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Douglass Smith

Specialty
Writing
Origin
Washington, D.C., USA

Technical Alias

Ivan StangReverand Ivan StangDouglass St. Clair Smith

Professional Trajectory

American writer, filmmaker and broadcaster, best known as the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. He is credited with founding the Church with friend Steve Wilcox (aka Philo Drummond) in 1979, though he himself denied this and claimed the organization was founded in 1953 by J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.

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