In the book 's preface , Miller summarizes his view of Hubbard : The book contrasts Hubbard 's boasts with Miller 's research . For example , Chapter 6 , which is entitled " The Hero Who Never Was , " begins by quoting the official church biography : " Commissioned before the war in 1941 by the US Navy ... serving in all five theaters of World War II and receiving 21 medals and palms ... " And it ends by countering : If his own account of his war experiences is to be believed , he certainly deserved the twenty-one medals and palms he was said to have received . Unfortunately , his US Navy record indicates he was awarded just four routine medals &mdash; the American Defense Service Medal , awarded to everyone serving at the time of Pearl Harbor , the American Campaign Medal , the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War Two Victory Medal , this last received by everyone serving on V-J Day . For more detail on the debate surrounding Hubbard 's military career , see the main article . The Church of Scientology refused all cooperation with Miller and sought to obstruct his research . He wrote in his " author 's note " at the start of the book : Miller had been warned before he began his work that he would face difficulties , but was unprepared for the level of harassment that he endured . While researching the book in the U.S. , he was spied upon and was constantly followed . His friends and business associates also received hostile visits from Scientologists and private detectives trying to find " dirt " on him . In October 1987 , Miller commented : " There are teams of private detectives in the U.S. and this country questioning my friends and trying to discredit me . " Attempts were made to implicate him in the murder of a private detective in South London , for a fire in a Wiltshire aircraft factory and for the murder of American singer Dean Reed . Reed had died the day before Miller had arrived in East Berlin to interview him . Miller 's family was approached by private detectives seeking to implicate him in Reed 's death , although they would not say who their client was . Another private investigator interviewed Miller 's friends and associates , claiming to be acting for Reed 's family , though they denied employing him . A former Scientology insider told the '' Sunday Times '' that Miller " is kept under constant watch . Every time he goes abroad a two-man mission will be waiting for him at the airport when he arrives . They will monitor where he goes , who he sees , where he stays . This information will be added to his file , which is already more than 100 pages thick . " Senior executives at publishers Michael Joseph and at the '' Sunday Times , '' which serialised the book , received threatening phone calls and a visit from private investigator Eugene Ingram , who worked for the Church . Another private investigator , Jarl Grieve Einar Cynewulf , told '' Sunday Times '' journalists that he had been offered " large sums of money " to find a link between Miller and the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , as the Church reportedly believed that the CIA was driving investigations into its tax affairs in the U.S . According to Cynewulf , Miller 's mail and phones were intercepted and his home was under constant surveillance . The newspaper reported that Cynewulf had chased its reporter and photographer through the streets of Bristol , armed with a pistol which he fired at them , saying , " You 'd better go now unless you want to end up in a wooden box . Do you want to be another Hungerford martyr ? " In 1990 , nearly three years after the book 's first publication , a defector from the Church of Scientology provided the '' Sunday Times '' with internal documents detailing the smear campaign against Miller . These records listed several private investigators who had been hired to keep Miller under surveillance and feed false information about him to neighbours and the police . A Scientology executive had flown from Los Angeles to a flat in London where he and a private detective co-ordinated the campaign . Rubbish from the publisher 's offices was regularly emptied into the flat 's bathtub to be picked through . According to the informant , the investigators used contacts with the British police to try to implicate him in unsolved crimes : " People were brought in from abroad posing as journalists to arrange interviews with Scotland Yard where they would drop innuendoes about Miller . Other investigators were used to smear his name with colleagues , friends and neighbours . They worked hard on the line that he was an undercover British intelligence man . " A Church spokesman dismissed these allegations , saying , " anyone giving you this sort of information must be crazy or on drugs . " The Church of Scientology and related entities sought injunctions against the book 's publication , claiming copyright infringement of Hubbard 's private documents . They threatened to sue in as many as fifty countries , adopting a strategy that the University of Pennsylvania 's Professor Paul K. Saint-Amour has described as " an international parade of litigation " and " whack-a-mole legal proceedings " . Much of the dispute centred on the plaintiffs ' argument that the actions of former Scientology archivist Gerry Armstrong in providing Miller with unpublished materials ( whether directly or indirectly ) were a breach of his duty of confidence to the Church , and that the use of excerpts from this material violated copyrights owned by Hubbard 's estate . Miller later noted that the plaintiffs did not attempt to dispute the facts of the book in court which , he said , was a pity as he had been looking forward to defending his meticulous research
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