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The Guardian’s expose of Narconon is great — except for this puzzling issue

[Narconon Ojai and ABLE’s ED]

We want to thank all of the readers who sent us messages about this weekend’s terrific expose of the Narconon drug program in the Guardian*, which involved a nine-month investigation and publication on the newspaper’s front page.

Continue reading The Guardian’s expose of Narconon is great — except for this puzzling issue

Tucker hanging with Peterson, jetting to Moscow as Q patriots swoon

Val Ross: Scientology draws you in so you don’t realize what it’s about until it’s too late

[Val at her desk back in the day, the Grade Chart on the wall]

The spring of 1972, I was 17 and in my senior year of high school. The school was in Grants, New Mexico, 12 miles away from where we lived. I only had one class to finish to graduate, and was taking courses at the community college in Grants in the evening as well as babysitting for an hour while one of the professors taught a night class.

Continue reading Val Ross: Scientology draws you in so you don’t realize what it’s about until it’s too late

The convoy (without semis) ends up a shitshow (naturally)

PODCAST: Emails show which local politician was trying to stop IAS protest for Scientology

[Apostate Alex has the goods on Dick Sweatman]

Well, we’ve done it again. We’ve gone and collaborated with Apostate Alex and we think you’re going to like the result.

Continue reading PODCAST: Emails show which local politician was trying to stop IAS protest for Scientology

MAGA plans to neutralize Taylor Swift with, um, Kid Rock

For the first time, read L. Ron Hubbard gushing about working with Leni Riefenstahl

[Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast]

We have a very special treat for you today, and it’s thanks to Mitch Brisker.

Mitch is one of the most interesting people to come out of Scientology in recent years, he has a memorable book out, and we’ve actually been talking to him for a couple of years. One of the first things he told us when we got to know him was how glad he was to see that we had written at The Daily Beast about L. Ron Hubbard’s interesting 1960 encounter with Adolf Hitler’s favorite filmmaker, documentarian Leni Riefenstahl.

Continue reading For the first time, read L. Ron Hubbard gushing about working with Leni Riefenstahl

Q patriots are with their man — win, lose, or thigh

Scientology hopping mad after Mike Rinder and Claire Headley help out Leah Remini

 
Last week, we told you that Mike Rinder and Claire Headley had filed new declarations with the Los Angeles Superior Court to help Leah Remini keep Scientology’s Religious Technology Center (RTC) from wriggling out of her lawsuit against the church.

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From conspiracy to atrocity: Pennsylvania horror as son beheads fed employee father