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Deborah made sure Paul showed up at the annual gala and became involved in
Scientology charitable organizations. Over the years, Haggis spent about $100,000 on
courses and auditing and an equal amount on various Scientology initiatives. This gure
doesn’t include the money that Diane gave to the church while she was married to Paul.
Haggis also gave $250,000 to the International Association of Scientologists, a fund set
up to protect and promote the church. Deborah spent about $150,000 on coursework of
her own. Paul and Deborah held a fund-raiser in their home that raised $200,000 for a
new Scientology building in Nashville, and they contributed an additional $10,000 from
their own pocket. The demands for money—“regging,” it’s called in Scientology, because
the calls come from the Registrar’s Oce—never stopped. Paul gave them money just to
keep them from calling.
1 A lawyer for Preston and Travolta claims that the couple “never put their son through a ‘Purication Rundown’
treatment and would never have engaged in any type of conduct that would have endangered their son’s health, welfare, or
well-being in any way.” He maintains that Preston was referring to herself when she responded to Williams’s question.
2 According to the church, “The Sea Org policy on children changed in 1986. The Executive Director International, Mr.
Guillaume Lesevre, issued the change in policy which provided that Sea Org members could no longer have children and
remain in the Sea Org.”
3 The church denies that there is such a thing as the blow drill. The church produced an adavit by Morehead, executed
Mar. 31, 1997, in which he says: “I have seen people leave and they were free to do so. I am now doing so myself.… I am
aware of stories of individuals claiming to have been held against their will, but I know for myself and from my security
position that the stories are completely false.” Morehead repudiates the statement, saying, “In March of 1997 at that
specific moment I would have signed anything.”
4 Cruise, through his attorney, says he has no recollection of meeting Marc Headley. Bruce Hines, who was there to make
sure the process was done correctly, witnessed the sessions and clearly remembers Cruise auditing Headley.
5 Cruise’s attorney remarks, “So far as I know, Mr. Cruise has always paid for any services he received.”