The death of attorney Jerry Giesler was covered by the Associated Press, “$800k Estate Left by Giesler,” January 20, 1962.

Some of the early days of Scientology were covered in “‘Have You Ever Been a Boo-Hoo?’,” by James Phelan, Saturday Evening Post, March 21, 1964.

“Project Celebrity” information was taken from “Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard Offered Rewards for Celebrity Recruits in 1955,” by Kirsten Acuna, Business Insider, July 19, 2012.

Shirley MacLaine talked about some of the difficulties filming The Trouble with Harry here: https://talkfilmsociety.com/columns/beginners-guide-to-alfred-hitchcock-the-trouble-with-harry-1955.

The police poster at the LAPD headquarters was described by Alan Nicholls in News of the Day, Age, August 22, 1961. The police bulletin came from https://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2017/03/03/55421/la-city-archive-the-lapd-s-police-bulletin-opens-w/. The death of Officer Riegel is from Valley Times, July 3, 1961, https://www.odmp.org/officer/11267-policeman-sidney-riegel.

John Frankenheimer discussed some of his experiences filming The Manchurian Candidate for the Criterion Collection.

Some details about filming The Birds came from Mark Mancini, “10 Fascinating Facts About The Birds,” Mental Floss, January 4, 2018, and from https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Cinemafantastique_(1980)_The_Making_of_Alfred_Hitchcock%27s_The_Birds. Some dialogue attributed to LeGrue was actually said by bird trainer Ray Berwick in “The Making of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds,” by Kyle B. Counts and Steve Rubin in Cinemafantastique (Fall 1980).

Some of the dialogue and descriptions about filming The Manchurian Candidate in New York came from Don Ross, “Frank Sinatra: ‘Decent, Wholesome and Nice Boy,’” New York Herald Tribune, February 21, 1962; UPI, “Actor Laurence Harvey Is Helped from the Freezing Waters,” February 8, 1962; Earl Wilson, “Midnight Earl,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, February 9, 1962.

The description of Toots Shor’s restaurant came from John Bainbridge, “Toots’s World; Part II—Friendship,” The New Yorker, November 18, 1950, as well as https://www.tipsontables.com/toots.html. Details of the Psycho shower scene were relayed by Will Hodgkinson, “Secrets of the Psycho Shower,” The Guardian, March 29, 2010; Oliver Lunn, “10 Things You (Probably) Never Knew About the Shower Scene in Psycho,” BFI, December 11, 2017; and Bernard Weinraub, “‘Psycho’ in Janet Leigh’s Psyche,” New York Times, May 1, 1995.

Lolita actually premiered June 13, 1962, at Loew’s State and Murray Hill Theaters in New York. Kate Cameron wrote about it in “‘Lolita’ On Screen…for Adults Only,” New York Daily News, June 10, 1962. Some of the Kubrick dialogue was taken from an unpublished interview with the director by novelist and screenwriter Terry Southern; see http://www.archiviokubrick.it/english/words/interviews/1962southern.html.

Operation Northwoods was described in the National Security Archive at the George Washington University at https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//news/20010430/northwoods.pdf. Other operations described in the book come from various sources, including a memo by Brigadier General William Craig to Brigadier General Edward Lansdale as reprinted in Letters of Note: Possible Actions to Provoke, Harass, or Disrupt Cuba, August 23, 2011; http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/08/possible-actions-to-provoke-harass-or.html.