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]
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Secrets of Scientology’s most secretive branch, part 2: CST’s property holdings

[The spaceship-like entrance to Scientology’s northern California underground vault]

We’re always encouraged when an Underground Bunker reader takes a deep dive into Scientology’s arcane depths, and this time a reader has come forward with some eye-opening research on Scientology’s most secretive branch, the Church of Spiritual Technology, which operates vaults for storing Hubbard’s writings and lectures []

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Election denialism: The grift goes on and on

 Some links to Q-related items today []

PODCAST: Jon Atack on Charles Manson and Scientology

Jon Atack’s piece for us this week about Charles Manson and Scientology was such a hit with our readers, we knew we had to get him on the podcast this week to chat with him about it []

MTG curries favor with mass-casualty fans; Milo wants Trump to announce her VP right now!

 Some links to Q-related items today []

German government once again proves it has no illusions about Scientology: What’s up, US?

[Protesting Scientology in Berlin, 2007]

The German government has come out with its annual report on threats to its constitution, and right there at the end is its assessment of []

Rolling Stone: Trump demanded classified documents back even as indictment loomed

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Jane Doe 1 attorney asks for leaked evidence in Danny Masterson case, Scientology pushes back

[Attorney Brad Edwards]

As we expected, the parties in the Bixler v. Scientology lawsuit — the one filed by Danny Masterson’s victims about the harassment they say they’ve gone through since coming forward to the LAPD in 2016 — agreed yesterday to keep a stay in place until after Masterson is sentenced on August []

Recordings of Trump showing his true moral character? Here, look at this puppy, patriots.

 Some links to Q-related items today []

Jon Atack takes issue with new theory about Charles Manson that ignores Scientology

[Charles Manson’s involvement in Scientology is well documented. So Jon Atack looked into a new theory of the Manson murders that is gaining a lot of traction and that for some reason completely ignores Manson’s interest in L. Ron Hubbard’s []

Trump thinks leaked recording about classified military documents exonerates him

 Some links to Q-related items today []