Aircraft Charter Quotes

He was kissing the bottle at that time. We went for a drive in the desert and a little woo-poo. We really tied one on. We started shooting up a little town – Indio, I think it was; I don’t know where the hell we were – with a couple of .38s Frank kept in the vanity (glove) compartment. We were both cockeyed. We shot out streetlights, store windows. God knows how we got away with it. I guess Frank knew somebody! Somebody with a badge. He usually did.’ That would be the Riverside Police who wrote the incident up as ‘a domestic disturbance’ although what Ava Gardner recalled wasn’t the whole story; a passer-by was shot and suffered a flesh wound. All involved and the incident were kept quiet after a chartered light aircraft landed with a suitcase of cash in the early hours of the morning. The incident was not reported to the judiciary or in the newspapers.

There he became a Canadian citizen, founded a charter boat business (earning him the title of Captain) and became the science director of a uranium mining company. (According to one account, Hubbard had something to do with supplying uranium to the Manhattan Project.) By the age of fifty, the “barefoot boy from Kentucky” had become a millionaire, owner of a fleet of aircraft, a one-hundred-foot yacht, a Rolls-Royce, and a private island off Vancouver. At some point during the war Hubbard apparently returned to the United States, and he joined the OSS shortly before the wartime intelligence agency became the CIA.