Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman [235]
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* According to several reports, Packer is no longer affiliated with the church.
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* Once, recalled Marc Headley's wife, Claire, Cruise came down with food poisoning at Int, prompting the immediate departure of the unfortunate Sea Org member who had unwittingly fed the actor bad shrimp.
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* This spate includes my own article, "Inside Scientology," published on February 23, 2006, in Rolling Stone.
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* The Sea Org had abandoned its navy-style uniforms as day-to-day attire in Clearwater by 1996, as part of the church's ongoing effort to make friends in the community. This would soon become standard practice throughout Scientology, though the Sea Org dons the formal uniform on special occasions.
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* The family ultimately settled with the church in 2004 for an undisclosed amount, estimated at $20 million.
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* The city of Clearwater has never conducted its own survey to test Scientology's claims.
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* A pseudonym.
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* The Cadet Org was abolished in the mid-1990s.
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* Richard Reiss was the senior case supervisor at Flag who was out of town on training in 1995, when Lisa McPherson was receiving counseling—her care fell to Reiss's deputy, Alain Kartuzinski.
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* Miscavige's missives, unlike L. Ron Hubbard's, are generally not for public consumption. With the exception of the occasional RTC Executive Directive, such as one of 1991 wherein Miscavige announced that the church was winning its campaign against the IRS, the leader's written words are confined to the base, where staffers maintain thick binders of his utterances. Miscavige speaks to the Scientologist public at events, and his speeches are often reprinted in Scientology magazines.
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* According to several former staffers, including Marc Headley, Miscavige rejected the golf cart, which was used instead by the base's public relations officials to give tours to visiting VIPs. When I visited Int in the winter of 2006, the OSA chief at the time, Mike Rinder, drove me around the base in the golf cart.
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* The church denies that it pressures people into having abortions. In 1996, a formal policy was enacted, banning Sea Org members from having children. Youngsters were seen as "interfering with the productivity" of the staff, according to the current Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis. See Joe Childs and Thomas Tobin, "No Kids Allowed," St. Petersburg Times, June 13, 2010.
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* During my last interview with Stefan, in September 2010, he noted that he ultimately came to understand that Miscavige feared appearing to be too much "in control" of the church, as that might violate the church's agreement with the IRS regarding its tax exemption. According to this agreement, Scientology's Mother Church controls the budgets and the RTC simply oversees copyrights and trademarks.
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* Though Scientologists are not supposed to know the location of the Int Base, nor that it is the seat of international management, the base's location has been public since the 1980s, and maps of its various buildings have been posted on the Internet. Happy Valley, however, was a true "secret" until 2000, when a German documentary team revealed its location. The church, seeking to avoid negative publicity, closed it down.
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* The Church of Scientology denies that Miscavige has ever physically attacked anyone.
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* During the late 1990s, Miscavige spent most of his time in Clearwater. However, according to Marty Rathbun, the leader would often monitor the "séances" remotely, by instructing an RTC staffer to put a conference phone into the room so he could listen in. "When he heard something that piqued his interest, he would have his assistant reach one of those RTC staffers through a separate phone, and then bark his instructions. Many times this had to do with