Going Clear
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37 The text specifies how: Ibid., pp. 25–26.
38 “A psychopolitician must work”: Ibid., p. 3.
39 From the perspective of: See Dick Anthony, “Tactical Ambiguity and Brainwashing Formulations,” in Zablocki and Robbins, Misunderstanding Cults, p. 282.
40 “tumultuous”: interview with Jesse Prince.
41 Brainwashing theory: See Benjamin Zablocki’s essay, “Scientific Theory of Brainwashing,” in Zablocki and Robbins, Misunderstanding Cults, pp. 159–214.
42 “You just kinda get sprinkles”: Lawrence Wollersheim Interviews Jesse Prince, www.lermanet.com/prince/.
43 Grateful Dead: Interview with Daniel Holeman.
44 “He glommed on to me”: Interview with Joan Prather.
45 “It sounded really interesting”: “Scientology Shines in the New TV Hit, ‘Welcome Back, Kotter.’ John Travolta.” Celebrity, unnumbered, undated (1975).
46 “Before Dianetics, if people said”: Quoted in John H. Richardson, “Catch a Rising Star,” Premiere, Sept. 1993.
47 “I went outside my body”: Andrews, John Travolta: The Life, p. 39.
48 “We want John Travolta”: Interview with Sandy Kent Anderson.
49 “My career immediately took”: What Is Scientology?, p. 233.
50 “any person who receives”: Hubbard, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, p. 463.
51 “You always have the fear”: Clarkson, John Travolta: Back in Character, p. 118.
52 He introduced a number: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 264.
53 largest FBI raid in history: Garrison, Playing Dirty, p. 129.
54 They brought battering rams: Timothy S. Robinson, “Scientology Raid Yielded Alleged Burglary Tools,” Washington Post, July 14, 1977.
55 “When I got out of the limo”: “Disco Fever: ‘Saturday Night Fever’ Premiere Party,” Paramount Television, 1977, www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMCxsmOTm-k.
56 “If she wants to go”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
57 There were thirty infants: Sheila Huber, personal communication. Huber says that later six volunteer nannies were added to take care of the infants and toddlers. She can remember only one occasion when the children were taken outside: “They sat in a circle the size of their cribs under a tree. They were afraid, very afraid—of the sun, the grass, everything.”
58 “You can’t do that now!”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
59 Nearly two hundred people: Interviews with Jesse Prince, Spanky Taylor, and Sandy Kent Fuller.
60 “We would like you”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
61 “America’s newest sex symbol.”: Judson Klinger, “Playboy Interview: John Travolta,” Playboy, Dec. 1978.
62 Edwards fetched some clothes: Lauren Wolf interview with Kate Edwards.
63 “Spanky!”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
64 they were kept away: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
65 “Please help him”: Interview with “Catherine Harrington.”
66 “There are two sides”: Judson Klinger, “Playboy Interview: John Travolta,” Playboy, Dec. 1978.
67 expose his sexual identity: Richard Behar, “The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power,” Time, May 6, 1991.
68 threatening to marry a man: Lawrence Wollersheim Interviews Jesse Prince, www.lermanet.com/prince/.
69 “My sessions are protected”: Interview with William “Bill” Franks.
70 Dead Agent pack: Interview with Gary Weber. Also, Gary Weber, “Apology to Mayor Gabe Cazares, Richard Leiby and the Citizens of Clearwater Florida by an ex-Scientology Guardian,” www.lermanet.com/garyweber/apology.htm.
71 He had stopped his coursework: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
72 “Well done”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
73 “I’ll call Spanky”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
5. DROPPING THE BODY
1 He wrote innumerable scripts: Kima Douglas, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” Aug. 27, 1986, www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/kima.htm.
2 “Revolt in the Stars”: www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?23706-Milton-Katselas-and-scientology.
3 Milton Katselas: Interviews with Allen Barton and Art Cohan.
4 She shopped the script: Interview with “Catherine Harrington.”
5 “over the rainbow”: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
6 bellowing orders: Russell Miller interview with David Mayo, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” Aug. 28, 1986, www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/bfm/interviews/mayo.htm.
7 “Someone came in”: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
8 “He was shouting”: Ibid.
