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Florida Court Hears Scientology Testimony in Strict Secrecy

 After a long day of testimony in a Clearwater, Florida courtroom, Ken Dandar tells us that retired Judge Crockett Farnell has scheduled written closing arguments in his secret trial to be submitted by December 27.

Today’s proceedings, which involved Scientology submitting evidence to bolster its claim that it deserves to be awarded more than $1.1 million []

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Sunday Funnies: Scientology Braces for the Holidays!

With Thanksgiving behind us, the rest of the year will, as usual, fly by with alacrity.

Scientologists, like the rest of us, are bracing for the final mad weeks of 2012, and we have some of their most recent fundraising mailers and other come-ons that have arrived in the inboxes of members.

As you ponder all []

Scientology Leader David Miscavige Added as Defendant in Ken Dandar’s Federal Lawsuit

David Miscavige

Florida attorney Ken Dandar has added David Miscavige as a defendant in his federal lawsuit, a case that has already resulted in stunning new allegations that the Church of Scientology spent millions to cover up the 1995 death of church member Lisa McPherson.

Dandar represented McPherson’s estate in a wrongful death lawsuit that []

Radio Daze: Talking Scientology with John Hines of WCCO

 We’re tracking down some interesting stories on this holiday weekend, and should be able to post some fascinating dox very soon. In the meantime, we thought we’d plague you with our latest radio []

Scientology Interviews John Travolta: Oddly, Massage Therapy Not Discussed

Boy, could actor John Travolta use some good publicity about now.

Scientology’s Celebrity magazine obliges with a particularly friendly look at the Pulp Fiction star in a new issue our tipsters passed along to us.

The magazine reviews Travolta’s film-making career, calling him an “icon of the silver screen,” and in a six-page piece manages to avoid []

Thanksgiving? Pshaw! The Scientology Begin-A-Boom Bookathon Starts TODAY!

Breaking news! One of our tipsters forwarded to us an internal Scientology video urging church members to take part in a big push to sell copies of Dianetics around the world!

We’ve taken some stills from the video to give you some idea of just how persuasive it is. It’s so infectious, we suspect it may []

No, Kelly Preston is Not Rebelling Against Scientology By Acknowledging Autism

Much is being made in the press that today, Kelly Preston will appear on television and for the first time acknowledge that her late son Jett Travolta was autistic.

Jett died in 2009 after having a seizure in a bathtub while the family was in its Bahamian estate. At the time, a family spokesman confirmed that []

Fox 25 in Oklahoma City Keeps Up the Pressure on Scientology’s Drug Rehab Deaths

 The lack of any new developments in the ongoing investigation of deaths at Scientology’s flagship Narconon drug rehab center in Oklahoma didn’t prevent the Fox affiliate in Oklahoma City from putting together this lengthy and hard-hitting two-part series, which aired last night.

A lesson for other media: This is how you keep a story in the []

Ken Dandar Fails in Bid to Prevent Secret Scientology Court Hearing

Ken Dandar called us after he got out of the hearing on his federal lawsuit in Tampa, Florida today.

He said he was unable to convince Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington to grant him an injunction that would prevent a state court from saddling him with huge fees demanded by the Church of Scientology.

Next Monday, November []

LA’s Sheriff Lee Baca and Simpsons Actress Nancy Cartwright Shill for Scientology

While Scientology’s private eyes were tailing us around a different part of Los Angeles yesterday, one of our tipsters kept an eye on Sheriff Lee Baca’s appearance in Inglewood to promote L. Ron Hubbard’s 1980 booklet, The Way to Happiness.

We have a couple of photographs of the event, as well as some notes about who []