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21 One of the doors: Interview with Jesse Prince. Also, Stephen A. Kent, “Brainwashing in Scientology’s Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF),” Sept. 13, 2000, www.solitarytrees.net/pubs/skent/brain.htm.

22 Altogether, about 120: Interview with Jesse Prince.

23 “Fuck you”: Ibid.

24 “Behind ideological totalism”: Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, p. 436.

25 “thought-terminating cliché”: Ibid., p. 429.

26 “a common, ordinary,”: Hubbard, “Scientology Definitions I: OT and Clear Defined,” lecture, Nov. 29, 1966.

27 Johannesburg Confessional List: Hubbard, “Johannesburg Confessional List,” HCO Policy Letter, Apr. 7, 1961, revised Nov. 15, 1987.

28 The result of the sec-check: Monica Pignotti, “My Nine Lives in Scientology,” www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/.

29 “apparent converts”: Robert Jay Lifton, personal correspondence.

30 “truth blurred”: Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century, p. 44.

31 the real intention: Klein, The Shock Doctrine, p. 47.

32 After 9/11, documents emerging: Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century, p. 380.

33 “You are a good mother”: Klein, The Shock Doctrine, p. 39.

34 In 1955, he distributed: On Hubbard’s authorship of the pamphlet, see Corydon, L. Ron Hubbard, pp. 108–9. Hubbard himself later claimed: “It was written by a man named Paul Fadkeller, and it was published in Berlin in 1947.” Hubbard, “Operational Bulletin #8,” Dec. 13, 1955.

35 “BrainWashing”: See Brian Ambry, “Revisiting the Textbook on Psychopolitics, Also Known As the Brainwashing Manual,” www.freewebs.com/slyandtalledgy/Brainwashing%20Manual%20Parallels.pdf.

36 “[t]he art and science: Anonymous [Hubbard?], “BrainWashing: Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics,” 1955, p. 6.

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.