Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (66 page)

171
“A madman was made sane”:
Interview with Karen de la Carriere.

172
“revolutionize music”:
Interviews with Mike Goldstein and Neil Safarti.

173
Quentin wanted to join:
Miller,
Bare-Faced Messiah
, p. 325.

174
Quentin’s great ambition:
Interviews with Candy Swanson, Hana Eltringham Whitfield, and Mike Goldstein; Hal Holmes, personal communication.

175
Jim Dincalci, the medical:
Interview with Jim Dincalci.

176
“You have to improve”:
Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.

177
“Daddy doesn’t love me”:
Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

178
sexually involved with a woman:
Monica Pignotti, “My 9 Lives in Scientology,”
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/
.

179
180 IRS agents:
“Catherine Harrington,” personal communication.

180
The federal agents had:
Church of Scientology of Hawaii v. The United States of America
.

181
He sent a pizza:
“Catherine Harrington,” personal communication.

182
Hubbard was just five miles:
Garrison,
Playing Dirty
, pp. 83–84.

183
He weighed 260 pounds:
Kima Douglas, “The
Bare-Faced Messiah
Interviews,” Aug. 27, 1986,
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/kima.htm
.

184
teeth and fingers were darkly stained:
Interview with Mike Rinder and Jim Dincalci. The church maintains that Hubbard was not a chain-smoker and that he quit smoking in the later years of his life. Karin Pouw, personal correspondence.

185
In Curaçao, he suffered:
Personal correspondence with anonymous former Sea Org member.

186
“He’s risking his life”:
Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

187
kicked out of Barbados:
Garrison,
Playing Dirty
, p. 86.

188
When the mayor:
Ibid., p. 245. Nancy Many, personal correspondence.

189
Several months passed:
Charles Stafford; Bette Orsini, “Scientology: An In-Depth Profile of a New Force in Clearwater,”
St. Petersburg Times
, Jan. 9, 1980. “Religion: A Sci-Fi Faith,”
Time
, Apr. 5, 1976. 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
.

190
his tailor leaked the news:
Tracy Ekstrand, personal communication.

191
“There they are!”:
Russell Miller interview with Kima Douglas, “The
Bare-Faced Messiah
Interviews,” Aug. 27, 1986,
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/kima.htm
. According to church spokesperson Karin Pouw, Hubbard left Florida “to pursue additional research.”

192
“He looked like Wild Bill”:
Interview with Dan Koon.

193
He kept a hopped-up:
Unsigned, “Mystery of the Vanished Ruler,”
Time
, Jan. 31, 1983.

194
“She looked like a witch”:
Interview with Karen de la Carriere.

195
“I think a lot of my father’s stuff”:
Dennis Erlich, “The End of the Quentin,”
www.lermanet.com/exit/quentincoroner.htm
. Interview with Dennis Erlich.

196
Tracy Ekstrand, who was:
Interview with Tracy Ekstrand.

197
He left a confused note:
Interviews with anonymous former Sea Org member.

198
Quentin had only just:
Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

199
He was scarcely qualified:
Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

200
Frantic, Mary Sue dispatched:
Interviews with anonymous former Sea Org members.

201
“He was so happy”:
Interview with Cindy Mallien.

202
But only a few days:
Sharon Spigelmyer, “Scientology Student Death Probe,”
Las Vegas Sun
, Nov. 25, 1976.

203
“That little shit”:
Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member and Hana Eltringham.

204
semen in his rectum:
Interview with Kima Douglas in “The
Bare-Faced Messiah
Interviews,”
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/kima.htm
.

205
Quentin had been on vacation:
Sharon Spigelmyer, “Scientology Student Death Probe,”
Las Vegas Sun
, Nov. 25, 1976.

206
Meantime, Mary Sue arranged:
Atack,
A Piece of Blue Sky
, p. 214.

207
Hubbard himself was convinced:
Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.

1
“magnetically impregnated”:
McWilliams,
Southern California
, p. 254.

2
An organization called Mighty I AM:
Ibid., p. 263.

3
Charlie Chaplin:
Epstein,
Sister Aimee
, p. 420.

4
Milton Berle:
Berle with Frankel,
Milton Berle
, p. 129.

5
nautical outfits:
McWilliams,
Southern California
, p. 260.

6
“They all fell short”:
Quinn,
The Original Sin
, p. 127.

7
“any person important enough”:
Hubbard, “Celebrity Defined,” HCO Policy Letter, Nov. 6, 1980.

