Ideal Orgs | The Underground Bunker

Scientology must be thriving in the biggest city in the world, right?

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology leader David Miscavige promises followers that ‘Ideal Orgs’ create booms of interest. Instead, when we check in with these places, they seem mostly empty. If there’s one place where an Ideal Org should […]

Scientology moving minors across state lines for intense labor: There’s a word for that

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One of the best things about Scientology is that as much as it denies its controversies in ludicrous statements to the public, it just can’t help documenting its own crimes in detail in fliers […]

Scientology says construction has begun on its next Ideal Org — in Puerto Rico!

[The money is flowing in PR!]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Thanks to one of our readers, we have another Scientology fundraising letter, and this one claims that construction has begun on the Ideal Org project in Puerto Rico. Didn’t […]

Scientology doesn’t want you looking at their rotting un-Ideal Orgs!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: There’s no doubt, Phil and Willie Jones are two of our favorite people here at the Underground Bunker. And it’s always great to hear what they’ve been up to lately, like their recent visit […]

Bruce Hines: Scientology is one strange journey, sailor

[Welcome back, thetan!]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: On the surface, Scientology presents itself as a business-like self-help group. But as Bruce Hines explains in another of his detailed narratives, the strangeness is never far away. [What is this Substack […]

Scientology faked David Miscavige appearance at Paris opening: The smoking gun

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Our observers believed that Scientology leader David Miscavige did not attend the Paris ‘Ideal Org’ opening Apr 6, despite a church press release claiming he was there. Now, Alex Barnes-Ross has taken a new […]

Scientology email claims massive new construction plans by year end

It did occur to us, when we watched Scientology leader David Miscavige open four long-delayed “Ideal Org” projects in quick succession in Austin, Mexico City, Chicago, and Paris, that it cleared the decks of new […]

Scientology says that David Miscavige did attend the Paris opening

Sunday morning, in our report of Scientology’s Paris Ideal Org opening, we said that we were still awaiting the church’s own press release about the event, but that our correspondents on the scene were reporting that David Miscavige was a no-show, only the third time the church leader hasn’t personally attended an Ideal Org grand […]

David Miscavige a no-show as Scientology opens ‘Ideal Org’ in dreary corner of Paris

We’re still waiting for Scientology to put out its own press release about yesterday’s party in Paris and make it official, but according to our correspondents on the scene, church leader David Miscavige missed an “Ideal Org” opening only for the second or third […]

Make room, Long Islanders: Scientology’s Gatsbys are moving in!

We want to thank all the readers who forwarded us the news out of Long Island this week after a business publication there broke the story that Scientology had plunked down $15.2 million for a 62,500-square-foot office building in […]

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