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[The FDA raid of Scientology in 1963]The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plays an outsized role in Scientology’s roster of villains. On January 4, 1963, five US Federal Marshals, accompanied by an FDA inspector and an officer of the Washington, DC police department, raided the downtown row house of the Washington Scientology org, as well as two other Scientology facilities in Maryland. The raiders seized three truckloads of books and papers and around a hundred E-meters. Newspaper reporters were there to witness it. The following day’s press showed photographs of grim-faced US Marshals carrying out piles of books and E-meters. Continue reading Scientology and the FDA: The conspiracy that never was
[Sunny and her grandparents]“Wait, mom, you want me to do what now?” I asked her. She was sitting across from me, pen and paper at hand. I had been under 24 hours watch for three months. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was about to be let free. It was May 2004. Continue reading When Scientology has you dividing up funerals because family never really matters
I wanted to give Scientology the benefit of the doubt. A little while ago I went by the Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Ideal Org to see how things were going. It was during a weekday and was pretty dead at the time. I did a little write up on it and Tony posted it on the Bunker. Continue reading To be fair, we went by a Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ on its biggest day of the week
[The would-be super city]Poor David Miscavige. As if he doesn’t already have enough problems with declining membership, horrible press, and all those nagging questions about banishing his wife to a small mountain compound. Continue reading David Miscavige misses out on $30 billion building project proposed by Scientologists
[Flag Land Base, Clearwater]Today we have the story of a Scientologist in a tough situation. We’ll call her Grace. She’s going through a divorce, she has untreated medical problems, and has come to Clearwater to turn things around for her. Instead they have kicked her out. She’s desperate and asking her friends in Scientology for help, but none is coming. Continue reading How Scientology treats a member in real need strains the notion of the word ‘church’
[Brendan Tighe, talking Scientology with Megyn Kelly]On Thursday, Brendan Tighe posted a remarkable glimpse about the crazy situations Scientology’s ‘disconnection’ policy puts people into. Namely, that because Brendan has left Scientology and its Sea Org and he went public with his experiences on Megyn Kelly’s show, his mother, still a loyal Sea Org member, has cut off all ties to him. Continue reading Scientology’s ‘disconnection’ policy plays out in unbelievable scenes in a Florida hospital
A new issue of Scientology’s ‘Impact’ magazine contains yet another gallery of wealthy donors who were awarded trophies for turning over the big bucks. Continue reading More rich donors propping up Scientology are revealed in a church magazine
Here in the United States we are celebrating our independence, and we hope you are too, wherever you are. Continue reading On this day of declaring independence, we want to hear about your own fight for freedom
[Eric Lieberman, Scientology’s legal wrangler]Every single person who ever worked in the inner circle of Scientology’s highest elevations — the former Sea Organization executives who ran the worldwide movement from one of several secretive locations — every single one of those people will tell you that despite Scientology’s alphabet soup of many entities, it is all ruled by a micro-managing David Miscavige, who assumes his power as maximum leader through his position as captain of the Sea Org. Continue reading Scientology’s answer to Garcias’ appeal sets a new record in cynicism and legal depravity
[Underdown, Minor, Ortega]One surprising thing we learned about Jerry Minor, when we wrote about him after he appeared on Leah Remini’s A&E series, Scientology and the Aftermath, is that he’s actually been a regular reader of the Underground Bunker for a long time and had a great familiarity with our Scientology stories. Continue reading Introducing ‘The Cult Awareness Podcast,’ recorded at HowdyCon 2019 in Los Angeles
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