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[>] He also accused Ceppos: Letter to the director of the FBI from the special agent in charge of its Newark field office, March 21, 1951, FBI file #100, www.xenu.net/archive/FBI/table.html.
[>] in 1951, Hubbard: Letter from Hubbard to the director of the FBI, Washington, D.C., March 3, 1951, FBI file #89. Letter from Hubbard to the director of the FBI, Washington, D.C., March 3, 1951, FBI file #89.
[>] "Many manics are delightful": Miller, Barefaced Messiah, p. 175. Miller referred to Klowden by the pseudonym "Barbara Kaye."
[>] "insert a fatal hypo": Ibid., p. 175.
[>] Sara ... signed a statement: Bent Corydon and Brian Ambry, L. Ron Hubbard: Madman or Messiah?, p. 305. During his research, Corydon wrote Sara a letter, asking her why she'd signed the document. "I thought by doing so he would leave me and Alexis alone," she responded. "It was horrible. I just wanted to be free of him!"
3. The Franchised Faith
For the early history of Scientology, I relied upon the recollections of Jana Daniels and Alan Walter, whom I interviewed personally, as well as Helen O'Brien, as found in her book Dianetics in Limbo. For a less subjective view, I relied upon Atack's A Piece of Blue Sky and Miller's Barefaced Messiah. The Australian Report of the Board of Enquiry into Scientology, while certainly not objective, proved to be a quite insightful study of Scientology in Australia, enabling me not only to glean the practices the board found objectionable but also to discern the hatred and fear that Scientology inspired.
I was particularly interested in Scientology's place in Cold War America and found great insight in Stephen J. Whitfield's The Culture of the Cold War, as well as Hugh Urban's paper "Fair Game." I also relied on Hubbard's FBI files, accessible through the Freedom of Information Act; his correspondence, made available by Armstrong and Letkeman; and particularly his myriad Hubbard Communication Office (HCO) bulletins and policy letters of 1954–65, which are too many to be mentioned here, but which are cited in the notes and collected in Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology and The Original LRH Executive Directives.
Much can be said about Scientology as a business, and for help in understanding Hubbard's overall strategy, I relied upon personal interviews with Hubbard's former aide Ken Urqhart, with Alan Walter, and with the later Scientology executives Chris and Nancy Many, as well as with Sandra Mercer, a longtime Scientologist and onetime church staff member. For fine-grain detail in legal matters, I read articles in theWashington Post pertaining to Scientology's lawsuit against that newspaper, concerning violation of trade secrets. To understand Scientology's own view, I read stories on the protection of trade secrets published in the church's magazine Freedom.
[>] "important new material": O'Brien, Dianetics in Limbo, p. 49.
[>] "deep and marvelous insight": Ibid., p. 55.
[>] It was, essentially, a lie detector: Scientologists routinely deny that the E-meter bears any relationship to the lie detector. Nonetheless, like lie detectors, E-meters register the "electrodermal response," or changes in the conductivity of the surface of the skin, in people undergoing emotional stress, conscious or unconscious. Lie detectors, however, are much more sophisticated and also monitor changes in heartbeat and perspiration.
[>] "Knowing How to Know": What Is Scientology?, Church of Scientology, 1978 ed.; also "Frequently Asked Questions" at www.scientology.org, which states, "Scientology, which means 'knowing how to know,' is a religion based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard."
[>] "exact anatomy of the human mind": Hubbard, DMSMH, p. 590.
[>] "theta beings": Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 129. A full description of "theta beings" can be found in chapters 2 and 3 of