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143 “MAKE MONEY”: Hubbard, HCO policy letter, “Income Flows and Pools,” Issue I,
Finance Series 11, Mar. 9, 1972.
144 more than $300 million: Robert Lindsey, “Scientology Chief Got Millions, Ex-
Aides Say,” New York Times, July 11, 1984. Reitman notes that by the 1970s
Hubbard held accounts in Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein. Money was
transferred from a Liberian shell corporation, the Religious Research Foundation,
into his accounts. She quotes Laurel Sullivan: “It was fraud, an out-and-out ripping
off of funds that were supposed to go to the church.” Inside Scientology, p. 97.
145 “Church’s was bigger”: Kima Douglas interview with Russell Miller, “The Bare-
Faced Messiah Interviews,”
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/miller/interviews/​kima.htm.
146 “great chunks of cash”: L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., testimony, “City of Clearwater
Commission Hearings Re: The Church of Scientology,” May 6, 1982.
147 “Making money, I think”: Hana Eltringhim (Whitfield) interview, “Secret Lives—
L. Ron Hubbard,” Channel 4, UK, 1997.
148 Hubbard had lost interest: Interviews with Tracy Ekstrand, Jim Dincalci, and
Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
149 “I could hear him chortling”: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield.
150 When she learned: Interview with anonymous former Sea Org member.
151 “Maybe a hundred Sea Org”: Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, p. 93.
152 Hubbard observed that 1972: Interview with Kate Bornstein.
153 flown to New York: Interview with Hana Eltringham Whitfield and anonymous
Sea Org member.
154 convicted in absentia: Robert Gillette and Robert Rawitch, “Scientology: A Long
Trail of Controversy,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 27, 1978.
155 Hubbard flew to New York: Jim Dincalci, personal communication.
156 It was an odd interlude: Interview with Jim Dincalci.
157 “I’m PTS to nations”: Ibid.
158 “free to frequent”: Hubbard, “Guardian Order, Secret, Snow White Program,”
Apr. 20, 1973.
159 Under Mary Sue’s direction: Reitman, Inside Scientology, p. 115; Unsigned,
“Mystery of the Vanished Ruler,” Time, Jan. 31, 1983; Gordon Gregory,
“Prosecutors: Scientologists Infiltrated Washington Post,” St. Petersburg Times, Dec.
4, 1979; “Sentencing Memorandum,” United States of America v. Mary Sue Hubbard,
et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia.
160 In September 1973: Interviews with Jim Dincalci and anonymous former Sea Org
member.