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Who are those WISE guys? A tipster helps us get some names of Scientology operatives

 On Thursday, we told you about a woman who is suing a business in Pasadena that forced her to take Scientology courses, and when she refused, she was []

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Scientology’s latest filing in the Trout Run zoning fight: We bleed for all religions

 The saga at Trout Run continues as Scientology’s property arm produced another court filing and let loose with a whine of epic []

More leaked video: Watch Scientology welcome 2007, a year David Miscavige would regret

 Our video source is back to help us keep tripping through Scientology recent history. Last time, we showed you the first portion of the 2006 IAS gala in England. We would show you the rest of that celebration, but it melted our brains in boredom, so we’re going to spare []

Jon Atack: Scientology’s notion of ‘case gain,’ and how it reinforces the prison of belief

Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He has a new edition of the book for sale, and for more than a year on Saturdays he helped us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that []

DOX: Woman sues Pasadena company for forcing Scientology on her

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We have the legal complaint and some more details about the story that broke out of Pasadena, California yesterday: A woman named Annie R. Lee is suing a company after she refused to take Scientology classes she says were forced on her by her employers, resulting in her being terminated and []

Document leak: When the FBI investigated Scientology’s bizarre New Mexico vault

 We have a juicy document for you today, courtesy of our friend and dogged researcher, R.M. Seibert. []

Leaked Scientology video: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes front and center for ‘psych busting’!

 Our video source has come through for us once again. Cast your mind, Scientology watcher, back to October 2006. This was a year after Tom Cruise had made his weird splash as Scientology’s awkward ambassador on Today with Matt Lauer and as a human jumping bean on Oprah’s []

Jeffrey Augustine: Part two of his conversation with Jesse Prince

 We’re still recovering from our big series on Lisa McPherson. In the meantime, Jeffrey Augustine sent over a copy of his latest podcast, a continuation of his conversation with Jesse []

Postscript: How David Miscavige spun the death of Lisa McPherson

 We’re very glad to be done with our series about Lisa McPherson, who died 20 years ago yesterday. But after paying such close attention to Scientology’s grimmest of scandals, we thought we owed you a laugh []

Twenty years ago today: The final hours of Lisa McPherson’s Scientology life

 What Laura Arrunada, Lisa McPherson’s final caretaker, saw in Room 174 of the Fort Harrison Hotel in the last three days of Lisa’s life was so upsetting, Marty Rathbun made her reports []