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46 “curb the growth”: Wallis, The Road to Total Freedom, p. 195.
47 “I had been ill”: “Further Information on L. Ron HUBBARD and Laurence L.
HAUTZ,” CIA dispatch, Aug. 22, 1966.
48 He resigned as Executive: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 80; and Malko,
Scientology, p. 82.
49 Rhodes was homosexual: Rotberg, The Founder, p. 408.
50 Hubbard had a fantasy: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
51 issuing passports: Hana Eltringham (Whitfield), interview, “Secret Lives—L. Ron
Hubbard,” Channel 4, UK, 1997.
52 However, the current prime minister: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 258.
53 “He told me Ian Smith”: Lamont, Religion, Inc., p. 54.
54 “drinking lots of rum”: Corydon, L. Ron Hubbard, p. 59. The church says an
apostate fabricated this letter.
55 “Your Sugie”: Interview with Dan Koon. Neville Chamberlin told me he saw
Hubbard’s “pharmaceutical cabinet,” which was amply supplied with drugs, and he
says he witnessed Hubbard injecting himself in the thigh on one occasion, but he
doesn’t know what substance Hubbard was using. “He used drugs almost as a
shaman,” Chamberlin speculates.
56 “I want to die”: Virginia Downsborough, quoted in Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p.
266.
57 “All this recent career”: Hubbard, “Ron’s Journal ’67.” Taped lecture.
58 Blavatsky had prophesied: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield. This was
her impression, although there doesn’t seem to be a reference to such a redheaded
leader in Blavatsky. It seems to have been an impression that Whitfield carried
with her when she first met Hubbard.
59 “There’s a course starting”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
60 “That is where the Fifth Invaders”: Ibid.
61 “The rollers! The rollers!”:. Ibid.
62 “Eyes tire easily”: Veterans Administration, Report of Medical Examination for
Disability Evaluation, July 27, 1951.
63 Hubbard had written: Hubbard, Dianetics, pp. 10–11.
64 a habit of squinting: Interview with Dr. Catherine Kennedy. Hana Eltringham,
for instance, told me that although she never saw Hubbard wearing glasses, “I
often saw him squint when he picked up a paper to read.… He did the same when
he looked at people he was talking to.”
65 “astigmatism, a distortion”: Hubbard, Professional Auditor’s Bulletin No. 11,
“Eyesight and Glasses,” compiled from ACC tape material, May 1, 1957.
66 “You’re doing yourself”: Tracy Ekstrand, personal communication.