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Marc Headley grew up in Hollywood, California. His mother became a member of Scientology when he was just seven years old and he grew up around some of their most famous celebrity members. Marc would join an elite Scientology paramilitary organization at sixteen years old. By his thirties, Marc would become an integral staff member of Scientology's International Management Headquarters. After 15 years of over 100 hour work weeks, mental and physical abuse, and being paid under 50 cents an hour, Marc had experienced enough Scientology. In 2005, after a dramatic escape from the heavily guarded Scientology compound in Hemet, California, Marc was able to restart his life at 32 years of age. Marc currently lives and works in California with his wife and two young sons.

The International Base of Scientology. The sprawling 500 acre property located deep in the California desert. The local townspeople were told that Scientology lectures and films were being made there. But is that all that is happening there? It is the location of a multi-million dollar home for L. Ron Hubbard, built two decades after his controversial death. It is the home of Scientology's current leader, David Miscavige. Rumor has it that high ranking Scientology celebrities such as Tom Cruise have been there. So what really happens at the Int Base? Are the stories on the internet true? How does Scientology conduct management of its day to day operations? Reports from former members have shown up here and there over the past 20 years. Could stories of armed guards, weapons, staff beatings, and razor wire fences surrounding the entire property be true? If so, how could a facility like this exist in modern day America?

Hundreds of staff had made attempts to escape over the years. Some had succeeded but had never been seen or heard of again, but most had failed. Marc knew it would not be easy getting out of the Scientology compound. Why were people kept here? Why did more people not attempt to escape over the years? What was it that went on at the International headquarters of Scientology?

This is the story of what happened behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology.

BFG Books are published by

Blown for Good, Inc.

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Burbank, CA 91505

First published in 2009 by BFG Books, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication (Provided by Quality Books, Inc.)

Headley, Marc Morgan.

Blown for good : behind the iron curtain of Scientology / Marc Morgan Headley.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN 2009931081

ISBN-13: 978-0-9825022-1-1

ISBN-10: 0-9825022-1-4

1. Scientology—Controversial literature. 2. Golden Era Productions—Employees. I. Title.

BP605.S2H43 2010 299’.936

QBI09-600123 2009931081

ISBN 978-0-9825022-0-4

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Author’s Note

International Headquarters of Scientology (map)

1. Walking in My Shoes

2. Lie To Me

3. Work Hard

4. The Landscape is Changing

5. The Policy of Truth

6. Everything Counts

7. Stories of Old

8. Just Can’t Get Enough

9. My Secret Garden