John Brousseau hadn’t been seen for hours, not at the afternoon muster and not at the dinner break. That’s when they got concerned.
At 6 a.m. he had driven his black Ford Excursion out of the Church of Scientology’s huge compound east of Los Angeles, guards at the gate waving as usual.
A 32-year member of the church’s religious order, the Sea Org, and a master craftsman, Brousseau often did special jobs for Scientology’s leader, David Miscavige. He could come and go from the church’s International Base with a freedom other workers didn’t enjoy. But now it was approaching 7:30 p.m. And he wasn’t back.
Two Scientology staffers found a note in his room.
By now you’ve noticed I’m gone. I couldn’t stand to see my Sea Org friends so mistreated. I won’t support it anymore. Goodbye.
Where had he gone?
Within days, church private investigators spotted him in south Texas. He was meeting with Marty Rathbun — a former top deputy to Miscavige and now his most vocal critic.
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