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Former Executive’s Tell-All Adds to Scientology Rehab Program Meltdown

Luke Catton

It’s been stunning to see the Narconon drug rehab network emerge in the past year as perhaps Scientology’s single biggest crisis of the many that it faces.

And key to that growing problem for the church has been Lucas Catton, formerly president of Scientology’s flagship rehab facility in Oklahoma, Narconon Arrowhead.

Last year, Catton []

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VIDEO: What Did You Lose in Scientology?

In December, we debuted two videos by Tiziano Lugli, a Los Angeles music producer and filmmaker. They were short, witty looks at Scientology’s funny language as spoken by numerous ex-church members and a few actors.

There are no actors in Tiziano’s new video, which he is allowing us to premiere today.

In “The Losing Game,” Lugli []

What Could L. Ron Hubbard Use on His 102nd Birthday? How About a Little SUPER POWER!

Hip, Hip, Hooray! Today is March 13, which every Scientologist considers the most important day of the year. It was on this day in 1911 that Lafayette Ronald Hubbard emerged into the world with plenty of prenatal engrams and a burning desire to change the world.

The Church of Scientology always puts on a great bash []

LEAKED: Scripts Spell Out How Scientology Directs the Unsuspecting to Its Rehab Network

Some remarkable documents hit the Internet yesterday. They appear to be actual scripts used by employees who answer the phone numbers listed at drug rehab information websites with generic-sounding names.

The websites claim to deliver impartial advice about drug rehabilitation programs, but many of them are in fact front operations for Scientology’s rehab network, Narconon. According []

Scientology Targets Aussie Kindergartners, Swedish Grade Schoolers

Our international tipsters have been busy lately, and this morning we thought we’d take a look at some of the Scientology stories making headlines around the world.

A few days ago, we read about yet another Scientology front group targeting very young children. In this case, the church’s anti-psychiatry front, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights []

Scientology's New Strategy: Attack of the Clones!

One of the things we do at the Underground Bunker is monitor information coming in from our worldwide tipster network, trying to get our best sense of what’s happening in the Church of Scientology in real time.

One result of that is our Sunday Funnies, our weekly feature which shows the latest fliers and mailers going []

Document Leak: Scientology Sexual Histories

The Underground Bunker has obtained thousands of new internal Scientology documents which detail, among many other things, how the Sea Organization interrogates its workers about their sexual histories.

In October, we published a current version of the lengthy application that Sea Org hopefuls fill out as they sign their billion-year contracts to join the most fanatical []

Lori Hodgson Appeals to Scientology’s “Spin Doctor,” Michael Sitrick

Lori Hodgson, with Jessica and Jeremy

In January, in the wake of the Atlantic magazine disaster — when Scientology’s paid “advertorial” extolling the virtues of leader David Miscavige was met with such public derision, the magazine yanked it down — the church tried another way to derail the overwhelming response to Lawrence Wright’s book []

Scientology's "Disconnection" Policy: Music Lovers, This One Will Break Your Heart

Mario Feninger

Scientology’s reputation for cruelty, for embodying the concept of a “bully,” is well earned. But few of its acts of inhumanity have affected us like the story we have for you today.

It involves a man who is renowned for his skills at the piano, a teacher who has been hailed for his []

OSCAR NIGHT LIVE-BLOGGING: Scientology on the Hot Seat with John Travolta and ‘The Master’

When you tune into the Academy Awards show tonight at 8:30 pm Eastern, please join us as we provide a Scientology watcher’s view on the proceedings.

This is the biggest Oscars night for Scientology in many years, and we have been assured by sources who would know that the show will be watched at the International []