Urban Legend or Not?

Mickey Kaus comments on a research piece by David Markland about the "urban legend" that L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scam of Scientology, was Satanic. Markland claims that the urban myth is debunked. But, as Kaus points out, Markland really concludes that Hubbard wasn't Satanic in the same way that Cheney didn't leak Valerie Plame's ID - literally true, but he was certainly involved at the margins! So too, apparently, was the co-founder of NASA's JPL at Cal Tech - I've worked with software originating out of that lab so that was a particularly interesting tidbit.