122 “hidden government”: Hubbard, “Orders of the Day,” Dec. 8, 1968.
123 “useless or unfixable”: “Catherine Harrington,” personal communication.
124 “I like how you Americans work!”: Interview with “Catherine Harrington.”
125 “for your protection”: Ibid.
126 All were registered: Robert Gillette, “Scientology Flagship Shrouded in Mystery,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 29, 1978, http://www.anti-scientologie.ch/Nan-McLean/Video-Transcript-for-Australia-Final.pdf.
127 “the pride of the Panamanian fleet”: “About the Apollo,” undated press release.
128 “the sanest space”: Monica Pignotti, “My Nine Lives in Scientology,” 1989. www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/.
129 “secure Morocco”: “Catherine Harrington,” personal communication.
130 Mary Sue was thrilled: Interview with Jim Dincalci.
131 A hundred people were killed: Henry Ginger, “Hassan II: Never Sure He’ll Be King at Nightfall,” New York Times, Aug. 20, 1972. General Oufkir’s daughter Malika placed the toll at “more than two hundred.” Oufkir and Fitoussi, Stolen Lives, 81.
132 create an elite guard: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
133 “Stop firing!”: Joseph R. Gregory, “Hassan II of Morocco Dies at 70; A Monarch Oriented to the West,” New York Times, July 24, 1999.
134 had committed “suicide”: Oufkir and Fitoussi, Stolen Lives, p. 94.
135 The shaken king turned his attention: Garrison, Playing Dirty, pp. 79–80. Gillette, “Scientology Flagship Shrouded in Mystery,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 29, 1978.
136 In December 1972: Ali Amar, “Hassan II, Oufkir et l’eglise de scientology,” Le Journal Hebdomadaire, Apr. 15, 2006, www.anti-scientologie.ch/Nan-McLean/Video-Transcript-for-Australia-Final.pdf.
137 “A friend came to me”: Interview with Paulette Cooper.
138 “Your mother was with me”: Church of Scientology California v. Gerald Armstrong.
139 “street-walker”: Letter from Sara Northrup Hubbard Hollister to Paulette Cooper, March 1972. This letter was posted on the Internet at https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/lrhs-wife-2-wrote-to-paulette-cooper.44174/, but Paulette Cooper verified its authenticity.
140 “In July 1949 I was in Elizabeth”: Church of Scientology California v. Gerald Armstrong.
141 “Your good friend, J. Edgar Hoover”: Letter from Sara Northrup Hubbard Hollister to Paulette Cooper, March 1972.
142 “an insatiable lust”: David Mayo interview with Russell Miller, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” Aug. 28, 1986, www.lermanet.com/barwell/david-mayo-interview.txt.
143 “MAKE MONEY”: Hubbard, HCO policy letter, “Income Flows and Pools,” Issue I, Finance Series 11, Mar. 9, 1972.
144 more than $300 million: Robert Lindsey, “Scientology Chief Got Millions, Ex-Aides Say,” New York Times, July 11, 1984. Reitman notes that by the 1970s Hubbard held accounts in Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein. Money was transferred from a Liberian shell corporation, the Religious Research Foundation, into his accounts. She quotes Laurel Sullivan: “It was fraud, an out-and-out ripping off of funds that were supposed to go to the church.” Inside Scientology, p. 97.
145 “Church’s was bigger”: Kima Douglas interview with Russell Miller, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/?kima.htm.
146 “great chunks of cash”: L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., testimony, “City of Clearwater Commission Hearings Re: The Church of Scientology,” May 6, 1982.
147 “Making money, I think”: Hana Eltringhim (Whitfield) interview, “Secret Lives—L. Ron Hubbard,” Channel 4, UK, 1997.
148 Hubbard had lost interest: Interviews with Tracy Ekstrand, Jim Dincalci, and Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
149 “I could hear him chortling”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
150 When she learned: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
151 “Maybe a hundred Sea Org”: Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, p. 93.
152 Hubbard observed that 1972: Interview with Kate Bornstein.
153 flown to New York: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield and anonymous Sea Org member.
154 convicted in absentia: Robert Gillette and Robert Rawitch, “Scientology: A Long Trail of Controversy,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 27, 1978.
155 Hubbard flew to New York: Jim Dincalci, personal communication.
156 It was an odd interlude: Interview with Jim Dincalci.
157 “I’m PTS to nations”: Ibid.
158 “free to frequent”: Hubbard, “Guardian Order, Secret, Snow White Program,” Apr. 20, 1973.
159 Under Mary Sue’s direction: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 115; Unsigned, “Mystery of the Vanished Ruler,” Time, Jan. 31, 1983; Gordon Gregory, “Prosecutors: Scientologists Infiltrated Washington Post,” St. Petersburg Times, Dec. 4, 1979; “Sentencing Memorandum,” United States of America v. Mary Sue Hubbard, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia.