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jackets?” I asked.
“I gave him a leather jacket once,” Davis conceded.
“So it is true?” I asked. “A motorcycle, fine suits?”
“I never heard that,” he responded. “And as far as ne suits, I’ve got some ne suits.
The church bought those.” In fact, he was wearing a beautiful custom-made suit, with
actual buttonholes on the cus. He explained that for IRS purposes it was considered a
uniform. When Sea Org members mix with the public, he explained, they dress
appropriately. “It’s called Uniform K.”
Davis declined to let me speak to Miscavige; nor would he or the other members of the
group agree to talk about their own experiences with the church leader.
I asked about the leader’s missing wife, Shelly Miscavige. John Brousseau and Claire
Headley believe that she was taken to Running Springs, near Big Bear, California, one
of several sites where Hubbard’s works are stored in underground vaults. “She’ll be out
of sight, out of mind until the day she dies,” Brousseau had predicted, “like Mary Sue
Hubbard.”
In the meeting, Tommy Davis told me, “I denitely know where she is,” but he
wouldn’t disclose the location.
Davis brought up Jack Parsons’s black magic society, which he asserted Hubbard had
inltrated. “He was sent in there by Robert Heinlein, who was running o-book
intelligence operations for naval intelligence at the time.” Davis said that the church
had been looking for additional documentation to support its claim. “A biography that
just came out three weeks ago on Bob Heinlein actually conrmed it at a level that we’d
never been able to before, because of something his biographer had found.”
The book Davis was referring to is the rst volume of an authorized Heinlein
biography, by William H. Patterson, Jr. There is no mention there of Heinlein sending
Hubbard to break up the Parsons ring. I wrote Patterson, asking if his research
supported the church’s assertion. He responded that Scientologists had been the source
of the claim in the rst place, and that they provided him with a set of documents that
supposedly backed it up. Patterson said that the material did not support the factual
assertions the church was making. “I was unable to make any direct connection of the
facts of Heinlein’s life at the time to that narrative or any of its supporting documents,”
Patterson wrote. (The book reveals that Heinlein’s second wife, Leslyn, had an aair
with Hubbard. Interestingly, given Hubbard’s condemnation of homosexuality, the wife
charged that Heinlein had as well.)
“Even those allegations from Sara Northrup,” Davis continued, mentioning the
woman who had been Parsons’s girlfriend before running o with Hubbard. “He was
never married to Sara Northrup. She led for divorce in an eort to try and create a
false record that she had been married to him.” He said that she had been under a cloud
of suspicion, even when she lived with Parsons. “It always had been considered that she
had been sent in there by the Russians,” he said. “I can never pronounce her name. Her
actual true name is a Russian name.” Davis was referencing a charge that Hubbard once
made when he was portraying his wife as a Communist spy named Sara
Komkovadamanov. “That was one of the reasons L. Ron Hubbard never had a