Didn't he mistakenly shell some friendlies while in the Navy?
Unknown! It would not surprise me, though.
All I know are the following:
- He sucked as a writer bigtime.
- He was clearly bitter about no one taking his ridiculous fantasy ideas seriously.
- He was clearly bitter about everyone and everything that he perceived injured him in some way.
- He was a fraud in the extreme.
- He was nowhere close to being as smart as he believed he was.
- He was 100% correct when he told Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven that he could acquire a lot of money by starting his own "church."
- Dianetics, Scientology, and pretty much everything related to them are the quintessence of stupid.