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Chris Owen and Jon Atack remember Jane Kember, Scientology’s ultimate spymaster

 On Friday, we reported on the death of Scientology’s former “Guardian,” Jane Kember, at 85. We had learned about her passing the day before, and scrambled to put together a basic outline of what an important figure she is in Scientology. Since then, we’ve heard from two of the very best researchers and historians of []

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VIDEO: If Danny Masterson had testified about ‘DJ Donkey Punch’

 We want to thank the reader who brought a 2012 video to our attention that we hadn’t seen before. We’ve taken an excerpt from it that we think you might find interesting, because it answers the question: What might Danny Masterson have answered if he’d testified in his trial and was asked about his notorious []

PODCAST: If Scientology expert Claire Headley had testified at the Danny Masterson trial

 We’re still going through the wreckage of the Danny Masterson Trial, which ended with a hung jury on November 30. And one thing that surprised us about the interview we did with Chris Shelton of the jury foreman, was the revelation that the jury had largely ignored the Scientology component of the []

Florida Bar past president hired to stop court from serving lawsuit on David Miscavige

 On Thursday, we brought you some of the language from a motion filed by Valeska Paris that is seeking to have a Tampa federal court declare Scientology leader David Miscavige an official defendant in a labor trafficking lawsuit that Valeska and two other former Sea Org workers filed against Miscavige and the []

JANE KEMBER DIES: Led Scientology’s 1970s worldwide spy corps in ‘Snow White Program’

 A close family friend to Jane Kember informed us yesterday that the former Scientology spymaster died on Wednesday. She was []

Valeska Paris asks court: Declare Scientology leader David Miscavige served, finally

 In April, Valeska Paris and two other former Sea Org workers, Gawain and Laura Baxter, filed a major new lawsuit against Scientology in Tampa, Florida, alleging that they had been trafficked as children and adults, forced to do labor and treated horribly on Scientology’s floating cathedral, the cruise ship []

Photo appears to confirm small Scientology service for Kirstie Alley at Flag Land Base

 We like to brag on Sunny Pereira, one of our favorite correspondents at the Underground Bunker, who has given us many good pieces over the years describing what it is like to grow up as a second-generation Scientologist, what it was like to work at the Hollywood Celebrity Centre, and what it is like to []

Kirstie Alley: Forgotten by the Scientology Hollywood Celebrity Centre?

 I’m glad I won’t be dying at the hands of Scientology.

I don’t even know (or care) if my death will ever be remembered, but hey, a couple of “goodbyes” would be nice, when the time []

SEASON’S GREETINGS: Mark Bunker shares fan mail from Scientology members

 We’re finally getting a chance to go through our backlog of email that piled up during the Danny Masterson trial, and we were glad to see that we’d been sent a message from our old friend Mark Bunker, the Clearwater, Florida city []

VIDEO: This right here is why Scientology is going to clear the planet, you doubters

 On Wednesday we shared a slick new Scientology video that’s intended to get church members to spend lots of money by coming to Clearwater, Florida so they can run around a lighted pole until they []