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70 Dead Agent pack: Interview with Gary Weber. Also, 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.

71 He had stopped his coursework: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.

72 “Well done”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.

73 “I’ll call Spanky”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.



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5. DROPPING THE BODY


1 He wrote innumerable scripts: Kima Douglas, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” Aug. 27, 1986, www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/?interviews/kima.htm.

2 “Revolt in the Stars”: www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?23706-Milton-Katselas-and-scientology.

3 Milton Katselas: Interviews with Allen Barton and Art Cohan.

4 She shopped the script: Interview with “Catherine Harrington.”

5 “over the rainbow”: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

6 bellowing orders: Russell Miller interview with David Mayo, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” Aug. 28, 1986, www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/bfm/interviews/?mayo.htm.

7 “Someone came in”: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

8 “He was shouting”: Ibid.

9 One of the perpetrators: Interview with Sinar Parman.

10 severe bouts of asthma: Jason Nark, “From Here to Scientology: Worldwide Leader David Miscavige’s Philly-Area Roots,” Philadelphia Daily News, Jan. 3, 2012.

11 “I experienced a miracle”: Declaration of David Miscavige, Larry Wollersheim vs. the Church of Scientology California.

12 “the Wonder Kid”: Interview with Karen de la Carriere.

13 “wonderful and bright”: Interview with Ervin Scott.

14 “Those f*cking women!”: Ibid.

15 “They told us that David”: Interview with Karen de la Carriere. When queried about this incident, the Church of Scientology refused to respond.

16 “sickened by the declining”: Deposition of David Miscavige, Larry Wollersheim vs. David Miscavige and Church of Scientology California, Oct. 30, 1999.

17 he dropped out of tenth grade: Deposition of David Miscavige, Bent Corydon vs. Church of Scientology, July 19, 1990.

18 David redeemed himself: Interview with Sinar Parman.

19 Mitt Romney would name: Jim Rutenberg, “Romney Favors Hubbard Novel,” The New York Times, Apr. 30, 2007.

20 “Get me John Travolta”: Interview with Bill Franks. Marty Rathbun believes that Miscavige didn’t meet Travolta until the 1990s.

21 Hubbard slipped away: Sinar Parman, personal communication.

22 It had been customized: Interview with John Brousseau.

23 “Jack Farnsworth”: Interviews with Steve “Sarge” Pfauth and Tory Christman; Sue Lindsay, “Genius in a Yellow Straw Hat,” Rocky Mountain News, Feb. 16, 1986.

24 about $100,000: Interview with Denise (Larry) Brennan.

25 Fifty such treatments were prepared: Church of Scientology response to queries.

26 “What they wanted”: Interview with Paul Haggis.

27 Miscavige refused this direct order: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 136.

28 Brousseau got a call: John Brousseau and Gale Irwin, personal communication. Brousseau remembers that Marc Yager destroyed the phone with the tire iron, but Irwin remarks, “I have a vivid image of Miscavige smashing the phone.”

29 A year later, in 1984: Reitman, Inside Scientology, pp. 136–37.

30 David Mayo was sent: Interview with Bent Corydon.

31 She suffered from chronic: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

32 “She was frail and thin”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.

33 If Mary Sue were sufficiently alienated: Russell Miller interview with David Mayo, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” Aug. 28, 1986, www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/bfm/interviews/?mayo.htm.

34 making sure that Hubbard’s name: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member. Gerald Armstrong testified that the crew was instructed to destroy “anything which connected L. Ron Hubbard to the Gilman or La Quinta properties; anything which showed any connection to the Guardian’s Office; anything which showed Hubbard’s control of Scientology or Scientology finances; anything which showed any orders being written by Hubbard into the Scientology organizations.” Church of Scientology California, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.

35 In the spring of 1981: Interviews with William “Bill” Franks and John Brousseau.

36 about fifty at the time: Thomas C. Tobin, “The Man behind Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 25, 1998.

37 Several thousand Guardians: Declaration of David Miscavige, Church of Scientology International vs. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz. Klaus Buchele, who worked in the Guardian’s Office, estimates there were 600 to 700 Guardians worldwide. Interview with Klaus Buchele.

38 She had treated them: Interview with Sandra Holeman Barnes.

39 Indeed, they hadn’t spoken: Mary Sue Hubbard testimony, Church of Scientology California, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.

40 Mary Sue cursed Miscavige: Peter Small, “Crimes Outraged Church Trial Told,” Toronto Star, May 29, 1992.