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184 teeth and fingers were darkly stained: Interview with Mike Rinder and Jim Dincalci. The church maintains that Hubbard was not a chain-smoker and that he quit smoking in the later years of his life. Karin Pouw, personal correspondence.

185 In Cura?ao, he suffered: Personal correspondence with anonymous former Sea Org member.

186 “He’s risking his life”: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

187 kicked out of Barbados: Garrison, Playing Dirty, p. 86.

188 When the mayor: Ibid., p. 245. Nancy Many, personal correspondence.

189 Several months passed: Charles Stafford; Bette Orsini, “Scientology: An In-Depth Profile of a New Force in Clearwater,” St. Petersburg Times, Jan. 9, 1980. “Religion: A Sci-Fi Faith,” Time, Apr. 5, 1976. 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.

190 his tailor leaked the news: Tracy Ekstrand, personal communication.

191 “There they are!”: Russell Miller interview with Kima Douglas, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” Aug. 27, 1986, www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/?kima.htm. According to church spokesperson Karin Pouw, Hubbard left Florida “to pursue additional research.”

192 “He looked like Wild Bill”: Interview with Dan Koon.

193 He kept a hopped-up: Unsigned, “Mystery of the Vanished Ruler,” Time, Jan. 31, 1983.

194 “She looked like a witch”: Interview with Karen de la Carriere.

195 “I think a lot of my father’s stuff”: Dennis Erlich, “The End of the Quentin,” www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm. Interview with Dennis Erlich.

196 Tracy Ekstrand, who was: Interview with Tracy Ekstrand.

197 He left a confused note: Interviews with anonymous former Sea Org member.

198 Quentin had only just: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

199 He was scarcely qualified: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

200 Frantic, Mary Sue dispatched: Interviews with anonymous former Sea Org members.

201 “He was so happy”: Interview with Cindy Mallien.

202 But only a few days: Sharon Spigelmyer, “Scientology Student Death Probe,” Las Vegas Sun, Nov. 25, 1976.

203 “That little shit”: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member and Hana Eltringham.

204 semen in his rectum: Interview with Kima Douglas in “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/?kima.htm.

205 Quentin had been on vacation: Sharon Spigelmyer, “Scientology Student Death Probe,” Las Vegas Sun, Nov. 25, 1976.

206 Meantime, Mary Sue arranged: Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 214.

207 Hubbard himself was convinced: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.



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4. THE FAITH FACTORY


1 “magnetically impregnated”: McWilliams, Southern California, p. 254.

2 An organization called Mighty I AM: Ibid., p. 263.

3 Charlie Chaplin: Epstein, Sister Aimee, p. 420.

4 Milton Berle: Berle with Frankel, Milton Berle, p. 129.

5 nautical outfits: McWilliams, Southern California, p. 260.

6 “They all fell short”: Quinn, The Original Sin, p. 127.

7 “any person important enough”: Hubbard, “Celebrity Defined,” HCO Policy Letter, Nov. 6, 1980.

8 “If you want one”: Unsigned editorial, Ability magazine, undated. According to the church, the magazine was published in March 1955. The church claims that William Burke Belknap, Jr., an early Dianeticist, whose byline is on the article following the “Project Celebrity” editorial, most likely wrote the article. Robert Vaughn Young, who was the chief spokesperson for the church but left the organization in 1989, wrote that Hubbard personally authored the “Project Celebrity” editorial. Young, “The Cult of Celebrities,” Sept. 27, 1997, http://www.xenu.net/archive/celebrities/.

9 “make celebrities even better known”: Hubbard, “Celebrity Centre: Major Target,” HCO Policy Letter, Oct. 19, 1980.

10 “The Master did his Sunday best”: Peggy Conway letter to Gloria Swanson, Sept. 25, 1956.

11 “Without Scientology, I would”: What Is Scientology?, p. 235.

12 “I AM A SCIENTOLOGIST”: John H. Richardson, “Catch a Rising Star,” Premiere, Sept. 1993, p. 87.

13 “increase your self-confidence”: Variety, Sept. 9, 1993, p. 7.

14 “make it in the industry”: Ibid., Dec. 22, 1988, p. 22.

15 Scientologists stood outside: Interview with Tom McCafferty.

16 Jerry Seinfeld: “When It Comes to Comedy, He’s ‘All In,’ ” Parade magazine, www.parade.com/celebrity/articles/071017-jerry-seinfeld.html.

17 Elvis Presley: Interview with Spanky Taylor.

18 Rock Hudson: Interview with Spanky Taylor, and Gary Hart, personal communication. It is rumored that Hudson’s auditor hit on a homosexual “withhold,” that Hudson refused to acknowledge, and so he bolted. Interview with Skip Press. Hart says that as a result of the Hudson fiasco, Hubbard kicked the auditor off the staff and placed Yvonne Jentzsch in a condition of Danger.

19 fifty thousand documents: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 112.

20 “Operation Freakout”: US v. Jane Kember, Morris Budlong, Sentencing Memorandum, pp. 23–25.