The Church of Fear: Inside The Weird World of Scientology (39 page)

‘Brief fling’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKYn5xAfHKQ

‘I don’t think Scientologists get a fair deal’:
Why do I say these things?
Jonathan Ross, Bantam Press, London, 2008, pp269–271.

‘What is brainwashing?’:
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
, first published in the USA, 1961. The page numbers I will refer to for this book are from the Lifton edition published by Pelican, London, 1967.

‘Supplicants and recruits’:
Cults In Our Midst
, Margaret Thaler Singer, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2003, p
xii
.

‘Eliminated’: Lifton, p482.

‘Posse of vindictive liars’: http://www.freedommag.org/
special-reports/bbc/panorama-desperate-lies.html

‘Total villain’: http://gettothechoppa.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/john-sweeney-is-genuinely-evil/

‘Is not a cult’: Hansard, July 11, debate on the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill; http://www.publications.parliament.uk/
pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo050711/debtext/50711-
29.htm#50711-29_spnew4

‘Hotly deny’: Vanity Fair: What Katie Didn’t Know by Maureen Orth, October, 2012.

‘I am the baddie.’ Panorama Exposed: http://www.freedommag.org/
special-reports/bbc/panorama-exposed.html

Chapter Two: What do my socks have to do with spiritual freedom?

Panorama, 1987: ‘The Road to Total Freedom?’
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3608301463793011770

Chapter Three: Ill-met at midnight

‘The man in black is the Scientology cameraman’: http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R5KqNG9HLo

‘Now you listen to me’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0HGM8DSnYh0

Chapter Four: One man against the crowd

‘Cult Watch’: http://www.youtube.com watch?v=K4uwcB2uZBs

‘He is crazy’: A piece on Shawn in the St Petersburg Times by Robert Farley brilliantly captures his lonely courage – http://www.sptimes.com/2006/09/
17/Floridian/Scientology_s_scourge.shtml

‘A singular American’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=YDHXu1PjoRA

Chapter Five: Your needle’s floating, Tom

‘An astonishingly successful drug therapy’: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/
Stop-Narconon/sfusd-articles.html

While checking a few details with Nanette Asimov over the phone in my study in 2012, Bertie, our dog, ate my dinner, a dish of microwaved lasagne. I report this to give readers a true flavour of the glamorous nature of investigative journalism.

Charles Hendry MP on Narconon: http://www.publications.
parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo050711/debtext/50711-29.htm#50711-29_spnew4

Scientology confession:
Abuse at the Top, Amy Scobee, Washington, 2010, p32.

Hemet on Google Earth: dial in Golden Era Golf Course – and to the left Gold Base straddles Gilman Hot Springs road.

The Church on Bruce Hines:

http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/anti-religious-extremists/bruce-hines/

Panorama in 1987 on David Miscavige: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65nU9YIizPM

The Church on Tom DeVocht:

http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/cnn/tom-devocht-the-consummate-con-man.html

Marc Headley’s book:
Blown for Good: Behind The Iron Curtain of Scientology
, BFG Books, LA, 2009.

‘Most disgusting experience’:
Blown for Good: p231.
The Church on Marc and Claire Headley: http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/sources/mr-and-mrs-headley-anonymous.html

The Church on Steve Hall: http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/sources/steve-hall-the-man-who-tells-it-straight-from-the-straitjacket.html

Amy Scobee’s book:
Abuse At The Top

http://www.amazon.com/Scientology-Abuse-Top-Amy-Scobee/dp/0692008012

‘Mind-glue’:
Combating Cult Mind Control
, by Steve Hassan, Park Street Press, Vermont, USA, 1988.

The Church on Amy Scobee: http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/cnn/amy-scobee-sex-lies-and-the-blogosphere.html

Debbie Cook’s testimony: District Court, Bexar County, Texas, 9
February, 2012, CAUSE NO. 2012-CI-01272

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY FLAG SERVICE ORGANIZATION, INC. v DEBRA J. BAUMGARTEN, AKA DEBBIE COOK BAUMGARTEN, AKA DEBBIE COOK, AND WAYNE BAUMGARTEN.

http://markrathbun.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/
baumgartendayone.pdf

Lifton’s eight tests for brainwashing:
Thought Reform, pages 477-497.

Marty Rathbun’s blog:
http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/

The Church on Marty Rathbun:

http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/cnn/the-rathbun-family-madness-mayhem-and-mysterious-death.html

Richard Behar’s report in Time Magazine, 1991: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html

Amy Scobee’s book on abuse of confession:
Abuse at the Top, p80, p121

Chapter Six: This is the word of the Church of Scientology

On Eugene Ingram: http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/ingram.htm

Brent Sampson: http://www.webpronews.com/navigating-the-amazon-sales-ranking-2006-06

Scientology speak: easily the best glossary of Scientology terms is available here: http://www.xenu-directory.net/glossary/glossary_a.htm#A

Hubbard on Dead agenting: L. Ron Hubbard,
Board Policy Letter, PR Series 24: Handling Hostile Contacts/Dead Agenting
, May 30, 1974.

