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VIDEO: Claire Headley on Scientology’s insane employment contracts

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last week’s story about a leaked new version of the #Scientology staff contract got a big reaction. We heard from a lot of readers, and Claire Headley invited us on her podcast. And she []

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More job listings for Scientologists from Scientology’s sneaky front

[Come work in paradise, pilgrim!]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Last month we told you that WISE, Scientology’s sneaky front that targets dentists, chiropractors and veterinarians for recruitment had put out classified ads for Scientologists, and well, they’ve done it []

Ready to sign your life away, pilgrim? Get a load of this Scientology staff contract

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve seen numerous examples of Scientology employment contracts and pledges over the years. But we think this might be what new staff members are signing today as they dedicate themselves to a religion that []

For Memorial Day 2024: Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s bogus war injuries

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As on past Memorial Days, we think it’s important to remind readers about Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s ‘stolen valor.’ Historian Chris Owen looks at Hubbard’s claims about being injured in war versus the []

TikTok battle between exes captivates the country — and has a Scientology angle?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve seen numerous examples of Scientology employment contracts and pledges over the years. But we think it might be what new staff members are signing today as they dedicate themselves to a religion that []

Scientology thinks it’s caught a reporter in a scandal. Has it?

[Salacious illo from the Stand League article]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology is pretty unique in the way it openly attacks reporters with smeary broadsides supposedly written by concerned individual Scientologists. Recently, the church redoubled its attack on []

Most damaging Scientology defectors? A case could be made for this Las Vegas couple

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Only a month after Adell and Ernest Hartwell went public about Scientology’s abuses, founder L. Ron Hubbard went into seclusion with only a few trusted aides, and was never seen alive again by the []

POOF: Scientology decides the 2022 L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event never happened

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology is a totalitarian organization that, among other things, has a fetish for keeping records and documenting everything it does in minute detail. And we’ve never seen them try to completely erase any scrap []

First time in English: Rare interview David Miscavige gave during Germany crisis

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Austrian journalist Peter Reichelt has a real treat for us today, a rare David Miscavige interview which first appeared during Scientology’s 1990s crisis in Germany. We believe it was the first print interview Dave []

L. Ron Hubbard’s tallest tale? When Scientology’s founder first struck gold

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Before he began selling tall tales to the pulps for a living, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard told maybe his tallest tale ever to a gullible Washington DC reporter who took it as fact. []