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Paris elects its first female mayor — and you have to see her record on Scientology!

Yesterday, Paris elected its first woman mayor, Anne Hidalgo. But as our man in France Jonny Jacobsen explains, she has a lot more interest for us here in the Underground Bunker than the fact that she’s female and from Spain…

Paris has, not surprisingly, elected another socialist […]

Jillian Schlesinger: How I got into Scientology, and how I got out

By Tony Ortega

This is happening in Los Angeles, on Fountain Avenue, in an old hospital building painted blue and topped with huge, lit-up letters that read SCIENTOLOGY.

And this is only weeks ago. In 2014. In the center of one of the largest cities in a country that likes to think of itself as one of […]

Jillian Schlesinger says Scientology now ‘sneakier’ about forcing abortions

At our request, Karen de la Carriere hurried to prepare part two of her interview series with Jillian Schlesinger, a woman who defected from Scientology’s inner “Sea Org” just a few weeks ago. (See yesterday’s remarkable Part One of the series.)

In this segment, Jillian talks about the snitching culture in Scientology, and about how pregnancies […]

What will you do with your Scientology E-meter tchotchkes?

As we noted last night, we’re trying to land a breaking story this morning that’s taking some time to confirm. In the meantime, we were fortunate that Carnegie Mellon University professor Dave Touretzky sent us this fun item.

It appears someone has scrapped a bunch of E-meters. How do we know? The meter movements are available […]

‘BARE-FACED MESSIAH’ back in print: Our interview with author Russell Miller

Today is Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s 103rd birthday, and do we have a gift for […]

Scientology gets the ‘America’s Book of Secrets’ treatment soon!

Hey, we’re a little under the weather today, so we need to keep this short. But we wanted to let you know about something that we’ve been keeping secret for several months.

Now that some promos have begun running on History Channel 2, we can reveal that the new season of America’s Book of Secrets is […]

John Travolta’s fun night at the Oscars

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Is Ukraine’s proposed new prime minister a Scientologist? Says his niece: ‘That’s crap’

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Yesterday evening, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was nominated to be Ukraine’s new prime minister in the wake of President Viktor Yanukovych’s ouster.

Yatsenyuk is a former speaker of parliament and foreign minister, and led one of the factions of the opposition movement.

However, last week, when it looked like Yatsenyuk was likely to end up in […]

NEW DATE: Celebration details of Los Angeles Scientology facilities leaked

Just yesterday, we told you about information that was leaked about Scientology’s plans for its Los Angeles headquarters. Now, we’ve received another leaked e-mail which suggests that the dates of the grand re-openings have been moved back a week. And we have some additional details.

Renovations in LA have been going on for some time, and […]

Scientology’s $100,000 girl records a video promoting a fundraising event in California

On Wednesday, we told you about Quinn Bennett, a 10-year-old girl the Church of Scientology is touting as its “youngest self-made humanitarian,” which is Scientology-speak indicating that young Quinn has personally donated at least $100,000 for the church’s expansion efforts.

(For those of you who keep bringing up an anonymous commenter over at Mike Rinder’s blog […]

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