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89 “John Colletto!”: www.factnet.org/Scientology/jesse_tapes.html.
90 Three days later, John: State of California death certificate for John Joseph Colletto. Scientology’s magazine, Freedom, mistakenly asserts that Colletto poisoned himself. “The Rathbun Family: Madness, Mayhem, and Mysterious Death,” Freedom, undated, unsigned.
91 special uniform: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
92 He justified the alteration: Lauren Wolf interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
93 targets of an IRS criminal investigation: The CID investigation ended in November 1987.
94 a former cop: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun. Joe Childs, Thomas C. Tobin, and Maurice Rivenbark, “Spying on Pat Broeker,” video interview, Tampa Bay Times, Sept. 30, 2012.
95 supervised personally by David Miscavige: Plaintiff’s First Amended Petition, Paul Marrick and Greg Arnold v. Religious Technology Center, Church of Scientology International, Church of Scientology of Texas, and David Miscavige.
96 “He lived a very quiet, normal life”: Joe Childs, Thomas C. Tobin, and Maurice Rivenbark, “Spying on Pat Broeker,” video interview, Tampa Bay Times, Sept. 30, 2012.
97 Happy Valley: Robert Vaughn Young, “RVY Update by RVY,” Sept. 2, 1998.
98 an order of nuns: Interviews with John Brousseau and Mareka James.
99 An armed guard: Peggy Daroesman, personal correspondence.
100 Dogs were trained: Interview with Guy White. Happy Valley was closed down in 2000 when a German documentary crew revealed its location. Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 331.
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6. IN SERVICE TO THE STARS
1 “He is one of the few”: “Celebrity Interview: Executive Producer—Paul Haggis,” Celebrity, unnumbered, undated, p. 7.
2 “What excited me”: Ibid.
3 deserved a Nobel Prize: Church of Scientology of California vs. Gerald Armstrong, p. 1503.
4 The Purification Rundown: International Association of Scientologists, 21st Anniversary event, Impact 112, 2006.
5 “the most effective rehabilitation”: What Is Scientology? p. 412.
6 “the heart and soul”: Vernon Scott, “ ‘Narconon Salvaged My Life’—Kirstie Alley,” UPI, May 3, 1990.
7 “Hubbard Detoxification Day”: “New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project,” undated Scientology publication.
8 “Starting in the schools”: Celebrity Interview: Kelly Preston, Celebrity, #376, undated, p. 13.
9 The church claims that: Tommy Davis on Today, Jan. 8, 2009.
10 Hubbard himself denounced: Hubbard, “Expanded Dianetics Lecture No. 2,” April 7, 1972.
11 “With Jett, you started him”: “Kelly Preston: A Mother’s Crusade,” Montel Williams Show, Mar. 12, 2003.
12 “thought, life, form, matter”: “Classification Gradation and Awareness Chart of Levels and Certificates,” Issue 1, Flag, June, 1970.
13 “I love the fact that you guys”: Interviews with Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.
14 He agreed to teach: Interview with Larry Anderson.
15 B. Dalton ordered 65,000: Interview with Bill Dendiu. The church disputes the sales figures but does not provide alternative numbers. By 1990, more than twenty of Hubbard’s books—both novels and nonfiction—had become national best sellers, most of them after his death four years earlier. At one point, Hubbard had fourteen consecutive books on the New York Times best-seller lists. There were allegations that the church was sending members to buy massive quantities of Hubbard’s books to drive up the sales figures. The Times investigated those charges but failed to find any instances where large numbers of Hubbard books were being sold to single individuals. In any case, the booksellers were happy to sell them.
16 “He has had a string”: Tommy Davis denies that Miscavige met Haggis at the race. “Indeed, we cannot find any record that Mr. Haggis ever met Mr. Miscavige.” Both Bill Dendiu and Haggis recall the conversation, however. Jefferson Hawkins has written that Miscavige and other Scientology executives were at the race; Counterfeit Dreams, p. 174. David Miscavige refused many requests to speak to me.
17 Travolta himself at the controls: Interview with Paul Haggis. Travolta’s attorney agrees that his client was at the race.
18 RPF running program: Interview with Guy White.
19 “Have you ever been”: Ibid.
20 “People could see”: Ibid.
21 “Is he? Is he?”: Ibid.
22 His vehicles are still: Interview with Marc Headley.
23 On his nightstand is: Sue Lindsay, “Studio’s Ready for Man Who Never Came, Never Will,” Rocky Mountain News, Feb. 16, 1986; interview with Tom De Vocht.
24 “for the next 20–25 years”: David Mayo, “An Open Letter to All Scientologists,” www.freezone.org/reports/e_mayool.htm.
25 Arthur blew: Interview with Guy White.
26 “a functional illiterate”: Morton, Tom Cruise, p. 41.
27 an amateur troupe: Ibid., p. 9.
28 We felt like fugitives”: Ibid., p. 18.
29 a year in seminary: Ibid., p. 25.
30 Cruise’s first wife … introduced: Rogers denies this, although her father, Philip Spickler, confirms this often published account.
31 Using his birth name: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 273.