Tony Ortega | The Underground Bunker

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]

Bull baiting and so much worse: Margery Wakefield on surviving Scientology

It’s great to hear from Margery Wakefield again. After some time away from the fray, Margery is back with another book about Scientology, and this one is very personal. For our ‘Scientology Lit’ series, she pulled a gritty chapter out of her new book, I Survived!: Overcoming Abuse, Scientology and Life in General, which went […]

NXIVM: CLARE BRONFMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO 2 FELONIES, FACES 21 to 27 MONTHS

[Clare Bronfman leaves court after pleading guilty. Photo by VillageDianne]

We just spoke with VillageDianne, who was in the courtroom as Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman pleaded guilty to two felonies that Judge Nicholas Garaufis said would have her facing a sentence of 21 to 27 months in […]

Press roundup: HBO will give Nxivm the ‘Going Clear’ treatment

UPDATE: We’ll have a correspondent at the courthouse this afternoon as Clare Bronfman and Kathy Russell plead guilty. That only leaves Keith Raniere — will Vanguard take on the prosecutors all on his […]

COMING MAY 9: Silvertail Books publishes Chris Owen’s ‘Ron the War Hero’

We’re extremely excited to tell you that Chris Owen’s masterful investigation of L. Ron Hubbard’s World War II experience, Ron the War Hero: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard’s Calamitous Military Career, will be published on May 9 by Silvertail Books. (Full disclosure: Silvertail is also the publisher of our book, The Unbreakable Miss […]

Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Lord’s Evening Meal: Lloyd Evans asks, should you go?

Yesterday we asked ex-JW activist Lloyd Evans some dumb questions about the Lord’s Evening Meal, or The Memorial, that will be taking place tomorrow. Now, he’s put together a video for his audience about the annual […]

Jehovah’s Witnesses test new legal strategy to combat child abuse claims: Call it incest

Watchtower has made the claim that most JW child abuse cases involve […]

When Scientology is caught spying, it always pretends it was the victim

[Scientology kids protesting the Snow White prosecution in 1978, Denver Post photo]

Yesterday, Chris Owen gave us a wonderful dive into Scientology’s history as an intelligence agency. We thought we’d follow up with a fun document today that helps illustrate what he’s talking […]

Passing bread around and not painting eggs: It’s Easter the Jehovah’s Witnesses way!

We noticed Jehovah’s Witnesses making preparations for this important week in the Christian world, and so we thought we’d ask ex-JW activist Lloyd Evans some stupid questions about what’s going on. […]

Spyentology: For Scientology, operating as an intelligence agency is a religious mandate

Chris Owen is back with another insightful dive into Scientology […]

Nxivm judge reveals some fun new details as he rejects Kathy Russell’s dismissal bid

[Kathy Russell and Judge Nicholas Garaufis]

We thought that Nxivm bookkeeper Kathy Russell had made a pretty interesting last-minute argument for dismissing charges against her, but Judge Nicholas Garaufis rejected her motion to dismiss with a pretty interesting order we knew you’d want to […]

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