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With regard to Hubbard's years at the Winter Headquarters ranch and in hiding in Sparks, I relied primarily on interviews with former Messengers Gale Irwin, DeDe Reisdorf, and Julie Holloway, and former Sea Org members Sinar Parman and Dan Koon.
[>] "If Hubbard screamed": Terry Colvin, "L. Ron Hubbard Likened to Howard Hughes," Riverside Press–Enterprise (Riverside, CA, April 14, 1980), B-1.
[>] "A truly Suppressive Person": Hubbard, "Suppressive Acts—Suppression of Scientology and Scientologists—the Fair Game Law," HCO Policy Letter, December 23, 1965.
[>] "may be deprived of property": Hubbard, HCO Policy Letter, October 18, 1967.
[>] "fanatical Scientologist": Atack, A Pierce of Blue Sky, p. 221.
[>] "For months, my anxiety": Byline, June 2007, reprinted on Cooper's website: www.paulettecooper.com/scandal.htm.
[>] tasked with the theft: Testimony of Robert Dardano, City of Clearwater Commission hearings re the Church of Scientology, Tuesday, May 6, 1982.
7. DM
David Miscavige is in some ways as enigmatic a figure as L. Ron Hubbard was: very little can be conclusively proven about the man, as he rarely, if ever, grants interviews and reportedly exerts tremendous control over all who know and work with him. As has been true for every journalist since 1998, Mr. Miscavige refused my requests to interview him and thus did not contribute to the information presented in this book nor in the original Rolling Stone magazine article. Piecing together his story, then, poses a significant challenge. For a broad view of "DM," his basic history, and rise to power, I relied heavily on the few stories that have appeared about Miscavige in theSt. Petersburg Times and the Los Angeles Times, notably Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos, "The Man in Control" (Los Angeles Times, June 24, 1990), Thomas Tobin, "The Man Behind Scientology" (St. Petersburg Times, October 25, 1998), and three stories by Thomas Tobin and Joe Childs: "Change of Plans" (St. Petersburg Times, November 15, 2009), "What Happened in Vegas" (St. Petersburg Times, November 2, 2009), and "The Truth Rundown" (St. Petersburg Times, June 21, 2009) . But my primary, and best, sources were Gale Irwin, DeDe Reisdorf, Julie Holloway, Mark Fisher, Larry Brennan, Dan Koon, Sinar Parman, Marty Rathbun, and several others who, in a series of interviews and many exhaustive e-mail exchanges, helped me piece together and confirm the narrative of Miscavige's rise and ultimate takeover of the church.
For background on the purges of the early 1980s, I relied upon these sources as well as on Atack's A Piece of Blue Sky and transcripts from the 1984 Gerry Armstrong case, as well as declarations and affidavits used in the 1984 case Tonja C. Burden v. Church of Scientology of California, et al. Alan Walter and Melanie Stokes gave me insight into the mission holders conference and the dismantling of the mission network. Larry Brennan provided an excellent, and overwhelmingly thorough, explanation of the corporate restructuring of the Church of Scientology, which I address in both the text of the chapter and in the notes.
To tell the story of the last years of L. Ron Hubbard's life, and the days immediately following his death, I relied on interviews with Julie Holloway, Sinar Parman, and Steve "Sarge" Pfauth, as well as on accounts from Barefaced Messiah and A Piece of Blue Sky, from Robert Vaughn Young's extensive write-up "RVY Update by RVY" (September 2, 1998, published on the alt.clearing.technology message board: groups.google.com/group/alt.clear ing.technology/msg/ac775c2dc5a0646c), and a comprehensive report of Hubbard's final years: Colin Rigley, "L. Ron Hubbard's Last Refuge" (New Times, May 29, 2009). The event announcing Hubbard's death was videotaped and has been made available on YouTube; I was also given a DVD of this event, and provided a description of it, by Jeff Hawkins and Mark Fisher.
[>] "a trusted associate": "Declaration of L. Ron Hubbard," probate document of May 15, 1983.
[>] "It was the reactive mind": Thomas Tobin,