Pat Broeker

Patrick D. Broeker
Born	United States
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Trudy Venter (Divorced), Annie Tidman (Divorced)

Patrick "Pat" D. Broeker is a former high-ranking member of the Church of Scientology. He was - along with his wife Anne Broeker - one of the few people in direct contact with L. Ron Hubbard as he became isolated from the public and even from Scientology during his final years in the Church before his departure from the organization in 1989.

Broeker grew up near Niagara Falls. As a young man, he joined Scientology, becoming a member of the Sea Org.

In 1974, Broeker married fellow messenger Trudy Venter in a double wedding ceremony aboard Hubbard's vessel The Apollo. Broker would later marry Annie Tidman.

Early in 1980, Broeker instructed Scientologist John Brousseau to purchase a vehicle which Broeker, his wife, and Hubbard used to disappear into hiding. Broeker could contact Brousseau by a system involving paging him.

Pat Broeker and his then-wife Anne were the last two intimate companions of L. Ron Hubbard in the six years prior to his death. Hubbard died on January 24, 1986.

Hubbard's death was announced in a January 27, 1986 ceremony. Broeker and his wife Annie were introduced as Hubbard's "two most trusted friends and companions" by Sea Org member David Miscavige, who would later become leader of the church.

L. Ron Hubbard purportedly issued an order in which he specified that Pat and Anne Broeker should succeed him as the heads of Church following his death in Flag Order 3879, 19 January 1986, "The Sea Org and the Future", promoting himself to Admiral and appointing them as First and Second Loyal Officers. Jackson Moorehead has described receiving the order "the day after L Ron Hubbard passed". Moorehead reports "the next day" having to recover and shred copies of the order.

However, soon after Hubbard's death, a new order was circulated, canceling the “Loyal Officers” decree.

Broeker left the church in 1989 and moved to Colorado. In 2009, Tampa Bay Times reported that after Broker left the church, David Miscavige hired private detectives to follow Broeker for $32,000 a month. They followed him for the next two decades to Wyoming and ten years in Czech Republic, where Broeker went to medical school and worked as an English teacher. In 2012, Paul Marrick and Greg Arnold, the two private detectives who followed Broeker for 25 years, sued the Church of Scientology for breach of contract when the organization stopped paying them for their investigations. After engaging in settlement talks, the pair moved to dismiss their suit.

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