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Kima Douglas, born Carol Elizabeth Cecelia Everett on July 19th, 1942 in
Oporto Portugal was the daughter of Lt. Cmd. Charles William Everett R.N.V.R. and
Elizabeth Mary Cecelia Everett (Woodroffe). Kima passed away January
14th, 2013 in Scottsdale Arizona after severe complications from
necrotizing pancreatitis. Never hospitalized in 70 years, her zest for
life, that carried her through many hardships, kept her fighting till
the end. Kima gave her strength and love unconditionally, always living
up to Our Woodroffe Family Crest: 'Cur Ac Manus Concordant' Heart and
Hand in Harmony. Widowed in 2003 to
Michael Edward Douglas after 30
years. She is survived by: her daughter Kelly Frances Elizabeth Veronica Munk, Gig Harbor, WA; her granddaughters Jade Elizabeth Ruth Hooper and
Jette Veronica Celia Hooper, Seattle, WA; her brother Robin Charles
Dieudonné Everett, London England, and Cherie, James and Isabelle
Embleton. A memorial service was held at 1:00PM March 23, 2013 on
Fox Island, Gig Harbor WA.
Kima’s parents had worked as British spies during the Second World War.
They were rushing to get home to have her when Kima was born in Portugal
on July 19, 1942. Kima then grew up in Rhodesia, where she had a pet
elephant.
Kima Douglas was well known in the world of Scientology, and spent
several years caring for the founder and leader, L. Ron Hubbard as his
nurse during some of the most difficult years that he ran the
organization while on the run himself.
Kima said she had first been recruited into Scientology in California in
1968, and by 1970, when she joined Hubbard on the ship was fully under
his spell. Kima left Scientology in 1980
The following notes are taken from a transcription of interviews with
Kim Douglas.
Kima Douglas was very much a typical Scientologist during her years in
the Church, from 1968 to 1980: she was young, English-speaking,
well-educated and totally committed. She was well-qualified to join L.
Ron Hubbard's naval élite, the Sea Org, which had been founded in 1967.
Her past nursing experience in her home country of Rhodesia was
discovered at a time when Hubbard's health was rapidly deteriorating and
for seven years, from 1973 to 1980, she became a unique combination of
nurse, aide de camp and confidante.
I am South African. I wanted to find out about it. I had been through
two marriages by '68. I am a child of an alcoholic parent. I joined the
Sea Org 25 Sept '68. Hana [Eltringham] took over AOLA [Advanced
Organisation Los Angeles] in '69, then Tony Dunleavy came out. I met
him, fell in love and in August 1970 went to the ship [Apollo] in
Madeira.
...went over to take over publics in Denmark. I came back and the ship
was in Casablanca, Morocco and there was an org there at the time where
we were training top management teams. Everything was going fine, then
some bloody girl [Susan Meister] shot herself on the ship. She got Peter
Gillham's gun and shot herself in the mouth. We were in a port that had
disease. LRH called me back to the ship to take over medical office. I
had 2 years' nurse training at British hospital in Bulawayo - my
speciality was labour and delivery.
We were also messing around at that time with the King of Morocco. It
got very weird. Tony & I sent out to Apollo US and I fell in love with
another man, Carlos Gusman. I was recalled back to ship. This was
out-ethics, tsk, tsk. I was put in a low ethics condition, and painting
and cleaning the ship went on for 3-4 months.
I was Financial Planning chairman for the ship.
Kima and Michael Douglas were sent to Switzerland and Liechtenstein to
transfer the Scientology reserves and Hubbard's money.
Some of the money was under Hubbard's name, I saw his bundle. Another
bundle was under the Church. The Church's was bigger but his was big
too. When we saw the money everyone's eyes widened. We were told it was
highly confidential. When we got back to the ship we saw him
immediately. He wanted us to describe how big the piles were. The list
of currency numbers was given to Mary Sue. He was very pleased, he
thought he had outdone the Swiss.
I was CO HU - Commanding Officer Household Unit.
MADRID. Kima [Douglas] and a girl called Jill went to the Gold Coast in
Africa to register three corporations, RRF, one was the "Snow White"
project to straighten up and clean all Scientology's dirty washing. Fred
Hare was in charge. I had to incorporate these companies. We arrived in
Madrid. We went to the apartment. We had an OTC mailing office in Madrid
and I was given mail to take back to the ship. Next morning at the
airport I was arrested. I was taken into the back office where 15 boxes
of mail were that they had taken off the aircraft. I was taken to
prison, kept in solitary confinement and interrogated for two days. I
was there for 7 days.
Michael was his finance officer and comm officer. He gave Michael a
million dollars and told him to make money. Michael turned it into $3m
with gold, silver, diamonds, oil and foreign exchange, and stock. He was
given a $1,000 bonus. When we left Michael had under his charge about
$500,000 worth of diamonds, gold and silver coins in our name at the
bank. It may have been $700,000 - there were five bags of gold coins.
Kim was already divorced twice by the ripe age of 26; before she married
Michael Edward Douglas (1947-2003), she was Kima Churchill
In 1970 when she came to the Publications Org in Denmark on mission with
her then-husband, Tony Dunleavy, a veteran Sea Org member and executive.
Notes:
• Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (LRH) was founder and leader of the
Church of Scientology (as it became known).
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