TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: For some reason, a cabal that believes we’ve all been around for 76 trillion years considers another trip around the Sun to be a big deal, and New Year’s Eve is one of the most holy stations on Scientology’s calendar. Now we have the promo for when they get the jump on 2025! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]
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Technology Cocktail
“All valences are circuits are valences. Circuits key out with knowingness. This is the final definition of havingness. Havingness is the concept of being able to reach. No-havingness is the concept of not being able to reach.” — L. Ron Hubbard, 1972
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THE PROSECUTION OF DANNY MASTERSON
We first broke the news of the LAPD’s investigation of Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson on rape allegations in 2017, and we’ve been covering the story every step of the way since then. At this page we’ve collected our most important links as Danny faces a potential sentence of 45 years to life in prison. NOW WITH TRIAL INDEX.
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THE PODCAST: How many have you heard?
[1] Marc Headley [2] Claire Headley [3] Jeffrey Augustine [4] Bruce Hines [5] Sunny Pereira [6] Pete Griffiths [7] Geoff Levin [8] Patty Moher [9] Marc Headley [10] Jefferson Hawkins [11] Michelle ‘Emma’ Ryan [12] Paulette Cooper [13] Jesse Prince [14] Mark Bunker [15] Jon Atack [16] Mirriam Francis [17] Bruce Hines on MSH
— SPECIAL: The best TV show on Scientology you never got to see
[1] Phil Jones [2] Derek Bloch [3] Carol Nyburg [4] Katrina Reyes [5] Jamie DeWolf
— The first Danny Masterson trial and beyond
[18] Trial special with Chris Shelton [19] Trial week one [20] Marc Headley on the spy in the hallway [21] Trial week two [22] Trial week three [23] Trial week four [24] Leah Remini on LAPD Corruption [25] Mike Rinder 2022 Thanksgiving Special [26] Jane Doe 4 (Tricia Vessey), Part One [27] Jane Doe 4 (Tricia Vessey), Part Two [28] Claire Headley on the trial [29] Tory Christman [30] Bruce Hines on spying [31] Karen de la Carriere [32] Ron Miscavige on Shelly Miscavige [33] Karen de la Carriere on the L’s [34] Mark Bunker on Miscavige hiding [35] Mark Plummer [36] Mark Ebner [37] Karen Pressley [38] Steve Cannane [39] Fredrick Brennan [40] Clarissa Adams [41] Louise Shekter [42] John Sweeney [43] Tory Christman [44] Kate Bornstein [45] Christian Stolte [46] Mark Bunker [47] Jon Atack [48] Luke Y. Thompson [49] Mark Ebner [50] Bruce Hines [51] Spanky Taylor and Karen Pressley [51] Geoff and Robbie Levin [52] Sands Hall [53] Jonny Jacobsen [54] Sandy Holeman [55] Mark Bunker [56] Trish and Liz Conley [57] Trish Conley [58] Alex Barnes-Ross [59] Alex Barnes-Ross [60] Alex Barnes-Ross [61] Alex Barnes-Ross [62] Alex Barnes-Ross [63] Alex Barnes-Ross [64] Tory Christman [65] Tammy Synovec [66] Dennis Erlich [67] Alex Barnes-Ross [68] Valerie Ross [69] Kat in Austin [70] Mark Bunker [71] Phil Jones
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“In the final run of it, he gets up to a fairly comprehensive idea of what he’s been and done….He gets himself one Godawful amount of time blocked out. Oh, some terrific amount of time blocked out. He gets up to trillions to the eighth power. Time, you know. Oh man, time, you see. First he gets horrified, you see, at the idea of twelve trillion years ago or something like that. He gets finally, up to a point where trillions to the eighth power take him back to some of the earliest implants. And he’s perfectly happy at this level that there’s an awful lot of track….Now, his track goes sizzling back to trillions to the 200th power. Well that’s, of course, one of these ridiculous figures. That’s trillion written two hundred times. Or one with two hundred times you write all the ciphers of a trillion. That gets to be quite a few ciphers and every one of those things is a year. You’re getting into the sweep of time by this time. Well, I myself have had, I just thought I was doing fine when I was doing some research this last summer. I said, ‘Gee, you know we’re getting clear back here.’ Trillions four, you know. Whew, you know? Dizzying. Concepts of time. Trying to date one of these confounded things, you know. Trying to handle these fantastic periods of time with arithmetic, and trying to dream up other methods of going into all this. Rough! Because it just took the auditor too tall, too long to say anything so you got crude rough approximations like, trillions 4.5, see?” — L. Ron Hubbard, December 3, 1963
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“PORT: All is cool. They didn’t even come aboard to clear us in. Customs and police just wrote us down as cleared in. We are now popular here after the attempted attack and our then asserting PRO Area Control. They are honestly glad to see us. We will be here about six days. It has rained so hard here they couldn’t unload ships and the storm drove even more ships in because it made crews nearly 100 percent seasick on other ships. Trust you had a good liberty.” — The Commodore, December 3, 1969
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“The World Government is being implemented right now before our faces. Scientology OTs should have been working on LRH’s One World Government since the 60’s. International City. L. Ron Hubbard Lecture of 24 March 1964. LRH explains the plans for world peace by setting up an International City in Northern Africa.”
