Richard de Mille

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Richard De Mille (born 1922) is an investigative journalist and author, and a former Professor of psychology.

He wrote Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory (publ. 1976), a book describing the detective work through which he proved that controversial author Carlos Castenada was a charlatan and plagiarist. He edited a second book on he same subject, The Don Juan Papers (publ. 1980), when he found that his exposé did not lead Castenada's most ardent followers to fall away. This book contains documents representing views of Castenada across the spectrum.

De Mille also wrote a biography of his birth mother, screenwriter Lorna Moon. De Mille's birth father was William Demille, Cecil B. Demille's older brother. Cecil adopted and raised Richard; he did not tell him of his true parentage until William died.

Around this time de Mille became an early convert to the movement that was to become Scientology. But he parted with the movement when the founder took a personal dislike to him. Hubbard's book "How to Live Though an Executive" contained this preface: "The manuscript of this book was prepared by Richard deMille who helped in the development of the communications system herein set forth". His name was later removed and his contribution no longer mentioned^{[citation needed]} .