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Starting Today: Jefferson Hawkins Helps Us Get Our Scientology Ethics In!

Jefferson Hawkins was once the top marketing executive for the Church of Scientology and helped it reach its greatest extent with the famous “volcano” TV ads in the 1980s. He’s told his tale of getting into and out of the church with his excellent books Counterfeit Dreams and Leaving Scientology, and he’s helping us understand []

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Scientology Asks for Protection in Texas; ALSO: Lawrence Wright a Finalist for Nat’l Book Award

Scientology doesn’t want Monique Rathbun to share information with her husband Marty

The next phase of Monique Rathbun’s harassment lawsuit against Scientology leader David Miscavige will involve some blockbuster depositions from the likes of actress Leah Remini and former church spokesman Tommy Davis, but for now the two sides are stuck on a question []

SCIENTOLOGY’S FRAUD CONVICTION UPHELD BY FRANCE’S HIGHEST COURT

Scientology in France — still a fraud

Our man in Paris, British journalist Jonny Jacobsen, is on the scene and tells us that French media have just reported that Scientology’s fraud conviction has been upheld.

Jonny’s been all over this case for years at his blog, Infinite Complacency, where he had recently put together a []

Chicago’s On Fire: Jason Beghe and Christian Stolte Send Their Regards to the Bunker

With both of them working on the same television series, NBC’s Chicago Fire, we knew it was only a matter of time before two actors who are favorites of readers here at the Underground Bunker got together for a laugh.

We’ve been writing about Jason Beghe since 2008, when he made a very public exit from []

Help Us Decode Leah Remini’s Anti-Scientology Dance From Last Night’s Dancing With The Stars

If you didn’t catch last night’s Dancing With the Stars on ABC, you really missed something remarkable — interpretive dance on national prime time television!

And it was performed by King of Queens actress Leah Remini, who once again had a giant platform to talk about her experience of walking away from the Church of Scientology. []

Leah Remini Takes Another [Muffled] Shot At Scientology On DWTS (AND SURVIVES!)

 Tonight’s episode of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars had a theme — contestants were asked to describe their most memorable year, and then turn that story into a dance, or something.

Anyway, during the week, Leah had revealed that this year was her most memorable, and we can imagine why — it’s been a big []

Scientology Payback: Revenge of the Videographers

Bert Leahy

We’ve told you Bert Leahy’s story before. He was the Texas freelance videographer who worked briefly for Scientology’s “Squirrel Busters” caper, helping to snoop on Marty and Monique Rathbun in 2011, before his conscience got the better of him.

Bert soon realized that working for “Dave Statter” wasn’t really the documentary project he []

Sunday Special: Remembering Some People Who Mattered

The last couple of weeks have been very intense here at the Underground Bunker — culminating in Friday’s devastating release of Laura DeCrescenzo’s “pc files” and the picture of Sea Org slavery that they portray.

On Sundays, we like to relax a bit by enjoying the wacky Scientology mailers that our tipsters have forwarded during the []

HOW SCIENTOLOGY COERCED A CHILD TO HAVE AN ABORTION: THE LAURA DECRESCENZO FILES

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In anticipation of her biggest day in court yet, Laura DeCrescenzo and her attorneys hit the Church of Scientology with 928 pages of new filings

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Details from 18,000 pages of evidence show how Scientology manipulated a child to keep her working under slave-like conditions

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A key document describing DeCrescenzo’s unwillingness to have her coerced abortion is missing []

OOPS: Government Shutdown Stalls EEOC Lawsuit Against Miami Scientology Chiropractor

File this under the WTF? department: You may remember a story we published in May about a Miami Chiropractor named Dennis Nobbe (right). His practice, Dynamic Medical Services, Inc., was sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over the complaints of four named employees who said that Dynamic forced them to take Scientology courses as []