42 “You just kinda get sprinkles”: Lawrence Wollersheim Interviews Jesse Prince, www.lermanet.com/prince/.
43 Grateful Dead: Interview with Daniel Holeman.
44 “He glommed on to me”: Interview with Joan Prather.
45 “It sounded really interesting”: “Scientology Shines in the New TV Hit, ‘Welcome Back, Kotter.’ John Travolta.” Celebrity, unnumbered, undated (1975).
46 “Before Dianetics, if people said”: Quoted in John H. Richardson, “Catch a Rising Star,” Premiere, Sept. 1993.
47 “I went outside my body”: Andrews, John Travolta: The Life, p. 39.
48 “We want John Travolta”: Interview with Sandy Kent Anderson.
49 “My career immediately took”: What Is Scientology?, p. 233.
50 “any person who receives”: Hubbard, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, p. 463.
51 “You always have the fear”: Clarkson, John Travolta: Back in Character, p. 118.
52 He introduced a number: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 264.
53 largest FBI raid in history: Garrison, Playing Dirty, p. 129.
54 They brought battering rams: Timothy S. Robinson, “Scientology Raid Yielded Alleged Burglary Tools,” Washington Post, July 14, 1977.
55 “When I got out of the limo”: “Disco Fever: ‘Saturday Night Fever’ Premiere Party,” Paramount Television, 1977, www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMCxsmOTm-k.
56 “If she wants to go”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
57 There were thirty infants: Sheila Huber, personal communication. Huber says that later six volunteer nannies were added to take care of the infants and toddlers. She can remember only one occasion when the children were taken outside: “They sat in a circle the size of their cribs under a tree. They were afraid, very afraid—of the sun, the grass, everything.”
58 “You can’t do that now!”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
59 Nearly two hundred people: Interviews with Jesse Prince, Spanky Taylor, and Sandy Kent Fuller.
60 “We would like you”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
61 “America’s newest sex symbol.”: Judson Klinger, “Playboy Interview: John Travolta,” Playboy, Dec. 1978.
62 Edwards fetched some clothes: Lauren Wolf interview with Kate Edwards.
63 “Spanky!”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
64 they were kept away: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
65 “Please help him”: Interview with “Catherine Harrington.”
66 “There are two sides”: Judson Klinger, “Playboy Interview: John Travolta,” Playboy, Dec. 1978.
67 expose his sexual identity: Richard Behar, “The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power,” Time, May 6, 1991.
68 threatening to marry a man: Lawrence Wollersheim Interviews Jesse Prince, www.lermanet.com/prince/.
69 “My sessions are protected”: Interview with William “Bill” Franks.
70 Dead Agent pack: Interview with Gary Weber. Also, Gary Weber, “Apology to Mayor Gabe Cazares, Richard Leiby and the Citizens of Clearwater Florida by an ex-Scientology Guardian,” www.lermanet.com/garyweber/apology.htm.
71 He had stopped his coursework: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
72 “Well done”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
73 “I’ll call Spanky”: Interview with Spanky Taylor.
5. DROPPING THE BODY
1 He wrote innumerable scripts: Kima Douglas, “The Bare-Faced Messiah Interviews,” Aug. 27, 1986, www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/?interviews/kima.htm.
2 “Revolt in the Stars”: www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?23706-Milton-Katselas-and-scientology.
3 Milton Katselas: Interviews with Allen Barton and Art Cohan.
4 She shopped the script: Interview with “Catherine Harrington.”
5 “over the rainbow”: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
6 bellowing orders: 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.
7 “Someone came in”: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
8 “He was shouting”: Ibid.
9 One of the perpetrators: Interview with Sinar Parman.
10 severe bouts of asthma: Jason Nark, “From Here to Scientology: Worldwide Leader David Miscavige’s Philly-Area Roots,” Philadelphia Daily News, Jan. 3, 2012.
11 “I experienced a miracle”: Declaration of David Miscavige, Larry Wollersheim vs. the Church of Scientology California.
12 “the Wonder Kid”: Interview with Karen de la Carriere.
13 “wonderful and bright”: Interview with Ervin Scott.
14 “Those fucking women!”: Ibid.
15 “They told us that David”: Interview with Karen de la Carriere. When queried about this incident, the Church of Scientology refused to respond.
16 “sickened by the declining”: Deposition of David Miscavige, Larry Wollersheim vs. David Miscavige and Church of Scientology California, Oct. 30, 1999.
17 he dropped out of tenth grade: Deposition of David Miscavige, Bent Corydon vs. Church of Scientology, July 19, 1990.
18 David redeemed himself: Interview with Sinar Parman.