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Rod Keller keeps an eye on Scientology social media for us, and on Sundays he dives into the latest happenings with the organization’s many front groups. This time, he’s taking us to Russia, where things have taken a turn for the worse. Take it away, Rod… Continue reading In the wake of raids, Scientology’s sneaky consulting front shrinks markedly in Russia
[A man and his camera]Well, we told you this was probably the case. Jason Lee confirmed yesterday to a Denton, Texas blog that he and his wife “don’t practice Scientology” and aren’t interested in opening any Scientology centers in their new adopted hometown. Continue reading With Jason Lee out, what does it mean for Scientology’s tightest celebrity clique?
Two weeks ago, we reported that a Scientologist named Clay Bock was running for a city council seat in Garden Grove, California. We pointed out that there’s nothing keeping a Scientologist from running for office, but we figured voters might want to know that Bock had a long history helping out Scientology’s most unhinged front group, which agitates against psychiatry. Continue reading VIDEO: City council candidate exposed as Scientology spy in live public hearing
More than seven years after Laura DeCrescenzo filed her lawsuit alleging abuse at the hands of the Church of Scientology, she has moved one step closer to a trial with the latest rejection of a Scientology time-wasting appeal. Continue reading SCIENTOLOGY DENIED: California Supreme Court rejects appeal in forced-abortion lawsuit
We’ve written numerous times about Scientology’s secretive subsidiary called the Church of Spiritual Technology. CST has a strange mission — to build underground vaults where L. Ron Hubbard’s writings can be stored to survive for tens of thousands of years. And CST has a super-secret headquarters, a small mountain compound east of Los Angeles near a place called Lake Arrowhead. Continue reading DRONE FLYOVER: Scientology’s secret base where David Miscavige keeps wife out of sight
[Dan Koon and Mariette Lindstein]Jeffrey Augustine is back with part two of his interview with former Scientology executive Dan Koon. This time, the two get right into some accusations that have been made about the book that Dan co-wrote with Ron Miscavige, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me. Continue reading Co-writer Dan Koon answers accusations about the accuracy of Ron Miscavige’s ‘Ruthless’
Silvertail Books publisher Humfrey Hunter continues his remarkable streak for putting out books on Scientology as he announces today that he’s carrying Steve Cannane’s deeply researched history, Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia, and will make it available in the UK, the US, and in Canada at the same time that it hits bookshelves Down Under next week. Continue reading Steve Cannane’s Oz-flavored Scientology history ‘Fair Game’ gets a UK-US-Canada publisher
[Former City Councilman Dan Halloran (center), in 2013 with Bernard and Meghan Fialkoff]Often, over the past few years, we’ve pointed out time and again that a Queens dentist, Bernard Fialkoff, and his daughter, the glamorous Meghan Fialkoff, have infiltrated New York City’s schools and police precincts with their Scientology-sponsored anti-drug campaign which is intended to increase the public’s exposure to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. We find their story particularly interesting, because it shows that even in supposedly sophisticated New York, Scientology front groups can rope people in with their dubious Scientology message wrapped in “social betterment” language. Continue reading How Scientology repackages itself and takes in the New York Police Department and NY schools
 Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He has a new edition of the book for sale, and for more than three years he’s been helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend to get hashed and rehashed in books, articles, and especially on the Internet.
Continue reading Laying to rest the obfuscations of L. Fletcher Prouty, Scientology’s conspiracist-for-hire
We heard from a special correspondent who sent us photos from this year’s Burning Man event at Black Rock City, Nevada. Continue reading Scientology’s ‘disconnection’ policy gets sacrificed on the Burning Man altar
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