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]

Garcia case update: Has Judge Whittemore managed to fill a Scientology arbitrating panel?

There are new court filings in the Garcia fraud lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, and two new dates to put on your calendar. […]

Leah Remini calls for federal action: Here’s the frustrating reason the IRS may not answer

As the start of the second season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath approaches on Tuesday, media and public interest is ramping way up. Leah has promised that the second season will focus on “the abusive practices of Scientology — sexual abuse and physical abuse,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. […]

Bogus court documents, compliant search engines, and Scientology-style rehabs

[Per Wickstrom, illo by Chad Essley]

Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter provided a curtain-raiser for season two of Leah Remini’s A&E series with a couple of interesting articles. Seth Abramovitch wrote a new profile of Leah, and Gary Baum posted a disturbing story about how information critical of Per Wickstrom’s Narconon-style rehabs in Michigan was the subject […]

Hey, moneybags, Scientology has a bridge to sell you. Here’s the new price list!

[Scientologists taking part in ‘money processing,’ to teach them to ‘flow’ cash to the church.]

One of our readers was in a local org recently, and happily for us she was handed a pamphlet that included a price list. Thinking quickly, when the staff wasn’t looking she snapped a couple of photos of it and then […]

Stephen Colbert: Do you believe Scientology is a religion at all? Leah Remini: No

Oh my, what an appearance Leah Remini made last night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote next week’s premiere of A&E’s ‘Scientology and the Aftermath’ season […]

‘Scientology and the Aftermath’: Mike Rinder answers a few of our questions after TCA win

With only a little more than a week before the start of season two for A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, we sent over a few questions to Leah’s sidekick, former Scientology spokesman and Australian-born U.S. citizen Mike […]

Scientology subjects young children to quack therapies — now, someone is taking a stand

For years, we’ve been telling you about Mace Kingsley Family Center, a place where Scientologists have their children — even infants — subjected to Scientology procedures. And now our Rod Keller looks into a new effort to bring this place to the attention of […]

An unusual Scientology advertisement leads to new intel on secretive ‘Int Base’

[The ‘Cine Castle’ at Int Base, home to the studios of Golden Era Productions]

We have an intriguing item today that appears to be rather modest, but in investigating it, it opened up a new window on a place we never lose interest in: Scientology’s Int […]

Almost four years after its grand opening, a new look inside Scientology’s ‘Super Power’

We want to thank the tipster who took the time to send us some scans from the new issue of Scientology’s Source magazine, which features the “Perceptics” area on the fifth floor of the Flag Building in Clearwater, Florida, better known as the Super Power […]

‘Going Clear’ author Lawrence Wright celebrates a milestone with a different kind of keyboard

You’ll have to indulge us today. We enjoyed a special event last night in Brooklyn, and we felt like sharing. […]

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