23 “You’re Tommy Davis’s servant”: Interview with Mike Rinder.
24 “gaunt, hollow-eyed”: John Sweeney, personal communication.
25 “sadistic cult”: “The Secrets of Scientology,” Panorama (BBC), May 14, 2007.
26 Are you a member of a sinister, brainwashing cult?” www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfMrvpDzj8.
27 “Who’s the witness?”: BBC footage, Mar. 31, 2007.
28 “That’s not his temperament”: Thomas C. Tobin, “The Man Behind Scientology,” St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 25, 1998.
29 “That’s the biggest lie: www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/?reports/project/rathbun.shtml.
30 Marc Headley, one of: www.blogtalkradio.com/glosslip/2008/04/25/glosslip-from-our-lips-to-your-ears.
31 Rinder says he witnessed: Mike Rinder, personal communication.
32 Lana Mitchell, who worked: Interviews with Marc Headley and Mike Rinder; Lana Mitchell, markrathbun.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/?transcript_of_bryan_seymour_interview_with_lana_mitchell_17b1u9r-17b1u9t.pdf.
33 “You get very hardened”: Interview with Mariette Lindstein.
34 “She’ll be out of sight”: Interview with John Brousseau.
35 “I was unable to make”: William H. Patterson, Jr., personal correspondence.
36 The book reveals that: Patterson, Robert A. Heinlein, p. 538 n.
37 Sara Komkovadamanov: Hubbard, “Intelligence Actions Covert Intelligence Data Collection,” Memo to “The Guardian,” Dec. 2, 1969. In the same memo, he spells it “Komkosadmanov.” Karin Pouw writes, in a personal communication, “Sara Northrup Hollister’s death certificate dated December 18, 1997 lists her mother’s birth name as Olga Malakhan-Casadominov, born in Russia. The information was provided by her widower, Miles Hollister. This is the name that was being referred to. All of the spellings are phonetic, of course, since the actual name would have appeared in Cyrillic.” Sara herself recounted that her mother’s father had been named Malacon Kosadamanov, but changed his name to Nelson when he moved to Sweden. Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.
38 “I’m not interested in revenge”: Sara Elizabeth Hollister (formerly Sara Northrup Hubbard) tapes, Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions.
39 Hubbard applied for a pension: “Report of Physical Examination,” Dec. 6, 1945. Hubbard medical records, Department of Veterans Affairs.
40 “NOT a palm”: John E. Bircher, personal communication.
41 There was a fire in: According to the National Archives website, only records of the Army and the Air Force were affected.
42 “there was no Howard D. Thompson”: Charles Pellegrini letter to Dr. Jan Willem Nienhuys, May 9, 2000.
43 “The United States has never”: Erik Voelz interview with the New Yorker fact checkers.
44 Davis blew: Anonymous former Sea Org member, personal correspondence.
EPILOGUE
1 “the old religion”: Hubbard, “Routine 3 Heaven,” HCO Bulletin, May 11 AD13 (1963).
2 This fraud has been: Lawrence Wright, “Lives of the Saints,” The New Yorker, Jan. 21, 2002.
3 Like Hubbard, Mary Baker Eddy: Wallis, in The Road to Total Freedom, p. 98, compares the origins of Dianetics to the rise of Christian Science.
4 “I really wish I had”: Interview with Paul Haggis.
5 It had the misfortune: Interview with Eugenie Grandval.
6 earning $1 billion: Matt Peckham, “Bye-Bye Avatar: Modern Warfare 3 Takes $1 Billion Record,” PC World, Dec. 12, 2011.
7 “It wouldn’t stick”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
8 “It was one of those sudden”: Interview with Stephen “Sarge” Pfauth.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND A NOTE ON SOURCES
1 he was spied upon: Russell Miller, “See You in Court,” Punch, Feb. 19, 1988; Miller, “The True Story of a False Prophet,” Night & Day, The Mail on Sunday Review, March 30, 1997.
2 Wallis was spied upon: Lamont, Religion, Inc., p. 87.
Bibliography
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
Karen de la Carriere, Private Collection, Los Angeles.
James Free Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Russell Randolph Hays Collection. Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries.
The Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Archives. The Heinlein Prize Trust and the UC Santa Cruz Archives.
Stephen A. Kent Collection on Alternative Religions. The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Gloria Swanson Papers. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
SCIENTOLOGY SOURCES
Church of Scientology International. Assists for Illnesses and Injuries. Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, 1994.
———. What Is Scientology? Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, 1998.
Hubbard, L. Ron. Advanced Procedures and Axioms. Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, 2007.
———. All About Radiation. Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, 1979.
———. Clear Mind, Clear Body. Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, 2002.