What was Hubbard doing in Dublin?

I NOTE with interest the project about L Ron Hubbard brought to your readers’ attention by Gerard Ryan of the Office of Special Affairs of the Scientology Mission in Dublin (Letters, December 10).

In a book by Russel Miller called Bare-Faced Messiah (1987), there is a quotation from a good friend of Hubbard’s, Ray Kemp, who accompanied him to Dublin in late March 1956:

“He (Hubbard) wanted to see if there was something he could do for Ireland,” Kemp says. “He felt that Ireland’s troubles were based on the fact that it was a bit like a Third World nation and had never been able to apply the skills of its people. We were there for ‘two or three days’ and he spent the whole time speaking to people ... His idea was to open a personal efficiency foundation in Dublin to teach people how to apply whatever skills they had got, but don’t think anything ever came of it.”