L Ron Hubbard in China – 1927/1928

In the 1920s the teenage L Ron Hubbard made a couple of trips to China. In his diaries of the time his views were pretty negative; later he made fantastical (& usually dismissed) claims of where he went & who he met. Much of it later seeped into his pulp fiction.

But when it comes to his long dismissed tales of hanging out with British Intelliegence in China it looks like he really did….My long read in this weeks South China Morning Post weekend magazine on the Scientology founder’s China sojourns…click here to read…