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Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]

LISTEN: Rare tape reveals how L. Ron Hubbard really came up with Scientology’s space cooties

The Underground Bunker has been leaked a rare 1952 L. Ron Hubbard recording that surfaced online only briefly five years ago. When it did, some longtime Scientology researchers were astonished, saying they thought it was mere legend.

Despite the secrets it unlocks about the formation of Scientology’s beginnings, you won’t see a mention of this recording […]

Val Ross: Midnight terror in the career of a Scientology spy

[Natalie Cole was a top target for Val’s Scientology recruitment efforts]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Val Ross continues her incredible series about serving as a Scientology spy in the 1970s, even infiltrating the FBI before and after the infamous […]

What awaits you at the end of Scientology’s long, arduous journey

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last time, Val Ross told us about spying at the FBI after its raid on Scientology in 1977. She’s working on a subsequent installment, but in the meantime sent us this look at what […]

OOH LA LA: Scientology opens its ‘Ideal Org’ in Paris today and we’re on the scene!

[The view yesterday, with ribbon in place!]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology will open another ‘Ideal Org’ today, and this time in Paris, in a country that has traditionally been harsh to the organization. Will leader David Miscavige dare […]

David Miscavige and his shills open Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ in Chicago

For the third time in nine days, Scientology leader David Miscavige presided over the grand opening of a new ‘Ideal Org’ that had been sitting, ready to open, for […]

Scientology gushes about David Miscavige’s ‘Ideal’ appearance in Austin

Before Scientology’s Austin “Ideal Org” becomes, like the other 64 Ideal Orgs that came before it, an afterthought, we’re giving one more look at its Saturday grand opening, this time with a glance at Scientology’s own version of what […]

Shelly Miscavige: More about the place where she registered to vote, but is she still there?

[Shelly and the vault at Petrolia]

Last month, those of us interested in the whereabouts of Scientology leader David Miscavige’s wife Shelly Miscavige — who has not been seen at Scientology events since 2005 — were surprised to learn from an anonymous tip at Reddit that she had been registered to vote in 2017 at an […]

Is it another un-Ideal weekend for Scientology? What gives, Dave?

We can still hear the roaring from the crowd, cheering their dear leader, David Miscavige, who told his followers in November and December that he would have the Paris Ideal Org open in January, and three more were coming by February in Austin, Chicago and Mexico […]

Have you made your Scientology ‘postulates’ for the new year, space cadet?

The Scientology propaganda just keeps coming, and we usually get a kick out of it. Scientology’s messages aimed at its members helps us keep up on what’s going on inside the secretive organization, and it also gives us a glimpse of how this dwindling organization is keeping the lights […]

Actress Tricia Vessey and civil RICO added to Scientology lawsuit in proposed new complaint

[Actress Tricia Vessey joins the ‘Bixler’ lawsuit against Scientology and Danny Masterson]

We’ve been telling you for several weeks that a new amended complaint was expected in the Bixler v. Scientology lawsuit, and that it might dramatically change the […]

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