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88 “The world we live in now”: Hubbard’s lecture, “Assists,” Class VIII, Tape 10,
Oct. 3, 1968.
89 “three-D, super colossal”: Hubbard’s handwritten note, “Incident 2,” part of the
OT III materials, Oct. 28, 1968.
90 “He is not likely”: Hubbard’s lecture, “Assists,” Class VIII, Tape 10, Oct. 3, 1968.
91 “the planet of ill repute”: This story is drawn largely from Hubbard’s lecture,
“Assists,” Ibid. It does not come from the actual OT III materials, which the Church
of Scientology insists are secret and a trade secret, although they are easily
available on the Internet. They do not differ substantively from the material
Hubbard discussed in this lecture and wrote about elsewhere.
92 “We won’t go into that”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
93 threw up violently: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
94 “a fucking asshole”: Gerald Armstrong interview, “Secret Lives—L. Ron
Hubbard,” Channel 4, UK, 1997.
95 “They held the power”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
96 intimate but not overtly sexual: Affidavit of Tonja Burden, Jan. 25, 1980.
97 When the girls became: Sue Lindsay, “Genius in a Yellow Straw Hat,” Rocky
Mountain News, Feb. 16, 1986.
98 “putting ethics in”: Hubbard, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, p. 20.
99 Good and evil actions: Ibid., pp. 13–14.
100 “the greatest good”: Ibid., p. 101.
101 “You have to establish”: Hubbard’s lecture, “Ethics and Case Supervision,” Oct.
9, 1968.
102 his cigarette smoking: “With respect to our parishioners, smoking is a personal
choice”; Karin Pouw, personal correspondence.
103 It had begun with Gibraltar: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, p. 275.
104 England banned foreign Scientologists: Ibid., p. 289.
105 “She was like Cinderella”: Interview with “Catherine Harrington.”
106 Mary Sue used to have parties: Interview with Candy Swanson.
107 “gorgeous”: Interview with Belkacem Ferradj.
108 “I hit the bulkhead”: Ibid.
109 “Never question LRH”: Hana Eltringham Whitfield lecture, Hamburg Symposium,
Mar. 26, 2010.
110 even in rough seas: “The degree of swell or wave has no bearing on whether they
go overboard or not.” Hubbard, Flag Order 1499, Oct. 21, 1968.
111 John McMaster … was tossed: Lamont, Religion, Inc., pp. 53–54.
112 He left the church: The church says of McMaster: “He was in his day a ‘squirrel’