9 One of the perpetrators: Interview with Sinar Parman.
10 severe bouts of asthma: Jason Nark, “From Here to Scientology: Worldwide Leader David Miscavige’s Philly-Area Roots,” Philadelphia Daily News, Jan. 3, 2012.
11 “I experienced a miracle”: Declaration of David Miscavige, Larry Wollersheim vs. the Church of Scientology California.
12 “the Wonder Kid”: Interview with Karen de la Carriere.
13 “wonderful and bright”: Interview with Ervin Scott.
14 “Those fucking women!”: Ibid.
15 “They told us that David”: Interview with Karen de la Carriere. When queried about this incident, the Church of Scientology refused to respond.
16 “sickened by the declining”: Deposition of David Miscavige, Larry Wollersheim vs. David Miscavige and Church of Scientology California, Oct. 30, 1999.
17 he dropped out of tenth grade: Deposition of David Miscavige, Bent Corydon vs. Church of Scientology, July 19, 1990.
18 David redeemed himself: Interview with Sinar Parman.
19 Mitt Romney would name: Jim Rutenberg, “Romney Favors Hubbard Novel,” The New York Times, Apr. 30, 2007.
20 “Get me John Travolta”: Interview with Bill Franks. Marty Rathbun believes that Miscavige didn’t meet Travolta until the 1990s.
21 Hubbard slipped away: Sinar Parman, personal communication.
22 It had been customized: Interview with John Brousseau.
23 “Jack Farnsworth”: Interviews with Steve “Sarge” Pfauth and Tory Christman; Sue Lindsay, “Genius in a Yellow Straw Hat,” Rocky Mountain News, Feb. 16, 1986.
24 about $100,000: Interview with Denise (Larry) Brennan.
25 Fifty such treatments were prepared: Church of Scientology response to queries.
26 “What they wanted”: Interview with Paul Haggis.
27 Miscavige refused this direct order: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 136.
28 Brousseau got a call: John Brousseau and Gale Irwin, personal communication. Brousseau remembers that Marc Yager destroyed the phone with the tire iron, but Irwin remarks, “I have a vivid image of Miscavige smashing the phone.”
29 A year later, in 1984: Reitman, Inside Scientology, pp. 136–37.
30 David Mayo was sent: Interview with Bent Corydon.
31 She suffered from chronic: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
32 “She was frail and thin”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
33 If Mary Sue were sufficiently alienated: Russell Miller interview with David Mayo, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” Aug. 28, 1986, www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/bfm/interviews/mayo.htm.
34 making sure that Hubbard’s name: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member. Gerald Armstrong testified that the crew was instructed to destroy “anything which connected L. Ron Hubbard to the Gilman or La Quinta properties; anything which showed any connection to the Guardian’s Office; anything which showed Hubbard’s control of Scientology or Scientology finances; anything which showed any orders being written by Hubbard into the Scientology organizations.” Church of Scientology California, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.
35 In the spring of 1981: Interviews with William “Bill” Franks and John Brou
sseau.
36 about fifty at the time: Thomas C. Tobin, “The Man behind Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 25, 1998.
37 Several thousand Guardians: Declaration of David Miscavige, Church of Scientology International vs. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz. Klaus Buchele, who worked in the Guardian’s Office, estimates there were 600 to 700 Guardians worldwide. Interview with Klaus Buchele.
38 She had treated them: Interview with Sandra Holeman Barnes.
39 Indeed, they hadn’t spoken: Mary Sue Hubbard testimony, Church of Scientology California, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.
40 Mary Sue cursed Miscavige: Peter Small, “Crimes Outraged Church Trial Told,” Toronto Star, May 29, 1992.
41 “Little Napoleon”: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
42 a couple of murders: Interview with William “Bill” Franks.
43 “Hubbard wanted her out”: Ibid.
44 “I don’t believe”: Mary Sue Hubbard testimony, Church of Scientology California, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.
45 “Scottish Highland Quietude Club”: Terry Colvin, “Scientology at Gilman: Hubbard Said at Ex-Resort,” Riverside Press-Enterprise, Apr. 13, 1980.
46 “He wanted a head”: Interview with Denise (Larry) Brennan.
47 “She was a sweet”: Interview with Jim Dincalci.
48 “You got to be kidding”: Interview with John Brousseau.
