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63 Hubbard had written: Hubbard, Dianetics, pp. 10–11.

64 a habit of squinting: Interview with Dr. Catherine Kennedy. Hana Eltringham, for instance, told me that although she never saw Hubbard wearing glasses, “I often saw him squint when he picked up a paper to read.… He did the same when he looked at people he was talking to.”

65 “astigmatism, a distortion”: Hubbard, Professional Auditor’s Bulletin No. 11, “Eyesight and Glasses,” compiled from ACC tape material, May 1, 1957.

66 “You’re doing yourself”: Tracy Ekstrand, personal communication.

67 All of Hubbard’s senses: Interviews with Dan Koon, Tracy Ekstrand, Hana Eltringham Whitfield, and Sinar Parman.

68 Yvonne Gillham: Interviews with Hana Eltringham Whitfield and anonymous former Sea Org members.

69 There were three ships: According to Karin Pouw, there were ten ships in the Scientology fleet, but she includes recreational sailboats. There were two “station ships” in Long Beach and Los Angeles, the Excalibur and the Bolivar, but Hubbard was never on either of them. Mike Rinder, personal communication.

70 The smokestack: Hawkins, Counterfeit Dreams, p. 60.

71 Hubbard spent most of his time: Ken Urquhart, “What Was Ron Really Like?” address to 2012 Class VIII Reunion, Los Angeles, July 14–15, 2012.

72 His restless leg: Interviews with Daniel Holeman and anonymous former Sea Org member.

73 “I think he was doing”: Interview with Jim Dincalci.

74 Hubbard and Mary Sue would dine: Interviews with Tracy Ekstrand, Bel Ferradj, and Jim Dincalci.

75 Anyone who registered: Monica Pignotti, “My Nine Lives in Scientology,” 1989. www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/.

76 “We Come Back”: Hubbard, Mission into Time, p. 27.

77 “The end justifies the means”: Interview with Jim Dincalci. Actually, Machiavelli never made that statement, although it is frequently attributed to him. It is a mistranslation of a key passage from The Prince: “e nelle azioni di tutti li uomini, e massime de’ principi, dove non e iudizio da reclamare, si guarda al fine.” “The much quoted fragment—si guarda al fine—can be translated as ‘one must consider the outcome’ but in context, it really refers to consequences of his acts for the stature of the prince, that is, to the blame or praise he earns and not to the relationship between means and ends generally.” Philip Bobbitt, personal communication.

78 a marshal to Joan of Arc: Joel Sappel and Robert W. Welkos, “The Scientology Story,” Los Angeles Times, June 24–26, 1990.

79 Tamburlaine’s wife: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 362.

80 driving a race car: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 103.

81 “liaisons in the moonlight”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

82 We had a lot of good-looking girls”: Hubbard, Mission into Time, p. 34.

83 None was found: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 284.

84 “Recall a time”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

85 “If there’s time”:” Ibid.

86 “The girl would say”: Hubbard, Mission into Time, p. 34.

87 “We did find the tunnel”: Ibid., p. 40.

88 “The world we live in now”: Hubbard’s lecture, “Assists,” Class VIII, Tape 10, Oct. 3, 1968.

89 “three-D, super colossal”: Hubbard’s handwritten note, “Incident 2,” part of the OT III materials, Oct. 28, 1968.

90 “He is not likely”: Hubbard’s lecture, “Assists,” Class VIII, Tape 10, Oct. 3, 1968.

91 “the planet of ill repute”: This story is drawn largely from Hubbard’s lecture, “Assists,” Ibid. It does not come from the actual OT III materials, which the Church of Scientology insists are secret and a trade secret, although they are easily available on the Internet. They do not differ substantively from the material Hubbard discussed in this lecture and wrote about elsewhere.

92 “We won’t go into that”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

93 threw up violently: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

94 “a f*cking *”: Gerald Armstrong interview, “Secret Lives—L. Ron Hubbard,” Channel 4, UK, 1997.

95 “They held the power”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

96 intimate but not overtly sexual: Affidavit of Tonja Burden, Jan. 25, 1980.

97 When the girls became: Sue Lindsay, “Genius in a Yellow Straw Hat,” Rocky Mountain News, Feb. 16, 1986.

98 “putting ethics in”: Hubbard, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, p. 20.

99 Good and evil actions: Ibid., pp. 13–14.

100 “the greatest good”: Ibid., p. 101.

101 “You have to establish”: Hubbard’s lecture, “Ethics and Case Supervision,” Oct. 9, 1968.

102 his cigarette smoking: “With respect to our parishioners, smoking is a personal choice”; Karin Pouw, personal correspondence.

103 It had begun with Gibraltar: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 275.

104 England banned foreign Scientologists: Ibid., p. 289.

105 “She was like Cinderella”: Interview with “Catherine Harrington.”

106 Mary Sue used to have parties: Interview with Candy Swanson.

107 “gorgeous”: Interview with Belkacem Ferradj.