‘John Sweeney is genuinely evil’ see: http://gettothechoppa
.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/john-sweeney-is-genuinely-evil/
‘Exploding tomato’ see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxqR5NPhtLI and many other sites. Scientology & Me, the 2007 BBC Panorama documentary is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFRSt_viosc The Dalek impersonation is worth a watch, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLI1Al3S_pE
‘Hysterical rant’ from the News of the World, May 13, 2007. Five years later Rupert Murdoch changed his tune, tweeting: ‘Very weird cult, but big, big money involved with Tom Cruise either number two or three in hierarchy.’
‘Secret police interrogator’: Charles Moore was writing in The Spectator, May 25, 2007.
‘Whose bunny was boiled’: watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecWhXP2jM28
‘Create the new reality’: watch Tom Cruise espouse Scientology here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0
‘Psychotic, a bigot and a liar’: for the Church of Scientology’s considered view on the author:
http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/bbc/panorama-exposed.html
http://www.freedommag.org/special-reports/bbc/panorama-desperate-lies.html
The first draft of this book was written before the Savile scandal engulfed the BBC in the autumn of 2012. What happened was wrong, and the failure of BBC Newsnight to broadcast the stories of Savile abuse in 2011 compounded that wrong. But the BBC did air programmes strongly critical of BBC management, including a Panorama made by my colleagues and a BBC News Channel interview in which I openly criticized the then Director-General George Entwistle:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20024904
Entwistle faced difficult questions about his conduct from the BBC on air. Commentators have noted the contrast between the BBC’s openness to effective scrutiny and Entwistle’s subsequent resignation and the reactions of many newspaper groups to accusations of phone-hacking.
‘How warm space is’: http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/ot.html
‘Con man’: Bare Faced Messiah, Russell Miller, London, 1987.
‘Mark of the Beast 666’: L Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman by Bent Corydon and L Ron Hubbard Junior, Lyle Stuart, New Jersey, 1987, p48.
‘Star shape behind’: L Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman – illustration opposite p195.
‘Wog’: Saint Hill Briefing Course-82 6611C29.
‘The production of plant mutations’: Bare-Faced Messiah, p305.
‘Mental therapy’: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/
Shelf/anderson/index.html
‘The other cheek’: Believe What You Like, CH Rolph, Andre Deutsch, London, 1973. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/
Shelf/rolph/chr06.htm. Rolph, an former police officer, wrote about the Church and gave the warning about fatuous credulity at the start of this book.
‘Or destroyed’: HCO Policy letter of 18th October 1967, LRH directed: ‘Enemy- SP Order. Fair Game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.’
‘In 1984…’ http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/legal/
a1/breckenridge-decision.html
‘His autopsy…’ http://www.xenu.net/archive/hubbardcoroner/
hubbard_toxicology_report.jpg
‘Discarded the body…’ http://www.xenu.net/archive/hubbardcoroner
/hubbard_toxicology_report.jpg
‘Disgrace to the German nation’: http://www.xenu.net/archive/
hubbardcoroner/hubbard_toxicology_report.jpg
‘We’ll get them to them last’: http://www.sptimes.com/
TampaBay/102598/scientologypart4.html
‘Scientology is not a religion’:
http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Library/start/
cosfulldoc.pdf
‘Smart thing to do’: “Celebrities are very Special people and have a very distinct line of dissemination. They have comm [unication] lines that others do not have and many medias[sic] to get their dissemination through” L. Ron Hubbard, from Flag Order 3323, 9 May 1973 http://www.xenu.net/archive/celebrities/
‘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, pxii.
‘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
Panorama, 1987: ‘The Road to Total Freedom?’
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3608301463793011770
‘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
‘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
‘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, 9th 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
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
For the Church’s take on my interviews with the celebrities, watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ecx_6xOaU
Rick Ross: http://www.rickross.com/
The Church on Rick Ross:
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/religious-experts/false-experts/rick-ross/mental-instability/
‘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
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
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
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
The pooch that can detect an overt: Miller, p456.
Lifton’s preface to Singer’s book: Singer, pxii
The Church on Tory Christman:
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/anti-religious-extremists/tory-christman/
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
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
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
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
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.