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The FBI wants a word with Leigh Dundas, Scientologist attorney and Capitol rioter

 
We first noticed Leigh Dundas, a Scientology OT and “human rights attorney” last year as she made a name for herself as a firebrand anti-vaxx and anti-mask activist who had driven away an Orange County health official with her brand of political extremism.

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That Scientology spying operation on Anonymous? Yeah, we have video too

 
We have even more for you from Scientology’s own files on its operation to surveil the Anonymous movement in Seattle in 2009.

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Scientology spying on Anonymous: Leaked from the files of a church private eye

[The black bag department: Russ Andrews]

Saturday we revealed the appearance of one of Scientology’s notorious “black bag department” operators, a private investigator named Russ Andrews.

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Post-Super Bowl, Scientology is on fire and will soon clear the planet

 
We want to thank our source who once again has given us access to Scientology’s social media streams so we can see what church members are telling each other about their wins and gains.

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Let’s bring one of Scientology’s most notorious bag men out of the shadows

 
The last two days we’ve remarked on Chrissie Carnell-Bixler’s remarkable letter to Congress, and how she is trying her best to explain what it is like to be a former Scientologist who is being harassed by an organization with a very well-earned reputation for retaliating against people who expose its secrets.

Simply put, Scientology is built on decades of psychological terrorism.

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Danny Masterson accusers signal they’ll go to higher court to fight ‘religious arbitration’

[Chrissie Carnell Bixler, at a 2019 protest]

Yesterday afternoon we told you that former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson testified before a Congressional subcommittee and brought up the lawsuit against actor Danny Masterson and the Church of Scientology that we’ve been watching so closely since it was filed in 2019. The lawsuit was brought by Masterson’s rape accusers, and Carlson used it as an example of how women are being denied justice through the misuse of a federal arbitration law.

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Scientology icon and double OT 8 Chick Corea dies at 79 of cancer

[Corea at the Scientology 1977 ‘OT Summit’]

Chick Corea’s Facebook account announced this afternoon that the legendary jazz artist died Tuesday of a “rare form of cancer which was only discovered recently.”

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Gretchen Carlson slams Danny Masterson and Scientology ‘arbitration’ to Congress

 
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson took her battle against forced arbitration and secrecy agreements that keep sexual harassment under wraps to a House Judiciary subcommittee today, and as an example of the way women are prevented from getting justice she brought up the case of Danny Masterson’s rape accusers, who have been forced into “religious arbitration.”

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Scientology at its peak, part 2: See the excitement for ‘OT’ secrets in leaked 1991 video

[Tory Christman loves the new OT materials!]

Yesterday we showed you the first half of a secret Scientology briefing held at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida in May 1991. In today’s second half, we pick up with Captain Ray Mithoff as he continues to reveal the nifty new “OT” releases and then we get some very special testimonials from Scientologists excited about the new material.

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Scientology at its peak: A 1991 confidential briefing to take you into orbit with OT secrets!

 
May 1991. You Scientology historians know what a crossroads that was for the organization built on the ideas of L. Ron Hubbard.

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