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1996: Scientology critic Martin Hunt disappeared from a.r.s suddenly, causing some initial concern that he had been the victim of a Scientology attack. Ron Newman reported: “Not only is Martin the apparent victim of a massive Cancelbunny attack, but his *entire* web site at http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~av282/ has disappeared!! Sister Clara received e-mail from Martin, confirming his safety. “I have been in e-mail communication with Martin in the last 24 hours and, contrary to the wild speculation that has taken place in recent days, he says he is fine but is determined to stick by the decision he made to finally disconnect from ars and all things to do with Scientology. I believe he is sincere even though his decision to break all links was sudden and prompted him to rid himself of all his resources, files etc connected with his time as an outspoken critic of Scientology. In the absence of any information to the contrary, I have to take him at his word that this decision is a personal one that he reached without external coercion. I also have to respect his wish that no communication should be made to him that in any way touches on the subject of Scientology.”
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“The really scary thing to me about Carla Moxon is that there are literally millions of others like her in this world that are seriously mentally deluded due to magical thinking and they are among us doing jobs that could cause the rest of us harm if they just go off a tad too much at the wrong time. Anybody keeping track of all the problems going on with members of the ICBM defense system? And that’s not even due to magical thinking.”
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Full Court Press: What we’re watching at the Underground Bunker
Criminal prosecutions:
— Danny Masterson charged for raping three women: Found guilty on two counts on May 31, remanded to custody. Sentenced to 30 years to life on Sep 7, 2023.
— ‘Lafayette Ronald Hubbard’ (a/k/a Justin Craig), aggravated assault, plus drug charges: Grand jury indictments include charges from an assault while in custody. Next pretrial hearing November 15.
— David Gentile, GPB Capital, fraud.
Civil litigation:
— Baxter, Baxter, and Paris v. Scientology, alleging labor trafficking: Forced to arbitration.
— Valerie Haney v. Scientology: Forced to ‘religious arbitration.’
— Chrissie Bixler et al. v. Scientology and Danny Masterson: motion to file new complaint, hearing on May 29.
— Jane Doe 1 v. Scientology, David Miscavige, and Gavin Potter: Case unsealed and second amended complaint filed. Scientology moves for religious arbitration, on hold until appeal over new judge heard.
— Chiropractors Steve Peyroux and Brent Detelich, stem cell fraud: Ordered to mediation.
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After the success of their double-Emmy-winning, three-season A&E series ‘Scientology and the Aftermath,’ Leah Remini and Mike Rinder continue the conversation on their podcast, ‘Scientology: Fair Game.’ We’ve created a landing page where you can hear all of the episodes so far.
LEAH REMINI: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH
An episode-by-episode guide to Leah Remini’s three-season, double-Emmy winning series that changed everything for Scientology watching. Originally aired from 2016 to 2019 on the A&E network, and now on Netflix.
SCIENTOLOGY’S CELEBRITIES, from A to Z
Find your favorite Hubbardite celeb at this index page — or suggest someone to add to the list!
Other links: SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS: Tom Cruise and dirty tricks. Scientology’s Ideal Orgs, from one end of the planet to the other. Scientology’s sneaky front groups, spreading the good news about L. Ron Hubbard while pretending to benefit society. Scientology Lit: Books reviewed or excerpted in a weekly series. How many have you read?
