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In 1950, van Vogt was briefly appointed as head of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics operation in California.

Dianetics was the secular precursor to Hubbard's Church of Scientology.

The operation went broke 9 months later, but never went bankrupt, due to van Vogt's arrangements with creditors.

Van Vogt and his wife opened their own Dianetics centre, partly financed by his writings, until he " signed off " around 1961.

At the time of his interview with Charles Platt, van Vogt was still president of the Californian Association of Dianetic Auditors.