Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (65 page)

89
“three-D, super colossal”:
Hubbard’s handwritten note, “Incident 2,” part of the OT III materials, Oct. 28, 1968.

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
.

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.

160
In September 1973:
Interviews with Jim Dincalci and anonymous former Sea Org member.

161
They strapped Hubbard’s injured arm:
Interviews with Jim Dincalci and anonymous former Sea Org members.
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/kima.htm
.

162
“You’re trying to kill me!”:
Interview with Jim Dinealei.

163
“If he is who”:
Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

164
“redemption”:
Hubbard, Flag Order 3434B, “The Rehabilitation Project Force,” Jan. 7, 1974, revised Aug. 21, 1976, re-revised May 30, 1977.

165
When Eltringham came aboard:
Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield. Ken Urquhart, who was then Hubbard’s “personal communicator,” actually wrote the protocol for the RPF. Ken Urquhart, personal communication.

166
“He was in total control”:
Interview with Karen de la Carriere.

167
Bruce Welch:
Interviews with Mike Rinder, Mike Goldstein, Karen de la Carriere, and Daniel Holeman.

168
“Bring the Commodore”:
Interview with Mike Rinder.

169
“You’re the devil”:
Interview with Karen de la Carriere.

170
“I have made a technical”:
Hubbard, “The Technical Breakthrough of 1973! The Introspection Rundown,” Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, Jan. 23, 1974.