19 Mitt Romney would name: Jim Rutenberg, “Romney Favors Hubbard Novel,” The New York Times, Apr. 30, 2007.
20 “Get me John Travolta”: Interview with Bill Franks. Marty Rathbun believes that Miscavige didn’t meet Travolta until the 1990s.
21 Hubbard slipped away: Sinar Parman, personal communication.
22 It had been customized: Interview with John Brousseau.
23 “Jack Farnsworth”: Interviews with Steve “Sarge” Pfauth and Tory Christman; Sue Lindsay, “Genius in a Yellow Straw Hat,” Rocky Mountain News, Feb. 16, 1986.
24 about $100,000: Interview with Denise (Larry) Brennan.
25 Fifty such treatments were prepared: Church of Scientology response to queries.
26 “What they wanted”: Interview with Paul Haggis.
27 Miscavige refused this direct order: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 136.
28 Brousseau got a call: John Brousseau and Gale Irwin, personal communication. Brousseau remembers that Marc Yager destroyed the phone with the tire iron, but Irwin remarks, “I have a vivid image of Miscavige smashing the phone.”
29 A year later, in 1984: Reitman, Inside Scientology, pp. 136–37.
30 David Mayo was sent: Interview with Bent Corydon.
31 She suffered from chronic: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
32 “She was frail and thin”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
33 If Mary Sue were sufficiently alienated: 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.
34 making sure that Hubbard’s name: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member. Gerald Armstrong testified that the crew was instructed to destroy “anything which connected L. Ron Hubbard to the Gilman or La Quinta properties; anything which showed any connection to the Guardian’s Office; anything which showed Hubbard’s control of Scientology or Scientology finances; anything which showed any orders being written by Hubbard into the Scientology organizations.” Church of Scientology California, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.
35 In the spring of 1981: Interviews with William “Bill” Franks and John Brousseau.
36 about fifty at the time: Thomas C. Tobin, “The Man behind Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 25, 1998.
37 Several thousand Guardians: Declaration of David Miscavige, Church of Scientology International vs. Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz. Klaus Buchele, who worked in the Guardian’s Office, estimates there were 600 to 700 Guardians worldwide. Interview with Klaus Buchele.
38 She had treated them: Interview with Sandra Holeman Barnes.
39 Indeed, they hadn’t spoken: Mary Sue Hubbard testimony, Church of Scientology California, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.
40 Mary Sue cursed Miscavige: Peter Small, “Crimes Outraged Church Trial Told,” Toronto Star, May 29, 1992.
41 “Little Napoleon”: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
42 a couple of murders: Interview with William “Bill” Franks.
43 “Hubbard wanted her out”: Ibid.
44 “I don’t believe”: Mary Sue Hubbard testimony, Church of Scientology California, vs. Gerald Armstrong, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles.
45 “Scottish Highland Quietude Club”: Terry Colvin, “Scientology at Gilman: Hubbard Said at Ex-Resort,” Riverside Press-Enterprise, Apr. 13, 1980.
46 “He wanted a head”: Interview with Denise (Larry) Brennan.
47 “She was a sweet”: Interview with Jim Dincalci.
48 “You got to be kidding”: Interview with John Brousseau.
49 “It was a do or die”: Interview with Jesse Prince.
50 “We had fallen in love”: David Yonke, “Scientology Story Sparks Heated Response,” Toledo Blade, July 2, 2005.
51 “core sense of identity”: Tony Ortega, “Scientology’s Crushing Defeat,” Runnin’ Scared (blog), The Village Voice, June 24, 2008.
52 An undercover campaign: Affidavit of Vicki Aznaran, June 29, 1993.
53 “I was followed”: William W. Horne, “The Two Faces of Scientology,” American Lawyer, July/August 1992.
54 setting up his son: Affidavit of Vicki Aznaran, June 29, 1993.
55 fifteen hundred Scientologists: “Scientologists Scramble to Keep Secrets,” Los Angeles Times [via the San Francisco Chronicle], Nov. 7, 1985.
56 “A major cause of”: Joel Sappell and Robert Welkos, “Scientologists Rush to Protect Basic Beliefs Released by Judge,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 5, 1985.
57 Julie Christofferson Titchbourne: John McCoy and S. L. Sanger, “Travolta and Other Scientologists Swarm into Portland to Protest,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 21, 1985.
58 “bull-baiting”: John Painter, “Witness Describes Scientology Drills,” Oregonian, July 25, 1979.
59 The jury awarded her: Tony Ortega, “Scientology’s Crushing Defeat,” Runnin’ Scared (blog), The Village Voice, June 24, 2008.