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Scientology puts out a new ‘media guide’ that is as honest as you would imagine

Well this is a fun coincidence. Just three days after we heard from Australian television journalist Bryan Seymour about Scientology’s attempt there to interest his network in favorable coverage of the church, Scientology Australia spokeswoman Sei Kato (Broadhurst) has sent out a fresh new media […]

Bryan Seymour challenges Scientology’s ‘Freedom’ magazine to show itself

Australian television journalist Bryan Seymour posted something interesting to his Facebook page yesterday, so we asked him for the back […]

Once shy about the Internet, Scientology is now oversharing on social media

OK, so you’ve been seeing a lot more of Scientology on social media over the past couple of years. Especially from overseas. So here’s our question: Is Scientology actually doing more than before, or do we just get to see more of what they were always doing because they’re finally less shy about using the […]

LEAKED RENDERINGS: What Scientology’s (post-KCET) new media center will look like

With the Ideal Org program stalled (Nancy Cartwright just can’t seem to raise enough dough to put the Valley project over the hump) and Scientology leader David Miscavige’s other big surprises all worn out, this New Year’s Eve announcement was one of Scientology’s most underwhelming ever.

You see, Miscavige is really stuck in a bad situation […]

Did a fashion website give a big boost to a Scientology infiltrator of NYC schools?

City Councilman Dan Halloran (center), in 2013 with Bernard and Meghan Fialkoff

See also: What’s in that ‘world exclusive’ in the National Enquirer?

Back in March of 2013, we told you about a sneaky Scientology infiltration of New York City schools. In a place like New York, Scientology doesn’t do very well — residents here […]

Scientology Photoshopping, Part 2: A mystery disappearance on the yacht Apollo

Yesterday, we told you about Lauren Wolf describing what it was like to work for Lawrence Wright on his book Going Clear and finding an example of Scientology trying to erase the existence of L. Ron Hubbard’s second wife, Sara Northrup, from the record with creative photoshopping.

She told us that in the “Master Mariner” volume […]

Scientology Photoshopping: Erasing L. Ron Hubbard’s second wife from ‘The RON Series’

We have a real treat for you today, and it comes courtesy of someone we are honored to have helping us out.

We met Lauren Wolf when she was helping Lawrence Wright as the research assistant on his epic 2013 book on Scientology, Going Clear, and she’s been a friend to the Underground Bunker ever […]

Meet the New Editor of Scientology’s Propaganda Magazine, Freedom!

Hey, everyone, the Church of Scientology went and hired a kickass journalist to be the new editor of its humorous house organ, Freedom magazine!

It’s John Sugg, a name that’s pretty well known in the part of Florida where Scientology has one of its headquarters. It’s an exciting choice, as we’ll […]

Jim Lynch, Scientology’s Shill, Dies at 59

Just last week, news organizations around the country (and overseas) reported that Scientology’s propaganda magazine, Freedom, had placed an ad for a new writer.

Now we have some idea why the magazine is hiring.

We have learned that on July 19, Jim Lynch, Freedom‘s main correspondent, died in Boca Raton, […]

After Epilepsy Deaths, Scientology Website Still Extols Drug-Free Approach

We told you about Jonny Jacobsen’s latest investigative coup — a detailed story about a largely untold 25-year-old death at Scientology’s “Flag Land Base” in Clearwater, Florida.

Heribert Pfaff was only 31 when he died during an epileptic seizure while under the care of Scientologists, who had convinced him to go off his seizure medicine and […]

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