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Jason Barclay’s Sea Org Adventure: A Fresh Scientology Escapee Details Abuse

Over the last several years, Scientology has been rocked by the revelations of former members describing what it’s like to work in the church’s “Sea Org” and at its secretive bases. Invariably, the church responds by saying that information revealed by ex-members is dated and no longer reflects what life is like in the church’s []

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Love in the Time of Miscavige

For years, she worked closely with Scientology’s leaders, David and Shelly Miscavige. And she was there when it all went wrong.

By Tony Ortega

The RTC Building at Int Base

We have a very unusual story for you today, and in order to tell it, we need to adopt some unusual conventions.

Not only are most of []

An Interview with Brandon Ogborn About His Play, The TomKat Project

Before Brandon Ogborn’s play The TomKat Project blows up even bigger than it already has, we thought we better get to know him a little — before he becomes so famous he won’t return our phone calls.

Fortunately for us, Synthia Fagen caught the Chicago production and first clued us in that it was a riot. []

Reporter Sues Scientology’s Drug Rehab Facility, Alleges She Witnessed Sex for Drugs

Rachel Petersen

As we mentioned this morning, yet another lawsuit was filed yesterday against Narconon Arrowhead, Scientology’s flagship drug rehab facility in eastern Oklahoma which was featured last night on NBC’s Rock Center for its many controversies.

We have the complaint now, which we’ve posted below, and we’ll run down some of the interesting details. []

LEAK: Scientology’s Rehab Went from $5,000 to $2.5 Million in Insurance Revenue in One Year

Gary Smith

We can hardly keep up with the documents that former Narconon officials Luke Catton and Eric Tenorio have been making public. The most recent is a stunning e-mail that Catton released yesterday, showing how much Scientology’s flagship drug rehab facility, Narconon Arrowhead in Oklahoma, has turned to revenue from insurance companies to []

Why Isn’t Scientology More Open About Its Space Opera Beliefs? It’s the Best Part!

Martian invaders! Quick, put on your goggles!

Claire Headley has been under the weather, so we’re replacing our “Up the Bridge” installment this week with something we hope will tide you over.

Back in October, we posted transcripts from a March 10, 1952 L. Ron Hubbard lecture that proved to be hugely popular with our []

LEAK: Narconon’s Legal Affairs Director Admits No Scientific Basis for Advertised Success Rates

This smoking gun is particularly redolent.

As smoking guns go, this one is high caliber and billowing.

Scientology’s drug rehab program, Narconon, is in serious trouble because of a series of patient deaths, government investigations, and civil lawsuits. And as we’ve pointed out numerous times, former Narconon employees and leaked documents have revealed that nearly []

Scientology’s Job One: Saving the Whales

For the last couple of years we’ve watched in amazement as a steady stream of longtime, loyal members have ditched the Church of Scientology over the actions of its leader, David Miscavige. These were veteran members not only deeply attached to the underlying ideas of Scientology, but also accustomed to paying huge amounts of money []

LEAKED AUDIO: David Miscavige Declares Scientology’s Golden Age at LRH Birthday Event

David Miscavige

Another exclusive for the Underground Bunker: One of our tipsters dared to conceal an audio recording device while watching David Miscavige deliver the annual L. Ron Hubbard birthday event, which took place at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida on March 16.

This is one of Scientology’s biggest events of the year, and []

SCIENTOLOGY DRUG REHAB CENTER HIT WITH FIVE MORE LAWSUITS

Narconon Arrowhead

Scientology’s troubled flagship drug rehab facility in Oklahoma — Narconon Arrowhead — was hit with five additional lawsuits today, all filed by Gary Richardson, the attorney who is handling four other wrongful death and fraud suits against the center.

Three deaths at the facility in nine months (the last in July 2012) has []