49 “It was a do or die”: Interview with Jesse Prince.
50 “We had fallen in love”: David Yonke, “Scientology Story Sparks Heated Response,” Toledo Blade, July 2, 2005.
51 “core sense of identity”: Tony Ortega, “Scientology’s Crushing Defeat,” Runnin’ Scared (blog), The Village Voice, June 24, 2008.
52 An undercover campaign: Affidavit of Vicki Aznaran, June 29, 1993.
53 “I was followed”: William W. Horne, “The Two Faces of Scientology,” American Lawyer, July/August 1992.
54 setting up his son: Affidavit of Vicki Aznaran, June 29, 1993.
55 fifteen hundred Scientologists: “Scientologists Scramble to Keep Secrets,” Los Angeles Times [via the San Francisco Chronicle], Nov. 7, 1985.
56 “A major cause of”: Joel Sappell and Robert Welkos, “Scientologists Rush to Protect Basic Beliefs Released by Judge,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 5, 1985.
57 Julie Christofferson Titchbourne: John McCoy and S. L. Sanger, “Travolta and Other Scientologists Swarm into Portland to Protest,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 21, 1985.
58 “bull-baiting”: John Painter, “Witness Describes Scientology Drills,” Oregonian, July 25, 1979.
59 The jury awarded her: Tony Ortega, “Scientology’s Crushing Defeat,” Runnin’ Scared (blog), The Village Voice, June 24, 2008.
60 “I don’t care if I get the chair”: Interview with Dan Garvin.
61 As many as 12,000: Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyon, Aug. 19, 1994.
62 Stevie Wonder: www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?16875-The-Battle-of-Portland.
63 “I’ve been something of an ostrich”: Nancy Collins, “Sex and the Single Star,” Rolling Stone, Aug. 18, 1983.
64 “Once in a while”: Holly Danks, “Film Star Joins in Scientology Verdict Protest,” Oregonian, May 21, 1985, www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?16875-The-Battle-of-Portland.
65 He ruled that Christofferson Titchbourne’s: Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 349.
66 “If you had an automobile”: Hubbard, “Death,” lecture, July 30, 1957.
67 “between-lives”: Hubbard, Scientology: A History of Man, pp. 109–10.
68 “The baby takes”: Hubbard, “Death,” lecture, July 30, 1957.
69 Contrarily, when a body: According to Karen de la Carriere, these instructions were part of Hubbard’s secret directives. He also opposed autopsies because the thetan might still be inhabiting the body at the time of the procedure.
70 “It’s very confused”: Hubbard, “Aberration and the Sixth Dynamic,” lecture, Nov. 13, 1956.
71 he had been pronounced dead: “L. Ron Hubbard, biographical cover note, ‘Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science,’ ” 1972. Hubbard, “Case Analysis—Rock Hunting,” lecture, Aug. 4, 1958, question and answer period.
72 “death assist”: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 144.
73 who received $1 million: Hubbard, Amended Trust Agreement, Jan. 23, 1986.
74 “Let’s get this over with!”: Interview with Steve “Sarge” Pfauth.
75 “I’ll be scouting the way”: Hubbard, “The Sea Org & the Future,” Flag Order 3879, Jan. 19, 1986.
76 Dr. Denk had given him: Tommy Davis told New Times that Hubbard took the medication for allergies. Colin Rigley, “L. Ron Hubbard’s Last Refuge,” New Times, May 28, 2009.
77 Late that night: Robert Vaughn Young, “RVY Update by RVY,” Sept. 2, 1998.
78 The site was so secret: Steve “Sarge” Pfauth, personal communication.
79 “dropped his body”: Ibid.
80 “any grief bullshit”: Declaration of Vicki Aznaran, March 7, 1994.
81 more than two thousand: Church of Scientology responses to queries.
82 “He has now moved on”: “LRH Death Event—02 of 16—DM Tells of LRH’s Death,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXhJtRWRYM&feature=relmfu
83 Missionaires had been sent: Hubbard, “Flag Order 3879,” Jan. 19, 1986. Robert Vaughn Young, “RVY Update by RVY,” Sept. 2, 1998, www.xenu-directory.net/accounts/youngr19980902.html.
