serve as the figurehead front of what would become the pseudo-religious cult known as Scientology, a front for hideous Jesuit-controlled CIA operations such as MK Ultra (human mind manipulation/control experimentation) and precursor projects Artichoke and Bluebird (drug testing on unwitting human subjects) as well as a money laundering front for the agency’s ongoing Southeast Asian drug trafficking trades which served as a source of funding for CIA’s array of covert/black operations.
After all, what better laundry could there be with which to clean dirty money from drug trafficking than a half-baked cult legally designated as a church organization under non-profit status, illicit profits which once cleaned cannot be taxed or audited.
It also appears probable that Hubbard never spent a day at sea on a naval vessel and that his alleged war record related to U.S. navy documentation were fabrications to legitimize a fictional backstory or what is termed in intelligence parlance as a ‘legend’.
Considering the aforementioned problems with Al Lewis’s biographies and the fact that Hefner, Leary, and Hubbard didn’t enter into the public’s eye until the 1950’s and 60’s simultaneous with Pat Boone’s emergence as a pop star and television host contracted with General Motors, a major U.S. corporate government military contractor, it seems more than possible that each of them were fabricated modifications of Boone who, at ninety years of age while officially born in 1934, remains alive.
As a popular television host/pop star with a wholesome image acceptable to middle America, Pat Boone (aka L. Ron Hubbard/Al Lewis/Hugh Hefner/Timothy Leary) possessed the ideal personality profile, characteristics behind which the identity or identities of modified covert intelligence assets cast to play centrifugal roles in CIA black operations could be well hidden. While in total control of Hollywood’s television/entertainment complex, Jesuit-controlled CIA envisioned Pat Boone (aka Lewis/Hefner/Leary/Hubbard) as a long-term asset, an ideal live-action template which could be modified into multiple fabricated personae, each capable of projecting an indelible if not charismatic image which, in turn, could be packaged for mass media promotion and consumption, personae which could also, especially in the case of the fabricated character schemes known as Hefner, Leary, and Hubbard, be utilized to act as public fronts for large-scale intelligence operations, fronts which could not only provide the hidden perpetrators with plausible deniability, but provide well-formulated mass media promoted vehicles with which to widely and effectively promote, achieve clandestine objectives related to transformational and intelligence-directed sociopolitical agendas.