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[L. Ron Hubbard and Sara Northrup in 1951]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Sci Fi author L. Ron Hubbard landed a big success when he published ‘Dianetics’ and started a movement about the mind. But only a year later his […]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday, former London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross had the opportunity to speak about Scientology’s abuses with two councillors in East Grinstead, the English town where Scientology has its UK headquarters. And he explains how their […]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last time, Val Ross told us about spying at the FBI after its raid on Scientology in 1977. She’s working on a subsequent installment, but in the meantime sent us this look at what […]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Bruce Hines has another great narrative for us, with an extreme example of how Scientology’s obsession with secrecy resulted in inane (and very expensive) projects. ALSO: New judge sets a hearing in Leah Remini’s […]
[David Miscavige sent Judge Randolph Hammock packing]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Judge Randolph Hammock clearly didn’t want to give up the Leah Remini lawsuit after producing a 37-page ruling for it. But after initially resisting being removed, he ultimately […]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology finally put out a press release about its Paris ‘Ideal Org’ opening, including photos of leader David Miscavige. But was he actually there on that day? Alex Barnes-Ross doesn’t think so, and we […]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It was a bombshell in Leah Remini’s lawsuit in December, repeated last week by the LA Times: A Scientology lawyer is accused of tampering with the criminal case of a man named Armando Garcia […]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology opened an ‘Ideal Org’ in Paris yesterday, and Brit journalist Jonny Jacobsen was on the scene. So were Alex Barnes-Ross and Pete Griffiths, who spoke to us in our weekly podcast along with […]
[The view yesterday, with ribbon in place!]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology will open another ‘Ideal Org’ today, and this time in Paris, in a country that has traditionally been harsh to the organization. Will leader David Miscavige dare […]
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Want to get a good sense of what Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s acting abilities were like? We want your impressions of the legendary Hubbard charisma on display in a resurfaced film from Ron’s […]
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