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[Sunny Pereira, 15]
Sunny Pereira has become a very effective technical expert here at the Bunker, helping us understand Scientology’s arcane ideas. And lately, she’s been going back over some of her own career in the church, and digging out some documents, the sort you don’t see every […]
[Andrej Kiska with Barack and Michelle Obama in 2016]
Rod Keller cuts through some of the propaganda coming out of Russia to get a little closer to what’s actually happening […]
Last week, we enjoyed an excerpt from Marc Headley’s 2009 book Blown for Good, a stunning narrative by a longtime Scientologist describing his life in the church and how he broke away. Another account with a similar theme which came out a few months later was the remarkable Counterfeit Dreams by Jefferson […]
[Hubbard in 1948]
A 1948 letter written by L. Ron Hubbard that Lawrence Wright quotes in his 2013 history of Scientology, Going Clear, is going on the auction block in New York on June 14, and it’s really fun to see it in its entirety on the Christie’s […]
[Renata and Flavio]
Last week, we asked the people on our “Scientology disconnection, a reminder” list — which appears at the end of each story here at the Bunker — about how they are coping with the church keeping them from their loved ones. The result was an emotional outpouring from the people on the list […]
[Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey and Taryn Teutsch]
For years, Scientology and its operatives have attacked former spokesman Mike Rinder with one particular accusation. […]
[Laura DeCrescenzo and Bert Deixler]
Well-regarded California attorney Bert Deixler has once again genuflected to his client, Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, filing a notice of appeal after the church got roundly defeated in a calculated move to slow down a lawsuit that scares the bejeesus out of […]
Tammy Clark tells us she sent a letter to her uncle Heber Jentzsch in November, hoping to find out how he’s doing as he turned 82. This week, she received a reply.
But she’s suspicious about […]
[Copenhagen’s May 2017 grand opening]
Rod Keller has some new insights for us about how Scientology “Ideal Orgs” evolve, including a fascinating new ad posting from the […]
[Bernie Headley and his son Marc, and Marc’s sister Stephanie]
More than a year ago, in January 2017, we wrote a story about Bernie Headley that got us pretty worked up. Here was a man who was fighting cancer and was being prevented from seeing his own daughter, Stephanie, by the Church of […]
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