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Private eye firm that spied for Scientology throws up the white flag in sordid lawsuit

[TV polygraph expert Dan Ribacoff and his son Lance]

Yesterday we told you about a disgraced former journalist who was hired by the Church of Scientology to investigate the proprietor of this website. Today, we have an update on a disgraced private investigations firm that was also caught stalking us for []

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Meet John Blosser, Scientology’s new shill, who is targeting Graham Berry

[John Blosser, dulcimer enthusiast and Scientology’s man of the moment]

 A few days ago at Facebook, attorney Graham Berry notified his friends that he appears to be the target of a new “noisy investigation” by the Church of []

Scientology is going space crazy! Hold on to your wallets, pilgrims, and let’s blast off!

 Scientology may be hurting these days, but the fundraising must go on! And that means another amazing report in the form of one of those long fliers we love to []

New Shelly Miscavige sighting actually took place earlier than you may have heard

 Reporting on things like missing persons can be very tricky. We hear rumors all the time, but we do our best to make sure we have some confidence about sourcing before we bring things to []

David Miscavige irked by evidence of his Florida ties, but judge doesn’t want to hear it

[Scientology leader David Miscavige and federal Judge Thomas Barber]

We want to caution you that this is a very minor update we are telling you about today in the Baxter v. Scientology labor trafficking []

Scientology fundraising goes down the rabbit hole in the most oblivious flier ever!

 Last week we had a lot of fun with one of the craziest fundraising fliers we’ve seen come out of Scientology. Not only was it one of these super-long documents that went on and on, in this case about raising money for an “Ideal Org” in Toronto, but it also had a “Mission Earth” theme, []

PODCAST: Clarissa Adams on Scientology ripping apart families right now

 One of the people who reached out to us about the unfortunate news about Jenny Burpee was Clarissa Adams, who knew Jenny in the Sea []

Mark Bunker: Scientology going nuts over upcoming Tampa Bay Times report

[Bunker helpfully identifies Scientology mouthpiece Ben Shaw]

Late last night we heard from Mark Bunker, who wanted us to know about some comments he had made at last night’s Clearwater, Florida city council []

Tommy Davis accosted her in the street. Now Deb Rennard has another fight on her hands.

[Deborah Rennard and Tommy Davis]

One of the strangest things to come out of the Paul Haggis trial in New York last year was a scene that played out the day before closing arguments took []

Scientology leader David Miscavige doing business in Florida: The evidence

 One of the most stunning claims that Scientology leader David Miscavige has made in his frenetic attempts to keep himself from being named a defendant in a Tampa labor trafficking lawsuit is that he does no business in []