SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Former Scientology executive Debbie Cook disclosed in court papers today that the church's worldwide leader David Miscavige ordered a staffer to smack her to the floor and another to break her finger in the weeks before she left the church's religious order in 2007.

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Cook made that allegation and others in an e-mail to church officials last month. The e-mail was submitted to a Texas court today, where the church is suing Cook for violating a confidentiality agreement she signed upon her resignation.
The church did not immediately respond to Cook's charges.
In the e-mail, Cook insisted that a letter she wrote to fellow Scientologists on New Year's Eve had not violated the agreement or harmed the church. Cook told church leaders to stop harassing her.
"Think about what I could have done if my actual intentions were to cause real damage" to the church's reputation, she wrote.
She listed some of what she had seen:...........
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There is so much negative publicity about the Church of Scientology in connection with members wanting to leave. It seems odd there is so little favorable publicity.
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They're going to sue her? Pffft. Signing a contract or agreement under duress. Null.
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