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]

Augustine: One weird trick every Scientologist needs to learn for real ‘total freedom’

[Dear Scientology…]

Jeffrey Augustine is back, continuing on his investigation of Scientology’s governing documents and what they mean for members and ex-members. This time, Jeff tells us about the thing every ex-member of Scientology should do as soon as he or she has decided to […]

Reason Rally 2016 in Washington DC: The Underground Bunker wants to see you there!

[“Repent heretics or be devoured by Almighty Cthulhu” — from Reason Rally 2012]

We had so much fun at the Reason Rally in 2012 we had already planned on going again this year. But then, the organizers were kind enough to ask us if we’d give the event a plug. Why […]

Scientology leader David Miscavige in Atlanta on Saturday: Can you feel the excitement?

On Sunday, Rod Keller gave us the scoop: This coming Saturday at 2 pm, Scientology will open its newest “Ideal Org,” in the Atlanta area. […]

Scientology pampered some of its big donors with a trip back in time to Phoenix in 1954

As former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder has pointed out numerous times, church leader David Miscavige can’t let up for one moment on the new projects and fundraising appeals. […]

Scientology at Comic Con: An attempt at a minor intervention, as told by Phil Jones

[Emily Jones with a Terl model at the Salt Lake City Comic Con this week.]

For several months we’ve been following the drama surrounding the Jones family, which has been ripped apart by Scientology’s policy of “disconnection.” Phil and Willie Jones are former members of the Church of Scientology, and they are prevented from seeing their […]

Scientology’s European mouthpiece speaks at DC event honoring Marco Rubio

Time again for Rod Keller’s Scientology Social Media Review! Rod goes way back, having kept a meticulous eye on the church since 1992. He’s well known for his indispensable “ARS Week in Review,” which ran for nine years when ARS — the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology — was the most important daily source for Scientology news. […]

Talking Scientology with actor and podcaster Ethan McKinley

For those of you who didn’t see it posted in the comments last night by a vigilant reader, we’re going to put up the interview we did yesterday with Ethan […]

Attorney for Scientology’s drug rehab centers threatens lawyer running anti-Narconon website

Jonathan Little

Another day, another threat letter.

On Wednesday, we shared with you the latest threat letter Karen de la Carriere received from Scientology attorney Bert Deixler. Today, we have a salvo from Los Angeles attorney William H. Forman, who represents some Narconon entities, complaining about a website operated by Jonathan Little.

We’ve told you […]

Chris Shelton: How Scientologists can use critical thinking to break free

Chris Shelton has a valuable message for Scientologists of all kinds in his newest video. We thought you’d want to see […]

Scientology attorney Bert Deixler takes another swing at Karen de la Carriere

Bert Deixler

In January, Karen de la Carriere shared with us the threat letter she received from Scientology attorney Bert Deixler. You may remember how over the top it was; Deixler said in the letter that Karen should be “ashamed” for helping a television production company put together a piece about Phil and Willie […]

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