Journalists & Investigators

L. Ron Hubbard

1945–1986

Science fiction writer and U.S. Navy officer who became Jack Parsons's close collaborator in the 1946 "Babalon Working" occult ritual; later founded Scientology.

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Connections (7)

confirmedMarjorie Cameron

fellow participant in the Babalon Working

Source: Jack Parsons / Agape Lodge OTO history; Pendle, Strange Angel (2005)

confirmedIngo Swann

both were high-level Scientologists

Source: Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997)

confirmedHal Puthoff

both reached Scientology's highest level in the 1970s

Source: Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997)

disputedSara "Betty" Northrup

her affections shifting to him triggered his fraud on Parsons

Source: Jack Parsons / Agape Lodge OTO history; Pendle, Strange Angel (2005)

disputedAleister Crowley

Crowley suspected him of a confidence trick

Source: Jack Parsons / Agape Lodge OTO history; Pendle, Strange Angel (2005)

disputedKarl Germer

Crowley wrote him suspecting a confidence trick

Source: Jack Parsons / Agape Lodge OTO history; Pendle, Strange Angel (2005)

disputedJack Parsons

Babalon Working, then Hubbard defrauded him

Source: Jack Parsons / Agape Lodge OTO history; Pendle, Strange Angel (2005)

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