It’s the dog days of summer, and we beg your patience as we take a break from our usual serious approach to the news for this imagined Scientology report on our recent travels…
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OPERATION UK HAYWIRE
Subject landed Saturday at Gatwick and was in London by 2 pm, then tried to shake our operatives in the Underground before ending up on the north side, where he attempted further evasion by hiring a road bike and heading back for the Waterloo Bridge.
Movement became erratic, as if he were pretending to be a tourist and was sightseeing, then doubled back through the Greenwich pedestrian tunnel under the Thames as his nefarious plans began to reveal themselves. In Forest Gate on London’s east side, subject reached his destination and met with notorious Photoshop terrorist and denigrator of C.O.B., known in the Bunker by his creative nom de guerre, “Mark.”
Our operatives failed to pick up useful data on this conversation, only hearing subject praising the generous layer of goat cheese that came with his veggie burger. (Operatives are undergoing punishment for this failure according to the usual guidelines.)
Sunday, subject continued to attempt evasion, cleverly disguising his movements as a pleasure trip, when no sane person would ride a bicycle for several hours into wind and rain (and on the left side of the road, to boot) except for devious reasons. Arrived in Oxford late afternoon and checked into a questionable hotel in the city center, then met another Internet terrorist, a Bunker regular and C.O.B. denigrator who goes by the code name “Graham.”
This resulted in an early evening walking tour of the university, which included a stop at the Sheldonian Theatre, where the sounds of an orchestra performing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony could clearly be heard outside. Graham and subject sat down to listen to the performance in a shocking display of musical pilfering. We suggest a massive online campaign to highlight this venal act.
Monday subject continued to mask his real mission with another long day pedaling through the English countryside, this time arriving in Bath, where he met two more online saboteurs who go by the code names “Eivol” and “Juicer.”
Subject ordered a rare tuna steak, but we were unable to capture other actionable data from a conversation which apparently featured classified information about upcoming Bunker articles. This set of operatives has also been relegated for punishment after this failure of intelligence gathering.
On Tuesday, subject continued on, still traveling south on two wheels, and arrived at the Dorset home of his publisher, Silvertail Books proprietor Humfrey Hunter.
Hunter is a major source of entheta in the UK, publishing books about Scientology by John Sweeney, Russell Miller, Lawrence Wright, and Ron Miscavige, as well as the subject’s book about Miss Lovely.
No doubt the two were cooking up something, but our operatives couldn’t place listening devices in Hunter’s back patio in time.
Wednesday, the subject pedaled on through the New Forest, a short ride this time to Brockenhurst, where he caught a train for London.
Last night, subject made yet another suspicious connection, dining with Bunker reader David Bean.
Operatives tell us subject is now leaving the country, and we will keep the watch on him wherever he goes. And maybe harass his mother some more, too.
Hail, C.O.B. Straight up and vertical.
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The Frightday podcast
We enjoyed speaking with Frightday’s Kelly about Scientology. These questions from podcasters are getting better and better.
https://soundcloud.com/frightdaypodcast/a-conversation-withtony-ortega
Also, if you haven’t heard it, we were on Colombian radio last night talking about David Miscavige and the national police.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on August 3, 2018 at 07:00
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