34 “She’ll be out of sight”: Interview with John Brousseau.
35 “I was unable to make”: William H. Patterson, Jr., personal correspondence.
36 The book reveals that: Patterson, Robert A. Heinlein, p. 538 n.
37 Sara Komkovadamanov: Hubbard, “Intelligence Actions Covert Intelligence Data Collection,” Memo to “The Guardian,” Dec. 2, 1969. In the same memo, he spells it “Komkosadmanov.” Karin Pouw writes, in a personal communication, “Sara Northrup Hollister’s death certificate dated December 18, 1997 lists her mother’s birth name as Olga Malakhan-Casadominov, born in Russia. The information was provided by her widower, Miles Hollister. This is the name that was being referred to. All of the spellings are phonetic, of course, since the actual name would have appeared in Cyrillic.” Sara herself recounted that her mother’s father had been named Malacon Kosadamanov, but changed his name to Nelson when he moved to Sweden. Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.
38 “I’m not interested in revenge”: Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.
39 Hubbard applied for a pension: “Report of Physical Examination,” Dec. 6, 1945. Hubbard medical records, Department of Veterans Affairs.
40 “NOT a palm”: John E. Bircher, personal communication.
41 There was a fire in: According to the National Archives website, only records of the Army and the Air Force were affected.
42 “there was no Howard D. Thompson”: Charles Pellegrini letter to Dr. Jan Willem Nienhuys, May 9, 2000.
43 “The United States has never”: Erik Voelz interview with the New Yorker fact checkers.
44 Davis blew: Anonymous former Sea Org member, personal correspondence.
EPILOGUE
1 “the old religion”: Hubbard, “Routine 3 Heaven,” HCO Bulletin, May 11 AD13 (1963).
2 This fraud has been: Lawrence Wright, “Lives of the Saints,” The New Yorker, Jan. 21, 2002.
3 Like Hubbard, Mary Baker Eddy: Wallis, in The Road to Total Freedom, p. 98, compares the origins of Dianetics to the rise of Christian Science.
4 “I really wish I had”: Interview with Paul Haggis.
5 It had the misfortune: Interview with Eugenie Grandval.
6 earning $1 billion: Matt Peckham, “Bye-Bye Avatar: Modern Warfare 3 Takes $1 Billion Record,” PC World, Dec. 12, 2011.
7 “It wouldn’t stick”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
8 “It was one of those sudden”: Interview with Stephen “Sarge” Pfauth.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND A NOTE ON SOURCES
1 he was spied upon: Russell Miller, “See You in Court,” Punch, Feb. 19, 1988; Miller, “The True Story of a False Prophet,” Night & Day, The Mail on Sunday Review, March 30, 1997.
2 Wallis was spied upon: Lamont, Religion, Inc., p. 87.
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Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Ability, 1.1, 4.1
abortion, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 8.1
Academy of Scientology
Ackerman, Forrest
Acting Center
Action Chiefs
Adderall
Advance!
Advanced Orgs, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Affirmations (Admissions), 2.1, 2.2
Agapé Lodge
Aiwass (spirit)
Alaskan Radio-Experimental Expedition
Alba, Jessica
Albert, Edward
Algol, USS
All About Radiation (Hubbard)
Allam, Colonel
“All Clear” unit
Allen, Max
Alley, Kirstie, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1
Alpe, Grace
al-Qaeda, 7.1, 9.1n
American Family Foundation
American Gerontological Society
American Institute of Human Engineering and Development
American Medical Association
American Psychiatric Association, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 9.1
American Psychological Association
American Saint Hill Organization
Amis, Kingsley
Amish, 7.1, epl.1
Angelus Temple
Anonymous
Anthony, Marc
antidepressants
Antonioni, Michelangelo
apocalyptic movements
Apollo, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 5.1,
5.2
Apollo Stars
Applewhite, Marshall
Arab oil embargo
Archer, Anne, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2
Archer, John
Armitage, Richard
Armstrong, Gerald, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, 11.1
Arnold, Greg
Asahara, Shoko
Asimov, Isaac, 2.1, 7.1
Astounding Science-Fiction, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Athena, 1.1, 3.1
A to E
auditing, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
Auditor
Auditor’s Code, 9.1n
Aum Shinrikyo
Avon River, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Aznaran, Vicki, 5.1, 7.1
“Babalon Working”
Ball, Lucille
Ballard, Edna
Ballard, Guy
Barnett, Mary Florence
Barton, Allen
Bartzabel (magical figure)
Baryshnikov, Mikhail
“basic-basic”
Basics, The
Batman Forever
Battlefield Earth (film)
Battlefield Earth (Hubbard)
Beckham, David
Beckham, Victoria
Beghe, Jason, 8.1, 10.1, epl.1
Behar, Richard, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3n, 7.4
Benjamin, Mary
Berenger, Tom, 4.1, 4.2
Berger, Sandy
Bergman, Ingrid
Beria, Lavrenti
Berle, Milton
Bern
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Better Business Bureau
Beverly Hills Playhouse, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1
Bianca, Sonia
bin Laden, Osama
Bircher, John E.
Black, Karen
Blackfoot Indians
black magic
Blair, Cherie
Blair, Tony
Blakeslee, George
Blavatsky, Helena
“blow drill”, 6.1, 6.2n
Blow-Up
Blum, Norbert
Body Death
body thetans (BTs), 3.1, 3.2, 9.1, 10.1, epl.1
Bolívar, Simón, 9.1, 9.2
Boniadi, Nazanin, 9.1, epl.1
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