Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]
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The Scientology spy who came in from the cold: Len Zinberg, who apologized to Paulette Cooper

One of the things that made The Unbreakable Miss Lovely more than Paulette Cooper’s account of her years being harassed by Scientology were some of the other people who provided their own narratives of those events. And none of them provided quite so much impact as Len Zinberg. []

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Good morning, New York! Paulette Cooper is dishing on Scientology in the Big Apple today

On Wednesday, Paulette Cooper and your proprietor sat down with local New York TV legend Marvin Scott to record a show about our book that will be running this morning on WPIX []

Scientology, six degrees of separation, and Miss Lovely — author Paulette Cooper

[Paulette Cooper aboard the Leonardo da Vinci in 1970.]

We are continuing to make use of material we learned as we researched the amazing life of author Paulette Cooper, but which, for one reason or another, we were not able to use in our book about her, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, which was published last month. []

Listen to Jim Jones root for Scientology against Paulette Cooper in a 1978 Jonestown address

Now that we’re into a new month and our book, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, is taking us on tours around the country (and soon across the pond), we’re going to begin posting material here that supplements our story about Paulette Cooper.

Miss Lovely is a book that looks at Paulette’s entire life, from her survival of []

Paulette Cooper has a surprise for Scientology and the residents of a certain Florida town

Your proprietor spent Saturday recovering from the twisted Friday night put on by L. Ron Hubbard’s great-grandson, Jamie DeWolf, which included a three-hour circus at Chez Poulet in San []

Leah Remini and Paulette Cooper? Scientology can start worrying now

We have some more scenes for you from our book tour in California. Previously, we posted a photograph of your proprietor with the lovely Leah Remini. The King of Queens actress had come by a party hosted by Spanky Taylor in order to pick up a copy of our book, The Unbreakable Miss []

Scientology’s wealthy donors play royalty in Italy while Paulette Cooper takes San Diego

Bunkerites, your proprietor on Tuesday had another full day in California on the book tour, and we took care of some private meetings. Tonight, we’ll be in San Diego and hoping for a fun event.

In the meantime, one of our great tipsters put together some images from an International Association of Scientologists special meeting in []

Just two blocks from Scientology’s LA headquarters, Paulette Cooper shone

[Photo: CFI]

Sunday was a blur. We want to thank the many people who came out to our two appearances with Paulette Cooper in support of our book ‘The Unbreakable Miss Lovely,’ at CFI-West’s Steve Allen Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in the morning and at CFI Orange County’s venue in Costa Mesa in the []

‘The Unbreakable Miss Lovely’ goes on the road — and so does Paulette Cooper!

 We drove all over the world Saturday and back, and only have energy to post some cool pictures for y’all today. Like this great one of ‘The Unbreakable Miss Lovely’ in front of Scientology’s Los Angeles headquarters, variously known as PAC Base, “Big Blue,” and “we want Berendo Street []

Paulette Cooper’s story in photographs

 1. We didn’t get a chance to include any photographs in our book, ‘The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.’ But if we had, these are the photos we would have liked to include…

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