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Scientology’s slick (and bogus) drug education program snares another school district

 
Rod Keller once again catches Scientology worming its way into unsuspecting classrooms and police departments with its sneaky front groups…

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Louis Theroux isn’t the first who tried to find Scientology’s positive side and failed

[Rev. Stewart Lamont, photo by Callum Moffat]

Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie is now on Netflix, but Jon Atack reminds us that Theroux wasn’t the first investigator who tried to find something positive to say about Scientology, and ended up in a very different place.

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DRONE FLYOVER: Scientology’s failed underground vault project in Wyoming

 
The drone pilot is back! Since last September, the Underground Bunker has been the beneficiary of a shadowy anonymous drone operator who has allowed us to premiere his amazing overhead views of secretive Scientology sites.

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As Leah Remini’s second season hammers away, Scientology is losing its mind

 
It’s probably safe to say that the Church of Scientology is now in the grips of a complete meltdown.

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DOX: L. Ron Hubbard’s son called him a junkie and sex pervert in FBI’s Scientology files

[Ron DeWolf and his dad, L. Ron Hubbard]

We have yet another FBI document release for you today, the result of a lawsuit by journalist Emma Best that has pried loose several interesting files from the law enforcement agency in recent weeks. Previously, we published a file about the FBI’s 2009 human trafficking investigation of the Church of Scientology’s “Sea Org,” a 2008 investigation of the Anonymous movement, and a 1996 probe of a bogus bomb threat.

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LIVE FROM SAN ANTONIO: Will a former Scientology enforcer be compelled to testify?

[Marc Wiegand and Marty Rathbun in court when they were on the same side. Photo: Jennifer Whitney]

Although half of Texas is underwater, your proprietor managed to get himself to the Lone Star State in time for this morning’s portentous court hearing in San Antonio, where we hope to be providing live updates direct from the courtroom.

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Tomorrow’s ‘Leah Remini’: When Scientology destroys a family, it burns it to the ground

 
How far will a Scientologist parent go to punish their kids if they reject the church? That’s one of the questions we were left with after watching Tuesday night’s episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, the third episode of Leah’s second season.

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How dishonest is tabloid media about Scientology? Here’s a pretty good example.

 
Rod Keller is on assignment and we don’t get a day off this week. So we’re going to have a little fun today at the expense of Star magazine.

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DOX: The FBI’s 2008 investigation of Anonymous and its attacks on the Church of Scientology

 
A new release of government documents shows that the FBI took very seriously the Church of Scientology’s complaints about the Anonymous movement when it burst on the scene in January 2008, and the law enforcement agency spent months trying to find, in particular, the person who sent more than 20 letters to Southern California Scientology churches that contained a white powder.

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Scientology’s new ‘STAND’ front unleashes bot army on Twitter — and gets zapped

 
Our readers tend to be very observant, and we were reminded of that again recently when a Bunker regular reached out to us with some things he’d noticed about Scientology’s reaction to the new season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.

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