Cults In Our Midst
, Margaret Thaler Singer, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2003

For more on Singer, she was a former board member of the Rick Ross Institute: http://www.rickross.com/groups/singer.html

Press archive on Singer: http://www.csj.org/infoserv_profile
/singer_margaret.htm

Chapter Seven: Do I look brainwashed to you?

For the Church’s take on my interviews with the celebrities, watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ecx_6xOaU

Chapter Eight: They want you to be afraid

Rick Ross: http://www.rickross.com/

The Church on Rick Ross:

http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/religious-experts/false-experts/rick-ross/mental-instability/

Chapter Nine: The Industry of Death

‘They lie so truly’: Lifton, p169.

‘Extortion, mayhem and murder’: http://freedom.lronhubbard.
org/page080.htm

Harold Wilson and the psychs: http://solitarytrees
.net.silver.alphamegahosting.com/cowen/misc/psywar.htm

William Battie: ‘Treatise on Madness’: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F6JbAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&re

dir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

George III and the Mad-Business
by Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter, London, Allen Lane, 1969. The authors were mother and son, and psychiatrists, and the grandmother and father of the publisher of this book, Humfrey Hunter, an accident of history I only learned this summer. Their book was turned into a play and then a film by Alan Bennett.

On Benjamin Rush, see Brodsky, Alyn.
Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician
. New York: Truman Talley Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2004.

The Church is also a dark critic of the pharmaceutical industry. But you can be that, and not be a Scientologist. See Ben Goldacre’s excellent
Bad Pharma: How drugs companies mislead doctors and harm patients
, Fourth Estate, London, 2012.

For more on Rivers, read Arthur Anderson, 25 March 2006:

Anxiety and Panic History, 1900-1930 and Judith Herman, MD, “Trauma and Recovery; The aftermath of violence – from domestic abuse to political terror,” BasicBooks, New York, NY, 1997

On the Church’s operation against Paulette Cooper, see:

http://www.holysmoke.org/pc/pcof1.htm

Chapter Ten: The Tethered Goat

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html

The Church v Channel Four: see

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/focus-why-channel-4-is-haunted-by-scientology-1293089.html

http://www.lermanet.com/persecution/tv4harrass.html

Gumbel on the Industry of Death:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060427102908/http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3137&IssueNum=136

Chapter Eleven: The Concrete Angel

The Church on Jeff Hawkins:

http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/cnn/jeff-hawkins-sympathy-for-the-devil.html

See
Counterfeit Dreams by Jeff Hawkins, 2010.
http://www.
amazon.co.uk/Counterfeit-Dreams-ebook/dp/B008228CX0

Chapter Twelve: You Suck Cock On Hollywood Boulevard

The pooch that can detect an overt: Miller, p456.

Chapter Thirteen: Is There Anybody There?

Lifton’s preface to Singer’s book: Singer, pxii

The Church on Tory Christman:

http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/anti-religious-extremists/tory-christman/

Chapter Fourteen: Panorama Exposed

The Church’s filming of the Wild Hogs premiere:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80sxnBfja9M

The Church’s clip of me going tomato:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxqR5NPhtLI

Mike Rinder’s letter to the BBC complaining about me:

http://www.freedommag.org/sites/default/files/Mike-Rinder-Letter-to-BBC-2007.pdf

Panorama Exposed:

http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/bbc/panorama-exposed.html

Chapter Fifteen: The Defector

Allan Henderson’s story:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/i-know-the-dark-side-of-scientology-i-almost-lost-my-friend-when-she-became-obsessed-with-it-1.930802

Miscavige meets Hubbard:

http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologypart1.html

Lifton’s definers for a cult: Singer, pxii

Miscavige’s one TV interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP6yXOEgHjs

The Church on Mike Rinder:

http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/sources/mike-rinder-a-walking-hate-crime.html

Chapter Sixteen: Broken Lives

Larry Anderson greets you into the Church:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnU28gYmBk

The Church on Jason Beghe:

http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/sources/jason-beghe-apostate-poster-boy.html

Private eyes harassing Mike Rinder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n0Y9WXIZvI&feature=relmfu

Chapter Seventeen: The Space Alien Cathedral

For precise details of how to get to the gate of Trementina Base, go to my website at http://www.johnsweeney.co.uk/

The Washington Post on Trementina:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112601065.html

Marc Headley’s Blown For Good is available at http://blownforgood.com/

Tom Cruise not opening the door of his Bugatti Veyron:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riR-yw0S5xs

For Elephant Moon, see my site http://www.johnsweeney.co.uk/ or go to Amazon or Silvertail Books, www.silvertailbooks.com

To watch South Park’s hilarious ‘Trapped In The Closet’, sites come and go so trawl the internet.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Corydon, Bent and Hubbard Junior, L Ron:
L Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman
Lyle Stuart, New Jersey, 1987.

Hawkins, Jeff:
Counterfeit Dreams
, 2010.

Headley, Marc:
Blown For Good, Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology
, BFG Books, Burbank, 2009.

Robert Jay Lifton:
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
, Pelican, London, 1967.

Miller, Russell:
Bare Faced Messiah
, Sphere Books, London, 1987.

Morton, Andrew:
Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography
, St Martin’s Press, New York, 2008.