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THE WHOLE TRACK
[ONE year ago] Mike Rinder exposes Scientology ‘Fair Game’ for Leah Remini’s lawsuit
[TWO years ago] Scientology scolds Valerie Haney for nominating Tom Cruise to be an arbitrator
[THREE years ago] Scientology wouldn’t pull its ‘Chase Wave’ scam on military veterans, would it?
[FOUR years ago] More Scientology orgs and missions got Covid bailouts than we knew: The detailed breakdown
[FIVE years ago] Scientologist says the church is telling Clearwater members not to vote for Mark Bunker
[SIX years ago] Thar she blows: The ‘whales’ who are keeping Scientology afloat in 2018
[SEVEN years ago] Scientology loses another outlet for attracting young acting talent in Hollywood
[EIGHT years ago] In Scientology, dancing in a conga line might end up costing you thousands
[NINE years ago] Augustine: How Scientology changes its story to fit what it’s trying to get away with
[TEN years ago] About that Tom Cruise Scientology ‘co-leader’ nonsense spreading in the media
[ELEVEN years ago] Our Experts Prepare Us for the Wall of Fire — Scientology’s Operating Thetan Level Three!
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Bernie Headley (1952-2019) did not see his daughter Stephanie in his final 5,667 days.
Joe Reaiche (1958-2024) did not see his daughter Alanna Masterson in his final 6,999 days.
Tammy Synovec has not seen her daughter Julia in 3,102 days.
Valerie Haney has not seen her mother Lynne in 3,597 days.
Katrina Reyes has not seen her mother Yelena in 4,112 days
Sylvia Wagner DeWall has not seen her brother Randy in 3,662 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his grandson Leo in 2,652 days.
Klaus Büchele has not seen his daughter Jasmin in 5,038 days.
Geoff Levin has not seen his son Collin and daughter Savannah in 2,533 days.
Christie Collbran has not seen her mother Liz King in 5,837 days.
Clarissa Adams has not seen her parents Walter and Irmin Huber in 3,708 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 5,260 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 4,601 days.
Dylan Gill has not seen his father Russell in 13,168 days.
Melissa Paris has not seen her father Jean-Francois in 9,087 days.
Valeska Paris has not seen her brother Raphael in 5,255 days.
Mirriam Francis has not seen her brother Ben in 4,837 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 5,097 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 4,133 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 3,849 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 3,413 days.
Julian Wain has not seen his brother Joseph or mother Susan in 1,728 days.
Charley Updegrove has not seen his son Toby in 2,903 days.
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 4,585 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 4,922 days.
Roger Weller has not seen his daughter Alyssa in 9,776 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 4,891 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 3,253 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 7,556 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 3,662 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis in 4,060 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 3,936 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 3,501 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 4,012 days.
Mary Jane Barry has not seen her daughter Samantha in 4,268 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 15,376 days.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on December 3, 2024 at 07:00
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Our new book with Paulette Cooper, Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L. Ron Hubbard’s dangerous ‘religion’ is now on sale at Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Our book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, is on sale at Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook versions. We’ve posted photographs of Paulette and scenes from her life at a separate location. Reader Sookie put together a complete index. More information can also be found at the book’s dedicated page.
The Best of the Underground Bunker, 1995-2023 Just starting out here? We’ve picked out the most important stories we’ve covered here at the Underground Bunker (2012-2023), The Village Voice (2008-2012), New Times Los Angeles (1999-2002) and the Phoenix New Times (1995-1999)
Other links: BLOGGING DIANETICS: Reading Scientology’s founding text cover to cover | UP THE BRIDGE: Claire Headley and Bruce Hines train us as Scientologists | GETTING OUR ETHICS IN: Jefferson Hawkins explains Scientology’s system of justice | SCIENTOLOGY MYTHBUSTING: Historian Jon Atack discusses key Scientology concepts | Shelly Miscavige, 15 years gone | The Lisa McPherson story told in real time | The Cathriona White stories | The Leah Remini ‘Knowledge Reports’ | Hear audio of a Scientology excommunication | Scientology’s little day care of horrors | Whatever happened to Steve Fishman? | Felony charges for Scientology’s drug rehab scam | Why Scientology digs bomb-proof vaults in the desert | PZ Myers reads L. Ron Hubbard’s “A History of Man” | Scientology’s Master Spies | The mystery of the richest Scientologist and his wayward sons | Scientology’s shocking mistreatment of the mentally ill | The Underground Bunker’s Official Theme Song | The Underground Bunker FAQ
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