84 “twelve down”: “LRH Death Event 09 Pat Broeker D,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2jG7adsPzc&feature=relmfu
85 “People think I’m trying”: Interview with John Brousseau.
86 Uzi machine gun: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 150.
87 Mark Rathbun: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
88 She told the chaplain: Interview with Aerial Long.
89 “John Colletto!”: www.factnet.org/Scientology/jesse_tapes.html.
90 Three days later, John: State of California death certificate for John Joseph Colletto. Scientology’s magazine, Freedom, mistakenly asserts that Colletto poisoned himself. “The Rathbun Family: Madness, Mayhem, and Mysterious Death,” Freedom, undated, unsigned.
91 special uniform: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
92 He justified the alteration: Lauren Wolf interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
93 targets of an IRS criminal investigation: The CID investigation ended in November 1987.
94 a former cop: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun. Joe Childs, Thomas C. Tobin, and Maurice Rivenbark, “Spying on Pat Broeker,” video interview, Tampa Bay Times, Sept. 30, 2012.
95 supervised personally by David Miscavige: Plaintiff’s First Amended Petition, Paul Marrick and Greg Arnold v. Religious Technology Center, Church of Scientology International, Church of Scientology of Texas, and David Miscavige.
96 “He lived a very quiet, normal life”: Joe Childs, Thomas C. Tobin, and Maurice Rivenbark, “Spying on Pat Broeker,” video interview, Tampa Bay Times, Sept. 30, 2012.
97 Happy Valley: Robert Vaughn Young, “RVY Update by RVY,” Sept. 2, 1998.
98 an order of nuns: Interviews with John Brousseau and Mareka James.
99 An armed guard: Peggy Daroesman, personal correspondence.
100 Dogs were trained: Interview with Guy White. Happy Valley was closed down in 2000 when a German documentary crew revealed its location. Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 331.
6. IN SERVICE TO THE STARS
1 “He is one of the few”: “Celebrity Interview: Executive Producer—Paul Haggis,” Celebrity, unnumbered, undated, p. 7.
2 “What excited me”: Ibid.
3 deserved a Nobel Prize: Church of Scientology of California vs. Gerald Armstrong, p. 1503.
4 The Purification Rundown: International Association of Scientologists, 21st Anniversary event, Impact 112, 2006.
> 5 “the most effective rehabilitation”: What Is Scientology? p. 412.
6 “the heart and soul”: Vernon Scott, “ ‘Narconon Salvaged My Life’—Kirstie Alley,” UPI, May 3, 1990.
7 “Hubbard Detoxification Day”: “New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project,” undated Scientology publication.
8 “Starting in the schools”: Celebrity Interview: Kelly Preston, Celebrity, #376, undated, p. 13.
9 The church claims that: Tommy Davis on Today, Jan. 8, 2009.
10 Hubbard himself denounced: Hubbard, “Expanded Dianetics Lecture No. 2,” April 7, 1972.
11 “With Jett, you started him”: “Kelly Preston: A Mother’s Crusade,” Montel Williams Show, Mar. 12, 2003.
12 “thought, life, form, matter”: “Classification Gradation and Awareness Chart of Levels and Certificates,” Issue 1, Flag, June, 1970.
13 “I love the fact that you guys”: Interviews with Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.
14 He agreed to teach: Interview with Larry Anderson.
15 B. Dalton ordered 65,000: Interview with Bill Dendiu. The church disputes the sales figures but does not provide alternative numbers. By 1990, more than twenty of Hubbard’s books—both novels and nonfiction—had become national best sellers, most of them after his death four years earlier. At one point, Hubbard had fourteen consecutive books on the New York Times best-seller lists. There were allegations that the church was sending members to buy massive quantities of Hubbard’s books to drive up the sales figures. The Times investigated those charges but failed to find any instances where large numbers of Hubbard books were being sold to single individuals. In any case, the booksellers were happy to sell them.
16 “He has had a string”: Tommy Davis denies that Miscavige met Haggis at the race. “Indeed, we cannot find any record that Mr. Haggis ever met Mr. Miscavige.” Both Bill Dendiu and Haggis recall the conversation, however. Jefferson Hawkins has written that Miscavige and other Scientology executives were at the race; Counterfeit Dreams, p. 174. David Miscavige refused many requests to speak to me.