Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief(159)

32 Rogers’s close friend: Ibid.

33 Cruise would later credit: Luchina Fisher, “Celebrities with Dyslexia Who Made It Big,” ABC Good Morning America, Sept. 28, 2012, abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/celebrities-dyslexia-made-big/story?id=17338379#2.

34 But Mimi’s parents had: Interview with Philip Spickler.

35 When Miscavige learned: Morton, Tom Cruise, p. 138.

36 Cruise arrived wearing: Interview with Sinar Parman.

37 “I told her”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.

38 “He thought he had to be celibate”: Michael Angeli, “Screaming Mimi,” Playboy, March 1993.

39 After two years, Annie: Interview with Jim Logan. Headley, Blown for Good, pp. 98–99; and Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Caught Between Scientology and Her Husband, Annie Tidman Chose the Church,” St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 14, 2009.

40 church funds were used to purchase: Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyon, Aug. 19, 1994.

41 Surrounded by a security: Interviews with Claire Headley, Mark “Marty” Rathbun, and Jesse Prince.

42 “like one would find in a convent”: Church of Scientology responses to queries.

43 continuously under guard: Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Caught Between Scientology and Her Husband, Annie Tidman Chose the Church,” St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 14, 2009. Tidman’s lawyer denied to the newspaper that she had been held against her will.

44 “non-enturbulation order”: Interview with Jim Logan.

45 “They can’t make me divorce you”: Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Caught Between Scientology and Her Husband, Annie Tidman Chose the Church,” St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 14, 2009.

46 “doomsday machine”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.

47 Those who had cell phones: Declaration of Robert V. Levine, Marc Headley vs. Church of Scientology International, and Claire Headley vs. Church of Scientology International, et al., updated, Jan. 21, 2010.

48 they would use force: Interview with Gary “Jackson” Morehead.

49 The Riverside County Sheriff’s: Sergeant Joe Borja, personal communication.

50 no one who escaped ever returned: Gary “Jackson” Morehead, personal communication.

51 “Oh, we already have you”: Interview with Gary “Jackson” Morehead.

52 As soon as an escapee: Tony Ortega, “ ‘Tom Cruise Worships David Miscavige Like a God’: A Scientology Insider Gives First Full-Length Interview to the Voice,” Runnin’ Scared (blog), The Village Voice, July 28, 2012.

53 He never saw her again: Interview with Jim Logan.

54 A special bungalow was: Karen Pressley interview on One Day One Destiny, a French documentary produced by Magneto Presse, 2009. Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyon, Aug. 19, 1994.

55 When the couple longed: Interview with Marc Headley.

56 Miscavige heard about the: Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyon, Aug. 19, 1994. Also, interviews with Amy Scobee and Marc Headley.

57 When a flood triggered: Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyon, Aug. 19, 1994.

58 At Thanksgiving, 1990: Interview with Sinar Parman.

59 Cruise’s investments: Mark “Marty” Rathbun, personal communication; also, Rathbun blog post, Moving on Up a Little Higher, markrathbun.wordpress.com, April 12, 2010; and Rathbun, The Scientology Reformation, p. 25. Interview with Sinar Parman. In 1992, having suffered massive losses, the Feshbach brothers dissolved their investment fund.

60 He was thrilled when: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 279.

61 He modeled his determined: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.

62 Just before Christmas, 1990: Sinar Parman, personal communication.

63 she had reached OT 11: Interview with Bruce Hines.

64 “Hello, I am Tom”: Headley, Blown for Good, pp. 116–18.

65 “Look at the wall”: Hubbard, “Training and CCH Processes,” HCO Bulletin, June 11, 1957, reissued May 12, 1972.

66 Miscavige’s wife, Shelly, interviewed: Interviews with Amy Scobee and John Brousseau; Mike Rinder, personal correspondence; Mark “Marty” Rathbun, personal correspondence with Lauren Wolf; Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 282.

67 Miscavige offered the couple: Scobee, Abuse at the Top, p. 70. David Lingerfelter told me he installed the satellite system for the Cruise home, and two other Sea Org members installed the audio and video equipment.

68 helped design the kitchen: Interview with Sinar Parman.

69 “A little singing”: Interview with Alissa Haggis.

70 Nearly everyone they knew: Interview with Lauren Haggis.

71 “study tech”: Hubbard, “Barriers to Study,” Word Clearing Series 3, HCO Bulletin, June 25, 1971.

72 “Too Steep a Gradient”: Ibid.

73 The “Undefined Word”: Hubbard, “How to Use a Dictionary,” Word Clearing Series 22R, Board Technical Bulletin, Sept. 4, 1971 R, revised Dec. 15, 1973, revised July 20, 1974 as BTB.

74 “gives one a distinctly blank feeling”: Hubbard, “Barriers to Study,” Word Clearing Series 3, HCO Bulletin, June 25, 1971.

75 “have him go back”: Church of Scientology International, Assists for Illnesses and Injuries, p. 10.


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1 Miscavige hired Hill & Knowlton: Hill & Knowlton letter of agreement with the Church of Scientology, International, quoted in Memorandum Opinion and Order, Church of Scientology, International, v. Eli Lilly & Co., Hill & Knowlton, Inc., et al. US District Court for the District of Columbia, March 18. 1994.