Mad Scientist Meets Mad Director
Don’t worry. We aren’t going to just gloss over the fact that Parsons worked for another eccentric figure, the Aviator himself, Howard Hughes. Since his cult was based on the controversial beliefs of Scientology, Parsons lost a lot of opportunities and needed to find another way to make ends meet.
Howard Hughes. Photo by Everett Collection / Shutterstock
The Daily Dot reported that Parsons smuggled secret documents associated with some projects Hughes was working on outside of the company. This landed Parsons in some legal trouble because he worked for the Israeli government at the time. If Parsons was a mad scientist, Hughes was a mad director.