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low profile, although everyone on the base knew he was there.
Cruise was preparing to make Days of Thunder that fall. He had just seen a twentyone-year-old
Australian actress, Nicole Kidman, in the thriller Dead Calm, and he was so
enchanted that he cast her in a part she was far too young to play: a brain surgeon who
brings Cruise’s character back to life after he crashes his race car. They had an
immediate, intense connection, one that quickly became a subject of tabloid speculation.
According to Rathbun, Cruise and Miscavige now had a common interest: getting rid
of Mimi. She demanded and received a church mediation of their relationship, which
involves each partner being put on E-Meters and confessing their “crimes” in front of
the other. But with Cruise ready to move on and Miscavige seemingly set against her,
Rogers stood little chance. Marty Rathbun and a church attorney went to her home
carrying divorce papers. “I told her this was the right thing to do for Tom, because he
was going to do lots of good for Scientology,” Rathbun recalled. “That was the end of
Mimi Rogers.”
Rogers later said that she and Cruise were already having diculty in their marriage.
He had been seriously thinking about becoming a monk, in which case marriage
wouldn’t t into his plans. “He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of
his instrument,” she told Playboy. “Therefore, it became obvious that we had to split.”
AFTER TWO YEARS, Annie Broeker had worked her way out of Happy Valley. She was
assigned to Gold Base, which serves as the headquarters for the Commodore’s
Messengers Org; Golden Era Productions, which makes Scientology lms and
manufactures the audiovisual materials for the church, as well as E-Meters; and the
Religious Technology Center, which enforces the orthodoxy of Scientology practices.
Through his position as chairman of the RTC, Miscavige directed the church’s operations,
spending much of his time living on the base. Rathbun and other top executives were
also living and working on the ve-hundred-acre base, which was still so hush-hush that
few Scientologists knew of its existence. Rathbun believed that Miscavige wanted Annie
close by, in case Pat Broeker ever stirred back to life.
An ex-marine named Andre Tabayoyon, who oversaw construction of the security at
the Gold Base, later testied that church funds were used to purchase assault ries,
shotguns, and pistols; he also said that explosive devices were placed around the
perimeter to be used in case of assault by law enforcement ocials. Surrounded by a
security fence with three-inch spikes, patrolled by armed guards, and monitored by
cameras, motion detectors, infrared scanners, and a sniper’s nest at the top of a hill, the
property houses about eight hundred Sea Org members, in conditions that the church
describes as “like one would nd in a convent or seminary, albeit much more
comfortable.”
Annie resumed using her maiden name, Tidman. Although she was continuously under
guard, she had fallen in love with another Sea Org member—Jim Logan, the same man
who had recruited Paul Haggis into Scientology on the street corner in London, Ontario.
Annie had met Logan in Happy Valley when both were on the RPF. Jim and Annie