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52 However, the current prime minister: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 258.

53 “He told me Ian Smith”: Lamont, Religion, Inc., p. 54.

54 “drinking lots of rum”: Corydon, L. Ron Hubbard, p. 59. The church says an apostate fabricated this letter.

55 “Your Sugie”: Interview with Dan Koon. Neville Chamberlin told me he saw Hubbard’s “pharmaceutical cabinet,” which was amply supplied with drugs, and he says he witnessed Hubbard injecting himself in the thigh on one occasion, but he doesn’t know what substance Hubbard was using. “He used drugs almost as a shaman,” Chamberlin speculates.

56 “I want to die”: Virginia Downsborough, quoted in Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 266.

57 “All this recent career”: Hubbard, “Ron’s Journal ’67.” Taped lecture.

58 Blavatsky had prophesied: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield. This was her impression, although there doesn’t seem to be a reference to such a redheaded leader in Blavatsky. It seems to have been an impression that Whitfield carried with her when she first met Hubbard.

59 “There’s a course starting”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

60 “That is where the Fifth Invaders”: Ibid.

61 “The rollers! The rollers!”:. Ibid.

62 “Eyes tire easily”: Veterans Administration, Report of Medical Examination for Disability Evaluation, July 27, 1951.

63 Hubbard had written: Hubbard, Dianetics, pp. 10–11.

64 a habit of squinting: Interview with Dr. Catherine Kennedy. Hana Eltringham, for instance, told me that although she never saw Hubbard wearing glasses, “I often saw him squint when he picked up a paper to read.… He did the same when he looked at people he was talking to.”

65 “astigmatism, a distortion”: Hubbard, Professional Auditor’s Bulletin No. 11, “Eyesight and Glasses,” compiled from ACC tape material, May 1, 1957.

66 “You’re doing yourself”: Tracy Ekstrand, personal communication.

67 All of Hubbard’s senses: Interviews with Dan Koon, Tracy Ekstrand, Hana Eltringham Whitfield, and Sinar Parman.

68 Yvonne Gillham: Interviews with Hana Eltringham Whitfield and anonymous former Sea Org members.

69 There were three ships: According to Karin Pouw, there were ten ships in the Scientology fleet, but she includes recreational sailboats. There were two “station ships” in Long Beach and Los Angeles, the Excalibur and the Bolivar, but Hubbard was never on either of them. Mike Rinder, personal communication.

70 The smokestack: Hawkins, Counterfeit Dreams, p. 60.

71 Hubbard spent most of his time: Ken Urquhart, “What Was Ron Really Like?” address to 2012 Class VIII Reunion, Los Angeles, July 14–15, 2012.

72 His restless leg: Interviews with Daniel Holeman and anonymous former Sea Org member.

73 “I think he was doing”: Interview with Jim Dincalci.

74 Hubbard and Mary Sue would dine: Interviews with Tracy Ekstrand, Bel Ferradj, and Jim Dincalci.

75 Anyone who registered: Monica Pignotti, “My Nine Lives in Scientology,” 1989. www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/.

76 “We Come Back”: Hubbard, Mission into Time, p. 27.

77 “The end justifies the means”: Interview with Jim Dincalci. Actually, Machiavelli never made that statement, although it is frequently attributed to him. It is a mistranslation of a key passage from The Prince: “e nelle azioni di tutti li uomini, e massime de’ principi, dove non e iudizio da reclamare, si guarda al fine.” “The much quoted fragment—si guarda al fine—can be translated as ‘one must consider the outcome’ but in context, it really refers to consequences of his acts for the stature of the prince, that is, to the blame or praise he earns and not to the relationship between means and ends generally.” Philip Bobbitt, personal communication.

78 a marshal to Joan of Arc: Joel Sappel and Robert W. Welkos, “The Scientology Story,” Los Angeles Times, June 24–26, 1990.

79 Tamburlaine’s wife: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 362.

80 driving a race car: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 103.

81 “liaisons in the moonlight”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

82 We had a lot of good-looking girls”: Hubbard, Mission into Time, p. 34.

83 None was found: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 284.

84 “Recall a time”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

85 “If there’s time”:” Ibid.

86 “The girl would say”: Hubbard, Mission into Time, p. 34.

87 “We did find the tunnel”: Ibid., p. 40.

88 “The world we live in now”: Hubbard’s lecture, “Assists,” Class VIII, Tape 10, Oct. 3, 1968.

89 “three-D, super colossal”: Hubbard’s handwritten note, “Incident 2,” part of the OT III materials, Oct. 28, 1968.

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