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236 “With or without an argument”: Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

237 “I do not want to be an American husband”: Sara Northrup Hubbard vs. L. Ron Hubbard, Complaint for Divorce. Los Angeles, Apr. 23, 1951.

238 Sara and Miles were plotting: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 176.

239 “He didn’t want her”: Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

240 “dianetic baby”: W. A. Sprague and Roland Wild, “Can We Doctor Our Minds at Home?” Oakland Tribune, Oct. 29, 1950.

241 “Don’t sleep.”: Corydon, L. Ron Hubbard, p. 306.

242 “We have Alexis”: “Dianetics Chief’s Conduct Lashed,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 25, 1951.

[page]243 a young couple had just left: “Hiding of Baby Charged to Dianetics Author,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 11, 1951.

244 clean bill of health: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 179.

245 “cut her into little pieces”: Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

246 “He believed that as long”: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 179.

247 “systematic torture”: Sara Northrup Hubbard vs. L. Ron Hubbard et al. Superior Court, State of California, April 23, 1951.

248 “If I can help”: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 189.

249 a monkey in a cage: Ibid. Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

250 Hubbard wrote all night: Russell Miller interview with Richard de Mille, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” July 25, 1986, www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/?demille.htm.

251 “People below the 2.0 level”: Hubbard, Science of Survival, p. 28.

252 “Sex,” he wrote: Ibid., pp. 114–15.

253 “Here is the harlot”: Ibid., p. 116.

254 “we get general neglect”: Ibid., p. 118.

255 To Alexis Valerie Hubbard: Ibid. The dedication was removed from subsequent editions.

256 “as a classified scientist”: “Dianetics Man Reports He’s in Cuban Hospital,” Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1951.

257 “a Cadillac so damn long”: Russell Hays tape with Barbara Hays Duke, June 30, 1984.

258 “I am, basically, a scientist”:” Hubbard letter to the Attorney General, Department of Justice, May 14, 1951.

259 “He told me that I was under the influence”: Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

260 The foundation he had: “Science Group in Bankruptcy,” Wichita Beacon, February 25, 1952.

261 “That didn’t please him”: Russell Hays tape with Barbara Hays Duke, June 30, 1984.

262 “It sees all, knows all”: Hubbard, Electropsychometric Auditing Operator’s Manual, p. 57.





3. GOING OVERBOARD


1 constructing the intricate bureaucracy: When Hubbard was alive, he oversaw the church bureaucracy. Directly under him were the Executive Director International, who handled administration, and a Senior Case Supervisor International, who oversaw the tech. Hubbard appointed both officials. To one side of the EDI on the organizational chart was the Watchdog Committee, which consisted of executives in charge of each division of the international orgs. Under Miscavige, the EDI was essentially eliminated. Interview with Roy Selby.

2 “sperm dreams”: Hubbard, Dianetics, p. 294.

3 “as early as shortly before”: Hubbard, Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science, p. 93.

4 “The subject of past deaths”: Hubbard, Science of Survival, p. 61.

5 “There is a different feel to”: O’Brien, Dianetics in Limbo, p. 14.

6 “I literally shuddered”: Ibid., p. 20.

7 about twenty percent of the population: Hubbard, Scientology: A New Slant on Life, p. 192.

8 “A Suppressive Person will”: Hubbard, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, p. 171.

9 “The artist in particular”: Hubbard, Scientology: A New Slant on Life, p. 195.

10 Imitators and competitors came: Cf. Wallis, The Road to Total Freedom, pp. 80 ff.

11 “I’d like to start a religion”: Eshbach, Over My Shoulder, p. 125. Hubbard allegedly made this remark in 1948 or 1949. Arnie Lerma, a former Scientologist who maintains an anti-Scientology website, compiled a list of nine witnesses who said that they heard Hubbard make similar claims; www.lermanet.com/reference/hubbard-start-a-religion.htm. Hubbard’s son, L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., said, “He told me and a lot of other people that the way to make a million was to start a religion.” Allan Sonnenschein, “Inside the Church of Scientology: An Exclusive Interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.,” Penthouse, June 1983. Sara Northrup recalled that Hubbard “kept saying ‘If you want to make any money the only way to do it is to make a religion so the government wouldn’t take it all.’ So he thought he could make a religion out of Dianetics.” Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.

12 “To keep a person on”: Revised Declaration of Hana Whitfield, Church of Scientology vs. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz, US District Court, Central District of California, Apr. 4, 1994.