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[>] "Hubbard's noting that human souls": "Aspects of Scientology's Founding Myth," cited in James R. Lewis, Scientology, p. 375.
[>] Hubbard's announcing OT 3: Interview with Neville Chamberlin.
[>] "help Ron clear the planet": This phrase, cited in the "Foster Report," part of a 1970 report on Scientology and Dianetics by Professor John A. Lee in Ontario, Canada (Sectarian Healers and Hypnotherapy, e-book chapter 4 at www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/audit/lee.html), is also present in numerous Scientology publications of the time, and was told to me by many former members.
[>] "just a shade above Clear": Certainty magazine, volume 5, number 10.
[>] The Scientology magazine: Advance, December 1974, March 1975, and May 1975.
[>] "What would Ron do?": Hubbard, "Post, Handling of," HCO Policy Letter, September 12, 1967. Hubbard encouraged his followers to think this way. In this policy letter, he stated that every Scientology staff member was wearing the Founder's "administrative hat" at their post.
[>] He'd been a racecar driver: Miller, Barefaced Messiah, pp. 279–80.
[>] He'd sailed with the Carthaginian: Hubbard, Mission into Time, p. 33.
[>] had served as a tax collector: Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 178.
[>] troves of gold and jewels: Hubbard, Mission into Time, p. 59. Neither the crew of the Enchanter nor of the other two ships ever found any treasure—though many would swear they found evidence of ancient temples and other ruins that Hubbard promised would be there. "Ron would make little clay models for us," explained one of Hubbard's most dedicated followers, Yvonne Gilham, in 1968, after returning from a five-week voyage through the Sicilian Channel, which Hubbard dubbed the Mission into Time. In Hubbard's clay renderings—he'd also occasionally draw pictures, Gilham said—he would depict, for example, a set of hills, where on one side, he said, would be a temple. "Sure enough we'd go over and there would be two hills and there on the left would be the temple. Then he'd say, 'On the hill, there will be a tower.' And we'd go along and, sure enough, there would be the tower. We just followed the models and followed his drawings and we'd hit the target. It was like that all the time."
[>] "I am literally petrified": Letter to J. Edgar Hoover, February 13, 1973, FBI File #264, names redacted.
[>] "If your parents or friends": Hubbard, "Order of the Day," distributed to the Apollo staff, May 2, 1969. Provided to author by a former Sea Org member.
[>] "The red chair to us": Miller, Barefaced Messiah, p. 320.
[>] "emissaries of the Commodore": "Commodore's Messengers," Flag Order 3729, September 15, 1978.
[>] One Trinidadian newspaper: Robert Gillette, "Scientology Flagship Shrouded in Mystery," Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1978.
6. Over the Rainbow
To understand the intricacies of the Operation Snow White case, and the government response, I relied upon court documents, primarily the transcript of the government's 1979 case, United States v. Mary Sue Hubbard et al., 493 F. Supp. 209; United States v. Mary Sue Hubbard et al., Stipulation of Evidence for Criminal Case No. 78–401; United States v. Mary Sue Hubbard et al., Sentencing Memorandum for Criminal Case No. 78–401; and United States of America v. Jane Kember, Morris Budlong aka Mo Budlong, Sentencing Memorandum in Criminal Case 78–401 (2) & (3). I also found great insight and detail in Atack's A Piece of Blue Sky, which was supplemented by reporting on the raid and subsequent legal battle in theWashington Post and the Los Angeles Times, notably Robert W. Welkos and Joel Sappell, "Burglaries and Lies Paved a Path to Prison" (Los Angeles Times, June 24, 1990).
For the personal recollections pertaining to Operation Snow White and other Guardian's Office intelligence operations, I interviewed Nancy Many, Gerry Armstrong, several former members of the Guardian's Office who wished to remain anonymous, and the author Paulette Cooper, who provided tremendous personal insight. I also referred to Cooper's journal and other writings pertaining to her