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Claims about L. Ron Hubbard are ripping apart the Scientology ‘Freezone’

[Jim Dincalci told us he took this photo of Hubbard in 1973.]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Readers know that besides reporting news about the Church of Scientology, we also watch for developments among those adherents of L. Ron Hubbard’s []

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L. Ron Hubbard 2.0 makes huge breakthrough: Scientology finally finds ‘the route out!’

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Just what we needed on this long holiday weekend: An update from L. Ron Hubbard 2.0, who says he’s made a huge Scientology breakthrough from his jail cell, and also an explanation from one []

VIDEO: Independent Scientologists protest at Scientology HQ in Los Angeles

Victoria Palmer’s organized protest to “restore Scientology” took place yesterday, and we were fortunate that an Underground Bunker reader was there to record the []

L. Ron Hubbard 2.0 still awaits trial, but the Freezone is buzzing about his origin story

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We have a fondness for ‘independent’ #Scientology, whose biggest story in recent years is the supposed return of founder L. Ron Hubbard in the form of a California ex-con, now awaiting trial in Tennessee. []

L. Ron Hubbard 2.0 starting new Scientology offshoot and says he’s getting out of jail soon

 The Freezone never fails to entertain us. These are folks who revere Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and engage in his ideas and practices, but are independent of the Church of Scientology. Their numbers are small, but we appreciate them because they will often say things publicly about Hubbard and Scientology that church members keep []

Freezone news: LRH 2.0 indicted by grand jury, new center opens in Buenos Aires

[Would you buy a (new and improved) Bridge from this man?]

When we got an Anderson County, Tennessee law enforcement official on the phone last November to tell him we were inquiring about someone in his jail, we explained that although the inmate appeared as “Lafayette Ronald Hubbard” in his records, we also knew the prisoner []

Former Scientology OT gets indicted on $4 million securities fraud

 In November, Newport Beach insurance broker, financial advisor, and software purveyor Robert Andrew Lotter was arrested and charged with felony securities violations by the California Department of Insurance, which accused him of defrauding more than $4 million from over 20 victims. Also arrested was an insurance agent named Charles Albert Major of []

Trouble in the Scientology FreeZone! Even ‘Indies’ are suing each other

[An AOGP image representing Scientology’s Bridge to Total Freedom]

Since we started it more than a year ago, our “Overheard in the FreeZone” feature has become one of the most popular daily sources of commentary here at the Underground []