90 “He is not likely”: Hubbard’s lecture, “Assists,” Class VIII, Tape 10, Oct. 3, 1968.
91 “the planet of ill repute”: This story is drawn largely from Hubbard’s lecture, “Assists,” Ibid. It does not come from the actual OT III materials, which the Church of Scientology insists are secret and a trade secret, although they are easily available on the Internet. They do not differ substantively from the material Hubbard discussed in this lecture and wrote about elsewhere.
92 “We won’t go into that”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
93 threw up violently: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
94 “a fucking asshole”: Gerald Armstrong interview, “Secret Lives—L. Ron Hubbard,” Channel 4, UK, 1997.
95 “They held the power”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
96 intimate but not overtly sexual: Affidavit of Tonja Burden, Jan. 25, 1980.
97 When the girls became: Sue Lindsay, “Genius in a Yellow Straw Hat,” Rocky Mountain News, Feb. 16, 1986.
98 “putting ethics in”: Hubbard, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, p. 20.
99 Good and evil actions: Ibid., pp. 13–14.
100 “the greatest good”: Ibid., p. 101.
101 “You have to establish”: Hubbard’s lecture, “Ethics and Case Supervision,” Oct. 9, 1968.
102 his cigarette smoking: “With respect to our parishioners, smoking is a personal choice”; Karin Pouw, personal correspondence.
103 It had begun with Gibraltar: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 275.
104 England banned foreign Scientologists: Ibid., p. 289.
105 “She was like Cinderella”: Interview with “Catherine Harrington.”
106 Mary Sue used to have parties: Interview with Candy Swanson.
107 “gorgeous”: Interview with Belkacem Ferradj.
108 “I hit the bulkhead”: Ibid.
109 “Never question LRH”: Hana Eltringham Whitfield lecture, Hamburg Symposium, Mar. 26, 2010.
110 even in rough seas: “The degree of swell or wave has no bearing on whether they go overboard or not.” Hubbard, Flag Order 1499, Oct. 21, 1968.
111 John McMaster … was tossed: Lamont, Religion, Inc., pp. 53–54.
112 He left the church: The church says of McMaster: “He was in his day a ‘squirrel’ who sought to profit from his off-beat alterations of Mr. Hubbard’s discoveries.… He died in 1990, an alcoholic, and virtually no one in Scientology today has heard of him.” Karin Pouw, personal communication.
113 “She screamed all the way”: Hana Eltringham Whitfield lecture, Hamburg Symposium, Mar. 26, 2010.
114 “raw, bleeding noses”: 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.
115 Children who committed minor: Sharone Stainforth, theapolloseries.blogspot.com/2012/07/my-transcript-for-dublin-conference.html.
116 Derek Greene: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield. Elsewhere, Whitfield has said the child was confined for four days and nights. Hana Eltringham Whitfield lecture, Hamburg Symposium, Mar. 26, 2010.
117 Other young children were: 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. Tonja Burden recalls “one boy held in there for 30 nights, crying and begging to be released.” Affidavit of Tonja Burden, Jan. 25, 1980. Monica Pignotti also writes about the chain locker: Monica Pignotti, “My Nine Lives in Scientology,” www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/. Sharone Stainforth recalls seeing a four-or five-year-old girl with her top half sticking out of a ship chain locker, and that she was filthy and red-faced from crying. Sharone Stainforth, theapolloseries.blogspot.com/2012/07/my-transcript-for-dublin-conference.html. According to another former Sea Org member, the little girl’s name was Angela, “a cute little blond girl that LRH thought was an SP and assigned her to the chain locker. She was so small I believe she crawled out of the locker up the chain to the poop deck as I remember seeing her coming out of that hole. I don’t remember what she did but it certainly made me swear to myself to never let that happen to me. I believe Lonnie Garrapie (not sure of the spelling), young boy from Canada, was assigned to the chain locker for stealing and throwing people’s belongings, that he stole, over the side—he did that with Kenny Campelman’s silver flute, David Ziff’s jewelry, and other items. Divers were sent over the side to try and retrieve the items, as they were all of great value.” Anonymous former Sea Org member, communication with Lauren Wolf.
118 Hubbard ruled that they: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
119 One little girl, a deaf: Corydon, L. Ron Hubbard, pp. 29–30; Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 180.
120 “did not have the confront”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
121 “You would say to yourself”: infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2010/03/17-tracing-it-back-to-source_29.html.