[8] In June 2007, Paulette Cooper wrote about her experience with the Church of Scientology and Operation Freakout from "beginning to end" for the first time.

[12] According to Tony Ortega's 2015 biography of Paulette Cooper, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, libraries in the United States also experienced thefts of the book.

One Los Angeles library, frustrated by theft attempts, kept the book locked away, and patrons could read it only under supervision.

Now I was fascinated, and started collecting everything I could get my eager hands on — magazine articles, newspaper clippings, government files, anything.

"[15] Later, when A Piece of Blue Sky was dropped from Amazon.com listings in a controversial move, this was compared to court actions that initially limited distribution of The Scandal of Scientology.