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[Rebecca Dobkin]In 2011 we spent the month of August counting down a list of the “Top 25 People Crippling Scientology.” Nine years later, Scientology is still hurting, but church leader David Miscavige learned long ago that paid membership was only one resource that kept him in business. He also relies on a small army of enablers, some paid, some not, who help him stay in business even though they aren’t Scientologists themselves. So we thought we’d recognize them with this countdown. We’re very glad that Leah Remini and Mike Rinder last week finally got to tell the story of Tammy Clark, who tried, in the summer of 2018, to check on the welfare of her uncle, “retired” Scientology president Heber Jentzsch. Continue reading The Top 25 People Enabling Scientology, No. 24: Rebecca Dobkin and other low-level PI grunts
Meet one of Scientology’s long time allies in their war against psychiatry, Lisa Cain, who talks with the church’s anti-psych front group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, in a new leaked video. Internet outages caused our source to lose part of this CCHR briefing with staff members Eitan Celender, Fred Shaw, and Cain, a Professor of Psychology in the Los Angeles Community College District, but we have most of it. We’re accustomed to CCHR’s allegations of abuse by mental health professionals but the involvement of Cain is something we haven’t seen before. Continue reading Leaked Video: Scientology’s anti-psychiatry front talks strategy with psych professor
[Dave kicks off Scientology TV]Nine years ago we spent the month of August counting down a list of the “Top 25 People Crippling Scientology” and it was a very popular feature. So we thought, with August upon us again, we might have some fun with another countdown, but with a slightly different focus. Continue reading The Top 25 People Enabling Scientology, No. 25: DirecTV and filmmakers buffing Dave’s channel
The Clearwater Police department has released its investigative reports about the “Jane Doe” allegations of sexual abuse as a kindergartner at Clearwater Academy and later, as an employee of the church, and it provides a depressing look into how difficult it can be for a law enforcement agency to probe the Church of Scientology. Continue reading Clearwater Police release reports from closed Scientology child sex abuse investigation
[Nazanin Boniadi and Karen Bass]Of all the reactions to the controversy over possible VP choice Karen Bass’s 2010 appearance at a Scientology event, we sure didn’t see this one coming: Nazanin Boniadi, the actress who was auditioned and chosen by Scientology to date Tom Cruise in 2004, has for the first time spoken out publicly in any way about the organization she was once a part of. Continue reading Nazanin Boniadi chides Karen Bass for ‘insufficient’ statement on Scientology speech
[Tom Cruise at the 2003 grand opening of the new Applied Scholastics headquarters in Missouri]As if Los Angeles educators didn’t have enough to worry about with school re-opening in a couple of weeks, Scientology has chosen this moment to make another push with its “Applied Scholastics” front operation. Continue reading As Los Angeles schools prepare to reopen, Scientology keeps trying to worm its way in
[Heber Jentzsch and John Travolta]In November 2018, your proprietor got to see an episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath that ended up never airing. And the hell of it is, it was maybe the best episode Leah and Mike had ever done. It was thrilling. And scary. And infuriating. And it had its start here at the Underground Bunker, actually. Continue reading Leah Remini podcast: The ‘Scientology and the Aftermath’ episode that never aired
On Saturday, Karen Bass reacted to the media frenzy about her appearance at a 2010 Scientology event by putting out a statement about it. “Just so you all know, I proudly worship at First New Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in South LA,” she said. Continue reading Karen Bass says she attended Scientology event because it was in her district. But it wasn’t.
We have a leaked webinar from Scientology’s Belleair Mission on being a Field Staff Member, or FSM. The mission is not actually in Belleair, Florida but rather the city of Largo and only about four miles from the Flag Land Base in Clearwater. Field Staff Members are supposed to help Scientology bring in new people, but how do you do that these days when there’s so much negative information about Scientology handily available? Continue reading VIDEO LEAK explains how to rope in the unsuspecting: ‘We don’t explain Scientology’
[Luis and Rocio Garcia and the Eleventh Circuit]Luis and Rocio Garcia have waited more than two years for their appeal to be heard in their derailed lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, and after oral arguments on Thursday, there may actually be a glimmer of hope. Continue reading Two years after filing their appeal, why there’s hope for the Garcias against Scientology
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