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that had named Hubbard as a defendant. He was also the target of grand juries in
Tampa, New York, and Washington, DC. Hubbard wanted to be able to return to his
moviemaking full-time, but he was afraid to show himself until he was assured that he
wouldn’t be hauled into court. (He died before that happened.)
Like many Sea Org members on the secret base, Rathbun adopted an alias for security
reasons, one that was similar to his real name but that separated him from his previous
identity; it also made it more difficult for anyone to find him. Mark became Marty.
AS THE NEW CHURCH LEADER, Pat Broeker quickly sought to exert his inuence. He had a
special uniform made up for himself, with solid gold epaulettes, and a “Loyal Ocer”
ag that was to be own wherever he was in residence. He announced that he was
going to issue a new “Grade Chart” on Sea Org Day in Clearwater. He justied the
alteration of Hubbard’s sacred material with his own divinations because he claimed to
be in telepathic communication with the founder. His Sea Org Day speech was stymied,
however, when he was told that church authorities expected that a government raid
would take place if he showed himself in public. That wasn’t true, but it wasn’t out of
the question. For several years, the leaders of the church, including Hubbard, Miscavige,
a n d Broeker, had been targets of an IRS criminal investigation. Church lawyers
persuaded Broeker that while the investigation was still ongoing he should conne
himself to another ranch near Creston that Hubbard had purchased. Broeker was content
with that arrangement. He seemed more at home with the quarter horses that he so
lovingly purchased with the church’s money than he did with the bureaucrats in the
church hierarchy. He continued shopping for exemplary breeding stock even after
Hubbard’s death, claiming he was carrying out the founder’s vision. He seemed to think
he could run the church from the sidelines.
Other than Hubbard’s imprimatur, Broeker had few assets on his side. He had the
unfortunate combination of being garrulous without being articulate. Many of the
executives he had been close to had been forced out of the church or had ed. Even
people who didn’t like him, however, were fond of Annie. She was in many ways her
husband’s opposite. She was measured where he was goofy and impetuous. Sweet and
shy, with a fragile beauty that some compared to the actress Jessica Lange, Annie had
been born into Scientology and was one of the few original Messengers who hadn’t been
purged. In 1982, Hubbard had made her Inspector General of the Religious Technology
Center, the highest post in the church bureaucracy, in charge of protecting the sanctity
of Scientology’s spiritual technology. It was a job she was ill suited for, by nature and
also by circumstance, as she was not an auditor, and for years she had been living at the
remote ranch as Hubbard’s caretaker, away from the administration of church aairs. In
March 1987, Miscavige seized control of the RTC, making himself the Chairman of the
Board. He downgraded the Inspector General’s post by dividing it into three parts. His
new lieutenant and henchman, Marty Rathbun, became the IG for Ethics.
Still, both Pat and Annie remained untouchable because of Hubbard’s nal decree.
And, most tantalizingly, only Pat seemed to know where the new OT levels—which he