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44 “Because you did this”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.

45 It was a title that: Hubbard, “Kha-Khan,” HCO Policy Letter, May 25, 1982.

46 “I finally know who”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.

47 Then, on December 5, 1995: Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Death in Slow Motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, June 22, 2009.

48 “a gopher being pulled”: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 201.

49 “Aaaaaah! Yahoo!”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun. Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Death in Slow Motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, June 22, 2009.

50 the case supervisor who pronounced: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 227; Headley, Blown for Good, p. 181; Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Death in Slow Motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, June 22, 2009.

51 When church members decided: Detective Ron Sudler interview with Dr. David Minkoff, Florida Offense/Incident Report, April 15, 1996. Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Death in Slow Motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, June 22, 2009.

52 She was one of nine: Ina Brockmann and Peter Reichelt, “Missing in Happy Valley,” 1999. Missing in Happy Valley, video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2742505831051424517.

53 “Why aren’t you all over”: Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Death in Slow Motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, June 22, 2009.

54 “Lose ’em”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.

55 Embarrassing details emerged: Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, “Death in Slow Motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, June 22, 2009.

56 “silent enforcer”: Interviews with Mark “Marty” Rathbun and Mike Rinder.

57 “This is the most severe case”: Inside Edition, Jan. 21, 1997.

58 loss of its tax exemption: Interview with Mike Rinder.

59 unflappable witness: Andrew Meacham, “Lisa McPherson Scientology Case Drove Joan Wood from Medical Examiner to Recluse,” Tampa Bay Times, July 30, 2011.

60 “into the Stone Age”: Mark “Marty” Rathbun video, “Knowledge Report,” https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/wtsp-federal-suit-scientologist-spent-30-mil-to-cover-up-death-of-lisa-mcpherson.106523/page-3#post-2223487. Goodis recalls that there was a suggestion of “legal jeopardy” for his client, but he doesn’t remember the quote.

61 changed her ruling: Goodis claims that he merely provided all the information he received from the church to his client, and that she made her own decision.

62 suffered panic attacks: Andrew Meacham, “Lisa McPherson Scientology Case Drove Joan Wood from Medical Examiner to Recluse,” Tampa Bay Times, July 30, 2011.

63 Repper was invited: Interview with Mike Rinder.

64 hosting a series of dinners: Interview with Mike Rinder, Mark “Marty” Rathbun, and Tom De Vocht; Mark “Marty” Rathbun deposition, Kennan G. Dandar and Dandar & Dandar v. Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc., et al., Nov. 9, 2012.

65 Tom Cruise: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun; Times Staff Writers, “Leftovers Again? Mayor Iorio Not Tom Cruise’s Only Dinner Partner,” St. Petersburg Times, June 27, 2003.

66 Repper held a brunch: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.

67 “This guy is really going”: Ibid.

68 change the climate: Mark “Marty” Rathbun, “David Miscavige the Cheater,” http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/david-miscavige-the-cheater/.

69 $20 to $30 million: Mark “Marty” Rathbun deposition, Kennan G. Dandar and Dandar & Dandar v. Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc., et al., Nov. 9, 2012.

70 In Hamburg, in 1992: www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/135450wikileaks.

71 The youth wing of the: Testimony of John Travolta, “Religious Intolerance in Europe Today,” hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), Sept. 18, 1997.

72 The city of Stuttgart: Testimony of Chick Corea, ibid.

73 Seventy percent of Germans: David Hudson, “Scientology’s ‘Holocaust,’ ” Salon Daily Clicks, Feb. 25, 1997.

74 Journet had been influenced: Clarke, Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements, pp. 472–73.

75 A year after these: Katherine Ramsland, “The Order of the Solar Temple,” www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/?solar_temple/1.html.

76 Aum Shinrikyo: Lifton, Destroying the World to Save It, p. 6.

77 Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy: Kaplan and Marshall, The Cult at the End of the World, pp. 30–31.

78 the source of Aum Shinrikyo’s crimes: Nick Broadhurst, Aum Supreme Truth, 2000, web.archive.org/web/20070928161556/http://www.cultawa?renessnetwork.org/AUM/preamble.html.

79 receiving guidance from the television show: George D. Chryssides, “ ‘Come On Up, and I Will Show Thee’: Heaven’s Gate as a Postmodern Group,” in Lewis and Petersen, Controversial New Religions, p. 361; and Lifton, Destroying the World to Save It, pp. 320–21.