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]

Not-ready-for-Scientology TV: L. Ron Hubbard’s fortune telling tricks still being sold today

Scientology has sent out another precious mailer to its members that includes an amazing L. Ron Hubbard quote, and we thank our tipster who sent it in. Once again, Scientologists are privately getting sent wacky Hubbard material that you aren’t going to see on the new Scientology television […]

Noted Scientology critic Arnie Lerma shoots and injures wife, then kills himself

[Arnie Lerma]

Shocking news out of Sylvania, Georgia today. Ginger Sugerman, 58, tells us that on Friday night her husband, Arnaldo “Arnie” Lerma, shot her in the face with a 9mm handgun, and then later that night turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. He was […]

Help us dig through this financial disclosure by Scientology’s sneaky front groups

[ABLE president Shannon Walker]

Once again our great tipsters came through with a cool new document, and we’re looking forward to our smart commenters digging through it for […]

Scientology’s L. Ron Hubbard considered James Bond’s nemesis SMERSH his biggest enemy

[L. Ron Hubbard, circa 1971, and some actual SMERSH officers.]

We’re getting into round two of SMERSH Madness today, and by now we’ve heard from some newer readers who have asked us, what the heck are you talking […]

Hey, IRS: You might want to look at this new photo Scientology posted of David Miscavige

We have to hand it to our great tipsters. They are constantly on the lookout for us, and we truly appreciate it. In this case, we have an alert correspondent who brought our attention to the most recent issue of Freedom […]

What do you want to see in Leah Remini’s third season of ‘Scientology and the Aftermath’?

So the news became official yesterday and there will be a third season later this year for A&E’s Emmy-winning docu-series, Leah Remini: Scientology and the […]

Lori Hodgson’s fight with Scientology for her kids is now a book you can pre-order

Scientology’s ‘disconnection’ policy is an abomination. It’s a form of political extortion, pitting family member against family member in order to further Scientology’s tight control of its followers’ lives.

Every disconnection story is heartbreaking, but Lori Hodgson’s saga is particularly cruel and […]

Scientology TV kicks off with Miscavige monologue, settles into familiar propaganda

We’ve seen a lot of video of Scientology leader David Miscavige over the years. We’ve lost track of how many Scientology events we’ve watched him address. […]

Tonight, ‘Vanity Fair Confidential’ brings the Shelly Miscavige story to the ID network

Four years ago, Vanity Fair magazine wrote about the strange disappearance of Shelly Miscavige, wife to Scientology leader David Miscavige, a story we’ve also been covering closely since […]

Scientology TV goes live tomorrow at 8 pm Eastern on app, DirecTV

Last night in Clearwater, Scientology leader David Miscavige revealed that Scientology TV is now an app which is downloadable for both Android and Apple systems, and that programming will begin streaming on the app, and at DirecTV, tomorrow night at 8 pm […]

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