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followed by two private detectives, Paul Marrick and Greg Arnold, who claim that they
tailed Broeker for the next twenty-four years, even to foreign countries. They say they
were supervised personally by David Miscavige and paid from church funds. “He lived a
very quiet, normal life, and everybody around him loves him,” Marrick later said of
Broeker. “So that’s his whole story from our perspective.”
The same day that Miscavige canceled Hubbard’s order, Annie showed up in a remote
re-education camp, in the Soboba Indian Reservation in Southern California, that
Scientologists called Happy Valley. It had once belonged to an order of nuns, who left a
sign on the gate that said VALLEY OF THE SINGING HEART. An armed guard stood watch. Dogs
were trained to track down anyone who tried to leave.
Miscavige was now in complete control.
1 Miscavige has been circumspect about what missions he actually performed in his capacity as Action Chief. He once
testied: “What is a mission? Okay. Well, you have a situation and a situation is dened as a departure, major departure
from the ideal scene, and at the bottom of that there’s some Y. Y is dened as an explanation that opens a door to a
handling. And if you have actually pulled the strings on the situation all the way down, you will now have a Y, which
means that the situation can be resolved. A mission would take a situation, knowing what the Y is, and therefore knowing
what exact handling steps are thus possible as a result of the door being opened because the Y was found by evaluation,
and they would … operate on what is known as a set of mission orders, and the set of mission orders is an exact series of
steps, sometimes consecutive, sometimes not, sometimes they can be done concurrently within each other.… These
mission orders have an exact purpose to be accomplished, exact major targets, exact primary targets, exact vital targets,
exact operating targets; they have listed the means of mission communication, and they have also listed the target date for
completion.” He did not clarify the situation further. (David Miscavige testimony, Bent Corydon v. Church of Scientology,
July 1990.)
2 The church categorically denies all charges of Miscavige’s abuse.
3 In 1989, an appellate court reduced the judgment to $2.5 million, which the church nally paid in 2002, plus interest,
which brought the sum to $8.6 million.
4 The church claims that Hubbard’s income was generated by his book sales.
5 Rathbun was never able to apply those advanced techniques on his brother. In 1981, two boys walking their dogs near a
vacant lot in Garden Grove, California, discovered Bruce Rathbun’s body buried under a pile of debris. The cause of death
was never determined and the case was never resolved (www.ci.garden-grove.ca.us/?q=police/Unsolved/1981/Rathbun).
6 The police report conrms Rathbun’s story. “A suspect, tentatively I.D.’d as her husband, red one shot through the
driver’s side of the auto,” the report states. “He then forced her vehicle to stop, got out, and became involved in a ght
with her male companion, during which time he was ring the weapon, a .22 caliber (short), 8-shot revolver.… The male
companion was able to wrest the revolver from the suspect, at which point the husband ed.” The companion was
identied as Mark Rathbun. The empty gun was found at the scene (Michael A. Shepherd, County of Los Angeles Case
Report, Aug. 19, 1978).
7 None of the promised levels has ever been released.