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about the relentless fund-raising of the church, despite what she said was a $1
billion cash reserve, the church sued her for at least $300,000 in damages. Like
many former Sea Org executives, Debbie Cook and her husband, Wayne
Baumgarten, signed nondisclosure agreements with the church when they left the
staff. They were paid $50,000 each to remain silent in perpetuity. In return, they
waived their First Amendment rights to free speech, agreeing to pay a minimum of
$50,000 for any such remark made in private and $100,000 for every disparaging
statement they might make in any medium. If such a statement happens to be
published in a newspaper, or a magazine, they are required to pay $20 for each
copy printed—i.e., more than $20 million each if they spoke to The New Yorker.
They also relinquished any claim to ownership of their preclear folders.
“Agreement and General Release,” signed by Debbie Cook and Wayne
Baumgarten, Oct. 19, 2007. Cook was in the Sea Org for twenty-nine years. In her
seventeen years as Scientology’s top executive at the Clearwater base, she oversaw
an operation that brought in more than $1.7 billion. Joe Childs and Thomas C.
Tobin, “Church of Scientology Sues Longtime Clearwater Leader over New Year’s
Eve Email,” Tampa Bay Times, Jan. 31, 2012. Cook and Baumgarten settled with
the church, agreeing not to speak about it in the future, and moved to the
Caribbean island of Guadaloupe. Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “Ex-Scientology
Leader Debbie Cook Moving to Caribbean Island,” Tampa Bay Times, June 20,
2012.
60 “Once on a phone call”: “The Rathbun Family: Madness, Mayhem, and
Mysterious Death,” Freedom, undated, unsigned.
61 “Get away with murder”: Interview with Mark “Marty” Rathbun.
62 abortions were common: Interview with Dan Garvin.
63 pushed to have two abortions: Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, “No Kids
Allowed,” St. Petersburg Times, June 12, 2010.
64 “It’s a constant practice”: Interview with Claire Headley.
65 Worried about pillow talk: Interviews with Tom De Vocht and Janela Webster.
Hubbard also imposed divorces on Sea Org members at times, according to Gerald
Armstrong, who says that Hubbard ordered his wife, Terri, to divorce him in 1979
if she wanted to continue as a Commodore’s Messenger. Gerald Armstrong,
Complaint Report to the US Department of Justice.
66 were billed more than $150,000: Claire Headley, personal communication.
67 “Marty, I don’t want”: Interview with Mike Rinder.
68 “musical chairs”: Interviews with Mark “Marty” Rathbun, Mike Rinder, Mariette
Lindstein, Tom De Vocht, Marc Headley; Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin,
“Scientology: The Truth Rundown, Part 1,” St. Petersburg Times, June 21, 2009.
69 “Is it real to you now?”: Interviews with Mike Rinder, Mark “Marty” Rathbun,
Noriyuki Matsumaru, Mariette Lindstein, Marc Headley, and Tom De Vocht.