8
“If you want one”:
Unsigned editorial,
Ability
magazine, undated. According to the church, the magazine was published in March 1955. The church claims that William Burke Belknap, Jr., an early Dianeticist, whose byline is on the article following the “Project Celebrity” editorial, most likely wrote the article. Robert Vaughn Young, who was the chief spokesperson for the church but left the organization in 1989, wrote that Hubbard personally authored the “Project Celebrity” editorial. Young, “The Cult of Celebrities,” Sept. 27, 1997,
http://www.xenu.net/archive/celebrities/
.

9
“make celebrities even better known”:
Hubbard, “Celebrity Centre: Major Target,” HCO Policy Letter, Oct. 19, 1980.

10
“The Master did his Sunday best”:
Peggy Conway letter to Gloria Swanson, Sept. 25, 1956.

11
“Without Scientology, I would”:
What Is Scientology?
, p. 235.

12
“I AM A SCIENTOLOGIST”:
John H. Richardson, “Catch a Rising Star,”
Premiere
, Sept. 1993, p. 87.

13
“increase your self-confidence”:
Variety
, Sept. 9, 1993, p. 7.

14
“make it in the industry”:
Ibid., Dec. 22, 1988, p. 22.

15
Scientologists stood outside:
Interview with Tom McCafferty.

16
Jerry Seinfeld:
“When It Comes to Comedy, He’s ‘All In,’ ”
Parade
magazine,
www.parade.com/celebrity/articles/071017-jerry-seinfeld.html
.

17
Elvis Presley:
Interview with Spanky Taylor.

18
Rock Hudson:
Interview with Spanky Taylor, and Gary Hart, personal communication. It is rumored that Hudson’s auditor hit on a homosexual “withhold,” that Hudson refused to acknowledge, and so he bolted. Interview with Skip Press. Hart says that as a result of the Hudson fiasco, Hubbard kicked the auditor off the staff and placed Yvonne Jentzsch in a condition of Danger.

19
fifty thousand documents:
Reitman,
Inside Scientology
, p. 112.

20
“Operation Freakout”:
US v. Jane Kember, Morris Budlong
, Sentencing Memorandum, pp. 23–25.

21
One of the doors:
Interview with Jesse Prince. Also, Stephen A. Kent, “Brainwashing in Scientology’s Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF),” Sept. 13, 2000,
www.solitarytrees.net/pubs/skent/brain.htm
.

22
Altogether, about 120:
Interview with Jesse Prince.

23
“Fuck you”:
Ibid.

24
“Behind ideological totalism”:
Lifton,
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
, p. 436.

25
“thought-terminating cliché”:
Ibid., p. 429.

26
“a common, ordinary,”:
Hubbard, “Scientology Definitions I: OT and Clear Defined,” lecture, Nov. 29, 1966.

27
Johannesburg Confessional List:
Hubbard, “Johannesburg Confessional List,” HCO Policy Letter, Apr. 7, 1961, revised Nov. 15, 1987.

28
The result of the sec-check:
Monica Pignotti, “My Nine Lives in Scientology,”
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/
.

29
“apparent converts”:
Robert Jay Lifton, personal correspondence.

30
“truth blurred”:
Lifton,
Witness to an Extreme Century
, p. 44.

31
the real intention:
Klein,
The Shock Doctrine
, p. 47.

32
After 9/11, documents emerging:
Lifton,
Witness to an Extreme Century
, p. 380.

33
“You are a good mother”:
Klein,
The Shock Doctrine
, p. 39.

34
In 1955, he distributed:
On Hubbard’s authorship of the pamphlet, see Corydon,
L. Ron Hubbard
, pp. 108–9. Hubbard himself later claimed: “It was written by a man named Paul Fadkeller, and it was published in Berlin in 1947.” Hubbard, “Operational Bulletin #8,” Dec. 13, 1955.

35
“Brain-Washing”:
See Brian Ambry, “Revisiting the Textbook on Psychopolitics, Also Known As the Brainwashing Manual,”
www.freewebs.com/slyandtalledgy/Brainwashing%20Manual%20Parallels.pdf
.

36
“[t]he art and science:
Anonymous [Hubbard?], “Brain-Washing: Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics,” 1955, p. 6.

37
The text specifies how:
Ibid., pp. 25–26.

38
“A psychopolitician must work”:
Ibid., p. 3.

39
From the perspective of:
See Dick Anthony, “Tactical Ambiguity and Brainwashing Formulations,” in Zablocki and Robbins,
Misunderstanding Cults
, p. 282.

40
“tumultuous”:
interview with Jesse Prince.

41
Brainwashing theory:
See Benjamin Zablocki’s essay, “Scientific Theory of Brainwashing,” in Zablocki and Robbins,
Misunderstanding Cults
, pp. 159–214.

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.